My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1290: The Holy Emperor Suddenly Achieves Insight

“Master, does this [Eternal Immortal Wall] really exist within the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance? It is simply too horrifying to believe,” Sun Tianci asked after a long while, still unable to accept it.

“The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s brutality goes far beyond just this.” Li Fan let out a cold laugh.

The first time Li Fan learned of the Eternal Immortal Wall was in the 114th life, when the Tianxuan Spirit Locking sealed all spirits and the Mysterious Net enveloped Xuanhuang.

At the time, he had assumed it was a unique product of that particular life’s Immortal Alliance.

But later, in the 119th life, he impersonated Sun Xingwang, Dharma King of the Xuantian Sect, and used the Three Disasters and Hundred Tribulations Divine Clarity Method to refine countless thought demon gods within tens of thousands of cultivators. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s final method of dealing with those cultivators was precisely a technique similar to the Eternal Immortal Wall. From the information revealed after Mo Rubin possessed a Dharma-Transmitter, it became known that the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance indeed secretly preserved many cultivators in sealed storage, using them to maintain and guarantee the stability of the Xuanhuang Realm.

And there was more than one such location.

Li Fan transmitted a blurry scene to Sun Tianci, and the Sun family’s prodigy was instantly shocked by the cruel sight.

“Master, what should we do?”

Not long after, he recovered from the shock and asked in a resolute tone.

“First, become faster.”

The Dark Nether Art was naturally the mysterious technique Li Fan had imparted, one that dissolved a cultivator’s cultivation and returned it to the Xuanhuang world.

Li Fan’s divine sense split from Sun Tianci’s sea of consciousness, manifesting into an illusory form.

The avatar raised his head toward the sky and slowly murmured, “Distort the Principles of Heaven and Earth…”

As he softly chanted, a scene that made Sun Tianci’s scalp go numb unfolded.

An invisible vortex instantly appeared above Li Fan’s head.

A deeply familiar aura, belonging to the Spirit of Heaven and Earth, seemed to be brewing within the vortex.

As he watched the blurry humanoid shape gradually extending an arm from within, Sun Tianci became increasingly certain of his suspicion.

“To summon the Spirit of Heaven and Earth with a single word? Master’s true identity is actually…”

Just as Sun Tianci stood stunned by the sight, Li Fan’s rebuke sounded by his ear.

“What are you standing there for? Do you intend to wait until the Spirit of Heaven and Earth fully descends?”

Sun Tianci instantly snapped back to his senses. He immediately directed a Dark Nether Art toward the blurry figure that was on the verge of manifesting.

As if the descent process had been obstructed, a gust of wind passed through, and the Spirit of Heaven and Earth that Li Fan had falsely summoned returned once more to heaven and earth.

During this process, Sun Tianci did not feel his connection with the Xuanhuang world deepen in any way. Clearly, this was because the Spirit of Heaven and Earth still belonged to Xuanhuang itself and had not been refined or occupied by a cultivator.

And because the “erroneous descent of the Spirit of Heaven and Earth” had been interrupted just before completion, the vigilance from the Xuanhuang world was negligible.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes in observation, then cast Distort the Principles of Heaven and Earth once more.

This time Sun Tianci reacted quickly. The blurry figure was sent back the moment it was about to take shape.

This repeated more than a hundred times. Only when it was about to attract the Xuanhuang world’s attention did Li Fan finally stop.

Sun Tianci let out a sigh of relief, his face pale as he wiped sweat from his forehead.

Clearly, continuously using the Dark Nether Art for such a long time to “decompose” more than a hundred Spirits of Heaven and Earth, even half-formed ones, was a heavy burden for him.

“Change locations. Continue,” Li Fan said coldly.

Ever since the day he defeated Martial Maniac Child and revealed his true combat strength, Sun Tianci was no longer restricted in his movements by the Sun family. This despite the fact that he was only a little over five years old in actual age.

Only Sun Luyuan repeatedly warned him that safety must come first. He had even bestowed many treasures for self-defense.

The special training lasted a total of fifteen days, with their footprints covering all corners of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. Aside from travel, nearly all remaining time was spent dissolving Spirits of Heaven and Earth. Sun Tianci’s progress was astonishing.

With casual ease, he could now continuously return the falsely summoned half-descended Spirits of Heaven and Earth back to the world.

“Mm, that is about enough.” Li Fan nodded slightly as he observed Sun Tianci’s performance.

“What are you thinking about?” Li Fan asked when he noticed Sun Tianci seemed lost in thought.

“Uh, Master, ten days ago we came here before. The spiritual energy density seemed lower then than it is now?” Sun Tianci asked uncertainly.

Li Fan smiled. “The spiritual energy of the world rises and falls like tides. Is that not normal? How could it be like the cave dwelling where you grew up, forever fixed and unchanging?”

Sun Tianci nodded slightly upon hearing the explanation. But deep in his surveying gaze, a trace of doubt still flickered.

“This little fellow has remarkably sharp observation skills.”

Li Fan had naturally also noticed the abnormality in heaven and earth. He had even detected a familiar aura within the diffused spiritual energy.

“Dao One Insect. It seems this is the Holy Emperor clone’s method. The source should be the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven. Returning the cave heaven to the Xuanhuang Realm to create a battlefield environment suitable for Great Qi soldiers? Perhaps it can also use insect-transformed spiritual energy to launch a fatal strike…”

The Holy Emperor clone’s arrangements mostly originated from explorations made by the original body in previous lives. With only a little thought, Li Fan saw through the scheme.

But he did not expose it and merely pretended ignorance.

Returning to Sun Tianci’s sea of consciousness, they advanced toward one of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s Eternal Immortal Walls.

Tongyan Prefecture, inside a cave hidden among encircling mountains and broken cliffs.

“This place…”

Sun Tianci gazed from afar and sensed something extraordinary. “If Master had not pointed it out, even if I saw this cave before, I would have subconsciously ignored it. I would never have even thought of entering to investigate…”

“Hmph. This is the so-called blessed land where only those with destiny may enter. A peculiar creation of Xuanhuang. No formation concealment is needed, yet it naturally prevents most people from even noticing it. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance has quite a few such hidden cave heavens. They have almost all been divided among the Dharma-Transmitters as their personal cave dwellings.” Li Fan recalled the hidden cave heaven where he met Mo Rubin after infiltrating the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters in the 119th life.

It was exactly the same as this place.

“Because of this natural characteristic, the stationed cultivators will certainly not be overly vigilant. But we must still proceed carefully…”

Li Fan’s divine sense clone laid down a series of formations around Sun Tianci, then the two flew together into the hollow cave.

After passing through a narrow descending tunnel, they arrived before a deep shaft only waist-wide for a single person.

It was pitch black, descending straight downward, bottomless.

“Do not probe with divine sense. It will trigger an alarm.”

Li Fan immediately saw through the mechanism behind this underground cavern.

He leapt into the deep shaft, rapidly flying downward.

It took the time of an incense stick, as if he had pierced through the Xuanhuang earth itself and arrived at the depths of the Nine Nether.

Only then did the cramped tunnel gradually widen.

After passing through a horizontal passage, a massive underground cavern, shaped like an inverted cone and buried in the deepest underground, suddenly appeared before Sun Tianci.

The cavern walls were densely covered with square openings.

Looking carefully, within each of those openings were amber colored crystal bodies.

And within every single one of those crystal bodies, without exception, a cultivator lay sleeping.

From time to time, Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance guards could be seen patrolling through the air. Sun Tianci did not dare spread out his divine sense to investigate, but from a rough estimate, this underground cavern alone held at least over one hundred thousand sealed cultivators.

Their complexions were rosy, and some even wore faint smiles on their faces.

They were utterly unaware that they had fallen into eternal sleep.

“According to Master, this is merely one part of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s Eternal Immortal Wall...” Sun Tianci felt a chill in his heart and unconsciously clenched his fists.

“Go. The rest depends on you.” Li Fan seemed to see the suppressed anger in Sun Tianci’s heart and spoke indifferently.

At the same time, he transmitted the method to break the sealing formation imprisoning these cultivators.

“Master, what do you think would happen if we awakened all the cultivators here?” Sun Tianci suddenly asked.

“I advise you to abandon that thought. Since the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance dares to do this so openly, they must naturally have prepared preventative measures. Believe me, the speed at which you awaken them will absolutely not match the speed at which the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance handles them. You should know that the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance possesses methods to extract and preserve a cultivator’s Dao Foundation...” Li Fan said coldly.

Sun Tianci’s gaze flickered, but in the end, he could only abandon the thought.

Avoiding the patrolling cultivators, he rapidly passed by these pitiful sleeping souls. A nearly imperceptible breeze followed in his wake, dissolving all of their Dao Foundations.

“Without their cultivation, even while sleeping, they will not live much longer... It is equivalent to me personally killing them...” Sun Tianci’s flying body trembled.

“Killing? Or saving? Look at their current state. Is this not worse than death? If they could consciously perceive everything around them, they would surely beg you to act and free them,” Li Fan spoke to comfort him.

After another round of persuasion, Sun Tianci’s hesitant movements once again became resolute.

Over more than five years, Li Fan had cultivated Sun Tianci according to his ideal image of the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable.

This made him compassionate, but not foolishly naïve. Once he made a decision, he could become extraordinarily decisive.

The Xuanhuang heaven and earth power formed from dissolving the Dao Foundations of tens of thousands of cultivators was gathered by Li Fan into a single brilliant orb of light.

When the act of merciful release had reached one fifth completion, Li Fan spoke.

“That is enough. If we continue further, even I will not be able to conceal these intense energy fluctuations.”

Sun Tianci looked at those who remained, a trace of regret faintly appearing.

But he still obeyed his master’s orders and quietly flew toward the exit.

“Master, is there something wrong?” As he reached the very top of the massive cavern, Sun Tianci sensed that his master still seemed to be gazing at a certain spot below, and could not help asking.

“It is nothing. Just leave.”

After a brief silence, Li Fan finally replied.

Sun Tianci did not ask further and sped upward all the way. After leaving this horrifying underground prison, Sun Tianci took the orb of light containing the Dao Foundations of countless cultivators and gently crushed it.

Countless streams of light burst forth instantly.

In a daze, Sun Tianci seemed to see wondrous things of the world, the Xuanhuang Cave Heaven, and scenes of mountains and rivers shifting.

In the sky, wind and clouds changed color. A creaking sound like a giant millstone grinding echoed above the clouds.

And throughout the entire Xuanhuang Realm, a faint tremor spread in that instant.

Though the movement was minuscule, Sun Tianci still sensed it.

“The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance should already be sending people to investigate. Go!” Li Fan called out.

There was no need for a reminder. The moment Sun Tianci crushed the light orb, he had already fled far from the scene.

At this moment, he was immersed in the rapidly increasing favor of Xuanhuang heaven.

Meanwhile, after ensuring no one was tracking them, Li Fan once again recalled the scene he had just witnessed in that massive cavern.

Several faces flashed through his mind. Though he did not know their names, Li Fan was certain he had seen them before.

But not in the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.

Rather...

In the territory of the Five Elders Association.

Within the Derivation Law Jade space, the Dao Deviation Stone in his true body’s sea of consciousness emitted a faint glow, bringing forth scenes he had once seen.

That was during the 119th life, when the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance used the Chosen Immortals to activate the power hidden within the Immortal Ancestor stone statue, restraining the five Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereigns before launching a fierce assault against the Five Elders Association.

After the Five Elders Association appeared to be driven into a desperate corner, their hidden methods were finally revealed.

Ancient sects that had already gone extinct reappeared in the world. Even cultivators from the Carefree Paradise emerged, fearlessly counterattacking with all kinds of strange artifacts.

Li Fan compared several faces that had appeared during that campaign with the sleeping cultivators he had just seen in the cavern.

They matched perfectly.

“Interesting.” Li Fan looked toward the location of the Five Elders Association’s Carefree Paradise.

“It seems there are not only Five Elders Association cultivators within that Paradise. The question is whether those sleeping cultivators appearing there was due to cooperation between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Five Elders Association, or whether the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign captured them unilaterally.”

“If it is the latter, then this Heavenly Sovereign’s strength may be somewhat greater than I imagined.”

The infant like image of the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign surfaced in Li Fan’s mind.

He also recalled Dharma-Transmitter Zhou, whom he had encountered during the Dharma Transmission Council’s inspection in the 119th life.

She had transformed the surroundings into a modern city with neon drenched rainy night scenery, claiming she had seen it while vacationing in the Carefree Paradise and had reproduced it exactly.

“Cooperation between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Carefree Paradise is not impossible.”

“The Carefree Paradise may not fully represent the Five Elders Association. Only when the Five Elders Association faces an absolute crisis do they take action.”

“Dreamland Paradise...”

A sudden question flashed through Li Fan’s mind.

“I wonder whether these cultivators, if they die in reality, can still continue to exist in the Paradise. And if the Xuanhuang Realm ceases to exist, can this Carefree Paradise still remain?”

As thoughts surged through his mind, Sun Tianci had also fully absorbed this round of gains.

With Li Fan, this wise mentor, planning every step, he could be considered the fastest person at accumulating Xuanhuang heaven’s favor.

He was even progressing much faster than the Holy Emperor clone had once done.

Unfortunately, perhaps because there was already a destined Holy Emperor who could communicate with Heavenly Dao consciousness at any time, even though Sun Tianci clearly felt the closeness of Xuanhuang heaven and earth, he still could not directly converse with Heavenly Dao.

He could only sense the omnipresent convenience.

Sun Tianci immediately cast a spell. With the constant blessing of heaven and earth, its power indeed increased greatly.

Yet he still felt deeply dejected.

“It does not matter. At this point, it is already enough.”

Li Fan’s voice sounded beside Sun Tianci’s ear.

He saw that this incomparably mysterious master, who had never once revealed his true appearance before him, had actually shown his real face at this moment.

Sun Tianci could not help but be slightly stunned.

Because he had never expected that his master would be so extraordinarily handsome.

Clad in white robes, with a peerlessly beautiful face that seemed to gather all the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, along with the occasional flashes of compassion for all living beings in his eyes...

For a moment, Sun Tianci was completely entranced.

“Come with me.”

Master and disciple arrived deep underground.

After creating a secret chamber, Li Fan instructed Sun Tianci to take out the four items he had prepared long ago.

A simple hemp garment.

A full stalk of rice.

A small yet exquisite miniature house model.

A lifelike miniature donkey cart.

Li Fan then placed the four items in the four corners respectively, before looking toward Sun Tianci.

With a benevolent expression, he said, “You may begin. Do not forget the stories I have told you ever since the day you were born.”

Sun Tianci seemed to realize something and replied in a deep voice, “I understand, Master. I will not betray your trust.”

Li Fan nodded with satisfaction, then transformed back into his previously blurred appearance and withdrew beyond the formation.

Sun Tianci took a deep breath and began.

Taking the first step, facing the direction of the donkey cart, he softly recited:

“Blessings upon Xuanhuang Immortal Venerable.”

The second step, turning toward the house that represented the dwelling place of ordinary people, he sincerely murmured:

“Blessings upon Xuanhuang Heavenly Lord.”

The third step, looking at the full stalk of rice, he held his breath and whispered:

“Blessings