Chapter 525: My Fate, the Past of All Heavens

"Heh heh heh, this fleshly body is mine now." The white bone knight's soul fire flared violently.

"That blade is not bad, I'll take it." The spider woman licked her crimson lips.

Their gazes toward Gu Zhan and Gu Xue Dao were like looking at two pieces of prime blood meat already cut apart.

"Bullshit!"

Gu Zhan spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, grinned, revealing his white teeth stained red with blood.

"You wanna eat me? Not afraid of breaking your teeth!"

"I tell you, our Gu Family's soul jade has been crushed! When our ancestor and family head arrive, they'll smash each of you into meat patties!"

"Gu Family?" The mantis-shaped old man froze for a moment, as if recalling something.

"Never heard of it—when did such an eyesore of a family pop up in the Boundary Sea?"

"Hahaha!"

The four Jue Dian Immortal Kings burst into laughter together.

In their view, this was nothing but two dying men putting up a final stubborn front.

In the Boundary Sea, the weak are prey to the strong.

Don't mention your ancestor; even if your family's emperor came, here even a dragon would have to coil up!

Gu Xue Dao said nothing; he simply gripped the blood-colored long blade that had accompanied him for countless years with his left hand.

He glanced at Gu Zhan beside him, a flash of bitterness and regret crossing his mind.

It's all this idiot's fault!

A month ago, they two led a small expedition squad to explore the edge of the Boundary Sea, hoping to find a suitable abandoned world for the raw recruits to hone their skills.

As ill luck would have it, they bumped into a small green bottle drifting in the Chaos.

Gu Xue Dao's first reaction then was to steer clear.

Anything that can drift in the Chaos is certainly not ordinary!

But Gu Zhan, that blockhead, stared wide-eyed.

He howled, saying this was a tremendous opportunity and insisted on taking it home.

The two started arguing on the spot.

Gu Xue Dao couldn't dissuade him; Gu Zhan insisted on going up.

In the end, the two even came to blows.

As a result, the aftershock of their clash as newly ascended Immortal Kings struck the weak point in the Heavenly Ring Realm's laws, tearing a rift in the world's barrier.

Then they were unluckily swept inside.

As soon as they entered, they were dumbfounded.

This damned place is not at all an abandoned world.

Rather, it is a bloody arena prepared for the Boundary Sea's Immortal Kings whose lifespans are ending and origins exhausted.

Here they prolong their miserable lives by slaughtering each other and devouring each other's origins.

Their ultimate goal is to accumulate enough power to open the elusive Gate of Rebirth at the center of the Heavenly Ring Realm, behind which lies a supreme fortune said to grant them a second life.

Gu Zhan and Gu Xue Dao, these two outsiders with vigorous qi and blood and abundant origin, upon appearing, became the choicest meat in the eyes of all the hungry wolves.

A fierce battle thus erupted.

Relying on their deep foundations, they fought their way from the edge of the Heavenly Ring Realm to the center.

Yet in the end they were blocked here by the four strongest Jue Dian Immortal Kings of the Heavenly Ring Realm.

"Blood Dao, you say… are we gonna bite the dust here?"

Gu Zhan's voice suddenly sank low.

"Shut up." Gu Xue Dao said coldly, "Even if we die, we'll take two down with us."

"Hey, that's right!"

Gu Zhan grinned, his fighting spirit flaring up again.

He prepared to burn his last Immortal King origin in a desperate all‑or‑nothing strike.

Just then.

"Attack!"

The mantis‑shaped old man seemed to have lost his patience.

He flickered, moving faster than time's limit, his two giant forelegs like heavenly blades, carrying laws that rend all, slashing crosswise at Gu Zhan's head.

At the same time.

The mass of black sludge turned into a vast maw that blotted out the sky, lunging to swallow the two from above.

The white bone knight's scythe traced a hopeless arc, slicing toward Gu Xue Dao's neck.

The spider woman's eight jointed limbs behind her, like heavenly pillars, blocked all their retreat.

The four Jue Dian Immortal Kings' combined killing strike!

No way to dodge!

No way to block!

In the eyes of Gu Zhan and Gu Xue Dao, a flash of resolve appeared.

However, at the instant that deadly attack was about to fall,

A calm yet supremely majestic voice sounded simultaneously in their four ears.

"You lot, you've harmed my Gu Family people."

"They deserve death."

The moment that voice appeared, the very laws of the Heavenly Ring Realm stalled.

The four Jue Dian Immortal Kings launching a killing strike had their movements suddenly freeze.

"Who?!"

The praying mantis old man let out a sharp cry.

A spatial rift that spanned the entire Heavenly Ring Realm unfolded silently above their heads.

Three figures exuding the same terrifying aura walked out slowly from within.

The one in the center, wearing a black royal robe and a purple-gold crown, with a heroic visage, was Gu Lin Tian.

His icy gaze swept over the four Jue Dian Immortal Kings below, as if looking at four corpses.

"Fa... family head?!"

Gu Zhan stared at that figure, first stunned, then burst into earth-shaking joy.

"The family head has arrived! Hahaha! You lot of scum are doomed!"

Gu Xue Dao also exhaled in relief, his tense body going limp, nearly collapsing to the ground.

Gu Lin Tian has arrived.

This means the Old Ancestor has come!

The Old Ancestor is a Colossal Immortal King; would he still fear them?

"Gu Family?"

The praying mantis old man rotated his compound eyes, scanning Gu Lin Tian's three figures, his voice sharp and hoarse,

"In the Boundary Sea, hidden dragons and crouching tigers abound, yet I have never heard of a notable Gu Family."

In the black rotting mud beside him, countless painful human faces surfaced, emitting a mixed snicker:

"A newly promoted Immortal King dares to learn to split into three, unafraid of his origin being scattered and wiped out in one fell swoop?"

The White Bone Knight's massive bone scythe pointed far at Gu Lin Tian, its soul fire flickering:

"The tender origin of an Immortal King is the greatest tonic; these three shares are hard for us four to split."

The Spider Woman giggled, her voice sultry yet her eyes icy as a blade: "What's hard to split? Smash it, each absorb a bit. This skin vessel is not bad; I'll keep it as a specimen."

The four of them have drifted in the Boundary Sea for who knows how many eons, their vision venomous.

At a glance, they saw Gu Lin Tian was a newly promoted Immortal King.

In their view, the Immortal Kings of the Immortal Realm are like flowers carefully nurtured in a greenhouse—bright in appearance but actually fragile, far less hardy than the wild grasses they are, struggling to survive in blood and fire.

As for those eerie three figures, they considered them merely a more advanced external incarnation technique.

Such a method seems powerful but actually consumes origin greatly; once broken, the true body also suffers severe damage.

Gu Lin Tian paid no heed to their clamor.

His gaze merely swept calmly over the scarred Gu Zhan and Gu Xue Dao, finally resting on Gu Xue Dao's severed arm, his brow faintly tightening.

Good.

He needed a battle to establish his might.

To prove himself to his father, his son, and the Myriad Worlds, Gu Lin Tian is not merely a family head who can hide under his clan's wings.

"My life, past the heavens."