My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1175: Two Immortals Suspected in the Star Sea
Previously on My Longevity Simulation...
Indeed, the term “perhaps” could simply be erased.
Should the Xuanhuang Realm face a massive turmoil soon, it's virtually assured that Li Fan's deeds in this life triggered it.
“The origin of the Xuanhuang Realm’s tremors must stem from the pull of the Immortal Ruins.”
“The crux is right here. What merit or power do I hold to actually affect the Immortal Ruins?”
Memories from this incarnation surged swiftly through Li Fan’s mind.
By ruling out every implausible possibility, Li Fan narrowed it down to a few questionable leads.
The enigmatic presence in the Chizha Abyss that received a reinserted world shard.
The unseen force in the Life-Death Labyrinth that gathers cultivators’ remains.
And……
The transfer and repositioning of the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven.
Given Li Fan’s present power, be it his primary form or his duplicates, he remains utterly incapable of altering the Immortal Ruins even slightly.
Yet, his interventions can sway and modify the destiny paths of those mighty entities who can jolt the Immortal Ruins, thus leading to shifts in events.
“In any case, only a bit more than a month remains. I'll just have to bide my time.”
The Holy Embryo Li Fan stayed quiet.
As the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance mobilized for urgent wartime readiness, the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi followed suit.
Shortly before, a royal edict had declared that the Holy Emperor would experiment with a celestial technique in the emptiness beyond Great Qi. It could produce some quakes, but this would be routine. No cause for alarm.
The inhabitants of Great Qi had elevated their devotion to the Holy Emperor to an almost zealous height.
Of course, they accepted every proclamation without question.
Upon learning of this announcement, the populace experienced no anxiety or dread. Rather, excitement swelled within them for the might of the Holy Emperor’s celestial technique.
In the hidden chamber below the Holy Emperor’s dwelling.
Yin Shangren faced Li Ping directly.
“The young talents you dispatched to me previously are truly promising. A few exceed my expectations in intellect. Two have already achieved foundation establishment under my guidance. The rest won't lag far.
“Starting with the conviction that Foundation Built Upon Oneself is the sole true way does accelerate cultivation remarkably.”
Yin Shangren first recapped the latest progress, then abruptly shifted topics: “Recently, I've felt an odd unease. I hear you're planning to test a celestial technique? Keep your distance and avoid wrecking this little domain.”
“I've grown fond of this place.” Yin Shangren remarked calmly.
Li Ping nodded his assent, though his thoughts raced: “Yin Shangren serves as a world spirit leeching on the Xuanhuang Realm. If even he detects a vague warning, it confirms the Xuanhuang Realm nears a dire ordeal.”
Time dragged on slowly amid mounting eagerness everywhere.
At the same time, unknown to all, more than a hundred stone golems stealthily ascended into the skies over the Xuanhuang Realm.
Positioned at the world’s edge, mere moments from tumbling into the abyss.
They lingered inside the Xuanhuang Realm’s domain, safe from the Immortal Ruins’ draw.
Still, elevated sufficiently to survey the grand panorama of the Xuanhuang Realm.
Li Ping had crafted these golems, of course.
Their sole role was to watch and document this Xuanhuang Realm tremor incident.
The golems hovered silently aloft, poised for the foretold occurrence.
The date foretold by the Dharma-Transmitter approached ever nearer.
On that fateful day, abruptly, Li Fan’s core self in the Derivation Law Jade realm, the Holy Embryo Li Fan beyond the Chizha Abyss, Li Fan’s duplicate inside the Boundless Mirror, and Holy Emperor Li Ping in the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi.
All sensed a stir in their cores simultaneously.
They all gazed skyward at once.
In the Tianxuan Spirit Locking era, Ji Hongdao had slain the cultivators across a whole province in a flash. Through a sacrificial clash, he compelled the Longevity Immortal Realm’s One-Heart Heavenly Sovereign to withdraw to the Five Elders Association.
Back then, the abrupt vanishing of so many cultivators’ ties lightened the Xuanhuang Realm suddenly.
It quivered relentlessly and thundered.
Every creature inside felt it, like an impending doom that would annihilate both form and spirit imminently.
Li Fan had endured this sensation firsthand before.
Now, this feeling intensified over a hundredfold.
Boom!
Without prior notice, the Xuanhuang Realm convulsed fiercely.
Picture a colossal being wrenching the whole world asunder with mighty grips.
Fissures burst from every ground corner and raced outward rapidly. Within moments, the once-even landscape lay marred with wounds.
Myriad peaks fractured midway. Others tumbled wholly into fresh chasms below.
If the surface upheavals failed to instill genuine horror in those dwelling in floating metropolises, the ensuing shifts in the white mist barrier filled every Xuanhuang Realm cultivator with dread.
The eternal white mist barrier spanning heavens and earth, once immutable, now warped and splintered.
White mist spilled from its steadfast bounds and expanded beyond.
Everywhere it swept, it consumed the vitality of all life forms.
Thus, prefecture borders altered.
And via the vantage of the hundred stone golems overhead, Li Fan perceived it sharper still.
The life-draining white mist appeared drawn to some external force beyond the Xuanhuang Realm, rushing forth in turbulent surges.
Yet, bound by an opposing power, the white mist stayed trapped within the Xuanhuang Realm.
This very tug-of-war between forces rent the white mist barrier asunder.
As the realm transformed wildly, spiritual energy turned chaotic too.
Li Fan distinctly observed beneath in the Xuanhuang Realm, tempests, blazes, bolts, deluges…
Myriad calamities erupted without prelude.
Fueled by the frenzied spiritual energy, their ferocity multiplied a hundred, nay a thousand times beyond the norm.
Still, the Xuanhuang Realm’s quakes persisted unceasingly.
This ordeal stretched far longer than anticipated.
Finally, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s cultivators sprang into action.
They soared from the assorted floating cities, soothing the spiritual energy upheavals while striving to mend the diverse disruptions from the realm’s savage tremors.
Through the cataclysmic turmoil, their efforts strained immensely.
But no lethal peril arose.
Nevertheless, the world’s convulsions inevitably instilled an overwhelming terror in its denizens.
Most cultivators could merely gape in helplessness, silently beseeching the catastrophe’s swift end.
They held no further recourse.
Li Fan had beheld genuine apocalyptic vistas prior.
This degree of tremor paled utterly against an Immortal Ruins immortal shattering the Xuanhuang Realm with one mere look.
Hence, he disregarded the celestial disturbances and viewed all serenely.
“Odd…”
“The origin of the pulling power sparking this realm-rattling quake…”
A faint incongruity dawned in Li Fan’s mind.
With intent, the hundred stone golems at the world’s fringe drifted beyond the limit into infinite emptiness.
Lacking the Xuanhuang Realm’s safeguard, the golems faced the potent pull and drifted inexorably toward a specific path.
However, as distance from the Xuanhuang Realm grew, Li Fan verified the irregularity he noted.
The drawing force behind this grand Xuanhuang Realm convulsion originated not from the Immortal Ruins.
Rather, it emanated from the heart of the Darkest Star Sea!