Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

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On the island.

All the powerful members of the Yamamoto family and the pirates from the island nation were terrified.

Yamamoto Ryuichi, a fourth-rank official, didn't even see his opponent in a single exchange.

He was shot down from the air.

Life and death do not know.

There was an extremely powerful being secretly protecting Gu Chen.

This is at least a Grandmaster level existence among the top three ranks.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible to achieve this.

Everyone in the Yamamoto family looked grim.

The worst has happened.

Gu Chen was indeed protected by experts secretly dispatched by his master, Shangguan Wuqing.

He was also a master of the Upper Three Realms.

Today, they are finished.

Even the strongest Yamamoto Ryuichi was defeated in one move.

Today they are all going to die here.

The powerful members of the Yamamoto family in the island nation were heartbroken, as were the pirates.

They colluded with the Yamamoto family to deal with Gu Chen.

If the Yamamoto family is finished, they certainly won't escape either.

The Yamamoto family are a bunch of idiots.

If they suspected that Gu Chen might be secretly protected by a powerful figure, why did they still come to test him?

Isn't this just plain suicide?

Most importantly, not only did they court death, but they also dragged their entire group down with them.

At this moment, in the air.

A figure appeared beside Gu Chen.

It was Zhong Hong who had just shattered Yamamoto Ryuichi's sword light with a wave of his hand, sending him flying backward.

Upon seeing Zhong Hong appear, Gu Chen immediately bowed to him and thanked him, saying, "Thank you for saving my life, senior."

Zhong Hong nodded and said, "Young friend Gu, there's no need to be so polite. I am Zhong Hong, and I have been ordered by the Second Prince to protect you for a period of time."

He was not an official of the Divine Dynasty.

They were merely servants of the Second Prince's household.

Therefore, Gu Chen was not addressed as Lord Gu.

Of course, given his second-rank strength, he wouldn't lower himself to address Gu Chen.

Although Gu Chen has some talent, before his strength reaches the upper three ranks, he is still a junior in front of these upper three rank experts.

Simply address them as juniors.

Calling Gu Chen "Little Friend Gu" is a way of not belittling him and treating him as a friend.

"I see. It's all thanks to the Second Prince for his trouble, and also thanks to Senior Zhong for his protection along the way." Gu Chen cupped his hands to Zhong Hong.

"Hmm." Zhong Hong nodded, then flew downwards and took a deep breath of the seawater below.

Instantly, the samurai sword that Yamamoto Ryuichi had just dropped from his hand, that top-grade Xuan-level treasure weapon, was drawn back out by him.

Gu Chen was startled.

Zhong Hong even knows how to lick the bag.

They even took the treasured soldiers that Yamamoto Ryuichi had fallen into the sea.

We need to pick it out.

It seems that today's gains from killing these Yamamoto family powerhouses and these pirates are considerable.

It's probably none of his business anymore.

Zhong Hong probably won't give it to him.

He was also thinking that he might make a fortune by killing the Yamamoto family members and pirates today.

That way, he might be able to save enough money to break through to the mid-stage of the Core Formation realm.

It seems impossible now.

Zhong Hong is also the kind of person who takes advantage of every passing goose.

Zhong Hong's move just now involved using his externally projected divine soul power to retrieve that precious weapon from the sea.

After taking it out, he put it directly into his storage bag.

As a second-rank expert and a retainer of the Second Prince's household, he already had his own storage bag.

I just don't know if it's as big as Gu Chen's storage bag.

After putting the treasure into the storage bag.

Zhong Hongfei flew towards the island ahead.

Gu Chen also flew over.

Looking at Yamamoto Ryuichi lying in the crater ahead, Zhong Hong sneered, "A bunch of ants from an archipelago, always trying to smuggle supplies from my Divine Dynasty, and now they've set a trap to frame my Divine Dynasty's genius. They truly deserve to die."

At this moment, Yamamoto Ryuichi was on his last breath.

Seeing Zhong Hong's true face and sensing the aura of a second-grade expert emanating from him.

He showed a relieved expression; it turned out he was a second-grade sage.

No wonder he couldn't sense any powerful figures around Gu Chen.

Indeed, how could he possibly sense an existence of that level?

They died without injustice.

It's possible that Yamamoto Rinji also died at the hands of this second-rank expert.

They were careless.

The Night Watch was so generous as to send a second-rank expert to secretly protect Gu Chen.

He only hoped that his family would discover this later.

Either stop getting entangled with Gu Chen and go develop in other counties.

Alternatively, they could send out at least a first-grade Venerable Realm expert to annihilate Gu Chen with overwhelming force.

Otherwise, if we keep making small-scale attacks and only sending fourth-rank experts, that will prevent us from succeeding.

We will only follow in their footsteps.

Zhong Hong waved his hand, instantly killing Yamamoto Ryuichi.

Then he looked at the other powerful members of the Yamamoto family and the group of pirates.

The powerful members of the Yamamoto family and the pirates on the island were immediately frightened and began to retreat step by step.

They wanted to escape.

Zhong Hong sneered, "Escape? Do you think you can escape?"

He simply waved his hand.

Instantly, a terrifying pressure enveloped all the powerful members and pirates of the Yamamoto family of the island nation, making them feel as if the entire world was against them.

They were overwhelmed by an endless force.

They were all crushed to the ground, coughing up blood.

"Senior, spare our lives! It was these Japanese pirates from the island nation who forced us here. We didn't want to work for them and lead Lord Gu here," one of the pirates pleaded with difficulty, facing imminent death.

They shifted the blame to the Yamamoto family.

The members of the Yamamoto family were all filled with fear, their faces flushed red, as if their internal organs were about to be crushed.

A fifth-rank expert from the Yamamoto family spoke with difficulty: "Kill us, and the Yamamoto family of our island nation will not let you go. When our island nation conquers the Divine Dynasty, we will make you wish you were dead, and your descendants will be slaves for generations to come."

"Hmph!" Zhong Hong simply couldn't be bothered to listen to their nonsense.

With a sudden wave of his hand, he crushed everyone to death with terrifying pressure.

They crushed their very souls.

The pressure from a second-grade expert is mixed with the pressure of divine soul.

The strongest members of the Yamamoto family and pirates from these island nations are no more than those at the Transformation Realm.

The power of the soul is too weak to withstand it at all.

After crushing them all to death.

Zhong Hong looked at the Cheng family guard that Gu Chen had just brought over and said, "Go and loot all their weapons, valuable pills and items, and silver for me."

Upon hearing this, the Cheng family guard immediately nodded and said, "Yes, senior."

He never expected that Gu Chen would be by his side.

There is such a terrifying being protecting us.

Today, he, a mere guard of the Cheng family, witnessed the terrifying strength of a second-grade expert.

So many seventh-rank, sixth-rank, and even fifth-rank beings.

One wave of oppressive force was enough to kill them all.

That's truly terrifying.

He possesses the strength of the fourth level of the Innate Realm.

His lifelong dream is to break through to the True Essence Realm.

But now it seems...

Even if he breaks through to the True Essence Realm, he would still be someone that a powerful being of that level could kill with a wave of their hand.

He was filled with emotion.

Then he went around helping Zhong Hong plunder the belongings of the Yamamoto family, a powerful family in the island nation, and the pirates on the island.

Although he may never reach that level in his lifetime, being able to do something for such a person is something he can be proud of.

On Zhong Hong's side.

After seeing the guard search the other people's belongings for him.

He approached the strongest Yamamoto Ryuichi and began to touch the items on his body.

Although he was a powerful expert at the second-grade Sage realm.

However, cultivating to become a second-grade expert is extremely expensive.

The price of a single pill used by a normal second-grade expert for cultivation is 25,000 taels of silver.

If he doesn't earn money, it won't be enough to cover his expenses.

Although he was a servant in the Second Prince's household.

However, the Second Prince supported many powerful figures, and also needed to maintain some personal guards, so the amount he could actually give him each month was not much at all.

It cost three pills and fifty thousand taels of silver.

If he wants to buy some rare elixirs and medicines to nourish his soul, he'll have to find a way himself.

Otherwise, relying solely on normal second-grade cultivation pills, it would take a very long time to break through to a higher realm.

Moreover, it consumes a huge amount of resources, which many second-grade experts cannot afford.

He obtained more than 80,000 taels of silver and three fourth-grade Golden Elixirs from Yamamoto Ryuichi.

Meanwhile, the guard from the Cheng family also obtained a large sum of silver and many pills from the powerful members of the Yamamoto family from other island nations and a group of pirates.

There are more than 200,000 taels of silver.

The pills range from the first level of the Innate Realm to the fifth level of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

The quantity ranges from two to dozens of pieces.

There are six manuals on martial arts techniques and skills.

There are more than sixty treasured weapons ranging from low-grade Yellow to high-grade Black.

The guard brought all of these to Zhong Hong.

He said respectfully, "Senior, everything is here."

Right now.

Gu Chen also came to this island.

Seeing so many spoils of war fills me with emotion.

If you give it all to him.

He was able to directly raise his cultivation level to the late stage of the Core Formation Realm.

I wonder if Zhong Hong will share some with him.

If we split the soup, we can at least have some; if we don't split it...

There was nothing he could do.

The other party is not related to him at all.

He was only sent by the Second Prince to secretly protect him for a period of time; if he didn't get it, he wouldn't dare say anything.

After all, Zhong Hong killed all of these people.