"You brat, die!"
The Great Immortal Ghost King smiled cruelly and said, "Once I use you to refine my blood, I can set up the formation again."
"Dream!"
Gu Chen smiled coldly. Although he was only at the Early Revolving Illumination Realm, he had killed countless demonic beasts in the cultivation world and knew their weaknesses and strengths very well. Therefore, he ignored the Great Immortal Ghost King, jumped down from the furnace, and began guerrilla warfare, intending to defeat them one by one.
His figure moved slowly towards the back of the furnace. Previously, his Divine Sense had been blocked by the White Bone Grand Formation and could not be released. Now that the array had been broken, Gu Chen was in control. He anticipated the attacks of the demonic beasts with every step. Soon, half of the six demonic beasts that were attacking him were dead.
"This is..."
Just then, Gu Chen arrived behind the furnace, his eyes widening in utter disbelief!
Behind the furnace, there was a gemstone about a meter tall, resembling an ice crystal!
Spirit Stone!
Such a huge spirit stone!
Gu Chen could hardly believe his eyes. Even on Heavenly Nether Star, he had rarely seen such a large spirit stone! He thought he was seeing things, but the waves of spiritual energy emanating from it told him that it was all real!
In an instant, Gu Chen understood why the Great Immortal Ghost King could set up such a large White Bone Grand Formation, and why demonic beasts could grow outside the Land of Heaven and Earth. It was all because of this spirit stone!
This location should have been the backyard before the temple collapsed. Gu Chen saw a display shelf next to it, filled with jade artifacts and stones, and around these jade artifacts were milky white eggshells.
These are all monster eggs!
Gu Chen was shocked again.
His mind raced, and he instantly understood how the Great Immortal Ghost King cultivated the demon beasts. He used jade and jade artifacts placed next to spirit stones to nourish them, and then these jade and jade artifacts served as supplementary nutrients, allowing the demon beast eggs to indirectly absorb the spiritual essence within them before hatching and being cultivated!
You should know that before a demon beast grows up, it is nurtured in its womb and cannot directly absorb the enormous spiritual energy in the spirit stone. Therefore, the Great Immortal Ghost King came up with a different method!
However, the radiance around this one-meter-tall spirit stone had dimmed. Although its size had not decreased, it was clear that after being used by the Great Immortal Ghost King for so many years, almost all of its essence had been absorbed.
"A few years ago, I still had the strength to go back to the Land of Heaven and Earth and capture some Heaven and Earth Beast."
At this moment, the Great Immortal Ghost King was already standing at the edge of the bronze furnace, looking down at Gu Chen, and said coldly, "However, in recent years, I feel increasingly weak. If I enter the Land of Heaven and Earth again, my identity will be in danger of being exposed."
"Outrageous and heinous!"
Gu Chen knew that the Heaven and Earth Beast that the old madman was talking about was actually a demonic beast. His eyes narrowed, and without listening to the Great Immortal Ghost King continue speaking, he unleashed a palm strike!
Snap!
The larvae and shells of those demonic beasts were all shattered!
All sorts of juices and slimes covered the entire space!
"No!!" the Great Immortal Ghost King cried out frantically, heartbroken and furious, shouting, "These Heaven and Earth Beast are the final sacrifices for my Road to Heaven! You dare destroy them! You actually destroyed them!"
At that moment, several low-level adult demonic beasts attacked Gu Chen, their claws and fangs gleaming with a cold light, ready to devour anyone who dared to bite.
While dodging the counterattacks, Gu Chen coldly said, "You madman! No matter how illustrious your previous status was, even if you truly succeeded in Foundation Establishment, you've only entered the Ghost Path. That's not the Road to Heaven, it's the path to the Yellow Springs, a road to death, not a road to life!"
"What do you know!" the Great Immortal Ghost King roared, "Isn't the limit of a martial artist the limit of the Grandmaster Realm? I've already reached that! What else am I pursuing? What I pursue, of course, is the Great Dao, the path of cultivation! The cultivation manual I finally obtained, you dare to call it the Ghost Path! I painstakingly prepared it for over a decade, and you just destroyed it like that!"
"Utterly foolish!" Gu Chen killed the remaining three demonic beasts, then leaped up and stood before the Great Immortal Ghost King once more. His eyes flashed with icy coldness as he stared at him and said, "What kind of cultivation path is this, the scripture you obtained? I'm not afraid to tell you, the one I cultivate is the true orthodox path of cultivation!"
"You're talking nonsense!" The Great Immortal Ghost King, unwilling to see his faith, which he had held for so many years, crumble, retorted angrily, "The great array I painstakingly set up, which even dissipated its power, will soon grant me a place among the immortals. How can you say it's not the orthodox way of cultivation! Not the path of immortality!"
"Then let me tell you, you're wrong!" Gu Chen said coldly, "You think that by setting up this grand formation, you can gain boundless power and ascend to the ranks of immortals? How laughable!"
The path of cultivation is divided into the Foundation Establishment Stage, Golden Core Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, Illusory Spirit Stage, and the final Tribulation Transcendence Stage! Even if you finally succeed in mastering the great formation, you will at most reach the Foundation Establishment Stage among ghost cultivators. Do you think you can achieve immortality just like that? Do you think the Immortal Realm is your backyard?!
"Wh... what?!"
The Great Immortal Ghost King couldn't believe it, but Gu Chen's words were so convincing that he had no choice but to believe him. His voice trembled as he said, "I... I can't attain enlightenment through array formation? Foundation Establishment Stage? Even if I succeed in the end, I'll only be at the Foundation Establishment Stage?! The lowest level of cultivator?!!!!"
At this moment, Gu Chen looked at the appearance of the Great Immortal Ghost King and felt some pity and sympathy.
If what the Great Immortal Ghost King said before was true, then with his strength he could roam freely in the Land of Heaven and Earth, which would practically make him invincible throughout the Huaxia world.
But once a martial artist reaches a certain peak, they will inevitably have higher aspirations, wanting greater power, more powerful techniques, and even immortality...
But none of the martial arts on Earth could help him with any of this...
So after obtaining that book, he thought he had found the Great Dao, so he abandoned his martial arts, even changed his name, and locked himself in this place for more than ten years, torturing himself into a state of being half-human and half-ghost. Unfortunately, he ultimately went astray.
"Are you saying that all my efforts have been in vain? Everything I've arranged has been for nothing?" Wang Gui was utterly dejected, even staggering and stumbling. Suddenly, a fiery light flashed in his eyes as he stared intently at Gu Chen, his voice trembling as he said, "You know the true cultivation method? Yes, yes... You know magic, you know Sword Control Technique, and you even had that fan, that magical artifact!! You know the true orthodox path of immortality, don't you?"
"Yes," Gu Chen said calmly.
"Then teach me, teach me!" Wang Gui's eyes lit up with hope as he said, "I want to learn the most orthodox cultivation techniques. Please teach me, I beg you, teach me!"
Judging from his appearance, if his eyes could shed tears, they probably would be flowing with warmth by now. When all a person's hopes are dashed...
Gu Chen couldn't bear it and said, "I can't teach you. You've already fallen into the path of the demons, which is intolerable to heaven and earth. Even in a world where all laws are present, you can only live in the shadows, hunted by countless people!"
"You lied to me!" At this moment, Wang Gui suddenly stepped forward, roaring with a ferocious expression! Then, he suddenly spat out a bone spur, gleaming with a cold light, towards Gu Chen!