Chapter 170: then translation of chapter title

This road, its entire body condensed from the purest immortal Dao principles, flows with immortal substance visible to the naked eye on its surface, like a dazzling Milky Way.

The road's beginning is chaos, its end a towering immortal gate exuding an aura of eternity and immortality.

It simply hung there, silently floating.

There was no earth-shaking pressure, nor any phenomenon that tore spacetime.

But the aura it emitted—a sense of completeness, perfection, and supreme immortal Dao resonance—left every powerhouse present.

Including Gu Lin Tian, a true immortal, and even Gu Cangsheng, a half-step immortal king, all felt their Dao violently tremble and wail in an instant.

This was not fear, but rather… a pilgrimage and longing springing from the instinct of life!

Like a moth seeing flame, a fish seeing rivers and seas.

It was the absolute yearning of the lower for the higher!

"This… this is…"

Gu Lin Tian's voice was extremely dry; he stared fixedly at the luminous path, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.

As a true immortal, he knew better than anyone what this thing before him truly signified!

"Im… immortal path?"

Gu Linjiang's voice trembled; having lived millions of years, he thought his mind was already as still as an ancient well, yet now his Dao heart was overturned by a towering wave.

"No!"

Gu Cangsheng lunged forward a step, staring fixedly at the road.

"This isn't the broken trap of the Burial Emperor Star Domain! This is… this is the genuine, complete, flawless… Ascendant Immortal Path!"

His voice, each word squeezed out from between his teeth, carried an incredulous tremor.

Gu Yuan watched the elders' expressions, as if they'd seen a ghost, and felt immensely pleased inside.

That was exactly the effect he wanted.

"This thing, it came to my grandson's body on its own during his cultivation, his luck shocking the heavens."

He pointed at the luminous road, speaking in a relaxed tone as if introducing his family's local specialty, each word deliberate:

"Its name is the Immortal Ascension Path."

"As for its function…"

Gu Yuan deliberately drew out his voice, waiting until everyone had perked up their ears, their heartbeats nearly stopping, before slowly uttering the words that would drive the entire Primordial Immortal Domain mad.

"A cultivator who has reached perfection in the Supreme Realm, stepping onto it and completing the walk, can achieve a hundred percent… proof of the Dao to become a true immortal!"

……

One hundred percent!

Prove the Dao and become a true immortal!

When these eight words lightly floated out of Gu Yuan's mouth.

The entire space fell into an eerie silence.

A pin drop could be heard.

Time, as if paused at this moment.

Gu Zhan's fan-like large hand remained frozen midair, still in the pose of wanting to scratch the back of his head; his expression shifted from blank to shocked, then dazed, finally solidifying completely, like a stone statue weathered for millions of years.

Gu Linjiang, Gu Xue Dao, and the other supreme elders collectively lost their souls.

Each of them had their mouths agape, eyes hollow, as if their souls had been ripped away by those eight words.

As for Gu Lin Tian…

This man, who had just been worrying about the family's future, fully displaying the gravity and steadiness of a generation's overlord as the head of the Gu Family.

His current appearance was no different from that of a rustic landlord seeing an airplane for the first time by the roadside.

His eyes, which contained the birth and death of the universe, now stared wide and round, fixed on the Immortal Ascension Path, his lips trembling, wanting to speak but unable to utter a single word.

True immortal!

What concept is that?

It is an existence standing at the pinnacle of an era!

It is the supreme overlord who looks down upon the rise and fall of myriad ages, regarding all beings as ants!

Gu Lin Tian, with peerless talent, also possessing the heaven-defying "Three Lives Transforming Dao Body" technique, and furthermore benefiting from Gu Yuan, the treasure-delivering child, who repeatedly offered opportunities, only then managed to barely step onto that level not long ago.

But now, his son tells him there is something that can let a cultivator who has reached perfection in the Supreme Realm become a true immortal with a hundred percent certainty!

What about the Heavenly Emperor realm in between?

Just ignored it outright?

This is no longer mere opportunity.

This is cheating! It's directly overturning the table of the entire cultivation world!

If the Great Emperor's origin is "mass-producing supremes," then this thing… is damn "True Immortal assembly line"!

"Plop!"

A muffled sound broke this deathlike silence.

It was Gu Zhan.

This peak supreme, whose fleshly body was strong enough to hard-resist imperial weapons, rolled his eyes and actually collapsed straight backward.

"Little Zhan!"

The nearest to him, Gu Linjiang, instinctively wanted to help, but his own legs went weak, and he staggered as well, nearly sitting down.

Too stimulating!

This news is truly too stimulating! It stimulated them to the point that even their supreme Dao hearts could not bear it!

"Yuan'er… you… you say it again…"

Gu Lin Tian's voice was hoarse, he stretched out a finger, trembling as he pointed at that path of light, "This thing... can it really... be mass-produced... true immortals?"

Dad, your wording is wrong.

Gu Yuan corrected him sternly, "What do you mean mass-produced? That sounds awful. We call it 'planned, stepwise enhancement of the family's high-end combat power.'"

But the effect... indeed is that effect.

He received an affirmative answer.

Haha... hahahaha...

Gu Lin Tian could no longer hold back.

He threw his head back and laughed loudly, his laughter filled with uncontrollable ecstasy and madness; the terrifying true immortal aura burst out uncontrollably, shaking the shattered fragment of the immortal realm into a humming resonance.

He laughed for a long time, laughing until tears streamed down.

Finally, he whirled around, grabbed the still-dazed Gu Cangsheng in a bear hug, and slapped his father's back hard, shouting incoherently like a child:

Dad! Dad! Do you see it?! Our Gu Family is going to prosper! Going to prosper!

Gu Cangsheng: '......'

He, who had lived countless eons, with a mind as solid as immortal divine gold, a half-step immortal king.

At this moment, his mind was also a blank slate, allowing his son, who seemed to have lost his sanity, to hug and shake him.

His gaze never left the path to immortality from beginning to end.

Shocking!

Unprecedented shock!

Even when he had personally witnessed the immortal king's descent and seen that holy giant hand rend Sanqian Zhou, he had never been so overwhelmed as now.

Because although the immortal king was strong, it still lay within his comprehension.

But this thing before him...

It has completely transcended common sense! It violates the fundamental logic of the Dao's operation!

One hundred percent... proving the Dao to become a true immortal...

Gu Cangsheng murmured these words repeatedly, his deep eyes fixed tightly on the end of that path, on the immortal gate emanating an eternal aura.

Behind that gate, he felt a... aura that made even him tremble!

It was an aura surpassing the immortal king, possibly even reaching the realm of the legendary 'Emperor'!

"This... this is no longer mere luck..." Gu Cangsheng looked at his smug grandchild, and his heart was overturned by tumultuous waves.

"Compared to this grandson, I'm the one who seems like a grandson!"