Chapter 35: Out of the Cave, Shocked

  It has been more than four months since entering the mine, and Gu Chen's cultivation has gone from the seventh layer of the Post-Heaven Realm to a rapid rise, finally stepping into the Pre-Heaven Realm!

  Adding the more than two months of time from the second layer to the seventh layer of the Post-Heaven Realm, it has been a whole seven months. In just seven months, he stepped into the Pre-Heaven Realm from the second layer of the Post-Heaven Realm. Not to mention Leishui City, this small place, even in the entire Dayan Dynasty, it is a first-class cultivation speed.

  Seven months have passed and more than half of the year has gone by, Gu Chen also turned from ten and a half to eleven years old, his birthday was quietly spent in the mine.

  In just seven short months, Gu Chen's cultivation had not only advanced to the Xiantian realm, but his body had also grown significantly taller, increasing by over 20 centimeters. Although he was only eleven years old, he now looked like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old youth.

  Entering the Xiantian realm, I finally have the strength to collect the materials needed for the three absolute arrays: Yīnghún Huā, Xuè Táng, and Zhì Hǔ Nèi Dān. As long as these three materials are found, the Pò Xū Mí Jīn Gāng Great Array will be within reach. Then, the countless spiritual grasses in the Hàotiān Cave Mansion will all belong to Gǔ Chén.

  Gu Chen would never have to worry about not having Ling Cao again.

  Having entered the Innate Realm, the effect of Yuanshen Liquid on cultivation has become extremely minimal and can only be used as a healing spiritual medicine. The spiritual elixir that enhances Innate Realm cultivation requires over 200 years of spiritual grass refinement, with Yuanshen Dan being the most effective.

  Anyway, to find the soul-guiding flower and other materials, after entering the prenatal realm, Gu Chen immediately decided to leave the mine cave, return to Le Shui City once, practice the yuanling dan, and then go to Dong Huang to find the soul-guiding flower and other materials.

  Besides, after staying in the mine for four months, Gu Chen and Xiao Bai had almost finished drinking 100 bottles of Yuan Ling liquid, so they had to leave.

  Although the passage has been sealed, for Gu Chen who has entered the Xiantian realm, it is not a problem at all. Reopening another passage may be somewhat difficult, but reopening the sealed passage is still no problem.

  Before leaving the mine, Gu Chen dug up a large amount of Ling Stone, with over 10,000 pieces, and put them into the Qian Kun Ring. After leaving the mine, it's better to come less often to this North Tai Mountain mine to avoid being discovered!

  Entering the Innate Boundary, the space of the Qian Kun Chui was already two zhang long, wide and high, with a volume equivalent to several ordinary-sized rooms. The tens of thousands of spirit stones, although a large pile, could be easily accommodated.

  This spiritual stone vein also has a medium size, Gu Chen roughly estimated that at least tens of thousands of spiritual stones can be mined, and this is just the most conservative estimate in the central area. In the future, when the ancient family prospers, this spiritual stone vein will be enough to provide the required spiritual stones.

  After mining the Ling Stone, Gu Chen beckoned to Xiao Bai, who immediately jumped onto his shoulder. Gu Chen took a glance at the Ling Stone vein and then turned around to walk into the mine tunnel.

  Gu Chen now has the cultivation of Xiantian Realm First Layer, with his swift and agile movements, he can run like a gust of wind. In just a short moment, he had already covered over ten miles and arrived at the mine cave that he sealed off with chaotic rocks.

  He released the Qing Lei sword, using his innate true energy to control it, and soon dug out a passage more than one person high in front of the cave that was blocked by chaotic rocks. After passing through the passage, Gu Chen arrived at the mine dug by the miners.

  The flying sword hacked at the top of the cave again, sealing off the newly dug tunnel. Gu Chen sealed his cultivation at the Late Heaven Ninth Layer boundary and walked out of the mine.

  With Gu Chen's current hearing, in a special place like the mine cave, he could hear sounds from dozens of miles away. He heard the sound of 'ding ding dang dang', and surprisingly, there were people mining in the mine cave...

  The sound of mining was very loud, and Gu Chen naturally heard it.

  Now that Gu Chen has reached the Xiantian realm in his cultivation, he is considered a top-notch cultivator in Leshui City. Even if there are other Xiantian realm cultivators with higher cultivation levels than him, he has the Swift Wind Cloak, so can't he just run away if he can't defeat them? There's no need to worry about being found out for advancing his cultivation too quickly like before.

  Of course, Gu Chen didn't want his congenital realm cultivation to be exposed either. After all, the first layer of congenital realm cultivation wasn't considered a particularly powerful expert in Leshui City.

  He didn't want to reveal his innate realm cultivation, nor did he want to continue being low-key and hiding. Naturally, Gu Chen's cultivation was reflected in the nine layers of the acquired realm.

  The day after tomorrow, the nine-layer boundary will be settled, and many people in Le Shui City have already been subdued.

  Gu Chen and Gu Hei entered the Beidai Mountain mine, and for half a month, there was no news from them. This immediately attracted the attention of the Gu family, who sent out a search party to look for them in the mine.

  Gu Cangqiong heard that his son was missing, and he was greatly alarmed. He stopped his closed-door meditation at the critical moment and joined the search team to enter the Beitaishan mine cave to find out about Gu Chen's whereabouts.

  However, the search team searched for ten days and nights throughout the mine, but they couldn't find any trace of Gu Chen and Gu Hei. Gu Chen had deliberately blocked the tunnel leading to the Ling Stone vein, so how could the searching personnel find them?

  There was no Gu Chen and Gu Hei, they just disappeared, there wasn't even a demon beast in the mine... Gu Cang Tian's heart turned cold, thinking that his son had died.

  After a month, there was no sign of any ferocious beasts in the mine, and Gu's family organized the miners to start mining again. By the time Gu Chen came out, the mine had already returned to its usual bustle.

  Gu Chen rushed out of the cave at a speed of nine layers, and many miners who had seen him in a small mountain village four months ago were surprised to see him again, with some bold miners shouting "Young Master Gu".

  Gu Chen's footsteps didn't stop, nodding in response to the miners who greeted him. After a while, he exited the Beitaishan mine tunnel.

  "Old Master Gu... you, you're still alive?" As soon as Gu Chen emerged from the mine, he heard a cry of surprise, and someone rushed over in three strides.

  Guchen remembered this person, met him in Xiaoshan Village four months ago. He was a subordinate of his father's and was in charge of the small head of the mine tunnel. Guchen nodded with a smile: "Encountered some danger, managed to escape... do you have any horses?"

  Huilai Water Castle is still over a hundred miles away. With horses, of course, we'll ride them. Although Gu Chen can run as fast as a horse, constant rapid running isn't comfortable for anyone.

  "There's... there's a horse." The man beckoned to one side, and immediately someone led over a sturdy horse. He said: "Young Master Gu, hurry back home quickly, your uncle thinks you... he's worried about you."

  Gu Chen patted the horse's back, stuffed a banknote into the man's hand and nodded: "Thank you, I'll head back now."

  The sound of horseshoes faded away, and Gu Chen quickly left this place. The man looked at the 10,000 yuan in his hand, suddenly shook all over, grabbed a person next to him and said: "Gu San, did you see it just now? Young Master Gu... he reached the ninth level of the Post-Heaven Realm?"

  Na Gu San also looked at the direction where Gu Chen disappeared with a shocked face, and said in surprise: "Right, Captain, Hou Tian Jing ninth layer, I remember that four months ago when Master Gu entered the mine, he was only at the fourth level of Hou Tian Jing? In just four months' time, how...how did he go from the fourth level of Hou Tian Jing to the ninth level?"

  "Haha... So, it turns out that everyone in the Gu family was wrong, and Young Master Gu is actually the true genius of the Gu family, haha..." The person burst into joyful laughter.

  An hour later, Gu Chen rode his horse to the outside of Le Shui City's south city.

  Just returned today, in order to avoid attracting people's attention as soon as he entered the city, Gu Chen put his cultivation on display at the fourth level of the rear sky, and entered the city.

  Cultivation has reached the first layer of Xiantian, 200 years of spiritual grass are needed to refine the lower-grade Yuanling Dan. Bought spiritual grass in Nancheng and just returned home to practice Yuanling Dan.

  Also, I need to buy 300-year-old Zi Yuan flower and Huang Jing mushroom. There is also one more Ling Xin Cao in the Qian Kun bracelet, it has been over four months, don't know if the mid-grade Yuanling Dan of Gu Cangtong has been consumed or not, also need to refine another furnace.

  He arrived at the Wàn Tōng Líng Cǎo shop, Gǔ Chén dismounted his horse, and a young servant from the Wàn Tōng Líng Cǎo shop led the horse away to be taken care of. Gǔ Chén entered the shop.

  The business of the Wonton Spirit Grass Store has always been good, as usual. The shopkeeper is still Qian Guan, who previously sold 300-year-old Huang Jingzhi and Zi Yuanhua to Gu Chen after he took the psoriasis medicine and changed his appearance. Now that Gu Chen has entered, Qian Guan only glanced at him, seeing that it was just a thirteen or fourteen year old boy, and then continued to look at the account book by himself.

  Gu Chen glanced around the store and walked directly towards Qian Zhanggui.

  "Shopkeeper, do you have any Lingcao that's over 200 years old?" Gu Chen asked as he walked up to the counter.

  A spiritual herb over 200 years old? Qian Zhanggui suddenly became spirited, but looking at Gu Chen's eyes, there was some distrust. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, buying a spiritual herb over 200 years old?

  "My surname is Gu." Gu Chen reminded.

  "It's actually Young Master Gu. What kind of spiritual herb are you looking for? Our store has all kinds of spiritual herbs that are over 200 years old." As soon as Gu Chen mentioned his surname, Qian Zhuang immediately became enthusiastic.

  The Le Shui City's surname Gu is one of the three major Xiu Zhen families, and as the young master of the Gu family, his status far surpasses that of a mere pharmacist.

  Qian Zhanggui's transformation fell into Gu Chen's eyes, and he said: "Huang Jingzhi, Zi Yuanhua, Ling Xincao... 200-year-old ones, each want two strains, Bingmengcao, Huangxuecao, Xuelianhua, over 150 years old, each want 20 strains."

  Qian Zhanggui's expression became even more delighted, this was a big business opportunity. He smiled and said: "Huang Jingzhi, Zi Yuanhua 200 years or older require 20 spirit stones per plant, Ling Xincao requires 30 spirit stones per plant, 150-year-old Bingmengcao, Huangxuecao, Xuelianhua need 1,500 wild coins per plant. In total, it's 140 spirit stones and 90,000 wild coins."

  Gu Chen raised his hand and a pile of spirit stones appeared on the counter. "149 spirit stones, take all these spiritual herbs for me!"

  Soon, Qian Zhanggui brought all the spiritual grass that Xiao Yi wanted. After Gu Chen checked them, Qian Zhanggui put away the spiritual stones on the counter. When he turned around after putting away the spiritual stones, he found that the spiritual grass on the counter had disappeared and had been stored in Xiao Yi's乾坤镯 (Qian Kun ring).

  Gu Chen still needed 300 years of Zi Yuan flower and Huang Jing mushroom, but he didn't say a word. After buying these spiritual herbs, he walked out of the Wanjing Spiritual Herbs Store.

  It's better to eat the ringworm dan to buy it, otherwise, the short old man with a lot of hemp and Gu Chen buying 300-year-old spiritual medicine, Wanjun Lingcao shop can easily put the two together.

  ……

  Not far from the Wàn Tōng Líng Cǎo shop, on the street, Gǔ Sōng, Yún Chāo and Yún Xuě were strolling along. After several months of not seeing each other, Gǔ Sōng and Yún Chāo had grown a lot taller, while Yún Xuě had become even more beautiful.

  Behind them, several servants followed at a distance.

  Yunxue pulled Gusong's hand, happily saying: "Gusong brother, you're really amazing, just turned 13 years old and already reached the Later Heaven Seventh Layer realm, hehe..."

  Yun Chao was also on the side, clapping his hands: "Gu Song brother, my big brother also reached the seventh layer of Hou Tian at the age of 13. If you can enter the Xian Tian realm before the age of 16, then you will be even more powerful than my big brother!"

  Yunxue said with reverence: "At that time, Gu Song will be the number one genius in Leshui City."

  "Haha...…", Gu Song listened with great pleasure, and laughed: "I don't dare to accept this, Cloud Xuan is still more powerful than me. At most, I am just the second master of Le Shui City, haha..."

  "What a pity..." Gu Song sighed, "That useless Gu Chen actually disappeared like that, and I don't even know where he died. Now that I've reached the 7th layer of the Post-Heaven realm, if I ever run into him again, I'll definitely beat him to death."

  "Right, right, I saw that piece of trash being extremely uncomfortable, liking to put on a stinky face, and he deserved to die in such an unclear manner."

  "If he were still alive now and met Gu Seng, Gu Seng would definitely beat him to the point of rolling on the ground and pissing himself."

  Yun Xue shook Gu Sui's arm and said, "He has been missing for four months, he must be dead. Gu Sui is the number one genius of the Gu family, how can he compare to you? Just forget about him."

  "Yunxue's sister is right, how can that good-for-nothing compare to me?" Gu Sui pinched Yunxue's cheek and laughed happily.

  However, Gu Song was very unhappy in his heart. In Lingfushan, he was slapped by Gu Chen several times. Every time he thought about it, he would explode with anger. Now that his cultivation had finally improved a level, when he thought he could take revenge, Gu Chen had already disappeared for several months.

  The feeling of wanting revenge but having no one to take it out on is super annoying.

  ……

  Gu Chen walked out of the Wonton Spiritual Grass store and happened to see Gu Song pinching Yunxue's face. A wave of anger suddenly arose in his heart. Although Yunxue had long been divorced from him, any man would feel uncomfortable seeing his ex-fiancée being intimate with another man.

  Gu Chen is also a man.

  However, Gu Chen lived for 500 years and wouldn't rush into meaningless disputes like an impulsive young man. Out of sight, out of mind, he pretended not to see it and turned to walk towards the nearby horse stable.

  "Halt..." A loud roar suddenly rang out.

  Gu Chen saw Gu Song, and Gu Song also saw Gu Chen. He was fantasizing about bullying Gu Chen, but when he turned his head, he actually saw Gu Chen?

  "Are you still alive?" Gu Chen turned around, and at the same time, Gu Song, Yun Chao, and Yun Xue said in unison.

  Yun Chao and Yun Xue's voices were filled with surprise, while Gu Song's voice was filled with gritted teeth.

  Yun Chao was only surprised for a moment, then suddenly seemed to think of something, excitedly jumped up and shouted: "Gu Song brother, quickly, go beat this waste."

  "Haha...... Gu Chen, today I'm going to slap you a hundred times, you good-for-nothing." Upon hearing Yun Chao's words, Gu Song suddenly became excited as if he had taken an explosive pill, and with both fists clenched, he charged towards Gu Chen.

  Yun Chao excitedly clapped his hands and shouted: "Trash, you're dead for sure! Gu Song has already reached the seventh layer of the Post-Heaven Realm, hahaha, you're doomed..."

  Yun's extremely excited loud shout attracted everyone's attention on the street.

  At this time...

  Gu Chen's body suddenly moved, leaving a residual shadow, and in an instant, he exerted the strength of the Ninth Layer of the Acquired Realm, kicking out with his "Diamond Kick".

  Ku's body was like a leather ball being kicked up.

  "Bang"

  "Hmm"

  It flew over a distance of ten zhang in the air and then fell heavily to the ground.

  Gu Song's hands grasped his abdomen, his body curled up on the ground like a shrimp, and even with his Seventh Layer Heaven Conquest cultivation, he was instantly kicked by Gu Chen and lost his combat ability.

  "Hmm..." Gu Chen let out a long sigh and said: "Refreshing..."