Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

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In the world beyond the heavens, desolate and dim, it seemed to exist outside all celestial realms, with no trace to be found. The emptiness was unmatched, with only shattered meteor fragments suspended in the air. The profound darkness and eternal solitude were the everlasting themes of this place.

Without a resolute will, a person staying here for an extended period might well go mad.

The spatial passageway resembled a deep vortex, ceaselessly rotating, exuding chilling auras constantly seeping out, making one's entire being uncomfortable, nearly frozen stiff.

No one knew where this spatial passageway actually led to. It was only known that it held coordinates to both the Human Clan world and the world of demons and monsters, allowing endless such creatures to locate and appear through this channel.

Gu Chen summoned the Cosmic Cauldron, a massive bronze cauldron with three feet and two handles, an ultimate heavy weapon possessing overwhelming suppressive might, capable of stabilizing the heavens.

With the appearance of the Cosmic Cauldron, Gu Chen leaped into it and guided the massive bronze cauldron to plunge deliberately into the deep vortex, that is, into the spatial passageway.

The reason for doing this was to be on the safe side. Who knew if there would be immediate danger upon entry? The Cosmic Cauldron mastered the void, a divine artifact of spatial dimensions. With the protection of this cauldron, even if the spatial passageway exploded into terrifying void turbulence in the moment of descent, Gu Chen would still remain unharmed.

Hum!

As the Cosmic Cauldron sank into it, Gu Chen released a wisp of his divine consciousness to the outside world, only to feel waves of distortion around him. The passageway was dark and chaotic, and he was shuttling through space at an extremely fast pace, heading toward an unknown destination.

This rapid transit caused Gu Chen a moment of dizziness. He quickly withdrew that wisp of divine consciousness, and in an instant, everything ceased to be.

At this moment, he felt nothing, as the Cosmic Cauldron isolated Gu Chen from everything.

With a thud, the Cosmic Cauldron landed on the ground. The speed of spatial traversal was extremely fast, and it took no time for Gu Chen to arrive at his destination.

The unknown represented danger to a certain extent, so, upon arrival, Gu Chen did not emerge directly from the Cosmic Cauldron but instead remained hidden within.

Inside the Cosmic Cauldron, all of Gu Chen's auras were completely isolated, undetectable by anyone outside, akin in a mysterious way to the Heavenly Earth Essence Qi.

The difference was that the Heavenly Earth Essence Qi was more convenient to use, whereas the Cosmic Cauldron required Gu Chen's active entry.

After a long moment, seeing no abnormalities occur, Gu Chen's mind moved. He stowed the Cosmic Cauldron, appearing in the unknown world outside, but his aura was concealed within the Heavenly Earth Essence Qi, making it difficult to detect.

"Hm?"

Upon reaching the outside world, Gu Chen's brows knitted immediately. This place was desolate, without the light of day, utterly dark. The sky was black, the ground likewise, and within the air flowed strands and wisps of thick, peculiar auras belonging to the demons and monsters, evil and yin in nature.

This kind of aura, concentrated and pervading every corner here, even made someone like Gu Chen, upon his arrival, feel an intense discomfort.

The aura of demons and monsters is inherently negative for living beings. No member of the Human Clan would like this aura; much like water and fire, they are naturally opposing.

"Is this the world of demons and monsters?" Gu Chen continually surveyed his surroundings. Here he could sense nothing, and his vision also faced great hindrance.

Moreover, because of his living being status, the evil and yin aura in the void also corroded Gu Chen's body incessantly.

If this continued for a long time, even with Gu Chen's sturdy physique, he could not withstand it. It's the principle of grinding an iron rod into a needle or dripping water hollowing out a stone.

Therefore, he had to use his cultivation to protect himself, but this meant that as long as he stayed here, his true essence would be in a state of continuous depletion, an unsolvable dilemma.

If it were another warrior coming here, the environment alone would make it impossible to survive, running out of oil and waning away in not much time.

Plus, relying on Gu Chen's keen perception, he easily noticed that there were at least dozens of demons and monsters roaming nearby. However, their strength varied, some strong, some weak.

"For me, is this heaven or hell?" Gu Chen murmured.

Honestly speaking, even with many trump cards in his possession, Gu Chen couldn't help feeling a bit anxious here. One misstep, if he were exposed, and countless demons and monsters, even devils, would surge over, and he wouldn't stand a chance.

Therefore, Gu Chen resolved to be cautious, to not let his guard down at all.

A thin layer of true essence enveloped his body while the dormant Yueling inside him gently vibrated, surge after surge of pure Heavenly Earth Essence Qi gushed forth, filling every part of Gu Chen's being.

"Without Yueling, even I would be doomed here," Gu Chen sighed softly; the danger was unparalleled, a deathtrap for anyone who came.

No wonder the Saintess of Taoxu Road, Chu Yue Ling, told him that the demons and monsters had destroyed countless worlds like the Human Clan's, and there were out-of-this-worldly eminent beings who had tried to resolve everything to protect their homes, like Gu Chen was trying, but all had ultimately failed.

The rules here diverged from those of the Human Clan world, and one might even say, from the higher realms. They followed the rules of demons and monsters, an environment in which living beings simply couldn't survive.

Even for Gu Chen, with his many trump cards, careful prudence was still necessary.

"The top priority is to gather merit points first, and once I break through to the Heaven-Man realm, then I'll try to find the spatial coordinates and obliterate this place," Gu Chen pondered.

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