My Simulated Road to Immortality

This time, they delved deeper into the massive fissure, twisting and turning, and after over thirty days, they finally reached the endpoint.

"Be careful, there seems to be the fluctuation of a living person ahead!" Mo Rubing suddenly transmitted his voice as a warning.

Li Fan had already kept the Wooden Sword Mirage close to his side, slowly approaching.

At the end of the Dark River, a lone figure was seated.

The aura was flickering and unstable, and on the face was a mask with fangs!

"Xing Wuque?" Seeing the familiar form, Mo Rubing couldn't help but call out loudly.

However, after Li Fan was momentarily startled, a sense of peculiarity surged in his heart.

Xing Wuque had long since lost both hands and feet, yet this figure had all limbs intact.

What's more...

The clothes he wore were very familiar to Li Fan.

They were exactly like those of Xu Ke, who had previously disappeared deep in the Dark River!

"Is it Xu Ke?"

"Or is it Xing Wuque?"

"No wonder I felt his aura was flickering earlier..." Li Fan pondered, refraining from taking any hasty action.

After a moment of shock, Mo Rubing also distinguished differences from the person before him who was unlike his old acquaintance.

After observing carefully for a while, he made a judgment: "It seems not quite right. Could he be in some kind of strange fusion state? Could it be that so many years have passed, and Xing Wuque, facing his impending doom, had to resort to a method for survival?"

Li Fan, however, perceived that this fusion seemed to be dominated by Xu Ke. Rather than a survival of Xing Wuque, it was more akin to an inheritance.

"Worthy of being the Son of Destiny, battered here by the Echoing Star Power into this place of death, yet he still encounters such an opportunity."

"If Mo Rubing's previous conjecture is not wrong, and Xing Wuque for thousands of years had been carrying out the tasks assigned by King of Mystic Sky..."

"Xu Ke, owing to the dying instructions given by Mr. Bai years ago, also took on the responsibility to eternally suppress the evil thoughts of Xuan Huang alone."

"Both of them are quite similar in this regard. Perhaps that's why Xu Ke could receive the inheritance of Xing Wuque?" Li Fan mused to himself.

Mo Rubing shook his head slightly: "This new body is too weak to withstand the full strength of Xing Wuque. However, we can help!"

As he said this, Mo Rubing cast a Hundred Million Demonic Hearts.

As it flew towards the target, the somewhat ferocious expression on the Hundred Million Demonic Hearts slowly dissolved.

It turned into a Faceless image, and then completely melted into a viscous grey fluid.

In an instant, it permeated into Xu Ke's body.

Moments later, Xu Ke's flickering aura began to stabilize somewhat.

"Hundred Million Demonic Hearts, not only able to harm and take over bodies but also save from calamities. Truly a divine technique of the Shamanic Immortal Tribe." Li Fan, seeing this scene, couldn't help but exclaim. Not to be outdone, he shot out dozens of Golden Needles.

Just as he had assisted Mo Rubing before, he infused pure Spiritual Power along with Divine Soul Power through golden threads.

With the aid of two powerful beings, Xu Ke's integration with the Bronze Mask sped up by more than a thousand times!

Normally, it would have taken decades to complete the entire inheritance absorption.

But now, not long after, Xu Ke's aura had already gradually become stable.

Li Fan and Mo Rubing quietly waited.

Finally, two bright lights shone from the eyes of the mask.

Seeing the two people in front of him, Xu Ke's body trembled slightly.

"Holy Master?!" he exclaimed subconsciously, his tone full of astonishment.

The sound and tone had changed significantly from the usual Xu Ke, yet the content of the speech undoubtedly showcased the true identity of the current figure.

"Hmm?" Hearing the familiar voice but unfamiliar content, Mo Rubing was momentarily startled, and then finally realized, looking towards Li Fan.

At this moment, Li Fan also had a shocked expression, asking somewhat incredulously: "Xu Ke? How could it be you?!"

He appeared completely unaware previously.

Mo Rubing asked coldly: "You are not Xing Wuque? What have you done to him?"

His eyes gleamed with a dangerous light, holding back from taking action only because Xu Ke was acquainted with Li Fan.

"Elder Xing... has already reached his limit and passed away."

"By a twist of fate, I picked up this mask and passed his test, and I've reluctantly inherited his mantle," Xu Ke's tone was somewhat melancholic.

Xu Ke detailed the whole story.

As Li Fan had speculated before, perhaps Xing Wuque initially did have the thought of Soul Snatching and rebirth, but after sensing a life similar to his own in Xu Ke, Xing Wuque eventually chose to give up.

And so, fusion turned into inheritance.

"The legacy of the elder is so immense, that even though he opened it up for me to absorb, I couldn't handle it all at once. Instead, I fell into a state of mental instability..."

"Fortunately, two elders lent me their helping hands," Xu Ke bowed deeply.

Mo Rubing was suddenly unaccustomed to hearing his old companion speak like this.

Li Fan directly inquired about the relationship between Xing Wuque and the dark fissures in the Star Sea.

"It seems that Elder Xing deliberately led this aspect of memory away,"

"But through some memory fragments, I can make out the gist."

"These fissures stretching across the Star Sea are excavated inch by inch over the years by the elder using the power of the Immortal Treasure, Azure Abyss Pearl," Xu Ke said, stunning both Li Fan and Mo Rubing.

"The Dark River fissures, winding through the entire Star Sea. It's hard to imagine such an undertaking being the work of one person. But even though the elder intentionally erased it, the vast remaining memories of opening the Dark River undoubtedly signify his achievements," Xu Ke sadly remarked.

"Since the day Elder Xing received the order from King of Mystic Sky, he has always held the Azure Abyss Pearl, performing this task."

"For ten thousand years, there has not been a single moment of rest."

"Even though the elder's cultivation was supreme, driving the Immortal Treasure Azure Abyss Pearl was an immense strain. His continual perseverance over years and millenniums eventually brought him to his limits..."

"Carrying regrets, he fell at the very end of these Dark River fissures." Xu Ke expressed sorrowfully, narrating the entire story.

Li Fan silently listened.

Though it sounded unreasonable,

If Xing Wuque really was as Mo Rubing had described earlier...

It might not be impossible.

Mo Rubing was more shaken, often starting to speak but then stopping.

He looked ahead, at the end of the Dark River fissures: "Elder Xing... he didn't complete the task given by Xuanyuan Big Brother even unto death?"

Xu Ke nodded: "That's also what I need to continue doing for the rest of my life. Since I've inherited Elder Xing's mantle, I naturally need to help him complete the unfinished deeds from his life."

The tone was even, yet extremely resolute.

Hearing this, Mo Rubing's expression subtly changed, looking at Xu Ke with a mix of surprise.

"Absurd..."

"Let alone the significance of doing all this work. Now that Immortal Treasure Azure Abyss Pearl is broken, with your current level of cultivation, how can you excavate a new Dark River fissure?"

Xu Ke was unwavering: "To persist in fulfilling Elder Xing's obsession, that itself is the significance."

"Regarding the Immortal Treasure being broken..."

A dazzling cyan light suddenly shone from Xu Ke's mask.

It was exactly the same as what Li Fan had seen earlier on the real Azure Abyss Pearl!

"During the ten thousand years of pioneering by elder, the act of opening the Dark River fissures had already been transformed into his instinct. Now that it's passed on to me, even without the Immortal Treasure, I can still do it!"

"It's just another repetition after ten thousand years!"

The cyan light emanated from the mask,

Lighting up the path ahead, the end of the Dark River.

In the presence of Mo Rubing and Li Fan, indeed a new section of the fissure was opened by Xu Ke!

But just after advancing less than ten yards, the cyan light abruptly stopped.

Xu Ke also collapsed to the ground as if drained of strength.

"At this rate, how many years and months will it take you to complete it?" Li Fan could not help but scoff.

"As long as there is progress each time, there will be a day it's completed," Xu Ke said with a strained smile.

"Just as Elder Xing said, the commands of the King of Mystic Sky definitely have their significance."