I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

"This is the first one."

The aftershocks of the explosion had not yet completely subsided, and the charred mud reeked of blood.

Gu Yun casually wiped the blood off his face and poured out everything from his storage ring.

"A few hundred mid-grade spirit stones, three third-tier Explosive Flame Talismans, and a few bottles of healing pills. A dignified Golden Core Elder, what a penniless pauper."

Gu Yun pursed his lips, stuffed the pill into his mouth and chewed it up, then carefully put the spirit stone and the Explosive Flame Talisman away from his body.

Just then, his extraordinary hearing once again caught a sharp sound of something cutting through the air!

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

A powerful surge of spiritual energy is rapidly approaching; this time, it's not just a streak of light that's coming!

"Quick reaction."

A flash of bloodlust crossed Gu Yun's eyes; he did not choose to run away.

In this desperate situation, his physical explosive power is the true mark of a king.

He kicked Blood Butcher's shriveled, withered skeleton into the center of the open space.

Then he plunged downwards, sinking directly into the black swamp beneath Blood Butcher's corpse.

Mud and blood instantly covered his body completely.

With the activation of the "Turtle Breathing Technique," Gu Yun completely concealed even the last trace of his body temperature.

A few breaths.

boom!

Three streaks of light tore through the air and crashed onto the open ground.

The leader was dressed in the dark green robe of a Wan Du Sect elder, with a white face and no beard, and a pair of triangular eyes that gleamed with a ghostly green light.

Wu Hua, a mid-stage Golden Core elder of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.

Behind him followed four trembling, elite late-stage Foundation Establishment disciples.

"Such a domineering aura, is this... Blood Slaughter from Blood Fiend Valley?"

Wu Hua immediately spotted the gruesome, dried-up corpse in the center of the open space.

Although the body was completely disfigured, the remaining fragments of clothing and the depleted aura of the golden core allowed him to instantly identify the deceased.

"hiss!"

The four Foundation Establishment disciples behind him gasped in shock and retreated hastily in fright.

"Elder Wu, Senior Blood Butcher was only at the early Golden Core stage! How could he have been drained of his life force and turned into a dried-up corpse? Could it be that the demon has already broken through to the Golden Core stage?"

"Shut up! What's the panic!"

Wu Hua's face was ashen as he stared coldly at the dried corpse, a hint of fear flashing in his eyes.

"That idiot Blood Butcher must have underestimated his opponent and acted rashly, getting ambushed by that body cultivator with no magic power using some insidious formation! However, that demon who defied the Heavens to kill Golden Core cultivators must be seriously injured right now and can't have gone far!"

Wu Hua's triangular eyes darted around, and he pointed at his two disciples, giving them a command.

"You two, go examine Blood Butcher's body and see if you've left any clues!"

"Yes...yes..."

Although the two disciples were terrified, under the pressure of the Golden Core Elder, they had no choice but to grit their teeth, grip their defensive magic weapons tightly, and move step by step toward the dried corpse.

Ten steps.

Five steps.

Three steps...

Just as the two disciples reached the dried corpse and extended their divine senses!

boom!

Beneath Blood Butcher's dried corpse, the once calm black swamp suddenly exploded without warning!

Mud flew everywhere like black arrows, and a figure like a demon from hell burst out of the ground in an instant!

"Be careful!"

Wu Hua's eyes widened in horror, and he screamed shrilly.

But it was too late!

The moment Gu Yun burst out of the ground, his hands, like two vises, precisely gripped the throats of the two Foundation Establishment disciples!

Click!Click!

There was no magical fluctuation whatsoever; it was purely a physical attack!

The necks of the two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators were instantly crushed, and before they could even scream, their heads slumped limply.

suck!

Gu Yunzi's thirteen beads circulated wildly, draining the essence and blood of the two Foundation Establishment disciples within half a breath, turning them into two dried corpses that he then hurled at the other two disciples like sandbags!

Boom!

The immense force smashed the two disciples, breaking their sternums and sending them flying backward, spitting out blood.

"You little beast! You're asking for it!"

Wu Hua was furious. To kill four of his Ten Thousand Poisons Sect's elites in front of him, a Golden Core Elder, was an utter disgrace!

"Haunted Bone Palm!"

Wu Hua thrust out both palms, and the surging magical power of his mid-stage Golden Core realm instantly transformed into a gigantic, dark green, poisonous hand, which swept down towards Gu Yun's head.

This poisonous palm contains hundreds of rare poisons from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect. If an ordinary cultivator gets even a little bit of it, he will turn into a puddle of green water within half an hour!

However, looking at the huge, poisonous hand that slammed down...

Gu Yun not only did not back down, but also sneered.

"Poison? I even eat the primordial poison gas of your so-called Holy Maiden Ji Wushuang. You worms like you think you're worthy to play with poison in front of me?!"

"Great Wilderness Body! Break!"

Gu Yun let out a roar that shattered the clouds, his legs slightly bent, like a fully drawn ancient divine bow, and his whole body soared into the sky, actually using his physical body to directly crash into that huge poisonous hand!

Boom!

Gu Yun's iron fist, carrying violent momentum, slammed hard into the dark green poisonous hand's palm!

Chi Chi Chi.

The deadly poison relentlessly corroded Gu Yun's fist, emitting a piercing sound, and the poisonous mist instantly enveloped him.

"Hahaha! Fool! You dare to use your physical body to withstand my bone-dissolving poison."

Wu Hua's maniacal laughter hadn't even subsided yet.

Stab it!

That originally indestructible giant poisonous hand was actually torn open with a huge gash from the palm!

Gu Yun was bathed in a corrosive toxic mist.

Although his muscles were burned with mottled bloodstains, he acted as if nothing had happened, forcefully tearing open the poisonous hand, like a maddened ancient beast, rushing straight for Wu Hua's face!

"How is this possible?! What kind of monster created this body of yours?!"

Wu Hua was terrified. In his three hundred years of life, he had never seen a body that even a mid-stage Golden Core poison could not melt instantly!

"Monster? I'm your ancestor!"

Gu Yun suddenly waved his hand in mid-air, and three yellow talismans shot towards Wu Hua like lightning!

That was the third-tier "Explosive Flame Talisman" that he had plundered from Blood Slaughter's storage ring!

It didn't matter that he didn't have any magic power to activate it. Gu Yun simply used pure finger strength to compress the Exploding Flame Talisman to its limit and threw it out as a hidden weapon!

"Explode!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three Tier 3 Explosive Flame Talismans exploded in front of Wu Hua!

The raging flames and shockwaves instantly engulfed Wu Hua.

"Black Turtle Poison Armor! Royal!"

From within the flames came Wu Hua's furious roar, as a dark green tortoise-shell magic weapon fiercely protected him.

As a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, his foundation was far deeper than Xue Tu's. Although the Exploding Flame Talisman was extremely powerful, it was not enough to break through his innate defense.

"You old bastard, let's see how many hits you can take!"

Gu Yun didn't expect the Explosive Flame Talisman to kill the enemy; all he wanted was a moment to block their vision!

The Thirteen Pearls of the Purple Mansion

Gu Yun's eyes were bloodshot, and a blood butterfly flashed wildly between his brows!

Two invisible mental spikes, under the cover of the explosion, pierced deeply into Wu Hua's sea of ​​consciousness!

"what!"

Just as Wu Hua was preparing to retaliate, he felt as if his brain had been hit by a giant hammer!

In an instant, hallucinations flooded his visions. He seemed to see the countless wronged souls he had poisoned, now transformed into vengeful ghosts demanding his life. Gu Yun, standing before him, had become a towering, invincible demon god, hundreds of feet tall!

Extreme fear and inexplicable rage intertwined, causing Wu Hua's Golden Core magic power to come to a fatal halt!

Even a brief pause can be an abyss of no return in close combat!

"die!"

Gu Yun pierced through the sea of ​​fire and was already right in front of Wu Hua's Xuan Turtle Poison Armor!

He clenched his hands together abruptly, his ten fingers like ten steel nails, gripping the edge of the top-grade defensive magic weapon tightly!

"Open it!!!"

As Gu Yun let out a roar that sounded inhuman, the muscles in his arms bulged exaggeratedly, the veins standing out like angry dragons, and his jade-like bones made a cracking sound that made one's teeth ache from the strain.

Crack!

As Wu Hua regained his senses, he was met with a horrified gaze.

His Xuan Turtle Poison Armor, which was said to be difficult even for late-stage Golden Core cultivators to break, was actually torn in half by Gu Yun with his bare hands!

"No!"

With his magical artifact destroyed, Wu Hua coughed up blood, completely losing all protection and being exposed naked in front of Gu Yun!

"Go to hell and play with drugs, you old dog!"

Gu Yun's right fist, like a battering ram, slammed into Wu Hua's chest with a devastating sonic boom!

Click!

Wu Hua's sternum shattered and collapsed instantly, and a bloody hole the size of a washbasin exploded in his back!

Before Wu Hua's body could fly backward, Gu Yun's left hand shot out like lightning and stabbed into his shattered dantian.

His five fingers gripped the green golden elixir tightly!

"Demon...devil..."

Blood mixed with his internal organs gushed from Wu Hua's mouth as he gripped Gu Yun's arm tightly, his eyes filled with incomprehensible despair.

How could a mortal with no magical power tear apart a magic weapon with his bare hands and kill a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator?

Gu Yun's face was covered in blood, and he grinned ferociously, the red butterfly mark between his eyebrows shining brightly!

The black hole vortex of the Thirteen Pearls of the Purple Mansion erupted once again in his palm!

"swallow!"

"Ahhhhhh!"

Wu Hua's agonizing screams echoed throughout the Bloodstained Ridge!

His vast magical power at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, the pure essence of his poison cultivation honed over hundreds of years, along with his unwilling soul, were all violently drained away by Gu Yun within three breaths!

puff.

A completely dehydrated, dried-out corpse, like a withered tree, crashed heavily into the mud.

"Whew...that feels great!"

Gu Yun tilted her head back and opened her arms.

The massive amount of essence and blood entered the body, instantly transforming into a surging torrent.

It not only completely healed the skin and flesh on his back that had been burned by the poisonous fire, but also gave his blood and qi a faint sign that they were about to undergo another qualitative change!

At the same time, deep within my consciousness, the dark golden characters of the Heavenly Dao appeared in the Book of Changes.

[Killed a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator despite being of a higher level]

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

[The subject's current total lifespan: 171 years!]

"One hundred and seventy-one years!"

As Gu Yun stared at the fluctuating numbers, a fierce battle ignited in his crimson eyes.

"Not enough...not nearly enough!"

He casually took off Wu Hua's storage ring.

This is the entire fortune of a mid-stage Golden Core elder. The array plates, talismans, and high-grade spirit stones inside will be his greatest asset in his next counterattack against those Golden Core elders!

Gu Yun turned his head. He could sense that the series of battles just now had completely exposed his position.

From all directions, at least several powerful Golden Core stage auras were frantically encircling this area.

"Come on, all of you, come on!"

Gu Yun stretched his neck, producing a chilling cracking sound.

Gu Yun erased the divine sense imprint from Wu Hua's storage ring and forcibly probed into it.

Upon seeing this, his scarlet eyes immediately lit up.

"As expected of an elder of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, their wealth far surpasses that of the pauper from Blood Fiend Valley!"

Inside the storage ring, besides piles of high-grade spirit stones and various highly toxic poisons, what surprised Gu Yun the most was the three complete array plates lying quietly in the corner.

There were also more than a dozen third-tier talismans radiating terrifying spiritual energy!

"Heavenly Thunder Summoning Array, Hundred Poisons Locking Immortal Array... These are amazing items!"

Gu Yun grinned.

"Since you guys enjoy playing cat and mouse, I'm going to give you a huge surprise today!"

Without the slightest delay, Gu Yun used his powerful divine sense to instantly lock onto the earth vein nodes within a radius of several miles.

His hands moved swiftly through the air like butterflies flitting among flowers.

Disassemble the Hundred Poisons Locking Immortal Array plate in Wu Hua's storage ring.

Using the natural venomous gas of the Bloodstained Ridge, it was transformed into a highly concealed and spiritually deadly formation that specifically countered divine sense, through an inconceivable method.

Having done all this, Gu Yun, carrying the long knife he had taken, quietly disappeared into the hollow trunk of a dead tree, like a lifeless stone sculpture.

In less than half an incense stick's time.

Whoosh!

A blinding crimson rainbow tore through the poisonous miasma and suddenly hovered in mid-air.

The newcomer was a thin, wiry old man in a blood-red robe.

His arms were unusually long, reaching past his knees, in which he held two enormous scythes that gleamed with a ghostly crimson light, with two thick, scarlet iron chains attached to the ends of the scythes.

Blood Fiend Valley, late-stage Golden Core elder, Blood Scythe Xue Jiao!

"The smell of blood disappears here... and the traces of that old poisoner Wu Hua are completely extinguished."

Xue Jiao hovered in mid-air, his triangular eyes, like those of a venomous snake, fixed on the swamp below.

He was much more cautious than Xue Tu and Wu Hua.

As a late-stage Golden Core cultivator who had fought his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, he knew that a body cultivator capable of killing two cultivators of the same level could not be judged by ordinary standards.

"Did you think you could hide and I wouldn't find you?"

Xue Jiao sneered and slashed the blood-red scythe in his hand through the air!

"Blood Raven's Soul Search!"

quack!

Accompanied by a piercing, mournful cry, dozens of blood-eyed crows formed from his essence and blood flew out from his sleeves, forming a large net, and swooped down madly towards the black forest and swamp below!

These blood-eyed crows are extremely sensitive to the life force of living people; even creatures hidden three feet underground cannot escape their perception.

However, Xue Jiao waited for a full ten breaths, and the blood crows circled several times in the poisonous miasma below, but they found nothing!

"No sign of life? Could he have escaped this area?"

Xue Jiao frowned, about to withdraw his divine sense and pursue the outer perimeter.

Just as his mind began to relax for a moment!

hum!

Suddenly, a blinding, eerie green beam of light erupted from the seemingly calm swamp and withered forest below!

Gu Yun's pre-arranged Spirit-Slaying Death Array was activated with a roar!

Within a radius of a hundred feet, all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to be instantly drained, and a terrifying array gravity, like a hundred thousand mountains, pressed down heavily on Xue Jiao's body.

"An array? How could there be a high-level array here?!"

Xue Jiao was shocked and caught off guard. His late-stage Golden Core flying technique was interrupted, and he fell straight down like a broken kite with a broken wing!

"Got you?"

A cold, hoarse voice, like the whisper of death, rang out directly below Xue Jiao as he fell!

boom!

The hollow, withered tree exploded with a deafening roar, and Gu Yun's body, like an ancient tyrannical dragon freed from its cage, rose from the ground with terrifying blood energy capable of tearing through the void!

He gripped the long sword tightly with both hands, twisting the power of his waist and abdomen to the extreme in mid-air, causing the Great Wilderness Body's blood and qi furnace to roar wildly!

"The Second Strike of the Nine Slashes of Prison Suppression! Severing the Sea!"

A terrifying crescent-shaped blade of energy, several dozen feet long, tore through the poisonous miasma and slashed at Xue Jiao, who was falling, at the waist!

"You little beast! Do you take me for those two pieces of trash?!"

As expected of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator, Xue Jiao bit his tongue hard at the moment of his fall, spitting a mouthful of blood onto the double scythes in his hands.

"Blood Dance and Whirlwind Slaughter!"