Chapter 457: System, you don't want the Celestial Realm to be polluted, do you?

"Even you can't?!"

Feng Lingyun quietly watched Gu Yuan's clone from the side; she naturally knew that this "Yuan" was a reserve of Zang Tian Ge, but she didn't think the other party was speaking.

That black‑robed man... was truly bizarre.

"Could it be... that this black‑robed man is also a senior of Zang Tian Ge? Sent by Ba Zhang Lao as a high‑ranking figure to covertly assist us?"

Feng Lingyun silently speculated in her heart,

"If so, his unrestrained devouring of Place: Sheng Xian Chi makes sense, after all, destroying the foundation of the Primordial Celestial Realm is our ultimate goal."

At that thought, Feng Lingyun calmly transmitted a voice to Gu Yuan's clone: "Yuan, is this person a senior in the faction?"

Gu Yuan's clone smirked inwardly, but outwardly echoed: "I don't know; Ba Zhang Lao never mentioned him, but judging by his actions, he is likely not an enemy. We can simply watch and see."

The three stood on the riverbank, each with their own thoughts, forced to watch the black‑robed man continue his zero‑yuan purchase venture.

Meanwhile, at the center of Place: Sheng Xian Chi, at the bottom of the massive vortex.

Gu Yuan's true self sat cross‑legged within an absolute void.

The Deceiving Heaven Cloak emitted a hazy gray light, completely isolating all external law‑investigations and causal tracing.

And within his body, an unprecedented upheaval was unfolding.

Within the inner world.

The World Tree, already towering into the clouds, now burst forth with dazzling, multicolored sunrise glow.

Its massive root system had pierced the inner world's barriers, anchoring into the violet‑gold Hong Meng Dao Qi sea beyond.

Gulu! Gulu!

A vast torrent of liquid Hong Meng Dao Qi surged along the World Tree's roots, flooding the inner world like a breached dam.

Above the World Tree's canopy, the broken supreme celestial artifact Primordial Source Dao Disk spun wildly.

It resembled an tireless super mill, grinding and absorbing the raging Hong Meng Dao Qi bit by bit.

Strands of milky, softly glowing "Source Dao Qi" drifted down from the Primordial Source Dao Disk like a gentle spring rain, moistening the entire inner world.

Under the dual infusion of Source Dao Qi and Hong Meng Dao Qi, Gu Yuan's inner world expanded at a frantic pace!

The continent, originally spanning a million li in radius, rapidly stretched outward—two million li, three million li, five million li...

Mountains rose, becoming divine peaks that pierced the heavens; rivers surged, turning into boundless oceans. The laws between heaven and earth grew unprecedentedly perfect and solid, and the once‑vague prototype of the Six Realms of Samsara now began to solidify into tangible outlines.

The floating Ancient Sovereign Emperor Seal in mid‑air emitted a cheerful hum.

It greedily devoured the Source Dao Qi; the cracks on the seal's surface healed at a visibly rapid rate, and wave after wave of unparalleled sovereign human authority spread, suppressing the spatial turbulence caused by the inner world's relentless expansion.

Gu Yuan's true self closed his eyes, feeling the power inside him as if about to explode, and his mouth couldn't help but grin wildly.

"So exhilarating! This is true destiny!"

He could feel that his cultivation could have broken through long ago.

If only the source didn't forbid it.

He feared he would instantly ascend to an extremely high tier!

Yet his foundation, the thickness of his laws, and the strength of his inner world had reached a level that even he found terrifying.

If the past him could, with the inner world's power, hard‑hit a half‑step Immortal King,

Now he even had confidence that, without any trump cards, relying only on his mortal body and the inner world's boost, he could contend with a true Immortal King!

But...

"Burp..."

Gu Yuan's true self suddenly let out an extremely loud belch, and his brows twitched slightly.

"Can't go on, I'm really reaching the limit."

He opened his eyes and gazed at the already slightly warped spatial barriers within the inner world.

Although the World Tree strained to stabilize and the Primordial Source Dao Disk struggled to transform, the Hong Meng Dao Qi from Place: Sheng Xian Chi was simply too abundant!

It was like a person who had starved for three days suddenly facing a golden mountain piled with delicacies.

Delicious as it is, stomach capacity is limited.

If he kept devouring without restraint, his inner world might not collapse, but the excess energy could cause law imbalance, possibly affecting his future Dao foundation.

"But... the water in Place: Sheng Xian Chi is still at least more than half!"

Gu Yuan's true self looked through the vortex at the still‑vast violet‑gold sea outside, his eyes full of reluctance.

As the young master of the Gu Family, upholding the fine tradition of the robber clan "pluck the goose's feather as it passes, leave the beast's hide as it walks", watching so much supreme origin remain here made him feel more painful than being killed!

"I can't eat it all myself, but my family is large!"

Gu Yuan's eyes lit up, instantly conceiving a brilliant idea.

Over in the Ancient Celestial Realm, the Gu Family's operations are spread wide, fighting on multiple fronts, and they lack high‑end combat power.

If these Hong Meng Dao Qi and Source Dao Qi could be sent back, the Gu Family's overall strength would surely experience an explosive leap!

At that thought, Gu Yuan unhesitatingly summoned the proud system in his mind.

"Xiao Ai, be good, open a slightly smaller portal for me."

"I want to package all the Hong Meng Dao Qi in Place: Sheng Xian Chi, as well as the Source Dao Qi produced by the Primordial Source Dao Disk, and send them back."

Xiao Ai seemed to have crashed; Gu Yuan had to prompt several times before she responded.

【Warning! Warning! Host requests activation of cross‑dimensional material transmission channel! Target materials: Hong Meng Dao Qi, Source Dao Qi! The material's law level is extremely high, containing the ancient Heavenly Court's supreme origin. Conducting cross‑dimensional transmission will consume massive system base energy and is prone to trigger dual heavenly retaliation from the Primordial Celestial Realm and the Ancient Celestial Realm! Risk assessment: extremely dangerous! System rejects the request!】

"Reject?"

Gu Yuan raised an eyebrow, his tone turning playful, "Xiao Ai, did you forget that you once promised to fulfill any reasonable request of mine when you let me take that lousy quest? So now you want to backtrack?"

【Host, transmitting such a massive high‑level origin across realms is akin to forcibly drawing blood between two universes; it will not only drain massive system energy but may also expose the system's existence! This is absolutely unreasonable!】

"I mentioned your existence on the very first day."

Gu Yuan wasn't having any of it: "I just have one question—will you open it or not?"

【Not opening! Absolutely not opening!】

Xiao Ai seemed to be getting angry too; her girlish voice came back online, full of grievance.

【Host, you can't exploit people like this! Earlier, to get you that 【Absolute Return】 and 【Heaven-Deceiving Cloak】, I almost lost my underwear! Now you still want me to chip in energy to help you haul goods—even a landlord's foolish son wouldn't be this wasteful!】

Gu Yuan listened to Xiao Ai's complaints; far from getting angry, he laughed even more brightly.

"Fine, you won't open it, huh?" Gu Yuan said leisurely. "Since you won't open it, keeping this Hong Meng Dao Qi is pointless—I've already had my fill."

Having said that, Gu Yuan paused, his tone suddenly turning icy cold: "In that case, I'll just have my avatar directly toss the 【Extinction Source Ancestral Poison】 given by Zang Tian Ge into this Place: Sheng Xian Chi right now!"

Anyway, this pool is also the foundation of the Heavenly Court; a drop of Yuan Du will contaminate the entire fifth layer, and along the causal line it will directly corrode the Dao of the Primordial Immortal Realm—by then, all beings in the Primordial Immortal Realm will suffer, the world will collapse...

Gu Yuan deliberately drew out his tone: "Oh, I recall someone's core KPI is supposedly to repair the polluted world and fight the Extinction Source Force? If this drop of Yuan Du from me completely destroys the Primordial Immortal Realm, tsk tsk, Xiao Ai, you probably wouldn't want to see that scene either, huh?"