I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

A shower of light followed closely behind.

Deep within the Blood-Weeping Ridge, a thick miasma of blood blots out the sky.

Gu Yun stumbled and staggered through the dense forest.

His wounds were so deep that the bone was visible, and every step he took left a pool of blood on the ground.

Behind them, the deafening roar of spells and the raucous barking of mad dogs grew ever closer.

Without spiritual power, unable to fly, and with his physical body severely injured.

"Huff...huff...huff..."

Deep within the Blood-Weeping Ridge, even the line of sight is limited to less than three zhang (approximately 1.3 meters).

Beneath a withered, ancient black iron tree, Gu Yun leaned heavily against the trunk like a dying lone wolf.

He was breathing heavily, his chest heaving violently.

His left arm was twisted at an eerie angle, and the wound on his back, burned by the Golden Core Elder of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, was so deep that the bone was visible, and the charred flesh was turned outwards.

Dark red blood dripped down his thighs into the mud.

"That's fucking awesome."

Gu Yun spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, enduring the excruciating pain that was tearing his soul apart, and sank his consciousness into the Purple Mansion between his eyebrows.

The blood-red butterfly shimmered with a dark light, and lines of dark golden ancient seal characters rapidly appeared in his mind.

[The subject's current total lifespan: 165 years!]

Murder and robbery are indeed a lucrative business. Gu Yun forced a smile onto his pale face, which was already deathly pale from blood loss.

"One hundred and sixty-five years... Today, I'll use the lives of you scum to pay for it!"

In the world of cultivation, without magical power or true essence, any cultivator is essentially a cripple.

But Gu Yun is different.

He is a pure body cultivator with the Glazed Jade Bone of the Great Wilderness Body!

His physical body is the most terrifying killing weapon in the world.

What's more, he also has the knowledge of all the arts of cultivating immortality in his mind.

clack clack...

Gu Yun gritted his teeth, grabbed his broken left arm with his right hand, and with his abnormal physical control, snapped it open.

Accompanied by a sickening screech of bones grinding together, the broken bone was forcibly set.

He grabbed a handful of healing pills from the storage ring he had just snatched, and without even looking at them, stuffed them all into his mouth like candy.

They chewed and swallowed it with a "crunch crunch" sound.

Just then, Gu Yun's keen hearing caught the faint footsteps coming from the outer edge of the mist, as well as the low hum of a magical artifact cutting through the air.

"They're really pressing hard."

A burst of red light flashed in Gu Yun's eyes, and killing intent condensed around him as if it were a tangible substance.

He took a deep breath, and the Turtle Breathing Technique was instantly activated to its maximum. His heart stopped beating, his blood flow dropped to freezing point, and his body temperature quickly merged with the cold miasma around him.

It was as if the person had vanished from the world in an instant.

……

"Be on guard! That demon has been fatally struck by a Golden Core Ancestor; he can't have gone far. He has no magic power and can only rely on his two legs!"

Ahead, through the thick fog, seven elite late-stage Foundation Establishment disciples from Blood Fiend Valley groped their way forward in a fan-shaped formation.

Each of them held a soul-searching compass radiating blood-red light in their hands, their expressions extremely tense.

"Senior brother, let's wait for the elders to gather before..."

One of the young disciples hadn't finished speaking.

Swish!

A clump of black mud suddenly exploded in the swamp beside him without warning!

There was not a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation, only a pure physical explosion!

A blur of motion instantly tore through the mist.

The blood-stained hand rapidly enlarged in the young disciple's terrified, wide-eyed gaze, and then gripped his face tightly!

"enemy……"

The senior student next to me had just uttered a single word.

boom!

Gu Yun suddenly exerted force with his five fingers, and the young disciple's head, along with his protective spiritual light, exploded instantly, like a watermelon being hit by a hammer!

"Kill them here!"

The remaining six Blood Fiend Valley disciples were terrified and unhesitatingly summoned their natal flying swords. Six scarlet sword lights, carrying a sharp killing intent, blocked all of Gu Yun's escape routes!

"Too slow!"

Gu Yun let out a low, beast-like growl.

He neither dodged nor avoided them, but instead charged straight into the six flying swords!

Dangdang Dangdang!

The flying sword struck Gu Yun's glassy jade bones, exploding into dazzling sparks and leaving only a few shallow bloodstains.

Gu Yun, taking advantage of the momentum, had already gotten close to the senior brother who was leading the group.

"Smash it!"

Gu Yun's right knee shot up like a cannonball and slammed into his senior brother's chest!

"Snap!"

His sternum was shattered, and his heart ruptured!

Gu Yun's hands were like the Grim Reaper's scythe, tearing wildly through the crowd.

He grabbed a man's flying sword with his left hand, letting the blade cut his palm, and with his right hand, he chopped off the man's neck with a hand chop!

Blood gushed out, and Gu Yun opened his mouth wide, unleashing the devouring power of the Thirteen Pearls in his Purple Mansion!

suck!

The surging essence and blood transformed into the purest vitality, continuously pouring into Gu Yun's parched body.

The deep, bone-revealing burns on his back were visibly beginning to scabbed over!

"A devil...he's a man-eating devil!"

The last two disciples completely broke down and turned around to crush the communication jade talisman.

"You want to leave now?"

Gu Yun casually grabbed two unclaimed flying swords from the ground and, relying entirely on his terrifying arm strength, hurled them out like javelins!

puff!puff!

The two flying swords transformed into black lightning, pinning the two fleeing disciples to the thick ancient tree!

In just three breaths, all seven Foundation Establishment elites were wiped out!

"call!"

Gu Yun shook off the pieces of flesh from his hand, his eyes burning with an even more intense madness.

"The hunt has only just begun."

Deep within the Blood-Weeping Ridge, the poisonous miasma is as black as ink.

Gu Yun stood amidst the corpses, not in a hurry to escape.

He was breathing heavily, his scarlet eyes scanning his surroundings rapidly in the dim light.

He knew very well that although the brief exchange had been swift, the screams and the stench of blood before death were like bright flames in the deadly miasma.

It has definitely attracted the attention of the Golden Core elders behind them.

run?

How can two legs outrun the escape light of a Golden Core cultivator flying through the air?

"Since we can't escape, let's kill!"

Gu Yun's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and a crazed, sinister smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

He swiftly emptied all the spirit stones from the storage rings of the seven disciples.

There were over a thousand low-grade spirit stones and over a hundred mid-grade spirit stones.

Gu Yun's arm muscles bulged, relying on his abnormal physical control.

They threw hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones like hidden weapons, precisely pinning them into the surrounding black ancient trees and swamps according to the nodes of the Minor Five Elements Blazing Flame Array!

Then, he picked up two unclaimed top-grade flying swords from the ground, and with a swift movement, he silently hung upside down in the dense canopy of a black iron withered tree that was over ten feet tall, like a giant gecko.

Full activation of the Turtle Breathing Technique!

Cardiac arrest!

The whole process was smooth and quick, taking less than ten breaths.

Just as Gu Yun had concealed himself...

boom!

The dense poisonous miasma above their heads was forcibly torn apart by a tyrannical and terrifying spiritual pressure!

A crimson streak of light fell like a meteorite, carrying a suffocating pressure of an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, and crashed into the empty ground that had just been littered with corpses.

A strong wind rose up, dispersing the surrounding miasma.

The newcomer was a bald old man wearing the robes of a Blood Fiend Valley elder. He had a sinister face and was leaning on a white bone staff covered with human skulls.

Blood Butcher, a Golden Core stage elder of Blood Fiend Valley!

"A bunch of useless trash!"

Xue Tu looked at the seven gruesome corpses on the ground, especially the two disciples who had been nailed to the tree trunks by flying swords. His face instantly turned so gloomy that it was almost dripping with water.

"Even with such severe injuries, they still managed to wipe out an entire elite Foundation Establishment squad from my sect within a few breaths. Are the physical bodies of body cultivators truly that troublesome?"

Blood Butcher snorted coldly.

The immense divine sense of the Golden Core stage cultivator instantly radiated outwards like a tidal wave, frantically sweeping through every blade of grass and tree around them.

"No magical fluctuations, no signs of life... Did it escape?"

Blood Butcher frowned deeply.

However, just as his divine sense swept over the black iron withered tree above his head...

"Hey old dog, what are you looking at!"

A ferocious roar exploded like thunder above Blood Butcher's head!

"What?"

Blood Butcher was terrified.

He never dreamed that a living person could hide their vital energy and heartbeat so well that even a Golden Core cultivator's divine sense couldn't detect them, and they were suspended three zhang above his head!

boom!

With a powerful kick, Gu Yun, who was hanging upside down on the tree trunk, snapped the ancient black iron tree, which was as thick as a water bucket, in half with the force of his kick!

He was like a cannonball, wielding a top-grade flying sword he had stolen in each hand, and he stabbed it fiercely towards Blood Butcher's head!

"You're courting death! A mere body cultivator dares to ambush a Golden Core cultivator?!"

Blood Butcher was, after all, a Golden Core cultivator with extremely strong combat instincts.

Despite his shock, he remained calm and slammed his bone staff into the ground.

"Bloodbone Corpse Shield!"

In an instant, layers of hard bone shields formed from crimson magic blocked his head.

"Smash it for me!"

Gu Yun's eyes were bloodshot.

The Great Wilderness Body's blood and qi furnace roared wildly within his body, and he forcibly integrated the first strike of the "Nine Slashes of Prison Suppression" into his twin swords!

clang!

Click, click!

The two swords slashed fiercely at the blood-bone corpse shield, unleashing a deafening clang of metal against metal.

Gu Yun's terrifying physical strength actually shattered the bone shield, which was strong enough to withstand a blow from a Golden Core cultivator of the same level, like smashing glass!

"What the hell is this monstrous power?!"

Blood Butcher's eyes nearly popped out as he watched helplessly as the last bone shield shattered.

But weapons ultimately cannot withstand such inhuman force!

With a crisp "crack", the two top-grade flying swords in Gu Yun's hands exploded into a shower of iron filings the instant they shattered the bone shield, unable to withstand the recoil!

"Hahaha! Out of magic weapons now! Prepare to die!"

Blood Butcher was overjoyed. Seizing this critical opening, he suddenly spewed out a foul-smelling, rotting corpse fire from the tip of his bone staff, aiming straight for Gu Yun's face!

However, Gu Yun, who was in mid-air, showed no panic whatsoever; instead, a mocking glint flashed in his eyes.

He suddenly raised both hands and smashed the two remaining sword hilts in his hands with terrifying speed into two inconspicuous protrusions in the mud at Blood Butcher's feet!

That's... the core of the formation!

"burst!"

Gu Yun let out a low growl.

boom!boom!

The sword hilt precisely smashed two mid-grade spirit stones buried in the soil!

Buzz, rumble!

As the spirit stone shattered, the spiritual energy inside the hundreds of mid-grade spirit stones that were driven into place according to the orientation of the "Minor Five Elements Blazing Flame Array" instantly lost its balance, resulting in a violent chain resonance!

The violent surge of spiritual energy directly ignited the venomous miasma deep within the Bloodshed Ridge!

boom!

A huge red and green mushroom cloud exploded in this small space!

The terrifying heat and shockwave instantly leveled everything within a radius of several dozen feet!

"Aaaaaaahhhhh!!"

Blood Butcher, who was at the very center of the explosion, let out an extremely shrill scream.

He never imagined that a body cultivator without magical power could use the terrain and spirit stones to create an explosion comparable to a full-force attack from a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator with his bare hands!

His proud protective aura of blood was instantly shattered in the explosion, his entire body was charred black, he coughed up blood, and flew backward like a rag doll.

Gu Yun was also suffering!

He was on the verge of the explosion when the blast wave violently lifted him away, and he crashed heavily onto a boulder.

The burns on his back, which were already deep enough to expose the bone, split open again, and half of his body was charred by the high temperature, emitting a burnt smell.

"Cough...cough cough...that's powerful..."

Gu Yun spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with internal organs and staggered as he climbed up from the boulder.

His blue robe, burned to just a few strips, hung on his body, his jade-like bones covered in cracks, but his back remained ramrod straight!

Without a moment's respite, Gu Yun stared at the Golden Core old monster, who was also struggling to crawl out of the mud, several dozen feet away.

"You...you madman...I'm going to tear your tendons out and skin you alive!"

Blood Butcher was in a terrible state; half of his face was blown apart, revealing his stark white bones.

He glared at Gu Yun with resentment, trembling as he took out a blood-red pill from his storage ring and stuffed it into his mouth. His previously weak Golden Core power surged wildly once again!

"Bloodshed! Death!"

Blood Butcher transformed into a bloodline that almost distorted the void, and the Bone Staff, with a soul-tearing shriek, pierced straight towards Gu Yun's heart!

This strike was a deadly attack fueled by the rage of a Golden Core cultivator!

It's so fast there's no way to dodge it!

hide?

I never even considered hiding!

Gu Yun's eyes turned completely blood red.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, actually charging headlong into the deadly white bone staff!

puff!

A dull thud that made your teeth ache!

The sharp tip of the bone staff pierced through Gu Yun's left shoulder without any hindrance and emerged from his back!

Blood instantly stained Gu Yun's chest.

"Hahahaha! Arrogant fool! Die..."

Blood Butcher's ecstatic laughter had just begun when it abruptly stopped, replaced by extreme terror!

Because he discovered that the man in front of him, whose left shoulder had been pierced, not only did not let out a scream, but instead revealed a smile more cruel than that of a demon from hell on his bloodied face.

"Gotcha, you old dog."

Gu Yun's voice was hoarse, like sandpaper being rubbed.

He deliberately locked the staff with his left shoulder, leaving Blood Butcher with nowhere to escape in that instant!

"not good!"

Blood Butcher was so terrified that he wanted to throw away his staff and retreat.

late!

Gu Yun's intact right hand carried the full force of the Great Wilderness Body's ferocious power.

With fingers pointing straight out like a knife, like an indestructible ancient divine weapon, he fiercely stabbed into Xue Tu's dantian!

puff!

The physical defense that Golden Core cultivators are so proud of is like fragile tofu in front of Gu Yun's glassy jade bones, which are comparable to magic treasures!

Gu Yun's large hand brutally tore open Xue Tu's belly and grabbed the golden pill tightly in his hand!

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!"

Blood Butcher let out the most agonizing and desperate scream of his life.

With his golden core suppressed, his magical power instantly became like a stagnant pool, completely losing the ability to resist.

"My golden core... release my golden core... I am an elder of Blood Fiend Valley, kill me, and the patriarch will definitely..."

"I don't care who your ancestors are! Even if the Heavenly King himself came today, you'd still have to turn into fertilizer!"

Gu Yun's face was contorted with rage, and the blood-red butterfly mark between his brows burst forth with a blinding, demonic light.

The devouring power of the Thirteen Pearls of the Purple Mansion is fully unleashed!

"suck!"

boom!

A terrifying suction force, like a black hole, suddenly erupted along Gu Yun's arm!

Blood Butcher didn't even finish begging for mercy.

His golden core, painstakingly cultivated for hundreds of years, his surging essence and blood, and even his terrified soul, all burst forth like a flood.

It was forcibly extracted and frantically poured into Gu Yun's parched body!

"Uh...uh..."

In less than five breaths.

A high-ranking cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core realm was thus drained of his life force in despair and pain, reduced to a withered, skeletal shell!

boom!

Gu Yun casually tossed Xue Tu's dried corpse onto the ground, and crushed the dull golden core, turning it into pure energy which he then absorbed into his body.

"Huff... huff..."

Gu Yun pulled out the bone staff stuck in his left shoulder and gasped for breath.

Nourished by the vast essence of the Golden Elixir, the terrifying blood hole on his left shoulder was visibly healing and scabbing over, with new flesh growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His almost depleted physical strength erupted again like a volcano!

at the same time.

Within Gu Yun's dantian, the dormant crimson butterfly flapped its wings once more, and dark golden seal characters danced wildly before his eyes:

[Slaying a Golden Core stage early-stage cultivator despite being of a higher level!]

[Life Deprivation in effect: Deprives the deceased of 1% of their remaining lifespan, granting them two years of lifespan in return.]

[The subject's current total lifespan: 167 years!]

Looking at the fluctuating numbers, Gu Yun raised his head, and a chilling, maniacal laugh bloomed on his blood-stained, eerie face.

"The life of a Golden Core stage expert is indeed much more valuable than that of a Foundation Establishment stage expert!"

He ripped off Blood Butcher's storage ring.