Chapter 234: Father and Son Discuss the Great Wilderness, Secrets of the Immortals!

Time drifted leisurely, and the war in the Northern Front seemed as if it had never occurred. Although the Demon Calamity still persisted in the human world, with the return of many Human Race powerhouses from the Northern Front, the Demon Calamity was slowing down at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yet, if anyone were to ask what exactly happened in the North, even the old Celestial Master would keep his lips sealed.

This was not because the Human Race powerhouses were particularly secretive about what had happened in the North, but because after they each returned home, they were horrified to realize that they were fundamentally unable to utter a single word about the events that had transpired there.

Gu Mingyue had used "flowers in a mirror and the moon in the water" to create an illusory scene, and as the elder brother, Gu Nianmo naturally handled his own loose ends as well.

However, although many Human Race powerhouses returned, there was one exception.

That exception was the old Emperor Gan. The old Emperor Gan had previously thought of taking Gu Mingyue as his master, but he had been trapped within the "square inch." Only a few Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation realm cultivators remained on the Northern Front to clean up the battlefield, and it was only then that the old Emperor Gan managed to return from the North.

No one knew how much resentment filled the old Emperor Gan's heart; the world only knew that after the old Emperor Gan escaped his predicament, he slaughtered every single Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivator who had seen him maneuvering within the "square inch."

In the resistance against the demon evil Ye Ming, the old Emperor Gan was undoubtedly a hero of the Human Race.

But...

Human nature is always this complex. For those Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators who fell for no reason, what fault did they have?

It was merely because a powerhouse did not want his unsightly side to be seen by outsiders, and thus these Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation cultivators perished.

As for the many subsequent events in the North, Gu Jiangming's family no longer paid them any attention.

At this time, Gu Jiangming, Jiu Jiu, Long Xi, Liu Moxuan, Gu Nianmo, and Gu Mingyue had already returned to Leping County.

In these past few days, neither Gu Jiangming nor Liu Moxuan asked Gu Nianmo too many questions; they simply lived like an ordinary mortal family, lighting fires to cook and occasionally chatting about idle matters.

It was not until twenty days after the end of the Northern war that Gu Nianmo knocked on Gu Jiangming's door.

"Father..."

Gu Nianmo looked at the still-youthful Gu Jiangming before him. Although his eyes still held a hint of complexity, this complexity flickered and then dissipated.

"You opened a small world outside the Great Wilderness and ascended once within that small world, didn't you?"

Gu Jiangming watched Gu Nianmo walk into his study and knew that Gu Nianmo was likely going to have a serious talk with him.

After the father and son had just reunited, both Gu Jiangming and Gu Nianmo had keenly sensed the differences in each other, especially the aura of a Grotto-Heaven world on Gu Nianmo; there was no one in this world who understood that better than Gu Jiangming.

"Yes!"

"I have always kept Father's teachings in mind, but under the circumstances in the Great Wilderness, I dared not ascend!"

"In the end, after countless reflections and stepping into the void, I opened up a small Grotto-Heaven in the void, and after tens of thousands of years of cultivation, I ascended in my Grotto-Heaven world about a thousand years ago."

Gu Nianmo did not deny these things. The scent of a Heavenly Lord on him and Gu Jiangming was too strong, especially since the path the father and son walked was the same; neither could hide anything from the other.

"Since you have already ascended, why does your cultivation still remain at the Heavenly Human Realm?"

Gu Jiangming had not intended to let his son scout the path for him, but just by looking at Gu Nianmo's current cultivation realm, Gu Jiangming had already realized that there was likely some flaw in the Heavenly Lord Ascension Method that he was unaware of.

"The Dao Fruit cannot be brought into the Great Wilderness, nor can it be brought into Heaven and Earth!"

Gu Nianmo looked at his father, a look of helplessness appearing on his face.

He had actually ascended, but his Ascension Realm was somewhat awkward. It was for no other reason than that his Dao Fruit could not be brought into the Great Wilderness. And the greatest characteristic of an Immortal was wielding an Immortal Dao Fruit; since the Dao Fruit could not enter the Great Wilderness, he could at best be considered a Pseudo-Ascension.

It was funny to think that the Pseudo-Ascension Gu Jiangming had once joked about had actually become a reality for his own son! "Cannot be brought into the Great Wilderness?"

Gu Jiangming was momentarily bewildered upon hearing Gu Nianmo's words.

He had originally thought that there was some defect in Gu Nianmo's ascension, but these few sentences from Gu Nianmo left Gu Jiangming stunned into silence.

At the very least, Gu Jiangming could not quite understand why Gu Nianmo could not bring his Dao Fruit into the Great Wilderness universe.

"I did indeed succeed in ascending within my Grotto-Heaven world, ascending via the Demon Dao; Demon-Dyeing Heaven and Earth is my Ascension Method!"

"But after I condensed the Immortal Dao Fruit, my Demon Immortal Dao Fruit became one with my Heaven and Earth. If I were to force my way into Heaven and Earth with the Dao Fruit, it would not be impossible, but..."

"But in that case, my Heaven and Earth would collapse!"

"My Heaven and Earth is a Divine Boat, a Divine Boat capable of traveling through the void. If the Heaven and Earth collapsed, it would be troublesome for me to travel through the void again, not to mention that Sheng Xi is still in the void."

"Furthermore, if I returned to the Great Wilderness with the Dao Fruit, the other Ascended ones in the Great Wilderness would likely not let go of a piece of fat meat like me!"

Facing his father, Gu Nianmo did not hide much.

And as Gu Jiangming heard that Gu Nianmo had crafted his own Heaven and Earth into a Divine Boat, Gu Jiangming could not help but fall silent.

From this alone, Gu Jiangming knew that Gu Nianmo had likely never given up on searching for traces of Gu Shengxi all these years.

"Not bringing my Dao Fruit into the Great Wilderness is not necessarily a bad thing. At least if I ascend again, even if an Immortal from the Great Wilderness comes to kill me, I can briefly borrow the power of Heaven and Earth to possess the power of an Ascension."

"My original plan was to manifest the realm of my impending physical ascension to first dispel the thoughts of several Heavenly Venerables, and then pluck this Great Sun Dao Fruit nurtured by Heaven and Earth!"

"Although there are only nine Heavenly Venerables in the Great Wilderness, throughout history, the number of Ascended Heavenly Venerables born in the Great Wilderness should be around a hundred."

"There are also levels of high and low within the Immortal Realm."

"After ascending, the cultivation still revolves around the three paths of Body, God, and Law!"

"At the Heavenly Human Dao Lord realm, the common choice is to merge the body with the Dao, merge the spirit with the Dao, or merge the law with the Dao."

"When the three paths of Body, God, and Law are taken to the extreme, they can all sublimate to the limit to become a Dao Fruit; this realm is known in the Great Wilderness as a First Awakening Immortal."

"After the First Awakening Immortal comes the Second Awakening Immortal; when the three paths of Body, God, and Law are all condensed into Dao Fruits, one becomes a True Immortal of the 'Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown' level."

"After the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown, there is the 'Five Qi Originating at the Source'!"

"If the Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown condenses the three Dao Fruits of Body, God, and Law, then the Five Qi Originating at the Source condenses the various Dao Fruits of the Five Elements!"

"The essence of Heaven and Earth is a breeding ground chosen by that group of Great Wilderness Immortals. Even after billions of years, this breeding ground will not disappear, after all, cultivation at the Immortal realm is simply too difficult!"

"Human strength has its limits; just because someone is gifted in the Body Dao does not mean they are gifted in the Law Dao or the God Dao."

"And Heaven and Earth is the perfect place for them to harvest Dao Fruits..."

(End of chapter)