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

The second hundred million years!

Gu An made his decision and stared intently at the prompts.

One after another, the prompts emerged—all of them failures!

Facing tribulation every two million years, he could only attempt it fifty times in a hundred million years. The experience of failing two or three hundred times before had made Gu An increasingly tense.

In the end, they were all failures!

Two hundred million years of life span, one hundred failures!

Gu An remembered the Heavenly Dao Taiyi Divine Origin Tribulation. Although he hadn't enhanced his cultivation technique or divine skills, he felt all aspects of himself were already sufficiently powerful.

This Heavenly Dao Taiyi Divine Origin Tribulation really has some substance!

Gu An reflected emotionally, then once again committed a hundred million years of life span.

Failure!

Failure!

Failure!

Gu An saw that the Life Span Barrier had barely consumed any life span and felt as if the barrier was silently mocking him.

Another hundred million years!

It should be a success now, right?

Gu An gritted his teeth, no longer able to maintain his composure.

The prompt came out again, faster than before.

Another failure!

Gu An had now squandered four hundred million years of his life span, failing two hundred times.

He couldn't help but think of Long Zhan; he didn't know how many years of life span it had taken Long Zhan to succeed in his breakthrough.

He had inherited Long Zhan's memories, but he couldn't see Long Zhan's life-stealing prompts, nor could he hear Long Zhan's inner monologue at that time. He could only experience Long Zhan's life through his own eyes, which was how he was certain he himself was the true incarnation; he wouldn't get lost because of it.

Long Zhan had never revealed his life-stealing ability to anyone, nor did he ever talk about his life span, so Gu An didn't know how many years of life span Long Zhan had.

However, recalling Long Zhan's memories, he realized that Long Zhan did indeed feel frustrated in the early stages of charging into the Tao Fruit Realm, presumably Long Zhan had also failed many times.

Gu An took another deep breath, cast aside all distractions, and continued with the breakthrough.

He still had six hundred million years of life span left; it would be fine as long as he succeeded. After all, the life span is just a number, which can be slowly accumulated!

Besides, he was more fortunate than Long Zhan, who only unlocked the life stealing ability in the late stages of his life, while he was just four hundred and nineteen years old.

There were endless possibilities in life!

As long as he didn't act as arrogantly as Long Zhan had!

Another hundred million years!

Gu An decided in his heart, and as soon as all prompts had settled, he immediately invested another hundred million years of life span.

He didn't overlook his Attribute Panel, which still showed four hundred million years of life span.

Another failure!

Gu An had to stop, he needed to calm down.

Two more tries, if he still wasn't successful after two hundred million years, he would have to stop this time. After all, attempting to breakthrough would consume life span in the Life Span Barrier.

The last breakthrough consumed fifty million years of life span, and this time it would definitely double.

Here we go again!

One hundred million years!

Gu An's eyes turned icy cold, but they soon shifted.

[You have practiced Qi Absorption Cultivation for forty-eight million years, forcefully charged into the Tao Fruit Realm with the great accomplishment of Eternal Infinite Skill, and began tribulation crossing. You have endured the Heavenly Dao Taiyi Divine Origin Tribulation and succeeded, stepping into the Tao Fruit Realm. Your cultivation level has broken through to the early stage of the Taoist Storage Free Immortal Realm]

[You have practiced Qi Absorption Cultivation for eighty-five million years, and your cultivation level has improved to the mid-stage of the Taoist Storage Free Immortal Realm]

[You have practiced Qi Absorption Cultivation for one hundred million years, and your cultivation level has improved]

Breakthrough success!

The division of minor cultivation levels was no longer nine layers but was now early and middle stages!

It seems that the Tao Fruit Realm is a major realm, comparable to major stages like the Mortal Realm and the Nine Heavens of the Immortal Path.

Taoist Storage Free Immortal!

This was the realm that Long Zhan had reached. Just when he reached this realm, he was executed by the Annihilation God Emperor.

Tao Spiritual Energy began to surge towards Gu An, and he saw the life span numbers on the Life Span Barrier start to jump quickly.

Gu An still had three hundred million years of life span, and he continued to spend.

One prompt after another kept jumping out, and this time, he invested slowly, no longer splurging a hundred million years at a time.

The late stage of the Taoist Storage Free Immortal Realm!

The completion of the Taoist Storage Free Immortal Realm!

Stop!

Just two minor realms cost Gu An one hundred and twenty million years of life span.

He had one hundred and eighty million years of life span left!

The Life Span Barrier shouldn't dry him out completely, would it?

Gu An's mood was a bit apprehensive, if really pushed to the limit, he could only cancel the Life Span Barrier; he certainly couldn't just wait for death.

As vast amounts of Tao Spiritual Energy entered his body, there was another upheaval in the Silent Destruction Domain, not only Tao Spiritual Energy but even the Tao Rules of the universe were in upheaval.

Almost instantly, those beings who were fighting or exploring in the area were scared into immediate retreat.

This upheaval far exceeded the disturbance Gu An had made during his last breakthrough, even True Immortals with Divine Thoughts were frightened into running away.

Gu An soon closed his eyes, immersing himself in the metamorphosis of his being.

His Tao Seed began to absorb Tao Spiritual Energy, even Tao Rules integrated into his body, with cause and effect, destiny rules in the majority, followed by soul and Reincarnation Rules.

Although Reincarnation Rules have always existed, they were not as perfected as his previous life's mythology portrayed.

The Reincarnation Rules absorb souls, then let them reincarnate anew. This process is elusive and unstoppable.

Gu An focused on his Tao Seed, which continued to store Tao unique to himself.

The path of a cultivator is similar to that of Tao Rules, yet different.

It's more like a special form of mana, its execution is also similar to divine skills.

Once the Tao Seed blossoms into Tao Fruit, Gu An would be able to fight using his own Tao, entering a higher level of combat with even richer methods.

The Taoist Storage Realm would nurture the first Lifebound Great Divine Power!

Lifebound Great Divine Powers cannot be passed on to others, only to be exercised by oneself!

As Gu An contemplated his first Lifebound Great Divine Power, he also thought about his Immortal Path Supreme Treasure, wondering if he could combine them, that would be even better.

He enjoyed writing books, so decided to create a pen, the Lifebound Great Divine Power would have to be related to the pen.

He quickly had an idea, and as his thoughts flowed, the rate at which Tao Spiritual Energy and Tao Rules powers entered his body accelerated. The influence caused by this also expanded rapidly, soon alarming the Great Heavenly Spirit Land.

The Great Cultivators guarding the Outer Heaven light layer were all startled, standing up one after another.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Here it comes again, this time even stronger than before!"

"What exactly is this commotion? Why are even the Spiritual Energy and Rules of the universe in uproar?"

"Unable to capture the source of the anomaly."

"Everyone be careful. This surely has to do with the Heavenly Demon!"

"Trouble has piled up one after the other. Could it be the fabled epochal tribulation?"

While the Great Cultivators were discussing, two figures appeared above them, unnoticed by anyone.

These were two Free Immortals, one from the Immortal Dynasty, the other from the Holy Court.

The Free Immortal from the Immortal Dynasty was known as the Ancient Immortal Emperor, the Holy Court's Free Immortal was addressed as Saint Ancestor.

The Ancient Immortal Emperor had youthful features with white hair, wearing a white robe, his whole being gleamed with white Tao light, looking out of place amidst the cosmic stars.

"Is this a breakthrough, or a formation being set up?" the Ancient Immortal Emperor asked with a slight furrow in his brows.

The Saint Ancestor, dressed in dark Tao robes with black and white hair fluttering slightly, emitted a very strong sense of oppression, his eyes also peered into the depths of the cosmos.

"It doesn't seem to be either, it's more like some Tao Rules are affecting the universe," Saint Ancestor said with a complex tone.

Both Free Immortals lapsed into silence.

After a long time.

Saint Ancestor looked towards the Ancient Immortal Emperor, "You wouldn't interfere in the disputes of the younger generations, would you?"

The Ancient Immortal Emperor turned to look at him, "As long as you don't break our agreement, I naturally won't either."

At those words, the Saint Ancestor showed a smile and nodded, "Let the younger ones fight. Comprehending Tao is what we should be doing. If the Heavenly Demon really attacks and the Great Heavenly Spirit Land faces the threat of destruction, that's when we'll step in."

The Ancient Immortal Emperor had no objections, he turned to glance at the Great Heavenly Spirit Land with a meaningful look in his eyes.

"How many lifetimes does Shengtian still have?" the Ancient Immortal Emperor asked.

Saint Ancestor shook his head, "I have no idea. In the early years, he ceased to trust me and began contemplating the Heavenly Dao, setting himself on a solitary and strong path."

The Ancient Immortal Emperor fell silent, no more questions asked, his gaze returned to the Silent Destruction Domain.

...

Boom!

Gu An's Tao Seed completely solidified into a Tao Fruit, officially achieving the Taoist Storage Realm!

At the same time, his Tao Fruit manifested Dao Patterns, the form of his Lifebound Great Divine Power!

Gu An named his self-created Lifebound Great Divine Power as the Longevity True Words, a divine power primarily based on cause and effect, fate, deciding the life, death, and destiny of beings with words.

There was a profound mystery of laws following speech!

Gu An continued the charge into the mid-stage of the Taoist Storage Free Immortal Realm!

He opened his eyes and looked toward the Attribute Panel, seeing he had one hundred and thirty million years of life span left, his heart somewhat relieved.

From this perspective, the Life Span Barrier would not exhaust all his life span.

Time moved swiftly.

An Ancient Hour later, his cultivation level had reached the late stage of the Taoist Storage Free Immortal Realm!

Just one more minor realm to go!

The mana of the late stage of Taoist Storage Free Immortal far exceeded the early stage, in both quantity and quality, incomparable to the early stage.

An unprecedented sense of power made Gu An extremely gratified.

He even felt as if the universe couldn't confine him, that he could easily leap out of it.

He restrained himself; he felt that terrifying existences were wandering outside the cosmos; perhaps the Annihilation God Emperor, Black Profound Emperor, were waiting for him.

He looked into the distance.

His Divine Thought turned invisible, probing far away.

Traversing within the Silent Destruction Domain, his Divine Thought spied many powerful beings; the Silent Destruction Domain still hosted quite a few True Immortals and Free Immortals, though they were very scattered, equivalent to a realm as large as the Great Heavenly Spirit Land hardly housing a single Free Immortal.

Crossing vast distances, he saw another Great Heaven and Earth.

He didn't linger, continuing onward.

Over the following period, he encountered three other Great Heaven and Earths, all enveloped by the Silent Destruction Domain.

As his Divine Thought neared its limit, he quickly retracted it and concentrated on breaking through.

The nearest Great Heaven and Earth to the Great Heavenly Spirit Land was extremely distant. It would take True Immortals years just to travel there, passing through many areas of spatial distortion along the way, which cannot be crossed by mere flight.

Gu An's focus returned to his body, observing his own Tao Fruit.

He had an intuition that once the Tao Fruit bloomed, a new realm would open up.

He looked forward to that day.

At that moment, Gu An seemed to sense something and looked up.

In the deep darkness, a pair of gigantic eyes appeared, the same eyes he had seen during his previous breakthrough; unexpectedly, they had appeared again.

They were larger than the Great Heavenly Spirit Land eyeballs, showing how immense those eyes truly were!

Gu An fixed his gaze on these giant eyes, wishing to see through them.