Chapter 253: The Resentment of the Zhenyuan Immortal King!

Gu Yuan closed his eyes, his divine sense sinking into his dantian.

The Myriad Dao Time-light Lamp hovered silently on the branches of the World Tree, at its wick a cluster of seven-colored flame swaying gently.

On the lamp's wall, countless threads as fine as spider silk—karmic lines—wrapped around it, connecting to all heavens and myriad worlds, every being that had ever interacted with Gu Yuan.

One of them had already been severed.

That was the karmic thread of the Zhenyuan Immortal King.

Gu Yuan's divine sense touched the broken tip of that thread.

What he intended to do was not to trace the past, nor to revive the Zhenyuan Immortal King.

What he intended to do was……to borrow.

The 【Borrow False Cultivation】 divine ability was the forbidden technique he had comprehended upon breaking through the seventh realm!

【Using another's strength to lever one's own Great Dao.】

What it could borrow was not merely cultivation, nor lifespan……

Anything needed, as long as one was willing and could pay the price……

could be borrowed!

But this time.

What Gu Yuan intended to borrow was not cultivation, nor lifespan.

What he wanted to borrow was emotion!

Especially the extreme unwillingness and resentment that the Immortal King felt before his fall, intense enough to be etched into the river of time!

Gu Yuan was gambling!

Betting that the death of the Zhenyuan Immortal King……was absolutely not that simple!

……

Gu Yuan's divine sense went upstream along the broken karmic thread.

In the void, he saw a fragmentary scene.

That was the Zhenyuan Immortal King's final perspective.

He saw Gu Cangsheng's straw sandal that had crushed his Dao Fruit, and saw his own sorry flight as the interworld passage behind him swiftly sealed shut.

Then, he saw a green-clad figure.

Li Hentian.

In the vision, the Zhenyuan Immortal King's ecstasy, his plea, and a tray emerging.

Then came realization, fear, and finally the despair of having his vitality severed by a single sword—all of it coalescing into a thick resentment that could not be dispelled, clinging to the severed end of the karmic thread.

This resentment was not entirely directed at Gu Cangsheng.

He acknowledged that his skill was inferior, that he had lost.

This resentment was aimed at Li Hentian!

It was the venomous spite born of being stabbed in the back by an ally, a utter betrayal!

"Found it."

Gu Yuan's divine sense retreated to his dantian.

He opened his eyes, a flash of icy sharpness and relief passing through his gaze.

He had won his wager!

He sound-transmitted to the distant Myriad Medicines Divine Lord, who was in charge of suppressing the turmoil.

At this very moment, the Myriad Medicines Divine Lord sat cross-legged to the side, regulating his breath in meditation.

The Twilight Immortal King's body he had seized was already severely damaged; the aftermath of the Immortal King War made it hard to sustain, his qi and blood surging.

"Senior Myriad Medicines."

The Myriad Medicines Divine Lord opened his eyes, saw Gu Yuan, and hastily rose to salute: "Young Master."

"I wish to borrow something from you," Gu Yuan got straight to the point.

"Please speak, Young Master; if I possess it, I will obey without hesitation," the Myriad Medicines Divine Lord said, lowering his posture greatly.

"I wish to borrow……a wisp of the Twilight Immortal King's Apocalyptic Dao Origin."

The Myriad Medicines Divine Lord was stunned.

The Twilight Immortal King's Apocalyptic Dao was utterly opposed to his own cultivated Vitality-Creation Dao, and it was the thing giving him the biggest headache right now.

This power was violent and uncontrollable, the greatest obstacle to his restoring his cultivation.

"Young Master, what do you intend to borrow this for?"

"Moreover, that Dao belongs to him—how could it be borrowed?"

Though he did not understand, he asked no further, immediately nodding: "Very well."

Gu Yuan wasted no words; a seven-colored light flashed in the depths of his eyes, and the Myriad Dao Time-light Lamp within his dantian suddenly blazed bright.

Great divine ability—Borrow False Cultivation!

An invisible karmic thread extended from Gu Yuan's fingertip, lightly alighting upon the Myriad Medicines Divine Lord's glabella.

The Myriad Medicines Divine Lord only felt his soul tremble slightly; he instinctively wanted to resist, but then recalled Gu Yuan's words.

Could it be that the Young Master's saying to "borrow" a bit meant exactly this?

In the next instant.

A scene that shocked him immensely unfolded.

The ashen-black Apocalyptic Origin within him, which had been violently tearing at his Vitality-Creation Dao and causing him unbearable agony, seemed to respond to some irresistible summons, surging wildly along that karmic thread!

"This……"

The Myriad Medicines Divine Lord sucked in a breath of cold air.

The violent law that he had spent countless effort struggling to suppress was directly "pulled" away by the young master with this incomprehensible method?

Moreover, as this alien primordial source was stripped away, the heaviness of his shattered immortal‑king body suddenly lessened, his qi and blood circulation became several times smoother in an instant, and even his spirit felt a long‑unfelt lightness!

This is not borrowing; it's clearly helping him heal!

In contrast, Gu Yuan, as that pure gray‑black End‑Times Great Dao source surged into his body.

The aura around him instantly turned violent and filled with deathly silence, and even the surrounding void began to show signs of decay and withering.

But his expression remained as calm as water; the World Tree sapling in his dantian emitted a magnificent multicolored glow, and together with the myriad temporal lamps' lights, it firmly suppressed the borrowed immortal‑king‑level destructive power within the lamp, turning it into a flickering gray‑black flame.

"Still not enough…"

The Ten Thousand Medicine Divine Lord is indeed an immortal king.

But it's still not enough!

"Father, Third Uncle, Uncle Lin Jiang… all Gu Family true immortals, lend me a hand!"

His voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached the ears of every Gu Family true immortal.

Gu Lin Tian, Gu Xue Dao, Gu Lin Jiang, Gu Xuan Ce… including the newly returned Gu Zhan, and over a dozen other newly‑promoted Gu Family true immortals, all simultaneously thought of this sentence in their minds.

They offered no resistance at all.

They agreed to Gu Yuan's borrowing of power.

Buzz—

The entire ancient altar burst into brilliant light.

Gu Yuan's body was infused with the power of over a dozen true immortals; his long hair danced without wind, and his robe rustled.

He did not turn these powers to his own use.

Instead, he poured them all… into the World Tree sapling in his dantian!

Boom!

The World Tree sapling grew wildly at a visible speed.

Three chi, ten zhang, a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang…

Finally, a towering phantom divine tree, ten thousand zhang tall and suffused with multicolored glow, surged skyward from behind Gu Yuan, straight into the clouds!

The phantom was enormous.

Its canopy blocked the sky over Zhongzhou, and its roots spread to every corner of Sanqian Zhou.

Twenty‑eight anchored great states, fifteen edge states currently collapsing… the world wills of all the regions, at this moment, sensed the existence of this divine tree.

It was a closeness and affection born from the instinct of life.

As if a child away from home for years had seen its mother.

The world wills of these great states instinctively abandoned resistance to the pulling Great Array, and, like fledgling swallows diving into a forest, converged their own primordial power toward the phantom of the World Tree!

At this moment, Gu Yuan was no longer a single person.

He became the shared vessel of the world wills of forty‑three great states!

With his cultivation at the Ten‑Realm Void‑God Realm, he forcibly commandeered this massive power that could even make immortal kings take notice!

"Not enough!"

Gu Yuan let out a long howl toward the heavens.

In his eyes, multicolored light swirled, as if reflecting the birth and death of all heavens.

"Scum of the Immortal Realm, look here!"

He twisted the converged world wills into a single force and slammed it toward the four immortal kings battling beyond the Boundary Wall!

This is not an attack.

It is a provocation.

It is a bare‑faced declaration—while you continue to fight outside, I will move your entire flock enclosure away!