376: Chapter 377 The Gu Family's Hegemony!

"Commander, Ninth Young Lord."

The bronze palace doors slid open silently, and the figure of a Front-Line Immortal Guard appeared at the entrance, bowing in salute.

"Ahead lies the boundary wall of the Shenwu World."

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan stood up abruptly, the aura in his eyes, which had been restrained due to the mention of the Immortal Emperor, once again becoming arrogant and unbridled.

He strode to the front of the hall and pushed the doors open.

"Kid, come over and look."

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan turned back and beckoned to Gu Changsheng.

"Watch closely, this is the true Foundation of our Gu Family!"

Gu Changsheng set down his wine cup, walked to his side, and cast his gaze toward the boundless star sea outside the immortal ship.

Ahead, it was no longer Chaos and stars.

A massive membrane of light stretched across the Universe, separating the inside from the outside.

Upon the membrane of light, hundreds of millions of divine Law chains flowed, emitting a world aura a hundred times richer than that of small realms like the Yunxing Realm.

"Boom!"

The immortal ship did not slow down in the slightest; the purple-gold banner with the character "Gu" at the bow erupted with blinding radiance.

The entire warship, like a black divine nail piercing through eternity, crashed violently into that world barrier.

There was no violent jolting, only a moment of dizziness from the distortion of space.

The next instant, the immortal ship had already appeared in a brand-new world.

Gu Changsheng's pupils constricted slightly.

What rushed toward him was no longer wisps of Spiritual Qi, but tides of Spiritual Qi visible to the naked eye.

The Laws of this world were no longer formless and intangible; they had condensed into semi-materialized chains, piercing through every inch of the Void Realm.

He took just one breath, and the Earth Immortal Realm immortal essence he had just converted within his body began a new round of frantic expansion.

Looking out, the territory was boundless.

Brilliant star rivers stretched across the sky, and divine lands, each comparable in size to a star, floated quietly.

Countless streaks of light shuttled between the star rivers and the divine lands, and every streak of light represented a powerhouse who was at least in the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

"Do you see?"

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan's voice carried extreme pride.

"This is the Shenwu World. The ancestral land that my Gu Clan has managed for millions of years!"

The immortal ship did not stop but sped toward the most core region of the Shenwu World.

Soon, a massive immortal mountain appeared in the Void Realm ahead of the ship.

On the immortal mountain, palaces stretched endlessly, waterfalls flowed in reverse, and Auspicious Beasts roamed; it was clearly a top-tier immortal Sect.

Several powerful Divine Thoughts swept over from the immortal mountain, but the instant they touched the "Gu" banner on the immortal ship, they retreated like a receding tide.

The next moment, an old man wearing Daoist robes, whose aura had reached the Perfection of the True Immortal Realm, stepped out from the peak of the immortal mountain and bowed deeply toward the direction of the immortal ship.

"Leiming Sect respectfully welcomes the Gu Clan's immortal carriage!"

Behind him, thousands of Sect Disciples knelt in unison.

"Respectfully welcome the Gu Clan's immortal carriage!"

The sound rolled like thunder, yet it was easily blocked by the immortal ship's protective barrier.

The immortal ship did not pause for even a moment, crushing directly over the heads of the thousands kneeling below.

The immortal ship continued onward.

In the star sea ahead, a caravan consisting of hundreds of small star boats was sailing.

When they saw the Gu Clan's warship, all the star boats stopped immediately, extinguished all the light from their Formations, and hovered quietly on the side of the route, yielding the main path.

On the deck of the leading star boat, a middle-aged man in brocade clothes, whose aura also reached the True Immortal Realm, led all his guards and bowed from afar toward the direction of the Gu Clan's warship.

"This Yunhai Chamber of Commerce knows the rules well."

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan nodded, his tone indifferent.

Along the way, wherever they passed, whether it was an immortal Sect entrenched in a region, a race of exotic beasts rampant in the star sea, or an immortal Cultivation family controlling countless living beings, upon seeing that purple-gold "Gu" banner, without exception, all bowed their heads.

Some yielded, others prostrated.

The entire Shenwu World seemed to be the Gu Family's private garden, and all living beings were but docile servants within that garden.

A team of exotic beasts reacted a beat too slow, and before the leading great demon could even pay its respects, a Front-Line Immortal Guard on the immortal ship just glanced at it indifferently, and the great demon was so terrified that it flattened itself directly into the Void Realm, its limbs rigid, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Gu Changsheng watched all this quietly.

He watched as those True Immortal powerhouses, who were capable of founding Sects and becoming ancestors in other small realms, were as humble as dust before the Gu Family's banner.

At this moment, he truly understood the weight of the six words "Eastern Star Domain hegemon".

"In the Shenwu World, there is only one Supreme."

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan patted Gu Changsheng's shoulder, lifted his chin slightly, and pointed to the "Gu" banner fluttering in the wind.

"And that is my Gu Family."

"No matter if you are an eternal immortal Sect or an exotic great demon, when you see my Gu Family's flag, you must kneel."

"Those who dared to call themselves Supreme in this territory have already had the grass on their graves changed a dozen times."

Gu Changsheng's gaze slowly shifted from those kneeling beings back to the banner.

In the Lower Realm, he had also achieved this.

With the power of one person, he suppressed a realm, made ten thousand races submit, and was collectively honored with the name "Great Emperor Xuantian".

But that was, after all, just a small Mortal Realm.

Here, however, merely the surname "Gu Family" possessed Supreme authority that transcended emperors.

In his heart, a flame, even more intense than when he became emperor in the Lower Realm, was thoroughly ignited.

"One day, these Three Thousand Dao Domains, this Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, shall also honor my name, Gu Changsheng."

He whispered to himself, his voice not loud, yet it revealed an unquestionable determination.

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan heard his whisper; not only did he not think he was arrogant, but he laughed out loud instead.

"Hahaha! Good! This is the Qilin son of my Gu Family!"

"This is exactly the spirit I want!"

"If you didn't even have this much ambition, you wouldn't be worthy of being my Gu Family's Ninth Young Lord!"

After Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan finished laughing, his expression turned serious.

"However, Changsheng, do you know what my Gu Family relies on for this hegemony?"

Gu Changsheng's eyes flickered, and he shook his head.

"The lingering might of the Immortal Emperor Old Ancestor can only deter for a time, but it cannot make these hundreds of millions of living beings willingly serve as slaves for millions of years."

"Well said!"

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan strode to a massive glazed mysterious window in the main hall of the immortal ship.

He raised his hand and tapped on the mysterious window.

The scenery outside the window changed rapidly; the vast territory of the Shenwu World unfolded before Gu Changsheng like a scroll, and it kept shrinking inward.

Finally, the image froze in the deepest core of the Shenwu World.

There, there were no stars, no continents, only a cluster of Origin light emitting the aura of the Three Thousand Dao, constantly coming into being and ceasing to exist.

It was like the heart of the entire Shenwu World.

Seventh Ancestor Gu Zhan pointed at that ball of light, his voice lowered extremely low, and he said word by word:

"Deterrence is only the appearance; rules are the sharp blade."

"And the fundamental reason why my Gu Family can stand at the peak of this world and set all the rules is only one."

He turned his head and stared fixedly into Gu Changsheng's eyes.

"Because we, the Gu Family, control the World Origin of the Shenwu World!"