Chapter 75 Were we tricked?

Gu Heng looked at the Wang Family ancestral land.

Here, a Spiritual Vein spanning hundreds of thousands of miles was covered by a light shield.

This was a great Formation laid down by the Wang Family by spending tens of thousands of years of Luck, claimed to be able to withstand the full-strength strike of a True Immortal.

Inside the light shield,

tens of thousands of Wang Family Disciples, who were either cultivating or relaxing, felt the pressure of an Immortal Venerable and knelt on the ground.

Outside the Formation,

the Void Realm rippled like water.

Gu Heng was dressed in white, with his hands behind his back.

He did not intentionally release his aura, but the Immortal Venerable Laws circulating within his body pressed against the great Formation, causing it to emit cracking sounds.

"Senior Gu..."

The Head of the Wang Family suddenly looked up. "Many mistakes have been made, all because my Wang Family was blind! As long as you show mercy, my Wang Family is willing to hand over all our heritage and be slaves for generations! We beg the Immortal Venerable to be merciful!"

Gu Heng lowered his eyelids, his gaze indifferent.

"Be slaves?"

The corner of Gu Heng's mouth twitched. "When you were targeting me back then, why didn't you talk about being slaves?

I find such opportunistic servants like your Wang Family, who are always ready to shrink into their turtle shells, to be a waste of space."

After speaking,

he slightly turned his head and looked at the Old Dragon King beside him.

"Since they jumped so high before, let them have their wish and be completely wiped from this world. Keeping them around is an eyesore."

The Old Dragon King grinned. "Don't worry, Master! This old servant is best at dealing with these scheming local dogs!"

Gu Heng didn't spare another glance. He stepped forward half a pace with his right foot, and his figure disappeared into the Void Realm.

The next second.

In the deepest part of Zhongzhou, above the God-Falling Abyss.

Cold winds scurried through the void.

Gu Heng's figure appeared above the mouth of the abyss.

He looked down, a purple divine glow rising in the depths of his pupils.

Under the divine glow, there was a rift in the endless darkness, swallowing the surrounding matter.

"No wonder those Pseudo Immortals and True Immortals never return; the level of Laws behind this rift simply does not belong to this realm."

Gu Heng thought for a moment about whether he should explore inside.

Although his cultivation had already reached the Middle Stage of the Immortal Venerable realm, which was like a dimensional reduction strike in this Lower Realm,

if there were a few old monsters who had lived for countless eons squatting on the other side of the rift, plunging in like this would make it easy to suffer a loss.

"It's always right to be cautious."

Gu Heng pulled up the System panel.

During this time, he had scavenged countless Heaven And Earth Treasures, and combined with the resources saved from completing various hidden achievements, the amount was already an astronomical figure.

These resources, when converted into the System's 'Passing By cultivation attempts,' meant he could 'Pass By' mighty experts an infinite number of times.

Without hesitation.

With a thought, Gu Heng used his "Passing By points."

"Ding—"

"Host has consumed a massive amount of resources; the number of Passing By cultivation attempts has been maxed out."

The moment the System notification sound faded,

a very thin Karma thread deep within his Divine Soul suddenly vibrated violently.

His bond with the heaven-reaching tower was triggered.

Gu Heng's footsteps paused, and he frowned. "The heaven-reaching tower... has been found?"

He closed his eyes, following the Karma thread to project his Divine Sense across endless realms and into the interior of the heaven-reaching tower.

The flow of time inside the tower was different. At this moment, Lin Qingyue was sitting cross-legged in the Spiritual Qi vortex on the ninth floor of the heaven-reaching tower, her body enveloped by an Ice Phoenix phantom, and her cultivation was surging towards the Earth Immortal Realm.

"This girl is quite big-hearted; things are turning upside down outside, yet she is still in seclusion."

Gu Heng sighed. He had left her in the tower back then to deceive others and provide Lin Qingyue with an absolutely safe cultivation environment.

Now that the heaven-reaching tower was being targeted by those lunatics from the Divine Court and the Demon Territory, if she were gone, the Divine Court would have no scruples.

"Wait, there seems to be something else..."

In the void fluctuations around the heaven-reaching tower, Gu Heng's Divine Sense captured an obscure anomaly.

Beyond those twelve Emperor Realm Laws, there were several other different auras hidden.

"Immortal Emperor Realm?"

Gu Heng opened his eyes, a hint of surprise flashing through them. "The Immortal Emperors of the Divine Court would never dare to hide in front of an Immortal Emperor, and the Demon Emperors of the Demon Territory do not have such pure Chaotic Qi."

Then who did this aura belong to?

Was it the Myriad Races Geniuses?

A flash of inspiration struck Gu Heng's mind.

It was the Myriad Races Geniuses from the Place of Origin!

That would make sense.

This seemingly impoverished Lower Realm should have a rift leading directly to the Place of Origin, or it might even be a core fragment that fell off from the Place of Origin itself.

Otherwise, why would the Empress of the Divine Court have thrown the heaven-reaching tower here back then?

"Interesting."

A cold smile curled at the corner of Gu Heng's mouth.

Originally, he was having a headache over how to deal with those Immortal Emperors from the Divine Court who were sticking to the heaven-reaching tower like plasters, but now that Immortal Emperors and Prodigies from the Place of Origin were coming in, this game of chess has come alive.

"Sshhh—"

The void was torn open by a pair of dragon claws.

The Old Dragon King, covered in a bloody aura, strode out.

"Master, all thirty-six thousand members of the Wang Family have been turned to ashes. This old servant conveniently extracted the Divine Soul of that Ancestor of the Wang Family."

"However, something seems a bit strange. The reason the Wang Family dared to Seal the mountain under your nose was that an Ancient World Stone is enshrined beneath their ancestral hall.

That World Stone is not a product of this world at all.

Just a few days ago, the World Stone suddenly erupted with intense spatial fluctuations.

The Ancestor of the Wang Family learned from the ancestral teachings that this is a sign that mighty experts from the Place of Origin are about to descend into this realm through a certain rift!"

"They were afraid of being killed by the aftershocks of the mighty experts' descent, so they hurriedly gathered their Disciples and Elders to activate the Black Tortoise Heaven-Locking Formation."

"As expected."

Gu Heng stared at the rift in the depths of the abyss that was slowly widening.

The Prodigies of the Place of Origin were about to cross over, while that group of Immortal Emperors above was still salivating over the heaven-reaching tower.

Since they all wanted to cause trouble, it would be better to gather all the trouble at one table.

"Old Loach, step back a bit."

Gu Heng slowly raised his right hand, his palm pressed against the void in front of him, speaking one word at a time.

"Since they are all interested in this realm, I will show some kindness and build a bridge for them. Let the waters of this Lower Realm... become even muddier!"

With a thought,

Gu Heng's Divine Soul took over the heaven-reaching tower in the distant realm.

...

The Upper Realm, the border of the Demon Territory.

The ruins of Chiyan City.

The Red-Eyed Demon Emperor stared at the spatial node below and snorted coldly, "It's right there! At the heart of the spatial interlayer! This Emperor has seen the outline of that supreme treasure!"

"Move aside!"

With a wild roar from the Thunder Emperor, the Zixiao Divine Thunder around him transformed into nine thunder dragons, dispersing the surrounding Devilish Qi.

He had long been unable to restrain himself.

Previously, he had been pressed by the aura of the awakening Demon God Emperor until he was as breathless as a dog; this frustration had to find an outlet.

And that little thief who only had a "Profound Immortal" cultivation and relied on a Magic Treasure was the best object for venting his anger.

"A mere Profound Immortal ant dares to lay a finger on a supreme treasure of the Divine Court? Get out here for this Emperor!"

The Thunder Emperor spread his five fingers, and chains of the Great Dao of Destruction circulated at his fingertips as he clawed fiercely into that spatial node.

The Laws converged, and millions of miles of void emitted a wail.

The Divine Envoy stood behind, greed flashing in his eyes.

As long as the heaven-reaching tower was in hand, he could immediately report back to the Empress, and this humiliating errand would be over.

However,

just as the Thunder Emperor's fingers were about to touch that point of light,

a sudden change occurred.

In the distant Lower Realm, Gu Heng's thought crossed the endless void and was injected into the core of the heaven-reaching tower.

"Buzz—"

A dull sound exploded deep within everyone's Divine Soul.

The heaven-reaching tower, which was originally hidden in the spatial interlayer and was only the size of a mustard seed, suddenly erupted with a piercing dark gold light on its surface.

Immediately after,

the size of the heaven-reaching tower rocketed in an extremely short amount of time.

Ten feet!

A thousand feet!

A hundred thousand feet!

Billions of feet!

A tower body flowing with Chaotic Primordial Qi forcibly burst through the spatial interlayer and squeezed into the main plane of the Demon Territory.

"Crack—Boom!"

The giant thunderous hand, upon hitting the repulsive force field generated as the tower body expanded, shattered inch by inch like tofu hitting an iron plate.

The Thunder Emperor let out a muffled groan, and a mouthful of Immortal blood glowing with purple light sprayed out.

He was sent flying backward tens of thousands of miles by this force, crushing over a dozen demon mountains along the way.

"What the hell is that thing!"

The White Bone Demon Emperor was so frightened that the soul fire in his eye sockets almost went out, and he immediately urged his legion of billions of white bones to stand before him.

But it was useless.

The aftershocks of the heaven-reaching tower's expansion were like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, tearing the Law defenses of the twelve Emperor Realm experts to shreds.

Everyone was pushed to the edge of the Demon Territory.

The tip of the tower directly pierced through the dark red sky of the Demon Territory, revealing the pitch-black void turbulence outside.

The base of the tower plunged into the earth veins of Chiyan City, causing the Demon Territory Origin to leak out.

Only this giant tower remained between heaven and earth.

"Move! Work together to Seal it! We must not let it escape!"

The Divine Envoy, with disheveled hair, stared wide-eyed and roared.

Inside the body of the heaven-reaching tower, the phantoms of billions of Small Worlds began to rotate frantically.

"Rumble—"

A spatial tearing force erupted from the base of the tower.

This force did not attack outward but instead acted directly on the heaven-reaching tower's own void coordinates.

Under the terrified gazes of the twelve Emperor Realm experts, the Demon Territory space around the heaven-reaching tower was torn away like a piece of rag.

A cross-realm black hole with a diameter of tens of millions of miles lay across heaven and earth.

Deep within the black hole,

the light of fragmented Laws that did not belong to this realm flickered.

Subsequently,

the billion-foot-high heaven-reaching tower, like a giant whale jumping into an abyss, sank its body and vanished directly into the cross-realm black hole.

As the tower body completely disappeared, the black hole instantly collapsed and closed under the self-repair of the Demon Territory's worldly Laws.

Leaving only a bottomless giant pit and the surrounding scorched earth of the Demon Territory.

Silence enveloped this world.

The Thunder Emperor crawled out of the ruins, staring at the empty sky, dazed.

"It... it's gone?"

The Thunder Emperor's voice was vacant.

"It's gone..."

Star Immortal Emperor's face was ashen as he gritted his teeth, "It's space displacement! That kid... he wasn't using the heaven-reaching tower to hide at all!"

"He utilized the characteristic of the heaven-reaching tower having billions of Small World coordinates inside to forcibly open a one-way cross-realm channel!

A channel leading to another realm!"

As these words were spoken,

the expressions of the other eleven Emperor Realm experts became incredibly colorful.

"In other words..."

The skeletal muscles on the White Bone Demon Emperor's face twitched, "the twelve of us who stand at the peak of the Three Realms have been acting like a bunch of fools, overturning rivers and seas, digging three feet into the ground, and even almost enraging the Demon God Emperor..."

"In the end, we were just providing cover for him? Watching with our own eyes as he swaggered through the door and left right in front of us!?"

This was a humiliation they had never suffered before.

They had mobilized in force, even not hesitating to set aside the ancient feud between the Immortal and Demon races to reach a cooperation, all just to capture a so-called Profound Immortal.

In the end,

they were played for fools, and hadn't even touched a single hair!

"Aaaaah! Brat, you have gone too far in insulting me!"

The Thunder Emperor roared at the sky, his Zixiao Divine Thunder shattering the surrounding space.

The Divine Envoy's legs went weak, and he slumped to the ground, his hand holding the imperial teachers token shaking like a sieve.

He was finished; the heaven-reaching tower had flown to another realm right under his nose, and the Empress would never forgive him.

"Quickly, chase him!

No matter which lower-tier waste realm he escapes to, even if I have to turn the three thousand worlds upside down, this Emperor will extract his Divine Soul and light it as a sky lantern!"