My Longevity Simulation - Chapter 1141: The Flowing Gap Left by Time
Looking closely, those star points resembled countless tiny windows.
Through the windows refracted scenes of varying degrees.
Countless characters fluttered about, clearly forming various cultivation techniques.
Under the dome, no Guardian Hall cultivators were visible; only streams of flowing light shuttled continuously through the space.
Sun Family Patriarch Sun Luyuan seemed to be reporting to someone. Soon after, a figure descended from the dome and landed before Li Fan and the other.
It was an avatar formed entirely of flowing characters, not a real person.
He examined Li Fan and nodded slightly: “Little one, I saw you over a hundred years ago; you were just a Golden Core cultivator then. In the blink of an eye, you’ve grown so much…”
“Follow me.”
With that, the characters paved a road straight to the dome.
Li Fan followed Sun Luyuan onto this character road. Moments later, his body seemed to dissolve into countless characters as well, about to scatter across the road like a flowing essay.
A sudden sense of crisis arose in his heart.
Li Fan realized that under the influence of these surrounding characters, the memories in his soul were unconsciously spilling outward, like chapters of a book from his past life.
“Is this a method to probe the visitor’s past experiences by sensing soul memories?”
Li Fan pondered this and, in an instant, recreated the memories of Sun Ang’s early life in his soul before the possession. He then released them, allowing the surrounding character road to perceive them.
The characters he transformed into bore unique personal markers, distinct from the road beneath his feet.
As for Sun Luyuan, he seemed unaffected by any scrutiny.
The character road soon reached its end, and Li Fan and the other arrived within a starlight window atop the dome.
Their forms reverted from characters to flesh, though Li Fan’s experiences had separately formed into a thin booklet.
The guiding cultivator had now revealed his true appearance.
He looked even younger than “Sun Ang,” like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old youth.
His long hair draped over his shoulders, with a vermilion dot between his brows. He appeared refined and serene.
“This is Guardian Hall’s Elder Nangong,” Sun Luyuan introduced to Li Fan.
Nangong glanced at the booklet in his hand and nodded slightly: “No issues. You’ve passed the first trial.”
With a casual toss, the booklet recording “Sun Ang’s” life turned into a stream of light and flew off to an unknown destination.
Li Fan, meanwhile, observed his surroundings.
It felt as if they were in the void outside the Xuanhuang Realm, with a massive light cluster floating ahead.
It resembled the miniature model of the Xuanhuang Realm that Li Fan had once seen in the super-distance teleportation formation.
“Pass through the [Xuanhuang Realm]; if you don’t cause any oscillation in the light cluster, you’ve passed the second trial,” Nangong said, taking the lead by transforming into escaping light.
Li Fan followed without hesitation.
The yellow halo was dreamlike and illusory, even evoking an inexplicable warmth, like returning to the mother’s womb. Without any mishaps, Li Fan soon emerged from the light cluster.
As he left, a faint reluctance even stirred in his heart.
Li Fan also keenly noticed that the circulation speed of his [Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra] had increased several times over its usual rate!
“This is to verify if one is a native cultivator of the Xuanhuang Realm?”
Enlightenment dawned in Li Fan’s mind.
The third trial verified whether one was a cultivator of the Five Elders Association.
In the void stood five statues with indistinct faces, encircling the area.
Li Fan needed to stand motionless amid the statues for half an hour.
Only if nothing unusual occurred during this time would he pass the trial.
In this life, Li Fan was clean and untainted. He had no connections whatsoever to the Five Elders Association.
Thus, he passed effortlessly.
“These statues hold some profundity. They seem to carry a trace of the Five Heavenly Sovereigns’ power of reversing principles…”
While observed by the Five Elders Association statues, Li Fan observed the five Heavenly Sovereigns in turn.
A realization struck him: “Even if it’s not the Heavenly Sovereigns in person, it’s not far off.”
“If I came after experiencing Senior Sister Zhao’s illusion, or even if just a clone had…”
“It would likely trigger a reaction from the statues.”
As the five statues dispersed, Li Fan faced the final trial before induction.
The surroundings suddenly plunged into utter nothingness.
Sun Luyuan and Elder Nangong, who had been at his side moments ago, vanished without a trace.
Li Fan frowned slightly and scanned left and right.
He detected no anomalies.
It was no trap, nor any conspiracy.
This was simply a realm of pure void.
Aside from Li Fan, nothing else existed.
“What is this testing?”
Li Fan understood and felt no urgency.
Standing in the void, Li Fan observed what tricks the Guardian Hall was playing.
In the nothingness, even time seemed to lose all meaning.
He did not know how long had passed, but even with Li Fan’s level of patience, he began to feel a bit irritated.
It was as if he had been forgotten by the entire world; aside from himself, everything else in existence had vanished.
Elder Nangong still showed no sign of appearing.
“Will they just leave me hanging here like this?”
Due to his innate distrust of others, this thought involuntarily arose in Li Fan’s mind.
He even considered revealing his true cultivation, breaking through the mechanism here, and leaving directly.
But in the next instant, Li Fan suppressed it.
Calming his emotions, Li Fan opened the [Truth] panel.
Confirming it was still anchored at eight years, all his unease and irritability vanished completely in that moment.
In the nothingness, he continued to wait.
It felt as if another hundred or thousand years had passed when Li Fan suddenly thought of something.
He began to show signs of impatience.
No longer standing quietly in place, he flew around exploring, as if searching for an exit.
Then, Li Fan gradually amplified the emotions he was displaying.
Yet he never lost control; he merely revealed some negative feelings.
In this way, another hundred or thousand years seemed to pass…
Finally, light returned to the dark nothingness.
Elder Nangong and Sun Luyuan appeared once more.
Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, feigning a dazed expression as if emerging from another world. He even examined the two carefully, as if pondering their identities.
“You have passed this final trial as well.” A trace of a smile finally appeared on Elder Nangong’s face.
Looking at Li Fan, he praised, “Your mental state is quite good. In the Flow of Time Gap, it took over two hundred years for signs of losing control to faintly emerge. And you still maintained your sanity. This result is quite impressive among all previous tests.”
After hearing this, Li Fan fell silent for a long time.
As if digesting the information.
Elder Nangong continued to explain, “This trial tests a cultivator’s mental stability.”
“After all, one must accompany the Derivative Law Jade for over three hundred years without leaving for any reason midway. If one cannot endure the torment and descends into madness, that would be troublesome.”
Li Fan suddenly spoke up and asked, “Then, has there ever been a cultivator who remained completely calm from start to finish, showing no impatience at all?”
