Chapter 45

The mottled ancient city walls glow with blue light, and the Futu Pagoda in the distance stands majestically in the dark night.

A faint gray mist lingers in the ruined city, and ghosts pass by from time to time.

Gu Chen shuttled between the ruined walls, with a sword in his hand, his face full of vigilance, and a white ape by his side.

"Unexpectedly, behind the bronze gate, there is actually a ghost market."

He murmured, three hours ago he passed through the copper gate, and then found himself in a deserted ancient city.

Based on the surrounding environment, he could easily tell that this was the notorious Ghost Market.

He had originally planned to pass by here to stay away from Fenglin Mansion, but he didn't expect his wish to come true after a long detour.

There are evil gates everywhere in this city, and within three hours of coming here, Gu Chen has already seen no less than five waves of ghosts.

Some were blue-armored skeletons that could walk freely, some were long-winged corpses with more than half of their bodies rotting away, and some were simply ghost shadows that passed by him, bringing gusts of sinister wind.

The most frightening time was that half an hour ago Gu Chen met a little girl in red who was holding candied haws. She was innocent and her laughter was as sweet as silver bells, which was incompatible with this place.

"Brother, do you want candied haws?"

When she came close and raised her head, her face suddenly became rotten, and maggots crawled in and out of her eye sockets.

Gu Chen's expression changed drastically, and he swung his sword immediately.

It's just that the little girl disappeared in front of him like a puff of smoke, and after he walked all the way, he felt a sore shoulder inexplicably.

"Squeak—"

In the end, the white ape screamed a few times, and Gu Chen realized that the girl hadn't disappeared, and sat on his shoulder all the way, but he didn't realize it.

This frightened him, the majestic blood energy in his body exploded, and the yang energy was extremely heavy, and finally drove away the lonely ghost.

Since then, Gu Chen has walked on thin ice, even if he saw any weird sights in the city, he pretended not to see them.

There is a saying about Ghost Market that it used to be an extremely prosperous and powerful city, even compared to those big cities in the Middle-Earth Empire.

No one went into the details of how such an ancient city appeared in the vast forest, but from the ruined walls, a little bit of the glory of the past can indeed be vaguely seen.

On the street, there are ghost soldiers holding bronze Gu Ge patrolling the street. There are blood-colored skeletons digging through the thick layer of ashes, digging out unknown dark white crystals from the inside, and crunching them into their mouths.

Gu Chen turned a blind eye to all this, he found that these dead things seemed to be in unconscious actions, as long as they didn't provoke them, there wouldn't be too much trouble.

He came to a pagoda.

He could see it from a distance. This tower is one of the tallest buildings in the Ghost Market, with an excellent view.

Pushing open the half-collapsed tower door, using the Hanxing sword to push aside the dense spider webs, Gu Chen walked up the moss-covered steps to the top of the tower.

There are no dead things running rampant in this tower, but white bones can be seen from time to time on the steps.

Some of these bones are human bones, some are animal bones, and some are simply grotesque. They are races that Gu Chen can't understand.

It's hard to imagine what has happened here, the reliefs on the wall are soaked in dirty black blood, and it's impossible to see the original appearance full of artistic atmosphere.

Soon we reached the top of the tower, and through the window, we could overlook the whole Ghost Market.

This is indeed an ancient city, a city of death. Being here, even the moon above the head is stained with a few traces of miserable green.

Gu Chen saw the Taboo Lin Hai in the distance, and recognized the direction of Fenglin Mansion.

"I'm afraid that the Underworld Palace is looking for me everywhere. If I can't find it in Fenglin Mansion, I will soon be searched elsewhere. In this case, the ghost market, which the world avoids, is the safest place."

Gu Chen murmured, although Guixu is very gloomy, it can completely avoid the eyeliner of Underworld Palace.

He decided to stay here for a while until the limelight passed.

There wasn't any food here, but fortunately the storage ring his mother gave him was filled with a lot of food, and there was even a medicine called Bigu Dan.

Therefore, he can stay here for a long time until he breaks through into the realm of supernatural powers.

Confronting the killer of the Underworld Palace head-on, Gu Chen felt like walking through the gate of hell.

If it weren't for the weirdness of the blood pool and the other party's ignorance, he would never have escaped from the clutches of the devil.

This made him more thirsty for his own strength, he must step into the realm of supernatural powers as soon as possible and become a real monk.

Only by becoming a monk can one master the great supernatural powers of calling wind and rain, and can revenge be possible.

"There are many good things in the killer's storage ring, which can help me break through as soon as possible."

Gu Chen cleaned up the top of the tower, took it as his temporary foothold, and counted the wealth he currently possessed.

In the storage ring of the killer, there are two sets of standard robes for the members of the Underworld Palace, several spell books, and a lot of crystals, pills, and talismans.

In addition to being the hard currency in the world of monks, Yuanjing also contains surging vitality of heaven and earth. Refining it can save you many days of hard work in meditation.

The killer has a lot of money, and the Yuanjing in the storage ring is enough for Gu Chen to hit the magical realm.

He was already at the ninth level of the physical body, and he was about to step into the supernatural powers, and there was only the last hurdle - the supernatural transformation.

The so-called divine transformation, in layman's terms, is the transformation of spiritual power into divine consciousness.

In the process of moving from the physical state to the supernatural state, everything from the periosteum to the internal organs must be reborn, and the last step extends to the brain.

The brain is the most important part of the human body. It is only after nine levels of exercise that the physical body develops supernatural powers. However, if one does not possess divine consciousness, it is extremely difficult to master supernatural powers.

Supernatural powers, supernatural powers, that is, the mastery of spiritual thoughts, can only use the power of heaven and earth.

Taking out a pebble-sized primordial crystal, Gu Chen operated the Tianchen Vientiane Jue and began to practice silently.

He wants to rush to the supernatural power state in one go, adjust his mentality, and soon breathe smoothly, without joy or sorrow.

Seeing him meditating and practicing, the white ape was bored, his eyeballs rolled and he ran down the pagoda.

three days later.

The three hundred and sixty-five star orifices on Gu Chen's body, who was sitting quietly, suddenly burst into brilliance, attracting the power of heaven and earth from outside.

This process lasted for about a stick of incense. When everything was over, the energy in Gu Chen's body gurgled and flowed, and the total amount increased dozens of times, flowing freely in the meridians of the whole body.

He made a breakthrough, and after consuming all the killer's crystals, everything came naturally without any shackles.

He didn't rush to open his eyes, but carefully mobilized the nascent consciousness in his mind, sensing everything around him.

Spiritual consciousness is transformed by spiritual power, which is similar to the extension of the five senses, but has abilities that the five senses do not have.

At this moment, Gu Chen doesn't need to open his eyes, within a radius of ten feet, even a speck of dust exists clearly in his induction.

More than that, with a thought in his mind, a stone five feet away suddenly shook slightly.

(end of this chapter)