My Simulated Road to Immortality

This stench is an intangible thing.

It’s even more difficult to deal with than the tangible black worms.

At the very least, more than ten days have passed, and the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals still hasn’t come up with a suitable solution.

Some living beings just can’t endure this stink and, amid their agonized howls, their bodies explode, contributing their own power to this extreme environment.

This vicious cycle has led to no signs of improvement in the stench of Xuanhuang World even after so many days.

All cultivators have hidden within cities protected by defensive formations, not daring to venture out.

They look at the oddly colored air outside with worried expressions.

…

On Li Fan’s side, however, he received a challenge from Law Transmitter Zhou.

"Fellow Daoist, what are you doing?"

"Didn’t we agree to pretend to bring about the end of the world? How come you have turned Xuanhuang World into such a dismal and miasmic mess?"

Zhou seemed to be in a bad mood.

Li Fan simply responded, "Don’t worry. This is a delaying tactic. In at most three months, these foreign types of Spiritual Energy will be gradually diluted and return to normal, along with the natural circulation of Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Energy."

"I know, but this stench is too disgusting. I feel it will cause indelible psychological scars on Xuanhuang World’s cultivators."

"It’s fine, they will soon stop worrying about these trivial matters," Li Fan said with a smile.

"Oh? Has the second part of the plan already begun?" Zhou also got drawn into serious matters.

"Just watch and see how it unfolds."

The sound of their exchange gradually subsided.

…

As Li Fan had anticipated, even without doing anything, the stench would naturally disappear in three months.

Rather than exhausting themselves trying to find a method to eliminate this stench, which might not even yield results.

It was better to just patiently wait.

That was the decision made by the Immortal Alliance after comprehensive considerations.

Of course, in order to completely resolve this mysterious disaster, the Immortal Alliance had not relaxed its patrols in various places.

Night and day, God Transforming cultivators scattered to collect environmental change data.

Seeing that everything was slowly improving, and even the recovery speed of Spiritual Energy density far exceeded expectations, the Immortal Alliance finally began to ease up.

But in a corner that nobody is aware of yet,

A large number of Dao Yi Bugs, using the corpses of the previously deceased black worms, are reproducing rapidly.

These Dao Yi Bugs don’t consume Spiritual Energy.

Instead, they exhale Spiritual Energy.

The rapid recovery of Spiritual Energy in Xuanhuang World is naturally their doing.

Under Li Fan’s deliberate manipulation, they hide within the various underground Spirit Veins.

They blend the Spiritual Energy they release with the naturally generated Spiritual Energy of the world’s operation, making it indistinguishable to others.

The changes thus occurred slowly.

Three months later, all the strange odors had disappeared. The cultivators, who had been cooped up for a long while, flocked outside one after another.

They breathed in the fresh, wonderful Spiritual Energy to their heart’s content.

"I never thought before that the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Energy could be so delightful."

"Haha, what is not destroyed is not created anew. Reflecting on this disaster, I feel a breakthrough is not far away!"

"On such a fine day, it is right to travel with friends!"

…

The Immortal Alliance did not stop the cultivators from relaxing.

On the surface, the Insect Disaster seemed to be completely over.

So the main focus of the Immortal Alliance shifted to investigating the origin of the Insect Disaster.

In Shilin State, where the incident erupted due to mishandling that led to the spread of the Insect Disaster, nearly half of the cultivators were stripped of their posts.

Some scapegoats were even stripped of their cultivation base and thrown into the Dark Prison.

Such severe punitive measures were very rare.

And Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign, who mysteriously disappeared during the Insect Disaster, became the main suspect.

Obviously, the Insect Disaster could not threaten the life of a Unity-Path cultivator. Therefore, the now vanished Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign, neither seen alive nor dead, seemed particularly suspicious.

As the first Integration Cultivator to encounter the Insect Disaster, if he had reported the situation to the Immortal Alliance in time, they would never have fallen into such an irreparable state.

The Immortal Alliance suffered heavy losses in this Insect Disaster.

Someone must step forward to take responsibility.

And the missing Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign became the unanimous target of everyone’s censure.

"Death is not enough to appease the public’s wrath!"

Some cultivators spoke with unusually harsh tones.

But after all, as a Unity Immortal Monarch, each one is a tremendous treasure to the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals. They could not be executed lightly.

So, in the end, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals still issued a warrant, ordering the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign to turn himself in as soon as possible in hopes of a lighter sentence.

They did not issue an order for his execution.

As soon as the news came out, the Immortal Alliance was shaken.

Overnight, the Golden Sword Immortal Sovereign seemed to become the instigator of the Insect Disaster, the object of everyone’s condemnation.

Everyone wanted to tear him to pieces.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Strangely enough, a vicious aura arose from the hearts of the cultivators.

But at that time, the cultivators attributed it all to the fury towards the one who had triggered the Insect Disaster.

It wasn’t until another half-month later, when a shocking case occurred.

In Tianchen State, a tragedy struck the You family.

Overnight, more than a hundred family members were all killed.

All were slaughtered.

And after an investigation, it was astonishingly discovered that the perpetrator of such a bloodbath was You Chisong, the eldest son of the You family!

No one knows what opportunity he encountered, for he was recorded as only being at the Nascent Soul Transformation Realm.

Yet he managed to stealthily kill all the God Transforming cultivators in his family.

And even hid the sense of the Heavenly Dao.

Not until three days later when the shielding failed,

Did the anomalies from the falling cultivators simultaneously explode, making people aware of this tragedy.

In the peaceful Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, such a horrific and bloody attack actually occurred.

And the perpetrator was a member of the family itself.

The Immortal Alliance took this very seriously and immediately launched an investigation.

Rumors about the You family also spread like wildfire among the populace.

As the eldest son, he had made outstanding contributions to the development and growth of his family.

But because of his insufficient talent, he was forced to pass the Change of Life he discovered to someone else.

In a fit of rage, he slaughtered everyone in his family!

...

The You family’s extermination became the hot topic of discussion among the cultivators.

Although slaughtering one’s kin is definitely an inhuman act,

It should be unequivocally condemned.

Yet, inexplicably, a few discordant voices emerged from the populace.

"In my opinion, good riddance!"

"Right. Destroying someone’s path is akin to killing their parents! What kin? They ceased to be that the day they took away the Change of Life!"

"If it were me, I would have done the same!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

...

Originally, these were minority opinions.

But somehow, as the discussion of the incident escalated, more and more people began to express their support.

The viewpoints of both sides were almost completely opposed, unable to coexist at all.

In the face of this sharp confrontation, friction was inevitable.

However, such debates are common, and initially the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals did not pay much attention.

What no one expected was that, after the first bloody conflict occurred, it set off a chain reaction.

Bloody conflicts began to break out on a large scale all over the Immortal Alliance.