My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1027: Bloody Secrets of the Chaoyuan

Tasting the marrow and knowing its flavor.

Having understood just how powerful a high-grade Dao Deviation Stone truly was, Li Fan wasted no time and immediately captured the other two as well.

They had not hit the jackpot either; the Dao Deviation Stones they carried were still only high-grade.

Li Fan proceeded as before.

After absorbing a total of three high-grade Dao-Transforming Stones, Li Fan once again felt that long-lost qualitative change, as if he had broken through a major realm.

However, he did not become arrogant; he reanalyzed the experiences of this life once more.

With his enhanced planning ability, he roughly deduced how to successfully break free from the [True Immortal's Net] in the future, smoothly return to [Truth], and even extract benefits from it.

"Still, it has not reached the level of the mother Dao Deviation Stone, which could deduce the hierarchy of the real world. I must still adapt to circumstances as they arise."

Li Fan fell silent, various thoughts swirling in his mind.

After a full three days of secluded cultivation, he first summoned his clone, Li Qing.

"You may go ahead to the Congyun Sea and alert the Chaoyuan Sect to flee early. If there are no surprises, the Chaoyuan Sect ruins will still fly toward Nine Mountains Prefecture."

"After the cultivators from the various small worlds forcibly advance to the Golden Core stage by consuming the Medicine King Sect's pills, lead them there."

"With you watching over them, they should be able to carve a path out from the Chaoyuan Sect's mountain of corpses and sea of blood. Once they reemerge, they can collectively advance to the Nascent Soul realm. At that point, probing the secrets of the blood-colored long river will be much easier."

In the clone's mind, memories of the Chaoyuan Sect instantly resurfaced.

The Chaoyuan Sect was an ancient Cave-Heaven hidden in the Congyun Sea, at the third fracture layer of the seabed.

Before the Congyun Sea was about to suffer calamity, it fled far away and fell into Nine Mountains Prefecture.

Shuo Feng, Zhang Haobo, and Su Xiaomei had once banded together to explore it in search of breakthrough opportunities.

From their experiences, Li Fan had learned the secrets of the Chaoyuan Sect.

The Chaoyuan Sect was a native sect of the Xuanhuang Realm.

After the great calamity descended, it vanished without a trace, as if evaporating from the mortal world.

In reality, the entire sect had been transformed into a peculiar state, existing between the illusory and the real, isolated from the outside world.

Time within seemed to have stagnated, in hopes of evading the disaster.

This was the Chaoyuan Sect's original plan.

But all sorts of accidents inevitably occurred.

First, the region they inhabited was slapped into the Congyun Sea by a single palm from the Immortal Ancestor's Manifestation, burying the Chaoyuan Sect deep underground.

Later, perhaps due to the influence of the fusion between the two realms, strange changes gradually occurred within the Chaoyuan Sect.

When Su Xiaomei and the others entered the Chaoyuan Sect ruins, the cultivators inside appeared to be living normal lives.

But in truth, they had all become faceless bloodfaces, stripped of their appearances.

And they themselves were utterly unaware.

If one revealed the true nature of their faceless bloodfaces in front of these Chaoyuan Sect cultivators, they would go berserk and suddenly launch attacks.

Like beasts stripped of reason, regardless of their cultivation level, they would only assault with their physical bodies and claws.

Though they would not use divine abilities, these faceless bloodfaces were still quite difficult to deal with.

They were extremely fast and could recover from injuries swiftly.

Only by completely severing their bloodfaces could one finally kill them.

Once a faceless bloodface was eliminated, it would turn into a streak of red light that attached to the cultivator who slew it.

These red lights were, in fact, the origin power of the Chaoyuan Sect world.

After leaving the Chaoyuan Sect, these seized red lights would follow the cultivator out as well.

Like some great tonic, they were enough to directly advance a cultivator below the Nascent Soul realm by a major stage.

Even the wondrous item needed for Foundation Establishment in the new method, the Golden Core method, and the Nascent Soul Cave-Heaven to advance would naturally derive from the red light.

And if one mastered a special refining technique, it was even possible to directly absorb the red light essense within the Chaoyuan Sect world, sustaining oneself through battle.

As for why the Chaoyuan Sect had devolved into such a bizarre scene, it remained unknown for now.

However, Li Fan guessed it was still due to the influence of the Xuanhuang Realm's fusion with other realms.

...

Li Qing sorted through the origins of the Chaoyuan Sect and then nodded.

"If that red light origin is also useful for me, then perhaps my realm might even surpass yours?" Li Qing said with a smile.

"Then you had better kill more. Advancing the Heavenly Wonder is not like the others. The resources needed for you to advance to the Soul Transformation realm might exceed what an ordinary cultivator needs to reach Dao Integration," Li Fan replied nonchalantly.

"If you truly achieve the Soul Transformation realm, relying on the Black Sword Heavenly Wonder, you might even hold out for two or three rounds against my subordinates."

The clone smiled but did not respond.

He accepted the order and departed.

After this, the exploration of the blood-colored long river would be fully handled by the clone, Li Qing.

In any case, once any secrets were uncovered, the clone's knowledge would naturally synchronize with his.

There should be no mishaps.

...

With the support of the upgraded Dao Deviation Stone, the Final Dissociation Disc could finally unleash its maximum computational power.

While deducing a way to crack the Immortal Ancestor's restriction, it also began fabricating a brand-new formation according to Li Fan's design.

As for Li Fan himself, he turned to studying the cluster of white light within his body.

It was the mirror origin that the Tianxuan Mirror had previously given him.

Although the Tianxuan Mirror claimed that this mirror origin would only exist alongside it, neither increasing nor decreasing.

Li Fan was very curious: if, after returning to [Truth], he chose to retain this item, what would happen?

"There is a high chance that a new mirror origin would suddenly appear out of thin air in the world."

"If the Tianxuan Mirror does not sense this new mirror origin..."

Li Fan's eyes narrowed slightly.

During the days since obtaining the mirror origin, Li Fan had reaped too many benefits.

Just the fact that the Tianxuan Mirror had almost no defenses against him was worth using an anchor point to exchange for retaining the item.

"In the final moments of this life, I can test the Tianxuan Mirror's reaction."

"If it is detected, I will return to [Truth] immediately anyway, so there will be no impact."

"But if the Tianxuan Mirror fails to detect this suddenly added origin, then the uses would be immense."

Of course, all this presupposed that the item exchanged via the Anchor Point would generate out of thin air in the [Truth] item space.

Rather than absorbing an existing item from the current world.

"This actually also represents the true possibilities concerning [Truth]."

Li Fan fell into deep contemplation for a moment.

"Still, it is absolutely worth trying."

Li Fan currently had only two blank anchor points left.

However, as for how to increase anchor points, Li Fan already had some guesses in his heart.

Previously, the increase in anchor points came from Li Fan absorbing cultivators' Golden Cores.

And at the very beginning, it was from absorbing cultivators' spiritual items for Foundation Establishment.

So, evidently, the next step to increase Anchor Points would likely involve absorbing what was needed for Nascent Soul formation: that is, Cave-Heavens.

As for why Li Fan had personally visited many Cave-Heavens but received no prompt for absorption upon returning to truth...

Li Fan guessed it might be because newborn Cave-Heavens were required.