Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start

After sensing his body's condition, Gu Chen frowned slightly. Despite the Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Horizontal Training reaching minor accomplishment, he still felt a faint sensation of swelling pain in his body, and his meridians were not as before. After enhancement, he couldn't just enhance his cultivation again.

"It seems that sixty-one meridians are indeed the limit at my current stage," Gu Chen pondered.

Of course, if Gu Chen was willing to invest more, raising the Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Horizontal Training to perfection, perhaps he could continue enhancing his cultivation.

But one must know, this was a superior martial art. Just raising it to minor accomplishment had already cost Gu Chen a total of twenty-eight skill points. The points needed to achieve perfection would only be higher.

At this moment, the remaining skill points on Gu Chen's panel were insufficient. Even if he forced the Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Horizontal Training to perfection, it might not be enough for him to enhance his power.

Therefore, after pondering, Gu Chen decided to first raise the level of the Seal Meridian Finger, which was among the three martial arts.

After all, having sufficient cultivation level but lacking corresponding martial arts would make it difficult to perfectly utilize one's power.

As soon as Gu Chen's thought moved, eleven skill points disappeared, and Seal Meridian Finger was directly elevated to minor accomplishment.

Next, Gu Chen followed the same process, enhancing both the Phantom Traceless Step and the Astonishing Swan Swordsmanship Skills to the minor accomplishment stage as well.

In an instant, twenty-two skill points disappeared, and a torrent of martial art experience flooded into his mind, all belonging to the three aforementioned martial arts.

Name: Gu Chen

Martial Arts: Dragon Roar Tiger Howl Horizontal Training (Minor Accomplishment), Red Flame Palm (Perfection), Seal Meridian Finger (Minor Accomplishment), Phantom Traceless Step (Minor Accomplishment), Astonishing Swan Swordsmanship Skills (Minor Accomplishment)

Internal Skills: Pure Yang Technique

Cultivation: 201 years

Realm: Later Stage of Meridian Unblocking Realm

Skill Points: 8

As the Phantom Traceless Step reached minor accomplishment, Gu Chen immediately felt a lightness in his legs. Although he had already unblocked the meridians in his legs, with the step technique at minor accomplishment, Gu Chen's speed had at least doubled from before.

Looking at the remaining eight skill points on his panel, Gu Chen considered for only a moment before arriving at a decision. He spent the last eight skill points to raise the level of Astonishing Swan Swordsmanship Skills to major accomplishment.

Hum!

Immediately, a great deal of swordsmanship experience was infused directly into Gu Chen's mind, and in just a short moment, he went from a complete novice in swordsmanship to a master sword practitioner with solid fundamentals and exquisite skills.

The reason he chose to enhance the Astonishing Swan Swordsmanship Skills, and not the other two martial arts, was because Gu Chen possessed a low-grade treasured weapon. With Astonishing Swan Swordsmanship Skills at major accomplishment, it would be more beneficial to him compared to the other two martial arts.

Otherwise, he might face the embarrassing situation he had with Zheng Yan where his weapon could be knocked out of his hands.

With this, the skill points on the panel dropped to zero, and Gu Chen's enhancement session came to an end.

This enhancement was a surpassing breakthrough for Gu Chen; it was a transformative change compared to before. After all, he had exceeded the limits of the Meridian Unblocking Realm by opening up sixty-one meridians within his body.

Gu Chen's body was like a precisely tuned instrument, and these meridians were the pathways that allowed the robust inner energy in his body to reach every part of it in the shortest time possible, exploding out instantly.

This also piqued Gu Chen's own curiosity; even he wanted to know how far he could push the limits within the Meridian Unblocking Realm.

Soon, a night passed.

The next day, in the early morning, after eating breakfast outside, Gu Chen started to familiarize himself with the three martial arts he had improved the day before in his small courtyard.

When noon came, Gu Chen left his residence, carrying his token, he found a horse carriage and headed towards the inner city of Tiandu.

Today was the day he was to head to the inner city's Jing Tian Department, the headquarters, to report for duty.

The inner city of Tiandu remained bustling as ever, surpassing any other city within the nine provinces. This was Gu Chen's second visit here.

Tiandu, the Capital of Heaven, implies it's the foremost city in the world. It wouldn't bear such a name if it weren't immensely prosperous.

Following the directions given by Chen Yu the day before, Gu Chen made his way to the headquarters of the Jing Tian Department.

The headquarters of the Jing Tian Department covered an extensive area, resembling a small city within itself, where numerous pavilions towered high, with many people bustling about, all with solemn expressions, creating a very serious atmosphere.

At the entrance, two guards stood watch, their demeanor firm and their presence daunting, standing as straight as pillars, clearly skilled warriors with considerable cultivation.

Gu Chen approached and was immediately stopped by the two, only allowed to pass after he showed his waist token.

The scale of the Jing Tian Department's headquarters could indeed not be compared to its outer city branches. The number of warriors was just as incomparable. If one were to draw an analogy, one was like a bustling economic metropolis, while the other was a poor and barren village in the countryside.

Following Chen Yu's instructions from the previous day, Gu Chen first stopped by a small courtyard to report in. Here, a clerk registered Gu Chen's name in the record book, then gestured that he could leave.

With this, he officially became a Metropolitan Procurator at the headquarters of the Jing Tian Department.

Jing Tian Department differed from Mingjing Department in that it was not located in just one place. Within the thirteen provinces of Da Xia, excluding Shen Zhou's Tiandu, every province had a branch of the Jing Tian Department.

Due to the vastness of the nine provinces and the ever-increasing danger of demons and ghosts, the Jing Tian Department had established branches in each province of Da Xia, enabling them to suppress any trouble on the rivers and lakes with the utmost speed.

All matters related to the rivers and lakes that occurred in Shen Zhou were managed by the Tiandu Jing Tian Department.

Every commander-level figure within the Jing Tian Department had their own independent office space. Following what Chen Yu had said, Gu Chen arrived outside a certain pavilion.

The large doors of the pavilion were wide open. Gu Chen glanced around and, seeing no one, walked in unassumingly.

All along the way, Gu Chen didn't come across a single soul. Just as he wondered if Chen Yu really had no subordinates other than himself, stepping into the main hall, he saw two figures cracking melon seeds and sipping tea in leisure.

"May I ask how to address the two of you? I am a third-rank Metropolitan Procurator, Gu Chen."

After entering, Gu Chen greeted first. Just like patrolling officers, Metropolitan Procurators were also divided into three ranks, with first-rank being the highest and third-rank the lowest.

Above a first-rank Metropolitan Procurator would then be a commander.

The two individuals who were eating melon seeds and drinking tea in the hall, one with a handsome appearance and a slim physique, his face bearing a smile, and the other more serious with a burly build and a mustache, were both around the age of twenty-one or twenty-two.

"Is something the matter?" The handsome-looking Metropolitan Procurator asked with some confusion.

"Commander Chen sent for me. Here are my orders," Gu Chen said, showing them the relevant orders and his waist token.

"Ah, a colleague! Please, have a seat." Realizing the situation, the handsome Metropolitan Procurator's face lit up with a smile. "Let me introduce ourselves. My name is Song Yu, and this big fellow is Wang Yan. From now on, we will be colleagues."

The burly and somewhat stern-faced Wang Yan also nodded at Gu Chen in greeting.

"It's nothing, don't mind him, he's just like that. Not old, yet he insists on acting all mature and steady, who knows for whom," Song Yu said with a laugh.

Upon hearing this, Wang Yan immediately gave him a stern glance. Gu Chen could tell that the relationship between the two was quite good.

"Please, take a seat."

Song Yu gestured for Gu Chen to sit down, and then, together, the three of them chatted while cracking melon seeds.

It turned out that both of them were third-rank Metropolitan Procurators like Gu Chen. Song Yu had joined Chen Yu's ranks a year ago, while Wang Yan had come onboard five months prior.

"It seems our job is quite leisurely?" Having chatted for a while and feeling somewhat acquainted, Gu Chen finally voiced his curiosity.