My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1198: The Xuanhuang Realm's Sinner

From a certain perspective, the Xuanhuang Realm had become what it was today, and Chen Tianhai bore a large share of the responsibility.

Because it was precisely he who had unauthorizedly activated the Dao Deviation Stone Mother and performed tens of billions of deductions.

Only then had the Immortal Ancestor glimpsed that one sliver of possibility for victory.

The fall of the Ten Great Immortal Sects and the six Longevity Immortals made Chen Tianhai an outright sinner!

Naturally, the countless deductions by the Dao Deviation Stone Mother could not be hidden. When his master, the Daoist Xingji, returned and discovered that this terrifying outcome was most likely caused by Chen Tianhai's internal sabotage, he flew into a rage. He intended to execute Chen Tianhai on the spot to appease the world.

However, after repeated consideration, the Daoist Xingji ultimately did not act.

First, because of the deep master-disciple bond, akin to father and son, Daoist Xingji ultimately softened.

Second, if this news truly spread, it would surely turn the Taiyan Sect into a target of public criticism, and it might even lead to the Taiyan Sect being erased from the Xuanhuang Realm. After all, traitors are always more hated than enemies.

But the tragic deaths of his old friends and the extreme self-reproach in his heart made it impossible for the Daoist Xingji to truly pretend nothing had happened.

Thus, he could only strip Chen Tianhai of his status as the first direct disciple, throw him into the Taiyan Sect's great prison for eternal suppression, and publicly declare that Chen Tianhai had defected.

Chen Tianhai stayed in the dark, sunless cell for who knows how long.

By the time he was released, it was when the calamity had descended and the Taiyan Sect faced a life-or-death crisis.

The World was in chaos, and the once-renowned Ten Great Immortal Sects were each struggling to survive.

The Taiyan Sect's disciples could use the Dao Deviation Stone to continuously run complex deductions, thereby suppressing the killing intent brought by the inability to cultivate techniques together. They had not fallen into the extreme chaos like the other immortal sects.

But it had already reached the limit.

Not only the Dao Deviation Stones within each cultivator's body, but even the Dao Deviation Stone Mother itself, due to the sudden appearance of [Extreme Variables], had overturned all previous deductions and begun rapidly re-deducing in order to seek a slim chance of survival for the Taiyan Sect. Its computational power was nearly exhausted. Before his master, the Daoist Xingji, perished from exhaustion, he released Chen Tianhai.

And pointed out a path for him.

Abandon the physical body; information is indestructible.

"Fortune and misfortune are interdependent. Although you committed a great error back then, it also allowed you to deduce the Immortal Ancestor's details."

"Now the Immortal Ancestor has been drawn away by our final measure and has temporarily left the Xuanhuang Realm. This has also bought us a brief respite to preserve our strength."

"Otherwise, I fear all our immortal sects' inheritances would have been destroyed!"

Before he could fully convey his last words, Daoist Xingji had already fallen.

And before the calamity of the inability to cultivate techniques together completely enveloped the Taiyan Sect, Chen Tianhai finally completed the act of integrating the entire Taiyan Sect into the Dao Deviation Stone Mother.

Fortunately, his master had already eliminated all opposing forces within the sect before his death.

Otherwise, Chen Tianhai would not have lasted until that moment.

Once every person in the sect could experience and access the near-infinite computational power of the Dao Deviation Stone Mother, Chen Tianhai knew that his master's decision had been correct.

And after re-integrating the segmented Dao Deviation Stones into his body, mixed with the wills of over a thousand cultivators from the Taiyan Sect, the Dao Deviation Stone Mother itself underwent some profound and wondrous change.

It birthed its own intelligence.

A collective consciousness belonging to the Taiyan Sect.

During the thousands of years the Taixuan Realm had secluded itself from the world, Chen Tianhai had reviewed the past and re-analyzed what he had done back then.

At that time, he had repeatedly felt uneasy and had even suspected he had fallen victim to the Immortal Ancestor's hidden move.

However, whether it was the sect's restrictive treasures, his master, or even the other Longevity Immortal experts from the Taishang and Heavenly Sword sects, none had found anything amiss with him.

Chen Tianhai could only assume it was simply his own inner demon at work.

"The Immortal Ancestor's methods are truly cunning eand hard to guard against."

"It's a pity that his details were not fully explained by my master before he passed, and the other knowledgeable ones in the immortal sects have long vanished without trace. But after so many years, I have deduced a rough outline..."

While listening to Sun Erlang recount his simulated experiences, Chen Tianhai's thoughts surged.

"By the way, Senior, the cultivation techniques I learned in the simulation world..." Sun Erlang hesitated.

"Of course they are real." Chen Tianhai said indifferently.

"But you had best not learn or use them in reality. Otherwise, you might invite pursuit from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's Guardian Hall." Chen Tianhai added.

"The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's Guardian Hall..." Sun Erlang murmured, yet there was no fear in his eyes.

"Very well. Since Young Friend has gained greatly, please return now. Do not keep your master waiting too long." Chen Tianhai issued the order to leave.

"Yi Shu will accompany you to the Great Qi small world."

Before the words had even faded, Sun Erlang felt his vision blur.

When he came to his senses, he was already outside the blue transparent building.

Yi Shu stood smiling nearby, seemingly having waited for quite some time.

"Hmm?" Sun Erlang immediately noticed that the current Yi Shu was different from before.

In fact, he was different from all the other cultivators in the Taiyan Sect.

No longer the cold, completely uniform collective aura, but a living, breathing existence with his own vitality.

"Thanks to you, Young Friend, I have temporarily regained a physical body in reality and can go out to enjoy myself for a while." Yi Shu smiled as he explained the current state of the Taiyan Sect to Sun Erlang.

"Information is indestructible..." After hundreds of years of tempering in the simulation world, Sun Erlang was noticeably much steadier.

Yet he was still shocked by the Taiyan Sect's fantastical concept.

"Young Friend need not be surprised. If you truly experienced it personally like we have, you would know that having or lacking a physical body makes little difference. In fact, a real body is nothing but a burden." Yi Shu said with a chuckle.

"But occasionally switching things up is not bad either."

Yi Shu followed Sun Erlang out of the Taixuan Realm, heading straight for the Congyun Sea and the entrance to the Great Qi small world.

Clearly, the Taiyan Sect was no stranger to the location of the Great Qi small world.

However, after passing through the Immortal Severing Grand Formation and seeing only a vast expanse of empty void with no small world in sight, Yi Shu finally showed a trace of surprise.

Sun Erlang was first stunned, then his memories from a hundred years ago seemed to resurface.

He said somewhat embarrassedly: "Senior, please wait a moment. Our Holy Dynasty of Great Qi is currently adrift in the void, floating without fixed position. I do not know where it is right now..."

"Let me ask."

Moments later, a golden light shot out from the darkness and arrived before the two in an instant.

"Greetings, Senior Hundred Flowers!" Sun Erlang recognized the newcomer and respectfully saluted.

Daoist Hundred Flowers glanced over Yi Shu without saying much.

"Follow me."

The glazed golden light enveloped the two. The surrounding void twisted as if distorted, emitting strange radiance.

When the golden light dissipated, they had already returned to the Holy Dynasty of Great Qi.