Chapter 1652: 444: Gu Chen's Path (Three updates of 10,000 words, please subscribe!)_2

Chapter 1652: Chapter 444: Gu Chen’s Path (Three updates of 10,000 words, please subscribe!)_2

In an instant, Bi Yu was overwhelmed with embarrassment, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

It can only be said that matters of the heart are indeed unpredictable and uncontrollable, even for someone at the Supreme Realm like Bi Yu.

At this moment, Gu Qingyan looked at the handsome but visibly flustered Bi Yu in front of her. A trace of amusement flickered in her icy, pool-like eyes.

Then, with a more serious expression, she said, “I know what you think of me. I’ve always known.”

“Ah?!”

Bi Yu’s mouth fell open upon hearing her words, stunned and utterly surprised.

“What’s the matter? You thought you’ve been hiding it well all this time?” A mischievous glint appeared in Gu Qingyan’s eyes.

“No, no… um…”

Bi Yu hastily waved his hand in denial but immediately realized that this reaction wasn’t entirely appropriate. He faltered, unable to find the right words.

As a Supreme Realm cultivator, an almost invincible figure across the myriad worlds, gifted beyond compare, he had confidence to face any adversary. Yet now, standing before Gu Qingyan, Bi Yu felt a wave of confusion and helplessness.

Perhaps, one could say that his behavior stemmed from complete inexperience in matters of love.

Indeed, from birth until now, Bi Yu had never been in a relationship with the opposite sex. His life had consisted solely of cultivation—nothing else.

If it weren’t for this, he wouldn’t have reached his current achievements.

From afar, Wu Tian and Emperor Xia hid and watched the scene unfold.

“He’s incredibly clueless!” Wu Tian muttered in frustration, feeling like iron that won’t turn to steel.

In the beginning, both he and Bi Yu had developed feelings for Gu Qingyan, but due to various circumstances—including matters with the Golden Raven Clan—Wu Tian eventually let go and abandoned those emotions.

Bi Yu, however, was different. No matter the passage of time, despite the shifts of the world, he still cherished a beautiful vision of Gu Qingyan in his heart and had dreamed of a future with her.

However, over the last ten thousand years, there had never been the right moment—or perhaps not the right circumstances—to discuss such matters, so Bi Yu kept his feelings deeply buried.

“Isn’t eavesdropping like this a bit improper?” Emperor Xia hesitated, his face showing hints of confliction.

With square and upright facial features and a resolute nature, he had once reigned as the ruler of the Nine Provinces. When had he ever stooped to such behavior?

Primarily, his appearance and mind-set made it hard to imagine him participating in such acts.

But today, under Wu Tian’s instigation, he indeed found his curiosity hard to suppress.

Bi Yu’s feelings for Gu Qingyan were, one could say, known to all—except for Bi Yu himself, who thought he had hidden them perfectly.

Wu Tian said nothing, merely staring intently. Seeing this, Emperor Xia hesitated once more but finally decided to set aside his moral qualms for the moment.

In fact, even Gu Chen sitting in the main hall was fixated on the unfolding scene—after all, this was his sister!

With their uncle and aunt absent, Gu Chen naturally felt it was his responsibility to keep an eye on things for Gu Qingyan.

After all, choosing a husband was no trivial matter.

In the courtyard, seeing Bi Yu still fumbling and speechless, Gu Qingyan decided to speak directly. “As it stands, an unprecedented catastrophe looms ahead. The road forward remains unclear to me, and that’s why I’ve never considered the matter between you and me.”

“I… I understand.” Bi Yu’s face dimmed as he nodded in acknowledgment.

But the very next moment, Gu Qingyan’s words rekindled hope within him, bringing a smile back to his face.

She said softly, “However, once the catastrophe has passed, if by chance we are both still alive, I will seriously consider it then.”

“Really?!”

Bi Yu nearly jumped for joy upon hearing this, and even Wu Tian, hiding in the distance, pumped his fist in a celebratory gesture.

Gu Qingyan’s beautiful eyes flickered, and seemingly by accident, she glanced in the direction of Wu Tian and Emperor Xia.

Then she addressed Bi Yu, telling him to cultivate diligently, before turning and leaving.

“Wonderful! Absolutely wonderful!”

After Gu Qingyan departed, Bi Yu remained where he stood, punching the air repeatedly in exhilaration. Although she hadn’t given a definitive answer, his excitement was boundless nonetheless.

Unquestionably, his resolve to cultivate would only grow stronger from here on out.

In the main hall, Gu Chen, seeing the matter conclude, shook his head somewhat wistfully.

Of course, to him, this was merely a trivial episode.

The truly pressing concern was the fusion of the Yin-Yang universe two millennia later—this would be the ultimate calamity for the myriad worlds!

If they could overcome it, they would survive. If not, everyone would perish; everything across the myriad worlds would cease to exist, devoured by the Netherworld.

“My Dao, my Law—neither has reached its final form.” Gu Chen muttered, alone in the vast and empty hall, gazing inwardly at his own essence.

Back then, he had sealed himself away for ten thousand years—a move made solely to forge a path unique to himself!

Only this way could he overcome the final calamity and lead the myriad worlds to victory.

This was also the method Gu Chen had agonized over and meditated upon during nearly twenty thousand years of seclusion—the only viable path he uncovered.

It was for this reason that he abandoned the essence of the myriad worlds, relinquished everything, and cast himself into ten thousand years of silence.

Through this ordeal, Gu Chen nearly fell into complete and irreversible demise. One could say his actions were akin to walking a razor’s edge.

The reason he dared to take such a risk was because his Dao was—Sole Reliance on Self!

Indeed, Sole Reliance on Self!

As the name suggests, the path Gu Chen walked called for him to rely on himself alone, considering everything else external and secondary.

This realization had dawned on him long ago, back when he excessively depended on the system tied to the myriad worlds’ essence.

Sole Reliance on Self doesn’t mean demanding everyone across the myriad worlds to revere him as the center—it means relying solely on his own strength, rather than external aids.

“The myriad worlds’ essence, though it followed me since my arrival in this realm and supported my rise from obscurity, is fundamentally an external asset in a certain sense.” Gu Chen murmured.

Thus, after careful thought, Gu Chen chose to abandon it, undertaking the perilous act of sealing himself in silence for ten thousand years.

After all, the myriad worlds’ essence harbored the Dao belonging to this grand universe—not his own Dao.

Even the complete patterns of rules within the World of Heavenly Seeds were obliterated and discarded by him.

By doing so, it was equivalent to actively dissolving all his cultivated power. But because certain Dao patterns were already engraved in the deepest parts of Gu Chen’s core, he underwent ten thousand years of silence.

During this time, his consciousness remained submerged, continuously purging these “external elements.”

Now, after ten thousand years, Gu Chen had rebuilt his foundation, standing tall as he reached new heights and reclaimed his peak strength!

At this moment, every law engraved within him belonged solely to himself—his supreme Dao patterns were birthed naturally by his flesh and soul, transcending the framework of this grand universe.

In other words, even if the myriad worlds were to perish today, it would not affect Gu Chen in the slightest. He had already ascended beyond the Dao of this universe and could effortlessly annihilate Pei Yi, the one who had fused with the myriad worlds’ essence and reached the pinnacle of this cosmos.

This was the solution Gu Chen came up with—the sole way to triumph over the progenitor of the Netherworld.

Now, Gu Chen could be described as a self-contained eternal multiverse; each drop of his blood and every bone within him contained boundless worlds!

This was his true Dao: Sole Reliance on Self, transcending all!