My Longevity Simulation - Chapter 1136: The Mystery of the Heavenly Doctor's Dharma Transmission (Combined Two Chapter)
If the Immortal Ancestor had a clone suppressing the Xuanhuang Realm, there would be no possibility of large-scale war between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Five Elders Association.
Perhaps the Five Elders Association was deliberately tolerated by the Immortal Ancestor, used as a tool to maintain the delicate balance of the Xuanhuang Realm. For the wars between them, the Immortal Ancestor actually did not care, and might even be pleased to see it.
But the Xuanhuang Realm harbored too many demons, ghosts, and monsters in secret, and the Immortal Ruins loomed in the distance.
In a situation where a single disagreement could destroy the Xuanhuang Realm, it was undoubtedly more prudent to leave a clone in the Xuanhuang Realm.
However, the Immortal Ancestor, who regarded the Xuanhuang Realm as a treasure, had not done so.
In Li Fan’s two experiences of world destruction, once the Immortal Ancestor arrived late from beyond the heavens and let out a helpless roar of rage.
The other time, he simply did not appear at all, with only the Heavenly Doctor showing up.
This seemed extremely suspicious.
Was refining a clone difficult for the Immortal Ancestor?
Clone techniques were rare in the Xuanhuang Realm, but Li Fan had repeatedly stirred up trouble through clone arts.
Not to mention this ancestor of the new method?
It was clearly something he could do effortlessly, yet he simply did not.
In fact, cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm, regarding the question of why the Immortal Ancestor did not leave a clone to suppress it, although they dared not discuss it openly, had many speculations in private.
It was nothing more than the Immortal Ancestor having transcended the material world, no longer caring much about everything in the Xuanhuang Realm.
It was obvious they neither understood the Xuanhuang Realm nor the Immortal Ancestor.
And in Li Fan’s view, if the Immortal Ancestor himself was a clone…
Then everything would make sense.
It was not that he did not want to, but that he could not!
In the 119th lifetime, the strength of the clone Li Qing had already approached infinity close to the original body, reaching the peak of Nascent Soul.
It was only one step away from surpassing the original body.
At that time, Li Fan had wondered in his heart whether a clone’s strength could exceed the original body’s.
Later, by borrowing the origin authority of the Tianxuan Mirror and consulting various classics, Li Fan had a vague realization.
A clone’s strength surpassing the original body, or a clone refining another clone.
The latter should be somewhat more difficult to achieve.
Because if a clone could also refine its own clone, then it could extend infinitely onward. The final outcome would be that the entire world eventually had only one person left.
It was not absolutely impossible, but it had already surpassed the limits of mortal laws.
In comparison, it was still easier to have a clone’s strength surpass the original body.
” Heavenly Doctor, Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor…”
Two faces successively appeared in Li Fan’s mind, and he suddenly recalled that when he first entered the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters, he saw the statue of the Immortal Ancestor in the illusion.
At that time, his body’s instinct had spontaneously warned due to some sense of familiarity.
And before that, the only existence above Dao Integration he had seen in the Xuanhuang Realm was the Heavenly Doctor.
“Although their appearances are not the same, there is a subtle resemblance between them.”
“In the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters, a trace of the Immortal Ancestor’s aura remains. Cultivators going there for the first time will all have some sensation in their hearts and produce illusions. My original body saw the statue of the Immortal Ancestor, while the clone Li Qing saw…”
The Dao Deviation Stone emitted a faint white light, faithfully reproducing the recorded images from that time.
In a blurry light cluster, several figures stood.
Fragmented voices of dialogue came from within.
“On this journey, how certain are you of success?”
“I will do all that I can and leave the rest to fate.”
“That doesn’t sound like something you would say.”
“The difference in strength is too great. All I can do is fight with my life on the line.”
“Enough. Go then. Whether it is fortune or calamity, none can tell.”
…
Li Fan recalled again the scene he saw in Hanhai’s chaotic consciousness when treating him in the 119th lifetime.
“The Venerable Heavenly Doctor has been gone for a long time, and it is unknown whether the matter can succeed.”
Hanhai sat upright in the sect’s grand hall, while Taiyi, the Turtle-Snake at his feet, no larger than an ordinary turtle, spoke in a glum tone.
“Before departing, the Venerable Heavenly Doctor said there was at least a ninety percent chance of success. You and I should have some faith in Him,” Hanhai replied, unlike Taiyi’s gloomy demeanor, appearing quite relaxed and offering a comforting smile.
…
Li Fan touched his chin.
Under the assumption that “the Immortal Ancestor is the Heavenly Doctor’s clone,” all the scattered clues he had obtained in the past instantly connected.
Li Fan reviewed his past memories again.
Sure enough, he found more clues.
…
Yin Yin Island.
Master Yin pointed at the two human skeletons he cherished, leaning close to Li Fan and saying in an extremely low voice: “These two people are not the same kind of person.”
“Not the same kind of person?” Li Fan was stunned. “What do you mean?”
Master Yin gestured with his hands for a while, pondered for a while, and seemed unable to find suitable words to describe it.
After struggling for half a day, he suddenly clenched his fist, his face full of distress: “It is just a feeling; you understand, right? Clearly both are human, but these two humans, the eras they lived in are different, and the regions they lived in are also different. Perhaps they look quite similar, and both were dug up by me from the bottom of the Congyun Sea, but there is an extremely special boundary marking the difference between these two corpses…”
Master Yin spoke mysteriously, talking for a long time yet unable to explain a specific reason.
…
During the second simulation of Tianyang’s Eternal Remnant Will.
To escape Tianyang’s weak body as much as possible and awaken from coma quickly, Li Fan studied the Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture and prescribed a supplementary formula for himself, instructing his senior brother to refine it.
It was indeed effective, but later when he woke up, his second senior brother Ling Xiao said this to him.
“Little junior brother, speaking of which, you were also lucky. In the pill formula you gave, there were several medicinal ingredients we had never heard of. We asked around all the nearby markets and could not find anyone selling them. Some even said that these kinds of medicines do not exist in the cultivation world at all.”
“Heh, I did not believe it. How could it be that in one pill formula, all other ingredients exist, but these few do not?”
“At the time, we argued forcefully and quarreled with the other party.”
“Fortunately, at that moment, a disciple of the Medicine King Sect passed by and heard our argument. Out of curiosity, he asked us for the specific pill formula.”
“Then, based on pharmacology, he selected several common herbs as substitutes for us.”
“Little junior brother, that is how you were able to drink this medicine!”
Back when he had an audience with Immortal Sage Jicheng and received the reward of the Derivative Jade Token.
Immortal Sage Jicheng had pointed to a [Bluecloud Willow] in his courtyard and asked him, Han Yi, and Ximen Yue whether they knew its details.
Han Yi and Ximen Yue both did not know, but only Li Fan, who had thoroughly read the Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture, revealed it in one sentence.
Later, Immortal Sage Jicheng gave Li Fan many pointers because of this.
Li Fan had originally been puzzled, but after inquiring further, he finally understood.
The Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture recorded over a hundred kinds of plants and creatures such as Mogu Bamboo, Qingye Wood, Myosotis Sylvatica Flower, Hundred Spirit Eagle, and Nine-Refined Deer. These should have been quite common flora and fauna, yet in the current Xuanhuang Realm, they had become scarce.
The Bluecloud Willow now only grew in small quantities in certain areas of Luoyan Prefecture. Immortal Sage Jicheng’s hometown was also Luoyan Prefecture. At that time, Immortal Sage Jicheng had mistaken Li Fan for a fellow townsman. That was why he had given extra care.
…
“The Heavenly Doctor comes from the Heavenly Law Realm cultivators. Different cultivation realms have subtle differences in species. So the many spirit medicines I saw in the Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture are simply not found in the ancient Xuanhuang Realm. The Body Transformation into Dao master and disciples naturally asked around the surrounding cultivators, and the answers they got were all that no such medicinal materials existed.”
“But the Bluecloud Willow, which was originally only found in the Heavenly Law Realm, now appears in certain prefectures several years later. This is precisely a sign of the Heavenly Law merging with Xuanhuang.”
“The fusion of the two realms.”
“The two human corpses at the bottom of Congyun Sea: one is a native of Xuanhuang, and the other is a remains from the Heavenly Law Realm humans. Though both are humans, because they belong to different cultivation realms, there are subtle differences. These differences are so minute that even with Master Yin’s abilities, he could not research them.”
“Not only does Congyun Sea come from the Heavenly Law Realm. There are even more prefectures in the Xuanhuang Realm that also originate from the homeland of Heavenly Doctor.”
“Ximen Yu’s Study of Ancient and Modern Mountains and Rivers deduced the changes in mountains and rivers through the ages. The Xuanhuang Realm does not seem like a simple outward expansion after devouring other small worlds or Cave-Heavens, but rather like it was dismembered and divided, then filled in the gaps with fragments from other worlds.”
Li Fan’s thoughts churned.
“In the Fallen Immortal Realm, Ningyuan City was not too far from the Purple Heaven Sect. But in the real world, the underground chamber of Mr. Bai in Ningyuan City is deeply buried under Taixu Mountain. Whereas the Purple Heaven Sect ruins are far away in Linlang Prefecture in the central part of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. In the same prefecture, after several thousand years, they are worlds apart.”
“Fusion, transformation.”
“It is just like performing a precise surgical operation…”
“Heavenly Doctor…”
“In the span of several thousand years, the Xuanhuang Realm underwent such earth-shattering changes. Yet ordinary cultivators were completely unaware. Even someone like Ximen Yu, with his exceptional talent and ability to pierce through the fog to uncover the truth, had his work banned and suppressed by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, unable to spread.”
Putting all the clues together, Li Fan roughly pieced together a possible vague truth.
After the disappearance of Xuantian King and the destruction of the Xuantian Sect, the Xuanhuang Realm ushered in the era of rule by the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
However, the threat of the Immortal Ruins did not change with the shift in power in the Xuanhuang Realm.
The Ten Great Immortal Sects still had to resolve the crisis of falling into the Immortal Ruins.
The [Floating Starry Sky Formation] of the Xuantian Sect was evidently the most effective method among them.
Thus, the Ten Great Immortal Sects continued to promote the great formation, capturing other worlds in the void.
Finally, one day, they unexpectedly encountered the Heavenly Law Realm.
From the combat prowess of Tian Jue, Tian Yu, and others, it was clear that the overall strength of the Heavenly Law Realm back then was not much weaker than that of the Xuanhuang Realm.
Especially since the Xuanhuang Realm had also gone through a civil strife, with the supreme powerhouse Xuantian King and his twelve Dharma Kings all missing or dead.
The Heavenly Law Realm naturally would not sit idly by.
The two sides erupted into a massive bloodbath of unprecedented scale.
The Cloudwater Heavenly Palace in the Heavenly Law Realm and the Body Transforming into Dao Sect in the Xuanhuang Realm.
Neither was particularly powerful among sects. Yet in this war, they still nearly exhausted all their disciples to death.
“Even the Floating Starry Sky Formation might have been damaged during that time.”
“In the later stages of the war, both sides were in a difficult position, trapped in a stalemate.”
“At that moment, Heavenly Doctor planned to use the Dharma Transmission of Immortal Ancestor scheme, infiltrating the Xuanhuang Realm and using new cultivation method to shake its foundations, disintegrating it from within.”
“But for some reason, something went wrong. By the time the Immortal Ancestor appeared on the land of Xuanhuang, a considerable amount of time had already passed.”
“And when the Ten Great Immortal Sects were destroyed and the strength of the Xuanhuang Realm greatly diminished…”
“When Heavenly Doctor returned to the Heavenly Law Realm, what he saw was a scene of ruins everywhere and all living beings in devastation.”
…
Li Fan tried his best to reconstruct the history shrouded in fog.
Soon after, he slightly frowned.
Although most of it seemed to connect, he still felt there were a few places that did not quite fit.
“First is the timing of the Immortal Ancestor and Heavenly Doctor appearing in the Xuanhuang Realm. Or rather, a time discrepancy occurred in the process of Heavenly Doctor traveling back and forth between the two realms.”
Thinking of the miraculous journey of the Medicine King Sect, Li Fan could not help but glance toward the Immortal Ruins beyond the Xuanhuang Realm.
“Could it be influenced by the immortal power of the Immortal Ruins?”
“Besides that, there is another point of confusion. The Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao should naturally produce a certain degree of rejection reaction toward outsiders and foreign objects. Just like in the process of world fusion, due to differences in laws, strangeness is born.”
“If the Immortal Ancestor is truly an outsider, then when he widely spreads the Dao and attempts to subvert the world’s foundations, it would definitely trigger heavenly killing intent. Moreover, I recall that the Ten Great Immortal Sects once investigated the background of the Immortal Ancestor…”
“Although his specific true identity might not have been ascertained. But it should not be unclear whether he is a cultivator of the Xuanhuang Realm or not.”
“The identity of the Immortal Ancestor seems to have something strange about it.”
…
At the peak of Jieli Mountain, Li Fan stood for a long time, his thoughts unable to calm for a long while.
Half a month later, he finally awoke from his contemplation.
He began preparing plans for this lifetime.
“Since he hides behind the scenes, the main body will never show up under any circumstances.”
“Using a clone to create a target to attract attention is perfect.”
“Heh heh, the Faceless Holy Emperor who unifies tens of thousands of small worlds…”
Li Fan descended the mountain gracefully and used the essence blood of the youth Sun Erlang and Wang Xuanba to refine a clone.
“The Heavenly Emperor Qi Classic has no requirements for aptitude. Moreover, these two people’s cultivation talents are not too bad.”
“Sever all memories related to [Truth] and me…”
As a faceless figure slowly took shape before Li Fan, after observing it for a long time, Li Fan nodded in satisfaction.
“Heavenly Mandate Holy Emperor, treading flat the myriad heavens, all worlds submit.”
“You will be called Li Ping!”
Thinking this, Li Fan’s figure gradually faded.
When the clone Li Ping awoke, he first scanned his surroundings.
Then, as if pondering something, he headed straight for the Great Xuan Capital City.
Not long after, Li Fan’s main body slowly reappeared.
“Although it only has Nascent Soul True Lord realm without actual combat power. But for the mortals of Great Xuan, it is more than sufficient.”
“The trajectory of Great Xuan in this life should be the same as before.”
“But I will adjust the subtle details.”
…
Li Fan gazed far into the Eastern Ruins Abyss of Great Xuan.
Actually, with his current strength at the peak of Soul Transformation True Monarch, invincible below Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign, and able to fight ordinary Longevity Immortal realms.
Even before the [Truth] energy charge is complete, if he goes to the Xuanhuang Realm, as long as he does not actively court death, he should not encounter any fatal dangers.
But after thinking it over…
Li Fan still shook his head, not acting on impulse.
“No rush for the moment.”
He turned and returned to the thatched hut at the mountain peak, sitting in meditation.
