Demon Slaying, Gaining 60 Years of Cultivation From the Start Chapter 2: Chapter 1 Nine Provinces1

In the year 518 of the Da Xia calendar, in the capital city.

Late at night, a torrential downpour fell upon Tiandu city — this heavy rain had continued uninterrupted for three days and three nights.

At that mont, a blazing bolt of lightning tore across the dark and heavy sky, accompanied by a deafening rumble. It slit through the pitch-black curtain of the night and illuminated the entire land.

Inside a small courtyard at the entrance to the South Gate alleyway, Gu Chen opened his eyes.

At first, his vision was blurry and he looked stunned, until several minutes passed by, and then his eyes began to regain color and his expression returned to normal.

"I didn't die?" Gu Chen explored his surroundings with a sowhat vacant gaze and found that the room's layout and decoration were very retro, as if he had returned to ancient tis.

"Where am I…" As Gu Chen spoke, he tried to get up, but at that mont, he suddenly felt a searing pain inside him, causing cold sweat to imdiately form on his forehead.

"Can soone tell what exactly is going on?"

Gu Chen's face was pale, and he wore an agonized expression, attempting to relieve the pain in his body through deep breathing.

Then, a flood of strange mories suddenly surged forth, swarming into Gu Chen's mind, causing him to grunt and shiver as he felt a severe pain in his head.

The sensation was as if countless steel needles were simultaneously puncturing his brain and then chaotically scrambling inside it.

The pain was excruciating.

With the agony tornting both his body and spirit, Gu Chen's eyes rolled back, and he fainted once again.

It was unknown how much ti had passed when Gu Chen gradually opened his eyes once more.

He remained silent for a long while, his eyes lifelessly fixated on the ceiling.

"Kyushu..."

"Da Xia..."

"Jing Tian Departnt..."

"So, I've transmigrated…" After assimilating so of the original owner's mories, a bitter smile appeared on Gu Chen's face.

Gu Chen, twenty-nine years old, started his own company after graduation. After several years of ups and downs, it began to improve. Perhaps due to the imnse ntal stress of entrepreneurship without an outlet, Gu Chen found himself obsessed with extre sports at so point.

Free solo climbing, BASE jumping, cliff diving... By engaging in various extre sports, he successfully released the pent-up ntal stress lurking within.

Of course, as a result, he fell in love with the sport and seized every opportunity to perform various attempts and challenges.

This ti, the reason he ended up in this world was because Gu Chen, in his pursuit of thrill, chose the most difficult challenge in extre sports and, unsurprisingly, he failed.

The outco of such failure goes without saying...

Fortunately, it seed as if heaven held a special fondness for him and gave Gu Chen the chance to experience life for a second ti.

Of course, this second life seed sowhat extraordinary.

Through the mory integration just now, Gu Chen learned that the original owner of this body also carried the na "Gu Chen," sharing both the sa na and surna.

"This seems to be a universal benefit for transmigrators... Well, it's just as well that, having been called by this na for nearly thirty years, a sudden change might indeed take so getting used to," Gu Chen chuckled.

With the original owner's mories, Gu Chen had gained a certain understanding of this world.

This world was called Kyushu, and the place he was in was the capital of the Da Xia Dynasty, nad Tiandu.

The Da Xia Dynasty had ruled over the world for 518 years. When Gu Chen saw this part of the mory, he was genuinely surprised; in his previous life, throughout the five thousand years of history, there were rarely dynasties that lasted so long.

Of course, Da Xia was different from the major dynasties of his previous life. The reason it had existed for so long was due to the uniqueness of this world.

If Gu Chen's previous life was set in a world of technology, then Kyushu was a world of martial arts.

No, it was not just a world of martial arts, it also carried a peculiar attribute.

It was a combination of a martial arts world with an elent of the bizarre.

And the Jing Tian Departnt, where the original owner belonged, was a forceful institution specifically designated to suppress the increasingly nurous demons, phantoms, and strange creatures.

The original owner of this body, Gu Chen, was twenty years old when he passed away. Both his parents had died, with his mother unfortunately encountering a monstrous and strange creature during her early pregnancy. Though she survived by a stroke of luck, she was left gravely ill and died not long after his birth.

His father also t his end at the hands of a monstrous creature shortly after Gu Chen was born.

Therefore, Gu Chen harbored a bone-deep hatred for these demons and specters, and this was also the reason he chose to join the Jing Tian Departnt.

"Both parents dead, that's almost beco a standard for transmigrators..." After reading this segnt of mory, Gu Chen couldn't help feeling a little helpless.

Orphaned at an early age, Gu Chen was raised by his uncle.

This was the background of the original owner, Gu Chen.

"However, why did 'I' get injured, and so severely at that?" Gu Chen frowned, searching through his mories.

Soon, he found the answers, rembering the causes and consequences.

The main reason stemd from the internal selection for the next tropolitan Procurator within the Jing Tian Departnt.

The Jing Tian Departnt was one of Da Xia's most critical institutions, reporting directly to the Emperor of Xia and accountable only to His Majesty, with no one else having the authority to intervene.

Although dealing daily with the perilous threats of monsters and strange creatures, which could easily claim one's life, the power and authority that ca with the position were excessively great.

Even the lowest-ranking tropolitan Procurator was equivalent to a sixth-grade official in Da Xia, and even with welfare benefits, they exceeded other officials.

And these were just the overt benefits.

The martial arts secrets within the Jing Tian Departnt, as well as various dicinal pills and divine weapons, were not things that money could buy.

Even more so, if one made significant contributions, one could gain direct access to the royal secret vault. With so luck, one might even attract the Emperor's favor and secure an audience.

Such treatnts were not available to ordinary officials.

Hence, every Patrol Officer of the Jing Tian Departnt aid to beco a tropolitan Procurator.

Gu Chen, with his considerable talent, ranked among the top of his peers as Patrol Officers. With his simple nature and deep-seated hatred for demons, having devoted himself to eradicating them since joining the Jing Tian Departnt, he was highly valued by the higher-ups.

Indeed, many speculated that the Jing Tian Departnt's leaders had already shortlisted the original Gu Chen as a "reserve" for the tropolitan Procurator, just waiting for him to attain the necessary cultivation level to be promoted officially.

This naturally incited the envy and hostility of others aspiring to the sa position.

Among them, a fellow called "Liu Zheng" was particularly at odds with the original Gu Chen.

Both joining the Jing Tian Departnt together, they were always in competition. Their personalities were vastly different; Gu Chen was taciturn and inept at speaking, making few friends, whereas Liu Zheng was tactful and good at networking.

Both were closely matched in all aspects. Learning this news, Liu Zheng naturally beca even more anxious and, above all, resentful.

So, a few days earlier, after the original Gu Chen had returned from a mission, Liu Zheng set a trap, provoking Gu Chen, who was straightforward and lacked cunning. Unable to stand being mocked, he accepted the challenge without a second thought.

In truth, if one were to speak purely of strength, Gu Chen and Liu Zheng were nearly equals, with the outco of their battle uncertain. However, Gu Chen had been injured while combating demons during his previous mission and had not fully recovered. Thus, he fell into a disadvantage during the fight with Liu Zheng, who seized the opportunity to strike fiercely, inflicting severe injuries on him.

After lying unconscious for three days and nights, Gu Chen ultimately couldn't hold on and died completely.

Upon this thought, Gu Chen couldn't help but shake his head. The original Gu Chen was too young and rigid, unable to tolerate insults, which is why he fell into Liu Zheng's plot and suffered greatly, losing his life in the process.

As Gu Chen was digesting the mories, suddenly, a bright light appeared before his eyes, and a screen similar to the ga panels of his previous life materialized in front of him.

Na: Gu Chen

Martial Arts: Iron Shirt Technique (Great Success), Thirteen Grand Protectors' Horizontal Skill (Great Success), Red Fla Palm (Minor Success), Dragon-Sinew Tiger-Bone Fist (Beginning)

Internal Technique: Pure Yang Technique

Cultivation: Twenty years

Stage: Early Stage of Essence-Gathering

rit Points: 0

As the panel floated before his eyes, a surge of information simultaneously appeared in Gu Chen's mind.

"rit Points... can increase cultivation and enhance martial arts realm?" Gu Chen lay in bed, murmuring to himself, a smile unconsciously forming at the corner of his mouth.