I got home late at night without disturbing anyone. After letting Gu Sihai know I was back, I went into the Cultivation Chamber and entered seclusion to create a new True Skill.

The core principle of Jin Pang’s Third-Turn Heavy Yuan Skill was to harness three distinct powers and merge them into one.

Gu Zheng spent some time fully comprehending and mastering this principle before integrating it into his Thunderous Waves Skill.

This True Skill already possessed the powers of water and fire; now, he would add a third.

His options were wind, lightning, or earth.

Without a doubt, the best choice was to integrate wind.

Steam would rise, and when enveloped by gales, fierce winds, and tempests, the resulting power could be amplified several times over—perhaps even ten or dozens of times.

With this concept in mind, Gu Zheng immersed himself in the Deduction of a new version of the Thunderous Waves Skill. The Power of Heaven and Earth he had come to understand also proved to be a great help.

After all, wind was ubiquitous—there was no shortage of it between heaven and earth.

There was some difficulty in integrating it with water and fire to make them one, but it was nothing compared to the challenge of integrating lightning.

Gu Zheng continuously performed Deductions in his mind, forging new pathways until a notification appeared on his panel, announcing that a new, unknown True Skill had manifested.

The Thunderous Waves Skill had advanced!

The new True Skill would allow him to break through to the Super Body Realm and cultivate all the way to the Super Body Radiant stage.

After a moment of thought, Gu Zheng named it the Three Elements Gathering Light Technique.

Water, fire, and wind.

To gather three powers, their light illuminating the world.

And now that the True Skill had taken form, he could spend Demon Points to use Deduction and perfect it!

In one go, he spent a total of six hundred Demon Points, using Deduction to advance the Three Elements Gathering Light Technique to the Perfection stage.

Only then did Gu Zheng stop circulating the skill to digest and absorb his gains.

He left the Cultivation Chamber.

He found Gu Sihai and told him about the Three Elements Gathering Light Technique.

"Haha, my son is a genius!" 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

Gu Sihai roared with laughter. "Creating your own True Skill! That’s the mark of someone with the aptitude for a King’s Body!"

"A King’s Body?"

Gu Zheng just smiled, not continuing that line of thought. Instead, he changed the subject. "Dad, I have a Marvel for you."

As he spoke, Gu Zheng took out the Water of Birth Spirit. "If you place this Water Drop Crystal in fresh water and leave it overnight," he explained, "the water will become Spiritual Water. You and Big Sis should remember to drink some every day. Oh, and have Dingding drink it, too."

"Huh? Such a treasure exists?"

Gu Sihai was both amazed and overjoyed. "This is incredible! Plain water turning into Spiritual Water... that’s magical. By the way, Ping’an, if you give it to us, what will you do?"

"This Spiritual Water isn’t very useful to me anymore."

After a brief pause, Gu Zheng added, "I’m already in the Heroic Body Realm."

"Oh, so you’re already at the Heroic Body..."

"What!?"

Gu Sihai’s eyes shot wide open and he let out a shriek. Realizing what he’d done, he quickly covered his mouth. Shock and elation welled up in his eyes. His chest heaved, and his face flushed red.

After a long moment, he took a deep breath, clapped Gu Zheng on the shoulder, and said in a low, excited voice, "Good, good, that’s excellent!"

Grandmaster, Alien Body, Super Body, Heroic Body, King’s Body.

Gu Zheng had told him about these realms long ago.

Once someone broke through to the King’s Body Realm, they could do whatever they wanted in this world.

The Heroic Body was second only to the King’s Body, and its practitioners were still formidable experts.

’How long has it been since Gu Zheng joined the Demon Slayer Bureau?’

’And he’s already reached the Heroic Body Realm!’

’Breaking through to the King’s Body Realm after this will be no problem at all!’

’No, he might even surpass the King’s Body Realm!’

"Hahaha..."

At this thought, Gu Sihai simply couldn’t hold it in any longer and burst out laughing.

Gu Zheng smiled.

He was just about to offer a word of caution when the Demon-Slaying Seal on his person suddenly vibrated.

He took it out and read the message.

It was a message from Meng Taiqi.

"Do you know the whereabouts of Zuo Lingfeng?"

Hm?

’Zuo Lingfeng’s whereabouts?’

Gu Zheng’s eyebrows shot up. A surge of his Divine Wondrous power flowed as he sent a reply.

"I don’t. Didn’t Zuo return to Luozhou?"

The message went through.

Less than ten seconds later, a reply came back.

"He’s not in Luozhou. Zuo Lingfeng has gone missing!"