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

Outside Chiyang City.

In Xiaoheishan, thirty miles away.

Wei Zhong was hung upside down from a tree.

All around were seven or eight black-clad cult members of the Black Heaven Cult.

Ahead were five guardians at the first level of the Innate Realm, two guardians at the second level of the Innate Realm, and an elder at the third level of the Innate Realm from the Black Heaven Sect.

This elder, who was at the third level of the Innate Realm, was a powerful expert at the Bronze Bone level, just like Gu Chen.

"Elder Ning, would that kid really come out to settle our score with us for the sake of a mere guard from the Treasure Medicine Hall?" a second-stage Innate Realm protector from the Black Heaven Sect asked. "That kid has already been expelled from the Treasure Medicine Pavilion."

"He's now working as a retainer at the Cheng family. Instead of threatening him by capturing this kid, why not capture the eldest daughter of the Cheng family? That way, he might just give in."

"Let's keep things separate," Elder Ning, a third-level Innate Realm cultivator, said. "He will come; just you wait and see."

At this time.

A pigeon flew in from afar and landed on Elder Ning's shoulder.

Elder Ning took off the note tied to its leg and examined it.

He smiled and said, "Look, here he is."

The creed contained information sent by the Black Heaven Cult's informants in Red Sun City.

Gu Chen has already left the city and is heading towards Black Mountain.

He came alone and did not report to the night watch or the government.

"Get ready," Elder Ning said. "That kid dared to come alone. It seems he's very confident in his abilities. We can't underestimate him."

"Today, we must leave him here in the Black Mountain forever!" He narrowed his eyes.

On Gu Chen's side.

After leaving the city, he used the gecko-like wall-climbing technique.

Heading straight towards Black Mountain.

He did not choose to report to the Night Watch or the government office.

First, Gu Chen didn't trust them and didn't know if there were any Black Heaven Cult spies among them.

Secondly, Gu Chen wanted to keep the experience to himself.

If he could wipe out this group of cultists by himself today, he might be able to earn a considerable sum of money.

There's no need to trouble the government office and the night watchmen to share the spoils with him.

evening.

As darkness was about to fall.

Gu Chen arrived outside Black Mountain.

Then they rushed towards Black Mountain.

Before long, they discovered the location of the Black Heaven Cult members and Wei Zhong.

at this time.

Wei Zhong was unconscious; it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

The Black Heaven Cult members looked at Gu Chen as he arrived.

Soon, some people circled around behind Gu Chen and surrounded him.

"Young man, I admire your courage," Elder Ning Zhibo said to Gu Chen. "You dare to come and deal with us all by yourself."

"I'm just here to harvest a bunch of trash, what's there to be afraid of?" Gu Chen replied with a cold snort.

"You brat, how dare you be so arrogant!" Upon hearing this, the group of cultists immediately cursed at Gu Chen.

A cultist protector at the second level of the Innate Realm stepped forward, gripping a longsword: "So arrogant. I'll see what you're capable of."

From the intelligence they obtained.

Gu Chen's cultivation level is estimated to be at the second stage of the Innate Realm.

Therefore, they sent an elder at the third level of the Innate Realm to deal with Gu Chen to ensure that nothing went wrong.

Gu Chen is now completely surrounded by them and is like a turtle in a jar.

Before the elder makes a move, let him test the depth of this ancient dust.

He gripped his sword and charged directly at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen snorted coldly and easily dodged the sword attack using the Gecko Wall-Moving Step.

Then Gu Chen unleashed his Burning Wood Blade Technique, a slash imbued with fiery blade energy that cleanly severed him in half at the waist.

Gu Chen moved so fast that among the cultists present, only Ning Zhibo could barely see the trajectory of Gu Chen's sword strike.

All they saw was a flash of fiery light in the air, and their protector's upper and lower body separated, crashing to the sides, his intestines spilling out onto the ground.

"what!"

The guardian, who was at the second level of the Innate Realm, did not die immediately after landing, but instead screamed in agony.

The voice was terrified and weak as it said, "You're not just at the second level of the Innate Realm, you're a master at the third level!"

The surrounding cultists also looked at Gu Chen with some fear.

The third realm of the Innate Realm—wouldn't that be the same realm as their Elder Ning?

The five realms of innate nature have vastly different levels.

Only someone at the third level of the Innate Realm could possess such strength, easily annihilating their protectors at the second level of the Innate Realm.

"You guessed right, but there's no reward!" Gu Chen said calmly.

"You!" Upon hearing this, the protector of the Black Heaven Sect, who was at the second level of the Innate Realm, was so enraged that he died instantly.

"Boy, we really underestimated you." Seeing Gu Chen instantly kill a guardian at the second level of the Innate Realm right in front of them.

Ning Zhibo's face darkened.

His eyes were blazing with killing intent as he looked at Gu Chen.

Then, his Bone Forging Realm aura erupted, and his body flashed with a dense, chilling aura as he charged towards Gu Chen: "Give me your life!"

He practices an Eagle Claw Kung Fu style. When he uses his martial arts, his claws transform into sharp eagle claws, and his entire skeleton has been transformed into bronze bones.

It can withstand swords and blades.

He then charged straight at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen stepped forward, unleashing his Burning Wood Blade Technique, slashing at him one after another.

At the same time, Gu Chen cultivated the Five Thunder Innate Skill, and the three thunder attribute powers of earth thunder, metal thunder and fire thunder that had already been born surged into him.

It was incorporated into Gu Chen's swordsmanship.

It directly caused Ning Zhibo to retreat in defeat.

His jet-black eagle claws collided with Gu Chen's blade, just as ice collided with a red-hot iron, burning away his evil energy and naturally countering him.

Dangdang Dangdang!

The two exchanged several blows, with Ning Zhibo consistently coming out on the defensive.

With the final blow, he was directly cleaved in two by Gu Chen's blade.

Gu Chen's longsword cleaved a deep, bone-revealing wound into his shoulder. Had he not already reached the Bone Forging Realm, this strike could have severed his entire shoulder.

Ning Zhibo was slashed and forced to retreat.

"Attack together! This kid's technique is lightning-attribute, which is naturally our weakness," he ordered.

Immediately, the cultists all around rushed towards Gu Chen.

"Hmph." Gu Chen scoffed. He could easily kill any cultist below the third level of the Innate Realm with a single strike.

There was simply no way to resist him.

Ning Zhibo, on the other hand, turned and ran away while the group of cultists were attacking Gu Chen.

Having just fought Gu Chen, he felt that Gu Chen was not far from breaking through to the Silver Bone level and had also mastered a powerful innate third-grade martial art. He was definitely no match for Gu Chen.

If he keeps fighting, he will die.

While the other cultists were holding off Gu Chen, he quickly ran away.

He had no way to deal with Gu Chen, so he could only let the stronger experts in the fourth or even fifth realm of the Innate Realm from the Black Heaven Sect deal with him.

"Trying to run away!" Seeing this, Gu Chen immediately gave up on engaging with the other cultists, broke away from the battle, and chased after Ning Zhibo.

It doesn't matter if we kill a few less of the other small fry cultists, but this Black Heaven Cult elder, who is at the third level of the Innate Realm, must die!

Gu Chen unleashed the full power of his Gecko Wall-Walking Step and Xiao Cheng's Profound Iron Body. Xiao Cheng's Profound Iron Body gave him a certain boost in speed, which was further amplified by the Gecko Wall-Walking Step.

This made him much faster than Ning Zhibo instantly.

With Ning Zhibo already injured, a few breaths later...

Gu Chen caught up with him and stabbed him in the back.

"Ah!" Ning Zhibo was stabbed in the back, staggered, and fell forward.

Gu Chen pressed his advantage, swiftly slashing through the enemy with his blade.

A knife through the heart!

Gu Chen drew his sword, sending up a spray of blood.

Ning Zhibo turned and glanced at Gu Chen, then collapsed and died!

Other cult members watched this scene unfold.

Elder Ning is dead!

It's unclear which cult member shouted that.

The remaining cult members immediately scattered and fled.

Even Ning Zhibo was no match for Gu Chen, so there was no point in them staying to continue fighting Gu Chen.

"None of you will escape." Gu Chen shouted coldly, using the Gecko Wall-Walking Technique to charge towards the group of cultists.

They specifically targeted the five or six Black Heaven Cult protectors who had reached the Innate Realm and killed them first, as these were the cult members who were faster at escaping the Innate Realm.

He caught up with the rest very quickly.

"My God!" The guardian, who was at the second level of the Innate Realm, was so frightened when he saw Gu Chen chasing after him first that he almost lost his soul.

He ran forward desperately, but before he could take more than a few steps, Gu Chen beheaded him with a single stroke.

Next up is the next guardian of the first realm of innate beings.

Before long, Gu Chen caught up with and killed several guardians who were at the first level of the Innate Realm.

Then came those top-tier cult leaders.

In the end, none of them escaped; they were all killed by Gu Chen.

Gu Chen arrived at the tree where Wei Zhong was hanging and rescued him.

Seeing that he was still breathing, they let him lie down to the side.

He went to loot the bodies of the cultists he had killed.

After searching around, Gu Chen obtained quite a few pills, including six Grade 3 Innate Bone Forging Pills.

There are nine pills for tempering the skin.

There are more than thirty Qi and Blood Pills.

There were over sixty Qi and Blood Pills.

The silver notes that Gu Chen found on all of them totaled more than 16,000 taels.

"I'm rich! Haha!" Gu Chen exclaimed excitedly.

The only drawback was that he didn't find any secret techniques on these cult members.

However, the harvest was still quite good.