My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1081: The Sole Sanctuary

Whether it was the Heavenly Sword Sect or the departing Emperor Yi demon beast clan. In the future Xuanhuang Realm, no news about them was ever heard again.

In Li Fan's view, this was the escape method he was least likely to consider. The High Walls isolated the inside from the starry sea outside. Once beyond the High Walls, one would probably lose all contact with the Xuanhuang Realm completely. Thus, whether the escape succeeded or not could not even be verified.

And under the massive energy fluctuations of the Rift Realm, if it failed, there might not even be a chance for activating [Truth]. Neither the main body nor the clones could "try" the true feasibility of the Rift Realm. So Li Fan had always shown little interest in this method.

"Leaving through the Rift is undoubtedly a complete flight of deserters. The Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable's trial would never support such a plan."

"If I were the Xuanhuang Celestial Venerable and such a group of people preparing to defect appeared in my world, what would I do?"

On the way to the Nanming Mountain with Xu Ke, Li Fan pondered carefully.

The encounters along the way were similar to those in the previous illusion experiences. But this time, with Mr. Bai's wooden carving for protection, it was even smoother, with no dangers at all, and they arrived very successfully.

Under the guidance of the human body differentiated by Emperor Yi, they visited the demon beast clan's Ten Thousand Demons Assembly.

Amid the thunderous cheers of the demon beasts shouting "We will forever support Emperor Yi," the assembly concluded.

At this moment, Xu Ke, reminded by Li Fan, handed over the wooden box containing Emperor Erli's head.

Emperor Yi's reaction and performance showed no deviation. After saying a bunch of obscure and hard-to-understand words, he split off a gray sphere and handed it to Xu Ke.

"You may go now."

Emperor Yi then issued an order to leave.

"Wait a moment."

At this point, Xu Ke suddenly spoke up again.

"Hmm?" The Emperor Yi beast seemed somewhat surprised. But it still patiently waited for Xu Ke to finish.

"Senior, among all these demon beasts present, how many do you think truly and sincerely wish to follow you in leaving?"

"Because of some vague and signless so-called calamity, they must abandon the Xuanhuang Realm, this paradise."

Emperor Yi's human body frowned: "I do not need their true sincerity. I only need them to obey orders."

"If they really refuse to listen, I can just swallow them all!"

Xu Ke smiled, adopting an air of worldly wisdom beyond his years: "Just now, Senior said that in the infinite future, there are infinite possibilities. So why are you so certain that in this great calamity, the Xuanhuang Realm is doomed and that only fleeing offers a slim chance of survival?"

"Is there not even one future where the Xuanhuang Realm truly survives and becomes the only safe place across all spacetime?"

"Would you not do something for that sliver of possibility?"

Xu Ke's eyes were filled with wisdom, as if glowing, staring intently at Emperor Yi.

These words were clearly not something Xu Ke at this age could say. And the silly bird snoring loudly on his head... Obviously could not be the source of his ideas either.

"So this is his intention?"

Emperor Yi naturally knew who had sent Xu Ke here. Thus, it began to seriously contemplate those words.

Seeing this, Xu Ke pressed the advantage: "Since back then, Emperor Sanmo could split from the demon beast group and choose to side with humans. Then today, naturally, a part can split between leaving and staying, to guard the Xuanhuang."

"This was inevitable anyway. But with your words, Senior, it seems more formal."

Emperor Yi's beast form glanced out the window at the demon beasts with varied expressions, lost in thought.

"Interesting."

"Then wait a bit before you leave."

After saying this, Emperor Yi's human body slowly vanished into thin air.

Xu Ke and Li Fan looked toward the assembly hall, which had not yet dispersed.

Emperor Yi suddenly called out to more than thirty demon beasts, including [Red Nine-Headed].

No one knew what it said, but the demon beasts first showed fear on their faces, then disbelief, followed by ecstatic joy.

Li Fan only felt Emperor Yi's distant gaze upon him, which soon shifted away.

Seven days later.

Above Nanming Mountain.

“What? You want us to listen to this little kid?”

The Red Nine-Headed, who had already transformed into human form, looked at the tiny Xu Ke and immediately showed displeasure on his face.

The group was vast and imposing. It consisted of more than three thousand shape-shifted demon beasts in total. At this moment, all of them were radiating murderous intent, staring at Xu Ke with fierce glares.

Xu Ke swallowed hard but, under Li Fan’s encouragement, finally nodded seriously: “Although Emperor Yi Senior agreed to your request to stay in the Xuanhuang Realm, the only condition is that you must obey my commands.”

“Of course, I will not make any unreasonable demands. I am just afraid you will cause chaos in our human cultivators’ territory, so you must exercise restraint.”

As Xu Ke spoke, he pulled a round disc from his bosom.

As soon as the disc appeared, the many demon beasts who had been leaking murderous aura all suddenly became obedient. At least, they appeared so on the surface.

“Fine, you have the Beast Taming Wheel, so you call the shots,” Red Nine-Headed said with a forced smile. “But little kid, we can follow your orders. There must be a time limit, right? We cannot be your slaves for life.”

“Hahaha, I do not think you need to worry about that. This little kid can live at most a few thousand years, but we demon beasts can all live steadily for over ten thousand years.”

“We must keep a close eye on this little kid. Do not let him die too soon!”

...

Many in the demon beast group jeered.

Xu Ke’s face remained tense, unaffected by them.

After making a fuss for a while and seeing that Xu Ke did not lose his temper, the demon beasts quieted down and continued on their way.

In reality, the migrating demon beast group was far more than the three thousand or so visible on the surface. Each different demon beast was basically bringing family along. They used Cave-Heaven treasures similar to those for carrying clans unwilling to leave the Xuanhuang Realm.

Along the way, more demon beasts who received the news and also wanted to stay in the Xuanhuang Realm kept rushing over to join.

By the time they neared the Beast Taming Sect, the group had swelled to over ten thousand.

Vast and imposing, with demon qi rampant. It was like a demon beast army marching to war.

If not for the Beast Taming Wheel bestowed by Emperor Yi Beast to suppress their aura, and Mr. Bai’s wooden carving occasionally invoking the power of the Heavenly Dao to conceal them. It would likely cause panic among the cultivators in the passing regions.

Even so, when they finally reached the Beast Taming Sect’s mountain gate. This terrifying demon beast army still caused the uninformed Beast Taming Sect to panic immensely.

“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”

The shrill alarm rang out across the entire sect in an instant. Countless cultivators brought their natal spirit beasts and rushed over from various parts of the mountain gate.

“They are so weak, so weak!”

“I never imagined that after being domesticated by humans, our Azure Dragon lineage would become this feeble!”

“Hmph, if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I truly would not believe that demon beasts would sincerely submit to humans!”

“We outnumber them, so why not...”

Xu Ke watched as the atmosphere among the demon beast group subtly turned wrong and broke out in a cold sweat.