LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 228: Chapter 228 The 9,999-Year Life Span Limit
Feeling down, Gu An looked at the excited Ye Lan, and his mood gradually improved.
No matter what, he at least helped Ye Lan extend her life by four hundred and seventy years, and her cultivation progressed from the Foundation Establishment Realm to the Divinity Transformation Realm, making her future life more exciting.
With nearly five hundred more years of life, perhaps she would have her own opportunities in the future.
Gu An smiled and occasionally echoed Ye Lan's words.
When Ye Lan finished speaking, Gu An said, "I recommend you go to the Inner Sect."
Ye Lan nodded, with a face full of yearning she said, "If I cannot progress further in this life, it would not be in vain to experience the world of Great Cultivators."
Since Gu An stepped into the room, Ye Lan had noticed something was off with his expression.
Recalling Gu An's usual advice, Ye Lan thought of many possibilities. One thing was certain, her senior brother was very concerned about her life span.
Ye Lan did not feel afraid or disappointed, instead, she felt very content.
Without her senior brother's help, she might have been a Servant Disciple for her whole life, let alone reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm. Everything now seemed like a dream.
"If I can only live for a few hundred years, senior brother, you need not regret. If fate allows, we can meet in the next life, right?" Ye Lan blinked and said with a light laugh.
Gu An was startled, then laughed, "Yes, if it's meant to be, even reincarnation can't stop it."
They talked from the future to the past this time. Gu An chose to stay overnight at Ye Lan's residence and they talked all night without feeling tired.
Early the next day, Gu An left.
Ye Lan saw him off to the gate, watching his departing figure, the sense of loss welled up in her heart once again.
After her cultivation level rose, she increasingly found her senior brother's demeanor extraordinary.
Perhaps her senior brother had already reached a certain stage, after all, he was valued by the Sword Venerable Fudao.
Ye Lan knew one thing for sure, if it was not just a chance meeting with the Sword Venerable Fudao, the Sword Venerable would not have taken action with the Qinghong Sword.
Gu An just wanted to avoid trouble; that's why he hid his relationship with the Sword Venerable Fudao. Ye Lan could understand this.
"Senior brother, I will always be with you for the rest of my life."
Ye Lan smiled, her eyes filled with an expectant smile.
The future was far away, she did not want to think about it too much, she just wanted to cherish the present.
...
Putting aside Ye Lan's matter for the time being, unlike the Daoist Expansion Skill which could only lift the cultivation constraints once in a lifetime, the Primordial Reincarnation Skill could be repeatedly cultivated. Ye Lan would continue to suppress her cultivation in the future and release it after hundreds of years, then the ultimate life span should be able to increase again, but Gu An was not sure if the effect would be the same as the first time lifting the cultivation constraints.
Anyway, this was at least a hope.
After hundreds of years, Gu An's cultivation would also transform, and perhaps he could find the chance to change Ye Lan's fate against the heavens.
Compared to Ye Lan, Gu An was more worried about Xiaochuan.
Xiaochuan this fellow usually did not work hard on cultivation, and even if the cultivation constraints were lifted, the improvement would be limited, certainly not as good as Ye Lan.
But Xiaochuan had already seen through life and death, without fear of life and death, so Gu An was not so regretful.
Everyone has their own choice, everyone will experience farewells, Gu An was not a stubborn person. If he was powerless, he could only work hard on his cultivation and see the end of the immortal path on behalf of his old friends.
This year's summer was not as hot as previous years.
In the Third Medicine Valley.
Gu An went downstairs, looking at the myriad forms of life in the valley, and he had a smile on his face, feeling very good.
In the distance, You Yingying was instructing An Xin and several female disciples in practicing spells. Although her cultivation level was very low, she understood many spells.
The Blood Prison Great Saint was chasing the White Spirit Rat again. The gap between them was very small, whenever he was about to catch the White Spirit Rat, it always managed to dodge, making him extremely angry and unwilling to stop, so he could only keep chasing.
Ten years had passed, and Lu Lingjun had not returned yet.
Gu An detected through his divine sense that her Ascension Sect had been preliminarily established, but one of the Ascenders had offended an overseas family, and they had an ongoing grudge for several years.
Gu An just watched the play with no intention of meddling.
Although Lu Lingjun had been injured many times, it was not to the extent of life-threatening.
It had to be said that Ascenders were indeed very tenacious. Even though the enemy was powerful, they had no plans to back down and were prepared to fight to the death, not giving up until justice was served.
Xiaochuan came to Gu An's side and said, "Senior brother, I just recruited a hundred Servant Disciples, do you want to take a look?"
Over the past ten years, disciples have constantly established their foundations and left, while new disciples joined, and the total number of disciples had breached nine hundred.
Gu An, being idle, agreed and nodded.
He followed Xiaochuan to the grassy area at the edge of the pavilion area, where a hundred Servant Disciples were waiting, very nervous and whispering to each other.
"Will the Valley Master accept us?"
"He should. The head disciple brought us here."
"This Third Medicine Valley is not simple, it sends out several Foundation Establishment Realm disciples each year to help them become Outer Sect disciples."
"I've heard that too. It's said that the Valley Master is the disciple of the Sect Leader."
"The most important thing is that the Valley Master is very generous."
Some were excited, some were anxious, and some were so nervous that they were shaking all over.
When they saw Xiaochuan and Gu An approaching, they all shut up.
Their gazes fell on Gu An and were amazed by his appearance and demeanor.
So young!
So handsome!
Gu An's eyes swept over these Servant Disciples, constantly checking their life spans.
In the past decades, there were no few buried talents among the Servant Disciples recruited by Xiaochuan, but none had an ultimate life span exceeding a thousand years. Gu An had never focused on cultivating Servant Disciples, so the master-disciple bond was not close.
With one glance, all had ultimate life spans of a hundred or two hundred years, occasionally showing up one with over three hundred years.
[Yang Jian (Energy Cultivation Realm third layer): 15/97/9999]
Hmm?
Yang Jian?
Even True Lord Erlang appeared?
And with the same ultimate life span as An Hao…
Gu An's gaze fixed on Yang Jian, he pointed at Yang Jian and transmitted his voice to Xiaochuan, asking him to call that kid out.
Yang Jian wore simple gray clothes, his face slightly black, looking like he had been doing farm work since childhood, but his facial contours were very good. If well-groomed, he would appear handsome.
He stood in the crowd, very inconspicuous.
Watching Xiaochuan approach, everyone held their breath, both nervous and expectant.
Xiaochuan squeezed into the crowd, patted Yang Jian on the shoulder, and asked him to come out.
Yang Jian was stunned, and quickly followed, feeling very anxious, afraid that Gu An would find him unpleasant.
When he stood in front of Gu An, he heard Gu An ask, "Introduce yourself."
Yang Jian came to his senses and hurriedly said, "My name is Yang Jian, from Longhu Town, Xu Province. I am fifteen years old, and my family has nine members..."
Before Gu An could speak, Xiaochuan couldn't help but ask, "Yang Jian? Which Yang, which Jian?"
Yang Jian scratched his head awkwardly and said, "It's Yang Jian from the Investiture of the Gods, True Lord Erlang from Journey to the West. I really like these two books, so I changed my name to Yang Jian after joining the Supreme Sect. My old name was Yang Xiaohu, which sounded really bad..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the other Servant Disciples burst into laughter.
Hearing this, Gu An breathed a sigh of relief.
Scared me to death!
He really thought this kid was Yang Jian from the Investiture of the Gods. After all, this nearly ten-thousand-year ultimate life span was too eye-catching.
To date, Gu An had encountered three people with an ultimate life span of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years: An Hao, the Blood Prison Great Saint, and Yang Jian.
He scrutinized Yang Jian, finding his bones peculiar, and his spirit root was a Mixed Spirit Root of the Five Elements, but his bones were unlike ordinary people. This point was hard to detect without reaching the Immortal Path Realm. His bones needed a vast amount of spiritual energy to revive.
In other words, if Yang Jian could not awaken his physical body, he was no different from an ordinary Servant Disciple.
Without the life span detection, Gu An would not have detected this.
If not encountered by Gu An, Yang Jian would likely never have been noticed for his extraordinary traits, as the number of immortals in the Taicang Dynasty was few, making it hard for him to come in contact with them.
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Xiaochuan, with a dark expression, said, "You really know how to name yourself, daring to take the name of True Lord Erlang, who is so divine and handsome?"
He also liked the Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West and had a very good impression of Yang Jian.
In the Investiture of the Gods, Gu An included the story of Yang Jian rescuing his mother on Peach Mountain, making Yang Jian's character more complete and raising his popularity to the highest in the Investiture of the Gods, surpassing even Nezha.
The other Servant Disciples joined in the teasing, making Yang Jian's face turn red, wanting to find a hole to crawl into.
"Choosing a new name after embarking on the path of Immortal Cultivation is also a way to show your ambition. From now on, you shall be called Yang Jian."
Gu An said, with his words, the other disciples dared not laugh anymore.
Then, Gu An gave some courteous encouragement and explained some rules of the Medicine Valley, stating that as long as the disciples worked diligently, he was willing to help them establish their foundations and pursue the immortal path.
After speaking, Gu An turned and left.
He would not accept someone as a disciple based solely on their ultimate life span; he would observe Yang Jian's future behavior. If he had good character, Gu An would be willing to help, forming a kind fate. If his character was mean, then he would live his exceptional life span in mediocrity.
Due to being singled out by Gu An, Yang Jian was pursued by other disciples looking to befriend him, making him feel flattered.
He looked at Gu An's departing figure, his eyes full of gratitude.
Without Gu An's recognition, his name would have been constantly mocked.
He decided secretly that he must perform well and strive to get a Foundation Establishment Pill someday!
Back in his room, Gu An couldn't help but turn his gaze to An Hao.
Compared to Ye Yan, Su Han, and Zhen Qin, An Hao was his true disciple, inheriting his cultivation techniques and ultimate skills. He had always held great expectations for An Hao.
An Hao's cultivation had reached the ninth layer of the Nascent Soul Realm, and terrifyingly, he was not yet a hundred years old.
At the moment, An Hao was cultivating on a small island in the ocean, with Chi Jiuxiao and Chi Bei also on the island, guiding him in his cultivation.
Both were stunned by An Hao's talent. If they didn't know that An Hao had a mentor at the Heaven and Earth Flying Immortal Realm, they would have fought to take him as a disciple.
Gu An noticed that Chi Bei's cultivation level was continuously dropping; it seemed the poison of the Immortal-Swallowing Scorpion could not be completely eliminated.
He needed to find an opportunity to pass the Yang Wood Primordial Skill's advanced technique to An Hao to prevent An Hao from being surpassed by Li Ya and Zhang Buku.