"Celestial Emperor Ring..."
Rubbing the ring on his finger, Gu Yu fell into thought. "This aura feels somewhat familiar..."
At the summit of Mount Tai, Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin, upon Yinghuo, the Crocodile God's chaos.
Several months later, Gu Yu rode Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin across the endless starry sky, arriving upon the Big Dipper and entering the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Zone...
Time passed, and more than a thousand years went by in the blink of an eye.
Amid the vast starry sky, the Heavenly Court suppressed the current age. Gu Yu, clad in azure robes, sat cross-legged, while behind him, the Ancient Bodhi Tree stretched out its branches and trembled endlessly.
Over those thousand-odd years, with Ye Fan and Gu Shaoshang's interference, the path Gu Yu walked was not much different from the one Ye Fan had once walked.
No matter where he went, people mocked and ridiculed him. It could be said that the entire world was his enemy.
From Liu Yunzhi, to Hua Yunfei, to the Yaoguang Sacred Son, to Yin Tiande, to the Lord of the Forbidden Zone, to Ren Xiaoyao... Along the way, he fought countless bloody battles, contended with ancient emperors at the same realm, and fought the forbidden zones to the death.
Several times, he coughed blood and suffered grave injuries; several times, he underwent nirvana and was reborn.
In the end, like Ye Fan, he established the Heavenly Court and, with cultivation beyond the ninth level of the Quasi-Emperor realm, pacified the forbidden zones.
The restraints Ye Fan had previously placed on him had long since vanished.
In his final years, he sat beneath the Bodhi Tree. Using the Stellar Transformation technique as his foundation, he incorporated the martial arts and Daoist magic systems of the Yang Shen World, as well