My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1391: Immortal Characters Appear on the Stone Stele

"Clumsy" was only relative to the naturally formed, traceless white ring, [Descends into Mortal World].

In truth, the three eyed humanoid's method of refining humans into objects had already completely surpassed Li Fan's existing system of understanding.

Even with the actual object placed before him, Li Fan was practically at a loss as to how he should begin studying it.

Among all the theories he had encountered throughout his life, the only one that bore even a slight resemblance was the [Dao Refining Medicine King Scripture] personally transmitted by Sun Piaomiao.

But even that resemblance was limited.

"Transforming a human into an object, while retaining the living properties of a human."

"At the same time, it possesses the properties of an [object]."

"......"

Li Fan conducted a series of experiments on the three eyed humanoid he had obtained.

Li Fan then tested the little man's resistance to physical attacks.

After the three eyed humanoid became ineffective, Qin Zhuang had casually discarded it. Clearly, outside the High Wall, it was not considered a particularly valuable object.

Yet for such a tiny thing, Li Fan had practically brought out his ultimate techniques. Only the Nine Heavens Descending Mortal Finger could inflict obvious damage upon it.

"If they were merely cultivators of the Dust Abyss Realm, then even if they possessed the True Immortal bloodline spoken of in the rumors, they would not be capable of achieving this. It has gained an additional layer of an object's properties, and the two have been perfectly integrated without any weakness. That is what has caused its defensive power to increase so drastically..."

The existences from beyond the High Wall seemed to possess an extraordinary resistance to illusion formations.

Li Fan used the three eyed humanoid to test nearly all of the Immortal grade formations he currently possessed, one after another. He discovered that even when unconscious, the humanoid could repeatedly evade the fatal attacks of the Immortal formations. It moved through them with ease, as if completely at home.

"Besides the properties of a human and an object, there seems to be a third property layered onto it."

As Li Fan observed, he continuously adjusted the Immortal formations according to the three eyed humanoidn's evasive movements.

He then used the newly modified formations, optimized with the Final Dissociation Disc, to conduct another round of tests.

The result remained unchanged. The humanoid still effortlessly evaded them.

Li Fan did not become impatient. He continued with another round of iteration.

After the formation had undergone fifty improvements, the three eyed humanoid's flawless evasive movements finally developed flaws. It occasionally began to be caught by the operating Immortal formation.

A bright light suddenly flashed in Li Fan's eyes.

"My Immortal formations are like a giant net that I have woven."

"Although they appear to have no enemy within the Darkest Star Sea, and once deployed, the formation can encompass all living beings, in the eyes of an object created beyond the High Wall like the three eyed humanoid, every single gap in this great net is a flaw!"

"But as I gradually seal these flaws one by one, making the net denser and denser, with smaller and smaller openings..."

"It will no longer be so easy for it to rely on instinct to resist the formation!"

"In short, although my attainments in formation Dao have not undergone a qualitative improvement, my formations are becoming increasingly difficult to break through!"

Li Fan stared intently at the Dust Abyss race humanoid within the Immortal formation, his thoughts surging.

He applied all the detailed modifications from the upgraded and iterated formations to every great formation he possessed.

It was like an originally crude sketch. As more and more details were added, the reproduction became increasingly meticulous.

"Perfecting formation details to this degree is absolutely impossible for one person to accomplish in a short period of time. Only through generations of research, with people of the Immortal Ark taking up the work one after another and continuously studying it, could such attainments be achieved!"

For a moment, Li Fan seemed to see countless figures working day and night without rest, tirelessly studying the Dao of formations.

"The reason I can complete these additions so quickly is merely because I am directly taking them and using them. In truth, without the assistance of the Dissociation Disc, I would never have been able to iterate the formations this rapidly!"

"The three eyed humanoid was brought from beyond the High Wall by Qin Zhuang five hundred years ago."

"Yet the White Ring and Cat Treasure are creations from only recently."

"Has the technology beyond the High Wall truly advanced so enormously over these five hundred years?"

Li Fan's mind stirred. He took out [Descends into Mortal World] and threw it toward the formation that was evolving before him.

He wanted to compare the differences in how it and the three eyed humanoid responded when faced with the constantly changing formations.

However, just as Li Fan expected, [Descends into Mortal World] was immune to every formation technique applied to it.

His observation plan had failed before it had even begun.

"I could not even see any evasive movements similar to those of the three eyed humanoid within the formation."

"Instead, it is as if every Immortal formation I currently possess simply has no effect whatsoever!"

"It seems to exist on an entirely different level of underlying principles..."

Li Fan's eyes flickered as he pondered.

"It seems that over these five hundred years, the technology beyond the High Wall has undergone a qualitative leap."

Previously, inspired by the phenomenon of different time flows within the Darkest Star Sea, Li Fan had speculated that the flow of time beyond the High Wall might also be far faster than within the High Wall.

More than ten thousand years had already passed within the Darkest Star Sea since the Immortal Realm's great catastrophe descended. Perhaps millions of years had passed beyond the High Wall.

"The difference between the three eyed humanoid, which arrived in the Xuanhuang Realm earlier, and the other creations seems to corroborate my speculation from another angle."

"Of course, it is also possible that Cat Treasure and the white ring are extremely rare existences even beyond the High Wall. Perhaps this is simply a difference in the value of what is commonly available..."

However, because Cat Treasure and the white ring had both been fished out of the Fishing Pond, Li Fan instinctively believed that these existences, which served as "bait", should not be particularly rare objects.

"With the three eyed humanoid helping me correct my formations and reduce their flaws, perhaps in this life, I will have a chance to completely perfect them."

"And extract some useful information from Qin Zhuang's mind."

The experiment had already entered a stable phase, and there was almost no possibility of further complications. From this point onward, it would merely be mechanical repetition.

Li Fan separated out a simulated personality to handle the improvement of the complex formations.

Next, he began studying the several streaks of golden light shot out by the three eyed humanoid, the same golden light that had been used to capture Jiao Xiuyuan.

It had already been confirmed that this golden light was an innate divine ability of Dust Abyss cultivators, representing a certain law itself.

And what could possibly be easier to analyze laws with than the leg bone of the Nameless True Immortal?

Wrapped in the golden light, Li Fan flashed into the small world of the You Clan.

With the protection of Li Fan's phantom statue, the You Clan members, who had once been on the verge of extinction, had already once again occupied most of the territory within the small world.

However, at certain intervals, the terrifying stone stele at the center of the world would erupt with boundless calamity, taking the lives of nearly half of the You Clan members.

Because of the existence of the stone stele and the phantom, the You Clan members lived forever under fear and devout prayer.

After arriving before the leg bone of the Nameless True Immortal, Li Fan first glanced at the progress of the manifestation of the True Immortal seal script characters on the stele.

Perhaps it was because a quantitative accumulation had triggered a qualitative transformation. After devouring a massive amount of the You Clan members' flesh and blood, the blank stele was manifesting characters far faster than Li Fan had anticipated.

The mysterious character had currently revealed less than one fifth of itself. Yet Li Fan could already faintly sense a unique might emanating from it.

It was different from the characters for "Hunger" and "Innate."

The True Immortal seal script character related to the transformation between immortality and mortality was clearly extraordinary. When it appeared on the stone tablet, it could actually penetrate the restraints imposed by the stele's power to a certain extent, radiating its own might toward the outside world.

It was precisely because of this faint influence that, even without Li Fan personally urging it on, the You Clansmen's process of returning to their ancestral bloodline had continued to advance slowly.

All of this had happened silently.

Even the artificial personality that had been continuously monitoring the situation had failed to notice.

Only now, with Li Fan personally present, had he keenly detected the changes taking place here.

Li Fan slightly furrowed his brows and decisively set up layer upon layer of Immortal-grade formations around the stone stele, isolating the influence of the True Immortal seal script characters on the outside world.

"It is not that the level of this Immortal-Mortal Transformation seal script character has already surpassed that of the Nameless True Immortal."

"Rather, this particular seal script character itself possesses certain special properties. The Great Dao it involves may have even influenced the Nameless True Immortal while he was still alive."

"And this stone stele is not the complete Southern Immortal Celestial Pillar. It is merely a fragment of a leg bone."

"Such a change is therefore not unexpected."

"But when True Immortals are involved, there really are pitfalls everywhere. I cannot afford the slightest carelessness."

Li Fan secretly warned himself.

He then began the real task.

He projected a still strand of golden light toward the stone stele.

The instant it approached, the stone stele absorbed it.

The imprint of an entirely new True Immortal seal script character began to appear in a corner of the stone stele.

However, what puzzled Li Fan was that the characters for "Hunger" and "Innate", as well as the still-forming Immortal-Mortal Transformation character, had all appeared successively in the central region of the stone tablet.

Yet this new character had ignored that large central area and instead squeezed itself into the very corner.

Li Fan tried to recall which True Immortal seal script characters had appeared in the corresponding area of the Wordless Stele in his previous life. Unfortunately, he had only caught a fleeting glimpse of it back then, and not even an impression had remained in his memory.

Thus, after pondering for a long while, he still could not find the slightest clue.

He simply stopped worrying about it and continued feeding it golden light.

As expected of a pure manifestation of laws, it was far more efficient than simply feeding it physical materials and then analyzing them afterward.

With only one strand of golden light remaining unconsumed, the True Immortal seal script character on the stone stele had already been fully revealed.

"This is..."

"Restrain?"

Like all True Immortal seal script characters, the moment Li Fan saw it, its true meaning immediately surfaced in his mind.

This character was not particularly complicated either.

Yet in Li Fan's eyes, it possessed a somewhat different quality.

After coming into contact with a large number of True Immortal seal script characters, Li Fan had once made a simple classification of them.

He did not classify them according to the strength of their might, but according to their functions.

The vast majority of True Immortal seal script characters were annotations of the Great Dao laws of heaven and earth. However, a small portion had evolved from decrees issued by the Immortal Realm.

For example, there was the [Return] Character that had previously caused the Nine Star Red Bead, the core of an ancient Immortal formation in the Xuanhuang Realm, to mysteriously disappear.

And the [Restrain] Character Art that had now appeared before Li Fan belonged to this same category.

"The Dust Abyss Realm possesses a True Immortal bloodline. This is probably not an exaggeration."

"A True Immortal descending into the lower realm comes at an enormous cost. The Immortal Realm also needs to find agents in the lower realms to carry out its will. The cultivators of the Dust Abyss Realm probably served as the Immortal Realm's enforcers in the lower realm..."

Li Fan suddenly recalled that, according to rumors, the Dust Abyss Realm had been among the first cultivation worlds to be affected when the great catastrophe of the Immortal Realm descended. It should have been destroyed long ago.

Yet many years later, there still seemed to be surviving cultivators who had been refined into objects by forces beyond the High Wall.

"There are several possibilities."

"First, there may not be only one Dust Abyss Realm in the lower realms. There may be others scattered throughout the Darkest Star Sea."

"The second possibility is that cultivators from the Dust Abyss Realm survived back then and escaped beyond the range of the Darkest Star Sea before the High Wall was established. They then reproduced and established themselves beyond the High Wall. Judging from the current situation, however, their circumstances are probably not very good."

Li Fan gathered his thoughts and began experimenting with the newly acquired [Restrain] Character seal script.

It had an effect remarkably similar to the [Insect Binding] divine ability he had obtained long ago.

Or perhaps it was simply an advanced replacement for the Insect Binding divine ability.

Insect Binding still required the caster's strength to exceed that of the target.

But under the [Restrain] Character seal script, as long as the target could not resist the might of the True Immortal seal script, they would be instantly restrained.

Their body, soul, and thoughts would all fall into a state of frozen stillness, completely at the mercy of others.

Li Fan summoned Qiushui and Tianyang and conducted a series of experiments.

Both belonged to the Supreme realm.

However, perhaps because Tianyang had once absorbed the combat experience of the Immortal Puppet and had consequently acquired some of its characteristics, he performed extremely poorly under the [Restrain] Character seal script.

He had to unleash almost his entire strength just to barely break free.

Qiushui's response was considerably better. By relying on the boundless power of the Star Sea, he could reduce the influence of the [Restrain] Character seal script to a minimum.

"The True Immortal seal script characters evolved from Immortal Realm decrees seem to have a different origin from those copied from the Great Dao laws."

Having personally experienced the might of the [Restrain] Character seal script, a thought flashed through Li Fan's mind.

"Aside from their normal might, they also possess particularly strong suppressive effects against certain existences."

Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly.

He had once been fortunate enough to glimpse the entirety of the Immortal Realm.

Within that boundless and vast ocean, True Immortals were still only a minority. Most regions of the Immortal Realm were filled with Immortal Puppets, Immortal Servants, and other creations of True Immortals.

"Perhaps the Immortal Realm's decrees are precisely a means of granting authorized control over these beings."

"They might even be effective when used from a higher level against a lower one."

By "higher against lower," Li Fan did not mean merely True Immortals against mortals.

It also included that towering figure from the memories of the True Immortal who had descended into the lower realm, acting against True Immortals.

"Subject..."

As he recalled fragments from the memories of that True Immortal who had descended into the lower realm, Li Fan gradually understood something.

"I do not know its name, so for now I will call it the Dominator. In the Dominator's eyes, even True Immortals are no more than ants. Perhaps this has something to do with the strict hierarchy of Immortal Realm decrees..."

"It is like an imperial edict in a mortal dynasty. With a single decree, an entire family can be exterminated."

"But an imperial edict derives its authority from the emperor. As for the Immortal Realm's decrees..."

Li Fan wrote another [Restrain] character.

"It seems... something is missing."

Li Fan slightly furrowed his brows.

It was not that the [Restrain] Character seal script manifested by the stone stele was incomplete. Rather, Li Fan faintly sensed that while writing the [Restrain] Character seal script, certain restraints were missing.

"Under normal circumstances, not everyone possesses the authority to write the [Restrain] character."

"But after the Immortal Realm was destroyed and the Dominators who ruled over the True Immortals all turned to ashes, this restriction disappeared along with them."

Li Fan keenly sensed the precious aspect of these True Immortal seal script characters derived from Immortal Realm decrees.

"As long as one understands their composition, one can activate their power."

As his thoughts surged, Li Fan could not help but raise his head and look toward the sky.

He wondered about using the [Restrain] Character seal script against the True Immortal from the Immortal Ruins above and seeing what effect it would have.