Chapter 240: The Immortal King isn't important, but we need an Immortal King to serve as the energy source

He clenched his fist.

That wisp of chaotic qi instantly expanded a hundredfold, turning into a gray-purple storm, from bottom to top, flowing upstream along the path of the light pillar.

Boom—

No, it's not a boom.

There was no explosion sound.

The millions-of-zhang blue light pillar spewed from the Zhenyuan Divine Tower was torn in half by the chaotic storm.

The two halves of the light pillar struggled in the void for a moment, the law runes crackled and shattered, finally turning into a sky-full of blue light rain, scattering down.

Beauty is truly beautiful.

But this beautiful sight, falling in the eyes of the Zhenyuan Immortal King, was a bone-chilling cold.

"Impossible!"

He lost his composure for the first time.

My Zhenyuan Divine Tower, nine-layered suppression, even the Jue Dian Immortal King would have to take it head-on!

How could a heavily injured Jue Dian Immortal King tear me apart with just one hand?!

The information is wrong.

It's seriously wrong!

The sluggishness of the law's operation is real, and the unstable aura is also real.

But the depth of this old thing's foundation and the purity of its chaotic Dao far exceed his judgment.

An injured tiger is still a tiger.

"Shouldn't you regret it now?" Gu Cangsheng lowered his hand, patted the nonexistent dust on his palm, "Running now is still in time."

The Zhenyuan Immortal King gritted his teeth.

Run?

Going back empty-handed, not only did he not gain any merit, but he also exposed the fact that he had descended privately.

Returning to the immortal realm, what awaits him is the reproach of the Giant Immortal King!

Greed is not enough; a snake trying to swallow an elephant. Once the meat is in the mouth, it cannot be spit out.

"Your chaotic Dao is indeed overbearing."

In the Zhenyuan Immortal King's deep blue pupils, the flame of greed reignited, "But immortal king battles have never been about whose punch is heavier."

He formed seals with both hands.

The nine layer gates of the Zhenyuan Divine Tower were all flung open.

From each layer's gate, a deep blue chain of law surged out.

Nine chains intertwined in the void, weaving a law prison covering a million li in radius. This prison is not meant to trap people——its function is to cut.

Cut space.

Cut law.

Cut every path of escape.

"Immortal-trapping formation."

The Zhenyuan Immortal King's face turned grim,

"Back then, trapping a Jue Dian Immortal King took him three thousand years outright. With your injuries, how long can you last?"

He decided, after trapping this wretch here……

He would immediately summon immortal kings to descend, suppress and kill him, to earn merit by atoning for his crime!

Gu Cangsheng looked around at the densely packed blue chains, then looked up at the buzzing nine-story high tower.

The old man yawned.

"Three thousand years? This old man doesn't have that patience."

Then, he took a step.

……

……

Meanwhile.

Sanqian Zhou, Zhongzhou, Ancient Altar.

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged atop the altar, the roots of the World Tree dug deep into the earth, the law pulses of the twenty-eight great provinces all within his perception.

The Tongxin Immortal Talisman transmitted Gu Cangsheng's voice, only four words.

"The fish has bitten the hook."

Gu Yuan opened his eyes.

He stood up, brushed off the dust on his robes, walked to the edge of the altar, and looked down at the busy formation masters.

"Uncle Xuan Ce."

Gu Xuan Ce was squatting in the middle of a pile of formation diagrams, his compass spinning rapidly, he replied without looking up: "Huh?"

"How far along is the great formation?"

"The foundations of the twenty-eight provinces' formation have all been laid, the sub-array eyes are calibrated, the framework of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Qian Yin Formation is already seventy percent built, ten percent more than your required sixty percent—don't praise me, I've already praised myself."

Gu Xuan Ce finally lifted his head, that face, worn out from several days, written full of fatigue and excitement,

"But, young master, there's a problem."

"The framework is set up, but to drive this great formation, to detach the twenty-eight great provinces together with their origin from Sanqian Zhou, the required energy……"

Gu Xuan Ce gestured with his hand, then put it down, "It's too huge."

"How big?"

According to my calculations, at least we need to drain the earth veins of ten major states to be sufficient.

Gu Xuan Ce's expression was torn,

But if the earth veins are drained, those ten states will be ruined.

Gu Yuan did not answer.

He turned his head and looked toward the North Pole direction.

There, the Heavenly Dome was cracking, deep blue light shooting up, two Immortal King-level auras colliding and intertwining; by the time the aftershocks reached Zhongzhou they had diminished countlessfold, yet still left the formation masters around the altar pale.

"Young Master?" Gu Xuan Ce stood up, following his gaze, "That is..."

"Zhenyuan Immortal King." Gu Yuan's voice calm, "Its true body has descended."

Gu Xuan Ce's complexion changed.

Immortal King's true body!

Not an avatar, not a divine sense incarnation, but a genuine Immortal King's true body!

"Young Master, the Old Ancestor..."

"Grandfather is fine."

Gu Yuan interrupted him,

"Uncle Xuan Ce, you just said the Great Array's energy shortfall requires draining the earth veins of ten major states?"

"Yes, at least ten."

Gu Yuan turned his head back, looking at Gu Xuan Ce.

"The earth veins are needed for farming; they can't be drained."

"Where will the energy come from then?"

Gu Yuan raised his hand, pointing at that deep blue light in the North Pole direction.

"That Immortal King in the heavens can make up for it."

Gu Xuan Ce froze.

He opened his mouth, then closed it, his mind racing.

Immortal King……make up the energy shortfall?

How?

Draw out the Immortal King's origin and pour it into the Great Array?

"Can this... this work?"

"Why not." Gu Yuan shrugged, his tone as flat as commenting on nice weather.

Gu Xuan Ce's pupils suddenly dilated.

He is a Formation Path Master, his mind works faster than anyone's.

A single thought cut through the mist, all the previously incomprehensible details linking together in that instant.

"Wait..." Gu Xuan Ce's voice trembling, "Young Master, the Old Ancestor... he has always guarded the outskirts of the Boundary Wall, not just to shield heavenly secrets?"

Gu Yuan did not answer, lifted his tea cup and took a sip.

But the faint curve at the corner of his mouth was clearer than any answer.

He remembered.

From the start, from the moment the Old Ancestor decided to personally go to the Boundary Wall's outskirts, everyone thought it was merely to unfold the Immortal King's domain to shield the Immortal Realm's reconnaissance.

But looking back now...

The Old Ancestor deliberately left a weak spot in his domain in the North Pole direction.

When the Yellow Spring Sect Leader's token was activated, the Young Master cast a teasing glance from an inconspicuous corner of the hall.

The Young Master clearly sensed the insider, yet did not expose him on the spot, nor stop the leak of information.

Moreover... the Young Master demanded he abandon the perfect formation, halting the framework at sixty percent completion.

Not because time was pressing and he couldn't do better.

But because better was simply not needed.

Because the remaining forty percent energy shortfall was never intended to be filled by draining earth veins.

"The Old Ancestor guarding outside... is bait." Gu Xuan Ce's voice hoarse, each word deliberate, "The Yellow Spring Sect Leader's token is also bait. That weak spot in the North Pole direction is even more bait."

From the start, luring the Zhenyuan Immortal King's true body to descend upon Sanqian Zhou has been the final move of this game.

The energy shortfall of the relocated Great Array requires an Immortal King to fill it.

Who this Immortal King is doesn't matter.

The key is that someone comes.

Come to serve as the energy for relocating twenty-eight major states!