My Longevity Simulation

“Once a flaw appears, strike relentlessly and pursue without end.”

“If things do not work out, retreat for the time being and accumulate strength…”

Li Buren recalled the subtle sensations he had experienced just moments ago when confronting the Dao Annihilation Tide.

It was like the myriad living things of the world sensing the coming of a torrential storm to varying degrees. The premonition of the approaching Dao Annihilation Tide also seemed to be deeply embedded within the instincts of all living beings.

It was not until long after the great tide had receded that Li Buren finally felt the strange sensation in his heart completely disappear.

Coming back to himself, he looked toward the 'Celestial Pillar' now standing within the Darkest Star Sea.

Unlike the fragmented ruins formed from the overlapping of the two Primordial Origin Bones, the pillar before him had truly been transformed from a being who had attained the Dao and become Nameless.

With the appearance of this Nameless Celestial Pillar, it seemed as though even the heavens had become higher and more distant.

At the same time, they had also become “safer.”

The invisible sense of oppression in his heart vanished, as though he had arrived in the legendary Immortal Realm.

“Of course, it still cannot compare with the true Immortal Realm, which can draw upon the boundless energy of the Infinite Ocean. But calling this place an Immortal Domain would not be an exaggeration.”

The heavens were lofty and the earth vast. The Great Dao manifested between heaven and earth had become clearer. More importantly, within this Darkest Star Sea inside the High Wall, three things had now gathered one after another: the phantom of Lord Hill Guardian, the Primordial Origin Bones, and the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar.

Aside from the phantom of Lord Hill Guardian, whose influence extended over all the experimental spaces within the High Wall, the other two belonged exclusively to the Darkest Star Sea.

The appearance of each one invisibly elevated the 'momentum' of this star sea.

With all three gathered together, the Darkest Star Sea had been elevated to a position where it could temporarily overlook the Dao Annihilation Tide below.

“Living within this domain, the momentum within their bodies is already far greater than that of beings elsewhere. In simple terms, every one of them is exceptionally gifted, a promising seed for seeking immortality and pursuing the Dao. Moreover, this place was originally a surviving region that had endured the baptism of the Dao Annihilation Tide. Under such innate conditions, anyone capable of cultivating here would naturally possess extraordinary talent…”

Li Buren raised his eyebrows slightly.

“The Darkest Star Sea is like the sacred land or Daoist sanctuary spoken of in the legends of the Ancient Cultivation Realm. Regardless of their strength, every being who emerges from here is destined to possess cultivation talent capable of shaking heaven and earth.”

“If the path to immortality had not been severed, and there were no Immortal Officials stationed at the Ascension Platform causing trouble, then perhaps even the ascension of the entire domain would not have been difficult.”

“What a pity…”

“Now, it can only serve as a small elevated refuge, a lone boat amid the great tide of world destruction.”

Only Li Fan, through endless reincarnations and the accumulation of information, could have completed the plan that brought three powers comparable to Nameless True Immortals together in one place.

It could be said that the Darkest Star Sea was now possibly the safest region within the entirety of the [Yuanchu] Possibility.

Even if the entire Possibility were submerged by the Dao Annihilation Tide, the Darkest Star Sea could still serve as elevated ground and barely endure for some time.

As Li Fan regarded the Darkest Star Sea as his base, he naturally felt increasingly at ease. It gave him the feeling of being inside a doomsday safe house protected by layer upon layer of defenses.

Let the world outside freeze for thousands of miles, let turbid waves surge into the heavens.

I shall remain unmoved!

While Li Fan's true body was in high spirits, his clone, Li Buren, quickly emerged from this sense of satisfaction and busied himself calculating the specific gains brought about by the Hunger Immortal's transformation into a pillar.

“Originally, the power of the [Primordial Origin] Bones that I could invoke unconditionally and without side effects amounted to one and one-third.”

“But after suppressing the Hunger Immortal…”

“What I obtained was not equivalent to the complete power of a Nameless True Immortal. The remnants of the previous Hunger Immortal must first be deducted.”

“It is roughly equivalent to two and a half Primordial Origin Bones.”

After roughly completing the quantitative calculations, this result did not surprise Li Fan too much.

Although the Primordial Origin Bones were powerful and involved the primordial Great Dao at the beginning of heaven and earth and all things, there were ultimately only two broken bones remaining. They were not in their complete form.

Under such circumstances, they could still almost match the power of the Hunger Immortal when she had first attained the Nameless realm. This alone was enough to demonstrate how terrifying she had been at her peak.

“Judging from the Hunger Immortal's performance in the previous battle, even when facing the phantom of Lord Hill Guardian, she still possessed enough strength to swallow the heavens and drink the seas. Although she had only just attained the Nameless realm, among Nameless True Immortals, she was definitely not a weakling. And now, I can freely wield roughly the power equivalent to two Nameless True Immortal experts…”

“In this starry sky, I truly have almost no opponent.”

Although he was merely borrowing the power of the phantom of Lord Hill Guardian, that did not prevent Li Fan from savoring the feeling of it.

“The Immortal Realm has been destroyed, and the immortals have fled in all directions. With such strength, it practically means invincibility.”

“It is just a pity that it is limited to the vicinity of the High Wall.”

“Moreover, I can repeat the same method, attract and suppress other Nameless True Immortals, and further develop the power of the phantom of Lord Hill Guardian. The upper limit would be to have all five phantoms of Lord Hill Guardian at my disposal!”

“That is power capable of resisting the overwhelming Dao Annihilation Tide that erupted when the Immortal Realm was destroyed…”

A leisurely longing flashed through Li Fan's eyes.

However, he was not bewitched by this unparalleled power.

After all, it was merely power he could borrow temporarily, not strength that truly belonged to him.

“Still, it can certainly serve as my tool.”

Successfully suppressing the Nameless Hunger Immortal had also verified in practice just how much energy Li Fan could actually wield.

At this level, there was no longer any need to act quite so cautiously.

“The Darkest Star Sea, and the several blind spots within the Xuanhuang Realm, can finally be dealt with all at once.” A sharp glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes.

Before taking action, however, Li Fan carefully observed and compared the Primordial Origin Bones and the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar in the starry sky.

Although both had been used as pillars supporting the Dao Annihilation Tide, their manifestations were completely different.

The Primordial Origin Bones were already within the Wordless Stele and the Southern Immortal Celestial Pillar. They seemed to have resigned themselves to their fate, or perhaps had already been subdued. They merely endured everything in silence, with all light and strange phenomena completely restrained within them. At a glance, they looked like nothing more than an ordinary broken stone pedestal.

The Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar, however, had merely been forcibly bound by Li Fan through external power.

The Hunger Immortal's self-awareness still remained.

Li Fan could not only sense the overwhelming resentment surrounding the Celestial Pillar, but could also clearly hear the Hunger Immortal's ceaseless, venomous curses.

Li Fan acted as though he had not heard a thing, continuing to examine it with a faint smile.

He separated a strand of divine sense and made contact with the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar.

Boom!

As his divine sense trembled, the Dao of [Hunger] appeared before Li Fan's eyes.

It stretched from heaven to earth, spanning the entire world from top to bottom, every detail displayed with perfect clarity.

It was as though all of his secrets had been seen through and completely exposed before Li Fan. The Hunger Immortal, sealed within the Celestial Pillar, remained stunned for a moment.

Then, even more frenzied curses erupted.

However, this was the most she could do.

She was completely incapable of stopping Li Fan from probing her Dao.

“Although I can see the Dao, I cannot comprehend even the slightest part of it.”

“The Dao of Hunger has already been proven by someone else. It is as though it has disappeared from this heaven and earth.”

“If it belongs to someone else, how could I possibly comprehend it?”

Li Fan sighed softly.

What he regretted was far more than merely the Dao of Hunger before him.

It was the obvious fact that, against the backdrop of the destruction of the Immortal Realm and the flight of the immortals, countless Great Daos had gone missing.

“It is just like how the projection of my divine sense can only reflect a small portion of the Dao Net. What remains within the Yuanchu Possibility is nothing more than scraps and leftovers…”

“The Great Dao is incomplete, and heaven and earth are imperfect.”

“Even so, the heaven and earth I have seen are already so magnificent. It is truly difficult to imagine what the scenery of a heaven and earth where the Great Dao is truly complete would be like...”

This was a reverie that no cultivator could avoid, and Li Fan was no exception.

He had actually become momentarily lost in thought before the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar.

After a long while, the longing in Li Fan’s eyes turned into determination.

“One day, I will see a heaven where the Dao is complete.”

“That day will come.”

Apart from glimpsing the Dao of Hunger within the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar, Li Fan could also vaguely see traces of the Hunger Immortal’s past life.

However, because the proving of the Dao was Nameless and all of her past had been completely converged, these memories and images were all covered by the Dao of Hunger.

It was as if they were hiding beneath a layer of Dao itself.

Without destroying the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar, Li Fan could not take in everything at once.

He could only proceed slowly, lifting the veil inch by inch to examine what lay beneath.

Apart from having to contend with the Great Dao of Hunger, Li Fan’s probing also had to struggle against the Hunger Immortal’s own resisting consciousness.

It seemed that the Hunger Immortal was extremely resistant to Li Fan’s gaze. The intensity of her resistance was even greater than when she had just fought Li Buren.

“If you had known this would happen, why did you do it in the first place!”

Li Fan coldly snorted. Not only did he not restrain himself, he instead pressed forward even further.

He broke through the protection of the Great Dao of Hunger.

And glimpsed a fragment of light and shadow that had once belonged to the Hunger Immortal.

From what Li Fan could observe, this seemed to be the Hunger Immortal’s childhood, before she had entered the True Immortal realm.

The Hunger Immortal had not ascended from the lower realm. She had lived in the Immortal Realm since birth, existing as an appendage of a certain True Immortal.

Although she was technically an appendage, an existence known as an immortal servant, the Hunger Immortal had never once seen that nominal master since the day she was born.

Moreover, the resources of the Immortal Realm were boundless, and even servants like them did not need to offer tribute to their master. The Hunger Immortal had heard that her master naturally disliked crowds and only wished to be alone. Although these immortal servants had been created and bestowed upon the master, the master had never concerned himself with them.

He had merely settled them within his own fief.

For immortal servants, having such a 'master' was naturally something they could wish for.

The immortal servants lived extremely freely. With a True Immortal master protecting them, they had no need to worry about anything.

However, such carefree days did not last long.

On that day, the Hunger Immortal in her youth personally witnessed the Dao Annihilation Calamity that destroyed the world.

The territory of her True Immortal master, her homeland, a place known as the [Youming Immortal Domain].

Before this terrifying calamity, it was destroyed in an instant.

If the True Immortal master who had never revealed himself had not appeared and rescued them at the final moment, the Hunger Immortal would probably have died in that calamity long ago.

“Effortless action and carefree freedom...”

“Hmph!”

The only thing the Hunger Immortal remembered was her master casually rescuing them, gazing into the distance at the sight of the Immortal Domain being annihilated, and coldly snorting.

Afterward, his figure faded and disappeared.

From that moment on, the Hunger Immortal never saw her master again.

It was also only after this incident that the Hunger Immortal finally learned her master’s name.

[Wuwei].

...

The moment Li Fan glimpsed these two characters from the Hunger Immortal’s memories, it was as if he had touched some forbidden taboo that should never have been touched.

The Hunger Immortal resisted him fiercely.

Even the Hunger Immortal Celestial Pillar trembled slightly. Under the powerful force of rejection, it directly expelled Li Fan’s consciousness.

There would be plenty of time in the future to slowly deal with the Hunger Immortal, so Li Fan did not insist for the time being. He knew when to stop.

He would let the Hunger Immortal calm down first.

“Immortal Wuwei...”

His expression became somewhat solemn as he recalled what he had seen in the Hunger Immortal’s memories.

Although Immortal Wuwei had not been as calm and carefree as Lord Hill Guardian, nor had the Dao Annihilation Tide he faced been as vast as one capable of affecting the entire Immortal Realm.

But it had still been the Dao Annihilation Calamity.

Li Fan, having come into contact with it not long ago, knew all too well how terrifying this calamity was.

“To still have enough strength to rescue his servants under the Dao Annihilation Calamity and successfully escape.”

“The strength of this Immortal Wuwei is not weak either. It is just that the Hunger Immortal’s memories from her childhood are still somewhat blurred. I wonder whether he was truly in the Nameless realm.”

The reason Li Fan had this question was because every Nameless being he had encountered possessed a peculiar quality. They merged with the Dao, standing alone and solitary between heaven and earth.

Yet that Immortal Wuwei had not given Li Fan such a feeling.

But without attaining the Nameless realm, how could he possibly withstand the Dao Annihilation Calamity?

“Or perhaps he was conferred his position through merit... Interesting.”

Thinking of the many figures throughout the various epoch of the Immortal Realm who had been similar to this, some of whom had fallen during the great Dao Annihilation Calamity while others had abandoned their worlds and fled into the distance, Li Fan felt an indescribable emotion rising within his heart.

“It is merely an age of decline.”

It was easy to imagine that the possibilities the immortals of the Immortal Realm had fled toward back then must have been far more wondrous and colorful than the [Yuanchu] where Li Fan currently resided.

“Fortunately, it has already been verified. Those who have disappeared within the [Yuanchu] possibility may still have survived within other possibilities.”

“At least, it will not make it so that I can never see them again.”

The people and events Li Fan had encountered recently, such as Lord Hill Guardian, Primordial Origin, and Wuwei, made him feel as if he had glimpsed another heaven beyond heaven and another person beyond people.

His thoughts had rarely become this lively, and a trace of excitement arose within him.

It was just like when, in his old age, he had already explored the entire Great Xuan world, only to inexplicably encounter two cultivators.

It was like playing a game for a long time, only to suddenly discover vast hidden maps and characters.

He instinctively developed a desire to explore and a yearning to uncover more.

“Although I am only at the Half-Immortal realm now, there will surely come a day when I cross between possibilities and witness all these wonderful things.”

“When the seas are turbulent, true heroes reveal their worth. When calamities destroy worlds, only true heroes of the world can reveal themselves.”

“The immortals in other possibilities may be even more miraculous than those I have glimpsed in the Yuanchu. Hehehe...”

Li Fan silently thought to himself.

Then his thoughts settled, and his consciousness returned to his clone, Li Buren.

After a series of calculations and adjustments, he could now control the power of Lord Hill Guardian’s phantom with slightly greater precision.

Naturally, the first person he would use it against was that Grand Mage of Heavenly Capital, whom Li Fan regarded as a thorn in his side.

With a single thought, Li Buren returned from the center of the star sea to the Xuanhuang Realm, into Daoyuan Prefecture.

The instant he stepped into this prefecture, he sensed a force suddenly retreating.

“Grief and bitter suffering... the Dao has been utterly obliterated.”

A distant voice chanting the Dao from the highest heavens suddenly rang out.

Li Buren narrowed his eyes and discovered that the large and small figures seemed to be trying to escape.

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[TL Note:- Wuwei (无为) literally translates to non-action or inaction, but it does not mean laziness. In Daoist philosophy, it represents effortless alignment with the natural flow of the universe. It means acting so naturally and perfectly that you don't force or strain against reality. In short, it is achieving maximum results through zero forced effort.]