453: Immortal Realm Information

Gu Changge maintained his punching posture, looking at the two masses of rapidly dimming light mist.

And within them were mixed several remnants of Immortal Artifacts that had clearly lost their spirituality or even developed cracks; he fell silent for a moment.

Then, he slowly withdrew his fist, looking at his fair knuckles, his brow furrowed tightly with obvious annoyance on his face.

"Dammit..."

He cursed in a low voice, his tone full of the frustration of having "messed up again."

"I used too much force again. I clearly held back ninety percent of my power, so why did it still..."

"Are the True Immortals of the Immortal Realm all this fragile? This is the Nine Heavens? They're like paper!"

With that punch just now, he had indeed deliberately controlled his power, aiming to heavily injure and imprison the opponent rather than completely annihilate them.

Who would have thought the opponent couldn't even withstand this one punch.

He simply couldn't understand it.

He had clearly been very careful with his strength, from not holding back last time to holding back this time.

In the end, it was still an instant kill, which made him seriously doubt the average physical quality of True Immortals in the Immortal Realm.

"My intelligence, my map, my introduction to the local customs of the Immortal Realm..."

Gu Changge looked at everything before him with heartache, feeling as if he had lost hundreds of millions.

Suddenly, his gaze sharpened as he keenly noticed that at the very core of the two masses of light mist that were about to completely dissipate,

there were still a few extremely weak Soul fragments struggling, like candles flickering in the wind.

"There are still remnant Souls!"

Gu Changge's spirits lifted, and without stopping to complain, he pointed into the air.

"Freeze!"

An invisible force instantly imprisoned those few remnant Soul fragments.

"Soul Search!"

An overbearing Divine Thought forcibly intruded, seizing the most profound remaining memory information within them.

In an instant, countless chaotic and broken images and information fragments flooded into Gu Changge's Sea of Consciousness.

Broken palaces shrouded in Immortal light, crisscrossing cracks in the Void Realm, countless desolate and decaying continental fragments, and dim figures struggling to survive in a barren world... scenes of the broken Immortal Realm flashed by.

Following that was the territory under the rule of the Chengyun Immortal Palace.

It wasn't the supreme Immortal paradise one would imagine, but rather a fragment of an Immortal domain with thin Immortal Qi.

Only the central palace area maintained a basic Immortal atmosphere by relying on the Origin power forcibly extracted from several Lower Realms.

Then, another even more blurred memory fragment, carrying sharp killing intent, surged into his mind.

It was on the way to the Xuanhuang World that Zhao Gang and Sun Yan had encountered an ambush!

The memory images were fragmented.

Several figures shrouded in Chaos Qi suddenly attacked within the void turbulence, their target clear and aimed directly at the two!

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides, but Zhao Gang and Sun Yan were powerful.

Although the opponents came prepared, the gap in Realm was too large, and they were ultimately defeated and retreated.

"Hmm?" Gu Changge's brow furrowed slightly.

"Someone actually intercepted and tried to kill people from the Chengyun Immortal Palace? Is it a personal grudge, or are they coming for the Xuanhuang World?"

He tried to see the Origin of those attackers, but the memory was extremely blurry at this point and difficult to identify.

"What a pity..."

Gu Changge slowly withdrew his Divine Thought, and those few remnant Souls completely dissipated without a trace.

He opened his eyes and gently exhaled a breath of turbid air, a hint of regret flashing in his eyes.

"Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, not even one-tenth of the memories remain, just some fragmented pieces."

After quickly clearing the remnants of the battlefield, he looked up again.

"So the so-called Immortal Realm has long been broken and in shambles.

The Chengyun Immortal Palace is merely a faction occupying a slightly larger fragment, relying on extracting the Origin of the Lower Realm to maintain its rule."

"Above True Immortal, there are still Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Immortal Lord, Immortal King... and Heavenly Immortal is already the top existence that can be called a pillar in this broken Immortal domain where the Chengyun Immortal Palace is located."

"I didn't expect they would encounter an assassination attempt on their way here. Who could it be?"

Although he failed to control his strength again this time, it wasn't a total loss.

The fragmented information obtained from the Soul Search—the broken layout of the Immortal Realm and the weak nature of the Chengyun Immortal Palace—was enough for him to piece together a general outline.

This was much better than being completely in the dark before.

"What force broke the Immortal Realm?"

He murmured to himself, his gaze sweeping across the Void Realm and fixing on several floating objects.

They were a ring and a jade pendant covered in cracks.

"Storage Magical Artifacts?"

Gu Changge made a grasping motion from a distance, and those items fell into his hand.

His Divine Thought swept through; inside the ring and jade pendant's internal spaces, there were very few items, and most had lost their spirituality.

However, those few crystals were slightly warm to the touch, containing an energy more than a hundred times purer and denser than the Top-Grade Spirit Stones of the Xuanhuang World, though the total amount was pitifully small.

"Are these Immortal Stones?"

Gu Changge weighed the crystals in his hand, which likely didn't even add up to fifty pieces, and then looked at those few low-quality treasures suspected to be Immortal Artifacts.

The corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

"Two True Immortals of the Nine Heavens only have this much wealth?"

He recalled the impoverished scenes within the territory of the Chengyun Immortal Palace he had caught a glimpse of during the Soul Search.

And the images in the memories of those Immortals haggling over a few resources, he suddenly understood a bit.

"It seems this so-called broken Immortal Realm is even poorer than imagined," Gu Changge said to himself, his gaze once again turning toward the depths of the endless chaotic Void Realm.

He looked in the direction of the Chengyun Immortal Palace, a cold, sharp light quietly gathering in the depths of his eyes.

Passive defense, waiting for the next time, perhaps for an Earth Immortal or even higher existence to descend?

That was definitely not his style.

Nipping danger in the bud and pushing the battlefield away from his homeland was the kingly way.

He would go back and make some preparations first, then take a trip to the Immortal Realm.

"Chengyun Immortal Palace..."

He whispered the name, and beneath his calm tone was a killing intent sufficient to freeze a galaxy.

"I'll let you catch your breath for a few more days."

Having decided, he flicked his sleeve, and an invisible ripple passed through.

It completely erased the last traces of energy, Immortal Artifact powder, and even the Karma lines left at the scene, ensuring no clues remained for investigation.

Then, he turned and looked beside him.

He saw that Xing Tianao still maintained a posture of full alert, his body surging with emperor qi.

His gaze was fixed on the empty space ahead, where only a few ripples in the Void Realm that had not yet completely settled remained; his face was full of extreme shock, bewilderment, and... a kind of dullness after his worldview had been completely overturned.

The earth-shattering battle, the life-and-death struggle, and even the tragic scene of Emperor Blood being exhausted that he had envisioned did not happen at all.

He only saw the Lord casually throw a punch.

And then, those two True Immortals who made him feel suffocated and desperate were gone.

Completely gone.

It was so fast that even his mind as a Great Emperor almost couldn't keep up.

"Let's go."

Gu Changge's flat voice snapped Xing Tianao out of his massive shock.

"Ah?... Yes! Lord!"

Xing Tianao snapped back to his senses and responded subconsciously.

Looking at Gu Changge again, his eyes were filled with an awe that couldn't be described in words, like a Mortal looking up at a god who controlled the Heavenly Dao.

Gu Changge said no more and took a step forward, his figure merging into the barrier of the Xuanhuang Great World.

Xing Tianao hurried to follow, his mood complicated to the extreme.

Recalling his previous oath of not regretting even in death, he actually felt a hint of inexplicable embarrassment at this moment.

In the face of absolute strength, tragic heroism seemed like a luxury.

Outside the World Barrier, silence returned once more.

Only the fragmented information about the Immortal Realm added to Gu Changge's mind proved the brief and absurd scene that had just occurred.