Cultivation knows no time; it passes like a fleeting shadow, and in the blink of an eye, a century had gone by.
A hundred years later, Gu Qingfeng stood tall at the summit of the mountain, greedily absorbing the tribulations permeating the void.
The seeds he had sown a century ago had long since taken root, sprouted, and grown vigorously, providing him with an endless stream of tribulations.
And he had absorbed these tribulations for a hundred years. During this century, he successfully completed his Origin of Death.
Already possessing the majority of the Origin of Death, he easily completed it by relying on the mutual attraction between the origins.
Now, after a century of absorption, the Origin of Calamity was also on the verge of complete maturation.
Everything was progressing smoothly—so smoothly that Gu Qingfeng even began to doubt reality.
It turned out that the Five Directions Immortal Emperors really were not joking; those five truly did not interfere!
After absorbing the Origin of Death back then, Gu Qingfeng was basically invincible below the Five Directions Immortal Emperors. It could be said that at that time, apart from the Five Directions Immortal Emperors, no one could stop him.
Yet the Five Directions Immortal Emperors seemed to have vanished, never showing their faces over the past century, allowing him to develop and grow as he pleased.
"Whether you truly do not care or harbor some hidden conspiracy, it no longer matters. Once I become an Emperor, I will naturally investigate everything," Gu Qingfeng muttered to himself.
Suddenly, demonic light flickered in his eyes, and a majestic demonic might erupted from his body. His violent aura stretched across hundreds of millions of miles, making the void boil like water. His black hair danced wildly as his oppressive might grew stronger and stronger.
"The opportunity to become an Emperor is today!" Gu Qingfeng's eyes were like cold lightning, his demonic gaze piercing through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.
But right at this moment, the void trembled violently, and five towering figures with immortal might as deep as an abyss appeared simultaneously. They were none other than the Five Directions Immortal Emperors.
Seeing these five, a cold sneer formed on Gu Qingfeng's lips. "Finally showing your true colors? So you wanted to deliver a thunderous strike at the critical moment of my ascension? Jie jie jie... But your greatest mistake was letting me grow for a hundred years! Now..."
"Fellow Daoist Gu, what are you talking about? Why would we have nothing better to do than stop you from becoming an Emperor?" the Eternal Immortal Emperor asked in astonishment.
Gu Qingfeng: "..."
"Hmph!" he scoffed coldly. "Are you still going to pretend at this point?"
The Eternal Immortal Emperor grew even more puzzled. "We came because the Dao Lord wishes to see you."
"The Dao Lord? Wants to see me?" Gu Qingfeng slightly furrowed his brows. "Choosing the exact moment I am about to become an Emperor, and you still say you are not trying to stop me?"
The Eternal Immortal Emperor could not help but laugh. "Fellow Daoist Gu, you misunderstand. The Dao Lord means to summon you after you have become an Emperor."
Gu Qingfeng was slightly taken aback. "The Dao Lord certainly has great audacity. Is he not afraid that after I become an Emperor, I will overturn his Eternal True World?"
"The Dao Lord does not care." The Eternal Immortal Emperor replied with just this one sentence.
The Dao Lord does not care?
Gu Qingfeng sneered inwardly. What a Dao Lord! Since you are so arrogant and dismissive of everything, I will overturn your orthodoxy in the future and become a Demon Lord myself!
"For what matter does the Dao Lord wish to see me?"
The Eternal Immortal Emperor shook his head. "Who knows? Probably to confer a title upon you. Back in the day, the Immortal Emperor of Time was also conferred a title by the Dao Lord after becoming an Emperor. The entire Eternal True World is ruled by the five of us. Since the Origin of Calamity is so strong, the Dao Lord probably wants to add you to the Five Directions Immortal Emperors. Adding you is not bad either; after all, it is perfectly reasonable for the Five Directions Immortal Emperors to consist of six people, right?"
Gu Qingfeng: "..."
He did not reply, but instead began to focus entirely on absorbing the tribulations.
Buzz!
The Black Lotus of Calamity was summoned, hovering above his head, breathtakingly beautiful, swaying in the wind.
With every sway, massive amounts of tribulations from across the entire Eternal True World would converge here.
Endless calamities transformed into billions of black dragons, surging in from all directions.
A miraculous scene unfolded in the Eternal True World.
All over the world, those who were about to die, the injured, the suffering, and all living beings enduring tribulations in the world, were freed from their sea of bitterness in an instant.
The dead returned to life, the injured healed, illnesses were cured, wars fell silent, and natural disasters came to a halt...
Various unimaginable anomalies occurred at this moment.
At this moment, all the calamities in the world surged towards Gu Qingfeng.
The Black Lotus of Calamity above his head became increasingly bewitching. Once hovering between illusion and reality, it was now gradually solidifying.
Moreover, the originally budding Black Lotus of Calamity was slowly opening its petals.
Feeling the majestic calamities within his body, Gu Qingfeng looked up at the sky and laughed wildly. "Jie jie jie... Billions of calamities all return to my body! The world is free of tribulations!!"
Following his loud laughter, a booming sound echoed!
The Black Lotus of Calamity fully bloomed!
The sky full of tribulations vanished completely, the entire Eternal True World trembled, and an indescribable, mysterious aura slowly rose.
The Black Lotus of Calamity slowly merged into Gu Qingfeng's body.
Bang!
In an instant, Gu Qingfeng exploded.
His body shattered, his soul shattered, and his Dao shattered along with them!
His entire being seemed to have been completely broken and pulverized from the outside in.
From life to death, from reality to nothingness.
It was as if he had completely vanished from the world.
But the next moment.
A brilliant and forbidden light of tribulation emerged, like the rising morning sun. It was faint at first, but as time passed, it grew brighter and more dazzling. Countless fragmented tribulations merged into it, like an eternal light piercing through the river of destiny.
The entire Eternal True World seemed to be swallowed by this gleam of tribulation light.
Gradually, the tribulation light expanded, like the dawn of primordial chaos.
Rumble!
The tribulation light suddenly burst apart, echoing with a sound like the splitting of heaven and earth.
Heaven and earth opened anew, and all phenomena were born!
A mysterious, forbidden, and terrifying aura surged out like a tidal wave, akin to a bottomless abyss threatening to swallow the world.
Suddenly, a blurred and illusory figure was born from within.
With the appearance of this figure, the myriad Daos began to tremble, the laws gradually fell into chaos, the void collapsed continuously, the turbulent flows of time and space surged, and the river of destiny stirred up monstrous waves.
He stood there like the ruler of heaven and earth. All around him, time and space intersected, and the forbidden aura raged like boiling water.
Abruptly, the figure let out a burst of bone-chilling, sinister laughter.
"Jie jie jie... After years of bitter cultivation, becoming an Emperor in a single day—is this the scenery from the absolute peak? It truly is intoxicating!"
As this terrifying, sinister laughter rang out.
Boom!
Countless shocking anomalies shattered like bubbles.
The river of destiny vanished, the shattered void was restored, as if absolutely nothing had happened.
And between heaven and earth, only that one towering figure with demonic might as deep as an abyss stood proudly, standing tall and supporting heaven and earth just like the legendary god Pangu!
It was none other than Gu Qingfeng!
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
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?!
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.”
