ATPnovel Chapter 679 - 322: Li Gou Ascends to Immortality (Part 3)
Chapter 679 - 322: Li Gou Ascends to Immortality (Part 3)
The voice continued to echo.At this moment, Li An felt an inexplicable doubt...
He had read some notebooks before, documenting the illusory trial. Entering this illusory trial, you might see the most important deceased from your past life. The trial would offer the entrant temptation to breathe life into them, preserve their shadows, or bring them back. Should the entrant lack a firm resolve, it would deplete their blood and energy here, even risking their very life...
This illusory trial was described as the "Illusory Emotion Tribulation."
Obviously, cultivators consider all this to be mere illusion.
But is it really an illusion?
He had secretly activated the Life Nourishing Immortal Skill. Given his understanding of this skill, if it were truly an illusion, it wouldn’t fool him; everything before him seemed so real.
"It’s not supposed to be..."
And at this moment, Gu Hong spoke up. She looked at Li An, smiled faintly, and said: "Did you know my master once told me that you were a heartless and ruthless person..."
"I once wanted to prove that you weren’t heartless, that you were warm and kind. Later, I didn’t care anymore, I was once your wife, once planted that pear tree with you..."
"Li Lang, it makes me happy just to see you return to the village..."
"But don’t let me come back anymore. Walk your path to immortality; as long as you remember there was a woman in the world who was once your wife... that is enough."
As her words ended, she vanished of her own accord—
Gu Hong’s few words stirred something inexplicable in Li An’s heart. He subconsciously reached out, but hesitated in mid-air, undecided. Eventually, he turned away and never looked back!
It’s all an illusion, all an illusion!
Li An took a deep breath.
Behind him, just before Gu Hong vanished, it seemed she shed one last tear...
...
All vanished.
"Those without emotions, even if they attain immortality, ultimately find nothing but solitude, not knowing that all paths return to the mortal realm, what is forsaken cannot be chased in days to come..."
The voice was ethereal and distant, as if coming from an unknowable place.
Li An stood silently for a long time, and in that moment, a doubt flashed in his heart. All his life, he had pursued immortality at any cost, abandoning everything... What had he truly gained in the end?
But quickly, he steadied himself, shook his head, and said: "No, that’s not right!"
He inexplicably broke out in a cold sweat. His Dao Heart had always been steadfast, but just because of that ethereal voice, it seemed to glimpse his life’s greatest sins and mistakes, almost ruining his Dao Heart.
This illusory trial is truly out of the ordinary!
As everything faded, he continued forward, nearing the location of the deity statue holding the hammer. In front of him, several figures appeared.
One person was dressed in an ancient Celestial Master robe, covered in gray spots, as if having passed endless years, holding an Immortal Talisman!
The second person was seated beside a chessboard in the sky. Judging by appearance, he seemed like a scholar, with mysterious arrays of black and white chess lines weaving an ever-changing great formation.
The third was a woman holding a bronze Alchemy Furnace.
He looked down and saw a gray rhizome rooted in the immortal path beneath him. The further he went, the more prominent the rhizome became, ultimately converging into that statue...
That statue actually resembled a tree.
And these rhizomes spread across the immortal path were its roots; the immortal path seemed merely a thing for it to draw nourishment.
Li An tried stepping forward. The blood and energy in his body surged uncontrollably, absorbed by these rhizomes. At the same time, because he took this step, gray Immortal Light appeared in the space around him. As one or two strands fell upon him, he sensed he seemed to possess some fragment of the Immortal Dao!
"Exchange?!"
Li An was slightly taken aback. He offered his life force to this path, and the gigantic deity statue, after absorbing through the rhizomes, bestowed Immortal Light?
He hurriedly reached out, capturing and absorbing the emerging Immortal Light!
The strength a cultivator could condense in the Immortal Dao seemed to depend on how much Immortal Light they could absorb and comprehend at this moment!
Each strand of Immortal Light was a fragment of the Immortal Dao Fruit!
The more one acquires, the more stable their Dao Fruit, and thus their cultivation grows stronger.
He was very tense. The Blood Pill he ingested had merged with him, providing a lot of life-force and energy, but how long could it last?
Once the blood and energy from the pill ran out, would he then have to deplete his own life-force?
Unfortunately, taking more Immortal Blood Pills was of no use, or he would have wanted to buy more...
At the same time, he also felt enlightenment. In an instant, he realized that the three figures corresponded to the three paths he had been arduously cultivating.
Talisman Dao, Alchemy Dao, and Array Dao!
Similarly, if he wished to obtain the Dao Fruits of these paths after achieving immortality and fulfill the "Celestial Talisman," he had to compete now.
"I want it all!"
Li An growled lowly. With a thought, he suddenly activated the Life Nourishing Immortal Skill, unleashing the power of the Life Seed to lock his blood and energy!
He was experimenting!
The blood and energy provided by the Immortal Blood Pill still had about a third remaining, but it was certainly insufficient to claim those three Dao Fruits, so he used the Life Seed, employing the power of time as protection for his life-force and energy.
The power of time appeared like a curtain before him. He immediately felt that while he hadn’t completely stopped the loss of blood and energy, the rate had significantly slowed!
"Is it effective?!"
Li An was immediately overjoyed!
"Could this really be a realm of a bygone time?"
"And my Life Seed absorbs the current power of time, so the current power of time blocks the power of the past..."
A bold idea flashed in Li An’s mind, but now wasn’t the time to ponder more. Seizing the moment to capture the fragments of the Immortal Dao and solidify the Dao Fruit was paramount.
He exerted all his strength to absorb the Immortal Light before him.
He had a feeling that at this stage of achieving immortality, no one could acquire as much Immortal Light as he did.
After all, others had too little time. If they didn’t leave before the power of the Blood Pill was exhausted, they’d lose their life-force, face indescribable doom, and fall into a death trial, among other things.
After a long time, he had captured all the Immortal Light from the gray immortal path, and thanks to the obstruction of the curtain of time, he still had plenty of blood and energy left from the Blood Pill.
There’s still enough time!
Li An raced forward without stopping, heading directly towards those three mysterious figures. As he expected, his blood and energy flowed towards the three, and they, seemingly sensing it, began to demonstrate spells, from which vast Immortal Light flowed...
......
Goodnight.