My Longevity Simulation Chapter 1118: Heavenly Sovereign Puppet Master

Though it was only a formation Li Fan had recently figured out, it was perfectly suited for the inhabitants of the Spiritwood Realm. Centered on the Tianyang Immortal Puppet and drawing from its defenses at the Longevity Immortal realm, this setup could boost the fighting strength of all the others to the utmost.

The array also mimicked the effects of the Soul-Ignition Method, allowing it to unleash the full potential of the cultivators inside for a brief period. But this power exacted a heavy price by scorching their divine souls. As he dismantled the formation, the Holy Embryo Li Fan threw one last look toward the Spiritwood Realm.

"The next life will be better."

With no hint of hesitation, he then guided the group in bursting free from the Spiritwood Realm. They had braced themselves for a fierce blockade from the massive troops of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. Yet, much to the astonishment of Li Fan and his companions, the emptiness beyond the Spiritwood Realm stood totally barren!

Oddly enough, the nagging feeling of being under endless watch that haunted their minds refused to fade away!

"Be careful!" Daoist Hundred Flowers uttered the initial alert. Her complexion drained to a pallid gray, and beads of icy sweat formed on her brow. She had never looked so ragged and unsettled, not even under Li Fan's earlier pressure.

What she detected from Li Fan in those days was just raw intent to kill. But at this moment... "Pure malice..."

Liu Ruchen of the Medicine King Sect and the rest grew rigid, like warriors staring down a deadly foe. Even though the route forward looked completely desolate, without any sentries in sight, every one of them came to an abrupt stop in their advance. Li Fan, at the forefront, joined them in freezing.

Their gut feelings screamed that pushing ahead spelled certain doom. It felt like they'd been locked onto by some primal hunter; all their forms went taut, unwilling to make a rash move. Right then, Tianyang's words echoed directly into Li Fan's hearing: "Ahead. Longevity Immortal realm. Strange."

His message was short and heavy. For the Holy Embryo Li Fan, it hit with the force of a bolt from the blue. "Longevity Immortal realm?" "Has the Immortal Ancestor come?"

A vise seemed to clamp around his heart, and even Li Fan's actual form, hidden away in the Nether Prison, saw its energy waver just a bit.

"Of course. The Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance was well aware of Longevity Immortal realm experts existing in the Federation of All Worlds. Following those early tests, they wouldn't keep throwing away lives in vain but would instead send overwhelming might to crush everything at once."

"But... For the sake of a handful of Dharma-Transmitters, would He step in personally? Wouldn't that lower His stature too much?"

The sudden arrival of the Immortal Ancestor had clearly blindsided Li Fan. But right away, a swarm of questions flooded his thoughts. From how the Immortal Ancestor had treated the Dharma-Transmitters before, it was obvious He saw them as nothing more than instruments. There might have been some extra favor for Transmitter Jiang, yet the rest of the Dharma-Transmitters meant as little to Him as typical cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm.

Would the Immortal Ancestor bother to come down in person just to avenge three Dharma-Transmitters? Li Fan couldn't buy that for a second. What's more, he had once experienced the Immortal Ancestor's immense and awe-inspiring might. That presence was holy and endless, too profound to gauge. It shared zero link with the "malice" now enveloping them!

"It's not about the Dharma-Transmitter. So who could it be?"

Only a handful of Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereigns exist in the Xuanhuang Realm. Ruling out the five Heavenly Sovereigns from the Five Elders Association, and the newly risen Rebirth, a name long buried in his recollections—almost erased from memory—abruptly sprang up in Li Fan's mind: The Eastern Extremity Heavenly Sovereign!

Even after digging through every record in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, mentions of the Eastern Extremity Heavenly Sovereign boil down to just a sparse handful of sentences. His background appears intentionally scrubbed clean; the sole confirmed detail is that the Immortal-mortal Miasma Cleansing Incantation, which the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance still uses today to purge mortals of the Immortal-mortal Miasma, originated from him.

That's all that's left. For a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign of his era—the only one in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance apart from the Immortal Ancestor—such obscurity is downright peculiar and hard to fathom. Unless it was his own wish, whatever happened to him raises deep, unsettling questions.

On top of that, every Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign in the Xuanhuang Realm earns a title tied to their rebellious doctrines and ways. Yet this Eastern Extremity (Dongji) feels more like a plain personal name.

In that instant, a torrent of ideas raced through Li Fan's head. At the same time, the sinister forces skulking nearby unleashed their strikes against the Spiritwood Realm crew. The force of a Heavenly Sovereign far outstrips what regular cultivators can muster.

The Tianyang Immortal Puppet, which had been radiating a pristine white glow, abruptly took on a sinister tinge from some foul energy. Its radiance wavered erratically; Tianyang's face grew somber, as though battling that dark influence. Dark blotches began popping up unevenly across the puppet's frame, appearing here in the east, there in the west.

The onslaught from the wicked energy slipped past the safeguards of Li Fan's formations, hitting every member of the Spiritwood Realm at once. Few among them had the means to resist a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign. In a flash, corrosion took hold of them.

Li Fan caught sight of what happened to those wholly overtaken by the wicked energy. Their pupils dissolved, leaving their sockets as voids of black. Right away, they whirled on their allies with vicious assaults, obviously stripped of any self-awareness.

Nearly at once, the Spiritwood Realm squad plunged into disorder, teetering on the brink of breakdown. Still, the foe concealed in the shadows stayed out of view.

"Is this the real might of a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign?" "Losing is one thing. But to not catch even a glimpse of his actual form..."

In the midst of the chaos, Li Fan's features stayed calm; he simply turned his gaze to Tianyang. A dazzling red blaze abruptly burst forth from Tianyang's core. It blazed like the sun overhead, lighting up the all-encompassing gloom around them.

"Tianyang's life... Is not inferior to any!"

The Tianyang Immortal Puppet's frame ballooned by a hundred million times in a heartbeat. Resembling a colossal fire behemoth from the universe's birth, it loomed gigantic in the shadowy vacuum. Waves of scarlet fire exploded from its form, racing endlessly outward to reduce the whole expanse to cinders.

Beneath the blaze of Tianyang's raging inferno, the Spiritwood Realm comrades suffered no harm. The cultivators gnawed by the wicked energy crumbled into ebony dust amid chilling, shrill wails. And the perpetrator that had forever hidden in the shadows was at last compelled to show itself!

The view that unfolded made the Holy Embryo Li Fan's eyes narrow just a touch. A towering, bare-chested figure hovered in the air. His ebony locks trailed down to his heels; sinister markings sprawled across his skin, radiating foul energies.

Faint strands trailed from the void behind the bare man, drilling far into his flesh. The bare man's gaze was utter black, his visage blank. Much like the cultivators whose wills had been seized.

"A Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign, reduced to a puppet on strings..."

This eerie spectacle unleashed an involuntary shudder through the Spiritwood Realm team. Li Fan especially sucked in a ragged breath.

"This is... The enigmatic missing Eastern Extremity Heavenly Sovereign, brought to such a pass?" "Not dead, but trapped in a hell worse than death... Who could have done this?"

"The Dharma-Transmitters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance don't have that kind of power. The only suspect left is the Immortal Ancestor Himself!"

Deep in the Nether Prison, Li Fan's real body unwittingly balled its hand into a fist.