My Longevity Simulation - Chapter 1238: The Great Celestial Venerable’s Immortal Body
Within the purplish-gold vortex, faint winds and thunder surged.
At the narrowest bottom of the funnel-shaped energy vortex was the somewhat panicked figure of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought.
Images of countless different life forms flashed rapidly through the wind-and-thunder vortex. Like a hurricane, they tore at the Xuanhuang Evil Thought.
As a result, its body gradually twisted and blurred.
“I am the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao! The father and mother of you cultivators! How dare you treat me like this!”
“Again! Again! All you humans deserve to die!”
The Xuanhuang Evil Thought roared.
It refused to wait passively for death. The appearance that had resembled Mr. Bai finally revealed its true form.
Its body swelled like an inflated balloon. In the blink of an eye it formed a grotesque and terrifying monster covered in blue-purple lumps. Even more horrifying was that the Xuanhuang Evil Thought’s face had vanished. Or rather, the countless black shadows rapidly crawling across the surface of its shell were now its many faces!
Their expressions varied, yet none showed any positive emotion. Madness, hatred, despair, brutality…
Every dark and twisted aspect of living beings was fully displayed on the Xuanhuang Evil Thought.
Substantial black malevolent energy surged from its body and shot skyward, clashing head-on with the wind-and-thunder rotation of Li Ping’s heaven-and-earth great millstone.
In the silent collision, Li Ping’s heaven-and-earth great millstone actually paused for a moment.
Li Ping noticed that roughly one-third of the faces on the Xuanhuang Evil Thought had fixed their gazes squarely on him.
“Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!”
A sharp curse erupted and swept toward him.
Xu Ke and the other two, who were guarding the formation for Li Ping, all frowned slightly at this moment.
Even the empty face of Holy Emperor Li Ping was faintly impacted by the evil thought, revealing blurred facial features.
Countless tentacles covered in blue-purple tumors extended from the monster shell of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought. They whipped about madly, attempting to break free from the restraints of the Myriad Spirits Formation.
Yet how could this peerless grand formation, pushed to the limit by the Final Dissociation Disc, be broken so easily?
After a brief pause, the purplish-gold vortex slowly began turning once more.
The sound of howling wind and thunder grew even stronger than before.
Moreover, waves of human prayers rang out from within it, forming a unique rhythm in resonance that forcefully suppressed the earth-shaking roars of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought.
“Evil, after all, cannot defeat justice.”
“Look at the state you are in now. Do you still deserve to be called the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao?!”
Li Ping’s calm voice, carrying a hint of mockery, pierced through the numerous noises of the formation confrontation and reached the ears of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought with precision.
“Damn it! Who caused this?!”
After a moment of daze, it exploded with complete fury.
Clearly even the Xuanhuang Evil Thought itself found it hard to accept that it had fallen into such a plight.
Its body, suppressed by the heaven-and-earth great millstone, suddenly showed signs of rising once more to resist.
Li Ping merely nodded slightly. While continuously using words to provoke and incite the Xuanhuang Evil Thought, he focused his mind on directing the Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits Great Formation.
He drew the fragments stripped from the Xuanhuang Evil Thought into his own body through the vortex.
Negative emotions flowed into Li Ping’s consciousness like trickling streams.
The three guarding the formation saw this and could not help feeling somewhat tense.
Because they were inside the formation, they could sense the terror of the Grand Formation of Myriad Spirits even more clearly.
Even though it had been sealed for several thousand years, it was still a part of the Heavenly Dao of this great world. Yet before this formation, it could be said to have not the slightest power to resist.
The three’s original preparations had become completely unnecessary. They only needed to watch Holy Emperor Li Ping perform.
The more terrifying the formation, the more uncontrollable their worry became.
If the Holy Emperor were affected by the evil thought and lost control…
It would likely be a disaster ten thousand times more dreadful than the Xuanhuang Evil Thought breaking free.
Even though they had great confidence in the Holy Emperor’s strength, they could not help feeling nervous at this moment.
After all, they were still inside the formation themselves.
“There is no need to worry. I am fine.” Li Ping seemed to sense their emotional fluctuations and calmly transmitted an explanation.
Not to mention the firmness of Li Ping’s own will; with the support of the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra alone, it was impossible for him to have his personality twisted by the Xuanhuang Evil Thought. Moreover, he was not devouring it violently in one gulp. Instead, he was using the Heaven and Earth Great Millstone to slowly grind the Xuanhuang Evil Thought into pieces bit by bit and absorb it gradually, thereby minimizing the side effects.
“Moreover, the wills of billions of Great Qi citizens are anchored to me.”
“Billions of living beings can refine the spirit. This is merely a part of the original Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao. How could it affect me?”
Li Ping’s mind remained clear.
Rather than confronting the “evil thought,” the greater pressure Li Ping faced at this moment was actually digesting the mottled and chaotic memories within the other party’s body.
Although most of them had already blurred after thousands of years of distortion and despair.
These fragmented memory pieces had long been deeply buried in its consciousness. At this moment, as its body was dismembered, they flowed into Li Ping’s mind together.
Scene after scene of broken images flashed rapidly through Li Ping’s mind.
Most were difficult to discern in detail.
Only one segment of the scene appeared repeatedly and continuously.
It was obviously a memory that had been deeply engraved in the Xuanhuang Evil Thought. During the years it was sealed, it had replayed in its mind more than once.
In an endless dark void.
A swiftly flying figure suddenly stopped.
“Why have you stopped?”
The voice from the memory asked.
The original emotion had been somewhat relieved and joyful.
But now it carried a trace of doubt.
The white-robed figure, that is, Mr. Bai, turned around and looked back into the distance.
His expression shifted constantly, extremely complex.
“What exactly is wrong?”
The perception from the memory gradually grew irritable in the deathly silence.
“I cannot leave.”
In the end, Mr. Bai took a deep breath and said slowly.
“Why not leave?”
“The calamity has already formed. The general trend is like this and cannot be reversed. Rather than staying there, it would be better to head for the High Wall and fight with all our might. There may still be a slim chance of survival.” The voice from the memory was first stunned, filled with incomprehension. Then it became somewhat anxious and hurriedly tried to persuade him.
“With the remains left by the first-generation Great Celestial Venerable as shelter, and detonating those few immortal artifacts as propulsion, the two of us working together have a very high chance of crossing the High Wall!”
“We have prepared for so long. How can you suddenly change your mind?!”
Even after so long, Li Ping could still feel the incomprehension and anger in the separated Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao consciousness.
Mr. Bai perhaps knew he was in the wrong and remained silent.
“Say something!”
Only after the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao had finally stopped did Mr. Bai slowly reply.
“That place is my homeland.”
“From birth until now, every person I have known, every person I have heard of, and those I loved or hated have all spent their lives there.”
“Now that it has encountered calamity, I can indeed leave. But what about them?”
Mr. Bai asked quietly.
The Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao could not understand Mr. Bai’s emotions at all. In its view, ensuring its own survival was the most important thing.
“As long as I am here, and we find another suitable world, we can soon give birth to another Xuanhuang Realm.”
“Even the people you know, I can recreate them all.” It could not help explaining.
Mr. Bai merely smiled lightly and shook his head.
Without further hesitation, he turned and flew back toward the Xuanhuang Realm.
Seeing the situation spiraling out of control, the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao grew increasingly anxious.
It continued to persuade him.
Mr. Bai simply turned a deaf ear; his resolve was firm.
“I know you have treated me well.”
“You always say I am the reincarnation of that person.”
“But I know I am myself.”
“Su Bai. An ordinary mortal.”
The Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao’s memory had already become somewhat unstable amid mounting rage.
Yet Mr. Bai’s words remained sporadic but exceptionally clear.
“I never wanted to cultivate or become some immortal.”
“I only want…”
“To save the people I care about.”
“I am sorry.”
“As for the things you gave me, the Great Celestial Venerable’s immortal body and those immortal artifacts…”
“Even this cultivation of mine, I will return them all to you.”
Mr. Bai said with extreme calm.
…
Boom!
The memory burst like a bubble.
Having inherited the power of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought, Li Ping now felt the same and personally experienced the extreme anger of being deceived and betrayed.
“Die! Die!”
It seemed as if the voice of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought began circling continuously in his mind.
Even Li Ping’s aura fluctuated slightly because of it.
Meanwhile, inside the formation, the grotesque evil-thought main body suppressed and ground by the heaven-and-earth great millstone also seemed to sense the change occurring in Li Ping.
It shrieked: “Have you felt it?! Can you understand me?!”
“This pain of being deceived and then sealed for thousands of years!”
……
Unexpectedly, its outpouring of words was abruptly cut off by a single sentence from Li Ping.
“At this moment, I am in human form.”
“Therefore, the one I can empathize with more is actually the one you hate so deeply.”
“I believe Mr. Bai did the right thing.”
“Some matters are things you will never be able to understand. So…”
“You may go in peace.”
Li Ping’s voice gradually turned icy.
The blurred facial features that had faintly appeared under the impact of the Xuanhuang Evil Thought’s memories vanished once more.
A cold and ruthless aura emanated from the Faceless Holy Emperor.
Without the slightest hesitation, he accelerated the rotation of the heaven-and-earth great millstone.
Like an indestructible towering dam, it completely blocked the Evil Thought’s assault.
The three guarding the formation saw this scene and could not help letting out a sigh of relief.
They had truly been somewhat afraid that the Holy Emperor would be influenced by the evil thought.
Especially Yin Shangren.
He joked to Xu Ke: “Actually, my essence is not all that different from the Xuanhuang Evil Thought.”
“If he can swallow it so easily, swallowing me would be just as effortless.”
“It seems that in the future, I should stay as far away from him as possible.”
Xu Ke remained silent.
Gazing at the figure inside the formation that appeared to grow ever taller, he felt a momentary unease in his heart.
He wondered whether handing over the Xuanhuang Evil Thought had been the right choice after all.
The purplish-gold vortex continued to spin without pause, and the sound of wind and thunder grew even louder.
The Xuanhuang Evil Thought’s struggles grew weaker and weaker.
It was only a matter of time before it was completely devoured.
As the power of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao was absorbed and refined, the majestic figure of the Faceless Holy Emperor grew even taller.
It seemed as if it would burst through the dome of the Great Qi small world and reach another realm.
Li Ping’s figure appeared on the sky curtain.
At this moment, the billions of citizens of Great Qi could clearly see the Holy Emperor’s visage.
The boiling public sentiment reached its peak at this instant.
The gathered fortune instantly broke through the purple level entirely, transforming into an incomparably dazzling, resplendent golden light.
Even though it seemed as if this moment would immediately fade back down.
Li Ping sensed something in his heart and seized this fleeting opportunity with extreme acuity.
With a gentle wave of his hand, he scattered the portion of Xuanhuang Evil Thought power absorbed and converted by the heaven-and-earth great millstone into the Great Qi small world.
Countless purplish-gold light dots drifted down like heavenly flowers scattering across the mortal realm.
From the perspective of the ordinary citizens of Great Qi below, they witnessed the Holy Emperor’s bestowal that had been rumored in the past few days.
Those purplish-gold flowers seemed to carry a natural enchanting power that beguiled the heart.
The citizens of Great Qi, disregarding the Holy Emperor’s majesty, all reached out to touch them.
After the purplish-gold flowers entered their bodies, the changes they brought caused those people to kneel on the spot and shout the Holy Emperor’s name in reverence.
The fortune of Great Qi, which had already reached its peak, underwent another transformation as if catalyzed.
This time, under the mountain-and-sea-like unified cheers of countless Great Qi citizens, the originally extremely unstable golden fortune became completely stable.
Billions of living beings roared like mountains and seas.
For a brief moment, even the three formation guardians above Great Qi fell into a daze.
“Is this the rumored ‘when one attains the Dao, even chickens and dogs ascend to heaven’?” Yin Shangren could not help sighing.
Xu Ke unconsciously studied the motionless body of Holy Emperor Li Ping. For some unknown reason, he seemed to see Mr. Bai’s figure on him.
“Perhaps what I did was not wrong.” Xu Ke thought to himself.
Meanwhile, Yi Shu of the Taiyan Sect narrowed his eyes slightly, as if calculating and deducing something. A look of astonishment appeared in his eyes.
The Heavenly Emperor Qi Canon had transformed to its final layer of realm and become completely stable.
With power waxing and waning in opposition, the Xuanhuang Evil Thought finally had not the slightest chance of resistance left.
“I will wait for you.”
“You will eventually share my fate.”
Before its consciousness completely dissipated, the Xuanhuang Evil Thought suddenly uttered such a vicious curse for some unknown reason.
Holy Emperor Li Ping turned a deaf ear to it and remained unmoved.
The heaven-and-earth great millstone pressed down with a boom.
Power from the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao flowed endlessly into his body.
Li Ping felt something in his heart, as if an invisible shackle had been broken.
“The Longevity Immortal realm?”
“Or rather, a different kind of Longevity Immortal realm.”
He mused.
….
At the same time.
Inside the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters, in the Derivation Jade Space.
The feedback from the clone’s breakthrough abruptly stopped at the moment the Holy Emperor reached Longevity Immortal realm power.
Therefore, it did not attract the attention of the others in the space.
Li Fan had already anticipated the Holy Emperor’s breakthrough.
What Li Fan truly cared about was the memories from the Xuanhuang Evil Thought.
“Immortal artifacts?”
“And the first-generation Great Celestial Venerable’s immortal body?”
Li Fan closed his eyes, hiding the shock in them.
“Mr. Bai’s words, ‘I will return them to you.’ Does that mean these things are still within the Xuanhuang Realm?”
