Reaching Grandmaster in Three Years

"Put your clothes on. I'm done."

Within a hazy space, atop a jade lotus platform.

The woman had her back to the young man. A watery veil of gauze slipped down, covering her flawless jade back and perfectly shaped waist and hips.

Gu Chenfeng was still dazed.

The moment he transmigrated, he had accidentally fallen off a cliff.

When he awoke, he discovered that his innocence was gone.

The most beautiful, most elegant woman he had ever seen in either of his lives had forced herself on him.

Thank you, nature, for your bounty!

Gu Chenfeng was no gentleman. It took him only half a second to go from stunned to enjoying himself, and he willingly cooperated.

But he soon discovered that they were not competing on the same level.

Gu Chenfeng began begging for mercy, but the woman was like someone chewing Stride gum-she simply could not stop.

Now, the great battle was over.

"Alas..."

The woman sighed softly.

"To think that I, whose might shook the Eternal Heaven Realm, would ultimately be reduced to coupling with a mere mortal.

Hmph, Three Emperors and Four Saints, you dared plot against me. When I return, I will dye the Eternal Heaven Realm with blood!"

The murderous intent in her eyes receded, and the woman turned to look at him.

Her face was like jade, her features exquisitely perfect. Even her skin seemed to glow, making her look like a goddess descended to the mortal world.

"I am the Eternal Night Demon Venerable, Leng Xingye. You saved my life. What reward do you want?"

"Uh... helping others is the foundation of happiness. There's no need to thank me, Demon Venerable."

The instant her gaze fell on him, Gu Chenfeng felt chilled from head to toe, as though even his blood had frozen.

This woman's strength was clearly monstrous. He would be grateful if she did not kill him to silence him. How could he dare ask for a reward?

"My cultivation art is extremely unusual. Our bloodlines are now bound together. My injuries have yet to heal, so I will seek you out for dual cultivation again."

At the words "dual cultivation," Gu Chenfeng's legs began trembling uncontrollably.

"Relax. Our next session will be three years from now, but by then, your cultivation must at least have reached Grandmaster level.

Otherwise, you will die."

"Grandmaster?"

Gu Chenfeng had already assimilated his memories of this world.

On the Heavenly Star Continent, martial strength reigned supreme.

This was the Great Li Dynasty in Yan Province, one of the continent's nine provinces.

His name here was also Gu Chenfeng.

His grandfather was the empire's Right Chancellor, a veteran of three reigns with extraordinary cultivation.

His father was the Great General Who Pacified the North, commanding vast armies and renowned as the empire's God of War.

His two older sisters were also first-rate martial prodigies.

He alone was a notorious wastrel and good-for-nothing in the imperial capital, still not a martial artist at sixteen.

Martial artists were divided by cultivation into the body tempering realm, meridian-opening realm, source qi realm, source sea realm, source core realm, source spirit realm, and source manifestation realm!

An expert in the source manifestation realm could be called a "Grandmaster" and slaughter an army of ten thousand alone.

The entire Great Li Dynasty had only four Grandmaster-level experts, and his grandfather was one of them.

"Reach Grandmaster in three years?" Gu Chenfeng thought she had gone mad.

"Is that difficult?"

Leng Xingye seemed to recall something.

"Right, your constitution is extremely unusual. It will only reveal itself as your cultivation rises.

In that case, I will give you this Phantom Martial Divine Ruins space to help improve your cultivation."

"Mmm..."

Suddenly, Leng Xingye gave a soft moan, a tiny flame flickering in her eyes.

"Damn it. There is still a wisp of karmic fire that hasn't been suppressed. We can only do it again."

"Nani!"

The next instant, Gu Chenfeng was pushed down. His startled cries and the sound of tearing robes... intertwined in a sensual tangle.

At the same time, Leng Xingye's hurried voice sounded beside Gu Chenfeng's ear.

"The Phantom Martial Divine Ruins is a supreme treasure of the Eternal Heaven Realm, with boundless mysteries.

Unfortunately, to make the treasure acknowledge a master, one must first disperse one's cultivation. I paid an enormous price to obtain it, yet now you get to reap the benefits."

The next instant, Gu Chenfeng felt a bite on his shoulder, and blood seeped into the lotus platform beneath him.

"This lotus platform is the foundation of the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins, the Enlightenment Platform.

Cultivating here allows you to comprehend the cultivation art best suited to you."

As his blood seeped into the lotus platform, a boom resounded in Gu Chenfeng's mind.

Vast amounts of information poured in like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.

In the end, they coalesced into a profound, abstruse cultivation art.

"Chaos divides into yin and yang; a flick of the finger shakes heaven and earth.

Heaven-Opening Creation Art!"

At that moment, waves of golden radiance rose from Gu Chenfeng's body. Even Leng Xingye could not help looking astonished.

He actually comprehended the core cultivation art of the Phantom Martial Divine Ruins!

Gu Chenfeng knew nothing of the changes outside.

He only felt that the cultivation art in his mind was profound, obscure, and difficult to practice.

But as the Enlightenment Platform beneath them began glowing faintly.

The cultivation art became simple and clear, flowing through his understanding without the slightest resistance.

He realized that the art's contents had not changed. He had become smarter.

"My comprehension seems to be improving!"

"The Enlightenment Platform can make a living being's comprehension soar. You... hurry up and cultivate," Leng Xingye said again, her voice sounding strange.

"Cultivate now?"

"Hurry!"

Instinctively, Gu Chenfeng followed the art's instructions, imagining a current of energy circulating through his body.

Whoosh!

Moments later, Gu Chenfeng saw countless white points of light gathering toward him from the surrounding space.

"This is... source qi!"

Strands of white light flowed into the meridians and acupoints throughout his body.

Gu Chenfeng felt as though electricity were coursing through him, tingling and itching with indescribable pleasure.

His blood surged, his metabolism accelerated, and his constitution began growing stronger!

In an instant.

Boom...!

An invisible shackle broke.

Gu Chenfeng's body underwent a qualitative breakthrough.

"The body tempering realm?"

"I've become a martial artist?"

Drawing in qi to temper the body took an ordinary person at least six months to a year.

Even cultivation prodigies needed a month or so.

Yet he had done it in mere moments, while dividing his attention between two things!

The rate at which his body strengthened continued to increase.

"One-star body tempering realm, two-star, three-star..."

He kept breaking through until he reached nine-star body tempering.

"Mmm, ah...!"

Suddenly, a high, sweet cry rang out beside his ear.

A slender, beautiful jade foot kicked Gu Chenfeng hard in the chest.

The world spun around him.

The next instant, he was in a dark, dense forest.

This was where he had landed after falling off the cliff.

The world was dim, the moonlight pale. Only insects and birds could be heard in the forest.

Everything that had just happened felt like a dream.

But Gu Chenfeng knew it had not been a dream.

Now, apart from feeling mentally exhausted, his injuries had all healed, and he possessed nine-star body tempering cultivation.

"Humans are coming!"

"Two humans, one male and one female."

Gu Chenfeng was astonished. He had not heard any movement.

Instead, he had gleaned this information from the chirping insects and birds around him.

"I can actually understand beasts! It must be an effect of cultivating the Heaven-Opening Creation Art."

Soon, Gu Chenfeng also heard faint footsteps.

He immediately grew alert, his mind racing.

The original owner of this body had been a devoted lapdog of the empire's third princess, Princess Yaoyin.

Several days earlier, the princess had lost a pet source beast.

The original owner had joined a hunting party and entered the Great Wilderness Ridge to catch a source beast and win the princess's favor.

Unexpectedly, during the hunt, a flying pebble had struck his horse, frightening it into charging off a cliff.

Someone had clearly tried to murder him in secret.

The people approaching now might have come to rescue him.

Or... they might have come to confirm his death!

A moment later.

Two armored guards, a man and a woman, emerged from the dense forest.

They immediately spotted Gu Chenfeng sprawled on the ground, covered in blood.

"Third Young Master, you're still alive! Wonderful.

We are imperial guards of the Tiger Guard, sent here to rescue you!"

The imperial capital's army had twelve guard divisions, composed entirely of martial artists.

The two hurried forward to help him up.

"Wait!"

Gu Chenfeng looked at the man.

"I think my bones are broken. Go look nearby for my purse. There are plenty of medicinal herbs and banknotes inside."

The man stopped, a gleam of eagerness flashing in his eyes.

"All right!"

The man hurried away, and Gu Chenfeng turned to the pretty woman with the exaggerated figure.

"Miss, help me up."

The woman nodded obediently and stepped forward, taking one of Gu Chenfeng's arms while her other hand smoothly reached behind her.

Smack...!

Her hand had only made it halfway when someone slapped and squeezed her pert backside hard.

The woman stiffened, humiliation, anger, and murderous intent flashing in her eyes.

"Miss, you're so big..."

Pfft...!

"You're so careless."

Blood sprayed. The woman's eyes widened, a dagger buried sideways in her pale, delicate neck.

She opened her mouth to shout.

But a hand clamped firmly over it.

"Don't be nervous. Take a deep breath. It'll all be over soon."

Killing someone on his very first day after transmigrating had Gu Chenfeng scared out of his mind.

But he knew she had come to kill him. He had to strike first.

Fortunately, the woman's cultivation did not seem high, while he had already reached nine-star body tempering. That was why his surprise attack had succeeded.

Soon, the woman stopped breathing and collapsed.

Looking at her graceful curves, Gu Chenfeng muttered to himself.

"With a figure that good, you're practically spilling out. You could at least find some armor that fits."

Gu Chenfeng did not let his guard down. He listened closely to the insects and birds in the forest and gleaned more information.

The man was returning.

A moment later, the armored man came back.

He saw Gu Chenfeng sprawled on the ground, blood spilling from his mouth and nose.

"Already killed him? Shame I couldn't find the purse he mentioned. Where did that woman go? She didn't even dispose of the body."

After muttering a complaint, the man approached Gu Chenfeng and instinctively reached out to check his breathing.

His hand had only just drawn near.

"Whoosh!"

Gu Chenfeng's eyes remained tightly shut, a glint of cold light in his sleeve...

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