Chapter 264: Sanqian Zhou Also Has Heaven's Pride

Gu Yuan continued walking along the stone path, extending a strand of his divine sense into another jade slip.

This jade slip records the recent situation of Sanqian Zhou cultivators after they merged into the Primordial Immortal Realm.

The forty major prefectures relocated en masse, as a vast population and Dao lineage poured in, making friction and conflict inevitable.

Even though the original sect leaders of Sanqian Zhou formed the "Little Sanqian Zhou Mutual Aid Association" to huddle for warmth, in the eyes of the Primordial Immortal Realm's ancient powers that have endured for millions of years,

these outsiders were ultimately just country bumpkins who had gotten a bit of the Gu Family's glory.

The flashpoint of the conflict was a young generation's exchange feast called the Myriad Dao Law Assembly.

The host was the native major sect of the Primordial Immortal Realm, Purple Dawn Holy Land; although it had no True Immortal, it did have a Heavenly Emperor Realm expert presiding over it.

The assembly's original purpose was to exchange martial insights and share resources.

The Sanqian Zhou Mutual Aid Association, to show its strength, also dispatched each prefecture's top-tier first-generation heaven's pride to attend.

The result was a one-sided humiliation.

The current Holy Son of Purple Dawn Holy Land had cultivated to the tenth level of the Void God Realm.

Converted to the former Sanqian Zhou standard, that equaled the level of one who had just entered the rank of Sect Leader.

A Holy Son under a hundred years old was able to suppress the entirety of Sanqian Zhou, as well as half of the veteran sect leaders.

The foundation of the Primordial Immortal Realm is evident in a glimpse!

He consecutively defeated eight top heaven's pride of Sanqian Zhou, striking heavily, each move aimed straight at the Dao foundation.

In the jade slip's image, that Holy Son stepped on the spine of a Sanqian Zhou heaven's pride, his tone dripping with extreme contempt.

"Is this the foundation of your Sanqian Zhou? Raised under a defective Heavenly Dao, you're trash; even if you were given more immortal substances, it wouldn't change your innate inferiority. The Gu Family grants you mercy, tossing you a bite of food, yet you actually consider yourselves a dish?"

Upon these words, the Sanqian Zhou cultivators were filled with indignant fury, yet none dared to step forward.

Skill lacking, further words are useless.

The Purple Dawn Holy Son's comprehension of Law indeed crushed them.

Just as the situation tilted completely against them and the Sanqian Zhou lost face,

an ice-blue sword light flew in from beyond the heavens, forcibly severing the Law seal that the Purple Dawn Holy Son had placed beneath his feet.

The newcomer wore a blue palace robe, her aura cold and transcendent.

Yue Xianzi.

Primordial Immortal Realm cultivators did not recognize her, merely taking her as another one come to throw away his life.

The Purple Dawn Holy Son snorted coldly, his body surging with thunderous Law, transforming into a Purple Lightning Mad Lion that roared as it lunged at Yue Xianzi.

Facing this thunderous strike, Yue Xianzi's expression remained calm as she drew her ice-blue longsword.

Their figures instantly intertwined, sword qi and thunder constantly colliding in the void, erupting in deafening roars.

What astonished everyone was that Yue Xianzi revealed only a ninth‑level cultivation, a full major realm below the Purple Dawn Holy Son.

Yet, in the midst of their fierce clash, Yue Xianzi did not fall behind in the slightest.

They exchanged moves back and forth, sparring for thousands of techniques.

Yue Xianzi's sword art appeared gentle, yet it contained a terrifying Law Power.

Three hundred Dao strands make a genius; a thousand make one peerless.

Yet within Yue Xianzi's body, at this very moment, flowed a full three thousand Dao strands!

Each swing of her sword seemed to carry the will of a world, neutralizing the Purple Dawn Holy Son's thunderous attacks one by one.

As the battle wore on, the Purple Dawn Holy Son grew increasingly alarmed, his spiritual power draining rapidly, while Yue Xianzi opposite him retained a steady breath, her Law flowing endlessly.

Finally, upon reaching the four‑thousandth exchange,

Yue Xianzi seized a opening in the Purple Dawn Holy Son, and the three thousand Dao strands surged forth, forming an impenetrable Law giant net.

The Purple Dawn Holy Son's mighty Purple Lightning Mad Lion, upon contacting that net, was instantly disintegrated into pieces without even a whimper.

Crushing with ease.

The backlash surged back like a mountain‑toppling sea; the Purple Dawn Holy Son spat blood profusely, his knees buckled, and he crashed to his knees before Yue Xianzi.

The entire venue fell silent.

The Primordial Immortal Realm's heaven's pride stared at the blue‑clad woman as if she were a monster.

Having crossed a major realm, battling thousands of exchanges, they actually managed to defeat the Primordial Immortal Realm's Holy Son head‑on!

This completely surpassed their common sense.

"Sanqian Zhou is not inferior to anyone."

Yue Xianzi looked down at the Purple Dawn Holy Son kneeling on the ground and threw out those words.

Amazement and reverence surged around like a tide. Had it been before, Yue Xianzi might have felt a hint of pride.

But now, her heart was utterly cold and empty.

She knew better than anyone where her invincible confidence came from.

She turned her back, ignored the surrounding clamor, and faced the extreme east of the Primordial Immortal Realm—the location of the Gu Family Divine Island.

Now she knew.

That day, who exactly was the person who gave her the pill?

The Gu Family's young master, Gu Yuan.

Under everyone's gaze, this peerless heaven's pride who had just displayed an invincible, overwhelming bearing among his peers straightened his attire, dropped to his knees, and performed the most solemn yet humble grand ceremony.

Her forehead pressed against the cold ground, her heart echoed only a single thought.

That Gu Family young master's grace had shaped her into who she is today.

This karmic bond weighs as heavily as Mount Tai.

All her glory is merely the leftover radiance that that person casually bestowed.

Gu Yuan watched the image in the jade slip of Yue Xianzi paying distant homage; he lightly rubbed his fingertip, and the jade slip crumbled to powder.

He did not gain much self-satisfaction.

Initially, giving that bottle of pill to the Moon Fairy was merely because I saw her stalk of Dragon Blood Treasure Medicine drained by me, and I handed it over as a casual compensation.

She managed, relying on a single bottle of pill, to condense three thousand dao patterns; while the pill's miraculous effect certainly played a part, far more so was this woman's ruthless determination and insight in burning her boats.

He is promising material.

Gu Yuan gave a fair evaluation, then promptly tossed it to the back of his mind.

……

Afterward, it was all useless information; Gu Yuan swept it with his divine sense, and that counted as having read it.

As he finished reading the jade slip, the road also reached its end.

At the end of the White Jade Stone Path lay a stretch of lush purple bamboo forest.

Gu Yuan stopped his steps and lifted his gaze.

Beneath the stoutest purple bamboo stood an old man clad in coarse hemp clothing.

The old man twirled two glossy, shiny walnuts in his hands, his body devoid of any spiritual fluctuations, exactly like a wealthy mortal basking in the sun.

"Grandfather." Gu Yuan stepped forward and paid his respects.

Gu Cangsheng had already left seclusion half a month ago.

The thread of pure sword-origin that Li Hentian possessed was thoroughly crushed and absorbed by him, becoming part of his own foundation.

These days, the old man's aura grows ever more returning to simplicity and truth; he is only a layer of thin as a cicada's wing window paper away from becoming a true major immortal king.

"Left seclusion?"

Gu Cangsheng stopped twirling the walnut in his hand, his gaze falling on Gu Yuan as he sized him up from head to toe.

The old man's gaze was very venomous; with just a glance he could see the clue.

"A very overbearing power."

"I have been in seclusion for a whole year, consuming vast resources; my realm…… indeed hasn't budged an inch, yet my power has swelled to the point even I cannot see through it."

Gu Cangsheng smacked his lips, "Your realm is stuck."