My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1159: The Boundless Mirror Immortal Artifact
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Streaks of silver light, resembling bolts from the heavens, descended repeatedly.
Beneath the terrifying power of the gods, the shadowy human form concealed inside the Black Mirror shifted from angry outbursts to desperate cries, and finally to begging for mercy.
From the outset, Li Fan’s spirit fragment showed no willingness to offer compassion.
In contrast to a clone, this spirit fragment couldn’t independently absorb spiritual energy from the world to heal itself. Each portion of its power, once expended, was gone forever, demanding flawless precision in every action.
The silver bolts acted like a massive grinding wheel, pulverizing the dark humanoid mist.
Taking advantage of the moment, Li Fan’s spirit fragment swiftly executed hand seals, applying the “Formation Refinement” method to seize command over the Black Mirror.
Though the Black Mirror wasn’t a bound treasure, it had been regularly fed with the Sun family disciples’ blood, creating an obscure and intimate link with the Sun lineage.
In typical situations, refinement or usage was limited to Sun family members alone.
Nevertheless, Li Fan’s expertise in formations, enhanced by the vast insights gathered across numerous cycles via the Final Dissociation Disc, had attained a profound depth.
Through successive layers of formations overlapping, such barriers could be circumvented.While Li Fan’s clone worked on refining the Black Mirror, Sun Luyuan, bound to it by a unique tie, stayed utterly oblivious.
As moments ticked by unnoticed, the Black Mirror silently switched ownership.
Li Fan’s spirit fragment took on a solid shape, casually flipping the Black Mirror in his palm.
He perceived the black mist figure, the “artifact spirit” of the Black Mirror, shrinking back inside, quaking with terror and apprehension toward him.
Ignoring its inner turmoil, Li Fan squinted his eyes and immediately uncovered the roots of this cherished Sun family relic.
More than a millennium back, the Sun siblings, Sun Luyuan and Sun Luyao, unearthed a somewhat battered bronze mirror amid an ancient ruins expedition.
At first, the pair dismissed the mirror as a mere relic of the past and gave it scant regard. Yet, upon attempting to auction it at the Tianxuan Mirror, an extraordinary event unfolded.
The Tianxuan Mirror utterly disregarded the bronze mirror’s presence! Even positioned within its domain, the item failed to register on the trading roster.
Following thorough checks, the brothers grasped they had found something invaluable.
They proceeded with numerous experiments to unlock the proper way to wield this enigmatic bronze mirror. However, being only Golden Core cultivators then, they lacked the necessary might and wisdom for the job.
A century onward.
The older sibling, Sun Luyuan, uncovered a small Cave-Heaven, planning to leverage it for his breakthrough into the Nascent Soul stage.
Sun Luyao kept watch over his brother. Despite their extreme vigilance, destiny proved capricious, drawing the gaze of a roaming Golden Core cultivator at the peak of the realm.
The divide between Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms, separated by just one step, represented a chasm in strength.
Faced with the chance for his own ascension so close at hand, the Golden Core expert wouldn’t yield easily.
To secure his brother’s breakthrough, Sun Luyao staked his existence to block the attacker’s strikes.
By the time Sun Luyuan achieved Nascent Soul and vengefully eliminated the Golden Core foe, Sun Luyao lay critically injured, teetering on death’s edge, with no hope of recovery.
In the depths of Sun Luyuan’s profound sorrow, he abruptly saw that the bronze mirror he carried everywhere at last responded!
At that near-fatal instant, Sun Luyao’s soul fled into the bronze mirror, safeguarding its essence.
Though forever confined to the mirror henceforth, this fate was preferable to eternal separation in death.
As his soul integrated with the bronze mirror, Sun Luyao gained knowledge of its many secrets.
This mirror, called “Boundless,” stood as a paramount treasure granted to the Xuanhuang Realm’s Boundless Sect by the Immortal Realm in bygone eras.
Yet, with the flow of ages, the immortal relic had suffered harm and fragmentation, forfeiting the bulk of its original might.
The immortal artifact’s spirit had dissipated entirely, abandoning merely a hollow remnant in the mortal plane.
Still, as an entity that once surpassed the mortal bounds, it exhibited remarkable traits even after bonding with a fresh soul.
For example, upon accessing the Tianxuan Mirror, it could covertly siphon assorted data from its systems.
Moreover, following a buildup of energy over time, the Boundless Mirror could emit subtle visions.
These visions portrayed possible happenings from times yet to come!
Though the underlying mechanism remained mysterious, this revelation elated the Sun brothers.
Aided by the Boundless Mirror, the Sun duo initiated their storied ascent to prominence.
Yet, bit by bit, they detected an unsettling aspect of the mirror.
Owing to its prior ruin, the mirror’s flawed state impacted Sun Luyao housed within. His soul began to fray, and despite Sun Luyuan’s tireless attempts, the decay couldn’t be halted.
Through sheer fortune, by employing his own life essence blood, he merely delayed the soul’s fading.
Had that sufficed, the situation might have been bearable.
Post-Nascent Soul, a cultivator following the new method could draw on a Cave-Heaven for near-endless longevity. Conserving vital blood was feasible with diligence.
The true peril of the Boundless Mirror lay in its propensity for self-ruin.
As though scarred by some catastrophic event long ago, the mirror’s “Boundless Light,” which foresaw futures, invariably concluded each sequence in identical ruin after several tries.
Infinite obscurity, total devastation, absolute nothingness.
It appeared this doom awaited the whole world, unavoidable regardless of the Boundless Mirror’s forecasts.
Upon rousing from such dooms and as the Boundless Light divined anew, the mirror appeared stained by the foretold black obliteration, deepening in darkness.
Across over a thousand years, the Sun family, empowered by the Boundless Mirror’s gifts, evolved from a minor clan into a mighty power boasting four Dao Integration cultivators.
Sun Luyuan himself progressed from Nascent Soul to Dao Integration cultivation.
Despite this, he proved helpless against the Boundless Mirror’s slide toward ruin.
The sole remedy he identified involved hunting down the lost shards of the Boundless Mirror to mend its wholeness.
Through the years, following the links among the pieces, he truly recovered one more fragment of the Boundless Mirror.
But this merely decelerated the downfall, not curing the root problem.
The Sun family’s extraordinary feats in their climb had long drawn envious plots from others.
Beyond the countless outsiders with hidden agendas, the Sun family’s prime supporter during their ascent was among the top echelons in the