Chapter 26

This cultivation lasted for eight days.

Gu Chen frantically operated the Nature of the Heavenly Stars Art, absorbing the almost endless power of the blood essence from the blood pool.

If an ordinary person entered such a place, their body would not be able to withstand it for a moment and would be torn to pieces by the violent power.

But his body was like a bottomless pit, staying there for eight days.

On the second day of soaking in the pool, the protrusion between Gu Chen's ribs underwent a mutation, it actually grew into a bone!

It was a bone covered in golden ancient runes, it was indescribable, but it had fused with his bloodline, it was originally one with him.

The moment his bones were formed, his entire body exuded a supreme, holy, and peerlessly domineering aura!

That aura swept across the entire Forbidden Forest Sea in an instant, all the wild beasts and demonic beasts actually trembled with fear, they all prostrated themselves on the ground, bowing their heads in his direction!

Only the white ape by the side of the pool did not yield, it bared its teeth and stared fiercely at Gu Chen, all the white hair on its body standing on end.

Seeing that he was still immersed in cultivation, completely unaware of the commotion outside, its expression slowly relaxed.

The aura came and went quickly, but from this day onwards, the white ape kept staring at Gu Chen, from time to time revealing a puzzled expression.

This human had greatly attracted its attention.

On the eighth day, the originally dark red blood pool had already disappeared, it had unexpectedly turned into a clear pool of water.

The huge amount of energy it contained had all been absorbed by Gu Chen!

When the last trace of the blood pool's power was swallowed, a strange change happened to Gu Chen's body.

Under the moonlight, his 810 acupuncture points shone brightly, overflowing with light.

Crack, crack, crack.

The dead skin on the surface of his body rapidly fell off, black blood continuously seeping out of his pores.

His hair fell off and grew back again, the bone marrow in his body ruptured and grew again.

Shedding one's mortal body and changing one's bones!

After a month of life and death trials, absorbing the huge amount of energy from the blood pool, Gu Chen finally broke through 810 circulatory acupoints, naturally stepping into the 4th layer of the fleshly body, Shedding one's body!

From now on, his body shed its mortal body, possessing the strongest foundation towards the great dao of cultivation!

"Success! I finally succeeded! "

The moment he broke through, Gu Chen's emotions surged as he looked up to the sky and let out a long howl.

Whoosh –

In the vast starry sky, the 810 stars in the sky shone brightly, and their light shone on Gu Chen through the vast expanse of the starry sky!

At this moment, Gu Chen felt that the connection between him and the Celestial Phenomenon was unprecedentedly close. Every strand of Yuan energy in his body was brimming with vitality.

Shedding one's mortal body required the reconstruction of one's flesh and blood, and the pain was not something ordinary people could endure.

Gu Chen, on the other hand, was willing to endure. After enduring for so long, he had finally taken the most solid step towards his goal. This little bit of pain was nothing!

The process of rebirth lasted for a whole four hours. When everything was settled, Gu Chen's entire temperament changed.

His internal and external injuries were all gone. His skin became white and smooth, and his flesh glistened.

His long, ink-like hair casually draped over his shoulders, and his muscles were perfectly streamlined. His muscles, which were not exaggerated at all, contained the strength of a prehistoric beast.

Swoosh!

When he opened his eyes, his pupils were deep and enchanting, as if a nebula was flowing in them.

He stood up from the pool. After eight whole days, this was the first time he stepped out of the blood pool.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak."

Seeing him like this, White Ape followed him curiously, hopping around.

Gu Chen ignored it and walked straight to the front of a mountain wall.

Five fingers closed, clenched into a fist, and punched!

Boom –

The hard mountain wall exploded in an instant, revealing a huge hole. The cracks were densely packed like a spider's web and extended outwards.

The entire valley shook, and rocks fell from the sky.

"One punch, just one punch, but it has the strength of a million pounds!"

Gu Chen muttered to himself, his heart filled with excitement!

As expected of the Nature of the Heavenly Stars Art. After breaking through 810 acupoints, it gave him such terrifying strength!

With this strength alone, he could blow up a small mountain!

He had not truly stepped into the realm of divinity, but his physical strength was already no weaker than divinity spells!

"Ye Qingshuang, I've finally caught up to you!

"Just you wait, I'm coming to drag you down from your pedestal!"

Gu Chen's eyes glowed fiercely, his heart stirring.

Only after calming down did he have time to look at White Ape.

Whoosh.

Seeing him looking over, White Ape was immediately on guard and took a few steps back.

This fellow's strength had greatly improved, he did not dare to underestimate him.

"Don't worry, it's all thanks to you this time. I won't hurt you."

Getting to know White Ape without a fight, Gu Chen had already given up on the idea of competing with it because of the Blood Pool.

The white ape squeaked as it saw him like this. It pointed at the crystal clear pool of blood with a very dissatisfied look on its face. It protested.

Gu Chen could not help but feel embarrassed. This place could be said to be White Ape's, but he had absorbed all the energy in the blood pool. It was not very kind of him.

He walked forward and looked down at the pool.

"Eh?"

Only then did he realize that the bottom of the pool was littered with bones, left behind by the dead beasts.

And somewhere at the bottom of the pool, there was a rusty copper door.

Previously, the blood pool was dark red and thick, and he could not see the bottom at all. He did not expect the bottom of the pool to look like this.

Driven by curiosity, Gu Chen could not help but dive into the water and swim towards the copper door.

Along the way, there were all kinds of large beast bones, and Gu Chen even found a few broken beast cores.

Those belonged to dead demonic beasts. There were even demonic beast skeletons here!

Unfortunately, the broken beast cores had no energy left and had probably merged into the pool.

Gu Chen arrived at the rusty copper door. It was sunk to the bottom of the pool, tightly shut, as if it led to an unknown world.

Gu Chen could not help but stretch out his hand, wanting to open this ancient door.

The moment his hand touched the handle, a cold and negative aura suddenly surged. Gu Chen's body trembled!

Inexplicably, the scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood appeared in his mind, suppressing the urge to stretch his neck and commit suicide!

Hum — —

At this moment, the newly born golden bone in his body vibrated lightly. Gu Chen immediately shook off the negative emotions and hurriedly stretched out his hand.

"What kind of terrifying existence is behind this door?"

Gu Chen sucked in a breath of cold air. He was almost immediately certain that the reason why this pond was so strange and kept attracting wild beasts to commit suicide here was because of the trace of power that had unintentionally seeped out of this copper door!

That strange and evil energy was not something he could come into contact with at the moment, so he wisely chose to retreat from the pool.

"You already knew the secret of this pool?"

White Ape did not follow. Seeing Gu Chen return with a face full of schadenfreude, Gu Chen could not help but ask.

White Ape tilted its head and pretended to be very innocent.

Speechless, Gu Chen no longer paid attention to it and sat down to look at his own body.

Other than being reborn, the biggest change in his body was the growth of a golden bone.

This was a very strange thing. Gu Chen had never heard of anyone cultivating like him.

For this bone, he had consumed a large amount of energy from the beasts and the blood pool. Of course, he had to find out its use.

He studied it for a long time but found that it did not move at all, as if it was just an ordinary rib. The situation at the bottom of the lake did not appear again.

He was very helpless. He already had an unknown Root of All Beings in his Dantian, and now his body had grown such a strange bone.

"Forget it, I don't care about this. There are less than two days left until the Rising Dragon Ceremony. Including the time spent on the road, I will not make it in time. I better go back as soon as possible. "

Gu Chen looked in the direction of the Wuchen Sect, his eyes burning with fighting spirit.

He had waited for this day for too long, and he could not wait any longer!

After bidding farewell to the naughty white ape, Gu Chen stepped on the road back to the sect.