Chapter 64: Eastern Wilderness Seclusion

  Gu Chen entered the Eastern Wilderness and unleashed his cultivation, using Swift Winged Wind to accelerate, speeding extremely fast towards the depths of the Eastern Wilderness. Gu Chen's cultivation had reached the Fourth Layer of the Pre-Heaven Realm, and through Swift Winged Wind acceleration, his speed surpassed even that of a Ninth Layer Pre-Heaven Realm cultivator. In one day, he could traverse five or six thousand miles.

  Before, Gu Chen entered the Eastern Wilderness twice. This is his third time entering the Eastern Wilderness. However, this time entering the Eastern Wilderness is vastly different from the previous two times. The first time he entered the Eastern Wilderness was to search for the Lingering Soul Flower and the Blazing Tiger's Inner Dan. As a result, in the Valley of Withered Souls, he obtained the Lingering Soul Flower.

  The second time entering Donghuang was with Wan Renjian and Wan Renqi to hunt down the Blazing Tiger at Flame Mountain.

  In the past two times entering Donghuang, the main purpose was to find materials for the Three Extremes Array. This time, Gu Chen only cultivated and had no other matters, his sole purpose being to accelerate his cultivation progress.

  The amount of innate true energy depends on the daily persistence and perseverance in cultivation, while the application of innate true energy relies on the cultivator's continuous exploration during battles.

  Cultivators of the same realm, with equally dense innate true energy, yet the power they unleash differs greatly, some high and some low. Why is that? It's due to their application!

  To become a truly powerful cultivator, it's not enough to just cultivate bitterly. One must also understand how to utilize the innate true energy. This requires enlightenment, and those with extremely high enlightenment can grasp the method of utilizing the innate true energy through just a few battles, allowing them to better unleash its power.

  Although Gu Chen had the experience of his past life, it was only an experience that allowed him to avoid many detours. The realization that belonged to him in this life still required him to personally experience the battle before he could have a deeper understanding.

  Entering the Eastern Wilderness, Gu Chen flew for ten days, deeply entering the Eastern Wilderness for more than 50,000 miles. The demonic beasts here are basically all mid-stage Primordial Realm demonic beasts, among which the majority are fifth-layer Primordial Realm demonic beasts, and there are also a small number of fourth-layer and sixth-layer Primordial Realm demonic beasts that appear.

  With Gu Chen's current strength, having top-grade and mid-grade artifacts in hand, and also mastering the leftover law of the top-grade, without using the Tianxia Quenching Body Great Law, he can already compete with a fifth-layer pre-heavenly realm demon beast. Using the Tianxia Quenching Body Great Law, he can even rival a sixth-layer pre-heavenly realm demon beast.

  When fighting for life and death, Gu Chen usually uses the Tian Gang Quan Ti Da Fa. In a state of enhanced physical strength, he kills his enemies. However, during training, he practices by battling with demonic beasts in their normal state.

  The Tian Gang Quan Ti Dafa is to strengthen the physical body, the stronger the original strength of the physical body, the stronger it will be after strengthening, so just need to exercise the physical body in a normal state, can achieve one stone two birds.

  On the contrary, if every time through Tianxian Quan Ti Da Fa, the flesh body is strengthened and then tempered, the physical strength will not change under normal circumstances. The foundation of a cultivator refers to the physical intensity of the cultivator in a normal state, rather than the intensity after being strengthened by some secret methods.

  To have a solid foundation, one must naturally train their physical body to its most perfect state under normal circumstances.

  After flying more than 50,000 miles into the Eastern Wilderness, Gu Chen stopped flying and descended into the wilderness. Every day, he would walk in the wilderness, fighting with the demons he encountered during the day, and at night, he would focus on cultivating his Fa jue to strengthen the pre-heavenly true energy within his body, only resting when it was midnight.

  It's like this every day.

  This time, Gu Chen entered the Eastern Wilderness and planned to stay there for a long time, focusing on his cultivation. He wouldn't return until the New Year's Eve when the ancient family would hold its annual competition.

  At present, Gu Chen's cultivation is only at the fourth level of the Pre-Heavenly Boundary, although he has the Rapid Wind and Clouds technique, which allows him to be as fast as a ninth-level Pre-Heavenly Boundary cultivator. However, his actual strength is still inferior to that of a seventh-level Pre-Heavenly Boundary cultivator, and even more so compared to Gu Cang Yue. This time, he must make a breakthrough in his secluded cultivation.

  Even Lian Gu Cang Yue can't compare, let alone Wan Tian Rui. This potential great enemy may confront us head-on at any time. When dealing with the enemy, only one's own strength is the greatest reliance; other means are nothing but fleeting clouds in the face of absolute strength.

  Since entering the Eastern Wilderness of over 50,000 miles, Gu Chen has been shuttling through the forest every day, without flying with a spiritual tool, and only travels a few hundred miles each day. Every day, he engages in fierce battles with different demonic beasts several times, and the days pass by like this. Gu Chen's strength is rapidly increasing every day.

  Liuchuan entered the Eastern Wilderness and rushed forward for several days, but he didn't see Gu Chen's figure. He felt puzzled and thought that Gu Chen might not have gone straight into the Eastern Wilderness, but instead turned in another direction, so their directions of advancement might have diverged.

  After entering the East Wasteland, Liu Chuan searched in a range of thousands of miles in the north-south direction every day. If Gu Chen had deviated from his course, he should still be behind, and all that was needed was to wait here for Gu Chen to deliver himself to their doorstep.

  However, Liu Chuan searched for over ten days and didn't see even a shadow of Gu Chen. Suddenly, he was greatly puzzled, "Could it be that Gu Chen entered the Eastern Wilderness but didn't enter the range of Wanli? Within Wanli, there are only some First Heaven Layer and Post-Heavenly Layer demonic beasts, with few Second Heaven Layer demonic beasts appearing. With Gu Chen's cultivation, he shouldn't be staying within Wanli, right?"

  After Gu Chen entered the Eastern Wilderness, Liu Chuan finally set out from the Liu family. He thought that with his innate six-layer cultivation, he would be able to catch up with Gu Chen in at most one day's time. But unexpectedly, for several days in a row, there was no sign of Gu Chen.

  Liu Chuan didn't know that Gu Chen's speed was more than twice as fast as his. By the time Liu Chuan entered the Eastern Wilderness, Gu Chen had already pulled away by several hundred miles. The farther they went, the greater the distance between them grew. In just one day, Gu Chen had left Liu Chuan behind by over two thousand miles. Even with Liu Chuan's speed, he couldn't even see Gu Chen's shadow, no matter how hard he tried to catch up.

  After searching for ten days in the vast wilderness, Liu Chuan confirmed that Gu Chen was within a radius of 10,000 miles. Therefore, he narrowed down the search range every day, from 10,000 miles to 9,000 miles... 8,000 miles.

  It was another ten days later, and Liu Chuan had searched the entire Eastern Desolation for a thousand miles, but still hadn't found even a shadow of Gu Chen. Within a thousand miles, there were only Later Heaven Realm demonic beasts roaming about. Liu Chuan's heart was certain that Gu Chen couldn't possibly be within the Eastern Desolation's thousand miles.

  "Could it be? Was I too careless during the chase? Did I miss that little guy and not notice? Has he already gone deep into the Eastern Wastes?" At this point, Liu Chuan finally began to consider a different outcome.

  These days, Liu Chuan's search has been extremely thorough, and it can be basically confirmed that Gu Chen is not within the East Wasteland of Ten Thousand Miles, unless Gu Chen hides in a secluded cave every day and does not go out, otherwise he cannot escape Liu Chuan's search.

  It's not within ten thousand miles, then it must be after entering the ten thousand miles. Liu Chuan thought about it and felt that he had definitely been careless and missed Gu Chen.

  As soon as Gu Chen possibly entered the East Wasteland, Liu Chuan furrowed his brow. The entire East Wasteland was vast and boundless, and after Gu Chen entered the Wanli, he didn't know where he was exactly.

  Whether it's entering the Eastern Wilderness for 20,000 miles or 30,000 miles, maybe even more than 40,000 miles... Even Liu Baisheng was defeated by Gu Chen afterwards, which shows that Gu Chen has the strength to challenge a fifth-layer demonic beast of the Pre-Heavenly Realm.

  So it's possible for Gu Chen to penetrate 50,000 miles into the Eastern Wastes.

  It took Liu Chuan more than ten days to search for him in the vast eastern wilderness, and he only searched within a range of about a thousand miles north and south. If Gu Chen went deep into the eastern wilderness for 40,000 or 50,000 miles...

  Liu Chuan didn't dare imagine how difficult it would be to find Gu Chen in Dong Huang.

  Fortunately, the Eastern Wilderness is the domain of the demon tribe, and there are few human cultivators coming and going. Finding a person in the Eastern Wilderness is much easier than finding one on human territory. Although the range of the Eastern Wilderness is vast, as long as you focus on searching, the chances of encountering them by chance are still very high.

  If in a human settlement, casually entering a city, wanting to find someone, it's like looking for a needle in the ocean.

  So, Liu Chuan did not retreat and continued to venture deeper into the eastern wilderness, flying thousands of miles every day, conducting a carpet search, vowing to find Gu Chen no matter what.

  He made up his mind to kill Gu Chen and let him grow again, so that no one in the Liu family could rival him, and Le Shui City would have to respect the Gu family. Behind the scenes, there were many contradictions between the Gu and Liu families. If the strength of both sides was extremely unbalanced, then one side would eventually have to leave the stage of Le Shui City.

  It's easy to imagine that as long as Gu Chen's cultivation increases by two more levels, no one in Leishui City will be able to threaten him. In another ten years, if Gu Chen's cultivation surpasses the Seventh Layer of the Innate Realm, the end of the Liu family will arrive.

  Thus, Liu Chuan's murderous intent towards Gu Chen was like a prairie fire that could not be extinguished.

  "As long as you are in Donghuang, I will find you one day." Liu Chuan's heart was firm with conviction, searching forward every day.

  ……

  Like Liu Chuan, there are also two elders of the Wan family, Wan Youqiao and Wan Yougen, who are searching for Gu Chen in the East Wilderness. The two received news that Gu Chen had gone to the East Wilderness three days ago, but Gu Chen had already disappeared without a trace in the vast expanse of the East Wilderness.

  However, in order to find out what happened to Wan Renjian and Wan Rongqi, so that they can give an account to Wan Tianrui after he leaves the pass, the two of them also start searching in the Eastern Wilderness.

  Both of them had a cultivation base of the Sixth Layer of the Innate Boundary. Although it was said that Gu Chen defeated Liu Baisheng, who was at the Fourth Layer of the Innate Boundary, in the Three Families' Martial Gathering in Leshui City, this level of cultivation was still not taken seriously by the two Wan Family Elders. The two split up to search and headed deep into the Eastern Wilderness.

  During this time, both of them had met Liu Chuan before. Le Shui City and Tai Yang City were not far apart, although there was the obstruction of Tai Mountain, and the two cities came and went rarely. However, Liu Chuan and Wan Jia's two elders were renowned cultivators within a thousand-mile radius nearby.

  Although they don't know each other well, they are acquainted with one another.

  They met by chance, exchanged greetings, and then went their separate ways to look for Gu Chen. These were all secret matters within each of their own families, so naturally they didn't ask each other anything.

  ……

  Gǔ Zhēn was in the Eastern Wilderness, over 50,000 miles away, where he fought fiercely with demonic beasts every day and diligently cultivated his magical decisions at night. The days passed quickly for him, but he didn't know that three pre-heavenly realm sixth-layer cultivators were searching for his figure in the Eastern Wilderness.

  With each passing day, Gu Chen's innate true energy became thicker and more refined, and his understanding of the use of innate true energy also deepened. His cultivation was growing rapidly every day.

  In the blink of an eye, entering the Eastern Wilderness for almost two months now, the congenital true energy within his body had reached a considerable thickness. Gu Chen felt that he was about to touch the barrier of the fourth layer of the Congenital Realm and believed that it wouldn't be long before he could break through to the fifth layer of the Congenital Realm.

  From entering the Innate Realm's fourth layer to now, it has only been three months, and he has already seen the hope of breaking through to the fifth layer. Gu Chen was overjoyed in his heart.