Gu Changyuan ignored Zhenyue's face, which was almost distorted by fear and shock. Instead, he closed his eyes and began to sort out the complex information that had just flooded into his mind.
Zhenyue was not a native cultivator in the Ten Thousand Luo Immortal Realm. He had crossed the boundary barrier from another immortal realm and come here.
Zhenyue's family was once a dominant force in the immortal realm where he belonged, standing on equal footing with several other families of comparable strength.
However, in a conflict between families, Zhenyue's family was ambushed by another competing family in alliance with multiple forces and was destroyed overnight.
That was when "The Emperor" appeared.
Zhenyue survived.
The pursuers all disappeared the moment he promised to follow "The Emperor".
Based on Zhenyue's innate abilities, "The Emperor" provided him with all kinds of resources for cultivation - cultivation techniques, pills, and magical artifacts. Everything was in place.
Then he was simply let to cultivate on his own and allowed to develop naturally.
It was not until later that Zhenyue met the other Tianheng.
"The Emperor" had not only cultivated him.
The other eleven Tianheng were each selected, saved, and cultivated by "The Emperor" under similar circumstances.
Gu Changyuan's brows twitched slightly.
It seemed that the way the Lord of the Imperial Court cultivated the Tianheng did have some superficial similarities to the way he cultivated his disciples.
However, the path of "The Emperor" was completely different from Gu Changyuan's.
Gu Changyuan taught his disciples with a clear distinction between kindness and hatred, and good and evil.
The core of "The Emperor"'s teaching to the Tianheng was just one word: power. As long as one was strong enough, one would have greater power and could freely control those weaker than oneself.
In the eyes of the Tianheng, strength was everything, ambition was justice, and weakness itself was a sin.
This situation was quite common in the entire immortal - cultivating world - the strong were respected, and the weak were preyed upon. This was indeed the law of survival in the immortal - cultivating world from ancient times to the present.
However, "The Emperor" had expanded it. The expansion of the Imperial Court was not only to obtain resources but also to put this concept into practice.
As for "The Emperor"'s purpose, there was no clear answer in Zhenyue's memory.
"The Emperor" had never told anyone what his ultimate goal was. All his instructions were fragmented, with clear - cut purposes and only targeted at the next immediate step.
The Tianheng unconditionally executed every instruction without questioning, inquiring, or thinking about the reasons.
"The Emperor"'s strength far exceeded their comprehension - it was a realm they could not reach, could not even imagine, and they couldn't even find a direction to look up to.
They had already transcended the realm of Immortal Emperor and stepped into a higher realm, that of the Dao Sovereign.
Above the Dao Sovereign realm, there was another realm called the Divine Emperor.
This was a realm that even "The Emperor" himself had not yet reached.
This was "The Emperor"'s goal, the end - point of all his layouts, all his cultivation, all his patience and schemes.
Gu Changyuan memorized these two names.
Dao Sovereign. Divine Emperor.
He was currently an Immortal Emperor, and dozens of Immortal Emperors' cultivation feedback was being integrated into his body. His power was growing day by day, but how far was he from the Dao Sovereign realm?
He didn't know because he had never seen the power of a Dao Sovereign.
He put this question in the back of his mind and continued to organize the memories.
Next were the entire layout of the Imperial Court and the core abilities of the other eleven Tianheng.
Pingxiao, one of the Tianheng of the Imperial Court, had a core ability called "Leveling the Celestial Domain".
He could expand an invisible domain with himself as the center. Inside this domain, everything would be "leveled".
Fenxiao's core ability was "Ember - destroying Dao Fire".
This fire could burn everything, including physical bodies, souls, spiritual power, laws, and causes and effects. All things that could be defined as "existence" would be completely erased by the flames.
Yuming had two abilities: "Reversing the River of Forgetfulness" and "The Pass of the River of Sorrow".
The former could silently strip away a cultivator's memories, and the latter could directly drag a cultivator into the Netherworld, leading them into a battlefield where Yuming was proficient.
Linyuan's core ability was "The Eyes of the Abyss".
He could see the deepest fear in everyone's heart and materialize this fear into a physical form.
Dingchen's core ability was "Eternally as in the Past".
He could "freeze" the time state of an entire area at a certain moment and then make this moment repeat infinitely.
Shoudao's core ability was "Chains of Heavenly Laws".
He used the laws of the Heavenly Dao as chains to bind anyone who "violated the rules".
He was the most proficient among all the Tianheng in mastering the laws of the Heavenly Dao.
Guixu's ability was called "Ruination".
Wherever his gaze fell, everything began to "age" - time accelerated in his line of sight.
Wuji's ability was "Myriad Transformations without Limits".
He could simulate any law, perform any spell, and transform into any form.
Duchen's core ability was "Dust - cleansing Water".
Things washed by this celestial water would lose all "additional attributes" and only retain the most primitive and vulnerable "essence".
As for Lanxing, Zhenyue hadn't seen him for a long time.
But he knew that the other person also practiced the way of the stars and might have some connection with the Star Clan.
After he finished reading all the memories, organizing them, and categorizing them, he opened his eyes.
The darkness inside the God - binding Coffin remained silent. Zhenyue was still locked on the stone pillar, and the expression on his face as if his soul had been taken away had not completely faded.
Gu Changyuan didn't look at him any more. He turned around and directly left the God - binding Coffin.
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
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.”
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
e school belle recognized by the whole school, a genius girl from the kendo club. She also has a hidden identity, the youngest legendary demon hunter. Chen Shuo just transmigrated and found himself turned into a weak, helpless little vampire. He was caught by Su Xiyen and taken home at the very beginning. Since then, Chen Shuo's life creed only had two items. "First, classmate Su Xiyen is always right." "Second, if classmate Su Xiyen is wrong, please refer back to item one." Many years later, Chen Shuo, who had turned back into a human, led a pair of twins to appear in front of all the vampires to share the secret of how he turned back into a human. "It's simple, I tricked a female demon hunter into becoming my wife!"
