My Longevity Simulation - Chapter 1239: Source Power Seals the Immortal Calamity
In the 119th lifetime, Li Fan once fabricated rumors of so-called True Immortal remnants. Using them as bait, he lured cultivators from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance into the small world of the Great Reversal of Life and Death Formation, thereby exposing the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign to the world ahead of time.
Yet he never expected that a True Immortal remains would actually be hidden within the Xuanhuang Realm.
“Moreover, it was no ordinary immortal.”
“The immortal body of the first-generation Great Celestial Venerable?”
“Interesting.”
This single sentence concealed many secrets.
The Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable was not a specific cultivator but represented a certain position and title.
Li Fan had already learned this at the deepest part of the Fallen Immortal Realm.
“My guess back then was correct. As long as one passes the trials of the Fallen Immortal Realm, one should be able to succeed as the new Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable and, very likely, obtain the several immortal artifacts left behind by Mr. Bai at the same time.”
“Then where would Mr. Bai have hidden the immortal body of the first-generation Great Celestial Venerable? Would it still be inside the Fallen Immortal Realm?”
Li Fan’s thoughts turned rapidly.
This first-generation Great Celestial Venerable concerned him greatly.
The remains could be called an immortal body, so without doubt this Great Celestial Venerable had been at least a True Immortal in cultivation.
Why had this True Immortal died? And why, before his fall, had he chosen to leave his remains in the Xuanhuang Realm?
Could the birth of the Fallen Immortal Realm be related to this True Immortal Great Celestial Venerable?
The clone Holy Emperor now stood at the pinnacle of the Xuanhuang Realm.
Factoring in the realm’s own expansion over the years, the Holy Emperor’s strength could be said to be only a hair’s breadth away from that of Mr. Bai in his prime.
With a concrete reference, Li Fan was now certain that Mr. Bai alone could not have created the vast and illusory Fallen Immortal Realm.
Yet during the era of the Ten Great Immortal Sects, no one in the world knew of the Fallen Immortal Realm’s existence.
What could be confirmed was that even if it had not been created personally by Mr. Bai, the Fallen Immortal Realm was undoubtedly deeply connected to him.
The several layers of illusory trials had proven this beyond doubt.
“Although Mr. Bai ‘betrayed’ the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, he did not break his word. He returned the immortal artifacts and the immortal body to the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao. Even his own cultivation, in the process of reversing the principles of immortal and mortal, returned to the heavens along with his death.”
Li Fan pondered inwardly, yet he had no intention of searching everywhere for the Great Celestial Venerable’s immortal body.
Although the Great Celestial Venerable’s immortal body was an unparalleled treasure, it held little use for Li Fan at present. Even if he relied on the immortal body for protection and truly crossed the High Wall, he would never leave rashly while knowing nothing about what lay beyond it.
Not to mention that his current realm was still far from being able to wield immortal spiritual qi.
Simply figuring out how to detonate an immortal artifact and use its explosive power to cross the High Wall without harming himself was already beyond Li Fan’s knowledge.
“I must proceed step by step. After all, as long as I remain within the Xuanhuang Realm or the range of the Darkest Star Sea, everything will eventually be mine.”
Li Fan had a very clear understanding of his own advantages.
“The Holy Emperor clone in this life already possesses enough capital to challenge the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. With various enhancements, his current strength has even surpassed mine. Let us see how he stirs up the winds and rains.”
“This Xuanhuang Realm is like a small pond. Only by thoroughly muddying the waters will those old monsters hiding in every corner of the pond emerge one by one. I need only wait quietly here and watch the changes unfold.”
“However, the clone I left in the Sun family can be nurtured into a future Great Celestial Venerable.”
His attention shifted in an instant.
The clone had now completely taken control of Wu Ninglu’s body.
Yet she remained unaware.
He merely influenced every decision and action of hers in complete silence.
The most important part was for her to sacrifice her own cultivation without hesitation to nourish the fetus in her womb.
If it had been the former Wu Ninglu, she would never have done so.
She had only regarded the unborn child as a bargaining chip to control Sun Ang.
But now that Li Fan had intervened, matters were naturally different.
Ever since the clone had earlier detected the fetus’s unusual nature, he had begun meticulous prenatal education.
Having experienced the pre-birth cultivation phase with the Heavenly Fate black bird Xiao Hei in the Fallen Immortal Realm, Li Fan possessed considerable experience.
Under his personal guidance, the fetus absorbed the mother’s cultivation essence, gradually replenishing the congenital deficiencies caused by the previous seal.
Its body grew stronger day by day, and its consciousness slowly stabilized from weakness.
While still in a state of primordial chaos and knowing nothing of the world, it was led by Li Fan’s clone into one carefully crafted illusion after another.
“It is often said that a sage is born. Yet it is not impossible to create one after birth.”
“So-called judgment is based on deeds, not the heart. No matter what one thinks inwardly, as long as one maintains strict moral standards and behavioral principles toward oneself and never breaks them until death…”
“Then to outsiders, this is a true sage.”
Cultivating from a state of innate primordial chaos in the consciousness was clearly much easier than postnatal education.
What Li Fan was doing now was more like shaping a living being’s personality.
He had no particular prior experience and could only explore through practice. If this proved feasible, then not to mention producing a sage, mass-producing scholars would certainly pose no problem at all.
Li Fan had already noticed that although the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao had once been deceived by Mr. Bai, it still trusted people like Mr. Bai more easily.
Just as with the Faceless Holy Emperor of this life.
“And the fundamental reason likely traces back to Xuantian King Xuanyuan Hong and even the first Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable.” Li Fan mused thoughtfully.
The birth of the fetus within Wu Ninglu’s body had already been planned by Li Fan to occur at the exact moment she devoured the Spirit of heaven and earth and advanced to Dao Integration.
“If the method is handled properly, the power of the heavenly laws condensed within the mother’s body can perhaps be directly transferred to the child through childbirth.”
“It may even give birth to the first cultivator in the Xuanhuang Realm to achieve Dao Integration from birth…”
“Such a phenomenon—who would dare say he is not a sage?”
Li Fan thought this way and found himself somewhat expectant about the fetus’s future.
He had already written the script of its destiny in advance.
“Such a heaven-sent genius would undoubtedly be regarded as the future hope of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. Yet this very person, at the moment when the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi wages full-scale war against the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, would resolutely choose to turn his blade against them.”
“And he would firmly declare that he stood on the side of justice.”
“The scene of the entire Xuanhuang Realm forcing the Immortal Ancestor to reveal himself would surely be quite interesting.”
Vivid images flashed through Li Fan’s mind.
Without needing the Dao Deviation Stone for deduction, he could already roughly predict the future course of this life.
Of course, this was the most ideal state.
Whether it was cultivating an innate sage or whether the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi could truly develop to the point of forcing the Immortal Ancestor to appear would still require a long period of steady growth.
Meanwhile, in the Sun family.
The strand of divine sense hidden inside the Boundless Mirror lived far more leisurely than the clone.
Besides constantly spying on the secrets of the Tianxuan Mirror, the vast majority of its energy was devoted to attempting to lure out the obliterating wind calamity within the mirror.
Because Sun Luyuan had pledged allegiance to the Holy Emperor, he had been fortunate enough to borrow more than a hundred robust You Clan people who had only recently been born.
At this moment they were hidden in the Sun family’s underground secret chamber beside the family’s essence blood pool.
The treatment these You Clan people received was even better than that of their kin in the Holy Dynasty.
They were even granted two hours of rest each day.
Of course this was not out of Li Fan’s kindness; the Boundless Mirror simply could not withstand overly frequent experiments and required time to recover.
“My guess was correct. This obliterating wind calamity will indeed actively attack any power approaching the level of an immortal.”
At this time the Boundless Mirror emitted waves of faint glow as it floated in the air.
Its surface did not reflect the outside scene but instead rapidly flashed through images of numerous civilizations suffering destruction.
A sense of ancient desolation and immense age emerged from the mirror’s body.
The Boundless Mirror, which had only recently recovered by absorbing essence blood, once again became tattered and broken.
Black, formless annihilation wind was drawn out from the Boundless Mirror.
It flew toward a golden square not far away.
What formed this square was, naturally, pure source power.
Although it could not compare to the source power essence of the Holy Emperor clone, it was more than enough to lure the obliterating wind calamity.
The moment the obliterating wind calamity entered the range covered by the source power, its form instantly changed.
The power transcending the mortal world vanished in an instant, and the lowered purity of the source power caused a drop in energy level.
Having lost its target, the obliterating wind calamity paused briefly in place.
It was about to continue spreading outward.
But the source power shifted and formed a grand formation.
It sealed the power of the obliterating wind calamity within.
This grand formation had been designed by Li Fan with reference to the incomplete Grand Formation of the Primordial Mystic Spirit, simulating a relatively static space through formation patterns.
Inside the formation there was nothing at all—an absolute state of void.
It resembled the end-of-the-world scene after everything had been destroyed.
As expected, the obliterating wind calamity was enticed by it; its energy no longer surged violently but slowly went dormant.
The remaining power of the wind calamity inside the Boundless Mirror also subsided.
“Senior’s methods are truly divine. If we do this a few more times, the hidden danger within my body can be completely eliminated.” The Boundless Mirror spirit Sun Luyao said with unrestrained joy.
Li Fan paid him no attention. Instead he carefully stored away the small golden square that now contained the obliterating wind calamity.
He had already produced more than twenty such small squares.
Due to differences in technical proficiency, the strength of the wind calamity contained within each varied.
But without doubt, if the balance within any golden square was broken, it would unleash a terrifying calamity.
Sun Luyao paid no mind to Li Fan’s silence and continued describing his own changes.
“Senior, I have a premonition. Once the wind calamity is completely purged, my control over the Boundless Mirror will reach an entirely new level. At that time I may be able to sense the locations of other Boundless Mirror fragments and fully restore this immortal artifact.”
“Not bad.” Li Fan nodded faintly, his attention still focused on the golden squares.
Having witnessed Li Fan’s methods, the eager-to-claim-credit Sun Luyao hesitated for a moment before he could not help adding, “Senior. Once I am fully restored as an immortal artifact, I may even be able to simultaneously sense the locations of any other immortal artifacts that might still remain in the Xuanhuang Realm.”
Upon hearing Sun Luyao’s words, Li Fan finally turned his head slightly.
“Oh? You are so certain?”
Sun Luyao’s spirits rose. He hurriedly explained, “Beings like us can always sense one another to some degree. Especially since I, the Boundless Mirror, also possess the ability to measure the heavens and investigate the earth. If other immortal artifacts truly still exist in the Xuanhuang Realm, then after I am restored the probability of finding them would be quite high.”
Li Fan smiled. “I see you have been locked away too long and are simply eager to go out for a stroll.”
Sun Luyao gave an embarrassed laugh. “Of course that is one reason. But my desire to help Senior search for immortal artifacts is absolutely sincere.”
Li Fan glanced at him. “Let us first purge the wind calamity completely.”
Li Fan’s expression grew somewhat grave. “Do not be fooled by how weak it appears now; the root cause still shows no sign of true reduction.”
“After all, it is a power that transcends the mortal world. We cannot be careless.”
Sun Luyao nodded deeply in agreement.
Holy Dynasty of Great Qi.
More than ten days had passed since Li Ping had completely devoured the Xuanhuang evil thoughts.
Having gained such a massive amount of power, Li Ping, whose strength had surged, also needed time to digest and adapt.
He finally allowed himself a rare period of rest.
Yet inside the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi the atmosphere had never been more prosperous.
The fortune of the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi was now tightly bound to Holy Emperor Li Ping.
Under normal circumstances, cultivating the Heavenly Emperor Qi Canon caused the growth of imperial fortune to drive the emperor’s strength forward.
But at this moment in Great Qi, the rare reverse occurred: the Holy Emperor’s breakthrough in strength fed back into the dynasty’s fortune.
And once the people’s hearts and the dynasty’s fortune were further strengthened, they in turn provided another round of nourishment to the Holy Emperor.
Thus, in addition to the strength gained from devouring the Xuanhuang evil thoughts, Li Ping’s Heavenly Emperor Qi Canon had, shortly after the breakthrough, once again approached the point of transformation.
This time, however, the original texts contained no records of the path ahead.
There was no road left to follow.
“Something akin to the Longevity Immortal realm below True Immortal is already the limit of the fortune path.”
“After all, relying solely on imperial fortune to break the shackles and achieve True Immortal…”
“Is still too difficult.”
“Unless it is a Great Holy Dynasty capable of spanning the star sea.”
Li Ping shook his head slightly and suppressed the thought.
Given the premise of the Darkest Star Sea, even if the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi unified the Xuanhuang Realm it would still be insufficient to support him in breaking through to the True Immortal realm.
“Since this path is blocked, I must find another way.”
“Now that the Xuanhuang evil thoughts have been devoured by me, if I wish to grow even stronger next…”
“First, there is the supreme treasure Fishing Pond.”
“Second…”
The Holy Emperor sat upright upon the Holy Emperor’s throne. In his mind appeared the figures of native Xuanhuang Realm creations such as Roumu and the Stone Tablet.
“As parts of the Xuanhuang Realm’s laws, the Heavenly Dao has suffered great calamity while they live on comfortably.”
“Since the gifts of heaven and earth are useless to them, it is time to reclaim what heaven and earth bestowed.”
A vicious aura surged from the Faceless Holy Emperor.
