Dao Yan at the Celestial Immortal realm felt even more real.
It was as though he had truly lived through every illusion, except that all those years had been spent cultivating.
And this time, the expenditure far exceeded anything before.
The years within the illusions stretched far longer, with time measured in units of ten thousand years.
Above the Celestial Immortal realm, lifespans were long, and every step forward took even more time.
More importantly, the cultivation techniques Gu Yuanqing cultivated and extrapolated were already outstanding. Their baseline was extremely high, and almost every path could lead to the Golden Immortal realm.
But naturally, his goal this time was not merely to become a Golden Immortal. He was aiming straight for Great Luo.
Time passed, little by little.
Countless illusory paths had already reached their ends. When those illusions shattered, they became resources poured into the other illusions.
In the end, twelve paths reached the pinnacle of the Golden Immortal realm and ascended to Great Luo.
After that, they seemed to advance much farther still, vaguely touching an even higher realm. At that point, Dao Yan reached its limit. All the illusions vanished, becoming a torrent of information that flooded into his consciousness.
Within the memories of the illusions, cultivation at the Celestial Immortal realm was the most detailed. The Golden Immortal stage was comparatively hazy, while everything beyond Great Luo Golden Immortal seemed unreal. One could even say that only accumulated insights remained, with no actual memories.
A new cultivation technique thus appeared in Gu Yuanqing's consciousness.
The memories of cultivating within the illusions led him naturally into practicing the new technique.
The circulation of the Great Dao within the Heavenly Human World and the pathways of the immortal essence within his body changed accordingly. Every aperture world and