My longevity simulation

Daoist Hundred Flowers turned her head away, trembling and not daring to respond.

Li Ping waited for a long time, but still did not see Hundred Flowers change her mind. He then let out a slight sigh and withdrew the three True Immortal seal characters by his side.

“Very well, if Fellow Daoist is unwilling, I will not force the issue.”

“After all, not everyone has the courage to pry into True Immortal power in such a way…”

“Regarding the relocation of the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven, does Fellow Daoist have any difficulties?” Li Ping returned to the main topic and asked.

Feeling the terrifying auras of power around her dissipate, Daoist Hundred Flowers finally recovered briefly from her panic.

The tone of Holy Emperor Li Ping’s inquiry was already subtly different from before. Hundred Flowers knew that if she refused again, she would truly anger this madman. Thus, she could only agree with difficulty.

“Fellow Daoist, please set off as soon as possible. Oh, right: since the destination is unfamiliar territory, for safety’s sake, I will send one of my disciples to accompany you.” Li Ping said casually.

When Daoist Hundred Flowers saw the “disciple” Li Ping referred to, she could not help but feel her scalp tingle and her body tremble once more.

“This is…”

Even with Hundred Flowers’ vast experience, having personally witnessed the destruction of many realms, she still found it hard to accept at this moment: a body that appeared completely identical to an ordinary human’s, yet internally composed of billions of wriggling unidentified tiny insects. Each of these insects was an individual with its own independent thoughts, yet together they formed a “human” collective.

Daoist Hundred Flowers’ scalp tingled not because she was frightened by the endless, grotesque insects. It was an instinctive bodily reaction.

These insects seemed to have a natural restraint against bodies composed purely of energy.

Even though she was at the Longevity Immortal Realm, even though she was still some distance away from these insects, Hundred Flowers still felt a sudden surge of irritability and unease within her body. It constantly warned her, urging her to stay far away from this insect-person.

“You can call him [Dao One].” Li Ping answered irrelevantly.

“Do not worry: although Dao One’s strength is somewhat lacking, he possesses quite a few peculiar abilities. With his assistance, Fellow Daoist should find relocating the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven much easier.”

Seeing this, Daoist Hundred Flowers could only steel herself and nod slightly. Under Dao One’s lead, she headed straight for Tianling Prefecture.

Li Ping watched the two figures depart, but in his heart, there was no joy from subduing a Longevity Immortal Realm expert with just a few words.

“My own strength is still insufficient. I can only rely on external objects to intimidate. If I could wield the Source Power Essence, there would be no need for such trouble.”

Dao One was a special variant of the Dao One Insects preserved within the Ten Thousand Beasts Condensation Crystal.

No matter how much the group’s numbers expanded, it could always maintain a unified collective mind. More crucially, these Dao One Insects did not merely produce spiritual energy.

They could parasitize within spiritual energy, propagate themselves using it, and gradually transform into existences akin to spiritual energy.

Under sufficient external propagation conditions, [Dao One] needed only about a year to convert the spiritual energy of an entire small world into “itself.”

The entire process was utterly silent, without even affecting the various creatures in the world that relied on spiritual energy for survival.

Even weaker cultivators could not detect it.

Only those at the Nascent Soul Realm, who had formed their own internal Cave-Heaven, could sense this mutated spiritual energy.

Li Fan dispatched the [Dao One], nurtured from a strand of his own consciousness, to the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven precisely to enable its transcendence there.

Leveraging the vast scale of spiritual energy in the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven, it would cultivate a massive amount of mutated spiritual energy capable of shaking the entire Xuanhuang Realm.

Under normal conditions, Dao One could never develop in the Xuanhuang Realm.

Once the mutation of spiritual energy exceeded a certain scale, it would inevitably alert the cultivators and be reported to the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.

Although resolving it would be somewhat troublesome, eradicating these insects was not a difficult task for the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.

But after all, from discovery to suppression, a certain reaction time was required.

With a sufficiently large numerical foundation, it could achieve a complete replacement of the Xuanhuang Realm’s spiritual energy before the cultivators could respond.

This move of cutting off the root was one of Li Fan’s killer strategies prepared for counterattacking the Xuanhuang Realm.

When the spiritual energy gained self-awareness and could distinguish between friend and foe.

The advantage held by the Federation of All Worlds’ cultivators in battles against the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s cultivators would likely be more than just a little.

“Dare to make the sun and moon change to a new sky.”

“The aura of this Xuanhuang Realm is too decayed; it’s time to give them a harsh lesson.”

As Li Fan’s clone, Holy Emperor Li Ping had his memories of [Truth] stripped away.

In his self-perception, he was a consciousness born from the Xuanhuang Realm’s desperate attempt at self-salvation amid the world-ending crisis, a product of coincidence and fate.

The so-called destined Holy Man.

He knew almost all the deepest secrets of the Xuanhuang Realm clearly.

He had even foreseen countless futures of his own destruction.

And his ultimate pursuit was to change the heavens and replace the earth, liberating the Xuanhuang Realm from the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s corrupt rule.

Holy Emperor Li Ping firmly believed that achieving this goal was actually not far off.

…

The finals of the first Great Qi Fishing Competition officially commenced.

A total of ten outstanding participants would personally demonstrate their fishing skills before the Holy Emperor.

Originally, all three of the Holy Emperor’s disciples had entered the competition, but in the end, only the simple-minded Wang Xuanba advanced to the finals.

This undoubtedly further proved the fairness of the event.

Passing through a circular light door, after a bout of dizziness, the ten contestants arrived in what appeared to be a very ordinary garden.

The great Faceless Holy Emperor sat by a small pond not far away, eyes closed in quiet fishing.

Most of the ten had never seen the Holy visage before. Not daring to disturb him, they lowered their heads in anxious anticipation.

After a long while, the Holy Emperor abruptly reeled in his line.

To the crowd’s slight surprise, what was lifted from the pond was not any kind of fish.

But a white orb of light.

Casually storing the light orb, the Holy Emperor turned to the ten exceptional anglers and explained the rules of the competition.

“In this pond, I have placed countless treasures.”

“One rod per person, one chance.”

“The higher the quality of the treasure fished out, the better the score.”

…

These words left the crowd’s hearts surging with excitement.

Because the Holy Emperor had promised that no matter the ranking, the fished-out treasures would belong to them!

Amid the crowd’s eager anticipation, Wang Xuanba, as the Holy Emperor’s disciple, made the first move.

Wang Xuanba had never been to this fishing pond before.

He sat in a daze for a long time before reeling in.

In the end, his hands held nothing at all.

An empty line!

This left Wang Xuanba immensely dejected.

But upon seeing this, the others were all deeply shaken. They realized that the Holy Emperor’s test of angling was far from as simple as ordinary fishing. One by one, they grew tense and focused.

As they took their turns approaching the fishing pond, in the end, one purple, three blue, and five white light orbs were fished out from it.