My longevity simulation

After inspecting them, Li Ping confirmed that these light orbs held no great use for him.

He then returned the light orbs to the selected anglers with a rather solemn expression. These anglers had passed through multiple rounds of selection.

The first attempt yielded no heavyweight gains.

Li Ping did not mind this at all.

This fishing competition had been organized rather hastily, leaving the people of Great Qi with little preparation time. The winners were all veterans who had immersed themselves in the art of fishing for a long time. Their victory relied more on experience than on insight or talent.

“With them as role models to ignite the people’s great enthusiasm, the second and third fishing competitions should bring me some pleasant surprises.”

Li Ping watched the winners before him as they repeatedly turned the light orbs over in their hands and studied them carefully. He gave a slight nod, then his figure shattered and vanished.

After all, he was not fighting on home ground in the Xuanhuang Realm. Without the endless support of the Holy Dynasty’s fortune, Li Ping feared he would not even be a match for an ordinary Dao Integration cultivator.

It was best to return early.

If not for the fact that the supreme treasure Fishing Pond could not be moved, he would never have come here in person and taken such a risk.

“Manpower is still insufficient.”

“Trustworthy and sufficiently powerful subordinates are truly too few.”

Li Ping sighed softly, then secretly pondered a solution.

…

Tianquan Prefecture.

Sun family secret chamber.

More than a month had passed since Sun Luyuan’s last departure.

According to previous habits, Sun Luyuan should have already returned to feed the Boundless Mirror with his blood.

Yet for some unknown reason, Sun Luyuan had still not returned this time.

On this day, Li Fan’s clone, who was immersed in studying the remaining formations of the Boundless Mirror, suddenly sensed traces of the secret chamber’s protective formation being disturbed.

Upon looking, he could not help but laugh in amusement.

It turned out that Wu Ninglu had somehow truly discovered the entrance to the underground secret chamber.

She was now attempting to intrude into the chamber.

Although she had used a secret technique to alter and conceal her aura, she could not escape Li Fan’s discerning eyes.

The clone quietly flew out from the Boundless Mirror and pointed gently with one finger.

The secret chamber’s protective formation changed in an instant.

Struck by the suddenly strengthened formation, Wu Ninglu’s expression shifted. She knew she had been exposed.

Without daring to linger for even a moment, she turned into a streak of black light and fled.

Li Fan observed carefully. After circling once, Wu Ninglu removed her disguise in a secluded spot.

She then swaggered openly back to her own room.

She still harbored a stroke of luck and had not fled the Sun family immediately.

“Heh, is she truly foolish, or does she rely on carrying the Sun family’s bloodline to act without restraint?”

“However, this has nothing to do with me. Once Sun Luyuan returns this time, I should be able to control the Boundless Mirror and meet that Mirror Holder [Fu].”

Li Fan’s prediction was not off.

Seven days later, Sun Luyuan arrived in the underground secret chamber with a grave expression.

He also noticed the traces of an outsider invading the protective formation, and his face changed.

His expression shifted between gloom and uncertainty, but in the end Sun Luyuan did not make any noise about it.

Instead, he first placed a mass of essence blood before the black mirror.

From the mirror spirit Sun Luyao’s mind, Li Fan sensed an irrepressible craving.

He let out a cold snort and ruthlessly suppressed that instinct.

The Boundless Mirror had already been refined by him. The Sun family’s bloodline offering would only shake his control over the Boundless Mirror.

How could he possibly let them have their way?

Still, to avoid revealing any flaws, he had Sun Luyao put on a show.

After “swallowing” the essence blood, Sun Luyao slowly appeared.

“Brother, I feel much better.” He spoke against his will.

Deceiving his own elder brother filled Sun Luyao’s heart with guilt. But as a artifact spirit, he had no control over himself. He could not even warn Sun Luyuan.

He could only watch helplessly as his elder brother stepped deeper into the trap set by this terrifying existence.

“That old thing’s demands are getting more and more excessive. We only just provided him with important information, yet he is already dissatisfied again.” Sun Luyuan looked at Sun Luyao’s faint figure, a trace of tenderness flashing in his eyes, before he spoke with hatred.

“This time the demand is even more absurd. He wants us to spy on news about the human clone of the Tianxuan Mirror? Just based on an unrealistic guess, he demands we keep trying at the cost of our blood…”

“Old thief!”

Sun Luyuan slammed his fist hard against the ground.

To outsiders, he was the glorious family head of the Sun clan, holding an important position in the Guardian Hall with high authority.

But before the true rulers of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, he was actually worse than a dog!

For the survival of the entire Sun family, he had to grovel and swallow his dignity.

“Why do the Dharma-Transmitters and Mirror Holders always stand so high above us? No matter how hard we work, we can only serve as their dogs!”

“Is there never any hope of turning things around?!”

A stifled resentment surged in his chest with no outlet. Rage rose within Sun Luyuan, and a thought he had never dared to entertain before suddenly surfaced naturally in his mind.

But he quickly came to his senses.

Even he was startled by his own idea. He hurriedly buried it deep in the recesses of his mind and did not dare reveal even a hint of it before his younger brother, who had already become a artifact spirit and was once the closest to him.

Because he understood very clearly that, according to the style of the Immortal Alliance’s rulers, if they learned of his thoughts, then the very next day the entire Immortal Alliance would find no evidence that the Sun family had ever existed. They would vanish completely from the world!

Yet he seemed to have underestimated the effect of the bond between brothers.

“Brother, when I was spying on the Tianxuan Mirror last time, I actually discovered some interesting things.” Sun Luyao suddenly said.

“Hmm?” Sun Luyuan was slightly stunned and looked toward his younger brother, whose expression was extremely serious.

“The Tianxuan Mirror, through various clues, has discovered traces of a force in the Xuanhuang Realm that is currently still hidden and may rebel in the future.” Sun Luyao said quietly.

“Rebellion?” Sun Luyuan shook his head. He did not believe that anything in the vast Xuanhuang Realm could shake the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance’s rule.

But his younger brother Sun Luyao’s next words made his heart jump: “According to the Tianxuan Mirror’s prediction, this force is very likely to cause enormous damage to the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.”

“Is this true?”

Sun Luyuan’s spirits rose. The first thought that popped into his mind was to immediately report this heavyweight news to Mirror Holder Fu in exchange for merits.

However, just as he finished carefully reading all the information his younger brother had sent and felt secretly shocked, Sun Luyao’s faint voice sounded beside his ear.

“Brother, I am truly suffering so much.”

“If this continues, it probably won’t be long before I can no longer hold on and will perish in both body and soul.”

“Being a dog for a lifetime is still just a dog.”

“Even ordinary mortals dare to shout, ‘The throne of the Emperor turns in rotation—this year it’s my family’s turn!’…”

His younger brother’s soft murmurs were like soul-capturing demonic sounds, circling Sun Luyuan’s ears.

The thought he had previously suppressed in his heart, influenced by these words, could no longer be restrained and resurfaced.

“The Holy Dynasty Great Qi…”

Sun Luyuan narrowed his eyes and once again examined the information in his hands.