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Chapter 590: Breakthrough to the Perfected Kaitian Great Immortal Realm
Chapter 590: Breakthrough to the Perfected Kaitian Great Immortal Realm
The path of cultivation is long and filled with obstacles. As the ancient saying goes, "A thousand years is but a dream for an immortal," and this is proven true in the present Heavenly Spirit Grand World.
After entering the Nirvana Realm, the perception of time for cultivators begins to elongate. A century feels like a day, and a millennium like a fleeting dream. For Dao cultivators, the higher their talent, the faster time seems to pass.
Upon becoming a disciple of the main branch of the Dao Court, Xiao Lan secluded herself for an extended period.
Initially, she was still concerned about Gu An, fearing that he might pass away while she was in seclusion. Fortunately, despite his struggles, Gu An managed to break through, and after his successful Nirvana, she finally put her mind at ease and focused solely on her cultivation.
Ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye, and while the mortal world underwent immense changes, the cultivation world remained relatively stable.
This year, Xiao Lan was presented with an opportunity to break through. Under the guidance of a powerful cultivator from the main branch, she successfully entered the Wanderer Immortal Realm, while Gu An watched from a distance.
He marveled at the differences in the new epoch. In the previous epoch, reaching the Wanderer Immortal Realm at the age of ten thousand was rare, but in this new era, such geniuses were not uncommon.
The Xueyu Great Sage and Anxin had also reached the Heaven-Flying Immortal Realm, one after the other.
The Dao Artifacts significantly aided their cultivation, and with the abundant spiritual energy of the Primordial Dao Ground, imbued with the Great Dao's true essence, their progress accelerated.
Anxin, in particular, seemed to be transforming into An Hao.
Despite feeling that he had contributed significantly to his disciples' progress, Gu An couldn't help but feel sentimental when he thought about the past.
"It's time for me to break through to the next minor realm."
Gu An made up his mind as he watched Xiao Lan consolidating her cultivation in the distance.
He had intended to rely on his own enlightenment for the breakthrough, but the time required for a minor realm breakthrough in the Kaitian Great Immortal Realm was beyond his imagination.
After considering this, Gu An directly switched to his clone, and his main body exited the small world.
Among the cultivators assisting Xiao Lan, the strongest had reached the Dao Void Immortal Realm. This person hadn't sensed any anomalies and was still intently observing Xiao Lan.
Gu An's main body arrived in a forest in the mortal world and immediately initiated the Lifespan Breakthrough.
The nine options appeared before him once more, most of which were locations he had seen before.
Gu An's gaze fell upon the Heavenly Tomb of Desolation.
The sins within the Heavenly Tomb of Desolation were mysteriously connected to him through cause and effect, and he had initially thought he could uncover this through his reincarnation memories, but that wasn't the case.
He decided to take another look.
With his current realm, he might be able to understand it better.
Gu An chose to teleport to the Heavenly Tomb of Desolation, consuming one hundred billion years of lifespan in the process.
After a while, Gu An opened his eyes and immediately activated the Lifespan Barrier.
Before him was the desolate scene of the Heavenly Tomb of Desolation, with numerous colossal and dilapidated structures extending towards the edge of the world.
The massive palace where the sins resided was far away, but he could easily observe its condition.
The towering gate remained slightly ajar, revealing a pitch-black interior that seemed like the entrance to hell.
Gu An didn't fixate on the palace; instead, he summoned his attribute panel.
[Name: Gu An]
[Lifespan: 34,362/487,609,219,005]
[Constitution: Primordial Cyclic Indestructible Body]
[Cultivation: Late Stage Kaitian Great Immortal Realm]
...
He directly channeled his lifespan into his cultivation, allocating it in increments of one hundred billion years.
Messages popped up one after another, and with four thousand eight hundred billion years of lifespan at his disposal, Gu An paid no heed to the failure notifications.
In the end, he successfully reached the Perfected Kaitian Great Immortal Realm after consuming one thousand one hundred billion years of lifespan. Now, it was time to observe the consumption of the Lifespan Barrier.
Vast spiritual energy surged from the ground, and in an instant, Gu An was enveloped by the golden light of the Great Dao.
The entire Heavenly Tomb of Desolation's spiritual energy stirred, causing even the Great Dao's rules to tremble.
As a Kaitian Great Immortal, the commotion he created far surpassed his previous efforts. More and more ancient structures began to shake, and the ground churned with yellow sand, as if imbued with a life of its own, resembling a rising yellow cloth.
Since this was only a minor realm breakthrough, Gu An didn't need to be fully immersed in it. He spared a portion of his attention to observe the massive palace where the sins resided.
Time ticked by, minute by minute.
Within half an hour, Gu An would achieve his breakthrough, but as half the time passed, there was still no sign of the sins appearing.
Had something unexpected happened? Gu An wondered silently.
He waited until his breakthrough was complete, but the sins never emerged from the enormous palace.
The Lifespan Barrier had consumed nearly five hundred billion years of lifespan, causing Gu An some distress.
The higher the realm, the greater the consumption of the Lifespan Barrier. Out of caution, he activated the barrier every time he attempted a breakthrough.
The reason for this was that Gu An enjoyed spying on others, and if he were to secretly observe lower-realm beings without being discovered, there must be stronger entities who also took pleasure in spying on those weaker than themselves.
The Lifespan Barrier's function was to prevent him from being spied on while he grew stronger, and it was of utmost importance. Gu An had reached this day by vanquishing formidable foes, leaving them all bewildered by his seemingly unfathomable abilities, and the Lifespan Barrier had played a crucial role in this.
Gu An felt a sense of regret at not being able to see Zui.
The Extreme Celestial Tomb, despite its frequent anomalies, showed no signs of life, not even ghosts or malevolent spirits.
As Gu An's cultivation stabilized, he stood up.
Before leaving, he extended his Divine Consciousness to cover the entire Extreme Celestial Tomb.
Since it was a tomb, something must be buried here.
The massive palace where Zui resided was not the most mysterious place. In the center of the heavens and earth, Gu An noticed a deep pit with a diameter of over a thousand li, its depth unfathomable. A special Great Dao aura surged within it.
This was the first time Gu An, who had already begun to comprehend various Great Daos, had encountered such a Dao aura.
It was eerie and ominous, sending chills down one's spine.
Even Gu An, who had reached the pinnacle of the Heaven-Opening Great Immortal Realm, had an instinctive feeling that he should not come into contact with this Dao.
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Just as he was about to teleport back, he suddenly sensed some movement.
Something was rising from the depths of the pit, and as it ascended, the invisible and intangible Great Dao aura emerged with it, erupting like a volcanic eruption, unstoppable in its momentum.
The earth began to tremble violently!
Gu An remained calm, knowing that he wouldn't be detected within the Lifespan Barrier. Nonetheless, he prepared to teleport away at the first sign of trouble.
A deafening boom reverberated!
The yellow sand of the heavens and earth surged upward, and Gu An saw the clouds at the horizon dissipate. Something burst out of the deep pit, attempting to break through the sky's barrier, but it was halted by an invisible wall when it reached a certain height.
Gu An squinted, and to his surprise, it was a thumb, dark red in color, with a sharp, knife-like tip. The entire thumb was a thousand zhang long, emitting a terrifying aura.
The aura exuded by this thumb was no less impressive than that of an early-stage Supreme Purity Golden Immortal, but the surrounding Great Dao aura was even more frightening.
After being blocked, the thumb plummeted downward, eventually smashing into a dilapidated temple, raising a cloud of dust thousands of zhang high.
Gu An projected his Lifespan Probe towards the thumb, but it revealed nothing, indicating that the entity was not alive.
He turned to look in another direction.
A faint aura emanated from the massive palace where Zui resided, and soon, a figure emerged from the door crack.
Zui!
He still appeared to be just over ten years old, unchanged from Gu An's last encounter.
【Zui (Nirvana Realm): 0/9999/9999】
His age remained zero, and both his lifespan and maximum lifespan were unchanged.
Gu An's curiosity grew. What kind of state was this?
Under Gu An's gaze, Zui took a deep breath, as if gathering courage, and then ran towards the direction where the thousand-zhang thumb had fallen.
The little guy was fast, covering a hundred li with each step, as if teleporting.
Before long, he reached the vicinity of the thumb and slowed down, approaching it cautiously.
When he stood before the thumb, he seemed to be facing a colossal mountain. He reached out and touched the thumb.
"Hmm?"
Gu An furrowed his brows and instinctively looked down at his right thumb.
He felt as if someone was touching his thumb.
With his advanced cultivation, it was impossible for him to have an illusion.
Could this thousand-zhang thumb be his thumb?
Zui, with tears in his eyes, seemed to be speaking, but not in the language of the Heavenly Spirit Grand World.
As his tears fell on the thumb, the eerie Great Dao aura surged towards him, seemingly trying to transform him into a different life form.
Gu An's brows knitted together.
He sensed a strong cause and effect.
It wasn't his thumb!
It belonged to an old acquaintance, but not his own; it was from his previous life's acquaintance.
It was none other than Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden, whom he had met in his previous lifespan cycle.
Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden had fallen into the Great Dao while trying to save the Eternal Emperor, the reincarnation of his previous life, and was forever trapped, her cause and effect nearly impossible to trace.
Without the power of the Grand Cause and Effect Stele, the Eternal Emperor would have never been able to find even a trace of Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden's cause and effect.
The Eternal Emperor, with the help of the Grand Cause and Effect Stele, sent Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden's cause and effect to Shen Zhen, and through her, established a cause and effect relationship with Gu An, the original owner of the body.
This process was complex and invisible to the naked eye, but it was real.
As Gu An's relationship with Shen Zhen deepened, his perception of Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden's cause and effect would also intensify.
He became increasingly certain that this thousand-zhang thumb was Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden's thumb. If so, what was the connection between Zui and Yaoxuan Immortal Maiden?
Could it be...
(End of Chapter)
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