Steadily becoming a saint, the immortal officials hired me to tend the horses - Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Top-Grade Heavenly Spirit Root, Breakthrough to Divinity Transformation Realm

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Under the night sky, Gu An swiftly traversed through the forest. The direction he was heading was opposite to where he had previously slain Lin Futian. This time, he intended to make a breakthrough a hundred miles away.

Over the past month, he had observed that there were no Law Enforcement Hall disciples patrolling in the dead of night.

As he advanced, a series of prompts suddenly appeared before Gu An:

[You have successfully obtained the Bitter Root Grass (Third Stage) with 6 years of life span]

[You have successfully obtained the Bitter Root Grass (Third Stage) with 7 years of life span]

[For the first time, your life span breaks through one hundred thousand years, activating the Life Span Deduction Function]

[Life Span Deduction: Consume life span to deduce the cause and effect of the Great Dao and fate, the amount of life span consumed depends on the causality deduced]

Life Span Deduction?

Gu An couldn’t help but furrow his brow. He suddenly smelled the scent of a conspiracy.

Was this aiming to drain his life span?

Could it instantly exhaust his life span?

Gu An decided to try it lightly first. When this new function appeared, he had a certain understanding, knowing how to use it.

The so-called deduction was actually a way of asking questions with life span.

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Gu An silently asked in his heart, “Using life span deduction, is Jiang Qiong now intending to kill me?”

About two breaths of time passed.

[It requires consuming 300 years of life span, proceed with deduction]

No!

Too expensive!

Gu An directly refused, but after this trial, he felt much more reassured.

At least the Life Span Deduction would notify him in advance of how much life span it needed to consume, avoiding his life span being suddenly drained.

Gu An no longer probed and focused on his journey.

He would rather not use this function unless absolutely necessary; consuming life span to explore the unknown seemed unworthy to him for now.

Along the way, Gu An was very cautious, his divine sense constantly spread out to avoid encountering Nascent Soul cultivators again.

The night was lonely and silent.

Although he could not see any demon beasts along the way, he did see traces of wild animals, mostly herbivores like wild rabbits and mice.

About fifty miles from Mystic Valley, Gu An suddenly saw a White Spirit Rat.

In the forest, this creature was entangled with a rabbit, following closely behind the rabbit’s backside. As the rabbit hopped, it sniffed forward from time to time.

It looked like a big dog chasing a rabbit.

So humble…

Gu An pretended not to see it and quietly left without disturbing the White Spirit Rat.

“No wonder this guy keeps running outside all the time, its actions even resemble a rabbit…”

Gu An couldn’t help but laugh and cry as he recalled the scene he had just witnessed.

The White Spirit Rat seemed to be raised poorly, but luckily he still had the Sky Dragon.

Thinking of the majestic demeanor of the Sky Dragon, Gu An’s mood improved.

Half an hour later, Gu An arrived in a dense forest where leaves intertwined thickly. Even if someone flew by above, they wouldn’t see him.

Gu An sat down under a large tree, took a deep breath, and brought up his attribute panel.

Looking at his life span of one hundred thousand and three years, a look of expectation appeared on his face.

With a life span of one hundred thousand years, he was indeed wealthy; this time, he could significantly enhance his attributes.

Let’s enhance the spirit roots first. A greater investment, considering how difficult it is to improve this.

How many years should I invest?

After hesitating for a moment, Gu An decided to be generous and invest directly ten thousand years!

[You invested ten thousand years of life span into evolving your spirit root]

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for one hundred years, your perception power of Five Elements Spirit Root improved]

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for two hundred years, your perception power of Five Elements Spirit Root improved]

…

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for two thousand years, finally capturing a wisp of heaven and earth’s true meaning. Your spirit root underwent a transformation, and your Five Elements Spirit Root began to evolve into a top-grade spirit root, with wood and earth attributes being prominent]

…

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for four thousand years, your perception power of Five Elements Spirit Root improved]

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for five thousand years, you felt the arcane of the Five Elements between heaven and earth. Your spirit root qualification went through a qualitative change, and your Five Elements Spirit Root evolved into the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Root]

…

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for eight thousand years, finally capturing a wisp of the wood spirit law of heaven and earth. Your wood attribute spirit root underwent a transformation, evolving into a top-grade wood attribute heavenly spirit root]

[You comprehended nature and the heavens for ten thousand years, your perception power of Five Elements Spirit Root improved]

One line after another of prompts popped up crazily, there were dozens of prompts, which made Gu An reluctant to blink.

When the last prompt appeared, he immediately activated the Life Span Barrier.

In an instant, the grass under his feet emitted a shimmering glow, even the trees behind him glowed with faint green light, and the area within the barrier was illuminated.

The Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Root!

Gu An instantly became excited.

The Heavenly Spirit Root was the strongest spirit root he had heard of so far, even Ji Xiaoyu from the Ji Family couldn’t compare.

The Heavenly Spirit Root usually belonged to a single attribute. However, the cultivation speed of this single attribute was far beyond that of Dual Spirit Roots, like night and day.

According to Li Ya, the Heavenly Spirit Root was the darling of heaven and earth. It either required extraordinary fortune to be born or took generations of effort from a millennium-old family to have a chance to nurture such a spirit root.

The Taicang Dynasty currently had only one cultivator with a Heavenly Spirit Root, residing in the Supreme Sect. As for the specific identity, Li Ya didn’t disclose.

Gu An suspected that Li Xuandao was also a Heavenly Spirit Root, but he hid it well.

Just as Gu An mused, nature’s spiritual energy began to pour into his body, making him feel itchy all over, yet indescribably comfortable.

Another ten thousand years!

In the abundance of life span, Gu An suddenly felt that ten thousand years was nothing.

Thus, he invested another ten thousand years of life span into his spirit roots. A series of prompts crazily popped up before him.

Spirit root perception power improved!

Spirit root perception power improved!

As he saw the same prompt repeatedly, Gu An’s Daoist Heart began to tremble.

Something’s wrong!

This is bad!

Really bad!

Until five thousand years later, his Earth Spirit Root evolved into a top-grade heavenly spirit root.

For the next five thousand years, all the prompts were about the improvement of spirit root perception, like a bottomless pit, continuing until it ended.

Gu An’s heart bled.

He practiced the Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, relying on the wood spirit root would suffice. In other words, the latter ten thousand years of investment wouldn’t increase his cultivation speed again.

Spirit roots were determined at birth; in reality, there was no known cultivation technique to enhance the spirit roots. Reaching the Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Root from an ordinary five spirit roots was already unbelievable.

No!

Try again!

I can’t let this ten thousand years of life span go down the drain!

Gu An gritted his teeth and invested another ten thousand years of life span.

Another series of prompts quickly popped up, and Gu An’s expression darkened.

An investment of ten thousand years resulted in the Fire Spirit Root evolving into a top-grade heavenly spirit root.

Will it really take ten thousand years to enhance a single spirit root?

Gu An invested another ten thousand years of life span into his spirit roots. The nature’s spiritual energy pouring into his body increased, now grey and red light spots surrounded him.

After dozens of prompts, Gu An’s water spirit root evolved into a top-grade heavenly spirit root.

If I gather all five elements, will there be a qualitative change?

Gu An continued investing another ten thousand years of life span.

Finally, his metal spirit root also evolved into a top-grade heavenly spirit root. In the attribute panel, the spirit root section directly indicated a top-grade five elements heavenly spirit root.

Looking at his life span, Gu An’s gaze became dazed.

Fifty thousand years of life span had vanished like this…

After getting carried away, Gu An felt unprecedentedly empty in his heart.

Earth spirit energy crazily poured into his body, his physical body entered a marvelous state, feeling both itchy and warm, yet without any discomfort.

Countless points of light stars floated around him, fire being red, wood green, water blue, metal yellow, earth grey, like a splendid galaxy.

Gu An’s expression became dazed, and his thoughts disordered.

Time passed by quickly.

An ancient hour later, Gu An completed the transformation of his spirit roots, feeling as though heaven and earth had undergone a complete renewal. This sudden surge of perception made him feel spiritually revived.

This feeling was just too marvelous!

He suddenly felt that the investment of fifty thousand years of life span was not a loss.

The top-grade five elements heavenly spirit root was enough to stand proudly in the Taicang Dynasty; as for the entire Mortal World, he couldn’t say for sure, as he was still unsure of the world’s vastness.

Taking a deep breath, Gu An shifted his gaze to the cultivation technique on his attribute panel.

Should he enhance the cultivation technique?

He feared that once the cultivation technique reached a certain stage, the subsequent investments would exceed his expectations. Moreover, he already had the top-grade five elements heavenly spirit root, and his Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill was not bad; continuously laying the foundation seemed endless.

What if a Divinity Transformation stage demon cultivator ambushed him tomorrow?

Go straight for the cultivation level!

With the new spirit roots, don’t let me down!

Start with another ten thousand years first. Cultivation level was the most important thing and worth the big input!

Begin investment!

[You invested ten thousand years of life span into evolving your cultivation level]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for ten years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Divinity Transformation Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You did not survive the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation and failed in the tribulation crossing]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for one hundred years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Divinity Transformation Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You did not survive the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation and failed in the tribulation crossing]

…

Watching the constant prompts of tribulation crossing failure, Gu An’s expression remained calm.

One tribulation crossing every hundred years, he could accept it.

He could not believe he would fail a hundred times!

Fortunately, the situation was not as bad as he thought.

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for two thousand seven hundred years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Divinity Transformation Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You survived the Five Elements Heavenly Tribulation, succeeded in the tribulation crossing, and broke through to the first layer of Divinity Transformation Realm]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for three thousand years, and your cultivation level broke through to the second layer of Divinity Transformation Realm]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for three thousand two hundred years, and your cultivation level broke through to the third layer of Divinity Transformation Realm]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for three thousand four hundred years, and your cultivation level broke through to the fourth layer of Divinity Transformation Realm]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for three thousand seven hundred years, and your cultivation level broke through to the fifth layer of Divinity Transformation Realm]

…

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for five thousand years, and your cultivation level broke through to the ninth layer of Divinity Transformation Realm]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for five thousand two hundred years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Void Crossing Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You did not survive the Mystic Dark Heavenly Tribulation and failed in the tribulation crossing]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for six thousand four hundred years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Void Crossing Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You did not survive the Mystic Dark Heavenly Tribulation and failed in the tribulation crossing]

…

Alright, failing again!

One tribulation crossing every two hundred years, Gu An could accept it.

At the same time, he was pondering one question: it seemed that spirit root qualification couldn’t determine the success rate of tribulation crossing.

Could it be that one’s own strength was the key to tribulation crossing?

Spells, divine skills, formations, secret techniques, magic artifacts, etc…

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for nine thousand six hundred years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Void Crossing Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You did not survive the Mystic Dark Heavenly Tribulation and failed in the tribulation crossing]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for nine thousand eight hundred years, with the great accomplishment of Divine Wood Pure Yang Skill, forcefully impacting the Void Crossing Realm and beginning tribulation crossing. You survived the Mystic Dark Heavenly Tribulation and succeeded in the tribulation crossing, breaking through to the first layer of Void Crossing Realm]

[You practiced Qi Absorption cultivation for ten thousand years, and your cultivation level increased]

Gu An brought up his attribute panel, still having nearly forty thousand years of life span left, making the corners of his mouth lift uncontrollably.