Immortal Emperor Attack

"Brother, I've reached the Tribulation Crossing Realm."

Gu Xing'er grabbed Gu Changyuan's hand resting on the armrest. Her eyes were sparkling, like lakes brimming with starlight.

Her fingers squeezed slightly, carrying the unique anticipation and joy of a child showing off their achievements to an adult.

Even though Gu Xing'er was over a hundred years old, her stature remained the same as before.

Gu Changyuan smiled, raising his hand to rub her head.

"Good, good, good, our Xing'er is truly amazing."

Gu Xing'er's eyes curved into crescents, the smile on her lips deepening.

Seeing that Gu Xing'er had finished her breakthrough, her senior brothers and sisters also gathered around Gu Changyuan, smilingly congratulating her in a scene of peace and warmth.

Gu Changyuan leaned back in his recliner, looking at the disciples around him with a satisfied and tranquil gleam in his eyes.

This feeling made him more comfortable than breaking through any realm or obtaining any treasure.

Right at that moment, Gu Changyuan's pupils suddenly contracted. The smile on his face instantly froze, and the aura around him abruptly solidified.

An indescribable sense of threat, like a freezing tide, instantly submerged his entire consciousness.

That threat made all his cells quiver, caused his blood to flow backward, and sent his soul into high alert.

It was the most primal, irresistible fear welling up from the depths of his soul.

Not out of cowardice or weakness, but a biological instinct—an alarm bell carved into his very genes when facing an existence far superior to himself.

Gu Changyuan abruptly stood up from his recliner. His movement was so fast that it startled Jun Anshi beside him.

He raised his head, his gaze piercing through the tree canopy at the peak of Mount Tianyuan, through the clouds above the Heavenly Human Holy Land, through the sky of the Nine Heavens Realm, landing on a higher, more distant, indescribable location.

There, an aura was rapidly approaching.

He soared into the air, his robes snapping wildly in the wind.

He raised both hands, his ten fingers rapidly forming hand seals. Countless array formations flew from his fingertips, sinking into various parts of the Heavenly Human Holy Land.

At this moment, all of the Holy Land's grand guardian arrays were simultaneously activated.

Layers of golden, silver, and cyan barriers emerged in the sky above the Holy Land, overlapping densely to envelop the entire sect.

Gu Changyuan furrowed his brows. The grand guardian arrays were fully activated, yet he could still feel that the threat remained.

That aura ignored all the guardian arrays, still locking onto him, still approaching.

The disciples recovered from their shock.

The full activation of the arrays made them realize the gravity of the situation. A powerful enemy was attacking, one so strong that their Master needed to activate every single guardian array to counter them.

Everyone's gaze turned toward the sky.

There, standing above all the guardian arrays, their Master's robes fluttered in the wind, his back straight and solitary.

Ye Qingxue furrowed her brows.

Her gaze pierced through the layers of arrays to land on her Master's back. His body leaned slightly forward, his hands maintaining the posture of forming seals—a stance ready to strike at any moment.

An enemy that could make her Master take things so seriously... she dared not imagine.

All the disciples were stunned.

They looked at their Master, the man who was always calm and breezy, who never panicked, now revealing a state they had never seen before.

Soon, all the disciples in the Heavenly Human Holy Land felt the descending coercion.

Outer sect disciples were jolted awake from their cultivation; inner sect disciples rushed out of their cave dwellings.

Everyone's eyes turned upward, looking beyond the overlapping guardian arrays.

Something was coming from there.

"What's going on? Who is attacking the Holy Land?"

"Why are all the grand guardian arrays active? What happened?"

"The sky... look at the sky!"

Countless disciples pointed at the sky, their voices filled with terror.

In the sky, the clouds were dissipating.

Within a radius of a thousand miles, the clouds vanished cleanly in just a few breaths, revealing the deep blue firmament above.

Then, the firmament changed color.

It shifted from deep blue to dark red, from dark red to pitch black, and from pitch black to an indescribable chaotic hue that seemed capable of devouring all light.

An invisible pressure descended from the heavens.

Under this pressure, all living beings within the Heavenly Human Holy Land felt the exact same message at the exact same moment.

Something was coming.

And it was not something they could resist.

In the sky, right in the center of that chaotic hue, a rift suddenly appeared.

It wasn't a spatial rift, but a rift of a higher dimension, existing on the level of universal laws.

The rift expanded silently, like an invisible eye slowly opening.

Then, a palm reached out from the rift.

The palm was incomparably gigantic.

It covered half the sky, blocking the upward gaze of all the disciples.

The moment that palm appeared, the space across the entire Heavenly Human Holy Land solidified.

It wasn't a metaphor.

It was literally frozen.

The wind stopped.

The clouds stopped.

Leaves ceased to sway, robes ceased to flutter, and even water droplets falling from above hovered motionless in mid-air.

An Immortal Emperor's aura?!

Gu Changyuan looked at the manifesting palm, only to feel the blood in his entire body instantly stagnate. His heart felt as though it was tightly gripped by an invisible hand.

He knew clearly in his heart that, as he was now, even if he used all his strength, he was absolutely no match for this palm.

The difference between an Immortal Emperor and a Half-Immortal was like that of heaven and earth—an absolute crushing disparity that transcended realms.

Gu Changyuan wanted to take all the disciples below and leave together, but the laws of the entire world had been suppressed by that palm.

Spatial laws failed, spatial energy could not be mobilized, and teleportation arrays could not be activated.

Below, the bodies and even the souls of Ye Qingxue and the others simultaneously sounded alarms.

The circulation of their spiritual energy became sluggish, and the brightness of their protective spiritual light plummeted.

The disciples of the entire Heavenly Human Holy Land felt that coercion. From the outer sect to the inner sect, from Elder Taiyin to the ordinary deacons, everyone's faces turned deathly pale at the same moment.

Gu Changyuan gritted his teeth, a trace of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

The other party's target was obviously him. It was highly likely they had discovered the auras of the seven Immortal Kings he had imprisoned.

It had been seventy years. The seven Immortal Kings had not returned, and among them was a Heavenly Guard. Even if their karmic paths were still active in the Nine Heavens Realm, an existence at the level of an Immortal Emperor could use certain means to sense that something was wrong.

Following the aura all the way here, they had finally found him.

They didn't dare to descend personally, so they could only act across realms, using Immortal Emperor methods—even at the risk of suffering a backlash from the Heavenly Dao Laws—just to completely erase him?

Gu Changyuan sneered in his heart. This Immortal Emperor Tianheng was nothing more than this.