My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1025: The Mysterious Trail of the Dao Deviation Stone

Li Fan needed a large quantity of pills that could directly increase cultivation, naturally prepared for the cultivators in his small world.

It had been some time since they began collectively practicing the Vital Essence of All Living Beings Technique, but the overall progress could only be described as barely satisfactory.

Li Fan thus decided to force their growth.

Exploration of the blood-colored long river, which encompassed the entire past of the Xuanhuang Realm, had not yet begun in this life. Yet ahead, Li Fan might soon face a counterattack from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, the Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor, as well as entities like the Immortal Ruins Immortal, the Faceless True Immortal, and many others.

Clashing with enemies of this level required utmost caution, no matter how careful one was.

With his current low strength, Li Fan had to borrow force to strike force and could afford no mistakes.

All his energy must be focused here; once started, he could not afford distractions for other matters.

But the formation of the blood-colored long river in this life was truly accidental.

Whether the next life could replicate it exactly and recreate it remained uncertain for Li Fan.

So what Li Fan needed to do now was to accelerate the pace of exploration as much as possible.

In fact, under the command of his clone Li Qing, batches of Foundation Establishment cultivators had already been sent from various small worlds to explore beforehand.

The results were without exception: all perished of old age before the blood-colored long river, returning not a shred of useful information.

Fortunately, the area where the blood-colored long river was located was extremely special, hidden within the supreme treasure Fishing Pond. Thus, the anomalies of the cultivators' falls were all concealed, undetectable by outsiders.

Otherwise, the secret of the blood-colored long river would surely have been exposed.

"At the very least, they must be massively elevated to the Golden Core realm for any chance of success. Otherwise, the time is too short; it would only be sending them to die in vain." This was Li Qing's conclusion.

Hence came Li Fan's act of intimidating the entire Medicine King Sect to focus on pill refinement without worry.

After touring the Wood Attribute Cave-Heaven, Li Fan escorted them all out from his body. He only took a batch of herbs for their pill refinement needs.

With the trivial matters settled, Li Fan returned to the underground chamber in the Spiritwood Realm and took out a list to review.

It was the investigation results that had previously troubled Mo Rubin to compile: details on cultivators likely possessing the Dao Deviation Stone.

This helped Li Fan eliminate the vast majority of suspects who were innocent.

Looking at these names and the dense web of interpersonal relationships behind them, Li Fan sighed slightly: "Having connections at the top of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance makes things so convenient. Otherwise, just compiling this list's information might take me years, and even then, it may not be as clear."

"And Mo Rubin merely gave a simple order, and his subordinates naturally handled it impeccably."

As he gazed at these names, a thought stirred in Li Fan's mind, and he took out the [Heaven-Measuring Ruler] previously gifted by the Tianxuan Mirror clone.

Omniscient vision without a target would overwhelm Li Fan's current data processing capacity with the sea of information.

But what if he selected purposefully?

Li Fan's divine sense sank once more into the infinite mirror world.

This time, using the suspects from the list as his desired search results, he directly filtered out vast amounts of useless information.

As expected, the pressure eased instantly.

Countless scenes flashed before his eyes; Li Fan patiently awaited the emergence of results one by one.

Half a day later...

Dozens of mirror surfaces floated before Li Fan like light screens, arrayed in sequence.

"Hmm, some still have no search results. This shouldn't be due to my oversight, but rather the limits of the Tianxuan Mirror's authority. Just as the Genesis Stone Tablet only records the history of the native Xuanhuang Realm, with no entries for foreign cultivation realms."

Li Fan watched intently, spying on these forty-five cultivators in total.

Some cultivated within the Tianxuan Mirror, others explored sect ruins.

Some experimented with divine abilities, while a few discussed cultivation issues encountered with companions.

But without exception, all had passed the novice stage of fretting over contribution points.

None were laboring on tasks to earn contributions.

After observing for a full three days, no cultivator revealed any slip.

But Li Fan was unconcerned, continuing to wait with great patience.

Having possessed the Dao Deviation Stone himself, Li Fan knew well that once one grew accustomed to its presence, dependency easily formed.

For any problem solvable by the Dao Deviation Stone, there was no reason not to use it.

After all, it was part of one's own divine ability.

Li Fan's wait soon yielded rewards.

Seven days later, among them, a Soul Transformation cultivator named Lu Chengxue, while chatting idly with a friend, brought up an old adventure they had shared years ago.

Since much time had passed, they seemed to have discrepancies on the details, leading to an argument.

After a brief daze, Lu Chengxue fully recalled and recounted the events of that time.

Convincing his friend.

"It's you!" A sharp gleam flashed in Li Fan's eyes.

This scene was all too familiar to Li Fan!

Was it not exactly searching past events in the Dao Deviation Stone's records?

Having found the target, Li Fan did not act immediately.

Instead, he continued observing through the mirror.

This persisted for over a month and a half, without a hint of boredom.

Including Lu Chengxue, he ultimately locked onto three targets.

The other two exposed themselves through inhuman memory and data processing abilities.

"There should only be these. If they could hold back from using the Dao Deviation Stone for so long, either they sensed the spying and deliberately concealed it, or they have completely given up, indifferent to cultivation."

Li Fan abruptly stood, exiting the Spiritwood Realm and heading straight for the targets.

It was time to upgrade the Dao Deviation Stone once more.

The first target was Lu Chengxue.

This person was a core figure of the Lu Family's middle generation in Tianquan Prefecture.

Though the Lu Family had no supreme powerhouses, what they were most praised for was their benevolence, eagerness for justice, and willingness to aid others.

Any friend of the Lu Family facing difficulties would surely receive their help.

Even if insurmountable factors prevented official intervention, Lu Family disciples would extend aid privately in their personal capacity.

In the treacherous, treacherous Xuanhuang Realm where deceit and malice abounded, the Lu Family could truly be counted as a clear stream.

Over the years, how many cultivators had received favors from the Lu Family?

And ordinary passersby, facing the habitually benevolent Lu Family, were generally quite friendly in attitude.

After all, who could guarantee they would never encounter trouble in the future?

Maintaining good relations with the Lu Family meant one more path to survival.

But it was precisely such a widely acclaimed family...

That Li Fan now intended to strike ruthlessly at its core disciple.

After cultivating the Dao-Transforming Divine Unity Secret Technique, the Dao Deviation Stone fused as one with the cultivator's soul.

The only way to extract the Dao Deviation Stone...

Was to extinguish its soul.

But Li Fan would hesitate not in the slightest.

In fact, not just in this life.

In lifetime after lifetime to come, he would do the same.

Until the Dao Deviation Stone held no further use for him.

...

In Tianquan City, Li Fan, having located Lu Chengxue, gazed at this face full of warm sincerity.

He first observed a moment of silence for him.