11: Forced calculations backfired.

Upon learning the news of Gu Xuansha's premature death, Gu Lingshuang was filled with astonishment.

As the reborn Myriad Tribulations Empress, she had been preoccupied with revenge and seizing the opportunities she had missed in her previous life, never expecting that the future she remembered would have changed due to her Rebirth.

She quickly calmed herself down.

The memories of her past life were her greatest asset, but they must not become a shackle.

"The most urgent task now is to restore my strength."

A flash of resolve passed through Gu Lingshuang's eyes.

She sat cross-legged, her hands forming seals. The mental cultivation method of a forbidden Demonic Technique she had stumbled upon in her previous life—the "Blood Prison Spirit Refining Scripture"—flowed through her mind.

This technique was overwhelmingly domineering. Using one's own vital essence as a catalyst, it forcibly plundered the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, allowing cultivation speed to advance by leaps and bounds, but it came with endless future calamities.

For her, however, this was not a problem.

She had plenty of ways to mend her Foundation.

As the technique circulated, an unnatural flush appeared on her face, which was as pale as paper.

Strands of vital essence were forcibly extracted from her body, transforming into crimson runes that swirled around her.

Boom!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a hundred-mile radius seemed drawn by a fatal attraction, transforming into visible torrents that poured down towards her dilapidated courtyard!

The Spiritual Qi was like knives, brutally scouring her frail Meridians.

Excruciating pain shot through her, yet Gu Lingshuang did not even furrow her brow.

This level of pain was nothing compared to having her Dao bones dug out and her entire Family slaughtered in her past life.

Her cultivation began to soar rapidly!

In merely one hour.

Boom!

A muffled sound erupted from within Gu Lingshuang's body, as if some barrier had been forcibly shattered.

A chaotic ocean of Spiritual Qi erupted and took form within her Dantian!

Spirit Sea Realm!

Success!

From a Mortal without the strength to truss a chicken, to a Cultivator who had stepped onto the path of cultivation and reached the Spirit Sea Realm, she had taken only one hour!

And it was not over yet.

At the very moment of her Breakthrough, an even more vast power abruptly awakened from the depths of her Divine Soul!

It was a fragment of her Primordial Spirit, radiating immortal divine light—one ten-thousandth of her Divine Soul Origin from when she was the Empress in her past life!

Hum!

Behind Gu Lingshuang, a blurry phantom figure flashed and vanished.

It was the Dharma Form of a peerless Empress, wearing an imperial crown, overlooking eternity!

Though it was as fleeting as a flash in the pan, that aura, potent enough to make even an Eternal Realm Venerable tremble with fear, was undeniably real!

"Eternal Realm combat power..."

Feeling the power within her body that had briefly erupted and then quickly subsided, Gu Lingshuang couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

"Although it can only be used once, it is enough."

This unexpected gain made her even more certain of the reality of her Rebirth.

Her plan was simple.

Continue cultivating, and break through to the Tongxuan Realm as soon as possible.

By then, with this Primordial Spirit fragment, she was fully confident she could fight her way out of this heavily guarded Gu Family and soar freely under the vast sky!

However.

Just as she was preparing to continue her cultivation.

Rumble—!

The entire Northern Nether City began to shake violently without warning!

The sensation was as if a primordial behemoth that had slumbered for eons had been stomped on the face and abruptly flipped over!

Countless buildings swayed, countless Mortals screamed in terror, and countless Cultivators rushed out of their rooms in horror, looking up at the sky.

Immediately after.

A terrifying, supreme Saint's might descended from the heavens above!

That pressure, like the sky collapsing or a tsunami, instantly enveloped the entire Northern Nether City!

Under this pressure, space solidified, and the myriad Laws wailed in sorrow!

Within the city, millions of Cultivators, regardless of their cultivation level, all felt their legs go weak, uncontrollably kneeling and prostrating on the ground. Their Divine Souls trembled and howled under this force!

A cold, indifferent voice devoid of any emotion resounded in everyone's ears.

"The Gu Family shall be exterminated."

"From this day forth, Northern Nether City belongs to my Su Family."

Two simple sentences, yet they were like Heavenly Dao decrees, imbued with an unquestionable, supreme will.

Inside the room.

Gu Lingshuang, who was about to continue cultivating, stiffened abruptly.

She slowly raised her head, her eyes filled with a hundred times more astonishment and bewilderment than when she learned of Gu Xuansha's death.

The Su Family?

Which Su Family?

Was it the Su Family that, in her memory, was supposed to be completely annihilated and uprooted by the Gu Family today?

They... not only weren't destroyed, but are now attacking instead?

And... this pressure... it's a Saint!

The Su Family... produced a Saint?!

Gu Lingshuang's mind was thrown into complete Chaos.

This script was all wrong!

Meanwhile, at the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

Inside the pavilion, Chaos had long since erupted. Countless Cultivators stumbled and fell in disarray under the terrifying Saint's might.

Only the middle-aged man in Daoist robes, who had just been confidently proclaiming the Su Family's inevitable demise, now had a deathly pale face. He stared fixedly out the window, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

He screamed, sounding as if he had gone mad.

"The Su Family's Luck has clearly decayed to its extreme! How could a Saint possibly emerge from them!"

He was one of the Hall Masters of the Heavenly Dao Divine Hall, most adept at divining the secrets of heaven and observing Luck.

The Su Family's inevitable destruction was a result he had deduced at the cost of a hundred years of his Lifespan. It could not possibly be wrong!

"I don't believe it!"

The Daoist-robed man's eyes turned bloodshot. He suddenly bit the tip of his tongue, his hands swiftly forming seals. His pupils instantly transformed into two bottomless vortexes of black and white.

Heaven's Secrets Secret Art, activate!

He would forcibly deduce the Origins of that Su Family Saint, going against this Saint's might!

However.

The instant his Divine Thought touched that Saint's might.

Boom!

A force ten thousand times more terrifying than the Saint's might, seemingly originating from the dawn of Chaos, transcending the myriad Daos of all heavens, surged back along his Divine Thought in a fierce backlash!

"Pfft—!"

The Daoist-robed man was struck as if by lightning. A mouthful of blood sprayed out, and he was sent flying backward, crashing through the wall behind him.

Two streams of bloody tears flowed from his eyes, and his Divine Soul was nearly torn apart by that force.

"Ahhhh!"

Clutching his head, he let out a shrill, agonized scream.

He had seen it.

In that brief instant, he had seen a scene of ultimate terror!

That was... that was a taboo! An unspeakable, unseeable, unthinkable supreme existence!

"Devil! A devil!"

The Daoist-robed man had gone completely mad. Scrambling up from the ground, he fled the tavern in utter panic, transforming into a streak of light as he fled in terror towards the city outskirts.

He swore that in this life—no, for all his lives to come—he would never set foot in the Sacred Ruins Continent again!

Just as the Drunken Immortal Pavilion descended into utter Chaos.

High above Northern Nether City.

A colossal, sky-shrouding hand materialized out of thin air.

Upon that hand, stars orbited and Laws intertwined, radiating an aura so terrifying it made heaven and earth tremble.

Under the horrified gazes of countless people within the city.

This hand gently swatted towards the direction of the Gu Family estate.

Crack!

A crisp sound.

The Gu Family's protective clan formation, painstakingly built over generations and capable of withstanding the combined assault of several Eternal Realm Venerables, was as fragile as an eggshell before this palm.

Instantly, it was shattered to pieces!

The residual energy transformed into a destructive shockwave that swept out in all directions.

Rumble!

Within the Gu Family estate, countless ornate, resplendent palaces, like castles built of sand, collapsed and crumbled in waves under this shockwave, turning into ruins!

Countless patrolling Gu Family guards were ground into dust by this force before they could even utter a scream!

Immediately after.

Above the Gu Family, a massive Void Realm portal tore open with a thunderous roar!

A black tide!

An endless tide surged out wildly from that portal!

Battalions of Su Family soldiers clad in heavy armor and wielding halberds, fierce as wolves and tigers, their Killing Intent soaring to the heavens!

Sinister-looking war arks, blotting out the sky!

The unprepared Gu Family experts were completely dumbfounded.

They hadn't even recovered from the shocking news of their Old Ancestor's demise before being struck senseless by this heaven-sent calamity.

One moment, they were the Northern Nether City's number one Family, bustling with activity as various forces vied to align with them.

The next moment, they were facing the peril of clan extermination!