Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start
Chapter 984 - 72 Leaving the Gray Domain (30,000 words in 3 updates, please subscribe!)

"This can't be his true strength, he must have used some sort of method!" Gu Yan's face twisted, almost insane.

Gu Chen, a mere Cave Heaven Realm cultivator, had slain dozens from the God Transformation Realm, absolutely a massive storm sweeping across the Gray Domain!

Even more so, this storm was intensifying, with tendencies to spread to other domains.

For no other reason than, the feat of a Cave Heaven Realm killing those of the God Transformation Realm was shocking enough, not to mention the fall of dozens, which sent chills down everyone's spine!

"The Nine Cauldrons, it must be the Nine Cauldrons, he definitely relied on the Nine Cauldrons!" Gu Yan's complexion was frantic, as if grasping at a life-saving straw, convinced that Gu Chen relied on the Nine Cauldrons to slay so many God Transformation Realm cultivators.

"Tell my imperial uncle to send Huanxu Realm, or even Unity Realm experts, I refuse to believe he can still escape!" Gu Yan roared at a subordinate beside him.

The news of Gu Chen slaying dozens from the God Transformation Realm of the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty, Jiuying Clan, and Red Cloud Sect, swept through the entire Gray Domain like a hurricane.

The three major forces were dumbfounded, especially the Red Cloud Sect. The Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan, as behemoths of the Gray Domain, with vast holdings, could afford not to care, but the Red Cloud Sect could not.

The loss of a dozen from the God Transformation Realm nearly drove the Red Cloud Sect's high-ranks mad.

In fact, when the news spread, the vast majority, after the initial shock, came to the same conclusion upon reflection, that it couldn't possibly be Gu Chen's true power.

They unanimously believed that Gu Chen had used some sort of method.

After all, this was too horrifying for words, no one wanted or could believe it was real.

This was the thought of the vast majority, or rather 99% of the Gray Domain.

Though fighting across levels is challenging, over the long years, it's always possible for a few to emerge in the vast Upper Realms.

But to fight across ranks and slay dozens at once is too fantastical, or rather, too unreal.

This was something everyone could not and dared not believe, hence they thought, Gu Chen must have some hidden method, to achieve this.

"Send Huanxu Realm people to hunt him down!" The Jiuying Clan also made such a decision.

As for the Unity Realm, at the pinnacle of the Earth realm, even among the leviathans with supreme beings, these experts are a strategic force not to be squandered.

Such experts, with every word and action aligned with the cosmos and void, wielding primordial forces of heaven and earth, whose every move is unfathomably mighty, causing lands to tremble, are second only to the Great Powers of the Heavenly realm, or rather, they are the closest to those Great Powers!

These formidable beings of extraordinary status, in some Da Sects, may very well be the sect leaders, and even in places like the sanctums or Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan, they could serve as elders.

Experts of such caliber don't move lightly, therefore, despite Gu Yan's urgency, the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan only sent out a few Huanxu Realm masters.

Clearly, they thought this was sufficient.

This time, the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan each dispatched ten Huanxu Realm cultivators; they couldn't believe they wouldn't be able to capture Gu Chen?!

If that really happened, it would be defying the heavens!

A full twenty Huanxu Realm cultivators, along with a few from the Red Cloud Sect, if they still failed or if something unexpected occurred, it wouldn't just be the Gray Domain boiling over, but the adjacent domains upon hearing would stir as well.

"Even if the Nine Cauldrons are powerful, with his cultivation realm, it would be hard for him to activate them!" These were the words of that Great Power from the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty, namely Gu Yan's imperial uncle.

Twenty-odd Huanxu Realm cultivators against a mere twenty-something-year-old from the Cave Heaven Realm were truly to be taken with utmost seriousness, or rather seriously to the extreme.

If they truly mobilized a Unity Realm expert, even if they subsequently captured Gu Chen, the event would be recorded in the history of the Gray Domain, and the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan would be mocked for countless years.

Once Gu Yan calmed down, he also felt that this was enough, that having over twenty Huanxu Realm cultivators to catch Gu Chen was an overkill, not just using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

"If you can still escape this time, then I'll concede!" Gu Yan said bitterly.

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Elsewhere, Gu Chen still lingered in Qingzhou, because the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan had guarded the major teleportation arrays too tightly; if he acted, unless he directly used his divine abilities, it would be difficult to leave.

But if he were to use divine abilities, he would inevitably be seen by countless people, and then when the news spread, it wouldn't just be the Heavenly Mysterious Imperial Dynasty and Jiuying Clan hunting down Gu Chen.

The entire Upper Realm would stir up, and Gu Chen would become a target for countless individuals.

After all, a Cave Heaven Realm possessing divine abilities was too astonishing; at that point, even Great Powers would take direct action against him, perhaps even resorting to soul-searching.

This consequence was not something Gu Chen could bear at this time.

Therefore, over these past few days, he had been contemplating how to leave here and travel to another domain.

"It seems I must cause some major commotion to do so," he pondered.

Only by causing a major commotion to draw everyone away could he create a suitable opportunity to escape.

"Perhaps, there needs to be another me to appear, to lure these people away," Gu Chen's eyes flickered, uncertain.

However, Gu Chen knew many things, but he had not mastered any so-called clone technique, unless he had his original body come over.

By doing so, he would have to sacrifice his incarnation, an act too brainless, it'd be like not acting at all, and obviously, Gu Chen would not do such a foolish thing.

"Hmm? Huanxu Realm?"

At that moment, Gu Chen's divine eyes saw a team of Huanxu Realm cultivators passing by in the sky, searching for his trace.