Longevity: Starting as a Sect Servant

Chapter 895: Chapter 393: Farewell, Evergreen (2)

"From now on, you and I will cultivate here."

She opened up an underground palace and set some formation flags, saying, "I need to go into seclusion for many years. These Anomaly Crystals should be sufficient for your cultivation... Here, you can also serve as my Protector."

Li An glanced at the storage bag he received, where Anomaly Crystals piled up like mountains. Gu Xuening had prepared for today for many years, so the resources were naturally plentiful.

"Disciple obeys!"

Li An agreed readily. He needed a place for orthodox Immortal Dao cultivation now, and this place couldn’t be more suitable.

Moreover, he also needed to research what Hongbo Fairy had done to him and Gu Xuening, what exactly was going on.

He lived in a stone chamber slightly on the outskirts. After Gu Xuening went into seclusion, Li An gained quite a bit of freedom, while extracting Anomaly Crystals to continuously enhance his mysterious cultivation. On the other hand, he began absorbing the immortal energy here.

"Hmm?"

As he started absorbing the immortal energy for cultivation, he suddenly realized there were some mysterious gray particles on him, heading towards his black and white millstone within.

It seemed like they were trying to penetrate it!

His black and white millstone was transformed based on the source of white mist, balancing life and death. These gray particles merged with the immortal energy and entered the millstone but were crushed by its rotation, disappearing without a trace.

"This is... targeted at the white mist source?"

Li An was shocked.

Once he’s tainted by these gray particles, every time he exercises the source of white mist during cultivation, they would naturally penetrate into the white mist source!

No wonder he felt nothing before.

"Such means, even Hongbo Fairy shouldn’t possess... The secret manipulator is the Evergreen Immortal Venerable!"

Li An was startled.

No wonder, no wonder Hongbo Fairy clearly had the chance but didn’t kill Gu Xuening and seize the Longevity White Mist. That’s because... Evergreen Immortal Venerable had other plans.

He surely wouldn’t sit idly as others seized the opportunity of longevity, but now he remained calm... Unless he was confident that even after someone absorbed the Longevity White Mist, he could still replace it?

Li An slowly guided the immortal energy into his body, allowing the life and death millstone to rotate very slowly, observing the gray particles closely. After a long time, he reached a surprising conclusion.

"This gray mist is formed by combining the source of white mist with mysterious energy!"

Li An frowned deeply: "Evergreen Immortal Venerable... also discovered the key to longevity!"

"Balance!"

Balance of life and death is the secret to longevity. Evergreen Immortal Venerable is peerless in this world, so after obtaining the Longevity White Mist, perhaps he already understood something and was attempting this. These gray particles are his attempt to balance the mysterious energy and orthodox Immortal Dao!

Moreover, this product has already acquired certain miraculous effects.

Li An suddenly felt some urgency.

Reaching this stage, Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s talent is undeniable. Who knows if one day he might grasp the true essence?

Currently, Evergreen Immortal Venerable hasn’t yet found the correct answer.

It seems Li An’s current cultivation also involves absorbing both mysterious energy and immortal energy. Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s attempt is in the same direction, but there’s a fundamental difference between the two.

Li An can absorb both energies because his life and death millstone has already formed, balancing life and death!

The mysterious energy is merely a manifestation of death, not the essence.

The orthodox Immortal Dao is merely a portrayal of life, far from the full picture.

Evergreen Immortal Venerable only has branches and leaves, not understanding the trunk; only sees a corner, not glimpsing the iceberg.

"The balance of life and death, only by personally experiencing it can one understand, but Evergreen Immortal Venerable has already reached such a realm, it’s definitely not easy to see through the death barrier..."

This is the only solace Li An can give himself.

After being sacrificed by Evergreen Immortal Venerable and dying, he was pulled into the space-time of the passed Era of Eternal Life by the Longevity Seeker, thus taking a shortcut at this step!

His realm isn’t as high as Evergreen Immortal Venerable, but Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s grasp of life and death pales in comparison to him.

This is also why the gray particles produced by Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s fusion of mysterious energy and Immortal Dao would be crushed by his black and white millstone.

"If he had any means, he wouldn’t let others touch the Longevity White Mist. Now he’s placing hope on the gray particles, clearly showing Evergreen Immortal Venerable has reached a dead end, so he’s prepared to try some perilous methods?"

Li An gleaned some truth from the fact that Evergreen Immortal Venerable implanted gray particles into Gu Xuening.

After all, if it were Li An, he would directly kill Gu Xuening, take the Longevity White Mist to strengthen his black and white millstone. Why bother with such delays?

Evergreen Immortal Venerable chose this... which precisely indicates he might not even reach the edge of the life and death millstone!

Realizing this, Li An slightly relaxed.

"Quietly watch for changes... Maintain the existence of the gray particles on me."

Li An pondered that since he unexpectedly entered Evergreen Immortal Venerable’s layout, the best plan... was to use the situation to his advantage.

From then on, he became much more cautious during cultivation, trying not to let the black and white millstone crush the gray particles.

...

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, fifty years had passed.

In fifty years, Li An’s realm grew rapidly, and he had completely restored his former level!

Celestial Immortal Perfection!

Just one step away from entering the Golden Immortal Realm.

"Breaking through to Golden Immortal... will require a vast amount of mysterious energy and Immortal Crystals!"

The immortal veins here couldn’t supply him anymore!

"Even without the Celestial Corpse Small Sword at hand, I can now kill a Golden Immortal with my bare hands!"

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