My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1064: The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's Golden Sword Emerges

Li Fan had only confirmed, through multiple observations using [False Misconversion of the Heavenly Dao], that the spiritual energy refilling the heavens and earth would, in turn, influence the Xuanhuang Realm to a certain degree.

For instance, if the spiritual energy carried a "killing" attribute, it might cause the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao to encourage cultivators toward slaughter.

If it bore a "chaos" attribute, then the laws of the Xuanhuang Realm would likely become unpredictable and profoundly erratic.

"Before my transmigration, I once heard an urban legend about organ transplant recipients gradually adopting the personality of the original organ donor."

"The Heavenly Dao is like a person; the Heavenly Doctor did not deceive me!"

In Li Fan's world destruction space were sealed over a dozen types of mutated Dao-One Insects. Each possessed a unique attribute for releasing spiritual energy, allowing Li Fan to reshape the Xuanhuang Realm, to some extent, according to his own designs after the spiritual disaster.

And this entire process, from start to finish, required no assistance from the Dharma-Transmitter Zhou and the others.

With his own power alone, he could accomplish it. In every subsequent reincarnation, he could replicate it effortlessly.

In this lifetime, the so-called cooperation from the Dharma-Transmitters was merely advancing the dissemination of the various arrangements to trigger the apocalyptic calamity throughout the Xuanhuang Realm.

Though the Dharma-Transmitters Zhou and Wei appeared to be architects of the spiritual disaster's layout, they had in fact long been ensnared within Li Fan's scheme of world destruction.

...

The situation in Shilin Prefecture proceeded exactly as Li Fan had anticipated.

When the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters received the distress call from Shilin Immortal City, out of habitual arrogance, they did not take it overly seriously. After all, it was merely a trifling insect plague. A Dao Integration cultivator could suppress and resolve it with ease. Compared to the various emergencies reported from other provinces, this hardly qualified as a major affair.

Thus, after some evaluation, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters decided to proceed according to the standard handling process for routine matters.

First, they dispatched a special envoy to Shilin Prefecture to verify the authenticity of the situation.

Only then would they send the appropriate Dao Integration cultivator to resolve this minor nuisance.

By the time the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's special envoy arrived in Shilin Prefecture and witnessed the terror of the insect plague firsthand before hurrying back in alarm.

With the first-hand information brought back by the envoy, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters increased its attention to the matter somewhat. But the increase was not by much.

After deliberating for a long while and successively inquiring with numerous Dao Integration cultivators about their availability.

They finally settled on the candidate to handle the disaster: the Golden Sword Immortal Sage.

When the Golden Sword Immortal Sage unleashed his myriad golden swords, the spiritual power within them remained contained, inflicting harm solely through their razor-sharp edges. For dealing with these black insects, it could not be more suitable.

Upon receiving the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's appointment, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage readily agreed.

However, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage made a point upfront: he was currently participating in a very important exchange council and could not extricate himself.

It would take approximately seven days before he had time.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters conducted another assessment of this sudden development.

The attendees unanimously believed that in a mere seven days, the insect plague would not undergo any particularly drastic changes. Waiting a bit longer would do no harm.

After all, other Dao Integration Immortal Sages might not prove as efficient as the Golden Sword Immortal Sage. Moreover, every Dao Integration Immortal Sage was exceedingly busy. Even if they switched to another candidate, it was uncertain whether they could free up time.

In truth, within the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters, there were quite a few Dao Integration cultivators who were currently idle.

However, such thankless tasks were generally, by default, assigned only to Dao Integration cultivators from "outside."

Deliberately selecting a thorny mission to temporarily remove a headquarters Dao Integration cultivator from the scene: this was often viewed as a prelude to some provocation or conspiracy, and thus not easily employed.

Everyone at the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters saw each other frequently with lowered heads; most adhered to the principle of harmony breeds wealth.

In short, due to various established customs and agreements, when the Golden Sword Immortal Sage, brimming with smug satisfaction, bid farewell to the two esteemed Dharma-Transmitters and officially set off for Shilin Prefecture to handle the insect plague.

Nearly half a month had already passed since the outbreak of the insect plague.

Following convention, upon arriving in Shilin Prefecture, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage did not rush straight to the disaster site.

Instead, he participated in the enthusiastic welcome ceremony hosted by the Shilin Prefecture cultivators.

The guests reveled in full, and the event concluded most satisfactorily.

On the second day, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage rested as usual.

Only on the third day did he, accompanied by the crowd, reach the Hundred Stone Cave-Heaven, teeming with black insects.

Upon personally witnessing the dense, sky-covering swarm of black insects in the underground cavern, even this once-confident Dao Integration Immortal Sage felt a sudden lurch in his heart.

Yet, as a veteran Immortal Sage, he betrayed no sign of joy or anger. He immediately summoned his myriad golden swords and unleashed a slaughter upon the black insects.

After engaging, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage felt somewhat relieved in his mind.

Under his sharp sword edges, these black insects, which possessed strong resistance to spiritual power techniques, crumbled like paper.

They died in droves; in mere moments, he had cleared the cavern before his eyes.

Gazing at the overjoyed and adoring looks from the Shilin Prefecture crowd, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage felt a surge of self-satisfaction.

"How vast is the scale of this underground Cave-Heaven?" he asked casually, intending to press on and swiftly resolve this troublesome affair.

Who would have thought the crowd's response would catch him off guard.

"You don't know? What do you mean?" The Golden Sword Immortal Sage's expression turned somewhat ugly.

Under the explanation from the Shilin Prefecture cultivators, the Golden Sword Immortal Sage drew in a sharp breath of cold air.

It turned out that the so-called Hundred Stone Cave-Heaven was a massive underground cavern on the border of Shilin Prefecture.

Countless paths branched and intertwined within.

Every so often, the tunnels opened into vast underground halls.

The halls were riddled with bizarre stalactites, growing wildly downward from the ceiling and outward from the walls.

They took myriad shapes, resembling humans or beasts, evoking a sense of dread.

Many cultivators had lost their way among them, vanishing without trace thereafter.

And the true extent of this Hundred Stone Cave-Heaven remained unexplored to this day.

Some cultivators speculated that the ancient exotic beast known as the Guiyuan Clam had hollowed it out.

Though no such beast had been sighted by cultivators in thousands of years, perhaps one or two still survived deep in this endless underground labyrinth.

The entire subsurface of Shilin Prefecture might well have been excavated.

"Why didn't you mention such a crucial matter earlier?" The mere thought that he might face a number of black insects rivaling the prefecture's entire area darkened the Golden Sword Immortal Sage's face.

"Ah? When we reported to the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters, we informed them of the full details," the Shilin Prefecture cultivators replied with innocent expressions in the face of his interrogation.

The Golden Sword Immortal Sage's face turned ashen. Deeply sensing the gravity of the situation, he wasted no more words and charged sword in hand toward the cavern's depths.

...

Because its swarm had suffered such heavy slaughter, the Dao One Insect Mother seemed somewhat irritated. It rolled its plump, round body.

But it was merely irritation, nothing more.

A reduction in numbers to this degree could not even match the rate at which the insect swarm naturally perished.

Even if three more Golden Sword Immortal Sages arrived, they could pose no threat whatsoever to the Dao One insect swarm.