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

Three days later.

Gu Chen arrived at the city closest to Chiyang City, Tashan City.

To reach Huoyun Prefecture, one must pass through Tashan City. The journey from Tashan City to Huoyun Prefecture on foot would take half a month.

If you ride a fast horse, it will only take three days to reach the destination.

Gu Chen stayed in Tashan City for a day, got a human skin mask, and changed his clothes.

Then he bought a fast horse and headed straight for Huoyun Mansion.

His main purpose in going to Huoyun Prefecture was to participate in the Divine Examination.

Secondly, he should purchase some Yi Jin Dan (a type of herbal pill) or some spiritual medicine that can help him break through to the fourth level of the Innate Realm, and then focus on advancing his cultivation to the fourth level of the Innate Realm first.

If he doesn't disguise himself and goes out in his true form, the head of the Fire Cloud Mansion's Treasure Medicine Pavilion definitely won't sell him the Tendon-Changing Pill or any spiritual medicine that can help him break through to the fourth level of the Innate Realm.

We need to put on a facade first.

Moreover, given enough time, the head of the Precious Medicine Pavilion will definitely find out that he killed Liu Biao, and then they will certainly suspect him.

If he were to go to the main branch of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion to purchase medicinal resources in his true form, he would very likely walk right into their trap.

This is the main branch of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion in Huoyun Prefecture.

"Liu Biao hasn't contacted us for several days. We don't know what the situation is like in Chiyang City," Fu Tongkui reported to Nie Ke.

"Ever since he received the order to hunt down Gu Chen who left Chiyang City, he has not received any further messages from him, and he does not know whether Gu Chen succeeded or not."

Nie Ke frowned upon hearing this: "Liu Biao is at the third level of the Innate Realm, and that kid is at most at the second level of the Innate Realm. There shouldn't be any mistake."

If Liu Biao had succeeded in hunting down Gu Chen, he would have reported back to them immediately, instead of waiting until now without any news.

Nie Ke had a bad feeling. Could something have happened? He said, "Have Su Tianning from the Treasure Medicine Pavilion in Chiyang City investigate where Liu Biao went and why we haven't heard from him for several days."

Fu Tongkui nodded and left.

He also had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

Liu Biao was ordered to hunt down Gu Chen.

Regardless of success or failure, a report will definitely be submitted to the General Headquarters.

If it doesn't succeed, he will definitely explain why it didn't succeed.

Instead of simply disappearing like they are doing now.

Could something have gone wrong?

After receiving the order from the main pavilion, the Treasure Medicine Pavilion in Chiyang City...

Su Tianning then mobilized his forces to search for Liu Biao.

Half a day later.

Outside Chiyang City, in the desolate mountains where Gu Chen killed Liu Biao.

People from the Treasure Medicine Pavilion of Chiyang City and the Chiyang City government gathered together.

Ahead lay Liu Biao's body, half-eaten by wild beasts and already beginning to rot.

Wild animals that eat people generally don't like to eat heads, but Liu Biao's head was well preserved, and his identity could still be vaguely identified.

Su Tianning felt a chill run down his spine as he looked at Dezhou and the others.

Liu Biao's body was discovered today by a herb gatherer.

After the report was submitted to the authorities, they identified Liu Biao as a member of the Baoyao Pavilion based on his clothing.

He then sent someone to inform the Baoyao Pavilion, and Su Tianning and Xiang Dezhou arrived to confirm his identity.

The two of them had no idea that the Grand Secretariat had just given them orders this morning to find the envoy Liu Biao.

He was found dead in the deep mountains that afternoon.

Judging from the extent to which the body had begun to decompose, Liu Biao had been dead for some time.

Furthermore, both palms are separated from the head and torso.

He had clearly experienced a fierce battle before his death.

He was tortured to death.

The people at the Treasure Medicine Pavilion in Chiyang City were unaware that Liu Biao had been ordered to hunt down Gu Chen, so they could only report the matter to higher authorities.

Fire Cloud Mansion, the main branch of the Precious Medicine Pavilion.

"Damn it!" Upon learning of Liu Biao's death, Nie Ke smashed a wooden table in front of him.

Liu Biao was actually killed.

It's obvious to anyone with a brain that Gu Chen is involved.

According to the information reported by Su Tianning and others, Liu Biao had been dead for several days, and it is estimated that he was killed when he went to chase down Gu Chen that day.

Who killed him?!

Liu Biao possesses the cultivation level of the third realm of innate talent, the copper bone level, making him a top-tier existence in Chiyang City.

Who can kill him?

They weren't sure if it was Gu Chen. How could Gu Chen, who had only cultivated for half a year, possibly have the strength to kill Liu Biao?

"Investigate! Find out who killed Liu Biao!" Nie Ke roared.

At the same time, he looked at Fu Tongkui: "Put a bounty on that kid throughout the entire Huoyun Prefecture, and get all the branches of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion within the entire Huoyun Prefecture to take action."

"Once you spot that kid, don't alert him. Report to the Grand Secretariat immediately!"

"Liu Biao's death is inextricably linked to that kid. Even if he didn't kill him, he must know who the real killer is. Behind that kid, there may be someone we don't know, a powerful expert whose strength is at least at the third level of the Innate Realm."

"Anyone who dares to lay a hand on an envoy of my Treasure Medicine Pavilion, even if he is a powerful expert at the third level of the Innate Realm or above, I will drag him out and bring him to justice, so that people will not think that anyone can kill an envoy of my Treasure Medicine Pavilion at will!" Nie Ke's voice was icy cold.

Upon receiving the order, Fu Tongkui began to distribute the notices.

On Gu Chen's side.

It took three days.

He then rushed to the Treasure Medicine Pavilion of Huoyun Mansion.

He was naturally unaware that he was being secretly wanted by the Treasure Medicine Pavilion, so he found an inn in the Fire Cloud Mansion to settle down first.

Huoyun Prefecture, as a prefectural city, is several times larger than Chiyang City.

The level of the strong has also increased.

In the City of Red Sun, the third realm of the Innate Realm is probably considered the pinnacle of existence.

However, in the Fire Cloud Mansion, they are at most top experts, not even reaching the ceiling level.

Putting aside everything else, Nie Ke, the head of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion of Danhuoyun Mansion, is a fifth-level innate realm cultivator.

Other family heads, such as those of the major families in Huoyun Prefecture, are also at the fifth level of the Innate Realm.

The most powerful government offices and night watchmen are probably the strongest beings stationed there, who are the strongest in the first realm of the four realms of travelers.

The divine examination was held in Huoyun Mansion.

Gu Chen had already registered when he was in Chiyang City, and there are still about twenty days until the start of the Divine Examination.

After Gu Chen settled in at the inn.

Arrive at the main pavilion of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion in the Fire Cloud Mansion.

I'm preparing to buy the elixir.

Now, Gu Chen wears a human skin mask, and his appearance and temperament have changed. He is dressed in a simple gray robe, and the cultivation aura he exudes is that of the Iron Bone level in the third stage of the Innate Realm.

His appearance as a middle-aged rogue cultivator made it almost impossible for anyone to associate him with Gu Chen, the genius of Chiyang City.

"I want to buy Yi Jin Dan, or any spiritual medicine that can improve the cultivation of a fourth-level Innate Realm expert," Gu Chen said to the shopkeeper at the counter as soon as he entered the Treasure Medicine Pavilion.

The manager of the main store of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion was a powerful expert at the first level of the Innate Realm. Seeing that Gu Chen's cultivation was quite impressive, he did not dare to be negligent.

He answered directly, "Sir, the Yi Jin Dan is a fourth-grade innate pill, and it is very expensive. In the main hall of my Treasure Medicine Pavilion, only the fifth-grade innate alchemist elder sent by the Pill Sect can refine it, and he can only refine four batches of this pill per month."

"We don't have much stock right now. How much would you like, sir?" the shopkeeper asked Gu Chen.

For wandering cultivators like Gu Chen, the demand for high-grade pills is usually quite high when they enter a prefectural city.

He might buy dozens at once, as their Treasure Medicine Pavilion doesn't have much Yi Jin Dan in stock, so he needs to inquire in advance.

"How much stock do you have right now?" Gu Chen countered. "If it's less than 150, I'll take them all."

Upon hearing Gu Chen's reply, the shopkeeper gave a wry smile: "How could there be so many? Fourth-grade innate pills are extremely precious. As soon as our alchemists start refining them, they are usually reserved by the major powers in the city."

"The twenty-odd coins we currently have in stock were accumulated little by little, one or two at a time," the shopkeeper explained.

Of course, this is actually a marketing tactic employed by the main branch of Baoyaoge.

The alchemist in charge was instructed to control the production of Yi Jin Dan (Muscle/Tendon Changing Pill), creating the illusion of a scarcity of the pill.

This is so that they can raise prices and control the market.

"If you would like more Yi Jin Dan, you can ask our alchemists to refine a few more batches," the shopkeeper said. "Of course, the price will be a little higher than the regular Yi Jin Dan, about three hundred taels of silver per pill."

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen shook his head.

The alchemist at the head of the Treasure Medicine Pavilion is truly a dog.

A normal Yi Jin Dan costs only two hundred taels of silver on the market.

If he were to expedite the refining, it would cost three hundred taels of silver per piece.

It cost one hundred taels of silver more.

He decided to first buy all the Yi Jin Dan (Muscle/Tendon Changing Pills) in the Treasure Medicine Pavilion's inventory, and then purchase some spiritual herbs that could help him break through to the Yi Jin realm.

Let's exchange them together for cultivation points and see how much we can get.

If that's not enough, we'll talk about it again.

Anyway, he has a copper bowl, and the effects of pills and elixirs are the same; as long as he can exchange them for cultivation points, that's fine.

"I want all the Yi Jin Dan in your inventory, and also all the spiritual herbs that can help people break through to the Yi Jin realm," Gu Chen said.

"Alright, please wait a moment, sir." The shopkeeper nodded and then went to prepare.