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

The next few days.

Gu Chen's life returned to its previous peaceful routine.

Besides refining pills to earn money, he spent his days patrolling the Li Huo Mansion's Night Watch Division.

There's nothing else superfluous.

Meanwhile, Zhong Hong stayed peacefully at Gu Chen's residence. Half a month later, he took Gu Chen to Zhongzhou to represent the Second Prince in battle.

Gu Chen revealed his physical condition to Shangguan Wuqing and Zhong Hong.

After the top-tier experts who had come to target Gu Chen found out,

It is known that Gu Chen does not have any secrets.

However, due to their special physical constitutions, they all lost interest in Gu Chen and left.

He didn't even have the thought of testing Gu Chen anymore.

After all, Zhong Hong was by Gu Chen's side.

His actions were tantamount to provoking the Night Watch and the Second Prince.

That day.

In the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The headquarters of the Mitian Sect.

The matter of Zhong Hong killing the members of the Yamamoto family has been reported to Gu Chen by Luo Yan, the envoy of the Mitian Sect who is in charge of monitoring Gu Chen's intelligence.

Sun Ming, the elder of the Mitian Sect who was in charge of investigating the Blood Soul Sect, was very glad that he had made the prediction.

He was only at the third-grade Grandmaster level.

If he hadn't anticipated that the Night Watch would secretly send powerful individuals to protect Gu Chen...

Instead, he went to deal with Gu Chen personally.

He may already be dead at the hands of Zhong Hong, the powerful figure sent by the Second Prince to secretly protect Gu Chen.

Fortunately, he had the foresight.

Let those idiots from the Yamamoto family go and test the waters first, to see if Gu Chen has any powerful protectors around him.

"Elder, what should we do now? The Second Prince has sent a second-rank expert to protect Gu Chen. Should we continue to attack him?" Luo Yan asked Sun Ming.

"Forget it." Sun Ming shook his head: "The fact that the Second Prince was willing to send a second-rank expert to protect Gu Chen shows the Second Prince's attitude. If we make a move again and anger the Second Prince and the Night Watch, resulting in their annihilation of us, it will be a loss for us."

The Second Prince dispatched a second-rank official to protect Gu Chen.

This demonstrates the importance of Gu Chen.

Gu Chen must not be allowed to get into trouble.

If they insist on going their own way, they will definitely kill Gu Chen.

He offended the second prince to death.

They might face joint retaliation from the Second Prince and the Night Watch, and the gains would be disproportionate to the costs.

Let's let him off this time.

As for Gu Chen, we'll see how he behaves in the future.

If they continue to recklessly use their abilities to eradicate the cults under their command, it will be disastrous.

This will cause them to suffer even greater losses.

They were willing to risk completely offending the Second Prince to kill Gu Chen.

"Yes." Luo Yan nodded.

"Withdraw all our forces from Yuehai County and Zhenshi County. Avoid conflicts with Gu Chen and his senior brothers. That way, he should stop targeting us," Sun Ming said. "We can send our cult members to develop in the counties controlled by Chen Lei's faction. Those good-for-nothings shouldn't be able to find us."

"Yes." Luo Yan nodded.

After Chen Lei suffered a setback in the desolate state.

They could tell that Chen Lei and his group were a bunch of incompetent fools.

They should be able to evade detection of crimes committed in counties under their control.

At the same time.

On the Yamamoto family's side.

The news that a group of powerful individuals newly dispatched by their family to Yuehai County in the Desolate State of the Divine Dynasty had been completely wiped out also reached back home.

A high-ranking member of the Yamamoto family, who was in charge of smuggling supplies in Yuehai County, the desolate region of the Divine Dynasty, looked at his subordinates and said, "There are some troublesome figures in the desolate region of the Divine Dynasty. We are not in a hurry to send our family's experts there to take charge for the time being."

"Yes." The Yamamoto family subordinates obeyed.

The second prince of the Divine Dynasty personally dispatched a second-rank expert to guard Gu Chen in Yuehai County.

Sending more strong warriors there would only result in their deaths.

If they don't kill Gu Chen, it will be a waste of time no matter how many people they send to establish a stronghold.

It won't be long before Gu Chen wipes them all out.

Sending top-tier experts directly would easily provoke conflict between the Divine Dynasty and the island nation.

Currently, China and Japan have not completely broken off relations.

If they send a top-tier expert to kill Gu Chen...

The conflict provoked anger.

The Night Watch could also send experts at the third rank or even the second rank of Heaven and Earth to Japan to massacre the Yamamoto family.

Not worth the candle.

This time, they suffered a loss they couldn't speak of.

Just wait and see.

Gu Chen is not very old.

The Huludao Secret Realm will be open soon.

At Gu Chen's age, he will surely be qualified to enter and explore the secret realm.

Then we'll send in the island nation's elite troops and wipe him out.

Here in the desolate ancient dust.

Because of what happened after he revealed his Void Body.

All crises were resolved.

In addition, he had Zhong Hong, a second-rank expert, protecting him.

The threat from the Miten Cult and the Yamamoto family was gone.

He lived a very easy life.

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

This period of two weeks, plus the previous four days.

Gu Chen refines elixirs.

They received a total of over 46,000 taels of silver as a reward.

In addition to the remaining thousand or so from before.

Gu Chen now has more than 48,000 taels of silver on him.

The competition to determine ownership of the mining gang, which the Second Prince, the Crown Prince, and the Body Sect had agreed upon, was about to begin.

He and Zhong Hong made preparations and planned to set off for Zhongzhou the next day.

This morning.

Cheng Mengling then came to their door.

"Brother Gu, during this time, my Cheng family has collected another batch of medicinal materials for refining a special elixir for you." She brought Gu Chen a batch of medicinal materials for refining the Crimson Copper Pill.

"Alright, leave it to Wei Zhong." Counting the time, it has been more than twenty days since the Cheng family last collected the medicinal materials for refining the Red Copper Pill.

Even if the Cheng family's relocation to Lihuo Mansion was delayed for a while.

The caravan needs adjustments.

Now it's time to collect a new set.

Get this.

That's the tenth one.

He was able to cultivate his copper body to the point where one hundred protective divine runes were imprinted within his body.

Gu Chen took out 30,000 taels of silver and gave it to her.

He continued, "I'm going to Zhongzhou tomorrow and it might be a while before I come back. If the Cheng family encounters any problems they can't handle, they can go directly to my fourth senior brother, and he will help."

"Yes." Cheng Mengling nodded.

Gu Chen then inquired, "It's been over twenty days since the Cheng family moved to Li Huo Prefecture. How is the expansion of their businesses progressing?"

"It's increased by a quarter. By the end of this month, the offerings for Brother Gu will be raised to 30,000 taels of silver," Cheng Mengling replied.

"That's right, the prefectural city has even greater potential for development. Keep up the good work," Gu Chen encouraged.

The filial piety gift to myself has been increased to 30,000 taels, not bad.

As the Cheng family continues to grow, the number will increase.

Life is getting better and better.

That evening.

With the help of a new batch of Crimson Copper Pills, Gu Chen increased the number of protective divine patterns on his Crimson Copper Body to one hundred, enabling him to activate and condense a Crimson Copper Aura.

This caused a qualitative change in his defensive capabilities.

Even without activating his Crimson Copper Body, he can ignore attacks from those below the early stage of the Sea Transformation Realm simply by relying on the amplification of his physical body from the hundred protective divine runes, plus the defensive amplification brought by his Void Sacred Body.

If one activates the Copper Body, one can condense a Copper Aura.

It can ignore attacks from mid-stage fourth-grade Core Formation Realm cultivators.

Even with the amplification from the Void Holy Body.

It is definitely weaker than the attacks of late-stage Core Formation Realm cultivators.

He can also ignore it.

To ignore means...

He used these methods, standing still and not resisting, letting others hit him, and they couldn't hit him.

That's just how incredible it is.

When the number of his protective divine runes increases to one hundred and twenty.

That's an attack from those below the Grandmaster level.

He can ignore it all.

Now that his cultivation has broken through to the mid-stage of the Core Formation Realm, with the amplification of the four extraordinary phenomena, he can try to learn martial arts of the upper three ranks.

He had previously acquired a first-grade martial art in that Venerable's tomb.

It can be used in conjunction with his Blood-Cleansing Blade.

His spiritual strength increased after he awakened the Void Saint Body.

It increases tenfold.

The current external speaker range has reached over 6,000 meters.

A soul powerhouse far surpassing even a Grandmaster at the early stage of the third rank.

It enables him to unleash martial arts techniques of the highest rank.

In addition, his true essence reserves increased tenfold due to the awakening of the Void Saint Body.

In addition, the Four Beasts Celestial Phenomenon Technique amplifies true essence.

The amount of true essence stored in his body is now dozens of times that of an ordinary mid-stage Core Formation Realm cultivator.

It can also support him to unleash martial arts at the third-grade grandmaster level.

After this period of nurturing, the Blood-Transforming Blade was ready.

As long as he learns the first few moves of that first-grade martial art, "Nine Blades of Blood Transformation".

Even without using the Void Divine Light, a natural divine ability of the Void Sacred Body, he can still kill ordinary early-stage third-grade Grandmasters through martial arts.

He could also defeat a weaker mid-stage Rank 3 Grandmaster.

Once he breaks through to the late stage of the Core Formation Realm, his true essence reserves will increase, enabling him to unleash stronger martial arts moves. At that point, he will be able to challenge those at the late stage of the Third Rank Grandmaster Realm.

Cool.

That first-grade martial art, Blood Transformation Nine Blades, has the power of the first three blades, which is equivalent to a third-grade martial art.

The Three-Strike Technique is a martial art of the second rank in terms of power.

The last three strikes are of the power of a first-grade martial art.

When cultivation reaches its peak, one can combine nine blades into one, condensing the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, which can pose a threat even to those at the Earth Venerable Realm.

Learning fourth-grade martial arts costs a lot of money.

There are definitely more martial arts techniques at the third rank.

Now that Gu Chen possesses the Void Saint Body, his comprehension has increased tenfold. He plans to see if he can cultivate it on his own first.

You can no longer exchange silver for insights.

The next day.

Gu Chen and Zhong Hong set off early in the morning.

Heading to Zhongzhou.

at this time.

Zhongzhou.

Outside the Crown Prince's residence.

The person representing the Crown Prince in this battle is Kongxuan from the Buddhist sect.

It has arrived ahead of schedule.

The Crown Prince personally went out of the palace to greet him.

Kongxuan is a legendary figure in Buddhism, one of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism.

He was once a powerful expert at the peak of the Core Formation Realm.

In order to perfect his spiritual realm and physical divine skills, he chose to start over and transform his skills.

He began his cultivation anew, starting from the Five Innate Realms.

My current level is also at the peak of the True Essence Realm.

His combat power, plus the rumored early stage of the Transformation Sea Realm, is still considerable, but he hasn't made a move in many years.

Only he himself knows his true combat strength.

In Buddhism, there is no tradition of supporting princes vying for the throne.

Buddhism is powerful in the Divine Dynasty, ranking as one of the two major sects, and has many terrestrial immortals. It simply doesn't bother to support any particular prince.

However, Kong Xuan had a past relationship with the Crown Prince, so he chose to help him.

The news that Gu Chen possessed an extraordinary physique had already reached the Crown Prince.

Their plan to test Gu Chen's cultivation level and prevent him from representing the Second Prince in battle had failed.

The Crown Prince could only place his hopes on Kong Xuan.