My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1030: Instant Ascension Nether Lock

Li Fan had hovered at the very edge of fully grasping that divine ability for half a month, lingering just outside the threshold of true comprehension.

He did this solely to guarantee that his consciousness and willpower remained untainted by the influence of the Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao.

"A gentleman does not differ from others; he is simply adept at borrowing from external things."

Upon achieving enlightenment, Li Fan murmured the words softly. His form blurred, and he manifested instantly outside the Spiritwood Realm.

With this divine ability newly forged, he required an appropriate location to verify its potency.

"This technique, the [Method of False Misconversion], possesses an ingenuity similar to my [Formless Killing Intent]. Both rely on seizing the mandate of heaven for personal use. While they allow one to command the authority of heaven and earth, they carry the peril of being detected, which would lead to heavenly punishment."

"For this initial experiment, I must find a place where the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm is at its weakest."

With that thought, Li Fan’s body transformed into a shimmering illusory streak, cutting through the sky toward the Congyun Sea.

The Congyun Sea was a region where the fragment of the Heavenly Law Realm had not yet been completely assimilated by the Xuanhuang Realm.

Much like a thorn embedded in flesh, the Xuanhuang Realm could only fully absorb it after several years through the grand purification known as the Crimson Flame Incineration Sea.

In the Congyun Sea, the grip of the Xuanhuang Realm’s Heavenly Dao was notably more fragile than in the central prefectures.

It wasn't long before Li Fan reached a desolate stretch of ocean.

Suspended amidst the clouds, he steadied his breathing and concentrated his mind, activating the newly mastered [Method of False Misconversion].

The world shifted instantly before Li Fan's eyes.

It felt as though he had returned to the [Root of Heaven and Earth], where infinite horizontal and vertical strands wove together to create all existence.

Every element within this massive web functioned according to the governance of these threads.

These were the manifestations of the laws of heaven and earth.

Li Fan’s physical form seemed to evaporate into nothingness as his spiritual will merged gradually into this cosmic net.

In that moment, the sheer pressure from the intersecting threads nearly shattered Li Fan's soul. During that brief contact, he glimpsed the fundamental laws that dictate the movements of the universe.

He even appeared to witness a multitude of events occurring simultaneously across the Xuanhuang Realm.

However, this union with the great Dao of heaven and earth lasted only a heartbeat before Li Fan forcefully terminated the connection.

Had he persisted, his soul would have been unable to endure the staggering force; it would have been shredded into countless motes and swallowed by the myriad laws of the world.

A "Heavenly Dao Li" might have emerged in the future, but that entity would no longer be Li Fan.

After retreating from the state of cosmic fusion, Li Fan acted quickly. While the profound, enigmatic insights still pulsed in his heart, he once again channeled the [Method of False Misconversion].

This time, he refrained from merging his soul with heaven and earth.

Instead, he attempted to draw the intersecting law threads toward himself.

As he made contact with each thread, Li Fan felt a weight as heavy as a massive mountain crushing down on him.

The Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method, working in tandem with the Soul-Ignition Method, operated at maximum capacity to shield his body from the strain.

Li Fan continued to pull the law threads into his being.

It was as if he were plucking strands from the great net of heaven and earth to tie a knot around himself.

He only ceased when he felt his physical vessel had reached the absolute limit of what it could endure.

"So this is the true weight of the principles of heaven and earth..."

Currently, Li Fan felt as though he were pinned beneath the Five Elements Mountain, rendered completely immobile.

Only through direct interaction with the grand power of the world could one truly comprehend how terrifying the might of heaven and earth actually was.

"The Longevity Immortal realm necessitates the overturning of these mountains and the reversal of the world's principles..."

"I am still quite a distance from that level."

Li Fan’s eyes flickered as he pushed that thought aside for the moment.

He began to evaluate his current condition.

Although he was paralyzed, Li Fan’s perspective was now more expansive than it had ever been.

It was far clearer and more distant than when he had utilized the Canghai Pearl to watch the seas turn into mulberry fields in the Congyun Sea.

From a high, celestial vantage point, the five provinces surrounding the Congyun Sea were spread out beneath his gaze.

All sentient beings appeared like tiny ants, visible in a single sweeping glance.

Countless unintelligible whispers echoed in his ears.

These were not the cries of some nameless horror, but the sounds of the self-regulating systems of heaven and earth.

As the proverb says, the Great Dao is silent.

Heaven and earth functioned like a relentless, high-precision engine. During their natural evolution, they constantly produced a low, rumbling vibration.

Normal people were oblivious to this. Only someone like Li Fan, who had integrated himself into the Great Dao, could perceive even a fraction of these heavenly hymns amidst the noise.

Since he was located in the Congyun Sea, Li Fan focused his perception and discovered that most of these murmurs were related to the environmental evolution of the region.

The most dominant sound was the impending Crimson Flame Incinerating the Sea.

Li Fan also perceived the world's arrangements concerning the Azure Wind Trapping Sword.

To his surprise, however, the heavenly hymn regarding the Azure Wind Trapping Sword was only the third most prominent sound in the cacophony.

As for the second...

Li Fan shifted his attention toward the origin of that specific sound.

It led deep beneath the Ten Thousand Immortals Island, to a pitch-black abyss that remained hidden even from the perspective of heaven and earth.

A Spirit of Heaven and Earth known as the [Golden Seal] was coiled there like a heavy chain, perpetually holding back the darkness below.

"The Nether Passage Mouth?"

The name surfaced in Li Fan’s mind instantly.

During his 115th life, the Five Elders Association had captured the entire Ten Thousand Immortals Island, exposing the Nether Passage Mouth hidden beneath it.

While serving as acting city lord and rebuilding the Immortal City, he had received orders from Diyi Jinglun to implement the Xuantian Nether Lock Formation to seal the Nether Passage Mouth once again.

"It seems that as the Nether Passage Mouth has slowly widened, the suppression from Ten Thousand Immortals Island has gradually lost its effectiveness."

"This is likely the reason why bizarre anomalies occur so often in the Congyun Sea."

"Heaven and earth have already begun to address it in silence, without any Cultivators being the wiser."

Li Fan suddenly understood.

The design of the Xuantian Nether Lock Formation was remarkably similar to the techniques of the Xuantian Sect.

Records he had found within the Tianxuan Mirror confirmed that it was indeed a legacy of the ancient Xuantian Sect.

However, with Li Fan’s current mastery of formations, he could see that while the design was clever, it was nowhere near the level of an immortal-grade formation.

It was significantly inferior even to the Reversing Life and Death Formation.

"These strangenesses were born when the Xuanhuang Realm fused with other cultivation worlds."

"This formation existed even during the era of the Xuantian Sect. This implies that even back then—when the Xuanhuang Realm began seizing other worlds through the Floating Starry Sky Grand Formation—the problem of strangeness had already appeared."

"However, the formation's power level suggests that the strangeness wasn't severe at that time. A simple formation was enough to contain it."

"But as more worlds are consumed day by day, this Xuantian Nether Lock Formation..."

"...is starting to reach its breaking point."

Utilizing the processing power of the Dissociation Disc in his mind, Li Fan calculated a new version of the Nether Locking Formation in a single breath, one with ten times the sealing capacity.

Li Fan gave a small shake of his head: "After all these centuries, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance still fails to innovate, clinging to a thousand-year-old ruin as if it were a priceless treasure."