My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1093: News of the Dharma King

"The Federation of All Worlds boasts endless promising youngsters. Locating an ideal heir poses no challenge whatsoever," Li Fan declared with assurance.

"This matter touches on the well-being of every cultivator within the Xuanhuang Realm. Naturally, the Federation won't remain passive. Given that Fellow Daoist finds it hard to depart, I'll head back and organize for them to arrive here. You can examine them yourself."

"I'm confident that with Fellow Daoist's sharp judgment, you'll definitely select someone who meets your standards," Li Fan stated with firm conviction.

"This..." Xu Ke appeared somewhat doubtful.

After quite some time, he quickly responded, feeling a touch bewildered: "Then, I must express my thanks to Fellow Daoist ahead of time."

"Oh, and Xiao Qing, Xiao Hong, along with Fellow Daoist's lineage heir, the Empire's Imperial Daughter, all long for you greatly. Are you open to meeting them?" Instead of assuming, Li Fan proactively inquired.

A shadow of melancholy briefly crossed Xu Ke's features.

Yet shortly thereafter, he nodded in agreement.

Prior to departing from this desolate minor realm, Li Fan obtained a deeper insight into the past occurrences through his discussion with Xu Ke.

For example, within almost each sect, he pinpointed influential core individuals.

This guaranteed that when the Immortal-Mortal Miasma burst forth and the scheme to relocate mortals into small world cave heavens emerged, the primary sects would rapidly endorse it.

Regarding the Great Immortal Isolation Formation that barricaded the mortal minor realm, and even the Rift world Whale outside the barrier...

Their eventual emergence all showed signs of Mr. Bai's earlier designs.

Regrettably, Xu Ke possessed limited knowledge on this as well.

At that period, after abruptly learning the tragic tidings of Lu Ya, he hastened there and got Lu Ya's dying directive: to protect the extracted Xuanhuang Heavenly Favor.

...

"The Heavenly Dao of the world operates through its inherent processes."

"Just like how, following the dire extinction threat to the Great Li small world, the Heavenly Dao awareness instinctively chose escape prospects and manifested in Su Yuqing."

"The Xuanhuang Realm likewise picked Mr. Bai. Sadly, Mr. Bai opted for the Xuanhuang mortals rather than the Heavenly Dao."

"In response, he confined the invading Heavenly Dao awareness..."

"Judging from the Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao actions since then, it has consistently been on the losing end against cultivators. It lacks defenses such as the [Incompatible Cultivation Technique] anymore. The leftover Heavenly Dao power undoubtedly suffered some impact."

Li Fan also recalled Ruomu suddenly.

Likewise severely wounded by humanity, Ruomu shifted from the sacred tree sustaining life into a horrifying entity that seized cultivators to forge their Golden Cores.

Such was the force of grudge.

Deceived by its most cherished one and imprisoned for almost ten millennia, it was easy to picture what the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, now locked in the coffin behind Xu Ke, might turn into.

"Yet another lethal strategy. However, it's unfit for deployment in our current age. It would merely spawn numerous uncertainties."

"At present, using the surviving Xuanhuang Realm Heavenly Dao, I can still manipulate destiny. But should the Heavenly Dao descend into frenzy, even my supernatural powers could prove ineffective."

Reflecting deeply throughout the journey, Li Fan made his way back to the Spiritwood Realm.

Upon relaying Xu Ke's updates to the Empire's Xiao Qing and companions, they brimmed with delight. They then offered Li Fan their deepest appreciation.

Thanks to Li Fan's guidance on what to disclose and withhold, the Empire's party eagerly set out without delay to visit Xu Ke.

Joining them were promising youngsters chosen from diverse small worlds.

Li Fan had merely conducted an initial vetting; the finer choices fell to Xu Ke.

With these affairs settled, Li Fan proceeded to the site housing [Seeking the Hidden].

In the preceding year plus, over a dozen steles had been raised.

The majority held trivial details from concealed chronicles.

Yet the most recent find from the blood-colored long river captured Li Fan's attention.

The chronology likely fell after endless cycles of carnage, as the turmoil began to settle.

It marked the cultivation barren era when society started to reemerge.

In the vision, a figure clad in ragged garments, radiating intense murderous aura, eyed the abruptly appearing elder with caution.

This elder remained a stranger to the man in the vision.

However, Li Fan, observing from beyond, recognized him well.

It was the Heavenly Doctor!

Wasting no words, the Heavenly Doctor attacked at once, overpowering the man.

He appeared to be scanning the man's accumulated slaughter memories from those years.

"Has so much time elapsed this round?"

"Evidently, on the next occasion, I must strive to distance myself further from the Immortal Ruins."

The Heavenly Doctor sighed, murmuring to himself.

With a swift strike, he ended the man's life and disappeared from view.

...

The vision cut off sharply.

Nevertheless, the intelligence packed inside proved quite rich.

For one, it verified a key fact: millennia prior, the Heavenly Doctor already wielded the power to defy the Immortal Ruins' pull and navigate the emptiness.

Furthermore, he had traversed it repeatedly.

In that span, he unavoidably endured the Immortal Ruins' effects, and upon returning, vast stretches of time had elapsed in the Xuanhuang Realm.

"Viewed this way, the abrupt vanishing and return of specific individuals likely stems from the Immortal Ruins' temporal distortion."

"Which implies..."

The hypothesis he intended to test in his upcoming lifetime abruptly reemerged in his thoughts.

Li Fan's countenance turned increasingly grave.

"Immortal Ancestor, Heavenly Doctor: both were once highly present in the Xuanhuang Realm. The details in the blood-colored long river hold immense worth."

He issued lavish incentives once more to rally his followers' spirits.

Several days afterward, Li Fan received unforeseen word on Mo Rubin from Dharma-Transmitter Zhou.

"He's surfaced?"

"And he hasn't reached Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable?"

Li Fan's brows furrowed lightly.

"Might this be a feint? Considering his wary disposition, even after a scheme's collapse, he wouldn't expose his location so readily."

Dharma-Transmitter Zhou spoke with certainty: "His emergence occurred at one of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's hidden bases."

"It seemed devoid of other cultivators, yet we've maintained secret monitoring there for ages."

"Besides, Mo Rubin didn't show his actual self. We pinpointed and traced him by backtracking the ripples from the modification seal he placed on Dharma-Transmitter Chen."

"Thus, I'm convinced that on this instance, he erred in judgment."

For this Xuantian Sect Dharma King who had time and again outmaneuvered the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's forces, Dharma-Transmitter Zhou burned with resentment.

She declared gravely: "On this occasion, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's top experts will fully engage to seize him. Fellow Daoist, do you wish to join forces with us once more?"

Li Fan consented without hesitation: "I'll check and provide an answer shortly."

After a brief pause, Li Fan proactively transmitted: "The Federation of All Worlds elder has given the go-ahead."

"Moreover, this round, we'll bring out the newest invented tools to aid in his apprehension!"