You Only Need to Remember One Thing: I Am Your Master
You Only Need to Remember One Thing: I Am Your Master
Just as the various Celestial Ancient Races were gripped by fear for their own safety, within the mountain ranges outside the Black Hawk Family’s clan grounds.
Gu Changge’s figure stepped out from the void.
He swept his gaze over the vast expanse of Mystic Mountain structures ahead, a faint, elusive smile on his face.
“It’s harvest time again. I planted a single seed, and not only did it blossom and bear fruit, it grew into a lush, flourishing forest.”
“This Hei Ming really hasn’t disappointed me...”
Gu Changge spoke with great interest, his expression perfectly natural. With a single step, the void blurred, and he was already among the mountain ranges ahead.
It was as if he were strolling through his own backyard.
He did not conceal his aura, nor did he bring any followers.
So the moment he arrived outside the Black Hawk Family’s clan grounds, his presence was detected.
“Who goes there?”
A powerful divine sense swept over.
Several powerful auras emerged among the mountain peaks.
Black wings grew from their backs—they were cultivators of the True Enlightened Realm.
They looked at the approaching Gu Changge, their faces filled with shock as they demanded an answer.
“Inform the Great Elder of the Black Hawk Family that Gu Changge has come to pay a visit.”
Gu Changge glanced at them, standing with his hands clasped behind his back, speaking with a faint smile.
He paid no mind whatsoever to the two Black Hawk clansmen whose expressions changed drastically the instant they heard his name.
During this period, Gu Changge’s name had spread throughout virtually all the Celestial Ancient Races—from the older generation down to the young, there was no one who didn’t know of him.
In all the rumors, Gu Changge was a vicious, utterly wicked villain bent on exterminating every last one of the Celestial Ancient Races.
And now he had even schemed against the Feathered Clan, intending to guide the many orthodoxies of the outside world to descend and carry out a purge and suppression of the Celestial Ancient Continent.
Gu Changge’s name could even stop the crying of children among the Celestial Ancient Races.
These two Black Hawk clansmen naturally knew how terrifying Gu Changge was, and their eyes immediately changed.
Their expressions even turned somewhat fearful, their voices trembling.
“Gu Changge, you... what are you doing here?”
They asked, lips quivering, their very souls shaking.
A True Enlightened Realm existence clearly stood to gain nothing against Gu Changge.
According to the rumors, Gu Changge was gravely injured.
But looking at him now, Gu Changge’s aura was perfectly normal—he was clearly in excellent shape.
His body couldn’t be healthier; where was there even a trace of injury?
Could the rumors be wrong? Or was the person before them not Gu Changge at all? Was he an impostor?
Thinking this, they forcibly suppressed the fear in their hearts and struck at Gu Changge.
Boom!
True Enlightened Realm fluctuations instantly swept forth, causing the mountain ranges for hundreds of kilometers in every direction to rumble and tremble.
“I’ve come to take back what is mine.”
Gu Changge smiled, his figure utterly blurred as he walked straight through the midst of this assault. “Since you’re unwilling to announce me, I’ll just have to go in myself.”
“But why can’t people properly cherish their lives?”
As he walked past, a strange fluctuation flickered through the void and vanished.
Immediately after, the two True Enlightened Realm Black Hawk clansmen burst apart with a pop, instantly annihilated in body and soul.
Gu Changge made no attempt to hide his arrival.
Overwhelmingly domineering, he strode through the void, heading deeper into the Black Hawk Family’s clan grounds all the way.
In his mind, a spiderweb-like diagram was forming, every thread piercing through and connecting everything, encompassing every single Black Hawk clansman.
He could even perceive with perfect clarity what they were doing and what they were thinking, comprehending it all in an instant.
In a single thought, no one could hide from his perception.
In a single thought, he could also decide their life or death.
And all of this was thanks to the Entanglement Immortal Spell—and of course, thanks to Hei Ming.
That Gu Changge could control the life and death of the entire Black Hawk clan without expending the slightest effort—Hei Ming’s contribution could not be overstated.
“This is bad!”
“Someone has broken into the clan grounds!”
“Come quickly!”
At this moment, the entire Black Hawk clan was alarmed, shaken by the disturbance coming from the mountain gate.
Boom!
In the sky, streak after streak of black divine light rushed toward Gu Changge’s location—all Black Hawk clansmen drawn by the commotion.
They were utterly enraged. In all these years, this was the first time anyone had dared barge into their clan grounds.
“This old man would like to see who has such gall, daring to break in here...”
Inside a palace, several elders who had been in discussion—hawk-nosed faces glinting with dark light, expressions cold and furious.
Weng!
The next moment, their figures moved in unison, vanishing from the palace and appearing in the sky outside.
“What’s going on? Someone broke into the clan grounds? They must have a death wish—this is simply courting death.”
Atop a mountain peak, clouds and mist swirling, a young woman in white murmured to herself in puzzlement.
Her neck was slender and graceful, her skin like ice and bones like jade—it was none other than Hei Yanyu.
“Could it be that the Successor of the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being has come knocking? If my guess is right, the Successor of the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being is that person named Ye Ling—in other words, the Successor of Demonic Arts?”
“If it really is Ye Ling, then I need to be careful. Someone who could escape with his life from Gu Changge’s hands is no ordinary figure.”
Her heart tightened. After a moment of thought, she too transformed into a streak of divine light, soaring into the sky to go see what was happening.
At the same time, on another mist-shrouded mountain peak.
Hei Ming, who had moved out of his former courtyard and into a palace, suddenly opened his eyes from his cultivation.
At this moment, a strange feeling arose in his heart—a vague, indistinct sensation, just like when facing the Absolute Being.
“What happened? Could it be that the Absolute Being has come to find me?”
“This feeling... it can’t be wrong...”
Hei Ming was shocked, and then wild with joy and excitement.
He felt this possibility was very likely.
From the Absolute Being, he had merely obtained a single Entanglement Immortal Spell, and it had already remade him completely, transforming him from head to toe.
If he could obtain other things as well...
People are greedy; desires know no end.
In the past, Hei Ming had only wanted to be valued by his clan, but now he was no longer satisfied with that.
Thinking of this, he too rose and left, heading toward the direction from which the commotion came.
“Gu Changge... it’s you... how is this possible?”
“Why have you come here? Weren’t you gravely injured and recuperating?”
Meanwhile, many Black Hawk clansmen were staring wide-eyed, utterly shocked.
Many of the Black Hawk clansmen had seen Gu Changge’s face before.
Especially those who had once followed Hei Yanyu in planning to surround and kill Gu Changge, only to give up in the end.
At this moment they were incomparably shaken, watching the young man strolling leisurely toward them.
If this wasn’t Gu Changge, then who was it?
They never imagined that Gu Changge would actually come to their clan grounds all alone—and that along the way, no one had been able to stop him.
Had his injuries already healed? What was his goal?
“I’ve come to take back what is mine. Send out whoever among you can actually speak for your clan. I don’t want to waste time.”
Hearing this, Gu Changge wore a casual, unconcerned smile, facing the encirclement of such a large crowd without the slightest care.
“Your thing? What thing?”
“Is this your reason for barging into our clan grounds?”
Many people’s faces darkened at his words as they shouted, looking ready to strike at Gu Changge.
Gu Changge might be strong, but that was only against his peers—this was their clan grounds!
They would not tolerate his insolence.
The Black Hawk Family had been passed down since the Celestial Ancient Times, with numerous Sacred Realm existences, and even several ancestors of the Sacred King Realm.
With such a terrifying foundation, a single young man dared charge in alone?
Did he have some trump card? Or did he simply not fear death?
Just then, one terrifying aura after another descended—among them was even a Sacred Realm being, his features ancient, his body hunched.
He stared at Gu Changge ahead and waved his hand.
“All of you, stop at once!”
“Gu Changge, what exactly is your goal?”
This was a highly influential clan elder of the Black Hawk Family.
His appearance brought a sigh of relief to many Black Hawk clansmen.
In truth, they had all been secretly on guard against Gu Changge. The Feathered Clan’s heaven-blessed daughter had used a Transcendent grade weapon and still failed to kill Gu Changge.
That meant Gu Changge possessed means to contend with Sacred Realm existences.
At this point, they actually had no confidence they could suppress him.
“I already said—I’ve come to take back what is mine. Do you not understand words?” Gu Changge said lightly, his expression as natural and casual as ever.
Even facing a Sacred Realm existence, he paid it no mind.
He was still waiting for the Black Hawk clan’s Sacred King Realm ancestor to appear.
That was the one who could truly speak for them.
These Sacred Realm beings—with his current peak Enlightened King Realm strength, he could easily suppress and kill them.
“Your thing? What thing of yours?” The Sacred Realm clan elder stared fixedly at Gu Changge, brows tightly furrowed.
He didn’t dare act rashly against Gu Changge.
The situation on the Celestial Ancient Continent was now unclear, and many clans were gripped by fear for their own safety, because the orthodoxies of the outside world seemed to be planning to descend.
If he struck at Gu Changge, it would mean he had to be prepared for a fight to the death with the forces behind Gu Changge.
The price of that was too terrible.
Though the Black Hawk Family was ancient and long-standing, facing the retaliation of a Longevity Family, even they would tremble—only destruction awaited them.
“My thing? Naturally, the Stage of Reincarnation Enlightenment of the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being—and the entire Black Hawk clan.”
Gu Changge answered with a smile, not thinking there was anything wrong with his words.
The Stage of Reincarnation Enlightenment was a piece of Reincarnation Stone left behind by the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being, containing dense Power of Reincarnation.
Gu Changge planned to condense a Symbol of Reincarnation within his Primordial Spirit, in preparation for his Nature God’s Chant to evolve into the Celestial Chant.
He was determined to obtain this Stage of Reincarnation Enlightenment.
“What?!”
However, the instant they heard his words, everyone was stunned—including the Sacred Realm clan elder, whose expression changed drastically and turned gloomy.
Setting aside for the moment how Gu Changge had learned of the Stage of Reincarnation Enlightenment’s existence—
What did he mean, the entire Black Hawk clan was his?
At this point, Black Hawk clansmen from the other mountain peaks had also rushed over.
Many of them heard Gu Changge’s words, and their expressions changed dramatically.
The Stage of Reincarnation Enlightenment was controlled by the various clans in rotation; this year it was the Black Hawk clan’s turn to hold it—it did not belong to their clan alone.
Gu Changge’s words, in their eyes, were nothing short of provocation.
Everyone was enraged, glaring at him fixedly.
If not for the clan elder holding them back, they probably couldn’t have stopped themselves from attacking, to teach Gu Changge whose territory this was.
“Gu Changge? Why is it him? How is this possible... did his injuries really heal that fast?”
Hei Yanyu was naturally among those who had rushed over.
The moment she saw Gu Changge, her lovely face instantly lost all color—she could hardly believe it.
At this moment, she felt only a faint chill wash over her, her back drenched in cold sweat.
She knew very well how severe Gu Changge’s injuries had been back then.
How could he have recovered so quickly?
Which meant that Gu Changge’s injuries had most likely been faked all along.
His goal was indeed to provoke a war between the outside world and the Celestial Ancient Races.
“Even now, can’t you feel it? The life and death of your entire clan rests in my hands.”
“With a single thought from me, all of you will die.”
“So don’t try to provoke me. Though I have always been kind, that doesn’t mean... you have the qualifications to speak with me.”
“Tell your Sacred King Realm ancestor to get out here.”
Gu Changge smiled faintly.
He turned a blind eye to all the anger, coldness, and hatred on the faces of the Black Hawk clansmen.
Weng!
As his words fell, heaven and earth trembled, and a terrifying palpitation suddenly arose in many hearts.
At this moment, they felt as though their hearts had been seized by an invisible hand.
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“What is this?”
Their expressions changed drastically, turning abruptly pale, their voices trembling.
Some couldn’t even withstand the sensation—their breath seized up, and they plummeted straight from the high sky.
With a splat!
They instantly smashed into a pulp of flesh and mud!
In that instant, the way everyone looked at Gu Changge changed—as if gazing upon some great terror, horrified beyond measure.
What was that technique just now?
Their lives seemed to have been grasped in an instant, able to be snuffed out at a whim!
“You...”
The Sacred Realm clan elder’s expression changed—even he felt the sensation that his life and death lay entirely in the other’s control.
“What is this? Could it be a Slave Mark... but the Slave Mark clearly never manifested!”
His face went white in a flash, all color draining away, his eyes even holding despair and disbelief.
He tried to use his cultivation to break free of that feeling from just now, but it was utterly useless.
Like a clay ox entering the sea, it instantly sank into dead silence, unable to stir even a single ripple.
Gu Changge’s method had clearly exceeded his understanding.
This could no longer be described as merely unfathomable...
A miracle of immortals? No—this was the descent of a demon!
“So it’s this feeling...”
On the other side, Hei Yanyu’s face also turned pale.
Her pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, revealing an expression of disbelief and terror.
Including her, no one was spared.
To Gu Changge, all of them were the same—there was no difference.
Partial-Enlightened Realm or Sacred Realm, it was all a matter of a single thought.
Before the Entanglement Immortal Spell, their lives were all threads that could be snapped with ease.
“A method even more terrifying than the Slave Mark... when exactly were we marked with it...”
Hei Yanyu’s exquisite face was snow-white.
She had always been clever, known among her peers as a little strategist.
Now she realized.
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Back then, outside the ruins, the first time she saw Gu Changge, she had felt this very sensation.
At the time, she thought it was just her imagination.
But thinking back now, Gu Changge must have already sensed her existence at that moment, and in that instant, the thought of killing her had arisen.
Only, that thought flashed by and never landed—which was why she had taken it for an illusion.
Having figured this out, Hei Yanyu felt ice-cold all over.
The way she looked at Gu Changge was as if she were staring at an incomparably terrifying existence.
She had still vastly underestimated how dreadful Gu Changge was.
How exactly had he accomplished all of this?
“This clearly isn’t a Slave Mark, so why can you control our life and death...”
The attitude of this Sacred Realm clan elder had undergone an earth-shaking change in this instant.
Fearful, treading with utmost care.
After all, with his life and death entirely within a single thought of Gu Changge’s, how could he act tough?
At this point, he could only pray that the ancestors had some means to resolve all of this.
Otherwise, everything would be exactly as Gu Changge said.
The entire Black Hawk clan would be a thing in his hands!
The life and death of every clansman would rest within a single thought of his.
And he simply could not fathom how Gu Changge had accomplished all of this. Before this, they had clearly never even come into contact with Gu Changge.
It left them all in despair!
Struck down without rhyme or reason—and by something with no solution. How could something so bizarre exist in this world?
“Does it matter?”
Hearing this, Gu Changge said with complete ease, “You only need to remember one thing now. From this day forward, I am your master.”
“Work for me, and you may live. Otherwise, you die.”
At these words, everyone’s faces turned white, and dead silence fell.
No wonder Gu Changge dared barge in alone.
With such methods, the entire Black Hawk clan grounds were as flat ground to him—he could come and go freely, as if strolling his own back garden.
“This method definitely can’t be separated from the Slave Mark. Aside from the Successor of the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being, no one knows the Stage of Reincarnation Enlightenment is connected to the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being...”
“The Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being’s successor, Ye Ling, may have already been killed by Gu Changge, and he tampered with the Slave Mark... or rather, Gu Changge himself is the true Successor of Demonic Arts.”
Hei Yanyu’s eyes fixed tightly on Gu Changge.
Having figured all this out, her entire being, down to her Primordial Spirit, was trembling.
Clever as she was, she had already found the many connections among these events.
Those connections were very likely exactly as she surmised!
Otherwise, none of it made sense!
But... how could such a terrifying person exist in this world?
The way she looked at Gu Changge was filled with nothing but fear. The more she thought about these things, the more her scalp tingled with dread.
“Oh, a clever one.”
Gu Changge sensed Hei Yanyu’s thoughts.
He was slightly surprised.
After all, to deduce some of the truth from these events... that was no simple intellect.
Though he didn’t particularly care.
Hei Yanyu’s life and death were entirely within the grasp of his single thought. If she dared expose any of this,
she would unquestionably drop dead on the spot.
Then, Gu Changge’s eyes narrowed slightly as he looked toward a distant mountain peak.
There, a terrifying aura was rising, like a matchless great sun ascending.
That aura pressed down upon all eight directions, as if a Sacred Emperor Realm being were reviving, about to look down disdainfully upon the world.
“Wonderful...”
This sight gave rise to hope in many of the Black Hawk clansmen present.
This was their ancestor!
Their ancestor was a Sacred King Realm cultivator who had lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, his cultivation unmatched in his generation.
With the ancestor stepping in, today’s matter might yet be turned around.
But the next moment, along with a scoffing laugh from Gu Changge,
that world-suppressing aura rising over there was snuffed out as if blown out by a violent wind—instantly dissipating, flags furled and drums silenced.
Watching all of this, every last Black Hawk clansman fell into despair.