Chapter 263: The Human Emperor Body That Borrows a Tiger

In the first three months after the Twilight Divine Realm opened, the internal assessments of the various Dao lineages in the Primordial Immortal Realm were surprisingly unanimous—trifling.

All the sects, after scraping together the Gu Family's steep admission fee, eagerly dispatched their elite into that ancient realm, hoping to retrieve a few True Immortal treasures.

Even taking a step back, acquiring a bit of Immortal King Dao resonance is still beneficial.

When they came out clutching those five‑colored Divine Vessels, their faces showed a hint of disappointment.

"Is that it?"

"Spent all that resources on tickets, and only picked up a few stones?"

Some sect leaders, gazing at the large and small Divine Vessels before them, thought they fell short of the Immortal King relics they had envisioned.

After all, these Divine Vessels cannot be used as spirit stones nor directly refined into artifacts; they appear merely as glittering decorative ornaments.

Although they are said to enhance one's aptitude, to them it seemed just mediocre.

Then.

A change occurred.

The first to spot the clue was the Ji Family.

Ji Tianyou, as one of the oldest beings in the Primordial Immortal Realm, a True Immortal, and among the earliest True Immortal forces that pledged allegiance to the Gu Family, secured a leading position in both the number and quality of Divine Vessels acquired.

At first she just felt something was off.

She believed the Gu Family wouldn't use such scant heavenly materials to deceive them.

Thus, adopting a trial‑and‑error attitude, she granted several low‑grade Divine Vessels to a few moderately gifted, long‑stagnant young disciples of the Ji Family, supplementing them with a small amount of resources and her personal cultivation guidance.

Result—

Three days later.

A Ji Family disciple who had been trapped at the entrance of the Divine Dao Realm for a full eight hundred years, whose talent was merely above average, after absorbing a low‑grade Divine Vessel, suddenly broke through the realm!

Not only broke the realm.

Within just three days, this disciple's insight into the laws of heaven and earth and his grasp of the Dao experienced a radical, reborn transformation.

His originally sluggish comprehension was forcibly raised by one tier!

From a previously average posture, he vaulted to the level of a budding prodigy!

Ji Tianyou couldn't sit still at that moment.

She personally inspected the disciple's body, and the conclusion left her frozen in place.

"Low‑grade Divine Vessel… with diluted True Immortal blood and a handful of basic herbs, can it permanently enhance comprehension?"

It's not a temporary blessing.

It's not a brief enlightenment.

But a genuine, permanent talent enhancement!

What drove her crazy even more was that, after repeated testing, she discovered this enhancement had no upper limit.

Absorbing one Divine Vessel raises talent by one point.

Absorbing two raises it another point.

Ten, a hundred, a thousand…

Provided you have enough Divine Vessels, an otherwise average talent can, in theory, be forcibly built into a once‑in‑myriad‑years unparalleled demonic genius!

The sole cost might be that the True Immortal himself must shed a little extra blood.

But as long as it's not one's vital essence, merely a bit of ordinary blood.

She has plenty!

Ji Tianyou frantically suppressed the information, aiming to monopolize the benefit.

But paper ultimately can't contain fire.

Three months later.

Members of Ancestor Dragon Nest, the Hall of Ten Thousand Gods, and the Little Sanqian Zhou United Mutual Aid Association each, in turn, discovered the true purpose of the Divine Vessels.

The Primordial Immortal Realm—exploded.

Literally exploded.

If the road to Immortality is a sky‑piercing avenue prepared for the older generation's foundational existence.

Then Divine Vessels are the destiny source custom‑made for the younger generation!

For any power, Heavenly Pride is the future's foundation.

Without the inheritance of Heavenly Pride, even the mightiest Dao lineage is merely a one‑generation splendor.

When the green and yellow fail to meet, and there are no successors, that is a chronic death.

And now, the Gu Family tells them—Heavenly Pride can be manufactured in bulk.

All factions act as if gone mad.

The mid‑size and minor factions that had previously hesitated over the steep admission fee now would even dig up their ancestral graves to scrape together resources for entering the Twilight Divine Realm.

In an instant, the Primordial Immortal Realm was swept by an unprecedented 'Heavenly Pride wave'.

Countless young disciples were thrust by their sects into the Twilight Divine Realm, fighting desperately to hunt down the lingering evil‑god descendants and scramble for every Divine Vessel.

The entry slots for the Twilight Divine Realm saw their price multiply fivefold in just two months.

This even Gu Yuan hadn't expected.

"It appears that the second‑generation Divine Vessels contributed by the later‑added beasts after the mutation differ greatly from the first generation, making direct probing impossible; True Immortal blood is required as an intermediary."

And within the jade slip, a youth named Li Chengqian who possessed the Human Emperor Body left Gu Yuan with a faint impression.

This kind of constitution is considered invincible in the lower realms, yet in the Primordial Immortal Realm it is merely average.

It roughly equates to a saintly constitution.

The reason it could be recorded is straightforward.

He is connected to Gu Yuan.

This person, born on the Profound Heaven Continent of the Gu Family's domain, cobbled together a ticket and entered the Divine Realm alone.

By luck, he happened to find a broken high‑rank divine avatar deep in Soul‑cut Valley.

A commoner is innocent; possessing a gem is a crime.

The wave emitted by this half of the high‑rank divine avatar attracted a group of senior sect stewards and clan Heavenly Pride to block him.

Seven or eight Divine Dao realm, even Saint Dao, strongmen cornered Li Chengqian in a dead‑end of the canyon.

The jade slip recorded the battle details.

Li Chengqian revealed his trump card; the Human Emperor Body phenomenon was driven to the limit, and despite severe injuries he eliminated two free cultivators.

Yet two fists cannot match four hands; facing a Saint is still hard to surpass.

Even his life‑bound treasure was smashed.

The leading Saint raised a butcher's knife, ready to kill and loot.

At this life‑or‑death moment, Li Chengqian made an extremely absurd move.

He neither begged for mercy nor self‑detonated.

Instead, trembling, he fished from his chest a bright red, slightly wrinkled red fruit.

He held the poor‑looking fruit aloft and shouted hoarsely:

"Blind your dog eyes! Look closely at this! This is a token personally bestowed by the Young Master of the Gu Family! I am a prized person of the Gu Family; who dares to move a single hair on me, tomorrow the Gu Family's true immortal will trample your sect!"

The wind in the canyon stopped.

Those murderous strongmen froze in place.

The leading Saint stared at the red fruit, his divine sense scanning repeatedly.

The fruit is a red fruit.

It can only be said to be ordinary.

Yet on it remains a faint trace of an extremely high‑level karmic aura.

That aura is vast, profound, far beyond their comprehension.

No one dares to gamble.

The Gu Family is the supreme heavenly might now hanging over everyone's heads in the Primordial Immortal Realm.

To gamble a chance of angering the Gu Family for half a divine avatar?

Only a madman would do it.

The Saint weighed pros and cons, gritted his teeth, snorted coldly, and withdrew with his men.

Li Chengqian, relying on a broken fruit, forced his way back through the Ghost Gate.

Gu Yuan, seeing this, paused slightly and couldn't help a light laugh.

He remembered.

That was never a token of reward.

It was merely a red fruit he tossed casually that year when he first got the system, went to the Profound Heaven Continent, and saw someone being chased.

Moreover, most of that red fruit was eaten by Li Chengqian…

A quick calculation.

Shows that the karmic trace isn't because of the fruit.

But because of the stalk on the fruit…

Which Li Chengqian didn't eat, and that saved his life.

"This kid, he's got a clever mind."

Gu Yuan slipped the jade slip into his sleeve,

"He managed to turn the situation to my advantage, and even let him bluff his way through; that counts as talent."

In the cultivation world, the weak are devoured by the strong; survival never relies solely on fists.

Borrowing a tiger's might is also a skill.

Gu Yuan isn't displeased with such clever people; on the contrary, he finds it amusing.