My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 680: Chapter 646: Calmly Planning for the Future

“One glance reshapes millennia, forming a realm post-fall?!”

“How could that be?”

Li Fan’s description of the unbelievable reality left Liu San stunned.

“How could a True Immortal exist in the Xuanhuang World? Why have we never heard of this?”n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Even as a Unity Path Expert, the existence of the [Fallen Immortal Realm] left Liu San just as shocked as Li Fan.

Li Fan smiled and said, “Elder Liu, there’s no need for doubt, this matter is absolutely true. I have personally experienced it.”

“What I saw with my own eyes was as it was in the past. The work of a True Immortal is indeed remarkable.” He shook his head, filled with emotion.

With what Li Fan had said, Liu San was thoroughly convinced and ever more astounded.

Suddenly, as if he had remembered something, a flicker of excitement crossed his eyes, “Young Master, you just mentioned that the Fallen Immortal Realm is a real reflection of the Ancient Xuanyuan World. Does that mean, the existence of the Medicine King Sect still remains in the Fallen Immortal Realm?”

“The former Sect Master, even you and me, and all the cultivators from the Medicine King Sect…”

“Could we potentially encounter them when we explore?” Liu San’s voice trembled as he slowly asked.

After pondering for a moment, Li Fan nodded, giving an affirmative answer.

In the history of the Xuanhuang World, there have indeed been cases where ancient dormant cultivators entered the Fallen Immortal Realm and encountered their past selves.

However, no strange phenomena occurred where “the two cannot meet” or “mutual sense of existence” etc. In the end, once ancient cultivators reach the present, everything from the past is already over. What’s within the Fallen Immortal Realm are merely projections of themselves at a certain moment in the past. Besides feeling a sense of loss and sentimentality, seeing one’s past self is no different from encountering other entities.

Similarly, the “indigenous people” within the Fallen Immortal Realm would not mistake cultivators from the outside world as their past projections. Even if their appearance and aura are identical to their past selves, this is not possible. They would only assume them to be disguised by some divine technique.

However, Li Fan had once seen a discussion about this in the [Seeking Immortal] section of the Tianxuan Mirror. It was said that if a cultivator survived from ancient times to the present and cultivated to an unimaginable realm of profundity, they might be able to achieve “reflecting throughout eternity, achieving [Eternal Peace].”

The so-called [Eternal Peace] refers to when a cultivator transcends the river of time and exists in the past, present, and future simultaneously. Their every existence at any moment in time is their transcendental self. Hence, the projection within the Fallen Immortal Realm could potentially be regarded as the same person as the actual self.

Although this is only a fantasy, it is indeed a cultivator’s ultimate pursuit on their path, thus, it is a topic of fervent discussion among many.

Some cultivators suggested that if such a character truly existed, they would probably have reversed cause and effect, and made time a loop. So how could they be projected into the Fallen Immortal Realm by a mere glance from a True Immortal? Hence, the speculation that the projection within the Fallen Immortal Realm might be the actual self in the real world could perhaps end up being a paradox.

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Li Fan briefly explained to Liu San. Although he seemed reassured on the surface, Liu San was still eager to personally enter the Fallen Immortal Realm.

Seeing this, Li Fan didn’t mind. He just shook his head and laughed lightly, then carefully instructed him on the steps of the ritual.

“Fusheng, Xuanhuang Immortal Master!” Without any hesitation, Liu San conducted the ritual right in front of Li Fan and entered the Fallen Immortal Realm.

Li Fan slightly squinted his eyes, looking up at the sky.

Perhaps it was because of his recent advancement to the [Mystic Yellow Immortal Heart Incantation] that Li Fan’s perception had become more sensitive than before.

The instant a wisp of Liu San’s spiritual sense disappeared, Li Fan clearly sensed a shadow sweeping across the sky dome of the real world.

“It wasn’t an illusion. The Fallen Immortal Realm, huh…”

The shadow appeared for just an instant before disappearing from his perception, but Li Fan’s gaze lingered for a long time.

Having spent quite some time in the [Seeking Immortal] section, Li Fan knew that many cultivators in the world had attempted to find traces of the Fallen Immortal Realm in the real world. But it was said that without exception, all had failed.

Everyone knew of its existence and how to enter it.

Yet, it was impossible to observe it.

However, Li Fan, who was only at the Nascent Soul Stage, had now broken this rule.

“My previous encounters in the Fallen Immortal Realm were unusual, repeatedly cycling through the same scene. I’ve never understood why. Now it seems that it might have something to do with the Xuanhuang Curse.”

“The True Immortal Heritage, the remnants of a True Immortal’s thoughts. Or perhaps there’s some connection between the two.”

“It’s been a long time since I entered the Fallen Immortal Realm, I hope that this time, with the assistance of the Mystic Yellow Immortal Heart Incantation, it will bring me some surprises.”

Li Fan mused to himself.

After that, he wasn’t in a hurry to take action right away. While waiting for Liu San to awaken, he took a stroll around the Valley of Eternal Life.

The valley was divided into separate areas by arrays, used for cultivating different kinds of spiritual plants and medicines. As expected of a secret realm that had been sealed for thousands of years, despite the array’s isolation, Li Fan could still feel the vigorous life force emanating from the crops within these spiritual fields.

From time to time, Medicine King Sect cultivators were moving through, selecting and collecting suitable materials for refining elixirs with secret techniques.

In the distance, one could vaguely see the silhouettes of a few buildings that were nearing completion.

They were the new sect structures that the disciples were building under the leadership of Fang Zaiji.

“Their efforts show remarkable spirit.” Li Fan nodded and praised.

With the Cloud Sea matter resolved, he needed to start planning for the future.

There were mainly two goals.

The first was to find a way to obtain the latter part of “The Mountain-Seating Secret” for the Nascent Soul Stage.

Because the events where the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals lured out spies and laid out the “True-False Probation Plan” hadn’t occurred in this timeline, there were also no risk-taking expeditions by Unity Path Experts from the Five Elders Organization, let alone the large-scale confrontation that led to the set-up and near end of the lifespan for Jicheng Immortal Monarch.

Hence to acquire the [Jade Tablet of Technique Presentation] that could allow them to meet Yan Fajue, they’d need to find an alternate method.

However, Li Fan had already prepared for this, so there wouldn’t be a problem.

The second was to accumulate experience and insights regarding advancing to the God Transformation Realm. The whole Nascent Soul Stage is a process to cultivate and perfect one’s Cave Heaven Domain. And the Nascent Soul and God Transformation stages are key divisions in a cultivator’s actual battle power.

Take, for example, Immortal Hongxi, who recently perished in the Cloud Sea catastrophe.

He attained the Tao foundation with the [Mountain of the Five Elements] and achieved Gold Core with the five elements of Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

His talent is indubitable, and his start was smooth.

However, during the stages of “extracting the essence of Heaven and Earth to form the Nascent Soul” and “taking the marrow of Heaven and Earth to achieve divinity”, his promising trajectory sharply declined.

Whatever the [Heaven of a Hundred Ridges] or [Birth of a Thousand Mountains], it’s clear that he ended up significantly weaker.

This led to Immortal Hongxi’s actual combat power being unimpressive. He spent his whole life trapped in this remote land of the Cloud Sea, and advancing further was almost impossible for him.

Turn this around: What if Immortal Hongxi could form a Nascent Soul with the [Great Five Elements Cave Heaven] in the same way Li Fan did? How would his future look then?