My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1301: Xuanhuang Wind Calamity Tribulation

“This formation…”

“Who exactly is it?!” The Holy Emperor was both shocked and furious.

The Immortal Ancestor, the Heavenly Doctor, and even the Xuan Immortal Ark beyond the starry sky were clearly not the ones who laid this formation.

In this star sea, who else could possibly possess such power, enough to deploy a grand formation that even made him feel alarmed and fearful?

And what exactly was that Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, who had descended not long ago yet never shown himself, doing?

Countless thoughts instantly appeared in the Holy Emperor’s mind.

Outside the starry sky, the golden needles still streamed in endlessly.

Interweaving illusion and reality, dense and swift.

The Holy Emperor had already been unable to block all of these golden needles, and now he had also sensed that the Xuanhuang Realm seemed to have inexplicably fallen into crisis.

“Heavenly Doctor! Xuanhuang Realm!” Left with no other choice, the Holy Emperor roared a warning toward the outer starry sky.

The endless rain of golden needles seemed to pause slightly, but it still did not cease.

However, compared to before, the positions where the golden needles fell upon the Xuanhuang lands had changed somewhat.

It seemed the Heavenly Doctor had also perceived the hidden changes within the Xuanhuang Realm and was likewise attempting to reverse them through formation methods.

But…

“Useless!”

The Holy Emperor could see that it had only slightly delayed the arrival of the drastic transformation.

That invisible, unknown formation was still in the process of descending.

The instinctive warning from his spiritual perception caused the Holy Emperor to begin feeling inexplicable dread. Forcing down the unease in his heart, his thoughts raced rapidly, and in the end he decided to temporarily ignore the Heavenly Doctor’s golden needles and first return to the Xuanhuang Realm.

“Find the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable!” the Holy Emperor’s voice echoed throughout.

At present, throughout Xuanhuang Heaven and Earth, golden needles covered the land. The overwhelming majority of living beings had fallen into slumber.

Tianyang, who had previously blocked the Immortal Ancestor, now had a body already ruined beyond recognition.

Yet he still stood firmly in front of the Immortal Ancestor.

However, the Immortal Ancestor had also gradually sensed the crisis the Xuanhuang Realm was about to face, and the movements of his hands slowly came to a halt. Otherwise, Tianyang’s immortal puppet body might have been completely destroyed.

A vast divine sense swept across the Xuanhuang Realm again and again, yet they could not find the trace of that Great Celestial Venerable at all.

“Ruomu! Earth Veins! Stone Tablet!”

The Holy Emperor attempted to communicate with them through the connection of the source power essence network.

Yet they all seemed to have collectively vanished, and none responded.

The Xuanhuang Realm before him was like a pot of water about to slowly be brought to a boil.

The Holy Emperor could only helplessly watch all this happen, unable to find the source of heat boiling the water.

In the sky, the Immortal Ancestor’s phantom suddenly manifested, dispersing all the clouds. With a colossal dharma form overlooking Xuanhuang, his gaze burned like torches, sweeping back and forth.

Upon the earth, rays of golden light continuously erupted from the golden needles, spreading outward in all directions. In each interval between flashes, the needle pulses had already circled the Xuanhuang Realm once.

This strange phenomenon was the Immortal Ancestor and the Heavenly Doctor joining forces to search heaven and earth.

Determined to locate the hidden mastermind.

But an unbelievable scene occurred.

The joint effort of two Supreme cultivators, the strongest beings in the star sea, lasted nearly half a day, yet they still failed to find even the slightest clue.

As if the mastermind simply did not exist at all.

…

While the three strongest beings in the star sea gathered together yet remained completely at a loss.

Beneath Tongyan Prefecture.

The secret chamber that had originally been carved out, only about ten feet square, had now transformed into endless void.

At the boundary of the void lay the location of the ritual originally used to enter the Fallen Immortal Realm. It was now shrouded in an indescribably mysterious force.

It was precisely the existence that drove all cultivators mad upon seeing it: immortal spiritual qi.

Immortal spiritual qi, like flowing streams, like faint threads of light, circled around the ritual.

Opening up endless void.

The Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable whom the Immortal Ancestor, Holy Emperor, and Heavenly Doctor were desperately searching for, along with the mastermind behind all this upheaval, were right here.

Needless to say, the Li Fan here was merely a divine sense clone. Even if Li Fan’s true body arrived personally, with his current strength, he still could not manipulate immortal spiritual qi.

He could not even touch or comprehend it, at most only gaze upon it to satisfy longing.

And the reason immortal spiritual qi could merge into the immortal formation deduced by the Final Dissociation Disc…

Within the void, Sun Tianci still maintained the same posture he had before entering the Fallen Immortal Realm trial.

Two completely opposing auras surged from his body simultaneously, one sacred, the other demonic and soaring to the heavens.

Although the sacred aura was far stronger than the sinister demonic aura.

Faced with the overwhelming advance of the monstrous demonic aura, the sacred aura only retreated again and again. Even though a slight eruption would be enough to completely sweep away the relentlessly entangling demonic aura, Sun Tianci never did so.

His brows were tightly furrowed, sorrow on his face.

“Fortunately, I left a contingency beforehand…”

Sensing the Wu Ninglu he had released wreaking havoc within Sun Tianci’s sea of consciousness, Li Fan coldly snorted inwardly.

Countless demonic thoughts continuously gnawed at Sun Tianci. At the same time, they all roared vicious curses.

“I carried you for three years before giving birth to you. How did you treat me?”

“Not only did you steal the Spirit of Heaven and Earth of my Dao Integration, you even watched me die with your own eyes!”

“What a wonderful son for your mother!”

“Everything you have now was stolen from me! From the very beginning, you should never have lived!”

“Come! Kill me again! Let me truly perish in body and soul!”

…

Faced with his mother’s vengeance, Sun Tianci chose silent endurance.

He naturally sensed that his mother was devouring his strength, but this was precisely what he wanted.

In Sun Tianci’s perception, although Wu Ninglu had split into countless demonic thoughts, they were merely chaotic consciousnesses filled with madness and destructive intent. If the central target sustaining her desire for vengeance, namely himself, ceased to exist, then it would not take long before these demonic thoughts completely dissipated between heaven and earth.

And if that happened…

Then from that moment onward, Sun Tianci would truly never see his mother again.

Having possessed memories since childhood, having personally witnessed on the day of his birth how he had “killed” his biological mother, and having always carried deep guilt, Sun Tianci this time intended to save her.

In Sun Tianci’s perception, as those demonic thoughts devoured more of his energy, their chaos gradually lessened. As long as he continued feeding them more, his mother would eventually become completely calm.

Though it appeared as though he were cutting his own flesh to repay his mother, the reality was far less exaggerated.

After all, the power of a Great Celestial Venerable was like a boundless ocean, vast beyond limits.

Compared to that, his mother’s countless demonic thoughts were merely a school of fish in the sea.

It would simply require some time for Sun Tianci to complete this feeding process.

Naturally, Sun Tianci was aware of all the drastic changes occurring in the Xuanhuang Realm.

That Heavenly Mandate Holy Emperor, the Dharma-Transmitter Immortal Ancestor, and finally the countless golden needles. Even this newly inherited Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable found them extremely troublesome.

But duty demanded that he save the Xuanhuang Realm.

To speak honestly, doing so alone would be somewhat difficult.

But fortunately, he had his master’s assistance.

When he underwent one trial after another in the Fallen Immortal Realm, trials based on the stories he had heard since childhood, and after he saw his master’s true appearance before being sent into the Fallen Immortal Realm, how could Sun Tianci still fail to understand the true identity of his mysterious master?

It was precisely a remnant obsession left behind after the fall of the previous Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, Su Bai.

Because of an obsession to save the Xuanhuang Realm hidden within fate itself, it had attached itself to him.

From childhood, it had trained and taught him, and in the end helped him inherit the position of Great Celestial Venerable.

Although his master had never stated any of this explicitly, Sun Tianci had pieced together this conclusion himself from the many details in his daily interactions with his master, as well as from his experiences while inheriting the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable’s position in the Fallen Immortal Realm.

After all, aside from the previous Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, who else could know the details, and even the answers, of the inheritance trials so clearly?

He had only just inherited the position, and a vast flood of chaotic memories still filled his mind, with no time yet to sort through them.

Yet his master was already skillfully using immortal spiritual qi to set up formations...

Sun Tianci could not help but recall what his master had said to him just moments earlier.

That was when he had successfully inherited the position of Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable and awakened from the Fallen Immortal Realm.

His master looked at him with satisfaction.

“You truly did not disappoint me, good child.”

Then he instructed him earnestly.

“Ten thousand years have passed. The Xuanhuang Realm is no longer the Xuanhuang Realm it once was. Since the Immortal Path has been severed and the Immortal Realm no longer exists, from this day onward, the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable should only be the Great Celestial Venerable of the Xuanhuang Realm, not the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable of the Immortal Realm...”

“Now that the Xuanhuang Realm is the only pure land within the star sea, outsiders all covet it greedily. Since you have inherited this position, you must shoulder the responsibilities of the Great Celestial Venerable and protect Xuanhuang.”

“Immortal Ancestor, the Heavenly Doctor, the Xuan Immortal Ark... perhaps only that Holy Emperor stands with us.”

“The time left to us is too short. You have only just inherited the position. Even dealing with the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor will likely be beyond your strength...”

“The only chance to turn defeat into victory lies in the world-protecting grand formation from back then.”

At once, some vague memories surfaced in Sun Tianci’s mind.

“Master, you mean...”

“After inheriting the Great Celestial Venerable position, you should have also inherited the immortal spiritual qi released after detonating the immortal artifacts?” Li Fan asked.

“Correct.” Sun Tianci nodded.

His master was merely a remnant soul, and so many years had passed. Some memory loss was entirely normal. The fact that he knew about the Great Celestial Venerable’s legacy only further proved his identity.

After receiving Sun Tianci’s confirmation, Li Fan looked toward the Xuanhuang Realm below, his eyes flickering.

“The world-protecting grand formation has been abandoned for ten thousand years. During that time, it was also repaired by the Xuantian Sect...”

“But even so, if it is activated, it can successfully keep these invaders outside. It may even be possible to kill them.”

“One only needs to use a small amount of that immortal spiritual qi, like this, and this...”

The formation diagrams Sun Tianci received from Li Fan awakened fragments of his inherited memories.

The traces of the formation in the images matched almost perfectly, except, just as his master said, some parts had changed slightly over time.

The immortal formation was infinitely profound. Sun Tianci, who had only just successfully inherited the position of Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, was far from being able to fully master it.

Just as he was about to think further, Sun Tianci already sensed that the Immortal Ancestor had returned to the Xuanhuang Realm. It seemed he was searching for his whereabouts.

Sun Tianci’s heart tightened.

This Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor was no weaker than himself. That was, if those few immortal artifacts were not used.

But within the Xuanhuang Realm, immortal artifacts could not be used lightly.

Especially since he was still unfamiliar with the use of the four immortal artifacts inherited from the Celestial Venerable’s legacy. If a single mistake caused harm to the Xuanhuang Realm...that would be an unforgivable sin.

With the situation urgent, Sun Tianci followed his master’s suggestion and decided to activate the ancient world-protecting grand formation to deal with the Immortal Ancestor.

Because of his nearly absolute trust in his master, and because his own formation mastery was weak, whatever Li Fan said, Sun Tianci did exactly that.

Originally, everything progressed smoothly.

Unexpectedly, just as the formation was about to take preliminary shape, his mother, who had already died, suddenly appeared in Sun Tianci’s sea of consciousness for some unknown reason.

Transforming into countless demonic souls, burning with the flames of vengeance, she instantly drowned Sun Tianci’s mind.

That familiar and incomparably intimate aura, that face which had existed only in memory and dreams, had now become a vengeful spirit demanding his life.

Sun Tianci’s mind immediately fell into chaos.

Li Fan seemed to notice something wrong with Sun Tianci and urgently transmitted a stern warning.

“This is your own karma, your own inner tribulation. You must resolve it yourself.”

“Although you were born in Dao Integration, you incurred a blood debt because of it. The fear and unease it brought you cannot be calmed, even with the Immortal Heart Mantra.”

“It has always been hidden deep within your heart, growing alongside you. Now that you have inherited the position of Great Celestial Venerable and received a vast ocean of power, it has also transformed and finally manifested. However, for you, this is also a rare opportunity. If you can resolve this heart demon now, then from this day onward, you will have no weaknesses...”

While rapidly warning Sun Tianci, Li Fan continued.

“As for the changes in the formation, simply continue following what I say. Focus on dealing with your inner tribulation.”

One must know that Sun Tianci was, after all, still a child not even ten years old.

Though fate and opportunity had converged upon him, allowing him to successfully inherit the position of Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, when facing the birth mother he had longed for day and night, emotional turmoil was unavoidable.

Li Fan’s years of uninterrupted teaching and conditioning also caused Sun Tianci to subconsciously obey his commands.

Thus, a terrifying immortal formation built upon the foundation of the Xuanhuang world-protecting grand formation slowly took shape.

Sun Tianci, who provided the immortal spiritual qi, remained completely unaware.

After seeing the Heavenly Doctor use golden needles to forcibly interrupt and restore the Xuanhuang Realm’s fusion progress, he became even more determined to deploy the immortal formation.

Li Fan split his attention, his eyes filled with obsession as he watched the immortal formation nearing completion.

There were no dark thoughts of slaughter or destruction in his heart.

Only awe and admiration at witnessing the Great Dao.

“This is what a true formation is.”

“What I deduced still has subtle differences from what exists in reality.”

“I want to see whether the likes of the Immortal Ancestor and the Heavenly Doctor can survive within this immortal formation...”

As the saying goes, spilled water cannot be gathered again.

Once this formation was completed, even if Sun Tianci, as the power source, discovered the truth and wanted to stop it, he would be powerless.

Only Li Fan, as the one deploying the formation, could make slight adjustments during the activation process.

But even he could not reverse the process.

Li Fan sensed the Immortal Ancestor and the others still searching for his whereabouts within the Xuanhuang Realm, and coldly snorted inwardly.

He stood ready to activate the formation at any moment.

...

After searching several times without result, the Holy Emperor released the Dao One spiritual energy he had absorbed back into the Xuanhuang world.

He contemplated a solution.

The unease in the Holy Emperor’s heart had already reached its peak.

And Immortal Ancestor was the same.

In the end, as if having made up his mind.

Immortal Ancestor’s figure briefly vanished for a moment, then reappeared.

His expression was solemn, and in his hand was an ancient bronze mirror.

The Holy Emperor’s pupils contracted slightly. From that mirror, he sensed a faint trace of immortal spiritual aura.

“The true body of the Tianxuan Mirror?”

Immortal Ancestor threw the Tianxuan Mirror high into the sky. The ancient bronze mirror expanded with the wind. In an instant, its illusory mirror body had already enveloped the entire Xuanhuang Realm.

The heavens were no longer visible. Instead, the mirror surface covered everyone’s heads.

Beneath the Tianxuan Mirror, even the Holy Emperor felt as though he had been completely seen through.

Instinctively, starlight enveloped him, shielding him from the Tianxuan Mirror’s gaze.

One black and one white, two lines intertwined and emerged from the Tianxuan Mirror’s surface.

They extended infinitely, instantly encompassing the Xuanhuang Realm.

Then came the continuous sweeping of black and white lines.

The black and white lines swept across, merging into the Xuanhuang world. Within the Tianxuan Mirror surface above, the scenery of the Xuanhuang Realm also gradually appeared.

Not only the mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas, but also the countless living beings within it.

Only the Holy Emperor, Immortal Ancestor, and others like them did not appear within it. However, as the black and white lines continued sweeping, the Holy Emperor’