My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1042: Comprehending a New World-Ending Method

If the influence on his body was still within expectations, then the changes produced in the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven under the effect of this Yin force came as a great surprise to Li Fan.

The five Cave-Heavens, originally clearly distinct and mutually non-interfering, now faintly showed signs of fusing with one another.

A rumbling like a dragon's roar emerged within the Cave-Heaven, and amid the constant tremors, the circulation speed of the five elements nearly doubled.

Although the overall intensity had not increased much, the already astonishing endurance and resilience achieved yet another breakthrough.

Li Fan's divine sense locked onto the Long Moon Yin Jade in his embrace, his expression shifting inexplicably.

"Heaven and earth in harmony, yin and yang in union. The Tianxuan Mirror did not deceive me; this is indeed something I have been lacking before."

"However..."

Li Fan's fluctuating thoughts soon settled: "It can only add flowers to brocade, not send charcoal in the snowy weather."

"No matter how much the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven strengthens, it has its limits. To directly confront a Longevity Immortal, a breakthrough in the major realm is still required."

Having gained the benefits, Li Fan no longer wasted time with the Tianxuan Mirror clone and directly asked for the next course of action.

The Tianxuan Mirror clone pondered: "The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's internal Spirit Sealing Plan has been roughly drafted. However, based on past experience, it will take quite a long time from drafting to formal implementation."

"Unless an unexpected accident can provide some stimulation."

With that said, the Tianxuan Mirror clone quietly transmitted a segment of content via secret voice transmission.

After listening, Li Fan could not help but give the Tianxuan Mirror clone a thumbs up.

"I will have the brothers in the sect handle this right away and surely give the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance a big surprise."

Li Fan turned into a rainbow and departed impatiently.

Everything in the city that had been frozen in stasis resumed its flow, and soon after, moans that stirred the imagination echoed from the room.

After visiting the hidden Cave-Heaven to meet Mo Rubin and relaying the Tianxuan Mirror clone's scheme, Li Fan finally returned to the Spiritwood Realm.

In the underground secret chamber, the soul fragment clone solemnly suppressed the Du'e Book.

Relying solely on the soul fragment's own power was naturally insufficient.

However, with the newly laid Immortal Ancestor restriction and the combined force of the Spiritwood Realm's overall grand formation, it could steadily suppress it.

"The Du'e Sect..."

Li Fan gazed at the book before him, which constantly flashed with Xuanhuang silhouettes, and once again split off a strand of divine sense that drifted into the Du'e Book.

This time, due to the completion of the restriction, Li Fan no longer passed through the mountain path and stone steps to enter that eerie little courtyard.

Instead, sheets of yellowed paper appeared one after another, like screens of light filling the sky, encircling Li Fan.

On the light screens, one could vaguely see some blurred fleeting images.

But only rough scenes were visible, with no clear details.

"It seems true inheritance from the Du'e Sect is required after all."

Li Fan shook his head slightly and withdrew from the Du'e Book.

In this life, the existence of the Heaven Measuring Ruler had already rendered the surveillance function of the Du'e Book's paper figures almost negligible to Li Fan.

However, there was one convenient aspect of the Du'e Book that the Tianxuan Mirror could not compare to.

That was that the Du'e Sect's paper figures were truly rooted in the Xuanhuang Realm, deeply embedded in the world's veins.

Previously, when Li Fan faced Dharma Transmitter Jiang, he had attempted the [Nothingness (Mo)] Character Script.

He had originally thought it would stir up a storm of bloodshed in the Xuanhuang Realm, but Transmitter Jiang had easily quelled it.

Later, he learned it was because of the Returning Ruins Realm's [Return to Origin] power, which could continuously trace back and gradually dilute the effects of the [Nothingness] Character Script until they were completely eradicated.

From that previous setback, Li Fan had thereby discovered the correct method to use the [Nothingness] Character Script. Only by first eroding the Xuanhuang Realm as extensively as possible, then erupting all at once, could it reach a point of no return, incurable and fatal.

However, secretly spreading the [Nothingness] Character Script throughout the Xuanhuang Realm carried considerable risk. It was possible that some mighty figure might emerge from a corner and halt Li Fan's mad actions.

But with the Du'e Book, those densely packed paper figures scattered across the Xuanhuang Realm became the perfect tools for propagation and infection!

"As long as I erode the Du'e Book, the gray mold spots can spread along countless paper figures, infecting the vast majority of the Xuanhuang Realm in an instant. By then, even a True Immortal would be powerless to reverse it!"

A sharp glint flashed in Li Fan's eyes.

If the Xuanhuang Realm were viewed as a giant, then the Du'e Sect's paper figures were like nerves implanted postnatally, extending throughout the body's various parts.

And the [Nothingness] Character was like a deadly toxin, capable of rapidly diffusing through them to the entire body.

Though Li Fan might not actually do it, he had at least grasped another method of world destruction besides summoning the immortals from the Immortal Ruins.

"Moreover, this method of world destruction is not like the True Immortals' glance, which annihilates in an instant. Instead, it involves a slow process of decline toward extinction. In a bid for self-preservation, perhaps the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association's trump cards, along with all those hidden figures who care for the Xuanhuang, would be forced to reveal themselves."

With thoughts surging, Li Fan's cold, emotionless eyes fell upon the Du'e Book: "Du'e Sect..."

"Well done!"

Having figured out the ultimate use of the Du'e Book, Li Fan did not leave the underground chamber.

Instead, he continued studying this sole inheritance of the Du'e Sect.

He was particularly interested in the Du'e Sect's method of rooting itself throughout the Xuanhuang.

...

While Li Fan was in seclusion researching, a considerable disturbance quietly arose within the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, shaking the entire upper echelons of the Alliance.

The incident began with a Golden Core cultivator who mysteriously died within the Tianxuan Mirror.

This person had been cultivating in an enlightened state within the Tianxuan Mirror space until his contribution points were exhausted and he was expelled by the Tianxuan Mirror.

Only then did his corpse become visible to everyone.

Since he had been dead for some time, the heavenly phenomenon of a cultivator's fall did not appear, revealing the cause of death.

After an investigation, it was hastily concluded as "deviation into demonic cultivation" and left unresolved.

Who would have thought this was only the first case? In the following two months, reports emerged from various parts of the Alliance of cultivators encountering all sorts of accidents while cultivating in the Tianxuan Mirror.

Some suffered a flood of hallucinations in their minds, forcing their cultivation to halt and leaving them severely injured.

Others even died outright.

If it were just one or two deaths, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance could barely tolerate it.

But the anomalies in the Tianxuan Mirror that followed caused complete panic throughout the Alliance.

Because the Tianxuan Mirror's trading function seemed to have developed issues as well.

Not only did contribution point settlements during trades have a certain probability of errors, but cultivators' originally held contribution points could also be directly zeroed out due to erroneous calculations.

Chaos was spreading, and every function of the Tianxuan Mirror seemed to be gradually affected.

After a meticulous investigation, the Alliance finally determined that these anomalies were caused by an attack from some petty scoundrel.

However, the Tianxuan Mirror was an immortal artifact-level existence with powerful self-repair capabilities.

As time passed, all these various disorders would ultimately vanish on their own.