My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1204: The Crippled Heaven Deficient Earth Sea

For ten thousand years adrift in the Star Sea, even absent any civilization collapse, the Immortal Ark's theoretical cultivation techniques had advanced scarcely at all.

Every realm they encountered lay in devastation, with mere echoes of True Immortal Seal Script's destructive might lingering across the Star Sea. Following the adage of subsisting off the nearby mountain or stream, the Immortal Ark staked its entire future on probing this awesome force. Regarding everything else...

It paled significantly beside the catastrophe-plagued Xuanhuang Realm.

In that unforgiving realm where laws defied joint cultivation, the Xuanhuang Realm's myriad ingenious techniques struck Immortal Ark cultivators as marvels deserving fervent cheers and reverence.

Drawing from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's vast cultivation technique archives, Li Fan's clone rapidly identified the perfect method for Zhao Xian. Naturally, Zhao Xian perceived it as simply one among the countless derivations crafted by the future Academy of Dao Attainment via the Derivation Law Jade.

Spirit-Soul Harmonization Art. A supreme technique ideal for cultivators amid dire resource shortages. It ensures flawless synergy between divine sense and spiritual energy; the stronger aspect converts seamlessly to reinforce the weaker.

In the academy, spiritual energy supplies are severely restricted. Providing enough for my Golden Core breakthrough stretches their limits. Further advancement seems utterly unattainable. But secret arts boosting divine sense can propel spiritual energy growth via divine sense expansion...

The academy exchange list prices materials for those secret arts far below spirit stones.

Zhao Xian, moments ago mired in bottleneck frustration, abruptly gained sudden insight. Fragments from that eerie future dream resurfaced vividly. Overjoyed, he instantly traded all his years of hoarded contributions for divine sense tempering materials.

Black Spirit Resin, Crimson Ancient Essence, Mind-Nurturing Amber...

These run-of-the-mill mind-soothing sundries from the Immortal Ark were smelted by Zhao Xian over flames, fused into molten crystals. They surged into his sea of consciousness like a whale gulping seawater.

Blazing thermal surges nearly erased Zhao Xian's divine sense in a heartbeat.

After a fleeting mental void, Zhao Xian found himself acclimated to the fierce blaze. Concurrently, his divine sense potency visibly climbed.

Truly a matchless wondrous technique! Zhao Xian acclaimed inwardly.

Yet Zhao Xian remained oblivious that his frail Qi Condensation divine sense withstood the brutal forging solely thanks to Li Fan's clone.

The bulk of the liquids' potency from those treasures was seized and assimilated by Li Fan's clone. Given Zhao Xian's late Qi Condensation realm, sharing just a wisp sufficed to reliably amplify his divine sense.

Awakening from cultivation, Zhao Xian sensed his divine sense vigor had ballooned several times over. It now rivaled mid Foundation Establishment.

Against this vast divine sense might, his spiritual power felt woefully inadequate.

It evoked a behemoth fiddling with a plaything physique.

Zhao Xian reined in his ecstatic surge and swiftly invoked the [Spirit-Soul Harmonization Art]. Within his sea of consciousness, a phantom grindstone materialized without warning. It pulverized divine sense into shards, converting them to vital essence that nourished his frame.

Absent any spiritual energy uptake, Zhao Xian's cultivation hurtled forward at dreadful velocity.

Ultimately, over three days, his divine sense and spiritual power equilibrated at early Foundation Establishment.

I've achieved Foundation Establishment just like this?

Recovering awareness, Zhao Xian gazed at his palms in sheer incredulity.

This breakthrough proved far too effortless. None of the heart demons or bottlenecks Master and academy elders constantly describe assailed me.

Post-Foundation Establishment, my academy privileges have soared dramatically. Greater resource exchanges await. My cultivation speed should surge henceforth...

He remained but a youthful lad after all. Daydreaming of prospects ahead, Zhao Xian brimmed with irrepressible zeal.

Only the future dream's harrowing vista—the Immortal Ark's annihilation—snapped him to sobriety.

The path forward stretches endlessly. Vast distances remain. Arrogance must be shunned.

Zhao Xian contemplated leveraging his foreknowledge edge for meteoric ascent.

Concurrently, Li Fan's clone relished Zhao Xian's prior breakthrough spectacle.

Zhao Xian hadn't evaded breakthrough perils unaided. Li Fan had intercepted them entirely.

That abrupt surge manifesting from void, piercing straight for the core.

Not True Immortal Seal Script. The Star Sea's Heavenly Dao...

Precisely then, beyond the Immortal Ark, Holy Embryo Li Fan felt an inner tremor.

His form interfaced directly with this death-shrouded void. Navigating the Darkest Star Sea, Holy Embryo Li Fan had grasped its foundational Dao laws mirrored the Xuanhuang Realm's—and edged higher in ceiling.

The sword path, bottlenecked in Xuanhuang Realm, had stealthily transcended during Star Sea transit, attaining novel pinnacles.

Bottlenecks manifesting as Heaven’s Calamity in Xuanhuang adopted novel guise in Darkest Star Sea.

Coercing reversion to mortal ways, consigning aspirations to cinders. Such potency for a mere Qi Condensation peak breakthrough. Lacking my ordeals and will steelier than most...

I fear the Immortal Heart Mantra would prove necessary to dispel it. Holy Embryo Li Fan shuddered inwardly.

Borne on that intangible pulse's phantasms, Holy Embryo Li Fan beheld triumph in breakthrough, grueling trials endured, only to perish amid myriad dooms.

No exertions availed; failure loomed inescapable.

Superior to revert to Dao. Revert to Dao...

The fixation reverberated as infernal chants in his sea of consciousness, luring him from the cultivation path.

This Darkest Star Sea's Heavenly Dao proves fascinating. It echoes ancient heart demons chronicled in Xuanhuang tomes.

This peek reveals the Star Sea, though sundered by True Immortal Seal Script power, preserves its primal mechanisms unscathed.

Holy Embryo Li Fan mused profoundly. Horizons abruptly widened, unveiling a realm dwarfing prior vistas, subsuming all past Xuanhuang bounds.

Though heavens maimed and earth barren, it yielded Li Fan novel epiphanies on cosmic tenets.

He revisited the Heavenly Doctor’s [Record of Mending Heaven] anew.

If Xuanhuang Realm mirrors a terminal patient crudely revived in a corpse vessel, then Darkest Star Sea expired long ago. Immense force pulverized most, sparing scant limb shards and debris...

Xuanhuang Realm holds salvage potential, unlike the irretrievable Darkest Star Sea.

Granted, such stems from the Heavenly Doctor's stance authoring the [Record of Mending Heaven].