Chapter 246: Relocation, Initiated!

The second night.

Above the Zhongzhou Altar, seventy percent of the deep-blue origin threads had already been drawn out, flowing along the array lines into the earth, resonating with the Immortal Binding Pillar.

Gu Lin Tian's three-life incarnation retracted two strands, leaving only his present self to continue the extraction.

His complexion was somewhat pale.

Continuously controlling the Immortal King's origin for two sleepless days was also a considerable burden for him, a late-stage True Immortal.

Gu Yuan handed him a bottle of the recovery pill specially made by the Myriad Medicine Divine Lord.

"Father, take a rest."

Gu Lin Tian took the pill, without ceremony, and swallowed it directly.

"Yuan'er, there's something I've wanted to ask."

"Huh?"

"Did you calculate from the start that the Zhenyuan Immortal King would come?"

Gu Yuan did not deny:

"I calculated halfway. I foresaw that an Immortal King would come, but I didn't predict it would be Zhenyuan, nor that Li Hentian would ambush him midway."

"That Yellow Springs Cult Master's token—"

"That one I indeed deliberately placed there."

Gu Yuan leaned against the edge of the altar, looking up at the night sky,

"The great array's energy gap needs the Immortal King's origin to fill it; merely draining the ley lines would be wasteful—luring an Immortal King over achieves two goals at once."

Gu Lin Tian fell silent for a moment.

"You're using your grandfather as bait."

"Grandfather knows." Gu Yuan's tone was calm, "He volunteered himself."

"..." Gu Lin Tian sighed, "You grandfather and grandson, each bolder than the last."

Gu Yuan smiled, not responding.

His gaze pierced the night sky, heading toward the northeast.

Sword Prefecture.

Burial Sword Mountain.

Li Hentian, what are you doing now?

Are you in seclusion healing your wounds, or writing letters to the Immortal Realm?

Or——

You're already on your way here?

……

……

The third day.

Everything seemed as usual.

Gu Xuan Ce had been waiting so long he was scratching his ears and cheeks.

He crouched before the array plate, the compass buzzing, his disheveled hair dotted with several shards of law that had burst from the array lines, looking like a madman.

"All right, all right, it's all good!"

He rushed over in a few steps, pressing his hands firmly onto the light cocoon's surface, his True Immortal-level divine sense diving straight in.

After three breaths, Gu Xuan Ce lifted his head; the light emanating from his blood-red eyes, which had been strained for who knows how many days, shone brighter than the law inscriptions on the fragments of the Zhenyuan Divine Pagoda.

"Enough! More than enough! Young Master, the origin concentration here exceeds my calculations by thirty percent! The core Dao fruit is cracked but not shattered, origin leakage minimal, quality can be called perfect!"

"If things go smoothly, we might even bring away several more great prefectures without having to seize the Immortal Pillar!"

"Moving great prefectures ultimately only requires energy."

"For example, an Immortal King, with immense strength, can grab an entire great prefecture with one hand."

"But the Zhenyuan Immortal King willingly sacrifices himself, contributing more than half his energy, enough to move over twenty-eight great prefectures!"

"Exactly how many……"

"It depends on the loss!"

Gu Xuan Ce grew more excited as he spoke, his hands trembling.

"After the Immortal King's origin is infused into the hub, transformed via the Immortal Binding Pillar into a pulling force, then simultaneously injected into each prefecture's ley lines through the twenty-eight sub-array eyes, the theoretical energy gap is filled! No need to drain an inch of ley lines!"

Gu Yuan nodded.

"Then let's begin."

Gu Xuan Ce had been waiting for exactly these words.

He leapt onto the altar's highest point, raising the compass high, his True Immortal power pouring out.

The compass suddenly expanded to a hundred zhang, becoming a huge star plate swirling with stellar trajectories, hovering above the altar.

"Infuse!"

Gu Zhan and Gu Linjiang exerted force together, pressing the light cocoon into the center of the star plate.

At the instant the light cocoon struck the star plate, a silent shockwave spread in all directions.

Over tens of thousands of array masters on the altar were overturned more than half; Gu Zhan grabbed the nearest few, cursing as he shoved them back to their spots.

Deep-blue Immortal King origin surged from the light cocoon, wildly flowing along the star plate's stellar trajectories.

Each trajectory connects to a sub-array eye.

Each sub-array eye is fixed on a law node of a great prefecture.

Twenty-eight deep-blue light bands shot from the edge of the star plate, piercing the Heavenly Dome, extending at extreme speed toward twenty-eight directions——

Cloud Province, Ice Province, Demon Province, Sea Province, Dragon Province, Wasteland Province, Mysterious Province, Nether Province, Divine Province, Holy Province, Heaven Province……

Each light ribbon fell into the deep earth veins of its corresponding great province, instantly meshing with the array patterns already prepared in the Sub-array Eye.

The law nodes of the twenty-eight great provinces lit up simultaneously.

The entire Sanqian Zhou…… gave a shudder.

It was not that subtle law resonance.

It was physical and tangible, and the whole world was shaking.

Nearly three thousand great and small provinces, together with their mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars, and countless beings, were all swept up by this tremor.

Those remote small provinces that had not submitted to the Gu Family, as well as the nearby great provinces that had voluntarily offered their earth veins, …

The sect-master-level cultivators on them were jolted awake from sleep, finding the ground beneath them shaking and the sun in the sky shifted half a position.

Zhongzhou was even more exaggerated.

The ground within a hundred-li radius of the ancient altar cracked open with dense fissures, and magma welled up from the cracks.

The binding immortal stakes emitted a humming sound as if they would destroy heaven and earth.

Gu Yuan hurriedly activated the World Tree Roots to dive deep into the earth veins, pouring seven-colored rosy light into the ground to forcibly suppress the regions where the laws were in disorder.

The world's will stirred again.

But this time its resistance was far stronger.

However, Gu Yuan had long since made plans.

The anchoring of the binding immortal stakes together with the World Tree's soothing.

And by borrowing power from his father Gu Lin Tian, Gu Xue Dao, Gu Lin Jiang, and more than ten other true immortals, he contended with the world's will!

Gu Xuan Ce's mouth was full of blood, dripping onto the Compass and mixing with the deep-blue Immortal King's origin, swirling into a strange purple light.

"Hold steady! The deviation of each Sub-array Eye must not exceed one ten-thousandth!"

His roar spread throughout Zhongzhou.

Hundreds of array masters struggled desperately to keep the array patterns running.

Those with low cultivation were already bleeding from the seven orifices and collapsed on the ground; those with high cultivation were no better, drenched in sweat, their magic power nearly exhausted.

Yet no one retreated.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on the deep-blue light cocoon at the center of the Star Plate that was now melting away.

Immortal King's origin.

They were using the lifetime accumulation of one Immortal King to drive a super great array capable of moving more than thirty great provinces.

Who would believe such a thing if it were spoken aloud?

…

Yunzhou.

The Yunshan Old Ancestor looked up at the sky.

A deep-blue light ribbon pierced from the direction of Zhongzhou and plunged straight into the law node beneath the Yun family's ancestral land.

The color and texture of that light ribbon made this being, who had lived for millions of years, feel fear for the first time in his life.

He could sense that it was an origin surpassing that of the remnant immortals of the three thousand provinces.

Surpassing the remnant immortals…… what realm is that?!

Immortal King!

The Gu Family killed an Immortal King.

Then they took the Immortal King's origin to use as fuel for the array!

The Yunshan Old Ancestor suddenly felt that his decision to submit to the Gu Family might be the most correct thing he had done in his life.

Without a doubt!