Chapter 963 - 418: Shangguan Shengxian’s Child

Chapter 963: Chapter 418: Shangguan Shengxian’s Child

Daluo Golden Immortal!

In the underground cave, Li An felt the brand-new changes brought by the breakthrough in his realm, his face becoming increasingly satisfied.

As he willed it, a mysterious Daluo Immortal Light emerged around him. Within this Immortal Light, a mysterious world was reflected. At a glance, this world’s construction seemed quite similar to that of the Great Monarch Qiongqi, with mountains, rivers, lands, and oceans all orderly arranged and naturally formed, like a mysterious array.

However, his world surpassed the array world of the Great Monarch Qiongqi. It appeared natural and harmonious, almost without the traces of an array, everything integrated into the creation. If described in two words, it would be: harmony!

Li An obtained the Dao Fruit of the Great Monarch Qiongqi, allowing him to directly enter the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. Moreover, with the Wheel of Life and Death, his understanding of the balance of life and death far surpassed that of the Great Monarch Qiongqi. Therefore, the Daluo World he constructed naturally adhered to the principle of balance.

"The world is inherently balanced."

Creating this world elevated Li An’s understanding of life and death to a higher level.

Li An had already seen many Daluos in the world, but the creation of life within many Daluo Golden Immortal worlds was not easy in reality.

For example, the Great Monarch Qiongqi, a renowned strongman in the Deceit Court, had constructed mountains, rivers, and more within himself, but no life had been born.

Generally speaking, if true life had appeared within a Daluo World, evolving and spreading, it could be called a "Sub-Venerable", marking a demarcation point.

Many inner worlds of Daluo Golden Immortals are often abandoned, merged into the heavens and earth, infected and transmitted by the breath of creation, for life to be born.

It can also be said that what the Daluo Golden Immortals initially created was actually a dead world.

Take Purple Fairy, for example. She managed to become a Sub-Venerable partly because of that Longevity White Mist. The strong Longevity Origin contained within it compensated for her own cognitive deficiencies, allowing life to be produced in her Daluo World.

"All life is co-created by life and death."

Everything that lives will inevitably die. Only within deathly stillness can life be nurtured. Death is the base color of life, and nothingness is the root of existence. In fact, this art of balance is also embedded between all things: humans, tigers, leopards, trees, birds... their bodies are often symmetrical. Symmetry is an external manifestation of balance.

Without mastering the art of life and death and understanding the entwining division of the two forces, it is likely a delusion to want to create life.

Among the Daluo Golden Immortals, of course, there are some incredibly talented individuals like the Evergreen Immortal Venerable and the Yunluo Immortal Venerable who eventually transcended Daluo to become Immortal Venerables. However, they did not truly uncover all these mysteries; they should have used imitation in their methods.

By continuously mimicking the changes within the heavens and earth, exhausting all efforts, it is possible not to grasp the essence, but to imitate nature’s marvels, making one’s internal world a little more perfect.

"As my world slowly develops, entering the Immortal Venerable realm is merely a matter of time..."

Li An’s starting point is exceedingly high!

Other Daluo Golden Immortals, throughout their lives, find it challenging to even glimpse the threshold of an Immortal Venerable. But Li An mastered the necessary truths to become an Immortal Venerable from the outset. He only needs to wait, letting the internal world continually evolve. When life proliferates to a certain degree, when the fire of civilization illuminates the Daluo World, the power autonomously generated in this world will allow Li An to cross the threshold and become an Immortal Venerable.

He simply needs to follow the sequence of steps.

"What a pity..." ℯℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

But Li An sighed softly.

If in times of peace, he could indeed simply sit and wait. But now, he lacks sufficient time.

To develop beyond the Immortal Venerable realm would likely require thousands or even tens of thousands of years. Yet now, the Yunluo Immortal Venerable is watching like a tiger, and the Evergreen Immortal Venerable is laying plans in secret. The Heavenly Court is in peril, and if he waits too long, by the time Yunluo or Evergreen succeeds, and the world sacrifices to Longevity, he will have turned to ashes before growing strong.

Therefore, he cannot wait!

He must take the initiative.

He rose up, looking at the few sword marks left on the stone wall of the cave, and performed a gentle salute.

Those sword marks were left by the Ta’e Sword Intent.

In the battle at Taiji Mountain, Li An, inspired by the Ta’e Sword Saint’s unity of man and sword, gained enlightenment on the spot, using the same unity to defeat the Ta’e Sword Saint. Yet he spared the Ta’e Sword Saint’s life, and even treated him kindly, claiming that in some sense, the Ta’e Sword Saint was also his teacher, giving the Ta’e Sword Saint enough respect.

At the time, he only thought that if he himself died, and the Ta’e Sword Saint survived, the Ta’e Sword Saint would look after the Dao Sect in some way. Perhaps one day, if the Ta’e Sword Saint could prove to be an Immortal Venerable, he would undoubtedly become an adversary of the Evergreen Immortal Venerable and others, thus avenging Li An.

Unexpectedly, that Ta’e Sword Saint turned out to be so loyal and righteous, directly retiring to the Dao Sect and accepting Xiang Yuntian and Gu Canye as direct disciples. Although he failed to become an Immortal Venerable, he left three Ta’e Sword Intents to the Dao Sect.

During the battle in the Heavenly Court, one of the three Ta’e Sword Intents was trapped within the Infinite Realm of Evergreen Immortal Venerable. Although the Evergreen Immortal Venerable died and it dissipated, An Li now used one to help Li An, leaving two remaining.

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Perhaps, although the Ta’e Sword Saint only encountered Li An in battle back then, he had genuinely regarded Li An as a disciple from the heart, and that is why he gave so much.

To become a Sword Saint, his Sword Heart is certainly pure and untainted, upright and honorable.