Fantasy: Starting with a bowl, you can exchange it for endless cultivation.

soon.

The battle in the entire valley has ended.

Gongsun Yuan ordered his men to search the Blood Soul Cult headquarters.

Take away all resources and useful things.

Furthermore, it was warned that from this moment forward, all looted items and resources must not be kept for personal use, but must all be brought back to the Night Watch for accounting and confiscation.

Any items you find on the enemies you've killed are yours to keep.

The spoils that have now been cleared out must no longer be stolen, or they will be severely punished by the Night Watch.

The Night Watch has its own rules.

The looted items were obtained by everyone working together to wipe out the entire cult headquarters.

It's impossible for one person to take it all, nor is it possible to divide it equally.

After all, everyone has different strengths, levels of expertise, and contributions, so it's impossible to distribute them equally.

The Night Watch headquarters, having mobilized so many experts and expended so much manpower and resources, could not possibly have come up empty-handed.

Furthermore, these items contain a great deal of intelligence and evidence of the Blood Soul Cult's crimes, which is helpful in investigating the Mitian Cult behind the Blood Soul Cult.

No one should run around.

After working for half an hour, everyone had looted the Blood Soul Cult headquarters clean.

They moved all the corpses of the Blood Soul Cult members together, piled them up, and burned them.

Then they returned to the city of Zhenshi County.

Upon arriving in Zhenshi County, Night Watch personnel who had gone to wipe out other Blood Soul Cult strongholds began to return one after another.

Soon after, his fourth senior brother Luo Tianxing and sixth senior brother Tie Yangtian also returned with their men.

Because they acted simultaneously, they caught the Blood Soul Cult off guard.

There was absolutely no opportunity for the various branches and strongholds of the Blood Soul Cult to communicate with each other.

Therefore, this operation targeted a Blood Soul Cult branch stronghold at the city level.

They were all wiped out.

All that's left are those small outposts, numbering in the hundreds.

Gongsun Yuan directly ordered the 1,500 Night Watchers below the True Yuan Realm who he had brought with him to...

Divided into groups of four and hundreds of teams, they were to be dispatched to wipe them out overnight, saving the night watch from having to mobilize the local watchtowers.

In the end, they escaped again.

then.

Gongsun Yuan summoned Ling Gang, Luo Tianxing, Tie Yangtian, Gu Chen, as well as the other fourth-rank officials involved in this operation and the third-rank official, Manager Zheng.

They were sent to capture spies who were cooperating with the Blood Soul Cult: Tang Meng, the prefect of Zhenshi County, his son Tang Hong, Zhou Feng, the head of the Surveillance Department, Hu Guangjian, the head of the Divine Garment Department, and Fan Tong, the head of the Night Watch Department.

Then arrest these people.

This matter can be considered resolved satisfactorily.

The arrest operation.

Gu Chen then decided not to participate.

In Zhenshi County, Gu Chen was arranged by Tie Yangtian to stay at his own residence.

Gu Chen directly presented his spoils from this trip.

Three sixth-grade soul beads.

You can use these three soul beads to exchange for divine soul cultivation.

Place all three Soul Beads into the copper bowl at once.

The copper bowl provides a clue:

Three Rank 6 Soul Beads can be exchanged for 210 years of Divine Soul Cultivation.

Three coins can be exchanged for 210 years of divine soul cultivation, which is equivalent to one coin being able to exchange for 70 years of divine soul cultivation.

Gu Chen remembered that he had previously used a Soul Bead dropped by a fifth-level Innate Realm evil spirit, one of which could be exchanged for fifty years of Divine Soul Cultivation.

It is equivalent to a soul bead of an evil spirit at the fifth level of the innate realm, and can be exchanged for fifty years.

A Soul Bead at the True Essence Realm can be exchanged for sixty years.

A Soul Bead from the Breakthrough Realm can be exchanged for seventy years.

The first evil spirit soul bead he obtained, which was at the first level of the Innate Realm, could be exchanged for ten years.

The only unknown factor is his 210 years of spiritual cultivation.

How much can it increase the strength of his soul?

Gu Chen chose to exchange without hesitation.

In an instant, terrifying spiritual power surged into his body.

This greatly enhanced the strength of his soul.

His spiritual power surged.

Previously, his spiritual power could extend about 240 meters from his body; now, it can extend more than 450 meters.

It has increased by 210 meters!

Gu Chen was taken aback; the improvement wasn't that significant.

A powerful expert at the third-grade Grandmaster level.

The power of the soul can be projected outwards at least a kilometer.

He is not even halfway to becoming a third-grade grandmaster.

Gu Chen immediately communicated with the copper bowl: "How did you calculate the amount of spiritual cultivation over a year?"

The copper bowl provides a clue:

[One year of spiritual cultivation is equivalent to one year of natural spiritual growth and the resulting increase in spiritual strength.]

Looking at the instructions on the copper bowl.

Gu Chen understood.

It's equivalent to his spirit naturally improving over a year of self-growth.

After a cultivator embarks on their cultivation journey, their spiritual power increases with the length of their cultivation period, though not significantly.

A cultivator's spiritual power can only increase by one meter automatically after a year of practice.

This kind of improvement is steady and solid, and will not cause mental or spiritual weakness.

It's incredibly slow. At this rate, without using special methods to enhance the power of the soul, such as using rare and precious materials that can nourish the soul...

Those fourth-grade experts can only live for a few hundred years at most, and can only raise their soul strength to a range of a few hundred meters, which is far from reaching the more than one thousand meters required by third-grade experts.

He would never be able to reach the third-grade Grandmaster realm in his entire life.

Fortunately, he had a copper bowl, which allowed him to exchange soul beads for unlimited amounts of spiritual cultivation.

A single sixth-grade Soul Bead can be exchanged for seventy years of Divine Soul cultivation, allowing his Divine Soul power to be directly increased by seventy meters when projected.

If he gets ten more, wouldn't his spiritual power be comparable to that of a Grandmaster who has just entered the third rank?

However, sixth-grade soul beads are hard to find.

Unless there is an operation to clean up a large cult, it is impossible to achieve such a high level of sophistication.

Wild evil spirits possess intelligence and will not easily cause trouble.

It's not easy to get your hands on one.

He can only search slowly.

With his enhanced spiritual power, he can now condense two Soul-Piercing Spikes to attack enemies even when using a beginner-level Soul-Piercing Spike.

One more than before, not bad.

We can now launch a continuous attack.

Furthermore, with the improvement of his spiritual power, he will be able to comprehend the Soul Piercing Cone technique more quickly.

We should strive to help him achieve some success as soon as possible.

If we can achieve minor success before he breaks through to the third rank, then we can wait until he reaches the third rank.

This would give them a significant advantage in their spiritual attack, giving them a head start over others.

The next morning, Gongsun Yuan and the others who had gone to carry out the operation returned.

Officials in Zhenshi County who colluded with the Blood Soul Cult were all arrested.

The three chief officers of the Night Watch, the Surveillance Department, and the Divine Garment Department were immediately imprisoned.

The prefect, Tang Meng, and his son.

He was simply imprisoned.

It was Gongsun Yuan who went to arrest Tang Meng.

A prefectural governor cannot be appointed without connections; other minor officials, such as those in charge of affairs, are also in similar positions.

They arrested him, so be it.

But Tang Meng, the prefect, was not suitable; he held the rank of fifth grade.

There is a complex network of relationships behind it.

Do not move it lightly.

This time, his crime was serious. He was connected to a cult and secretly covered up the case for the Blood Soul Cult, hindering the Night Watch from investigating.

They could just behead you.

However, he did not directly participate in the Blood Soul Cult's crimes or cooperate with the Blood Soul Cult; he merely accepted bribes, essentially turning a blind eye to the Blood Soul Cult's actions.

If he has powerful connections, he might be protected.

It is unknown whether he himself accepted bribes from the Blood Soul Cult, or whether high-ranking officials of the third rank or above in the Central Plains also accepted them.

If even a high-ranking official in the court accepted it, then we must first find out who accepted it.

If they are from their faction, the Second Prince's men, then they will have to find a way to re-deal with them.

The Dragon King Temple must not be flooded.

Sometimes, your perspective is dictated by your position.

You can't do it just because you're full of enthusiasm.

If it's someone from Chen Lei's faction or the Crown Prince's side.

Then we must be impartial and conduct a thorough investigation to uncover the big fish behind him.

Even if we can't kill him, we'll at least make him feel disgusted.

Meanwhile, on Tang Meng's side...

He saw that Gongsun Yuan had come to arrest him.

Knowing that his scheme had been exposed, he surrendered without resistance.

After learning that the person behind him was Lord Geng, a high-ranking official of the Central Divine Dynasty, a second-rank official, and a powerful expert at the Earth Venerable Realm.

Gongsun Yuan then did not imprison him.

He was simply imprisoned temporarily to prevent him from leaving the prefectural governor's residence.

Lord Geng belongs to the neutral faction.

He was neither the Crown Prince's man nor the Second Prince's man; he was a trusted minister of the current Emperor on the throne.

He is someone that both the Second Prince and the Crown Prince want to win over.

Can't be offended.

If he weren't a trusted minister of the Divine Emperor, he wouldn't have dared to openly accept the silver Tang Meng gave him.

Since it was Lord Geng, he decided not to arrest Tang Meng directly, but to imprison him first and then report the matter to higher authorities.

Let the people from the Night Watch go and negotiate with Lord Geng.

It would also allow them to do Lord Geng a favor.

Perhaps this can bring their faction closer to Lord Geng.

If the Second Prince were here, he certainly wouldn't want him to attack Tang Meng.

Tang Meng realized that Gongsun Yuan had only imprisoned him, and understood that Gongsun Yuan did not intend to make the matter public and wanted to resolve it internally.

Tang Meng was also very sensible. He emptied his family's coffers and gave Gongsun Yuan one million taels of silver, telling him to distribute it among the high-ranking members of the Night Watch who participated in the operation and knew that he and his father were spies.

Everyone turns a blind eye.

That way we can meet again later.

Gongsun Yuan accepted the money.

This time, the only people who knew that Tang Meng and his son had connections with the Blood Soul Cult were Gongsun Yuan, Zheng, two fourth-rank officials from the Wilderness Night Watch headquarters, Ling Gang, Tie Yangtian, Luo Tianxing, and Gu Chen.

There were eight people in total.

One million taels was divided among eight people.

Gongsun Yuan took 250,000 taels, Zheng, the steward, took 150,000 taels, and the remaining seven people each took 100,000 taels.

Let everyone turn a blind eye to this.

Gu Chen happily accepted the money—100,000 taels!

It's like getting it for free.

He doesn't care how the higher-ups deal with Tang Meng in the end; as long as he can make money, that's all that matters.