"Now, I'm ranked thirty-fifth on the Dragon Ranking. Do you still have any objections?" Gu Chen said coldly, his eyes gleaming.
With a "Gu Muyu spat out another mouthful of blood. Under the pressure of the eight flying swords, coupled with the provocation of Gu Chen's words, she could no longer bear it, her body went limp, and she collapsed to the ground!
"I understand now! So that's why you cultivated so quickly! You weren't cultivating martial arts!" Gu Muyu trembled, and laughed bitterly, "So you were cultivating immortality techniques!"
This is the difference between mortals and immortals, a difference that no one, not even her, can overcome!
"Methods of cultivating immortality?"
When Gu Muyu uttered those four words, everyone was shocked once again. For the martial artists of the Land of Heaven and Earth, their ultimate pursuit was to cultivate immortality! To become an immortal!
Gu Chen, now descending upon the Heaven and Earth Palace as a sword immortal, has climbed to the 35th position on the Dragon Ranking at the age of twenty. If this is truly due to his cultivation methods, then it makes sense!
"So that's how it is, so that's how it is..." Liu Jingce murmured to himself.
However, whether it was just his imagination or not, although Liu Jingce was also shocked, he didn't react as dramatically as the others. It was as if he had seen a similar scene before, and there was a deep sense of doubt in his eyes.
Faced with Gu Muyu's question, Gu Chen did not answer directly, but said calmly, "I'm only using less than 30% of my power right now. Do you know the difference?"
That's insane! Absolutely insane!
Everyone gasped in astonishment. Gu Chen actually said he only used 30% of his power!
Gu Mingheng's face turned pale again. In that case, when Gu Mingheng fought him just now, he didn't even bother to use 30% of his strength. If he had used this flying sword earlier, he wouldn't have been able to gain momentum and would have been completely defeated!
"Thirty percent..." Gu Muyu felt a surge of immense humiliation. She took a deep breath and finally said dejectedly, "I'm no match for you."
"Alright!" Gu Chen then waved his hand, causing the eight flying swords to swirl in the air amidst the raging blue light, before returning to Gu Chen front. During this process, the eight swords merged into four, the four into two, and the two into one, eventually becoming a single sword, which Gu Chen then grasped in his right hand.
The moment Gu Chen gripped his sword, the overwhelming pressure that permeated the void vanished instantly.
To everyone's astonishment, they realized that their vests and faces were already covered in cold sweat. They had been completely immersed in Gu Chen's aura, unable to extricate themselves.
Just then, Gu Chen tossed his longsword, and to everyone's astonishment, the sword flew slowly towards Chen Shumeng's location. Chen Shumeng was startled, and seeing the flying sword come to a steady stop in front of her, she was also taken aback.
"Thanks." Gu Chen smiled slightly.
Seeing Gu Chen's smile, Chen Shumeng trembled. In a daze, she seemed to see a ray of sunlight pouring down from behind this man who was a few years younger than her, shining on Gu Chen as if he were being gilded.
For a moment, she found herself somewhat entranced.
It wasn't until Gu Chen called out again that Chen Shumeng reacted, her pretty face flushing red. She then sheathed her longsword, looked at it for a moment, and then placed it back into its scabbard. At that moment, Gu Chen suddenly moved. He ignored Gu Muyu and walked towards Gu Mingheng's location, looking down at him coldly.
"Just now, you called me a pathetic wretch," Gu Chen's voice echoed across the square. "I'll return that word to you now."
Gu Chen's words were neither deliberately arrogant nor deliberately sarcastic, but it was precisely this calmness that seemed to reflect the different levels of the two people. Gu Chen no longer cared to fight him, much less to mock him!
As Gu Chen spoke, Gu Mingheng's face grew even paler, and the veins on his cheeks were almost visible, bulging as if they were about to burst!
"Do you know how pathetic you are? You're pathetic because you've used family resources but achieved nothing! Your progress is too slow, and your strength is too weak!"
"You call me a pawn? The ridiculous thing is, you're not even as good as a pawn!"
Gu Mingheng, who was able to make it onto the Dragon Ranking before the age of thirty, was belittled by Gu Chen to the point of being worthless!
Perhaps among all the younger generation in the entire Land of Heaven and Earth, only Gu Chen is qualified to say such a thing!
"Pfft!" Gu Mingheng spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted from the mental anguish.
"You... you ruined him! You're so vicious!" Gu Muyu trembled all over upon seeing this scene!
"Vicious? Do you know what it means to be indomitable?" Gu Chen looked at Gu Muyu, and with just that one look, a sense of fear rose in Gu Muyu's heart, as if Gu Chen might come and kill him at any moment.
"What did you say?"
"It wasn't me who ruined him, it was you who ruined him, it was him who ruined himself." Gu Chen said calmly, "If he had a firm will and wasn't a sinister person, how could he have been completely ruined by just one defeat? If so, it only proves that he was a good-for-nothing, and your Gu Family simply misjudged him!"
Gu Chen could certainly say that. When he entered Heavenly Nether Star, it was fraught with danger, filled with ferocious beasts and butchers with human faces that could kill him. He made his way forward step by step with great difficulty. If his will had not been firm, he would have been reduced to ashes long ago!
"You!" Gu Muyu was speechless.
"Furthermore, Third Elder of the Gu Family, when he treated me like that just now, I didn't see you say any of these things!!"
Boom!
Gu Chen's aura surged again, Gu Muyu was directly blasted back by the raging force emanating from Gu Chen, plowing several meters into the ground before stopping.
Then, Gu Chen looked at Cao Miao again.
Cao Miao had hidden at the very back of the crowd, but Gu Chen still spotted her. Caught under Gu Chen's gaze, Cao Miao trembled. Then, Gu Chen asked, "Which city is your Cao Family from?"
"Why are you asking this?" Cao Miao tried hard to appear less timid, but he found he couldn't, he simply couldn't!
"I'll give you three seconds." Gu Chen said, then began to count silently.
Cao Miao's breath hitched, and he hurriedly said, "Jingbei City, Jingbei City..."
"Being close to the Fan Family, no wonder you're Fan Yingqiu's lackey." Gu Chen said calmly, "Didn't you say before that you'd let the Cao Family crush me? Don't worry, if I ever go to Beijing, I'll personally visit the Cao Family."
Cao Miao was horrified. Gu Chen's words were like an invitation from the devil, filled with the stench of blood! Anyone could tell what this visit truly meant!
To be honest, the conflict between Cao Miao and Gu Chen wasn't actually that intense; it was mostly just verbal disdain and contempt. Cao Miao hadn't done anything substantial to cause harm. But since Gu Chen had entered the Land of Heaven and Earth and even used the Sword Control Technique, it was to intimidate the major families! He certainly hadn't forgotten Cao Miao's threat, and since Cao Miao dared to threaten him, he should be prepared for a counterattack!