My Simulated Road to Immortality

Upon entering the Energy Refining Stage, Li Fan immediately felt the earth-shattering transformation within him.

Spiritual energy churned within his body, quietly rejuvenating Li Fan’s slightly aged form.

Tiny wrinkles on his face disappeared, and his skin became smooth again.

Long-lost vitality surged within Li Fan, as if he had returned to his youth, filled with endless energy.

He reversed his aging and greatly strengthened his physique.

The most important thing was that Li Fan could now manipulate the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy.

He controlled strands of spiritual energy, morphing them into various forms.

Unfortunately, right now, he could only instinctively manipulate spiritual energy. To use it more efficiently, he needed the appropriate spells.

After fumbling around for a while, Li Fan disbanded the spiritual energy in his hand and focused his attention on the [Real] panel.

Name: Li Fan

Stage: Initial Stage of Energy Refining

Physiological age: 47/199

Mental age: 510/21691

After breaking through to the Energy Refining Stage, Li Fan’s lifespan had reached the limit of one hundred and ninety-nine years.

It was mentioned in “The Technique of Sensing Energy with the Five Spirits” that, although Cultivators’ lifespan is much longer than ordinary people’s, compared to ancient times, it has been greatly suppressed.

Energy Refining Stage cultivators’ lifespan does not exceed two hundred years.

And for Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, they could only live for over a hundred years before they met their end.

Only by achieving the Gold Core and comprehending the laws of heaven and earth can one dramatically increase their lifespan to around five to six hundred years.

In contrast to his physiological age, Li Fan’s mental age barely increased.

After all, it had already significantly grown through the cultivation of the Xuan Huang Heart-Refining Spell, and Li Fan was not particularly surprised.

Next, Li Fan took out “The Golden Seal of the Jade Realm of a Thousand Mechanisms” from the Tai Yan Boat.

He had obtained this Nascent Soul Realm technique from Kou Hong long ago, but, troubled by the lack of spirit consciousness, he could not check it.

However, he had always been thinking about it.

Now that he had finally entered the Energy Refining Stage, Li Fan was eager to know its contents.

“The Golden Seal of the Jade Realm of a Thousand Mechanisms, a Nascent Soul Realm Technique, current number of practitioners: o.”

Picking up the jade scroll, the description of the technique naturally appeared in his spirit consciousness.

Li Fan realized that this is also a change caused by the Heaven and Earth’s Great Calamity, where Immortal Laws can’t be cultivated concurrently.

His spirit consciousness senses the jade scroll, and in an instant, countless text and images flood into Li Fan’s mind.

However, his spirit consciousness was much stronger than the average Energy Refining Cultivator, and he quickly adapted and returned to normal.

His mind calmed, concentrated on understanding this technique.

After a long while, Li Fan finally grasped a general understanding of it.

“The Golden Seal of the Jade Realm of a Thousand Mechanisms,” was a technique practiced by the Ancient Heavenly Machine Sect.

In ancient times, there was a belief in unifying heaven and man.

The Heavenly Machine Sect believed that everything in heaven and earth, just like humans, had their own thoughts.

They are difficult to perceive in normal ways.

But just as lethal intent suffuses a person as they harbor killing thoughts, everything in heaven and earth also occasionally emit a trace of Qi.

When heaven shows killing intent, changes such as wilting and star-shift ensue.

When earth displays killing intent, changes such as oceans turning into fields and dragons rising from the land occur.

By capturing and refining all sorts of Qi between heaven and earth, one can trace back to the origin, reaching a state of resonance and unity with them.

“The Golden Seal of the Jade Realm of a Thousand Mechanisms” is a technique that senses and refines Qi for one’s usage.

Upon successfully cultivating this technique, not only can one borrow killing intent from heaven and earth to harm others, but one could also predict the future by deducing from Qi.

This technique is powerful, but cultivating it is also very risky.

The will of heaven and earth is vast. Even a tiny touch of Qi could harm cultivators numerous times over.

If one contacts it recklessly, they could easily be injured by the Qi itself. Even worse, one might unknowingly be assimilated and become a puppet of the will of heaven and earth.

Therefore, the Ancient Heavenly Machine Sect did not choose to sense and refine the Qi of heaven and earth. Instead, they opted for more indirect methods.

Nurturing one’s own killing intent, taking energy from the vitality of spring, sensing Qi from certain heavenly and earthly spiritual objects…

By adopting myriad variations of Qi, they concealed themselves thus achieving the purpose of confusing the Heavenly Machine and sensing the will of Heaven and Earth.

Theoretically, if one cultivates this technique to its highest realm, they can unite with heaven and earth, and incarnate into the Dao.

Unfortunately, this is only theoretical.

In actuality, even with these shortcuts, cultivating “The Golden Seal of the Jade Realm of a Thousand Mechanisms” is incredibly difficult.

The Ancient Heavenly Machine Sect’s legacy has been handed down for ten thousand years, and there have been countless cultivators practicing “The Golden Seal of the Jade Realm of a Thousand Mechanisms”.

But the highest-level practitioners only reached the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm.

Given that was the case back then, let alone in the present Immortal World where the malice of heaven and earth exists everywhere.

However, Li Fan was assisted by [Real], so he wasn’t too worried about the risks of cultivating this technique.

Li Fan contemplated for a moment; he didn’t have to rush to decide his main cultivation technique.

He could first go to Ten Thousand Immortals Island to observe the current situation of the Immortal Cultivation World and then make plans.

Therefore, Li Fan went to the Central Array on Liuli Island, wanting to meet He Zhenghao.

Just as he reached the outside of the array, he found several servants who had been waiting for a long time.

Under the guidance of the servants, Li Fan met He Zhenghao again.

Now, the place he was at was no longer the towering mountain from before, but a very ordinary small hill.

Surrounded by mountains, it did not attract attention.

At this moment, He Zhenghao was sitting on top of a small pavilion on the hill.

“I sensed a disturbance in the spiritual energy of the island just now, and I knew it must’ve been you breaking through.”

He Zhenghao looked at Li Fan with a pleased expression. “Although it took a bit long, you did manage to break through, didn’t you?”

“I must thank you for your guidance,” Li Fan politely responded.

“It was nothing,” sensing a slight increase in his cultivation, He Zhenghao said with a smile.

“Are you here to go to Ten Thousand Immortals Island?”

“Exactly. I have no more worldly concerns and can depart at any time,” Li Fan nodded.

“Good, in that case, follow me.”

He Zhenghao teleported to Li Fan’s front, grabbed his shoulder.

“Do not resist.”

He Zhenghao’s voice echoed in his ears, and upon hearing this, Li Fan dispelled the spontaneously protective spiritual energy on his body.

Being carried by He Zhenghao, Li Fan ascended into the sky, heading upwards.

The speed was extremely fast; they passed through the cloud sea and arrived above the mountains in a blink of an eye.

“Pull!”

He Zhenghao made a seal with one hand and pointed towards the mountain range below.

A moment later, countless peaks in his field of vision emitted white beams of light that converged in front of He Zhenghao, forming a huge sphere of light.

“Open!”

He Zhenghao raised his hand up.

The sphere of light accelerated sharply, following the direction guided by He Zhenghao, shooting straight up into the sky.

Instantly it formed a beam of light piercing heaven and earth Colliding with the sun above.

The surface of the sun distorted, then split into two halves.

In the middle, a gateway was formed.

“Let’s go!”