Chapter 298: The Method of Pulling and Displacing Across All Realms

Night deepened.

The clamor of Heavenly Pivot City No. 11 did not subside with the arrival of night.

The fervor of revitalized spiritual energy filled every corner of the city with a restless urge for breakthroughs.

The secret chamber deep within the air‑raid shelter cut off all external noise.

Gu Yuan sat alone on a white jade chair.

He did not light a lamp; the only illumination in the chamber came from an ancient rustic copper lamp floating in his palm.

Myriad Time Lamp.

Its treasured wick did not blaze with flame, but instead streamed countless illusory threads symbolizing myriad paths and the river of ages.

Gu Yuan's deep eyes pierced the spatial barrier, directly locking onto the divine thought of Heaven Source Ancestor within A Qi's sea of consciousness.

During the brief daytime encounter in the chamber, Gu Yuan did more than merely strike A Qi.

With that single gaze, he silently wound a strand of the Time Lamp's karmic power around Heaven Source Ancestor's divine thought.

The Great Dao spans three thousand.

Cause and effect, time, space, yin and yang, chaos… all constitute the supreme Great Dao.

Except for true immortals who cultivate the Dao of karmic causality.

Ordinary true immortals would find it hard to perceive Gu Yuan's subtle trick.

"Let me see what methods you've hidden on this planet over these three thousand years."

Gu Yuan's thoughts flickered slightly.

The wick of the Myriad Time Lamp flared suddenly.

Fragmented scenes unfolded within Gu Yuan's sea of consciousness.

They were memory fragments of Heaven Source Ancestor; fearing detection, Gu Yuan only triggered a scattered fragment.

The images were highly fragmented.

There was the bloody massacre three thousand years ago dubbed the "Cleansing World Accord"; the massive project where four great conglomerates jointly forged the Star River Gathering Spirit Array; and the scene where Heaven Source Ancestor, to eke out survival, merged his dying body with the core of an asteroid belt.

Gu Yuan had no interest in these stale, trivial affairs.

The fusion of mechanical technology and cultivation in the Heavenly Pivot Source Realm, though a deviant path, even the four elders' ability to seal a realm's spiritual energy and bind the Great Array perfectly with earth veins—an array‑path level that Gu Xuan Ce, already at the peak true‑immortal array path, could not fathom.

Clearly, this already explains the issue well.

And in a fleeting corner.

Gu Yuan discovered something interesting.

This thing could even let him briefly set aside his search for the mastermind.

Then a fragmentary scripture transformed into countless golden ancient seal characters, hovering before Gu Yuan.

The Method of Pulling and Displacing Across All Realms.

Gu Yuan's gaze swept over those seal characters, and a rare ripple stirred in his usually calm eyes.

It is neither a combat technique for killing nor a cultivation method for breathing, and he possesses only its frontispiece and a few scattered pages.

Even comprehension is difficult.

Yet the core principle of this ancient method is how, without damaging the world's origin, to detach an entire great world from its original cosmic coordinates, pull it to new coordinates, and even force it to merge with other great worlds.

It resembles Gu Cangsheng's forceful method of dragging a great world back.

However, unlike Gu Cangsheng's brute‑breaking of myriad laws, this Method of Pulling and Displacing Across All Realms also records a system‑like portal.

It can connect the positions of two great worlds within an infinitesimally short distance.

Based on this fragment, Gu Yuan inferred that perhaps Heaven Abyss Ancestor and his peers, having obtained this method from unknown sources, grasped the technique of tightly binding the Star River Great Array to the earth veins of the Heavenly Pivot Source Realm, thereby achieving absolute monopoly over global spiritual energy.

"Wasting heavenly resources," Gu Yuan evaluated in four characters.

This instantly sparked countless possible applications in Gu Yuan's mind.

The Gu Family's current situation appears glorious but is actually rife with hidden currents.

Relocating Sanqian Zhou is a high‑stakes gamble.

The Gu Family won, yet exposed their trump card.

To uproot those forty major states, Gu Xuan Ce deployed the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Qian Yin Formation, Gu Cangsheng fought to the death outside, blocking the Celestial Realm's pursuers, and finally infused the essence of Zhenyuan Immortal King, sacrificing most of his life force as energy.

The cost was too great.

Sanqian Zhou still has over two thousand major states remaining.

If following the previous relocation model, to pack the entire Sanqian Zhou back to the Ancient Celestial Realm, the Gu Family would need to hunt down over twenty Jue Dian Immortal Kings to fill the Great Array's void.

That is clearly unrealistic.

The Supreme Immortal King of the Celestial Realm is not blind, nor are Jue Dian Immortal Kings mere cabbages in the field.

And the system‑provided cross‑realm portal, though handy and untrackable even by Immortal Kings, comes with many restrictions.

It suits elite squads for raids and evacuations, but cannot remain open long or on a large scale; before transporting a great world, it must first be compressed by mighty force.

Now… if the complete Method of Pulling and Displacing Across All Realms were obtained, it could be combined with Gu Xuan Ce's Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array.

Just imagining that scene, Gu Yuan thought it held great promise.

Beyond that, even within the Ancient Celestial Realm.

The Gu Family could also open portals to individual great worlds, such as the Ten Thousand Herbs Great World, the Dusk Divine Realm… even… the current Heavenly Pivot Source Realm.

Without needing Gu Yuan to use the system each time.

After all… power and means are better kept in one's own hands.

Gu Yuan lightly tapped the armrest of the rosewood chair with his fingertips.

Originally, he regarded the four financial elder ancestors of the Heavenly Pivot Source Realm with a "clean up the trash" attitude.

Just to complete the system task and obtain the Enlightenment Mat, nothing more.

But now, the nature has changed.

These four old guys hide the Gu Family's core technology for future cross‑realm expansion.

This ancient method exists only as fragments in Ancestor Tian Yuan's memory.

If we want to obtain it, we must acquire the divine soul of one of the Four Great Ancestors.

We have to capture them alive. We have to hunt the soul. We have to drain everything from these four old guys' brains, word for word, without leaving a single thing.

Gu Yuan put away the Ten Thousand Path Time Lamp.

The secret chamber fell back into darkness.

"I only meant to fish, but who knew the fish's belly also hides a pearl."

Gu Yuan let out a light laugh.

He stood up and walked to the corner of the secret chamber.

There, Gu Xuan Ce was lying sprawled among the heap of abandoned formation plates, snoring.

Gu Yuan did not wake him.

The plan needs fine‑tuning.

Since we must capture them alive, the net has to be woven tighter.

In the fishpond that is Tian Shu No. 11 City, we must add more strong bait, first forcing Ancestor Tian Yuan's true body to pour in more divine souls.

Gu Yuan pushed open the door of the secret chamber and went out.

Outside the passage, Tie Tu stood respectfully waiting.

"Sir." Tie Tu bowed and saluted.

"I will grant you a life‑saving item; from tomorrow onward, the Reverse Spirit Manual will not only be spread in City No. 11, but also in the surrounding City No. 12 and City No. 13, engraving the technique onto the foreheads of their city‑defense troops."

Gu Yuan spoke in a flat tone, issuing the order that would drive the entire Tian Shu Source Realm completely mad.

"I want this fire to scorch all forty‑nine cities."