Chapter 183: Three Thousand Years of Time, the Human World Has Changed Its Appearance!

As the text refreshed line by line on the Mie Changsheng interface, Gu Jiangming also felt that the Void territory he was currently in was slowly severing its ties with the original Heaven and Earth.

Even though this Void territory could not completely break free from the restrictions of Heaven and Earth, Gu Jiangming also perceived that if any other person were to be in this Small World, they would likely find it easier to break through the restrictions of Heaven and Earth! "After the Four Thousand Bureau, and a Grotto-Heaven world..."

Gu Jiangming was silent for a moment, then looked at the Small World before him, which was formulating Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind according to the rules after the Four Thousand Bureau, his eyes slowly filled with a hint of contemplation.

Gu Jiangming had always been thinking, thinking about how to let his future self grow rapidly.

Mie Changsheng had brought him back to era after era; although his cultivation experience existed in every era, it was undeniable that as Gu Jiangming returned to the future, many memories were blurred.

Now that this Grotto-Heaven world, born by a stroke of luck, had come into existence, it gave Gu Jiangming more ideas.

Not to mention anything else, at the very least, he could completely store enough resources within this Grotto-Heaven world to support his future self in rapidly breaking through cultivation realms, or even countless techniques he could no longer recall.

"There is still time!"

"After I broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm, my lifespan is approximately three thousand years!"

"This lifespan is not considered long for other Heaven and Earth Enlightenment practitioners, but for me, it is enough!"

Even though he had broken through to the Heavenly Human Realm, Gu Jiangming's lifespan did not have an overly exaggerated increase; if it were other normal Heavenly Human existences, even Zhou Kai, living for hundreds of thousands of years would not be a difficult task.

However, although Gu Jiangming's lifespan had increased, the magnitude of the increase was short compared to those Heaven and Earth Enlightenment practitioners.

Gu Jiangming himself did not care about his own lifespan; this era, after all, was not his era.

Gu Jiangming did not leave this Small World directly after Zhou Kai fell; a world, even if it was only a world with a diameter of one million li, was not fake, and even the principles within it were not fake!

Under Gu Jiangming's gaze, he witnessed with his own eyes the Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind beginning to reconverge, watching this Small World evolve into a Grotto-Heaven world distinct from the outside Heaven and Earth.

Gu Jiangming sat in this Void Grotto-Heaven for a full ten years, and during these ten years, the news that a new Ascension Realm Heavenly Human had been born between Heaven and Earth spread throughout the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations.

This time, there was no need for Gu Jiangming to take action himself; those many races that were originally close to the Human Race actually moved their own tribal lands further away from the Human Race's territory on their own.

Even among those races that were close to the Human Race, many began to relocate their tribal lands.

Among them, naturally, the Qilin race was included.

Gu Jiangming did not have much prejudice against the Qilin race, but the original inhabitants of Beidi, especially those practitioners who once came from the Liu Family, had no good feelings toward the Qilin race.

After Zhou Kai fell, the Qilin race moved north for a distance of hundreds of millions of li.

Even if the Human Race were well-governed, for the Human Race's Beidi to expand over such a long distance, it would likely take a thousand years, or even longer.

Following Gu Jiangming's step into the Ascension Heavenly Human Realm, the atmosphere of the Human Race became visibly different.

No one knew where the Human Race had found information regarding the Ascension Heavenly Humans of the ancient era; according to ancient records, every Ascension Heavenly Human in the ancient era ruled over the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations for an entire era.

With Gu Jiangming as such a shot of adrenaline, the number of courageous warriors within the Human Race grew increasingly large.

These courageous warriors almost all knew the scene of Heavenly Humans ruling the world from those ancient books; they harbored a wild ambition, hoping that Gu Jiangming could lead the entire Human Race to rule over Heaven and Earth!

Even if the outcome were the worst, in the eyes of those people, it would only mean the Human Race becoming like the caged, like the situation of the Qilin race.

Conversely, after Gu Nianmo walked into the Void Grotto-Heaven with Gu Shengxi, they also learned about Gu Jiangming's lifespan issue from Gu Jiangming's own mouth.

Especially when Gu Nianmo and Gu Shengxi learned that Gu Jiangming's lifespan was only a short three thousand years, both Gu Shengxi and Gu Nianmo felt extremely distressed in their hearts.

If it were possible, they naturally did not want to see their father fall just like that.

But Gu Jiangming's words were also very clear.

"This era, after all, does not allow for the existence of the Heavenly Human Realm!"

"If I were to stay in this Void Grotto-Heaven forever, perhaps I could live for tens of thousands of years."

"For any mortal, the vastness of this Void Grotto-Heaven is enough for them to explore for a lifetime and still not be enough; even for a Nascent Soul, this Void Grotto-Heaven is large enough."

"But for our level of cultivation, a Grotto-Heaven with a diameter of one million is just like a prison."

"I am not willing to limit the second half of my life to this Void Grotto-Heaven for the sake of a mere lifespan."

There was not a hint of disappointment between Gu Jiangming's brows; one knows one's own affairs best, and even three thousand years was considered an extremely long time to Gu Jiangming.

If he were really allowed to live for tens of thousands of years, Gu Jiangming worried that he might live directly into the future.

But living into the future would mean two Gu Jiangmings existing at the same time, and Gu Jiangming had no intention of challenging time for the moment.

The more he knew, the more awe Gu Jiangming felt toward Heaven and Earth; even though Gu Jiangming had already stepped into the Heavenly Human Realm and truly stepped into the Ascension Realm, he was ultimately not an immortal! A three-thousand-year lifespan was the restriction Heaven and Earth placed upon him.

He achieved the Heavenly Human Realm in an era where it was impossible for one to be born, so naturally, he needed to be feared by Heaven and Earth.

Three thousand years later, if Gu Jiangming did not choose to fall voluntarily, Heaven and Earth would not know what means to use to deal with him.

Although Gu Jiangming resided in the Void Grotto-Heaven, after the Void Grotto-Heaven gradually stabilized, Gu Jiangming no longer focused his attention too much on the Void Grotto-Heaven.

He did store countless treasures, and even cultivation classics, within this Void Grotto-Heaven.

As the Heavenly Lord, without Gu Jiangming's consent, no one else could enter this world.

And the Four Thousand Bureau had long since become Gu Jiangming's innate divine ability, which also meant that this Grotto-Heaven world would become Gu Jiangming's greatest secret.

【After you achieved the position of Heavenly Lord, you placed more of your spirit on the Void Grotto-Heaven.】

【Compared to the Void Grotto-Heaven, you were still more willing to call this Grotto-Heaven the Qilin Grotto-Heaven.】

【Zhou Kai was dead, but Zhou Kai's principles had transformed into the cornerstone of the Qilin Grotto-Heaven; the burial ground of a fallen Heavenly Human made the Spirit Qi within the Qilin Grotto-Heaven reach an inconceivable level of density.】

【In a mere hundred years, with the help of the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, Liu Moran became the first among your wives to break through to the Supreme Realm.】

【This was not because Liu Moran's natural talent was high to an unbelievable degree, but because Liu Moran ultimately chose to take a shortcut. She selectively absorbed a portion of the ancient Supreme principles that had fallen in the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, and with the Qilin Grotto-Heaven obscuring the heavenly secrets, Liu Moran had the opportunity to break through to the Supreme Realm.】

【After Liu Moran broke through to the Supreme Realm, the first thing she chose to do was to have a battle with Jiu Jiu.】

【It was just that Jiu Jiu's spirit was high and proud; she believed that since others could break through to the Supreme Realm under the blockade of Heaven and Earth, why couldn't she?】

【It was just that the gap between the Supreme Realm and the non-Supreme Realm was too obvious; this battle was the first time Jiu Jiu was defeated by Liu Moran.】

【Three hundred years later, all four of your romantic partners had broken through to the Supreme Realm; in your household, besides your daughter Gu Mingyue, there were six Supremes and one Heavenly Human!】

【Among them, Wang Qinghe, Liu Moran, and Long Xi all broke through with the help of ancient Supreme principles.】

【Only Jiu Jiu, Gu Nianmo, and Gu Shengxi broke through to the Supreme Realm on their own.】

【Unlike the awkward situation where Wang Qinghe, Liu Moran, and Long Xi had nowhere left to advance, Jiu Jiu's potential had not yet been exhausted; in fact, Jiu Jiu suppressing Liu Moran did not require much effort at all.】

【Eight hundred years later, within the four lands of the Human Race—Beidi, the Southern Kingdom, the Eastern Continent, and the Western Lands—the population of the Human Race had reached a terrifying four hundred billion living beings.】

【Four hundred billion living beings gathered on this territory of the Human Race, and the entire Human Race presented an incredibly prosperous appearance.】

【For the newborn Human Race, the Red Lotus Demon Venerable has almost become a legend; you have gradually ceased to walk the mortal world, and the Human Emperor Gu Shengxi is the true protagonist of the Human Race in this era.】

【Your eldest son Gu Nianmo had a sudden inspiration this year, perhaps because he had only been able to stay in Niankong Villa during his youth; Gu Nianmo wanted to measure, to measure just how vast the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations of Heaven and Earth are.】

【It was also this year that your daughter Gu Mingyue broke through to the Supreme realm.】

【Compared to her two older brothers, Gu Mingyue never put much energy into cultivation from beginning to end, but as the Taiyin Star Lord, her upper limit was the Heavenly Human Realm from birth.】

【One thousand two hundred years later, no news had been sent back by Gu Nianmo.】

【For four hundred full years, even you could not sense where Gu Nianmo had gone; you only knew that Gu Nianmo was not in any life-or-death crisis.】

【Your daughter Gu Mingyue ultimately stopped before the Heavenly Human Realm; according to your understanding of Heaven and Earth, Gu Mingyue's gift ended here, and unless Gu Mingyue was willing to take the initiative to walk into the Taiyin Star, she would need to work hard herself if she wanted to break through the Heavenly Human Realm.】

【Under your guidance, Gu Shengxi's cultivation also reached the realm of Supreme Perfection.】

【Gu Shengxi is the undisputed protagonist of the era; one thousand two hundred years of time have made every member of the Human Race within the entire Human Race territory know, know of the Human Emperor Supreme Gu Shengxi.】

【As the first Human Emperor Supreme of the Human Race, Gu Shengxi is qualified, and he is also dutiful.】

【It is just that Gu Shengxi lived to be one thousand two hundred years old, and he never found a good match to accompany him from beginning to end.】

【You once had a long talk with Gu Shengxi about this issue, but Gu Shengxi only declined, declining by saying that the Dao of Great Harmony for the world was not yet finished, and for the time being, he did not want to start a family.】

【But you sensed that Gu Shengxi was likely still influenced by you, or rather, influenced by his mother Wang Qinghe.】

【Your son Gu Shengxi has a slight, insignificant symptom of gynophobia...】

【Especially since Gu Shengxi knew that if he were to marry, there was a high probability that the thirty-seven races on good terms with the Human Race would all send the legitimate daughters of their own races before him.】

【But seeing the two concubines at home, and often seeing you rubbing your waist, Gu Shengxi had a faint fear of a good female match.】

【You realized this problem of Gu Shengxi's, and you also wanted to help Gu Shengxi solve this problem, but Gu Shengxi kept declining.】

【One thousand five hundred years, your eldest son Gu Nianmo finally returned.】

【You learned from his mouth, learned that he had flown continuously toward the east of Heaven and Earth, and it only took him three years to fly out of the territory governed by the Dragon Race.】

【But the vast sea area seemed to have no boundaries; he traveled for three hundred full years and still could not find where the boundaries of Heaven and Earth were.】

【Three hundred years of flying, yet as far as the eye could see it was still just sea area; you began to be curious for the first time about how big this world really is.】

【Besides this, when you saw Gu Nianmo and Gu Mingyue telling you about their many Knowledge, you finally realized that Gu Nianmo had walked out of his own Dao.】

【Great Harmony of Heaven and Earth was not his Dao; that was his responsibility as the offspring of you, Gu Jiangming.】

【Compared to Great Harmony of Heaven and Earth, he was more willing to explore the unknown, to see scenery he had never seen before, and to recognize the unknown he had never seen.】

【Gu Nianmo's strength had vaguely reached the level you were at when you went to find Long Xi back then.】

【He was already walking on the correct Heavenly Human path; when Gu Nianmo truly finds a boundary of the world, perhaps that will be the time Gu Nianmo achieves the Immortal-Ascending Heavenly Human realm.】

【One thousand eight hundred years, Gu Mingyue watched Gu Nianmo return once again, and listening to Gu Nianmo speak of his many Knowledge from his journey west, your daughter Gu Mingyue for the first time gave birth to the thought of wanting to go to the Taiyin Star to take a look.】

【It was just that this thought of Gu Mingyue's was dispelled by you the moment it arose; you knew very clearly, very clearly just how dangerous this thought of Gu Mingyue's was.】

【Perhaps she herself did not know, but you knew that once Gu Mingyue arrived at the Taiyin Star, she might be like Chang'e in the myths and legends, trapped in the Taiyin Star forever.】

【Knowing that the matter was troublesome, you naturally were unwilling to let Gu Mingyue go to the Taiyin Star.】

【Two thousand four hundred years, the footsteps of the Human Race had completely spread to the former territory of the Human Race; the time the Human Race spent was far longer than you had imagined.】

【But you also knew that an area of five hundred million li was enough to accommodate tens of billions of people.】

【And the entire Human Race territory, how could it be only five hundred million li vast?】

【It was also this year that, from who knows where, a secret rumor began to spread: you, this Heavenly Human in the world who suppresses the mortal world, are nearing the end of your lifespan!】

【You did not know where this news spread from, but you still keenly sensed, sensed that in this Heaven and Earth, currents began to surge in the dark.】

【All those with Heaven and Earth Enlightenment know that your lifespan is not long due to certain reasons.】

【Although no one had probed you from beginning to end, you could feel that the number of those with Heaven and Earth Enlightenment active in the Four Wilds and Eight Desolations was beginning to increase continuously.】

【They are waiting for your twilight years!】

(End of this chapter)