My longevity simulation

Seeing Lu Ya, who firmly believed in his own conclusions, Xu Ke hesitated for a moment before slowly saying, “I once heard someone say that even what you see with your own eyes may not always be the truth.”

“And when judging a person’s character, do not look at what they say, but at what they do.”

“Although I do not know the exact situation in that basement, Mr. Bai has always been especially good to us. Without his help, we might have starved to death long ago. So, I am always willing to believe that Mr. Bai is truly a great good person.”

Xu Ke organized his words as he spoke slowly. This somewhat literary speech took him quite a while to finish.

Lu Ya chuckled and patted Xu Ke’s head: “You little rascal, after reading a few books, you start lecturing me? And with all that flowery talk.”

“Do not worry, I am not someone who cannot see reason. I know what is what. It is just that…” Lu Ya’s eyes seemed to see that extremely eerie Faceless Statue again, and his heart could not help but grow heavier.

Next, Lu Ya chatted idly with Xu Ke for a while. After seemingly receiving a transmission from someone, he hurriedly left.

“Lord Black Bird, how did I perform?” At this moment, Xu Ke finally asked for credit in his heart toward Li Fan.

“Just average level. You need to work harder in the future.” Li Fan responded very calmly, and Xu Ke immediately felt dejected.

“It seems that in this era, the residual power of the Faceless True Immortal is much stronger than it will be thousands of years later. Lu Ya merely saw it once and has already been tainted by its aura, falling into the True Immortal’s web, with no escape.”

As the Xuanhuang emmisary of the present Faceless True Immortal, no one in this world probably understood the nature of His power better than Li Fan.

In the illusions he had experienced before, Li Fan was not yet qualified to detect it. But now, he could see at a glance that the fundamental reason Lu Ya’s attitude toward Mr. Bai had changed so drastically was still the influence of the Faceless True Immortal’s stone statue.

All living beings have an instinctive fear of unknown powerhouses.

It was like a butterfly trapped in a spider’s web, unable to break free. Although it had not yet seen the predator descend, it already sensed its impending fate and felt fear in its heart.

Lu Ya was in that state now.

However, he instinctively linked the Faceless True Immortal statue with Mr. Bai. Rather than fleeing or distancing himself from Mr. Bai, it was more to avoid the control of the Faceless True Immortal.

Unfortunately, just like the real Li Fan, ordinary methods could not break free at all.

As for whether Mr. Bai truly had any connection with the Faceless True Immortal…

Li Fan had not detected any aura of the Faceless True Immortal on Mr. Bai from that brief encounter. Of course, it was also possible that his strength was too great and he had concealed it well.

While pondering this, Li Fan saw Xu Ke still sulking and scratched his head: “Your temperament still needs tempering. You can’t even handle this setback; how will you follow behind me to save the world later?”

“Lord Black Bird, I’m not even ten years old yet. Does saving the world have to rely on me?” Xu Ke said with a bitter little face.

“Who made you fated with me?” Li Fan said earnestly.

“Alright, get ready. Next, the Beast Taming Sect should assign you a task.” Li Fan prophesied again.

After demonstrating his foresight multiple times, Xu Ke already trusted Li Fan completely.

Sure enough, Li Fan’s prediction was correct once more this time.

Three days later, Lu Ya brought Xu Ke to a small wooden cabin outside the Beast Taming Sect’s Demon Suppressing Tower.

On the table inside the wooden cabin sat a wooden carving and a wooden box.

“This wooden carving is the gift Mr. Bai left for you.” Lu Ya said with a somewhat complicated expression.

In these three days, something seemed to have happened to him. His words toward Mr. Bai were much more courteous, but Li Fan keenly sensed that the influence of the Faceless True Immortal on him had actually deepened.

“Wow!” Xu Ke had not yet realized this and simply ran excitedly to the table, grabbing the wooden carving in one hand.

“Huh? This looks like me?!” Xu Ke examined it carefully up and down and said with some surprise.

He did not care what the wooden carving was for; as long as it was a gift from Mr. Bai, Xu Ke was very satisfied. He originally planned to put it away carefully, but after hearing Li Fan’s voice transmission, he first tucked it into his chest.

“This wooden carving is quite a treasure.” Li Fan stared at it intently, sensing the power of laws condensed upon it.

Since it was Mr. Bai’s handiwork, it naturally could not be ordinary.

This wooden carving of Xu Ke represented counterattack.

Any attack not exceeding the wooden carving’s limit would be absorbed and then rebounded back.

It was somewhat similar to the divine ability Shuo Feng manifested after comprehending the wooden sword heavenly wonder.

“Even a full strike from the Dao Integration realm can be perfectly rebounded by this wooden carving. Though the number of uses is limited, it is absolutely a life-saving treasure.” While studying the principles of heaven and earth within the wooden carving, Li Fan sighed at Mr. Bai’s generosity.

And as expected, Xu Ke received the task to go to the Nanming Sacred Beast Mountain and deliver the red wooden box to Emperor Yi Beast.

“This wooden box contains the head of [Emperor Erli]. If nothing unexpected, it should have been personally severed by Mr. Bai. Emperor Erli wandered freely, stirring up trouble and refusing to return to the demon race. Although Mr. Bai seems to have killed him, he actually handed him back to Emperor Yi.”

“Using this favor to exchange for the method by which demon beasts can proliferate by devouring the void, to cultivate Rift Whales.”

Li Fan explained the reasons behind the matter.

“Mr. Bai is the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, yet he still cannot grasp the specific evolution path of demon beasts and must seek Emperor Yi.”

“It seems that the demon beasts of the Xuanhuang Realm may not be native products at all. They are outsiders.”

“Emperor Yi sensed that the great calamity of the Xuanhuang Realm was approaching, with no possibility of escaping unscathed. Thus, he wanted to rift the boundary and leave…”

Before Li Fan’s eyes appeared that towering white mountain, as if at the end of the world.

“Nanming Mountain, according to Emperor Yi, is the edge of heaven, the corner of the sea, the end of the world.”

“The countless stray energies of the Xuanhuang Realm converge there. If detonated by some special method, it could erupt with extremely terrifying power close to that of a True Immortal in an instant.”

“Thereby crossing the High Wall and leaving the Darkest Star Sea.”

In the present world a millennium later, Nanming Mountain had become the Great Rift Vortex. The world’s wound had not healed for thousands of years, showing just how terrifying the energy fluctuations were when Nanming Mountain rifted the boundary.

“The principle is the same as the Heavenly Sword Sect’s World-Rifting Divine Weapon. However, both are merely theories. Whether they succeeded or failed, whether they successfully escaped the Darkest Star Sea or had already turned to nothingness…”

“No one knows.”