My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1186: Soul Destruction Without Form

“Yes, the Celestial Pivot Court has always opposed research on world extinction power and has fiercely suppressed it for many years. Countless cultivators have thus become nourishment for the Divine Tree. If it were not for the fact that they could no longer hold on in recent years, I do not think they would have compromised.”

“Thinking about it this way, the Severed Immortal Tower only took a little over five hundred years to make such great progress. The Celestial Pivot Court has held power for nearly ten thousand years yet achieved nothing. This has caused the Immortal Ark to decline day by day. The Celestial Pivot Court truly deserves death.”

“The heavens of the Immortal Ark are about to change. We brothers must make plans early. Perhaps we can take this opportunity to shed this criminal status…”

The three exchanged glances and all saw the wild ambition in each other’s hearts.

However, their whispered conversation ended in this uninhabited void.

When they returned to the original valley, they once again became silent and taciturn, appearing indignant.

After reporting to Elder Gou, they moved into the wooden houses in the valley.

More than a hundred cultivators resided here.

Every once in a while, some of them would leave the Immortal Ark to collect world extinction relics.

The people of the Immortal Ark seemed extremely fearful of the Darkest Star Sea outside. Before every mission, they all looked anxious and uneasy.

Collecting relics indeed came with a high casualty rate.

It was not due to any actual injuries sustained in the Star Sea outside the Immortal Ark. Rather, every time they went out, the lifespan of the Immortal Ark people seemed to decrease dramatically.

After going out twice, the wrinkles on the face of this Zhao surnamed cultivator, Zhao Tianjiang, had clearly deepened.

“No wonder I have not seen any young cultivators here. They are all middle-aged or elderly.” Li Fan suddenly understood.

The hundred or so people in the valley usually did not cultivate.

Besides undertaking the task of going out to collect world extinction relics, they did not need to do anything else.

From their daily chats, Li Fan also gathered a large amount of information about the Immortal Ark.

They called this valley the Sin Suppression Valley. It was a place of exile for cultivators who had violated the laws of the Immortal Ark but whose crimes did not warrant death.

Collecting world extinction relics was the way to atone for their sins.

Once they completed their service and compensated for their crimes, they could leave this place and return to normal life.

From their hopeful words, Li Fan caught a glimpse of daily life for the people of the Immortal Ark.

All matters in the Immortal Ark, big and small, were managed by the Celestial Pivot Court.

Ordinary Immortal Ark people did not need to worry about survival. The Celestial Pivot Court provided a fixed amount of survival supplies every year.

But it was only just enough to sustain life.

The Immortal Ark had strict controls on total population and the number of cultivators.

Not only did giving birth to the next generation require approval, even cultivation was limited to a fixed quota.

Besides obtaining cultivation qualifications through lottery, one could also gain them by making outstanding contributions to the Immortal Ark.

For example, going out to salvage world extinction relics.

In this Sin Suppression Valley, the vast majority of people had no cultivation.

That was why they harbored such great fear toward going outside.

As mortals, the reason they could move freely in the Darkest Star Sea and remain alive was because of the special immortal armor secretly manufactured by the Celestial Pivot Court that they wore during missions.

In addition to ensuring their own safety, it could also identify which relics were qualified and could be exchanged for merits.

As for what use the Celestial Pivot Court had for these world extinction relics…

The bottom-level people of the Immortal Ark naturally had no idea.

…

“It seems this Immortal Ark is even more divided than the Xuanhuang Realm.”

“The information I can gather by staying here is limited. I need to find a way to leave this place.”

The power of his current clone was truly too weak and could not withstand even the slightest consumption.

Crossing the Immortal Ark’s void by himself was almost impossible.

The green formless paths in the void would only appear after receiving permission. Anyone who rashly tried to approach them at other times would only be smashed to pieces and turned into nourishment for the Immortal Ark.

Therefore Li Fan’s clone continued to lurk, waiting for an opportunity.

What he had not expected, however, was that instead of an opportunity, a catastrophe arrived first.

The cause was that Zhao Tianjiang and the other two cultivators he had been lurking near suddenly fell ill.

At first Zhao Tianjiang only thought he was a little tired and lay in bed for several days.

Later he could not sleep at all. His whole body began to itch and he became restless.

Zhao Tianjiang seemed to recall something and endless fear surged in his eyes.

Yet he did not tell anyone else about it.

He even forced down the discomfort, showed his face in front of everyone several times, and voluntarily applied for another mission to collect relics.

Only when he could not stop coughing and black spots began appearing on his skin did Zhao Tianjiang hide inside his house and refuse to come out.

He held a jade tablet-like magic tool, not knowing what he was doing with it.

Later blood began flowing continuously from his seven orifices and the smell of blood spread. Only then could the matter no longer be concealed.

“Alas. His days are numbered. It is better to send him back early so he can reunite with his family.”

“Truly fate is unpredictable. Old Zhao had the best physique among us yet still could not avoid contracting the void strange disease.”

“He even hid his condition for so long just to earn a few more merits for little Zhao before he died…”

Everyone sighed and showed expressions of shared sorrow.

Elder Gou, however, showed not the slightest emotional fluctuation. He simply handled the matter officially and sent Zhao Tianjiang away.

Soon the Immortal Ark sent someone to fill Zhao Tianjiang’s position in Sin Suppression Valley.

After Zhao Tianjiang’s death, the other two cultivators who had been with him soon showed symptoms one after another and died miserably.

Everyone in Sin Suppression Valley sighed that their luck had simply been bad.

Only Li Fan knew the truth. The reason they had died one after another from the so-called void strange disease was most likely because his clone had lurked near them for so long.

“The bodies of these Immortal Ark people…”

“They are truly fragile. They cannot even withstand the tiny trace of void aura carried by my clone. If my main body came in, would it not be a destructive source of infection?”

Li Fan felt somewhat speechless.

Taking the lives of these three was not something he had done intentionally.

It was simply that he had crossed more than half of the Darkest Star Sea and stayed in the void for far too long.

His divine soul had probably long been contaminated by certain mysterious forces in the void.

Although his own divine soul was tough and unafraid of infection by these strange powers, these fragile Immortal Ark people were another matter.

In Sin Suppression Valley it was as if ten years passed like a single day.

The entire Immortal Boat seemed like a pool of stagnant water, completely without ripples.

The opportunity Li Fan’s clone was waiting for still had not come.

Until this day…

The usually stern-faced Elder Gou suddenly changed his expression.

He summoned all the personnel of Sin Suppression Valley.

He gathered them outside the valley as if waiting for some important figure to arrive.

The people in the valley felt uneasy while Li Fan’s clone sensed from afar a powerful aura rapidly approaching.

“Dao Integration stage?”

“No, more than that. Yet it does not carry the oppressive feeling of the Longevity Immortal realm.”

“Hmm? It is mixed with a trace of fluctuation from True Immortal Seal Script power?”