Chapter 385: The Divine Kingdom Returns to Unity, Profound Heaven Ascends

Before this pressure, his recently broken-through Tenth Realm cultivation was as insignificant as a speck of dust.

His prideful Human Emperor Body couldn't even muster a thought of resistance, his golden qi-blood locked tight inside him, unable to move.

"What... what is happening?!"

Li Chengqian rushed out of his cave dwelling, raising his head in horror to look at the sky.

He saw the entire New Luoyang Imperial City thrown into utter chaos.

Countless cultivators flew out in terror from their cave dwellings, only to be slammed down by that dreadful pressure like dumplings, falling from midair.

Ordinary people knelt on the ground, trembling, thinking the apocalypse had come, their wails and prayers echoing through the heavens.

"Heavenly Dao... the Heavenly Dao is wailing!"

Li Chengqian's face turned deathly pale in an instant.

He could clearly feel the heavenly laws of the Profound Heaven Continent collapsing and reforming at an unprecedented speed.

This world seemed to be dragged by an invisible giant hand from its original course toward an unknown direction!

"Could it be... that another Forbidden Zone Supreme has revived?"

"No... wrong, this aura is billions of times more terrifying than that so-called Dark Ancient Emperor of old!"

A unprecedented despair rose in Li Chengqian's heart.

Even though this aura was more terrifying than the so-called Dark Ancient Emperor of old, Li Chengqian still forced himself to stay calm.

He fiercely stirred the qi-blood of his Human Emperor Body, unleashing the power of his domain without reservation, turning it into a thin layer of golden light that spread outward.

His Gu-loving Domain not only grew stronger with more Gu family members within its range, boosting his own combat power, but also had another effect: as long as one cherished Gu in their heart, they could inversely influence anyone weaker than themselves within the domain, and those influenced could in turn affect others in a small radius!

One who cherishes Gu, the whole family cherishes Gu!

"What's there to panic about? Stay calm!"

Li Chengqian's voice rang like a great bell, mingling with his surging cultivation above the imperial city,

"We have the Gu Family, we have the protection of Gu Young Master! As long as the Gu Family stands, this heaven will not fall! Everything will be fine!"

His voice was filled with an almost fanatical faith in Gu Yuan.

And the two words 'Gu Family', bolstered by the Gu-loving Domain, were like a pill of supreme magic that instantly calmed the anxieties of countless hearts.

Many hearts instantly steadied.

They stopped crying, lifted their heads, and the light of hope reignited in their eyes. They believed in the Gu Family, and in the deity who had once forcibly dragged the Profound Heaven Continent out of the depths of dark turmoil.

Among the crowd, a half-grown child who had not experienced the past catastrophe looked at the shattered Heavenly Dome and couldn't help shouting in doubt: "What Gu Family... the heaven is about to collapse, no one can save us!"

Before his words finished, a sharp crack sounded as the white-haired elder beside him slapped his face hard.

"You wretched thing! Shut up!"

The elder trembled all over, tears streaming as he pressed the child's head, pulling him down to kneel heavily: "Without the Gu Family, our whole family would have been dead long ago—what do you have left! Kneel quickly, beg the Gu Family, beg Gu Young Master's protection!"

Inside and outside the imperial city, countless people who had been saved by the Gu Family and had thrived because of it fell to their knees in devout reverence.

In this apocalyptic vision, they were no longer despairing, but placed all their faith in that supreme name.

Just then.

That chaotic Heavenly Dome was at last torn apart by a blade of golden divine light, brilliant to the extreme.

An impossibly magnificent golden divine bridge stretched from the other side of the rift, piercing straight through the entire Profound Heaven Continent.

At the bridge's end, a figure stepped upon the golden light and walked slowly forward.

He wore simple white robes, his black hair hanging over his shoulders, his features handsomely beyond mortal.

Though he walked just so, emitting no earth-shaking aura, each of his steps seemed to tread upon the heartbeat of this world, causing the continent's laws to submit and cheer.

The moment Li Chengqian saw that face clearly, his whole body froze.

That face had appeared countless times in his dreams over the years, becoming his greatest motivation for arduous cultivation.

Although more mature and profound than his memory, that air of aloof composure, as if transcending all realms, remained unchanged.

"Gu... Gu Young Master?!"

Li Chengqian's voice, from extreme shock and excitement, turned hoarse and dry.

He could scarcely believe his own eyes.

And with his arrival, the terrifying pressure that had choked the entire world vanished without a trace.

In its place came a warmth and harmony like a spring breeze.

It seemed this heaven and earth had welcomed its true master.

Gu Yuan's gaze calmly swept over the prosperous metropolis below, over the unsettled beings, and finally lingered for a moment on Li Chengqian.

"Human Emperor Body, Tenth Realm, your domain... not bad."

He spoke lightly, his voice not loud, yet it clearly entered the awareness of every being in the Profound Heaven Continent, carrying an indisputable supreme authority.

"Profound Heaven Continent, from today onward you shall follow me to ascend, enter my Divine Kingdom, and enjoy eternal immortality."

"Will you accept?"

As his words fell, behind him in the chaotic Heavenly Dome, a vague yet majestic phantom of the Divine Kingdom, built from endless faith, slowly emerged.

Within that Divine Kingdom stood towering immortal mountains and lofty palaces, with the sun, moon, and stars turning, and myriad Dao intertwining.

Just a single glance made all cultivators of the Profound Heaven Continent feel their hearts tremble and their bottlenecks loosen.

Ascend!

Enter the Divine Kingdom!

Enjoy eternity!

Li Chengqian's mind had no hesitation.

This cultivator, who had just broken through to the Tenth Realm and was seen by billions of beings in the Profound Heaven Continent as a peerless heavenly talent akin to a living Human Emperor, at this moment adjusted his robes, faced the white-robed figure in the sky, dropped to his knees, and performed the most solemn, most devout five-prostration grand rite.

"Sinful commoner Li Chengqian, I am willing to follow the Divine Lord, to go through fire and water, to die ten thousand times without regret!"

His voice, transmitted via divine sense, spread across all of Zhongzhou.

This kneeling is not humiliation; it is a yearning and submission from the depths of the soul toward a higher plane of existence.

He knew that an entirely new era, one he dared not even imagine in his dreams, had arrived.