Chapter 262: One Year

A moment later Gu Yuan was exhausted, and the ripple vanished.

He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

Two experiments, two conclusions.

First, forcibly reversing the laws of the Ancient Celestial Realm with his current peak cultivation of the Tenth Realm would cost an unacceptably high price.

Just the time it took to push a shattered teacup almost tore the dantian world apart.

Second, if one follows the direction of the Celestial Realm's laws, the resistance would be far smaller.

Relatively speaking, it would be considerably easier.

But it is only relative.

That three‑foot ripple was already the limit of his full effort.

If he wishes to project the entire dantian world's system of laws into reality, forming an area large enough to cover a battlefield and rewrite the rules—

it is far beyond reach.

At least with his current strength, it is far beyond reach.

Yet within Gu Yuan's pupils, multicolored light flickered uncertainly.

He was contemplating a possibility.

An extremely crazy possibility.

If one day his dantian world truly matures.

Not a prototype, not a half‑finished product, but a genuine, complete great world comparable to the Ancient Celestial Realm.

Then, any being that steps into his domain must obey the rules he defines.

When an Immortal King steps in, the Immortal King's laws become invalid.

No.

To be precise, the Immortal King's laws are not recognized in his world.

It is like a person holding a nation's passport entering another country's territory—no matter how authentic the passport, it is just a piece of scrap metal.

The Immortal King's Dao Fruit, his origin, and the great Dao laws he has contemplated for millions of years, once they enter his world, are judged by his world's will as foreign laws.

Foreign laws, under the host world's will, are either heavily discounted or outright nullified.

Gu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze calm and profound.

The day is still far away.

But the road is already visible.

Reining in those distant thoughts, Gu Yuan steadied his mind and refocused his attention inward.

His body still retained a massive amount of world essence seized during the relocation of the great continent, and the outside world possessed an indestructible material so dense it could turn into golden rain.

This is an excellent cultivation opportunity.

He executed a technique, completely sealing the Travel Palace's highest‑grade protective array, cutting off all external perception and disturbance, and formally began his seclusion.

……

……

Just as Gu Yuan completely sealed the Travel Palace Great Array and fell into deep seclusion,

Above the main hall of the Celestial Court in the Ancient Celestial Realm.

Gu Lin Tian stood with his arms crossed, overlooking this vast domain whose spiritual qi boiled from the merging of forty great continents.

In his deep eyes flickered the authority and shrewdness of one who controls everything.

According to the plan he had previously discussed with Yuan'er, the loot‑splitting ceremony was only the first step.

Gu Lin Tian inhaled deeply, his late‑stage true immortal cultivation roared into motion, and his majestic voice, like thunder across the nine heavens, instantly echoed throughout the Ancient Celestial Realm, even reaching clearly into the ears of every newly‑subjugated Sanqian Zhou patriarch.

'I am the head of the Gu Family, Gu Lin Tian.'

'Today, I have something to announce to the heavens!'

'The Gu Family, within the boundless void, has seized control of an ancient world called the Twilight Divine Realm. This realm is unique; a true supreme Immortal King once fell here!'

'Within it not only nurtures ancient gods comparable to the Celestial Emperor realm and supreme divine beings capable of reshaping the Dao foundation and enhancing comprehension, but at its core still lingers the great Dao relics and Dao resonance left after the Immortal King's fall!'

'The Gu Family has already suppressed the perilous core of this realm, and now decides to make it a trial secret realm for the Hall of Immortals, opening it to the entire Ancient Celestial Realm!'

'Anyone aspiring to comprehend the Immortal King's Dao, to hunt deities and seize destiny, may apply to enter. However, maintaining the cross‑realm passage is difficult, slots are limited, and entrants must pay the full amount of resources as the price to activate the array!'

When these words were spoken, the entire Ancient Celestial Realm, together with the forty newly‑merged great continents,

after experiencing a death‑like silence, instantly erupted into an unprecedented total boiling!

Twilight Divine Realm! Immortal King Relics! Divine Realm!

Within the bases of various factions, gasps of cold air rose and fell.

Although they did not know what use a divine realm had.

But that did not stop their hearts from stirring.

Does the Gu Family's credibility need any further mention?

If you really want everything clarified…

They still have a turn to get it!

Almost simultaneously, all the tycoons who had just received thirty percent of the Gu Family's resources thought the same thing.

They must secure the first slot to enter.

They completely ignored that the Sanqian Zhou resources had only been in hand for a few days and hadn't even been warmed up yet.

……

Gu Lin Tian stood on the main hall, watching the message jade talismans from all directions rush madly toward the Gu Family's divine island, a faint inscrutable smile curling at the corner of his mouth.

Yuan'er was right; the wool comes from the sheep itself. Not only must the sheep hand over its wool, but one must also make these sheep willingly and gratefully line up to be sheared.

In an instant.

A year's time quietly passed in absolute silence.

On the white jade stone path of the Gu Family Divine Island, Gu Yuan ended his year-long seclusion and walked forward slowly.

His state at this moment exuded a profound and strange wonder that was hard to put into words.

Countless Gu Family juniors and servants passing by would, when brushing past him, instinctively stop their steps and respectfully call out 'Young Master'.

Yet many more people passed straight through his body without even noticing.

He seemed like a phantom wandering outside the laws of the Primordial Immortal Realm, such that even the traces of space and time could not leave a definite mark on him.

Gu Yuan did not mind this wondrous state between illusion and reality.

As he walked, he sent out a strand of powerful and unmatched divine sense, calmly perusing the jade slip information that had gathered in his sea of consciousness, checking the various changes that had occurred in the Primordial Immortal Realm over the past year.

Many things happened in the Primordial Immortal Realm this year.

First and foremost was the Immortal Ascension Path.

As numerous True Immortal-level forces took control of the great provinces of the Three Thousand Provinces allotted to them.

The abundance of immortal material allowed many half-dead foundations within to break through one after another.

Afterward, they rushed to find Gu Xue Dao, the current external affairs manager in charge of the Immortal Ascension Path, to pay their fees.

Overall.

The Primordial Immortal Realm broke through to True Immortal at an average rate of one per month, half of which were from the Gu Family.

It is not that the Gu Family does not want to produce more True Immortals.

But they have also discovered the key to the problem.

The gap between breaking through to True Immortal via the Immortal Ascension Path from the Supreme Realm and breaking through to True Immortal from the Heavenly Emperor Realm is still considerable.

When a Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivator breaks through to True Immortal, with a bit of luck they could directly enter the mid True Immortal stage, and at worst they would be at the peak of the early True Immortal stage.

Such as Jiang Rou, Gu Linjiang, and Gu Xuan Ce, the three of them.

They have all already broken through to the mid stage.

Meanwhile, Gu Xue Dao and Gu Zhan are still wandering in the early stage.

In order to maintain balance.

The Gu Family still lets some elders with decent talent break through later, polishing their foundations as much as possible in the Supreme Realm, hoping to achieve thick accumulation and thin eruption in the True Immortal Realm.

However, even so.

The Gu Family's own True Immortals have already exceeded twenty!

True Immortals from the outer realms have reached ten!

Besides that.

It is the Three Thousand Provinces.

Including the Lei and Huo Provinces.

Currently, the number of the Three Thousand Provinces that have been incorporated into the Primordial Immortal Realm has reached forty-two.

The original sect masters of these forty-two provinces have formed a small group within the Primordial Immortal Realm.

Named the 【Little Three Thousand Provinces Mutual Aid Association】.

They support each other, and also have covert support from the Gu Family.

In just one year, some exceptionally talented sect masters have broken through to the Supreme Realm and are currently preparing to walk the Immortal Ascension Path to break through to True Immortal.

In the current environment where the number of True Immortals in the Primordial Immortal Realm is ever increasing.

Only being at the Supreme Realm is still not enough.

One must break through to the True Immortal Realm!

As for the Gu Family's opened Twilight Divine Realm, it has also stirred up considerable waves.

"Huh? There's also the matter of the Human Emperor Body and the Moon Fairy in this?"