My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1039: Du'e Calamity Annihilation Power

With those mysterious figures leading the way, the two soul clones encountered no further incidents of being torn apart.

Moreover, their speed along the mountain path increased several times, with the surrounding scenery swiftly passing by in a blur.

The only thing that puzzled Li Fan was that the initial location where he had appeared was clearly at the foot of the Du'e Sect's mountain.

He had not climbed much upward, yet the path downward was as long and endless as the ascent.

It seemed to have no end.

After an unknown amount of time.

A blur appeared before the eyes of the two soul clones, and the vague figures enveloping them vanished without a trace.

As silence filled their ears, they looked to the left and right.

The scene beside them was identical: a small courtyard with white walls, a half-open red wooden door. The walls were mottled with green and red spots; the red ones resembled bloodstains. As for the green, it was moss growing from cracks in the walls.

At his main body, Li Fan gazed at the perfectly matching scenes in his mind, his expression somewhat inscrutable.

"Two Du'e Sects? What is going on?"

Without pondering too long, he controlled the two soul clones to push open the red wooden door and enter the small courtyard.

The red door did not creak from years of disrepair; instead, it opened silently, bringing a sense of unreality.

The instant they stepped into the courtyard, Li Fan felt a pair of hands suddenly grab his ankles.

This happened at both locations.

However, when he looked down, he saw nothing. Yet the chilling sensation originating from the depths of his soul was no illusion.

"This time, I must extract a hefty compensation from the Tianxuan Mirror. He never mentioned that the Du'e Sect is this eerie."

The thought flashed through his mind, and the two soul clones ignored the strange sensation from below, continuing to explore deeper into the courtyard.

The central grand hall's doors were tightly locked and could not be opened.

There were only stone doors on the left and right, leading to unknown places.

The scenes at both soul clones' locations were exactly the same.

"Interesting." Li Fan's eyes flickered.

He first tried attacking the central grand hall, but even if it was destroyed, it reformed in an instant.

Thus, Li Fan had the two soul clones enter the left and right stone doors respectively.

The scene before his eyes flickered.

When Li Fan clearly saw the surroundings, he could not help but feel stunned.

Because beyond the stone door was an identical scene to the previous courtyard!

Still, stone doors side by side on the left and right, with the central grand hall's doors tightly locked!

"This..."

The path back had vanished; there was only the option to continue forward.

After pondering for a moment, Li Fan made a decision. After a wriggle, each of the two soul clones split into two individuals again.

Now with four soul clones, they each entered different stone doors.

The scene continued to shift.

As expected, the view before him remained the same as before.

Li Fan furrowed his brows and continued splitting his divine soul.

Eight soul divisions slowly drifted into the stone gate.

Sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, one hundred twenty-eight...

What entered the Du'e Sect to explore was merely one of Li Fan's soul divisions. After splitting into one thousand twenty-four individuals, it finally could no longer continue dividing.

Looking at the left and right doors beside the soul division, Li Fan knew the initial exploration had failed.

"Did we take the wrong path and enter a trap? Or..."

"Is this the Du'e Sect's trial?"

Li Fan pondered for a moment, then severed nearly one-third of his divine soul.

Even with the Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Technique to supplement it, Li Fan felt a wave of dizziness.

Unlike the previous simple soul divisions, this one-third divine soul also contained a large amount of extracted five elements power.

It was enough to support this divine soul through multiple divisions.

"Go." Watching the divine soul vanish into the void gap, Li Fan hurriedly recovered his injuries while continuing to view the images transmitted from the divine soul.

Just like before, the divine soul soon entered the Du'e Sect.

It was once again torn apart by the mysterious figure, entering upper and lower courtyards that differed.

To Li Fan's slight surprise, it did not find the previous soul divisions that had entered.

It seemed each had entered a separate space.

With a stir in his heart, Li Fan made the original one thousand twenty-four soul divisions self-detonate all at once.

As the sensed images vanished, the divine soul deep within the Du'e Sect felt no change.

"It has isolated perception."

"Worth being one of the ancient Ten Great immortal Sects."

Not yet at the realm where he could ignore the arrangements here, Li Fan could only explore according to their game rules.

This time, with the inexhaustible divine soul power supporting it, Li Fan advanced steadily.

Each time it entered a courtyard, it split into two individuals for separate explorations.

In this way, it continued for a total of seventy-two times.

Outside the Du'e Sect, the Dao Deviation Stone in Li Fan's sea of consciousness emitted a brilliance brighter than ever before.

Countless identical scenes lined up within the Dao Deviation Stone.

"Fortunately, these extremely similar scenes reduced the processing burden. Otherwise..."

Li Fan knew this was already his limit.

One more split, and the divine soul could still hold.

But his main body would be forced to sever all those sensed images. Otherwise, there was a risk his sea of consciousness might burst.

The current soul divisions had only the faintest trace left.

The blank spaces were almost invisible.

Without power attached, even a mortal's strike could likely dissipate them.

Yet they still followed Li Fan's main body's instructions, slowly drifting toward their respective entrances.

More images surged in unison once again.

Causing Li Fan's thoughts to fall into a brief stasis.

Then...

It was as if all the soul divisions projected downward in unison, finally converging at one point.

After a bout of vertigo, they fused back together.

It took some time to adapt to the single image.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes, surveying the surroundings.

It was still the courtyard he had seen countless times.

Only now, the stone gates were gone from the left and right walls.

Li Fan gazed at the central grand hall, lost in thought.

He slowly stepped forward and gently pushed open the doors.

In the darkness, a black point seemed to appear, absorbing all the surrounding light.

Then, it erupted outward at a thousandfold speed.

Scenes flashed rapidly before Li Fan.

"Calamity approaches; it is a great tribulation, yet also an opportunity."

"If we can successfully pass this tribulation, we shall endure eternally through myriad kalpas..."

"Among endless possibilities, that sliver of chance truly exists."

"Only by seeking life in death."

"Indeed, if the Xuanhuang can survive the great tribulation, we too can borrow the tribulation's power to achieve transcendence."

"Then, let us begin."

...

In the darkness, it seemed many identical figures were conversing rapidly.

As the scenes progressed, Li Fan was astonished to discover that these figures had all transformed into forms he had seen before.

The densely packed paper figures that filled the heavens and earth!

Li Fan's mind trembled, and he wanted to look further.

But the surrounding pitch-black space suddenly shook violently.

All the illusory scenes vanished completely.

When Li Fan could see things again...