Chapter 596: Chapter 589: Breakthrough to Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal Realm Perfection
The road to Immortal Cultivation was long and fraught with obstacles, the ancients said, “An Immortal dreams for three thousand years,” this saying was validated in today’s Celestial Spirit Great World.
After stepping into the Nirvana Realm, the time scale of Cultivators began to lengthen, a hundred years as a day, a thousand years as a dream, for those on the path of Immortal Dao, the higher their talent, the faster time passed.
After becoming a disciple of the main vein of the Dao Court, Xiao Lan entered a prolonged period of seclusion.
At first, she worried about Gu An, fearing that he would pass away during her seclusion; fortunately, although Gu An encountered many setbacks, he always managed to break through. Once Gu An successfully achieved Nirvana, she completely set her mind at ease and focused on her cultivation.
Tens of thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye, and although the Human World underwent tremendous changes like the transformation of the sea into mulberry fields, there were not many changes in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
That year, Xiao Lan encountered a breakthrough opportunity, under the protection of the Great Cultivators of the main vein, she successfully stepped into the Wandering Immortal Realm, while Gu An watched from a distance.
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He marveled at the uniqueness of the new Era. Living for ten thousand years to reach Wandering Immortal Realm was rare in the previous Era, but in this new one, such geniuses were not few.
Blood Prison Great Saint and An Xin even reached the Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm one after another.
Dao Treasures greatly aided their Cultivation, added with the abundant Spiritual Energy of the Daoist Field of the Beginningless, containing the True Meaning of the Great Dao, their Cultivation speed was ever increasing.
Especially An Xin, who seemed to be transforming into An Hao.
Though Gu An felt that he contributed significantly to his disciples’ progress, thinking of the past, he still had many reflections.
“I should also break through a minor realm.”
Gu An watched Xiao Lan consolidating her Cultivation Level at the horizon and made up his mind.
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He originally wanted to rely on his Enlightenment to break through; however, for a Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal, breaking through a minor realm required much more time than he could imagine.
Having thought that, Gu An directly switched identities, his original body leaping out of the Little World.
Among the Cultivators protecting Xiao Lan, the strongest had reached the Dao Void Profound Immortal Realm, this person did not detect any abnormalities and remained focused on Xiao Lan.
Gu An’s original body arrived at a forest in the Human World, where he directly performed a Life Span Breakthrough.
Nine options appeared before him again, most of the locations were ones he recognized.
Gu An’s gaze fell on Desperate Celestial Tomb.
The sins within the Desperate Celestial Tomb had a mysterious cause and effect with him—he originally thought he could learn about it through Lifespan Reincarnation, but he did not.
Let’s take another look.
Now that his realm was higher, maybe he could understand.
Gu An immediately chose to teleport to the Desperate Celestial Tomb, consuming one hundred billion years of Life Span in the process.
After a while, Gu An opened his eyes and immediately activated the Life Span Barrier.
What entered his sight was the desolate scene of the Desperate Celestial Tomb, with colossal and ruined structures stretching all the way to the ends of heaven and earth.
The grand palace where the sin resided was far from him, but he could easily see the situation of that palace.
The immense door, still slightly ajar, stretched as dark as if leading to the gates of hell.
Gu An didn’t keep staring at that palace; he pulled up the Attribute Panel.
[Name: Gu An]
[Life Span: 34,362/487,609,219,005]
[Physique: Primordial Reincarnation Undying Body]
[Cultivation Level: Late Stage of Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal Realm]
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He directly invested Life Span into his Cultivation Level, in increments of one hundred billion years each time.
Prompt after prompt appeared, with four hundred and eighty billion years of Life Span at his disposal, Gu An barely heeded the failure notifications.
Eventually, after spending one hundred and ten billion years of Life Span, he successfully reached the Perfection of Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal Realm—next would be observing the consumption of the Life Span Barrier.
Vast Spiritual Energy surged from the ground, almost instantly, Gu An was enveloped by golden illumination of the Great Dao.
The Dao Spiritual Energy of the entire Desperate Celestial Tomb showed anomalies, and even the Dao Rules trembled.
Now that he was a Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal, the disturbances he caused far exceeded those of before, and more and more ancient buildings began to tremble, the ground heaved with sand, moving as if it had sentience, appearing like a yellow cloth rising.
Since it was a breakthrough in a minor realm, Gu An didn’t need to be completely focused on the breakthrough, he divided his attention towards the grand palace where the sin resided.
Time ticked by.
In half an hour, Gu An would succeed in his breakthrough, yet halfway through, the sin still did not appear.
Could something have gone wrong?
Gu An thought silently.
Even when he succeeded in his breakthrough, the sin never emerged from that grand palace.
The Life Span Barrier consumed nearly five hundred billion years of Life Span, which stung quite a bit for Gu An.
The higher the realm, the greater the Life Span Barrier’s consumption, and for safety, he activated the Life Span Barrier every time he broke through.
The reason for this was quite simple—Gu An enjoyed observing others, and he spied on existences of lower realms without being detected, so naturally, there must be existences stronger than him who also enjoyed spying on those weaker than themselves.
The purpose of the Life Span Barrier was to prevent him from being observed while gaining strength, this was crucial. Gu An could reach this point today, those enemies he had defeated found it incredible, and the Life Span Barrier played a critical role in this.
Gu An felt disappointed that he hadn’t seen Zui.
Although the Desperate Celestial Tomb was constantly showing signs of disturbance, there seemed to be no signs of living beings, not even ghosts or evil spirits.
Once Gu An’s cultivation level had stabilized, he stood up.
Before leaving, he covered the entire Desperate Celestial Tomb with his divine sense.
Since it was a tomb, something must have been buried here.
The grand palace where Zui resided wasn’t the most mysterious; at the center of the world, Gu An spotted a deep hole over a thousand miles in diameter, bottomless and swirling with a special Dao spiritual qi.
This was the first time Gu An, who had begun to understand different Dao, had encountered such Dao spiritual qi.
It was eerie, ominous, and sent shivers down one’s spine.
Even Gu An, who had reached the perfection of the Heaven-Opening Daluo Immortal Realm, had an intuition not to come into contact with this Dao.
He was about to teleport back when he suddenly sensed movement.
Something in the deep hole was rushing towards the surface; as it ascended, the invisible and intangible Dao spiritual qi surged like erupting core fire, unstoppable.
The ground began to tremble violently!
Gu An wasn’t panicking; he stood within the Life Span Barrier, hidden from detection, but he still prepared to teleport away immediately if needed.
With a bang!
Sand flew upwards from the ground violently, the clouds at the horizon dispersed, and an object burst out of the deep hole, aiming to break through the sky. However, when it reached a certain height, it was stopped by an invisible barrier.
Narrowing his eyes, Gu An saw that it was a forefinger, dark-red throughout, with a tip sharp as a knife, a thousand feet long, emanating a terrifying aura.
The might displayed by this forefinger was not inferior to the early stage of the Taiqing Golden Immortal Realm, but the Dao spiritual qi surrounding it was even more dreadful.
After being halted, the forefinger fell down, eventually crashing into a ruined temple and raising a cloud of dust tens of thousands of feet high.
Gu An used the Life Span Detection on this finger, but found nothing, indicating that it wasn’t a living being.
He turned his head in another direction.
A faint aura emitted from the grand palace where Zui resided; soon, a figure peeked through the door crack.
Zui!
He still appeared to be just over ten years old, unchanged from the last time Gu An had seen him.
[Zui (Nirvana Realm): 0/9999/9999]
His age was still zero, his lifespan and maximum lifespan unchanged.
Gu An grew more curious; what exactly was this state?
Under his gaze, Zui took a deep breath, as if bracing himself, and then ran towards the direction where the thousand-foot forefinger had fallen.
The little guy was fast, covering a hundred miles in one step, as if blinking across space.
Before long, he reached near the thousand-foot forefinger, slowed his steps, and cautiously approached.
When he stood before the thousand-foot forefinger, it was as if facing a giant mountain; he reached out to touch the thousand-foot forefinger.
“Hmm?”
Gu An frowned and subconsciously looked down at his own right forefinger.
He actually felt his forefinger being touched.
With his high cultivation level, he couldn’t be mistaken.
Could this thousand-foot forefinger be his own?
As Zui touched the thousand-foot forefinger, his eyes welled up, and he murmured something in a language not of the Celestial Spirit Great World.
As his tears fell on the thousand-foot forefinger, the bizarre Dao spiritual qi on the finger surged towards him, seemingly wishing to transform him into another kind of creature.
Gu An’s eyebrows furrowed.
He felt a strong sense of cause and effect.
That was not his finger!
It belonged to an old acquaintance, not from his past life but from his Reincarnation Body.
It was Fairy Yao Xuan, who he had met in his previous Lifespan Reincarnation.
Fairy Yao Xuan, in her attempt to save his Reincarnation Body, the Emperor of Eternal Life, had fallen into the Dao, condemned to eternal oblivion, her cause, and effect hard to trace.
If it weren’t for the Emperor of Eternal Life using the power of the Great Cause and Effect Stele, it would have been impossible to capture even a sliver of Fairy Yao Xuan’s cause and effect.
Through Shen Zhen, the Emperor of Eternal Life sent Fairy Yao Xuan’s cause and effect to Gu An, the real persona, which established a causal relationship between Fairy Yao Xuan and Gu An.
This process, too complex to be captured by the naked eye, was nonetheless real.
As the relationship between Gu An and Shen Zhen deepened, his sense of cause and effect connected to Fairy Yao Xuan also strengthened.
He became increasingly certain that the thousand-foot forefinger was indeed Fairy Yao Xuan’s. If so, what was the relationship between Zui and Fairy Yao Xuan?
Could it be…