273: Chapter 274 Gu Wudi!

Xuanyuan Che nodded heavily, Battle Intent burning in his eyes.

"Disciple's challenge this time is not for a petty dispute, but to sever a Heart Demon!"

"That defeat has become a crack in my Dao Heart. If I do not defeat him with my own hands, this crack will remain forever, and my future path of cultivation will surely be impossible to traverse!"

"Only by defeating him fairly and squarely can my Dao reach Perfection and allow me to go further!"

His voice was powerful and resonant, carrying significant weight.

Listening to these words, Daoist Venerable Qingxu became increasingly satisfied.

"Good!"

"That you have this realization brings great comfort to your master."

He was just about to say more to encourage his Disciple.

Just then, a Disciple of the Qingxiao Holy Mountain ran in from outside the hall with a panicked expression.

"Reporting to the Sect Leader! And the Saint!"

The Disciple fell to his knees with a thud, his voice trembling.

"Something huge has happened!"

Daoist Venerable Qingxu frowned slightly and said with some displeasure, "Why so flustered? Where is your decorum? Whatever it is, speak slowly."

"Yes! Yes!"

The Disciple took a few ragged breaths before speaking quickly in a tone of extreme shock, "News just arrived from the Heavenly Abyss!"

"The Holy Son of Daoxuan, Gu Changsheng, has come into conflict with others inside Emperor Qiren's Tomb!"

Hearing this, Xuanyuan Che's heart stirred, and he immediately pressed, "What was the result? Was he taught a lesson?"

In his mind, Gu Changsheng acted so arrogantly that in a place as chaotic as an Emperor's Tomb...

It was only logical that he might offend some hidden old monster and be taught a lesson.

However, the Disciple's next words hit him like a lightning strike, leaving him stunned on the spot.

"No... that's not it..."

The Disciple swallowed hard and said with a trembling voice, "It's... it's the Holy Son of Daoxuan. He... with a single palm strike, he heavily injured Venerable Liuyun of the Dafan Zen Temple!"

"What?!"

Daoist Venerable Qingxu and Xuanyuan Che cried out in shock almost simultaneously.

They naturally knew of Venerable Liuyun.

He was a Guixu Realm powerhouse who had been famous for nearly ten thousand years!

To think he was heavily injured by Gu Changsheng with just one palm strike?

How could this be possible!

"Is the news verified?" Daoist Venerable Qingxu's voice became incredibly solemn.

"Absolutely certain!" the Disciple said hurriedly. "It's said that tens of thousands of Cultivators were present at the time, and everyone witnessed it with their own eyes!"

"And... and that's not even the most terrifying part!"

"What?!"

"After heavily injuring Venerable Liuyun, King Chixiao of the Yanyang Divine Court, Ying Zhan of the Eternal Dynasty, our Qingxiao Holy Mountain's Junior Grandmaster Zhenxuan, and the Pill King of the Qingming Alchemy Mansion—four Guixu Realm powerhouses—joined forces to besiege the Holy Son of Daoxuan!"

"The result... the result..."

At this point, the Disciple seemed so overcome with fear that he couldn't continue.

"What was the result? Speak quickly!" Xuanyuan Che urged anxiously, a terrible premonition rising in his heart.

The Disciple took a deep breath and said in a voice that was almost like a dream, "The result was that those four Guixu powerhouses were all... suppressed on the spot by the Holy Son of Daoxuan, single-handedly!"

Boom!

These words were like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, exploding in Xuanyuan Che's mind.

His whole body jerked as if electrocuted, his frame swayed violently, and his face instantly turned as pale as paper, devoid of all color.

"No... impossible... this is absolutely impossible..."

He murmured to himself, lost in soul, as the raging Battle Intent that had just been ignited...

...was doused completely at this moment by a bucket of ice water from head to toe, leaving not even a single spark behind.

Suppressing five Guixu powerhouses single-handedly?

What kind of concept was that?

The Myriad Laws Realm cultivation he was so proud of, having just broken through, was simply a joke in the face of such a feat!

A massive joke!

He had actually been delusional enough to think about challenging such a being?

He had actually naively believed that he and Gu Changsheng were standing on the same starting line again?

How laughable! How ignorant!

A massive sense of defeat and despair submerged him completely like a tide.

He felt that the gap between himself and Gu Changsheng had not narrowed.

On the contrary, it had widened to a point where even looking up at him brought only despair.

Pfft!

With his spirit failing, Xuanyuan Che could no longer suppress his churning blood. He spat out a mouthful of fresh blood and collapsed weakly to the ground.

Sigh...

To the side, Daoist Venerable Qingxu couldn't help but let out a long sigh as he watched his Disciple's dejected state.

In his own heart, stormy waves were also surging.

"To be born in the same era as such a Prodigy... I wonder if it is Che'er's fortune or his misfortune..."

...

The same news also reached the Eternal Dynasty.

When the Eternal Imperial Son, Ying Tian, finished listening to his subordinate's report, he remained silent for a long time.

In the end, he only managed a bitter smile that looked worse than crying.

"The gap... is getting wider and wider..."

He waved his hand to dismiss his subordinates and walked alone into his secluded cultivation chamber.

From then on, for a very long time, no one ever saw this once high-spirited Eternal Imperial Son again.

The news of the Holy Son of Daoxuan, Gu Changsheng, using his Myriad Laws Realm cultivation to forcefully suppress five Guixu Realm powerhouses in Emperor Qiren's Small World...

...was like a category twelve superstorm. Within a few short days, it swept through the entire Middle Heaven, triggering an unprecedented earthquake.

Countless Sects, countless clans, and countless Cultivators were shocked and horrified by this news.

And the forces to which those Guixu powerhouses injured by Gu Changsheng belonged were in a state of complete chaos.

Dafan Zen Temple.

When the heavily injured Venerable Liuyun burned the last of his Divine Soul to flee back to the Sect in a wretched state, he immediately fell unconscious.

His injuries were so severe that even several Guixu Realm Elders of the Dafan Zen Temple were helpless.

Ultimately, it alerted the Great Master Dafan, a Return to One Realm giant who had been in death-seclusion and hadn't appeared in the world for thousands of years.

Great Master Dafan personally intervened, even using an Ancient Buddhist Sarira of the Sect-protecting level, to barely keep Venerable Liuyun alive.

But even so, Venerable Liuyun's Origin Qi was greatly damaged and his Foundation was compromised. He was sent to the ancestral lands, needing at least a thousand years of recuperation to possibly recover.

As for the other four forces, including the Yanyang Divine Court and the Eternal Dynasty, they were even more enraged upon learning that their own Guixu Old Ancestors had been suppressed on the spot.

But once they realized that the one who suppressed their ancestors was the Holy Son of Daoxuan, Gu Changsheng...

...that sky-high rage was doused as if by a bucket of cold water.

Revenge?

With what would they take revenge?

Even five Guixu powerhouses joining forces were suppressed with a flip of a hand.

Even if they mobilized their entire Sects, they would likely just be throwing their lives away.

In the end, these top-tier forces could only swallow their grievances.

They had to stomach the bitter loss and accept this blood-red deficit.

After this battle.

The status of Gu Changsheng in the hearts of all Cultivators in the Xuantian True Domain had completely changed.

He was no longer just a junior Prodigy with infinite potential.

He was now a peerless expert who had truly stepped into the ranks of the world's top powerhouses, someone who could even be compared to the Return to One Realm giants!

A powerhouse stated frankly that he was already invincible below the level of Quasi-Emperor, and could be called "Gu the Invincible!"