The mottled ancient city wall glowed with blue light, and the pagoda tower in the distance stood majestically in the dark night.
A faint gray mist lingered in the ruins of the city, and ghost figures passed by from time to time.
Gu Chen shuttled between the broken walls of the ruins, holding a sword in one hand and a vigilant face, followed by the white ape.
"I didn't expect that behind the bronze gate, there is a ghost market."
He murmured that he passed through the copper gate three hours ago, and then found himself in an abandoned ancient city.
Based on the surrounding environment, he could easily tell that this was the infamous ghost market.
He originally planned to pass through here to get away from Fenglin Mansion, but he didn't expect that after a long journey, he finally realized his wish.
There are evil spirits everywhere in this city. In the three hours since he came here, Gu Chen has already seen no less than five waves of ghosts.
Some were blue-armored skeletons that could walk freely, some were winged zombies with most of their bodies rotted, and some were simply ghosts, passing by him, bringing with them gusts of dark wind.
The most horrifying time was when Gu Chen met a little girl in red clothes holding a candied haws half an hour ago. She was innocent, her laughter was as sweet as a silver bell, and she was out of tune with this place.
"Brother, do you want to buy candied haws on a stick?"
When she came closer and raised her head, her face was suddenly rotten, and maggots were crawling in and out of her eye sockets.
Gu Chen's expression changed drastically and he immediately waved his sword.
But the little girl disappeared in front of him like a puff of smoke. After that, he walked all the way and felt an inexplicable pain in his shoulders.
"Zhizhi——"
Finally, after the white ape screamed several times, Gu Chen realized that the girl had not disappeared, but was sitting on his shoulder all the way, without him noticing.
This frightened him so much that the majestic blood energy in his body exploded and the yang energy was so strong that he finally drove away the lonely ghost.
Since then, Gu Chen has been walking on thin ice, pretending not to see any strange sights in the city.
There is a saying about Guixu. It was once an extremely prosperous and powerful city, even compared to the big cities in the Middle-earth Empire.
No one has tried to figure out how such an ancient city appeared in the vast forest, but from the ruins of the ruins, a bit of its past glory can be vaguely seen.
On the streets, there were Yin soldiers holding bronze gogos patrolling the streets. There were blood-colored skeletons peeling open the thick layer of ashes, digging out unknown forest-white crystal stones, putting them in their mouths and crunching them into pieces.
Gu Chen turned a blind eye to all this. He found that these dead creatures seemed to be acting unconsciously. As long as they didn't provoke them, there wouldn't be much trouble.
He came to a pagoda.
He saw this place from a distance. This tower is one of the tallest buildings in the ghost market and has an excellent view.
Pushing open the half-collapsed tower door, using the Hanxing Sword to clear away the dense spider webs, Gu Chen walked along the moss-covered steps to the top of the tower.
There are no dead things roaming around in this tower, but bones can be seen from time to time on the steps.
Some of these bones were human bones, some were animal bones, and some were simply weird and were of a race that Gu Chen couldn't understand.
It’s hard to imagine what this place has gone through. The reliefs on the walls were soaked in dirty black blood, making it impossible to see the original artistic appearance.
Soon we reached the top of the tower, and through the window, we could overlook the entire ghost market.
This is indeed an ancient city, the city of death. When you are here, even the moon above your head is stained with a touch of pale green.
Gu Chen saw the forbidden forest sea in the distance and identified the direction of Feng Lin Mansion.
"I'm afraid that the Hades Palace is searching for me everywhere. If I can't be found in Fenglin Mansion, I will be searched elsewhere soon. In this case, the ghost ruins that everyone is afraid of avoiding are actually the safest."
Gu Chen murmured, although the ghost market is very gloomy, it can completely avoid the eyes of the Hades Palace.
He decided to stay here for a while until the storm passed.
There was no food here, but fortunately the storage ring his mother gave him was filled with a lot of food and even pills like Bigu Pill.
Therefore, he can stay here for a long time until he breaks through to the magical realm.
Confronting the killer of Hades Palace head-on, Gu Chen felt as if he had walked away from the gate of hell.
If it weren't for the weirdness of the blood pool and the other party's unawareness, he would never have been able to escape the clutches of the devil.
This made him more thirsty for his own strength. He must step into the magical realm as soon as possible and become a true monk.
Only by becoming a monk can one master the great magical powers of making wind and rain, and only then can revenge be possible.
"The killer's storage ring contains a lot of good things, which can help me break through as soon as possible."
Gu Chen cleaned up the top of the tower, treating it as his temporary residence, and then counted the wealth he currently owned.
The killer's storage ring contained two sets of standard robes for members of the Hades Palace, several magic books, and many crystals, elixirs, and talismans.
In addition to being the hard currency of the monk world, Yuan Jing also contains the surging vitality of heaven and earth. Refining it can save many days of meditation and hard work.
The killer has a lot of money, and the Yuan Jing in the storage ring is enough for Gu Chen to reach the magical realm.
He was already at the ninth level of the physical body, and he was only one step away from entering the realm of supernatural power - divine transformation.
The so-called divine transformation, in layman's terms, means the transformation of mental power into divine consciousness.
In the process of moving from the physical state to the supernatural state, everything from the periosteal muscles 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. Only through nine-level training of the physical body can supernatural powers be derived. However, without spiritual consciousness, it is extremely difficult to master the power of supernatural powers.
Supernatural power, magical power, refers to the ability to control the power of heaven and earth through the understanding of spiritual thoughts.
Taking out a piece of Yuan Jing the size of a pebble, Gu Chen circulated the Tianchen Wanxiang Jue and began to practice silently.
He wanted to rush to the realm of magical powers in one go, and his mentality adjusted, and his breathing soon became steady, without joy or sadness.
When White Ape saw him meditating and practicing, he was bored, his eyes rolled around, and he ran down the pagoda.
Three days later.
Sitting quietly, the 365 star acupoints on Gu Chen's body suddenly bloomed with brilliance, drawing in the endless power of heaven and earth from outside.
This process lasted for about a stick of incense. When it was all over, the energy in Gu Chen's body was gurgling, and the total amount increased by dozens of times, flowing freely through the meridians throughout his body.
He broke through, and after consuming all the killer's crystals, everything fell into place without any shackles.
He did not rush to open his eyes, but carefully mobilized the nascent consciousness in his mind to sense everything around him.
Divine consciousness is transformed by spiritual power and is similar to an extension of the five senses, but it has abilities that the five senses do not have.
At this moment, Gu Chen didn't need to open his eyes. Even a speck of dust within a radius of ten feet was clearly present in his senses.
Not only that, as he thought, a stone five feet away suddenly shook slightly.