Chapter 33: The Death of Gu He

  The puppet giant moved, and Xiao Bai jumped down from Gu Chen's shoulder and stood on a high stone beside him, with an additional night pearl in his hand, illuminating the cave like daylight.

  The giant puppet's vision is unaffected by day and night, so for Gu Chen, the brighter the better.

  Kogawa saw Xiaobai jump to one side, a flash of anger in his eyes, and immediately pounced on Xiaobai.

  Tian Gang Quan Ti Da Fa First Set...

  Gu Chen's physical strength surged, his physical power increased by a factor of two, and his physical intensity also doubled.

  Hmph...

  His left foot took a horse step forward, Gu Chen's right fist fiercely struck out in front of him, and a sonic boom sounded.

  Guhe hastily stopped in his tracks, looking at Guchen in astonishment. He was actually... actually going head-to-head with a giant puppet of the Xiantian realm's first layer?

  Gǔ Hé didn't know that Gǔ Chén had unleashed the Heavenly Punishment Tempering Body Great Technique, doubling his physical strength. Gǔ Chén's physical strength was now comparable to that of a First Heaven Realm cultivator.

  The day after tomorrow, the seven layers have the power of seven stones, and the strength is doubled. The basic physical strength has the power of fourteen stones. Among the cultivators in the first layer of Xiantian, the physical strength is also a medium existence, slightly stronger than the puppet giant with the same power as the first layer of Xiantian.

  Moreover, the giant puppet is an inanimate object, although it has the advantage of being tall and insensitive to pain, but its strength is not as good as Gu Chen's.

  Gu Chen practiced the mighty Vajra Fist, his fist power was unmatched and could unleash several times the strength of his physical body.

  *gulp*...

  The small fist of Gu Chen collided with the giant fist of the puppet giant, producing a loud noise that caused the entire cave to vibrate slightly.

  Dong...... dong...... dong......

  The giant puppet retreated three steps, each step leaving a foot print about an inch deep on the hard blue mineral stone, making three muffled sounds.

  "You...you...you've actually reached the Xiantian realm's cultivation?" Gu Hei's face changed, his tongue also stuttering as he asked.

  Stunning, Gu River is completely stunning.

  How is that possible? Gu Chen, the most useless third-generation direct disciple in the family, that notorious waste, how could he possibly reach the Xiantian realm cultivation?

  "I told you, you've taken the wrong path, shouldn't have come here."

  Gu Chen took another step forward and threw a punch, the giant puppet countered with one of its own, but was knocked back three steps.

  He raised his hand again, and another talisman flew out, transforming into a giant puppet. In a rage, it said: "So you've been playing me all along, you damned fool! I have two puppets at the First Heaven level, while you're only at the First Heaven level of cultivation. Haha... let's see how you can defeat me. Today is your day of doom..."

  "Give me everything, kill him... Smash him into a pulp." Kogoro shouted hysterically.

  Two giant puppets rushed up, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiching Gu Chen in a pincer attack.

  "See if you can defeat two giant puppets..." Kogawa shouted loudly.

  Gu Chen glanced at Gu Hei with a sudden strange smile on his face, and suddenly accelerated to the point where the fists of the two giant puppets all fell empty.

  Hiss...

  A loud explosion, Gu Chen's fist struck out and hit the giant puppet's waist. The puppet giant was not as agile as a living person and immediately fell to one side.

  Wow...

  A fierce gust of wind blew by, and another giant puppet's fist flew over at incredible speed.

  Gu Chen took a sidestep, and the massive fist brushed past his scalp, landing with a thud in empty air.

  With a sudden thrust of his legs, Gu Chen instantly leapt over a zhang high, clearing the giant puppet's head and diving straight down. His fists flew out in rapid succession, "Boom boom boom..." A series of deafening crashes erupted as Gu Chen struck out with multiple punches in an instant, landing squarely on the giant puppet's skull.

  The giant puppet retreated several steps back, 'crack' sounded, and its head split into several cracks.

  Another giant puppet had just climbed up, and a huge fist was smashed down on Gu Chen's back of the head. Gu Chen turned around and threw a punch, two fists met each other, a loud explosion sounded, and the puppet giant was knocked back three steps again.

  "Crack", several cracks also appeared on his arm.

  These two puppet tokens have already consumed a large amount of spiritual power under the attack of the giant devouring beast, and now they are being continuously attacked by Gu Chen, showing signs of shattering.

  Kogawa was shocked, not expecting Koshin's speed to suddenly increase by more than double. The two giant puppets joined forces, but couldn't gain even a slight advantage, and instead were both shattered.

  If even two giant puppets were shattered by Gu Chen, how could Gu He alone be a match for Gu Chen?

  With a grit of his teeth, Gu Hei charged towards Gu Chen and joined the battle, the dark iron sword shining with a flowing light, fiercely slashing down at Gu Chen.

  "You're too slow..."

  Gu Chen let out a cold laugh, his physical body having reached the first layer of Xiantian cultivation. With the added speed of the Swift Wind Cloak, Gu He's sword sliced down, not even touching the corner of Gu Chen's clothes.

  Bang...... Bang......

  Another two consecutive punches were struck out, and several cracks appeared on the giant puppet's body again.

  Gu Chen struck once and retreated, the three opponents on the other side, Gu He still held the Xuan Tie sword in his hand, not engaging in a fierce battle with them. With the acceleration of the Ji Yu Piao Feng, although the fists of the two giant puppets intersected, Gu He's sword light flew swiftly, yet it didn't even touch the corner of Gu Chen's clothes.

  There were two giant puppets, one on the left and one on the right, guarding Guhe. The Xuan Tie sword guarded the middle gate, but Gu Chen couldn't break through the defense of the two giant puppets, so he directly attacked Guhe.

  The iron fist in his hand smashed into the two giant puppets one by one, since there were two giant puppets protecting it, he would smash them first.

  Gu Chen's speed was too fast, Gu He was a living person, but his cultivation was too low and his speed couldn't be compared to Gu Chen at all. The two giant puppets had the same cultivation realm as Gu Chen, but they were inanimate objects with slow reactions, and their speed also couldn't be compared to Gu Chen's.

  Hmph...

  *Boom!*

  Hmph...

  ……

  Gu Chen's fists pounded against the giant puppet's body, and the cracks on the puppet's body grew more and more...

  "Bang......"

  Finally, after a dozen or so punches in a row, the giant puppet's cracks were too numerous and was blown up by Gu Chen with one punch. The spiritual power of the puppet symbol was completely consumed and turned into a pile of fragments.

  "Bang......" Not long after, the second giant puppet was also punched into a waste by Gu Chen.

  "Go die..." Seizing an opportunity, Guhe swung his sword horizontally, aiming to cut Guchen in half at the waist.

  Gu Chen threw a punch, and before the sword could even touch his body, Gu Chen's fist had already struck Gu He's wrist.

  Clang...... The Xuan Tie sword flew out and splashed against the wall of the cave, falling to the ground after hitting it.

  Kicking the wall...

  Gu Chen kicked out with one foot, hitting Gu Hei right in the abdomen. A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out, and Gu Hei's body instantly flew backward, heavily crashing to the ground three zhang away.

  Three months ago, Gu Chen used this move of Golden Leg Kick to kick Gu Yang, the younger brother of Gu He, into a somersault.

  At that time, Gu Chen had a cultivation of Post-Heaven Three Layers, but he only used the strength of Post-Heaven Two Layers.

  This time, Gu Chen had already used his Xiantian First Layer cultivation and strength.

  How can Guhe not be seriously injured?

  "Squeak... squeak... squeak..." Xiaobai pointed at Gu He and burst out laughing again.

  Gu Chen walked step by step towards Gu He, who wanted to struggle up but could no longer stand up.

  Step by step... Gu Chen's body was getting closer and closer to Gu He's.

  Kogawa's heart grew more and more fearful, "No... I don't want to die, I won't die..."

  "Bang..."

  Guhe kowtowed on the ground, constantly knocking his head: "Don't kill me... don't kill me... we are all Gu's family, we are of the same clan, Gu Chen, we are one..."

  Gu Chen's body suddenly accelerated, and a punch landed on Gu He's head, silencing his voice.

  "I told you, you shouldn't have come here." Gu Chen's strength was precisely controlled, and with one punch, he knocked Gu Hei to death without smashing his skull, leaving a complete corpse.

  Dong...

  Kurōga hit his head on the ground and died instantly.

  "If I want to save you, being a member of the Gu family is enough reason. If I want to kill you, what difference does it make who you are?" Gu Chen coldly glanced at Gu He's corpse and reached out to take his storage bag.

  "Squeak squeak squeak... Squeak squeak squeak..." Xiao Bai jumped onto Gu Chen's shoulder, pointing at Gu He's corpse, and continued to burst into laughter.

  "Alright, Xiao Bai..." Gu He patted Xiao Bai's head, and Xiao Bai looked at Gu Chen with a gentle expression, nuzzling his shoulder.

  With the ancient river's legacy storage bag in hand, after infusing his true energy, Gu Chen immediately 'saw' everything inside the storage bag.

  Mainly some food, previously some barren coins, in addition to this place, also need a large amount of yuan ling stone, all dug up by Guhe just now.

  "You know there's a giant Devouring Beast in this mine, yet you still stay here and dig out so many Origin Stones. You're really greedy." Gu Chen said as he poured out the Origin Stones, and everything in his storage bag was returned to Gu He's corpse.

  With the Qian Kun bracelet in hand, Gu Chen still looked down on a storage bag. Except for the Yuan Ling stone, the items in the storage bag were of no use to him, so Gu Chen naturally wouldn't covet these things from Gu He.

  Anything related to Gu Hei is a hidden danger, everyone is from the Gu family, Gu Chen can't go back to the Gu house and loudly declare: I killed Gu Hei...

  All evidence related to Kogawa must be eliminated.

  He glanced around the cave walls and Gu Chen revealed a delighted smile: "The distribution of these spiritual stones is more than enough, just from what I've seen being excavated, there are tens of thousands of them. Cultivating the Devouring Spirit Technique here will never leave me short of spiritual stones again..."

  Not staying on the original spirit stone for long, Gu Chen's gaze returned to Gu Hei's corpse again. Although these spirit stones made him very happy, they did not make him lose his mind due to desire.

  He walked to the ancient riverbank, picked up his xuan iron sword, and with a series of swift chops, hacked out over a hundred pieces, carving out a large pit on the surface of the pure blue mineral.

  The body of Gu Hei was thrown in, and the Xuan Tie sword was also discarded into the large pit, soon to be buried by Gu Chen.

  After doing all this, Gu Chen didn't immediately start digging out the original spirit stone. Instead, he put away the original spirit stones that had just been poured out into the Qian Kun bracelet, then turned around and ran in the direction he came from. Before long, he left the spiritual stone mine area.

  Without looking back, Gu Chen continued to move forward and walked all the way to the cave where he had killed the giant soul-eating beast. The corpse of the giant soul-eating beast was still quietly lying there.

  He merely glanced at the corpse of the giant Devouring Beast and continued on his way, heading towards the passageway that led out of the mine, going further and further ahead...

  Xiao Bai sat on Gu Chen's shoulder, turning his head back to look in the direction of the Ling Stone mine several times. He looked at Gu Chen's eyes full of doubt, not knowing why Gu Chen wanted to leave that place with abundant spiritual energy.

  Keep walking... keep walking...

  Until arriving at the mining area of the two-headed Wraith Beast's great war, ordinary Wraith Beasts were quietly lying here as well, and no one knew what was happening inside the mine.

  After passing by the corpse of the Devouring Beast, Gu Chen didn't stop and continued forward, walking for more than two hours, covering a distance of at least ten miles.

  Until the tunnel ahead suddenly narrowed down, it was a mine dug by human miners that Gu Chen stopped his footsteps.

  With a grasp of his right hand, the Qinglian sword appeared in his hand from the Qiankun ring. His left hand patted Xiaobai, indicating for it to dodge to the back. Xiaobai understood and jumped off his shoulder, running ten zhang away to the rear.

  Gu Chen grasped his sword with both hands, and the Tianxia Tempering Body Great Technique was unleashed. His physical strength instantly reached the first layer of Xiantian cultivation.

  Then...

  Suddenly a sword slashed out towards the front wall of the cave.

  Qing Lian Jian is a mid-grade artifact, even if Gu Chen doesn't use his innate true energy to control it, its sharpness is unmatched. Compared to Gu He's Xuan Tie Sword, it's even sharper. Now the mineral rocks on the cave wall are much softer than the pure cyan-colored minerals in the spiritual vein.

  Gu Chen's sword struck the wall of the cave, creating a huge crack. Several more swords chopped down, and the entire wall of the cave turned into several large rocks that fell to the ground.

  Gu Chen trampled on the fallen boulder and made several consecutive sword strikes towards the top of the cave, creating over a dozen sword marks. The entire top of the cave soon collapsed.

  Gu Chen hacked wildly while slowly retreating, first hacking the walls on both sides of the cave and then hacking at the top of the cave. Before long, the entire tunnel in front of him was blocked by a pile of large stones that Gu Chen had hacked down.

  There are outsiders who enter from the Beidai Mountain mine, passing through the tunnels dug by miners to get here. They would only think that this is a dead end and absolutely cannot imagine that the sealed cave entrance is Gu Chen's masterpiece.

  Gu Chen and Gu Hei went missing in the Beidai Mountain mine, the Gu family will definitely send someone to search for them. The tunnel of this mine is dug by the Soul Devouring Beast, it's much wider than the tunnels dug by miners.

  Gu Zhen's meaning was clear: he didn't want the people searching for the mine in the Gu family to discover this passage.

  Gu Chen didn't worry about being found by the Gu family, but rather that the spiritual stone vein inside mustn't be known to anyone.

  The Gu family has many mouths, and if the news of the Ling Stone mine vein gets out, even with ten Gu Chens, the Gu family won't be able to keep it safe. Once the news of the Ling Stone mine vein's emergence spreads, those powerful immortal sects will definitely rush over like bees smelling honey, and even Daoyuan realm cultivators will take action.

  So, the only way is to seal this spiritual stone vein deep in the mine, let it not see the sun and moon, and let Gu Chen be the only one who knows about it. When we have the power to own the spiritual stone vein in the future, it's not too late to mine it again.

  Xiao Bai grasped his head, he wouldn't understand what Gu Chen meant by sealing off the passage ahead and trapping himself deep in the mine.

  Gu Chen finally stopped after hacking and slashing his way through a ten-zhang-long tunnel, looking at the passage ahead of him that was blocked by countless rocks. He thought to himself: "Now no one will be able to discover this spiritual stone vein again..."

  ……

  After doing all this, Gu Chen continued to run towards the location of the Ling Stone Mine, with Xiao Bai jumping onto his shoulder.

  From today on, Gu Chen will be in closed-door cultivation in the Ling Stone mine, where there is an endless supply of Ling Stones. Gu Chen can cultivate the Soul Devouring Technique without any problems at all times.

  Food was replaced by the spiritual liquid of the superior product, and so Gu Chen continued to cultivate in the Ling Stone mine vein, day after day...

  Gǔ Zhēn will cut all the original spirit stones into regular spirit stone sizes. The size of the spirit stones is the experience gained by the cultivators of the ancient desolate continent after countless years, if it's too small, the amount of spiritual energy contained in the spirit stone is insufficient, and if it's too large, the absorption of spiritual energy in the spirit stone becomes difficult.

  Every day, Gu Chen cultivates the Devouring Spirit Technique, consuming over a dozen spirit stones. Additionally, he continuously takes high-grade Gathering Yuan Spirit Liquid, causing his cultivation to rapidly increase, advancing by leaps and bounds each day.

  In just half a month, Gu Chen touched the barrier of the seventh layer of Houtian. Three days later, Gu Chen broke through the barrier of the seventh layer and his cultivation entered the realm of the eighth layer of Houtian.

  The rapid growth trend of Gu Zhenxiu has not stopped and is still continuing.

  Another half month passed, and Gu Chen broke through the 8th layer of barrier again, entering the Post-Heavenly 9th layer. His cultivation reached the peak of the Post-Heavenly realm, and with just one more step, he could enter the ranks of Pre-Heavenly cultivators.