Chapter 261: The Changing Inner World

After the clamor of the loot‑division meeting faded, the Gu Family's core senior officials moved to the secret chamber.

The secret chamber's formation was fully activated, cutting off all heavenly‑mechanism probing.

Beside the long table, Gu Cangsheng, Gu Lin Tian, Gu Yuan, and Gu Xuan Ce took their seats in order.

The Divine Lord Wan Yao, as a guest minister, sat at the chief seat on the right.

In the center of the table lay two items.

A clump of deep‑blue, fragmented flesh and blood emitted a heart‑pounding Immortal King Law Wave.

This was the remnants of Zhenyuan Immortal King after his primal source was drained, a bit of corpse and fragments of Dao Fruit.

On the other side was a strand of jet‑black sword aura wrapped in chaotic qi.

Li Hentian, in order to escape death, forcibly stripped the pure Sword Dao primal source.

Gu Yuan reached out and pushed that deep‑blue Immortal King corpse before Gu Xuan Ce.

"Uncle Xuan Ce, this belongs to you."

Gu Xuan Ce stared at the corpse, his breath suddenly heavy: "Young Master, this… this is Immortal King flesh, with Dao Fruit fragments inside. Give it to me? I'm a formation practitioner, taking this thing…"

"Relocating forty states, the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Qian Yin Formation contributed immensely."

Gu Yuan cut off his refusal: "This corpse contains Zhenyuan Immortal King's lifelong understanding of spatial laws. Take it, go ask Senior Divine Lord Wan Yao; he masters formation Dao, and with his guidance, you can refine this corpse into your body, enough to let you reach the Immortal King threshold in formation Dao."

Gu Xuan Ce's eyes reddened.

Formation Dao Immortal King.

That is a realm in the Ancient Celestial Domain that, since records began, no one has ever attained.

Although now there is the Divine Lord Wan Yao.

This is what made the relocation of Sanqian Zhou go much smoother.

Yet… a single Immortal King‑level formation master.

Is still far too few.

He stood, gave Gu Yuan a deep bow without a word of thanks, and carefully placed the corpse into a custom jade box.

Gu Yuan turned to the far end of the long table.

"Senior Divine Lord Wan Yao."

Divine Lord Wan Yao immediately straightened his posture, his tone respectful: "What are your orders, Young Master."

"The Immortal King divinity within Zhenyuan's corpse is too much for Uncle Xuan Ce to absorb; the divinity you strip out, Senior, you refine yourself. Your twilight Immortal King's flesh is too badly damaged; it needs high‑quality divinity for repair."

Divine Lord Wan Yao was stunned.

He had thought he was merely a laborer helping with refinement, never expecting the Young Master to give him the most precious Immortal King divinity.

This is solid Immortal King essence!

With this divinity, the time for him to restore Jue Dian Immortal King's combat power can be shortened by at least one hundred thousand years!

"I… shall exhaust my liver and brain, die only after completing it!" Divine Lord Wan Yao rose, bowing to the end, his voice trembling with unmistakable excitement and gratitude.

He now truly felt that following the Gu Family was far better than being a lone wandering spirit.

Gu Cangsheng reached out and grasped that jet‑black Sword Dao source in his hand.

"That old dog Li Hentian has no other skills, but he's cultivated the sword intent that severs cause and effect right into his bones."

The old man toyed with the sword aura, "I'll go close a seal and digest this thing. Next time we meet him, we'll tear him and his true form apart."

After speaking, Gu Cangsheng's figure flashed and vanished from the secret chamber.

With the core loot distribution completed, everyone dispersed.

Gu Yuan returned to his own palace, activated the highest‑grade protective formation, and sat cross‑legged on a white jade bed.

Secluding.

During the relocation of forty states, he used his own body as a medium to channel massive world will.

Though those wills have dispersed as the great continent merged into the Ancient Celestial Domain, a portion of the purest world origin remains within his body.

Divine consciousness sank, entering the dantian.

Gu Yuan was stunned by the scene before him.

His dantian could no longer be called a dantian.

It was a truly perfect embryonic great world.

The World Tree sapling had grown into a towering tree, its multicolored glow enveloping the boundless realm.

Above the Heavenly Dome, sun, moon and stars moved along fixed orbits; below the earth, mountains rose and rivers surged.

What shocked him most was the law that flows through this heaven and earth.

The Ancient Celestial Domain's laws were ineffective here.

Here, space, time, the five elements, birth and death were all defined by the World Tree's roots and branches.

He could make time flow backward.

He could make life and death inverted.

All within a single thought of Gu Yuan.

He tried it.

Within the dantian world, he reversed a river's flow with a single thought.

The water ran upstream, the withered spirit grass on the bank turned green and sprouted, shattered stones reassembled themselves, everything like a sandglass rewound, without obstruction.

Then, he attempted to manifest this reverse power outward.

Boom.

This was his dantian world's first direct clash with the Heavenly Dao of the Ancient Celestial Domain.

A thin layer of golden sweat seeped from Gu Yuan's brow.

That feeling was like a person trying to push an entire mountain range with their arms.

When the laws of his internal world had just crossed the dantian barrier and probed into the legal system of the Primordial Immortal Realm, it felt like stepping a foot into solidified asphalt. The omnipresent will of the Heavenly Dao was like countless iron chains, tightly binding that thread of reverse force.

It's not rejection.

It's crushing.

The Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Immortal Realm is a complete legal system forged through countless eons of sedimentation.

It is vast, heavy, and watertight; each thread of law meshes and supports countless other laws, forming a massive net as tight as an iron plate.

While his dantian world, though already the prototype of a perfect great world, and though its internal laws form a self-contained, self-consistent system—yet in scale, it is like a dewdrop striking an ocean.

Gu Yuan let out a muffled grunt, and a trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

Dozens of leaves of the World Tree inside his dantian dimmed, a spiderweb-like crack appeared on the ground, and the chaotic singularity frantically spun for three breaths before sealing the crack.

Just this one broken teacup.

It almost exhausted all of his strength at this moment.

"The complete immortal realm's rules are indeed terrifying…"

He wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth, not discouraged.

Immediately afterward, Gu Yuan made a second attempt.

This time he no longer attempted to reverse the rules.

Instead, he followed the direction of the Primordial Immortal Realm's existing laws, pouring the power of his dantian world into it.

This time, the resistance sharply decreased.

It was like going from pushing a mountain to pushing a door.

Gu Yuan activated the roots of the World Tree, following the spatial law patterns of the Primordial Immortal Realm, and embedded a strand of power belonging to his own world into it.

Space trembled slightly; before him, three zhang of void appeared a layer of near‑transparent ripples—this was the resonance produced when his world's laws briefly overlapped with the immortal realm's laws.

Within the three‑chi radius covered by those ripples, the flow of spiritual qi underwent a subtle deviation.

It was not a heaven‑shattering reversal, but a gentle guidance.

It was like opening an extremely fine tributary in a great river.

The water still flowed in the same direction.

But in this tributary, the rules are set by him!

Even if the range is small.

Even if it's only thirty percent!

This means…

If Gu Yuan is strong.

Perhaps it could allow the rules of his internal world to descend and affect the rules of the Primordial Immortal Realm!