My Simulated Road to Immortality

Even though everyone in the village bore the surname Xuan Yuan, Doggie always felt that Crazy Uncle's name stood out in an extraordinary way.

In the days that followed, Crazy Uncle's madness grew increasingly severe. Not even Doggie bringing food to comfort him seemed to help anymore.

Doggie could only climb onto Crazy Uncle's roof and close his eyes, listening to the strange sounds rising from below.

Every time he heard the eerie tones of Crazy Uncle's voice—sounds that others found chilling—Doggie would inexplicably fall into a deep and peaceful sleep.

These days lasted until Doggie turned nine.

One night, the village was suddenly shaken by an earth-shattering boom. Awakened villagers rushed out and discovered that the explosion had originated from Xuan Yuan Saint's house.

When everyone arrived, they found his house had been inexplicably reduced to rubble.

Crazy Uncle's death didn't cause much of a stir. To most of the Xuan Yuan Clan People, the disappearance of Xuan Yuan Saint, who they considered a troublemaker, was seen as a blessing.

Only Doggie mourned Crazy Uncle's passing deeply. He even snuck off when no one was watching to meticulously search the wreckage of the site. To his dismay, he found only a burnt wooden plaque and nothing else.

This wooden plaque was charred down to its final corner. Unable to read, Doggie brought the plaque to an elder literate in the village to inquire about its meaning. It turned out to bear the single character "Hong."

"Xuan Yuanhong."

Doggie's memory was sharp. He vaguely remembered how Crazy Uncle had solemnly placed that plaque at the very front when arranging plaques in a particular order.

Realizing it was an ancestral plaque, Doggie didn't dare keep it for himself.

After kneeling and saying his prayers with utmost reverence, he burned the remaining plaque clean in a single blazing fire.

Xuan Yuan Village had always been at peace with the world.

After Xuan Yuan Saint's death, the village returned to its quiet days. Doggie grew older, and the villagers stopped calling him "Doggie."

Instead, they began addressing him by his name: Xuanyuan Tuo.

Xuanyuan Tuo's life trajectory seemed no different from others in the village.

Sowing, planting, harvesting. Marrying, taking a wife, having children.

Yet, during moments of leisure, Xuanyuan Tuo's Spirit Consciousness would occasionally drift back to Crazy Uncle's murmurs.

No matter how time passed, those mysterious intonations remained etched in his mind, unyielding and indelible.

As Xuanyuan Tuo aged, his life appeared more and more predetermined.

Until the year Xuanyuan Tuo turned fifty.

Xuanyuan Tuo's son died from an illness. His wife, unable to bear the grief of burying her own child, followed soon afterward.

In less than half a year, he lost two of his closest loved ones back-to-back. Xuanyuan Tuo was consumed by unspeakable pain.

Feeling utterly hopeless, he often contemplated ending his own life.

But just at those moments of despair, the mystical tones that had accompanied him throughout his life would resonate once more, driving away the darkness clouding his thoughts.

Xuanyuan Tuo sat dazed for several days while his grief gradually subsided.

He abandoned the idea of remarrying or having more children.

Instead, a new thought ignited in his heart like a tiny flame, growing uncontrollably into a raging wildfire.

Witnessing one loved one after another perish before his eyes, Xuanyuan Tuo came to profoundly understand the fragility of life.

Realizing that he himself was already over fifty and might soon follow their path into eternity, he felt an overwhelming fear deep within.

After days of fasting and silent meditation, Xuanyuan Tuo made a decision: to cultivate immortality and seek longevity!

For an old farmer nearly fifty years old, pursuing the Immortal Way seemed nothing short of a joke.

Xuanyuan Tuo, too, understood how absurd his decision was.

Therefore, he didn't announce it to anyone. He quietly packed his belongings and left Xuan Yuan Village.

Alone, he embarked on the path of seeking immortality.

Fortunately, in this era, the Immortal Way flourished. Fairies didn't seek seclusion from the world; on the contrary, they could occasionally be seen manifesting and flying through the air in major towns and cities.

Enduring countless ridicule, Xuanyuan Tuo finally learned the location of the nearest Cultivators Sect.

Guiyuan Sect!

Through trials and hardships, Xuanyuan Tuo eventually arrived outside Guiyuan Sect.

To his astonishment, he saw hundreds of others gathered there. Most were accompanied by attendants and were young children. It was rare—in fact unique—that someone as old and solitary as him still sought cultivating immortality.

After some inquiry, Xuanyuan Tuo learned the reason for their gathering outside the mountain gate. It was because it wasn't yet time for Guiyuan Sect to accept new disciples. The Protective Array blanketed the mountains, rendering the Immortal lands inaccessible to Mortals.

Xuanyuan Tuo began to inquire further about the timing of the next Disciple Acceptance Ceremony. To his dismay, he learned it wouldn't occur for another three years.

Initially, he planned to wait patiently outside the gate, like everyone else. Yet for some reason, as he looked upon the Immortal Gate's Protective Array, which others seemed to dread, an odd sense of fearlessness stirred within him.

Feeling bold and restless, Xuanyuan Tuo decided to take a risk.

As it turned out, events unfolded just as he had hoped. Without encountering any dangers along the way, he walked easily and inexplicably to Guiyuan Sect's grand entrance!

When he met an Immortal elder, Xuanyuan Tuo was overjoyed, desperate to be admitted into the Immortal Gate. However, the elder mocked him mercilessly.

Fortunately, just when he was about to be forcefully expelled, an elder with the surname Xu might have found pity for him. That elder handed him a book of Introductory Immortal Laws and promised that if he could gather Spiritual Power within a year, he could return to meet him.

Although he hadn't officially joined the Immortal Gate in the end, he did gain possession of the Immortal Laws.

Xuanyuan Tuo tucked the book away as a treasure and bypassed the crowd still waiting outside the gate. To ensure his safety, he embarked on a long journey to find a Mortals town much farther away.