Chapter 200: Hall of All Immortals Plan

The atmosphere in the hall instantly shifted from worry to fervor.

However, just as everyone was immersed in the excitement of this grand blueprint, a discordant voice sounded.

"But..."

Gu Xue Dao, who had just attained the Dao and become a True Immortal—an Immortal Slayer—now furrowed his brow.

His voice was not loud, yet it was like a bucket of cold water poured over everyone's heads.

"Doing this may solve the immediate need, but if we continue like this, won't the number of True Immortals in the Primeval Immortal Realm keep growing?"

"If the Ji family today, and the Hall of Myriad Gods tomorrow, also give birth to True Immortals—even three or five of them—will they still willingly submit to my Gu family then?"

"We... are raising a tiger to our own detriment."

These words instantly cooled the fervent atmosphere in the hall.

Yes.

This is an unavoidable problem.

The Gu family can unify the Immortal Realm relying solely on absolute strength overwhelming all.

But if other Dao lineages also gain True Immortals, acquiring the confidence to rival the Gu family, how long can the Immortal Court's order last?

Human hearts are the hardest to withstand trials.

A single True Immortal is the hope of a Dao lineage's rise.

No one will willingly remain forever beneath others.

"Xue Dao makes sense."

Gu Linjiang also calmed down, looking toward Gu Yuan,

"Young Master, have you considered this problem?"

Everyone's gaze once again focused on Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan merely smiled and said nothing.

He simply lifted his teacup and took a light sip.

Then he raised his head, his gaze sweeping past the crowd to the elder seated at the head, who from beginning to end seemed like an outsider, eyes closed in meditative rest.

Inside the hall, everyone followed his gaze to look at Gu Cangsheng.

The patriarch still had his eyes closed; his wrinkled old face showed no emotion, as if asleep.

Yet an invisible pressure, weighty as a hundred million stars, silently spread.

That was not an intentionally released aura, but merely the natural manifestation of his life level.

Everyone present, whether newly ascended True Immortals or supremes who had lived through countless eons, felt at this moment their souls tremble and their Dao wail.

It was like a group of ants gazing up at a slumbering dragon.

They suddenly understood.

Raising a tiger to one's own detriment?

This term has a precondition.

The precondition is that what you raise is truly a tiger.

Moreover, it cannot be a useless white tiger.

But when your strength far exceeds the cognitive limit of the tiger species, what you raise is no longer a tiger.

That is called a pet.

A layer of cold sweat appeared on Gu Linjiang's forehead.

Gu Xue Dao's hand gripping his sword also relaxed.

They really are... foolish.

With this patriarch, an Immortal King—no, a Supreme Immortal King capable of swatting away heavenly punishment with a single slap—seated here, what do they have to worry about?

Let alone the Primeval Immortal Realm gaining another dozen or twenty True Immortals.

Even if another hundred appeared, what could they do?

Before the patriarch, it's merely a matter of a single slap.

Moreover...

The right to use the Immortal Ascension Path lies in their hands.

If they still cannot produce more True Immortals than other factions, then they would truly be wasting the Immortal Ascension Path's purpose.

This thing... can make all factions willingly... use their own resources to nourish the Gu family!

"Any more problems?"

Gu Yuan set down his teacup and asked with a smiling gaze.

"No... none left."

"Young Master, brilliant!"

"We foolish ones nearly messed up the family's major affair!"

Inside the hall, the wind direction shifted instantly.

"Then it's settled like this."

Gu Lin Tian rose, and the dignity of the family head returned to him,

"Elder Linjiang, you are responsible for drafting the regulations. Xuan Ce, you will lay out the Great Array around the Immortal Ascension Path to ensure absolute safety. Everyone else, think about who we should select for the first batch."

"Right, this plan needs a resounding name."

Gu Yuan pondered, then said: "Let's call it... the Hall of All Immortals Plan."

All immortals come to court, and my hall reigns supreme.

What a magnificent Hall of All Immortals!

……

……

Gu Family's efficiency is terrifying.

The day after the plan of the Immortal Assembly Hall was approved, an immortal edict personally issued by the Lord of the Celestial Court, Gu Lin Tian, instantly detonated the entire Primeval Immortal Realm.

The content of the immortal edict is simple, yet shocking.

"In gratitude for the sincerity of all races returning their hearts, pitying the suffering of sentient beings in cultivation, we, the Gu Family, wish to open a convenient gate, on the Divine Island, establish the Immortal Assembly Hall, open the path to immortality, granting those with affinity a chance to glimpse true immortality. Those who wish to enter the hall must bring a great treasure from their clan, to be evaluated by the Celestial Court; the highest bid wins, until the quota is filled. So decreed."

This immortal edict has no lengthy discourse, no redundant formalities; throughout it conveys just one meaning:

Want to become an immortal? Bring money to buy!

When the news first spread, the entire Primeval Immortal Realm fell into an eerie silence.

The first reaction of countless lineages was: Is it fake? Has the Gu Family gone mad?

Is the opportunity to become an immortal something that can be taken out and sold?

This is even more absurd than a pie falling from the sky.

However, when they thought of the Gu Family's mad feat of four immortals in one day!

Instantly, all words were gone!

It's true!

Gu Family, they really intend to put the opportunity to become an immortal up for sale as a commodity!

After the silence, came a frenzy like a volcanic eruption.

……

……

Ji Family Divine Island.

Wan Yun True Immortal, this peerlessly elegant true immortal, now stood in a flustered manner at the center of the hall, gripping a rubbing of that immortal edict, his knuckles whitening from force.

"Mad... the Gu Family is really mad..."

She muttered to herself, but in her beautiful eyes burned a flame never seen before.

"Master of the house, this matter... is utterly unimaginable."

By her side, a lady in palace robes, namely the Supreme Elder of the Ji Family, equally shocked, asked: "What exactly does the Gu Family intend to do? Don't they fear that we, these lineages, have truly given birth to a true immortal, threatening their rule?"

"Threat?" Wan Yun True Immortal hearing this, let out a bitter laugh.

She recalled that day, when the Gu Family's ancestral patriarch scattered heavenly punishment with a single slap.

"Do you think we... still have the qualifications to threaten them?"

The lady in palace robes fell silent.

Indeed, before such an existence, what difference is there between a true immortal and an ant?

"They aren't unafraid; they simply don't care at all."

Wan Yun True Immortal drew a deep breath, his eyes becoming extremely resolute: "What they want is not our submission, but our... everything."

She suddenly turned and issued a series of orders.

"Pass the order down: using half of the Ji Family's resources, we must obtain at least two slots!"

"Also, contact all allied subordinate forces of our Ji Family, tell them we will spare no cost to acquire a slot! If they are willing to contribute, when our Ji Family gives birth to a true immortal, they shall surely be richly rewarded!"

"This time, our Ji Family will stake everything, gambling on a future!"

……

The same scene unfolded in every corner of the Primeval Immortal Realm.

The Dragon Emperor of the Ancestral Dragon Nest, disregarding elders' opposition, forcibly tore off the hardest reverse scale on his body, together with one-third of the divine herbs of the Dragon Nest, and sent them all to the Gu Family.

The elderly emperor of the Taiyi Dynasty, moreover, dug out his own son who had slept for millions of years from the coffin, refining his entire cultivation into a primordial pearl, solely to gather enough bidding chips.

For a time, the entire Primeval Immortal Realm surged with a frenzy of selling off family assets.

Countless heavenly treasures and earthly riches, sealed away for untold ages, were dug out from the deepest vaults of the various lineages, then flowed like water toward the Gu Family Divine Island.

All for the sake of exchanging for a single chance to become an immortal.