My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 1501: Chapter 1311: A Sword Crosses the Star Sea_2

“The highest level, then, is the realm where there is no sword, there is no self.”

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At the beginning, after summarizing the distinctions between the three levels, Li Fan started to explain each realm in detail.

Beneath the Lecture Platform, the crowd listened more and more intently.

Even the four Artisans couldn’t help but be drawn in by the content of Li Fan’s teachings, putting aside their mission to the Starry Sea Frontier for the time being.

As Li Fan’s teaching went deeper, the sky was also filled with various strange phenomena. Not to mention those that would appear regularly with each lecture.

The most eye-catching was certainly the countless swords that flew in from all over Da Xuan.

Though they were all just Ordinary Iron, they could now travel through the air. Like presenting themselves to a Monarch and Holy Master, they stopped mid-air, swords slightly bending, offering a slight bow.

More and more swords gathered, covering the sky and forming a Sword Forest above the Lecture Platform.

Thousands of swords stood silently, as if they too were listening to Li Fan’s Law Transmission.

“Hands without swords, hearts also empty; form no longer visible, yet intent always present…”

When Li Fan finished his last sentence seven days later,

Thousands of Flying Swords resonated simultaneously, bursting out dazzling light.

When the Sword Light dissipated, the Cultivators on the Lecture Platform were shocked to find that the thousands of swords had all vanished!

Most Cultivators didn’t understand why and thought that the swords had simply returned.

Only some Cultivators with exceptional comprehension looked up to the sky in a daze as if they had realized something.

“No sword, no self; the sword intent remains forever…” Xu Ke murmured to himself, spreading his palm, and a mirage of a Long Sword astonishingly emerged above it.

The other three had a chilling look in their eyes upon seeing this scene.

As they were about to discuss what had happened, they suddenly heard Li Fan’s voice: “Preparations are almost complete, it’s time to set out.”

“Know this, the journey ahead holds unknown life-and-death challenges, and we must not give up midway,” Li Fan confirmed to them at the end.

Everyone nodded, understanding.

“Sword…”

“Lift…”

A gust of wind swept by, and the Wooden Sword Mirage, like a giant Flying Boat, had already enveloped Yin Shangren and the others.

Li Fan stood tall at the tip of the sword, pointing with an outstretched finger towards the void ahead.

The surrounding scenery suddenly transformed. Numerous twisted lines stretched out, rushing towards the rear. Then the lights fused, evolving into a myriad of distorted colors.

The Wooden Sword Mirage isolated Yin Shangren and the others from the mysterious and varied surrounding sights.

Even though they could feel the Wooden Sword speeding rapidly towards the depths of the Star Sea, those within the Wooden Sword Mirage felt no change in their own velocity.

Outside the Wooden Sword Mirage, the revealed lights and shadows suddenly darkened. The colors were gone, replaced only by occasionally twisting shadows. Yin Shangren’s complexion changed slightly, “Have we already left the influence radius of the Immortal Ruins?”

The response came from the other three’s stunned expressions.

“Weren’t we told that the road ahead would be fraught with peril…?” Artisan spoke with an undefined tone.

They could faintly sense the Wooden Sword Mirage recklessly plowing straight ahead, undeterred by hidden disasters in the Star Sea.

Ignoring the latent forces of Catastrophe, it kept accelerating, speeding towards their destination.

“No sword, no self; no sword, no self…”

“Swords don’t exist in this world. Even the Star Sea Disaster Power that can obliterate everything, can do nothing against that which does not exist,” Xu Ke stared fixedly at the Wooden Sword Mirage, his eyes growing brighter.

At that moment, Li Fan’s voice rang out again: “Choosing to follow me deep into the Starry Sky has already proven your courage and conviction.”

“You have not easily come to this point of survival… Unnecessary sacrifices should be avoided if possible.”

“Holy Master…” The four of them looked at the silhouette of Li Fan standing at the sword tip, their expressions complex.

Li Fan did not concern himself with what the four behind him were thinking.

He was experiencing the near pinnacle level of the Sword Control Technique.

Ten days ago, after helping the Xuanhuang World digest the Immeasurable Mirror, Li Fan visited the Remains of Tianjian Sect.

In the center of the Sword Tomb, that Wooden Sword seemed to have become extraordinary due to the transformation of this world’s Xuan Huang Realm.

Compared to when Mr. Bai had casually crafted it thousands of years ago, the Wooden Sword now seemed to have gained a deeper essence, perhaps because of the accumulation of time.

“It’s unclear how many Immortal Instruments the Xuanhuang Realm Celestial Way has devoured.”

“Perhaps some power of the laws has supplemented the Xuanhuang Swordsmanship…”

Li Fan had experienced and sensed this wooden sword both in the Fallen Immortal Realm and in reality.

Each comprehension he acquired from it was invariably different.

Especially now.

Having come into close contact with the power of the Celestial Spiritual Power and personally setting up the Doomsday Immortal Array, upon beholding the wooden sword again, new thoughts began to surface in Li Fan’s mind.

“The more one knows, the more one sees from it.”

“Or it could be said that from the highest reaches, the reflection of the Sword Dao that descends upon the Xuanhuang World has become somewhat more vivid.”

Li Fan spent seven days in the Sword Tomb seeking Enlightenment and did not take away the Black Sword, letting it continue to be influenced by the Wooden Sword.

Upon his return, he conveyed his entire understanding on the Lecture Platform.

Finally manifesting it as a Divine Technique, carrying Yin Shangren and the others, they rapidly escaped towards the frontier of the Starry Sea.

This mirage of Swordless Self was not merely a simple Way of the Sword.

Rather, Li Fan combined his own experiences with the [Change of True and False], the forbidden formation of [Hidden World Void Storage] taught by the Doctor of Law Transmission, and the Golden Lock Across the Sky of the Floating Star Crossing Formation.

Not only was the speed incredibly fast, but it could also exist between the real and the illusory, nearly ignoring the residual power of True Immortal Seal Characters encountered along the way.

However, it had not yet truly reached the realm where reality could be turned into illusion. The mirage of the Wooden Sword would certainly still be affected somewhat by the remnants of True Immortal force.

It was just that the speed of the Wooden Sword Mirage’s escape was so fast that it even surpassed the pace at which the remnants of the True Immortal force could act, creating the illusion of barreling through unobstructed.

As the lead swordsman, Li Fan could clearly sense that the energy sustaining the Wooden Sword Mirage was being rapidly consumed.

If not for the fact that he had the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven and the Xuanhuang Annihilation Transformation as his Tao Foundation, which was profoundly vast, nearly equal in scope to several of the previous Immortal Cultivation World’s, he probably wouldn’t have been able to persist until now.

“With a sweeping glance across the entire Xuanhuang World, aside from the Doctor of Law Transmission, even those ever-living figures from the Five Elders Organization might not be able to wield this sword.” As Li Fan watched the starry space-time rapidly changing around him, he couldn’t help but feel a tinge of pride.

Under the enhancement of the Wooden Sword Mirage, a journey that originally required half a year could now be completed in just two or three days, and the destination was already within sight.

Upon seeing a few familiar artifacts floating in the Dead Silent Star Sea, Li Fan began to reduce the speed of travel.

“Is this the Sea of Relics mentioned by the Holy Master?” Artisan narrowed his eyes, gazing ahead.

“It should be the collection of items left over from the shattered worlds after the past Immortal Cultivation World was destroyed,” Bai Hua recognized some of the decorative items and introduced them to the others.

Yin Shangren had been silent ever since arriving at this place, occasionally pressing his temples as his complexion darkened undeterminably.

The mirage of the Wooden Sword slowly traveled through the Sea of Relics. Before long, they had already left this region behind.

Ahead of the group, a much larger agglomeration of ruins suddenly entered their field of view.

It nearly filled the entire line of sight, even if it was just ruins and wreckage.

The accumulation of countless worlds’ corpses still caused a wave of heart palpitations among the group.

The Wooden Sword Mirage fell into a silence as profound as death.

It was then that the Wooden Sword Mirage suddenly came to a halt.

“Hm?”

Everyone was startled awake.

But they saw Li Fan emerge from the mirage into an open area between the Sea of Relics and Ruined World The Wall, starting to set up an array.

Lines of gold, as if coming to life, swiftly drew various patterns across the air.

After only a brief burst of radiance, they vanished into the darkness.

One after another, items flew out from Li Fan’s body and merged with the Great Array.

This Great Array, at first glance, was clearly extraordinary.

The others were so close by, yet they didn’t sense the slightest fluctuation of Array Technique.

“Friend Yin, what Array is this?”

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Lines of gold, as if coming to life, swiftly drew various patterns across the air.

After only a brief burst of radiance, they vanished into the darkness.

One after another, items flew out from Li Fan’s body and merged with the Great Array.

This Great Array, at first glance, was clearly extraordinary.

The others were so close by, yet they didn’t sense the slightest fluctuation of Array Technique.

“Friend Yin, what Array is this?”