Chapter 522: Gu Lin Tian's Ten‑Year Seclusion

Thus line: Huntian jie.

Gu Zhan's body grew stronger and stronger in the cycle of destruction and rebirth.

The golden luster on his skin became even more brilliant, as if forged from the purest light.

His bones were entwined with immortal Dao patterns, faintly flowing with the laws of an Immortal King.

Finally.

When the last strand of energy from the Immortal King Dao Fruit was completely absorbed by him,

his aura, which had already reached the limit of the True Immortal Realm, burst through the final barrier with a roar.

Immortal King Realm!

Success!

An overbearing, peerless, terrifying pressure that proved the Dao purely through strength surged skyward from him, sweeping across the entire Thus line: Huntian jie.

Gu Cangsheng nodded in satisfaction, about to continue munching melon seeds, but his motion paused.

He slightly furrowed his brows, lifted his head, and his gaze seemed to pierce through endless spacetime, looking toward an unknown direction.

Just then, his heart suddenly surged with an inexplicable palpitation.

It was the feeling of being stared at by some immensely terrifying existence.

It did not come from the Primeval Immortal Domain.

"Huh?"

Gu Cangsheng's eyes narrowed.

He calculated with his fingers, chaotic qi flowing at his fingertips, the heavenly secrets in utter chaos—nothing could be divined.

But his battle-hardened intuition told him that great trouble was coming.

Moreover, it was aimed at their Gu Family.

"Looks like we can't keep fooling around like this."

Gu Cangsheng spat out the melon seed in his mouth, his expression turning solemn.

The Gu Family's strength had surged in a short time, but its foundation was still too shallow.

Faced with a true ancient great clan, or a behemoth like Zang Tian Ge hidden in the darkness, they still appeared very fragile.

He himself had not yet truly taken that step, stepping into the Supreme Giant Realm.

"I need to go back into seclusion."

Gu Cangsheng had made up his mind.

"Gu Zhan."

"Present! Old Ancestor!"

Gu Zhan, who had just become an Immortal King, hurriedly replied.

"You brat, you're also an Immortal King now," Gu Cangsheng ordered, "take these little rascals and keep training outside."

"Remember, don't cause trouble for me, but don't be afraid of trouble either."

"Whoever dares to reach out, I'll chop their hands off!"

"Yes!" Gu Zhan straightened his chest and replied loudly.

"Xue Dao, you assist him."

"Yes, Old Ancestor." Gu Xue Dao also bowed and accepted the order.

After arranging all this, Gu Cangsheng took a step forward and his figure vanished in Thus line: Huntian jie.

He needed to rush back to the Gu Family Divine Island, enter the deepest seclusion, and strive to advance further in the position of Giant.

The wind fills the tower as the mountain rain approaches.

He must, before the storm truly arrives, enable himself and the entire Gu Family to possess the power to overturn the board.

……

……

In the blink of an eye, ten years.

For mortals, ten years is enough for a newborn infant to grow into a graceful youth, and for a woman in her prime to step into the vicissitudes of life.

But for cultivators who routinely close their doors for thousands of years, ten years is merely a fleeting moment.

Yet for the present Gu Family, and the Primeval Immortal Domain stirred by its actions, these ten years brought about earth‑shaking changes worthy of being recorded in history.

Gu Family Divine Island.

The hundreds of Immortal King artifacts and countless divine materials that Gu Yuan had dumped out were, under the coordination of Gu Xuan Ce, a newly promoted half‑step Immortal King array master, mostly reforged into 108 star‑annihilating giant cannons cast entirely of immortal divine gold, evenly distributed across every corner of the divine island and integrated with the upgraded Zhou Tian Star Dipper Mountain‑Protecting Great Array.

Today's Gu Family Divine Island can be called a war fortress floating in the universe without exaggeration.

Over the ten years, the iron hooves of the Gu Family Expeditionary Army trampled hundreds of medium‑ and small‑thousand worlds.

They tempered their Dao hearts amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and consolidated their foundations in life‑and‑death slaughter.

Their once‑floating aura became solid, and their once‑innocent eyes grew resolute.

Casualties were inevitable.

Over twenty newly promoted True Immortals fell forever on foreign battlefields.

But those who survived all became veteran elites capable of standing alone.

Just three years ago, Gu Xue Dao, in a world called the Shura Blood Sea, amidst waves of blood tens of thousands of feet high, slew a blood demon born of the grudges of billions of beings, a half‑step Immortal King‑level entity, proved the Dao with supreme slaughter, successfully ignited the Immortal King Dao Flame, and entered the Immortal King Realm.

Within the Divine Kingdom, things likewise changed day by day.

Luo Bingyao, the First Divine General, displayed astonishing command ability.

She took the human cultivators of East Profound Prefecture as the Heaven Division, responsible for offense; and the herb‑and‑tree spirits of Myriad Medicine Immortal Island as the Earth Division, responsible for support and control;

Using the plant and tree spirits of Myriad Medicine Immortal Island as the 'Earth Division', mainly responsible for assistance and control;

Again, from the Blood Moon Underworld, they selected beings suited to the dark environment to form the "Mysterious Division", tasked with scouting and assassination;

Finally, all mortals and low‑level cultivators within the Divine Nation who were willing to serve were unified into the "Yellow Division", responsible for logistics, production, and construction.

Then, emerging from the territory that Gu Yuan opened on the Divine Island, they fought for Gu Yuan's Divine Nation!

As for Gu Yuan himself, he was merely in a secret chamber of the Hall of Eternal Life, quietly digesting what he had gained after breaking through the True Immortal Realm.

He no longer deliberately sought to increase his cultivation.

To him, realms had long ceased to fully measure his strength.

As for his split‑body Yuan, it was like a stone sinking into the sea; for ten years, no news returned.

It seemed to have completely merged with Zang Tian Ge.

The Gu Family, this terrifying war machine, is, thanks to everyone's efforts, growing wildly in a snowballing manner.

Except for one person.

Gu Lin Tian.

Since ten years ago, after he entered the deepest secret chamber of the Hall of Eternal Life holding that Hong Meng Giant‑Head Dao Fruit, he never emerged again.

This day.

In the bamboo forest behind the mountain, Gu Cangsheng, who was supervising Tu's practice of the new version of the Mountain‑Guarding Great Array control method, paused his sunflower‑seed‑cracking for a moment.

His eyes, which were always half‑open, snapped wide open and stared toward the direction of the Hall of Eternal Life.

Tu, the former Jue Dian Immortal King and now the Gu Family's chief external devotee, also sensed something.

He abruptly turned around, his face full of startled uncertainty.

An indescribable oppressive pressure, like an ancient beast awakening, rose slowly from the deep underground of the Hall of Eternal Life.

That pressure was initially weak, but in an instant it began to surge wildly at a geometrically exponential rate!

Boom!

A dazzling purple‑gold light pillar burst through the dome of the Hall of Eternal Life, pierced the Divine Island's protective Great Array, and shot straight into the boundless depths of the universe.

The entire Gu Family Divine Island began to tremble violently.

The Hong Meng Dao Qi, pouring down like a waterfall, seemed to be summoned, and rushed wildly back toward that purple‑gold light pillar.

"This is… the patriarch's aura!"

This pressure has already surpassed the scope of an ordinary Immortal King!

"Hmph, finally you didn't embarrass me."