Chapter 1158: Undying and Indestructible!

Bai Loulan? You weren't dead in the Azure Abyss Heaven, were you?

Luo Sheng Elder frowned slightly.

According to the news sent back by the Nether Formation Elder, in their Strange Palace and the starry sky occupied by the Gu Clan, most people have already perished, with only fewer than a hundred escaping the Azure Abyss Emperor's killing intent, while Bai Loulan and the Black Wood Elder of their Strange Palace, among others, had already died on Emperor's Fall Star earlier.

Bai Loulan gave a faint smile, "Naturally, Gu Yue Laozi possesses vast divine powers."

Luo Sheng Elder asked, "I've heard that the Gu Clan of the Azure Abyss Heaven, who sacrificed their lives, are called 'immortal'; could it be that you all have 'come back to life'?"

Bai Loulan, accompanied by Luo Sheng Elder and Xuanji Holy Lord, walked toward a star while saying, "That's one way to put it. Since this is no longer a secret now, I will tell you, Elder. In our Gu Clan, though it seems we rely on Gu worms at birth, in truth we coexist with the Dao."

"May I ask, among worldly things, which has greater longevity compared to the Dao? Naturally, the Dao. To coexist with the Dao is immortality."

Luo Sheng Elder frowned, "But the Dao also has an end; there is no undying and indestructible Dao."

Bai Loulan shook his head, "Gu Yue Laozi has studied this deeply; when the Dao reaches its end, our Gu Clan also has secret arts to continue surviving."

Luo Sheng Elder asked, "So this is the reason you unconditionally follow Gu Yue Laozi?"

Bai Loulan chuckled, "Elder, are you asking whether we know we are being 'used' by Gu Yue Laozi?"

Luo Sheng Elder nodded.

Bai Loulan felt somewhat relieved, his refined demeanor seeming no different from before, "So-called 'use,' or what you call 'pawns,' is merely the view of outsiders. Elder, I ask you: if there were an opportunity for longevity before you, how would you choose?"

Luo Sheng Elder was speechless, lost in thought.

For a powerhouse of his level, longevity holds tremendous allure.

Time had lost any sense of surprise.

Their Strange Palace descended from the outside world onto the World Tree, and endless ages have passed, yet neither he nor the many ancestors who have secluded themselves in meditation beneath the Dark Palace's formation have hardly felt the passage of time.

On the path of the Dao, even their Strange Clan's ultimate goal is longevity, and also immortality and indestructibility.

Luo Sheng Elder looked at Bai Loulan; his eyes flickered with an unwavering Divine Light, unconditionally trusting Gu Yue Laozi.

Bai Loulan seemingly inadvertently said, "Outsiders cannot tolerate us, and we cannot tolerate outsiders. The path to longevity is inherently arduous; without steadfast resolve, how could one reach the end?"

Luo Sheng Elder remained silent.

He greatly doubted whether the one he was conversing with was truly "Bai Loulan" or the will of Gu Yue Laozi.

He would rather believe that these Gu Clan members are merely pawns of Gu Yue Laozi!

If he were Gu Yue Laozi, how could he lead such a vast multitude of clansmen toward longevity?

Obviously, that is impossible!

Would Gu Yue Laozi be so selfless?

Whether from reality or the human heart.

That is the person who even treats the Azure Abyss Emperor as a pawn!

Along the way, Luo Sheng Elder observed Bai Loulan and thus understood why Bai Loulan would "rebirth."

Dao Resonance is the key therein.

Within Bai Loulan's body dwell countless Gu creatures.

"Perhaps only by recombining these Gu creatures can we re-evolve another similar 'Bai Loulan'?"

Luo Sheng Elder muttered to himself.

Initially, he learned from the Nether Formation Elder that when the Azure Abyss Emperor's legacy fell, the Gu Clan members, fearless of death, all self-detonated, turning into Gu creatures that scattered across the starry sky; he was utterly shocked at the time.

Now it seems, he actually knew his own fate.

Luo Sheng Elder increasingly felt the mystery of Gu Yue Laozi.

Xuanji Holy Lord glanced at Bai Loulan, extremely displeased; a flash of killing intent flickered in her eyes and vanished.

Solely because Bai Loulan's Eight Cycle Karma Gu exists, his daughter Chu Youwei has tormented Ling'er Junior Sister and Yang Xuan Junior Brother in the lower realm for ten thousand years, and this thread of karmic force persists to this day.

Her beautiful eyes shone with divine radiance as she fixed her gaze on Bai Loulan's body, giving rise to a doubt in her heart.

"What kind of living being is this?"

Within the body pile up countless Gu creatures; one could almost say they are nothing but Gu creatures.

Not long after.

Bai Loulan brought Luo Sheng Elder and Xuanji Holy Lord down onto a star.

A towering stone statue rose abruptly, its head piercing the clouds; its visage ancient, a posture of contemplation, its form solemn, exuding an intangible pressure, like a dormant fierce beast.

"Mysterious!"

"Only these two words can describe it."

"Hehe!"

From Gu Yue Laozi's stone statue, two awe-inspiring beams of light shot from its eyes, instantly surging with a powerful vital aura.

That visage descended, as if gazing down upon Xuanji Holy Lord, seeming neither smiling nor crying, neither laughing nor weeping, causing her inner feeling of creepiness.

Gu Yue Laozi's voice emanated from the stone statue, sounding both near and far.

"Luo Sheng Elder's visit this time is not merely to inquire about Bai Loulan, is it?"

Before Luo Sheng Elder could speak, Gu Yue Laozi continued explaining.

"Among my Gu Clan, unlike other beings, qi blood, divine soul, and flesh are secondary; what matters most is Dao Resonance."

"Take Bai Loulan, for example; the most important within his body is the Eight Cycle Karma Gu, which is the primary Dao Resonance, followed by other Gu creatures. It is precisely these Dao Resonances that have evolved into this Bai Loulan."

"Thus, although that Bai Loulan died in the Azure Abyss Heaven, his Dao Resonance still exists in our Gu Clan Heaven, so we merely need to recombine these Gu creatures."

Luo Sheng Elder frowned slightly.

"This might also be a form of immortality? An undying and indestructible existence?"

"As long as Gu Yue Laozi lives, these Gu Clan members can also be 'resurrected' by him through this Dao Resonance!"

He curiously asked, "It sounds not so simple, does it?"

Gu Yue Laozi said calmly, "The secret art involving our Gu Clan can be realized only by our Gu Clan members; the so-called Gu creatures are merely external attachments of Dao Resonance."

Xuanji Holy Lord frowned slightly, "May I ask, Gu Yue Laozi, how do the people of the Gu Clan reproduce?"

Gu Yue Laozi calmly said, "The way of the Great Dao has its divisions. Below the eighth transformation is the seventh transformation. And so on."

His answer was vague, but Xuanji Holy Lord seized on the key point and asked, "In other words, Dao Resonance gives rise to Dao Resonance, higher-transformed Gu beasts produce lower-transformed Gu beasts?"

Gu Yue Laozi said, "Perhaps one could say that."

Xuanji Holy Lord felt a chill run through his heart.

In other words, the Chu Youwei of that time was actually just a seven-transformed causal Gu forged from the eight-transformed causal Gu that split off from Bai Loulan.

The more one thinks about it, the more terrifying it is!

Elder Luo Sheng bowed respectfully and said, "By the command of Ancestor An Shang, I wish to ask Gu Yue Laozi: Our Gui Hall seeks to destroy the World Tree and control the Primordial Original Seed; I wonder whether the Gu Clan is in conflict with our Gui Hall?"

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