My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1030: Instant Ascension Nether Lock

My Longevity Simulation

Just one step away from fully comprehending that divine ability, Li Fan had lingered outside the threshold for a full half-month.

All to ensure his mind and will would not be influenced by the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm.

"A gentleman is not different from others; he is good at borrowing from things."

With enlightenment achieved, Li Fan recited slowly, his figure flickering as he instantly appeared outside the Spiritwood Realm.

With the divine ability newly formed, Li Fan needed a suitable place to test its power.

"This move, [Method of False Misconversion], shares a similar ingenuity with my [Formless Killing Intent]. Both borrow the mandate of heaven for use. Though they can wield the authority of heaven and earth, there is also the risk of discovery and subsequent heavenly punishment."

"For the first trial, I need a place where the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm is relatively weak."

Thinking this, Li Fan's figure turned into a straight illusory line in the air, heading straight for the Congyun Sea.

The Congyun Sea was the area where the fragment of the Heavenly Law Realm had yet to fully integrate with the Xuanhuang Realm.

Like a splinter embedded deep in flesh, the Xuanhuang Realm could only fully absorb it after several years through the Crimson Flame Incineration Sea, a grand cleansing.

In the Congyun Sea, the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm was considerably weaker than in the native prefecture.

Before long, Li Fan arrived at an uninhabited sea area.

Standing atop the clouds, he held his breath and focused his mind before executing the newly comprehended [Method of False Misconversion].

The world in Li Fan's eyes changed in an instant.

It was as if he had returned to the [Root of Heaven and Earth], where countless horizontal and vertical threads intertwined to form all things in heaven and earth.

Everything in the great net operated according to the rules of these threads.

Those were the existence known as the laws of heaven and earth.

Li Fan's physical body seemed to vanish into thin air. His spiritual will slowly merged into this great net.

In that instant, the pressure from the countless crisscrossing threads nearly tore Li Fan's soul apart. In this fleeting glimpse, he caught sight of the foundational laws governing the operation of heaven and earth.

He even seemed to witness countless events unfolding within the Xuanhuang Realm.

But the fusion with the great Dao of heaven and earth lasted only that one instant before Li Fan actively halted it.

Because if he continued, his soul would be unable to withstand this immense force and would be torn into countless fragments, then absorbed into the myriad laws of heaven and earth.

Perhaps a Heavenly Dao Li would be born in the future, but that would no longer be Li Fan.

After withdrawing from the state of fusion with heaven and earth, Li Fan, seizing the moment while the profound and mysterious insight in his heart had yet to fade, once again circulated the [Method of False Misconversion].

This time, he did not reach the level of soul fusion with heaven and earth.

He merely tried to connect the crisscrossing law threads of heaven and earth to himself.

With each thread he touched, Li Fan felt as if a great mountain was pressing down on him.

The Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method combined with the Soul-Ignition Method operated at their utmost to alleviate the burden on his body.

Li Fan continuously connected the law threads into his body.

It was as if, within the great net of heaven and earth, he had drawn out threads to form a self-entwined knot.

Only when Li Fan felt he had reached the limit his body could bear did he stop adding more.

"This is the weight of the principles of heaven and earth..."

Now, Li Fan felt as if he were pinned beneath the Five Elements Mountain, unable to move.

Only upon direct contact with the majestic power of heaven and earth could one truly sense how terrifying the might of heaven and earth was.

"The Longevity Immortal realm requires overturning these great mountains and reversing the principles of heaven and earth..."

"I am still a bit far from that."

Li Fan's gaze flickered as he temporarily set aside the thought.

He began to sense his current state.

Though he could not move, Li Fan's field of vision at this moment was broader than ever before.

Farther and clearer than when he had borrowed the Canghai Pearl to observe the transformation of the seas into mulberry fields in the Congyun Sea.

From a lofty, overlooking perspective, the five provinces surrounding the Congyun Sea all lay beneath Li Fan's gaze.

All living beings were like ants, fully visible at a glance.

In his ears rang countless murmurs of unclear meaning.

These did not come from some indescribable monster, but from the self-operating mechanisms of heaven and earth.

As the saying goes, the Great Dao is silent.

Heaven and earth were like a ceaselessly running, highly precise machine. In the process of their evolution, they would constantly emit their own rumbling sounds.

Ordinary people could not perceive this at all. Only someone like Li Fan, who had become part of the Great Dao of heaven and earth, could hear a fraction of it from the cacophony of the heavenly hymns.

Since he was in the Congyun Sea, upon careful discernment, Li Fan found that the vast majority of these murmurs concerned the evolution of heaven and earth in the Congyun Sea.

The most prominent among them was the brewing Crimson Flame Incinerating the Sea.

Li Fan also heard heaven and earth's arrangements regarding the Azure Wind Trapping Sword.

But what surprised Li Fan was that the heavenly hymn of the Azure Wind Trapping the Sword ranked only third amid this noisy din.

As for second...

Li Fan cast his gaze toward the source it pointed to.

That was deep beneath the Ten Thousand Immortals Island, a dark place still shrouded even from heaven and earth's perspective.

The Spirit of Heaven and Earth named [Golden Seal] coiled like a chain, eternally suppressing the darkness below.

"The Nether Passage Mouth?"

The term instantly surfaced in Li Fan's mind.

In his 115th lifetime, the entire Ten Thousand Immortals Island had been seized by the Five Elders Association. The Nether Passage Mouth beneath the island was thereby exposed.

As acting city lord, while receiving the task to rebuild the Immortal City, he had also been ordered by Diyi Jinglun to deploy the Xuantian Nether Lock Formation, blocking the Nether Passage Mouth once more.

"So, as the Nether Passage Mouth has gradually expanded, the suppression from the Ten Thousand Immortals Island has long since slowly lost its effect."

"Perhaps this is also why strange anomalies frequently appear in the Congyun Sea."

"Heaven and earth have already begun dealing with it quietly, without any cultivators noticing."

Li Fan suddenly understood.

The Xuantian Nether Lock Formation's style was extremely similar to that of the Xuantian Sect.

According to the relevant records Li Fan had searched for in the Tianxuan Mirror, they all aligned in claiming it was indeed inherited from the ancient Xuantian Sect.

However, with Li Fan's current insight into formations, he could see at a glance that although the formation was ingenious, it clearly had not reached the level of an immortal-grade formation.

It was even far inferior to the Reversing Life and Death Formation.

"The strangeness was born during the fusion of the Xuanhuang Realm with other cultivation realms."

"During the time of the Xuantian Sect, this formation already existed. This means that even then, as the Xuanhuang Realm began capturing other worlds via the Floating Starry Sky Grand Formation, problems with strangeness had already emerged."

"However, the formation's energy level also indicates that the strangeness was not severe at the time. Such a crude formation was sufficient to handle it."

"But as the number of fused worlds increased day by day, this Xuantian Nether Lock Formation..."

"...has become somewhat stretched thin."

Using the spare computing power of the Dissociation Disc in his mind, Li Fan derived a brand-new Nether Locking Formation with ten times the containment power in almost a single breath.

Li Fan shook his head slightly: "After all these years, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance still refuses to innovate, treating a thousand-year-old relic like a treasure."