Chapter 87: The Old Ancestor Forcefully Merges the Two Provinces

The long-lived Gu Family, above Divine Island.

The usually solemn and dignified clan-protecting Great Array, now under Gu Lin Tian's bewildered command, was fully activated.

Countless Gu Family members, whether elders in closed-door cultivation or disciples sparring in the training grounds, were startled by this commotion, all flying up to high altitude and gazing curiously.

"Family Head, what are you doing? Why did you withdraw the island-protecting Great Array?"

"I heard the Young Master and the Old Ancestor have returned; could they be preparing some grand welcoming ceremony?"

"Look! That's the Young Master! And… hiss! How did the Grand Elder and Elder Xuan Ce's auras become so terrifying?!"

Under the gaze of myriad onlookers, Gu Yuan stood in the void, his robes fluttering.

He felt the two light clusters compressed to the extreme inside his dantian; that bloated sensation was indeed uncomfortable.

The World Tree sapling strained, using its roots to entwine them, preventing them from exploding inside his body.

"Uncle Xuan Ce, are you ready?"

Gu Yuan turned and shouted.

"Young Master, rest easy! The guiding Great Array is in place; just release it!"

Gu Xuan Ce was full of vigor; with a wave of his formation flag, tens of thousands of formation lines instantly spread across the sky, forming a huge golden light net that covered the endless sea surrounding Divine Island.

"Alright! Let's go!"

Gu Yuan took a deep breath, his dantian trembled, and he suddenly opened his mouth and spat.

Boom——!!!

Two clusters, only the size of a fist, yet emitting a terrifying fluctuation that made heaven and earth change color, flew out of his mouth.

They grew upon meeting the wind!

Onefold, a hundredfold, ten thousandfold, a hundred millionfold!

In the blink of an eye, those two clusters of light transformed into two supercontinents that blocked the sky and covered the earth!

Thunder Prefecture: thunderous might, purple lightning streaking across the sky, with thunder juice flowing between the lofty mountains and steep ridges.

Fire Prefecture: blazing flames reaching the heavens, surging earth-fire, the crimson land resembling burning gems.

Two complete continents, carrying the unique desolate aura and deficient laws of Sanqian Zhou, suddenly descended upon the firmament of the Primordial Immortal Realm!

"What the… fuck?!"

Even though Gu Lin Tian was the Heavenly Emperor, he couldn't help but utter a curse.

The Gu Family members below instantly lost their voices, jaws dropping one after another with the sound of dislocating chins rising and falling.

What did they see?

The Young Master went out for a trip and… actually spat out two worlds?!

"This local specialty… isn't it a bit too big?"

Gu Lin Tian looked at the two continents, nearly half the size of Gu Family's Divine Island, and felt his scalp go numb.

"Big is good! Big is powerful!"

The Old Ancestor laughed wildly, took a step, and instantly his form rose tens of thousands of feet, manifesting the dharma aspect of a True Immortal.

He shook the Chaos Immortal Bell in his hand, emitting a toll that froze heaven and earth.

"Freeze!"

The two continents, originally unstable from suddenly leaving their original world and about to trigger earthquakes and tsunamis, instantly calmed at the bell's toll.

"Lin Tian, stop watching and get to work!"

The Old Ancestor bellowed,

"Bring forth your Heavenly Emperor Seal and suppress the eastern sea! Lin Jiang, you go west! Xuan Ce, activate the formation! Weld these two lands to the edge of Divine Island for me!"

"Yes!"

After the Old Ancestor's shout, Gu Lin Tian finally came to his senses.

Although full of doubts, his body had already moved on instinct.

Three Heavenly Emperors, one True Immortal, plus over ten Supremes.

Such a luxurious, even extravagant, construction crew is unparalleled across all realms.

Rumble——

Under the joint efforts of the powerhouses, Thunder Prefecture and Fire Prefecture began to slowly sink, drawing near the edge of Gu Family's Divine Island.

"Fuse them for me!"

The Old Ancestor's beard and hair bristled as he unleashed hundreds of millions of immortal dao runes from his hand.

That was a grand method of forging; he actually treated the two continents as two huge chunks of ore, intending to smelt them together with Gu Family's Divine Island, this magic treasure!

Sizzle——

At the moment the two continents made contact with Divine Island, blinding divine light erupted.

The world barriers rubbed against each other, laws colliding.

"A bit of rejection?"

The Old Ancestor furrowed his brow, then let out a cold snort,

"On my Gu Family's turf, dragons must coil, the land must lie flat—Chaos Immortal Bell, smash it for me!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The Old Ancestor swung the Chaos Immortal Bell like a great hammer, delivering a fierce blow to the legal barrier at the junction.

Simple, brutal, unreasonable.

This is the Old Ancestor's violent aesthetics.

Under the immortal artifact's bombardment, the laws of Sanqian Zhou instantly yielded, breaking and reorganizing obediently.

Then they perfectly merged with the laws of the Primordial Immortal Realm.

One hundred and eight thousand!

With the final roar falling, Thunder Prefecture and Fire Prefecture completely became part of the Gu Family's Divine Island.

Originally floating in the starry sky, the Divine Island's area instantly swelled to several times its size.

"Phew… Done."

The Old Ancestor retracted his dharma form, wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead, and looked at his masterpiece with a satisfied expression.

"Grandfather, you're mighty!"

Gu Yuan timely offered flattery.

"Hahaha, that's only natural." The Old Ancestor proudly stroked his beard.

At this moment, as the two prefectures fully merged, a strange aura began to spread across the Gu Family's Divine Island.

That… is immortal substance.

The vast amount of immortal substance previously sealed within the two prefectures.

Now, like a flood breaking through a dam, it surged wildly into every corner of the Gu Family's Divine Island.

Moreover, the Great Array trapped it inside the Gu Family's Divine Island, ensuring it would not leak out.

And while the Divine Island was originally wreathed in immortal aura, it now gained an additional layer of faint golden radiance.

Flowers, grasses, and trees grew wildly, while spirit beasts roared.

For the cultivators of the Gu Family, this was nothing less than a timely rain sent from heaven!

"What… what kind of energy is this? My hidden wounds… actually healed?!"

An elderly elder who had been stuck in a bottleneck for years suddenly exclaimed.

His originally withered qi and blood now began to boil anew, and his full head of white hair turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"My lifespan! I feel my lifespan is increasing!"

"Heavens! I broke through! I'd been stuck in the 9th realm for three thousand years, and yet I broke through!"

Exultant cries rose and fell, echoing across the entire Divine Island.

Gu Lin Tian stood in the void, feeling the rich immortal substance rushing toward him, and he was utterly stunned.

As a child of a True Immortal, and himself a half-step True Immortal, he was intimately familiar with this substance.

He took a deep breath, feeling every cell in his body rejoice.

"This… this is immortal substance that only a True Immortal can nurture?!"

Gu Lin Tian abruptly turned his head to look at Gu Yuan, his eyes full of disbelief,

"Yuan'er, you brought these two continents back just for this?"

"Yes."

Gu Yuan nodded as if it were obvious, saying, "I thought the local specialties there were quite nourishing; seeing that the elders back home are all getting on in years, I figured I'd bring them back to fortify everyone."

"To fortify the body…"

Gu Lin Tian looked down at the clansmen, overcome with joy and weeping as their lifespans surged, then glanced at his carefree son.

He suddenly felt that the divine weapons and heavenly treasures he had previously given his son were paltry in comparison.

This is true filial piety!

Directly moving two worlds brimming with immortal substance back to support the elders in their twilight years!

Although he was more curious, wasn't it said to be merely the lower realm?

How did they manage to produce so much immortal substance?

"Good! Good! Good!"

Gu Lin Tian uttered three "good"s in a row, his eye sockets turning slightly red.

Gu Zhan, standing nearby, came over holding a piece of thunderstruck wood he had brought back from Thunder Prefecture, gnawing on it as he spoke indistinctly:

"Clan Chief, you don't know, this place originally had two Immortal Kings eyeing it; the Young Master basically snatched meat from the tiger's mouth, forcibly taking it from the Immortal Kings' jaws—what a taste, smacking lips, truly fragrant!"

"Im… Immortal King?!"

Gu Lin Tian's heart, which had just calmed, nearly leapt out again.

He glanced at the smiling Old Ancestor, then at the harmless-looking Gu Yuan.

This old and young pair—were they just sightseeing, or had they gone to blast the heavens?