Chapter 521: Scheming Against the Gu Family

Gu Cangsheng loosened his grip, and the silver-armored Immortal King's corpse turned into flying ash and dissipated.

Only a single silvery-white token remained, entwined with complete Immortal King laws, hovering silently in his palm.

"Not bad, ordinary Immortal King peak level. Barely enough to use."

Gu Cangsheng curled his lips, seeming somewhat dissatisfied.

He casually tossed it, throwing the Immortal King Dao Fruit capable of making the entire Taigu Immortal Realm lose its mind like trash over to Gu Zhan, who not far away was clutching a Half-Step Immortal King Origin and gnawing on it with oil dripping from his mouth.

"Kid, stop gnawing on that, it's not nutritious."

"Eat this."

Gu Zhan stared at the incoming Immortal King Dao Fruit, his eyes widening instantly.

He swallowed the unfinished Void Origin in one gulp, then fumbled to catch that Immortal King Dao Fruit.

"Old… ancestor, this… this is…"

"Stop talking nonsense, just eat when I tell you to!"

Gu Cangsheng kicked Gu Zhan in the butt, "Eat it and hurry up to break through for me, don't embarrass yourself here."

"Got it!"

Gu Zhan wasn't polite either, grinning wide, opening his big mouth, and directly swallowed that Immortal King Dao Fruit in one gulp.

Boom!

A surge of vast energy, vastly larger than that Void Origin by at least a hundredfold, exploded violently inside his body!

Gu Zhan felt like he was about to burst.

If one were to say, swallowing that Half-Step Immortal King-level Void Origin earlier was like igniting a volcano in his stomach.

Then now, swallowing this complete Immortal King Dao Fruit was like stuffing an entire erupting world into his belly.

The violent Immortal King Origin, like a bursting heavenly river, madly scoured his limbs and bones.

His immortal battle body, comparable to an Immortal King artifact, began to crack inch by inch under this energy's impact, golden blood continually seeping from the fissures.

"Brother Tie Niu!"

"Idiot!"

Xiao Qing and the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass coiled on his shoulder both cried out in alarm.

Xiao Qing immediately emanated a hazy green light, and a vast surge of life origin poured into Gu Zhan's body like it was free, desperately repairing his flesh on the verge of collapse.

The Nine-Leaf Sword Grass also exerted itself fully, strands of annihilation sword qi shuttling through his body, attempting to sever the overly violent energy to buy him a breath.

But the effect was minimal.

The power of the Immortal King Dao Fruit was too overbearing.

"Hahaha! Exhilarating!"

At this life-and-death juncture, Gu Zhan instead threw his head back and laughed loudly.

His eyes held no trace of pain, only endless fighting spirit and madness.

He actively relinquished control of his body, letting that energy rampage within, utterly destroying his flesh, meridians, and bones.

Then, with the help of Xiao Qing's life origin, he rapidly reassembled.

Break and then establish!

He actually intended to use this opportunity to push his immortal battle body up another level!

"This madman……"

Gu Xue Dao and the others in the distance, watching this scene, all felt their scalps go numb.

Likewise being True Immortal Peak cultivators, they asked themselves, if they themselves swallowed that Immortal King Dao Fruit, they couldn't withstand it.

But Gu Zhan is different!

Though he is a brute, he is a brute of the body cultivation path!

Only such pure body cultivators dare to actively break and then reestablish in such a situation.

Indeed, people's physiques cannot be generalized.

Gu Cangsheng looked at his grandson's reckless vigor and nodded in satisfaction.

……

……

Meanwhile.

Now Faction: Zang Tian Ge, Judgment Hall.

In the center of the hall, beneath the Grand Chancellor, eight shadows of various forms stood silently.

Some were a mass of ever-shifting shadows, some were a throne built from piled white bones, and some were merely an eerie tone echoing in the darkness.

They were the eight Elders of the Now Faction: Zang Tian Ge, highest in authority below the Grand Chancellor.

"Third Elder."

The Grand Chancellor's voice, devoid of any emotion, rang directly in everyone's sea of consciousness.

That mass of shifting shadows bowed slightly.

"Reporting to the Grand Chancellor, over the past five years our faction has guided a total of 3,721 lower worlds, 815 middle worlds, and 33 upper worlds to complete the final harvest."

"The obtained extinction-source power has all been returned to the Source Sea."

"Very good." The Grand Chancellor's voice remained calm.

This achievement is not worth mentioning to him.

"Today I summoned you all for another matter."

The Grand Chancellor's will swept over all the Elders present.

"The Gu Family."

When these two words sounded, the atmosphere in the hall instantly became solemn.

Over the past decade, this faction has learned much important intelligence about our Zang Tian Ge from the Forty-Eight Pavilion Master, launching campaigns everywhere; of the three hundred and seventy seed worlds we have planted in the lower realm, ninety-two have been uprooted by their expeditionary army.

"Their manner of conduct is completely opposite to that of our pavilion."

"We are in extinction of the source, while they are in……creation."

An elder who pulsed like a syllable voiced a question.

"What the Lord means is not to observe this variable, is it?"

He was referring to the Fourth Elder, who advocates letting things take their natural course, treating the Gu Family as a special catalyst.

"The Lord's will cannot be guessed," the Grand Elder replied coldly, "but the Lord has never said to let this variable run free, out of control."

"That Gu Family possesses a World Tree and a Chaos Body; its potential has already surpassed the scope of a variable."

"Although the Lord does not allow us to act against forces of Immortal King level, if we continue to let it develop, it may become a true obstacle to our great plan."

"So I have decided to carry out……correction in advance."

"Correction?" Ba Zhang Lao's breathing grew rapid, "Does the Grand Elder mean……to take action against the Gu Family?"

In his eyes flickered the flames of vengeance.

"Not bad."

The Grand Elder's massive single eye slowly opened, looking down upon the eight elders below.

"That Gu Family Ancestor, Gu Cangsheng, is already a titan, bearing the Grand Dao of Chaos; ordinary means cannot counterbalance him."

"I will design to draw the Gu Family army into a world, personally act, using the【World-Rending Bone Nail】to seal spacetime and force Gu Cangsheng to descend."

His gaze swept over the eight elders.

"Second Elder, Fourth Elder, Ba Zhang Lao, you three shall lead all your disciples under command and uproot Gu Cangsheng together with the Gu Family."

"As for Ba Zhang Lao……"

The Grand Elder's voice paused.

Upon hearing this, Ba Zhang Lao's body trembled, and he hastily bowed.

"Your mission is to capture alive that boy called Gu Yuan."

"Remember, keep him alive."

"The World Tree on him, the Lord, is very interested."

"Subordinate……obey!"

"In this battle, only success is permitted, no failure."

The Grand Elder's voice grew even colder.

"If there is any further mistake……"

"You three, go yourselves into the Source Sea to become nourishment."

The three named elders trembled in unison and bowed together.

"I will not disgrace the command!"