Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

242: Chapter 242 How many realms are there below the Primordial Grand Luo Saint Realm?Gu Yan retrieved the haotian mirror. With a thought of his Divine Thought, he contacted Long Da, who was in the Immortal Realm.

Gu Yan had previously sent Long Da to infiltrate the Immortal Realm and develop his forces. Long Da did not disappoint; after years of management, the name ’Heavenly Court’ had taken root in a desolate corner of the Immortal Realm, quietly expanding and gaining momentum.

Gu Yan’s message contained only one sentence.

”Pause development, go into hibernation.”

Long Da didn’t understand, but he didn’t ask further, only replying with one word.

”Yes.”

Gu Yan severed the Divine Thought connection and sat back on the taixu guiyuan prayer mat.

At the same time, he sent a Divine Thought message to Immortal Emperor Yuan Fang and Ming He, instructing them to temporarily halt their actions and no longer serve as coordinates for new Middle Thousand Worlds.

After doing all this, Gu Yan let out a long breath.

Not long ago, he still felt like he was almost invincible.

But he never expected.

Enemies had come from above again.

Saint Realm.

Great Luo Unity Realm.

Grand Elder of the Taixu Saint Sect.

Gu Yan found this situation incredibly familiar.

When he was still in the Nanming No. 73 Mortal Realm, he thought he was the ceiling of that world.

As a result, one day, he discovered a Azure Wave Sect Disciple excitedly running to the Mortal Realm to recruit Disciples.

Gu Yan then confirmed his thoughts: beyond the Mortal Realm, there was indeed a Spirit Realm.

The feeling at that moment was so similar to now.

Thinking of this, Gu Yan couldn’t help but click his tongue.

When reading Cultivation web novels in his previous life, he always felt that the trope of ’defeating the young brings the old, defeating the old brings the even older’ was too cliché and too deliberate.

Wherever the protagonist went, he would encounter higher-level enemies, as if the entire world was targeting him alone.

Now he finally understood.

It wasn’t that the trope was cliché, but that reality was just like this.

The world was like a series of nesting dolls; you thought you were standing on the outermost layer, but in reality, you had only peeled back one layer from the inside.

After one layer, there’s another, and after another, there’s still another.

Endless, never-ending.

Yet, people on each layer sincerely believed they were the ceiling.

And he, Gu Yan, merely knew earlier than others that there was a ceiling above the ceiling.

From this perspective, he was actually luckier than those ’ceilings’.

At least he wouldn’t be slapped to death only to realize with a shock that there were still people above the heavens.

Gu Yan chuckled self-deprecatingly, suppressing all these jumbled thoughts.

Overthinking is useless.

Instead of lamenting the vastness of the world and the depth of its tropes here, it’s better to honestly Cultivate.

Strength is the ultimate truth.

Without strength, what good is knowing how high the sky is?

It’s just looking up at the sky from a different posture.

Immortal Emperor is no longer his goal.

He has the red trait ”foundation of the great dao: red”. The effect of this trait is to grant him the qualification to Cultivate to the Hunyuan Daluo Saint Realm.

The Hunyuan Daluo Saint Realm is a level above Immortal Emperor.

However, there is one thing Gu Yan is still unclear about.

Below the Hunyuan Daluo Saint Realm, how many Realms are there?

Above Immortal Emperor is Daluo Guiyi.

What’s above Daluo Guiyi? And further up? How long would it take to Cultivate to reach the threshold of the Hunyuan Daluo Saint Realm?

These details were not elaborated in the trait description of ”foundation of the great dao: red”; it only gave the upper limit, not a roadmap.

He tried to deduce the specifics of the Saint Realm with the haotian mirror, but no information could be obtained.

Gu Yan was quite calm about this.

If he doesn’t know, then he doesn’t know.

Anyway, he hasn’t reached Immortal Emperor yet, so why think so far ahead?

It’s not too late to walk the current path well, and then explore the next step once he reaches Immortal Emperor.

He now has infinite Lifespan, and his Grotto-Heaven is filled with abundant Spiritual Qi. What he lacks least is time.

So, let those great cultivators in the Saint Realm cause trouble outside.

Anyway, those outside the Grotto-Heaven, even if they break their heads, won’t find a single hair of his.

This is to retreat at the slightest sign of trouble and develop cautiously.

Gu Yan was well-versed in this strategy when playing games in his previous life.

Cultivation follows the same principle.