"Who is Gu Zangtian?"
"He is a powerhouse from the previous epoch. His strength is even greater than mine."
"Doesn't sound that strong."
Yan Lingxue: "..."
"It's different. Although Gu Zangtian and I are both half-step Heavenly Lords, the realm of laws I constructed was merely in its rudimentary stage. It simply didn't have the power to withstand the Epoch Tribulation, so I had to escape into reincarnation to avoid the disaster.
"However, the realm of laws constructed by Gu Zangtian was already relatively complete. Relying on his own realm of laws, he successfully survived the Epoch Tribulation. His strength can be easily imagined."
"Then is he a human or a demon?" Gu Qingfeng suddenly asked with interest.
"Human."
In an instant, Gu Qingfeng's interest was halved, but it didn't matter. Having reached his current realm, he didn't solely have to rely on the system to increase his strength; he could also rely on the demonic path he had forged himself.
He walked the path of devouring all things. His own demonic path, after undergoing devouring and fusion, refined through a thousand temperings, had long become like an abyssal behemoth capable of devouring everything, able to feed autonomously and strengthen itself.
Of course, the system also played a small role in this, because his demonic path was different from others. It was truly too extreme, so extreme that no living creature could control it, but the system could help him manage it.
Therefore, it didn't matter if Gu Zangtian was human. He could equally devour all of his cultivation base; it would just take a bit more effort to defeat the other party first.
At this time, seeing that Yan Lingxue's reply had yet to come from the White Bone Blood Boat, Leng Lie couldn't help but urge, "Ghost Mother, my lord sincerely invites you and has prepared generous gifts, only hoping that you will go to the Heaven Burial Forbidden Zone."
Yan Lingxue hurriedly replied, "I will consider it for a moment."
Gu Qingfeng asked, "Inviting you over as a guest and even preparing generous gifts, could this Gu Zangtian be a simp who pursued you when you were alive?"
"He is not my pursuer," Yan Lingxue shook her head and said.
Gu Qingfeng suddenly felt disappointed.
"The reason he has such an attitude is nothing more than wanting to learn the method to break the curse from my mouth."
"Curse? What curse?"
"The Epoch Tribulation doesn't just end because you dodged it. Those of us who luckily survived will all bear a curse, suffering its torment day and night. In order to avoid the curse, we had no choice but to find some special regions and imprison ourselves. This is also the reason why the forbidden zones were formed."
Gu Qingfeng nodded, indicating he understood.
Gu Zangtian simply saw that Yan Lingxue had broken her curse, so he came to invite her to help him break his.
Isn't this just coming to look for this Emperor?
It was this Emperor who broke Yan Lingxue's curse for her.
It was just that Gu Zangtian's curse was obviously different from Yan Lingxue's curse. Yan Lingxue's was a ghost and god curse, while this Leng Lie who came was not a ghost or god.
Therefore, Gu Qingfeng also didn't know if he could break Gu Zangtian's curse and help free him. But it didn't matter. If he couldn't break the curse, then he would just devour Gu Zangtian. That could also be considered helping him find release.
"Agree to it," Gu Qingfeng instructed Yan Lingxue.
Yan Lingxue instantly felt overjoyed in her heart. She finally had a chance to get rid of this fiend. She definitely didn't want to undergo exorcism anymore.
To think she, a dignified half-step Immortal Lord level powerhouse, was being exorcised every single day—what kind of situation was that?
Just as Yan Lingxue was about to agree to Leng Lie to go be a guest at the Heaven Burial Forbidden Zone, suddenly...
Boom!
The void shattered instantly.
Accompanied by a shower of purple light rain, a woman walked out. She wore a purple silk dress, possessed a graceful figure, and was charmingly alluring, just like a purple datura flower.
Her skin was fair, with a slender waist and plump hips. Her facial features were exquisitely enchanting, and her eyes were like autumn waters, rippling with light.
As she lightly moved her lotus steps, the light rain scattered. Her posture was graceful, and an aura of seduction diffused and spread, resembling a calamitous brothel courtesan.
After seeing this woman, Leng Lie immediately frowned.
"Ziyuan, what are you doing here!" Leng Lie scolded.
Ziyuan smiled faintly. "Whatever you came here to do, this lady naturally came to do the same."
Having said that, she bowed slightly towards the White Bone Blood Boat. With a shallow smile on her face that revealed her snow-white, crystal-clear teeth, she said softly, "This little lady is Ziyuan, from the Reincarnation Forest. Greetings, Ghost Mother. On the orders of my master, I have come specifically to invite Your Excellency to be a guest at the Reincarnation Forest."
The Reincarnation Forest was also one of the six great forbidden zones, and its fierce reputation was no less than that of the Heaven Burial Forbidden Zone.
Before Yan Lingxue could respond.
Boom!
The void was torn open once again. A bridge composed of a flaming river of stars extended over from the horizon, and a muscular man with long fiery red hair and a bare upper body walked over from the flaming bridge.
A loud, sonorous voice rang out, "Yang Ji of the Heaven Burning Forbidden Zone has come under orders to invite the Ghost Mother to be a guest at the Heaven Burning Forbidden Zone!"
Seeing Yang Ji's arrival, a flash of apprehension crossed the faces of both Ziyuan and Leng Lie.
Yan Lingxue also hadn't expected that she would be invited by so many people at the same time. It seemed the masters behind these people were already impatient to break their curses. Having finally seen a living example like her, they naturally couldn't wait any longer.
At this time, Leng Lie said in a cold voice, "Do you two understand what first come, first served means? I was the one who invited the Ghost Mother first."
Ziyuan smiled charmingly. "Your Heaven Burial Forbidden Zone is dilapidated and ruined. What's so good about going there? If she's going anywhere, it should naturally be the Reincarnation Forest."
The fiery-haired Yang Ji was even more simple and brutal. Without saying a single word, his hands fiercely grabbed towards the void. Instantly, two clusters of dazzling, scorching divine flames emerged, as if he had grabbed two great suns.
He swung violently, and the two great suns struck out towards Ziyuan and Leng Lie respectively.
That terrifying might burned the void and permeated heaven and earth.
Ziyuan and Leng Lie's expressions changed, and they both made their moves. An eerie jade-green divine light transformed into a flood dragon and struck out from Leng Lie's hands.
A bewitching purple datura flower blossomed in front of Ziyuan.
Boom! Boom!
Under their respective methods, Yang Ji's attack was successfully neutralized.
"Hmph, with this little bit of strength you two have, you'd better not come out to embarrass yourselves. Scram immediately!" Yang Ji coldly snorted.
"Yang Ji, do you really think I'm afraid of you?" Killing intent surged wildly in Leng Lie's eyes.
"Not convinced? Then come and try!"
Seeing that the two were about to start fighting, Ziyuan chuckled lightly. "I really don't know what you are all so anxious about. We are all here under orders to invite the Ghost Mother. Don't you think your current actions are a bit rude?
"As for whose house she goes to be a guest at, is it up to you to decide? Of course, it's up to the Ghost Mother to go wherever she wishes."
Ziyuan was obviously very scheming. Without batting an eyelid, she not only pointed out the two men's rudeness but also elevated Yan Lingxue's status.
The other two naturally saw through Ziyuan's intentions, and their faces immediately turned ugly.
However, what Ziyuan said was indeed true; the power of decision lay in Yan Lingxue's hands.
It was just that, as the invitee, Yan Lingxue had been inside the White Bone Blood Boat the entire time, never once showing her face.
"Ghost Mother, I wonder what your intentions are?"
At this moment, the door of the White Bone Blood Boat slowly opened.
The three of them immediately looked over, only to be instantly dumbstruck.
It was because the Ghost Mother was currently nestling like a little bird in a man's embrace. That man had his arm around the Ghost Mother, stepping out from the door step by step.
And the man was exactly Gu Qingfeng.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
