My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1111: Silently Setting the Prison Net
Previously on My Longevity Simulation...
Across the Xuanhuang Realm, inside the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, every suspended heavenly city abruptly filled with the identical pressing bell toll right then.
The Immortal Alliance's cultivators came to a sudden stop, freezing in whatever tasks they were handling, utterly shocked. Following a short daze in their minds, they swiftly remembered the meaning behind this toll.
This signified the top-tier alert from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. Such an alert would trigger only during a dire survival threat to the alliance.
After a momentary hush, pandemonium exploded throughout the entire alliance. Folks grew frantic, bewildered, and lost without guidance.
At the same time, Li Fan in the Spiritwood Realm caught the bells the instant they sounded. Initially, he suspected his world-ending setups had been uncovered.
But soon, he understood that the abrupt tolling probably linked to happenings within the Life and Death Grand Formation. The footage captured by the formation from a True Immortal’s leftover body, once displayed to him, verified his guess.
The footage ended precisely when the Dharma-Transmitters Immortals and their companions vanished into the pale fog. Right afterward, the capturing formation got wrecked by that overwhelming, boundless white haze.
Li Fan viewed the footage over and over, a hint of gravity flickering in his gaze.
“The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance reacts so intensely. Is it possible…”
“That those three Dharma-Transmitters have perished?”
A wave of uncertainty and worry swelled in his chest. He understood that every Dharma-Transmitter enjoyed safeguarding from the Immortal Ancestor.
With that shielding power intact, they essentially became immortal and unbreakable in the Xuanhuang Realm. Though this safeguard barred them from reaching the Longevity Immortal Realm, in reality, they were almost everlasting.
However, right in front of the freshly risen Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign, they got wiped out without any fight back.
“To wipe out three Dharma-Transmitters in an instant?”
“If these three truly met their end so simply, then the strength of the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign…”
Li Fan's eyes tightened a bit. Soon, a spark of skepticism emerged.
“If He possesses such immense power, why bother eliminating the three Dharma-Transmitters?”
“They merely stumbled in by accident. They caused no harm and offered no offense.”
Li Fan methodically reviewed the footage once more, advancing it frame by frame. In the end, he spotted an odd detail.
“It looks like the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign initially had no plans to show up.”
“Yet one of the Dharma-Transmitters, Wei, apparently noticed something—prompting the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign to emerge.”
“So, was it to hush him up?”
Li Fan's face took on a bizarre look.
Killing just to keep a secret—it seemed unfit for someone bearing the Heavenly Sovereign title. But He carried it out anyway.
Only one reason fit. If the discovery by Dharma-Transmitter Wei got out, it would bring unforeseeable damage to the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign.
To avoid that risk, He opted to destroy them all.
“Right before his demise, Dharma-Transmitter Wei must have pondered the Great Reversal of Life and Death Formation.”
Pursuing that reasoning, Li Fan started to analyze. Thanks to his advanced skills in formation techniques now, he rapidly seized the main idea.
“As I thought earlier, flipping life and death was never aimed at flipping the life and death of cultivators.”
“Reviving cultivators was just a side effect from the shift in the world's core rules.”
“The real aim of this Heavenly Sovereign’s flip targets the [world] itself.”
A burst of insight lit up Li Fan’s eyes.
“To hide this goal, He wiped out the whole Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance team.”
“This suggests the world He aims to revive isn't the Xuanhuang Realm, but rather one among the countless cultivation worlds swallowed by Xuanhuang through the ages.”
“How fascinating. Could this be… longing for His original home?”
After reviewing the full scenario again, Li Fan gave a small nod. “It's clear why this individual stayed hidden for so long, avoiding any public display. This truly qualifies as borrowing a corpse to restore a soul. If it works, His home world could genuinely come back to life.”
“Yet the destiny of the Xuanhuang Realm would remain uncertain.”
“Should this plot come to light, it would ignite strong opposition from the Xuanhuang Realm's local cultivators.”
“Thus, much like myself, he's pursuing actions that can't withstand scrutiny.”
A subtle grin formed on Li Fan’s mouth.
“Still, all these schemes are bound to crumble.”
The grin faded in a flash. Li Fan shifted his focus back to the True Immortal Remnant Body. By this point, it had made its way back to the Xuanhuang Realm.
As the main cause of three Dharma-Transmitters' downfall, it faced instant pursuit from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance the moment it reemerged.
On this occasion, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance meant business completely. After all, in the Mo Rubin takeover event, zero Dharma-Transmitters had died.
But now, three had dropped simultaneously. The jolt this delivered to the Council of Dharma-Transmitters exceeded all expectations.
Over a dozen Dharma-Transmitters showed up as one, all targeting the True Immortal Remains in the middle. In the group, Li Fan even spotted the Museum of Divine Treasure's keeper, the beast-race Emperor Beast Sanmo.
Unlike his look in the Fallen Immortal Realm, he now appeared much more aged. Still, he showed no worry over the Alliance's chase. His face stayed blank, eyelids partially shut.
Evidently, his presence was just for show. Apart from them, Li Fan at last glimpsed the Mirror-Holder Lineage.
They wore deep green Daoist robes, bearing mirror-shaped marks on their brows.
The three dominant powers ruling the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance had assembled fully, highlighting the massive ripple from the three Dharma-Transmitters’ demise. Beneath their united might's strain, Li Fan sensed his grip on the True Immortal Remnant loosening.
He nearly triggered the remains' explosion, aiming to tear open a passage linking the Xuanhuang Realm to the Dark Realm and release a flood from the Dark Sea, but an unforeseen twist occurred.
The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance's key players, all set to attack, abruptly seemed to get some urgent news. First came bewilderment and denial.
Then, decisively, they acted in flawless sync. Their forms flickered as they overlooked the offender entirely and readied to pull back from the area.
Li Fan then watched Emperor Sanmo, who had kept his eyes shut till now, snap them open fully. It was like some presence had shown up, seizing his focus.
From afar in the Spiritwood Realm, a chill of dread gripped Li Fan's heart. His vast accumulated wisdom led him to act without delay.
He cut his tie to the True Immortal Remains and set them off immediately.
Precisely as the remains burst into myriad shards, a form wrapped in white fog materialized quietly next to it. It arrived out of nowhere, moving with shocking swiftness.
Yet in the end, it proved a step behind.
Boundless shadows poured from the fissures in the exploded True Immortal Remains. They smashed straight into the white fog flowing from the new arrival’s frame.
The shadowy flood Li Fan expected failed to emerge. The white fog served like myriad water barriers, or a steadfast dam holding back the surge.
It solidly halted the disastrous shadows from breaking free.
…
In the Spiritwood Realm, a flicker of chill crossed Li Fan’s features.
“What’s the meaning of this?”
“The two parties… have allied?”
“To track me down, they’d even ignore the Dharma-Transmitters’ deaths?”