The news that Gu An had become Merit Suppressing God Heavenly Monarch caused no small upheaval within the Heavenly Court, but ever since he had defeated Golden Body God Venerable, he had stopped showing himself, and the Immortal Gods gradually set him aside.
Every day in the Heavenly Court, new gods were born, and Immortal Gods who made mistakes were punished and expelled from the Heavenly Court. The Heavenly Court, too, maintained a kind of Reincarnation.
Years flowed by, time flew like an arrow, and the rolling Mortal World buried who knew how many White Bones.
A hundred million years passed in the blink of an eye.
After becoming Merit Suppressing God Heavenly Monarch, Gu An still spent most of his time in Zhongtian, only occasionally going to the Heavenly Court.
He kept a very low profile in the Heavenly Court and did not interfere with the Immortal Gods under him.
A hundred million years was very long to the mortal realm, but to the Immortal Gods of the Heavenly Court, it was like a few hundred thousand years, gone after one long secluded cultivation session.
To the living beings on the continent, the legend of Gu An becoming an immortal had already become a very ancient myth. Generation after generation passed it down, but not many still believed it was true.
At New Year that year, Gu An stood on the mountain of Fangcun Island, gazing into the distance. He was looking at the Path of the Great Dao.
The Path of the Great Dao stood apart from the Three Thousand Great Worlds and all domains. Any heaven and earth could directly reach the Path of the Great Dao, and to this day, it remained the road that peerless prodigies wished to fight their way down.
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