My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1026: The Fate of the Progenitors

Lu Chengxue proved his worth as a core disciple of the Lu family through his vast network of connections.

During the brief half-day that Li Fan spent tailing him in secret, thirty-seven different individuals crossed paths with Lu Chengxue. Every single one of them offered polite greetings accompanied by beaming faces.

Li Fan could perceive that these expressions were not forced; their smiles radiated a genuine, heartfelt warmth.

After finishing his business for the day, Lu Chengxue finally made his way back to his Cave-heaven at a relaxed pace.

Li Fan followed close behind, slipping inside undetected.

The defensive formations of the Cave-heaven posed no challenge to the current Li Fan.

He entered silently, moving like a shadow without alerting any of the inhabitants.

“Husband has returned!”

Upon his arrival, Lu Chengxue was greeted by eleven female cultivators. Though they possessed varied figures, each was exceptionally beautiful. Three among them were noticeably pregnant.

Faced with this enthusiastic welcome from a line of beauties, Lu Chengxue merely gave a slight nod, his face remaining cold and indifferent.

He walked straight toward the largest chamber located in the deepest part of the Cave-heaven.

The eleven women followed him, their playful laughter filling the air.

The chamber door shut with a heavy boom, and before long, the muffled sounds of passionate intimacy began to drift out.

Observing the scene within the room, Li Fan’s brow furrowed slightly.

His reaction was not born of jealousy toward Lu Chengxue’s lifestyle.

Rather, it was because Lu Chengxue had maintained a completely blank expression throughout the entire encounter.

He did not look like a man enjoying himself; instead, it appeared as though he were merely performing a tedious chore.

Through the dialogue between Lu Chengxue and the women, Li Fan eventually grasped the underlying truth.

It turned out that producing a vast number of descendants was the primary strategy the Lu family used to maintain its long-term prosperity.

In the Xuanhuang Realm, being a renowned benefactor was a difficult path to tread.

At times, performing acts of kindness could even result in the loss of one's life.

The Lu family was able to uphold its reputation for benevolence solely because of the sheer size of its membership.

They were so numerous that the family would not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of its disciples if it meant enhancing the clan's prestige.

Beyond the official family missions and the annual quota for children, every member of the Lu family lived in the shadow of their own mortality.

Knowing they might be called to sacrifice themselves at any moment, a lifestyle of seizing the day had become the Lu family's tradition.

Nearly every member possessed more than ten spouses.

Any leisure time they had was almost exclusively dedicated to procreation.

While some might find endless pleasure in such indulgence, it was clear that not everyone could stay enthusiastic about a repetitive, mandatory duty.

At this moment, Li Fan could feel the profound weariness and burnout emanating from Lu Chengxue.

“He is called a core disciple, yet he cannot escape the destiny of a breeding stud. At most, his partners are simply more attractive than average.”

“In that case, granting you a final release is actually a mercy.”

Standing outside the room, the spying Li Fan remained stoic.

It was only after the intense battle concluded and Lu Chengxue, along with the eleven beauties, drifted into a heavy, exhausted slumber that Li Fan acted.

He flickered into the room in an instant.

Lu Chengxue was at the Soul Transformation stage, while the women had only reached the Nascent Soul realm at best.

Li Fan placed his hand directly upon the head of the defenseless Lu Chengxue and pulled him into his own Cave-Heaven.

He departed as swiftly as a ghost, leaving the female cultivators undisturbed.

When they eventually woke up and found Lu Chengxue gone, they would likely assume he had simply departed early due to his fatigue.

It would probably take several days before anyone realized he was actually missing.

Inside a secret chamber within the Spiritwood Realm.

Without bothering to wake him, Li Fan granted Lu Chengxue a swift end.

He allowed the man to pass away peacefully in his sleep.

The phenomena triggered by the death of a high-level cultivator were suppressed by Li Fan’s formations, ensuring no one in the Spiritwood Realm would notice.

Soon, a high-grade Dao Deviation Stone, glowing with a crystalline white light, manifested before Li Fan.

Currently, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance held one fragment of the Stone Mother and three supreme-grade Dao Deviation Stones, as well as sixteen high-grade ones.

Li Fan hadn't expected to find a supreme-grade stone or a Mother fragment among his three current targets. A high-grade stone was more than enough for his purposes.

Through constant fusion and refinement across his many lifetimes, it would eventually reach the level of the Dao Deviation Stone Mother.

This particular high-grade stone still held the memories Lu Chengxue possessed before his demise.

Rather than wiping it immediately, Li Fan began to sift through the internal visions.

“To think he obtained this Dao Deviation Stone as a mere child. It was part of his father’s legacy, gained without any struggle at all.”

Lu Chengxue’s father had died saving someone, and out of gratitude, the survivor had delivered the stone as a reward.

Because Lu Chengxue was so young at the time, the man feared the Lu family would confiscate the treasure and chose to deliver it in secret.

Consequently, no one in the family ever knew Lu Chengxue held such a prize.

Utilizing the stone, Lu Chengxue began to show incredible "talent," eventually being raised as a core disciple until his life was cut short by Li Fan.

On the whole, Lu Chengxue's life had been quite dull.

Aside from siring sixteen children, there was nothing of significance to note.

After finishing the memories, Li Fan shook his head slightly. “An unremarkable and pathetic existence. It wasn't even as thrilling as my time in the Great Xuan.”

“What a waste of such a magnificent treasure.”

From Li Fan's current perspective, he naturally looked down on such a mundane life.

He didn't delete the memories, however, opting to store them away in a corner of his mind instead.

Then, he commenced the fusion with his own Dao Deviation Stone.

This was less of a combination and more of an absorption and fortification process.

The primary vessel remained the stone in Li Fan’s sea of consciousness, which had already attained [Dao-Transforming Divine Unity].

As the Dao Deviation Stone containing Lu Chengxue’s life dissolved into a river of starlight, it flowed steadily into Li Fan’s consciousness.

A transformation began to take hold of the stone within his mind.

Suddenly, it felt as though the heavens expanded and the earth receded; the entire world seemed to grow more vivid.

Every detail of his past lives—the things he had noticed and those he had missed—played back with perfect clarity in his mind.

This included obscure techniques and information he had only glanced at once, all of which were now perfectly organized from his sealed memories.

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“The gap between high-grade and mid-grade is truly massive, separated by a single word. I can only imagine the heights of a supreme-grade stone or the Stone Mother itself.”

Visions of worlds being born and destroyed seemed to dance in Li Fan’s eyes as he let out a soft sigh.

He attempted to derive an immortal-grade formation using the Final Dissociation Disc.

With the upgraded Dao Deviation Stone, Li Fan’s ability to process complex data had improved immensely.

The feeling of being overwhelmed by complexity, or not knowing where to start, was gone.

He no longer felt aimless; a single look was enough for a clear research path to materialize in his thoughts.

Li Fan then tested the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

“The number of locations I can monitor at once has increased ten times over...”

Seeing these measurable results, Li Fan felt a great sense of satisfaction regarding his latest acquisition.