My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 929: Xuantian’s Lost Immortal Techniques

In the secret chamber of the Spiritwood Realm, simply reading through the texts once took Li Fan and his clone more than a month.

Among them, several techniques such as The Heaven and Earth Converging Manual and The Eternal Sole Dominance Art were almost completely consistent with the understanding Li Fan had gained in the illusionary realm.

In fact, the depictions in the illusionary realm were somewhat simplistic.

Take The Heaven and Earth Converging Manual for example. In the illusion, it was merely a dual-cultivation technique. When an insurmountable tribulation arrives that makes certain techniques incompatible, its effect of rapidly boosting cultivation would be neutralized.

However, in reality, this technique had another, even more profound and mystical use beyond dual cultivation.

It could lock onto a target and forcibly share the target’s fortune, cultivation speed, and even personal attributes such as comprehension.

This was the principle of “Heaven and Earth Sharing Longevity.”

For a true peerless prodigy, this technique would naturally seem trivial. But for someone like Li Fan, it was an exceptional mystical skill.

This was only the divine ability available at the initial stage of The Heaven and Earth Converging Manual.

As one cultivated it to a higher level, just as the name implies, the locked target could expand from a single person to the heavens and the earth.

“To use a mortal body to balance the power of heaven and earth…”

“Truly worthy of the immortal legacy.”

The upper limit of The Heaven and Earth Converging Manual was extraordinarily high, even hinting that it could still be used after ascending to the Immortal Realm.

Its only fatal flaw was that the locked target could sense the practitioner of the technique.

This was the meaning of “Conflict Sharing.”

Even this single drawback greatly reduced the technique’s significance in Li Fan’s mind.

As someone who preferred to plan and act strategically from the shadows, exposing himself to another person at all times was far from wise.

The only potential use he could think of now was to capture a peerless prodigy and confine them.

Then, he could forcibly equalize himself with the target, improving his own comprehension, aptitude, fortune, and so on.

Li Fan studied The Heaven and Earth Converging Manual, then briefly glanced through The Eternal Sole Dominance Art.

“Senior Sister Zhao actually trusted me with this Dao-attaining technique…”

After a moment of reflection, Li Fan suddenly understood.

Among all these techniques, The Eternal Sole Dominance Art was arguably the least valuable.

Because by the principle of “Unity of All,” it had already been dominated by Zhao Ruoxi.

There was no future path for it, and during cultivation, Senior Sister Zhao could very well perceive everything clearly…

Li Fan decisively sealed it and set it aside.

After roughly skimming through several other techniques, he then focused his attention on the two techniques he had encountered first:

The Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion, The Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits in the Netherworld Record.

“The previous techniques came from one of the Twelve Dharma Kings, a giant man named Sikong Lin.”

“But these techniques…”

The faces of the twelve unique cultivators of the Xuantian Sect flashed through Li Fan’s mind one by one.

Quickly, Li Fan matched the style of the techniques to possible sources.

“Sun Xingwang.”

The aura emanating from these two techniques was simply too distinctive.

Take The Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion as an example. Its power was somewhat similar to the abilities of the former Xuantian King.

Both possessed a divine power akin to “words becoming law.”

The difference was that King Xuanyuan Hong’s words affected only himself, such as [Immense Strength] or [Walking the Way of Heaven].

The Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion, however, affected everything in the external world.

At advanced stages, through murmurs of the technique, one could reshape the entire world according to their own will.

For example, the technique contained a case:

A sign of small mastery of the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion was to whisper and fabricate a person who never existed.

The more detailed the setting of this person became, the more they would actually come into being.

And they would act according to the predetermined rules.

Moreover, it would not sense the creator behind it.

The wonders of the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion left Li Fan repeatedly in awe.

However, just like the Heaven and Earth Converging Manual, the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion also had a severe side effect.

Every hundred years, a practitioner of this cultivation method would lose all memories except for the content of the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion itself.

Any previously left written records or hints would be actively ignored by the practitioner.

In other words, even if one cultivated the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion to its highest level, the entire world could be their creation.

Yet the cultivator would remain completely unaware.

Every hundred years, a new life would begin.

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“To invent the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion would require truly world-shaking talent,” Li Fan murmured, then turned to the final cultivation method.

The Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits in the Netherworld Record.

This cultivation method was the most unusual.

It was a summoning technique.

But it did not summon beings from other worlds. Instead, it summoned the Ghosts and Gods within the human body itself.

According to the method’s explanation, every person is born with endless thoughts.

These thoughts are like waves on the sea, fleeting and ephemeral.

Yet it is these countless waves that form the vast sea known as the Human.

If every thought that arises is preserved, nurtured, and strengthened day and night,

Then hundreds of millions of thought essences would form within one’s Sea of Consciousness.

These essences take shape according to the nature and content of the original thought, becoming the Ghosts and Gods.

The so-called “Three Perils” refer to these three: Human, Ghost, and God.

Because these Ghosts and Gods originate from oneself, all three are interconnected.

Furthermore, as the strength of the Human increases, the power of the Ghosts and Gods multiplies hundreds or thousands of times.

A single thought released would seem as if the Netherworld itself had returned to the mortal realm.

Darkness would spread, and souls would run rampant.

If deliberately unleashed, it would be easy for one thought to destroy the entire world, transforming all other living beings into one’s own Ghosts and Gods.

This Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits in the Netherworld Record did not have any particularly strong side effects.

If one had to mention a drawback, it would be the constant whispering of countless, never-ending Ghosts and Gods within the body.

If the mind is not firm, one could truly drive oneself insane.

Even with a strong will, facing the ceaseless murmurs of billions of Ghosts and Gods would eventually become unbearable.

When that moment came, the practitioner would lose control.

Billions of Ghosts and Gods could be unleashed to destroy the world.

However, when combined with the Secret Canon of Sitting in Oblivion, the results were unexpectedly beneficial.

The memory deletion every hundred years would sweep away all the negative emotions accumulated from the billions of Ghosts and Gods.

Yet the Ghosts and Gods themselves would not disappear.

Even if one could no longer remember the Three Perils of Ghosts and Spirits in the Netherworld Record, the cultivation of Ghost and God essences would have already become an instinct of the body.

In this way, as time passed, one’s strength would continue to grow.

“However, I remember Sun Xingwang mentioning that cultivating these two methods together has other unexpected points of conflict,” Li Fan thought.

“It is not as perfect as one might imagine.”