Chapter 220: Refining the Realm Heart!

He heard the words.

The Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord staggered over to the floating, wholly emerald Realm Heart in midair, extended a finger, and began inscribing in the void.

As his fingertip moved, profound azure runes appeared out of thin air, imprinting in the void around the Realm Heart.

These runes linked together, quickly forming a complex array diagram.

"Young Master, this Ten Thousand Medicines Realm Heart has been linked to my divine soul for millions of years, already bearing my mark. Normally, for an outsider to refine it, they'd have to put in painstaking effort, costing hundreds of thousands of years."

The Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord, while setting up the array, explained respectfully,

"However, I sense that you possess an extremely powerful innate divine object within you, and you are shielded by chaotic origin, so the situation is quite different."

"What I am setting up now is the Qing Emperor Borrowed Path Array. This array can temporarily link my connection with the Realm Heart to your World Tree."

"Then, the Realm Heart will mistake you for the new Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord, and refining it will be twice as effective with half the effort."

Gu Yuan heard this and nodded with interest.

This Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord is indeed a straightforward person, hiding nothing.

"Thank you for your trouble, senior."

After the array was set up, the Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord's face turned a shade paler, obviously having expended considerable energy.

He stepped to the side and gestured for Gu Yuan to proceed.

Gu Yuan, without ceremony, sat cross-legged at the center of the array.

With a thought, the miniature world within his dantian rumbled into motion.

The three-leafed World Tree sapling swayed, its branches trembling slightly as a thread of pure seven-colored light poured out, flowing through Gu Yuan's meridians into the Realm Heart ahead.

Hum—

The Realm Heart shuddered violently, and the miniature forest world within began to churn tumultuously.

A strong repulsive force emanated from it, trying to push back Gu Yuan's seven-colored light.

"Now!"

The Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord gave a low shout, formed seals with both hands, and slammed down onto the Qing Emperor Borrowed Path Array on the ground.

The Great Array blazed with light, countless azure runes, like living things, followed Gu Yuan's seven-colored light and wrapped around the Realm Heart.

That repulsive force stalled, then weakened by ninety percent.

The forest world inside the Realm Heart calmed, instead emanating a feeling of intimacy and affection.

Done.

Gu Yuan understood at once and immediately drove his dantian world to full power.

The chaotic singularity turned into a microscopic black hole, beginning to frenziedly devour the world origin and law comprehension contained within the Realm Heart.

A vast flood of information surged into Gu Yuan's sea of consciousness.

That was the Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord's lifelong understanding of alchemy and formations, from basic pharmacology to immortal-king-level forbidden pill formulas, from the simplest spirit-gathering array to the Immortal King Grand Array that guards a world… encompassing everything, vast as an ocean of smoke.

If it were an ordinary person, just this information flood would be enough to shatter the divine soul of a true immortal.

But Gu Yuan's World Tree now displayed the domineering nature of an innate divine object.

Those miscellaneous insights were directly absorbed by the World Tree's roots and turned into nutrients.

Quietly, two brand‑new branches grew on the trunk.

On one branch the leaves took the shape of an alchemy furnace, exuding medicinal fragrance; on the other the leaves became like formation disks, flashing with profound light.

Gu Yuan's refinement proceeded unusually smoothly.

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While the divine palace interior fell silent, outside the divine palace the vast herb‑and‑tree army finally recovered from the terrifying pressure of an Immortal King's descent.

They each lifted their heads from the dark‑golden soil, or shook their wilted leaves, or brushed off the dust on their bodies.

The lingering fear of survival turned this usually vibrant medicinal garden into a heavy, oppressive atmosphere.

"What… just happened?"

A Seven-Colored Divine Mushroom King that had reached the Supreme Sage Realm transmitted a trembling thought.

"It's an Immortal King… more terrifying than the foe the Godlord once faced."

Beside it, a Nine‑Revolutions Soul‑Returning Flower still bore traces of withering death‑qi, clearly affected by the Twilight Immortal King's power, damaging its essence.

"What about Brother Tie Niu? How is he?"

A Radish Sprite wielding a Nine‑Ring Great Saber anxiously looked around.

Their gazes quickly focused on the few figures before the divine palace.

That stone ox‑headed titan stood like a loyal guard, leaning on a broken axe at the divine palace gate, its body riddled with cracks yet its honest, stubborn vigor undiminished.

Beside him, an old man in plain gray cloth leisurely munched on melon seeds.

It was this old man who, with a single step, extinguished the black sun that could have doomed their souls.

The herb‑and‑tree folk's thought‑communication came to an abrupt halt.

They were all ancient old‑timers who had lived countless eons, yet they could see that this one was the real big thigh.

At that moment they saw the Ten Thousand Medicines Godlord, wearing the corpse of the Twilight Immortal King, standing respectfully to one side.

"Is… that the Godlord's aura?"

A Bodhi Ancient Tree that had lived for millions of years showed an incredulous expression on its aged visage.

"Exactly! It's the Godlord! He isn't dead!"

"The Godlord has returned!"

After a brief silence, the entire herb‑and‑tree army burst into a cheer like mountains and seas roaring.

Countless rays of spiritual light shot up into the sky, merging into a vast iridescent ocean.

They cast aside their fear of Gu Cangsheng, as if they had found long-lost relatives, and frenziedly surged toward the temple.

"All of you, stand still for me!"

Gu Zhan, seeing this, quickly swung his broken axe across, blocking their path.

"Don't you see my young master is handling important affairs? Making such a racket, what propriety is this!"

The plant army was halted by Gu Zhan's killing intent, but their emotions remained agitated, and streams of divine thoughts swept past Gu Zhan and poured toward the Myriad Herbs Divine Lord.

"Divine Lord! You have finally returned!"

"Divine Lord, these years without you have been extremely hard for us!"

The Myriad Herbs Divine Lord gazed at these old subordinates who had followed him for countless ages, and a complex emotion welled up in his eyes.

He opened his mouth, about to say something, but the Seven-Colored Divine Mushroom King of the Supreme Saint Realm seized the moment and began to lament.

"Divine Lord! You must decide for us!"

Its divine thoughts were filled with grievance and anger,

"After your fall, the riffraff of the Elixir Fire Sect, relying on the token you once bestowed, have acted high and mighty in your medicinal garden! They not only violate your rule of 'take only one stalk when harvesting herbs, leave the root to continue the lineage,' but also massively capture and slaughter our kin, using our souls to concoct poisonous pills!"

"Yes! Divine Lord!"

Another Dragonblood Tyrant Physique Fruit Tree also joined the accusation,

"My 1,800 descendants were uprooted by the Elixir Fire Sect just because their bodies could be tempered by its fruit; they even boiled the roots for soup! Wuu wuu wuu"

"And me! My ginseng clan has been raised by them, forced to mature with secret arts, destined to be harvested every 30,000 years, giving us no chance to attain human form!"

"Divine Lord, all those alchemy notes you left have been tampered with! The pills they produce are filled with fire toxin and vicious energy; they are nothing but poison!"

Each blood‑curdling accusation echoed before the temple like thunderclaps.

The handsome face of the Myriad Herbs Divine Lord, that of a Dusk Immortal King, instantly darkened to the point where water could drip from it.

The Elixir Fire Sect was a human faction he casually helped establish back then to manage this world.

He passed down his Dao, bestowed the token, so they could oversee the medicinal garden and maintain ecological balance.

He knew the Elixir Fire Sect had done certain things behind his back, even the attempt to capture what was then his own Nine-Leaf Swordgrass, which the Myriad Herbs Divine Lord didn't much mind.

But he never imagined the Elixir Fire Sect secretly committed acts that provoked the wrath of countless plants and herbs!

A chilling killing intent rose from within the Myriad Herbs Divine Lord's body.