Chapter 321: Three Years

Time slips away.

Time in the Primordial Immortal Realm passes silently within a strange calm.

Three years.

For mortals, three years are enough to change many things.

But for cultivators whose lifespans are counted in millions of years, three years are merely a nap.

Yet during these three years, the Primordial Immortal Realm has undergone earth‑shaking changes.

On the back mountain of the Gu Family Divine Island, the deliberately suppressed chaotic pressure rises each day at a terrifying speed.

Even with layers of arrays masking it, the space around the Divine Island still sporadically suffers large‑scale collapses.

The Heavenly Dao's will in the Primordial Immortal Realm lacks even the courage to approach the Gu Family Divine Island, forever trembling in the distant starry sky.

Under the Gu Family's resource bias and Iron Butcher's iron‑fisted governance, the Heaven Pivot Realm has fully completed the transition of the cultivation civilization.

The grotesque fusion of machinery and true cultivation has been wholly discarded, and legitimate cultivation academies have sprung up one after another.

The Fortune Children recruited by Gu Yuan, nurtured by Gu Family techniques, have surged in cultivation; dozens have broken through to the Sixth Realm, Questing Realm, just one step shy of the Divine Dao Realm.

Gu Xuan Ce's Heavenly Craft Pavilion has also begun to take shape.

He successfully deciphered the Spiritual Energy Drive technology of the Heaven Pivot Source Realm, combined it with the Primordial Immortal Realm's arrays, and forged a batch of heavy spiritual‑energy battleships called Starfall.

These warships require no high‑rank cultivators to pilot; loading enough spiritual stones lets them unleash devastation comparable to the Supreme Realm.

Though they're of little use to the Gu Family.

They can be used to guard peripheral forces, and the effect is quite good.

On the other side, Wan Yao Divine Lord, after expending countless heavenly materials, finally forged the legendary Heaven‑Stealing Creation Pill using the Half Dao Body of the Heavenly Enlightened Immortal King.

After ingesting the pill, he immediately entered seclusion and has not emerged to this day.

In Wan Yao Divine Lord's seclusion realm, the daily Dao‑Essence pressure generated is only slightly weaker than the Ancestor's.

As for Gu Yuan.

In these three years, he has not set foot beyond the Divine Island.

His daily routine is to recline on a vine chair in the Purple Bamboo Forest, sipping Dao‑Understanding tea brewed by the blue phoenix, while closing his eyes to nurture his spirit.

Outsiders think the Gu Family heir is indulging in a decadent second‑generation cultivator's life, but only Gu Yuan knows how his inner world is undergoing a cataclysmic transformation.

The integration of the Heaven Pivot Source Realm has provided the inner world with a complete material foundation.

After devouring massive fragments of the Heavenly Dao and the Extinction Black Flame, the World Tree has grown to an inconceivable scale.

Chaotic Qi flow in the inner world creates heaven and earth; pure Qi rises to form the sky, turbid Qi descends to become the ground.

The three thousand great Dao become tangible law chains, firmly anchoring this newborn great world within the void.

He did not choose to eradicate the original lifeforms of the Heaven Pivot Source Realm, nor brutally crush the flawed Heavenly Dao.

As Grandfather Gu Cangsheng said, forcibly replacing the Heavenly Dao and growing rapidly by devouring all things would bind one deeply to the world, reducing one to a pure consumption machine.

So Gu Yuan chose the third path—building a wooden conduit to the heavens, using his body as an anchor.

He forged the deepest resonance between his immortal, everlasting body and the World Tree.

He is not the Heavenly Dao, yet with a single word he can nullify the Heavenly Dao.

He is not the master of the world, but he is the cornerstone of this world's existence.

"Hoo…"

Gu Yuan slowly exhaled a long breath, tinged with a hint of gray‑purple chaotic Dao rhythm; it brushed the Purple Bamboo Forest, causing several nearby purple bamboos to instantly surge dozens of zhang, their trunks subtly revealing immortal Dao patterns.

He slowly opened his eyes, and within his deep gaze seemed a universe of stars and rivers ebbing and flowing.

"Three years have passed; the foundation is now thoroughly solidified, and the materials and laws of the Heaven Pivot Realm have been fully assimilated."

Gu Yuan lifted the Dao‑Understanding tea from the table, took a light sip, and a satisfied curve lifted the corner of his mouth,

"The time has come."

In his mind, with an extremely calm yet undeniably authoritative tone, he communicated with the system that had been dormant for a long time.

"Little Love."

【Ding! I'm here! (*^▽*)】

The system's mechanical voice instantly rang in Gu Yuan's sea of awareness, its tone oddly human, relieved and flattering.

【Host! Great host! Have you finally remembered this system? Have you finally recalled that you still have a tremendously generous vacation‑task reward unclaimed? These three years, this system has watched that reward gather dust in the background, it hurts!】

【Three years, do you know how I spent these three years…?】

The system, clearly choked by Gu Yuan's three years of "cold violence," babbles nonstop, trying to win the host over with a breezy, flattering tone.

Since the Heaven Pivot Source Realm mission was completed, Gu Yuan only extracted those ten ten‑million‑year premium spirit veins to power the Great Celestial Star Array, as well as the Dao‑Understanding mat and the innate chaotic violet Qi; the remaining core rewards have been kept in the system space, never once glanced at.

The system knows clearly that as its own intelligence grows, Gu Yuan's guard against it strengthens, and it is eager to demonstrate its worth.

"Fine, shut up, no more chatter."

Gu Yuan mercilessly cut off the system's chitchat with a cold voice.

He knows the broken system's nature too well; give it a hint of color and it can open a dye workshop.

"Extract task rewards."

Gu Yuan set down the tea cup, sat up slightly, his gaze becoming unprecedentedly focused and fierce.

【Ծ‸Ծ】

【Ding! Command received! Extracting remaining mainline and ultimate task rewards of the Heaven Pivot Source Realm for the host…】

【Mainline Task 1: Destroy any conglomerate's giant spirit‑collecting array, releasing the imprisoned heaven‑and‑earth spirit Qi—Completed!】

【Mainline Task 2: Slay or subdue at least one top magnate of a conglomerate—Completed!】

【Ultimate Task: Completely shatter the spirit‑Qi monopoly of the four great conglomerates, restoring the Heavenly Dao of this realm to nature—Completed!】

【Reward distribution in progress…】

【Reward One: World Origin Core*1！】

【Reward Two: World Tree Advanced Nourishment*1 portion！】

【Because the Innate Chaotic Purple Qi, ten strands of ten-million-year supreme-grade spirit veins, and Dao Comprehension Meditation Mat have been pre-extracted and used, this extraction only distributes the aforementioned two core rewards. Extraction successful! Please receive, host!】