Chapter 54: Re-entering the Vast Heaven

  Gu Chen was nudged by Xiao Bai, causing him to burst out laughing. He picked up Xiao Bai and held him in his hands. Before, when Xiao Bai would nuzzle his ear intimately, Gu Chen only felt a ticklish sensation, but deep down he was still very happy.

  But...

  Xiaobai suddenly let out a voice like that of a 10-year-old girl, and nudged Guchen's ear with her head. Guchen felt as if he had been kissed by a little girl, his whole body feeling numb.

  "Don't you know your parents?" Gu Chen looked at Xiao Bai with a serious expression, asking. Xiao Bai's identity must be clarified, if he was indeed the descendant of some powerful demon king, they had to make preparations.

  It's clear that the demonic cultivators are no weaker than human cultivators. Some of the top demonic kings, even those who have reached the Human Spring realm, would have to retreat in defeat.

  "I don't know... I've been living in the backyard of your house since I was little, and I've never been anywhere else. Then I met you... Hehe, life was so boring before, but it's fun now that I've met you." Xiaobai exclaimed, and affectionately kissed Gu Chen's palm again.

  "Could it be some demon king's lost or abandoned child?" Gu Chen thought.

  He patted Xiao Bai's head, and Gu Chen said: "Now that you can speak, we can communicate. I have to ask you carefully. You are a member of the demon tribe, living in the Eastern Wilderness. I am a human, living in the Central Wilderness. Will you follow me to continue living in the Central Wilderness or return to the demon tribe's territory in the Eastern Wilderness?"

  Xiao Bai shook her head like a wave drum, saying: "Don't go back... don't go back, it's not fun at all in the East Wasteland, following Gu Chen is more fun, Gu Chen is good to Xiao Bai, and Xiao Bai is also good to Gu Chen, hehehe..."

  Gu Chen smiled and said, "Are you sure you want to follow me? I'll be running around all the time, no stability at all."

  Xiao Bai said: "Following Gu Chen, there is spiritual liquid and spiritual pills to eat, no need to suffer, hehe... Xiao Bai also likes to run around, before Xiao Bai was alone and didn't dare to run, following Gu Chen is great."

  Gu Zhen said: "Follow me and you will have to interact with human cultivators frequently. In the past, you couldn't speak, that's fine, but now that you can speak, I want you to agree to a few conditions."

  "What does Gu Chen want to say? Are there any requirements?" Little White raised his head slightly.

  Gu Chen thought for a moment and said: "Except when you're alone with me, you mustn't speak, don't let anyone know that you can talk!"

  "Why?" Xiao Bai's eyes were filled with confusion.

  Gu Zhen said: "I know you can talk, the human cultivators will catch you, you've been with me for so long, seen many human cultivators, should know, other cultivators won't treat you like I do."

  Xiao Bai nodded and said: "Uh-huh, Gu Chen is good to Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai only talks to Gu Chen, others, Xiao Bai scares them with a sharp cry, hehe..."

  Gu Chen smiled and said: "I know you like to talk..."

  "Hmm... Xiaobai wanted to talk to Guchen, but Guchen never understood, it's so frustrating for Xiaobai." Xiaobai said excitedly.

  "Later, I'll understand what you're saying! Now, speaking out loud in front of others would be very dangerous. My current strength can't protect you. Once I reach the Divine Sea realm, you can speak freely." Gu Chen said, stroking Xiao Bai's head.

  "Okay... I understand."

  "Also, your ability to change size at will is like speaking - don't use it in front of others and let them know about it. It's just as dangerous as letting them know you can talk."

  "Alright, Xiaobai will keep Gu Chen's secret, this is between the two of us, don't let others know, hehe..." Xiaobai laughed.

  Gu Chen said: "There's one more thing..."

  "Ah...... there are still requirements? Can't Gu Chen say it all at once, bit by bit, it's really frustrating to listen to." Xiaobai interrupted Gu Chen.

  "Depressed? Haha......" Gu Chen laughed and said: "This is not a requirement, when you speak, don't always say 'I' and 'you', just say 'you' when referring to me, and say 'I' when referring to yourself."

  "Uh-huh, Xiao Bai understands." Xiao Bai nodded slightly.

  Gu Chen rolled her eyes and said, "Alright, whatever you want to say, let's just go to the Huatian Cave Mansion."

  ……

  Xiao Bai shrunk down to about a foot in length and sat on Gu Chen's shoulder. Gu Chen released his flying sword, which transformed into a streak of light that quickly flew towards the Huantian Cave Mansion.

  There are still over 20,000 miles from here to the Haotian Cave Mansion. Gu Chen quickly flew for six days and finally arrived outside the Yin-Yang Mystic Sky Array.

  In these six days, Gu Chen has been constantly impacting the third layer of Xiantian Realm's barrier, except for flying away. Finally, last night, he successfully stepped into the fourth layer of Xiantian Realm and became a mid-term cultivator in Xiantian Realm.

  Just after breaking through the boundary, he will soon be able to get the spiritual medicine garden of the Kunlun Cave Mansion. Gu Chen was very happy in his heart and did not stay. He directly entered the Yin-Yang Mystic Heaven Array. In an instant, the surrounding forest disappeared, and Gu Chen fell into a fantasy world of flames and ice.

  Xiao Bai exclaimed: "Last time I escaped here, Xiao Bai was scared to death. Fortunately, Gu Chen was there, otherwise Xiao Bai wouldn't have been able to get out."

  Gu Zhen said: "I wanted your Blood Crown back then, that's why I chased you. If I hadn't chased you, I wouldn't have discovered that there was actually a Cultivator's cave dwelling here either. Come to think of it, I should be thanking you instead."

  Xiao Bai smiled and said: "Fortunately, Gu Chen came to chase Xiao Bai, otherwise Xiao Bai and Gu Chen would not have known each other."

  Gǔ Chén turned his thoughts around and thought that in his past life, Xiǎo Bái had lived in the back mountain of Gǔ's house. Gǔ Chén hadn't even seen him then, but now they knew each other and became friends.

  Gu Chen smiled and said: "It means we have a destined connection..."

  "What is fate?"

  Gu Chen was taken aback for a moment, then thought for a while and said: "It's just that fate has destined us to meet, this is our destiny."

  "Hehe... So we were destined to meet after all? Hehe..."

  ……

  As they spoke, Gu Chen quickly walked through the Yin Yang Maze Heaven Array and arrived at the valley in the middle of the array. Soon, he reached the entrance of the Haotian Cave Mansion.

  Except for the footprints left by Gu Chen last time, there was no change in the cave at all. After a slight pause, Gu Chen walked into the cave mansion.

  Before long, Gu Chen walked through the tunnel and arrived at the cave hall.

  Last time in Haotian Dongfu, Gu Chen's cultivation was only at the fifth layer of the Post-Heaven Realm. Now, he has already entered the fourth layer of the Pre-Heaven Realm.

  Time, just one year has passed.

  Last time he had just entered the cave, he was stared at by the skull of the cave, and the murderous aura made Gu Chen's whole body covered in cold sweat. Xiao Bai also let out a cry of surprise. This time entering, although the skull's murderous aura was still fierce, but Gu Chen's endurance was no longer comparable to before, his expression unchanged as he walked into the cave.

  Xiaobai remained calm and unruffled in the face of the skull's murderous aura, sitting steadily on Gu Chen's shoulder.

  Standing in the center of the cave, Gu Chen looked at the skull and saw that those golden Sky Devouring Insects were still attached to the vertebrae on the back of the skull. It seemed that they hadn't moved at all in a year!

  Seeing the Devouring Heaven Insect, Gu Chen asked Xiao Bai: "Xiao Bai, why is this Devouring Heaven Insect afraid of your cry?"

  "I don't know why the Devouring Heaven Insects are afraid, but I do know that when I call out, these insects will be afraid. They're even more afraid of the red mist I spit out." Little White said with a blink of his eyes.

  "The crimson mist you spat out is also a divine ability that I've known about in your memories?" Gu Chen asked strangely.

  These days, Gu Chen found out that Xiao Bai's ability to change size, speak... were all divine abilities that he knew from memory. Once his realm reached a certain level, it would come naturally.

  This point, Gu Chen can be certain that ordinary demon beasts absolutely don't have the divine ability of memory inheritance. Xiao Bai's bloodline is not simple at all.

  "Hmm... I've known it since I was aware of things." Little White nodded.

  The longer Gu Chen was with Xiao Bai, the more he understood him, and the more secrets he discovered on Xiao Bai's body. Gu Chen shook his head, these were not problems he could figure out for now, and walked towards the stone shelf to the right of the skull.

  On the stone frame, there were many materials for refining instruments. Gu Chen needed to first refine the Yinhuan flower, Xuejing, and Zhu Hu's inner dan, representing the three auras of death, slaughter, and destruction, into the array instrument. Directly using the Yinhuan flower, Xuejing, and Zhu Hu's inner dan would not be enough to set up the array method.

  On the stone frame, there were not only materials for refining equipment, but also tools for refining equipment. Although Gu Chen was not a master of refining equipment, he was absolutely a master of refining equipment and could refine many powerful magical artifacts, let alone law enforcement?

  As long as there are materials, top-grade artifacts can be refined by Gu Chen.

  There were a large number of refining materials on the stone frame, many of which were high-grade materials. Three days later, Gu Chen had already successfully refined all the arrays and artifacts he wanted to refine.

  The Soul-Calling Flower was refined by Gu Chen into the Flag of Death. On the black flag, the entire Soul-Calling Flower was refined within it. Even the most skilled painter couldn't paint a flower as realistic as this one. The Flag of Death contained an actual flower of death.

  The blood essence was refined by Gu Chen into a murderous ring. Inside the red ring, you could still see the blood essence flowing like human blood.

  The inner elixir of the Blazing Tiger was refined by Gu Chen into a bead of destruction, within which a crimson flame of destruction burned ceaselessly.

  Banner of Death, Ring of Slaughter, Pearl of Destruction, all three are array instruments and top-grade magical instruments.

  Array equipment and method equipment, there is a little difference. Each array equipment has other matching array equipment, such as the Flag of Death, the Ring of Slaughter, and the Pearl of Destruction. These three are a set of array equipment that can lay down the ultimate killing formation.

  Gu Chen not only refined the Flag of Death, the Ring of Slaughter and the Pearl of Destruction, but also refined the Qingli Sword and the Quli Index into high-grade and medium-grade magical instruments respectively.

  The Qing sword has been refined with the tiger's claw, and the Ling Suo has been refined with the tiger's tendon, and a lot of high-grade materials have also been added.

  The Soul Shackles are now more formidable than when they were in Liu Qing's hands. Any cultivator below the seventh layer of the Innate Realm will have their cultivation regress to the Post-Heavenly Realm if bound by the shackles, with no possibility of escape.

  Qing Lian Jian, Flag of Death, Ring of Slaughter, Pearl of Destruction, Extreme Ice Pearl... Now, Gu Chen also has five top-grade artifacts on him. The three major families in Le Shui City don't even have one top-grade artifact.

  Such a family background, I'm afraid even the wealthy families of Taipei can only look on with envy.

  Moreover, the Flower of Death, the Ring of Slaughter, and the Pearl of Destruction, these three top-grade magical instruments are also a set of array instruments. When the array is formed, it becomes the Three Extremes Great Array, greatly increasing its power. It can enable Gu Chen's Xiantian realm cultivation to unleash an attack power comparable to that of the Shenhai realm, surpassing even the might of extreme-grade magical instruments.

  After refining the array disc, Gu Chen arrived at the Spiritual Medicine Garden and threw the Death Flag forward. With a "ding" sound, the Death Flag was inserted outside the Mount Sumeru Vajra Array. In an instant, it burst into bloom, growing to about one zhang high. The Death Flower danced along with the array flag.

  Immediately afterwards, Gu Chen threw out the Destruction Pearl, and the Destruction Pearl also transformed into a bowl-sized crimson pearl. Inside the pearl, fierce flames were raging, and the destructive fire was burning fiercely.

  Finally, Gu Chen put the Ring of Slaughter on his right ring finger, and with physical contact, the blood in the Ring of Slaughter flowed even faster, like blood flowing through his body, as if it had become one with him.

  Xiao Bai's body grew to the size of a zhang, with Gu Chen on his back, sitting in the passageway, facing the cave hall. Gu Chen strongly broke through the Mustard Seed Golden Vajra Great Array, which was absolutely earth-shaking and mountain-quaking. Those Sky Swallowing Insects would definitely be startled awake. With Xiao Bai guarding the passageway, the Sky Swallowing Insects wouldn't dare to come over.

  Gu Chen swallowed a Yuanling Dan, his left hand grasping a Ling stone, the pre-heavenly true energy inside his body frantically surged and rapidly flowed, all rushing towards the murderous ring on his right index finger.

  In an instant, the blood of the slaughter ring surged in speed, shooting out a dazzling red light towards the bowl-sized destruction pearl in the air. Similarly, the destruction pearl shone brightly, and the destructive fire inside the pearl surged, forming a virtual flame about one zhang high.

  The red glow entered the Destruction Pearl and turned into three even more dazzling, thicker crimson glows that shot towards the Death Flag together.

  The black flag of death was like a black hole, three dazzling rays of light shot in and instantly disappeared without a trace, as if they were all swallowed up by the flag of death.

  However, the Death Blossom on the banner was shining brightly red, as if it had come to life. Immediately afterwards, the banner began to wave violently without any wind, and nine black auras shot out from the Death Banner.

  Rumble...

  A loud explosion sounded, and nine black auras slammed into the Susumu Vajra Great Array, causing the entire Heavenly Cave Mansion to shake violently.

  Those nine black auras, each one more refined than the sword aura formed by Gu Chen's Qing Li Sword, simultaneously slammed into the Xu Mi Golden Vajra Great Array, and were even more ferocious than the first strike of a cultivator in the First Heaven Realm, with power rivaling that of a cultivator in the Divine Sea Realm.

  The mighty aura of the Mount Sumeru Vajra Formation created ripples upon ripples, and the nine successive blasts of energy were so fierce that they seemed to have struck a great ocean, yet they did not cause any damage to the Mount Sumeru Vajra Formation.

  The Xumi Golden Array is so powerful that even a cultivator in the Golden Elixir stage of the Divine Sea realm would need to launch a fierce attack for half an hour before they could break through.

  Gu Chen used the Three Extremes Great Formation, and the attack he launched was only close to the Divine Sea Boundary's fetal stage. It didn't last for four or five hours, so it couldn't break through the Mount Sumeru Vajra Great Formation. The first attack naturally wouldn't have a significant impact on the Mount Sumeru Vajra Great Formation.

  Continue to urge the innate true energy, towards the killing ring surge, immediately, the killing ring again emits a red light, shot into the destruction pearl, the red light through the destruction pearl, turned into three more dazzling crimson light, shot into the death flag, then, transformed into nine black gas, fiercely attacking the Mount Sumeru Vajra Great Array

  Gu Chen repeatedly urged the innate true energy, one after another red light beams shot out from the killing ring, finally transformed into nine black auras, thundering on the Susumu Vajra Great Array, continuous impact sounds rose, the entire Huang Tian Cave Mansion kept shaking.