My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1219: Ink Flame Merges with Tianyang
Previously on My Longevity Simulation...
The earth-vein fire, already pushed to its utmost theoretical boundary, suddenly blazed with fierce intensity once again.
Ferocious flames roared wildly and burst outwards.
Fissures cracked open across the ocean floor, while endless bubbles surged ceaselessly.
The bizarre spectacle wasn't what stunned Qiao Gong.
Rather, a strange new entity silently formed right before his eyes amid the earth fire.
After countless years dwelling in the Xuanhuang Realm, such beings no longer seemed alien to him.
It bore a name familiar to nearly all: Spirit of Heaven and Earth!
As the tangible manifestation of the Xuanhuang Realm’s heavenly laws, any cultivator absorbing it could leap straight to Dao Integration in one bound.
Spirit of Heaven and Earth ranked as incredibly scarce cultivation treasures, appearing without any fixed pattern.
Yet now, a Spirit of Heaven and Earth had materialized from just a single finger point by this faceless enigmatic figure!“This…”
Amid Qiao Gong’s bewildered senses brimming with utter shock, an even stranger development unfolded.
The Spirit of Heaven and Earth emerging from the earth fire showed no odd behavior.
Quietly, it fueled the earth fire instead. When the flames turned from orange-yellow to deep black, it willingly plunged into the Earth Fire Return to Origin Formation!
Evidently sacrificing itself to boost the dormant puppet inside the formation toward greater heights!
The black flames flickered mutely. As the Earth Fire Return to Origin Formation kept running, they fused into the enormous puppet body buried below.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Relentless rumbles of crumbling and blasts echoed from underground.
These signaled the purging of impurities from the puppet’s frame.
“This Spirit of Heaven and Earth didn’t lash out at cultivators upon birth, but obeyed that person’s command and aided this undersea puppet?”
“How could that be?”
Everyone knew the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao clashed irreconcilably with Xuanhuang cultivators.
Cultivators facing a Spirit of Heaven and Earth couldn’t help craving to consume it.
And Spirits of Heaven and Earth struck down any cultivator in their sight without mercy.
But the sight now unfolding utterly demolished Qiao Gong’s worldview.
“Even the Spirit of Heaven and Earth submits to him so effortlessly… Could this figure truly be the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao incarnate?” Qiao Gong mused in disbelief.
“Spirit of Heaven and Earth exist to fulfill heavenly tasks. The black flame we see is known as Ink Flame. Its role is to aid in forging a Dao Integration puppet…” Li Ping stated calmly.
The notion racing through his mind stayed unspoken: “By warping and inverting heaven and earth’s principles, one can mimic Heavenly Dao will and conjure a Spirit of Heaven and Earth from nothing. But that marks the boundary. Normally, compelling a Spirit of Heaven and Earth—hostile to cultivators—to self-sacrifice for a cultivator’s breakthrough…”
“Defies Heavenly Dao will entirely and proves utterly unattainable.”
“And yet…”
“As the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao’s incarnation, all my actions serve the Xuanhuang heavens and earth!”
“Thus, the world naturally lends its aid!”
Li Ping felt the faint shifts in the world’s will clinging to him since commanding the You Clan to restore faith in the Dark Sea.
Thanks to these layered influences, the emerging Spirit of Heaven and Earth manifested as a mighty Ink Flame.
This ominous black blaze even stirred a hint of peril in Li Ping.
Refined by the Ink Flame, the seabed puppet advanced at a breathtaking pace.
“This puppet’s emergence won’t be long now.”
“Though merely at Dao Integration realm, in actual combat, I fear it would overpower me. And this stems from just one finger flick by that enigmatic person…” Qiao Gong cast another covert look at Li Ping.
Shock and dread filled his heart, while his eagerness for the two promised aids intensified.
“He truly wasn’t boasting…”
Li Ping and Qiao Gong awaited the puppet’s awakening.
As the Ink Flame kept integrating into the puppet, turmoil in the nearby seas escalated wildly.
Yet Li Ping masked it all with a formation.
Otherwise, this freakish event would have drawn crowds of curious cultivators long ago.
Another half month passed.
Like a lamp running out of oil and drying up completely, the earth-vein fire beneath the sea had fully extinguished.
Black crystals had formed from the solidified lava.
High temperatures still caused thick mist to emanate from the seabed alone.
The Spirit of Heaven and Earth Ink Flame's aura had vanished entirely. Instead, a fresh and mighty aura rose from the ocean floor.
A foreboding sense of peril reaching his heart prompted Qiao Gong to instinctively edge nearer to Li Ping.
All at once, that aura vanished from Qiao Gong's senses.
Qiao Gong's face twisted in shock. Silver-white armor materialized, shielding him completely.
A dark shadowy figure materialized silently next to them.
But its aim wasn't Qiao Gong—it targeted Li Ping, the Faceless Holy Emperor of Great Qi!
Freshly roused Tianyang possessed sharp instincts. Sensing two formidable presences close by, he struck without hesitation.
Confronted by the looming threat and Tianyang's assault, Li Ping stood his ground without evading.
He didn't even summon source power essence to shield himself.
Through a mere subtle voice transmission, he roused the momentarily stunned Tianyang and halted his rash actions.
“Tianyang, do you want to avenge your master and senior brother?”
Tianyang shuddered fiercely. He manifested his true shape and fixed his gaze on Li Ping.
His looks stayed unchanged from before his deep sleep, resembling a boy barely past ten years.
Just his eyes now and then betrayed an ancient weariness utterly at odds with his youth.
Once he composed himself a bit, memories from his dormancy resurfaced—times when Li Ping aided him in absorbing the Spirit of Heaven and Earth.
Realizing his present power stemmed wholly from this man's help, the aggression in Tianyang's heart gradually dissipated.
Still, he kept his intense stare on Li Ping, demanding the response to that prior query.
“The real instigator of the ancient war against the Xuanhuang Realm, which led to the massacre of innumerable sect cultivators, lingers even now…”
“I wish to…”
Li Ping conveyed his reasoning gradually via transmission.
Tianyang absorbed the man's scheme in silence, his energy fluctuating wildly.
Then he quelled it and soared over to Li Ping's side.
“This spot isn't safe to linger. Let's head back first,” Li Ping declared.
His eyes turned to Qiao Gong: “Fellow Daoist, care to join us?”
From the instant Tianyang emerged, Qiao Gong's eyes hadn't strayed from him.
“As if I have a choice not to...” Qiao Gong muttered inwardly, yet he nodded his assent.
Not until the trio pierced the void and entered the Great Qi small world did Qiao Gong finally look away from Tianyang.
The Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven led the way.
Nine Cave-Heavens in total encircled the Great Qi small world.
They supplied the propulsion letting it wander the emptiness.
Within this enigmatic small world, spiritual energy density surpassed even the Xuanhuang Realm's own.
Furthermore, some hidden barrier cloaked it. Not even Qiao Gong's divine sense could pierce its secrets clearly.
…
Right as Qiao Gong sank into fresh astonishment.
A beam of aura turned into a radiant rainbow, racing toward them and making Qiao Gong's heart skip a beat.
Even the quiet Tianyang earlier tensed up.
A Longevity Immortal realm cultivator?
How could that be?