Chapter 376: Recruiting and the Grand Secretary

This moment.

The void was no longer void; it had become Gu Cangsheng's canvas.

The river of time manifested beneath his feet, yet it was as gentle as a domesticated stream, daring not to erode him in the slightest.

Myriad grand dao principles intertwined behind him, yet they were only fit to adorn his coarse linen robe as mere embellishments.

The region he occupied became an absolute domain of the Dao.

Here, he was the rule; he was the heavenly principle.

The manic grin on the Heaven Initiation Immortal King's face froze.

"Gi... giant..."

The two words squeezed from his throat were filled with endless despair.

He couldn't understand.

Why?

Why, just a moment ago this old thing was nothing more than a troublesome half-step giant, yet after forcibly taking the World-Eroding Bone Nail, he not only avoided being backlashed by the World-Extinguishing True Intent, but actually pierced through that layer of window paper that countless Immortal Kings dream of?

The Deep Spring Immortal King was equally stiff all over; his face, shrouded in gray-black mist, for the first time revealed a clear outline… a visage twisted by extreme shock.

Without hesitation, he turned and tried to rend the void to flee.

What human dao supreme treasure, what spatial secret art—before obtaining them, facing a genuine giant Immortal King… they're all bullshit!

However, he horrifiedly discovered that the space of this star field had become harder than the core divine metal of the immortal realm; his Source-Extinguishing Power seeped in, like a mud ox entering the sea, unable to raise even a ripple.

"Run?"

Gu Cangsheng finally moved; he merely glanced faintly at the Deep Spring Immortal King.

Just that glance, the Deep Spring Immortal King was struck as if by lightning; his Immortal King's law body uncontrollably fell from the void, and the Source-Extinguishing Power surrounding him, capable of polluting a major world, was forcibly pressed back into his body, madly crashing into his Dao Fruit.

Gu Cangsheng paid no heed to that already frightened little fish; his murky old eyes shifted back to the Heaven Initiation Immortal King, he cracked a smile, revealing a mouthful of teeth yellowed by tobacco.

"Kid, what did you just say? Let me watch my own Dao Fruit corrode into a puddle of pus and blood?"

He raised the fist pierced by the World-Eroding Bone Nail; the dark-gold blood at the wound had ceased flowing, while strands of gray-purple chaotic qi, like a grindstone, ground and absorbed that overbearing World-Extinguishing True Intent bit by bit.

"No… impossible! The lord's true intent is invincible! How could you…"

"Lord?"

Gu Cangsheng dug his ear, his face full of impatience,

"You've been brainwashed into this? What an idiot."

"As for your master… if he truly has the guts, let his true form come out and spar with me, sending you lot of useless snacks to die—what's that supposed to be?"

Before his words even faded, Gu Cangsheng moved.

He didn't unleash any earth-shaking divine abilities; he simply took a step forward and then threw a punch.

This punch was slow.

So slow that even a mortal could see the trajectory of his fist.

But the Heaven Initiation Immortal King found he could not evade.

Time, space, causality, fate… everything was locked down by this punch.

He could only watch helplessly as that fist, coiled with chaotic qi, kept enlarging in his pupil.

"No! Deep Spring, save me! Grand Secretary, save me!"

The Heaven Initiation Immortal King let out a hysterical shriek, frantically driving the drop of dark-gold true blood within him; the half-step giant's power erupted fully, forming a shield as heavy as a star, the World-Extinguishing Shield, placed before him.

However, it was useless.

Gu Cangsheng's fist lightly landed on that shield.

There was no roar, no explosion.

That shield, condensed from pure Source-Extinguishing Power and giant's true blood, melted like snow under sunlight, silently and soundlessly.

Immediately after, the fist landed on the Heaven Initiation Immortal King's chest.

Crack.

A soft sound.

The Heaven Initiation Immortal King lowered his head, incredulously gazing at his own chest.

There was no blood hole, no wound, only an expanding void.

His Immortal King's law body, his Dao Fruit, his True Spirit… everything was being slowly yet tyrannically decomposed and worn away by that chaotic power, particle by particle, from the most basic level.

"You… you…"

He wanted to say something, but realized he couldn't even produce a sound.

"If you dare move my grandson, you ought to have anticipated this outcome."

Cangsheng's voice echoed in his sea of consciousness, icy and cruel,

"In your next life, take a good rebirth; don't be anyone's dog again."

"Bang."

A soft sound, like a soap bubble popped.

The master of the forty-eighth branch of Now Faction: Zang Tian Ge, whom the Grand Secretary had placed high hopes upon, the Heaven Initiation Immortal King wielding the World-Eroding Bone Nail, thus in full view of all, turned into nothingness, not even a speck of dust left.

His three-tenths True Spirit pledged as collateral to the Grand Secretary, at the moment of utter erosion, transformed into an extremely obscure causal coordinate, breaking through Gu Cangsheng's domain and shooting toward the unknown depths of the endless void.

Gu Cangsheng did not go to intercept.

He merely clapped his hands, as if brushing dust off his robes, then turned his head to look toward the direction in which the surviving Blood Robe Immortal King fled.

He raised his hand, making a grasping gesture toward that expanse of void.

"Give it to me, get back here."

That Blood Robe Immortal King, who had already fled millions of li and was frantically burning his origin, suddenly let out a scream of utter terror.

The space around him was like a crumpled paper ball, forcibly yanking him out of lightspeed movement, then snapping back at an even more terrifying speed!

Just a single breath.

The Blood Robe Immortal King went thud, flung to Gu Yuan's feet, like a dog with a broken spine, trembling, not even daring to lift its head.

Grandpa, mighty!

Gu Yuan grinned, clasped his hands, then stepped on the Blood Robe Immortal King's head, lowering his head to ask:

Speak, where is the Zang Tian Ge's lair? Besides that Grand Elder, are there any other big shots? Your Sovereign, is it male or female, and what do they look like?

The Blood Robe Immortal King's body and soul trembled; facing this grandfather-grandson pair, each more outrageous than the last, how could he dare hide anything?

However, before he could speak.

A will, far surpassing the Heavenly Initiate Immortal King and even more terrifying and evil than the You Quan Immortal King, descended along that karmic coordinate with a boom!

The starlight of the entire starfield dimmed completely at this moment.

An eyeball, huge beyond description, formed of countless twisting, writhing dark-red flesh, slowly opened from the void.

The eyeball's pupil was a bottomless black fissure, from which came the anguished wails of billions of beings being sacrificed alive.

Zang Tian Ge, Grand Elder!

His will, crossing endless spacetime, has descended!

Who…… killed my envoy and destroyed the Sovereign's bone nail?

That sound spread without any medium, ringing directly in the depths of everyone's souls, icy, eerie, carrying an indifference that treats all things as straw dogs.

The You Quan Immortal King, upon feeling this will, was so frightened he immediately knelt in the void, not even daring to breathe.

Grand Elder, please calm your anger! It's the Gu Family! It's the Gu Family's major figure Immortal King……

Shut up, trash.

The Grand Elder's icy will swept over You Quan; the You Quan Immortal King, as if struck hard, spat out a mouthful of Immortal King's true blood, his aura instantly wilting.

The huge blood-flesh eyeball slowly turned, finally locking gazes with Gu Cangsheng's cloudy old eyes. "A newly risen major figure? You have the aura of chaos…… excellent, very good."

In the Grand Elder's voice, a hint of undisguised greed actually showed.

"Submit to the Sovereign, offer up your chaos origin, and I can let you become the Fourth Elder of Zang Tian Ge, ranking only below me, the Second Elder, and the Ninth Elder—how about it?"

Hahahaha……

In response, Gu Cangsheng burst into an earth-shaking, manic laugh.

You want me to submit? What the hell are you? A lump of meat that doesn't dare show its true form, only sending an eyeball over—do you even qualify to negotiate with me?

Gu Cangsheng pointed at that huge eyeball and shouted angrily:

Give me three breaths' time, take your eyeball and scram, or I'll follow this line over and chop your lump of rotten meat into pieces to feed the dogs!