My Simulated Road to Immortality

Besides the comprehension of the Great Dao, one of the most challenging aspects of cultivating the [Grand Dao Embodiment Art] is achieving a delicate balance between the tempering of the body through enlightenment and ensuring the body remains unharmed.

In front of the towering Great Dao, a mortal's body is an insignificant existence, even smaller than an ant.

Indeed, the body's refinement can rely on the pressure of the Great Dao. But even a slight mishap can risk being crushed to dust by the Great Dao.

This is why Nangong Hongzhao repeatedly warned before imparting the technique: cultivating this will require caution, care, and a gradual approach.

In fact, for regular people, without mortals starting from scratch and step-by-step cultivation exploring experiences and insights of the [Grand Dao Embodiment Art], the first step of entering this technique is fraught with extreme difficulties.

However...

Li Fan is no ordinary person.

The path of body refinement, though extinct in the Xuanhuang World, has long been explored by Li Fan.

Initially, after acquiring the [Celestial Doctor Immortal Scripture], he combined various texts and devised a method to access the hidden reserves of the human body to temper the physical self, naming it the [Creation Furnace Skill].

This technique, as Li Fan's experience grew, kept getting continuously enhanced.

Elements like the Monster Beast Furnace, Flesh and Blood Factory, and [Sky Mending Record] were integrated, allowing the Creation Furnace Skill to undergo several iterations.

Yet, due to the limitations of the Xuanhuang World Heaven and Earth, achieving the Dao proved challenging.

Therefore, Li Fan eventually turned to the ordinary Method of Ascending to Immortality.

This technique with its exceptionally grand name, the [Creation Furnace Skill], thus stalled.

"Back then, in the Fallen Immortal Realm, within the Beast Taming Sect scene, I used the body of the Heavenly Mandate Mystic bird, Little Black, to receive Mr. Bai's guidance."

"The perfect version of the [Creation Great Furnace Technique]."

"But memory limitations of the Fallen Immortal Realm meant I could never bring this perfect method back. Even as my strength rapidly expanded, surpassing even what I perceived as the Immortal Realm of Mr. Bai, I held an indifferent attitude towards it. However, now that I have learned of Mr. Bai's covert history of being tainted by the possibility of Xie Subai..."

"Having obtained the memories of Xie Subai, Mr. Bai's strength might still lie within Longevity. But his perspective surely isn't something any individual trapped in the realm of [Primordial] possibilities can compare to. The projections left in Heaven and Earth that deduced an outline of the New New Method also corroborate this point. Thus..."

"When I first encountered the perfect version of the [Creation Great Furnace Technique], I was greatly astonished, as if I had truly glimpsed the secret of the Dao. This wasn't an impression born out of my former lack of strength but because this technique is indeed so mysterious."

"It seems I must venture once more to investigate, using it as a reference."

In the Sea of the Northern Stars, five years have passed.

In the Xuanhuang World, only a matter of a little over ten days.

Li Fan's true self remains in deep contemplation, seeking ways to avoid causing his mental reflections to manifest and gaze into the Nameless Immortal's eyes.

Feeling the experiences of the divine fragment, his eyes instantly sparkled with curiosity and interest.

The Creation Furnace Skill is now a long-lost memory for Li Fan.

Who would have thought, after achieving the semi-immortal stage, he would revisit this pursuit once again.

"This also proves that my choice to abandon it at the time was right by not being fixated on obtaining it first. In the Fallen Immortal Realm, the greater the value, the more challenging it is to bring into the real world. If the Creation Furnace Skill is indeed as wondrous as I now think, it would be challenging even now to bring it out."

"I'm just not sure whether my method of mental transformation can bypass the memory erasure restrictions of the Fallen Immortal Realm?"

People, in different circumstances, will draw vastly different conclusions about the same things.

Li Fan wishes to explore the perfect version of the true [Creation Furnace Skill] once more.

But given his newfound understanding of Mr. Bai and the extraordinary nature of the Fallen Immortal Realm's master, Li Fan naturally needs to make further preparations.

For a long time, Li Fan was unwilling to personally tread into the Fallen Immortal Realm. He even let others perform the Successor of the Great Supreme Lord Xuanhuang's trial in the illusory realm for him.

This was due to him possessing the Supreme Treasure [Hai Zhen], and the fact that people from the Immortal World seemed to be waiting there long before.

However, in this lifetime, after Li Fan comprehended the method of mental transformation, the situation took a turn.

"Initially, my ignorance led me to fearlessness, venturing hastily into the Fallen Immortal Realm. But now, I have sufficient power to protect myself."

The gathering of his mind retracts entirely into the miniature Dao Network.

Afterward, the network blooms into ten thousand radiance, and new divine sense spills out from within.

Yet, everything contained within this strand of divine sense was fabricated by Li Fan for the purpose of disguise.

Although it was said to be fabricated, it was actually deduced by the Stone of Transformation, a nearly real world line.

Save for the fact that this character doesn't exist in the world, everything else mirrors reality.

Layer another skin over his identity.

This is what Li Fan has temporarily come up with to lessen the chance of being discovered by the Nameless Immortals within the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Indeed, as soon as this disguised divine sense emerged,

Li Fan could clearly feel that the gaze from the Nameless Immortal's reflection, coming from his miniature Dao Network, had significantly diminished for no apparent reason.

With the pressing sense of crisis alleviated, Li Fan became relaxed, hiding behind the scenes, shrouded in darkness.

Of course, this is merely a temporary solution rather than a permanent one.

This layer of disguise may work now, but as Li Fan's mental transformations continue to grow, it will undoubtedly draw attention from the Nameless Immortals within the Dao once again.

If ever the scale of the Dao projections within Li Fan's mind exceeds that of the Star Sea's Dao Network, stepping from behind the curtains to the public would certainly capture the attention of all existing Nameless Immortals.