My Simulated Road to Immortality

In Li Buren's mind, the Dao Network Projection seemed to become increasingly clear.

And the momentary hasty consumption did not cause indigestion. The insights from the fallen True Immortal, along with Li Buren's unique body's strong capacity, allowed him to almost effortlessly accept the True Immortal comprehension here.

"This space only has these transparent statues standing. Moreover, the concept of boundaries no longer exists. Ahead, there's no path, just like the High Wall in the Star Sea."

Li Buren replicated the method, shattering the remaining transparent statues here one by one. After consuming them, he attempted to break through the confines of this space again.

Before departing after crossing, Li Buren sensed that the eighteen statues here had not truly disappeared.

Even though they seemed to be completely consumed by him, the source of insight from the True Immortal that caused the statues to form still existed.

"Given time, they should restore to their original state."

"However, it will take at least ten thousand years for that."

The light vanished, darkness once again enveloping vision. By the time Li Buren could see again, he was already in a cube-shaped space.

Looking around, forward, backward, left, right, above, below. All were similar small cube-shaped spaces.

They seemed within reach, yet also seemed far away. Most of the cube spaces were in a state of death silence. The remaining ones flickered on and off, extremely strange. Only a few cube spaces had a stable faint light glowing.

Looking at everything before him, Li Buren momentarily fell into contemplation.

"Cube spaces, somewhat similar to the cages used to imprison True Immortals deep in the Shuo Star Sea Road Network."

"Because when observed from the outside, it was completely pitch black..."

Li Buren shifted his gaze to the places where the light was flickering, for comparison.

Moments later, he slightly nodded, "Life has already vanished, a dead territory. There's no longer a need for observation."

"And those flickering regions are..."

He reached out, trying to touch and feel. After a while, even with his self-awareness suppressed to an extreme low, Li Buren still slightly frowned, "The original observation system has been damaged. It presents an incorrect state. And the cause of observation failure is..."

"Dao Extinction Calamity!"

Li Buren retracted his hand. Even though he was still separated by the boundary of the cube space, merely touching it from afar, his fingers appeared as if scorched black, presenting a bizarre charcoal-like appearance.

In the pitch-black area, Taoist principles annihilate, Dao not being Dao.

Li Buren gently exerted force, and the blackened fingertips turned into flying ashes, drifting upward. Disappearing into the space.

"Just getting close to the Dao Extinction Calamity, the Immortal Domain body uncontrollably turns into flying ashes."

"..."

"However, that square boundary can temporarily hold back the erosion of the Dao Extinction Calamity like a dike."

As he contemplated, the severed fingers regrew. Li Buren fixed his eyes on the boundary of the square space, trying to glimpse its mystery.

Yet it yielded little result.

So he turned to look at the dozen subtly glowing areas in this space.

After some observation, Li Buren concluded, "The Star Sea wasn't vibrant with life. The circumstances are much like the Abyss Star Ocean..."

"Even worse, True Immortal Seal Characters left by What Does Immortal still rampage throughout."

Li Buren scrutinized every light point one by one.

"None belong to the Star Sea where Xuanhuang World is, all are strange starry skies..."

Li Buren involuntarily glanced down at his location.

Or, rather, at one of the countless identical tiny squares around.

"Having broken through the High Wall and smashed the eighteen True Immortal statues, I was able to penetrate the veil of the path and reach here."

"But what I see before me is not from the so-called 'Observer' perspective, but I still reside within the cage."

"So the Star Sea where Xuanhuang World is located is just one of these thousands of cube cages..."

Gazing at the countless cubes that originally should all simultaneously glimmer with life light, Li Buren was momentarily lost.

Yet, given his faint self-awareness, he quickly recovered from the mental shock and began to ponder.

"If that's the case, the High Wall locks in not just a single starry sky."

"But all these Star Seas exist in a parallel, adjacent manner. They don't see each other..."

A scene suddenly flashed before Li Buren's eyes: Qian Ruochang finding another Ascension Platform in the ruins not far beyond the High Wall.

"No wonder there are two Ascension Platform relics so close, yet existing separately."

"It's because this starry sky has already been divided and overlapped, bounded entirely by the High Wall!"

"Truly, methods unimaginable to Mortals. Even for me, it would require significant effort to destroy all these starry skies completely, let alone gather them intricately like cubes."

Li Buren was not daunted by this near-divine scene before him but analyzed it very calmly.

"Such grandeur, using the starry skies as an experimental field."

"...What exactly is being experimented with?"

"How does one enter the true core region?"

"I am not the first to traverse the High Wall. Before me, Mystic Immortal Boat, Heavenly Sword Sect, etc., have all successfully escaped beyond the wall. How did they escape from this cage?"

"I haven't found any traces left by them."

"Or perhaps they never came to this space?"

Li Buren looked down at his Immortal Domain body.

"Perhaps it is precisely because of this unique body that I was able to walk into this region. For different people, the method of crossing is different, and the destination is also different..."