Chapter 463: Battle Merit Assessment, 20 Million!

Just as the two's divine hearts were breached.

Buzz—!!!

A golden divine light, ten times thicker and a hundred times brighter than the ones they had seen before, surged down like a reversed Milky Way from the Heavenly Dome, thunderously descending and precisely enveloping Gu Yuan's duplicate.

The radiance was so scorching and blinding that it turned the entire Di Wu Ceng space into pure gold.

Immediately after, the puppet elder, who had always moved like a marionette, showed a flash of profoundly human shock in his hollow eyes.

"True Disciple 'Yuan', in the Heavenly Dao Furnace Realm, completed a hundred Killing Paths, ninety‑three of which are Half‑step Immortal King Methods, seven are… True Immortal King Method; rating… Super Rank! Reward… Primordial War Seals… four million!"

Four… four million?!

Hun Yuan Xue's mind buzzed and went completely blank.

She stared dumbfounded at the black‑clad youth bathed in golden divine light, looking like an apocalyptic demon god, feeling as if she were trapped in an absurdly nightmarish vision.

Three hundred thousand… and four million…

This is no longer just a gap.

It is a chasm between heaven and earth, a difference between fireflies and a bright moon!

Her pride in her three hundred thousand war seals amounts to nothing in front of them.

"So… I was the joke after all…"

Hun Yuan Xue let out a bitter laugh, her delicate body could no longer hold up, collapsing weakly to the ground, eyes vacant, having completely lost all spirit.

Feng Lingyun bit her lip hard.

Her mind raced wildly.

"Four million war seals… exchanging for the Heavenly Dao Furnace requires eight million… still short by half… no, that's not right!"

Feng Lingyun snapped her head up, her gaze fixed rigidly on Gu Yuan's duplicate.

A thought that sent even her shivers rose in her mind.

"He… he hasn't even exhausted his full strength! He can still grind! He can still enter the Heavenly Dao Furnace Realm! He could even, alone, grind to a terrifying score enough to exchange for that supreme Immortal Emperor relic fragment—Primordial War Seal!"

Feng Lingyun's expression while looking at Gu Yuan's duplicate changed completely.

She had originally thought she still needed to make some small moves…

But now it seemed… no longer necessary!

She had even previously tried to scheme, win over, and exploit such an existence?

It was downright the greatest farce under heaven!

"Now… the only hope is that mysterious man in black robes." After a brief daze, Hun Yuan Xue oddly calmed herself.

She had been numbed by the blows.

Since Yuan was so perverse, she might as well smash the pot and give up.

Now she oddly looked forward, in a morbid way, to that thief who drained the Place: Sheng Xian Chi—what astonishingly outrageous insight might he possess?

Perhaps that thief could be even more outrageous than Yuan, rendering her already shattered Dao heart completely numb, never feeling pain again.

However, just as everyone's gaze subconsciously turned toward the direction where the man in black vanished.

Rumble—!!!

The entire Di Wu Ceng True Transmission Realm began shaking violently without warning, its intensity far surpassing when Gu Yuan himself had devoured the Place: Sheng Xian Chi!

It seemed as if this independent spacetime, opened by the ancient Heavenly Court, was about to collapse completely and return to chaos!

Above the Heavenly Dome of the True Transmission Realm, the once-dim purple‑golden sky, faded from the drying of the Place: Sheng Xian Chi, suddenly burst forth with unprecedented brilliance!

But this time, it was neither blood‑red slaughter nor golden reward.

Instead… three thousand colors!

Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet…

The three thousand hues, representing the brilliance of all primordial Dao paths in the world, illuminated the Heavenly Dome!

Immediately, three thousand crystal‑clear, flawless law chains radiating immortal Dao resonance emerged from the void!

They linked and entwined, and within a few breaths, they wove above the Heavenly Dome into a vast, slowly rotating… cosmic star map!

Stars were born, evolved, collided, and faded within it!

Nebulae gathered, spun, and became a brilliant star river!

Life was nurtured, multiplied, and marched toward the splendor and decline of civilization!

Within that star map, everyone even saw the flow of time, the extension of space, the intertwining of cause and effect, the turning of destiny, and the embryonic form of the Six Realms of Samsara!

These Daoist laws, the vast majority reached the True Immortal level, and a few even exuded a terrifying aura that already brushed beyond the True Immortal scope, emitting a faint pressure belonging to an Immortal King!

Only a handful remained below the True Immortal realm, yet even they were flawless, radiating a perfectly harmonious Dao resonance!

This is no longer about creating or completing laws.

This is… creation of heaven and earth!

This is the forging of a complete, infinitely possible macrocosm!

"Gulu…"

Gu Yuan's duplicate stood still, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked up at the celestial phenomenon, and in his gray‑black eyes a subtle shock and yearning—something even he had not yet noticed—flashed just right.

Beside him, Hun Yuan Xue and Feng Lingyun had completely lost the ability to think.

They merely stared dumbly at the evolving universe, their souls minuscule before that great creative force like a speck of dust.

At that moment, the puppet elder, who had always been like a backdrop, jolted sharply.

For the first time, two flames of gold ignited in his hollow eyes!

It slowly raised its withered hand, pointing toward the Heavenly Dome, and the timeless mechanical hum now carried an unprecedented, almost pilgrim‑like fervor and tremor!

"The Dao… the Dao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, Three gives birth to all things… this is… the scene of creation!"

"The Fourth One… outside the Heavenly Dao Furnace Realm, with Supreme Divine Thought, evolved three thousand Dao paths, completed the missing Heavenly Dao of the furnace world, reshaped the Six Realms of Samsara… rating… cannot be rated!"

"Recalculating... rewards... Primordial War Seal..."

Each time the puppet old man uttered a word, the entire Di Wu Ceng space trembled violently.

When it spoke the final number.

"...... two...... twenty million!"

Boom!

This number — not to mention Hun Yuan Xue; even if the rebirth of that Primordial Heavenly Pride who created the record of ten million war seals saw this scene, they would probably be so ashamed as to commit suicide on the spot.

"Enough... enough."

Gu Yuan's true form, which had been hiding in the void, nodded in satisfaction.

Twenty million!

What does that mean?

That would be enough to exchange for the first and second items on the list twice over!

Moreover, there would still be a vast amount of war seals left to exchange for things like Immortal King Dao Fruit and Immortal King Inheritance as extra gifts, to bring back to the Gu Family as souvenirs.