Chapter 236: The Heavenly Lord Ascends, Gu Jiangming

With the conclusion of this conversation between father and son, it was as if some knot in Gu Nianmo's heart had been untied.

Even though Gu Nianmo's physical ascension was imminent, he seemed to have completely forgotten about it, spending every day simply strolling through the streets and alleys of Leping County with Gu Mingyue.

The small Leping County had the footprints of the siblings, Gu Nianmo and Gu Mingyue, left almost everywhere.

And from some point on, Gu Nianmo's face also began to show more and more smiles.

Besides this, Gu Nianmo emptied his family savings to help his mother, Liu Moran, recast her physical body as quickly as possible; at Gu Mingyue's invitation, Gu Nianmo even went to take a look at the current Qilin Grotto-Heaven.

It was just that Gu Nianmo also told Gu Jiangming that, perhaps because he was also a Heavenly Lord, the Qilin Grotto-Heaven held a not-insignificant rejection toward him.

However, the territory of the Qilin Grotto-Heaven had not yet exceeded two hundred million li in diameter, so even if it held hostility toward Gu Nianmo, it could do nothing to him.

"According to my cheap master, if our world must be named, it can be called the Ancestral Immortal World!"

"The Ancestral Immortal opened up this world of ours in the void chaos, hence it has this name."

"And outside the Ancestral Immortal World, there are about tens of millions of large, medium, and small worlds circling it; so-called small worlds have skies no higher than thirty thousand li and lands no wider than ten million li."

"These small worlds are basically occupied by those Heavenly Human Dao Lords outside the Great Wilderness, or even Supreme Great Emperors."

"Senior Dragon King joined the Great Wilderness, and under my maneuvering, he also obtained a small world; that small world was named the Dragon World by Senior Dragon King, and the many living beings within that world all follow the path of dragon transformation."

"Those Grotto-Heavens smaller than small worlds cannot actually exist for long in the void."

"As for medium worlds, they are roughly the scale of Father's current Qilin Grotto-Heaven; heavens and earths that are hundreds of millions or billions of li wide are all such medium worlds."

"I achieved the status of Heavenly Human Dao Lord in the Great Wilderness and took on a cheap master; although I basically know what kind of intentions my master harbors, no one dares to look down on me."

"After all, in the history of the Great Wilderness, there is truly no shortage of those heroic figures who rebelled against their masters."

"My Divine Boat World was built on the foundation of the world my cheap master gave me, which I then modified and eventually grew into a Great World."

"The vastness of a Great World is basically not inferior to the Heaven and Earth we are currently in."

"It is just that because the Heaven and Earth is flawed, the cultivation of living beings in a Great World is actually quite a bit more difficult compared to the Ancestral Immortal World."

"Whether it is a small world or a Great World, they basically circle around the Ancestral Immortal World, but Father's Qilin Grotto-Heaven and my Divine Boat World are constantly moving away from the Ancestral Immortal World."

"The void is infinite and boundless; unless one achieves the perfection of Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown and Five Qi Originating at the Source, those Immortals would not think of leaving the Ancestral Immortal World."

After Gu Nianmo walked a circle like this in the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, he gave Gu Jiangming a special array.

"Father's natural talent is unprecedented and will never be surpassed, and your conceptualization is even more ingenious."

"The In-World Ascension Method is not something no Immortal in the Great Wilderness has thought of; after all, for those Heavenly Venerables, an extra world that has nurtured a Heavenly Dao Fruit is just an extra farm to harvest."

"But unfortunately, without exception, they never thought of how to become a Heavenly Lord."

"As for me, I borrowed many spiritual treasures and wondrous objects to open up a tiny Grotto-Heaven Realm at the boundary between Heaven and Earth and the void, one that was not even worthy of being called a world."

"I walked through hundreds of worlds in the Great Wilderness, and based on my own insights, I created a Void-Extinguishing Array; this was also the initial prototype of the Heaven-Swallowing and Earth-Devouring Method. I used the Void-Extinguishing Array to refine my small Grotto-Heaven as my life-bound spiritual treasure, and within the Grotto-Heaven, I generated arrays of Void-Extinguishing."

"Then, for tens of thousands of years, I fed almost all of my family wealth to my Divine Boat World, and only then did I barely manage to feed my Divine Boat World up."

"When my Divine Boat World grew into a Small World, it severed its connection with the Ancestral Immortal World, and I searched the void for some nascent worlds, or dying worlds, or those tiny worlds that perished as soon as they were born."

"After nearly another ten thousand years of this, my Divine Boat World grew to the scale of a medium world."

"I then used the Demon Dao to infect the entire medium world my cheap master gave me, and then refined it into my Divine Boat World; only then was I able to transform my Divine Boat World into a Great Heaven and Earth in just a few tens of thousands of years."

As Gu Nianmo spoke of his gains over these years, the corners of his mouth could not help but carry a hint of pride.

If one were to ask what his proudest work of these years was, it would undoubtedly be his Divine Boat Heaven and Earth; after all, having forged from nothing a Heaven and Earth that belonged solely to him, one that could even carry him to ascension, how could Gu Nianmo not be self-satisfied? "Father, the strongest point of us Heavenly Lords is being able to borrow the power of a Heaven and Earth!"

"With the power of an entire Great Heaven and Earth upon me, even if my realm has not reached the stage of ascension, I can still possess peerless, violent power, much like the Pseudo-Heavenly Human that Father once spoke of."

"I see that Father wants to remain in the Transformation Realm; you must also want to continue on the path of the Heavenly Lord, right?"

Gu Nianmo looked at Gu Jiangming, and as he spoke, he had already handed over the Demon-Dyeing Heaven and Earth and even the Void-Extinguishing Array to Gu Jiangming.

"The path of the Heavenly Lord, I indeed want to continue walking."

"But the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, I intend to hand over to your sister!"

Gu Jiangming listened to Gu Nianmo's words, first nodding, and then shaking his head.

"If you hadn't cleared this path yet, I was prepared to walk it myself first, at least to be able to find gaps and make up for deficiencies for you all."

"But since you have already cleared this path of the Heavenly Lord, I am prepared to hand the Qilin Grotto-Heaven over to your sister, Mingyue."

"You have already seen Mingyue's strength; she has also reached the level of the Three Tribulations."

"If I really let Mingyue go and face those many Heavenly Human Dao Lords who have ascended in the past thirty million years as you described, I would not be at ease."

"Let Mingyue refine the Qilin Grotto-Heaven!"

"When Mingyue ascends, her 'Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water' divine ability should be even stronger; if I let Mingyue add all her divine abilities to me, I could possess the power of ascension in a short period of time."

"Mingyue is not skilled in battle, but I am."

"Handing the Qilin Grotto-Heaven to Mingyue to prove herself a Heavenly Lord and ascend means I won't have to worry about Mingyue in the future, and I can also lend you a hand when you pluck the Heaven and Earth Dao Fruit."

Gu Jiangming slowly shook his head, and then softly and slowly explained his plans.

Since the return of the Qilin Grotto-Heaven, Gu Jiangming's original plan was to scout the path for Mingyue himself, but since the path had been cleared by Gu Nianmo, Gu Jiangming wanted to hand the Qilin Grotto-Heaven to Gu Mingyue.

Beyond allowing Gu Mingyue to achieve the immortal realm of long-lasting vision, Gu Jiangming also vaguely sensed in his heart that his own opportunity did not lie with the Qilin Grotto-Heaven!

(End of chapter)