Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

Gu Chen sat cross-legged on the bed, the Gangqi within his body moving along the pathway of the Great Sun True Skill. It was growing increasingly fiercer and hotter.

After all, the Great Sun True Skill was a Superior Martial Skill. Its purity of Gangqi far surpassed the Pure Yang Wuji Gong, and its power was even more formidable.

If Gu Chen could cultivate the unique Gangqi of the Great Sun, by the time his cultivation was profound, he would truly possess the power to burn mountains and boil seas.

As for how to cultivate the Great Sun Gangqi, the secret text only recorded that one needed to have extremely deep cultivation, then condense all the Gangqi into a single point, transform it into a "spark", and ignite it with a special method to have a sliver of chance in achieving the Great Sun Gangqi.

Naturally, there was a simpler method to transform the Gangqi in the body into Great Sun Gangqi, which was through the Sun Flame Stone.

The Sun Flame Stone was a strange object from ancient times, containing a trace of the true fire of the sun. As long as one obtained the Sun Flame Stone and drew that trace of true solar fire into the body to temper one's Gangqi, one could transform their own Gangqi into Great Sun Gangqi.

However, the Sun Flame Stone was an ancient rarity, seldom seen in the world anymore, and could be said to have disappeared. Even within the Jing Tian Department, including the royal secret vaults, there was none to be found.

Therefore, if he wanted to cultivate the Great Sun Gangqi, Gu Chen could only rely on his own efforts.

For the next three whole days, Gu Chen was familiarizing himself with the Great Sun True Skill. Even though he hadn't cultivated the Great Sun Gangqi, every movement he made now carried with it an extremely scorching aura.

His Gangqi was hot like a fierce flame. If Gu Chen wished, he could easily melt a chunk of fine iron into a pool of molten iron.

If he were to cultivate the Great Sun Gangqi, such power would be even more tremendous.

During these three days, Gu Chen also contemplated how to spend the 500 merits.

After all, this was a huge sum of money!

Even Yellow Level Commanders, or Xuan Level Commanders, would need a considerable amount of time to accumulate such an amount.

After all, even a Superior Martial Skill, if a lesser one, could be exchanged for about a hundred merits or so.

And if it was a high-grade Martial Skill, only a few dozen merits were needed.

Thus, one could see how generous and magnanimous Qin Wu was in giving Gu Chen 500 merits with a wave of his hand.

"Why not exchange all these merits for soul crystals?" Gu Chen pondered.

If he exchanged all 500 merits for soul crystals and added them to his cultivation, Gu Chen's cultivation level would become immensely powerful, to an unsurpassable degree. There was even a great possibility of directly breaking through to the Returning to True Stage!

After contemplating, Gu Chen shook his head, feeling this method was inappropriate.

Or rather, it wasn't worth it.

Even if Gu Chen used up 500 merits to rise to the Returning to True Stage, he would have the realm but too few techniques. After all, currently, his panel only displayed one Superior Martial Skill.

Real person-level martial artists at the Returning to True Stage generally mastered at least one, if not two, Superior Martial Skills. Besides, 500 merits might not necessarily raise Gu Chen's cultivation to a very high level within the Returning to True Stage. Compared to that, Gu Chen felt it was not very cost-effective.

The realm might have increased, but his combat power compared to now, had not improved much.

Even with profound cultivation, without appropriate martial skills, one still couldn't fully unleash their potential. And 500 merits would not enable Gu Chen's cultivation to reach a level that could overwhelm martial artists at the Returning to True Stage.

Gu Chen felt he must find the most secure way to maximize the use of these 500 merits.

Soon, a night passed just like that.

The next morning, Gu Chen went straight to the Jing Tian Department's Hall of Merits without any hesitation and used up all 500 merits.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Then, Gu Chen found his second uncle, Gu Chengfeng, told him not to disturb himself for the near future, and started his solitary retreat.

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For a full seventeen days, Gu Chen locked himself in a secret chamber at the headquarters of the Jing Tian Department and didn't step out even once.

And after these seventeen days, Gu Chen's strength had changed dramatically compared to before!

With a thought from Gu Chen, the panel appeared before his eyes.

Name: Gu Chen

Martial Skills: Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill (Entry Level), Eight Desolate Azure Dragon Strength (Entry Level), True Yang Sword Finger (Entry Level), Controlling Wind Step Shadows (Entry Level), Star Tapping Sword Jue (Entry Level)

Inner Strength: Great Sun True Skill

Cultivation: 360 years

Realm: Early Gang Qi Stage

Martial Points: 120

Now, the martial skills on Gu Chen's panel had become much tidier. Apart from the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill, without exception, all the remaining martial skills were Superior Martial Skills!

These skills were acquired during this time through the 500 merits given by Vice Commander Qin Wu of the Jing Tian Department, and then through exchanging for martial skills and soul crystals within the Jing Tian Department, which he then deduced on his own.

Although 500 merits were a lot, the seventeen days had depleted them completely, leaving only 120 martial points on the panel.

This was the result of Gu Chen's comprehensive consideration. After reaching the Gang Qi Stage, although cultivation was crucial, martial skills were just as important.

Apart from the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill, there were too many low-grade martial skills on Gu Chen's panel, which with his current strength couldn't be much use, so Gu Chen spent martial points to raise them all to the level of Superior Martial Skills.

The four new martial skills on the panel, apart from the Eight Desolate Azure Dragon Strength which Gu Chen exchanged almost 200 merits for directly from the Jing Tian Department – an offensive martial skill – the other three skills were all deduced little by little by Gu Chen using the panel.