My Longevity Simulation

"Life and death are one, harmonizing with the Dao and returning to the true. Free and unrestrained beyond the world, my Dao Pill shall now be complete."

Li Buren carefully savored the contents of the Dao Refining Medicine King Scripture and finally understood why his first attempt at pill refinement had failed.

"My intentions were too strong. They do not accord with the meaning of being free and unrestrained..."

Li Buren shook his head with a self-deprecating smile.

"I was indeed being too utilitarian."

"Dao Pills are merely the icing on the cake. It is better to have them, but their absence makes no practical difference."

For Li Fan, whether a Dao Pill could be successfully refined was not the key.

What mattered was the entire process of refining a Dao Pill.

After witnessing the magnificence of the true Great Dao of Inherit Dao, Li Fan had become keenly aware that attempting to comprehend the three thousand Great Daos of this world one by one through his own efforts would be an extremely long and inefficient undertaking.

He feared that even by the end of the mortal world, he might still be unable to comprehend them all and weave a genuine Myriad Aspects Dao Net.

Therefore, he needed a shortcut.

Apart from directly absorbing the insights into the Great Dao possessed by the Grand Mage, Inherit Dao, and the others, the Dao Refining Medicine King Scripture imparted by Sun Piaomiao was also an unparalleled and effective method.

The Great Dao manifested itself in all things in the world. Through the process of Dao Refining, however, all things could gradually be refined back into a state of the Dao.

This was remarkably similar to the function of [Yuanchu]. Yet the Dao obtained through refinement was not the primordial chaotic state produced by Yuanchu's influence. Instead, it seemed to have undergone a process of selection and organization, becoming clear and comprehensible.

In simple terms, the difference was whether one could understand the Dao merely by seeing it.

Even if the Dao Pill failed to form, the process of condensing the Great Dao was already sufficient for Li Buren to examine these Dao principles in detail.

Seven days later, Li Buren once again opened the furnace to refine a pill.

Although extraordinary phenomena continued to occur, most of the living beings on the Archaic Continent had already experienced the previous ordeal and survived unharmed. They were no longer afraid.

Meanwhile, the five Heavenly Emperors and thirteen Heavenly Scars, who stood to gain from the process, worked even harder.

Under Li Buren's distant guidance, flames leaped and danced as the Dao Pill gradually took shape.

Compared with the defective pill from his previous attempt, this genuine Dao Pill was enveloped in a hazy purple aura. Even more remarkably, it seemed to have developed a rudimentary consciousness.

Facing Li Buren, who was about to swallow it, the Dao Pill showed no fear. Instead, it even seemed to harbor a faint eagerness to be consumed.

"A Dao Pill is, in essence, a condensation of countless Dao principles. It will not simply disappear after I swallow it."

"Instead, it will merge with my own comprehension of the Great Dao from this point onward..."

As this realization arose in his mind, Li Buren suddenly stopped the Dao Pill just before his lips.

The caution he had cultivated over a long period ultimately led him to abandon his plan to swallow the Dao Pill, even though he was merely a clone.

"I shall reward you with it."

He casually tossed the pill away once more.

The Heavenly Emperors and Heavenly Marks immediately scrambled to seize it.

For these creations, consuming a single Dao Pill was truly worth tens of millions of years of arduous cultivation. Its benefits might even surpass that.

This was because Li Fan had rigidly defined the responsibilities and authorities of every position within this Archaic Continent.

Even a Heavenly Emperor governing an entire region could only observe the Dao principles within a limited area. Yet the Dao Pills bestowed by Li Fan could bypass these restrictions entirely.

"This is what true power looks like." frⅇe

"Breaking rules, disregarding rules, and even..."

"Creating rules."

As one Dao Pill after another was successfully refined, numerous insights accumulated in Li Fan's heart.

Combining them with what he had learned at the Inherit Dao's Grounds, his progress could only be described as advancing a thousand miles a day.

After refining the nineteenth Dao Pill, Li Buren stopped giving them to the living beings of the Archaic Immortal Realm.

Instead, he began collecting and accumulating them himself.

The convergence of Dao Pills was an extraordinarily powerful temptation for any living being. It surpassed the temptation that the Spirits of Heaven and Earth once held for cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm by a thousandfold, even ten thousandfold.

Yet Li Buren remained as calm as still water from beginning to end.

As the saying went, practice made perfect. Aside from refining Dao Pills with effortless ease, Li Buren had also developed some unique ideas of his own.

"Since Ink Death can manifest in the form of Spirits of Heaven and Earth, then in principle, it should also be possible to incorporate it into Dao Pills."

With a sudden thought, Li Buren began drawing upon the power of the Celestial Spirit Ink Death during another attempt at pill refinement.

However, Ink Death itself possessed the ability to erode Dao Laws to a certain extent, much like Dao Annihilation Calamity. The incorporation of Ink Death's power unexpectedly caused this attempt at pill refinement to fail.

Nevertheless, Li Buren saw hope for success instead.

This was because the Dao Pill did not dissipate the instant the power of Ink Death was incorporated. Instead, it endured for a period before finally disintegrating.

"This means the proportions are simply incorrect. I need to adjust the mixture."

After a full six months of experimentation, Li Buren finally succeeded in refining his first Ink Death Dao Pill.

Its exterior remained as sacred as ever, wreathed in swirling purple qi.

In fact, the purple qi was more than twice as dense as that surrounding an ordinary Dao Pill.

What was truly astonishing, however, was that mountain and sea patterns naturally emerged across the surface of this Ink Death Dao Pill.

They lent the pill an even more mystical appearance.

Li Buren stared at it intently for a long time, yet he still could not determine whether the mountain and sea phenomenon was merely a coincidence.

Therefore, he refined another pill.

The result was the same.

"Interesting." Li Buren tossed this 'poison pill' out of the Dao Palace.

Dao Pills had not appeared for a long time. This Dao Pill, whose extraordinary quality was apparent at a glance, ignited fierce struggles among the living beings of the Archaic Immortal Realm.

The ensuing conflict was even more brutal than all the previous ones combined.

In the end, an Earth Spirit that had existed since the very beginning of the Archaic Immortal Realm's creation was fortunate enough to obtain the Dao Pill.

Overwhelmed with excitement, it swallowed the pill.

Amid countless swirling streams of purple qi, the Earth Spirit unexpectedly began rising into the air against its will.

It soared upward toward the Dao Palace where Li Buren resided.

It disappeared completely from the sight of all living beings, provoking countless cries of astonishment and envy.

Meanwhile, Li Buren examined the Earth Spirit before him. It had been completely transformed into purple qi and appeared to have lost its own consciousness. He stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"This is..."

"Has it undergone Dao Transformation?"

The Earth Spirit's original form of life had vanished, leaving only its shape behind. Yet there was no such thing as the Dao of Earth Spirits in this world.

Consequently, the scene before Li Buren was exceedingly strange.

The Earth Spirit should have swallowed and assimilated the Dao Pill. Instead, the opposite had occurred. It had been consumed by the Dao Pill.

Moreover, Li Buren discovered that no Ink Death power remained within the Dao-Transformed Earth Spirit.

During the process of Dao Transformation, the already limited amount of Ink Death power had been expended.

"So this is another way to use the power of the Celestial Spirit Ink Death?"

A single experiment was insufficient to determine precisely how this mysterious transformation occurred.

Li Buren continued by refining fifteen more Ink Death Dao Pills.

As one strange purple statue after another appeared beside him, Li Buren gradually figured out the reason behind the phenomenon.

This time, he skipped the entire process of refining Dao Pills.

With a mere thought, the power of Ink Death shot forth, descending into the mortal world to lock onto its targets.

Its original characteristic was one of near-total annihilation. Any living being struck by Ink Death would be erased without a trace.

Yet now, the result was Dao Transformation.

The living beings were restored to the original forms they had possessed when they were first created.