Chapter 17: with translation of chapter title

Gu Yuan hadn't even had time to complain about the system's sudden change,

when he was immediately drawn in by the string of rewards.

Great Emperor Origin!

Random Immortal Body Origin!

Chaotic Immortal Bell!

Good fellow, these rewards—each one tops the last!

"System, oh no, Xiao Ai, right?"

Gu Yuan tentatively asked in his mind,

"Bring out all the rewards for me to see."

【Certainly, honored host!】

The system sprite Xiao Ai's cloyingly sweet voice rang out.

The next moment, within Gu Yuan's system space, a earth‑shattering transformation occurred.

The previously void space instantly became a luxuriously furnished presidential suite,

and on the central table lay three items.

A golden orb radiating supreme divine might, as if containing the birth and death of an entire universe, was the Great Emperor Origin.

Another sphere, shrouded in chaotic qi, its exact shape indistinct,

yet exuding a resonance with Gu Yuan's own eternal immortal body,

and a slightly different aura—this must be the Random Immortal Body Origin.

Finally, a simple yet massive bell, forged entirely from an unknown divine metal,

its surface engraved with sun, moon, stars, and chaotic divine‑demon patterns—a bronze great bell.

It is the Chaotic Immortal Bell!

Gu Yuan's gaze was instantly drawn to that Chaotic Immortal Bell.

He could feel that this bell, like his grandfather's Bronze Immortal Coffin,

and the Chaotic Azure Lotus Platform he used for Foundation Establishment, all seemed to originate from the same place,

carrying the same ancient aura of the world's creation.

This is definitely a heaven‑defying treasure!

"Xiao Ai, what's the background of this Chaotic Immortal Bell?"

Gu Yuan asked curiously.

【In response to the host, the Chaotic Immortal Bell is an innate supreme treasure co‑born with the Chaotic Azure Lotus Platform. It embodies dominant killing; when its chime sounds, it can suppress millennia‑spanning spacetime, erase the Dao's laws, and wield boundless power!】

An innate treasure of dominant killing?

Gu Yuan's eyes lit up instantly.

He was currently lacking a handy weapon!

This Chaotic Immortal Bell arrives at just the right time!

As for the Great Emperor Origin, it is also quite useful to him.

His father Gu Lin Tian has reached the Celestial Emperor realm; if he can refine this origin sphere and combine it with this world's origin,

perhaps he could truly, as his grandfather said, glimpse the mysteries of the True Immortal Realm.

And that Random Immortal Body Origin…

Gu Yuan glanced at it and found it to be the origin of an Undying Immortal Body.

The Undying Immortal Body claims bodily immortality, unscathed by ten thousand eons,

and boasts rebirth through a drop of blood,

also a tremendously powerful immortal body.

However, Gu Yuan himself already possesses a Long‑Living Immortal Body,

and there exists a foundational conflict between immortal bodies; he cannot fuse a second kind.

"This thing could be given to dad or grandpa,"

Gu Yuan thought to himself.

"Yuan'er? Yuan'er? What are you thinking?"

The voice of Gu Xue Dao pulled Gu Yuan out of his thoughts.

"Oh, nothing, Third Uncle."

Gu Yuan snapped back, looking at the excited Third Uncle before him, and the dark kirin he was holding, which had already resigned itself, and said:

"I'll take this mount, thank you, Third Uncle."

Although he felt he wouldn't need it,

but it was Third Uncle's heartfelt offering, hard to refuse.

"Haha, as long as you like it!"

Gu Xue Dao, delighted, casually tossed the dark kirin in front of the Nine‑Dragon Agarwood carriage.

The dark kirin landed, its massive body causing the ground to tremble.

It glanced at the nine terrifying true dragons pulling the carriage,

and then at the unremarkable boy on the carriage, a flicker of complexity passing through its eyes.

It couldn't comprehend how a dignified quasi‑emperor—oh no, now a Supreme Saint—had fallen to the point of being like those nine reptiles,

to pull a carriage for a little brat in the Blood‑Moving realm?

This world is too crazy.

"Elder! All prohibited zones have been completely cleared!"

"Reporting to the Elder! All remaining evils in the Eastern Wasteland have been eradicated!"

"The Southern Sea has been pacified!"

At that moment, divine thoughts and transmissions rang out,

gathering from all corners of the Profound Heaven Continent to report the battle situation to Gu Xue Dao.

In just this short a span of time,

the darkness and turmoil that had ravaged the Profound Heaven Continent for centuries,

were utterly quelled by the vanguard unit of the Heavenly Spear Legion.

Those dark suprema, deemed invincible by the natives of the Profound Heaven Continent,

never even raised a proper wave, and were all smashed to death.

"Well done!"

Gu Xue Dao nodded with satisfaction, then turned to Gu Yuan and said:

"Yuan'er, this world has already been 'swept clean.' So, do you want to start extracting the world's essence directly, or…"

His meaning was obvious: this world now belongs to you; handle it as you wish.

Gu Yuan thought for a moment and said, "No rush; after all, I can't run away. I haven't even had a proper look around yet, so take me on a tour first."

He was still quite curious about this world.

After all, this was the first "gift" he had ever received in his life.

He had to inspect his own property, didn't he?

"Alright! No problem!"

Gu Xue Dao answered in one breath,

"Where do you want to go? Third Uncle will take you!"

"Let's first visit those so‑called Life Forbidden Zones; I've heard there are many good things inside."

Gu Yuan said.

He had heard from the system that these Life Forbidden Zones were relics from the previous era or even older times, hiding countless secrets and treasures.

Now, they all belong to the Gu family.

"Let's go! We're heading to the Burial Sky Ancient Land right now!"

Gu Xue Dao waved his hand grandly, personally steering the Nine‑Dragon Agarwood carriage,

while the newly appointed dark qilin, temporarily assigned as guard,

hovered beside the carriage, flying together toward the Burial Sky Ancient Land.

Along the way, the scenery of the Profound Heaven Continent was nothing short of devastation.

The ground was littered with dried bloodstains and shattered corpses.

Countless cities had turned to ruins; the once‑prosperous mortal world now lay in dead silence.

Although the source of the dark turmoil had been eliminated,

the wounds left by this catastrophe would likely take tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years to heal.

Nevertheless, none of this concerned Gu Yuan.

He was merely a victor coming to receive the fruits of victory,

not a savior.

Soon,

the Nine‑Dragon Agarwood carriage descended over the Burial Sky Ancient Land.

At this moment, the Burial Sky Ancient Land

had already been thoroughly plowed by the Heavenly Spear Legion.

All dark creatures, all lingering resentful dead qi, had been cleaned away spotless.

The once‑bone‑chilling aura of death‑silence had vanished,

replaced by an ancient, desolate atmosphere.

Gu Yuan stepped out of the carriage,

treading upon this land paved with the bones of gods and demons.

He could feel that beneath this ground lay an immensely massive reservoir of energy.

"Third Uncle, there might be good stuff down there."

"Understood."

Gu Xue Dao chuckled,

plucking feathers from a passing goose, leaving not a blade of grass,

the Gu Family's age‑old tradition.

He waved to the soldiers of the Heavenly Spear Legion behind him.

"Did you all hear? Start digging! Turn over the three‑ten‑thousand‑foot underground for me! All the treasures belong to the Young Master!"

"Yes, sir!"

Thousands of Heavenly Spear Legion soldiers answered in unison,

then, like diligent sappers,

began carpet‑style excavation across the Burial Sky Ancient Land.

Some soldiers directly manifested towering Dharma bodies,

their hands becoming massive excavators, scooping up a mountain with a single grab.

Some soldiers sacrificed their own magical treasures,

They turned into strands of divine light, delved underground, searching for the aura of treasures.

For a moment, the entire Bury Heaven Ancient Land echoed with the 'clang clang' of digging sounds.

Gu Yuan had his hands behind his back, strolling about like a supervisor.

"Young Master, look at this!"

Soon, a colonel came running over excitedly, holding a golden bone fragment.

"This was dug up from underground; it seems to be a finger bone of an ancient divine ape, still retaining a trace of immortal divinity—an excellent material for forging weapons!"

Gu Yuan glanced at it, pursed his lips: 'Not bad, I'll reward you.'

"Thank you, Young Master!"

The colonel was overjoyed,

Following the Young Master, there's indeed meat to eat!

"Young Master, take a look at this!"

Another commander came running over, holding a stalk of radiant divine elixir.

"This is a stalk of holy medicine at least a hundred thousand years old—the Nine-Reversion Resurrection Grass! It has the miraculous power to raise the dead and turn flesh from white bone!"

Gu Yuan smelled it, nodded: 'Hmm, the taste is not bad; you can take it to brew tea.'

"Young Master! Young Master! I've unearthed a vein of divine gold here!"

"Young Master! I've discovered a pool where the remnant souls of gods and demons slumber!"

"Young Master..."

For a moment, various spoils of war were continuously sent before Gu Yuan.

These, in the Profound Heaven Continent,

Any one of them is enough to stir up a bloody storm as a supreme treasure,

Yet in Gu Yuan's eyes, they all appeared ordinary and unremarkable.

These things, the Gu Family all have.

He has used them since childhood.

It would be better to bestow them upon these followers of his,

The Gu Family soldiers who will serve him in the future.

Just as Gu Yuan felt a bit bored,

He was preparing to return to the carriage to continue lying down.

In the distance, a streak of light was flying toward this side at great speed.

Within that streak of light was a figure of a woman wearing a tattered phoenix robe, her face exquisitely beautiful, yet bearing a hint of heroic spirit and fatigue.

Her aura had astonishingly reached the Quasi-Saint Realm of the 14th level!