My longevity simulation

With a thunderous roar from Li Fan, a colossal giant emerged in the deep void—far larger than the Tianyang Puppet from before, magnified dozens of times over.

This was none other than Li Fan’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form, conjured using an almost boundless amount of Five Elements Cave-Heaven essence!

Had this appeared in the Xuanhuang Realm, this towering figure would have been an awe-inspiring sight, enough to draw the attention of every cultivator in the world.

Behind the giant’s head, five ethereal cave-heavens loomed like interlinked rings, casting an incomparably sacred aura around Li Fan’s Dharma Form.

Compared to this behemoth, Tianyang was no more significant than an ant.

“Suppress!”

The giant looked down, extending its right index finger, pressing down upon Tianyang with overwhelming force.

The sheer mass of the descending finger was like the collapse of the heavens, its ridges and grooves resembling layers of talismanic seals, aiming to imprison Tianyang in an instant.

For the first time, Tianyang caught a glimpse of how ordinary cultivators must perceive him. Yet, despite facing this overwhelming strike from the giant, he remained calm.

His robes fluttered without wind, and the space around him rippled in peculiar folds.

Spatial distortions spread outward like cascading waves, originating from Tianyang and expanding rapidly.

As the waves propagated, Tianyang’s figure became increasingly blurred.

In just moments, he had vanished completely!

Li Fan’s finger struck nothing but empty air.

“Interesting! Even with my Five Elements power and a space-sealing formation, I still couldn’t stop you from escaping…”

Li Fan’s Dharma Form thundered as his gaze swept across the surroundings, searching for Tianyang’s presence.

Yet Tianyang had seemingly evaporated from existence, leaving not the faintest trace of energy fluctuation.

“Junior Brother, don’t—”

Before Li Fan could finish speaking, Tianyang reappeared abruptly, as if materializing from thin air, right before the forehead of Li Fan’s Dharma Form!

With an effortless motion, he pointed at the giant’s brow.

Like a drop of water falling into a still pond, the forehead of the Dharma Form twisted bizarrely—then shattered completely!

Tianyang prepared to withdraw his hand.

However, despite its head crumbling to pieces, the Dharma Form remained unaffected.

Its hands swiftly came together, fingers bending to form a cage-like structure.

The energy fragments of the shattered head, seemingly sentient, rapidly converged outside the finger cage, forming an intricate formation in an instant!

Tianyang hesitated momentarily.

Within this formation, not only was he unable to tear through space to escape, but even his previously successful Spatial Folding technique had lost its effectiveness!

It had worked just moments ago—yet in the blink of an eye, Li Fan had devised a countermeasure with a formation.

What kind of genius was this?!

Before Tianyang could dwell on it further, layer upon layer of formation shadows continued to appear outside the finger cage.

As if limitless, these formations stacked upon each other in mere breaths, their compounded might reaching a level that even Dao Integration cultivators like Tianyang would find daunting.

Of course, the price for this feat was the rapid collapse of Li Fan’s Nascent Soul Dharma Form, deflating like a punctured balloon.

Sensing the imminent danger surrounding him, Tianyang dared not move.

Li Fan reappeared not far away, smirking smugly. “Well, Junior Brother? Convinced now?”

Tianyang nodded reluctantly.

“Haha.” Li Fan, satisfied, did not press him further. His eyes gleamed with a faint blue light as he casually pointed at Tianyang’s location.

In an instant, the overwhelmingly intricate formations that had seemed inescapable to Tianyang were effortlessly dispelled by Li Fan’s simple gesture!

“I wasn’t even using my full strength. I wouldn’t want to accidentally hurt you.” Seeing the lingering defiance in Tianyang’s expression, Li Fan added pointedly.

“I… neither was I.” Tianyang struggled to squeeze out those three words.

Li Fan once again looked at Tianyang and proactively proposed another battle.

“Eh!” Unexpectedly, Li Fan just waved his hand and refused.

“Sparring should only go so far. We are fellow disciples—do we really need to fight to the death?”

“No more, no more!” Li Fan said with a cheerful smile.

Tianyang was helpless but couldn’t force the issue.

“Speaking of which, little junior brother, your power is also related to space. Not far ahead, there is a small world filled with spiritual entities. It might be of some help to you,” Li Fan introduced the details of the Soul Shade Realm to Tianyang.

Although Tianyang had already reached the Dao Integration stage, apart from the laws contained in the Spirit of Heaven and Earth, his knowledge was not much different from when he was just a Dao Foundation cultivator a thousand years ago.

For such strange phenomena, he was naturally at a loss.

However, he had always followed Li Fan’s words.

Thus, the two of them continued forward along the spatial passage.

By now, they had already left the Xuanhuang World far behind, and Li Fan no longer had any reservations.

Seven-colored divine light streaked across the sky, traversing millions of miles in an instant.

Tianyang, who had mastered spatial techniques proficiently, could also shrink space at will and closely follow behind.

Even with their incredible speed, the length of this spatial passage still exceeded their expectations.

According to Li Fan’s calculations, it took them more than a month before they vaguely sensed the presence of a Rift-Whale swarm ahead.

Li Fan halted his movements.

Looking into the distance, he saw countless Rift Whales resembling a vast ocean of whales, moving in groups through the void, carving out a path forward.

And that was only what was visible on the surface.

In the pitch-black void, who knew how many more Rift Whales existed?

The immense aura radiating from the entire swarm made even Li Fan’s expression change slightly.

“It has already reached the critical point where quantity transforms into quality.”

“How could there be so many of them?”

Li Fan couldn’t help but turn his gaze toward the Soul Shade Realm, which was concealed not far away.

“Let’s go.”

Transforming into a streak of light, Li Fan descended upon this small world within moments.

“Hiss…”

The moment he landed, Li Fan couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

This place was far too cold.

Even the spiritual energy within his body showed signs of freezing.

He circulated the power of the Five Elements, attempting to counteract the extreme cold by converting his spiritual energy into fire attributes.

However, the moment he did so—

A terrifying chill surged inexplicably from within his body.

In an instant, he was encased in ice, transforming into an ice sculpture. Then, as an eerie wind of unknown origin blew past, he shattered into countless ice fragments that scattered across the ground.

Moments later, a ripple of energy emerged, and Li Fan’s body reappeared.

“Strange…”

An intrigued expression appeared on his face.

Just now, instead of radiating heat, the fire attribute energy within him had manifested as extreme cold.

This coldness did not come from an external source.

Rather, in this place, fire inherently possessed an icy nature.

“Senior Brother, something is off here.”

Even Tianyang, who was usually taciturn, managed to say a complete sentence with a serious expression.

“It’s as if something around us is consuming my power…”

“But I can’t find them.”

Tianyang then transmitted his thoughts through voice transmission, sharing his discovery.