Gu Chen had anticipated some trouble from the skeleton's prior preparations, so he had prepared a backup plan. However, he hadn't expected the attack to be so easy; this punch nearly shattered the skeleton!
Hehehe!
The skeleton lay on the ground, letting out a deranged laugh. Then, with two thin, long arms, it desperately tried to push itself up from the paint.
Gu Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he asked in confusion, "Your strength is so weak?"
"Weak?" The skeleton looked at Gu Chen and laughed arrogantly, "Boy, once you become my sacrifice and I successfully ascend to immortality, you'll know whether I'm weak or strong!"
"You're insane!" Gu Chen cursed, then stepped forward and stomped on the skeleton!
A series of cracking sounds rang out, and the skeleton man, in pain, stuck out his three-inch-long tongue, the saliva dripping from its edge being black and utterly disgusting.
"What exactly are you?" Gu Chen's scalp tingled, and he shouted sharply, "Are you human or a demon?"
Just then, the flames of the Three-Flame Fan had burned the surrounding forest to ashes, and the temple collapsed, revealing its original appearance. Inside the temple, there was a huge furnace that was six or seven meters tall!
And the top they were on was not the roof of a temple, but the lid of a stove!
A chill ran down Gu Chen's spine as a cold aura emanated from beneath his feet.
Waaaaah--
A sound like ghosts wailing and wolves howling rang out. As the burning wooden plank hit the ground, Gu Chen saw a huge hole on the top of the lid. Looking through the hole into the furnace, he saw a mass of thick black liquid and a pile of ghastly white bones!
These skeletons are of varying sizes, and not all of them are human!
There are also monsters!
Gu Chen felt a chill run down his spine at the thought. This old madman had actually set up such a huge furnace here to incinerate the bones of demonic beasts?
"You've already seen it, now you're scared? It's too late!"
The skeleton man shakily rose from the ground, cackling, and said, "I've been hiding here for nearly twenty years, and I'm about to complete my mission. You know magic, which means you're no ordinary person; you must have been born with spiritual bones! Hehe, it would be perfect if I used your bones as my final tonic!"
"You know magic?" Gu Chen's heart trembled as he recalled the black mist manipulated by the skeleton man earlier, the giant hand that condensed into it capable of crushing the Dragon Scale Sword.
"I am about to ascend to the ranks of immortals, reaching the pinnacle of perfection!" The skeleton man laughed heartily, saying, "From now on, the name of the Great Immortal Ghost King will resound throughout the entire Huaxia, no, throughout the entire universe!"
This person is completely insane, a lunatic!
But Gu Chen had no doubt that this guy knew the way of cultivation, but his knowledge did not belong to the righteous path, nor the demonic path, but the ghost path! Whether on Heavenly Nether Star or in other cultivation worlds, the ghost path was a despised existence by everyone!
Using dead people to practice martial arts is against the Heavenly Dao and will be condemned and hunted down by everyone!
"Even if you successfully establish your foundation in the Ghost Path, you'll only be a ghost, not an immortal!" Gu Chen glanced around. Now, standing at a high vantage point, he realized that the trees and boulders were arranged in a specific way and in specific positions. "You're setting up an array? Where did you learn that?"
"I, the Black Mountain King, once roamed the Land of Heaven and Earth, virtually invincible! Which family's junior disciple are you, that you've never even heard of my name!" the skeleton roared. "You call this the Ghost Path? Don't think you can spout nonsense just because you know a little magic! This cultivation method is an ancient, immortal path! I killed dozens of people to find this manual in the Land of Heaven and Earth! What do you, a mere child, know of such a profound technique!"
Gu Chen looked at the Great Immortal Ghost King and said coldly, "I don't understand? Watch me break your formation, and you'll see!"
Black mist swirled within the enormous furnace. Gu Chen knew that the Great Immortal Ghost King had likely used an array to control the black mist, thereby manipulating the giant black mist hand to sever his Dragon Scale Sword!
Now, this guy is acting crazy, and for some reason he's just taking the beatings without fighting back. But Gu Chen can't wait for him to react, so he has to strike first!
The next moment, Gu Chen activated his True Qi, and the Three-Flame Fan contained the last few strands of energy. He then aimed at the flashing yellow halo, and with Gu Chen palm pressed against it, he slammed it hard against the furnace wall!
Rumble rumble--
The entire underground world beneath the iceberg began to tremble violently. Under the horrified gaze of the Great Immortal Ghost King, the furnace began to move slowly, and the vegetation and boulders below began to wither and decompose rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!
This is a sign that the formation is about to be broken!
"No, no, no!"
This scene finally alarmed the Great Immortal Ghost King, who cried out, "What have you done?! My White Bone Grand Formation! You brat, I'm going to kill you!"
He charged desperately toward Gu Chen, but this man, who had once been invincible in the Land of Heaven and Earth and was at least Peak Grandmaster Realm, had become a walking corpse. Gu Chen raised his foot and kicked him hard, sending him flying backward!
"It took me over a decade to set this up successfully. I spent several years bringing the Heaven and Earth Beast out of the Land of Heaven and Earth and raising it, and several more years finding this place! Ahhh, you ruined me, you ruined everything I had!"
Years of hard work were about to be wasted. The Great Immortal Ghost King trembled all over, his heart bleeding!
He suddenly looked up at Gu Chen, his empty, dark eyes flashing with endless killing intent!
I want you dead!
To be honest, Gu Chen had seen ghost cultivators more than once on Heavenly Nether Star, but this was the first time he had seen one in Huaxia!
Compared to demonic cultivators, ghost cultivators are even more terrifying because of their rapid advancement. Cultivators like Gu Chen, who come from prestigious sects, steadily increase their cultivation levels step by step. But ghost cultivators are different. If the Great Immortal Ghost King's formation is successfully set up, he can absorb all the death energy within, breaking through the shackles of the Revolving Illumination Realm in one fell swoop, and even skipping the Qi Refining Stage to directly enter the Foundation Establishment Stage!
For martial artists, this is truly a meteoric rise to the top!
However, Gu Chen had already figured out the old madman's strength. In order to cultivate the Ghost Path, he had neglected his original martial arts cultivation. Without the formation, even though this person seemed fierce, he was no match for him.
Therefore, Gu Chen was not afraid of his threats at all.
The Great Immortal Ghost King clearly knew this as well. He stared intently at Gu Chen and suddenly whistled!
Thump! Thump! Thump thump!
The entire space suddenly trembled, and then several demonic beasts rushed out from behind the furnace and climbed up the furnace wall! These demonic beasts were all low-level demonic beasts, each with its blood-red mouth wide open, spitting everywhere, extremely terrifying.
"There are still so many demonic beasts!"
Gu Chen's heart skipped a beat. His intuition told him that there seemed to be something behind this furnace! It was something extraordinary that could nourish the demonic beasts that came out of the Land of Heaven and Earth and maintain the formation!