Steadily becoming a saint, the immortal officials hired me to tend the horses

Hearing Ji Xiaoyu's words, Gu An was stunned for a moment, then asked, "You came back just for this thing?"

Want to inspect my soul?

Do you think I'm a demon?

Gu An felt strange inside, not knowing how to evaluate Ji Xiaoyu's idea.

Ji Xiaoyu seemed to understand his expression. She explained, "Of course, it's not just this capability. If a cultivator can glimpse their own soul, they might enhance their comprehension."

"I don't believe it, so I won't try," Gu An waved his hand.

Ji Xiaoyu moved closer and whispered, "Just try it, it won't hurt."

"I'm not afraid of pain, but asking me to inspect my own soul feels invasive. You don't think I'm a demon, right?"

"How could that be? Even if you were a demon, it wouldn't matter, after all… "

"Still saying you're not?"

Gu An feigned anger and left with a flick of his sleeve.

Although he didn't understand the origin of that treasure, Gu An decided to stay away, just in case his soul turned out to be something extraordinary.

Of course, rationally speaking, there shouldn't be such a powerful treasure.

Ji Xiaoyu stood where she was, watching him leave thoughtfully.

Back in his room, Gu An closed the door and took out a strange book he had just acquired from the Outer Gate City and started reading it.

In this life, although Ji Xiaoyu was stubborn, she wasn't the type to pester, so after being refused by Gu An, she just went back to her room to cultivate.

In the following days, Gu An avoided Ji Xiaoyu.

As autumn approached, Gu An returned from Tianya Valley, and his life span finally broke through to thirty million years today.

He walked through the mountains and forests, his divine sense extending to the sea, locking onto the Sea Breaking Rift.

Looking at the entire line of the Sea Breaking Rift, the number of cultivators and demons gathered around exceeded ten million, not to mention how many creatures had gathered at the bottom of the rift.

Soon, Gu An decided where to enter the bottom of the Sea Breaking Rift.

As his right foot took another step, his entire aura suddenly changed, and he directly entered the special state of the Carefree Primordial Immortal.

He stepped into the Limitless Freedom Step, quickly leaping out of the continent. After a few steps, he dove into the Sea Breaking Rift.

Upon entering the Sea Breaking Rift, he felt as if he had entered an abyss. The surroundings were dark, with only the deafening sound of water falling on either side.

During his descent, he encountered cultivators, demons, and Divine Exotic Resentful Ghosts flying out. Some brushed past him, and some passed directly through his body, none of them noticing his presence.

The Sea Breaking Rift was deeper than Gu An had anticipated, seemingly leading to another world.

After descending tens of millions of miles, a dim blue light appeared below, shimmering. He felt a unique aura, like the power of some Heaven and Earth rule.

He passed through this layer of dim blue light, clearly feeling like he had entered another world.

The aura of this world felt familiar to him, giving him a sense of being inside Divine Exotic City.

This place also contained many heavens and earths. He flew towards the world with the richest spiritual energy, which was also the most vast, several hundred times the size of the Supreme Sect's continent.

During his flight, Gu An saw many cultivators and demons traversing, the lowest cultivation level being the Wandering Immortal Realm.

Only those who had reached the Wandering Immortal Realm could freely traverse these heavens and earths.

Creatures with lower cultivation levels needed to use different heavens' and earths' teleportation arrays or space rifts for traversal.

He also saw the figures of Divine Exotic Resentful Ghosts, wandering in the void, watching the passing creatures and ready to pounce at any moment.

Gu An did not look much, his right foot stepping out again, arriving at a cliff.

The sky here was blood-red, with dark clouds, and faintly visible outlines of several moons.

Gu An sat down cross-legged, directly activating the Life Span Barrier.

The spiritual energy here was incredibly abundant, even denser than the Third Medicine Valley filled with medicinal herbs, no wonder so many cultivators and demons rushed in recklessly.

Gu An did not immediately break through, instead admiring the scenery in all directions.

The vastness of heaven and earth made it hard to see flowers or plants. Tornadoes roamed the mountains in the distance, stirring up many resentful souls that wailed and howled like ghosts.

Desolate, bleak.

That was Gu An's feeling, hard to imagine what had happened to this land to end up in such a state.

If everything in this world were flourishing, what level of spiritual energy could be reached?

Gu An withdrew his gaze and then called up the attribute panel.

[Name: Gu An]

[Life Span: 174/30004901]

[Physique: Mystic Holy Body]

[Cultivation Level: Ninth Layer of Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm]

...

Looking at his life span, Gu An's face showed a smile.

He rubbed his hands together as if about to do something big.

He decided to enhance his physique first and invest a million years of life span to see the effect.

From the Innate Taoist Body to Mystic Holy Body, he had spent five hundred twenty thousand years of life span back then; he wondered if a million years would be enough for a transformation.

Investing life span!

Rows of prompts continued to pop up, all indicating that his bones were getting stronger.

Ultimately, a million years were not enough for a successful promotion.

Gu An felt a bit distressed and changed his mind, deciding to try again.

So he began to invest his life span year by year, a thousand years at a time.

The prompts came continuously, making his expression increasingly unnatural.

Finally!

[You have comprehended the true meaning of heaven and earth for ten thousand years, subjected your body to the tempering of the true meaning of heaven and earth, and your bones have transformed; your Mystic Holy Body has upgraded to Primordial Karmic Body]

Boom—

Heaven and earth's spiritual energy suddenly surged toward his body, and a sea of spiritual energy mist appeared on the ground, magnificent and beautiful.

Gu An's face showed a smile.

Breaking through his physique cost one million six hundred seventy thousand years!

Who could bear that cost!

Gu An hesitated, wondering whether to enhance his cultivation technique.

He feared that enhancing both would leave insufficient life span to break through his realm.

As his realm advanced, the difficulty of breaking through kept increasing. If his next breakthrough consumed as much life span as the last time, it would indicate that his power was leaping forward. Reducing the required life span would be almost impossible. He could only try to minimize the life span consumed in breakthrough without causing the number to multiply.

The ground kept shaking, and the spiritual energy in heaven and earth kept sinking, startling countless Divine Exotic Resentful Ghosts.

On the other side of the world, by the sea, Impermanence Tian suddenly stood up, looking around in panic.

The beach under his feet trembled, causing the waves to surge, and the sinking of spiritual energy stirred up strong winds.

"Could it be him?" Impermanence Tian gritted his teeth.

Although more than two months had passed, he had been on edge, fearing that person would come to kill him any moment.

"The sinking of spiritual energy might be related to the riot of this world's rules, not related to any person."

The cold voice from the tablet emerged, and upon hearing it, Impermanence Tian breathed a sigh of relief and sat down again.

Impermanence Tian complained, "Realm Master, when will you regain your cultivation level and control the order of the Divine Exotic Realm? More and more cultivators are breaking in; this will cause trouble sooner or later."

The voice in the tablet did not answer him.

Impermanence Tian waited a while, but he could only close his eyes and continue practicing.

...

On the cliff, within the Life Span Barrier.

Gu An endured the pain of his body's transformation, feeling conflicted.

Back then, it took seven hundred thousand years of life span for the Five Elements Taoist Skill to transform into Heaven and Earth Primordial Skill.

Enhancing it again would probably consume at least two million years of life span!

Do it!

He should enhance his cultivation technique since he had already passed Heaven and Earth Primordial Skill onto Yang Jian and An Hao.

As a master, one must hold back something, how could he practice the same level cultivation technique as his disciples?

Gu An immediately invested one million years of life span!

As expected, it was not successful.

He invested another one million years of life span!

Failed!

Five hundred thousand years of life span!

Failed!

Two hundred thousand years of life span!

Heaven and Earth Primordial Skill successfully promoted to Primordial Chaos Supreme Holy Skill, but the cultivation technique level just reached a slight achievement.

Two million seven hundred thousand years of life span!

Gu An felt heartache, and not only that, the Life Span Barrier consumed life span quickly. In this short time, it had already consumed several thousand years of life span.

If he didn't leave himself a million years of life span, Gu An feared either the Life Span Barrier would consume him to death, or he would have to shut it down before the breakthrough ended, exposing himself.

Gu An had intended to enhance the All Things Form and Energy Art, which was crucial for hiding his cultivation level and was a body cultivation method.

But now, it seemed to have to be set aside.

He thought to himself that after breaking through his cultivation level, he would save five million years of life span to enhance the All Things Form and Energy Art.

Gu An silently thought about it. The memory of the cultivation technique did not flood into his mind. It seemed the Primordial Karmic Body contained mysterious memories that needed to be passed on first before the cultivation technique memories.

He waited patiently.

An ancient hour later, his physique completely transformed into the Primordial Karmic Body.

The Primordial Karmic Body was extremely powerful, capable of isolating all power of cause and effect, even using the power of cause and effect to harm enemies.

Everything was tied to cause and effect; an enemy's cultivation technique and divine skills all had cause and effect. He could peer into the cause and effect of their cultivation technique and divine skills to find weaknesses. If his cultivation level were strong enough, he could even directly destroy their Dao level.

The Primordial Karmic Body would also generate the Primordial Divine Eye, containing numerous mysteries he would need time to study.

Next was receiving the memory inheritance of Primordial Chaos Supreme Holy Skill!

The continuous influx of earth spirit energy into Gu An's body gave him only a few seconds of clear consciousness before he was plunged into the vast memory.

Primordial Chaos Supreme Holy Skill contained five-element attributes, evolving into a chaotic spirit sea, refining stronger mana, Origin Dharma Power!

Origin Dharma Power was a robust and vast power!

With the cultivation technique's enhancement, the speed of generating spiritual energy within his body was swift, almost reaching the point of a continuous mana supply. Of course, this would require heaven and earth's spiritual energy and elixirs to match his mana consumption speed.

Simultaneously, this cultivation technique included a divine skill, known as the Origin Heaven-Capturing Hand!

As its name suggested, the Origin Heaven-Capturing Hand could capture the sky, act both offensively and defensively, and even had sealing effects!

Another ancient hour passed, and Gu An slowly opened his eyes.

A golden thread appeared between his eyebrows, glowing with a golden rainbow, making him appear illusory.

Gu An raised his right hand, condensing Origin Dharma Power in his palm, transforming his hand into the Origin Heaven-Capturing Hand.

He could capture the sky, quell the earth, and even massacre all living beings!

Gu An restrained his urge to strike, dissipating the Origin Dharma Power in his hand, then called up the attribute panel again.

Seeing his rapidly declining life span, he instantly became alert.

He patted his face with both hands and thought, "The next step is the most crucial moment!"

Breaking through his cultivation level!

Attempting to surpass the Carefree Primordial Immortal!