At the Celestial Immortal realm, there was the Five Decays Tribulation.
But Golden Immortals had attained Indestructibility, their bodies and Primordial Spirits enduring forever.
The sun and moon cycled, Heaven and Earth changed, yet I remained unchanged.
Their True Spirits endured forever, beyond Reincarnation; their Dao bodies stayed evergreen, their lifespans matching heaven itself.
In a sense, the Golden Immortal Realm was the true realm of eternal life.
Gu Yuanqing had already reached the perfection of the Celestial Immortal realm. His avatar entered the Sword Scar and cultivated in seclusion for sixty years, finally comprehending a little of its mysteries.
He rose and looked up into the depths of the Sword Scar.
This was still only its outskirts, not its core, where even more profound imprints of the Sword Dao existed.
It was not that Gu Yuanqing could not venture farther inside, but this was the most suitable place for him.
Although Gu Yuanqing's cultivation of the Sword Dao had been connected to this Sword Scar from the very beginning to the present, and could be considered part of the same lineage, it was ultimately someone else's Dao.
Moreover, if he went deeper, even a compatible Sword Intent would trigger changes in the Sword Scar. The losses might outweigh the gains.
He rose and walked outside.
Once outside the Sword Scar, he looked back and thought, My conjecture back then was correct. Besides severing the Spirit Realm from the Cultivation World, this Sword Scar is also a legacy.
He stood there for a moment, then vanished into thin air. His original self had used the Heavenly Angling Technique to bring him back to the North Spring Realm.
Within the North Spring Realm.
The avatar merged into his original self, their souls intertwining and their memories becoming one.
Gu Yuanqing sat