vstars Chapter 589: Breaking Through to the Perfection of the Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal Realm
Chapter 589: Breaking Through to the Perfection of the Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal Realm
The path of cultivation is long and full of obstacles. The ancients once said, “For an immortal, a single dream lasts three thousand years.” In the Heavenly Spirit Great World, this statement has been repeatedly proven true.
After stepping into the Nirvana Realm, a cultivator's sense of time begins to change. A hundred years pass in the blink of an eye, a thousand years feel like a fleeting dream. For immortal cultivators, the higher their talent, the faster time seems to slip away.
After becoming a True Disciple of the Dao Court, Xiao Lan entered seclusion for a long period.
At first, she was worried about Gu An, afraid that he might pass away from old age while she was in seclusion. Fortunately, despite his stumbles, Gu An always managed to break through at the crucial moments. When he successfully stepped into the Nirvana Realm, she finally felt relieved and could fully focus on her cultivation.
Ten thousand years passed in an instant. The mortal world had undergone countless changes, with lands shifting like waves in an ocean, but the cultivation world remained largely the same.
This year, Xiao Lan finally encountered an opportunity to break through. Under the protection of Dao Court’s great cultivators, she successfully stepped into the Wandering Immortal Realm. Gu An watched from afar.
He marveled at how different this new era was. Reaching the Wandering Immortal Realm in ten thousand years would have been an extremely rare feat in the previous era, but now, geniuses like her were no longer uncommon.
Meanwhile, Blood Prison Saint and An Xin had both advanced to the Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm one after the other.
The Dao Treasures they obtained played a crucial role in their cultivation, combined with the abundant spiritual energy of the Wushi Dao Field, which contained the essence of the Great Dao. Their cultivation speed was only accelerating.
Especially An Xin—she seemed to be undergoing a gradual transformation, moving closer and closer to An Hao.Seeing his disciples' rapid progress, Gu An felt that he had indeed played a significant role in helping them grow. Yet, when he thought back to the past, he couldn't help but feel nostalgic.
“It’s time for me to break through a minor realm as well.”
Watching Xiao Lan stabilize her cultivation in the sky, Gu An made a decision.
Originally, he wanted to rely on his own enlightenment to break through. However, for a cultivator at the Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal Realm, breaking through a single minor realm required an unimaginable amount of time.
With that thought, Gu An immediately switched to his clone, while his true body exited the small world.
Among the cultivators protecting Xiao Lan, the strongest had reached the Dao Void Profound Immortal Realm. This person did not sense anything unusual and remained focused on guarding Xiao Lan.
Meanwhile, Gu An’s true body arrived in a secluded forest in the mortal world. Without hesitation, he activated his Lifespan Breakthrough ability.
Nine breakthrough location options appeared before him again—most of them had shown up before.
His gaze fell on Desolation Tomb.
There was a mysterious karmic connection between this place and Sin. Gu An had previously hoped to uncover the truth through his Lifespan Reincarnation ability, but he had failed.
Perhaps now, with his higher cultivation, he could finally see the truth.
Without hesitation, Gu An selected Desolation Tomb as his destination.
This single trip would consume ten billion years of lifespan.
A moment later, Gu An opened his eyes and immediately activated his Lifespan Barrier.
Before him stretched the desolate landscape of the Desolation Tomb—ruined giant structures, shattered and scattered, extending endlessly into the horizon.
The massive palace where Sin resided was far away, but Gu An could still clearly see its condition.
That ten-thousand-zhang-tall gate remained slightly ajar, its interior pitch-black, like the entrance to hell itself.
However, Gu An did not continue staring at the palace. Instead, he brought up his status panel.
[Name: Gu An]
[Lifespan: 34,362 / 487,609,219,005]
[Physique: Hunyuan Reincarnation Immortal Physique]
[Cultivation: Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal Realm (Late Stage)]
Without hesitation, he began investing lifespan into his cultivation realm, increasing it in increments of ten billion years.
A series of notifications flashed before him repeatedly, indicating failed breakthroughs. However, with a total lifespan of four hundred eighty-seven billion years, Gu An completely ignored the failures.
Finally, after consuming one hundred ten billion years, he successfully reached the perfection stage of the Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal Realm.
Now, he only needed to monitor the Lifespan Barrier’s energy consumption.
Suddenly, an immense surge of spiritual energy erupted from the ground, enveloping Gu An in an instant. A golden radiance of the Great Dao descended, bathing him in divine light.
The entire Desolation Tomb quaked as its Dao energy fluctuated violently. Even the Great Dao’s laws themselves trembled.
As a Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal, the shockwaves from his breakthrough far exceeded those of his past advancements.
More and more ancient structures began shaking, while the ground split apart, sending up clouds of yellow dust, as if a massive golden veil was being lifted.
Because he was only breaking through a minor realm, Gu An didn’t need to fully immerse himself in the process. He spared a portion of his attention to observe Sin’s palace from afar.
Time ticked by, second by second.
At most, it would take half an hour for Gu An to fully complete his breakthrough.
However, despite half of that time passing, Sin still had not appeared.
Could something have happened?
Gu An pondered silently.
Even after his breakthrough was complete, Sin still did not emerge from the massive palace.
His Lifespan Barrier had consumed nearly fifty billion years, causing Gu An to feel a slight pang of regret.
The higher his cultivation, the more lifespan his Lifespan Barrier would consume. To ensure his safety, he had always activated the barrier whenever breaking through.
His reason for doing so was simple—Gu An loved to spy on others.
If he could observe lower-level beings without being noticed, then there were bound to be even stronger beings out there who enjoyed spying on those weaker than themselves.
The Lifespan Barrier existed to prevent him from being spied on while growing stronger—this was absolutely crucial. Gu An had made it this far while countless powerful enemies perished at his hands, all feeling disbelief at their demise. The Lifespan Barrier played a critical role in those victories.
Not seeing Sin this time left Gu An somewhat disappointed.
Even though the Desolation Tomb was experiencing unusual tremors, there was no sign of any living beings—not even ghosts or evil spirits.
After stabilizing his cultivation, Gu An slowly stood up.
Before leaving, he spread his divine sense over the entire Desolation Tomb.
Since this was a tomb, something had to be buried here.
The massive palace where Sin resided wasn’t necessarily the most mysterious place. At the very center of heaven and earth, Gu An saw an abyssal pit over a thousand miles in diameter, its depths impossible to see. Inside, an unusual Dao aura surged.
Having already begun to comprehend various Dao, this was the first time Gu An had encountered such an unfamiliar Dao aura.
It was strange, ominous, and chilling, sending an uncontrollable shudder through him.
Even with his cultivation at the perfection stage of the Heaven-Opening Grand Luo Immortal Realm, Gu An had a strong instinctive warning—this was a Dao he could not afford to touch.
Just as he was about to teleport away, he suddenly sensed movement.
Something was rising from deep within the abyss! As it ascended, the intangible, formless Dao aura it carried surged like an erupting volcanic inferno, unstoppable.
The earth quaked violently!
Gu An remained calm. He was protected by his Lifespan Barrier, ensuring that he wouldn't be discovered. However, he was prepared to teleport away instantly if needed.
Boom!
A massive gust of yellow dust shot into the sky. Gu An watched as the clouds in the distance were blown apart, revealing something bursting out of the abyss.
It shot toward the heavens, attempting to break through the sky itself, but just as it reached a certain height, it was stopped by an invisible barrier.
Narrowing his eyes, Gu An observed the entity more closely—it was a giant severed index finger.
The entire finger was deep crimson, its fingertip sharp like a blade, and its length stretched over a thousand zhang. It radiated an unfathomable aura.
The oppressive might exuded by this gigantic finger was no less than that of a Supreme Purity Golden Immortal at the early stage, but the Dao aura swirling around it was even more terrifying.
After failing to break through the invisible barrier, the severed index finger began to fall back down, ultimately crashing into a ruined temple, sending dust clouds soaring tens of thousands of zhang high.
Gu An extended his Lifespan Investigation toward the fallen finger, but no information appeared. This confirmed that the finger was not a living entity.
He turned his gaze to another direction.
From the massive palace where Sin resided, a faint aura flickered.
Soon after, a small figure emerged from the slightly open palace gate.
Sin.
He still looked like a ten-year-old child, unchanged from the last time Gu An saw him.
[Sin (Nirvana Realm): 0 / 9999 / 9999]
His age was still zero. Both his lifespan and maximum lifespan had remained completely unchanged.
Gu An’s curiosity deepened. What kind of existence was this?
Under his gaze, Sin took a deep breath, as though mentally preparing himself, before running toward the location where the severed index finger had fallen.
The boy's speed was astonishing—each step covered a hundred miles, almost as if he were teleporting.
In a short time, he arrived near the thousand-zhang-long severed finger.
Slowing his pace, Sin cautiously approached, his movements filled with hesitation and reverence.
When he finally stood before the severed finger, it was as if he were standing before a divine mountain, dwarfed by its sheer size.
Then, he stretched out his hand and gently touched the severed finger’s surface.
“Hmm?”
Gu An furrowed his brows and instinctively looked down at his own right index finger.
At that moment, he felt as though someone was touching his own finger.
With his cultivation at such a high level, illusions and delusions were impossible.
Could this thousand-zhang severed finger actually be his own?
As Sin continued caressing the severed finger, his eyes turned red, and tears began to well up.
He murmured something, but it was not in the language of the Heavenly Spirit Great World.
As his tears dripped onto the severed finger, the strange Dao aura surrounding it began flowing toward him, seemingly trying to transform him into an entirely different kind of being.
Gu An’s frown deepened.
He could feel an incredibly strong karmic connection emanating from the severed finger.
This was not his own finger.
Instead, it belonged to a certain figure from his past—a figure not from his current life, but from his past reincarnation.
A long-lost figure from his Lifespan Reincarnation.
That person was Fairy Yao Xuan.
During his previous lifespan, she had sacrificed herself to save his reincarnated self, Yongsheng, falling into the abyss of the Great Dao itself, forever unable to reincarnate, forever beyond the reach of fate.
Even cause and effect itself had been unable to locate her.
If not for Yongsheng’s use of the Monument of Great Karma, he would never have even caught the slightest trace of her existence.
By relying on the power of the Great Karma Monument, Yongsheng had linked Fairy Yao Xuan’s karma to Shen Zhen, and through Shen Zhen, Gu An’s current self had unknowingly established a karmic bond with her.
This karmic connection was intangible and imperceptible to ordinary eyes, but it undeniably existed.
The deeper Gu An’s connection with Shen Zhen, the stronger his sense of karma with Fairy Yao Xuan became.
Now, the more he examined this severed thousand-zhang-long finger, the more certain he became—it belonged to Fairy Yao Xuan.
But if that were the case…
What was Sin’s connection to Fairy Yao Xuan?
Could it be that…