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

The head of the Night Watch, a city-level official.

You can apply for martial arts techniques and skills of grade seven or lower.

You only need to explain the purpose.

Currently, the Night Watch of Jiuwan City contains a complete list of martial arts techniques and skill manuals for all four realms of travelers.

The techniques and martial arts of a single book can be copied countless times.

For members of smaller factions, obtaining a copy is difficult, but for members of larger factions, it's not hard.

The rare thing is that even if you obtain the secret manual, you may not be able to master it on your own and will need guidance from a powerful expert.

Gu Chen doesn't have this problem.

He has a copper bowl, so he can directly spend silver to comprehend the secrets.

The next day.

Gu Chen arrived at the Night Watch of Jiuwan City.

He took out the booklet containing the martial arts manuals collected by the Night Watch and picked some out.

Choose two martial arts techniques.

The "Four Beasts Attack and Kill Technique" is a top-tier fourth-grade martial art. When mastered to perfection, its power is comparable to a third-grade martial art.

It is paired with his martial art, the Four Beasts Celestial Phenomenon Technique.

It is incredibly powerful, one of the strongest killing techniques among fourth-grade martial arts. Its drawback is that it is difficult to comprehend. Currently, apart from the current head of the Night Watch who has reached the realm of a terrestrial immortal, no one else in the Night Watch has mastered it.

Fourth-grade martial arts, also known as the fourth-grade martial arts of the wanderer, generally require a fourth-grade Core Formation Realm expert to unleash its power.

However, this Four Beasts Attack Technique is divided into four forms.

The first move, Azure Dragon Rifts the Abyss, corresponds to a seventh-grade martial art.

The second move, White Tiger Breaks the Mountain, corresponds to a sixth-grade martial art.

The third move, Xuanwu Zhenhai, corresponds to a fifth-grade martial art.

The fourth move, Vermilion Bird Burns the Heavens, corresponds to a fourth-grade martial art.

After mastering all four techniques together, they can be used in combination to unleash the power of the four sacred beasts—Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—to attack the enemy simultaneously, reaching the level of a third-grade martial art.

Choose this martial art.

Gu Chen was able to use it until he reached the fourth rank.

Another martial art is the "Spirit Dragon Body Technique," a top-tier fourth-grade body technique.

Depending on the amount of true energy used, one can use corresponding speed and reaction speed to dodge or launch an attack.

When a sufficient amount of true essence is used, it can even rival the speed of a fourth-grade Core Formation Realm expert.

Gu Chen applied to use these two martial arts techniques because he wanted to study them first, so that he could better practice them when he entered the fourth realm of the Traveler.

To learn martial arts of this level, one must apply to the Chief of the Night Watch of a prefecture.

If it were the head of another city's night watch, they would apply to be called upon.

You might be rejected.

Because the authority of the Night Watch Chief at the city level only extends to seventh-grade martial arts techniques.

However, Gu Chen's identity is special.

He was Shangguan Wuqing's personal disciple.

Shangguan Wuqing knew that the cultivation method he chose to practice was the Four Beasts Celestial Phenomenon Technique.

With his talent, he will surely reach the fourth realm of the Traveler in the future.

Shangguan Wuqing should not refuse if I request in advance to transfer two fourth-rank martial arts techniques for me to study.

After the request to make the call is submitted.

Generally, news will come back within seven days.

If the chief of the city's night watch agrees.

The copies of the two martial arts techniques he requested will be sent over.

Even if you disagree, you will give him a reason.

He just needs to wait patiently.

The next two days.

Gu Chen continued his alchemy plan for the new month.

Earn silver and store up the resources needed to break through to the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm.

To break through to the mid-stage of the Breaking Aperture Realm, he needs sixty-two Breaking Aperture Pills, which is equivalent to sixty-two thousand taels of silver.

It needs to be stored for a period of time.

In the next few days, we will wait for the Qiao family, Yu family, Zhu family, Sihai Chamber of Commerce, Liuyun Chamber of Commerce, Tianwan Gang and other forces to go to Duya Island and Tiejiao Island to verify the situation.

After the pirates who attacked them were indeed wiped out, they would send him another sum of silver as a tribute.

This will bring in another sum of money.

It's about 20,000.

There are only 30,000 left.

After Gu Chen returned from wiping out two groups of pirates, he tasted the sweetness of victory.

I plan to use the copper bowl to exchange for information on the locations of pirates, bandits, or cults within the territory of Jiuwan City, and then go to wipe them out to obtain silver.

However, the result showed that the redemption could not be completed.

Gu Chen was dumbfounded.

After communicating with the copper bowl, he finally understood.

The copper bowl cannot be used to exchange for information from forces that have no causal relationship with him.

For example, even if there are bandits, cults, or pirate forces within the territory of Jiuwan City.

If they don't commit evil deeds and there's no direct causal connection between them and me, then there's no way to exchange them.

He was able to exchange information about the two groups of pirates on Iron Reef Island and Lone Cliff Island.

It was because they plundered goods from the Yu family, the Zhu family, the Qiao family, the Sihai Chamber of Commerce, the Tianwan Gang, and the Liuyun Chamber of Commerce.

These forces sought his help in order to eradicate the pirates; it was through this cause and effect that he was able to make his exchange.

Otherwise, it cannot be redeemed.

All information that is not causally related to him cannot be exchanged.

This gave Gu Chen a vague understanding of some of the functions of the bronze bowl. The bronze bowl was incredibly powerful, but it also had certain limitations, or rather, its abilities were limited.

It deduces and exchanges information, requiring causal guidance, much like divination requires a token from the other party, locking onto the other party through a mysterious thread.

Void locking cannot be done without a reason.

It can't be done.

This forced Gu Chen to abandon his plan to quickly acquire silver through bandit suppression.

They could only honestly continue refining elixirs.

However, the three pill formulas he currently possesses are all at the Innate Realm, and he does not have any formulas for the Fourth or Fifth Innate Realm.

We need to find a way to get it.

Now he has become an official of the Night Watch, and those alchemists of the Dan Sect value alchemy formulas more than their own lives.

It would never be easily leaked.

Gu Chen had inquired about it privately.

It's simply impossible to buy it privately.

We need to find a solution from other places.

He has no clue what to do yet, so he can only refine the three types of pills he already knows to earn money.

this day.

Fang Zhoujin, the head of the Jiuwan City Surveillance Bureau, came directly to his residence to find him.

"Lord Gu, the information for this issue's Prodigy Ranking has been released. I had nothing better to do, so I brought it to you," Fang Zhoujin said.

"The list is out yet." Gu Chen welcomed Fang Zhoujin into the mansion.

He wasn't interested in these fancy ranking lists.

So I didn't pay much attention to it.

In Gu Chen's view.

They have the energy to focus on these empty titles.

It would be better to spend that time on spiritual practice.

"Yes, Lord Gu, you've made the list, and you're ranked 500th. Congratulations!" Fang Zhoujin said. "With this list, Lord Gu, you're now the number one person under the age of 25 in the entire Divine Dynasty, below the True Yuan Realm."

"You made the list? The number one below the True Yuan Realm." Gu Chen took the list that Fang Zhoujin handed him and looked at it.

He ranked 500th.

One person above him, ranked 499th, is Wen Wushuang, the young master of the Wen family, the number one family in the desolate state.

The next person, number 501, is Liu Chen, a disciple of the Qingyun Sword Sect, one of the eight sects of the Divine Dynasty.

One is at the early stage of the True Essence Realm, and the other is at the half-step True Essence Realm.

I couldn't get his attention.

With his current cultivation level, if it were exposed...

It can break into the top 200.

Those ranked above 200 on the list are experts who have reached the Breakthrough Realm.

And that's what caught Gu Chen's attention.

Only those in the top fifty.

Those ranked in the top fifty of the Prodigies Ranking.

They were all experts who had reached the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm.

That is, Tie Yangtian's current realm.

These prodigies reached an incredibly terrifying level before the age of twenty-five.

In the list.

The top three people.

They are Qiu Xuanji of the Taoist sect, Xuan Kong of the Buddhist sect, and Ying Ye, the sixteenth prince of the Divine Dynasty.

All three were experts at the peak of the fifth-grade Transformation Sea Realm.

One can advance to the fourth rank by reaching the Core Formation stage.

He was a 25-year-old Core Formation cultivator.

These people are truly prodigies.

If he hadn't had the help of the copper bowl, he probably wouldn't have reached this level even if he cultivated on his own for a hundred years.

Unfortunately.

He has a copper bowl; he is not yet twenty years old, and there are still five years until he turns twenty-five.

In five years, he estimated that he had reached more than just the Core Formation stage.

If resources were plentiful, he might have already reached the upper three ranks.

Therefore, there is no need to pay attention to this list.

Talent and hard work are meaningless in the face of a cheat code.

He himself doesn't care about being ranked alongside these geniuses, but it's unfair to them.

"Originally, I planned to have my subordinates send this list to you when it came out," Fang Zhoujin said. "But my supervisory department recently discovered that you've never been on the list before, and this time you suddenly jumped to 500th place."

"Many geniuses ranked below you doubt your status as the number one person below the True Essence Realm. We have received intelligence that several geniuses ranked below you in the Desolate State have already set off for Jiuwan City to challenge you," Fang Zhoujin explained.

"Want to come and challenge me?" Gu Chen said indifferently.

In his opinion, these people are just bored out of their minds.

People would travel all over the desolate land to challenge him just for a meaningless ranking.

Aren't they tired?

Seeing Gu Chen's indifferent tone.

Fang Zhoujin reminded him, "Lord Gu, the prodigy who will challenge you this time is Huang Jinyu, the young leader of the Mining Gang, one of the major powers in Yuehai County. He is ranked 537th on the Prodigy Ranking."

"And Feng Yuan, the young master of the Feng family, one of the three first-class families in Zhenshi County, and Ye Xuemei, the daughter of the valley master of Hanfeng Valley in Huangzhou, are ranked 519 and 508 respectively."

"Let them come, it doesn't matter," Gu Chen said. "At worst, I'll just find some time to defeat them all."

They have so much free time to travel thousands of miles to challenge him.

He wouldn't let these people down.

We will defeat them all by crushing them.

Let them know what cruelty and despair are.

"It's good that Lord Gu is confident in his abilities." Fang Zhoujin saw that Gu Chen was so confident, it seemed that victory was assured.

then.

He realized that there was another person among the intelligence he had received today.

He came too.

Fang Zhoujin continued, "Lord Gu, you can forget about the previous ones if you are confident in your ability to handle them, but I suddenly remembered that there is another one who has also come to challenge you. You should pay more attention to him."

"Who?" Gu Chen looked at him.

"Liu Chen from the Qingyun Sword Sect is ranked below you. His cultivation level has already reached the half-step True Yuan Realm, and he will probably break through to the True Yuan Realm soon. He came here to step on you to rise to the top, and with the momentum of victory, he will break through the bottleneck and enter the True Yuan Realm in one fell swoop. Lord Gu, you should be careful in dealing with him," Fang Zhoujin said.

"This Liu Chen has been at the half-step True Yuan Realm for more than half a year, and his accumulation is very strong. Moreover, he inherited the Flying Crossing Peak of the Qingyun Sword Sect and is a core disciple of the Flying Crossing Peak. He is one of the strong contenders for the chief disciple of the Flying Crossing Peak this year. His combat power far exceeds that of other geniuses. In addition, it is rumored that he already has the combat power of the early True Yuan Realm, but he has never made a move."

"Half-step True Essence Realm, I understand." Gu Chen lost interest.

it's the same.

It's inherited from the Qingyun Sword Sect, one of the eight major sects, which is quite good.

Within the Divine Dynasty, there are countless sects and families, numbering in the hundreds or even thousands within this desolate state alone.

However, their abilities vary greatly.

It can be turned into a song and arranged.

They are among the very best, and even the weakest of them are forces with experts of the first rank or above in charge.

Not to be underestimated.

Unfortunately, the challenge he's coming to take on is himself.

Even though he was a core disciple of the Qingyun Sword Sect, all that could be done was to let him come with high hopes and leave disappointed!