My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1212: Diverting Calamity to Invite Immortal Disaster
Previously on My Longevity Simulation...
“Actually...”
Ji Hongdao paused briefly before sending a voice transmission: “I only heard this by chance and do not know if it is true or false. Brother Sun, just take it as entertainment. However, it is best not to spread this matter.”
Having issued plenty of warnings, he then declared with gravity: “Actually, among the five Heavenly Sovereigns of the Five Elders Association, two were originally from our Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.”
“But for some unknown reason...” Ji Hongdao shrugged his shoulders.
For the first time hearing this rumor, Sun Luyuan stood utterly stunned, speechless.
He longed to probe further, yet upon noticing the gesture from the other, he smartly held back.
So, he refrained from mentioning it once more.
In the end, the tale was simply too astonishing to believe.
Drifting in a haze of speculation, the pair had stealthily made their way back to the Sun family.
“This journey yielded nothing. Your younger brother's possession by that mirror remains unsolved. What's your next move?” Ji Hongdao inquired.“We will take it one step at a time.” Sun Luyuan replied with a hint of helplessness.
“That said, Brother Ji, you mentioned those ruins' formations are ancient. This suggests my earlier assumption was off base. Once the calamity bursts forth in the Boundless Mirror, it might calm down for quite a while. For the moment, at least, my younger brother faces no immediate threat.”
Hearing this, Ji Hongdao nodded: “Official business calls me back, so I'll head out now. Reach out if something arises.”
“Many thanks, Brother Ji!” Sun Luyuan expressed his gratitude.
“No need for thanks.” Ji Hongdao dismissed with a wave.
After a bit more small talk, he turned into a beam of escaping light and vanished.
Sun Luyuan’s face slowly regained its composure.
In reality, beyond the excuses given earlier, the true reason he halted Ji Hongdao from reporting the Grand Mage’s remains was his private scheme.
“If word of the Immortal Alliance uncovering the Grand Mage’s remains could ignite a war between the factions...”
A perilous glint sparked in Sun Luyuan’s gaze.
“This might just be the chance we need.”
“In the deductions of the Boundless Mirror, even the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi at full strength battled the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance to a draw. Facing one fresh from a massive conflict and battered...”
Sun Luyuan never dreamed he shared the exact notion with another.
Once the shock faded, this very plot had surfaced in Li Fan’s thoughts.
Yet after deep deliberation, he discarded the notion of deploying the Grand Mage’s remains as a pawn.
Involving this Half-immortal posed excessive danger.
To gain the same outcome, Li Fan possessed plenty of alternatives.
Such as the Eastern Extremity’s refinement into a puppet.
Or inventing tales of a concealed Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign in the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance nearing Dao enlightenment.
Whenever Li Fan desired, igniting a colossal war across the Xuanhuang Realm lay within reach.
Nevertheless...
Remembering the rumor Ji Hongdao shared aboard the Dust-Crossing Boat, Li Fan’s brow furrowed faintly.
“Two of the Five Elders Association’s five Heavenly Sovereigns hailed from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance originally?”
“But now they oppose the Immortal Alliance...”
“Is it due to the Eastern Extremity incident stirring pity among kin?”
“Or did they uncover the Immortal Ancestor’s dissection and partition of the Xuanhuang Realm?”
The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance would desperately suppress such secrets.
Beyond eyewitnesses from that era, unearthing pertinent records proved nearly impossible.
Even across countless reincarnations, Li Fan had remained ignorant.
Thankfully, armed with this knowledge now, probing deeper grew far simpler.
As Li Fan mulled over these matters, Sun Luyuan and Sun Luyao wrapped up their discussion.
“Little brother, will this approach really work?”
“Brother, have no fears—it's highly probable. The notion struck me upon beholding the Grand Mage of Heavenly Capital. Evidently, the Boundless Mirror links somehow to the Grand Mage.” Sun Luyao affirmed with assurance.
“Fine, I'll figure something out. Yet these You Clan folk—I've never encountered mention of them. Likely an utmost secret of the Immortal Alliance. Acquiring any won't be simple.” Sun Luyuan creased his brow deeply.
“Brother, fret not. I can endure a while longer.” Sun Luyao smiled reassuringly.
Sun Luyuan sighed softly and exited the hidden chamber.
The remedy Li Fan supplied against the Boundless Mirror’s destructive gale stemmed from his prior hypothesis.
Shift the catastrophe elsewhere!
Employ an immortal artifact—or near-equivalent—to lure forth the latent disaster lurking in the Boundless Mirror.
Li Fan surmised the annihilating calamity had leaped from the Grand Mage of Heavenly Capital to the Boundless Mirror, implying acute sensitivity to immortal-tier beings.
Likely, detecting such an aura would provoke an instant assault.
Thus, the bulk of its might could be siphoned away.
A genuine half-immortal artifact lay beyond Li Fan’s means for bait, yet forging facsimiles radiating immortal essence remained viable.
This hinged on the purified source power essence from the You Clan.
“Golden source power essence, bolstered by the near-immortal-grade Boundless Primal Chaos Reveals in Form formation, ought to forge a half-immortal artifact.”
“Surface-level shell or not, it would serve.”
“Should it falter, no loss—merely an experiment.”
Besides the batch seized by the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance retained vast numbers of You Clan individuals.
With ingenuity, leveraging the Sun family’s rank and ties, securing some seemed feasible.
Yet what gnawed at Li Fan presently was the state within the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters.
Since the Immortal Ancestor’s directive dispatched sixteen Dao Integration cultivators to the Xuanhuang Realm, the headquarters had sealed itself shut.
Undeniably plotting something major.
“The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s resources could swiftly elevate sixteen Dao Integration cultivators with ease.”
“No call for such prolonged lockdown.”
“Only one pursuit warrants such wariness and secrecy...”
“A means to flee the Immortal Ruins and depart the Xuanhuang Realm!”
Li Fan’s eyes gleamed sharply.
The Xuanhuang Realm’s factions cowered now chiefly owing to the Immortal Ruins.
Escape proved impossible.
Should they discover—sans High Wall knowledge—a secure exit from the Xuanhuang Realm...
Countless would bolt without delay.
Echoing events millennia past in the Xuanhuang Realm.
When calamity loomed, all scattered!
“Even the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance must gauge if allies might exploit the chance to escape.”
“They dare not broadcast the High Wall’s reality, lest chaos engulf the realm.”
With this realization, Li Fan fired up the Boundless Mirror to surveil the Tianxuan Mirror anew.
He anticipated another dead end, as before.
To his surprise, faint traces emerged this round.
“Acquire Voidbright Flow Crystals immediately. Do not make a big fuss. Use covert methods. Once obtained, destroy them.”
“Voidbright Flow Crystals.”
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Three or four such directives emanated from the Immortal Alliance headquarters via the Tianxuan Mirror.