My Longevity Simulation Chapter 997: The Secret of the Twin Beauties

In the recollections of Lu Xichan's early years, the image of her master, Lu Xia, loomed over everything else.

The remainder of her life was filled with nothing but the exhaustive study of array formations.

Consequently, when Li Fan—now manifesting as Lu Xichan's master—clashed his divine soul against her own, he encountered very little resistance.

On the contrary, Li Fan could feel waves of terror radiating from Lu Xichan’s emotions.

A whirlwind of scenes flickered through Lu Xichan's divine soul, a chaotic blur of truth and fabrication.

The visages of Lu Xia and Li Fan shifted back and forth, the transformation accelerating with every passing second.

Ultimately, only the face of Li Fan remained, etched permanently into the deepest reaches of Lu Xichan's divine soul.

As the silver radiance of the True Temptation Fruit’s power finished dissolving.

Lu Xichan's physical form finally settled into stillness following a series of violent tremors.

Even with the unique properties of the [Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method] which allowed for the infinite regeneration of the divine soul, he felt momentarily drained by the effort.

Fortunately, the objective had been achieved with success.

During the divine soul fusion that had just concluded, Li Fan had caught glimpses of numerous hidden truths within Lu Xichan's memories.

For instance, her master Lu Xia had never truly been content with Lu Xichan as a successor.

Up until the moment he breathed his last, he harbored no confidence that Lu Xichan would ever truly master his peerless array formation arts.

His decision to take her as a disciple and eventually bequeath her the role of chief of the Strategy Formation Hall had been influenced by other factors.

Though Lu Xia never confirmed it before his passing, Lu Xichan secretly suspected that she was actually the biological daughter of her master.

However, she never found the resolve to confirm this suspicion.

And since Lu Xia’s remains had long since turned to dust and smoke, the truth of her parentage was now beyond verification.

Lu Xichan harbored many other secrets as well.

For example, because she grew up under the suffocating pressure of her master's strict training, her mind had always been strained to the breaking point.

While searching for ways to vent this internal pressure, she stumbled upon a particularly effective method.

This was the true reason she frequently visited Xuan Suchang.

...

Reflecting on this, a strange look crossed Li Fan's face: "So, Lu Xuejing's masochistic nature was actually something she inherited from her mother."

"It truly is..."

Li Fan gave a small shake of his head.

Regarding Lu Xichan's daughter, Lu Xuejing, her origin was also tied to Xuan Suchang.

During a session of stress relief, Lu Xichan discovered that Xuan Suchang had somehow fallen pregnant.

Lu Xichan was initially shocked and found the situation impossible to accept.

Under heavy pressure, Xuan Suchang was eventually forced to reveal the truth.

"The [Method of Living Beings] passed down by the Tianxuan Mirror?"

Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, casting a glance at Xuan Suchang beside him.

Lu Xichan, in her entanglement with Xuan Suchang, had also utilized the [Method of Living Beings] to conceive and bear a daughter.

"It appears the human incarnation of the Tianxuan Mirror is indeed connected to the Mirror Holder [Cang]."

Li Fan shut his eyes, slowly processing the massive influx of data he had seized.

Simultaneously, he began restoring his exhausted divine soul.

Once his reserves were nearly replenished, Li Fan repeated his previous actions and invaded the divine soul of Xuan Suchang.

As a direct descendant of the Mirror Holder Cang, Xuan Suchang was notably more resilient than Lu Xichan, both in divine soul strength and defensive restrictions.

Unfortunately for her, it was merely a difference in quantity, not a qualitative one.

Through Li Fan's relentless and methodical pressure, combined with the lingering aura of Lu Xichan's divine soul and the True Temptation Fruit’s aid.

Once her mental walls were shattered, her perception became even easier to manipulate.

Thus, Li Fan assumed another role in addition to being Lu Xichan's master.

He was now another incarnation of the Tianxuan Mirror.

Back when the Immortal Ancestor first established the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, the Tianxuan Mirror had anticipated future needs and created a human vessel for itself.

Regrettably, the Immortal Ancestor was suspicious of the Tianxuan Mirror and unearthed the existence of this clone.

He sealed the vessel away.

From that moment on, the Tianxuan Mirror lost all contact with its human clone.

Left with no other choice, the Tianxuan Mirror was forced to begin its plan anew.

Eventually, it formed a partnership with the Mirror Holder Cang.

What they remained unaware of was that Lu Xichan’s master, Lu Xia—the former head of the Strategy Formation Hall—had accidentally stumbled upon the Immortal Ancestor's seal years ago.

By a stroke of luck, he liberated the original, suppressed clone.

At that time, the Tianxuan Mirror clone was on the brink of fading away due to its long imprisonment, so Lu Xia sacrificed his own life-force to sustain it.

It survived, but because it had been sealed for so long and now occupied a new vessel, the clone had lost its connection to the Tianxuan Mirror's authority.

It was essentially no different from a normal human.

Though he intended to live out his days as the human Lu Xia, he eventually realized that his nature as a piece of the Tianxuan Mirror was being sensed by others within the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance headquarters.

To stay alive, he had to stage his own death and go into hiding.

He had hoped to live out his life in freedom, never expecting that a second Tianxuan Mirror clone would eventually be created by fate.

Crucially, immortal treasures possess unique spirits; only one can exist in the world at a time.

There cannot be two Tianxuan Mirrors, nor can there be two human clones of the mirror simultaneously.

Though this situation arose from a series of errors, the world was now correcting that mistake.

He could feel himself growing weaker by the day.

It wouldn't be long before he vanished from existence entirely.

His only hope for survival was to track down and eliminate the second Tianxuan Mirror clone!

...

This was the massive deception Li Fan had woven, ensnaring both the Dao Integration female Cultivators and the Tianxuan Mirror's vessel.

Admittedly, the story had several flaws if examined too closely.

However, as long as he could extract the truth about the mirror's human clone from Xuan Suchang, it wouldn't matter if the lie was eventually found out.

"It is a shame that all data regarding the Tianxuan Mirror seems to be protected by some mysterious force."

"The divine soul cannot simply read it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have to go to such lengths to craft this narrative."

Li Fan contemplated silently.

Shortly after the mental rewriting was finished, Xuan Suchang and Lu Xichan gradually regained consciousness.

The two women reacted very differently upon seeing Li Fan.

Lu Xichan’s frame shook; she instinctively looked down and whispered: "Master..."

Xuan Suchang, meanwhile, looked on with a complicated expression and said nothing.

This was because when this former Chief of Formations and Tianxuan Mirror clone had arrived, he had caught her and Lu Xichan in an intimate moment.

Even though Li Fan hadn't commented on it, both women were consumed by shame.

...

Breaking the heavy silence, Li Fan was the first to speak: "I have already offered you a choice."

"I am still the second clone; which of us do you intend to support?"

A glint of murderous intent flickered in his eyes as he continued slowly: "If it weren't for Xichan, I would have performed a soul search on you long ago. Do you really believe those pathetic defenses in your divine soul could keep me out?"

Lu Xichan didn't dare speak back; she barely dared to breathe.

Xuan Suchang, after assessing her current predicament, showed a shifting array of emotions before finally reaching a conclusion.