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Chapter 136: Breaking Through the Ninth Layer of the Nirvana Realm!
Chapter 136: Breaking Through the Ninth Layer of the Nirvana Realm!
Gu An did not use his spiritual sense to probe the Xuan Xin Realm cultivators in the library. Spiritual perspective could not be used to ascertain lifespan, so there was no point in using it. What if the other party had cultivated some kind of wondrous art and could sense a higher-level being prying? It would only create unnecessary trouble.
After returning to Xuan Gu, Gu An went upstairs and took out the map scroll and the book given to him by Xu Lu.
The book, titled "Record of the Land Under Heaven," recorded the general situation of various places, and one could find information about all the realms on the map within its pages.
Gu An carefully examined it, searching for a suitable place to break through.
From the map, the Nine Dynasties occupied only one-tenth of the continent, while the rest was a lawless land infested with demons and monsters. The names of the mountains and rivers were daunting, such as Demon Shadow Peak, Demon Bone Mountains, Ghost Head Forest, and Falling Immortal River.
After much thought, Gu An decided to break through in the land of demons and monsters.
The land of demons and monsters was filled with exuberant spiritual energy.
Moreover, since ancient times, the land of demons and monsters had never been as dangerous as the sea.
This map was the best proof. After all, the Grand Elder had traveled across the entire continent.
As night fell, Gu An quietly set off, heading east with a slight northern inclination.
Holding the map in his hand and treading the Infinite Free Steps, he swiftly navigated through the darkness. Soon, he left the boundaries of the Great Cang Empire.
In less than twenty steps, Gu An had crossed the Nine Dynasties and entered the land of demons and monsters.
He felt the demonic, evil, and ghostly aura in the world multiply, and his spiritual sense was filled with sinister silhouettes.
Looking around, the land and rivers were shrouded in thick fog, and the mountains loomed like giant demons, faintly visible and terrifying.
Gu An sensed the presence of living beings, almost all of which were demons and monsters.
On occasion, he could capture the silhouette of a cultivator. In the depths of the night, those cultivators hid and set up formations to conceal themselves.
After half an hour.
Gu An arrived at Tianhuang Mountain, a towering peak over ten thousand zhang high with a mountain range stretching for tens of thousands of miles. According to the "Record of the Land Under Heaven," in ancient times, a phoenix had descended upon this mountain and given birth to its offspring, hence the name Tianhuang Mountain.
Tianhuang Mountain was occupied by demons, and the author of the "Record of the Land Under Heaven" had once encountered an attack by a great demon comparable to the Combined Realm when passing by.
Perhaps Tianhuang Mountain was not the richest in spiritual energy, but it was at least not a place to be avoided.
Gu An's spiritual sense covered the entire Tianhuang Mountain, and he sensed three great demons in the Combined Realm, with the number of demons exceeding a million. There were countless other beasts that had not yet attained intelligence.
With just this one mountain having so many beasts, it was no wonder that the demon calamity had formed.
Gu An landed in a forest on the mountainside and sat down under a tree, immediately activating the Lifespan Barrier.
Following his gaze, the trees were sparse, the demon fog was surging, and the grass on the ground was stirred by the night wind, like waves, exceptionally startling.
After a while, Gu An retracted his gaze and then summoned the attribute panel.
Looking at his lifespan of 238,000 years, Gu An felt a pang of reluctance.
This time, who knew how many failures he would face in his breakthrough, and it was estimated that he would sacrifice several years of hard work.
But he had to do it. Staying alive was the most important thing!
Let's start with 100,000 years of lifespan to calm the nerves!
Gu An's mind moved, and he immediately invested his lifespan into his cultivation.
[You invest 100,000 years of lifespan into your cultivation evolution.]
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 4,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Pre-Heaven Immortal Art, you forcibly charge into the Nirvana Realm, beginning your tribulation. You fail to endure the Pre-Heaven Five Elements Divine Tribulation.]
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 8,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Pre-Heaven Immortal Art, you forcibly charge into the Nirvana Realm, beginning your tribulation. You fail to endure the Pre-Heaven Five Elements Divine Tribulation.]
...
Wow!
A tribulation every 4,000 years?
No wonder the Nirvana Realm is the first major hurdle of the Immortal Path's Nine Tribulations!
One prompt after another quickly popped up, but Gu An's expression remained unchanged.
A hundred thousand years of lifespan, down the drain!
Let's try another hundred thousand!
The cultivation evolution begins again! Gu An's eyebrows twitched.
All failures!
Continue with another hundred thousand! Gu An was stubborn, and as the third hundred thousand years began, his expression gradually turned ugly.
All failures!
Gu An's face suddenly darkened, and he invested another hundred thousand years.
The prompts of failure stimulated his mind, but thankfully, this time, he succeeded. Seeing the prompt of success, the gloom in his heart dissipated, and a smile blossomed on his face.
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 74,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Pre-Heaven Immortal Art, you forcibly charge into the Nirvana Realm, beginning your tribulation. You endure the Pre-Heaven Five Elements Divine Tribulation, and your cultivation breaks through to the first layer of the Nirvana Realm.]
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 77,000 years. Your cultivation advances to the second layer of the Nirvana Realm.]
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 80,000 years. Your cultivation advances to the third layer of the Nirvana Realm.]
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 83,000 years. Your cultivation advances to the fourth layer of the Nirvana Realm.]
...
[You cultivate by absorbing qi for 98,000 years. Your cultivation advances to the eighth layer of the Nirvana Realm.]
The eighth layer of the Nirvana Realm!
From the seventh to the eighth layer of the Nirvana Realm, it took five thousand years of lifespan. Gu An immediately invested another four thousand years and successfully reached the ninth layer of the Nirvana Realm!
He had no choice. The current Gu An was not used to seeing non-nine digits in his minor realms.
Upon reaching the ninth layer of the Nirvana Realm, he could once again focus on accumulating his lifespan.
Boom!
The earth's spiritual energy surged violently, drilling into Gu An's body, causing his robes to shatter instantly. He raised his eyebrows slightly, continuing to endure the tempering of the rampant spiritual energy.
Unlike his previous breakthroughs, this time, Gu An felt pain.
Nirvana was a transformation of both body and soul, so it was understandable that there would be some pain.
At the same time, a surge of memories about the Nirvana Realm flooded into his mind.
As Gu An began to devour the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth, the entire Tianhuang Mountain's spiritual energy started to sink, and this abnormal phenomenon was intense and sudden, startling all the demons and beasts.
Violent winds howled, ravaging Tianhuang Mountain, and the heavens and earth resounded with a cacophony of roars and cries, deafening and terrifying.
...
Beihai Mountain Range, late at night.
In the forest, over ten disciples of the Tai Xuan Gate sat around a bonfire. Zhen Qin turned and looked at Xuan Miao Zhenren, who was meditating under a tree not far away. She hesitated before getting up and walking over.
"Senior, do we really not need to set up an array?" Zhen Qin asked cautiously.
They were all disciples of the Enforcement Hall, and while carrying out their mission at the border of the Great Cang Empire, they had encountered an attack by demonic cultivators from the Ephemeral Flower Sect. They had all been captured within a magical artifact and then brought all the way to the Beihai Mountain Range. If not for Xuan Miao Zhenren's rescue, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
Xuan Miao Zhenren kept his eyes closed and calmly replied, "It's fine. If any demonic cultivators from the Ephemeral Flower Sect come, we can just kill them."
After the incident with the Yellow Spring Fox Demon, he felt immense hatred towards the Ephemeral Flower Sect.
He believed that the Yellow Spring Fox Demon had come from the Ephemeral Flower Sect. Otherwise, how would it have consumed the Ephemeral Flower Poison, and why would it have told him about the impending attack by the sect? It was clearly scheming against him.
Zhen Qin wanted to say something but stopped.
Wasn't this using them as bait?
Although she was confused, she still held her tongue.
With their Foundation Establishment cultivation, it would be difficult for them to survive in the Beihai Mountain Range without Xuan Miao Zhenren's protection. Xuan Miao Zhenren was not a disciple of the Tai Xuan Gate, and he had no obligation to protect them. At this time, she couldn't afford to offend him.
Zhen Qin turned around and returned to her previous spot to continue meditating.
The other Enforcement Hall disciples began to whisper among themselves, discussing the Ephemeral Flower Sect.
With the world in chaos, the calamity brought about by the Ephemeral Flower Sect this time far surpassed their previous deeds. These disciples felt the pressure and feared dying in this disaster.
"Don't worry. This area is protected by a mountain god. Once my injuries recover, I will send you all back to the Great Cang Empire."
Xuan Miao Zhenren's voice rang out, drawing the attention of all the disciples.
A male disciple curiously asked, "Mountain god? What mountain god?"
Xuan Miao Zhenren replied, "It's naturally the immortal spirit of this mountain. As for where it is, I won't tell you."
The group exchanged glances, thinking that Xuan Miao Zhenren was acting strangely. Could he have suffered an injury to his head?
Even Zhen Qin thought that Xuan Miao Zhenren's mind was a bit unstable.
For a time, the forest fell silent.
...
Tianhuang Mountain, the forest shook like surging waves, the earth trembled slightly, the spirit mist sank, and demon fog rose, looking like dragons swirling everywhere, a spectacular sight.
Sitting under a tree with his bare upper body, Gu An had finally broken through to the Nirvana Realm after an hour of cultivation!
Upon reaching the Nirvana Realm, his spiritual power transformed into magical power, and his primordial spirit underwent a metamorphosis! Gu An's spiritual heart was now covered in divine writings, and it was about to hatch a unique divine ability of its own.
He already had an idea to create a divine ability based on his own cultivation technique.
His absorption of the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth did not slow down and continued unabated. It would still take some time before he reached the ninth layer of the Nirvana Realm.
He opened his eyes, his brow furrowed.
There was a demon beast currently flying toward the forest where he was located, about a hundred li away. If this demon didn't change its direction, it would likely break into his lifespan barrier.
"I hope heaven will protect you. If you break in, even if we have no grudge, you must die."
Gu An thought to himself and then closed his eyes.
He didn't like killing indiscriminately, and this included demon beasts. As long as they had gained sentience, he felt that slaughtering them would bring him bad karma.
However, if any creature threatened him, he would not show mercy.
Time continued to pass.
Another hour went by.
Gu An's cultivation had reached the sixth layer of the Nirvana Realm, and the violent winds in the heavens and earth began to weaken, not because his speed of devouring spiritual energy had slowed down, but because Tianhuang Mountain's spiritual energy had almost been drained dry, and his lifespan barrier was now drawing spiritual energy from farther away.
Several li away.
On a slope, a figure in red was moving forward.
The demon fog in the sky dispersed, revealing the bright moon. In the moonlight, a red-clothed woman was stumbling forward, her hair disheveled and her bare feet dirty. She looked as if she might collapse at any moment.
Her long hair was in a mess, with some strands stuck to her face with blood, only her bright, large eyes visible.
Her gaze was cast downward, and she looked extremely weak.
"I can't fall... I'll rest in the forest up ahead..."
The woman in red muttered to herself, her vision blurring.
She staggered forward like this, taking half an hour to travel several li. When she entered the forest, she fell into a patch of grass and could no longer stand up.
She was now less than a hundred zhang away from Gu An's lifespan barrier.
(To be continued...)
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