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

Chapter 894: Chapter 886: Nine Tribulations of Chaos Becoming a Saint

What unfolded before Gu An’s vision was a silver-blue starry sky, adorned with countless stars, boundless and infinite. Such vastness was truly breathtaking, even for him, the Supreme Emperor of Ultimate Merging Dao.

Whether observed with eyes or divine sense, there was no end in sight.

Yet, if he calmed his heart, he could feel an invisible force enveloping this universe, and if he could break through this force, he could leap beyond.

The spiritual energy here was different from the Celestial Dao Spiritual Qi and Dao Spiritual Qi; it was a kind he had never experienced, complex, like a living entity, full of spirituality.

Not only was the universe vast, but the mountain beneath his feet was also colossal. Looking down, the base of the mountain couldn’t be seen. Even with divine sense, it was like the universe, with no end.

Standing on the cliff halfway up the mountain, with a dense forest behind him, vibrant flowers and plants, looking upwards, the summit also seemed unattainable.

Looking around, the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain was vast, with beautiful mountain forests, spiritual energy surging, and many semi-transparent lotus flowers of various colors floating about.

Gu An didn’t immediately break through. He activated the Life Span Barrier, then enveloped the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain with his divine sense to observe this realm.

Although this place posed absolutely no threat to him, he didn’t want to leave any trace of cause and effect, so he chose to continue using the Life Span Barrier.

He discovered the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain was filled with vast cause and effect. Every flower and plant represented realms of immortal cultivation, the large trees symbolizing Daoist lineages. From the mountain’s vegetation, one could glimpse all the Immortal Dao.

He even saw the cultivation Dao lineages within the Heavenly Dao, but he could only observe and couldn’t do anything with the flowers, plants, and trees.

What he saw and heard gave Gu An a deeper understanding of the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain, yet many confusions remained within him.

How was this mountain born?

Why did it come into existence?

Has it ever nurtured life?

After watching for a while, Gu An sat down cross-legged, preparing to break through.

Throughout the years, he had thought about this many times and decided this time to enhance only his physique, not an all-rounded improvement.

His cultivation technique hadn’t presented a bottleneck yet; each time he cultivated energy, he gained new insights, indicating that the limit of the Infinite Supreme Merging Dao Skill surpassed the Supreme Emperor of Ultimate Merging Dao Realm.

As for other Daoist techniques, Gu An found them hard to measure in strength or weakness, as he could eliminate any opponent he had encountered with any single divine skill.

Gu An began to invest life span to enhance his physique, pouring in a trillion years of life span in one breath, since the last time he upgraded, upgrading the Great Dao Formless Body to the Infinite Eternal Dao Body had consumed nearly two trillion years of life span.

Messages popped up before Gu An’s eyes.

This time’s enhancement, as he anticipated, consumed far more than his last, but he didn’t mind.

His life span units were already in quintillions; a trillion years to him was negligible.

In the end, he used 600 trillion years of life span to elevate his physique to the Creation Eternal Life.

Vast and boundless memories exploded in his mind, and he watched the numbers displayed by the Life Span Barrier jump rapidly, hesitating for a moment, but ultimately chose not to deactivate the Life Span Barrier.

Play it safe!

One should not be careless because there is no threat in this realm.

The absence of a current threat does not mean there won’t be hidden dangers later!

Gu An closed his eyes, beginning to enjoy the transformation of his physique.

The spiritual energy of the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain surged wildly, enveloping his entire being, reconstructing his body from the outside to the inside. He quickly entered a state similar to Sudden Enlightenment, full of Profound Mystery.

Gradually, trails of spiritual energy appeared ascending from the bottom of the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain, resembling dragons, sweeping upwards toward the mountain peak.

An hour later.

Gu An opened his eyes; he had completely transformed into the Creation Eternal Life.

In the Creation Eternal Life, everything within oneself was creation; hair could transform into living creatures, and blood could condense within heaven and earth, while the physical body could recover indefinitely, making it a body that was truly immortal.

At the same time, this body contained immense qi power, able to stir the Three Thousand Great Dao with a single movement. It was a body that transcended the Great Dao, immune to any harm unless it was from the source power of the Great Dao.

Gu An reveled in the sense of creation within himself, feeling utterly splendid.

He noticed no changes in the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain; the flowing spiritual energy was not fierce, and the entire mountain remained tranquil.

The foundation of this mountain was truly profound; during his past breakthroughs, immense disturbances were always stirred, but here, there was such a rare, quiet, and harmonious environment.

In such an environment, he gained greater confidence in the breakthroughs to come.

“For absolute certainty, I’ve saved up tens of thousands of times in life span, surely this can’t end in failure?”

Gu An thought to himself; his last breakthrough in a Great Realm had cost him 220 quintillion years of life span. Now, he possessed a hundred million quintillion years of life span. Even if the Saint Realm remained elusive, he believed in proving his Dao with power.

He calmed his mind, rested for a few breaths, and then invested ten quintillion years of life span into his cultivation level!

Unprecedented courage!

Life span notifications appeared before him.

[You’ve undergone Sudden Enlightenment cultivation for one quintillion years, utilizing the infinite supreme merging Dao skill with great achievement to forcefully push into the Primordial Taiyi True Saint Realm, beginning to Cross the Tribulation, you failed to endure the Nine Tribulations of Chaos Becoming a Saint, Tribulation Crossing failed]

[You’ve undergone Sudden Enlightenment cultivation for two quintillion years, utilizing the infinite supreme merging Dao skill with great achievement to forcefully push into the Primordial Taiyi True Saint Realm, beginning to Cross the Tribulation, you failed to endure the Nine Tribulations of Chaos Becoming a Saint, Tribulation Crossing failed]

…

No longer Qi Absorption Cultivation, but Sudden Enlightenment cultivation!

Primordial Taiyi True Saint!

True Saint, it seems that above the Supreme Emperor of Ultimate Merging Dao lies the Saint he comprehended in the Profound Abyss Divine Pool; this was a realm even the ancient Heavenly Court’s great powers couldn’t achieve till death.

Nine Tribulations of Chaos Becoming a Saint?

What is that?

Is it really nine types of tribulations?

Gu An pondered, seeing ten quintillion years of life span all fail to break through; he did not care too much and continued to invest ten quintillion years of life span.

From the perspective of the starry sky, the Immortal Spirit Infinite Mountain seemed like a cosmic pillar, reaching beyond sight, enormous in size, yet this immense mountain remained unmoving, with no phenomena occurring. Everything seemed so quiet, yet this silence did not feel eerie; instead, it was quite beautiful, calming the mind and lifting the spirit.

…

Under the dim celestial vault, mountains stretched continuously. At the edge of a large lake among the mountains, a million people gathered here, among them Li Ya, who was meditating by the lakeside, contemplating the lake surface.

A disciple flew over from afar, landing beside him, and asked nervously, “Master, the Immortal Gods can’t take down that Demon Sect for a long time, and even show signs of defeat; should we retreat?”

Li Ya came back to his senses, glanced at him, and asked in return, “Why should we retreat? Have you forgotten our original intention?”

“But with our strength, we can’t intervene in this great war, and the Immortal Gods treated all living beings so poorly in the past; why should we help them? If they really are defeated, if they die, they can revive, but if we die, we truly die!”

The more the disciple spoke, the more agitated he became, and hearing his words, the nearby disciples echoed, becoming agitated.

Their miserable lives were all thanks to the Immortal Gods; they hated the Immortal Gods and hated the Celestial Court.

Li Ya turned his head to look, wanting to persuade them, but seeing their eyes, he felt powerless inside.

What right did he have to ask others to let go of their hatred?

Li Ya suddenly felt that even if the Immortal Gods expelled the Chaos Evil Demon and the Human World returned to peace, hatred would still remain, and sooner or later, all living beings would seek revenge against the Celestial Court.

But how formidable the Celestial Court is indeed, and he couldn’t help but feel powerless thinking of their gazes.

After the disciples vented for a while and all fell silent, Li Ya stood up, scanning all of them, and said, “For the sake of absolute security, I’ve saved tens of thousands of times of life span, we can’t fail at this now, can we?”