Gu Changge's divine sense swept across the desolate and deathly silent chaos. His gaze finally settled on the bronze immortal hall suspended in the void, which now appeared somewhat dim after losing its master.
The immortal hall was ancient and weathered, its walls carved with incomprehensible, archaic runes. At this moment, it emitted a faint glow, maintaining a delicate balance with the surrounding chaos. The hall doors were wide open, its depths pitch-black like a giant maw.
He took a single step and appeared before the immortal hall, but he did not enter immediately.
Runes of the Great Dao flowed within his eyes as he pushed his Illusion-Shattering Divine Pupils to their absolute limit. He carefully inspected the immortal hall inside and out, scrutinizing every inch and corner, and even the minute veins connecting it to the void, several times over.
"No self-destruct restrictions, no great killing arrays. The core formation has failed following the annihilation of the master's soul! Hmm, it seems that immortal envoy died too suddenly to trigger any backup plans. Still, I cannot let my guard down."
Only after confirming there was no immediate danger did he confidently stroll into the hall.
The space inside the hall was far vaster than it appeared from the outside, as if it formed its own minor world.
Above, starlight dotted the domed ceiling, evolving into some profound and mysterious array diagram.
His gaze was immediately drawn to the sight in the center of the great hall.
Suspended there were several energy veins of varying colors and thicknesses. They squirmed and pulsed slowly like living creatures, exuding a majestic and incredibly pure origin aura!
One end of these veins was deeply rooted in the void, extending to who knows where, while the other end converged upon a complex array disk in the center of the hall.
Swirling above the array disk were several dazzling spheres of light, containing indescribable vitality and the profound mysteries of laws!
"World Origins!" Gu Changge's eyes narrowed.
These spheres of light varied in size and color.
One was a dark yellow, its aura heavy and ancient, sharing the same origin as the Xuanhuang Great World. However, it was noticeably dimmer and thinner, clearly the portion that had yet to be transported away.
Another was azure blue, brimming with vast water-elemental energy; another was crimson red, scorching and violent like the earth's molten core; yet another was jade green, bursting with the vitality of a spring forest...
Without exception, they all emitted unique and powerful world fluctuations. Yet, at this moment, they were bound, refined, and docilely suspended by the power of the array disk, waiting to be harvested.
Gu Changge's divine sense traced backwards along those energy veins, and he instantly understood.
"So that's how it is. This immortal hall is not merely the residence of that Heaven-Patrolling Immortal Envoy, but a central hub for plundering!"
He thought coldly, "Besides the Xuanhuang World, this person was simultaneously siphoning the World Origins of three other lower realms!"
What these veins connected to were precisely the world barriers radiating different lights in the distant chaos!
This immortal hall was like a leech attached to multiple worlds, simultaneously sucking away their life essence!
"What a vicious method!"
A glint of coldness flashed through Gu Changge's eyes.
This kind of predatory plundering, draining the pond to catch the fish, would ultimately lead these great worlds to their demise.
He did not hesitate at all.
With a sweep of his sleeve, he collected the several origin light spheres belonging to the different worlds suspended above the array disk.
The Xuanhuang origin, in particular, felt gentle to the touch, transmitting a sense of intimate affection like a child to its parent.
Next, he formed his fingers into a sword. Immortal essence flowed at his fingertips, transforming into several fiercely sharp sword lights that slashed with absolute precision at the energy veins connecting the different worlds!
"Swish! Swish! Swish!"
Wherever the sword light passed, the energy veins snapped!
Like parasites whose feeding tubes had been severed, the light at the severed ends rapidly dimmed, ultimately dissipating completely into the void.
Almost at the exact moment the veins broke, Gu Changge keenly sensed that the light radiating from the corresponding world barriers in the distance seemed to fluctuate slightly.
It was as if a heavy burden had been lifted. Although the change was extremely minute, the decaying sensation of continuous blood loss had indeed been halted.
Having done all this, Gu Changge carefully inspected the entire immortal hall again. Only after confirming there were no other hidden plundering formations or dangerous restrictions did he give a slight nod.
"Although the plundering has stopped, it is not safe to stay here for long, nor can I just abandon it and ignore it."
The other party would absolutely not let this go; they would definitely send someone to investigate.
"System," he chanted silently in his heart, "Fuse with the Heart of the Array Dao."
This Heart of the Array Dao was something he had previously obtained from a system sign-in, containing endless profound mysteries of the Dao of Arrays.
Only when one's cultivation reached the Immortal Realm could they attempt to fuse it. After fusion, it could elevate the host's array formation proficiency to the Perfected Immortal Grade.
"Ding! Detected that the host's cultivation has reached the True Immortal Realm, meeting the fusion conditions. Commencing fusion with the 'Heart of the Array Dao'..."
As the system's prompt faded, Gu Changge felt the Heart of the Array Dao in his sea of consciousness suddenly burst with radiant light. It transformed into a torrent of absolutely pure Array Dao origin, merging deep into his divine soul!
Gu Changge felt his understanding of array formations seemingly trigger an invisible rule switch deeply rooted in the origins of the Great Dao.
An indescribable, almost instinctive sense of utter clarity welled up within him.
It was as if he was born to master this Dao.
Countless incredibly profound comprehensions regarding the principles, structures, energy flows, interlacing laws, void anchoring, and even the mechanics of deceiving the heavens and hiding from the Dao naturally surfaced in his mind. They were not learned, but rather felt as if he had been directly bestowed with the corresponding authority and cognition.
His array formation realm skyrocketed in a manner that defied all logic!
The barrier of an Emperor-grade Array Master silently shattered. Lower-tier Immortal Grade, Middle-tier, Upper-tier... all the way to the Perfected Immortal Grade Array Dao realm, achieved in a mere instant!
The entire process was calm and rippleless, taking no more than a fleeting moment in the outside world.
Gu Changge opened his eyes once more. His eyes were perfectly clear, yet it seemed as though he could see through the truth and illusions of all array formations in the world.
The energy veins in the surrounding void, the array structure of the immortal hall beneath his feet, and even the core runes of that deactivated array disk became incredibly clear in his eyes, revealed down to the finest detail. There were no secrets left.
"The power of the system is truly profound and unfathomable."
He sighed softly. Immortal essence naturally flowed from his fingertips, tracing a perfectly flawless array rune in the void.
If those old monsters in the Immortal Realm who had studied the Dao of Arrays for ten thousand years saw this scene, their Dao hearts would likely tremble. This effortless technique had already touched upon the origin of the Array Dao; it was precisely the embryonic form of "forming an array with a single thought," a hallmark of the Perfected Immortal Grade.
At this thought, a sharp light flashed in Gu Changge's eyes.
The Perfected Immortal Grade Array Dao cultivation surging through his body gave him an unprecedented sense of control over this void.
He hesitated no longer. His hands suddenly rose, his ten fingers dancing like fluttering butterflies, leaving behind a blur of afterimages.
This time, what flowed from his fingertips was no longer pure immortal essence, but countless origin immortal runes woven from immortal essence and the supreme laws of the Array Dao!
These immortal runes were dizzyingly complex, as if every stroke traced the trajectory of the Great Dao. They silently merged into the walls and floor of the great hall, even seeping into the rifts of the void, resonating deeply with this pocket of heaven and earth.
"Great Void Sensing Immortal Array, condense!"
Following his low internal shout, the entire immortal hall gave a barely perceptible tremor before returning to normal.
However, Gu Changge could clearly "see" that an intangible, formless sensory net covering every inch of space had already been woven.
This formation was profoundly mystical, its fluctuations perfectly synchronized with the surrounding rhythms of primal chaos. Unless one inspected it with deliberate care, it would be incredibly easy to mistake it for the natural ripples of the void.
However, should any probe carrying clear malicious intent, or any power exceeding the critical threshold, touch this web, he would instantly sense it—no matter how many layers of space separated them!
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.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
