My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1102: All Essences Gathered in One Body

The investigation into the power of darkness undertaken by the folks in the Heavenly Mechanism Realm didn't go as effortlessly as one might hope.

This outcome was logical, considering it involved a force on par with the essence of source power. Regardless of their brilliance, building knowledge from scratch demanded an immense span of time.

Luckily, Master Qiaogong and his companions were true zealots for research; ever since they dove into the project, they'd been totally absorbed and laser-focused on it. Li Fan just had to bide his time patiently before harvesting the rewards.

In the meantime, Li Fan had stealthily started scheming against those two Immortals.

Deep in the Spiritwood Realm, inside a hidden underground chamber. More than a hundred oddly shaped puppets remained eerily still and unmoving.

With a grave look on his face, Li Fan himself etched formations directly onto their surfaces.

"Bait puppets: they come in pairs of two, making seventy-two pairs altogether. For every pair, one heads straight into the Immortal Ruins, and the other gets positioned across different spots in the Xuanhuang Realm's earth veins. As the seventy-two bait puppets approach the Immortal Ruins, their grand formation kicks in, pulling the focus of the Immortal Ruins Immortal."

"Drawing from the Final Dissociation Disc, this formation edges right up to the Immortal-grade grand formation tier. It's called [Bewildering Haze, Disordered Blossoms Gradually Enchanting]. Catching a sudden danger signal while in seclusion would definitely spark a gut-level response, leading it back to the Xuanhuang Realm."

"Regarding the bait puppets staying behind in the Xuanhuang Realm, I'll deploy the Faceless True Immortal's source power essence to weave a detection network around them. The moment the Immortal Ruins Immortal's power sets it off, it'll snag the Faceless True Immortal's attention."

"Assuming no surprises crop up... When these two colossal powers crash into each other, the Xuanhuang Realm could turn to dust in a flash. So, my fake scheme targeting the Heavenly Dao to pull out the Xuanhuang's looming change needs to be set up ahead of time."

A pulsing blue radiance shone from the Dao Deviation Stone in his thoughts. The upgraded Dao Deviation Stone now boasted a massively improved capacity for derivations. This scheme of banishing the wolf just to welcome the tiger tangled with endless layers and shifting elements, yet the Dao Deviation Stone handled it without much strain.

Naturally, that was simply due to the fact that, within the derivations, the Faceless True Immortal and the Immortal Ruins Immortal only wielded the powers Li Fan had predefined beforehand.

Li Fan clearly recognized his own bounds; at his present power level, trying to simulate a True Immortal was pure folly. All he could manage was to hunt for a narrow path to success drawing from the actual events he'd already lived through.

"The Immortal Ruins Immortal rattles the True Immortal's snare."

"In that instant, I'll trigger [Truth] and shatter free all at once."

"Naturally, that's the perfect outcome. As the proverb warns, prepare for the worst even in triumph; I have to account for the possibility that the plan flops, and the power chasm between the Immortal Ruins Immortal and the Faceless True Immortal proves too wide to budge the True Immortal's web..."

"In that case, I'll rush back to the Dark Realm's core, ignite [Truth], and flee the peril."

"At present, I've secured a handful of tools that can at least nudge a True Immortal a bit; buying a brief delay remains possible."

Li Fan scanned the conditions encircling his divine soul.

The silver protective sheen from the Heavenly Doctor, the golden core of source power, plus the seven-hued divine light encasing the gray mold flecks... All these forces held a fragile equilibrium.

Perhaps only a figure like Li Fan could stay utterly calm, even harboring a faint feeling of safety, amid such circumstances.

"Clashing strength with strength, navigating through pacts and divides. Deep down, it's all because my personal power stays far too feeble. But the barrier to Immortality—how simple could crossing it really be?"

"Even prodigies such as the Xuantian King, the Immortal Ancestor, and the Heavenly Doctor find themselves stuck at the gate, unable to budge forward."

"Me, all the more so? Without [Truth] in my grasp, I'd have probably ditched this wild, unattainable dream ages ago," Li Fan remarked, a wry, mocking grin crossing his lips.

"Yet with the stroke of luck that brought me [Truth], nothing will halt my climb to the heavens..." A cold glint sparked in his gaze.

Li Fan understood full well that neither [Chaos], [Hunger], nor [Nothingness] he'd encountered were the authentic originals. They were just crude knockoffs crafted by those who came after.

Because of that, Li Fan never ceased his thorough probing of these three True Immortal script characters. Even if it was a duplicate of a duplicate, the nearer the mimicry, the mightier the effect.

Immortals themselves could grasp the Dao from a single character. Truly, any one among these three would demand a full lifetime from Li Fan to master completely.

Li Fan's own insight had its limits. Still, he could draw aid from outside forces.

Apart from the exceptional gifts of his clone Li Qing, the recent wave of Xuanhuang Realm talents he'd smoothly lured and flipped in the [Mountain River Pavilion] also served as Li Fan's assets.

The Xuantian Sect's technique from Senior Sister Zhao, the Heaven and Earth Converging Manual, allowed him to match talent and comprehension with any chosen individual.

Once he'd reached initial proficiency, clone Li Qing started picking fitting candidates. On the surface, it was announced as dispatching them for covert tasks from the True Immortal of Salvation and Mortal Compassion, but actually, they'd been covertly dominated, their talents siphoned away.

Sure, thanks to the merging and balancing, these prodigies gained half of Li Qing's talent boost in return.

Li Qing's aptitude matched or exceeded theirs, so the Mountain River Pavilion's young geniuses, Shang Tianci included, spotted nothing amiss. They simply wondered at the miraculous [Foundation Establishment Through Oneself] technique.

Fueled by the talent surge from more than a dozen prodigies, clone Li Qing's comprehension soared to an astonishing, record-shattering height. He even picked up on how the primary body Li Fan had severed certain memories.

But in the end, as just a clone, he shared no divide between self and original. He pressed on relentlessly with the mission of decoding the True Immortal script characters.

The three True Immortal script characters drifted endlessly in his consciousness, seeming almost animated. In Li Qing's vision, a hazy silhouette appeared, depicting the process of forging the Dao into symbols.

"Etching the Dao..."

"A existence surpassing even the Faceless True Immortal in dominance. That might just be my final aim."

...

As Li Fan covertly geared up for this world's climactic masterstroke.

The enigmatic Heavenly Sovereign of Reversing Life and Death, who had materialized from thin air before, at last revealed his sway over the Xuanhuang Realm.

For folks noticed that, following this Heavenly Sovereign's arrival, no fresh births had occurred among the Xuanhuang Realm's cultivators.

Or to put it broader, the whole human populace faced the same issue.

Initially, no one could confirm it stemmed from this Heavenly Sovereign. But when a long-dead cultivator resurfaced in an utterly unforeseen manner, all the pieces fell into place for everyone.

The Lancang River, the grandest waterway in the southwestern edges of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.

One fine day, a cultivator called Changji burst forth bare-skinned from the river's depths. This strange spectacle, of course, attracted a crowd of spectators nearby.

Yet Changji ignored them entirely; he stared at his own form in wild joy and astonishment, whispering to himself: "Am I alive again?"

"Reversing life and death, reversing life and death; the Heavenly Sovereign didn't lie to me!"