My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 1211: The Body Is the Source of the Immortal Calamity

His heart sank.

Under normal circumstances, if they were merely ordinary remains, Li Fan should not have sensed any living aura from them at all.

Yet these two bones before him...

They caused Li Fan's heart to tighten abruptly, as if he were being watched by the gaze of some entity.

The stone statues formed from the bones also seemed ready to come alive at any moment, with strands of eerie aura seeping out from them.

Li Fan decided instantly. Without another word, he directly ended the Boundless Mirror's probe.

The scene before him changed abruptly.

The bones vanished, and what met his eyes were once again the two seemingly ordinary stone statues.

Only then did the sense of crisis in Li Fan's heart slowly fade away.

"Senior..." Sun Luyao was frightened by the scene just now and felt somewhat at a loss.

"Tell your brother to stay far away from those two statues." Li Fan instructed with a calm exterior, but in reality massive waves had already surged in his heart.

Were those two bones truly the Grand Mage's?

Judging from their outward appearance, they most likely belonged to the Grand Mage of Heavenly Capital.

But why would he, with a half-Immortal body, have two bones left in the First Origin Sect?

"Could it be that he was so severely injured that he was powerless to retrieve his own bones even after they were seized by cultivators?"

This thought flashed through Li Fan's mind in an instant.

But soon Li Fan himself placed a huge question mark over it.

Was it possible?

The power that enveloped the entire Yuandao Prefecture and could devour ten years of time indicated that the Grand Mage should not have fallen yet.

The might of a half-Immortal, no matter how heavy the injury, was not something cultivators below the mortal realm could contend with.

Not to mention that it was an ancient immortal cultivator from the past.

"Unless..."

"Boundless Mirror."

Li Fan looked toward the timid and shrinking Sun Luyao, the new Boundless Mirror spirit.

When the Sun brothers had first picked up the damaged Boundless Mirror, the immortal artifact's spirit had already disappeared. That was what had allowed the two mortals to take advantage of the opportunity.

Judging from the obliterating wind calamity that had erupted within the Boundless Mirror not long ago, it seemed that during the confrontation with this calamity the artifact spirit had dissipated and the Boundless Mirror had been damaged.

"The Boundless Mirror is an ancient immortal artifact of the Xuanhuang Realm, bestowed upon the Boundless Sect by the Immortal Realm. Even if the Immortal Realm was destroyed by an unspeakable calamity, it should not have affected the Boundless Mirror. Yet strangely this obliterating wind disaster, which should never have appeared in the mortal world, unfolded right inside the Boundless Mirror..."

In that instant Li Fan recalled the event at the far end of the Star Sea: after his Holy Embryo clone infiltrated the Immortal Ark, it had synchronously brought the invisible calamity from the Darkest Star Sea into it, causing several cultivators to die tragically.

"Transmission..."

"Outside the Xuanhuang Realm..."

In the history of the Xuanhuang Realm the only known entity that had possibly come into contact with the Immortal Realm and originated from outside the Xuanhuang Realm was the Grand Mage of Heavenly Capital.

"From this perspective both the Boundless Mirror and even the First Origin Sect may have been affected by the Grand Mage."

The past events of this place were too murky and confusing, and the clues currently available were truly too few. Li Fan could only make such a guess.

"However if the guess is roughly accurate then perhaps the trouble with the Boundless Mirror can be resolved." Li Fan's eyes flickered.

After learning of the risks in this place, Ji Hongdao and Sun Luyuan still made the relatively wise choice to temporarily leave the secret chamber.

However, when it came to what they should do next, the two developed some disagreement.

"The remains of the Grand Mage of Tiandu are no trivial matter. We should report this to the Immortal Alliance as soon as possible." Ji Hongdao said seriously.

Sun Luyuan clearly expressed his opposition: "Brother Ji, you are being foolish! The Grand Mage is said to be the master of the Ten Immortal Sects. If the news reaches the Five Elders Association, they will surely stop at nothing to seize it back. A great war will be unavoidable, and countless lives will be lost! Given the current state of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, do you dare guarantee that this matter will not leak?"

Ji Hongdao had no words to reply.

Sun Luyuan continued: "Given the Dharma-Transmitters' attitude that only the Immortal Ancestor matters in their eyes..."

"Even the bones of a half-immortal would likely inspire no reverence in them. Once inside the Immortal Alliance, the outcome would be either research or placement in the Museum of Divine Treasures for public viewing and commentary."

"Moreover, the Grand Mage is a legendary half-immortal; whether he has truly perished remains uncertain. If we profane it today, we may well face his retaliation in the future." Sun Luyuan said all this with a face full of sincerity.

Ji Hongdao felt somewhat helpless: "Then what do you suggest we do?"

"Leave it untouched." Sun Luyuan declared firmly.

"Brother Ji, think about it: even the bones of a half-immortal offer us little benefit. With the new method before us, achieving longevity is already nearly hopeless, let alone becoming an immortal?"

"Taking it away might bring catastrophic disaster later, with no tangible benefit. Why bother?"

...

In the end, Ji Hongdao was still persuaded.

The fundamental reason was simply that these were only two bones after all.

And moreover, the bones of a half-immortal who had not succeeded in ascending.

Sun Luyuan was right: for Dao Integration cultivators like them, the use was minimal.

Of course, if they were the remains of a True Immortal, the choice would certainly be different.

"Although we will not take it for now, we cannot let others take it either. Brother Ji, your attainment in formation arts is profound and matches creation itself. Why not use formations to completely seal this ruin? Combined with the original protective formations here, it will ensure absolute safety." Sun Luyuan suggested again.

This was to show his own stance and attitude.

Sun Luyuan knew almost nothing about formations; as long as Ji Hongdao set up formations here, he himself could not secretly come alone to take the bones.

Ji Hongdao did not stand on ceremony and immediately began setting up the formations.

Once the ruin was resealed, on the way back, Sun Luyuan spoke in a faint tone: "If either of us manages to achieve longevity immortal one day, we can bring out these bones to study them. Who knows, it might allow us to advance further."

Ji Hongdao smiled bitterly and shook his head, not taking it to heart at all.

If before reaching Dao Integration, in their youth, they had still harbored grand ambitions and ideals of proving the Dao for longevity...

Then now, having reached Dao Integration, they had long since abandoned any thought of achieving longevity immortality.

The four steps of Dao Integration were each as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

The more they understood, the deeper their despair.

The two fell silent one after the other.

After a long while, Sun Luyuan let out a long sigh: "I truly wonder what kind of world-shocking genius could succeed in defying reason."

"In all these years, our Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance has had only one person besides the Immortal Ancestor who succeeded, and that person's whereabouts are unknown."

"If there were one more, our Immortal Alliance's situation would be vastly different."

"Tell me, why does the Five Elders Association have five Longevity Immortals? Could it be that they are truly more talented than the people of our Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and achieved what we could not?"

This was also a doubt that countless cultivators of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance could not let go of.

Hearing Sun Luyuan's lament, Ji Hongdao seemed to recall something and hesitated to speak.

"Between us brothers, is there anything we cannot say?" Sun Luyuan teased.