My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1525: Life Force Vitality Devours the Ruomu Tree

With no other choice, He Zhenghao could only agree to Li Fan's demands.

"The Tianxuan Mirror is a supreme treasure of the Immortal Alliance. Although this person before me is powerful, he probably cannot damage the mirror."

Trembling with fear, He Zhenghao led Li Fan into a secret chamber deep within the Administration Hall. After activating the Congyun Prefecture Tianxuan Mirror, he could not help but reassure himself with these thoughts.

A faint light flickered, and an ancient mirror materialized out of thin air.

"Just as I expected. It feels incredibly familiar."

Savoring the subtle sensation that had once again arisen within him, Li Fan did not hesitate. He took a single step forward, and his figure shattered before disappearing into the mirror.

Only He Zhenghao remained standing nearby, utterly dumbfounded.

Although Li Fan had entered the Tianxuan Mirror, the mirror itself did not detect his intrusion.

All the functions that ordinarily required different levels of authority to unlock and use were now displayed before Li Fan without any restrictions, neatly organized into their respective categories.

He could even freely seize any resources, items, divine abilities, or cultivation techniques stored within the Tianxuan Mirror.

He could also directly utilize its computational power for derivations.

Furthermore, as long as he did not trigger any major anomalies, the Tianxuan Mirror would not discover his presence.

If not for the numerous memories in his mind that clearly belonged to existences far beyond the Tianxuan Mirror, Li Fan would almost have believed that he was the human incarnation of the Tianxuan Mirror itself.

"I wonder whether this convenience is the result of my previous simulations."

For the next three months, Li Fan remained inside the Tianxuan Mirror, thoroughly studying countless ancient texts and secret records.

Although the mirror contained an enormous amount of information, whenever Li Fan examined it, he experienced a peculiar feeling of familiarity, as though he both recognized and did not recognize what he was seeing. More often than not, merely skimming through something once was enough to trigger spontaneous insights in his mind.

Moreover, the more he reflected upon these memories, the more fragmented memories were transformed into clear and complete recollections.

His reading speed also grew increasingly faster.

Eventually, he no longer needed to search for answers within the Tianxuan Mirror.

"Defying the principles of Heaven and Earth to prove longevity. This cultivation method is clearly flawed, yet it has permanently bound its practitioners under the control of the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor. Perhaps I eventually came into conflict with him in one of my previous lives..."

Li Fan did not rush to embark upon the path of cultivation.

Despite spending three months reading extensively without cultivating, his body continued to grow stronger.

"The methods of the Heavenly Sovereign seek power through external objects. This is because the human body is inherently frail. To defy Heaven, one must borrow external forces to change one's fate."

"But I already possess such immense power within my body. There is no need for me to cultivate through methods that defy the natural order."

Li Fan sat cross-legged within the Tianxuan Mirror, closing his eyes in deep contemplation. With every breath he took, tiny specks of green light emerged from his body like rising and falling tides.

They radiated from within him but did not disperse. Instead, they accumulated around his body, illuminating his entire silhouette with a faint, verdant glow.

When Li Fan opened his eyes again, his outward appearance had barely changed. However, within his dantian, a resplendent starry sky had already taken shape.

Every star scattered across that vast expanse radiated a vibrant green light, brimming with boundless vitality.

"Strictly speaking, what I am doing cannot be called cultivation. It should be called cultivating the truth, unlocking the potential within myself."

"Although everyone possesses hidden treasures within the human body, the hidden potential of an ordinary mortal is incomparable to the boundless vitality contained within me. Any random green speck in this sea of stars might be equivalent to the combined vitality of tens of millions of living beings."

Li Fan carefully examined the phenomenon within his dantian, pondering its implications.

Once one's strength reached a sufficient level, even the simplest gestures could distort and alter the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Furthermore, Li Fan instinctively sensed that his ability to subdue and command the Xuanhuang Heaven and Earth was particularly exceptional.

It was just like the Crimson Flame that had appeared in response to his thoughts.

As Li Fan's body gave birth to an boundless sea of stars, the Crimson Flame, which had been the first to submit to him, also received enormous benefits. Its crimson color was infused with an inexhaustible supply of vitality, gradually turning a brilliant, blazing white. It no longer retained a humanoid form, instead becoming a pure mass of dancing flames.

"Although transforming from a human into a blazing flame might appear to be a downgrade, it has actually allowed it to transcend the restrictions of the Xuanhuang Realm. It still belongs to one of the spiritual essences of the Xuanhuang Heaven and Earth, but a portion of it has already transcended this world's boundaries."

"The Crimson Flame is like this. So am I."

Understanding welled up within Li Fan's heart.

"And all of this is caused by vitality."

Naturally, Li Fan had considered investigating the abnormalities within his body. However, a mere three months of accumulated information from the Tianxuan Mirror was clearly insufficient to unravel the true mysteries of this vitality.

"Besides, what I have seen and understood is only the portion of the Tianxuan Mirror's information connected to the outside world. Another part of the Tianxuan Mirror remains sealed off. Only by entering the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, where the main body of the Tianxuan Mirror is located, will I be able to glimpse it."

For the time being, Li Fan had no intention of putting himself in danger.

Although the Xuanhuang Realm was not particularly large, it concealed countless secrets. Perhaps he could begin by investigating other places and gradually recovering his knowledge of the world.

Li Fan searched through the endless stream of illusory images, looking for the destination most suitable for him at present.

Suddenly, his thoughts halted before an ancient mirror.

"Is this... the Boundless Mirror?"

"Sun Luyao, Sun Luyuan..."

Various pieces of information concerning the Sun family surfaced in his mind.

"They belong to the direct bloodline of the Mirror Holder lineage. Approaching them will not be as easy as approaching He Zhenghao. Although my current body is powerful, it is still not strong enough to disregard the combined attacks of numerous Dao Integration cultivators."

After pondering for a moment, Li Fan summoned He Zhenghao.

At this moment, He Zhenghao was both elated and deeply apprehensive. Everything stemmed from the enormous quantity of resources that had inexplicably been allocated through the Tianxuan Mirror.

Ten times more than before. He Zhenghao would swear that even the headquarters of the Immortal Alliance would never be this generous!

Yet, he was also extremely reluctant to return the resources he had already obtained.

With abundant resources backing him, he could finally hold his head high. As the supplies were distributed in large quantities to his subordinates, everyone below him assumed that He Zhenghao's connections within the Immortal Alliance headquarters were responsible for this sudden generosity. They all regarded him with heartfelt respect and admiration.

For the first time, He Zhenghao finally experienced what it truly felt like to become the undisputed ruler of an entire Prefecture.

However, this beautiful dream was about to come crashing down now that Li Fan had summoned him.

"What do you think about the tenfold increase in resources allocated this time?"

He Zhenghao's body trembled. He did not dare answer.

Li Fan said calmly, "Do not be nervous. They are nothing more than numbers. Forget ten times. As long as you dare to ask for it, I can easily arrange a hundredfold increase for you."

He Zhenghao trembled even more violently and repeatedly insisted that he would never dare.

He understood that everything came at a price. And now, the other party had come to collect his payment.

"If Senior has any instructions, I will do my utmost to carry them out."

"Every year, the ten prefectural officials with the best administrative performance are eligible to visit the Immortal Alliance headquarters and receive honors and rewards. Make this your goal and work hard toward it. The next evaluation will take place five years from now. If you need anything, simply tell me."

Li Fan spoke indifferently.

He Zhenghao's expression changed drastically upon hearing this.

What kind of thief would steal something and then parade it around the streets for everyone to see? After obtaining the benefits, one should quietly digest them. Why would anyone willingly participate in a competition for administrative achievements?

Improving his ranking would require the support of enormous quantities of resources. To jump from among the bottom ten to the top ten in a single evaluation...

There was simply no way such a change could withstand an investigation!

However, Li Fan's gaze made one thing perfectly clear to He Zhenghao. If he agreed, even if the matter was exposed later, he would at least survive for another five years before meeting his end. If he refused, today would be the day He Zhenghao died.

There was no second choice.

He Zhenghao could only grit his teeth and agree.

Having already boarded the same pirate ship, He Zhenghao decided he might as well go all in. With a grand wave of his hand, he submitted a list of material requirements several times greater than what he actually needed.

Who would have thought that Li Fan would agree without even blinking?

In less than half a day, mountains of supplies began appearing within the Tianxuan Mirror Division of Congyun Prefecture.

He Zhenghao was both astonished and terrified by the sight.

Apart from all the various supplies required to maintain the administration, Li Fan had even provided detailed records of the impending transformations of all the large and small Cave Heavens and worlds within Congyun Prefecture and the surrounding Prefectures.

With this information, cultivating more than a hundred Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation cultivators within five years would be no problem at all.

He Zhenghao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, but felt not the slightest excitement.

"By the way, there is one more thing."

"Take me there and help me place this object somewhere underground in Daoyuan Prefecture. Anywhere will do."

As Li Fan spoke, he handed over a sapling.

It appeared to be an ordinary tree seedling. However, what was unusual was that He Zhenghao could not sense any vitality emanating from it. He could not even sense its existence.

Even when holding it in his hand, he felt absolutely nothing.

If not for the occasional flashes of green light appearing on its surface, He Zhenghao would almost have forgotten that he was carrying it.

He Zhenghao did not dare delay Li Fan's instructions.

He immediately headed toward Daoyuan Prefecture.

Before long, he had entered its territory. He found a blessed location where several earth veins converged and planted the sapling there.

Only after that did he return.

Through the portion of his body that had been separated, Li Fan's mind also began to display scenes from Daoyuan Prefecture.

"This place seems to conceal tremendous danger."

"However, to me, it also seems to be an enormous source of nourishment."

"I will have to wait for the right opportunity. For now, I should first plant a hidden contingency."

The sapling took root within the earth veins and then began growing wildly without any restrictions.

During its growth, it did not absorb the power of the earth veins. On the contrary, it continuously radiated its own vitality outward.

And this was despite Li Fan having already done his utmost to suppress the outward flow of its vitality.

The Xuanhuang Realm appeared to be flourishing with life, but in reality, it was already terminally ill.

The vitality brought forth by this sapling was like the fragrant aroma of a miraculous elixir reaching someone on the verge of death.

It immediately attracted the attention of certain Sacred Spirits within the Xuanhuang Realm.

The first to notice it was an ancient tree with yellowing leaves and branches covered in hanging fruits containing cultivators!

Merely the time it took for one incense stick to burn after the sapling was planted, Li Fan sensed that his body in Daoyuan Prefecture seemed to have attracted someone's attention.

Moreover, the aura transmitted by the other party gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

"Hm?"

An image of a hunched, deranged figure flashed through his mind. A moment later, Li Fan saw the owner of that figure appear before the sapling.

"This is... Ruomu?"

The appearance of Ruomu triggered memories that Li Fan had lost.

And when Ruomu greedily reached out toward the sapling, a cold glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes.

"Since you want it so badly, I might as well grant your wish."

Having only cultivated from scratch for three months, Li Fan was still uncertain whether his current self could defeat this ancient Xuanhuang tree.

However, since the other party wanted to devour a part of his body, he already had a way to deal with it.

A flash of green suddenly appeared in Li Fan's originally pitch-black pupils.

Like a volcanic eruption, boundless vitality surged forth from the sapling underground in Daoyuan Prefecture.

It then poured toward Ruomu.

When Ruomu, who had already been on the verge of withering away, sensed this immense vitality, an instinctive expression of delight appeared on its face.

It greedily absorbed it without restraint.

However, when Ruomu discovered that no matter how much it absorbed, the vitality within the sapling showed no sign of diminishing, and instead seemed to be growing increasingly vast, its delight quickly turned into terror.

Its withered yellow leaves and branches all regained their lush green color. As vitality was drawn into it from the outside, countless new shoots began sprouting from the towering Ruomu.

However...

The number of these new shoots was simply far too great!

They emerged densely from every part of Ruomu's body.

Every available space was occupied by them.

In just half a day, the combined size of these newly grown shoots had already surpassed that of the original Ruomu!

Yet they showed absolutely no intention of stopping their growth.

Even though Ruomu had fled in panic from the location of that mysterious sapling, boundless vitality continued to rise from the green energy it had previously absorbed into its body.

Ruomu felt its body growing heavier and heavier.

Those newly sprouted green branches were taking over its body!

Yet Ruomu was completely powerless to do anything about it. It could not even find a way to resist.

Strictly speaking, these newly grown green branches were also parts of Ruomu itself.

It was simply that they were growing far too quickly, to the point that they had exceeded Ruomu's control.

Once they matured, they turned around and suppressed Ruomu itself.

It was like the parts of an organism that were naturally eliminated during the process of metabolism.

Ruomu felt, with growing horror, that it was about to die!

Not because its vitality had been exhausted.

But because its vitality was flourishing too vigorously.

This was a manner of death it had never even imagined possible, yet it filled Ruomu with unprecedented terror.

It desperately tried to do something, only to discover that before this incomprehensible vitality, it was utterly helpless.

"Where did that thing come from, exactly?"

Ruomu's heart was filled with confusion.

Just as the new branches were about to completely devour Ruomu, they suddenly stopped growing.

Even so, Ruomu had already lost control over the ancient tree of the Xuanhuang Realm.

It could only cling to life in a remote corner of the ancient tree.

As the situation settled, a figure shrouded in hazy green light arrived in this space.

Knowing that the newcomer was the culprit who had usurped its body, Ruomu stared fixedly at him, yet did not dare make the slightest sound.

The newcomer was naturally Li Fan.

Usurping Ruomu's body had been even easier than he had imagined. This was also the first time Li Fan had unleashed the vitality within his body to its fullest extent without imposing any restrictions.

Its immense potential had somewhat astonished even Li Fan, whose memories had yet to be fully restored.

Compared with the vast vitality within Li Fan's body, Ruomu, which commanded the vitality of the Xuanhuang Realm, was simply insignificant.

If Li Fan had not noticed something amiss later and stopped in time, Ruomu might well have ceased to exist altogether by now.

Li Fan glanced at his new body.

Frowning slightly, he shook off all the countless cultivator fruits hanging from its branches, causing them to fall to the ground.

Although these cultivators had been asleep, they had still been affected by the overflowing vitality. Not only had the injuries they had accumulated from repeatedly forming Golden Cores in the past been completely healed, but their life potential had also been further stimulated.

In the future, as long as they had sufficient resources, advancing to Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation would be as easy as drinking water.