I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

Gu Yun felt a chill and used his hands to pry open the snow. It was a jade pendant. He glanced at the contents on it and was stunned.

Through divine sense, a few words were conveyed: Do not kill Xue Wuyai, for killing him will cause Qianyan to die. After Chengfeng awakens his bloodline, crushing the jade pendant will allow him to leave with Gu Chengfeng. After leaving, lead the Hanyue Sect away from their base and find another place to live in seclusion.

Gu Yun was taken aback for a moment, then put away the jade pendant.

Gu Chengfeng glanced at Gu Yun.

"Dad, what are you daydreaming about?"

Gu Yun didn't move, his eyes slightly narrowed, his divine sense spreading silently.

"Tsk tsk, four array points, and twelve Blood Guards at the peak of Foundation Establishment hidden in the shadows... Blood Fiend Valley is quite vigilant."

Gu Yun's lips curled into a cold smile.

In his eyes now, this so-called fourth-order sect-protecting formation is full of flaws.

"Watch closely, I'm going to teach you a lesson today: what it means for knowledge to change one's destiny."

Gu Yun took out eight mid-grade spirit stones from his storage ring.

He didn't use a single bit of spiritual power, relying entirely on his precise calculations of the magnetic field of heaven and earth and the nodes of the array to flick his fingers in quick succession.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The eight spirit stones transformed into afterimages, precisely embedding themselves beneath eight patches of snow on the outer perimeter of the Blood River Formation.

"Buzz".

The blood-red light screen, which had been functioning perfectly, suddenly emitted an extremely faint tremor.

Immediately afterwards, in the blind spot of the divine sense, the thick blood light seemed to be slowly pushed aside by a pair of invisible hands, silently creating a gap just big enough for one person to pass through.

"This...it's open already?!"

Gu Chengfeng's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"Walk!"

Gu Yun grabbed his son's shoulder, unleashed the ultimate speed of the Great Wilderness Body, and transformed into a blur, instantly disappearing into the gap.

As soon as the two entered, the opening closed instantly, and the guards outside did not notice anything amiss.

……

The two descended along a hidden underground cave, going a full thousand feet underground.

Finally, the view ahead opened up, and a terrifying aura that made Gu Chengfeng's blood boil rushed towards him.

In the center of the enormous underground cavern, there was a dark red pool, ten feet in diameter.

The pool water bubbled like boiling lava, and with each tumble, it exuded an ancient aura.

This is the Divine Blood Pool transformed from the heart of an ancient powerful witch.

"Such intense malevolent energy... Father, I feel like my blood is about to boil!"

Gu Chengfeng stared intently at the pool of blood, his eyes involuntarily turning bloodshot. His bloodline instincts were roaring wildly, urging him to jump in.

But just as Gu Chengfeng was about to take a step, he suddenly stopped.

He carefully sensed the energy fluctuations in the blood pool, then turned to look at Gu Yun beside him, a struggle flashing in his eyes before gradually hardening.

"Dad, wait a moment."

Gu Chengfeng turned around, stood in front of the blood pool, took a deep breath, and looked at Gu Yun seriously.

"Wind, what's wrong? Afraid to go down?"

Gu Yun raised an eyebrow.

"No, Father."

Gu Chengfeng shook his head, his tone unusually solemn.

"I can sense that although this Divine Transformation Blood Pool is profound, the ancient witch god's evil energy within it has been exhausted over countless years. The energy here is only enough for one person to complete a complete transformation and awakening."

Gu Chengfeng clenched his fists, his eyes slightly red.

"Father, you are also a body cultivator. You exhausted your lifespan for Mother and me, and now your dantian is shattered, leaving you without even a trace of spiritual power. The opportunity in this blood pool is equally important to you; it might even help you rebuild your foundation!"

"I, Gu Chengfeng, am slow-witted. Father, this blood pool... please go in! I'm young, at worst I can practice external martial arts for a few more decades, there'll always be another way out!"

The boy's resounding words echoed in the empty underground cavern.

Gu Yun was stunned.

He looked at the silly boy in front of him, who was already taller than him, yet had a serious expression on his face, wanting to give up his chance.

A warm feeling welled up in my heart.

In the cruel world of cultivation, where fathers and sons can turn against each other and brothers can become enemies over half a spiritual herb.

Faced with such a heaven-defying opportunity that leads directly to the Great Dao, this kid didn't even blink and was about to give it to his father.

"Qianyan, oh Qianyan, the son we raised... he's a damn good seed!"

Gu Yun's eyes felt a little hot.

He stepped forward, said nothing, but simply reached out his large hand and gave Gu Chengfeng's head a heavy rub, making his hair look like a bird's nest.

"Dad? Why did you hit me?"

Gu Chengfeng covered his head, looking completely bewildered.

"I'll beat you up, you brainless idiot!"

Gu Yun laughed and scolded, but couldn't help but smile, his eyes full of pride and satisfaction.

"The malevolent energy in this blood pool is extremely violent; it's specifically designed to break through the shackles within your body."

Gu Yun patted her son on the shoulder, her tone gentle:

"Kid, your old man has his own chance to awaken. Do you think he utterly crushed those prodigies back in the day?"

"Stop talking nonsense and get down there for a bath! Even if you drain this pool dry and tear the sky out of Blood Fiend Valley, I'll cover for you!"

Upon hearing Gu Yun's words, Gu Chengfeng's eyes turned completely red.

"Dad... thank you!"

Gu Chengfeng stopped being pretentious.

Knowing his father's character, he immediately ripped off his animal skin coat, revealing his strong upper body, and with a "plop," jumped into the Divine Transformation Blood Pool without hesitation!

"boom!"

The moment Gu Chengfeng entered the water, the ancient malevolent energy in the pool seemed to find an outlet, transforming into countless blood-red dragons that frantically burrowed into his body through his pores.

"Ah! Ahhh!"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the cave.

Gu Chengfeng's veins bulged all over his body, and his skin cracked inch by inch, as if the shackles of the Heavenly Dao were tearing and colliding with the bloodline of the Witch Clan.

Behind him, the phantom of an ancient ancestral witch was slowly coalescing within the blood energy.

……

Watching her son undergo painful transformation in the blood pool, the water level in the pool visibly dropped.

The warmth on Gu Yun's face gradually faded.

He slowly turned around, facing the underground passage he had come from.

Although his empty dantian lacked spiritual energy, his immense divine sense, comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, had already keenly sensed that... as the blood pool's resources rapidly diminished, the entire Blood Fiend Valley's earth veins began to tremble violently.

"That little brat is making such a fuss; looks like trouble is just around the corner."

Gu Yun sneered and took out storage bags containing spirit stones and various array artifacts from his storage ring.

He twisted his neck, and his bones cracked.

Inside the Divine Transformation Blood Pool, Gu Chengfeng's awakening proceeded with extraordinary smoothness.

As the illusory image of the Primordial Ancestral Witch behind him became increasingly solid, the water level in the entire blood pool visibly dropped.

The originally thick, dark red pool water gradually became clear, containing ancient malevolent energy accumulated over tens of thousands of years, which was being swallowed by the young man.

"Good lad, you've got my appetite too."

Gu Yun sat on a large blue stone by the blood pool, watching his son's transformation with satisfaction.

He continuously tossed spirit stones and array flags into the void with both hands, and finally the array's core was perfectly concealed in the void.

Everything went incredibly smoothly.

In just half an hour, Gu Chengfeng will be able to completely break free of the shackles of Heaven and condense his own witch clan totem.

However, just as Gu Yungang slammed the last mid-grade spirit stone into the ground...

"Boom!"

Outside the cave, at the forbidden stone gate, a deafening explosion suddenly erupted.

Immediately following, a terrifying aura of bloodlust, typical of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, appeared.

It forcefully smashed through the soundproof barrier that Gu Yun had set up on the outside, accompanied by a furious roar that came from the end of the passage.

"How dare you! Which foolish bastard dares to sneak into the forbidden area of ​​my Blood Fiend Valley and steal the very foundation upon which our sect was founded!"

Amidst a roar, a figure shrouded in dense blood light landed heavily on the open ground in front of the Nascent Soul Blood Pool.

The newcomer was dressed in the red robe of a Blood Fiend Valley elder, with a sinister and handsome face, but with a sickly pale complexion.

Most noticeably, his right arm was empty, replaced by a prosthetic limb.

It was Xue Wuyai, the prodigy on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, who was brutally beaten by Gu Yun in the Cangyuan Secret Realm and had to blast his right arm to escape by sheer luck!

Eighteen years later, relying on the Blood Fiend Valley's resources, he not only recovered his fallen cultivation level but also entered the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, becoming a powerful elder in the Blood Fiend Valley.

He had come to the forbidden area today for a routine inspection, but was horrified to discover that the energy fluctuations in the Nascent Soul Blood Pool were abnormal, which is why he broke down the door without regard for anything else.

As soon as Xue Wuyai landed, his gaze instantly locked onto the blood pool, the figure of the young man, and the phantom of the Ancestral Witch.

"You're asking for it!!"

Bloodless Eyes were bloodshot as he raised his right hand, which was made of blood, about to conjure the Blood Demon Blade and cleave the boy in the pool in two.