Just as the old patriarch forced me to my death, I achieved the unity of Dao and fruition.

The spark of spiritual light belonging to the Dao Fruit did not disappear immediately after it entered the vast universe.

On the contrary, the vast starry sky in front of us began to shrink rapidly.

Countless ancient stars, imperial paths, and shattered lineages flashed past Gu Changjin's eyes, finally settling on an extremely ancient life-bearing star.

Then, another, more specific line of fate slowly unfolds.

The Gu family of Beixuan is a long-standing cultivation family on this ancient star.

They cannot be considered a truly supreme lineage, because their ancestors never produced a great emperor, nor did they ever wield an ultimate lineage that shook the stars. However, on this ancient star, they can still be considered a major clan.

Because the Gu family has an ancestral constitution called the Northern Mystic Body.

This kind of physique is certainly not comparable to those so-called holy bodies or hegemonic bodies that can challenge the supreme beings once they reach mastery.

The real strength lies in "stability".

They are naturally close to the essence of heaven and earth, and their cultivation speed far surpasses that of ordinary cultivators, with almost no obvious bottlenecks in the early stages.

As long as resources are sufficient, at least in the first half of cultivation, it is rare to encounter a situation where one is stuck for hundreds of years.

Once the Northern Profound Body is fully mature, it can also nurture a Northern Profound Spiritual Energy within its body.

This energy is extremely vital and has a powerful restorative effect on those who are near death or seriously injured.

You can use it if you're injured, and you can use it if someone is dying.

Gu Changjin raised an eyebrow when he saw this.

Because this thing can be forcibly pulled out.

"Good stuff, but it's a bit easy to attract thieves."

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A child with the same name, Gu Changjin, was born into the Gu family of Beixuan.

He was tested in his youth and his Northern Xuan Body awakened.

The clan celebrated this event for a while.

And then... that was it.

Gu Changjin originally thought that, following the pattern of this world, the next thing would be some young prodigy dominating his generation, fighting all the way, traversing ancient paths, defeating holy sons, and slaying divine bodies.

Decades later, I found myself cultivating myself.

Centuries have passed, and I am still cultivating this.

He continued his secluded cultivation for a thousand years.

Fifteen hundred years later, he moved to a different cave and continued his seclusion.

Occasionally, he would leave the pass to participate in a clan ceremony, collect some resources, and then return to continue his cultivation.

Gu Changjin looked at him with a strange expression.

What's even more interesting is that this talent of his/hers wasn't actually exaggerated by much.

The Northern Profound Physique is good, but the Gu family of Northern Profound Physique isn't the only one with it.

On the entire ancient star, various royal bodies, divine bodies, and inheritors of ancient bloodlines have emerged.

If compared to other outstanding talents of his generation, he could only be considered above average at best.

Compared to those truly brilliant and extraordinary talents, they are far inferior.

But this guy has one very distinctive characteristic.

To live a long life, truly a long life.

While others are two hundred years old, they are competing for inheritance in ancient lands.

He is in seclusion.

Others fought against alien geniuses at the age of five hundred, and their names resounded throughout the region.

He switched to a different health regimen and continued his seclusion.

After others reach a thousand years old, they either achieve a breakthrough or die.

He's still alive and well, and he's never even fought a proper life-or-death battle.

Gu Changjin became more and more satisfied with what he saw.

"This is good! It has the air of an old man."

What's so good about fighting and killing?

How many brilliant talents have died on the road to becoming emperor?

The real deal is surviving to the end.

Thus, this member of the Gu family, who was not the most outstanding in his youth, outlived one generation after another of his contemporaries.

He became a saint after 1,500 years.

Around two thousand years later, his cultivation level stabilized completely at the Saint Realm.

At this point, his status in the Beixuan Gu family had completely changed.

Those cousins ​​who were once more illustrious than him are either dead or have passed away peacefully.

Gu Changjin became one of the ancestors of the Gu family of Beixuan.

Of course, the Gu family has more than just one ancestor. Over the long years, the clan has accumulated seven Saint Realm ancestors, the strongest of whom has even become a Saint King.

It is precisely because of this that the Gu family of Beixuan has always lived well on this ancient star.

When encountering the divine race, the supreme holy land, or the supreme lineage, one must naturally bow down.

However, any ordinary force that wants to make a move against the Gu family must weigh the weight of the seven Saint Realm Ancestors.

If Gu Changjin's fate continues along this path, there's really nothing special about it.

After two thousand years, he continued his seclusion and ascetic practices, occasionally researching methods to prolong life.

If you have resources, then cultivate; if you don't, then do less.

The only somewhat embarrassing thing is that he has very little practical experience.

Even at the Saint Realm, combat experience... is practically nonexistent.

Gu Changjin's lips twitched slightly as he watched.

"You're really good at hiding your true nature."

However, starting from the age of two thousand, the cultivation of this other self also completely stalled.

At the age of three thousand, the signs of a magnificent era became increasingly apparent.

On the ancient star, physiques that had been dormant for many years were reborn one after another.

Some ancient monsters that had been sealed away for a long time have also begun to awaken from the divine source.

Holy sons roam freely in holy lands, and direct descendants of imperial families are born.

In the starry sky, news continues to arrive that the ancient imperial road is about to reopen.

Gu Changjin remained in seclusion.

At the age of four thousand, the fate line underwent its first truly dramatic change.

On that day, an imperial chariot appeared out of nowhere, belonging to the great imperial family—the Yun family.

The direct descendants of the Yun family in this generation personally visited the Gu family in Beixuan.

The goal is simple: Northern Profound Spiritual Energy.

The imperial road is about to open, and everyone knows that what follows will be a true bloodbath.

Holy bodies, invincible bodies, ancient emperor bloodlines, direct descendants of imperial clans—all sorts of monsters will ascend that path.

At such times, a wisp of Northern Profound Spiritual Energy that can revive someone on the verge of death would naturally have a completely different value.

The Gu family... has a total of seven ancestors who have cultivated the Northern Profound Body to an extremely high level.

That eldest son of the Yun family didn't waste any words.

Take direct action.

One man suppressed seven generations of the Gu family!

The entire formation of the Beixuan Gu family was shaken to the point of collapse.

Further away, a guardian who never actually appeared watched quietly.

In the course of fate, the Gu family has absolutely no hope of turning things around.

To everyone else, this didn't even seem like a war.

They were just a powerful imperial family coming to collect a few things they needed.

But on that very day, an accident occurred.

The Bei Xuan Gu family... disappeared.

It was as if the entire ancestral land, along with all the clansmen, had been forcibly erased from the world.

The eldest son of the Yun family failed to emerge, and even the quasi-emperor protector hidden in the shadows has also vanished without a trace.

The scene suddenly speeds up here, as time rushes by, the Imperial Road opens, and ancient stars become testing grounds.

Countless prodigies shed their blood under the stars. Some climbed to the top by stepping on corpses, while others, who had just become famous, died the very next day at the hands of an even stronger one.

In the end, a fully-developed Holy Body pierced through the Emperor's Path.

In that lifetime, he suppressed all paths and became a Great Emperor!

With the Holy Body fully formed and the Imperial Throne granted, he is doubly invincible.

The first thing the new emperor did after ascending to the pinnacle was to turn his gaze to those forbidden zones of life that had been dormant for millennia.

But in just the first year of his enlightenment, a hand reached out from the depths of the universe's darkness.

The emperor's blood was scattered across the starry sky. The new emperor, who had just attained enlightenment and whose life force was still at its peak, was forcibly killed under the starry sky!

Gu Changjin was stunned when he saw this.

"no?"

He subconsciously looked at the line of fate that belonged to him and me.

Could it be that after the Gu family disappeared back then, this old man was still hiding this trick?

Then the next scene appears.

Gu Changjin remained silent.

Why did the eldest son of the Yun family and his protector from the Gu family of Beixuan disappear? The reason is the same: they were eaten.

A mortal in extremely poor condition, who had returned from who-knows-where, happened to descend upon this place.

The entire Gu family, along with the Yun family members who came to extract the spiritual energy of the Northern Profound Realm.

It all turned into the life essence that helped the other party recover.

"..."

Gu Changjin stared at it for a long time.

I have cultivated this body of emotion for four thousand years.

They didn't fight or compete, didn't trespass on the imperial road, and didn't even get into many fights.

In the end, he couldn't escape it.

He was just someone who got eaten on a whim.

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After the fall of the new emperor, the entire universe seemed to have completely lost some kind of suppression.

The forbidden zone has been revived, ancient supreme beings have emerged, and even some mortal immortals who were trapped near the path to immortality and were in extremely poor condition have begun to appear in the world.

The Holy Body has fallen, the Overlord Body has bled, and the once mighty Lord of the Forbidden Zone, who once shook the stars, may be torn apart by an even more ancient monster the very next day.

The vast universe was completely turned into a sea of ​​blood.

Until the very end, celestial light soared into the sky.

A road shrouded in endless chaos and celestial radiance was blasted open by several terrifying beings working together.

The Path to Immortality!

The scene abruptly ended at that moment.

Inside the Zhenyan Hall, Gu Changjin slowly opened his eyes.

"interesting."

The framework of this world is indeed very similar to the novel "Covering the Sky" that I read in my previous life.

But the history is different, the people are different, and the actual stories are completely different.

As for my own self... its presence is really minimal.

Born, cultivated, went into seclusion, cultivated again, became a saint, went into seclusion again, and was finally eaten by a passing immortal in the mortal world as a great medicine to restore his blood and energy, without even leaving a last word.

"Four thousand years of diligent work, and in the end, it's all for someone else's health?"

Gu Changjin shook his head.

This life is indeed quite tragic.

However, he quickly looked at the Dao Fruit, where a considerable amount of Dao Yuan had accumulated.

This world is at a very high level, and the advantages of the rules brought by the real world are far less obvious than those of the past worlds.

Right now, the safest option is still to return to Daoyuan.

As for the true form descending...

Don't even think about it unless absolutely necessary.

Even if I die, he can still be recycled.

If the original body dies, then it's truly gone.

Of course, if he encounters a danger that he cannot handle at all, he is not without options.

But if I could cultivate this saintly body myself all the way up, even surpassing the main body of the main world, and then return to oneness in one go... that would be a truly great benefit.

Gu Changjin's lips slowly curled up.

"Let's see how far we can go this time."

A spark of spiritual light emanates from the Dao fruit.

Inside the Zhenyan Hall, Gu Changjin's true form remained seated cross-legged, with the Crimson Jade Glazed True Flame slowly flowing along the ancient seal.

It looks no different from how it usually guards the seal.

But his consciousness traversed countless worlds in an instant.

When I opened my eyes again, the world had changed.