Chapter 243: Basically enough

Li Hentian's gaze pierced the void, heading toward Sanqian Zhou.

Zhenyuan Immortal King, that fool, thought himself clever, secretly descended to Sanqian Zhou without anyone's knowledge, hoping to monopolize the merit.

Little did he know, from the moment he stepped out of the immortal palace, he had already fallen into someone else's scheme.

The grudge between Li Hentian and Zhenyuan Immortal King is not something that arose just a day or two ago.

The four great immortal kings of the immortal realm jointly oversee Sanqian Zhou; on the surface they each fulfill their duties, but in reality undercurrents surge.

Zhenyuan Immortal King nominally reports directly to the chief immortal king, but in fact he is a spy planted by the chief immortal king in Sanqian Zhou to monitor, and the surveillance target happens to include Li Hentian himself.

Over these years, how many of his every move in Sanqian Zhou have been secretly recorded by Zhenyuan and reported to the chief immortal king?

And how many of his secretly hidden secrets have nearly been exposed because of Zhenyuan's prying?

He has kept this account for a long time.

And today, Zhenyuan himself came to his door.

Even better, before his death, Zhenyuan clearly explained Gu Cangsheng's background.

The Dao of Chaos, the Jue Dian Immortal King, is wounded; the operation of his laws is sluggish.

His body contains fragments of chaos spirit stone.

He also has a grandson whose cultivation is not high, but who can control the World Tree.

Moreover, they are using a Great Array to move Sanqian Zhou.

He knows some of this information, but not all of it.

The information Zhenyuan bought with his life now belongs entirely to Li Hentian.

As for Zhenyuan's death…

Li Hentian's mouth corner twitched up into a cold arc.

Sanqian Zhou produced a Jue Dian Immortal King, and Zhenyuan Immortal King, who had secretly descended, was slain.

This explanation is reasonable and seamless.

He doesn't even need to fabricate any story.

Zhenyuan was indeed killed by the power of an immortal king.

Only that immortal king was not Gu Cangsheng, but Li Hentian himself.

But who would know?

The heavenly secrets of this void are sealed by him.

Not a single character of Zhenyuan's distress signal got out.

The battle traces have been wiped away.

Zhenyuan's immortal palace anchor point will automatically collapse after its master falls, leaving no record.

When the immortal realm notices Zhenyuan's disappearance and investigates, all clues will point to that mysterious Chaos Immortal King of Sanqian Zhou.

Gu Cangsheng will take the blame for him.

And Li Hentian at most will be guilty of dereliction of duty for "closing his cultivation to heal his wounds and failing to timely rescue his comrades."

Just a minor punishment and a major warning.

Compared to the value of the chaos spirit stone fragments, this price is not worth mentioning.

Of course…

More importantly!

The secret behind this family!

He has a premonition that the Gu Family may soon descend.

But even if he monitored in advance, he still didn't discover how they descended!

Or only after their aura naturally spread did he belatedly realize.

This is a very terrifying matter!

If he could master this means of traversing the heavens.

If they could enter not only his own world…

That would be an enormous fortune!

He must speed up his recovery… to uncover this secret, which might even surpass the chaos spirit stone fragments!

Li Hentian's figure entered the void rift and vanished.

The endless void returned to dead silence.

Only a faint remnant of deep blue light from Zhenyuan Immortal King flickered a few times in the chaotic currents before finally extinguishing completely.

No one knows he ever came.

No one knows how he died.

……

……

Zhongzhou, ancient altar.

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged atop the altar, the World Tree Roots dug deep into the earth, and the legal pulses of the twenty-eight major provinces rose and fell like tides in his perception.

From the Tongxin Immortal Talisman came Gu Cangsheng's voice, accompanied by a muffled chewing sound.

"Arrived. I left the things under the altar for you; pick them up yourself."

Gu Yuan opened his eyes and looked downward toward the altar.

A clump of deep blue light cocoon hovered silently in midair, about three zhang square; its surface legal inscriptions flickered indistinctly, and occasionally a few bolts of blue lightning shot out, crackling.

Inside the cocoon, a broken bodily outline could be vaguely seen—from the waist up, head, arms, and half a torso, preserved fairly intact.

The upper body of Zhenyuan Immortal King.

Gu Xuan Ce was the first to rush over, the Compass almost got flung away.

He circled the light cocoon three times, his eyeballs almost stuck to it.

"Immortal King Dao Origin! Alive! Still operating!"

Gu Xuan Ce's voice rose eight degrees,

"Young Master, the source concentration in here…… My goodness, it's thirty percent more than I estimated!"

Gu Yuan jumped down from the altar and walked to the front of the light cocoon.

He reached in, and the moment his fingertip touched the surface of the light cocoon, a bone-chilling icy deep-blue Law Power surged up his arm.

The World Tree Roots automatically reacted, seven-colored radiance surged from his palm, wrapping that Law Power.

"The source purity is not bad."

Gu Yuan withdrew his hand, wiping away the residual blue light specks on his fingertip,

"Grandpa struck with just enough force; the core Dao Fruit didn't break, it was just stepped and cracked."

Gu Cangsheng's voice again came from the immortal talisman: "Nonsense, I'm not doing this for the first time. If the Dao Fruit is crushed, the source scatters; leaving a half makes it good to press for oil."

Gu Lin Tian hurried over from the direction of the Yun family's main hall, with Gu Linjiang and Gu Zhan, who had just rushed back from Bingzhou, following behind.

Gu Zhan saw that blue mass from afar, his eyes lit up, shouldering the broken axe he leapt over in three strides to reach it.

"Whoa! Immortal King!" Gu Zhan reached out to touch.

Gu Yuan slapped his claw away.

"Don't touch, the Law inside hasn't been tamed; touch it and your hand will be gone."

Gu Zhan withdrew his hand, gave a couple of heh-heh laughs, circled the light cocoon, behaving just like Gu Xuan Ce.

Gu Lin Tian stepped forward, his gaze fell on the light cocoon, he paused a few breaths, his gaze indescribable.

Now his own father, even the Immortal King says kill and it's killed?

This is the Immortal King's true body.

Not those clones or whatever.

"Where's the Divine Tower?" Gu Yuan asked.

"It was stepped flat by Grandpa."

Gu Cangsheng's voice lazy: "The fragments are pressed under the light cocoon, flip them over."

Gu Yuan crouched down and indeed found a pile of deep-blue metal fragments at the bottom of the light cocoon.

Those fragments still bear traces of law inscriptions; although shattered, each piece emits an Immortal King-level Dao resonance.

"Good stuff."

Gu Xuan Ce's eyes lit up,

"The law inscriptions on these fragments are the carriers of Immortal King-level spatial law! Integrated into the pulling Great Array, they can increase the array's stability by at least twenty percent!"

Gu Yuan stood up and clapped his hands.

"Allocation."

He glanced at everyone present, his speech not fast, but each word crystal clear.

"The Immortal King Dao Origin is the fuel of the Great Array, no argument—pour it all into the central node of the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Qian Yin Formation. Uncle Xuan Ce, you take the lead, synchronizing the resonance frequency of the Dao Origin with that of the World-Binding Immortal Pillar."

Gu Xuan Ce nodded repeatedly like pounding garlic.

"Fragments of the Zhenyuan Divine Tower: pick the thirty-six pieces with the most intact law inscriptions, embed them into twenty-eight subsidiary array eyes and eight backup nodes to strengthen spatial anchoring; melt the rest into array base material."

"Immortal King Dao Fruit—"

Gu Yuan paused,

"It's cracked but not broken. Keep it."

Gu Lin Tian glanced at him.

"Keep it for what?"

"The Dao Fruit is the crystallization of the Immortal King's lifetime comprehension of law."

Gu Yuan's fingertip lightly traced the surface of the light cocoon,

"The Zhenyuan cultivates the Deep Abyss Law, which intersects with spatial law; after the relocation is complete, this Dao Fruit can be given to Uncle Xuan Ce for contemplation, useful for his assault on the Immortal King-level array path."

Gu Xuan Ce's hand trembled slightly, the Compass almost fell to the ground.

"Young…… Young Master, this…"

"First do the work, we'll get moved later." Gu Yuan waved his hand.

Gu Zhan chimed in from the side: "What about me? What do I get?"

"You get jack shit."

Gu Yuan glanced at him,

"Your task is to collect the construction fees from the remaining provinces: Lingzhou, Yuzhou, Fengzhou, Xingzhou, plus fifteen other major provinces that haven't paid."

Gu Zhan grinned, showing a mouthful of white teeth: "Alright! Collecting money is what I'm best at!"

Gu Lin Tian walked up to Gu Yuan's side, lowered his voice: "Yuan'er, how much of the gap can the Immortal King Dao Origin filling the Great Array make up?"

Gu Yuan did a quick mental calculation: "Basically enough."

"Basically?"