Chapter 717: I Am Gu An

Gu An stared at that group of silver Qilins for a while, then his attention was drawn to the Dao insights from his breakthrough, quickly pulling him into a state of enlightenment.

Hunyuan Dao Fruit!

This was the final stage of Dao Fruit, and also the beginning of the Great Dao Realm. The so-called Profound Qi was his own Dao Qi, and his fortune would now be condensed into this.

Dao Fruit wasn’t just formed to generate magic power, its true goal was to give birth to a Dao. Gu An had already created his own Dao—that was the Hunyuan Dao Emperor.

In the unseen, the words "Hunyuan" had long inspired him.

The ultimate of the Dao was Hunyuan!

As Gu An comprehended Hunyuan, he returned to the starting point of each of his past lives, reliving them over and over.

In his past life on Earth in Huaxia, he was just an ordinary person, growing up through ups and downs, working an average job, getting married, having kids, living a life just like most others.

He lived as Chu Lu, Xiao Shengtian, Long Zhan, Hei Xuan Emperor, and Lu Han, leading tough and challenging cultivation lives.

As Ji, he lived a life of endless battles, fighting from the moment he could understand the world, breaking through by fighting, going to different worlds, different realms, never stopping until death.

As Yang Xian, he was obsessed with swordsmanship, living a life solely for the sword.

As Divine Sovereign Yongsheng, he failed to attain eternal life because of his obsession, repeating his life wore Gu An out deeply.

As Tai Shang Jue, he lived like a true cultivator, free and at ease before offending the Heavenly Court, roaming the heavens, making many friends, entangled in grudges and kindness, even reincarnating, meeting immortals, going to the Nine Nether Underworld, and even beyond the Great Dao.

Although the breakthrough from lifespan evolution could be fully digested in an hour, Gu An, lost in the cycles of his past lives, seemed to fall into eternal sleep.

When he opened his eyes again, his appearance hadn’t changed, but his entire aura had undergone a world-shaking transformation.

He was no longer a Dao Extreme Grand Luo Immortal, but a Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal!

Opening his eyes once more, everything before him had changed. The entire Supreme Yuanlin was in his eyes. He could see the edge of the Supreme Yuanlin, where the blue Qi Sea flowed downward, falling into endless darkness.

Everything in the Supreme Yuanlin was clear to him, including those hidden in the shadows.

The powerful being he had alarmed earlier was a Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal. Although Gu An couldn’t tell whether that person’s cultivation was higher than his, the other didn’t make him feel threatened.

Besides that Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal, the second strongest in the Supreme Yuanlin was a Wondrous Truth Grand Luo Immortal, who was the apparent realm lord of the Supreme Yuanlin, ruling over billions of living beings. These beings lived far away, and Gu An’s lifespan breakthrough had transported him far from them.

Gu An could see through their karmic ties. That Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal was the one who created the Supreme Yuanlin. Of course, this world wasn’t made by him, but he had set up those source trees, suppressing the Dao spirit energy of the world beneath them.

Those silver Qilins were Dao Origin Qilins, divine beasts raised by that Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal. Of course, neither the Dao Origin Qilins nor those living beings knew about the existence of that Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal.

A fellow cultivator, hiding in the world!

Gu An withdrew his gaze, lowering his eyes to look at his hands.

“So strong… truly unbelievable, I can’t believe I’ve become this powerful…”

Gu An muttered to himself. At this moment, he felt as if he was invincible.

He could even sit here and look across the three thousand great worlds—Heaven Spirit Great World, Ethereal Immortal Court, and the Desolate Heaven Tomb—all within his sight.

Countless parallel timelines, great and small worlds formed by the convergence of karmic threads, were also laid bare before his eyes. This was enough to make ordinary immortals collapse.

Gu An looked at his lifespan. This breakthrough had cost over twenty trillion years of lifespan, leaving him with less than thirty trillion years remaining.

A breakthrough to the perfect realm seemed impossible for now.

But taking another small step forward in his realm shouldn’t be too hard.

Gu An began pouring lifespan into his cultivation again.

He spent nineteen trillion years of lifespan and successfully stepped into the mid-stage of the Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal Realm.

When he opened his eyes again, the Dao rules of the Supreme Yuanlin were still raging wildly. Countless Dao Origin Qilins and cultivators were patrolling everywhere, but this world was vast, and none of them ever passed above Gu An’s head.

Gu An looked at his lifespan—it was already less than six trillion years.

That’s enough for now.

Gu An stood up, looking in the direction where the Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal resided. He had no intention of making contact with that person. The matter of his breakthrough had to be kept hidden.

Although it needed to be concealed, the leap in strength gave him more confidence to deal with any trouble that might come from the Heavenly Court.

He could already see the location of the Heavenly Court, where the Heavenly Dao fortune was truly vast and scorching, sacred and untouchable.

Gu An quietly activated the teleportation function of his lifespan breakthrough.

Actually, he could have just left directly, but with a Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal here, he didn’t want to leave any traces.

He wasn’t willing to take that gamble. Anyway, he could easily earn back this bit of lifespan.

After returning to the Heaven Spirit Great World, he didn’t go back to Wushi Dao Field but instead took one step beyond the heavens, arriving at the Desolate Heaven Tomb.

The Desolate Heaven Tomb was still bleak, filled with swirling dust. One massive building after another lay buried in the wind and sand, mysterious and ominous.

Fairy Yao Xuan’s thousand-zhang-long finger was still there, stuck in the ground. The original power within it had disappeared, replaced by the evil power of the Desolate Heaven Tomb.

Gu An raised his hand and with a motion, collected the giant finger into his sleeve. Then he stepped toward the huge palace where Sin was hiding.

That thousand-zhang-long finger was originally destined to descend upon the three thousand great worlds in the future, bringing terrible calamity to all living beings. But now, that fate had changed. At least, this finger would no longer affect the three thousand great worlds.

As Gu An walked forward, the wind and sand swirled around him but couldn’t touch him.

The Desolate Heaven Tomb was filled with an evil force that kept growing, but this power couldn’t harm a Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal. He walked through this world, completely unaffected.

As he walked, he also sensed the nature of the Desolate Heaven Tomb.

This world buried an ancient skeleton. It had been dead for too long, so Gu An couldn’t tell its exact cultivation, but from this alone, he guessed it was likely the remains of a Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal. Otherwise, why would he be immune to this place’s influence after reaching the Profound Qi Hunyuan Realm?

Gu An always had a feeling that this Profound Qi Hunyuan Immortal might revive one day. The evil power in this world was spreading from the bones, as if feeding on the blood and Qi of living beings, preparing for resurrection.

Of course, that had nothing to do with him.

He couldn’t be bothered to interfere with others' karma. As long as no one provoked him, he wouldn’t ruin someone else’s path.

Eventually, he arrived in front of the huge palace where Sin lived. The door was slightly ajar, leaving just a crack, but when up close, even that crack seemed quite wide, with pitch-black darkness inside, like the gate to the Nine Nether Purgatory.

He didn’t step into the palace but waited in front of the crack.

Soon, footsteps echoed from the darkness.

A young boy slowly poked his head out of the shadows, curiously looking at Gu An. Cautiously, he asked, “Who are you? Why are you here?”

He spoke in the language of the cultivation world—it seemed Fairy Yao Xuan’s finger had helped him quite a bit.

Gu An smiled and said, “My name is Gu An. I’ve come to take you home.”