I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

Now, as time goes by, he has reshaped his physical body and become a strange, twenty-year-old youth.

The girl remained devoted, calling him "Grandpa" repeatedly. This bond, which transcended time and blood ties, was even purer than kinship.

"It is a great fortune for the Zixu Sect that the old sect master has taken this step. Since Luo Zhen is in seclusion to consolidate his realm, then we should not disturb him."

Gu Yun leaned back in the rosewood chair and patted Lei Lie on the shoulder.

Without his iconic black sword, Gu Yun now looked more like a handsome, unarmed scholar, but the domineering tone in his voice made Lei Lie feel incredibly at ease.

Lei Lie suddenly stood up and burst into hearty laughter.

"Let's go! Senior brother, the welcoming feast at the dining hall is ready. Junior sister Ling'er, brother Shi Tou, let's put aside all our worries today, talk only about romance, and drink until we're drunk!"

"Yay! I want beggar's chicken! Grandpa, you promised to bake it for me!"

Luo Ling'er cheered and naturally took Gu Yun's arm.

Even though Gu Yun looks younger than her now, in her heart, he is still that old man.

"Uncle, I... I can eat three roasted cows!"

Stone, rubbing his bald head, followed behind with a憨憨 (simple and honest) expression.

Looking at these two old friends who had completely dropped their pretenses in front of him, Gu Yun shook his head helplessly, but couldn't help but smile.

"Eat, eat, eat as much as you want today! Sect Leader Lei, it's on the bill!"

Gu Yun laughed loudly, led everyone to push open the courtyard gate, and strode towards the dining hall.

The welcoming banquet was a joyous occasion for both hosts and guests.

Lei Lie even brought out a spirit wine that had been stored in the Zixu Sect's cellar for a hundred years. The group drank and toasted each other until the moon was high in the sky.

At the foot of the stone, animal bones were piled up into a small mountain. Lei Lie, his face red and neck thick from drinking, was bragging to Gu Yun about the amazing Cangyuan Secret Realm back then.

Gu Yunyun held the white jade wine cup and drank the spiritual wine in one gulp.

Judging by the time, it's been more than half a year since that brat Chengfeng slipped out of the Ice Soul Secret Realm wearing the Thousand Illusions Mask and ventured out on his own.

This kid has awakened the bloodline of the ancient ancestral witch, and his Great Wilderness Body has reached a certain level. He also carries that bladeless black sword weighing several thousand pounds. I wonder what kind of name he has made outside.

Lei Lie, Luo Ling'er, and Shi Tou, who were present, were all his trusted confidants who had witnessed his family reunion.

Gu Yun, too lazy to beat around the bush, put down his wine glass and got straight to the point.

"Lei Lie, your Zi Xu Sect's intelligence network covers the entire Cangbei Spiritual Domain. Have you seen any activity in the south in the last six months? My rascal Cheng Feng ran off to train more than half a year ago wearing a mask to conceal his aura. He doesn't cultivate magic power, relying solely on his physical body, and he carries my door-like, bladeless black sword on his back. Do you have any news about him?"

"A black sword? A pure body cultivator?!"

Lei Lie, who was holding the wine jar, burped, and sobered up most of the time.

His eyes widened as he stared at Gu Yun in astonishment.

"Senior Brother Gu, the one you're talking about... isn't he the Black Sword Madman who's been causing trouble lately? Holy crap, I was wondering where this freak who achieved sainthood without cultivating magic has suddenly appeared in the Cangbei Spiritual Domain. Turns out that masked fiend... is Chengfeng's nephew?"

"Black Sword Berserker?"

Gu Yun raised an eyebrow, her lips curving upwards involuntarily.

"That's a pretty arrogant nickname. Tell me, what did that brat do?"

Upon hearing that he was Gu Yun and the Ice and Snow Sword Master's biological son, Lei Lie slapped his thigh and felt that everything made perfect sense!

They started talking animatedly, spittle flying everywhere.

"Senior brother, my nephew has been acting incredibly strangely these past six months! A while ago, Blood Fiend Valley captured several hundred mortals at one of their branches to refine blood pills, and my nephew single-handedly stormed in!"

"He didn't use a single spell, he just stood there against the branch's protective formation, relying purely on brute force, and smashed their sect's protective formation to pieces with a single sword strike! Swinging that black sword, he instantly turned the two Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the branch into a pile of minced meat!"

"hiss!"

Luo Ling'er gasped, her beautiful eyes widening.

"He killed two Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators without using any magic, just with his bare body? Chengfeng's physique is exactly like his grandfather's back in the day!"

Stone's eyes lit up, and he was so excited that he crushed the chicken leg in his hand.

"Wow! Uncle, Brother Chengfeng is amazing! I'm definitely going to fight him next time we meet!"

Gu Yun's eyebrows danced with excitement: "And then? Blood Fiend Valley could tolerate it?"

"How could they possibly accept this! Blood Fiend Valley immediately dispatched an elder at the early Golden Core stage!"

Lei Lie gestured excitedly, "But my nephew is slippery! If he can beat you, he'll smash you to death; if he can't, he'll slip away faster than a flying sword! He has no magic power, but he has a whole set of insidious talismans and illusionary formations! We chased him for three days and three nights without catching a single hair, and instead, we were tricked by his chain of trapping and killing formations, and rolled back in disgrace!"

"Haha, great!"

Gu Yun slammed his hand on the table and burst into laughter:

"Fight if you can win, run if you can't. And you even know to use the array talismans I gave you to trick people! You're my son, Gu Yun's son, and you haven't disgraced your mother. This style... it reminds me of myself back in the day!"

Seeing Gu Yun's arrogant demeanor, as if he wanted to announce it to the whole world, Lei Lie and Luo Ling'er both laughed. This father and son, from their physiques to their fighting styles, were truly cut from the same cloth.

But as he smiled, Lei Lie's expression suddenly changed, becoming serious:

"However, senior brother, since Black Sword Madman is Chengfeng's nephew, things are getting complicated!"

Lei Lie lowered his voice, his tone urgent:

"The Blood Fiend Valley branch was destroyed, and the elders lost face. This time they're truly enraged! I heard that Xue Wuyai, who lost an arm in the desolate northern tombs, has used some evil magic to reshape his body and is now a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator. He's personally leading a team to lay a trap in the south, specifically targeting my nephew to capture him alive and extract his soul!"

"Blood Without Boundaries?"

The smile on Gu Yun's face vanished.

A murderous aura made the temperature in the entire dining hall seem to drop to freezing point.

Back then, in the Blood Pool of the Nascent Soul in the desolate northern tomb, if it weren't for the mysterious jade pendant that warned, "Killing him will kill Qianyan," Gu Yun would have already smashed the old bat's head with a single punch.

He swallowed his anger for Qianyan's safety, crippling Xue Wuya's cultivation to let him go, thinking he would linger on like a dead dog.

As it turns out, this old dog is tougher than a cockroach. Not only did he not die, but he also recovered to the half-step Nascent Soul stage. Now he actually dares to lead people to besiege my son?!

"What a Bloodless Valley! What a Blood Fiend Valley..."

Gu Yun stood up, his dark bronze bones cracking with a sickening sound, his silver hair whipping wildly without wind. His scarlet eyes held undisguised savagery and fierce protectiveness.

He didn't bring the black sword, but he was more ferocious than any divine weapon!

"Lei Lie".

Gu Yun's voice was devoid of warmth, as if it were being squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Use the entire intelligence network of the Purple Void Sect to find out Xue Wuyai and Chengfeng's current location!"

"Senior brother, are you going in person?"

Lei Lie was startled by the murderous aura emanating from him.

"Xue Wuyai is a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator, and he brought a large number of experts with him..."

Gu Yun sighed.

"It's alright, I can handle it. None of you should go. Too many people will only lead to a sect war!"

It wasn't until late at night that Gu Yun sent away the drunken Lei Lie and Shi Tou, and coaxed Luo Ling'er, who was clinging to his sleeve and refusing to let go, back to her cave. Only then did he walk alone back to Tingpu Garden under the moonlight.

Pushing open the courtyard gate, silence returned to the surroundings.

The drunkenness on Gu Yun's face vanished instantly.

He walked to the spirit spring in the center of the courtyard, washed his face with the cold spring water, and a glint of extreme calm flashed deep in his scarlet eyes.

"Luo Zhen's breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage has indeed given the Purple Void Sect more confidence. But that old monster from Blood Fiend Valley is no pushover either."

With his hands behind his back, Gu Yun looked up at the cold, bright moon over the Cangbei Spirit Realm, his mind racing.

"It's better to rely on yourself than on others. My dantian is only at the Qi Refining stage now. Once it's locked by the laws of a Nascent Soul stage monster, relying on my physical body will be too disadvantageous."

Gu Yun took out the Formless Iron Mask from his storage ring and gently rubbed it in his hand.

"While the Blood Fiend Sect hasn't figured out my strength yet, and while Luo Zhen is still in seclusion, quickly arm this Listening Waterfall Garden, and the entire outer perimeter of the Purple Void Sect, with killing formations until they're practically mangled!"

Southern part of the Cangbei Spirit Realm, Weeping Blood Ridge.

The sky was covered by thick clouds, and the strong smell of blood made people want to vomit.

boom!

With a dull thud, Gu Chengfeng's body was slammed into the cliff face like a cannonball, sending rocks flying everywhere.

He was panting heavily, his upper body covered with deep, bone-revealing wounds.

The ancient ancestral witch totem flashed wildly on his chest, but it was already at its last gasp.

He leaned on the blunt black sword with both hands, kneeling on one knee, gritting his teeth and refusing to fall.

Around him, both above and below, hundreds of cultivators were densely packed together!

Blood Fiend Valley, Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and even several other renowned sects in the Cangbei Spiritual Domain surrounded Gu Chengfeng.

In mid-air, Xue Wuyai, a half-step Nascent Soul cultivator, looked down at Gu Chengfeng and burst into wild laughter.

"Black Sword Madman! You think you're so good at running? These past few months you've destroyed three of my Blood Fiend Valley's branches and killed several of my Ten Thousand Poisons Sect's deacons. Today, I'll see where you run to!"

A Golden Core elder from the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect nearby said in a sinister tone, "This kid clearly has no spiritual root whatsoever, yet his physical body can withstand magical treasures. He must possess an ancient body-refining divine technique! Fellow cultivators, let's kill him, extract his soul, and refine his spirit. We can all share that body-refining divine technique!"

"Kill him!"

"kill!"

The elites of various sects had bloodshot eyes, and the overwhelming magical treasures and poisonous mist glowed with spiritual light.

Gu Chengfeng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, spat out a mouthful of blood foam, and under his messy hair, he looked exactly like Gu Yun, with eyes that revealed an unruly wildness.

"Want to kill me? Come on! Even if I die today, I'll take you bunch of scum with me!"

Just as Xue Wuyai was grinning and swung his arm down, unleashing a barrage of killing moves that were about to engulf Gu Chengfeng, at the critical moment!

Boom!

Suddenly, a terrifying sonic boom rang out!

A terrifying aura of blood pressure caused a figure to crash down from the sky like a meteorite!

"You dare touch my son? Did you even ask me?!"

Accompanied by a roar.

A streak of cyan light, moving at a speed exceeding the limits of the naked eye, smashed through the layers of blood-red sealing barriers above Bloodshed Ridge!

boom!

A huge crater exploded in front of Gu Chengfeng.

The smoke and dust cleared.

A man dressed in a blue robe, with long, wildly flowing silver-gray hair, straightened up from the deep pit.