My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1352: Dao Annihilation Descends Upon the Star Sea

After receiving Li Fan's subtle guidance, the Wuming did not immediately leave the Thirteen Peaks World.

Instead, he naturally rose from where he had been lying on his back, gazing at the sky.

He stood a little closer to the Heavenly Dao of this world.

Slowly extending both arms, he reached out to touch the wind, to touch the sky.

The blue sky and white clouds remained unchanged.

None of the living beings within the Thirteen Peaks World noticed anything unusual.

Only Li Fan could see that the entire world had begun to tremble ever so slightly because of the Wuming's touch.

"It seems that sensing Wuming intention to depart, the Heavenly Dao of this world has begun merging with him even faster."

"In the future, the Heavenly Dao of this world will still remain here. Yet a duplicate copy of it will accompany the Wuming as he journeys into the greater world beyond."

"If one possessed the ability, who would willingly remain a bird forever trapped within a cage?"

Li Fan sighed softly before his expression turned solemn.

"Then let me give you one more push."

The phantom of the True Immortal seal script character [Creation] flashed across the sky of the Thirteen Peaks World.

This world was simply too small. Merely revealing the Creation character for an instant was enough to bring about earth-shaking changes.

Spiritual qi began to emerge throughout the world.

The Thirteen Peaks mountain range slowly rose higher.

The vegetation covering the mountains flourished with vibrant vitality.

Standing atop the highest peak, Wuming sensed something and awoke from his state of immersion. He looked around in every direction, but ultimately found nothing.

Feeling the changes taking place throughout the surrounding world, although he could not understand them, a joyful smile gradually spread across his face.

...

The transformation of the Thirteen Peaks World continued.

Li Fan, however, left behind a strand of divine sense within the world to monitor the Wuming's actions while he departed first.

After returning to the Xuanhuang Realm, he took out a jade talisman from his robes.

It was flashing rapidly, as though something extremely urgent had occurred.

It was precisely the jade talisman Mo Rubin had previously given him.

Mo Rubin had remained within the Eye of the Heavenly Beast, intending to use its power to search throughout both the Xuanhuang Realm and the Darkest Star Sea for traces of the Xuantian King. He had said the search would require at most three to five months.

Judging by the time, the results should indeed have arrived.

As soon as Li Fan's divine sense touched the jade talisman, Mo Rubin's voice immediately echoed within his mind.

It seemed to be suffering interference of some kind. The transmission broke on and off and was far from clear.

"I found... something strange..."

"Come immediately."

That was the entire message.

The jade talisman's light then dimmed, but Li Fan faintly sensed it guiding him toward the Heavenly Beast Bone Veins in Nine Mountains Prefecture.

Taking a single step, Li Fan arrived within the territory of Nine Mountains Prefecture.

The so-called Heavenly Beast Bone Veins referred to the nine mountain ranges stretching endlessly across heaven and earth.

Following the jade talisman's guidance, Li Fan arrived at the summit of Jade Prison Mountain.

Among the Nine Mountains, Jade Prison Mountain stood the tallest.

Standing upon its peak, the entire layout of the nine mountain ranges lay clearly before his eyes.

It was likely due to the blessing of the Eye of the Heavenly Beast contained within Mo Rubin's jade talisman. Although Li Fan had overlooked Nine Mountains Prefecture from high above many times before, never had his vision been so clear.

Every mountain and river that had formed upon the Heavenly Beast's remains vanished from his sight.

Within Li Fan's eyes, only the Heavenly Beast's most primordial form remained.

Just as Mo Rubin had previously said, although the Heavenly Beast had died, its bone veins still remained.

Looking through these nine mountain ranges, despite the passage of countless millennia, Li Fan could still vaguely discern the outline of that ancient colossal beast.

"The Nine Mountains are Tianchang, Tianduan, Tianxu, Tiancu, Tianjie, Tiandai, Tianlao, Tiandong, and Tianxi."

"They represent the Nine Manifestations of the Meridians."

"This Heavenly Beast was transformed from the jade pendant that the Xuantian King brought back from the Immortal Realm. Yet the meridians within its body are no different from those of a human..."

The guiding force from the jade talisman grew increasingly powerful until it suddenly seemed to pass through a thin membrane.

Li Fan offered no resistance to the force enveloping him and allowed it to carry him onward.

Moments later, he returned to the Eye of the Heavenly Beast.

The dangerous aura he immediately sensed caused him to reinforce his protective barriers once more.

Compared to when he had left, something here seemed to have changed.

Mo Rubin's condition also looked far from good.

It was not that he had suffered any obvious injuries. Rather, his entire being had become incomparably haggard.

It was as though all the essence blood within his body had been completely drained away.

For a cultivator of Mo Rubin's level, such a condition would normally occur only after suffering a fatal blow.

"Brother Mo, what happened?" Li Fan immediately asked in a low voice.

Mo Rubin waved his hand.

"It is fine now. It was caused by the strange phenomenon I mentioned."

Without wasting any time, he went straight to the point.

"Fellow Daoist, take a look."

The space within the Eye of the Heavenly Beast suddenly brightened.

The countless spherical bubbles covering the curved boundary all displayed the exact same scene.

"This is not a real-time observation by the Eye of the Heavenly Beast. It is a scene that was previously recorded," Mo Rubin reminded him.

Countless bubbles overlapped one another.

Thousands upon thousands of images merged together.

In an instant, Li Fan felt as though he had personally entered the scene.

The Star Sea lay silent, yet concealed vibrant life within.

A tiny black vortex slowly revolved without end.

It was a blackness that represented absolute destruction.

Though its expansion was slow, it advanced with unwavering determination.

The residual power of True Immortals, the restorative power of the Star Sea...

No matter what it encountered, everything was devoured and assimilated by that black vortex.

The viewpoint suddenly expanded.

From a single corner of the Star Sea, it broadened until nearly the entire Darkest Star Sea came into view.

Within the already pitch-black Darkest Star Sea, that black vortex appeared utterly inconspicuous.

Yet after witnessing the panorama of the Star Sea, Li Fan's gaze remained firmly fixed upon the vortex.

The sense of impending danger within his heart became impossible to suppress.

His heart, something that rarely happened, beat violently several times in succession.

Only then did Li Fan realize that the location of the black vortex was precisely the center of the Star Sea where he had previously gone and come into contact with the True Will of the Star Sea Origin.

Moreover, the black mist forming that vortex...

Was astonishingly similar to the black substance he had previously obtained by using the White Ring Descends into the Mortal World to decompose True Immortal flesh, as well as the substance contained within Han Zhong's body while he was trapped inside the Eye of the Heavenly Beast.

Yet the feeling each of the three gave Li Fan was clearly different.

They belonged to distinct levels.

The black vortex before him was far more dangerous.

Li Fan frowned slightly.

"What is this?" he asked.

"I do not know. But one thing is certain. It is related to the Dao Annihilation Calamity that destroyed the Immortal Realm in the past." Mo Rubin answered with utmost solemnity, saying something truly astonishing.

"What?" Li Fan's heart trembled. "The Dao Annihilation Calamity?"

Mo Rubin waved his hand. The black vortices on the countless surrounding bubbles instantly vanished, returning to their normal scenes of the Star Sea.

"I discovered these black vortices by accident while using the Eye of the Heavenly Beast to search the Star Sea for Big Brother Xuanyuan."

"At first, I paid them little attention. I thought they were simply a natural phenomenon that had formed in the Star Sea over the years. But later..."

Mo Rubin coughed lightly and extended all ten fingers toward the bubbles of the Eye of the Heavenly Beast.

In the blink of an eye, tens of millions of black threads shot out from his fingertips, each flying toward a different bubble.

Li Fan saw clearly that at the end of every black thread was a miniature Mo Rubin.

However, each of them wore a different expression. Some were ferocious, some terrified, and some completely insane.

The instant these countless miniature Mo Rubins touched the Eye of the Heavenly Beast's bubbles, it was as though they had been subjected to unimaginable torture. They all let out shrill screams simultaneously.

Yet their movements never stopped.

Both hands dug firmly into the bubbles before pulling violently.

Like peeling away a rotten and foul-smelling layer of skin, they tore away a sticky black substance from the Eye of the Heavenly Beast.

"Ahhh!"

The tiny Mo Rubins screamed even more miserably.

Their bodies rapidly became blurred as the black substance corroded them, as though they might disappear at any moment.

Yet under the control of Mo Rubin's true body, none of them loosened their grip.

They completely peeled away the black decayed layer from the Eye of the Heavenly Beast.

Gurgle. Gurgle.

Afterward, instead of storing the black substance away, they directly opened their already indistinct mouths and swallowed it in huge mouthfuls.

As the thick, decayed black substance entered their stomachs, the faces of each miniature Mo Rubin became impossible to distinguish.

"As long as the Demon Heart remains, the Immortal Body shall never perish."

At that moment, Mo Rubin's indifferent voice suddenly echoed.

A mysterious force instantly descended upon those blurred bodies.

Preventing them from completely dissipating.

They became like intact sacks that had not burst apart, merely containing those thick black substances.

Mo Rubin's expression was incomparably solemn. With extreme caution, he recalled his Demon Hearts.

Of course, he did not return them to his own body.

Instead, he produced a jade box and stored them all inside.

Only after finishing all this did Mo Rubin finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Li Fan noticed that Mo Rubin had become even weaker.

He stared intently at him, waiting for an explanation.

After resting for a while, Mo Rubin finally spoke weakly.

"This is already the fourth cleansing."

"I originally believed this black mist was merely a natural phenomenon of the Star Sea and posed no danger. But I never expected that after only observing it a few times, the Eye of the Heavenly Beast would become contaminated by it."

"Fortunately, the Eye of the Heavenly Beast originally came from the Immortal Realm. Its essence surpasses that of the lower realm Star Sea. Furthermore, it was never in direct contact with the black mist, so it can still be saved."

"Using the cleansing method I just demonstrated, I can remove the black mist attached to it."

Hearing this, Li Fan also let out a sigh of relief.

"That is fortunate amid misfortune."

However, he quickly realized something horrifying and immediately asked.

"The Dao Annihilation Calamity. You said it was the catastrophe that destroyed the Immortal Realm. Has it already appeared in the Star Sea? Even the True Immortals could not withstand it. Does that mean we are all doomed?"

"There is no need for such alarm. The situation is not quite that dire." Mo Rubin shook his head.

After pausing to choose his words carefully, he slowly continued.

"Back then, Big Brother Xuanyuan was already worried that the Dao Annihilation Calamity of the Immortal Realm would eventually spread into the lower realms."

"Although he never said it outright, I could tell."

"I also told you before. If one does not know the name of the Dao Annihilation Calamity, then even standing before it, one cannot recognize its true nature. But once its name is known, even seeing the slightest trace of it will naturally stir an instinctive realization."

"Now that you already know the name Dao Annihilation, when you observed that black mist just now, did you feel anything?"

Li Fan carefully recalled what he had just witnessed.

"No."

"Exactly." Mo Rubin said gravely. "I suspect this black mist is not the Dao Annihilation Calamity itself. Rather, it is the omen that the Dao Annihilation Calamity is about to descend."

"Just as dark clouds gather before torrential rain falls, or the earth trembles before mountains collapse. Every great disaster in the world is accompanied by certain signs. This black mist may well be the sign that the Dao Annihilation Calamity is approaching."

"And..."

Mo Rubin's expression became even more serious.

"It is more than merely an omen. As you witnessed just now, this black mist appears capable of devouring everything that approaches it within the Star Sea. If left unchecked and allowed to continue spreading, the expansion of the black mist may actually hasten the arrival of the Dao Annihilation Calamity itself."

Li Fan frowned deeply, his expression becoming equally grave.

He remained silent for a long time, seemingly digesting everything Mo Rubin had just said.

"How could this happen?"

After quite some time, those were the only words he uttered.

There was even a trace of panic in his voice.

Mo Rubin could only answer with silence.

"The affairs of the world are ever unpredictable. Or perhaps all of this had already been destined from the very day the Immortal Realm was destroyed."

Only after a long while did Mo Rubin let out a sigh.

"Is there truly no way to stop the spread of these black vortices?" Li Fan asked unwillingly.

"Even if such a method exists, it is beyond our ability to know. Big Brother Xuanyuan may have known."

Li Fan's eyes immediately lit up, as though he had grasped a lifeline.

"Right. While using the Eye of the Heavenly Beast to search the Xuanhuang Realm and the Star Sea, did you discover any trace of the Xuantian King?"

Mo Rubin smiled bitterly.

"If I had found him, I would not have needed to painstakingly cleanse this Dao Annihilation black mist myself."

"However..."

"It was not entirely fruitless."

Li Fan immediately fixed his gaze upon him.

"When Big Brother Xuanyuan mysteriously disappeared, he sent out several warnings at the final moment."

"We brothers among the Dharma Kings should all have received one."

"But there was another transmission that was sent beyond the Xuanhuang Realm, even beyond the starry sky itself."

"That transmission was extremely well concealed. Under normal circumstances, I would never have discovered it. Only by relying upon the Eye of the Heavenly Beast did it leave behind the slightest trace, allowing me to detect it."

Li Fan narrowed his eyes.

"Beyond the starry sky? Could it be..."

His heart shook.

"There is only one possibility. The recipient of Big Brother Xuanyuan's message should have been the Faceless Immortal," Mo Rubin answered directly.

"I remember you once mentioned that when the Xuantian King disappeared, the head of the Faceless Immortal's stone statue somehow broke off..."

Mo Rubin nodded.

"So I suspect that when Big Brother Xuanyuan encountered danger, the Faceless Immortal attempted to protect him. Yet even that was insufficient. The stone statue that served as the medium for transmitting its power was severed."

"At the final moment, Big Brother Xuanyuan must have discovered something. Thus, through the Eye of the Heavenly Beast of the Floating Across Starry Sky Grand Formation, he sent a final message beyond the Star Sea, toward the place where the Faceless True Immortal resided."

"He wished to inform that Faceless True Immortal of his discovery."

Li Fan listened in fascination and could not help asking,

"Is it possible to use the traces left within the Eye of the Heavenly Beast to determine exactly what message the Xuantian King sent back then?"

"I'm afraid that is impossible."

Mo Rubin sighed regretfully.

"To begin with, Big Brother Xuanyuan certainly encrypted the message."

"Furthermore, whatever secret that message contained, he chose not to tell us fellow Dharma Kings and instead informed the Faceless Immortal. That clearly means that even if we had known, there was nothing we could have done."

"It is just like the true nature of the Dao Annihilation Calamity. Knowing it would only burden us with unnecessary worry."