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

The Gu family of Beixuan, clan hall.

"Patriarch Gu! If anything happens to Ali, I will make your entire Northern Xuan Gu family pay with their lives!"

A furious shout echoed through the hall; the speaker was a young man who appeared to be in his early twenties.

He was dressed in a purple-gold Taoist robe, with an ancient jade pendant engraved with the words "Tianyan" hanging at his waist, and his aura was not weak.

Most importantly, he is a disciple of an elder in the Heavenly Evolution Holy Land.

At this moment, he was holding a woman in white in his arms. The woman's face was pale, and there was a wound on her chest that almost went through her body. Her vital energy was constantly dissipating, which meant that her very essence had been damaged.

The current head of the Gu family stood opposite him, his expression not pleasant.

"Fellow Daoist, the Northern Profound Spiritual Energy is no ordinary spiritual medicine."

"Most of the clan's ancestors who possess the complete Northern Profound Spiritual Qi are currently in seclusion."

"Moreover, removing this energy would damage the foundation of the Northern Profound Body..."

"I don't care!"

The young man interrupted him directly.

"Ah Li was seriously injured while shielding me from an attack!"

"You will be saved today, whether you can or cannot!"

"The Gu family of Beixuan has been able to maintain its stable existence in the Beixuan Region for so many years, surely they understand this simple principle?"

The Gu family patriarch's expression changed slightly.

These words were no longer just a threat; they even carried another layer of meaning.

But before he could even speak...

Snapped!

A crisp slap suddenly rang out in the hall.

No one had time to react.

The face of the Tianyan Holy Land disciple twisted violently, and he flew out while still holding the woman in his arms.

boom!

His body crashed heavily onto the stone pillars of the main hall, causing several cracks to appear in the pillars.

The young man spat out a mouthful of blood, and half of his face swelled up instantly.

"Who?!"

He was completely stunned by the slap.

When they looked up, they discovered that an old man in black robes was now sitting at the head of the clan hall, which had been empty.

Gu Changjin leaned back in his chair, one hand supporting his chin, his expression as calm as if he hadn't been the one who had just made the move.

The head of the Gu family was stunned for a moment, then quickly turned around and bowed.

"Greetings, Ancestor!"

Gu Changjin nodded slightly.

"Um."

That day, the disciples of the Holy Land of Yan finally realized what was happening.

He struggled to his feet, his face filled with disbelief.

"You...you dare hit me?"

Gu Changjin glanced at him and flicked his finger.

laugh!

A streak of dark light flashed by.

The young man's face suddenly froze.

The next moment, a very faint cracking sound came from inside his body.

Click.

Dantian Daoji.

Broken.

His divine power, cultivated through years of arduous training, leaked out wildly like water bursting its banks.

His realm has been declining all the way down.

In just a few breaths.

He went from being a high-ranking genius of the holy land to a mere mortal without even the most basic cultivation.

"ah!!"

The young man knelt on the ground, pressing his hands tightly against his abdomen, his whole body trembling.

"My cultivation level... my Dao foundation!"

All of this happened too fast.

Even now, the head of the Gu family has only just come to his senses.

He glanced at the crippled Holy Land disciple on the ground.

Then he looked at Gu Changjin, who was sitting at the head of the table.

"Ancestor, this..."

Gu Changjin raised his hand.

"What's the panic?"

"When did my Beixuan Gu family become a place where just any Tom, Dick, or Harry can come in and shout about exterminating the entire clan?"

The young man on the ground suddenly looked up, his eyes red.

"How dare you! You actually cripple me!"

"Do you even know who my master is?!"

Gu Changjin smiled.

Who your master is is none of my business.

"If you're so capable, then let your master come in person."

"I'd like to see that."

"Does the Heavenly Evolution Holy Land just raise any dog ​​that can ride on the head of my Beixuan Gu family and shit on it?"

Upon hearing this, the eyes of the young members of the Gu family who had been drawn to the scene outside the hall immediately lit up.

They were listening outside just now.

The disciples of the holy land kept saying, "They'll be buried with you."

An outsider barges into the Gu family and, in front of the family head, declares he wants to destroy the Gu family. Who would feel comfortable hearing that?

Seeing Gu Changjin slap him across the face and destroy his Dao foundation on the spot, many young people felt a sense of relief.

"The Ancestor is right! This is the Gu Family of Beixuan, not the Heavenly Evolution Holy Land!"

"Do you really think I have no one to take care of my family?"

"So what if they're disciples of the Holy Land? They still got slapped to the ground by the Ancestor!"

The voices of the young men grew louder and louder, and their eyes shone with an alarming intensity as they looked at Gu Changjin.

That was so satisfying!!

Unlike these young disciples, the Gu family patriarch and the elders who arrived later began to twitch their eyelids.

Cool is cool.

The question is... and then what?

They really have the Heavenly Evolution Sacred Land behind them!

Moreover, he is a direct disciple of an elder from a holy land.

This foundation is now ruined.

This is no longer something that can be solved with just a single Northern Profound Spiritual Qi.

The young man was clearly also thoroughly agitated by the surrounding sounds.

His mouth was full of blood as he stared intently at Gu Changjin.

"Excellent! Well done, the Gu family of Beixuan!"

"You wait! I will report everything that happened today to our master!"

"And you! You old fool from the Gu family, do you really think you can act with impunity just because you've reached the Saint Realm?"

"Wait for my master..."

He spoke through gritted teeth, his whole body trembling with anger.

The white-clad woman in his arms, who was already barely breathing, swayed slightly as he tightened his grip on her.

Gu Changjin watched for a while, then suddenly spoke.

"Stop shouting."

The young man paused.

"Scared?"

Gu Changjin pointed to his arms.

"Shake it a few more times."

"You've almost made her cold."

"..."

The young man froze, then instinctively looked down.

"Ah Li?"

The woman in his arms did not respond.

His fingers trembled as he reached for the woman's breath.

The next moment, he froze.

"Ah Li? Ah Li! Wake up!"

"No! You can't die!"

The young man panicked completely. Just moments ago he was shouting that he would destroy the Gu family, but now he was holding the lifeless woman and crying his heart out.

"Ah Li!!"

Gu Changjin sat on it, and couldn't help but laugh.

You say you care that much.

What were you yelling about?

Even though the person was almost dead, they were still being held and rocked back and forth.

He's quite sentimental, but he's a useless person.

It was at this moment that...

Deep within his sea of ​​consciousness, the Dao Fruit trembled slightly.

Several strands of new Dao Yuan slowly condensed.

Gu Changjin's eyes brightened slightly.

"Oh?"

It really does.

It seems that this kid has some luck to be accepted as a disciple by an elder of the Supreme Holy Land.

Although there aren't many, even a small mosquito is still a treat.

If there were more such geniuses from sacred lands...

Another thought inexplicably popped into Gu Changjin's mind.

No wonder those supreme rulers of forbidden zones like to instigate dark upheavals.

The universe is filled with geniuses, holy bodies, divine bloodlines, and direct descendants of imperial clans...

How much resources would that require?

cough.

You can't think like that.

I am a decent person.

"you!"

The young man suddenly raised his head, his eyes filled with such venomous resentment that he seemed ready to devour someone.

"It's all because of you!"

"If you had handed over the Northern Profound Spiritual Energy sooner, Ali wouldn't have died!"

Gu Changjin's smile faded.

"Oh, I see! Then go down and keep her company."

He raised his hand and gently clenched his fist.

The "Burial of Heaven and Devouring of the Dao Scripture" was put into true operation for the first time.

There were no earth-shattering phenomena or raging seas of blood.

The young man and the woman in white trembled slightly.

Then, starting from his feet, it gradually turned into black dust.

"You dare..."

Before they could finish speaking the last two words, the two had vanished completely, leaving not even ashes behind.

A small but extremely pure life essence flowed into Gu Changjin's body.

The 3,500-year-old holy body, which had begun to slowly decay, has now regained a glimmer of life.

But this glimmer of hope had barely appeared when Gu Changjin unhesitatingly threw it into the "Burial Heaven Devouring Dao Scripture".

He exchanged his lifespan for cultivation level, and the barrier that had been blocking his body for thousands of years was broken through with just a slight tremor, allowing him to reach the mid-stage of the Saint Realm.

Not a single person in the main hall noticed that the ancestor sitting at the head of the table had just completed a breakthrough in that very instant.

But the smile in Gu Changjin's eyes deepened.

"Indeed, this technique is very useful."

Just then, the void outside the main hall slightly distorted.

An aged figure stepped out; the man's hair was half white, but his aura far surpassed that of an ordinary saint.

Saint King is also the ancestor with the highest cultivation level in the Gu family of Beixuan.

He had obviously learned about what had just happened from the other people.

His gaze swept over the empty hall, then looked at Gu Changjin, and finally he could only let out a long sigh.

"Disaster!! Long Ashes!"

Why were you so impulsive?

"Those are people from the Heavenly Evolution Holy Land."

"Now you've destroyed their foundations and completely wiped them out..."

"This is tantamount to bringing a major disaster upon my Gu family."

More and more clansmen gathered outside the hall, and some of the young people who had been there earlier were still somewhat dissatisfied.

But when some older members of the clan arrived, their voices were completely different.

"It really shouldn't have been done this way. It's just a wisp of Northern Profound Spiritual Energy; it's fine to give it away."

"When I achieved mastery of the Northern Profound Body technique, didn't I also pass on that spiritual energy to my family?"

"Although the foundation has been somewhat damaged, what's wrong with gaining hundreds of years of peace in return?"

Some people shook their heads.

"The young generation is too hot-blooded and doesn't understand these things, but I never expected that even the ancestor... sigh."

"The reason why my Beixuan Gu family has been able to survive to this day is not because we compete and fight with those holy land imperial families."

"A wisp of spiritual energy, a bit of foundation, can be exchanged for the safety of the family. It's worth it."

These words fell into Gu Changjin's ears one by one.

His gaze, which had been relatively calm, gradually turned somewhat uninteresting.

Just now, I discovered that the Gu family of Beixuan had been being watched by those holy lands and imperial clans.

His first reaction was still somewhat angry.

Are you treating my people like pigs?

He had originally thought that since he was now the patriarch of the Gu family of Beixuan, it wouldn't be a bad idea to elevate the Gu family in the future.

But now...

Gu Changjin glanced at the nodding old men outside the hall and suddenly smiled.

It turns out that it wasn't that others were raising them like pigs, but rather that they had been raised for a long time.

They themselves... really think being a pig is pretty good.

Gu Changjin slowly leaned back in his chair, the last bit of interest he had in standing up for this family fading away.

"It's... getting a bit boring."