Chapter 656: Immortal Emperor

The Profound Spirit Immortal Dynasty is one of the four Immortal Dynasties of the present age, with the Pill Tower of the Four Major Side Sects located within this realm. However, the Pill Tower has now been annihilated, as well as many Immortal Sects within the Profound Spirit Immortal Dynasty, which have virtually been destroyed.

The mastermind behind this is Martial Emperor Gu Zhan.

After breaking through to the Immortal King Realm, Gu Zhan realized the God-Trapping Array was no longer safe. He immediately set out tirelessly for other countries, annihilating every Nascent Soul Cultivator within a nation as he passed.

With his current cultivation in the Immortal King Realm, killing Nascent Soul Cultivators of the human world was no different from an elephant stepping on ants, posing no difficulty whatsoever. Just one glance from him was enough to cause Nascent Soul Peak Cultivators to perish and disappear into Dao.

Thus, in just eleven or twelve years,

he traversed every country in the world, practically exterminating all Nascent Soul Cultivators, including many hidden Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Because he killed so swiftly and effortlessly, he barely stirred up any waves until when the Wu Dynasty declared war on the world with the force of one country, people awakened suddenly, realizing that the top cultivators they depended on had disappeared unknowingly.

A catastrophic disaster descended,

with just one Martial Kingdom, dividing forces in multiple paths, they completely bulldozed through, even when occasionally encountering stubborn resistance, mysterious calamities would occur, allowing the Wu Dynasty army to sail smoothly.

The mastermind behind all this was, of course, Gu Zhan.

With his Immortal King body, wherever he went, high-level cultivators were almost utterly exterminated, and often, he would effortlessly kill Golden Core Cultivators on a large scale as well, while under his influence, the Martial Kingdom saw an emergence of extraordinary Martial Artists comparable to Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators, making this dimension-reducing war seem like child’s play.

This Profound Spirit Immortal Dynasty was the last to be destroyed, not because it was stronger, but simply because it was farther away.

Within the Pill Tower, within the Sect,

blood flowed like rivers, corpses were strewn everywhere,

Gu Zhan leisurely walked out,

Within these two years, he was slaughtering cultivators everywhere, amassing a large amount of Origin Value, and with the Wu Dynasty army’s wild expansion, it continuously provided him with an enormous amount of Origin Value, already enough for him to break through to the Immortal Emperor Realm.

The reason he hadn’t broken through yet,

was because he feared being discovered by the Celestial Dao and appearing directly.

However, he wasn’t without plans either,

His first stop was Jingshen Valley, where he found the strongest Grand Array in the human world. Through system optimization, he deduced an even stronger Grand Array, collecting numerous materials over these ten-plus years and re-crafting a Grand Array.

Now, it was completed.

After destroying the Pill Tower, Gu Zhan went directly to the Jingshen Valley ruins and dismissed the Array Masters responsible for crafting the Grand Array here.

In the current Jingshen Valley,

only Gu Zhan was present,

He stood within the Grand Array, slowly summoning the system:

[Use 100,000 Origin Value]

[Current Realm ascended to Immortal Emperor Realm]

…

In that instant, Gu Zhan’s body radiated with light, his Great Dao aura surged, activating the Dao Treasury within him, interpreting essence to the extreme, until finally, he seemed like a seed from a distance, mysteriously elusive.

That was the seed formed by the Great Dao, inside which someone was comprehending the Great Dao, interpreting his undefeated method, and the Immortal Emperor’s aura was diffusing!

Just then,

there was a stir outside the heavens, this time’s disturbance was different from before,

as if something terrifying was about to descend, its sharp momentum tearing through eternal heavens, its power extremely formidable, all things were born, annihilated, flourished, and declined by it, covering the long river of time!

At this moment,

time seemed to be halted, terrifying might erupted, vast and immeasurable, endlessly ebbing and flowing, overwhelmingly vast, yet giving a surreal feeling as if time had paused.

“It’s not the Celestial Dao; it’s the world’s turbulence!”

At that moment,

Gu Zhan clearly sensed,

this was different from when he previously broke through to Immortal King and was spied on by the Celestial Dao,

This time, it seemed the Grand Array succeeded, shielding the Celestial Dao’s perception, yet another entity appeared,

something inherent to this world,

In the moment he broke through,

he seemed to perceive there was a shadow wrapping around him, not allowing his breakthrough, but that shadow was torn by him, or directly broken by the force of his ascension to Immortal Emperor Peak.

“Has the world dimension been shattered?”

Gu Zhan was now at the Immortal Emperor Peak, though not achieving omniscience, the rules of all things were within his perception.

He closed his eyes,

briefly sensed, grasping a rule.

“World limit!”

Gu Zhan understood,

This world has two fixed rules: one is the cultivation limit, which is the Nascent Soul Peak. This rule can be bypassed; the Kouxian Sect bypasses the rule, thus allowing cultivators to become immortals.

However, the other rule cannot be avoided,

the world limit,

This world’s limit is the Immortal King Peak,

Breaking through to Immortal Emperor must shatter this world limit, but the world won’t allow it, as the world’s consciousness realm is also Immortal Emperor, and this world can only accommodate one Immortal Emperor Realm.

Originally, it should have been a fierce struggle,

but this world’s consciousness was too weak, merely Immortal Emperor, while Gu Zhan directly reached Immortal Emperor Peak, instantly squeezing the original world consciousness out of this world.

And just now, the turmoil outside the heavens,

was likely the clash between the expelled world consciousness and the Celestial Dao.

“This is interesting!”

Gu Zhan chuckled softly, glanced at the system page:

Player: Gu Zhan

Realm: Immortal Emperor Realm (0/500000)

Title: Martial Arts Pioneers

Origin Value: 316552

……

Just as Gu Zhan broke through to Immortal Emperor,

in the human world, a Confucian Saint was confronting a monk and a Daoist.

The trio were actually far apart,

The Confucian Saint stood atop a mountain while the monk sat in a temple knocking on a wooden fish, and the Daoist was walking on the ocean.

The monk was the legendary Buddha, and the Daoist was the Taoist Ancestor.

The three were spanning space engaging in combat,

yet all paused at that moment,

The trio felt deeply unsettled,

The Buddha stopped knocking on the wooden fish, confusedly uttered: “The aura of the world consciousness?”

“No, the world consciousness’ aura cannot be sensed?”

The Taoist Ancestor spoke, suddenly chuckled, “Scholar, still want to fight? The world consciousness you relied on has vanished, you cannot trap the Celestial Dao.”

“Pff”

The Confucian Saint spat out a mouthful of blood, his face instantly aged, confusion in his eyes, “How is it possible, how could the world consciousness disappear, impossible, impossible!”

Meanwhile,

In the Wu Dynasty Imperial City, in the Library Pavilion, Ji Hanzheng slowly raised his head, softly spoke: “The disappearance of the world consciousness means that a Celestial Emperor more powerful than its realm has arrived in the human world!”