Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

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Fortunately, Gu Chen now made sure that every time he was injured, he would first transform his blood back to red before it could be seen by others. Otherwise, the faint golden color of his blood might attract unwanted attention and ideas.

Externally, Gu Chen's skin had turned a charred black, and from his seven orifices, there seemed to be flames spurting out. As the flames continued to scorch him, his hair, including eyebrows and other body hair, all started to burn on their own. Within moments, Gu Chen had become like a piece of charred wood.

After a long time, the fierce flames within Gu Chen's body gradually began to subside, and at the same time, a vigorous and thriving vitality emerged from within him.

Immediately after, with a booming sound, Gu Chen's body trembled, and suddenly, his charred body started to show cracks, one after another. Following that, beams of light shone out from the cracks, and the carbonized skin on Gu Chen's body began to fall off like flaking ash.

He was actually shedding his skin!

At Gu Chen's current physical realm, advancing even a single step further was difficult, but with the Pure Yang True Body reaching its major achievement, Gu Chen's physical strength had improved by leaps and bounds!

As the charred old skin fell away, it revealed Gu Chen's new, fair, and smooth skin underneath. At this moment, Gu Chen looked like the world's most exquisite piece of art, radiating a strange luster all over. His whole body sparkled with golden light, like it was sculpted from brilliant gold-colored glaze, dazzling and eye-catching.

Not only that, but at this moment, the hair Gu Chen lost also grew back instantly—his eyebrows sharp and starry-eyed, his black hair cascading down to his waist. Each strand of hair, even the smallest and the pores on his skin, shimmered with a faint crystalline sheen, looking incredibly mystical.

The muscles on his tall and robust body were well-defined and even, the lines masculine and three-dimensional, containing an incredible explosive power, and a scorching energy flowed through his limbs and bones.

Hiss!

The next moment, Gu Chen's eyes suddenly opened, and his pupils sparkled with dazzling light, like miniature suns. He glanced down at his fully exposed body and quickly picked up a garment from nearby to put on.

"Is this what it means to reach the major achievement of the Pure Yang True Body?" Gu Chen clenched his fist, feeling that now, even if facing a martial arts master who had undergone the blood exchange three times, he would be brave enough to fight in close quarters.

Gu Chen then accessed his panel. After elevating the Pure Yang True Body to its major achievement, he still had two hundred and eight points of cultivation points left on his panel.

Gu Chen chose not to elevate it to perfection, because at the current stage, the major achievement of the Indestructible Vajra Body and the Pure Yang True Body were already sufficient. Being physically stronger without corresponding cultivation level and martial arts realm would be futile.

What Gu Chen had to do was lead in all aspects, not just strengthen one.

Then, he spent fifty-two cultivation points to raise the Eight Desolate Azure Dragon Strength, a superior martial skill, to the realm of major achievement.

Boom!

All of a sudden, behind Gu Chen, five massive Azure Dragon shadows rose, their bodies strong and powerful with a majestic presence, overlooking the world as if true dragons had descended.

Fortunately, Gu Chen immediately isolated his qi so that it did not leave the room and get detected by other martial artists.

The Eight Desolate Azure Dragon Strength, even among other superior martial skills, ranked at the top.

Its complexity and fierceness were no less than the Indestructible Vajra Body, and one could even say that it belonged to the same grade of martial arts as the version of the Indestructible Vajra Body that Gu Chen had deduced.

Furthermore, Gu Chen even suspected that if there were martial skills of the appropriate level to merge and deduce with the Eight Desolate Azure Dragon Strength, it might give birth to an Earthly Martial Skill as shocking as the Indestructible Vajra Body!

It's important to note that Earthly Martial Skills are so challenging to grasp that even martial arts masters struggle to learn them, naturally preventing them from unleashing the full power of such skills.

Only at the realm of a Great Martial Master can one possess enough martial knowledge to comprehend and learn Earthly Martial Skills, and bring out their full power.

As for the most superior Heavenly Martial Skills, even Great Martial Masters find them difficult to access. Whether Earthly or Heavenly Martial Skills, aside from the Jing Tian Department and the royal secret archives, only the top forces in the martial world have them; they are indeed rare.

After improving the Eight Desolate Azure Dragon Strength, Gu Chen spent another thirty-six cultivation points to raise the Controlling Wind Step Shadows, a superior footwork skill, to the realm of minor achievement.

After all, the physical body was Gu Chen's strength, but if he couldn't catch up with his enemy, he wouldn't be able to bring it into full play.

The Controlling Wind Step Shadows had played a significant role during the Pure Yang Martial Sect's trials, so this time Gu Chen had deliberately saved some cultivation points to improve this superior martial skill.
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Because cultivation points were limited, Gu Chen did not opt to improve the other two superior martial skills, the True Yang Sword Finger and the Star Tapping Sword Jue, this time.

With a hundred and twenty cultivation points remaining on the panel, Gu Chen added them all to his cultivation base in one go.

Whoosh—

In an instant, a massive amount of True Gang surged in Gu Chen's meridians, and his cultivation base also rose dramatically, jumping from three hundred and ten to four hundred and thirty years.

The Great Sun Divine Gang within him became immensely thick, and Gu Chen's realm reached the mid-stage of the Returning to True Stage.

"Now, even when facing a martial arts master who has undergone the blood exchange twice, I have no fear," Gu Chen mused to himself.

After elevating his body, cultivation base, and martial skills, although Gu Chen was only in the mid-stage of the Returning to True Stage, his combat strength far exceeded his current realm.

Confident he could hold his own against even a martial arts master who had gone through the blood exchange twice and likely defeat him, the challenge would be greater against one who had undergone this process three times. While he was unafraid in terms of physical strength, there would still be a considerable gap in cultivation base.

Each blood exchange during the Nascent stage is a transformation, not only in terms of the physical body but also the cultivation base.

With the Earthly Martial Skill attribute of the Great Sun Divine Gang, Gu Chen could contend with a martial arts master who had undergone the blood exchange twice in terms of cultivation, but if it were three times, in terms of cultivation, Gu Chen would likely be crushed.

When it comes to a master who has exchanged blood four times, Gu Chen would not be a match at all, as he would easily be defeated by the opponent.

Each blood exchange widens the gap significantly; a master who has transformed four times is entirely in a different league compared to one who has done it three times.

Even so, Gu Chen was already very satisfied. To be at the mid-stage of the Returning to True Stage and able to contend with a martial arts master who had undergone the blood exchange twice was an unprecedented feat in thousands of years across Jiuzhou.

"Now, even in the midst of great chaos in the world, I genuinely possess a degree of self-protection," Gu Chen pondered.

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