My Simulated Road to Immortality

“But I perceive that you are a perceptive person, and must know your own limits. So I will say no more.”

Sima Changkong rested for a while, recovering some of his energy, before speaking again.

Li Fan’s gaze shifted, but he did not reply much.

Only sighing with regret, “Such candid words from Brother Sima, I am truly ashamed!”

“Hehe, if you keep acting like this, then you’re truly being distant with me!” Sima Changkong feigned annoyance.

Li Fan could only sigh again in silence.

After a heartfelt exchange, their bond deepened.

After almost half a pot of tea, Li Fan shifted the topic back to the Tianlingzhou Battlefield.

“Brother Sima, what exactly did you see on the battlefield?” He asked, frowning. “With your overarching view of Xuanhuang World’s history, if you praised it, it must be a formidable entity.”

Sima Changkong sighed, “You flatter me, my friend. But you’re not wrong about the second part.”

“What the Alliance of Thousand of Immortals has unleashed this time is truly a powerful weapon.”

With that, he urged a drop of blood within him to form a blood screen, as before, to show Li Fan.

A picture did emerge on the blood screen.

But soon after, Sima Changkong’s expression changed.

“How can this be?!” He exclaimed in shock, his face plastered with bewilderment.

Li Fan was staring at the scene on the blood screen.

He saw a densely packed group of monks from the Five Elders Organization forming a formation and surrounding a group of cultivators from the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals in the center.

The group from the Alliance, even though they were surrounded and outnumbered, didn’t have a hint of fear on their faces. They were all incredibly valorous.

As though they had received some sort of bolster, they charged fearlessly at the enemy, who outnumbered them by a hundredfold.

This seemingly inevitable war, with a foregone conclusion, suddenly took a drastic turn.

The crowd of cultivators from the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals saw one person suddenly raise something high.

Then…

A large number of monks from the Five Elders Organization plummeted from the sky without warning.

They landed hard, their bodies mangled, moaning in pain on the ground, unable to move.

The cultivators from Alliance of Thousands of Immortals seemed to have anticipated this.

Rapidly and mercilessly, they reaped the lives of their enemies.

For a moment, the sky was packed with falling figures, forming a peculiar scene.

“How can this be?” Sima Changkong watched the scene on the blood screen in disbelief, his expression somewhat blank.

Seeing Sima Changkong’s unusual reaction, Li Fan suddenly thought of something, and asked, “Could it be that the scenes recorded in the blood screen differ from what you witnessed with your own eyes?”

“Indeed!” Sima Changkong immediately nodded.

“What I saw, this cultivator held a small square mirror aloft.”

“And from the sky, thousands of green threads descended.”

“It was precisely because of the existence of these inexplicable green threads that the cultivators of the Five Elders collapsed instantaneously.”

“But why…”

After explaining, Sima Changkong still seemed unable to accept it.

For Sima Changkong, whose mission is to objectively record historical events, the emergence of something unrecordable was a heavy blow.

“Unrecordable, green energy…” Li Fan’s eyes narrowed.

“It must be the mysterious network. I had suspected that it had descended into the world. Sure enough, when the war intensified, the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals couldn’t help but use it.”

“But the mysterious network of this era is different from the Tianxuan Soul Locking Array I saw in my last life.”

“Just by carrying a small square mirror, one can summon it.”

“Is it a prototype, or…”

In response, Li Fan fell into deep thought.

“No! I must find a method to record it.” Sima Changkong muttered, appearing slightly manic as he had yet to recover from the shock.

“Brother Sima, you’re overthinking it. Even if it can’t be directly recorded through images or words, you can still record its existence indirectly via descriptions,” Li Fan reminded him at this moment.

Sima Changkong suddenly fell silent.

He then exclaimed joyfully, “How foolish I was!”

He slapped his forehead, forcing a few more drops of blood to seep out and merge into the blood barrier.

They formed several twisted words and fused with the blood barrier.

“The Alliance of Thousands of Immortals and the Five Elders Organization battled in the northeast of Sky-Spirit State…”

“A silk-like green light suddenly fell from the sky…”

“Those hit lost their powers as immortals and fell to the ground.”

…

The words were gradually stabilizing, ready to merge completely with the blood barrier.

Suddenly, a green thread emerged from the twisted blood characters.

“Damn it!”

Sima Changkong became pale in shock and cried out.

Before he could finish his sentence, the green thread had already turned into a surging green light.

After completely distorting the recorded scenes within the blood barrier, it suddenly retreated and condensed into a single point of light.

A moment of silence passed.

The green dot violently exploded.

“Real…”

The moment the green line appeared, even before Sima Changkong could shout his warning, Li Fan had already pushed his Violet Firmament Divine Thunder Jitsu to the extreme.

Two bone wings appeared on his back, and he also activated the [Mythical Peng’s Flight] technique on himself.

Using the greatest speed he had ever reached since stepping into the Immortal Cultivation World, he started his escape.

But Li Fan clearly hadn’t expected the reaction of this mysterious net to be so intense.

It was even more violent than the one that had erupted in the Martial Arts Battle Hall on Ten Thousand Immortals Island.

The green dot exploded, and a wave of light quickly swept all around.

The moment the green light was about to touch his body, despite his reluctance, Li Fan still shouted out the word “Real”.

But quickly, he swallowed down the rest of the word “Real”.

Because he found that the charging degree of [Real] used for body protection had not changed at all.

“Huh? So, it was just a false alarm?”

Li Fan immediately halted his escape and hovered in midair.

After waiting for a while, seeing no abnormal occurrences around him, everything seemed peaceful.

After hesitating for a moment, Li Fan decided to go back and take a look.

In the Crystal Palace, everything was as before.

Only it was eerily silent.

Sima Changkong stood still in his original place, with a look of horror frozen on his face, his body not moving at all.

“Brother Sima?”

Li Fan called out from a distance.

There was no response.

After a while, Li Fan cautiously approached and called again: “Brother Sima?”

Although he could faintly sense the “life” aura in the other person, for some reason, Sima Changkong remained completely unresponsive.

And…

That sense of vitality seemed to freeze as well.

Li Fan felt a sense of foreboding and slowly retreated.

“Puff!”

At that moment, Sima Changkong’s body suddenly burst open from the inside.

What splattered out was not fresh red blood and flesh, but puddles of green viscous liquid.

The Crystal Palace was splattered all over.

Li Fan barely avoided the onslaught of the green liquid.

However, looking at Sima Changkong, who had been reduced to nothing but bones, his face twitched.