My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1172: Yin-Yang Pearls of Dead Intent

Shang Shaojun, serving as the leader of the Qingxuan Army, had kept the Chizha Abyss in check for an entire century. He managed to stay utterly serene even when confronting the dreadful demonic sound tides that threatened to obliterate the world.

Yet at this moment, a chilling fear seized him, one he hadn't felt in countless years.

The frozen sea held far too many deceased cultivators.

Shang Shaojun struggled to fathom the origins of these cultivators. The sheer volume of those entombed here probably surpassed the entire population of cultivators across the Xuanhuang Realm!

Holy Embryo Li Fan also feigned terror at the sight unfolding before him. A slight shiver ran through his form, and dread etched across his features.

“Shaojun, don't act impulsively. We must prioritize caution.”

After a brief pause, he appeared to steady himself and offered reassurance to Shang Shaojun.

Shang Shaojun's face stayed grim. He darted his eyes around occasionally, like an unseen foe lurked nearby.

“This place feels wrong. Did you catch any noise?” Shang Shaojun inquired through a mental message.

“Noise? What kind of noise?” Holy Embryo Li Fan looked genuinely puzzled by this. The response came straight from his heart.

Shang Shaojun's expression grew darker: “Maybe my long stay in the Chizha Abyss has sharpened my senses to sounds. Since stepping into this maze-like area, I've been picking up faint whispers. They flicker in and out. You truly haven't noticed them?”

Holy Embryo Li Fan's eyes sharpened.

This wasn't his initial visit to the location.

He had previously led multiple cultivators right here.

Still, none had reacted like Shang Shaojun, detecting odd noises amid the profound silence of the ice-bound sea.

A fresh idea sparked in his thoughts. Holy Embryo Li Fan spoke gravely: “What are your thoughts, Shaojun? This spot hides a massive enigma. But digging deeper will surely bring immense dangers. Do we retreat now before detection, or push onward to uncover more?”

Shang Shaojun held off on replying to Li Fan right away. His ears flicked subtly, as though he strained to pinpoint the noise reaching him.

Moments later, he sent: “Brother Li, stick with me. I sense that following this sound's origin could reveal a piece of this area's puzzle.”

Holy Embryo Li Fan gave a faint nod. Sword silhouettes emerged and shielded the pair.

“Stay alert.”

The duo soared across the vast ice-locked sea.

In reality, Li Fan possessed full knowledge of the Life and Death Reversal Great Formation's layout.

However, acting as if it were his debut visit, he refrained from pointing out when Shang Shaojun guided them in loops within the array.

He trailed quietly in the rear.

Yet as Shang Shaojun persisted doggedly toward one direction, Holy Embryo Li Fan detected the faint shifts emerging nearby.

These alterations had once slipped past even the Final Dissociation Disc's scrutiny and gone unnoticed by him!

“The great formation conceals such a subtle transformation? Truly worthy of an array that forges the Dao and grants eternal Immortality.” Li Fan marveled inwardly.

They pressed on.

It seemed like they hovered in one spot, but the frozen coffins of the surrounding necrotic sea whirled endlessly around them.

The further in they ventured, the quicker the vistas nearby blurred into motion.

“Brother Li, watch out. The noise's origin lies just up ahead!” Shang Shaojun's tone carried a hint of strain.

As if traversing a slim spacetime passage, the environs smeared from sheer velocity, morphing into layered rings.

Upon piercing the passage's terminus, the myriad rings fused into one focal point.

Then it burst wide across their sight.

All at once, clarity returned.

Nevertheless, the ambient chill intensified.

The cold bit so fiercely that even Holy Embryo Li Fan and Shang Shaojun sensed their forms stiffening from the frost.

“Huu…”

They channeled their spiritual power to ward off the marrow-freezing iciness.

The pair scanned their environment warily.

It resembled the heart of a silvery-white luminous orb. Beyond hazy edges, the space stood utterly vacant.

But glancing back whence they arrived, their eyes widened sharply.

A petite yin-yang fish-like sphere, spinning steadily, hovered silently in the void.

From its shadowed side, Holy Embryo Li Fan vaguely perceived the essence of the prior still, frozen sea.

And within this white luminous sphere, eight additional yin-yang spheres existed!

Nine in total, positioned in a unique array.

Shang Shaojun gulped heavily.

A single such yin-yang sphere held innumerable lifeless forms.

Multiplied by nine…

They shared a look, each spotting the astonishment and dread mirrored in the other's gaze.

Even their mental exchanges turned whisper-soft.

They dreaded rousing the nine yin-yang spheres present.

“Shaojun, that sound you detected before…”

“It's vanished. The instant we stepped in here, it cut off sharply and left no trace. Hold on…” Shang Shaojun abruptly stilled and pivoted toward the side away from the yin-yang spheres.

Holy Embryo Li Fan traced his stare but perceived emptiness.

“Stay vigilant.”

Shang Shaojun issued only this terse alert before going quiet.

His frame turned rigid and still. His presence dimmed sharply in a flash.

Only then did Holy Embryo Li Fan feel an intangible being descend into this realm.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

No real noise echoed, yet the ponderous steps thudded straight onto Li Fan’s core.

The entity drew nearer.

It ignored the pair of trespassers and headed directly for the nine yin-yang pearls.

Huu…

A soft exhalation echoed.

Distortions and waves rippled through the space encircling the yin-yang pearls.

Like elements simmering in scalding liquid, the yin and yang halves on the nine tiny spheres swirled against one another, their contrasts sharpening.

Shang Shaojun and Li Fan witnessed threads of frozen remains pulled into the nine yin-yang pearls alongside the breath from this mysterious force.

The whole uncanny ritual wrapped up swiftly.

The weighty, suffocating strides slowly receded afar. Only then did the silver-white realm gradually stabilize.

The nine yin-yang pearls eased down and restored their tranquility.

It took ages before the two ventured to link minds once more.

“What in the world was that earlier?”

“A dire warning surged through me, my spirit senses howling madly. It was like catastrophe loomed ready to strike… Even a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign couldn't evoke such dread, could they?”

After mere exchanges, a heavy quietude enveloped them.

“That prior noise I caught was likely the reverberation of that enigmatic being's steps echoing here,” Shang Shaojun guessed. “Though it's departed, the residual echoes linger faintly.”

“The myriad frozen corpses within the yin-yang pearls appear to be the doing of that entity. Yet I remain baffled by the source of so many bodies. Moreover, what exactly dwells beyond this silver-white expanse?”

Holy Embryo Li Fan lacked responses for such riddles.

He had assumed this was simply the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign's cultivation ground. Never had he anticipated that, by sheer chance in this life, he would uncover a profounder mystery concealed within.