Chapter 302: Just this?

The deepest secret chamber of the air-raid shelter.

Gu Yuan leaned sideways in a rosewood chair, holding a cup of freshly brewed spiritual tea.

The lid lightly flicked the water surface, producing a faint clink of porcelain.

The myriad rays of light floating before him were undergoing a wondrous change.

At the wick, the faint, hard-to-catch karma line suddenly began to throb violently.

As the Heavenly Origin Old Ancestor's emotions went out of control in A Qi's sea of consciousness, this line rapidly absorbed the other's soul fluctuations, turning from illusory to substantive, becoming a blazing red line that shot straight into the depths of the void.

Gu Yuan stopped fiddling with the lid.

"Found it."

"Just as I thought..."

"They neither fled nor chose self-destruction."

"Otherwise, all the preparations I've made so far would go to waste."

Meanwhile, Gu Xuan Ce clutched a handful of shattered seventh-grade crystal cores and excitedly slapped the table.

"Young master, it's done!"

"I can now link to thirty‑five percent of the Great Array; in terms of authority I'm no inferior to any True Immortal. If I can take down one and seize their authority, I'll control half the Array, so there's no need to worry about them breaking it and triggering a detonation."

Gu Yuan rose to his feet and smoothed his snowy‑white robe.

"Uncle Xuan Ce will stay here to hold the fort."

Gu Yuan's tone was calm, giving no hint of the killing intent of one about to go to battle,

"Since those old fogeys have awakened and are busy building a bridge to come down, I, ever hospitable, won't trouble them to rush—I'll go up and meet them myself."

Gu Xuan Ce nodded, unfazed, and kept tinkering with the parts in his hand.

He had blind faith in his young master's strength.

Although he was only at the Ten‑Level Void God Realm,

but Gu Yuan could borrow power.

And if all else fails…

he knows that.

the Old Ancestor is still waiting behind the gate.

Once, when Gu Xuan Ce was chatting with the Old Ancestor, the latter earnestly said: "I would actually be delighted to help Yuan'er clear away all obstacles."

"After all, if I don't act now and do a bit more, once Yuan'er has fully grown I can retire."

……

Outer space, the asteroid belt.

In the vacuum, the construction of the interworld passage had reached its final stage.

Just before the passage was about to take shape.

In the core region of the asteroid belt, space rippled with an imperceptible wave for no apparent reason.

There was no roar of torn void, nor any earth‑shaking portent.

A bronze gate woven from pure Dao laws simply hung there, right in the middle of the three Old Ancestors' encirclement.

The gate swung open.

Gu Yuan stepped out with his hands behind his back.

His white robe fluttered in the windless vacuum; though there was nothing to push off from, he stood firmer than the massive asteroids.

The construction of the interworld passage came to an abrupt halt.

The three Old Ancestors' motions froze mid‑air.

Having someone directly raid their lair and unleash a point‑blank assault was unprecedented in their three‑thousand‑year reign.

The Vajra Old Ancestor's mechanical eyes locked onto Gu Yuan, its internal scanning matrix spinning wildly.

"Warning. Target is a carbon‑based lifeform. No signs of prosthetic augmentation detected. No crystal‑core interface detected."

The electronic voice blared over the public channel,

"Energy level…… Peak of the Tribulation Crossing. Hazard rating: unknown."

The Return to the Ruins Old Ancestor's massive withered log thrashed violently, dark‑green poison swirling around it.

"Tribulation Crossing? I've never seen you before."

His dry, rasping voice, laced with extreme vigilance, said: "Who are you? How dare you barge into the core of the Stellar River Grand Array?"

Gu Yuan did not answer right away.

He looked around, his gaze sweeping over the thick energy pipelines as thick as mountains, driven deep into the asteroids, watching the endless spiritual qi drawn from the surface of the Heavenly Pivot Source Realm, and finally shook his head.

"For three thousand years you've seized the nest, ruined a corner of heaven and earth into this withered wreck, and yet you still act as if you own this world."

Gu Yuan lowered his eyelids slightly, his gaze sweeping over the three colossal beings, speaking lightly, as if stating a trivial fact.

"I've come to collect rent. And, may I borrow what's in your brains for a moment?"

Arrogant.

That was the only thought that crossed the three Old Ancestors' minds after hearing those words.

"Insolent worm, a mere Tribulation Crossing dare stir up the lower realm?" Starlight Old Ancestor shook his head. "No matter what illusion you used to get here, since you've come, you'll become nourishment for the Array."

Before the words faded, the killing formation was already active.

No probing, no holding back.

The three Old Ancestors, whose power rivaled True Immortals, unleashed their deadliest technique outright.

They aimed to kill him in a single strike.

In their view,

Although the Tribulation Crossing stage is strong.

But ultimately it is not a True Immortal.

Unexpectedly, they are still far behind!

The Vajra Ancestor's mechanical planet's surface split open a huge gap, and a ten-thousand-zhang tall alloy titan rose from within.

The titan's two palms came together, condensing a blinding white light at their centers.

That is a high-energy death ray capable of instantly melting through continental plates and evaporating entire oceans.

The light pillar tore through the vacuum, blasting straight at Gu Yuan's face.

The Starlight Ancestor's cerebral psychic power surged to full strength.

Tens of thousands of meteors around were forcibly redirected, forming a vast grinding array that sealed off all of Gu Yuan's escape routes.

The Return to the Ruins Ancestor then split open a massive crack in the withered wood, spewing out a sky-covering corrosive poison mist that could devour spatial laws—contact meant certain death.

Death ray, meteor array, corrosive poison mist.

A three-pronged assault, a deadly situation.

Yet, facing this heaven‑destroying, earth‑annihilating siege, Gu Yuan didn't lift a finger.

He simply stood there silently.

The Ten Realms Void God Realm corresponds to less than the Unity stage.

Gu Yuan himself, his surface aura, is only at the Holy Dao Realm level.

But that's only the surface.

If he can't even handle a few half‑finished True Immortals.

Even a few True Immortals that his Heavenly Emperor father could easily defeat are beyond him.

It's truly a waste of all the resources he's used.

Deep in Gu Yuan's dantian, the perfect prototype of a great world, supported by the World Tree and woven with myriad Dao laws, began to slowly turn.

He need not unleash any earth‑shaking divine abilities, nor sacrifice any Dharma treasure.

He himself is the greatest law of this heaven and earth.

Gu Yuan raised his right hand, fingers spread, and pushed forward flat.

The inner world's overbearing law, surpassing the defective heavenly way of the Heavenly Pivot Source Realm, descended with a boom.

The physical laws of this starry sky were forcibly rewritten under this palm.

That heaven‑destroying, earth‑annihilating high‑energy death ray, at a point three chi before Gu Yuan, struck an invisible wall of sighs and instantly shattered, dissipating into nothing.

The high‑speed spinning meteor grinding array was abruptly frozen in midair.

As for the sky‑filling corrosive poison mist, it couldn't even approach within ten zhang of Gu Yuan.

It was instead flung back by a sudden repulsive force, slamming hard onto the Return to the Ruins Ancestor's own withered‑wood body.

"This is impossible!"

The Starlight Ancestor's brainstem let out a piercing scream, and fine cracks split the wall of the nutrient‑fluid container.

They could not comprehend this power.

"Is that all you've got?"

Gu Yuan lowered his hand, his tone still calm,

"Now it's my turn."