My Simulated Road to Immortality

After the celestial spirit flowers became extinct, many previously confidential methods slowly became known.

Its name was ‘Hua Jianji’, a method that uses painting to completely seal the celestial spirit flowers within the artwork.

The original ‘Hua Jianji’ was not specifically designed for the celestial spirit flowers.

Instead, it was created to paint all the flowers in the world.

The author of Hua Jianji, Zhao Chong, was extremely passionate about flowers.

He was determined to see all the flowers in the world.

Therefore, he planned to use an azure brush and ink to document all the flowers.

Unfortunately, his natural talent for painting was mediocre.

His paintings and the real objects were like chalk and cheese.

“This is a blasphemy against the real flowers.”

After racking his brain, he took a different approach and thought of this “painting” method which directly seals the actual objects.

Even though it lost some of the charm of the brush and ink, it was vividly lifelike, absolutely realistic.

However, in his previous life, there were no celestial spirit flowers left in the Hua Jianji written by Zhao Chong.

The reason was that he had heard of the beautiful name of the celestial spirit flower early on, and he felt that the more beautiful things should be left till the end.

So he hesitated to start painting.

It wasn’t until after the Celestial Spirit State War, when the beauty of the Celestial Spirit State was no longer.

Only then did he regret deeply, lamenting his regret to anyone he met.

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At this moment, Li Fan put the wooden box containing the celestial spirit flower into his pocket and continued to pretend to stroll around the shop.

Seeing the suspicious eyes of the shopkeeper, he reluctantly left.

After leaving the shop, Li Fan went to the Debating Tower in the city and rented a room.

He bought Ice Dew, Like Photo Capture, and Thousand Color Jane separately in the Tianxuan Mirror.

Even though these were not valuable items, they almost exhausted all the contribution points Li Fan had.

He took out the seventeen petals of the celestial spirit flowers and placed them on Thousand Color Jane.

Then he soaked them with Ice Dew.

Seeing the chill rising on the petals, he pressed down with Like Photo Capture.

Li Fan carried out the operation steadly, following the method described by Zhao Chong in his previous life for creating the Hua Jianji.

Thousand Color Jane was blooming with thousands of colorful lights.

The light shone through the celestial spirit flowers, illuminating Like Photo Capture. This, in turn, intertwined the ice-sealed celestial spirit flowers with Thousand Color Jane and Like Photo Capture.

The light gradually dimmed, and soon, a transparent “paper” as thin as the wings of a cicada appeared in Li Fan’s hands.

Although it felt flat to the touch, it looked exactly like a real blooming flower to the eyes.

The landscapes on the seventeen petals were clearly visible.

One could even see the entire flower trembling slightly.

“This will do.”

Li Fan sighed in relief.

“Finally, I have to add a layer of spirit-consciousness protection on the outside to prevent malicious destruction.”

“There’s no rush.”

Li Fan looked at the ‘artwork’ in his hand and knew that it would soon become a unique existence in the entire Xuanhuang World.

By then, its value would be immeasurable.

Money is secondary, the main thing is the unique selling point it provides.

It could be used to accomplish some things that contribution points alone could not do.

Li Fan smirked slightly, admired it for a moment, and finally put it away carefully.

He left the Debating Tower and wandered aimlessly around Celestial Spirit City for three more days.

On this day, an outburst of exclamation echoed through Celestial Spirit City.

“Quick, look at the sky!”

Li Fan, hearing these words, finally witnessed the scene he had been waiting for.

A rolling black swarm like a cloud, blocking out the sun.

It seemed invincible, but it was already dried up inside, devoid of any vitality.

Meanwhile, a phrase emerged in Li Fan’s mind.

“Integration Cultivator Long Jiuyuan cultivated for 286 years, achieved the Tao Foundation with ‘Crimson Dragon Shedding’ and achieved Gold Core with the four methods of latent potential, rising dragon, law-breaking, and death-fighting.”

“Swallow the ‘Hundred Abyss Cave Heaven’ to form the Nascent Soul, use ‘Sky Spirit Will Produce Thousand Waters’ to refine it.”

“Sacrifice the ‘Black Swarm Soul’, and Merge self into the Unity-Path”

“Severely injured by cultivator Xu Huating in Heavenly Spirit State.”

“Body dies and the path vanishes, returning to the heavens!”

…

“It really is him.” Li Fan’s eyes flashed brightly.

The fall of an Integration Cultivator signals an inevitable war.

Soon, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals will issue a war preparation announcement.

By then, the borders of various states would be sealed off.

He must depart before that, leaving this conflict-ridden area and returning to the relatively calm Misthaven Ocean amidst the Battle of Heavenly Spirit State.

As others were stunned, Li Fan had already discreetly stepped into the Teleportation Array.

Not until Li Fan’s figure completely vanished, did the intermittent sounds rise within the Celestial Spirit City.

“Long Jiuyuan? When did he achieve Unity-Path?”

“Hold on! How did he die?!”

“Who is Xu Huating? He actually killed an Integration Cultivator?”

“The most promising heir of the Long family fell like this, there is going to be a good show now.”

…

The people of the Heavenly Spirit State who recovered from the shock were all making incredulous exclamations.

A massive storm was brewing, centered on the Heavenly Spirit State, sweeping towards the entire Alliance of Thousands of Immortals.

Some time later…

Misthaven Ocean.

He Zhenghao, who was closely monitoring the prices of the goods he had recently purchased, and whose heart raced and broke into a cold sweat at the slightest fluctuation.

Suddenly heard the clear, mechanical voice from the Tianxuan Mirror.

“Effective immediately, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals is now on B-Class war alert.”

“All state domains, all Protective Arrays activated.”

“All cultivators, no interstate movement allowed.”

“All Alliance internal system members, return to the state city as soon as possible, standby for instructions.”

“Annihilate all foreign cultivators on the spot, regardless of life or death.”

…

It repeated three times before stopping.

He Zhenghao, initially confused, soon widened his eyes in surprise, standing straight up from shock.

Are the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals and the Five Elders Organization going to war?

A feeling of fear sprang up in his heart, and He Zhenghao was about to contact Gao Yuan to discuss countermeasures.

But then, as if something dawned on him, his expression changed dramatically. He quickly lowered his head to inspect the prices of the goods listed on the small Tianxuan Mirror.

Investors’ reactions are always surprisingly quick.

While the vast majority of cultivators were still shocked by the impending war…

Tian Yudan, standard Tian Gang Armor, Shen Wu Lei, Hundred Battle Array Map…

The prices of the goods that Li Fan had instructed He Zhenghao to stockpile had already begun to soar.

Not only the items on the list.

In the Tianxuan Mirror, anything related to saving lives and fighting spells had seen a price increase.

Because everyone knew that the stockpile of these items could not withstand the cultivators’ scrambling for them.

The war is imminent, who can ensure that they won’t be on the battlefield?

Extra protection and preparation mean an extra chance to save one’s life.

Compared to life, what is the value of some contribution points?

Even if prices double, the cultivators will still pay obediently.

…

Within a fraction of a second, He Zhenghao understood.

“The capabilities of my master are truly unfathomable!”

Looking at the constantly rising prices of goods, He Zhenghao was torn between joy and fear.

Of course, he is happy because the value of the goods that he has stockpiled, worth a hundred million contribution points, has already increased by a third in such a short period of time.

But he’s afraid that his speculative hoarding might invite punishment from the Immortal Alliance.