My Longevity Simulation - Chapter 1159: The Boundless Mirror Immortal Artifact

Silver flashes, like heavenly thunder, struck one after another.

Under the awe-inspiring divine might, the humanoid figure hidden within the Black Mirror went from cursing to wailing, and then to pleading.

But Li Fan’s spirit fragment had no intention of showing mercy from the start.

Unlike a clone, a spirit fragment could not autonomously draw spiritual energy from the heavens and earth to recover. Every bit of its stored power, once used, was depleted, so it had to act with absolute certainty.

The silver lightning was like a colossal millstone, grinding down the humanoid black mist.

Seizing the opportunity, Li Fan’s spirit fragment rapidly formed hand seals, employing the “Formation Refinement” technique in an attempt to gain control of the Black Mirror.

The Black Mirror was not a bound artifact, but it had been periodically nourished with the bloodline of the Sun family’s disciples, forging a subtle, mysterious connection with the Sun clan.

Under normal circumstances, only members of the Sun family could use or refine it.

However, Li Fan’s formation techniques, bolstered by the accumulated knowledge of multiple cycles from the Final Dissociation Disc, had reached an unfathomable level of mastery.

With layers of formations stacked upon one another, he could bypass such restrictions.

Even as Li Fan’s clone refined the Black Mirror, Sun Luyuan, who shared a special connection with it, remained completely unaware.

As time slowly passed, unnoticed by anyone, the Black Mirror quietly changed hands.

Li Fan’s spirit fragment materialized into a tangible form, tossing the Black Mirror lightly in his hand.

He could sense that the black mist humanoid, the Black Mirror’s “artifact spirit,” was cowering within, trembling in fear and dread of him.

Li Fan paid no mind to its thoughts. Narrowing his eyes, he instantly discerned the origins of this treasured heirloom of the Sun family.

Over a thousand years ago, the Sun brothers, Sun Luyuan and Sun Luyao, stumbled upon a slightly damaged bronze mirror during a relic exploration.

Initially, the brothers thought the mirror was just an ordinary antique and paid it little attention. But when they brought it to the Tianxuan Mirror to sell, something astonishing happened.

The Tianxuan Mirror completely ignored the bronze mirror’s existence! Despite being within the Tianxuan Mirror’s space, it simply could not appear on the sales list.

After repeated confirmation, the brothers realized they had stumbled upon a treasure.

They then made various attempts to discover the correct method to use this mysterious bronze mirror. However, at the time, they were merely Golden Core cultivators, lacking both the strength and knowledge to accomplish this task.

A hundred years later.

Sun Luyuan, the elder brother, discovered a miniature Cave-Heaven, intending to use it to advance to the Nascent Soul realm.

Sun Luyao stood guard for his brother. Despite their utmost caution, fate was unpredictable, and they attracted the attention of a passing Golden Core perfection stage cultivator.

Golden Core and Nascent Soul, though only one realm apart, were worlds apart in power.

With the opportunity for a breakthrough right before him, the Golden Core cultivator naturally refused to give up.

To ensure his brother’s successful advancement, Sun Luyao risked his life to hold off the enemy’s assault.

When Sun Luyuan successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul realm and furiously slew the Golden Core cultivator, Sun Luyao was gravely wounded and on the brink of death, beyond saving.

In the midst of Sun Luyuan’s overwhelming grief, he suddenly noticed that the bronze mirror he always carried with him finally showed a reaction!

At the moment of near death, Sun Luyao’s soul escaped into the bronze mirror, preserving itself.

Though he could never leave the mirror again, it was still better than being separated by life and death.

As his soul merged with the bronze mirror, Sun Luyao learned various details about it.

The mirror, named “Boundless,” was a supreme treasure bestowed upon the Xuanhuang Realm’s Boundless Sect by the Immortal Realm in ancient times.

However, as time passed, the immortal artifact had become damaged and incomplete, losing most of its former power.

Even the spirit of the immortal artifact had vanished, leaving only an empty shell in the mortal world.

Yet, as something once transcending the mortal realm, it still displayed some extraordinary abilities after merging with a new soul.

For instance, when entering the Tianxuan Mirror, it could secretly extract various information from it.

Additionally, after accumulating energy for a period, the Boundless Mirror could release faint projections.

These projections depicted events that might occur in the future!

Though the principle behind it was unclear, this discovery thrilled the Sun brothers.

With the Boundless Mirror’s aid, the Sun brothers embarked on their legendary rise.

But gradually, they noticed something eerie about the mirror.

Due to its past damage, the mirror’s incompleteness affected Sun Luyao within it. His soul was eroding, and despite Sun Luyuan’s exhaustive efforts, he could not stop it.

Only by a stroke of luck, using his own vital blood, did he manage to slow the dissipation of his brother’s soul.

If that were all, it would have been manageable.

After achieving the Nascent Soul realm, a cultivator of the new method could rely on a Cave-Heaven, becoming nearly immortal. Vital blood could be spared with effort.

The real trouble with the Boundless Mirror was its tendency toward self-destruction.

As if it had suffered an unimaginable calamity in the past, the mirror’s “Boundless Light,” which projected future scenarios, always ended in the same outcome after a few iterations.

Endless darkness, great annihilation, utter void.

It was as if this was the fate of the entire world, inescapable no matter how the Boundless Mirror projected.

Each time it awoke from this annihilation and the Boundless Light deduced again, the mirror seemed to be tainted by the black destruction of the prophecy, growing darker.

Over a thousand years, the Sun family, with the Boundless Mirror’s abilities, grew from an insignificant household into a colossal force with four Dao Integration cultivators.

Sun Luyuan also advanced from a Nascent Soul cultivator to a Dao Integration cultivator.

Yet, he remained powerless to stop the Boundless Mirror’s descent into destruction.

The only solution he could find was to locate the missing fragments of the Boundless Mirror to restore its completeness.

Over the years, guided by the connection between the fragments, he indeed found another piece of the Boundless Mirror.

But this only slowed the destruction, failing to resolve the issue fundamentally.

The Sun family’s remarkable abilities during their rise had long attracted the attention of scheming individuals.

Not to mention the many with ulterior motives outside, the Sun family’s greatest benefactor in their rise was one of the highest authorities in the