Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

111: Chapter 111 The Five-Hundred-Year Longevity Pill!Time flowed, and another twenty years passed.

Xiaoluo Cave Heaven, Hall of Longevity.

Gu Yan was five hundred and fifteen years old, at the Human Immortal Sixth Layer.

Advancing one minor Realm every twenty years; such speed, even in the Immortal Realm, could be considered shocking.

Of course, Gu Yan knew clearly that this was inseparable from the nine-qi chaoyuan tree and the countless Heaven And Earth Treasure scavenged by Dragon.

And even more so, it was inseparable from the repeated gifts of the ”immortal lord fuzhe - red” trait.

Without these, if he could reach the Human Immortal Second Layer now, it would already be a tremendous stroke of fortune.

Gu Yan stood up and stretched his muscles and bones.

Twenty years of closed-door cultivation was merely a brief period of consolidation for the Dao of Immortality.

But in these twenty years, the Spirit Realm must have been stirred up by winds and clouds, right?

However... Gu Yan shook his head, temporarily suppressing those thoughts.

He had no intention of dealing with the turmoil in the Spirit Realm for the time being. Letting it develop freely was best.

Only in this way would the future he saw using the haotian mirror have the greatest reference value.

If he were to intervene in everything and change things everywhere, the future would become like flowing water, ever-changing and elusive.

Over these years, Gu Yan had used the haotian mirror to deduce the future countless times and had seen with his own eyes how the trajectories of those futures changed again and again.

He gradually understood a principle: The great trend cannot be changed, but the small trend can be altered.

What is a great trend? The operation of heaven and earth, the Reincarnation of all living beings, the struggles of the Immortal Emperor, and the rise and fall of the heavens. These are great trends.

Great trends cannot be changed by human power. At least, not by his current level of cultivation.

What is a small trend? The life and death of a person, the rise and fall of a Sect, the battle situation of a Realm. These are small trends. Small trends can be changed.

If he wanted to save someone, he could save them. If he wanted to destroy someone, he could destroy them. If he wanted a Sect to rise, he could support it. If he wanted a Sect to perish, he could push it.

But these changes in small trends ultimately could not affect the direction of the great trend.

Just like that Myriad Tribulations Demon Lord in the Southern Border. He would succeed in unifying the Southern Border, would expand to the Eastern Continent, would stir up a war in the Spirit Realm, and would cause countless living beings to suffer.

But he was destined not to succeed in unifying the entire Spirit Realm. He was destined not to succeed in ruling over the many Mortal Realm.

Because, if even the haotian mirror could deduce the schemes of the old demon behind him, how could the high and mighty Heavenly Dao not know?

Since the Heavenly Dao knew, he was destined to fail. This is why the great trend cannot be changed.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Gu Yan recalled the time he left closed-door cultivation twenty years ago. That time, he rarely walked out of the Hall of Longevity to properly tour this Xiaoluo Cave Heaven.

It must be said that the Sect Head, Xuan Chenzi, was indeed a capable person.

When Gu Yan first moved the entire Taiyi Dao Sect into the grotto-heaven, he had assumed that Xuan Chenzi would take the opportunity to establish the Sect within the towering celestial palace.

After all, his celestial palace had countless halls and a magnificent Aura, more than enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people. But Xuan Chenzi did not.

He led a group of Elders to find a blessed land with beautiful scenery and abundant Spiritual Qi within the grotto-heaven and rebuilt the Sect.

The new Taiyi Dao Sect was built against the mountains and resided by the water. The pavilions and towers were arranged in an orderly manner, and the spiritual fields and medicinal gardens were layered, making it countless times more imposing than it was back in the Mortal Realm.

As for Gu Yan’s celestial palace, Xuan Chenzi used it as a facade.

He said to Gu Yan, ”Dao Lord, that celestial palace is too noble. If Disciples like us were to move in directly, it would instead diminish our fortune.”

”It would be better to use it as a reward; only Disciples whose cultivation has reached a certain Realm are qualified to live in it.”

”In this way, it can both encourage Disciples to Cultivate diligently and prevent the celestial palace from losing its dignity.”

After hearing this, Gu Yan just smiled and nodded. He could arrange it as he pleased.

However, Elder Chen and Lin Wei were directly arranged by Xuan Chenzi to move into the celestial palace.

After all, they were the two people closest to the Dao Lord, so naturally, they could not be treated the same as ordinary Disciples.

Not counting this relationship, Elder Chen was now already at the Middle Stage of the Nascent Soul, a T1-level figure in the Taiyi Dao Sect.

He lived in a hall on the east side of the celestial palace, and every day, apart from cultivating, he would plant flowers and raise grass, living a leisurely and carefree life.

Lin Wei had long since stepped into the Soul Transformation Realm, becoming the number one person in the Taiyi Dao Sect under Gu Yan. Excluding a certain blue dragon that had fallen into a deep sleep.

Besides the Taiyi Dao Sect, there was another group of people in this Xiaoluo Cave Heaven. Those were the members of the Great Love Alliance from the Nanming No. 73 Mortal Realm.

Over these twenty years, people had successively entered the grotto-heaven through the teleportation array. They had all been personally screened by Fang Yuan.

They were people who had made outstanding contributions to the Great Love Alliance and had dedicated their lives to the common people.

After retirement, Fang Yuan would give them a choice. To go, or not to go.

To go meant entering the Xiaoluo Cave Heaven, obtaining a longevity pill, acquiring a Cultivation Technique, and embarking on the path of longevity from then on. Not to go meant staying in the Mortal Realm to enjoy their twilight years in peace and die of old age.

Most people chose to go. After all, who wouldn’t yearn for longevity?

Thus, over these years, a group of special residents had been added to the Xiaoluo Cave Heaven.

They were not Disciples of the Taiyi Dao Sect, but they could also move freely within the grotto-heaven.

They lived in some halls on the outskirts of the celestial palace, cultivating Cultivation Techniques and taking Medicinal Pill every day, gradually shedding their Mortal bodies and stepping onto the path of immortality.

Gu Yan had been to see them. On the faces of those people, there was an indescribable expression. It was not wild joy, not excitement, but a kind of... satisfaction.

They had once given everything for that ideal in the Mortal Realm. Now, they had received their reward.

Was it fair? Gu Yan felt it was quite fair.

As for those ordinary people who had made no contributions, although they did not have the opportunity to enter the grotto-heaven, they could still eat their fill, dress warmly, and live with dignity in the Mortal Realm. Compared to those Mortals struggling at the bottom of the Spirit Realm, they were already happy. That was enough.

Speaking of the longevity pill, Gu Yan happened to think of Fang Yuan. Over these years, Fang Yuan had refined quite a few longevity pill in the Mortal Realm.

The Materials used were all various Spiritual Plant collected by Dragon in the Spirit Realm.

Although Dragon had stopped large-scale scavenging these years, occasionally, when encountering some rare medicinal Materials, he would still pick them up. Afterwards, he would send them to Fang Yuan through the Divine Soul communication channel.

Fang Yuan would then use these Materials to refine furnace after furnace of longevity pill.

That longevity pill, for a Martial Artist and Mortal, could increase their Lifespan by five hundred years with just one pill.

It stands to reason that for a Medicinal Pill of this level, wanting to refine it successfully would inevitably attract a Heavenly Tribulation.

The Medicinal Pill seizes the fortune of heaven and earth and invades the mystery of the sun and moon; when the pill is formed, the Heavenly Dao must send down a Lightning Tribulation to destroy it. This is the rule.

But the longevity pill refined by Fang Yuan had never attracted a Lightning Tribulation.

Because he was refining them in the Xiaoluo Cave Heaven.

This Xiaoluo Cave Heaven, having linked with Gu Yan’s ”Form of No-Self and No-Form · Red”, could conceal the perception of the Great Dao and the Heavenly Dao.

In the eyes of the Heavenly Dao, this grotto-heaven simply did not exist. Since it did not exist, naturally, no Lightning Tribulation would descend.

Thus, Fang Yuan refined the longevity pill in this grotto-heaven, furnace after furnace, succeeding every time.