My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 1468: Chapter 1298

Anchoring for three years, atop Dissociative Mountain Peak.

Li Fan, who was meditating in a seated position, suddenly opened his eyes.

His mind was in turmoil and he could no longer maintain calmness.

Taking a long breath, he slowly rose and walked out of the wooden house.

Standing at the cliff edge, he gazed far into the Cloud Sea, with the mountain wind blowing through and making his clothes rustle loudly.

It took almost half a day for Li Fan’s state of mind to gradually regain tranquility.

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Such scenes had occurred more than once in the past three years.

Unlike before.

When Li Fan successfully returned to one year after the [Real] anchoring, the experiences of his past reincarnations still deeply affected him.

It was not a passive impact like being caught in the nets of a True Immortal, but rather a problem with Li Fan’s own mindset.

Even with the protection of the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra, he could not break free.

Shortly after his thoughts immersed, the image of Kitty Treasure leaping out in darkness and then engulfing the True Immortal figure from the Immortal Ruins uncontrollably burst forth from the depths of his Spirit Consciousness.

While breaking out in a cold sweat, his spirit was in great disorder.

Unable to maintain a meditative state any longer.

“Kitty Treasure, Kitty Treasure…”

Li Fan’s gaze flickered as he repeatedly murmured these two words.

Despite Kitty Treasure possessing three abilities: item replication, mimicry of living beings, and I Ching Marrow Cutting, when it was fished out from the Fishing Pond, it was merely of white quality.

The Fishing Pond was vaguely the creation of a Nameless True Immortal who had comprehended The Way of Fishing.

How could Kitty Treasure, able to deceive the Fishing Pond, be simple?

Kitty Treasure’s diet of Essence of Source Power also indicated to some extent its extraordinary nature.

Nevertheless, neither The Emperor, who was used as a pawn, nor Li Fan who saw himself as a player, had anticipated…

That Kitty Treasure would be such a terrifying creation.

Where immortal power reached, it was as if a True Immortal was present in person. Even if it were not the true body, but just a phantom, it could effortlessly shatter the Immortal Array of [Xianjiang, All Things Return To Void] that suppressed the Xuanhuang World. In sharp contrast were the three Supreme Strongmen of the Star Sea who, despite their utmost efforts, could barely survive within the Immortal Array.

The disparity between the Supreme and True Immortals cannot be measured by distance.

And Kitty Treasure, which could swallow a True Immortal Phantom in one gulp…

Its true strength, unimaginable.

In the previous life, Li Fan [Real] returned when the Suction Force of the Ruins of Immortality vanished, the high walls crumbled, and the Star Sea was in turmoil.

The instinct to survive caused him, after the shock, to briefly suppress the terror in his heart.

It was only in this life that he came back to his senses.

Feeling an immense dread.

Having once directly faced the True Immortal of the Immortal Ruins, even through an avatar, and despite the many side effects after returning to [Real], Li Fan ultimately succeeded in returning.

Thus, when the True Immortal descended in the previous life, although Li Fan was neither panicked nor disordered, staying vigilant at all times, he did not immediately return to [Real]. He did so in hope of glimpsing some secrets of the True Immortal.

Unexpectedly…

The arrival of the True Immortal unexpectedly revealed the true nature of Kitty Treasure.

The True Immortal of the Immortal Ruins, capable of annihilating Xuan Huang in a glance, in front of Kitty Treasure didn’t even have a chance to react before being swallowed whole.

If Li Fan were targeted by Kitty Treasure, how could he possibly escape unscathed?

Centuries of effort, nearly obliterated in an instant, doomed forevermore. How could this not cause Li Fan to feel terrified?

“I thought I had been cautious enough.”

“I’ve mostly figured out the waters of the Xuanhuang World. There’s no need to be so wary anymore. I didn’t expect such a huge shock beyond the high wall…”

Ignoring the still flickering [Real] inheritance option information before his eyes, Li Fan returned to the wooden house.

Inside the room, there were wooden carvings of kittens in various lifelike poses.

But all were unfinished, missing arms and legs, and one couldn’t discern the original appearance of the kittens from these statues.

These were all personally carved by Li Fan over the past three years.

Without using Spiritual Power, purely by hand.

Li Fan looked at them for a moment, then selected a suitable piece of wood and picked up the carving knife placed to the side.

He began carving patiently.

Li Fan was using the method of wood carving to directly confront the root of his inner fear, in order to eliminate the influence Kitty Treasure had on him.

It was indeed somewhat effective.

The frequency at which Li Fan woke from nightmares about Kitty Treasure had dropped far too much compared to three years ago.

However, Li Fan clearly understood that to truly resolve this “Heart Demon” would take a significant amount of time.

He also took this opportunity to thoroughly rethink and contemplate.

At the last moments in the previous life, when the Star Sea was in turmoil. The impact from the collapse of the high wall caused many strong Cultivators who had survived the Doomsday Fairy Array to fail to endure, turning to ashes.

At that time, at the core of the Immortal Array, Li Fan’s Divine Fragment, assisted by the remaining power of the Immortal Array, faintly perceived that the turmoil in the Star Sea was not entirely due to the collapse of the high wall.

It was also due to the sudden arrival of a certain entity.

Like a huge rock plunging into a deep pool, causing countless splashes. In the already stormy Abyss Star Ocean, it stirred up gigantic waves!

This was an unprecedented major incident in the Abyss Star Ocean since the path to immortality had been severed for ten thousand years.

Under such chaotic and critical circumstances, Li Fan did indeed successfully return to [Real] due to his resolute and alert nature.

But the scenes experienced during the return to [Real] were different from before.

This is the deeper reason why Li Fan has been unable to truly calm his mind in the past three years.

In a normal [Real] scene, the surroundings become dim and as though covered by a layer of mist, looking unclear. After initiating [Real], all scenes freeze, break apart, and are drawn into one’s Spirit Consciousness.

When facing an extremely strong threat, such as when the Xuanhuang was annihilated by the True Immortal of the Immortal Ruins with a glance, or the Faceless True Immortal Soojee approached, these formidable beings could move within the static scenes around [Real]. However, very slowly, as if inside and outside of [Real], they are not in the same dimension.