I Make the Rules Now — Founding the Eternal, Immortal Divine Empire
I Make the Rules Now — Founding the Eternal, Immortal Divine Empire
In the Beyond of old, the various Dao Lineages and forces each ruled their own star domains, each following their own rules and laws, treating ordinary Cultivators and living beings like ants.
Some Sacred Emperor Realm figures whose vitality had withered would even travel to ancient life-bearing stars when their lifespans were about to run dry, devouring countless living beings to delay their own decay.
But after Dark Heaven was established, new rules and order emerged. The Dao Lineages of old could no longer stand high above everyone else, and ordinary Cultivators and living beings also came under the protection of Dark Heaven’s rules.
Those Sacred Emperors who had once launched the dark turmoil no longer dared to act as arrogantly as before, flouting all law and treating ordinary Cultivators as blood food.
For ordinary Cultivators, this was actually a good thing. After the turmoil, the environment gradually stabilized and grew peaceful, and they naturally benefited from it.
On the contrary, it was the Supreme Dao Lineages and immortal forces that faced the greatest constraints. Gone were the days when they could do as they pleased. A being of the Celestial Realm had been born and established new rules — rules that even they had to obey. This was an undeniable fact.
Gu Changge had told those close to him long ago that he would later re-establish the rules. This was actually crucial to his development of Dark Heaven’s believers.
The Power of Faith was extremely special, originating from the devotion of the heart. Even at Gu Changge’s current realm, he could not clearly explain what exactly this Power of Faith was.
The countless Cultivators and living beings across All of Heaven and Its Thousand Worlds in the Beyond could all produce the Power of Faith, and the Power of Faith was not affected by the strength or weakness of one’s cultivation.
That was why Gu Changge valued ordinary Cultivators and living beings so much — after all, across All of Heaven and Its Thousand Worlds, these ordinary Cultivators made up the greatest number.
When it came to winning people’s hearts, he was naturally extremely skilled.
Peach Village at night was extremely tranquil. The starry night was like water, suffused with a hazy radiance, and the entire Great Wilderness was steeped in an indescribable stillness and peace.
Even the fierce beasts in the distance had quieted down, no longer letting out roars.
Because of Gu Changge’s arrival, the villagers of Peach Village had prepared plenty of fine wine and the meat of fierce beasts, and built bonfires. Many beautiful women sang and danced among the flames, and the atmosphere was joyful and lively.
Gu Xianer sat very close to Gu Changge, hugging her legs, her small face resting on her knees. Her clear, moving eyes reflected the afterglow of the bonfire, as if she were staring blankly at it all.
Her long dark hair rose with the night wind, some strands blowing onto Gu Changge.
“Is the Celestial Domain about to begin connecting with the Beyond? Is that why you’re leaving too?”
Out of nowhere, Gu Xianer’s voice suddenly rang out, causing Gu Changge — who was in the middle of roasting meat for Tiantian — to pause slightly.
He couldn’t help but laugh. “The Celestial Domain and the Beyond beginning to connect — isn’t that a good thing? For many Cultivators, the Opportunity to Become an Immortal is one step closer. In less than a few hundred years, the Beyond will be able to recover its former prosperity, and immortals and mortals will no longer be separated.”
“I will go to the Celestial Domain, but at least that’s still far off for now.”
“Then doesn’t that also mean the beings in the Celestial Domain can influence the Beyond?”
“I heard that after the Forbidden Epoch, the Celestial Domain and the Beyond were separated. Those Celestial Realm beings of the past — even beings beyond the Celestial Realm — all fled into the Celestial Domain, where they spent long ages. Their cultivation has long since deepened to who knows what extent.”
Gu Xianer lowered her eyelids, looking somewhat downcast as many thoughts crossed her mind.
“Tell me, when the Celestial Domain truly connects with the Beyond, will you be able to defeat those people?”
She was no fool. From what she had seen, she could guess that Gu Changge’s goal was not as simple as merely becoming an immortal.
He was scheming for a great deal — it surely included plans far more far-reaching than that.
But it was undeniable that Gu Changge’s machinations against All of Heaven and Its Thousand Worlds would soon be revealed to the world. Once the Celestial Domain and the Beyond connected, how would those beings who had truly stepped into the Celestial Realm view this matter?
Among them, there were bound to be Gu Changge’s old enemies, weren’t there?
After all, he had reincarnated from the Forbidden Epoch into this current era — and for what reason had he reincarnated?
That couldn’t possibly be without cause.
“So this is what’s been weighing on your heart?”
“You really don’t need to worry about these things. You only need to understand one thing — in this world, there are very few people who can do anything to me. Or rather, as I see it, none have appeared yet.”
Gu Changge somewhat understood now the source of her unhappiness and worry during this period, and he couldn’t help but laugh. But he didn’t say anything more to her about it.
In truth, he himself wasn’t very worried about these matters, because even if the Celestial Domain and the Beyond connected...
If those Celestial Realm beings within the Celestial Domain wanted to set foot in the Beyond, they would have to pay a considerable price. It was impossible for them to truly descend.
Moreover, over these past decades, Gu Changge had been continuously refining and absorbing that drop of True Blood.
In addition, he was waiting for the true Celestial Path to appear, so that his Physique could be tempered by the light of the Immortal Dao, truly condensing an immortal body, and thereby refining and absorbing the Dao Fruits that the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being had left behind for him.
Those things had been prepared by the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being for the sake of condensing an Immortal King Dao Fruit — and in the end, they all became Entanglement for Gu Changge’s benefit.
“So what if they’re kings among immortals, ancestors among immortals? They can’t affect me in the slightest.”
“In the Beyond of today, I make the rules.”
Gu Changge had many methods at his disposal and wasn’t worried about such things. If anything, he was somewhat curious about what the Celestial Domain had become now.
After all, the true ruins of the Immortal Palace lay within the Celestial Domain. Back then, the collapse of the ten thousand worlds had begun from the Immortal Palace — the destruction the Celestial Domain had endured was definitely even greater than that of the Beyond.
“But I keep having an ominous premonition.”
“Something’s going to go wrong.”
Gu Xianer raised her eyes and looked at Gu Changge very seriously. “What if someone has been waiting in the Celestial Domain all this time for you to go there?”
“Waiting for me to go? You mean, there’s an enemy who has been waiting for me all along?” Gu Changge raised an eyebrow slightly, feeling that Gu Xianer’s words were probably not a mere whim — she had likely truly sensed something.
But in his memories, he could find no trace of this so-called enemy. Was there really an enemy in this world who had been waiting for him all along? Who knew he would eventually return from the Beyond?
Gu Xianer’s words did stir some thoughts in Gu Changge, leaving him somewhat pensive.
The child of Fortuity inherently resonated with the workings of the Heavenly Path — it wasn’t impossible for her to have glimpsed a sliver of heavenly secrets in the dark.
In any case, he would keep a wary eye out, to avoid capsizing in a gutter someday.
After setting that topic aside, Gu Xianer’s mood was clearly much better than before, no longer so heavy. She recovered her former lively, tsundere self, and even fought with Tiantian over the meat Gu Changge had roasted.
Yet at the same time, she complained, feeling the taste wasn’t as good as before, and scolded Gu Changge for having lost his old barbecue skills.
Those words made Gu Changge want to knock her on her little head. No one else in this world enjoyed such treatment — having him personally roast meat for her — and yet she was still dissatisfied. She truly was asking for a beating.
During his stay in Peach Village, Gu Changge also noticed that Tao Yao had recovered quite a bit of her strength. Or rather, it wasn’t recovery — it was that the changes in the world’s environment had caused the power she could exert to become far deeper than before.
In Gu Changge’s eyes, hers was true Celestial Realm strength — her divine soul and Physique had both reached the level of the Celestial Realm.
In the years that followed, at the heart of the Beyond, the full visage of Dark Heaven appeared before the eyes of the world for the first time. A majestic and grand complex of ancient palaces emerged from within an ancient world, stretching on without end.
Heaven’s Gate, the Northern Heavenly Gate, the Western Heavenly Gate, the Eastern Heavenly Gate — the four great heavenly gates crashed down with a boom, archaic and weathered, wreathed in immortal mist, as if they could prop open the sky and the Eight Wastelands. Around them, countless Divine Chains of rules and order interwove, like an ocean.
Then, the heavenly soldiers and generals who had campaigned across the various races and worlds were reflected in the void, their brilliant radiance like a great sun rising, illuminating All of Heaven and Its Thousand Worlds.
On this day, all of All of Heaven and Its Thousand Worlds trembled in unison. Countless Cultivators and living beings heard the vast sounds of a world’s chanting and sacrificial rites emanating from that place, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.
Dark Heaven declared itself the Eternal, Immortal Divine Empire and held its first national sacrifice. Vast silver Power of Faith converged from every world, and above Dark Heaven, it lit an inextinguishable divine flame.