My Longevity Simulation - Chapter 1267: Encountering the True Immortal Character Again
As the Dark Sea stirred, the You Clansmen who were kneeling all over the ground seemed to sense something. The expressions on their faces grew increasingly frenzied and devout.
Like a gust of wind, something blew in from all directions of the Dark Sea and gathered near the small hole that the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance had drilled through.
The pressure suddenly increased. Invisible ripples spread outward from the wound. Under layers of accumulated force, in Li Ping’s perception, the stable state at the opening was instantly broken.
The condensed and compressed source power began to collapse rapidly, as if it would soon be completely driven out of this Dark Sea.
However, at this very moment, Li Ping saw that within this lightless sea, brightness suddenly appeared.
This was not the illusion caused earlier by the natural rhythm of the Dark Sea, but true light born within it.
A golden abacus stabilized the collapsing source power of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. As the beads shifted, the output of source power suddenly increased, restoring a balance between the two sides.
The waves of the Dark Sea surged, raising layer after layer of tides. Yet each time, they were perfectly resolved through the calculations, mobilization, and adjustments of the golden abacus.
What astonished Li Ping even more was that the golden abacus was doing far more than merely regulating source power. More importantly, strands of golden light spread outward along with the movement of the beads.
Although these rays did not travel far before being completely swallowed by the darkness, under their influence, the raging waves of the Dark Sea gradually calmed.
The unknown existence that was in the process of awakening was soothed by the golden radiance of the abacus and fell back into slumber.
At the same time as these changes occurred, an eyeball quietly descended above the wound in the Dark Sea.
Or rather, it was born from the golden abacus itself, exceedingly strange.
The eyeball endowed the abacus with life and began carefully inspecting the disturbances within the Dark Sea.
Its gaze was cold and devoid of any emotion. It rotated as it surveyed the surroundings, seemingly trying to determine the cause of the imbalance in the Dark Power extraction device.
The Holy Emperor focused his mind and concealed both himself and more than a hundred You Clansmen.
After scanning several times and finding nothing suspicious, the eye slowly disappeared.
During this period, under the strenuous maintenance of the golden abacus, the Dark Sea had already returned to a state of balance and calm.
Li Ping stood not far from the wound. After pondering briefly, he ultimately postponed his plan to destroy the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s device here.
It was not because he feared confronting the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance directly, but because from that suddenly appearing eyeball, he sensed a familiar aura. An aura belonging to a cultivator who, in theory, had already completely vanished from the Xuanhuang Realm.
It was precisely due to this doubt that the Holy Emperor temporarily changed his decision.
“If it is merely a similar aura, that would be one thing. But if he is still alive, and is hiding within the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, helping them steal the power of the Dark Sea…”
A trace of uncertainty flashed through the Holy Emperor’s mind. Before clarifying this matter, it was better to avoid confrontation for now.
With this thought, Li Ping led the You Clansmen back to Great Qi.
After connecting his divine sense to the Stone Tablet, he began reviewing the information recorded on the Genesis Stone Tablet.
“Xuantian King…”
“It completely defies reason.”
Scenes appeared one after another before Li Ping.
From an initially ordinary cultivator, the Xuantian King rose step by step through countless fortuitous encounters, ultimately becoming the last ascender of the Xuanhuang Realm.
Not long after breaking through space and becoming part of the eternal legend of the Xuanhuang Realm, he appeared once more, shocking the world.
After that came the founding of the Xuantian Sect, and its eventual destruction by the joint suppression of the Ten Great Sects.
The scenes were fragmented, and at certain key points, it was as if they had been forcibly erased.
Yet even this incomplete personal history was enough to be dramatic and captivating.
“From the synchronized memory sensed through the Heavenly Dao of Xuanhuang, as well as the records of the Genesis Stone Tablet, the eye that appeared in the Dark Sea is almost completely identical to the Xuantian King.”
“And that is precisely what is strange.”
The Heavenly Dao of Xuanhuang had personally confirmed that the Xuantian King had already perished. So where did the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance obtain his eye?
“The detailed records of the Ten Great Immortal Sects besieging the Xuantian Sect back then are also extremely vague. To conceal the origin power of the Xuanhuang Realm itself, the existence behind it must at least be of equal level.”
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The more he thought about it, the more doubts arose.
This apparent savior of the Xuanhuang Realm was shrouded in far too many mysteries.
Most crucially, his cultivation realm was there for all to see. A Half-Immortal body, yet he vanished just like that. It was truly difficult to believe. Especially now that Li Ping himself had faintly reached the limit of the Xuanhuang Realm, he understood even more clearly how powerful such a level should be.
Only a True Immortal or higher might be able to silently erase the Xuantian King without a trace.
But if such an existence truly appeared, it would inevitably shake heaven and earth, and even the Xuanhuang Realm would be dragged into destruction.
Yet in the memories of the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm, no such event had occurred.
Perhaps that True Immortal had deliberately concealed their aura when taking action.
Then another question arose. In the eyes of a True Immortal, all mortals were like ants. Even though the Xuantian King was half-immortal, he would be no exception. If a True Immortal wanted to kill him, why would they need to hide it?
“Perhaps I can find some clues from the few surviving Dharma Kings of the Xuantian Sect from back then.”
The Faceless Holy Emperor flipped through the Genesis Stone Tablet, attempting to find some traces.
At the same time, Li Fan’s clone far away in the ash-covered small world slightly frowned. Ever since personally experiencing how troublesome the Dharma Kings of the Xuantian Sect were, in order to avoid further complications in this life, he had deliberately blocked the Holy Emperor’s memories of Mo Rubin.
Unexpectedly, through a series of coincidences, the Holy Emperor had once again begun to show signs of becoming entangled with Mo Rubin.
“Since the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance could lock onto Mo Rubin’s place of slumber through various clues, the Holy Emperor should also be able to do it. Now this is getting interesting.”
“The eye within the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance is definitely not the Xuantian King himself. Otherwise, when Mo Rubin once occupied the body of a Dharma Transmitter and learned all the secrets of the Immortal Alliance, he should have already discovered this.”
While urging the Boundless Mirror to analyze the world-protecting formation, Li Fan pondered.
“However, judging from how he later died within the Dark Sea, it can be inferred that the eyeball must have some mysterious connection with the Xuantian King. It may even be a part of his authority.”
“Mo Rubin discovered the existence of this Immortal Alliance eye and noticed its connection with the Dark Sea. That is why he ventured deep into that dangerous place, ultimately leaving no trace of his remains.”
“Authority…”
“The Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, the world-protecting formation!”
A sharp light flashed in Li Fan’s eyes. Within the incomplete formation model deduced by the Final Dissociation Disc, a point of light suddenly erupted.
Even though the full picture was still unseen, Li Fan instantly understood the meaning represented by that point.
“Just like the Xuantian Primordial Mystic Spirit Formation, this unknown world-protecting formation is also composed of several different subordinate formations. Each formation has its own independent control core.”
“This point of light is the location of that core!”
Under the analysis of the Boundless Mirror, the formation lines hidden deep beneath the ash world finally revealed the location of the corresponding “core.”
However, what should have been the densest and most complex part of the formation was now completely empty.
It was as if it had been directly dug out.
Just as the Boundless Mirror was about to continue probing that void core region, a sense of danger suddenly surged in Li Fan’s heart. He immediately stopped the Boundless Mirror’s action.
Li Fan narrowed his eyes and looked toward that empty region.
A vague and terrifying aura lurked within it.
It was not that nothing existed.
Rather, its existence had surpassed the range that ordinary beings could perceive.
“True Immortal script characters!”
Li Fan said word by word in his heart, raising his vigilance to the highest level.
They were different from the characters he had encountered before, such as Hunger, Nothingness, and Chaos, and also different from the residual power within the Darkest Star Sea.
They were not even recorded within the records of the Xuan-Immortal Ark.
A completely new and unknown power. It did not attack other things, but was directed solely at the core of the world-protecting formation. Mysterious and unfathomable.
Now that they had completed their objective, they lay quietly upon the “corpse” of the formation core.
