My Longevity Simulation

Chapter 996: The Breaker Finds It Hard to Restore

The True Temptation Fruit transformed into strands of silvery-white light, pouring into the bodies of the two Dao Integration cultivators.

Originally, Li Fan had assumed it would go as smoothly as before when using the True Temptation Fruit, but to his surprise, just as the silver-white light was about to invade their seas of consciousness, it suddenly stalled.

It was as if it had encountered some kind of barrier—the power of the True Temptation Fruit was entirely blocked outside their divine souls.

The True Temptation Fruit dissipated in the air, yet it failed to alter the cognition of Xuan Sushang and Lu Xichan.

The silver light merely clung tightly around their divine souls.

"This is..."

Li Fan's expression shifted as he observed closely, realizing that it wasn't the power of the Heavenly Sovereign that had failed.

Rather, their divine souls were protected by a special layer of defense, resisting the influence that twisted cognition.

"As expected, the high-level members of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance have a unique divine soul defense mechanism."

"It makes sense otherwise, if they could mass-produce True Temptation Fruits, the Five Elders Association would have conquered the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance long ago."

His first attempt at inducement having failed, Li Fan did not give up.

Nor did he intend to ask Mo Rubin about this divine soul defense mechanism.

"Xuan Sushang is tied to the secret of the Tianxuan Mirror's incarnation, so it seems I'll have to use you for the experiment." Li Fan's gaze turned to Lu Xichan, who lay in deep slumber.

For safety's sake, in addition to Mo Rubin's shadow seal, Li Fan set up multiple formations around the two women.

This ensured that even if something unexpected happened during the experiment and they awoke inexplicably, they wouldn't be able to contact the outside world or escape in a short time.

Then, he separated a strand of his divine sense, slowly extending it toward and approaching Lu Xichan's divine soul.

It had to be said that Lu Xichan's divine soul strength was somewhat unworthy of her title as the chief of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's Formation Hall.

In the Cloudwater Heavenly Palace, Li Fan had once treated Hanhai and come into close contact with the other's divine soul.

As fellow Dao Integration powerhouses, Lu Xichan was far weaker than the former palace lord of the Cloudwater Heavenly Palace.

Li Fan felt no threat at all, observing with calm composure.

Outside the divine soul, there seemed to be patterns engraved in dark golden lines.

They flickered in and out of visibility, like chains that bound the divine soul while also forming a layer of armor-like protection.

But during his observation, Li Fan keenly noticed that these dark golden patterns, beyond protection, likely had a self-destruct function.

"If the dark golden patterns' protection is forcibly breached, these chains now nearly fused with the divine soul—would shatter inch by inch in an instant..."

"The outcome would be only one: soul scattering and perishing!"

After figuring out the function of the dark golden patterns, Li Fan suddenly felt it was quite tricky.

Fortunately, after a moment of contemplation, he found a similar case in the Mending Heaven Record.

It told of two cultivators who brought their son to the Heavenly Doctor for treatment.

These two had formed a Dao companion pair since the Qi Refining stage. They supported each other, advancing together, and finally reached the Spirit Transformation realm side by side.

They were also blessed with a precious son—a case of double happiness.

But what caught the two cultivators off guard was that their son, even at over ten years old, still could not speak.

He appeared dazed and foolish, with weak reactions to the outside world. Only when his parents called him would he respond accordingly.

After an examination, the Heavenly Doctor informed them of the cause.

Their son's divine soul was actually undamaged or incomplete—in fact, it was far stronger than that of ordinary cultivators.

However, the massive divine soul did not match his frail body, leading to an overflow of divine soul power that formed a cage-like, twisted cocoon.

Over a long period of mutation, it eventually wrapped tightly around his original divine soul, making it difficult to connect with the outside world.

The solution was actually quite simple.

One only needed to prune away these "overgrown branches" of the divine soul.

But to truly resolve the issue was far from as easy as it sounded.

These overgrown branches were, in fact, part of the original divine soul.

To clear them without damaging the core divine soul or triggering a fierce backlash from the soul as a whole...

The Heavenly Doctor provided the optimal solution.

That was for a close kin's divine soul to touch and wash over these overgrown branches.

Using their own divine soul as scissors to prune them all away.

Throughout the process, the souls of the one being saved and the one performing the act would fuse together.

But precisely because they were close kin, there would be no resistance from beginning to end.

It would be akin to simply living together for a long span of years.

The only cost was that the performer's divine soul would suffer severe damage.

A drop of several realms was inevitable.

When the Heavenly Doctor explained the solution to the couple, their reactions clearly differed.

Interestingly, in the 'Mending Heaven Record,' it did not specify who was willing and who was reluctant.

After an extremely heated argument, the outcome was that the couple ultimately chose not to save their child.

And to spare him further suffering, they personally killed the child.

Afterward, this immortal couple gradually grew apart in appearance but distant in spirit.

Later, during a pursuit by enemies, they fled separately and both perished violently.

...

"This divine sense restriction seems extremely similar to the overgrown branches in this case."

"Coexisting with the divine soul, nearly one and the same. Extremely sensitive to external forces—if the main body is destroyed, it drags the core divine soul down with it."

"But precisely because it's interwoven with the divine soul, it's less guarded against divine soul power itself."

"So, the method to remove the divine soul restriction is similarly straightforward."

Li Fan already had a plan in mind.

Moments later, a continuous stream of divine soul power quietly poured into Lu Xichan's divine soul.

Facing the dark golden pattern's protection—like a majestic dam, it surged forward like raging tidal waves, crashing head-on.

Since this restriction was designed to handle fluctuations in divine soul power, such soul impacts were commonplace and did not trigger a counterattack.

But in the constant scouring process, Li Fan's output of divine soul power was quickly depleted.

Soon, however, Li Fan, operating the [Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method], replenished his divine soul power and sent it forth again.

Even seaside rocks erode slowly under years of ocean waves.

The same applied to this dark golden pattern restriction.

With eyes closed, Li Fan steadily output his divine soul power. Before long, a section of the dark golden pattern began to fade and vanish.

The power of the True Temptation Fruit, which had lingered outside Lu Xichan's divine soul, now mingled with Li Fan's divine soul power and poured in through this breach in a vast torrent.

Colliding with Lu Xichan's divine soul!

If it had been just Li Fan's divine soul alone, the intrusion of a stranger would inevitably alert and provoke Lu Xichan, even in her slumber.

But at this moment, the True Temptation Fruit contained the elaborate lie Li Fan had woven.

That her master from back then had not truly fallen but faked death, escaping like a cicada shedding its shell, and transformed into Li Fan!