What Right Did You Have to Act So Recklessly?

"Gu Chen, what are you doing?"

Just then, Gu Youwei's sharp cry rang out from behind.

As though he had seized a lifeline, Gu Zhengchun struggled free from beneath Gu Chen's foot and scrambled behind Gu Youwei in utter panic.

"Good daughter, you came just in time. You have no idea—Gu Chen's greed knows no bounds. Not only does he want to take the inheritance, he even wants to take the foundation of my Gu family. When I refused, he resorted to violence..."

Gu Zhengchun righteously accused Gu Chen of his atrocities.

Gu Youwei flew into a rage after hearing this. Shocked and furious, she stared at Gu Chen and demanded, "Gu Chen, I knew you had no good intentions coming here this time. Not only are you trying to seize things by trickery and force, you even dared to hurt someone!"

"If you apologize now, it's not too late! Otherwise, watch out—I'll break your legs!"

Gu Youwei fully revealed her Body Tempering Realm Tenth Level cultivation, a confident smile hanging on her face.

As expected, cultivating in this world was effortless when she rebuilt the techniques from her previous life.

What puzzled Gu Youwei was why she had not sensed the Heavenly Dao Bone within her body while cultivating.

The Heavenly Dao Bone was the mark of a genius, one found only once in ten thousand.

Cultivators with a Heavenly Dao Bone were born close to the Dao, moving along the path of cultivation like fish in water.

However, Gu Youwei did not dwell on it. She merely assumed that she was still young and her Heavenly Dao Bone had yet to awaken.

After all, she had begun cultivating several years earlier in this life.

"Don't forget, I was the one who taught you how to cultivate!"

Gu Chen sneered.

The moment his words fell, it was as if someone had stepped on Gu Youwei's sore spot. She flew into a rage, trembling from head to toe in fury.

"Shut up!"

"I know you must have started cultivating too, but so what? I'm already at the Body Tempering Realm Tenth Level!"

"You've only barely reached the sixth level. What gives you the right to act so recklessly before me?"

Gu Youwei was nearly driven mad with shame and rage.

Behind her, Gu Zhengchun's pupils contracted. In only three days, one of these siblings had reached the Body Tempering Realm Sixth Level, while the other had reached the Tenth Level. They were simply monstrous!

They would undoubtedly become Feng'er's greatest threats in the future. They could not be allowed to live!

His eyes were filled with deep apprehension.

Gu Youwei still wanted to say something, but her voice abruptly cut off, and her eyes widened sharply.

Before her eyes, Gu Chen's figure vanished from where he stood.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Youwei felt a large hand already pressed against her chest.

Violent force surged toward her head-on.

Boom!

A deafening explosion rang out.

Gu Youwei's body flew backward like a cannonball, blood spraying from her mouth as she crashed heavily into the wall behind her.

Dense cracks spread across the wall at once, like a spiderweb.

Her ribs were broken, and her internal organs were injured!

Gu Youwei hung from the wall like a dead dog, unconscious.

Half of it was due to her injuries; the other half was because Gu Chen had terrified her.

She had actually been defeated by Gu Chen in a single move. Gu Youwei could not help recalling the figure of Gu Chen from her previous life, like a god and demon descended into the world.

"I taught you, so what do you have to be so arrogant about?"

Gu Chen said indifferently.

Then he turned to Gu Zhengchun. "So, can you return my parents' things now?"

Gu Zhengchun's expression stiffened, his throat bobbing.

Since when had the Body Tempering Realm Tenth Level become so worthless?

How the hell did that look easier than killing a chicken?

"Gu Chen, I can give you the inheritance, but Youwei is your biological younger sister. She has inheritance rights as well. You can only take half!" Gu Zhengchun compromised.

"No! I want it all!"

Gu Chen clenched his right fist, his knuckles cracking. "All I know is that her name isn't in the family genealogy!"

"How does someone who acknowledges a thief as her father and repays kindness with ingratitude have the face to be my younger sister?"

Afraid that Gu Chen would continue attacking, Gu Zhengchun trembled as he took out the key to the storeroom, his heart aching terribly.

Handing over this inheritance would leave him badly weakened as well!

Even his son Gu Feng's cultivation would be affected to some extent.

After Gu Chen received the key and confirmed that everything in the storeroom was accounted for, he had it all carried away.

Gu Zhengchun watched from behind, his heart bleeding with pain. He gritted his teeth in hatred toward Gu Chen, but he did not dare make a move.

Only after Gu Chen left with the goods did Liu Caiyun poke her head over to inspect the place. At the sight of the nearly emptied treasure vault, she dropped onto the floor and wailed.

"My treasures! They're all gone!"

"That damned little bastard Gu Chen! He really showed no mercy at all!"

Gu Zhengchun's face darkened. "This isn't over!"

Liu Caiyun asked tentatively, "That girl Gu Youwei is injured too. Should we give her some Spiritual Medicine to treat her?"

"What would a little girl need Spiritual Medicine for? Just boil up some medicine dregs. She's already at the Body Tempering Realm Tenth Level anyway—it won't kill her!"

"Once she recovers, offer her to an elder of the Cangshan Sword Sect immediately and exchange her for resources for Feng'er. Delays breed change!"

With a grim face, Gu Zhengchun flicked his sleeve and left. He could no longer wait to slowly make his plans; Gu Chen's actions today had disrupted them.

After leaving the Gu family, Gu Chen headed straight for the Golden Treasure Trading House.

The Golden Dragon Treasure Bank possessed immense wealth. One could purchase all manner of goods and Spiritual Medicine there, and its vast financial power made countless factions green with envy.

Yet almost no one dared set their sights on the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank, because the forces behind it were simply too enormous.

Not to mention the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank's own strength, countless aristocratic families and sects cooperated with it behind the scenes!

The one in East Desolation Commandery was merely one of its branches.

The moment Gu Chen stepped into the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank, a maid respectfully approached and asked, "May I ask what this guest wishes to buy?"

"I want all the Spiritual Medicine written on this list!" Gu Chen decisively handed her a prescription filled with medicinal ingredients.

The maid looked closely and immediately realized that he was a major customer. Her face blossomed into a smile. "Please wait a moment, Guest. I'll fetch the medicine for you right away. The other Spiritual Medicine is easy enough, but as for the Crimson Blood Vermilion Fruit, our Golden Dragon Treasure Bank only has five."

"Take however many you have!"

"Certainly, Guest. Please wait!"

Before long, the maid returned with the Spiritual Medicine Gu Chen required. Beside her stood a round, chubby man with a guileless smile on his face.

The fat man wore a beaming smile. "I am President Qiu of the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank's East Desolation Commandery branch. With this purchase, Guest has nearly bought out our entire stock of Spiritual Medicine for the month!"

"Since Guest is so generous, the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank should return the peach for the plum. How about a thirty percent discount?"

President Qiu had naturally become the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank's branch president in East Desolation Commandery because he was adept at dealing with all sides. Even Gu Chen could find no fault in his words.

"Then we'll do as President Qiu says!"

Even with the thirty percent discount, it nearly emptied out the inheritance he had taken from the Gu family.

Gu Chen could not help shaking his head with a bitter smile. The path of cultivation truly was a bottomless gold-devouring beast.

The Primordial Celestial Scripture he cultivated was an even greater gold-devouring beast among gold-devouring beasts.

Every realm required both body tempering and qi refinement to reach perfection before he could break through. Qi refinement required abundant spiritual qi, while body tempering was even more difficult.

The Spiritual Medicine Gu Chen had purchased this time was precisely what he needed for body tempering.

In the end, President Qiu personally escorted Gu Chen to the entrance of the Golden Dragon Treasure Bank.

Just as President Qiu was about to return after seeing Gu Chen off, Wei Qingyu suddenly appeared, limping along with the injuries from Gu Chen's earlier ruthless beating still on her body.

"President Qiu!" she called out.

"Miss Wei?" President Qiu turned around, surprised. "How did you get hurt so badly?"

Wei Qingyu's face darkened. Was she supposed to admit that Gu Chen had beaten her?

She could not afford to lose that face.

Wei Qingyu immediately changed the subject. "President Qiu, I want Crimson Blood Vermilion Fruits. I'll take as many as you have!"