My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1118: Heavenly Sovereign Puppet Master

Even though it was just a formation Li Fan had newly deduced, it was perfectly suited for the inhabitants of the Spiritwood Realm. Centered around the Tianyang Immortal Puppet and drawing on its defenses at the Longevity Immortal realm, this setup allowed it to boost the fighting strength of all the others to the utmost.

In addition, this formation produced an outcome much like the Soul-Ignition Method, managing to unleash the full potential of the cultivators inside it within a brief period. This happened, however, by consuming their divine souls. Prior to dismantling the formation, the Holy Embryo Li Fan threw one last look toward the Spiritwood Realm.

"The next life will be better."

With zero hesitation, he then guided the entire group in breaking free from the Spiritwood Realm. They had braced themselves for a fierce blockade from the massive troops of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. Yet, much to the astonishment of Li Fan and his companions, the emptiness beyond the Spiritwood Realm turned out to be totally deserted!

Oddly enough, the feeling of unrelenting surveillance that weighed on their minds refused to fade away!

"Be careful!" Daoist Hundred Flowers let out the initial alert. Her complexion had paled drastically, with beads of icy sweat forming on her brow. She had never looked so ragged and panicked, not even under Li Fan's earlier pressure.

For back then, what she detected from Li Fan was nothing more than straightforward killing intent. But at this moment... "Pure malice..."

Liu Ruchen of the Medicine King Sect and the rest grew rigid, as though confronting a deadly foe. Even with the route forward looking completely barren and unguarded, every one of them came to an abrupt stop in their advance. This included Li Fan at the forefront.

Because deep instincts warned them that pushing ahead spelled certain doom. It felt like they were being stalked by an apex hunter; their forms froze up, too afraid to act rashly. Right then, Tianyang's words echoed directly into Li Fan's ears: "Ahead. Longevity Immortal realm. Strange."

His message was short and solemn. To the Holy Embryo Li Fan, it hit like a bolt from the blue. "Longevity Immortal realm?" "Has the Immortal Ancestor come?"

His heart clenched as if squeezed in a vice, and even Li Fan's actual body, hidden away in the Nether Prison, saw its energy flow disrupt just a bit.

"Naturally. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance was aware long ago of Longevity Immortal realm experts existing in the Federation of All Worlds. Following those early tests, they wouldn't keep throwing away lives uselessly; instead, they'd send in overwhelming power to crush everything at once."

"However... To get payback for a handful of Dharma-Transmitters, would He step in personally? Wouldn't that lower His status too much?"

The sudden arrival of the Immortal Ancestor had clearly thrown Li Fan for a loop. But right away, a swarm of questions bubbled up in his thoughts. Judging from the Immortal Ancestor's prior stance on the Dharma-Transmitters, He treated them as nothing but instruments. There might have been some unique favor toward Transmitter Jiang, yet the rest of the Dharma-Transmitters meant as little to Him as regular cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm.

Would the Immortal Ancestor bother to show up in person just to wipe them out over three Dharma-Transmitters? Li Fan refused to buy it. Besides, he had previously experienced the Immortal Ancestor's immense and awe-inspiring might. That presence was holy and endless, too profound to gauge. It shared zero link with the "malice" enveloping them right now!

"It's not for the Dharma-Transmitter. So who else could it be?"

There are just a handful of Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereigns in the Xuanhuang Realm. Ruling out the five Heavenly Sovereigns from the Five Elders Association, it couldn't be the freshly promoted Rebirth either. In a whirlwind of quick reflections, a name stashed away in the depths of his memory—one on the verge of being lost—abruptly sprang to mind for Li Fan: The Eastern Extremity Heavenly Sovereign!

Even after digging through every record in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, details on the Eastern Extremity Heavenly Sovereign boil down to barely a few sentences. His background appears intentionally scrubbed clean; the sole piece of confirmed info is that the technique he created—which the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance still employs to purge the Immortal-mortal Miasma from mortals—originated from him.

That's all there is. For a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign of his era, and the sole one in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance apart from the Immortal Ancestor, enduring such erasure is downright peculiar and hard to fathom. Unless he willed it himself, whatever happened to him raises deep, unsettling questions.

Furthermore, every Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign in the Xuanhuang Realm earns a title that challenges norms and ways of the Dao. Only this Eastern Extremity (Dongji) comes across as simply his personal name.

In that instant, a torrent of ideas raced through Li Fan's head. At the same time, the sinister intentions hovering nearby struck at the Spiritwood Realm crew. The force of a Heavenly Sovereign stands far above that of typical cultivators.

The Tianyang Immortal Puppet, which had been radiating a pristine white glow from its frame, abruptly took on a foul tint. Its radiance wavered erratically; Tianyang's face grew somber, as if battling against that darkness. Dark blotches began popping up unevenly across the puppet's exterior, appearing in one spot then another.

The onslaught of the wicked aura slipped past the safeguards of Li Fan's formations, hitting all the Spiritwood Realm members at once. Few have the strength to resist a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign. In mere moments, erosion set in for them.

Li Fan also caught sight of what happened to those wholly overtaken by the wicked aura. Their irises disappeared, sockets turning into voids of black. At that very second, they lashed out at their allies, obviously stripped of any self-awareness.

Nearly at once, the Spiritwood Realm squad fell into disorder, teetering on the edge of breakdown. Still, the foe skulking in the shadows stayed concealed.

"Is this the real might of a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign?" "Losing is one thing. But to fall without even seeing his actual form..."

In the midst of the chaos, Li Fan's features stayed calm and unchanged; he simply directed his gaze at Tianyang. A dazzling red blaze erupted fiercely from Tianyang's core. Like the blazing sun overhead, it lit up the all-encompassing blackness around them.

"Tianyang's life... Is not inferior to any!"

The frame of the Tianyang Immortal Puppet ballooned out by a hundred million times in a flash. Resembling a colossal fire titan from the universe's birth, it towered amid the shadowy vacuum. Layers of fiery red waves burst from its form, expanding endlessly to burn the whole area into cinders.

Beneath the blaze of Tianyang's intense inferno, the Spiritwood Realm comrades suffered no harm. The cultivators tainted by the wicked aura crumbled into dark dust, accompanied by chilling, shrill wails. And the perpetrator that had hidden in the gloom all along was at last compelled to show itself!

The view that unfolded caused the Holy Embryo Li Fan's eyes to narrow faintly. A towering figure, unclothed, hovered in the air. His dark locks trailed down to his feet; sinister markings covered his skin, radiating foul energies.

From behind this bare man, subtle strands extended out of the nothingness, embedding themselves deeply into his flesh. The man's gaze was utter black, his visage blank. Just like the cultivators under mental domination.

"A Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign, reduced to a puppet on strings..."

This eerie spectacle unleashed an involuntary shudder in the hearts of the Spiritwood Realm group. Li Fan especially sucked in a sharp breath.

"This is... The enigmatic Eastern Extremity Heavenly Sovereign who vanished, brought to such a pass?" "Alive, yet in a hell worse than death... Who could have done this?"

"The Dharma-Transmitters in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance don't have that kind of power. The lone suspect is the Immortal Ancestor Himself!"

Deep in the Nether Prison, Li Fan's real form unwittingly balled into a fist.