When I Achieved Sainthood, the Immortal Official Actually Called Me to Raise Horses!

Gu An took a deep breath as he looked at his remaining 25 million years of lifespan.

Ancestors of Huaxia, please bless me!

With that, Gu An boldly invested 10 million years of his lifespan in one go—he had never been this extravagant before.

【You cultivated Qi absorption for 60,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Primordial Chaos Supreme Art, you forcibly attempted to break through to the Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm and began your tribulation. However, you failed to endure the Six Profound Dao Laws Tribulation—breakthrough failed.】

【You cultivated Qi absorption for 120,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Primordial Chaos Supreme Art, you forcibly attempted to break through to the Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm and began your tribulation. However, you failed to endure the Six Profound Dao Laws Tribulation—breakthrough failed.】

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One tribulation every 60,000 years!

That was still acceptable. After all, when he broke through to the Free Soaring Immortal Realm, tribulations occurred every 50,000 years. A higher realm meant an additional 10,000 years per tribulation attempt. This proved that both the Primordial Causality Physique and Primordial Chaos Supreme Art were exerting their power.

Would 10 million years of lifespan bring a surprise?

Gu An let his thoughts wander as system notifications flooded his vision like never before.

Failure!

Failure!

Still failure!

Gu An resumed his usual habit—checking whether the length of the notification log had changed. If it hadn’t, that meant he still hadn’t succeeded.

In the end, 10 million years of lifespan had gone up in smoke.

Upgrading his physique and cultivation method still granted him deeper insights into spiritual energy and universal laws, even if the breakthrough failed. But when it came to advancing cultivation realms, failure meant pure loss—nothing gained.

This 10 million years of lifespan had simply evaporated.

Gu An now had only 15 million years of lifespan left, and he started to panic.

10 million years of lifespan... he’d have to farm for 20 years to make up for that!

But then, he reminded himself of how long cultivators in the Celestial Ascension Realm required—often tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years to break through a single minor realm. Why should he feel bad?

Spend!

Spending big is the only way to achieve enlightenment!

This time, instead of another 10 million, he decided on 5 million years.

With a silent thought, he focused on his cultivation realm and invested his lifespan.

The failure notifications continued!

Even after burning through 5 million years of lifespan, he still hadn’t broken through.

Another 5 million!

Now, his remaining lifespan dropped to just over 5 million years, making him feel alarmingly short-lived, as if he might drop dead tomorrow.

Sigh… it’s hard to go back to frugality after luxury.

Gu An sighed inwardly. Even closing his eyes didn’t help—he could still see the failure notifications flashing.

Another 20 million years of lifespan, gone!

And this was after improving his physique and cultivation method. If he hadn’t, would it have required 30 million years or more just to break through?

Gritting his teeth, Gu An threw in another 1 million years of lifespan.

【You cultivated Qi absorption for 730,000 years. With your profound mastery of the Primordial Chaos Supreme Art, you forcibly attempted to break through to the Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm and began your tribulation. This time, you endured the Six Profound Dao Laws Tribulation—breakthrough successful! Your cultivation has advanced to Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm, First Layer!】

【You cultivated Qi absorption for 830,000 years. Your cultivation has advanced to Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm, Second Layer!】

【You cultivated Qi absorption for 930,000 years. Your cultivation has advanced to Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm, Third Layer!】

【You cultivated Qi absorption for 1 million years. Your cultivation has further strengthened.】

Finally, success!

Oddly enough, after each failed tribulation attempt, the cooldown period before retrying had shortened. That was intriguing.

Gu An exhaled deeply, a smile spreading across his face.

After spending 21 million years of lifespan, he had finally broken through!

Advancing one minor realm per 100,000 years—Gu An actually felt that was a bit low.

So, without hesitation, he continued investing lifespan, pushing his cultivation all the way to Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm, Ninth Layer, burning another 1.03 million years in the process!

At Fifth Layer, each breakthrough required 200,000 years.

From Eighth Layer to Ninth Layer, it took 300,000 years!

Total cost: 22.03 million years!

Now, he was curious—how long did cultivators in the real world take to break through each layer of the Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm?

If it was less than his method, that was fine—after all, simulated lifespan expenditure was inherently inefficient.

But if it was significantly less, he wouldn’t be able to accept that.

Still, he had no intention of dealing with Mystic Dao Spirit Immortals for now.

He was not even 200 years old—he didn’t want to interact with hundred-thousand-year-old or even million-year-old monsters.

Too much of a generation gap.

As he thought this, the ground beneath him trembled violently.

This commotion far exceeded the one caused by improving his physique and cultivation technique—this time, the entire world was quaking.

Countless Divine Anomaly Wraiths burst into the sky, covering the heavens as they fled, their wails and screams echoing across the land.

Annoying.

But for the sake of his breakthrough, Gu An could only endure the noise.

This disturbance spread to other realms—after all, every world was interconnected through the laws of the universe.

In a small realm…

A purple-dressed woman soared into the sky from the mountains, a small ghost perched on her shoulder. She was the Second Cave Master of the Seven Star Spirit Realm.

She frowned deeply, her divine sense expanding to envelop the entire realm—but she couldn’t find the source of the disturbance.

”Mother, the spiritual energy on the ocean had been sinking before, and now it’s happening within the Divine Anomaly Realm too. Is this caused by someone, or is it an omen?” The little ghost asked nervously, scanning the surroundings as if an invisible force was watching him.

After a long silence, the Second Cave Master finally spoke. ”I don’t know. But it’s happening in every realm, not just ours. That means we’re not the target of this phenomenon.”

The little ghost hesitated. ”I heard that the Divine Anomaly Wraith King, Tian Wuchang, was crushed by the Sword Sovereign of the Righteous Path. Mother, do you think the Sword Sovereign has infiltrated this place?”

The Second Cave Master’s expression changed, and she instantly disappeared.

By the seaside…

Tian Wuchang stood before a stone monument, trembling violently.

He turned to the monument, gritting his teeth. ”Realm Master, are you sure this is nothing?”

As he spoke, eight more figures appeared beside him—each one as powerful as Tian Wuchang.

The Nine Divine Anomaly Wraith Kings had gathered!

They all wore grim expressions.

A serpent-bodied woman with a seductive face spoke. ”Realm Master, the spiritual energy of all realms is sinking, being drained by some unknown force. We can’t trace its source.”

Her golden eyes flickered with murderous intent.

The other wraith kings voiced their concerns as well.

“Could this be the work of the Bitter Sea Buddhist Sect’s transcendents?”

“What if it’s the Immortal Dao Holy Court?”

“…If they break the rules, what should we do?”

Everyone fell silent and turned toward the stone monument.

Blood began to seep from its surface.

A pale hand emerged.

The Divine Anomaly Realm Master had awakened.

The Divine Anomaly Realm Master emerged.

As his head rose from the monument, sparse white hair draped over his face. His skin was deathly pale, covered in writhing black runes that slithered like living parasites, making one’s scalp tingle.

The moment he landed, black armor materialized over his body—layered like serpent scales, interlocking so densely that it gave off an eerie sense of oppression.

A dark red crown appeared atop his head, from which two dragon souls twisted and coiled, desperately trying to break free from their bindings.

When he opened his eyes, his gaze was pure crimson—no pupils, no whites, only endless blood-red depths.

“Sit,” the Divine Anomaly Realm Master commanded, his voice indifferent.

The Nine Wraith Kings let out a collective sigh of relief before obediently taking their seats.

The moment they sat down, a terrifying divine sense swept over them, piercing their spectral forms like an unstoppable tide.

Was the Realm Master regaining his cultivation?!

Each of the Nine Wraith Kings was at the ninth layer of the Celestial Ascension Realm, only a step away from the Free Soaring Immortal Realm. Yet, in the face of the Realm Master’s divine sense, they felt utterly insignificant.

Inside the Lifespan Barrier

Gu An snapped his eyes open and looked toward the distant sky, his expression wary.

Even within the isolation of the Lifespan Barrier, he could still sense the divine sense of a Free Soaring Immortal sweeping across the world.

And this wasn’t just any Free Soaring Immortal—it was something far beyond ordinary!

No wonder so many sects couldn’t do anything about the Severed Sea Rift.

Cultivators who reached the Celestial Ascension Realm would often leave this world to venture into the heavens beyond. As for Free Soaring Immortals, they never appeared in the mortal world.

Until now.

This was the first time Gu An had encountered a real Free Soaring Immortal.

He took a deep breath, calming his thoughts. There was no need to act rashly.

The boundless surge of spiritual energy continued flooding into his body. His Primordial Chaos Supreme Art was operating at full force, relentlessly pushing toward a higher realm.

Gu An could clearly feel his soul undergoing a transformation.

What did it mean to be a Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal?

He was eager to find out.

The cliff beneath him trembled violently, fractures spiderwebbing through the rock.

Gu An remained unfazed.

If the cliff collapsed, he’d just fall. No big deal—the Lifespan Barrier would follow him.

As time passed, countless Divine Anomaly Wraiths flooded the skies, seemingly searching for something. Some of them even swept past the top of Gu An’s barrier.

Gu An’s nerves tensed.

He really didn’t want any of them intruding.

If a Divine Anomaly Wraith barged in, and the Free Soaring Immortal detected him…

That would be troublesome.

In that case, Gu An would have no choice but to kill the wraith instantly.

But if the Free Soaring Immortal had any powerful backing…

That would be a problem.

The Severed Sea Rift had affected countless oceans and sects. Some sects even possessed formations that could block Free Soaring Immortal detection.

And yet, so far, only Celestial Ascension cultivators had stepped forward to fight against the Divine Anomaly Wraiths—not a single Free Soaring Immortal had intervened.

This alone spoke volumes.

Perhaps, some mysterious force was suppressing Free Soaring Immortals, preventing them from interfering.

Gu An pondered this possibility as he continued waiting for his breakthrough.

Breakthrough!

One hour later…

Gu An finally broke through!

He ascended from the ninth layer of the Free Soaring Immortal Realm to the first layer of the Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal Realm!

The moment he succeeded, the spiritual energy rushing into his body exploded in intensity!

His soul was instantly forcibly ejected from his physical body.

A vast ocean of spiritual energy surged, refining his flesh while the universal laws gathered around his soul, immersing him in an unfathomable transformation.

Mystic Dao Spirit Immortal… ”Spirit” referred to the soul!

As Gu An floated in the boundless tide of spiritual laws, he experienced a flood of knowledge and enlightenment.

A true rebirth.

Divine creation.

His mind became one with the universe.

The ocean of universal laws embraced him, and his soul began to metamorphose.

His divine sense expanded exponentially, revealing visions beyond comprehension.

He saw too much.