Chapter 511: Metamorphosis

Inside the Chaos Immortal Bell, one hundred and eight Primordial Chaos Immortal Elixirs hovered silently, purple-gold light flowing, each containing immense energy enough to drive a True Immortal mad.

Gu Cangsheng waved his hand, the Immortal Bell shrank and landed in his palm.

He glanced at the pills inside the bell, nodded in satisfaction, then his gaze fell upon the Gu family disciples on the square who were already dumbfounded.

"What are you all standing around for? Waiting to give birth?"

The old ancestor roared, and everyone shuddered.

"Those with decent aptitude, one pill each, take it and go into seclusion! If you can't refine it, then die inside for me!"

Gu Cangsheng's voice was rough, yet carried undeniable authority.

These words caused the entire Gu Family Divine Island to erupt completely.

Especially Gu Zhan, who had long been unable to restrain himself, was the first to rush forward, eyes fixed on Gu Cangsheng's hand holding the Immortal Bell, drool almost dripping.

"Ancestor, me! I want the one that looks the hardest!"

Gu Cangsheng glanced at him, took out a pill from the bell; this pill differed from the others' purple-gold hue, its whole body a dark gold, as if countless tiny dragon-elephant phantoms were galloping across its surface.

This was specially prepared by the Myriad Medicine Divine Lord for body cultivators, not only incorporating the Immortal King Dao Fruit, but also adding a trace of the Martial King Origin's remnant.

"Here."

Gu Cangsheng casually tossed it; the pill turned into a golden light and sank into Gu Zhan's mouth.

"Burp!"

Gu Zhan let out a full belch, his whole body shuddered, his skin instantly turned crimson, a terrifying heat wave spreading from within him.

"So… so hot! Feel like I'm going to explode!"

Gu Zhan felt as if he had swallowed a sun.

Just as he was about to be burst by this medicinal power.

On his left shoulder, the three-inch-tall scorched black sword grass suddenly moved.

Whoosh!

A strand of annihilation sword qi, so fine it was almost undetectable, shot out from one of its withered leaves, precisely piercing Gu Zhan's dantian qi sea.

This sword qi was not meant to harm him, but rather, in an extremely exquisite way, helped him sort out and guide that violent medicinal power.

"Brother Tie Niu, Xiao Qing is here to help you too!"

On his right shoulder, the Chaos Azure Lotus Seed also emitted rings of hazy green light.

The green light enveloped Gu Zhan's body, a pure and vast source of life, like a trickling stream, continually repairing his meridians and flesh torn by the medicinal power.

Destruction and establishment.

Destruction and rebirth.

Under the perfect coordination of the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass and Xiao Qing, Gu Zhan's body was undergoing an unprecedented extreme transformation.

His skin, originally just faintly golden, began to become ever more brilliant and ever more solid, ultimately seeming to have been forged from the finest divine metal into an immortal war body!

His bones crackled inside, each bone, under the scouring of that golden torrent, tempered to be harder than an Immortal King artifact!

How long passed is unknown.

When Gu Zhan's internal energy storm gradually subsided.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Those once honest eyes now seemed to contain two seas of stars being born and dying.

His aura had long surpassed the early True Immortal stage, soaring all the way up to steadily settle at… the peak True Immortal!

Only one step away from igniting the Immortal King Dao Fire!

"So… so powerful…"

Gu Zhan lowered his head to look at his fists, muttering to himself.

He could feel that now he only needed to lightly clench his fist to crush a star.

He suddenly raised his head, facing the boundless starry sky beyond the Divine Island, and casually threw a punch.

Without using any immortal essence, purely relying on physical strength.

Yet where his fist pointed, space shattered like a mirror, inch by inch, revealing a bottomless black void.

Within that void, chaotic currents surged, as if connecting to the other end of the universe.

One punch, piercing the world barrier!

……

Not only Gu Zhan.

In the following time, the Gu Family Divine Island completely turned into a frenzied feast of collective breakthrough.

Gu Xue Dao, Gu Linjiang and other veteran True Immortals, with the aid of the pills, also raised their cultivation another level.

While those Gu family core disciples who had been stuck at the Supreme Sage and Supreme Venerable realms, thanks to the luxurious treatment of one Primordial Chaos Immortal Elixir each, sprouted like spring shoots after rain, breaking through one after another to become bona fide True Immortals!

In just a few months, the number of True Immortals in the Gu family directly increased more than tenfold!

The entire Gu Family Divine Island shone with immortal light, the Dao permeated, a scene of the prosperous era of an Eternal Divine Dynasty.

On the other side, Gu Xuan Ce also received a pill specially refined for formation masters.

He did not have Gu Zhan's extravagance; he simply sat cross-legged calmly and swallowed the pill.

Moments later, a profound and mysterious aura emanated from him.

The space around him began to silently twist and fold, as if forming an independent formation world.

Half-Step Immortal King!

This Gu family's chief formation master, aided by the pill, also successfully took that crucial step.

He opened his eyes, his pupils seeming to contain billions of formation diagrams being born and dying.

Now he is a Half-Step Immortal King, his understanding of spatial formation Dao has reached a new height.

He took out the few supreme-grade immortal veins that Gu Yuan had brought back from the Heaven-Sending Hall, as well as countless divine metal immortal materials.

Under his command, over a hundred newly ascended Gu Family True Immortals began an unprecedented upgrade and renovation of the Divine Island's protective Great Array.

He buried those few supreme-grade immortal veins as the new array eyes into the earth-vein core of Divine Island.

He re-derived and optimized the diagram of the Heavenly Stars Great Array, incorporating many ancient array patterns learned from the Immortal Court's sole copy.

He had the Gu Family True Immortals, using their own Grand Dao as a guide, temporarily link their immortal veins with the operational nodes of the Great Array.

After forty-nine days.

When the last array flag fell.

Hum—

A humming sound, as if from the beginning of the universe's creation, echoed throughout Divine Island.

The star river diagram shrouding Divine Island's skies shone brilliantly.

The hundreds of millions of stars were no longer illusory images but seemed to have become true substance, emitting a mighty pressure far greater than before—by at least a hundredfold!

A visible solid bulwark, condensed from pure starlight, tightly enveloped the entire Divine Island.

Upon that bulwark, the laws of an Immortal King could be faintly seen flowing.

An Immortal King-level clan-protecting Great Array!

Done!

From then on, the Gu Family's Divine Island became a truly supreme divine land, one that even an Immortal King's personal arrival could not hope to easily breach.