Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

In a certain place in the Nine Provinces.

At this moment, a young man with a handsome countenance, star-like eyes, fair skin, a high nose bridge, and thin lips was sitting cross-legged here, quietly watching the battle reflected in the heavens above.

This young man was, unequivocally, a colossal figure from the upper realm, the Ninth Prince of the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty—Gu Yan.

"To have come this far in the Nine Provinces relying solely on one's own strength, it truly is no mean feat," Gu Yan remarked with a slight nod as he watched the intense battle between Gu Chen and Dugu Yun in the sky above.

To be honest, with Gu Yan's power, even Dugu Yun was not taken seriously by him. If his true body were here, a mere flick of his finger would be enough to suppress this cult leader possessed by an evil demon.

However, this time, he descended in his spiritual form, his strength naturally incomparable to that of his true body. Moreover, he was currently injured, and his power was not even on par with Dugu Yun's at the moment. That's why he had been hiding in the shadows to heal, without revealing himself immediately.

"Such strength is far from enough to contend with an evil demon," Gu Yan shook his head and stopped paying attention to the battle between Gu Chen and Dugu Yun.

In his view, this battle was bound to be won by Dugu Yun. If it were an ordinary Heavenly Human, he might not necessarily be a match for Gu Chen, but unfortunately, the Dugu Yun before him was the real body of an evil demon, incomparable to a regular Heavenly Human.

"The fated child of this shattered world? Heh!" Gu Yan's lips curled up in a hint of mockery, then he shook his head and disregarded the matter.

A person doomed to die was not worth his consideration. What he should be thinking about now was how to acquire the legacy of the Nine Cauldrons.

That was the most important thing for him in descending to this world.

"The Nine Cauldrons, just how should they be obtained?" With this thought in mind, Gu Yan furrowed his brows. As the Ninth Prince of the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty, he was well aware that for people from the upper realm, acquiring the Nine Cauldrons was extremely challenging.

At this moment, Gu Yan's thin lips lightly pursed as he said, "I refuse to believe that the Nine Cauldrons won't emerge if I wait until the evil demons destroy the Nine Provinces."

"If they still don't emerge, then I can only wait for this realm to turn into purgatory, and the will of the Nine Provinces is completely extinguished, before asking Father Emperor to take action," Gu Yan mused to himself.

Once Dugu Yun was victorious and slaughtered all the living beings of the Nine Provinces, turning this world into purgatory and erasing the will of the Nine Provinces, the Ninth Prince would be able to request other members of the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty to descend and search for the Nine Cauldrons.

"No matter what, the Nine Cauldrons shall be the possession of our Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty, and no one can snatch them away," Gu Yan said with a cold look and an assured tone.

For now, all he needed to do was patiently wait for Dugu Yun to kill Gu Chen and then bring the Heavenly Seed within him before him.

Following that, the Ninth Prince closed his eyes to focus on healing his injuries, no longer concerned with the battle whose outcome he believed he had already foreseen.

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Yangzhou.

At this time, Gu Chen had combined the Intention Sword Skill with the secret techniques he had obtained from the Vault of Sky Sword Sect to deduce a new technique of even greater power. His sword intent soared into the sky, splitting heaven and earth asunder; with a single strike, he annulled all beings!

Even the cult leader Dugu Yun, facing such a formidable sword strike, had a trace of blood appear on his forehead, which then quickly spread. With a spurt, blood gushed forth and his body split into two halves.

"We won, we have won!"

"Wonderful, the Martial King has won!"

"Gu Chen, I knew you could do it!"

At this moment, seeing Dugu Yun dead, all the people of the Nine Provinces were jubilantly overjoyed and uncontrollably excited.

Some were even so elated that their faces turned red with happiness, embracing those around them tightly.

However, different from the excitement of the others, Gu Chen still appeared solemn and did not relax in the slightest.

Even as the nine true dragons roared and bombarded Dugu Yun's body, which had split into two halves, they sought to pulverize him completely.

But at that moment, to the shock of all onlookers, a horrifying scene unfolded.

The body that had split in two was, at this moment, reversing the flow of blood, astonishingly restoring Dugu Yun's body!

"What?!"

"This is impossible!"

"Why, can someone tell me why?!"

Upon witnessing the cult leader returning to life, the excitement of the crowd came to an abrupt halt, and everyone stood dumbfounded, unable to accept such a scene.

"I am undying and inextinguishable; you cannot defeat me," the resurrected cult leader proclaimed, his body showing not a trace of blood.

If even prison-level demons could resurrect from death, needless to say, an evil demon far more powerful than demons.

Gu Chen said coldly, "As long as I extinguish your Soul Crystal, I want to see how you can revive a next time!"

"Soul Crystal?"

Upon hearing these words, the cult leader Dugu Yun's lips curved upwards, revealing a smirk on his face, and he even shook his head with a look of mockery.

Seeing this, Gu Chen immediately furrowed his brows, sensing that something was amiss, but he could not put his finger on what exactly was wrong.

Privately, Gu Chen utilized the Heavenly Human Gazing Skill to calculate, and in an instant, countless scenarios unfolded before him, most of them still ending with his defeat and the destruction of the Nine Provinces.

"Hmph!"

At that moment, Dugu Yun seemed to sense Gu Chen's actions, and with a cold snort, dark energy filled the air, suddenly making the heavenly secrets become somewhat chaotic.

At this time, Gu Chen remember the words told to him by Zhen Yuan and others, "Evil demons are from beyond the heavens, and cannot be judged by common logic."