Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

304: Chapter 305 Tao Qian: We’ve Come to Our SensesSupreme Creation Daluo Grotto-Heaven.

The matter between Long Da and Styx had already been settled, and several highest grade innate spirit treasures had been reclaimed by Gu Yan.

At this moment, he sat upon the twelve-grade merit golden lotus, with the twelve-grade pure world white lotus suspended above his head.

Gu Yan did not know how much pressure he had brought upon the Heavenly Dao of the Saint Realm by using the Supreme Creation Daluo Grotto-Heaven to absorb the Immortal Realm and three thousand Middle Thousand Worlds as subordinate worlds.

However, even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.

Firstly, since those worlds had become his subordinates, they were his territory and no longer had any connection with the original Heavenly Dao.

Secondly, absorbing these worlds as subordinates, besides realizing the ideal of great harmony under heaven, could also significantly boost his own cultivation progress and combat power—killing two birds with one stone, so why not?

Speaking of cultivation, he was now in the Great Luo Unity Realm.

This Realm was a rarity even in the Saint Realm.

If Saints do not appear, the Great Luo Unity Realm is the ceiling.

And the next Realm, he had already learned from the sensations during his Breakthrough, was the Hunyuan Daluo Saint Realm.

Commonly known as a Saint.

With the red trait foundation of the great dao: red on him, there was no pressure in cultivating to the Saint Realm; it was merely a matter of accumulating time.

In fact, if he wanted to, he could break through to the Saint Realm instantly right now.

After all, he now possessed three thousand Major Thousand Worlds, three thousand Middle Thousand Worlds, and even countless Minor Thousand Worlds.

The Karma and Luck brought by these worlds were incredibly vast, enough to push him steadily into the Saint Realm.

But Gu Yan did not want to use these means to break through.

He wanted to take a path from the Primordial myths and legends of his previous life.

Pangu created heaven and earth, proving his Dao through strength.

That axe splitting Chaos, separating the clear and the turbid, and stabilizing earth, water, fire, and wind—how magnificent.

Gu Yan also wanted to try.

Relying on his own strength, without using external items, borrowing Karma, or depending on Luck—purely proving his Dao through strength.

If successful, he would be an existence surpassing all Saints.

If not... he hadn’t even considered failure.

With red traits as a safety net, what did he have to fear?

At most, it would just take a bit more time.

Gu Yan closed his eyes and continued to polish his cultivation.

The days passed by, one after another.

...

A Middle Thousand World subordinate to the Supreme Creation Daluo Grotto-Heaven was named the Cangxuan Realm.

Within the Realm was a great Sect named the Supreme Heavenly Sect.

The Supreme Heavenly Sect had a Yinxuan Peak, where a Daoist resided, whose Daoist name was Kuxuan.

On the surface, Daoist Kuxuan appeared to have a Foundation Establishment cultivation, but in reality, he was at the Peak of the Great Luo Unity Realm.

He was only one step away from achieving the Hunyuan Daluo Saint Realm and becoming a Saint on the spot.

Such cultivation would make him a titan even in the Saint Realm.

Yet he was willing to nestle in a small Sect of a Middle Thousand World.

Daoist Kuxuan did this because the path he took was different from ordinary people.

The thicker the tribulation qi, the greater his certainty of breaking through to become a Saint.

And the place where the tribulation qi between heaven and earth was thickest was none other than the upcoming great tribulation of the Immortal Realm and the Saint Realm.

So he waited continuously.

He waited for many, many Epochs.

With great difficulty, he waited until the Heaven and Earth Boundless Great Tribulation was about to descend and the tribulation qi began to permeate the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds; his heart was filled with wild joy, feeling that his chance had finally come.

But later, everything went wrong.

First, a vast and boundless Dao charm surged from the depths of the sky, affecting the entire Cangxuan Realm.

That Dao charm was so strong it far exceeded the Immortal Emperor level; the moment Daoist Kuxuan sensed it, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

That was the aura of the Great Luo Unity Realm, and it didn’t stop there.

Then, he could no longer sense the existence of the Saint Realm.

More importantly, at the same time, the tribulation qi that originally permeated heaven and earth had also vanished.

Daoist Kuxuan opened his eyes, his face wearing a constipated expression.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t sensed the connection between that Breakthrough aura and the disappearance of the tribulation qi.

But he didn’t dare to move, nor did he dare to ask.

So what if he was at the Peak of the Great Luo Unity Realm?

With one move, that existence could shift an entire Major Thousand World and isolate the tribulation qi of the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds from the outside.

Daoist Kuxuan knew he couldn’t achieve such methods.

Furthermore, even Lingyangzi, the eldest Disciple of the Yuan Sect in the Saint Realm, had been slain within the Immortal Realm.

Daoist Kuxuan was certain in his heart that the existence was undoubtedly a Saint.

At the very least, a half-step Saint.

And he, Kuxuan, being just one step away, was worlds apart.

So he was very well-behaved.

He continued to sit in meditation and perform Alchemy on Yinxuan Peak, indifferent to worldly affairs.

Make a scene? He didn’t dare.

Run? Where could he possibly run?

This entire Middle Thousand World was someone else’s territory.

Only, every time he thought of the tribulation qi that had vanished without a trace, he couldn’t help but feel a pang of sharp pain in his heart.

”Forget it, forget it. I’ll just wait.” Daoist Kuxuan sighed, pulled a flask of wine from his sleeve, and took a swig.

He didn’t know that Gu Yan had discovered his existence long ago.

Gu Yan possessed the red trait Lord of the Infinite Great Thousand Worlds; as long as it was a subordinate world of the Supreme Creation Daluo Grotto-Heaven, everything within it, even the slightest movement, was within his perception in a single thought.

Daoist Kuxuan was completely exposed in his eyes.

A Peak Great Luo Unity Realm expert, hiding his head and showing his tail while nesting in a Middle Thousand World, waiting for tribulation qi to break through.

Gu Yan only slightly raised an eyebrow at the time, then immediately withdrew his Divine Sense.

Did he care? He didn’t.

As long as the other party behaved himself, as the Lord of the Heavens and Worlds, he still had this much magnanimity.

If Daoist Kuxuan wanted to cause trouble, it wouldn’t be too late to crush him then.

In any case, with his current combat power, he was already incomparable to when he was an Immortal Emperor.

...

Daoist Kuxuan wasn’t the only one feeling constipated.

In the Spirit Realm of the Daluo Grotto-Heaven Major Thousand World, in an inconspicuous small town, a middle-aged man was sitting by the river fishing.

At this moment, he was called Tao Qian.

Speaking of his name, perhaps few people knew it.

But if one were to speak of his past, it would be a different story entirely.

Tao Qian was once an Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Realm.

And he was a top-tier existence among Immortal Emperors, only one step away from the Great Luo Unity Realm.

But he could not take that step.

To break through to the Great Luo Unity Realm, he chose to sever his own Dao fruit and fall into Reincarnation, hoping to find a sliver of opportunity for a Breakthrough within it.

With this severing, he drifted in Reincarnation for countless lifetimes, having been an emperor, a beggar, a cultivator, and a demon; he had tasted everything and let go of everything.

Now, his cultivation had progressed from the Soul Transformation Stage, where he originally refused to advance, to the Human Immortal Realm.

Deliberately maintaining Soul Transformation back then was to fall into Reincarnation when his Lifespan naturally ran out in the future.

Now that he no longer planned to reincarnate, he didn’t have those concerns, and his cultivation instead progressed smoothly upward.

The reason Tao Qian did not plan to continue reincarnating...

Was not because he couldn’t, but because he didn’t dare to anymore.

Previously, he dared to sever his Dao fruit and fall into Reincarnation because he had mastered the Reincarnation rules of the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao, knowing how to cheat and how to preserve his self-awareness within Reincarnation.

But now, the Immortal Realm had become a subordinate Major Thousand World of the Supreme Creation Daluo Grotto-Heaven, and the Reincarnation rules were no longer the same as before.

His old cheating methods probably wouldn’t work anymore.

If he rashly entered Reincarnation and truly lost himself in the next life, it would be all over.

And after many lifetimes of Reincarnation, Tao Qian had indeed seen through many things.

The level of cultivation was still important—without cultivation, it was hard even to protect oneself, so where would a comfortable life come from?

It was just that now the Spirit Realm was in a state of great harmony under heaven, with the Great Alliance of the Heavens and Universe maintaining order, so there was no need to fight for the Peak like before.

How long one lived was also important.

Only by living long enough could one see more scenery and taste more flavors.

Only, there was no need to drive oneself to the point of not being human just to live long.

Now he fished, drank wine, basked in the sun, and of course, farmed; his days were simple yet carefree.

In this life, he would strive to Cultivate back to being an Immortal Emperor, or at least an Immortal King.

As for the Great Luo Unity Realm? He wouldn’t force it anymore.

Tao Qian stuck his fishing rod into the bank, looked up at the sky, then looked down at his reflection on the water’s surface.

The person in the reflection had a weathered face and slightly frosted temples, but his eyes were much clearer than when he was young.