Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

206: Chapter 206 Inner Demons, Karmic Fire, Obsession, Entanglement of Cause and Effect!Thirty years passed in the blink of an eye within the Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven.

Inside the Hall of Longevity, Gu Yan remained with his eyes closed, cultivating.

His aura was deep and heavy as an abyss, and with every breath, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and Immortal Spiritual Qi surged in like a tide.

Yet his cultivation Realm remained firmly at the Immortal King First Level, not moving a single bit.

At the level of an Immortal King, every step of improvement was no longer a simple accumulation of various types of Spiritual Qi and Law.

It required comprehending the Dao and tempering the heart.

Therefore, Spiritual Qi had become the least important aspect.

It was like building a tower; when laying the foundation, one just needed to add bricks and tiles, but when building to the spire, every inch of height required balancing countless Destiny.

The Immortal King Realm was that spire; without great Opportunity and great Comprehension Ability, it was common to be trapped there for millions or even hundreds of millions of years.

Gu Yan had long been mentally prepared for this, so he was neither anxious nor impatient.

Cultivation was like climbing a mountain; the higher one went, the steeper it became, and the higher one went, the lonelier it became.

He was currently only at the Immortal King First Level, with the Nine Heavens still separating him from the Immortal Emperor; if he became restless and impatient just because he couldn’t advance for a moment, that would truly cut off his path forward.

He slowly opened his eyes, deciding to stop his arduous cultivation for now, and sank his consciousness into this Grotto-Heaven world to see what changes had occurred over the years.

Upon looking, he was somewhat surprised.

The Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven was now a lively world.

The population had already exceeded ten million.

Back when he moved the Taiyi Dao Sect from the Mortal Realm into this place, there were only a mere few tens of thousands of people.

In the hundreds of years that followed, the Disciples of the Taiyi Dao Sect formed Dao Companions, bore children, and multiplied generation after generation.

Added to that, members of the All-Universe Alliance entered from time to time, causing the population to grow like a snowball, reaching over ten million by today.

Where there are people, there is Jianghu.

This was a principle that held true everywhere.

However, within this Grotto-Heaven, everything was very restrained.

Everyone knew that the master of this Realm was the Longevity Dao Lord, Gu Yan; with the Dao Lord above, who would dare to act presumptuously?

Occasional small frictions were nothing more than verbal disputes or arguments of ego, and at most, they would exchange a few moves before stopping, never daring to cause death or injury.

Overall, it maintained a rare state of truth, goodness, and beauty.

Gu Yan was quite satisfied with this.

Among these ten million people, apart from himself and a few others like Old Chen, Lin Wei, and Shen Qingyi, there were still several people who were exceptionally dazzling.

If one were to talk about T1 figures, it would be Chu Feng, Lin Fan, and Ye Chen.

All three of them had reached the Integration Stage in their cultivation.

Speaking of Ye Chen, it was somewhat interesting.

He had originally started cultivating many years earlier than Chu Feng and Lin Fan, and his cultivation had always been in the lead.

Later, he acted like a salted fish for a period of time and slacked off.

As a result, he discovered later that those juniors were advancing by leaps and bounds, and it looked like they were about to surpass him.

Only then did Ye Chen wake up, striving to catch up, barely managing to keep pace and stand side by side with Chu Feng and Lin Fan.

At the T2 level were the siblings Xu Gang and Xu Yue, as well as the siblings Ji Canghai and Ji Yingying.

These people had once attracted Gu Yan’s attention.

To put it another way, if these people were placed in other web novels, every single one of them would be destined to be a protagonist.

And those who are protagonists often have one common characteristic—they love to cause trouble.

Wherever they go, there is trouble.

They turn danger into safety when encountering it, kill enemies when meeting them, and their close relatives are often sacrificed to the heavens, as if they couldn’t inspire their fighting spirit without a few loved ones dying.

However, within this Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven, with Gu Yan’s red trait ”Selfless and Formless Body” concealing the Great Dao and Heavenly Dao, those bizarre tragedies could not happen.

But there is a principle in this world called conservation of energy.

Calamities do not disappear into thin air; they only manifest in different ways.

If there is no calamity externally, then it arises internally.

Gu Yan was the master of this Small Luo Grotto-Heaven, and any subtle change within the world could not escape his perception.

Just a moment ago, he had actually sensed a trace of calamity aura.

Calamity aura is a sign that disaster is about to arise, a preview before a great calamity arrives.

It was not strange for this thing to appear in the outside world, but appearing within his Grotto-Heaven was like a drop of ink falling out of thin air onto a white snowy ground.

Gu Yan frowned slightly.

”No, how could calamity aura be born in my Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven?”

He immediately traced the source of that trace of calamity aura.

Upon seeing the source, good heavens.

It was most concentrated on his Disciple Shen Qingyi, so concentrated that it almost condensed into substance.

Next was Little Nezha.

This person was a great master of the Immortal King Realm in her past life, and although she was still in the appearance of a little girl, with the nine revolutions reincarnation immortal lotus above her head, the calamity aura on her body was already like black clouds pressing down.

Next were Chu Feng, Lin Fan, and Ye Chen; they also had calamity aura entwined around them, and although it was not as dense as the first two, it was still visible to the naked eye.

As for Xu Gang, Xu Yue, Ji Canghai, Ji Yingying, and others, they also had some calamity aura growing on them, just not as obvious as the others.

Gu Yan was silent for a moment, inevitably feeling a bit helpless.

”What is this called?”

”You can dodge the first day of the lunar month, but you can’t dodge the fifteenth.”

He immediately raised his hand, activated the haotian mirror, and used the power of the highest grade innate spirit treasure to deduce the Karma, wanting to see why these people, who were perfectly fine, would generate calamity aura.

The mirror surface glowed, and after a moment, the result appeared.

Upon closer inspection, Gu Yan understood.

As it turned out, the reason for all of this was already destined within everyone’s life fate.

Shen Qingyi went without saying, suspected to be an Immortal Emperor reincarnated.

Little Nezha was a great master of the Immortal King Realm in her past life, died at the hands of the Underworld Emperor, and relied on the nine revolutions reincarnation immortal lotus to live another life.

Although Chu Feng and Lin Fan were only a Golden Immortal and a Profound Immortal in their past lives, they also had somewhat special life fates.

And Ye Chen, Ji Canghai, and others all had the protagonist life fate favored by the Luck of the Mortal Realm.

Such people are destined to have a life full of calamities in the normal world.

Heaven wants to send calamities, the earth wants to create disasters, enemies want revenge, and loved ones are sacrificed to the heavens.

One wave subsides and another rises; they grow in calamity and undergo tribulations during their growth.

But now, they were in the Supreme Creation Small Luo Grotto-Heaven.

This world had Gu Yan’s trait ”Selfless and Formless Body” concealing it, so the Great Dao did not manifest, and the Heavenly Dao was not prominent.

External calamities could not find them, and the arrangements of fate could not fall upon them.

But calamity is not something that won’t come just because you don’t provoke it.

It is like a stubborn creditor; even if you hide to the ends of the earth, it will find you.

Since external calamities could not enter, the calamity aura grew from their own Divine Souls.

It was like a person whose body had accumulated too many toxins that could not be expelled, so they accumulated in the internal organs and eventually turned into a lesion.

This was not a calamity sent down by the Heavenly Dao, nor was it a hardship arranged by the Great Dao.

It was an internal calamity spontaneously generated by their own life fates in an environment with no tribulations to undergo.

To put it bluntly, these people were born with the fate of having to undergo tribulations.

If you don’t give them external calamities, they will create internal calamities themselves.

Heart Demon, Karmic Fire, Obsession, and Karma Entanglement—any one of them could be fatal.

After reading the deduction results, Gu Yan was silent for a long time.

He remembered a phrase he had heard in his past life: bored out of one’s mind.

These people were typically bored out of their minds.

There were no enemies outside, no natural disasters, no partings of life and death, so the protagonist genes within them started to act up, insisting on causing some trouble.

Gu Yan shook his head.

”Oh well, since he knew the reason, he had to find a way.”

He couldn’t just watch his Disciples and these good seedlings be killed by internal calamities.

He raised his hand to rub his brow and began to consider countermeasures.