Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

Ever since breaking through the palace’s restrictive light shield,

Gu Yun’s group of three had long since transformed into streaks of light, flying inside.

But to better search for treasure,

the three of them—Gu Yun, Xiao Chen, and Chen Wansen—had long since split up.

At this moment,

Gu Yun arrived before a massive palace as a streak of thunderous light. Rows of golden pillars supported the colossal, octagonal roof, creating a magnificent and spectacular sight.

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Yun stepped directly inside. The palace’s interior was quite luxurious.

"Hmm? What’s that?"

Gu Yun let out a surprised gasp.

There, upon the throne before him, sat a corpse, completely devoid of any aura.

Gu Yun crossed the space, leaving a trail of afterimages, and appeared before it. He made a grasping motion, using his True Yuan to pull the corpse’s Storage Ring into his hand.

Immediately, Gu Yun’s Spiritual Sense flooded into it, and a surprised expression appeared on his face.

Inside the Storage Ring were two important Scrolls.

One was a map to the Land of Trial, located within the sprawling palace complex of these ruins.

The other was even more astonishing.

It described and pointed to the location of an inter-domain Teleportation Array on an island in the Chaotic Star Sea Region.

Before Gu Yun could even sort through his thoughts,

THUMP THUMP THUMP!

The sound of footsteps echoed from within the great hall.

It was a plain-faced True Martial Realm Fifth Layer Cultivator dressed in a white robe.

"Friend,"

"What is that you have in your hand?"

"I believe that item and I are fated."

"Why don’t you..."

Before the white-robed Cultivator could finish speaking,

Gu Yun suddenly vanished, reappearing before him as if he had teleported through space.

Before the white-robed Cultivator could even react,

A sharp, cold light glinted in Gu Yun’s eyes. He clenched his fist, and Thunder instantly converged in his hand. His fist tore through space, smashing toward the white-robed Cultivator like a divine Thunder Punishment, carrying the might of a thousand lightning bolts.

The white-robed Cultivator’s pupils constricted. He tried to form a hand seal to defend himself, but he was far too slow.

Gu Yun’s overwhelmingly powerful Thunder Fist slammed solidly into his chest.

The white-robed Cultivator’s chest absorbed a monstrous force, and his entire body shot backward like a cannonball, crashing into the wall of the great hall.

The hard wall instantly shattered, and a cloud of dust billowed out.

Just as the white-robed Cultivator struggled to open his eyes, his pupils shrank to the size of needlepoints.

Suddenly,

a flash of blade light like a meteor from the heavens tore through the void, resembling a falling river of stars and shining with a brilliant, dazzling radiance.

Sharp Sword Qi, infused with Flame Thunder Blade Momentum, ripped through the air, carrying a Sword Momentum so fierce it seemed capable of shattering anything as it slashed down upon him!

The white-robed Cultivator felt an overwhelming sense of crisis from the blade light that streaked toward him like a meteor.

He quickly formed a hand seal, and a True Essence Light Shield instantly appeared before him.

At this, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, as if the appearance of the True Essence Light Shield would grant him some small measure of safety.

Unfortunately for him,

the incomparably sharp Sword Qi shattered the True Essence Light Shield the instant it made contact.

The Sword Qi, infused with the incredibly powerful Flame Thunder Blade Momentum, sliced through the white-robed Cultivator’s True Essence Light Shield as if it were tofu—effortlessly smooth.

The moment the True Essence Light Shield shattered, the white-robed Cultivator’s heart sank, and a look of horror spread across his face.

It was as if his entire world had plunged into an abyss in an instant, and endless fear consumed him.

"No!"

Before the word had even left his lips,

he was sliced in two by the razor-sharp Sword Qi as if it were splitting bamboo. He died filled with indignation and regret.

Gu Yun’s figure flickered, and in an instant, he appeared before the white-robed Cultivator’s corpse.

His eyes were emotionless. He even felt a slight urge to laugh.

’This Cultivator had poor judgment. Did he not even look at who he was trying to rob?’

’Daring to provoke me was truly courting death.’

Then, Gu Yun reached out and used his True Yuan to take the man’s Storage Ring, his Spiritual Sense immediately flooding into it.

He found dozens of Middle Grade Spirit Stones and several Cultivation Technique Jade Scrolls. The haul wasn’t half bad.

Seeing that there was nothing else of value in the great hall,

Gu Yun’s figure flashed and vanished from within the great hall, leaving only an afterimage to slowly fade away.

「Meanwhile.」

Elsewhere, a young, resolute-looking Cultivator in a black robe hovered in the air, calmly observing the two Cultivators who had him surrounded.

This person was none other than Xiao Chen.

"Kid, hand over that Profound Tier Spiritual Medicine you just found, and maybe we’ll consider leaving your corpse intact," sneered an incredibly sturdy, nine-foot-tall man with a bristly beard.

"Big Bro, why waste time talking to this kid? Just watch my Great Mighty Celestial Dragon."

The bald, burly Cultivator behind Xiao Chen shouted fiercely.

The corner of Xiao Chen’s mouth curled up as he sneered, "Since when do a couple of stray dogs dare to run wild in front of me?!"

"Who the fuck are you calling a stray dog?!"

"Huh?!"

The bald, burly Cultivator behind him roared, and the full power of his True Martial Realm Fourth Layer Cultivation erupted. The immense aura seemed to make the very air around him tremble.

The next moment,

"Great Mighty Celestial Dragon! World-Honored Ksitigarbha! Prajnaparamita!"

As the bald, burly Cultivator formed a hand seal and roared, a hundred-foot-long golden dragon of True Yuan soared into the air. It tore through space, lunging to devour Xiao Chen.

At the same time,

the burly, bristly-bearded True Martial Realm Fifth Layer Cultivator in front of Xiao Chen violently condensed his True Yuan. He threw a punch that whistled through the air, and a massive, hundred-foot-wide Fist Seal instantly formed, hurtling toward Xiao Chen like a meteor!

Seeing this,

Xiao Chen’s expression remained unchanged, but a fiery light blazed in his eyes, like two scorching suns burning brightly. They radiated an aura hot enough to incinerate the very heavens.

The next moment, an Ice Blue Fiery Flame suddenly descended. The terrifying flame emitted two completely opposite auras.

One was so scorching it seemed capable of burning the void to nothing, while the other was so bone-chillingly cold it could freeze the very heavens. It was truly bizarre!

Immediately after, the terrifying Ice Blue Fiery Flame coalesced into two lances of icy flame, each a hundred feet long, their power seeming enough to pierce the void.

In the next instant, the lances of icy flame became two ice-blue meteors streaking across the sky, smashing violently toward the golden True Yuan dragon and the massive Fist Seal!

"BOOM!"

As the powerful attacks collided, a massive explosion erupted in mid-air. A terrifying storm of True Yuan swept out in all directions.

The hard floor below buckled from the aftershock, collapsing as if from an earthquake as hideous, dragon-like fissures spread across it!

The next instant,

Xiao Chen executed an extremely fast Body Technique, tearing through space as a series of afterimages and suddenly appearing behind the bald, burly Cultivator.

A fiery light flashed in his eyes as he clenched his fist. The Ice Blue Fiery Flame condensed, causing the surrounding space to twist and warp, and then he threw the punch.

It was like a punch from the Fire God himself, searing through the void, erupting with the astonishing might of a volcano!

"This is bad!"

The bald, burly Cultivator felt the bone-chilling cold, the scorching heat, and the crushing force of a volcano on his back, and his heart sank!