Chapter 15: The Great Array of Yin and Yang Confusing Heaven

  Gǔ Chén chased after the Blood Crown Fox, running all the way to the depths of the eastern wilderness. The Blood Crown Fox was small in stature and extremely agile as it darted through the forest. Although Gǔ Chén's speed was slightly faster than the fox's, he had to dodge trees in the forest, and for a short time, he couldn't catch up.

  The Eastern Wilderness is known as the Boundless Demon Domain, a territory of the demon tribe. Inside, there are countless demonic beasts that are no less powerful than human Grandmaster cultivators. They can transform into human form, move mountains and seas, and fly through the sky and enter the earth.

  The cultivators of Xiantian realm who enter the Eastern Wastes will also face various dangers.

  In the family rules of Gu's house, Donghuang is a forbidden place for post-heavenly cultivators.

  Of course, as a 500-year-old Quenching Realm Great Cultivator in his past life, Gu Chen's understanding of the Eastern Desolation far surpassed that of anyone from the Gu Clan.

  The Gu family only knew that the East Wasteland was dangerous, but they didn't know anything about it and didn't know where the real danger lay. Although Gu Chen's previous life hadn't specifically gone to check the size of the East Wasteland, just the parts he had passed through were tens of thousands of miles of continuous mountains and ridges.

  The further east you go, the more terrifying the demonic beasts in the Eastern Wastes become. Even cultivators at the Pre-Heavenly stage can only survive on the outer periphery of the Eastern Wastes within a range of ten thousand miles. Within that range, there are demonic beasts at the Divine Sea stage roaming about. If a Pre-Heavenly stage cultivator encounters one, they have no choice but to die.

  However, the elixir core of the demon beast has a great effect on the cultivation of the cultivator and is also the best material for refining elixirs. Therefore, there are often brave and skilled human cultivators who venture into the Eastern Wilderness to hunt down demon beasts and obtain their elixir cores.

  Moreover, the Donghuang Mountains are a spiritual land that humans have never set foot in, where many spiritual herbs and fruits grow. Therefore, there are often high-ranking cultivators who venture deep into the Donghuang to collect medicine, encountering demonic beasts along the way. Human cultivators will absolutely not let them go.

  The Xiantian realm cultivators' flying magical instruments travel thousands of miles a day with ease, and even a small city like Lesui City has many Xiantian realm cultivators going to the Eastern Wastes to search for treasures every day, either alone or in groups. They call it searching for treasures, but in fact, they are just looking for demon beasts and spiritual herbs.

  So, within a thousand-mile range of the eastern wilderness and human territory border, the congenital realm's demonic beasts are rarely seen, they also fear being hunted by human cultivators.

  Unless he's extremely unlucky, the probability of encountering a congenital realm demonic beast within a thousand-mile radius around the Eastern Wastes is zero, which is why Gu Chen dared to chase after the Blood Crowned Fox deep into the Eastern Wastes.

  Yi Gu Chen currently uses the Tian Jie Quan body technique and has the strength of a 7th layer postnatal, so the threat from postnatal realm demon beasts isn't too great.

  The Blood Crown Fox ran in the front, Gu Chen followed behind. One fox and one person, one in the front and one in the back, both were running at their fastest speed. The Blood Crown Fox was extremely cunning, it had been running for more than three hours, but Gu Chen still couldn't catch up to it.

  After running for more than three hours, Gu Chen had already left the range of Lingfeng Mountain, and was over 300 miles away from the ancient house. The red sun in the sky had also moved from east to west, and it was already afternoon after a whole morning of running.

  After chasing for so long, Gu Chen and Xueguan Hu's distance had also shortened by a lot, from the original dozens of zhang to now less than ten zhang.

  Gu Chen looked at the red sun in the west, and roughly another hour later, the red sun would set. Two hours later, night would fall, and human vision would be greatly affected in the dark night, making it more dangerous than during the day in the eastern wilderness.

  But looking at the Blood Crown Fox right in front of him, Gu Chen didn't want to give up. In his past 500 years, he hadn't encountered a single pure white Blood Crown Fox. This time, he had finally met one and chased it for so long. If he let it escape, this Blood Crown Fox would probably hide in the depths of the Eastern Wastes for the rest of its life, never daring to approach human areas again.

  It's harder than climbing to the sky to think of finding it.

  "Besides, within a thousand miles of the eastern wilderness, it should be considered a safe zone. Now I'm less than ten zhang away from the Blood Crown Fox, and at most, after more than half a time, I'll be able to catch up with it. By then, it won't be able to escape my palm. Then I'll rush back overnight, and before midnight, I'll definitely return to the Gu House."

  Gu Chen muttered to himself for a moment, made up his mind, and decided that he must catch the Blood Crown Fox and obtain the blood crown on its head.

  The pure white Blood Crown Fox's blood crown is the best material for refining the Dust Washing Dan. Later, using it to refine the Dust Washing Dan will allow his father's body to undergo a more thorough transformation, and Gu Chen would not easily give up on that.

  Sigh...

  Sigh...

  The Blood Crown Fox still uses its full strength when running and fleeing, always able to exert its maximum potential.

  Gu Chen continued to pursue Blood Crown Fox from behind, and as time went on, the distance between them gradually narrowed.

  In the process of chasing and fleeing, another half an hour passed, and Gu Chen was only about three zhang away from Xueguan Hu. He raised his spirits, and soon he would be able to catch Xueguan Hu in his hands.

  "100 steps... 90 steps... 80 steps..." Gu Chen was mentally calculating the number of steps it would take to catch up to Xueguang Hu.

  The distance between the two was getting closer and closer, only about 20 feet left. Gu Chen kept his stance as if he was about to pounce while running, and as long as he could get within a foot of the Blood Crown Fox, he would be able to make a swift attack.

  Within a radius of one zhang, Gu Chen was confident that he could definitely capture Xueguan Hu.

  Right here, the Bloodcrown Fox in front of him turned over a huge tree that was about the same size as a human body, and suddenly disappeared from Gu Chen's line of sight.

  If it's said that Huo Guang hid behind a tree without moving, Gu Chen would never believe it no matter what.

  "Strange? Is there a cave under that tree?"

  Gu Chen An shouted "Bad", his speed didn't decrease at all, quickly following the route of Xue Guan Hu's blood earlier, and pounced towards the back of the tree.

  "Ah?" Gu Chen was greatly shocked, the situation was beyond his expectation. The pure white Blood Crown Fox actually stopped behind the tree, not moving at all.

  The appearance of Gu Chen, the Blood Crowned Fox did not run away like it did earlier, its gaze only swept across Gu Chen before immediately looking at something behind him with a terrified expression.

  Matching Blood Crown Fox's gaze, Gu Chen immediately felt a terrifying aura pounce over from behind, and his face changed color as he turned around.

  Flames danced in the sky before Gu Chen, the forest he had just run to had turned into a sea of fire that reached the heavens, the flames burning as high as a thousand feet, a wave of scorching air rushed towards him, making it hard for Gu Chen to breathe.

  Gu Chen involuntarily took a step back, the scorching heat on his face instantly disappeared, and an extremely cold chill invaded from behind, spreading along his spine and cooling down Gu Chen's entire body, making him feel as if he had entered an ice cave in an instant.

  Gu Zhen turned back to look, where was the forest? In front of him was a vast expanse of ice and snow, with palm-sized snowflakes floating in the sky. Wave after wave of white cold air moved with the wind, freezing into his bones.

  The ground was covered with icicles that had fallen and stood upright, some were only a few inches long, while others were over a foot tall, layered and crisscrossed on top of each other.

  That pure white arctic fox, three feet long, had shrunk into a ball, its eyes filled with terror, surrounded by ice spears that had burst out of the ground, no wonder it didn't move.

  The big fire just now scared Gu Chen, but seeing this endless icy and snowy land, Gu Chen's face calmed down instead.

  Just now still in the forest, suddenly appeared in front of the ice and snow for thousands of miles, behind the sea of fire connected to the sky in an unknown land, apparently this is a fantasy realm.

  Gu Chen and the Pure White Blood Crown Fox's bodies were still in the forest, but after turning around that tree, they stepped into an array range and fell into an illusion.

  Gu Chen's expression turned calm, not only did he see that this was an illusion, but also knew what kind of formation it was.

  In his past life, Gu Chen lived for 500 years and was also a top-notch Great Cultivator in the Fate Spring Realm. He had made certain achievements in various aspects, such as array formations, artifact refinement... especially in alchemy, he was a master of his generation.

  Although the formation method and exercise equipment are only amateur studies, they can't compare to some formation masters and exercise masters. As a top-notch cultivator in the Fate Spring realm, Gu Chen's contact with space is far beyond that of low- and mid-level cultivators. Compared to ordinary cultivators, Gu Chen can also be considered an expert in formation methods and exercise equipment.

  In front of this array there is ice and snow, behind it a sea of fire. The ice represents yin, the fire represents yang, and it is called the 'Yin Yang Confusion Heaven Array'.

  Unless it is a Golden Elixir cultivator of the Divine Sea Realm, one can forcibly break through the formation with powerful techniques. If one does not understand the method to break the formation, even if they are a great cultivator of the first three layers of the Divine Sea Realm, they will be trapped by this Yin-Yang Confusion Heaven Formation for over ten years.

  The Grand Masters of the Divine Sea Realm would be trapped by this Yin-Yang Maze Heaven Array, let alone those in the Pre-Heaven Realm. Once trapped inside, unless someone from outside intervened to rescue them, they would be unable to escape for their entire lives.