Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

Previously, at the Pavilion of Flowers in Cloud Smoke City, upon learning that Luo Feng came from the Red Dust Tower, one of the three notable unorthodox factions of equal fame to the Blood Robe Tower, Gu Chen had solicited Luo Feng\'s help to investigate the locations of the Blood Robe Tower\'s strongholds within Qiongtian Mansion.

After all, the Blood Robe Tower had made several assassination attempts on Gu Chen. Being passively attacked was not in Gu Chen\'s nature, so he prepared to take the initiative, to let the Blood Robe Tower know that he, Gu Chen, was not to be trifled with.

Luo Feng heard this and nodded, a light smile on his face as he said, "Indeed, Brother Gu, how do you plan to repay me?"

Gu Chen countered, "How would you like me to repay you?"

"How about you repay me with your body?" Luo Feng\'s eyes brimmed with intense mirth.

Hearing this, Gu Chen looked at Luo Feng with a half-smile and slapped out directly, the air rippling like water waves, generating ripples upon ripples.

Feeling the power behind Gu Chen\'s palm, Luo Feng\'s heart skipped a beat. He quickly withdrew, retreating backward as he exclaimed in surprise, "Brother Gu, has your strength improved again?"

It wasn\'t surprising that Luo Feng was shocked. It hadn\'t been long since he last met Gu Chen, and Gu Chen\'s cultivation level had actually increased again? Luo Feng felt speechless.

Seeing Luo Feng move in such a manner, Gu Chen was also somewhat astonished. He wanted to test Luo Feng\'s strength, so he did not respond but instead flashed forward to approach Luo Feng once more.

"Brother Gu, isn\'t it enough that I realize my mistake?" Luo Feng forced a bitter smile as he continuously dodged around the small courtyard, his afterimages popping up everywhere.

A trace of amazement flickered through Gu Chen\'s eyes. Luo Feng\'s lightness skill was truly remarkable, and judging by his appearance, he had also reached the Vajra Stage. His progress was far from slow.

Considering the miraculous degree of the footwork beneath his feet, Luo Feng must have perfected this high-grade lightness skill.

Seeing this, Gu Chen let out a soft chuckle. The inner Qi within him surged, and a gust of wind suddenly swept through the courtyard.

Luo Feng, moving at high speed, felt his body become unstable. A fierce suction force came from Gu Chen\'s palm, and despite Luo Feng exerting all his strength to break free, he still found himself being involuntarily pulled towards Gu Chen.

"Brother Gu, I admit my mistake, I truly do!" Seeing this, Luo Feng yelled repeatedly, admitting his fault to Gu Chen.

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen\'s inner Qi became as gentle as the breeze, and just as easily, the strong winds in the courtyard disappeared as if they had never been there.

"Brother Gu, such impressive skills." Luo Feng, unable to do otherwise, gave Gu Chen a salute.

Gu Chen smiled and asked, "Tell me, where is the Blood Robe Tower\'s stronghold?"

Luo Feng spoke seriously, "After our Red Dust Tower\'s investigation, the Blood Robe Tower has a total of thirteen strongholds in Qiongtian Mansion."

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen\'s expression immediately turned cold as he said, "The Blood Robe Tower really has some nerve to have set up so many strongholds within Qiongtian Mansion. It seems Da Xia has been too lenient with them over the years!"

Thirteen strongholds, already occupying a significant portion of the cities within Qiongtian Mansion, no wonder they had such detailed knowledge of his whereabouts.

In recent years, since the Emperor went into seclusion, the number of demons and monsters in the nine provinces had increased, and Jing Tian Department had focused most of its efforts on this issue, so their suppression and monitoring of these martial factions had weakened compared to the past.

But it was a situation that couldn\'t be helped. Even Jing Tian Department had limited resources and would naturally deal with more pressing matters first, especially since over the years, the Blood Robe Tower had been relatively quiet, not causing any major incidents, as they too feared attracting the attention of Jing Tian Department.

It wasn\'t until the demons had reemerged and the current Holy Emperor remained in seclusion that the Blood Robe Tower dared to make another appearance in the martial world.

Luo Feng asked, "Brother Gu, what do you plan to do?"

Gu Chen made a resolute decision, coldly saying, "Of course, we must eradicate all these strongholds without leaving a single one!"

Upon hearing this, Luo Feng\'s brows furrowed slightly as he said, "Brother Gu, I don\'t mean to dissuade you, but the Blood Robe Tower has lain dormant for many years, their strength is definitely not just what they show on the surface. Our Red Dust Tower has been their adversary for generations, so we know a bit about them.

Among these strongholds, there might be hidden traps or assassins from the Black List."

"No matter." Gu Chen\'s expression was calm, his tone light and breezy, as if he was not planning to annihilate the infamous Blood Robe Tower\'s strongholds but rather going for a casual outing.

After all, even before breaking through, facing two inner Gangqi martial artists from the Red Flame Demon Sect and two monstrous demons, Gu Chen had dared to fight. Let alone now.

You must know that Gu Chen now possessed two Superior Martial Skills, with external strength reaching an additional 500,000 pounds and profound cultivation of 580 years. Even if he encountered outer Gangqi martial artists, as long as they had not cultivated extraordinary Gangqi, Gu Chen would dare to battle them, not to mention he also had the right to command the armies of Qiongtian Mansion.

With so many favorable conditions, what had Gu Chen to fear?

However, what worried Luo Feng was not whether Gu Chen could overcome the challenge, but the aftermath of wiping out these strongholds.

Luo Feng spoke gravely, "Brother Gu, I have brought you the news, but you must think it through carefully. With the formidable power of the Blood Robe Tower, if you eradicate all their strongholds in Qiongtian Mansion, they will surely intensify their retaliation against you."

Luo Feng\'s concerns were not without reason. After all, though Gu Chen was powerful, he was but one man; it was impossible for the Jing Tian Department\'s experts to always be by his side.

However, it was different for the Blood Robe Tower—one of the three notorious and wicked factions. Should they decide to target Gu Chen and were willing to pay the price, killing him wouldn\'t be all too difficult for them.

After all, Gu Chen\'s current strength was not yet enough to dominate the world. Compared to the top forces of the nine provinces, he was still somewhat inexperienced.

Blood Robe Tower\'s assassination attempt on Gu Chen wasn\'t a concern of what he might do to them. What they were considering was whether the subsequent pursuit from the Jing Tian Department and the price to be paid for assassinating Gu Chen were worth it.

If Gu Chen eradicated all thirteen of Blood Robe Tower\'s strongholds in Qiongtian Mansion this time, it\'s quite possible that the Blood Robe Tower would go mad.

For establishing a stronghold is no easy task, especially since the Jing Tian Department\'s intelligence network spread across the world. It had taken the Blood Robe Tower a very long time, measured in years, to establish as many bases as they had in Qiongtian Mansion.

The destruction of years of careful operations would leave Blood Robe Tower blind in Qiongtian Mansion without intelligence and reinforcements—a consequence that would certainly drive them to desperate measures.

At the very least, a Gang Qi Stage master would come to assassinate Gu Chen. Moreover, Blood Robe Tower might even bypass the Gang Qi Stage and directly send a True Master.

A True Master is the venerable title for Returning to True Stage martial artists. In the nine provinces, a Vajra Stage expert could be called a first-class master, while a Gang Qi Stage master stood among the top experts.

But once one transcended the Gang Qi Stage and reached the Returning to True Stage, they would be regarded as surpassing the group of top experts and would be honored by countless martial artists as True Masters.

Such a powerful being would pose a challenge even for the commanders of the Jing Tian Department. Chen Yu might not necessarily be their match, let alone Gu Chen, who was only at the Vajra Stage.

Even within the top forces, a Returning to True Stage expert would be significant enough to be part of the core decision-making.

Prior to this, although the Blood Robe Tower had been sending assassins after Gu Chen, he had never given them much thought nor had they sent their top assassins.

However, should Gu Chen dare to eliminate all of Blood Robe Tower\'s strongholds in Qiongtian Mansion, he would undoubtedly provoke them, potentially cornering them into a frantic response.

Unless Gu Chen remained in the city of Qiongtian Mansion and never left, Blood Robe Tower would certainly retaliate fiercely against him.

Gu Chen, however, was indifferent. In a casual tone, he said, "Let them come then!"

In Gu Chen\'s view, since the Blood Robe Tower dared to assassinate him, it was already a fight to the death between them. Sooner or later, when his strength was sufficient, he would eradicate Blood Robe Tower himself.

For now, he was merely collecting some interest. If Blood Robe Tower dared to come, he wouldn\'t mind killing them one by one.

Moreover, after eradicating their strongholds in Qiongtian Mansion, Blood Robe Tower would be blind there, making it much harder to track his movements.

By the time they managed to reestablish their intelligence network in Qiongtian Mansion or obtain his whereabouts, Gu Chen\'s strength might have already reached the Gang Qi Stage.

At that point, those sent by Blood Robe Tower would only be delivering themselves to him.

Unless Blood Robe Tower was willing to directly dispatch a martial arts grandmaster to assassinate Gu Chen. However, if they did so, after killing Gu Chen, that grandmaster would definitely not be able to return alive. Blood Robe Tower might not be able to accept such a cost.

Every grandmaster-level individual is extremely valuable to any faction, even one like Blood Robe Tower, whose leader is likely at the grandmaster stage.

Getting Blood Robe Tower\'s leader to personally assassinate Gu Chen? That was clearly impossible!

Seeing Gu Chen\'s unwavering resolve, Luo Feng chose not to continue advising him. Though they hadn\'t known each other for long, Luo Feng had come to understand some of Gu Chen\'s character: when Gu Chen made up his mind, nothing anyone else said could sway him.

What\'s more, given Gu Chen\'s conduct, he didn\'t seem like someone who would act without certainty, so Luo Feng shifted the conversation, "Brother Gu, do you know why Blood Robe Tower is so persistently targeting you?"

At these words, Gu Chen suddenly frowned. "Isn\'t it because I killed their Black List assassin?"

Luo Feng shook his head, "But what was the reason for their initial attempts to assassinate you? Have you ever thought about that, Brother Gu?"

Hearing this, Gu Chen\'s eyes sharpened as he looked at Luo Feng, "Do you know?"

Luo Feng said, "This time, while communicating with our headquarters, I also found some information. Someone has placed a bounty on you at Blood Robe Tower, which is why they are sending assassins."

Gu Chen nodded. He had contemplated this possibility before—that it might be not only for Blood Robe Tower\'s enmity towards the Jing Tian Department.

Now, he learned the answer from Luo Feng: someone had indeed placed a bounty on him at Blood Robe Tower.

Luo Feng continued, "Brother Gu, you truly have many enemies. Do you know that there are two individuals who have placed bounties on you at Blood Robe Tower? And the amounts are not small either."

Upon hearing this, Gu Chen\'s eyes narrowed, and in a deep voice, he asked, "Who is it?"