Chapter 141: The Woman of the Forbidden Zone

The void shifts, and the galaxy reverses.

When Gu Yuan opened his eyes again, he and Gu Cangsheng had already arrived on an entirely new planet.

Before them lay a desolate, barren reddish‑brown land, with gale‑driven sand and gravel, a dim sky overhead, and a few stars dim and lifeless, as if they could extinguish at any moment.

The ambient spiritual energy here is thin, and the Great Dao's laws are incomplete.

It is even more ruined than the Profound Heaven Continent.

"Is this the End‑Times era?"

Gu Yuan frowned, feeling uneasy all over.

If the Ancient Immortal Realm were a forest rich in oxygen, then this place is a thin‑air plateau, each breath carrying a suffocating pressure.

Beside him, Gu Cangsheng's expression remained unchanged, but the half‑step Immortal King aura that once made the heavens shudder was now collapsing at an astonishing speed.

Twenty realms, nineteen realms...

Finally, the Ancestor's aura lingered at a subtle boundary.

That is the limit this world can contain— the nineteen‑realm limit, i. e., the half‑immortal tier!

"Interesting."

Gu Cangsheng moved his neck, his bones emitting a few crisp clicks,

"The will of this realm rejects me, forcibly locking the old man in place."

Gu Yuan, somewhat concerned, asked, "Grandfather, does this suppression affect you?"

"Affect?"

Gu Cangsheng sneered, casually lifted his foot, and stamped on the hard reddish‑brown rock.

Crack!

He used no spiritual power at all, only the force of his flesh.

A fissure spread from beneath his foot, instantly spanning the entire continent.

A bottomless canyon gaped ferociously across the land, and magma erupted from below.

"My cultivation has been suppressed to what this realm calls the Great Emperor pinnacle, roughly the nineteenth realm."

Gu Cangsheng crossed his arms, his tone even,

"Yet my flesh remains a half‑step Immortal King body. Even without a trace of magical power, these old bones alone could pierce a hole through this world's heavens."

Gu Yuan raised his thumb, "You're still sturdy, sir."

While the grandfather and grandson chatted, a sound of dragging iron chains suddenly echoed from the abyssal forbidden zone shrouded in mist in the distance.

Whoosh... whoosh...

The sound was faint, yet it carried a chilling sensation that made the hair on one's scalp stand on end.

Immediately after, a slender, hazy figure flickered in the depths of the mist.

It was a woman.

Though her face was indistinct, the aura of unparalleled elegance, even across endless ages and the mist, still left one astonished.

Hovering above her head was a Great Dao Treasure Jar that inhaled and exhaled the world's essence, while she was surrounded by the light of flying immortals.

"Outsider..."

A cool voice rang out, devoid of any worldly warmth.

In the next moment, a jade‑like crystal palm pierced the mist, crossed space, and lightly pressed down toward Gu Cangsheng.

The palm seemed harmless, yet it contained a terrifying will that could collapse ten thousand paths.

Flying Immortal Technique!

"Yo, you've got quite the temper."

Gu Cangsheng raised an eyebrow, standing unmoving.

He simply extended a finger and lightly tapped the descending jade palm.

Ding.

Fingertip met palm.

There was no earth‑shaking explosion, nor a clash of laws.

The jade palm, imbued with Great Emperor‑level power, recoiled sharply at the instant it touched Gu Cangsheng's fingertip, as if struck by electricity.

Deep in the mist, the slender figure trembled slightly, appearing a bit staggered.

"Little girl, don't be so hot‑tempered."

Gu Cangsheng withdrew his finger, as if admonishing his own junior,

"I'm merely passing through, taking a holiday, not intending to destroy your ruined place."

The mist fell into a death‑like silence.

After a long while, that cool voice sounded again, this time less indifferent and more solemn and wary.

"Sir... you are not of this realm."

"That is natural."

Gu Cangsheng crossed his arms, letting a trace of the half‑step Immortal King's bodily pressure release, "We, grandfather and grandson, are just strolling here; as long as no one provokes us, we won't cause trouble. How about it?"

The mist churned.

The woman seemed to be weighing pros and cons.

From that earlier strike, she had already gauged its depth.

The seemingly ordinary elder before her harbored within a primordial beast capable of devouring the entire universe.

If a fight truly broke out, she might achieve an ultimate transcendental battle, but this star region would certainly be reduced to dust.

"But..."

In the end, a single character drifted out lightly.

The mist slowly closed, and that silhouette slipped back into the darkness, but the faint sense of being watched never faded.

"Is that it?"

Gu Yuan, still a bit unsatisfied, said, "I thought there would be a fight."

"Fight what? Does your grandfather look that warlike?"

Gu Yuan: "……"

The two Great Immortal Kings of Sanqian Zhou and the two Great True Immortals of the Primordial Immortal Domain have something to say.

Gu Cangsheng, as if knowing something, tapped Gu Yuan on the head,

"That girl isn't ordinary; her talent is dazzling. She's trapped in this realm, but if she enters the Immortal Domain, she'll become an immortal in no time, and she carries none of the lingering resentment of countless lives, so there's no need to kill her."

"Oh!"

Gu Yuan felt the same.

After all, the Gu Family isn't a house of slaughter.

……

However.

Their friendly sparring here may have ended, but elsewhere in this star domain, things erupted into chaos.

East Wilderness, North Plains, Zhongzhou, South Ridge, West Desert.

The major Extreme Path holy sites, the ancient clans of the primeval age, and the depths of the immortal imperial dynasty—those foundations that had slumbered for countless years—awoke together at this moment.

The first to react were the Extreme Path Imperial Soldiers.

These Imperial Soldiers, usually aloof and only stirring when a clan‑annihilating disaster struck, suddenly revived of their own accord.

They did not display their former majesty; instead… they trembled.

Yes, trembling.

It was like a beast confronting its natural predator; the Imperial Soldier deities emitted fearful wails, their light flickering erratically, even trying to break free and flee this star domain.

"Imperial Soldiers… are afraid?!"

Yao Guang Holy Lord stared at the Black Gold Cauldron left by his own patriarch, flailing in the hall like a startled quail, completely dumbfounded.

"What on earth happened? Did the darkness upheaval erupt early? Or… has the Path to Immortality opened?!"

"This aura… originates from the southern region of East Wilderness!"

"Quick! Summon the domain gate! Let the Ancestor emerge!"

In the brief span of half a incense stick, the entire Zangdi Star Domain boiled over.

Countless divine rainbows slashed the sky, ancient war chariots trampled the heavens, and the exotic beasts pulling them roared thunderously.

The Holy Lords and Supreme Elders of the major holy sites, as well as some ancient relics with little lifespan left, converged like sharks sensing blood, rushing madly toward the Ancient Forbidden Land.

In their view, the only possibility that could make Imperial Soldiers so fearful and cause such violent fluctuations in the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth is—

The Path to Immortality is truly about to open!