Bronze Sword Envoy

Gu Jinlai looked up.

The path through the warehouse, originally billowing with flames and dense smoke, was forcefully carved open by the hurricane of his sword strike.

Dust and flames scattered on both sides, allowing the surviving members of the Golden Seal Squad inside to see the light of day once more.

And waiting for them was Gu Jinlai's thunderous sword strike, delivered in giant strides as he charged forward sword in hand.

The thousand-pound battle sword was swung in his hands as if it weighed nothing, yet every clash against the air whipped up a violent hurricane.

Feeling this suffocating wind pressure, the despairing Core Forming expert raised his sword in a horizontal block.

The next moment...

"Bang!"

It was like a thousand-pound giant hammer smashing against a small wooden stick.

The treasured sword in his hand shattered on the spot, turning into iron filings, and immediately after, the six-foot-long blade carried the gravitational potential energy of Mount Tai crashing down upon his body. In the face of such pure physical damage, Core-Forming-tier protective true qi was completely meaningless.

He could not even manage to leave an intact corpse behind.

His entire person was blasted into a mist of blood by the violent, immense force contained in that sword.

Cutting through dry weeds and smashing rotten wood!

Gu Jinlai, leveraging his heavy-armor advantage, fully demonstrated what it meant to cut through dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

The effect of this path is even better than I expected.

Gu Jinlai slowly halted his state of spiritual eruption.

The eruption of Core Forming power combined with the pure physical attack of a high-ranking demonic beast produced an effect where one plus one was greater than two.

It was just like a person having all their attributes doubled, resulting in a geometric increase in combat power growth.

Right now, I shouldn't be any weaker than a Spirit Refining expert...

Gu Jinlai estimated: It's just that, compared to the all-around strength of a Spirit Refining expert, I have one fatal weakness, and that is speed.

Although he had not relaxed his practice of the Eight-Level Soaring Dragon Body up to now, he had never crossed the threshold of mastery.

Moreover, wearing steel armor would severely affect the agility required for dodging and maneuvering; movement arts of the Eight-Level Soaring Dragon Body type were no longer suitable.

What he needed now was that kind of straight-line, frontal-charge movement art.

In addition, weapons in the hands of Spirit Refining experts are stronger than those of Core Forming experts; at the very least they are lower-grade treasured swords, and anyone with a bit of status will be equipped with upper-grade treasured swords. Someone like Lin Xiao, the vice sect master of a major sect, probably wields a supreme-grade treasured sword directly... A Spirit Refining expert wielding a supreme-grade treasured sword—given the defense of my current armor... I can't take it.

Gu Jinlai summed up his shortcomings.

Against Spirit Refining experts, he needed to layer stronger and thicker armor.

The next material should be titanium alloy.

Gu Jinlai pondered, and then thought of his current combat mode.

To ensure the advantage of gravitational potential energy, he could not afford to lack weight either.

Osmium-iridium alloy.

On the other side, Su Nanxing walked over dragging a corpse.

"Master, intercepted."

"Good, throw it into the fire and give him some dignity. Also, see if you can scavenge anything useful from them."

Gu Jinlai said toward the burning warehouse: "Next, handling the fire extinguishing and dealing with the City Guard is up to Gu Chaoyang."

"Yes, Master."

Su Nanxing acknowledged, circulated his true qi, and rushed into the warehouse.

Core Forming experts usually carried supreme-grade sharp weapons, and wealthier individuals even wielded lower-grade treasured swords. A single lower-grade treasured sword was worth twenty or thirty thousand; it could not be wasted in vain.

Gu Jinlai returned to the carriage and drove away.

A violent explosion occurred in Starlight City, its sound shaking the southern district and naturally causing quite a commotion.

However, Gu Chaoyang, as a skilled Qi Refining expert, had recently maintained a good relationship with the City Guard, and coupled with the fact that he attributed the explosion to fireworks and firecrackers, although the guards who came to investigate felt the power was too great, incidents of fireworks and firecrackers catching fire were common occurrences.

With a thousand taels of silver smoothing things over, plus Gu Chaoyang timely waving the banner of the Jiang household, the ripples caused by this explosion were quickly suppressed.

Returning to the courtyard, Gu Jinlai brewed a pot of tea in the small pavilion and waited quietly.

Before long, he suddenly spoke: "Crimson Shadow Silver Sword Envoy, please sit."

A few seconds later, the Silver Sword Envoy Crimson Shadow stepped out from a patch of shrubs, the expression on his face flickering through a series of changes.

Unlike his casual demeanor last time, this time when entering the small courtyard he exerted every effort to restrain his aura, even exercising meticulous control over his heartbeat frequency and blood circulation, yet he was still detected upon stepping into the courtyard.

This kind of perception...

It was simply treating the Void Grand Technique of the Ruins Truth Pavilion as nothing.

As expected of a Demonic Sect elder famous for many years, his hidden means are definitely not as simple as they appear on the surface. Just like countering the Golden Seal Squad earlier... that strength is no less than that of any Spirit Refining giant.

Crimson Shadow felt inwardly guarded.

He even guessed that Gu Jinlai's switch to practicing as a Heavenly Master had earned him a Heavenly Master inheritance even more formidable than the Six Desires Demon Art.

Emotions churning, he maintained a smile on his face: "Congratulations to the Bronze Sword Envoy for proving your strength and solving the trouble brought by the Demon Refining Hall."

"Thanks to the intelligence provided by the Crimson Shadow Silver Sword Envoy."

Gu Jinlai replied: "It's just that Yun Guantian is not dead; to call it resolved now is premature, and I will still have to rely heavily on you, Lord Silver Sword Envoy."

A trace of strangeness flashed through Crimson Shadow's eyes.

This Gu Jinlai still wanted to exact revenge on Yun Guantian?

Yun Guantian was not only the master of the Demon Refining Hall, holding a high and mighty position, but was also himself a peak Spirit Refining figure, only a step away from the Spirit Transformation realm. His weight was not much less than Lin Xiao, the vice sect master of the Purgatory Sect.

However, he did not care to meddle too much in Gu Jinlai's grudges, and merely smiled as he said: "There's no talk of relying on; the two of us cooperate mutually to uphold the prestige of the Ruins Truth Pavilion."

He brought out a jade plate and placed it on the stone table: "The Demon Refining Hall has the Daoist tool Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram. Although the supreme treasure of our Ruins Truth Pavilion is inferior to the Heaven and Earth Universe Diagram by a fraction, through the Ruins Truth Disc, one can view all tasks issued within the pavilion and their corresponding rewards. The only regret is that the rewards cannot be transmitted over; you need to collect them from the person in charge."

Gu Jinlai nodded, understanding quickly.

It was just like that ordering tablet in restaurants.

"Upon entering our Ruins Truth Pavilion, you can enjoy ordinary intelligence of the Ruins Truth Pavilion, and browse one top-tier intelligence report every month. In addition, you shall be bestowed the Void Grand Technique."

As Crimson Shadow spoke, he took out his own jade plate and tapped it against