240: Chapter 240 The Imperial Immortal Stele!

Light and shadow interlaced as starlight surged like undercurrents.

Gu Changsheng took a step out of the stone gate.

At the end of his vision, a colossal object stood tall, piercing deep into the sea of stars.

It was a black stone stele, a hundred thousand feet high, its surface flowing with dense, ancient Dao patterns.

Vaguely, the grand sounds of primeval sacrifices echoed across the river of time—low, solemn, and striking directly at the Divine Soul.

That was the pressure unique to a Great Emperor of the Ultimate Path.

This was the ultimate foundation left behind by the founding Ancestral Master of Yaochi, Emperor Yaoguang.

The emperor aura immortal stele!

Had any other Prodigy from the outside world stood here, they would have long since been cowed by this Emperor's pressure, prostrating themselves in worship.

They would surely sit cross-legged, exhausting everything to comprehend the Emperor's Dao Laws leaking from the stele's body; even grasping a single sliver would be enough to benefit them for a lifetime.

But Gu Changsheng stood in place, not moving an inch.

His gaze was locked onto that hundred-thousand-foot stele, his brow slightly furrowed.

Though he had never personally experienced the pressure of an Imperial Weapon of the Ultimate Path,

The emotions currently being transmitted to him by the nine abyss-like Taixu acupoints within his Dantian were by no means awe, but rather a nearly frenzied, extreme greed.

The "Taixu Hunyuan World-Suppressing Scripture" was a half-step Immortal Rank Cultivation Technique that transcended worldly cognition; it devoured all things, yet was extremely picky.

The mere pressure of the Ultimate Path's Emperor could never cause all nine major acupoints to riot simultaneously.

There was likely more than meets the eye within this stele.

Gu Changsheng lowered his eyelids slightly; when he opened them again, dark golden overlapping outlines had emerged within his black pupils.

The Ancient Heavy Pupils opened, seeing through all delusions!

Under the gaze of the Heavy Pupils, that hundred-thousand-foot-tall stone stele instantly shed its physical appearance, transforming into a churning mass of energy in his eyes.

The outer layer consisted of the vast and heavy Emperor's Laws of the Ultimate Path, glittering with golden light, majestic and inviolable.

But at the deepest core of that golden light, several strands of airflow were hidden, completely different from the Emperor's Laws.

Those few strands were as thin as silk, flickering in and out of existence; they lacked even a hint of domineering pressure, yet exuded a transcendent Aura that stood above heaven and earth, immune to all Laws.

Even the surrounding Emperor's Laws of the Ultimate Path would instinctively move aside when touching these strands, as if even the Laws of a Great Emperor were unworthy of merging or accompanying them.

“This is... Immortal Qi!”

The dark golden light in Gu Changsheng's eyes suddenly intensified, and a storm of shock surged in his heart.

“So that's how it is.”

He slowly withdrew his Heavy Pupils, his mind racing as he instantly pieced together the situation.

Rumors in the outside world claimed that this emperor aura immortal stele was the object with which Emperor Yaoguang attained the Dao, containing the Opportunity to become an Emperor. Now it seemed those words were likely a misconception.

This emperor aura immortal stele appeared to be an Emperor Weapon of the Ultimate Path, but in reality, it was simply a fragment of an Immortal Artifact!

Emperor Yaoguang likely obtained this fragment by chance and attempted to use it to comprehend the Immortal Dao Origin and break through to the Immortal Realm, but ultimately failed.

Out of options, she could only imprint all her own Ultimate Path Laws onto it, using the power of a Great Emperor to lock in the Immortal Qi that was about to dissipate, thus creating this renowned Emperor Weapon of the Ultimate Path.

This move was likely intended for her descendants, to see if any exceptionally talented juniors of Yaochi could see through the stele's secrets and comprehend the Immortal Dao Origin.

However, the energy of the Immortal Dao Origin was far too Advanced for the current Xuantian True Domain, far exceeding a Cultivator's cognition and capacity to bear.

Hundreds of thousands of years had passed, and the Yaochi Holy Land sat on a mountain of treasure, yet no one had ever been able to touch the core of the stele. They could only comprehend the Emperor's Dao Laws on the periphery, sighing in frustration.

Precisely because they couldn't comprehend it themselves, the Yaochi Holy Land thought to hold the Langxiao Immortal Ceremony, expanding the scope to invite prodigies from across the world.

It seemed like they were nurturing prodigies, but in reality, they were placing a bet, hoping for a Heaven-Defying figure who could unlock the secrets of this emperor aura immortal stele.

“What a waste of a heavenly gift.”

Gu Changsheng let out a cold laugh.

This Immortal Dao Origin wasn't meant to be comprehended at all; the best way was to devour it!

Gu Changsheng looked at the stele again. In the residual vision of his Heavy Pupils, he could clearly see that the Emperor's Dao Laws within the stele were still strong, but those few strands of Immortal Qi at the core had dimmed to the extreme, their immortal charm nearly exhausted like a lamp running out of oil.

No wonder the Holy Master of Yaochi pinned all her hopes on this generation's prodigies. In a few more millennia, once the Immortal Qi in the stele dissipated,

This so-called Emperor Weapon of the Ultimate Path would surely drop in rank, eventually becoming a mere Quasi-Emperor Weapon!

“Rumble...!”

The moment he saw through the secret of the Immortal Qi, the nine Taixu acupoints in his Dantian completely boiled over.

The gray Chaos Divine Fire was like a starving wolf smelling blood, frantically rushing through his Meridians and letting out deafening roars, causing his bones and blood to vibrate along with it.

For the first time, the "Taixu Hunyuan World-Suppressing Scripture" conveyed an unprecedented, extreme desire—it wanted to devour those few strands of Immortal Qi!

“A Heaven-Defying Opportunity!”

A burst of piercing light erupted in Gu Changsheng's eyes, and his Aura instantly climbed. Without the slightest hesitation, his right foot slammed down in the Void Realm.

“Boom!”

The sound of an air explosion echoed through the entire starry sky as Gu Changsheng turned into a gray stream of light, breaking through layers of star mist and rushing straight for the core of the stone stele.

The closer he got to the stele, the more concentrated the Emperor's pressure of the Ultimate Path became, eventually materializing into a thick golden liquid permeating the void.

Every step forward felt like wading through a swamp while carrying a hundred thousand divine mountains. His bones made faint sounds as they strained under the burden, yet there wasn't a hint of fear in his eyes, only the determination to succeed at all costs.

His eyes were like lightning, his Heavy Pupils faintly visible, as he stared fixedly at the base of the stele—that was where the Emperor's pressure was weakest and the key point where the Immortal Qi escaped.

A moment later, the Chaos Divine Fire around Gu Changsheng surged, forcefully breaking through the final layer of the Ultimate Path's Emperor pressure barrier.

The scene before him suddenly opened up.

The violent spatial turbulence and the heavy pressure of the Ultimate Path vanished the moment the barrier shattered, replaced by a hundred-foot-wide zone of absolute vacuum.

And in the very center of this vacuum zone, directly beneath the stone stele, sat a simple and ancient white jade platform.

Gu Changsheng restrained his surging Aura and lightly tapped his toes, landing steadily on the edge of the jade platform with the lightest possible movement.

But in the next second, his body suddenly froze.

Peering through the faint golden immortal mist swirling above the jade platform, his gaze suddenly caught a beautiful figure sitting cross-legged.

That figure stood silently in the center of the jade platform, merging as one with the surrounding immortal charm, such that he had only just managed to notice her.