Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start-Chapter 397 - 308: All the Masters of the World Gathered_2

Arsenal’s Xu Qing and Mysterious Pill Workshop’s Yuan Zixun were also leading their respective forces, storming in one after another.

"Charge!"

The remaining warriors from the East Province immediately began to charge forward, wave after wave. There were many of them, and even more martial artists were on their way upon hearing the news.

It could be said that the appearance of the mystical realm would gather martial artists under the age of forty from all over the East Province, and even from other states—a spectacle rarely seen in the Nine Provinces.

Even without any exaggeration, more than half of the world’s grandmasters would converge here.

The elite forces of various top powers, including disciples of the six sacred lands and wanderers from around the world, were here. With the opening of the mystical realm, it was bound to determine who was truly the number one prodigy in the world, or rather, the foremost in martial arts below the Innate Stage.

When Gu Chen, after coming out of seclusion, received the news and arrived, what he saw was exactly this scene.

Countless martial artists were scrambling frantically, much like a swarm of locusts crossing the land.

This was the allure of the mystical realm.

Whoosh!

At that moment, suddenly, from the entrance to the mystical realm, the rift in the void emitted a blinding light, and a figure was flung out from within.

"Pfft!"

It was a grandmaster martial artist who was over forty years old. He had harbored a faint hope of trying to enter, but as expected, he was repelled.

Although he suffered heavy injuries, fortunately his life was spared. With a face filled with fear, he hurriedly left the place.

Standing among the crowd, Gu Chen, although a little late, had luckily made it in time.

With wave after wave of martial artists entering, Gu Chen soon arrived at the rift in the void and felt the extraordinary energy that vaguely emanated from inside.

Before he could think further, pushed by the crowd from behind, Gu Chen also entered the mystical realm with the flow.

Swish!

A slight dizzy sensation came over him, reminding Gu Chen of his experience in the trial tower of Pure Yang Martial Sect in Yan State, which felt very similar.

Gu Chen only saw a flash of light and shadow, and the next moment, he had arrived in a new world.

"This..."

Gu Chen looked in awe at the scene before him. The grass and trees were lush and dripping with vigor, flowers bloomed everywhere in radiant purples and bright reds, their fragrance refreshing to the heart and the spirit. Bizarre rocks towered, and ancient trees reached for the skies; he felt as though he had entered a primeval forest.

"This feeling, what’s going on?"

Gu Chen took a deep breath, feeling an emotion he had never experienced in the Nine Provinces. Streams of colored energy flowed into his body from the void, bringing Gu Chen a sensation of soothed relief throughout his whole body. It was incredibly comfortable; he felt as if he was about to ascend to immortality.

"Could this be the so-called Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi?"

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Gu Chen’s eyes flickered as he carefully contemplated. At that moment, unconsciously, all the pores on Gu Chen’s body opened, like a parched fish greedily absorbing the rich spiritual qi of the place.

Indeed, the mystical realm lived up to its name, with energy so dense it seemed impossible to dilute. Comparatively, the Nine Provinces were akin to barren lands.

"I wonder if the environment within the six sacred lands is as extraordinary as this place?" A thought suddenly emerged in Gu Chen’s mind.

If the martial artists of the six sacred lands had been living in such a world since their youth, it was no wonder they could be so terrifyingly powerful at such a young age, capable of overpowering any other martial artist in the Nine Provinces.

Staying in a place with spiritual qi so rich it couldn’t be dispersed, not to mention those warriors with exceptional talents, even an ordinary beast would undergo unimaginable evolution.

Boom!

Just as Gu Chen was meticulously contemplating the wondrous uses of spiritual Qi, suddenly, the earth trembled violently as a giant elephant-like creature charged towards him.

This elephant-like creature was several zhang tall, with a massive body and gleaming tusks. Its beastly eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light, as if it hadn’t been fed for many years.

"What is this thing?"

Gu Chen was moved, closely observing it. He had never encountered such a ferocious beast in Yan State before.

Seeing the giant elephant-like creature charging at him, Gu Chen wanted to gauge his strength against it. Therefore, he extended his arms, and at the moment the creature was close, he grabbed its tusks. Then with a fierce effort, he hurled it away.

Bang!

The elephant-like creature fell to the ground with a scream, the ground shaking violently as dust billowed up.

Gu Chen dusted off his palms and nodded to himself. The sheer strength of this beast was no less than that of a Human Clan warrior of Yan State who had reached the Vajra Stage with a body as tough as a barbaric dragon, and it even seemed to surpass it slightly.

"Is this what the world was like in ancient times?"

Gu Chen took a deep breath, feeling wisps of spiritual Qi flow through his nostrils into his body, making him almost comfortably hum out loud.

If he could stay in this place for a long time, Gu Chen’s cultivation would undoubtedly improve by leaps and bounds.

Soon after, Gu Chen opened his eyes. The elephant-like creature before him seemed to possess a bit of spiritual intelligence or perhaps it was the innate instinct of a beast to seek good fortune and avoid disaster. Its massive body trembled as it stepped back slowly.

Seeing this, Gu Chen smiled and didn’t pursue the creature.

He looked around and saw that not a single warrior was in sight. The surroundings were empty, except for himself.

Xuan Yuan had told Gu Chen that the spirit realm was an independent small world, vast in range. After entering, warriors would be teleported randomly; some might gather together, while others might end up alone.

Clearly, Gu Chen was the latter.

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"Absorb!"

Sensing the unusually rich spiritual Qi in this place, Gu Chen’s internal operating skills began to circulate, and suddenly, he felt like a black hole, a whirlwind stirring around him as he unabashedly absorbed the various spiritual Qi of this place.

Whoosh—

As the spiritual Qi entered his body, Gu Chen’s flesh, bones, and internal organs were all nourished and faintly became stronger, an occurrence that would not happen in Yan State.

"With just breathing, you can become stronger. No wonder, no wonder Xuan Yuan said that Yan State is a broken world. Now it seems, it truly is," Gu Chen sighed to himself.

At that moment, as streams of spiritual Qi continuously flowed into his body, impurities began to be expelled from the pores of Gu Chen’s skin due to the cleansing effect of the spiritual energy.

This somewhat surprised Gu Chen.

After all, his physique was now exceptionally extraordinary; having gone through blood renewal ten times, although still in the Embryonic Breathing Realm, his strength was not weaker than a master who had opened more than fifty orifices in the Hundred Orifices Stage.

It would be logical to think that to further enhance such a body, one would either have to break through to the Hundred Orifices Stage or advance the Pure Yang Vajra Body to a higher level of Earthly Martial Skills.

Yet, what surprised Gu Chen was that merely by entering the spirit realm, without even taking various heavenly and earthly treasures, just by the local spiritual Qi alone, his physical body had advanced a small step forward.

Even more, Gu Chen felt as if the shackles preventing his transition from the Embryonic Breathing Realm to the Hundred Orifices Stage seemed to have loosened a bit.

"Incredible."

Gu Chen was amazed. After absorbing enough spiritual Qi, he stopped operating his skills, and the wild wind in the area ceased abruptly.

Afterward, he decisively set off on his journey, seeking more opportunities to break through to the Hundred Orifices Stage as soon as possible.