Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

Looking at the pale golden pool of water before him, Gu Chen removed his robes and cast them aside, jumping into the pool naked.

"Hiss!"

As soon as he entered, Gu Chen felt waves of coolness seeping through the myriad pores of his skin, causing his body to shiver slightly.

Then, Gu Chen sat cross-legged, assumed the basic meditative posture, cleared his mind, closed his eyes, and let the pale golden water wash over his body.

Initially, he only felt a surge of coolness, but as time went on, that coolness deepened, and he felt as if he were in the far northern ice fields, with bone-piercing coldness causing his flesh, bones, and blood to almost freeze stiff.

Even frost formed between Gu Chen's brows, showing how intense the cold within his body was.

In fact, with Gu Chen's current physical strength, ordinary coldness really couldn't invade his body.

However, from the outside, Gu Chen remained calm and indifferent.

This pain was not enough to change his expression, and more importantly, Gu Chen could clearly feel his body growing stronger, which was the most delightful thing.

"A change is about to occur," Gu Chen muttered with a frown after a long time, his powerful intuition preempting that a new transformation was on the horizon.

And sure enough, the moment this thought crossed his mind, the pale golden pool water in the outside world began to boil.

At the same time, Gu Chen felt the chill inside his body gradually fade away, replaced by a rapidly surging intense heat.

"Is this the dual extremes of ice and fire?" Gu Chen mused to himself.

Waves of burning heat flowed within Gu Chen's body, nearly igniting his flesh, bones, and internal organs, akin to the feeling of practicing the Pure Yang Vajra Body.

Compared to the previous coldness, the scalding medicinal power was much more ferocious, and the rate of growth of Gu Chen's physical body was equally so.

Just like the previous coldness, as time passed, the temperature inside Gu Chen's body rose steadily. Eventually, his entire muscular body turned red as if he had been cooked.

Even atop his head, waves of heat steamed up.

Under the fierce heat of the medicinal power, impurities began to emerge from Gu Chen's body, which was extremely rare!

At the same time, the flesh, bones, meridians, and other parts of Gu Chen's body became increasingly tough, his blood clear, bones lustrous, and meridians expand, as strong as dragon sinews.

Gu Chen's physical strength once again received a considerable enhancement!

But if it were just this much, the pale golden pool would not have been famous in ancient times.

The truly intense medicinal effect required some time to fully manifest.

And when that time came, it was also the moment when Gu Chen's body would undergo the most violent transformation, and historically, there were not a few warriors who had not endured it and burst apart, dying on the spot.

Moreover, such cases were not few.

Between heaven and earth, there is an inherent law: to harvest, one must be willing to pay the corresponding price.

No one can defy this principle, and some say that this is one of the laws of the universe—the law of cause and effect!

Of course, Gu Chen was completely unaware of all this, nor did he care, because it was too far removed from himself. Right now, he only wanted to know to what extent his physical strength would improve after this enhancement.

Time passed, and Gu Chen felt that the increase in his physical body had reached a certain bottleneck, where, despite the scorching medicinal power's tempering, there was hardly much improvement left to achieve.

"Is this the limit?" Seeing this, Gu Chen couldn't help but let out a light sigh.

Indeed, to significantly improve one's physique, one still needed to increase the level of body-refining martial arts.

But just as Gu Chen was about to get up, suddenly, an anomaly occurred.

Boom!

At that moment, a more violent medicinal effect struck, and the pool of body refining treasure liquid, through time's sedimentation, finally unleashed its true power.

At that instant, inside Gu Chen's body, the previously fading chill returned, combining with the heat within him, jointly tempering his body.

And both the chill and the heat were several times stronger than before!

"Such a violent medicinal power!" At that moment, even Gu Chen couldn't help feeling a sense of astonishment, along with a sharp pain.

Ice and fire, at this moment, merged perfectly inside Gu Chen's body, as if turning him into the embodiment of yin and yang with alternating red and blue glows flickering on his skin.

Even Gu Chen's body, half encased in frost, half blazing red, looked incredibly strange.

Sputter!

Suddenly, as the medicinal power was too fierce and the alternating cold and hot overwhelmed him, even Gu Chen's body began to falter, and a crack opened, with fresh blood spraying out.

Then, one wound after another appeared on Gu Chen's muscular body, as his blood continued to flow.

Waves of intense pain assaulted his mind, along with the torment of ice and fire, but at that moment, Gu Chen was not worried, but rather felt a sense of excitement.

Because his body was beginning to transform!

"Another cycle of blood cleansing and marrow washing?!" Gu Chen exclaimed in surprise and focused on introspection.

It is known that after passing the Hundred Orifices Stage, it becomes extremely difficult for warriors to undergo another blood cleansing and marrow washing, as each one represents a transformation. And the stronger the warrior, the harder it is to completely transform their physique.

Moreover, with Gu Chen's level of physical toughness, what might be effective heavenly treasures or spiritual medicines for others might not necessarily work for him.

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But what Gu Chen hadn't anticipated was that the opportunity of this place, this pale golden pool water, could actually induce a transformation of his flesh and another round of blood renewing and marrow cleansing!

"Indeed extraordinary!"

At this moment, under Gu Chen's inner vision, he could see his old blood and marrow flowing out through his wounds, while under the stimulus of the medicinal powers of ice and fire, once the old blood was exhausted, new marrow began creating blood again. Compared to the old blood, the new blood emerging within Gu Chen's body was even more vibrant and resplendent!

Yes, resplendent!

One could even say that each droplet of blood was as transparent as a blood diamond, and while the crystalline marrow inside his body was continuously producing blood, more and more new blood emerged, making Gu Chen's vitality more boundless and vast than before the blood exchange!

For martial artists, blood renewing and marrow cleansing was a fundamental transformation that greatly benefited the physical body, strengthening it and unlocking more of the martial artist's bodily potential.

Gu Chen could feel that his physical strength had increased several notches compared to before.

Hum!

Suddenly, on the surface of Gu Chen's body, precisely one hundred and eight points of light lit up, each one like a vortex—or a star—shining brightly, and faintly, as if one hundred and eight sacred spirits were sitting within, containing a grand presence and authority.

"Is this... the one hundred and eight acupoints I opened at the Hundred Orifices Stage?" Gu Chen pondered over his body in silence. Although he didn't know why such a change had occurred, he understood that all this was developing in a favorable direction.

When the one hundred and eight acupoints appeared, Gu Chen felt his physical strength increase by a considerable amount once again.

Boom!

All of a sudden, the one hundred and eight acupoints on the surface of Gu Chen's body resonated, and the vast Heavenly Earth Essence Qi around began pouring into his body through these acupoints.

The one hundred and eight acupoints, like one hundred and eight vortexes, engulfed and breathed in the pure Heavenly Earth Essence Qi of this place greedily, like bottomless pits without end.

At the same time, as the acupoints continued to inhale and exhale the essence qi, the holy spirits seated within the acupoints seemed to become increasingly more substantial and real.

No one could predict if one day these sacred spirits would materialize, residing within Gu Chen's acupoints and bestowing upon him supreme might.

At this moment, the pores all over Gu Chen's body expanded, and his body glowed translucently, absorbing the various spiritual essences from the surroundings and the pool water to replenish himself.

All things born by nature have a spirit, especially the Heavenly Earth Essence Qi and the treasures of heaven and earth, which contain more abundant spirituality, hence they can help martial artists to strengthen their bodies.

Or one could say that Heavenly Earth Essence Qi is but one of the many spiritual natures within heaven and earth.

At this time, the acupoints on the surface of Gu Chen's body, turning into vortexes, were devouring all the spiritualities and the various hues of Heavenly Earth Essence Qi, which streamed into his body as though swallows returning to their nests, eagerly and rapidly.

By now, Gu Chen no longer felt any pain; all that remained was comfort, and his body was rapidly growing stronger.

Even now, Gu Chen's physical strength had almost doubled compared to before, and this increase in strength continued without stop.

Rumble!

In this moment, heaven and earth resonated, the ground shook, and ripples spread through the void—all the abnormalities finally ceased at this moment.

And with that, Gu Chen's physical transformation came to an end.

At this time, his body became even more lean and robust than before, appearing perfectly proportioned as if calculated with precision, his skin fair and lustrous like cast from mutton-fat jade.

Especially the hair on his body, which faintly shimmered with a light halo, and the black strands that fell to his waist also saw an increase in brilliance.

Even Gu Chen's facial features and contours appeared more flawless and handsome than before.

This indicated that Gu Chen's physical evolution followed a perfect path without any deviation.

Or perhaps it was because he maintained control over it to some extent, which is why it turned out this way.

After all, Gu Chen didn't want to change into another appearance; he wished to keep his Human Clan bloodline, to preserve his uniqueness.

In this moment, divine radiance twinkled throughout Gu Chen's body, his Vajra physique growing stronger while his silhouette faintly glowed with a halo.

As Gu Chen consciously retracted his energies, soon all anomalies disappeared from sight.

"I can feel that my current state is extraordinarily good, even unprecedentedly so," Gu Chen's eyes sparkled, shining brighter than the stars in the sky.

If there had been an enemy present, Gu Chen would have been keen to test out his physical strength against a top martial artist at the Coagulation Field realm.

In the realm of divine communication, Gu Chen believed that even the prodigies who came from the upper realms could hardly compare with him now.

"If I were to face that enemy from the Red Cloud Sect again, even without resorting to the Tai Xu Dragon Transformation, I could easily suppress him," Gu Chen spoke softly, harbouring great confidence in his own strength.

At this moment, thinking of Bi Yu, Gu Chen suddenly remembered the ultimate divine weapon he acquired from Bi Yu—the spear which he had yet to deal with.

In the Beidou Sect it wasn't convenient for him to do anything, so he suppressed it with the mysterious gauntlets and tucked it away in the heavenly seed.

Hum!

As Gu Chen flipped his hand over, the moment the ultimate divine weapon appeared, a terrifying aura burst forth as if intending to shatter the heaven and earth before his eyes.

"Behave yourself," Gu Chen frowned and gripped it tightly with his left hand, while the mysterious gauntlets slumbering within his flesh released strands of faint light, suppressing it.

This demonstrated that even the so-called ultimate divine weapon was incapable of causing any disturbance in the presence of the ancient mysterious gauntlets.

"A weapon shines in its refinement, not in its abundance... very well, it's your lucky day," Gu Chen sighed, and after fiddling with it for a while, he decided to allow the ancient mysterious gauntlets to devour the ultimate divine weapon from Bi Yu of the Red Cloud Sect.

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