My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1397: The Three-Pronged Derives a New Era

The leg bone of the Nameless True Immortal continued to be used according to plan, with the flesh and blood of the You Clan members serving as material for analyzing the Immortal-Mortal Transformation characters.

Li Fan first made targeted improvements to the simulated personality overseeing this place. He gave it a more detailed understanding of the degree to which the bloodline of the You Clan member could be unsealed. Only after ensuring that the You Clan people would not lose control even at the final moment of this life did Li Fan finally flash away.

Upon returning to the Great Xuan Dao Lecture Platform, he first reviewed the overall progress of all living beings exploring the Carefree Paradise over the past decade or so.

The complexity of the Carefree Dreamland truly exceeded all imagination.

Nearly a million people had been sent in one after another, yet even now, there had been no qualitative gains.

The person who had explored the deepest had already reached Exploration Level 7 in the Paradise.

Within the dream, he could now casually destroy an entire world with a wave of his hand. Such terrifying destructive power was already comparable to the Longevity Immortal realm of the Xuanhuang Realm. It was even somewhat superior.

This Level 7 explorer was named Hou Mingwu.

His cultivation talent in the real world was not particularly high. He had listened to the projection of the Dao lecture for more than a month before barely breaking through the Qi Refining stage.

In the Carefree Dreamland, almost all powerful magic treasures had a certain limit on the number of times they could be used.

Once all their uses were exhausted, there were two ways to activate them again. The first was to spend a large amount of Paradise Coins to recharge them. The second was to use other lower-rank magic treasures as nourishment to recharge them.

The cost of reactivating them was simply too great, and sometimes the expenditure could even outweigh the benefits. Therefore, some people chose to publicly sell these deactivated treasures at low prices. At least they could recover part of their investment.

Hou Mingwu used the incredible property of the Reunification Mirror to repair these treasures and then sell them again.

After several transactions, he made a fortune.

The dreamland of the Paradise was simply too vast. Every time Hou Mingwu completed a transaction, he would change the large dream region where he usually operated.

Thus, for a very long time, no one discovered his secret.

By the time news that Hou Mingwu possessed the Reunification Mirror finally leaked out, he had already grown strong enough.

The treasures he possessed were practically endless. The number of treasures carried by him alone could even rival those possessed by the top teams in the Paradise.

Whenever he undertook a mission in a dream world, Hou Mingwu could use his treasures without regard for cost, bombarding everything in his path.

Even in bizarre worlds where physical force and ordinary attacks were ineffective, he could rely on his numerous magic treasures to turn danger into safety time and time again.

As a result, Hou Mingwu's efficiency in clearing dream worlds was far beyond that of ordinary people. No matter how intense their greed was, there was nothing the others could do.

From beginning to end, Hou Mingwu had always acted alone, refusing every invitation to cooperate or form a team.

Once, several major teams joined forces and used a tracking magic treasure to forcibly follow him into a mission.

They intended to conspire together and seize the Reunification Mirror.

Yet Hou Mingwu seemed to have detected their pursuit long beforehand and had already laid an ambush inside the world.

After all the trackers had gathered, before they even had time to make a move, the entire world suddenly plunged into a terrifying apocalyptic destruction.

Where would they have the time to pursue him?

The several major teams scattered like frightened birds and beasts, suffering heavy casualties.

Afterward, they first suspected that there had been a mole within their cooperating teams.

Later, they speculated that Hou Mingwu must possess another supreme treasure capable of predicting the future and avoiding misfortune.

After this incident, the schemes targeting Hou Mingwu within the Carefree Paradise temporarily disappeared.

In truth, their guess was correct.

Apart from the Reunification Mirror, Hou Mingwu indeed possessed another supreme treasure.

However, this treasure did not come from the dreamland.

It was Li Fan's attention.

As the vanguard Li Fan had sent to explore the Carefree Dreamland, how could Li Fan possibly allow Hou Mingwu to be harmed so easily?

The million people sent into the dreamland were essentially a million pairs of eyes belonging to Li Fan.

Some of them were even members of the very teams plotting against Hou Mingwu.

They simply had no awareness that they were traitors.

With Li Fan's protection, Hou Mingwu had virtually no danger of losing his life within the Carefree Paradise.

And Hou Mingwu had not disappointed Li Fan.

The several worlds he had experienced in the deeper layers of the dreamland had confirmed Li Fan's judgment.

The range of the Carefree Paradise's dreamland had already extended beyond the Xuanhuang Realm and spread into the starry sky.

Because within those several worlds, Li Fan had clearly seen traces of the Xuan Immortal Ark.

They were not merely manifestations of the Immortal Ark itself, but individual concepts such as the Thousand-Eyed Desolate God, Heavenly Star Light Lotus, Duan's Divine Arm, and the Dao Pursuing Giant.

'The people of the Immortal Ark should be completely unaware of this matter. The Carefree Dreamland has not forcibly dragged the people of the Immortal Ark into its illusions either. It is merely using the fragments that inadvertently emerge within their consciousness as the foundation for constructing the dream worlds.'

'The people of the Immortal Ark are no ordinary beings. Yet even so, Carefree was able to effortlessly capture their thoughts and perceptions. Carefree... is he really this powerful?'

Li Fan could not help but frown slightly.

'However, one thing can be confirmed. There really are things that have not been sensed by him. Perhaps the Xuan Immortal Ark fell prey to Carefree's schemes at some point.'

Li Fan gazed into the distance. His vision seemed to pass through the boundless starry sky and arrive beneath the High Wall.

'The Immortal Ark has already been enveloped within its range. Perhaps it is not far from breaking through the High Wall's restrictions.'

'No wonder Carefree has always seemed rather unconcerned with everything within the Xuanhuang Realm. Even when the Xuanhuang Realm was destroyed several times, he merely hid and did not contribute to stopping it. Could he be trying to save the country by taking a circuitous route, using an alternative method to pass through the High Wall?'

His previous discoveries had already almost confirmed that the High Wall's restrictions seemed to have a weaker effect on consciousness and spiritual energies.

Li Fan had long vaguely suspected that Carefree Paradise was making some moves in secret. He had simply received confirmation of his suspicions only now.

'If his true body were to leave the High Wall, it would be far too dangerous. Perhaps I can use the power of the Carefree Dreamland to investigate the situation first...'

This thought flashed through Li Fan's mind.

'The people I placed the greatest hopes on, such as Sun Erlang, cannot match the exploration progress of this unknown nobody named Hou Mingwu. As expected, I still have to make the best use of everyone and let them do what they are good at.'

Li Fan shook his head slightly and divided another portion of his consciousness to monitor Hou Mingwu's every movement.

In this life, Li Fan still had no intention of making contact with Carefree.

Although Li Fan was certain that Carefree had already discovered that he, the Xuanhuang Formation Master, was the mastermind behind sending a million people to invade the dreamland, for some unknown reason, Carefree clearly had the ability to instantly kick all these people out of the dreamland, yet had still not done so.

'It seems that after attaining a certain degree of transcendence, he simply no longer cares.'

'Interesting.'

'Unfortunately, with his current strength, his consciousness still cannot exist entirely on its own. If I destroy his physical body in the present world, the Carefree Dreamland will also cease to exist.'

Li Fan likewise developed an imposing confidence.

Carefree did not care about the intruders in his dreamland, and Li Fan likewise did not care about Carefree.

'I only need to proceed step by step and steadily achieve Dao Integration.'

His thoughts gathered again, and Li Fan's gaze became deep and profound.

Fortunately, in this life, when he envisioned and deduced the scene of achieving Dao Integration not long from now, that ominous sense of mortal danger did not appear again.

'There should not be any major changes.'

However, for the sake of caution, Li Fan still needed to make a trip to the Xuan Immortal Ark.

'Since that bowing figurine can still produce a certain effect, perhaps the Three-Pronged Tree can do the same.'

The possibility of getting another free simulation was enough to make even Li Fan's heart stir.

After all, judging from the situation in his previous life, the simulation process did not seem to require Li Fan to personally experience it.

Instead, everything would flash through his mind like a series of slides.

With the enhancement of the Wooden Sword projection, Li Fan soon arrived outside the Xuan Immortal Ark.

'The Three-Pronged Tree is on the second layer of the Immortal Ark's secret vault. The Heavenly Star Light Lotus is guarding it. If I forcefully take it, I will inevitably have to confront the Immortal Ark directly...'

'First, I should see what the current situation inside the Immortal Ark is.'

With this thought, Li Fan's body became as elusive as a ghost and silently slipped into the Xuan Immortal Ark.

Compared to more than a decade ago, the Ark's protective measures had improved somewhat.

But not by much.

At the very least, to Li Fan, they remained completely useless.

After investigating the Immortal Ark for a while, Li Fan basically understood its current situation.

Ever since his previous life, when he had plundered the Immortal Ark's secret vault and taken away most of the useful treasures from the first level of the Immortal Compendium of Hundred Tales, the Immortal Ark had first gone through a period of internal turmoil and nearly split apart.

Even after the turmoil finally ended, the tense atmosphere within the Immortal Ark had never eased.

The loss of such a massive amount of resources had immediately made the survival of the people of the Immortal Ark a serious problem.

Even though their total population had decreased somewhat after the internal conflict, they were still living in extreme hardship.

The scarcity of resources had not caused the conflict between the Severed Immortal Tower and the Celestial Pivot Institute to disappear.

Instead, their struggle had become even more intense.

Although no elders had fallen, many of their disciples had died.

In the previous life, Li Fan's sudden appearance as an outsider had diverted the internal conflicts within the Immortal Ark.

After learning that other civilizations existed in the Star Sea, the people of the Immortal Ark had become exceptionally united.

Even the vast majority of the elders had been willing to sacrifice their lives for the future of the Immortal Ark.

But in this life, there was no external event to divert their attention.

The internal contradictions had even intensified.

What the Immortal Ark showed Li Fan had changed from the goodness of human nature to the evil of human nature.

Of course, to Li Fan, so-called 'good' and 'evil' were actually no different.

What he cared about was merely the treasures within the Immortal Ark's secret vault.

The treasures on the second layer of the secret vault were all preserved within the seeds of the Heavenly Star Light Lotus.

Heavenly Star Light Lotus was a wondrous object that the Immortal Ark had collected in ancient times. It had parasitized the Star Sea and survived countless calamities, yet its life force remained intact.

With Li Fan's current strength, destroying it would not be difficult.

However, destroying it while simultaneously extracting the treasures preserved within nearly a hundred lotus seeds was considerably more difficult.

Li Fan concealed himself within the second layer and observed the Heavenly Star Light Lotus at close range for a long time. He finally determined a method to break through its defenses.

Although the Heavenly Star Light Lotus appeared incredibly mystical, at the height of its existence, its main body had been even larger than more than a hundred cultivation worlds combined.

But ultimately, it still belonged to the category of living beings.

Since it was alive, it must have its own weaknesses.

Li Fan did not need to search for those weaknesses himself.

He had the Dao-One Insects.

The Dao-One Insects were a peculiar species of exotic beast capable of generating spiritual energy.

Li Fan extended his palm. A vague shadow slowly flew closer, attempting to infiltrate the dreamlike radiance of the Light Lotus.

What Li Fan released this time was a variant of the Dao-One Insects.

Its ability to produce spiritual energy had been reduced by half. In exchange, its adaptability and survivability had become astonishingly powerful.

Yet the instant it approached, the faint light emitted by the Light Lotus vaporized the Dao-One Insect without leaving a trace.

Li Fan did not care and released two more Dao-One Insects.

Their fate was no different.

Compared to the Heavenly Star Light Lotus, creatures like the Dao-One Insects were simply far too insignificant. The disappearance of their lives did not cause even the slightest ripple.

Li Fan remained persistent and released four more at once.

Although they still vanished in an instant, only Li Fan noticed that the amount of time the Dao-One Insects managed to endure had increased by the slightest margin.

The Dao-One Insects that advanced one after another did not die in vain. They would transmit information about the Heavenly Star Light Lotus back to their species.

Those that came afterward would then alter themselves based on this information, seeking to adapt and survive within the radiance of the Heavenly Star Light Lotus.

The number of Dao-One Insects increased exponentially.

When the population as a whole reached one million, the Dao-One Insects were already capable of evolving themselves and merging into the dreamlike radiance of the Heavenly Star Light Lotus.

'It seems that although this Star Sea creation has developed its own intelligence, it ultimately has not escaped the category of spiritual energy. After tens of millions of generations of evolution, the Dao-One Insects can complete its analysis.'

Looking at the continuous shadows, resembling ink, that were gradually infiltrating the Heavenly Star Light Lotus, Li Fan nodded in satisfaction.

'Perhaps only immortal spirit qi, a power that completely transcends everything else and does not even belong to the same conceptual category, can completely prevent the Dao-One Insects from infiltrating it.'

The miraculous abilities of the Dao-One Insects went without saying.

They could create something from nothing and derive spiritual energy. They could even devour Cave Heavens and worlds, replacing them entirely with the collective swarm.

However, as Li Fan's strength continued to rise, the infinitely useful Dao-One Insects had gradually become rather lackluster. Only in special situations like this could they once again prove useful.

Li Fan had once considered cultivating an even more advanced form of the Dao-One Insects.

Unfortunately, after being contaminated by source power essence, the Dao-One Insects would lose their inherent characteristics. As for the level above that, immortal spirit qi...

Li Fan himself did not possess any. He would have to rely on the Great Celestial Venerable's legacy.

'After I achieve Dao Integration, perhaps I will be able to provide the Dao-One Insects with a suitable environment for cultivation.'

Apart from True Immortals, the Immortal Realm also contained countless creations and servants.

Li Fan believed that once he attained the Dao, he too would be able to bring even his chickens and dogs to ascend together.

The Dao-One Insects' infiltration was like spring rain, nourishing everything silently.

By the time the entire lotus seed had been quietly transformed into Dao-One Insects, the main body of the Heavenly Star Light Lotus had not noticed anything at all.

It merely sensed a vague sense of unease, causing the light of the lotus to flicker erratically.

The lotus seed's protection was completely removed.

Li Fan first retrieved his primary target, the Three-Pronged Tree.

Sensing the reaction transmitted by [Truth], Li Fan's heart stirred.

'As expected, it still works.'

'However, it is not enough to support an entire lifetime of simulation.'

'Only twelve hours?'

A sharp glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes, and for once, he felt somewhat excited.

'If my speculation is correct, then after using the Three-Pronged Tree for the simulation, this lifetime of mine will not end immediately.'

'Instead, everything that happens during the following twelve hours within the simulation will appear in my mind as though I had personally experienced it.'

'I wonder if I can bring any gains out of it.'

'Even if I cannot, this is still equivalent to having another life-saving insurance.'

Li Fan forcibly suppressed his urge to use the Three-Pronged Tree immediately.

He continued manipulating the Dao-One Insects, infiltrating and stealing the items preserved within the lotus seeds of the Heavenly Star Light Lotus.

It truly lived up to its reputation as a treasure of the Star Sea entrusted with great responsibility by the Immortal Ark. After Li Fan successively stole three items, the Heavenly Star Light Lotus, driven by instinct, actually curled up on its own.

The second layer of the hidden repository instantly plunged into darkness. Its dreamlike radiance disappeared completely.

Even Li Fan could no longer sense the aura belonging to the Heavenly Star Light Lotus.

It was as though it had completely vanished.

The abnormal movement of the Heavenly Star Light Lotus also alerted the people of the Immortal Ark.

Li Fan vaguely sensed several familiar auras rapidly approaching.

They were none other than the Immortal Ark elders led by Jian Dao Sheng and Zhong Da