My longevity simulation

As the commander of the Qingxuan Army, Shang Shaojun had suppressed the Chizha Abyss for a hundred years. Even when facing the terrifying world-destroying demonic sound tide, he could remain calm and composed.

But now, he truly felt a bone-deep fear that he had not experienced for a very long time.

There were simply too many dead cultivators in this ice-sealed sea.

Shang Shaojun could hardly imagine where these cultivators had come from. The number of buried cultivators here was likely greater than the total number in the entire Xuanhuang Realm!

Holy Embryo Li Fan also pretended to be frightened by the scene before him. His body trembled slightly, and his face showed an expression of horror.

“Shaojun, do not act rashly. Caution is the most important.”

After a moment, he seemed to regain his composure and comforted Shang Shaojun.

Shang Shaojun’s expression remained ugly. He kept glancing around from time to time, as if some unknown enemy was hiding in the surroundings.

“Something feels off here. Did you hear any sound?” Shang Shaojun asked via voice transmission.

“Sound? What sound?” Holy Embryo Li Fan appeared somewhat stunned. This reaction was genuine.

Shang Shaojun’s face darkened: “Perhaps because I stayed in the Chizha Abyss for so long, I have become particularly sensitive to any sound. Ever since I entered this labyrinthine zone, I have been faintly hearing some kind of whispering. It comes and goes. Have you really not heard it?”

Holy Embryo Li Fan narrowed his eyes.

This was not his first time coming here.

He had even guided various cultivators to this place before.

However, no one had ever been like Shang Shaojun, actually able to hear inexplicable sounds in the deathly silent ice-sealed sea.

A different thought arose in his mind. Holy Embryo Li Fan said solemnly: “What does Shaojun think? This place definitely involves an enormous secret. But similarly, if we investigate deeply, we will definitely face huge risks. Should we leave first while we have not been discovered, or explore further?”

Shang Shaojun did not answer Li Fan immediately. His ears twitched slightly, as if he was trying to distinguish the sound he was hearing.

After a while, he transmitted: “Brother Li, follow me. I have a feeling that tracing the source of this sound might help us unravel part of the mystery of this place.”

Holy Embryo Li Fan nodded slightly. Sword shadows unsheathed and guarded the two of them.

“Proceed with caution.”

The two flew through the endless ice-sealed sea.

In truth, Li Fan already had a complete understanding of the overall structure of the Life and Death Reversal Great Formation.

However, since he was pretending it was his first time here, even when he saw Shang Shaojun leading them in circles inside the formation, he did not expose it.

He simply followed silently behind.

But as Shang Shaojun stubbornly continued advancing in a certain direction, Holy Embryo Li Fan also noticed the subtle changes occurring around them.

These changes had previously even escaped the analysis of the Final Dissociation Disc and had been overlooked by him!

“There is actually such a hidden change within the great formation? As expected of a formation capable of proving the Dao and achieving longevity Immortality.” Li Fan thought in secret amazement.

They continued forward.

It felt as though they were stepping in place, yet the ice-sealed coffins in the surrounding dead sea constantly rotated around them.

The deeper they went, the faster the surrounding scenery spun.

“Brother Li, be careful. It seems the source of the sound is just ahead!” Shang Shaojun’s voice also sounded somewhat tense.

It was as if they were passing through a long and narrow spacetime tunnel. The surroundings blurred from the extreme speed, turning into overlapping lines of circles.

When they broke through the end of the tunnel, the countless circles converged into a single point.

Then they exploded open in their field of vision.

Everything suddenly became clear.

However, the surrounding air grew even colder.

It was so cold that even Holy Embryo Li Fan and Shang Shaojun felt their bodies turning stiff from the freezing.

“Huu…”

They circulated their spiritual energy to try and dispel the bone-piercing chill.

The two carefully observed their surroundings.

It appeared to be the interior of a silver-white light sphere. Apart from some blurry boundaries, the place was completely empty.

But when they looked back in the direction they had come from, their pupils suddenly contracted.

A small sphere resembling a yin-yang fish, continuously rotating, floated quietly in the air.

From its dark half, Holy Embryo Li Fan could faintly sense the aura of the previous deathly silent ice-sealed sea.

And inside this white light sphere, there were actually eight more of such yin-yang orbs!

A total of nine orbs, arranged in a special formation.

Shang Shaojun swallowed hard.

Just one of these yin-yang orbs contained a countless number of dead beings.

If that number was multiplied by nine…

The two exchanged a glance and both saw the shock and fear in each other’s eyes.

Even their voice transmissions became extremely cautious.

They feared disturbing the nine yin-yang orbs here.

“Shaojun, the sound you heard earlier…”

“It’s gone. The moment we entered this place, it abruptly stopped and disappeared without a trace. Wait…” Shang Shaojun suddenly froze and turned to look in the opposite direction of the yin-yang orbs.

Holy Embryo Li Fan followed his gaze but saw nothing.

“Be careful.”

Shang Shaojun only gave this brief warning before falling silent.

His body became rigid and motionless. His aura also weakened dramatically in an instant.

Only then did Holy Embryo Li Fan sense that some invisible existence had descended upon this space.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Although there was no actual sound, the heavy footsteps clearly stepped upon Li Fan’s heart.

The presence was getting closer.

It paid no attention to the two intruders and walked straight toward the nine yin-yang pearls.

Huu…

A gentle blowing sound rang out.

The space around the yin-yang pearls began to distort and ripple.

Just like something being boiled in hot water, the yin and yang portions on the nine small orbs rotated around each other and became even more distinct.

Shang Shaojun and Li Fan clearly saw strands of ice-sealed corpses being drawn into the nine yin-yang pearls along with the breath of this unknown entity.

The entire extremely eerie process did not last very long.

The heavy, oppressive footsteps gradually faded into the distance. Only then did the silver-white space slowly return to normal.

The nine yin-yang pearls also slowly settled and regained their calm.

It was only after a long time that the two dared to communicate via voice transmission again.

“What exactly was that just now?”

“A sense of crisis prickled across my entire body, and my spiritual intuition screamed warnings like crazy. It felt as if a great disaster could descend at any moment… Even a Longevity Immortal Heavenly Sovereign might not be able to produce such a feeling, right?”

After exchanging just a few sentences, the two fell into an extremely oppressive silence.

“The sound I heard earlier was probably the echo of that unknown entity’s footsteps in this place,” Shang Shaojun speculated. “Even though it has already left, the lingering sound has not completely disappeared.”

“The countless ice-sealed corpses inside the yin-yang pearls seem to be that thing’s handiwork. But I still cannot understand where so many corpses came from. Also, what exactly lies outside this silver-white space?”

Holy Embryo Li Fan had no answers to these questions either.

He had originally thought that this place was merely the dao field of the Rebirth Heavenly Sovereign. He had never expected that in this lifetime, through pure coincidence, he would discover an even deeper secret hidden behind it.