Chapter 651: Ancient Figures

Through the Soul Search,

Gu Zhan learned something.

The reason the various Immortal Sects in the Human World know the truth of the world is that it was passed down by the Confucian Saint who had already ascended to immortality and appeared in the world.

The Confucian Saint was originally a figure only existing in ancient legends.

This world has three figures of absolute faith, respectively the founders of the Three Major Ancestral Veins: one is the Taoist Ancestor of Taoism, the Buddha of Buddhism, and the Confucian Saint of Confucianism.

These three people each existed in three different eras, and it is these three who forged this Cultivation World that has been passed down for more than a hundred thousand years. It can be said that all cultivators in this world are the legacy of these three.

Therefore, when Gu Zhan learned during the Soul Search that the Confucian Saint appeared in the Human World ten thousand years ago, he was deeply shocked.

Not shocked that the Confucian Saint was still alive,

but shocked that there was a figure in this world whose depth was unknown.

The cultivation limit of this world is stuck at the Half-step Immortal Realm of the Kouxian Sect.

Therefore, Gu Zhan always felt that being a True Immortal Realm cultivator was an exception. Suddenly discovering that there was another exception in the world, he naturally had mixed feelings.

Through the Soul Search,

Gu Zhan clearly knew that this world, from ancient times, had experienced stages where Spiritual Qi disappeared and revived, seemingly forming a fixed pattern. Although cultivators in the Human World have been exploring, they have never found any clues.

Until ten thousand years ago, before the disappearance of Spiritual Qi and the arrival of darkness,

a very special figure appeared in the Human World, that is, the Confucian Saint.

The Confucian Saint directly gathered the most powerful cultivators of the time, namely the leaders of the Three Major Ancestral Veins and the Four Major Side Sects, and revealed a truth that overturned understanding.

Lo and behold, the Human World was merely a pasture,

a place used by the Celestial Dao to cultivate fodder. In history, all those who ascended were just livestock selected by the Celestial Dao to be fattened. Only the Confucian Saint barely broke the limitations with cultivation and has been evading the Celestial Dao outside the world. Now, this pasture has reached a resource-depleted stage, about to be destroyed and rebuilt by the Celestial Dao.

The Confucian Saint could no longer avoid outside the world, risking capture by the Celestial Dao to return to the Human World and reveal this truth, and then he left some methods for fighting against the Celestial Dao before quickly disappearing and fleeing.

After knowing this truth, the Three Major Ancestral Veins and the Four Major Side Sects immediately devised a plan with no chance of survival. The Three Major Ancestral Veins collectively sacrificed themselves to buy time for the Human World, while the Four Major Side Sects used the strategies left by the Confucian Saint to exhaust all resources of the Human World to create an opportunity to battle the Celestial Dao, striving for survival.

“Seems like there’s nothing wrong.” Gu Zhan gazed up at the sky, muttering, “If I hadn’t already broken through to the True Immortal and deeply understood the terror of the Celestial Dao, I wouldn’t have discovered the irrational aspects of the Confucian Saint’s account.”

Gu Zhan did not find any errors from the truth spoken by the Confucian Saint but rather discovered inconsistencies through his own understanding; that was power!

The means devised by Yan Qingshan, Ming Zhishou, and others to deal with the Celestial Dao, although terrifying in their explosive strength, did not surpass that of Gu Zhan as a True Immortal. He could foresee that even if Ming Zhishou and others’ plan succeeded, combined with various trump cards, even with the successful operation of the array wielding Human Power, even if they temporarily broke through to Immortal Realm with the Ninth Transformations Golden Core, and added Divine Talismans and the Divine Sword of the Sword Sect, they could at most kill the True Immortal Peak or severely injure an Immortal King above the True Immortal, but they could absolutely not harm the Celestial Dao!

Gu Zhan had felt a fragment of the terror of the Celestial Dao,

he could be certain that the cultivation of the Celestial Dao was definitely no longer at the immortal level, likely being the legendary Supreme Realm.

With such power,

even if Ming Zhishou and others’ means were a hundred times stronger, they could not affect the Celestial Dao.

And the Confucian Saint,

professed to have avoided the Celestial Dao’s pursuit outside the world for a long time, could not possibly be ignorant of the Celestial Dao’s power, then he could not naïvely think that the Human World’s power could defeat the Celestial Dao.

Therefore,

there is something wrong with this Confucian Saint,

either he has never seen the Celestial Dao, or he is lying.

Gu Zhan is more inclined to believe the Confucian Saint is lying,

because the Confucian Saint had ascended to immortality, leaving the Human World for the exterior, he could not possibly not have witnessed the terror of the Celestial Dao.

“But why would he lie? What does this mean for him?” Gu Zhan was deeply perplexed.

“Forget it.”

Gu Zhan waved his hand, no longer delving deeper,

many things, no matter how much contemplated, hold no meaning, as thinking cannot uncover any truth.

Then, Gu Zhan squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the system page, his Origin Value had reached nearly seventy thousand.

Originally, there were more than twenty thousand left to upgrade to the True Immortal Realm, daily gaining some from the Emperor’s faith, plus he had just killed four cultivators of the Kouxian Sect, gaining forty thousand in total, close to seventy thousand.

Afterward, Gu Zhan returned to the Imperial City, activated the God-Trapping Array, and then summoned the system:

[Use 50,000 Origin Value]

[Current Realm upgraded to Immortal King Realm]

…

Rumble!

At this moment, light surged within Gu Zhan’s body, illuminating his flesh to near transparency, as mortal blood evolved into Immortal Blood, distributed evenly in a drop, flowing to every part of his body, all glimmering.

And at that instant,

Gu Zhan keenly sensed a great terror locking onto the Capital City,

this terror, even though he had already reached the peak of the Immortal King Realm, still sent shudders through his heart, feeling a twinge of sadness, even though he knew it was still far away, the opponent hadn’t pinpointed his location, he couldn’t help but feel uneasy.

In that split second, he felt the collapse of heaven and earth, temporal evolution, the fall of a great era, as if nothing existed, that this world had only him standing alone at the peak, accompanying the Divine Dao, solitary and invincible, facing the declining vast heavens and earth.

For a long, long time,

that great terror finally disappeared.

Gu Zhan stood atop a high building in the Imperial City, his pupils narrowed,

“The God-Trapping Array is no longer safe!”

Although this time he escaped the Celestial Dao’s scrutiny, Gu Zhan was very clear that this time was different from before. Just now, the Celestial Dao’s gaze lingered far too long in the Human World, leaving an imprint that must be very profound, and he was now at risk of exposure at any moment.

In fact,

it was possibly more distinctly locked onto him than he imagined.

At this time,

at the other end of the Imperial City, between palace walls and alleys, a white-haired eunuch walking with a lantern slowly lifted his head, a middle-aged eunuch with a rather delicate appearance, fair skin, slightly squinting his eyes, whispered: “Confucian Saint, is Gu Zhan your contingency?”

In the dead of night, all was silent,

outside the alley, two young eunuchs hurried over, softly saying, “Eunuch Ji, you are here! Lady Xianfei is waiting for you!”

The middle-aged eunuch surnamed Ji bent down, said nothing, and left straight away.

One young eunuch complained, “He’s too arrogant, after all we’re people of Lady Xianfei, how dare he be so aloof with us!”

“Enough,” the other young eunuch whispered, “you just came and don’t know the situation. This Eunuch Ji just has a reserved disposition, he’s actually quite nice, he’s a pitiable person. It’s said he was a high official of the previous dynasty, once holding the position of Fourth Grade Prefect, later framed with his whole family perishing, forcing him into the palace, having stayed from the last dynasty till now.”

“Oh, what’s this Eunuch Ji’s name, where did he serve as an official?”

“Seems to be named Ji… Hanzheng, heard he served as an official in Yunxi, where His Majesty the Martial Emperor raised the dragon…”