Steadily becoming a saint, the immortal officials hired me to tend the horses

New Year's just passed, and all things in heaven and earth began to revive.

Gu An walked through the air, admiring the ocean scenery along the way.

Although the rumors about the World-Destroying Sea Tide were spreading far and wide, the ocean still looked calm, without the slightest sign of disaster.

He spread out his divine sense, searching for a suitable place to break through. He was already very far from the continent, and his Limitless Freedom Step had already crossed a hundred steps. With his current cultivation level, he could step across a distance dozens of times that of the continent, showing just how far this sea area was from the continent.

The spiritual energy of the beings in the ocean was exceptionally dense, far exceeding that of the continent. Moreover, the cultivation levels of the oceanic demon beasts were very high. He even saw a whale at the Loose Immortal Realm, as large as half the continent, capable of swallowing the territory of three dynasties in one gulp, exaggeration to the extreme.

Upon arriving here, the aura of human cultivators became rare. The occasional aura felt belonged entirely to Immortal Path Realm cultivators.

Without a cultivation level at the Nirvana Realm, one couldn't enter this sea area.

Finally, Gu An's gaze locked on a grand sea island. The island was teeming with life, even housing a power formed by hundreds of thousands of demons, with most of the demon soldiers training in the plains. The strongest demon had reached the second layer of the Loose Immortal Realm.

The ninth layer Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm Gu An stealthily sneaked into the forest, meditating under a tree and activating the life span barrier.

He did not immediately attempt to break through but instead spread out his divine sense, observing the situation all around.

Within the range of his divine sense, he felt the aura of Wandering Immortals. Fortunately, there were no Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals.

Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals were always few in numbers, not visible to mortal spirits, after all, they could leave this world.

When Gu An expanded the range of his divine sense to its maximum, he still did not see any Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals, finally putting his heart at ease.

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Though he couldn't see any Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals at sea, if he looked up at the sky, he could daily see the figures of Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals coming and going, like meteors streaking across the sky.

Gu An retracted his divine sense and pulled up the attribute panel.

[Name: Gu An]

[Lifespan: 128/16890764]

[Physique: Mystic Holy Body]

[Cultivation Level: Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm Ninth Layer]

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With ten million years of lifespan invested, could I break through to a higher realm?

The eighth to ninth layer of the Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm cost thirty thousand years of life span. To reach a higher realm, failing once would mean waiting for more than thirty thousand years before trying again.

Failing a hundred times would cost at least three million years of life span, which made him shudder just thinking about it.

If he could use ten million years of life span to break through to a higher realm, he would consider himself lucky.

So he dared not upgrade his cultivation technique or physique, deciding to brute-force his way in the realm instead!

Gu An took a deep breath and first invested a million years of lifespan to test the waters.

[You cultivated through energy absorption for fifty thousand years, using the Great Accomplishment of Heaven and Earth Primordial Skill to forcefully break through to the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm. You began to cross the tribulation, but you did not survive the Ultimate Reincarnation Heavenly Tribulation and failed.]

[You cultivated through energy absorption for one hundred thousand years, using the Great Accomplishment of Heaven and Earth Primordial Skill to forcefully break through to the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm. You began to cross the tribulation, but you did not survive the Ultimate Reincarnation Heavenly Tribulation and failed.]

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Crossing the tribulation every fifty thousand years?

A bit harsh!

Gu An looked at the constant failure prompts before him, feeling somewhat panicked.

A million years of lifespan resulted in just twenty failures...

It would take five million years of lifespan to fail a hundred times...

The more Gu An thought, the more anxious he became. His heart hardened, and he directly invested five million years of lifespan into cultivation!

Fail!

Fail!

Gu An couldn't even be bothered to look closely, just seeing that as long as the prompt didn't grow longer, it meant all failures.

After all, five million years of lifespan ultimately went down the drain, another hundred failures.

This Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm was truly difficult to break through. No wonder he had never even heard of it in the real world. There were legends of Heaven and Earth Flying Immortals above the sea but no tales of Carefree Primordial Immortals.

Gu An pulled up the attribute panel again, and seeing there were still ten million years of lifespan left, his heart settled a little.

Another five million years of lifespan!

He didn't believe he couldn't break through!

Series of prompts crazily popped up, and within the life span barrier, spiritual energy never surged, and the leaves above his head swayed with the wind, producing rustling sounds that made Gu An feel malice.

It was as if the life span barrier was mocking him.

The second five million years of lifespan all ended up in failures!

He had already spent eleven million years of lifespan, failing two hundred and twenty times to cross the tribulation!

If he upgraded his cultivation technique and physique first, today would he be unable to break through?

But even if he didn't break through, at least his strength would've increased like now. If he ultimately failed, he would have gained nothing.

Gu An couldn't accept such a failure, so he continued investing, this time putting in five hundred thousand years of lifespan.

Constant failures appeared before him, but finally, a prompt suddenly lengthened, surprising him with joy.

It worked!

[You cultivated through energy absorption for three hundred and fifty thousand years, using the Great Accomplishment of Heaven and Earth Primordial Skill to forcefully break through to the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm. You began to cross the tribulation, you survived the Ultimate Reincarnation Heavenly Tribulation successfully, and your cultivation level advanced to the first layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm.]

[You cultivated through energy absorption for four hundred and ten thousand years, advancing your cultivation level to the second layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm.]

[You cultivated through energy absorption for four hundred and seventy thousand years, advancing your cultivation level to the third layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm.]

[You cultivated through energy absorption for five hundred thousand years, your cultivation level increased.]

Sixty thousand years for a small realm advancement, this Carefree Primordial Immortal was truly fierce.

Gu An felt sentimental, the life span barrier finally began to function, and earth spirit energy surged into his body.

He didn't remain idle, continuously investing lifespan into his cultivation.

His cultivation small realms could only be at the ninth layer; he wasn't used to presenting himself as an observer below the eighth layer, lacking a sense of security.

Eventually, he spent another four hundred and ninety thousand years of lifespan to attain the ninth layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm.

The eighth layer to the ninth layer shockingly cost him one hundred and fifty thousand years of lifespan!

This breakthrough took nearly twelve million years of lifespan to reach the ninth layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm, an utterly terrifying figure.

Boom!

The earth rumbled, and spiritual energy soared like a tide, covering the grass within the barrier.

All spirit energy on the entire island and the surrounding sea area abruptly plummeted, startling all beings into panic and chaos.

The influence of the life span barrier continued to expand. The spiritual energy required from the ninth layer Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm to the ninth layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm was immense. After a few breaths, ocean demons erupted from beneath the sea.

Heaven and earth were in an uproar!

The island fell into a clamor as the demons roared, deafeningly.

Gu An saw shape-shifting demons flying over the forest, thinking an enemy was attacking the island.

Gu An closed his eyes and began to feel the changes within himself.

He wanted to see what the Carefree Primordial Immortal had that made it so hard to break through.

After thirty minutes, a flood of profound insights exploded in Gu An's mind like the universe's big bang, infinite information pouring into his consciousness.

Heaven and earth rules!

Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal required cultivating the Path of Five Elements to perceive higher realms. With the Five Elements Perfection, one could perceive the heaven and earth rules.

All things in the world were composed of the unseen and untouchable power of rules. The Five Elements were the foundation, as stated in the "Tao Te Ching" that Dao produced One, One produced Two, Two produced Three, and Three produced all things.

The Carefree Primordial Immortal was the realm of perceiving the rules of heaven and earth. Reaching this realm meant being completely unbounded by the constraints of heaven and earth, completely carefree. The primordial spirit underwent a baptism by the rules of heaven and earth, reaching transcendence.

His Golden Core and Mystic Heart were transforming into higher existences. The Golden Core was accumulating the power of heaven and earth rules to form his Dao.

What was Dao? Dao encompassed everything, cultivation techniques, spells, divine skills, etc. Everything about his existence was his Dao!

The Golden Core generated the Dao, transforming into the Primordial Elixir!

No wonder the Nascent Soul and Golden Core independently existed. The Nascent Soul transformed into the primordial spirit, and the Golden Core transformed into the Dao. Gu An guessed they would merge at some future realm, making him the incarnation of the Dao.

Time flew by quickly. As earth's spiritual energy sank faster, the clouds above churned violently as if ready to collapse with the spiritual energy. The island's demons were terrified, assembling in formations and hiding within the island, not daring to come out.

Fortunately, no demon intruded into the life span barrier!

After an hour, Gu An successfully transformed into a Carefree Primordial Immortal!

Breaking free from heaven and earth rules, truly carefree!

Wherever the Dao existed, the mind could reach!

What was the existence of Dao?

Places and beings inheriting Gu An's Daoist Sorcery were where the Dao existed, enabling him to easily escape and control their causes and effects!

Gu An realized the Way of Cause and Effect was a unique Daoist sorcery. As his realm increased, his mastery over cause and effect grew deeper.

The so-called cause and effect were the invisible forces produced by the interaction of all beings. There were cause and effect, and gathering endless cause and effect together was the world!

After a major realm breakthrough, Gu An's cultivation level began to surge.

The Primordial Elixir had already deduced his Dao, and all the cause and effect related to him would appear in his Dao. He was moving towards the realm of omniscience.

First, understand all his cause and effect; at higher realms, who knows if he could comprehend all cause and effect!

After three hours, night fell, and Gu An finally reached the ninth layer of the Carefree Primordial Immortal Realm.

His divine sense range was expanding continuously, perceiving the life span barrier's extraction range of earth spirit energy significantly exceeded his ninth-layer Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm range.

Due to this immense scope, no one, not even a demon, could detect the focal point of spiritual energy's descent.

When the earth's spiritual energy ceased flowing into Gu An, he slowly stood up and opened his eyes.

He instantly transformed into an aurora and vanished from the spot.

Then, he arrived in front of a mansion. As it was late at night, the streets were empty, but the mansion within was brightly lit.

He looked up, and the signboard bore two words.

Ji Mansion!

Through the Dao of his Primordial Elixir, he arrived at the Ji Mansion where his cause and effect resided.

Yes, it was arriving, not teleporting!

Arriving wouldn't produce any signs between the two places, breaking free from the rules of heaven and earth, arriving at another place from a higher dimension.

He was essentially traveling within his Dao!

This feeling was truly marvelous.

Gu An walked towards the Ji Mansion, the place of his birth and childhood.

Taking a step past the main gate, he walked within the courtyard.

An old servant carrying a lantern walked towards him, passing through his body.

This, too, was the mystical nature of the Carefree Primordial Immortal!

Mortal Spirits couldn't see, Mortal Spirits couldn't touch!

No wonder there were no legends of the Carefree Primordial Immortal. For the first time, Gu An felt invincible.