Chapter 484

The broken-knife man's face turned grim.

He knew that today's matter probably couldn't be settled.

He took a deep breath, his mind racing.

Fighting, he definitely couldn't win.

Escaping, the opponent's elusive methods might not let him get away.

The only way was to demonstrate his worth, making the opponent feel sparing him was more useful than killing him.

"Senior!" the broken-knife man bowed again, his tone becoming extremely sincere, "I am Tu, from the boundless realm known as the Sea of Worlds. Today's incident was indeed my rashness, but there was a reason."

"Huh?" Gu Cangsheng raised his brows, stopped walking, "Let's hear it."

Tu's heart steadied slightly; he knew he had guessed right on the first step.

He organized his thoughts and, using the simplest language, began to recount his origin.

The Sea of Worlds is not a fixed world, but a chaotic region formed from countless shattered world remnants and chaotic currents. There drift countless beings like me who have lost their homelands or are being hunted by enemies, Immortal Kings.

We wanderers have but one goal: to find a new ownerless great world, seize it, and make it our new dojo; or, to find the way home.

In the Sea of Worlds, every surging wave may be a great world in the process of birth and death. Danger and opportunity coexist; the law of the jungle is the only rule there.

Gu Lingjiang listened silently at the side, yet his heart stirred with considerable waves.

Sea of Worlds? Wandering Immortal King?

Such information, he had never heard before.

It seems the vastness of the myriad worlds far exceeds the complexity of what the Gu Family has encountered so far.

"Are you also a wanderer?" Gu Cangsheng asked.

Yes, and no. Tu's face showed a hint of bitterness, "My original world was called Return to One. It was a very special world, its cultivation system utterly different from this one."

In the Return to One Realm, there are not so many intricate realm divisions; from birth to death there are only five major realms. But the gap between each realm is like a heavenly chasm, impossible to cross.

I am the Fourth Realm Undying of the Return to One Realm, equivalent to the Jue Dian Immortal King here, and above me lies the Fifth Realm of Eternity.

A flicker of fear and hatred flashed in Tu's eyes.

I had a chance to reach the Fifth Realm, but at the critical moment, several fellow Fourth Realm Undying teamed up to scheme against me, damaging my Dao foundation; I had no choice but to burn my origin and flee into the Sea of Worlds, barely escaping with my life.

I have wandered the Sea of Worlds for over three hundred thousand years; my origin has been greatly depleted, my strength no longer at its peak. Today I sensed that this place's coordinates were exposed, so I ventured here hoping to find a foothold, not expecting——

Tu didn't continue, but the meaning was already clear.

Never expected to kick an iron plate.

Gu Cangsheng listened, stroked his chin, and said nothing.

Seeing this, Tu made up his mind, dropped to one knee, and lowered his proud head that had been held high for countless years before Gu Cangsheng.

"Senior, I am willing to serve! I ask for nothing else but a place to stay from you, Senior! I am willing to labor for you and the Gu Family, to campaign in the Sea of Worlds, with no second thoughts!"

He lowered his posture to the utmost.

But in the depths of his lowered eyes, a shrewd gleam flickered.

"The Gu Family is mysterious in origin, terrifying in strength, and possesses this supreme means to freely travel between worlds. First feign submission, learn the details of their transmission method. Once I master this method, whether returning to the Return to One Realm for revenge or roaming freely in the Sea of Worlds, it will be a breeze!"

Tu was scheming in his heart.

Gu Cangsheng looked at the Jue Dian Immortal King kneeling before him, about to speak.

Just then.

"Let him sign a soul contract; verbal promises are the least reliable."

A calm voice came from behind Gu Lingjiang.

Tu shuddered violently, then abruptly lifted his head.

Only then did he notice that behind Gu Lingtian stood a young man.

A young man he had subconsciously overlooked from beginning to end.

That young man's complexion was still somewhat pale, his aura seeming even weaker than an ordinary mortal, as if a gust could blow him over.

But……

Tu's heart skipped a beat at that moment.

He remembered.

From the moment this old monster appeared until now, all his attention had been drawn to the opponent's terrifying power, and he had completely failed to notice when this young man had appeared!

No, that's not right.

It's not that he didn't notice.

But rather, his divine sense, his perception, when sweeping over that young man, was directly 'erased' by an incomprehensible force!

It was as if nothing existed there at all!

Tu's back was instantly drenched in cold sweat.

He tried again to use his divine sense to investigate that young man.

But the result made his soul flee in terror.

The opponent's realm was a blank chaos.

Sometimes he felt the opponent was just an ordinary mortal.

Sometimes he felt that within the opponent's body lurked an ancient ferocious beast tens of thousands of times more terrifying than that old monster.

Most shocking of all, when his divine sense tried to probe deeper, he sensed from the opponent's body a trace…… extremely similar to the Dao resonance of the supreme Fifth Realm 'Eternity' of his homeland, the Return to One Realm!

It was a…… Dao resonance where creation and ending coexist, order and chaos unite, the supreme Dao resonance!

"Who…… who exactly is he?!"

A tremendous wave surged in Tu's heart.

His gaze toward Gu Cangsheng also changed.

This old monster, strong to an unbelievable degree, had been silently standing half a step behind this young person, like a guard.

A terrifying thought, one that made even him unable to breathe, surfaced in Tu's mind.

This seemingly harmless young person is actually the true master of this mysterious Gu Family!

Gu Yuan looked at the ever-changing expression on Tu's face, and understood clearly.

The knocking is enough.

A henchman of Jue Dian Immortal King level, though he now harbors ulterior motives, will be of great use if properly controlled.

"Grandfather, River-facing Elder, let's go back." Gu Yuan said.

"Good." Gu Cangsheng nodded, waved his hand, and the silver gate connecting to the Primeval Immortal Realm slowly opened once more in the sky of the Ruined Heaven World.

Tu stared at the gate emitting profound spatiotemporal law, and his eyes twitched again.

He could feel that the law power constituting this gate was of a level far beyond his comprehension.

In the Boundary Sea he had seen many Immortal Kings with space-traversing ability, and even some giants capable of tearing open stable world passages.

But those methods, compared to this gate before him, were nothing more than a child's scribble.

The feeling this gate gave him was more like a kind of... rule.

A rule that overrides all spatiotemporal laws of the myriad worlds, an absolute rule!

Once activated, it can ignore any distance, any barrier, and precisely reach any coordinate point.

What a terrifying method!

"Behind the Gu Family, could there be... an existence of the Eternal Realm?"

Tu dared not think further; the more he thought, the more fearful he became.

He honestly followed behind Gu Cangsheng, restraining all his aura, like the most obedient servant, and stepped into the transmission gate.

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