Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

"What happened?"

Seeing Xu Tianying look so utterly shocked, the head of Mysterious Pill Workshop, Yuan Xiong, immediately sensed an ominous premonition.@@novelbin@@

Xu Tianying waved his hand, signalling the warrior from Arsenal to withdraw. At this moment, his expression darkened. He glanced at the two elders from Vault of Sky Sword Sect, Xi Jie and Hu Wei, seated at the head of the room and whispered, "We failed."

"Failed?"

Mysterious Pill Workshop's head, Yuan Xiong, was initially puzzled and didn't understand what Xu Tianying was talking about, but the next moment, he quickly realized and exclaimed, "You mean to say you couldn't kill that little bastard?!"

"What happened?"

At this time, the two elders from Vault of Sky Sword Sect, Xi Jie and Hu Wei, also frowned and turned their gaze to Xu Tianying below.

Upon hearing them, Xu Tianying took a deep breath and with clasped fists solemnly said to the two elders, "Masters, I am incompetent, the plan has failed, and I was unable to kill Gu Chen or sever his head."

"Describe the incident in detail." Xi Jie demanded with a frown.

"Yes."

Xu Tianying nodded, and then he recounted the message his subordinate had just informed him with, for the other three present.

"Nine people working together, four at the peak of Innate realm, and yet none could kill Gu Chen?"

After listening to Xu Tianying's recount, even Xi Jie and Hu Wei felt a bit astonished.

They didn't care about Arsenal and Mysterious Pill Workshop allying with the cult. To them, as long as the task was completed and Gu Chen was slain, that was all that mattered.

As for whether Arsenal and Mysterious Pill Workshop would betray the six sacred sites to join the cult, Xi Jie and Hu Wei thought that Xu Tianying and Yuan Xiong lacked the guts to do so.

"He just broke through to the Innate realm, right?" the two elders asked, frowning.

"Correct." Xu Tianying admitted somewhat sheepishly.

"Just broken through to the Innate realm, and so many of you can't deal with him; are the people under both of you useless?" Hu Wei sharply rebuked, sparing no courtesies.

Hearing this, Xu Tianying and Yuan Xiong's expression turned unsightly, but they could not come up with an explanation.

Even they were puzzled—how could this operation possibly fail? Could it be that Gu Chen, having just broken through to the Innate realm, was invincible?

But that was too unrealistic. Yet immediately after, Xu Tianying and Yuan Xiong had a flash of insight and exchanged a look, both speaking in unison, "Top-grade divine weapons!"

"What are you two babbling about?" Xi Jie and Hu Wei were displeased.

Xu Tianying hastily clasped his fists and said, "Reporting to Master Xi, we speculate that the failure of this operation must be due to the top-grade divine weapons. Both of you are aware that Gu Chen has three top-grade divine weapons in his possession. Perhaps it was for this reason the operation failed." Your next chapter awaits on My Virtual Library Empire

Xu Tianying thought his reasoning would be accepted, but instead, he heard Hu Wei's angry scolding.

"Ridiculous!" Hu Wei said coldly, "Are you suggesting that those you sent were just targets standing there, letting him strike them with top-grade divine weapons?"

Xi Jie's expression grew serious as he slowly said, "Although top-grade divine weapons are powerful, a peak Innate realm is not weak either, and there were four of them. Despite the huge gap in cultivation, with top-grade divine weapons at his disposal, wouldn't he avoid their edge?

Or are you saying the people under you both are brutes without a shred of intelligence who only know how to brute force things?"

"This..." Xu Tianying and Yuan Xiong both stiffened, unable to say a word.

"The warriors from the Nine States are too disappointing," Xi Jie shook his head and said, "Even having reached the Innate realm, their use in combat skills, cultivation, and martial arts is far too crude. Forget it, I shall personally take action to behead him."

"Let me do it. Just tell me his exact location and I'll be right back," Hu Wei said coldly.

"No need for you to actively seek him out, for I have come to you myself!"

At that moment, from outside the hall, suddenly a rampant aura surged forward, and with a bang, Gang Wind gusted in, and the hall doors were blasted open.

At this instant, one could see a tall figure slowly walking in from outside the hall, leaving a trail of blood behind, with corpses piled one after another in the vicinity, still holding a person in his hand—the very same Arsenal warrior who had just reported to Xu Tianying.

This person was none other than Gu Chen. After stepping into the hall, he casually tossed aside the warrior in his hand like throwing away garbage, dumping the already lifeless body onto the ground.

Seeing the sorry state of his subordinate, the head of Arsenal, Xu Tianying, was instantly furious, his eyes swiftly turning red.

"Gu Chen!"

Head of Mysterious Pill Workshop, Yuan Xiong, reacted the same way, clenching his fists tightly with a face darkened to the extreme.

After getting the specific location from Luo Feng, Gu Chen worried they might flee, so he hurried over without stopping.

Fortunately, after reaching the Innate realm, he could tread through the air, and coupled with the Earthly Martial Skill LingXu Nine Steps, Gu Chen was exceedingly fast, arriving here before too long.

"Have you come here to seek death?" Xu Tianying said through clenched teeth, glaring at Gu Chen.

As for Gu Chen himself, he was calm, speaking indifferently, "Not long ago, someone else said the same thing to me, and now he's dead."

"So you're the audacious Gu Chen?" At this moment, Xi Jie and Hu Wei both stood up, their sharp aura pointing straight at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen's gaze shifted to the two elders, his tone indifferent, "Vault of Sky Sword Sect has sent just the two of you? What about Mount Tianzhu and Burning Heaven Valley, why haven't they sent anyone?"

Hu Wei sneered coldly, saying, "To kill you, I alone am enough!"