Chapter 99: A Hongmen Banquet? No, a Longevity Banquet!

While Gu Yuan was in seclusion, beginning to engrave the Immortal King bone,

the Primordial Immortal Domain was surging with wind and clouds.

Ever since the Gu Family had two people attain the Dao and the Old Ancestor snatched two continents back from an Immortal King, the landscape of the entire Immortal Domain had been completely rewritten.

Although all major powers had submitted on the surface, presenting heavy gifts and honoring the Gu Family as their leader,

privately, hearts were restless.

After all, no one wanted to go from being a high-and-mighty ruler to a vassal who could be summoned and dismissed by others.

Especially those Holy Lands and Imperial Dynasties with long histories.

Although they didn't have True Immortals sitting in their sects, they had deep foundations, held Imperial Weapons, and even had sleeping Half-Immortal ancestors, so they harbored some luck and unwillingness.

Until today.

The Gu Family's newly ascended True Immortal, Patriarch Gu Lin Tian, issued a golden invitation.

Inviting all the heroes of the world to the Gu Family's Divine Island to discuss the future of the Immortal Domain!

Nominally, it was to drink tea and discuss the Dao, but everyone knew this was a Hongmen Banquet to redraw the map of power.

Outside the Gu Family's Divine Island.

Massive divine boats were lined up across the starry sky, their banners blocking the sun and sky.

However, the atmosphere was suffocatingly oppressive.

"Holy Lord Li, you came too?"

The old Emperor of the Taiyi Imperial Dynasty, dressed in dragon robes, could not hide the worry between his brows as he cupped his hands toward a Daoist stepping on purple energy not far away.

That was the Sect Master of the Purple Mansion Immortal Sect, an old-school powerhouse who had been immersed in the 18th Realm Supreme domain for many years.

"The Gu Family has summoned us; I dare not not come."

The Purple Mansion Sect Master gave a wry smile and lowered his voice: "I heard that this time, the Gu Family intends to completely integrate the forces of the Immortal Domain and establish some kind of Immortal Court. This is to take our power and cut off our roots."

"Alas, the situation is stronger than the people."

The old Emperor of the Taiyi Imperial Dynasty sighed and glanced at the Divine Island in the distance, which was shrouded in billions of layers of immortal light.

"If we resist, I'm afraid there will be no Taiyi Imperial Dynasty in this Immortal Domain by tomorrow."

"Hmph, I don't believe the Gu Family would dare to defy the world and swallow us all up."

Beside him, a burly man wreathed in flames snorted coldly; he was the new Valley Master of the Flame Valley.

The previous Valley Master, his father, had once had a conflict with the Gu Family Old Ancestor and was poked to death by the Old Ancestor with a finger, which was why he had ascended to the position.

"Even if the Gu Family has two True Immortals, if we join forces and bring out our foundations, the Gu Family might not be able to kill us all."

"Fellow Daoists, we must unite when the time comes to resist the Gu Family's hegemony."

The surrounding sect leaders didn't dare to respond.

If you want to go up, go up yourself; they wouldn't do something suicidal.

After all, it's better to live a miserable life than to die.

Just at this moment,

Hum—

The Gu Family's Great Array protecting the clan slowly cracked open a gap.

A path paved with pure starlight extended to everyone's feet.

"Everyone, please."

A gentle yet majestic voice came from the depths of the Divine Island.

It was Gu Lin Tian's voice.

A True Immortal welcoming them in person.

Who dared to refuse?

Even the Flame Valley Master didn't dare to bring it up again.

Everyone looked at each other, took a deep breath, and bit the bullet as they stepped onto the starlight path.

However,

the moment they passed through the light curtain of the array and truly stepped onto the Gu Family's Divine Island,

everyone's expressions froze.

"This... what is this aura?!"

The old Emperor of the Taiyi Imperial Dynasty stopped abruptly and took a greedy deep breath.

As this breath entered his body,

his originally withered and decaying blood energy instantly became active, as if dead wood had met spring, and even the bottleneck of his realm, which had been stagnant for tens of thousands of years, loosened slightly!

"Immortal substance! This is immortal substance so dense it cannot be dissolved!"

The Purple Mansion Sect Master screamed, completely losing the demeanor of a sect master.

He reached out with trembling hands, grabbed a handful of air, his eyes like lightning.

He saw that there were some pale golden light dust floating in the air.

"Heavens, immortal substance that is hard to find in the outside world and can only be nurtured by True Immortals is actually as common as dust here?"

"Cultivating here for one day is worth a year outside!"

"No, the most important thing is lifespan. Breathing here, the rate of my lifespan loss... has slowed down by more than ten times! And it's even increasing my original lifespan!"

Crazy.

Everyone was crazy.

When the Gu Family held the celebration banquet before, they had deliberately used arrays to suppress the spread of immortal substances to avoid causing too much chaos.

But today, Gu Lin Tian ordered the removal of this suppression.

A naked temptation was placed right in front of these old monsters who were afraid of death.

What dignity? What power? What foundation?

In the face of longevity, all of it was bullshit!

The Flame Valley Master had just been clamoring to break a few of the Gu Family's teeth.

At this moment, he was dazed, his drool almost flowing out.

He felt that the fire poison in his body was melting away bit by bit under the scouring of this aura.

"Where is this a Hongmen Banquet..."

The old Emperor of the Taiyi Imperial Dynasty muttered to himself, a brilliance never seen before erupting in his turbid old eyes, "This is clearly a Longevity Banquet!"

At the end of the starlight path.

Gu Lin Tian, dressed in white, sat cross-legged on the clouds, with the three Heavenly Emperors—Jiang Rou, Gu Linjiang, and Gu Xuan Ce—behind him.

Further back were dozens of Supremes, including Gu Xue Dao and Gu Zhan.

Such a lineup was enough to sweep across the heavens.

But the sect leaders and Emperors present had no fear in their eyes, only fanaticism.

"Everyone."

Gu Lin Tian swept his gaze over the crowd below, a faint smile on his lips.

"I invited you all here today for only one thing."

"My Gu Family intends to establish an Immortal Court to govern the Primordial Immortal Domain, integrate resources, and seek longevity together. Those who join our Immortal Court can enjoy immortal substances regularly."

"I wonder what you all think?"

Before the words fell,

with a thud,

the Flame Valley Master was the first to kneel down.

"Flame Valley is willing to obey the Gu Family's commands! We will follow the lead of the Immortal Court!"

His speed was so fast that the other major power leaders behind him were stunned.

No, you just knelt like that?

What about leading the resistance?

Your father was killed by the Gu Family Old Ancestor; don't you care anymore? What about your inheritance? Don't you want it?

The Flame Valley Master could naturally feel the disdain of those around him.

But so what?

Fathers can be replaced, but life only happens once.

Thud.

"The Taiyi Imperial Dynasty, the entire nation, pays respects to the Lord of the Immortal Court!"

The old Emperor of the Taiyi Imperial Dynasty was the second.

This made the princes and grandsons behind him almost unable to react.

With a first and a second... naturally, others followed suit.

"The Purple Mansion Immortal Sect is willing to submit to the Immortal Court!"

"The Tianxuan Holy Land is willing to follow!"

"The Yaochi Holy Land..."

For a time, the leaders of the major powers, who had been harboring ulterior motives, scrambled to express their stance, fearing that if they were a step late, they would be kicked out of this longevity circle.

Gu Lin Tian looked at the sea of powerhouses kneeling below, his expression calm.

From beginning to end, he had only said one sentence, causing those already fragile alliances to shatter on their own.

This was absolute benefit.

And absolute strength.

Without benefits, people would rush over and divide all the immortal substances directly.

There must be strength to protect the benefits.

The reason for completely exposing that the Gu Family possessed immortal substances was also something Gu Lin Tian had discussed with other high-level Gu Family members.

True Immortals and some in the Half-Immortal realm could sense the existence of immortal substances.

Given time, the fact that the Gu Family possessed immortal substances would inevitably be exposed.

In that case, it was better to take the initiative.

Use benefits to lure them, use strength to suppress them, and unify the entire Immortal Domain.

Tie all forces to the Gu Family's big ship.

The Gu Family would be the Lord of the Immortal Court!

On the other hand, it was also for future considerations.

The Sanqian Zhou was too big.

The Gu Family couldn't eat it all.

Even if the Old Ancestor broke through to Immortal King, he couldn't eat it all.

Using some scraps to win over other forces for their own use, and if necessary, conquering other worlds together—wouldn't that be wonderful?

"Very good."

Gu Lin Tian nodded slightly. "Since that is the case, then..."

Boom!!!

Just at this moment,

from the depths of the Gu Family's Divine Island, in the direction of the inner universe where the Old Ancestor was in seclusion, a heaven-shaking fluctuation suddenly erupted.

This fluctuation was not the might of a True Immortal, nor did it have the dominance of a Heavenly Emperor suppressing the ten thousand Daos.

But it carried an extreme weight.

It was as if a cosmic singularity, concentrated billions of times, had suddenly exploded at this moment.

The entire Gu Family Divine Island, and even the space-time for billions of miles around, sank violently at this instant!

All the powerhouses kneeling on the ground—the 18th Realm were fine.

The 17th Realm Supreme powerhouses only felt as if their chests had been fiercely smashed by a giant hammer; their blood surged, their souls shook, and they looked up in horror.

"Who... who has come out of seclusion?" ===== CHAPTER 100 =====