Chapter 135 This works too

The Old Ancestor is... kneeling?

In front of the great hall, over a dozen elders of the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan stood rooted to the spot, dumbfounded.

Their gazes swept back and forth between the phantom of the Nine-Tailed White Fox in the sky and the kneeling Divine Lord Tushan Tian.

Not long ago, their Divine Lord had done exactly this—kneeling before that Youth in White without a shred of dignity, right in front of everyone.

And now, the will of the Old Ancestor, the unshakeable foundation of the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan for ten thousand generations, had actually performed an eerily similar action the moment it descended.

"Old Ancestor is..." Supreme Elder Tushan Xuan's voice trembled.

He could not understand it.

That was an Incarnation of will at the Half-step Divine Emperor level! An ancient existence that had lived through countless epochs and witnessed the rise and fall of the heavens!

Even when facing the Palace Masters of the Human Divine Court, the Old Ancestor had never lowered her head.

Yet today, when facing a youth of unknown Origin, why did the Old Ancestor bow down immediately without even testing him?

"Old Ancestor, this person led others to force their way into our ancestral grounds, injured our Divine Lord, and forced us to submit. You..."

However, the phantom of the Nine-Tailed White Fox completely ignored the clamoring of these clan elders.

In those huge fox eyes, glowing with a dark red light, there was only endless solemnity and vigilance.

Tushan Yao's will looked toward Gu Heng in front.

Others might not be able to tell, but as an existence who had lived for hundreds of millions of years, how could she not perceive it?

The moment her will awakened, she discovered that the strand of life-saving martial Dao will she had left on Divine Lord Tushan Tian had completely vanished.

What terrified Tushan Yao even more were the two Divine Sense Incarnations standing behind the Youth in White.

The original bodies of either of these two people would be enough to completely wipe out the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan, which was currently on its last legs, in the snap of a finger.

"Your Excellency has descended; our clan failed to welcome you properly. We beg for your forgiveness."

Tushan Yao spoke respectfully, her voice echoing above the great hall.

She was about to lower her posture further and explain something to Gu Heng.

Suddenly, a dull boom echoed from within Gu Heng's body.

The next moment, the aura of a Half-step Divine Emperor poured out from Gu Heng's body.

The aura that Gu Heng had concealed so well turned into golden ripples and spread in all directions.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Supreme Elder Tushan Xuan and the other clan elders felt as if a divine mountain was pressing down on their spines.

They spat out mouthfuls of blood, their eyes filled with horror.

"A... a Half-step Divine Emperor?!" Supreme Elder Tushan Xuan looked at the figure in white, monstrous waves churning in his heart.

"He is also a Half-step Divine Emperor? And he's so young..."

No.

Supreme Elder Tushan Xuan's pupils suddenly constricted.

He discovered with horror that the aura on the youth, after releasing the pressure of a Half-step Divine Emperor, showed no signs of stopping; instead, it continued to climb!

"This... how is this possible? His aura is still getting stronger!"

"The Heavenly Dao is wailing! Is he forcibly seizing the Origin of the Universe?!"

The surrounding elders of the fox clan were completely terrified.

They lay on the ground, feeling the increasingly thin power of the Law around them, and felt as if the end of the world was right before their eyes.

At this moment, Gu Heng frowned slightly.

He could feel that the heaven-reaching tower inside his body was undergoing earth-shattering changes.

After the Original Realm entered the tower, it was undergoing its final Fusion with the billions of Small Worlds originally inside the tower.

That Dao Foundation Fragment of his had turned into countless brilliant divine patterns, merging the Laws of the Original Realm and the heaven-reaching tower together.

During the process of Fusion, the Origin power contained within the Original Realm began to feed back crazily.

Under the impact of this power, the Meridians in Gu Heng's body began to expand wildly.

His aura grew stronger with every passing breath.

Above the sky, the wind and clouds shifted.

The sky darkened at this moment.

Countless golden thunderbolts rolled within the black clouds, but they dared not descend, merely circling above Gu Heng's head.

"This is..." A trace of emotion finally appeared on Jiang Wanyin's face, and the red rope on her ankle curled slightly in the Void Realm:

"Origin feedback... Is Master going to attempt a Breakthrough to the true God Emperor Realm?"

Beside her, Di Shitian's Divine Sense Incarnation also put away his flippant smile.

In his dark red pupils, the golden thunderbolts filling the sky were reflected:

"The Dao Foundation is complete, and the Origin is flowing back.

Now that the opportunity has arrived, the rules of this Universe can no longer stop him."

In mid-air, the Nine-Tailed White Fox phantom, Tushan Yao, was even more shocked, her Divine Soul trembling violently.

Fortunately.

Fortunately, she had been alert enough just now.

After realizing that the martial Dao will on Divine Lord Tushan Tian had disappeared, she hadn't acted on impulse but instead chose to bow and pay respects the moment she descended.

Otherwise, facing a terrifying existence who was attempting a Breakthrough to the God Emperor Realm and had two peak-state God Emperors guarding his path, her Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan might not even have a single bone left today.

"Attempting a Breakthrough to God Emperor..." In Tushan Yao's mind, thousands of possibilities flashed by in a hundredth of a second.

This Excellency in White now had his aura leaking out, and the Heavenly Dao had sent down strange phenomena; this meant he could not suppress this momentum of Breakthrough at all.

Attempting a Breakthrough in a place surrounded by powerful enemies like this, any slight carelessness would attract the prying eyes of other God Emperors.

And since he had come to the ancestral grounds of the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan, what did that mean?

It meant that he needed a place for seclusion that was absolutely safe and capable of obscuring the heavenly secrets.

Thinking of this, Tushan Yao had a flash of inspiration.

Before Gu Heng could speak, she preemptively coughed and said,

"Your Excellency, please calm your anger.

This old woman forcefully awakened her will from the tomb to come out of seclusion precisely because I sensed that Your Excellency's divine technique has reached Major Achievement!

Therefore, I have specially prepared the most core Holy Land for seclusion in our clan for you here, to assist Your Excellency in attempting a Breakthrough to the Great God Emperor Realm!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the dozen fox clan elders who were playing dead on the ground almost had their eyeballs pop out.

This... works too?

When the Old Ancestor came out of seclusion just now, the situation clearly looked like she was going to kill everyone.

How did it turn into "specially coming out of seclusion to prepare a place for seclusion for a distinguished guest" in the blink of an eye?

Old Ancestor, where is your integrity? Where is that dignity you've lived with for hundreds of millions of years?

Supreme Elder Tushan Xuan felt that his worldview had been completely shattered into powder today.

He looked at the fawning phantom of the white fox in mid-air, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a single word.

Divine Lord Tushan Tian, who was lying on the other side, had his mouth corners twitching frantically.

He lowered his head and thought to himself: As expected of the Old Ancestor who has lived for hundreds of millions of years, this ability to know when to yield is truly masterful.

Look at the Old Ancestor's reaction.

Then look at the idiots in the Clan Elder Council lying below; all they know is fighting for power and profit, willing to die for that bit of illusory dignity.

If I had really listened to them, the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan would have been wiped off the Myriad Races Battlefield today!

In the Void Realm, Gu Heng, bearing the turbulent Origin power inside his body, turned his head to look at Tushan Yao.

A trace of approval flashed in his eyes.

This old fox had saved him quite a bit of talk.

"In that case, lead the way." Gu Heng nodded and was about to take a step forward.

Before he could move, the heaven-covering phantom of the Nine-Tailed White Fox in the sky suddenly dissipated.

Countless white specks of light fell like rain.

Amidst this sky full of light rain, a young figure slowly appeared before everyone's eyes.

The light rain gradually faded.

Appearing in mid-air was an extremely young youth.

The youth was dressed in a white robe, his figure slender and even appearing somewhat thin.

He had a pair of long, narrow phoenix eyes, the corners slightly upturned, possessing an indescribable demonic and noble air.

Most striking was the streak of bright red between his eyebrows, resembling a drop of blood about to fall but not yet falling.

This scene left everyone present stunned.

Even Lei Wanjun, Patriarch Su Xingchen, and the other Immortal Emperors and Devil Emperors who had followed Gu Heng all the way here were looking at each other in dismay.

"Is this... is this that so-called Old Ancestor of the fox clan who is at the limit?"

Lei Wanjun scratched his head, looking at the excessively young youth, and muttered in disbelief,

"I thought I would see a skin-and-bones zombie.

How does this kid look more vibrant than me?"

Patriarch Su Xingchen glanced at him sideways and transmitted his voice,

"At the Half-step Divine Emperor Realm, returning to youth is just a matter of a single thought.

However, although the Death Qi on this person is suppressed by a secret technique, the drying up of his Origin cannot be hidden.

He won't last long."

Gu Heng also raised an eyebrow slightly.

He could feel that beneath this youthful appearance was a body that had decayed to the extreme.

Every step the youth took left a faint smell of blood in the Void Realm.

Gu Heng's thoughts moved slightly, and he retrieved the heaven-reaching tower, which was emitting Chaos Qi, back into his body.

As the heaven-reaching tower was put away, the turbulent Origin power around them calmed down slightly.

He said indifferently, "Your current state does not seem suitable for walking around."

Tushan Yao gave a bitter smile.

She bowed slightly, her phoenix eyes lowered, her voice clear yet somewhat weak,

"Your Excellency has a Wisdom Eye.

This withered body is indeed just lingering on.

However, to be able to witness Your Excellency's attempt at a Breakthrough to the God Emperor Realm today, I would have no regrets even if I were to fall today."

Having said this, Tushan Yao turned her head slightly, her phoenix eyes glancing coldly at the clan elders lying on the ground below.

Upon making contact with the Old Ancestor's gaze, the hearts of Supreme Elder Tushan Xuan and the others suddenly skipped a beat.

Tushan Yao looked at these juniors, her heart filled with disappointment.

She withdrew her gaze and took a deep breath; her fair face became even paler in that instant.

"Hum—" She slowly raised her right hand, her index finger slightly curled, and tapped heavily on her chest.

A muffled sound.

At that instant, that streak of bright red between her eyebrows separated into a drop of dark golden essence blood.

The moment the essence blood appeared, a crisp fox cry resounded in the Void Realm, and a strange fragrance faintly permeated the world.

As the essence blood was drawn out, Tushan Yao's already weak aura withered by another fraction.

Her figure even swayed slightly, as if she might fall from the Void Realm at any moment.

"Your Excellency." Tushan Yao held the drop of essence blood and respectfully presented it to Gu Heng:

"This is the essence blood of the Old Ancestor of our Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan.

I have been lingering on until now, and I only have these three drops left in my body.

This one contains my lifelong insights into the Origin of the Universe, as well as our clan's unique Heavenly Secret Laws.

I am willing to use this item to assist Your Excellency in attempting a Breakthrough to the God Emperor Realm."

Below in the Void Realm, Divine Lord Tushan Tian looked at the drop of dark golden essence blood in mid-air, his expression complex, and sighed.

He did not know how many times he had seen this scene.

Their Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan had a special Bloodline and was naturally close to the Origin of the Universe.

But precisely because of this, they attracted the covetousness of countless powerhouses.

In the long river of history, the reason their clan had been able to survive until now without being wiped out in the plunder of the Myriad Races was not because they were powerful.

It was because of the Old Ancestor's compromise.

Whenever the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan faced the disaster of extinction, or when a terrifying existence they could not match descended to make demands, the Old Ancestor would use this method, offering her own essence blood to help those top-tier existences gain insights into the Origin, in exchange for the clan's survival.

Under the Old Ancestor's repeated sacrifices, their clan was able to stumble along and survive in the cruel heavens and myriad worlds.

Divine Lord Tushan Tian looked at the pale and weak Youth in White, his heart filled with sorrow.

He had originally thought that this time, as long as they refined the Original Realm and welcomed back that supreme Bloodline, the Old Ancestor would be able to use this power to break through to the true God Emperor Realm in one go and escape this fate of potentially falling at any moment.

Unexpectedly.

Despite all his calculations, he ended up provoking Gu Heng, a malevolent star even more terrifying than a God Emperor.

Not only was the Original Realm gone, but even the Old Ancestor had to offer her essence blood again to please the other party.

Just as Divine Lord Tushan Tian was secretly grieving.

"Riiiip—" The space fluctuated slightly.

Jiang Wanyin's figure had appeared beside Tushan Yao without anyone knowing.

She looked indifferently at the pale-faced Tushan Yao, her voice extremely soft, yet only Tushan Yao could hear her:

"You are quite a smart person.

Rest assured, since you have helped Master with his Breakthrough, we... naturally will not treat you poorly.

When the day comes for Master to emerge from seclusion, it will be the time for your transformation."

Hearing this, Tushan Yao shuddered slightly.

She suddenly looked up at Jiang Wanyin.

This God Emperor, who was once famous throughout the heavens and myriad worlds, was looking down at her.

In her eyes, Tushan Yao did not see deception, only a kind of matter-of-fact confidence.

To be able to make such a supreme existence at the God Emperor Realm say these words, how extraordinary that Youth in White was, was already self-evident.

"Thank you." Tushan Yao nodded gently, not saying anything more.

The dark golden essence blood hovered before Gu Heng.

She then stepped aside, stretched her right hand toward the ancestral grounds, and bowed:

"Your Excellency, the place for seclusion has been opened.

Please—"

Gu Heng looked at the essence blood before him, then looked at the pale youth.

He was about to attempt a Breakthrough to the God Emperor Realm and indeed needed this drop of essence blood as a catalyst to sort out the chaotic Laws within his body.

Thinking to this point, the dark golden essence blood was guided by his thoughts and slowly fell into his palm.

"You are very smart." Gu Heng looked at the deathly pale Tushan Yao and said slowly.

Tushan Yao bowed again, her phoenix eyes lowered:

"In front of Your Excellency, this little bit of meager wisdom of mine is nothing more than a means to struggle for survival.

As long as I can contribute a meager effort for Your Excellency, I and the Nine-Tailed White Fox Clan will not hesitate to die."

"Lead the way."