#653 - White-headed Immortal
"What are you looking at?"
Gu An asked Shen Zhen with a smile. He could hear the guesses in Shen Zhen's heart, but he didn't reveal them.
Even when facing Shen Zhen, Gu An wouldn't reveal his true strength.
Shen Zhen came back to her senses and asked, "The Heavenly Emperor Hong has already left. Do you really think relying on him can save the world?"
In recent years, the human world has become more and more chaotic. She could also feel an indescribable and inexplicable strange power manipulating the world's living beings in the dark.
Such power must involve the extraterrestrial realm.
This was not a cause and effect that the Heavenly Emperor Hong, in the Dao Void Mysterious Immortal Realm, could end, even if the Heavenly Emperor Hong held a Dao treasure.
Gu An came to her side and telekinetically moved a chair not far away. He sat down and said, "Don't underestimate his potential. He can possess talent comparable to Tian Hao. Do you think he seems like an ordinary person?"
"Does he also have a background as a celestial god?"
"Perhaps."
Hearing Gu An's words, Shen Zhen could be certain that the Heavenly Emperor Hong had an inseparable relationship with the celestial gods.
Tsk tsk.
Celestial gods were ethereal and elusive, never to be encountered. But staying by Gu An's side, celestial gods seemed commonplace.
Shen Zhen looked at Gu An beside her, her eyes full of strange brilliance.
She was very curious, what kind of role was Gu An in the eyes of the celestial gods?
Shen Zhen asked with a smile, "So many celestial gods have appeared before you. Is the Heavenly Court's target you? If one day the Heavenly Court recruits you to join the ranks of immortals, what would you choose?"
"That depends on what kind of immortal position it is," Gu An replied casually.
Shen Zhen's eyes curved into two crescent moons, and she asked, "What if they recruit you to raise horses?"
She only came into contact with Gu An because she liked Gu An's books, and she still reads 'Investiture of the Gods', 'Journey to the West', 'Supreme Mystic Immortal Venerable' and other books.
Gu An gave Shen Zhen a roll of his eyes and said unhappily, "You're really humorous. If that's the case, then I'll go raise horses and bring you along to assist me."
Shen Zhen was very curious about what the mysterious power that was wreaking havoc on the human world was. Gu An didn't hide anything and told her his discoveries, wanting to increase her understanding of the Great Dao.
Speaking of which, besides An Xin, Gu An also invested a lot in Shen Zhen's cultivation. It wasn't that he was partial, but the others hadn't reached the stage of enlightenment yet and were still in the low-level stage of closed-door cultivation.
Shen Zhen was able to achieve her current accomplishments because she had obtained the cause and effect of the Eternal Life Emperor.
Of course, this didn't mean that she was lucky. After all, she regarded Gu An as her only reliance. Unlike Tian Yao'er, who depended on Gu An for life, she had abandoned other relationships and chose Gu An. This was also the reason why the Eternal Life Emperor chose her.
Everything has a cause and effect. Behind the accidental is the inevitable.
This year, the human world ushered in a change, because a former unparalleled genius of the ages was reborn.
The Heavenly Emperor Hong didn't return to the Dao Court, but instead traveled around, suppressing the forces of evil in various places.
The Dao Court, as the co-lord of the world, was also working hard to suppress injustice. Many geniuses stood out in saving the world, among which the most famous was the current Dao Court's chief disciple, Zhao Rushen.
In the chaotic and dark years, the Heavenly Emperor Hong and Zhao Rushen were like two stars rising, wanting to use their weak light to illuminate the entire world.
……
A hundred years later.
One morning, after Gu An finished picking herbs in the Beginningless Dao Field, he left alone.
He walked in the forest outside the Dao Field, and his figure suddenly disappeared.
He was still moving forward, but the universe beneath his feet was changing. Each of his steps would cross a universe plane.
Time and space were like shuttles, and the speed of light was reversed. His pace seemed fast, but because there was no end, it seemed very slow.
Suddenly.
Black gas swirled around Gu An, quickly covering his body. His right foot followed and landed, and he suddenly arrived in a dim void.
He stopped and stared. In front of him was a boundless Dao mountain range, continuous and endless, each one extremely majestic. The higher Dao mountains in the distance stood like gods, with mighty divine power, full of oppression.
Endless Dao Mountains!
As soon as Gu An appeared, he felt the power of the rules here rushing towards him, seemingly wanting to put a layer of isolation on him to prevent cause and effect from being deduced, but he didn't hide his true form.
He still maintained the Great Dao Phaseless Body, because he was also wary of this rule.
After the power of the rules wrapped around him, he felt that his actions were not restricted. This was a very magical rule.
He stepped forward, admiring the Dao mountains along the way.
Before coming, he had already suppressed his cultivation to the Opening Heaven Great Luo Immortal realm. Not only that, but he also made his aura weak. At first glance, he looked like a cautious but inadvertently revealing a trace of the Opening Heaven Great Luo Immortal's aura mysterious cultivator.
Coming to the Endless Dao Mountains, he didn't want to cultivate, but to gather intelligence, make friends with the cultivators here, and learn more about the Great Dao.
If he could learn more about the Heavenly Court here, that would be even better.
He wandered aimlessly, finding that the vast majority of cultivators enjoyed a Dao mountain alone, after all, there were too many Dao mountains here.
These cultivators also seemed to be wary of each other.
This was troublesome.
Gu An began to miss Bai Ziya of Human Peak. When he first went to the extraterrestrial realm, he met the enthusiastic Bai Ziya, who also pulled him into Human Peak.
Although Human Peak didn't help his cultivation much, it did help him better understand the world, which was why he had never severed the cause and effect with Human Peak. He liked to remember these sentiments.
He continued to wander, waiting for an opportunity.
During this period, he also saw other figures entering the Endless Dao Mountains. Most of them had their own goals and flew very quickly.
Gu An saw a figure who seemed as confused as him, moving very slowly, looking around from time to time.
He hesitated for a moment and pretended to fly over cautiously.
The other party was also an Opening Heaven Great Luo Immortal. Perhaps it was because he had a certain amount of confidence that he dared to wander like this. Gu An had previously seen a Taiqing Golden Immortal hide in a Dao mountain as soon as he came in.
This Opening Heaven Great Luo Immortal was slightly thin, like a Taoist, holding a horsetail whisk that looked like a sword. Seeing Gu An flying over, he stopped and turned to look at Gu An.
"Fellow Daoist, may I ask if this is the Endless Dao Mountains?" Gu An asked, his voice changed.
"Yes, this is indeed the Endless Dao Mountains. Is this your first time here too?" the other party replied, his tone slightly cold.
"That's right. I heard that the Endless Dao Mountains contain infinite Great Dao truths. My Dao practice has reached a bottleneck, so I wanted to try it out. The Great Dao aura here is indeed rich, even beyond my imagination, but it's different from what I thought..."
Speaking of which, Gu An hesitated.
"You didn't expect so many people here, right?" the other party asked, picking up the sentence.
"That's right."
Gu An's tone carried a hint of amazement.
The other party said with emotion, "The cultivators who come here are all great figures from all walks of life, which can only show that the Great Dao is broad, which is beyond our imagination. Although I had some understanding of the Endless Dao Mountains before, when I first arrived, like you, I was shocked."
"My name is Hong Yazi, from the Misty Immortal Court. I don't know your name, fellow Daoist, and which sect you come from?"
Misty Immortal Court?
Gu An didn't expect that the first Great Luo Immortal he contacted came from the Misty Immortal Court. He then said, "My name is Meng Lang. When I stepped into the Golden Immortal realm, my sect was destroyed. I wandered around and don't have a sect for the time being."
After hearing this, Hong Yazi said, "With fellow Daoist's Dao practice, creating a sect is not a difficult task."
Gu An shook his head and said, "Forget it, having a sect comes with burdens. I prefer to pursue the Great Dao freely."
"Indeed reasonable," Hong Yazi responded. He seemed to think of something and then fell silent.
Gu An wondered how to advance the relationship.
"Fellow Daoist Meng, since this is also your first time here, I'm sure you don't know where to go next. Why don't you come with me to listen to a True Immortal preaching?" Hong Yazi invited.
Gu An was flattered and asked hesitantly, "Me go with you? Is that appropriate?"
Hong Yazi replied, "Don't worry, I don't have any connection with that True Immortal either. His old man's preaching is not a private transmission, anyone can go and listen."
"May I ask what the name of that True Immortal is?"
"He is respectfully called the White-Haired Immortal Ancestor, and is a highly respected immortal god in the Heavenly Court."