My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1204: The Crippled Heaven Deficient Earth Sea

Drifting in the Star Sea for ten thousand years, even without any civilization rupture, the Immortal Ark’s cultivation method theoretical level had made essentially no progress.

All the worlds they had seen were destroyed, leaving only various destructive remnants of True Immortal Seal Script power echoing in the Star Sea. As the saying goes, rely on the mountain to eat the mountain and rely on the water to eat the water, the Immortal Ark thus placed all its future hopes on researching this mighty power. As for other aspects...

Compared with the calamity-ridden Xuanhuang Realm, it was weaker by more than a notch.

At the very least, in the extreme environment where laws could not be cultivated together, the various wondrous methods born in the Xuanhuang Realm were, in the eyes of Immortal Ark cultivators, all existences worthy of applause and admiration.

With the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s cultivation method repository as foundation, Li Fan’s clone quickly found the most suitable cultivation method for Zhao Xian. Of course, in Zhao Xian’s own view, this was merely a part of the vast number of cultivation methods derived by the future Academy of Dao Attainment through the Derivation Law Jade.

“Spirit-Soul Harmonization Art. A divine art suitable for cultivators even in conditions of extreme resource scarcity. It can achieve perfect coordination between divine sense and spiritual energy; no matter which side is stronger, it can convert it to supplement the weaker side.”

“Within the academy, spiritual energy provision is truly limited. Supplying me to advance to Golden Core is already the limit. Wanting to progress further is fundamentally impossible. Yet I can use secret arts that increase divine sense power to drive an increase in spiritual energy through the growth of divine sense...”

“In the academy’s exchange catalog, the value of the items needed to perform the secret arts is far less than spirit stones.”

Zhao Xian, who was just troubled by being stuck in a bottleneck, suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He recalled even more from that strange dream of the future. In his excitement, he immediately spent all the contributions he had accumulated over the years to exchange for the materials needed to temper his divine sense.

These ordinary mind-calming miscellaneous items in the Immortal Ark were refined by Zhao Xian using flames, calcined and melted into crystalline liquid. Then, like a whale sucking water, they continuously entered his sea of consciousness.

The scalding heat waves nearly incinerated Zhao Xian’s divine sense clean in an instant.

After a brief blank in his consciousness, Zhao Xian discovered that he had actually adapted to this scorching heat. At the same time, the intensity of his divine sense began to rise visibly.

“Truly an unparalleled miraculous art!” Zhao Xian praised in his heart.

However, what Zhao Xian did not know was that the reason his fragile Qi Condensation stage divine sense could survive such intense refining was entirely due to Li Fan’s clone.

Even the majority of the efficacy from the liquids refined from those treasures was absorbed and refined by Li Fan’s clone. After all, Zhao Xian only had late Qi Condensation cultivation; merely sharing a strand was enough to steadily elevate his divine sense.

When Zhao Xian awakened from cultivation, he felt that his divine sense intensity had nearly multiplied several times compared to before. It had already reached the level of mid Foundation Establishment.

Compared with this “vast” divine sense power, his spiritual power cultivation appeared somewhat frail.

It gave the feeling of a giant playing with a toy body.

Zhao Xian suppressed the wild joy in his heart and hurriedly circulated the [Spirit-Soul Harmonization Art]. In his sea of consciousness, an invisible millstone seemed to appear abruptly. It ground the divine sense power into pieces, transforming it into pure energy that nourished Zhao Xian’s body.

Without absorbing any spiritual energy, Zhao Xian’s cultivation advanced at a terrifying speed.

In the end, after three days, Zhao Xian’s divine sense and spiritual power balanced at the early Foundation Establishment stage.

“I’ve succeeded in Foundation Establishment just like that?”

Upon regaining his senses, Zhao Xian looked at his own hands in utter disbelief.

“This breakthrough was way too easy. I didn’t feel any of the heart demons or bottlenecks that Master and the academy seniors always talk about.”

“After Foundation Establishment, my permissions in the academy have jumped up a big notch. I can exchange for more resources now. My cultivation will probably progress much faster than before…”

After all, he was still just a young boy. Fantasizing about the future, Zhao Xian could hardly contain his excitement.

In the end, it was the scene from that dream of the future—the vision of the Immortal Ark’s destruction that pulled him back to reality.

“The road ahead is long. I still have a very long way to go. I cannot grow arrogant.”

Zhao Xian was pondering how to make greater use of his “foreknowledge” advantage to rapidly climb the ranks.

Meanwhile, Li Fan’s clone was savoring the scene from when Zhao Xian had broken through earlier.

Zhao Xian had not truly avoided any obstacles in breaking through the barrier. It was Li Fan who had blocked them for him.

“That sudden fluctuation that appeared out of nowhere and struck straight at the heart.”

“It was not True Immortal Seal Script. It was the Heavenly Dao of the Star Sea…”

At that moment, outside the Immortal Ark, Holy Embryo Li Fan suddenly felt something stir within him.

His body came into direct contact with this space filled with the aura of deathly stillness. During the journey across the Darkest Star Sea, Holy Embryo Li Fan had already realized that this Darkest Star Sea actually shared the same foundational set of Dao principles as the Xuanhuang Realm. In fact, its upper limit was even slightly higher than that of the Xuanhuang Realm.

The sword path, which had already reached its limit in the Xuanhuang Realm, had unknowingly broken through its original bottleneck during the time spent traversing the Star Sea and reached a new height.

The bottleneck manifested as Heaven’s Calamity in the Xuanhuang Realm took on a different form here in the Darkest Star Sea.

“Urging one to return to the mortal path, leaving all thoughts in ashes. For a mere breakthrough from the peak of Qi Condensation, it already possesses such power. If I had not experienced so much and possessed a will far tougher than ordinary people…”

“I’m afraid I would have had to resort to the Immortal Heart Mantra to resolve it.” Holy Embryo Li Fan felt a chill in his heart.

Amid the various illusions carried by that invisible fluctuation, Holy Embryo Li Fan seemed to see scenes of achieving breakthrough success, then enduring countless hardships, yet ultimately perishing in all sorts of tribulations.

No matter how hard one tried, the outcome of failure could not be escaped.

“Better to return to the Dao. Return to the Dao…”

The obsession echoed like demonic sounds in his sea of consciousness, persuading him to abandon cultivation.

“The Heavenly Dao of this Darkest Star Sea is rather interesting. It bears some resemblance to the ancient heart demons recorded in Xuanhuang Realm classics.”

“From this glimpse, one can see that although this Star Sea has been shattered and fragmented by the power of True Immortal Seal Script, its fundamental underlying operations remain intact.”

Holy Embryo Li Fan pondered deeply. His vision suddenly broadened, as if he saw a world far vaster than before, enveloping everything beyond the Xuanhuang Realm.

Even though this world was already heaven crippled and earth deficient, it still brought Li Fan new insights into comprehending the principles of the world.

He once again savored the contents of the Heavenly Doctor’s [Record of Mending Heaven].

“If the situation in the Xuanhuang Realm is like a patient in the terminal stage, stitched together and possessed by another using a corpse as a vessel, then this Darkest Star Sea is something that has long since died. The vast majority of its body has been crushed to pieces by immense force, leaving behind only a few scattered limbs and fragments…”

“The Xuanhuang Realm can still be saved to some extent, but this Darkest Star Sea is completely beyond rescue.”

“Of course, that is from the perspective of the Heavenly Doctor when he wrote the [Record of Mending Heaven].”