My Simulated Road to Immortality

"The living beings of the Xuanhuang World, in the primordial setting, are nothing more than chess pieces on a board. From the moment they were created, various attributes were already designed for them. Height, appearance, talent, temperament."

"These light spheres are the powers granted by the natural operation of the Xuanhuang World, endowing the living beings with talent. Yet now they are being siphoned by the Ocean of Darkness, because the desire to survive of that True Immortal sensed the existence of this power and instinctively wanted to seize it..."

Li Fan frowned.

"Although the masses of the Xuanhuang are chess pieces, they are the chess pieces of the upper echelons of the Immortal World. A mere desire to survive..."

He raised his head to look at the existence within the Xuanhuang World.

Wanting to mimic this and seize the talents of the living beings.

But clearly, it was impossible.

"The desire to survive of the True Immortal has already been eliminated by me, yet this extraction of talent still exists."

Li Fan suddenly recalled a topic he discussed with Bai Hua and Artisan.

During the doomsday calamity, many cultivators once witnessed from afar their hometowns fall into the Immortal Ruins, everything disintegrating and forming a strange, twisted, ring of dreamlike light. As the Immortal Cultivation World completely disappeared into the Immortal Ruins, in the opposite direction, a large amount of material seemed to gush out. This material could not be detected by the naked eye or divine sense, yet it indeed existed.

The fairy ancestor puppet of the Celestial Mechanism World once decayed due to continuously being near the Immortal Ruins, due to a certain kind of thing being lost. At that time, Artisan even found an excuse for his own "dulling."

"The Hungry Immortal has been suppressed by me. The Immortal Ruins no longer exist..."

Li Fan flashed to the starry sky outside the Xuanhuang World.

He took out half of the light dots.

Here, they did not exhibit a flowing trend. They merely floated quietly in the void, seemingly unable to last long, and quickly dimmed.

Before they completely dissipated, Li Fan recollected them again.

Although it is just a small cluster of light spheres, if all is endowed upon one person, the talent of the cultivator created should not be any weaker than Zhang Haobo, Xiao Fan, and the like.

"It seems that the Xuanhuang World has stayed beside the Immortal Ruins for too long, and the world itself has been shaped into this trait."

"The talents and spirituality of the living beings are extracted in the opposite direction of the suction force of the Immortal Ruins. Even if the Immortal Ruins do not exist, this trend cannot be completely reversed for a while."

Li Fan conducted comparative tests at various points in the Abyss Star Ocean, and preliminarily concluded.

"As long as there's no further demonic interference." He first let out a sigh of relief.

But naturally, Li Fan was curious about the reason why this phenomenon occurred.

His understanding of the Secret of the Famine Rune could be considered the first person beyond the Hungry Immortal among the [primordial] possibilities.

He naturally knew that when comprehending the Secret of the Famine Rune, a suction force that devours everything would be generated around him.

Yet he hadn't noticed anything that wasn't attracted by this suction, but rather repelled away.

Verifying this matter wasn't considered difficult.

At the center of the Abyss Star Ocean, Li Fan cast a Secret of the Famine Rune towards a place not far away.

Though not as powerful as the Immortal Ruins, it appeared like a vast whirlpool that suddenly emerged.

The Star Sea became turbulent again.

Li Fan's body remained still in the wave, tossing a group of You Clan People who fell into his sight, howling desperately due to the disappearance of the Ocean of Darkness, one by one, into the whirlpool.

The You Clan People, though physically formidable and able to battle cultivators equally, how could they resist the power of the Secret of the Famine Rune.

They couldn't utter even a half-struggle, all turning to dust in the vast whirlpool.

Without any emotional fluctuations, Li Fan tossed them in one by one, observing.

Having never paid particular attention before, overlooking that spiritual material was normal. But under the meticulous observation this time, Li Fan indeed discovered this intangible substance.

Even justified because the You Clan People were all of the bloodline of the Xuanhuang First Generation Venerable, the spiritual material extracted from the whirlpool wasn't insignificant.

Li Fan, like a gold prospector, collected all the spirituality.

"Interesting. Why does the comprehension of the Secret of the Famine Rune generate such a strange phenomenon?"

"Perhaps, it's related to the path of [Hunger] itself."

Li Fan recalled the scene when he suppressed the Hungry Immortal not long ago.

Before the phantom of Lord Guardian Hill, even though the Hungry Immortal could not match, he did not submit. Instead, he struggled desperately.

The struggle of the Hungry Immortal, though futile, what caught Li Fan's attention was that phrase "Hungry, I'm so hungry," like the deep, ghostly sound.

Rather than saying it was uttered by the Hungry Immortal, it seemed to originate from a mysterious existence beyond the ethereal Tao.

As if wanting to swallow mountains and drink seas, turning everything in the world into its own sustenance.

Li Fan suddenly looked again at the Heavenly Pillar of the Starving Immortal.

"This path of Hunger seems to have some issues."

"Is it not a path inherent in the primordial possibility? But after devouring, it occupies the nest?"

Li Fan dared not be completely sure.

But from the current signs, it was already 80-90% certain.

"The spiritual material is closely related to the creation of living beings. It subtly connects to the cornerstone of the derivation of possibilities. This outsider path of Hunger, though occupying the Tao on the surface, fundamentally hasn't been integrated yet."

"Therefore, such strange phenomena occur when devouring everything."

To prove Li Fan's speculation methods, lay in the memory of the Hungry Immortal.

The Hungry Immortal has turned into a Heavenly Pillar, his previous life was open for Li Fan to browse. Revealing the final mystery won't be too far off.

"Since the Exotic Beast clan can escape from other possibilities, there should be nothing surprising about other intruders."

"However, from the perspective of the later ones, the funny thing about it becomes clear."

"These intruders, just like the so-called transcendent immortals who fled from the [primordial] possibilities, after going through immense hardships, thought they found a safe haven. Yet didn't expect, in the end, they still couldn't escape the fate of dying."

"Or perhaps..."

Li Fan squinted his eyes, his sea of consciousness flickered, countless possible scenes emerged. With his current ability to derive, even without knowing the specific individuals involved, he could backtrack to some extent based on the outcomes.

"These intruders who fled here never thought of this place as their final refuge at all. They merely regarded it as a temporary stopover. Since they could escape the first time, they could escape the second, third time..."

"At the very least, this should be what they believed. Once the path-obliterating Calamity comes again, they would just flee again."

"Fighting against calamity, aside from timing, the most important thing is unity. If among the crowd, there are natural-born fugitives like these..."

Having been a Grand Preceptor for decades, Li Fan naturally understood the harm of such a disruptive element.

If it was just themselves passively fleeing, it would be negligible. The most terrifying thing is if it, invisibly, infects, changes, and shakes the minds of those around them.

Spreading like a plague. The consequences are absolutely unimaginable.

"It's not just my conjecture."

"At that time, in the Immortal World, there were indeed such people."

A figure suddenly appeared in Li Fan's mind.

"Sun Piaomiao."

"And those who crafted the Immortal Domain Chess Pieces."

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"These intruders who fled here never thought of this place as their final refuge at all. They merely regarded it as a temporary stopover. Since they could escape the first time, they could escape the second, third time..."

"At the very least, this should be what they believed. Once the path-obliterating Calamity comes again, they would just flee again."

"Fighting against calamity, aside from timing, the most important thing is unity. If among the crowd, there are natural-born fugitives like these..."

Having been a Grand Preceptor for decades, Li Fan naturally understood the harm of such a disruptive element.

If it was just themselves passively fleeing, it would be negligible. The most terrifying thing is if it, invisibly, infects, changes, and shakes the minds of those around them.

Spreading like a plague. The consequences are absolutely unimaginable.

"It's not just my conjecture."

"At that time, in the Immortal World, there were indeed such people."

A figure suddenly appeared in Li Fan's mind.