My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 832: Chapter 794: Meeting a True Immortal in the Immortal Ruins (Seeking Monthly Votes!)

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From it, projected a faint glow.

Many blurry images emerged with the light.

When Gu Xinghan was attracted by the images in the light, the Jade Disc seemed to come alive, conveying waves of yearning.

Regaining his senses, Gu Xinghan was at first somewhat confused.

And a bit surprised.

However, he had heard of treasures possessing spirit, so he accepted this notion fairly quickly.

After he embraced this idea, Gu Xinghan began to sense the Jade Disc’s longing.

But it was just a vague and instinctive response.

The Jade Disc had no voice, leaving him to guess…

Gu Xinghan tried various methods in an attempt to satisfy the Jade Disc.

Spirit Stones, mineral jade, medicinal herbs…

The Jade Disc seemed to have no interest in these.

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It kept relentlessly emitting its yearning desires to Gu Xinghan.

Adding to that, his peers had all successfully established their foundations, while he still had no clue what to do.

The combination of these two reasons left Gu Xinghan feeling frustrated and confused.

It was only during a fortunate coincidence that he saw Elder Fang Zaiji preparing the [Disk of Apocalypse] for newly recruited core disciples.

The Jade Disc’s frantic restlessness suddenly made Gu Xinghan understand its goal.

“This…”

Gu Xinghan hesitated.

After all, the Terminal Disc was a precious item that Elder Fang repeatedly stressed must be handled with care.

If there were any mishaps.

But in the end, he couldn’t resist the Jade Disc.

A flash of light passed, and the Jade Disc appeared in his spirit consciousness.

Under Gu Xinghan’s anxious observation, the Jade Disc slowly landed on the Terminal Disc.

Then from underneath it, emerged a dense mass of tiny, tentacle-like light pillars.

Adhering to the Terminal Disc.

Initially, Gu Xinghan thought the Jade Disc would damage the Terminal Disc.

But after observing for a while, he realized that was not the case.

Instead, the two seemed to be merging into one through those sticky light tentacles.

This allowed Gu Xinghan to relax.

And he also felt somewhat amazed.

“Could it be, these two, the Jade Disc and the disc, are actually the same thing?” Gu Xinghan couldn’t help but think.

However, being childlike in nature, Gu Xinghan soon set this aside after his inquiries led nowhere.

Instead, he turned his attention to the images emanating from within the Jade Disc.

“Building Foundation with Me? What’s this? It seems to match with what’s happening inside my body?”

Gu Xinghan was overjoyed.

He immediately stopped worrying about the Jade Disc and focused on studying the Foundation Establishment Method.

When he came back to his senses from the enlightenment, the Jade Disc had already fully merged with the Terminal Disc.

However, this merging process seemed forceful, like the Jade Disc was insisting on it.

And the final product was not very aesthetically pleasing.

But Gu Xinghan didn’t care about this.

He knew that this Jade Disc could indeed be a remarkable treasure.

Although Gu Xinghan was young, he was not naïve. In fact, he was very aware of the dangers of the world.

He knew the principle that a man with nothing may be innocent but could be guilty for possessing a treasure, so he decided to conceal both the existence of the Jade Disc and the Foundation Establishment Method.

“Perhaps, I could use this new Jade Disc as a cover. Announcing it as my Foundation Establishment Strange Object…” the young Gu Xinghan pondered.

Thus, unknown to anyone, the world’s only cultivator of [Art of Self-Founded Cultivation] began his cultivation journey.

In the beginning, his performance brought unexpected joy to the elders of Medicine King Sect, such as Liu San.

He learned everything after being taught just once.

Invincible among his peers, he easily won battles against those in the Gold Core Realm while still at Foundation Establishment.

For a time, Gu Xinghan became the most promising junior disciple of Medicine King Sect.

He was laden with high hopes by everyone in the sect.

But…

His peak was like a shooting star, fleeting in an instant.

It wasn’t long before his peers had all advanced to the Gold Core and Nascent Soul Realms.

While Gu Xinghan was still marking time at the same spot.

This highly irregular situation baffled the elders like Liu San of Medicine King Sect.

Thinking something was wrong with Gu Xinghan’s body, they took turns inspecting him.

But no one could pinpoint the problem.

When asked, Gu Xinghan simply said he had tried his best but just couldn’t make any further progress.

Thirty years passed in the blink of an eye.

The Medicine King Sect had to accept this fact reluctantly.

They officially gave up on cultivating Gu Xinghan.

However, they did not blame him too much, allowing him to use the resources at his disposal.

But they no longer paid much attention to him.

And facing junior disciples who had surpassed him in cultivation, Gu Xinghan became even more silent and withdrawn.

He lived a reclusive life, out of touch with worldly affairs and seldom interacting with outsiders.

He was almost forgotten by everyone.

So two hundred and sixty-three years passed by.

Gu Xinghan, now with white hair and an aged look, finally reached the end of his life.

“Golden Pill of Chaos, Golden Pill of Chaos…”

“What exactly is Chaos?”

He let out a bitter laugh, his face filled with sorrow.

“To create something out of nothing, to forge a new path. It’s too difficult, truly too difficult…”

“Having succeeded in Building Foundation with Me, I didn’t even have the chance to regret it and switch to a new Method.”

In his hands, a gentle and smooth Jade Disc suddenly appeared.

Compared to more than two hundred years ago, the glow of the Jade Disc had now been completely retracted.

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Like an unremarkable stone by the roadside, it did not catch anyone’s eye.

Gu Xinghan gazed at the jade disc that had accompanied him for nearly a lifetime, his expression complex.

“You’ve misled me for a lifetime, misled me for a lifetime…”

He murmured softly to himself.

Wanting to fiercely throw the jade disc to the ground, yet feeling somewhat reluctant to do so.

In the end, he held the jade disc tightly in his hand. Amidst feelings of unwillingness, he suddenly passed away.

The death of Gu Xinghan did not cause any commotion.

Because no anomalies appeared after his death, it was not until three years later that his body was discovered.

Over two hundred years had passed, and the Valley of Eternal Life had long since changed.

There was no one who still remembered this once hopeful member of the Medicine King Sect.

No one paid attention.

The funeral was conducted simply.

Soon after, Gu Xinghan’s body was buried in the graveyard for disciples of the Medicine King Sect within the Beast Type World.

As one of his few possessions, the jade disc in Gu Xinghan’s hand went unnoticed as well.

It was buried with him deep underground.

From then on, it lay in the endless darkness.

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Outside the Xuanhuang World.

Within the Medicine King True Cauldron.

A figure that looked very similar to Li Fan, yet extremely frail, let out a stifled groan.

He wiped the blood continuously flowing from his mouth and nose with his hand, as if he might die from excessive blood loss at any moment.

But his face remained unchanged.

“Just a moment in the cauldron, a thousand years in the Xuanhuang.”

He gave a light cough, his eyes filled with boundless emotion.

“To personally experience the difference in the flow of time is truly an indescribable feeling.”

The figure within the Medicine King True Cauldron was the [Sacred Embryo Li Fan].

As a cover, he was a split incarnation created by Li Fan using his own blood essence and the [Sacred Blood into Embryo Method] before Mr. Bai’s arrival.

Due to the time constraints, and his aptitude being the same as his original self’s,

He was merely an ordinary mortal without any cultivation base.

Shortly after leaving the Xuanhuang World, he felt the Medicine King Cauldron deviate from its original trajectory.

Moreover, the images transmitted from the Essence Object [Dissociation Disc] became progressively faster.

The massive amount of information almost burst his brain.

Fortunately, everything eventually returned to darkness.

Which gave him some relief.

“Although I’ve shape-shifted, because this [Sacred Embryo] still exists, I can remotely control the incarnate object in a simple manner.”

“But that’s all I can do.”

The images recorded on the Dissociation Disc, of the battle between the Celestial Dharma Bearer and Mr. Bai within the Xuanhuang World, were not witnessed by him, being outside the Xuanhuang World.

However, for Li Fan, having witnessed the Celestial Dharma Bearer take action for the first time was already a great gain.

For now, setting aside his thoughts about the law transmission, Sacred Embryo Li Fan was becoming somewhat excited.

Because he was about to see the legendary [Immortal Ruins].

The creaking sound from various parts of the Medicine King True Cauldron indicated the tremendous pressure it endured.

Sacred Embryo Li Fan then used the telescope prepared in the Medicine King Cauldron to peer towards the Immortal Ruins.

Ahead, it was pitch black.

The speed of the Medicine King Cauldron increased.

Loud booming with sounds arose from all directions.

As if it could disintegrate at any moment.

However, in Sacred Embryo Li Fan’s field of view, there was still nothing to be seen.

“Is this where it ends?”

He couldn’t help but feel some regret.

Boom!

The Medicine King Cauldron began to disintegrate.

The severe shaking made it almost impossible for him to stand firm.

Sacred Embryo Li Fan struggled to take refuge, with the telescope, in the most central part of Medicine King True Cauldron.

A narrow shelter forged entirely from Eternity Refined Gold.

Under an increasingly intense, almost unimaginable pressure, the Medicine King Cauldron finally could not withstand it and shattered into countless pieces.

Simultaneously falling toward the Immortal Ruins.

Just moments later, Sacred Embryo Li Fan felt that even the Eternity Refined Gold could no longer bear it.

But due to his innate temperament, he did not give up.

He still raised the telescope and looked ahead.

In an instant, he was slightly startled.

In the previously pitch-black field of vision, a continuous wilderness had appeared without him realizing when.

Above the wilderness, countless ruins were scattered.

A massive corpse sat on the ground.

The flesh had nearly entirely disappeared, with just a layer of skin hanging off the bones.

Dozens of blood-red chains, deeply embedded into the ground,

Bound the skeleton to the wilderness.

Around the corpse, deep ravines crisscrossed.

On the desolate land, they outlined an extremely complex symbol.

Although he did not recognize the symbol, the moment he saw it,

Li Fan naturally knew its meaning.

It was a character.

A character for [Hunger]!

An endless sense of hunger surged in Sacred Embryo Li Fan’s spirit consciousness immediately.

At the same time…

The remains on the desolate land suddenly opened their eyes!