My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1399: Truly Turning the Tide

In the heavens and earth of the Xuanhuang Realm, countless viscous seven-colored liquids suddenly appeared out of thin air. They then flowed like trickling streams, pouring into the wounds.

Like some legendary immortal elixir, the torn wounds of the Xuanhuang Realm actually healed in the blink of an eye.

A considerable amount of seven-colored liquid also scattered through the air and flowed across the earth.

The regions touched and illuminated by this seven-colored radiance gradually formed seven-colored halos around them. Strands of sacred aura emerged from within, making them seem detached from the mundane world and completely out of place with the surrounding domains.

Li Fan continued forming hand seals, maintaining the Xuanhuang Realm's ascension momentum. His eyes narrowed slightly as he swept his gaze across the countless halo-enveloped domains that had suddenly appeared throughout the heavens and earth.

In order to concentrate all available strength to the greatest extent and push the Xuanhuang Realm toward sublimation, Li Fan had long since destroyed or merged the overwhelming majority of the burdensome Cave Heavens and small worlds, allowing them all to return to the Xuanhuang Realm.

Yet now, just as the Xuanhuang Realm was about to complete its transformation, new Cave Heavens and blessed lands were being born once again, slightly slowing the Xuanhuang Realm's ascent.

These newly born Cave Heavens and blessed lands were different from those of previous eras. They were not independent entities that had split away after flowering and bearing fruit. They were more like new "organs" evolved by the heavens and earth.

Li Fan's gaze pierced through the protective halos surrounding these Cave Heavens and blessed lands, allowing him to see the unique and profound laws within each of them.

There were also a very small number of Cave Heavens that, after briefly appearing in the world, transformed into streaks of rainbow light. After selecting their targets, they directly descended into the living beings below.

These fortunate beings were not sleepers trapped within the illusion formation. They were lives that had been newly born since the Xuanhuang Realm's transformation began.

Thus, the Cave Heavens descended from above and began to walk across the earth.

The Cave Heavens and blessed lands were not isolated from one another. They were faintly interconnected. Some were naturally close to one another, while others harbored an innate hostility toward each other.

Yet by sensing the fundamental connections between them, Li Fan detected that their ultimate destiny was inevitably to devour one another before eventually returning to unity.

In the end, the Cave Heaven or blessed land that unified all under heaven would gather the strengths of all the others, nurturing itself to its utmost limit. It would then split away from the Xuanhuang Realm.

Under normal circumstances, this process might naturally evolve over tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years. Even if it went against the will of the Xuanhuang Realm itself, it would still eventually occur.

'Is this an unavoidable path for ascending into an Immortal Domain? Is it engraved into the fundamental logic of the Xuanhuang Realm's existence?'

As Li Fan watched the countless bizarre Cave Heavens and blessed lands suddenly descend throughout the Xuanhuang heavens and earth, a trace of enlightenment suddenly emerged within him.

This was a change that would only occur after the Xuanhuang Realm had been pushed to the threshold of sublimation and was truly about to ascend into an Immortal Domain.

It had already been written into the foundation of the Xuanhuang Realm from the moment it was created.

Although the Xuanhuang Realm had always existed merely as an ordinary cultivation world within the lower realm Star Sea, once it was about to return to the Immortal Realm, this hidden "innate trait" that had remained concealed for countless years finally revealed itself.

'The Xuanhuang Realm was created using the methods of forging an Immortal Domain, but with mundane materials from the lower realm. In other words, it can be considered a downgraded form of an Immortal Domain to a certain extent...'

Li Fan thought of the method he had used to replace immortal spiritual qi with source power essence and operate immortal formations. His eyes flickered uncertainly.

'Although the Xuanhuang Realm possesses the innate qualities of an "Immortal", it is constrained by a mundane body. In practice, it is no different from other ordinary cultivation worlds. Only a True Immortal can clearly discern the hidden truth.'

'No wonder the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm has such an unpleasant personality, hated by both people and beasts alike. It turns out to be a fallen princess stranded among commoners. No matter how well one treats it, the moment one does even the slightest thing against its wishes, it immediately shows displeasure and may even turn hostile at any moment. And no matter how harmonious the relationship was before, once a new powerful figure comes along and offers some warmth and concern, there is a very high chance it will immediately throw itself into their embrace...'

Recalling his interactions with Mr. Bai, the Holy Teacher, and himself with the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, Li Fan gradually came to understand.

At its core, this was due to the arrogance ingrained within the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao.

No matter how well a mere ant treated it, that being was ultimately still an ant. Perhaps its attitude could change because of its circumstances for a time, but its deepest fundamental view would never change.

Only an Immortal, perhaps even a half immortal, could make the Xuanhuang Realm truly regard them seriously.

These innate characteristics of the Xuanhuang Realm had caused numerous unexpected changes to arise at the most critical moment of its ascension and sublimation.

Li Fan merely snorted coldly as he watched from the sidelines.

'It has the illness of a princess without the fate of being one.'

All kinds of phenomena continued unfolding throughout the Xuanhuang heavens and earth.

Li Fan engraved this dreamlike scene into his memory. Then, almost instinctively, his gaze turned toward a region of the world where nothing had changed at all, an isolated blank area.

Daoyuan Prefecture.

Although the Illusory Xuanhuang Multitudinous Living Beings Grand Formation did not cover Daoyuan Prefecture, it still enveloped it. The power of the immortal formation spread outward, isolating it from the outside world.

Later, Li Fan had even constructed a high wall around the borders of Daoyuan Prefecture, completely sealing the prefecture.

Naturally, this was to prevent that Grand Mage from suddenly jumping out and causing trouble during the final critical moment of the Xuanhuang Realm's sublimation.

In fact, besides the immortal formation and the high wall, Li Fan had also carefully prepared an additional surprise for the Grand Mage.

At the borders of Daoyuan Prefecture, eighteen bronze figures stood hidden within the bewildering Immortal Formation.

Only Li Fan, their creator, could see the two terrifying killing forces concealed within them.

The Obliterating Wind Calamity and the Decaying Greenary.

The Obliterating Wind Calamity had been collected by Li Fan from damaged immortal artifacts within the Xuanhuang Realm.

As long as an immortal artifact still remained in the world, more or less it would contain something similar to the Boundless Mirror.

As for the Decaying Greenary, Li Fan had originally discovered it on the Thousand-Eyed Desolate God.

It burned away the foundation sustaining the vitality of things. Its terrifying destructive power was no weaker than that of the Obliterating Wind Calamity.

The Obliterating Wind Calamity was a special evolution of the Dao Annihilation Calamity targeting immortal artifacts, while the Decaying Greenary was specifically effective against Immortal Servants.

Two years ago, the Immortal Ark, which had been locked in constant internal conflict, gradually descended into madness.

The Celestial Pivot Institute, which had always been at a disadvantage and was approaching the end of its road, ultimately chose to make a desperate gamble and released the Thousand-Eyed Desolate God.

As the Desolate God rampaged, Li Fan also sensed that strange aura originating from a creation of the Immortal Realm. He sent Tianyang to fight it and gain insight.

Tianyang indeed gained some enlightenment.

At the same time, with the support of the massive amount of True Immortal flesh provided by Li Fan, he successfully brought back the attached and corrosive Decaying Greenary.

Using True Immortal flesh as a breeding ground, Li Fan cultivated a large amount of Decaying Greenary.

Although both the Obliterating Wind Calamity and the Decaying Greenary were already extremely terrifying calamities to mortals, their lethality was even more pronounced against beings at the "Immortal" level.

In the previous previous life, when faced with the Obliterating Wind Calamity, the Holy Emperor and the Heavenly Doctor had merely felt horrified, yet they still acted with all their strength to stop it.

But that Grand Mage had directly fled in panic without regard for anything else.

Judging from the Grand Mage's reaction, the extent of their fear toward the Obliterating Wind Calamity was obvious.

And with the Decaying Greenary added to the equation...

'Let me see just what this Grand Mage is really made of.'

The changes within the Xuanhuang Realm gradually settled down.

Aside from the evolution of countless Cave Heavens and blessed lands, four massive mountains also rose at the four corners of the heavens and earth.

The highest peaks of these mountain ranges towered majestically like pillars supporting the heavens, piercing straight into the clouds.

The four magnificent mountain ranges guarded the Xuanhuang Realm.

Once they appeared and stabilized, the heavens and earth, which had been trembling endlessly at the threshold of ascension and sublimation, seemed to suddenly gain support and naturally stabilized.

'Are these the four Immortal Celestial Pillars corresponding to those of the Immortal Realm?'

Li Fan looked at the four mountain peaks and pondered.

The various changes within the world seemed to have stirred the ancient memories of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao.

Without deliberately probing it, Li Fan could faintly sense its extreme excitement.

Urged on by it, the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable, who had already released all of his immortal spiritual qi, moved once again.

Wuming extended his left hand.

A small bell glittering with dazzling golden light slowly appeared.

A powerful wind arose throughout the heavens and earth, slowly lifting the golden bell and carrying it upward toward the Nine Heavens.

As its altitude increased, the radiance of the golden bell grew brighter and brighter.

When it reached the sky and became level with the great sun above, the dazzling radiance erupting from the golden bell had already enveloped the sun itself.

Boom...

A clear bell chime resounded throughout the heavens and earth.

The light suddenly contracted, and the Xuanhuang Realm plunged into brief darkness.

When the light reappeared, there was only a single sun remaining in the heavens, and yet...

It was no longer the same as before.

'Great Sun Golden Bell!'

Li Fan's pupils suddenly contracted as he recognized the immortal artifact that had replaced the sun in the sky of the Xuanhuang Realm.

The golden bell transformed into the sun.

At this moment, every living being within the Xuanhuang Realm felt an inexplicable sense of unease in their hearts, as though a sharp sword were suspended above their heads and could fall at any moment.

At the same time, Li Fan felt the "weight" on his shoulders, caused by the manifestation of a true Great Celestial Venerable, become several degrees heavier.

When Li Fan saw that the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable had completed the transformation of the golden bell into the sun, yet continued moving, his expression gradually became solemn.

The second immortal artifact taken out by the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable was an ordinary-looking circular disc.

The moment it left Wuming's hand, it transformed into five colors, white, green, black, red, and yellow, rapidly surging into the heavens and earth like immortal spiritual qi.

As a result, the various colors within the Xuanhuang Realm became even more vivid.

An unusual vitality also began to take shape.

Besides these five colors, Li Fan inexplicably sensed another invisible and formless special force spreading out from the circular disc and flowing toward every corner of the Xuanhuang Realm.

The Illusory Grand Formation that Li Fan had established, which was like shackles firmly clamping down on the Xuanhuang Realm, actually loosened somewhat under the impact of this mysterious force.

Correspondingly, the weight on Li Fan's shoulders became slightly heavier once again.

'Primordial Five Elements Wheel Disc!'

Li Fan narrowed his eyes, yet still did not stop Wuming's actions.

When the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable took out the third immortal artifact, the hurried wailing of a baby suddenly rang beside Li Fan's ears.

Li Fan immediately recognized the source of the voice.

Carefree Heavenly Sovereign.

He merely sneered and paid it no attention.

With a sweep of his hand, Li Fan dispersed the voice.

Li Fan naturally knew why Carefree, who had always avoided the world and pretended to be a coward hiding in his shell, had chosen to appear at this moment.

The power of the Xuanhuang Realm and the cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm existed in a state of mutual opposition.

Previously, because the overall strength of the Xuanhuang Realm's cultivators was far greater than that of the Xuanhuang Realm itself, even when a true Great Celestial Venerable descended, the impact on the cultivators of the world had been negligible.

However, now that the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable continued to fuse Immortal Artifacts into the Xuanhuang Heaven and Earth, the cultivators were gradually falling into an increasingly disadvantageous position as he kept adding more and more power.

It was as the saying went: the weight of a single Immortal Artifact was greater than that of billions upon billions of living beings.

Even an Immortal Artifact that had been used an unknown number of times, with almost all of its immortal spiritual qi already depleted, was still like this.

Yet there was no doubt that the fusion of the Immortal Artifacts could only benefit the Xuanhuang Realm's formal ascension. Thus, Li Fan continued to allow the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable to proceed.

At this moment, the third Immortal Artifact to be dissolved into Heaven and Earth was the Taixu Blue Heaven Lamp.

The ethereal flames flickered uncertainly, their frequency growing faster and faster until they seemed to become completely still.

At that instant, Li Fan saw the Xuanhuang Heaven and Earth itself flicker slightly.

Then the flames gradually went out, and the Taixu Blue Heaven Lamp turned into specks of ash that scattered with the wind.

'This is...'

Another accumulation of Immortal Artifact power.

The moment this restriction was generated, Li Fan's figure, which had been standing in midair, unexpectedly sank slightly despite himself.

Li Fan paid it no attention. After loosening his body, he raised his head and looked toward the heavens beyond.

At the instant the flames of the Taixu Blue Heaven Lamp went out, or rather, at the instant it fused into the Xuanhuang Realm, Li Fan clearly sensed that the influence of the suction force from the Immortal Ruins had weakened to a certain extent.

Not only the suction force of the Immortal Ruins, but also the effect of the Illusory Grand Formation acting upon the Xuanhuang Realm had been further reduced.

The ascending Xuanhuang Realm seemed like a ferocious beast that was slowly breaking free from Li Fan's control.

When the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable took out the final Immortal Artifact, the Purple Qi Dreamweaving Shuttle, the wailing cry of the Carefree Heavenly Sovereign once again rang beside Li Fan's ears.

Only this time, the voice was much weaker than before. It seemed that the influence suffered by the cultivators of Reverse Principle Longevity Immortal was far greater than what Li Fan experienced.

It was not limited to reality either. Within the Carefree Dream Paradise, the same cry also rang in the ears of every cultivator Li Fan had secretly dispatched to investigate the truth of the dream realm.

Only Hou Mingwu, who had already ventured deep into the eighth-level dream world, managed to avoid it.

Li Fan's expression shifted slightly. After pondering for a moment, he ultimately began communicating slowly with the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm.

'Too much is as bad as too little. The nourishment from three Immortal Artifacts is already sufficient.'

'It would be better to leave the final one for the Great Celestial Venerable to use as a protective treasure.'

'The ascension is imminent. There is no time left to digest it.'

...

Li Fan appealed to both emotion and reason.

The Xuanhuang Realm, which had already devoured three Immortal Artifacts and was now in an extreme state of craving, hesitated in the face of Li Fan's suggestion.

The journey of ascending to immortality was like rowing against the current. If one did not advance, one would retreat.

While it hesitated, the Xuanhuang Realm's momentum, which had been soaring toward the heavens, actually showed signs of slowly falling.

The Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm was immediately startled awake.

It ordered the Wuming Great Celestial Venerable to stop offering up Immortal Artifacts.

The noisy cries of the baby in Li Fan's ears also disappeared at the right moment.

The Wuming Great Celestial Venerable's task was over.

Next, it was Li Fan's turn to take the stage.

Li Fan had already rehearsed the ascension process together with the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm long ago.

He bowed slightly toward the sky of the Xuanhuang Realm.

A jade command tablet immediately appeared in his hand.

This Command Spirit Jade Tablet represented the will of the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm.

With the jade tablet in hand, he could freely mobilize all the power within the world just as the Heavenly Dao itself could.

He no longer needed to borrow the Heavenly Mandate and act in its place.

Li Fan stepped forward.

His body expanded rapidly with the wind. Within a few breaths, he had transformed into a giant who reached from heaven to earth.

A mysterious black and gold robe appeared upon his body. A crown glittering with starlight adorned his head, concealing his facial expressio