If I become a saint, a celestial official will summon me to raise horses.

Chapter 237 Breakthrough to the Ninth Level of the Carefree Immortal Realm!
The Spring Festival has just passed, and all things in nature are reviving.

Gu An stepped through the air, enjoying the ocean scenery along the way.

Despite the growing rumors of an apocalyptic tidal wave, the ocean remained calm, showing no signs of impending doom.

His divine sense spread out, searching for a suitable place to break through. He was already very far from the mainland. His Limitless Free Step had already taken a hundred steps. With his current cultivation level, one step could cover dozens of times the distance of the mainland, which showed how far this sea area was from the mainland.

The marine life was incredibly dense, far surpassing that of the continent. Moreover, the marine monsters here possessed extremely high cultivation levels. He even saw a giant whale at the Loose Immortal Realm, which was as large as half a continent and could swallow the entire land of three dynasties in one gulp—an absurd sight.

Upon arriving here, the aura of human cultivators becomes rare, and the occasional cultivators one senses are all at the Immortal Dao realm.

Without Nirvana Realm cultivation, one is not qualified to set foot in this sea area.

In the end, Gu An's gaze settled on a huge island, teeming with countless creatures, including a force of hundreds of thousands of demons. Most of the demon soldiers were training in the plains, and the strongest demons had reached the second level of the Loose Immortal Realm.

Gu An, a ninth-level Celestial Immortal, stealthily entered the forest. He sat down under a tree and activated his lifespan barrier.

He did not break through immediately, but instead spread his divine sense to observe the situation in all directions.

He sensed the aura of wandering immortals within his spiritual senses, but fortunately, there were no flying immortals.

Celestial beings who ascend to heaven are few and far between, and are rarely seen by mortals, since they can leave this world.

When Gu An expanded his divine sense to its maximum range, he still did not see any celestial beings descending from heaven, and only then did he feel relieved.

Although one cannot see celestial beings descending from the sea, if one looks up at the sky, one can see their figures entering and leaving every day, like shooting stars streaking across the horizon.

Gu An withdrew his divine sense and brought up the attribute panel.

Name: Gu An

【Lifespan: 128/16890764】

[Physique: Mysterious Sacred Body]

[Cultivation Level: Ninth Level of the Celestial Immortal Realm]

……

If you were to destroy a ten million-year lifespan, could you create something even more extraordinary?

It takes 30,000 years of lifespan to advance from the eighth to the ninth level of the Celestial Immortal Realm and to break through to a higher realm. If you fail once, you will have to wait more than 30,000 years before you can break through again.

Failure a hundred times would mean at least three million years of lifespan, a thought that chilled him to the bone.

He felt that as long as he could use his lifespan of tens of millions of years to reach a higher realm, he would consider it good luck.

Therefore, he dared not improve his cultivation techniques or physique, and decided to force himself to improve his cultivation level!

Gu An took a deep breath and decided to test the waters by investing one million years of his lifespan first.

[You cultivated your inner energy for fifty thousand years, and with your profound mastery of the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique, you forcibly attempted to break into the Carefree Yuan Immortal Realm and began your tribulation. However, you failed to survive the Supreme Dao Reincarnation Profound Heaven Tribulation.]

[You cultivated your inner energy for 100,000 years, and with your profound mastery of the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique, you forcibly attempted to break into the Carefree Yuan Immortal Realm and began your tribulation. However, you failed to survive the Supreme Dao Reincarnation Profound Heaven Tribulation.]

……

A tribulation occurs once every 50,000 years?
That's pretty ruthless!
Gu An felt a little panicked as he looked at the failure messages that kept popping up in front of him.

A lifespan of one million years, and only twenty failures...

It would take five million years of lifespan to break through one hundred times...

Gu An became increasingly nervous as he thought about it. He gritted his teeth and directly invested five million years of his lifespan into his cultivation!
failure!

failure!

Gu An didn't bother to look closely; as long as the length of the prompt didn't increase, it meant all the attempts had failed.

His five million years of lifespan were all for naught; he failed a hundred times.

This Xiaoyao Yuanxian is truly difficult to break through to. No wonder he has never heard of it in reality. There are legends of immortals ascending to heaven and earth in the ocean, but there are no stories of Xiaoyao Yuanxian.

Gu An brought up the attribute panel again and saw that he still had ten million years of life left, which calmed him down a little.

May I live another five million years!

He refused to believe he couldn't break through!

Notifications kept popping up, but there was no spiritual energy flowing within the lifespan barrier. The leaves above his head rustled in the wind, making Gu An feel a sense of malice.

It was as if the barrier of lifespan was mocking him.

The second five-million-year lifespan attempt also ended in complete failure!
He has already spent eleven million years of his lifespan and failed to transcend the tribulation two hundred and twenty times!
If I improve my skills and physique first, will I be unable to break through today?
Even if he doesn't break through, at least his strength will increase. If he fails in the end, he won't have achieved anything.

Gu An could not accept such a failure, so he continued to invest, this time investing 500,000 years of lifespan.

He faced repeated failures until the prompt suddenly lengthened, much to his delight.

coming!

[You have cultivated your inner energy for 350,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Innate Technique, you forcefully attempt to break through to the Free and Unfettered Yuan Immortal Realm and begin your tribulation. You survive the Supreme Dao Reincarnation Profound Heaven Tribulation and successfully transcend the tribulation. Your cultivation has broken through to the first level of the Free and Unfettered Yuan Immortal Realm.]

[You have cultivated your Qi for 410,000 years, and your cultivation has broken through to the second level of the Carefree Immortal Realm.]

[You have cultivated your Qi for 470,000 years, and your cultivation has broken through to the third level of the Carefree Immortal Realm.]

[You have cultivated your Qi for 500,000 years, and your cultivation level has increased.]

A minor realm advancement every 60,000 years—this Carefree Immortal is truly ruthless. Gu An sighed inwardly as the lifespan barrier finally began to work, and the earth's spiritual energy surged into his body.

He didn't rest; he continued to invest his lifespan into cultivation.

His cultivation level was only at the ninth level, and he was not used to showing his cultivation level from the first to the eighth level to others, as he felt insecure doing so.

In the end, it took him another 490,000 years of his lifespan to reach the ninth level of the Carefree Immortal Realm.

The eighth to ninth floors took a lifespan of 150,000 years to build!
This breakthrough took him nearly 12 million years of his lifespan to reach the ninth level of the Carefree Immortal Realm, which was truly terrifying.

boom!
A rumbling sound came from the earth, and spiritual energy rose up like a wave, covering the grass within the barrier.

The spiritual energy of the entire island and the surrounding sea suddenly plummeted, startling all living beings and causing them to panic.

The influence of the lifespan barrier continued to expand. The spiritual energy required to go from the ninth level of the Heaven and Earth Immortal Realm to the ninth level of the Carefree Yuan Immortal Realm was enormous. After a few breaths, ocean monsters kept rushing out of the sea.

The world was in an uproar!

The island was engulfed in clamor, with the monsters roaring deafeningly.

Gu An saw one after another transformed monsters flying over the forest, and the monsters on the island thought that an enemy was attacking.

Gu An closed his eyes and began to feel the changes within himself.

He wanted to see what was so mysterious about the Carefree Immortal Realm that made it so difficult to break through.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, a profound understanding blossomed in Gu An's mind, like the Big Bang, with endless information flooding into his brain.

The rules of heaven and earth!

Only by cultivating the Five Elements can one reach higher realms and comprehend the rules of heaven and earth when the Five Elements are perfected.

Everything is composed of invisible and intangible rules and forces. The Five Elements are the foundation, just as the Tao Te Ching says: "The Tao gives birth to One, One gives birth to Two, Two gives birth to Three, and Three gives birth to all things."

The realm of the carefree immortal is the state of comprehending the rules of heaven and earth. Reaching this level means being completely free from the limitations of heaven and earth, and being utterly carefree. The primordial spirit has been baptized by the rules of heaven and earth, and thus transcends them.

His Golden Core and Profound Heart are transforming into a higher level of existence, with the Golden Core accumulating the power of the rules of heaven and earth, forming his own Dao.

What is the Dao? The Dao encompasses everything: cultivation methods, spells, supernatural powers, and so on. Everything related to its existence is its Dao!

The Golden Elixir gives birth to the Dao, transforming into the Primordial Elixir!

No wonder the Nascent Soul and Golden Core exist independently. The Nascent Soul transforms into the Primordial Spirit, and the Golden Core transforms into the Dao. Gu An guessed that at some future realm, the two would merge into one, and he would become the embodiment of the Dao.

Time passed quickly. As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth sank faster and faster, the sea of ​​clouds in the sky churned violently, as if it were about to collapse along with the spiritual energy at any moment. The monsters on the island were terrified and lined up in formation, hiding inside the island and daring not to go out.

Fortunately, no monsters broke into the lifespan barrier!
Half an hour later, Gu An successfully transformed into a carefree immortal!

To transcend the rules of heaven and earth is true freedom!

Where the Way lies, the mind can reach it!

What is the Way?
The beings and places that inherit Gu An Daoist teachings are all places where the Dao resides. One can easily escape from them and also control their cause and effect!
Gu An realized that the Dao of Cause and Effect was a very special Daoist method, and as his realm improved, his control over cause and effect became more and more profound.

The so-called cause and effect is the invisible force generated by the interaction of all beings. There is no effect without a cause, and the endless causes and effects come together to form the world!
After breaking through to a higher realm, Gu An's cultivation level began to surge.

Yuan Dan has already summarized his own Dao, and all the causes and effects related to him will be presented in his Dao. He is moving towards the realm of omniscience and omniknowledge.

First, understand all the causes and effects within yourself. When you reach a higher level, you may be able to glimpse the causes and effects of everything!

Three full hours later, night fell, and Gu An finally reached the ninth level of the Carefree Immortal Realm.

His divine sense continued to expand, and he discovered that this time the lifespan barrier was drawing spiritual energy from the earth on an extremely wide scale, far exceeding the range of his divine sense when he was at the ninth level of the Heaven and Earth Immortal Realm.

Because it is so vast, neither humans nor demons can detect the key location where spiritual energy sinks.

Once the spiritual energy of heaven and earth stopped flowing into Gu An's body, he slowly stood up and opened his eyes.

He transformed into a streak of aurora and vanished on the spot.

He then arrived at a mansion. Because it was late at night, there were no people on the street, but the mansion was brightly lit.

He looked up and saw two characters engraved on the plaque.

Ji Mansion!

He descended upon the Ji family mansion, which bore the karma of his existence, through the Dao of Yuan Dan.

That's right, it's an arrival, not a maneuver!
The descent leaves no trace between two places; it transcends the rules of heaven and earth, descending to another place in a higher dimension.

He is essentially roaming freely in his own path!

This feeling is very strange.

Gu An walked towards the Ji residence, the place where he was born and where he had lived since childhood.

He stepped through the gate and walked into the courtyard.

An old servant carrying a lantern walked towards him and unexpectedly bumped into his body, passing him by.

This is also the mystery of the carefree immortal!
Mortal spirits must not be peered into, mortal spirits must not be touched!
No wonder there are no legends of carefree immortals in the world. For the first time, Gu An felt omnipotent.

The third update!

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