The ten kingdoms merged into one, and the Green Kingdom rose again.
As soon as these words were spoken, all phenomena followed. The Luck World's kingdom heads advanced, and Heaven and Earth's rules responded, bestowing immense Luck Merit.
It directly fed back into Qing Chi, Emperor of the Green Kingdom. His cultivation, originally at the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Early Stage, surged all the way to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Peak, only one step away from breaking through into Saint Entry.
Gu Xingzhi, who was farming among the mountains with a hoe in hand, likewise received the rules' Luck feedback as the Green Kingdom advanced. His Hunyuan Taishang Wuji Golden Immortal mid-stage cultivation took another step forward, entering the late stage.
He nodded with a satisfied smile. "Mm, you can be taught!"
For the next ten thousand years, he continued living like a mortal among the mountains, sowing seeds from dawn until dusk.
A thousand years before the third stage of lectures began, several newly established kingdom heads came to the mountains to pay Gu Xingzhi a visit.
They did not know where they had obtained the information, but they claimed that the Green Kingdom's emperor had achieved his current accomplishments because of guidance from the Old Man in the mountain Thatched Cottage. Thus, they had come seeking him.
Gu Xingzhi ignored them, absorbed in hoeing the earth and planting seeds.
Unlike Qing Chi, those kingdom heads had no patience. They actually joined forces to forcibly bind Gu Xingzhi and take him back to their kingdoms, pressuring him to reveal the method for advancing a kingdom.
Gu Xingzhi shook his head with a scornful laugh and continued to ignore them.
The kingdom heads flew into a rage and imprisoned him at the bottom of a dark, lightless abyss.
Gu Xingzhi remained