Chapter 226: then translation of title

Gu Yuan's traveling palace.

The main gate was tightly closed.

Inside the traveling palace, the flow of time was adjusted by the formation to a hundred times that of the outside world.

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged on a white jade bed.

He intended to break through to the 10th stage, the Void God Realm.

The accumulation of the first nine stages had already given him the foundation to overwhelm his peers.

Immortal body of longevity, three thousand laws, myriad dao time lamps, domain, embryonic world……

Now, he needed to integrate all of this.

In the cultivation system, the core of the Void God Realm is to combine domain with spiritual will.

Gu Yuan closed his eyes and looked inward at his dantian.

In that vast embryonic world, mountains and rivers undulated, and rivers surged.

The World Tree sapling emitted a seven-colored halo, supporting the operation of the world's laws.

He slowly drew the true immortal spirit cultivated in the fourth stage into his dantian.

The true immortal spirit was a miniature version of Gu Yuan, crystalline and translucent throughout, emanating pure spiritual fluctuations.

"Fuse."

Gu Yuan uttered a single word.

The true immortal spirit turned into a shower of light that fell upon the land of the embryonic world.

The entire world began to undergo wondrous changes.

The once lifeless mountains and waters gained a touch of vitality.

The domain began to expand outward, enveloping the entire traveling palace. Within this domain, Gu Yuan was the absolute ruler.

But this was still not enough.

Gu Yuan's thought stirred slightly, and a gray-purple stone slab appeared before him.

It was exactly the chaos spirit stone fragment awarded by the system.

This thing was extremely hard; ordinary means could not refine it at all.

Gu Yuan activated the chaos singularity within his dantian.

A black-hole-like suction erupted, swallowing the chaos spirit stone fragment in one gulp.

Violent chaos energy rampaged within his dantian.

Gu Yuan let out a muffled grunt, and fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead.

The World Tree sapling swayed wildly, its roots plunging into the chaos singularity, striving to tame this violent energy.

Gu Yuan guided the tamed chaos energy along his meridians, rushing straight into his sea of consciousness.

At the moment his soul came into contact with the chaos energy, it underwent a qualitative leap.

The space of his sea of consciousness was infinitely expanded.

His formerly translucent soul took on a layer of gray-purple luster.

Half-step Immortal King soul.

Gu Yuan opened his eyes.

He used no mana at all, merely a thought.

Within the traveling palace, a ten-thousand-year-old profound ice table silently turned into a pile of powder.

It was not shattered by physical force, but rather erased from existence at the level of law.

A single thought could slay a supreme being.

This is the terror of a half-step Immortal King soul!

Gu Yuan stood up and stretched lazily.

He felt better than ever before.

His physical body remained at the strength of the ninth stage, but his soul had already entered a whole new realm.

He closed his eyes, his soul left his body, passed through the traveling palace's formation, and soared straight upward.

He wandered through the vast void.

He beheld the full panorama of the Primeval Immortal Realm.

He saw Gu Xuan Ce inscribing spell patterns, saw the Myriad Medicine Divine Monarch refining pills, and saw Gu Lin Tian handling mountains of paperwork.

He even saw even farther places.

He saw sects liquidating their assets, and saw countless causeways of fate intertwining between heaven and earth.

This was a wondrous experience of controlling everything.

Gu Yuan roamed leisurely in the vast void for a long time before recalling his soul into his body.

Speaking solely of soul strength.

He had already reached the pinnacle of true immortals!

But…… it was still not enough!

Compared to a true immortal, he was still far behind!

Moreover.

Above true immortals lie Immortal Kings!

Even Immortal Kings…… come in four tiers!

……

……

Half a year passed in an instant.

Gu Yuan pushed open the palace's main gate.

Sunlight spilled onto the white jade steps, a little dazzling.

He inhaled a breath of fresh air, and the cultivation at the peak of the 10th realm within him trembled.

He lifted his foot and strode toward the Gu Family's council hall.

Inside the hall, Gu Lin Tian was discussing something with several elders.

When they saw Gu Yuan enter, everyone stopped talking, rose, and paid their respects.

"Yuan'er, have you left the sect?" Gu Lin Tian looked up at Gu Yuan.

He found that he could not see through his son's cultivation.

Although he stood right there, he gave an illusion of emptiness and ethereality; even his divine perception swept over him like a mud ox sinking into the sea, unable to reach the bottom.

"Father, elders."

Gu Yuan smiled, greeted, walked to his own designated seat, and sat down.

"How have things at home been these past six months?" Gu Yuan asked.

Gu Lin Tian took out a thick roster and handed it to Gu Yuan.

"Take a look yourself; the development over these six months even makes me, the family head, feel like I'm dreaming."

Gu Yuan opened the roster.

The first page recorded the changes in the Gu Family's top-tier combat power.

True Immortal Realm: Gu Cangsheng (Jue Dian Immortal King), Gu Lin Tian (late-stage True Immortal), Jiang Rou (early-stage True Immortal), Gu Zhan (early-stage True Immortal), Gu Xue Dao (early-stage True Immortal), Gu Lin Jiang (early-stage True Immortal), Gu Xuan Ce (early-stage True Immortal), Gu Tian (early-stage True Immortal)…

Guest dignitary: Wan Yao Divine Lord (Immortal King in mortal body).

External True Immortals: Ji Tianyou, Ji Tianling, Long Di, Withered Wood Ancestor, Primordial Divine Lord, Ancient Spirit…

Just the Gu Family's own True Immortals already exceed ten!

And the forces possessing True Immortals are nearing double digits.

This was unimaginable in the old Primordial Immortal Domain!

Conversely, the second page shows a great reduction in the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

Those who could reach the basics of True Immortal have all entered it.

However, some strong ones still choose to break through to the Heavenly Emperor Realm first, then enter True Immortal.

In short,

The number of Heavenly Emperors under the Gu Family has reached sixteen.

In a sense.

The number of True Immortals exceeds that of the Heavenly Emperor Realm…

As for the third page, it lists the Supreme Realm.

That figure is astounding.

The Gu Family's own elders and shadow guards, together with the high command of the Herb Army recruited from the Wan Yao Great World, nourished by massive pills and the Great Emperor Origin,

the number of Supremes has broken the three‑hundred mark.

That does not even count the peripheral forces attached to the Gu Family, nor the other powers in the Primordial Immortal Domain.

Gu Yuan closed the roster, nodded with satisfaction.

"How is Senior Wan Yao's pill production?"

Gu Lin Tian pointed outside the hall.

"Go out yourself and you'll see."

Gu Yuan walked out of the hall and reached the edge of the plaza.

In a valley below, tens of thousands of massive gourds were stacked.

Each gourd was filled with pills of various grades.

The scent of medicine permeated the entire Divine Island, even the ordinary flora there mutated into spirit medicine.

"Senior Wan Yao is ruthless."

Gu Zhan appeared from nowhere, grabbing a handful of pills and munching them like candy,

"He uprooted all the under‑aged herbs in the Wan Yao Great World, added materials sent by the major Dao traditions, and refined them day and night. I think his intention is to feed the whole Immortal Domain into becoming fat."

Gu Yuan smiled. Wan Yao Divine Lord is trying desperately to prove his worth.

"How is the expedition army's preparation going?" Gu Yuan turned his head and asked Gu Lin Tian.

Gu Lin Tian's expression grew solemn.

"All major Dao traditions have paid the entry fees. We have selected one hundred thousand elite, each at least at the Saint Realm, led by Gu Zhangfeng and Gu Yunlan, incorporated into the Gu Family Vanguard Camp, ready to depart at any time."

Gu Yuan stroked his chin.

"One hundred thousand elites, plus the Gu Family's foundation, even if we have only a few Immortal Kings, relocating Sanqian Zhou is more than enough."

At that moment, Gu Cangsheng, hands behind his back, sauntered over.

He still wore the old farmer's garb, holding two walnuts in his hand.

"Well‑behaved grandson, have you left the sect?"

Gu Cangsheng walked to Gu Yuan's front and stopped.

His cloudy old eyes stared at Gu Yuan for a while, then he suddenly laughed.

"Good kid, your spirit has already crossed that threshold; the chaotic spirit stone fragment, you used it cleverly."

Gu Yuan humbly said, "All thanks to Grandfather's excellent teaching."

Gu Cangsheng waved his hand.

Cut the flattery. Since you've come out of the pass, we should get to real work.

Gu Cangsheng turned around, facing the lower part of the plaza.

His voice wasn't loud, yet it spread across the entire Divine Island, even reaching the expeditionary camps stationed around its outskirts.

Gu Family lads, and all fellow Daoists.

I have promised to lead you to riches.

Now, the time has arrived.

Gu Xuan Ce!

Gu Xuan Ce sprang out from the core of the formation, his face blazing with zeal.

Elder Ancestor, the Great Array drawn by the Zhou Tian star constellations is ready! It can be activated at any moment!

Gu Cangsheng nodded, sweeping his great sleeve.

Open the array! Target: Sanqian Zhou!