My Longevity Simulation-Chapter 1210: The Bones of the Grand Mage

The First Origin Sect was once one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects, on par with the Heavenly Sword Sect and the Grand Dao Sect.

Yet its presence was relatively faint in comparison.

It had almost no contact in the Fallen Immortal Realm, and in the current era, records related to it were scarcely found.

It was as though it had suddenly vanished from the world.

Apart from what he had incidentally learned from Senior Stone Tablet earlier—that the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven, which he had used to achieve Nascent Soul, was the handiwork of the First Origin Sect, Li Fan had never gained much further understanding of it.

Unexpectedly, today, three thousand zhang beneath this Rift Valley, he had discovered traces of the First Origin Sect.

But traces were all they were.

The entire ruin was empty, devoid of any living soul.

The only remnant was a stone stele inside a collapsed building at the center of the ruin, upon which the two characters [First Origin] could still faintly be made out.

Beyond that, nothing of the former grandeur of one of the ancient Ten Great Immortal Sects could be found here.

"It seems the First Origin Sect did not fare well at all."

After inquiring with Sun Luyuan, he confirmed that this was indeed the ruin where they had originally discovered the Boundless Mirror.

However, back then they had only intruded upon a small portion of it.

For some unknown reason now, the formations that once separated the different areas had vanished, revealing the true appearance of the entire First Origin Sect.

"Boundless, Primal Chaos Reveals in Form!"

Li Fan's clone murmured softly.

In utter silence, the Boundless Mirror once again emitted a faint glow imperceptible to ordinary people.

In an instant, it enveloped the entire First Origin Sect ruin.

Thus, a complete structural map of the ruin immediately appeared synchronized within the Boundless Mirror.

Even details such as which areas still retained spiritual energy fluctuations, which locations concealed hidden secret chambers, the degree of danger in each place...

All such information was present and accounted for.

And all of this had been accomplished by the Boundless Mirror right under Ji Hongdao's very nose.

Yet this Formation Master, who already ranked among the absolute pinnacle of formation experts in the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance—had not sensed the slightest thing.

Li Fan could not help but recall the scene from his 114th life: when he had traveled from the Congyun Sea to Tianyu Prefecture to study formations, and Ji Hongdao had personally lectured to over a thousand formation prodigies of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance.

Back then, in his eyes, let alone Ji Hongdao—even Huangfusong's level of attainment in formations had seemed utterly unreachable.

Yet after just over a dozen cycles of reincarnation, his own mastery of formations had reached a level that Ji Hongdao could no longer comprehend.

"With each life, I keep moving forward, while they remain stuck in place..."

"The gap between us will only grow wider in the future."

Li Fan watched Sun Luyuan and the other as they continued to advance step by step with utmost caution, and he shook his head slightly.

No longer patient enough to wait, he directly ordered Sun Luyao to guide the two men toward the only place in the current First Origin Sect that still held any value.

"Brother Sun, be careful. The formation aura here is the most intact..." Ji Hongdao warned as he took the lead to clear the path.

Sun Luyao felt somewhat speechless inside but could not afford to reveal it.

The two proceeded with extreme caution, passing through a wall concealed by formations, and entered a secret chamber.

At the innermost part of the chamber stood two statues—one large and one small.

The larger one sat cross-legged on a rush cushion, holding a whisk in hand.

The smaller one stood behind it, a smile upon its face.

This peculiar pair of statues instantly drew the attention of both men.

They did not act rashly but observed carefully.

"It seems to be nothing more than ordinary stone statues with no hidden mechanisms." After a long while, Ji Hongdao rendered his judgment.

Sun Luyuan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

At the same time, within the Boundless Mirror.

Li Fan glanced at the scene previously scanned and rendered by the Primal Chaos Reveals in Form Formation, then looked again at the secret chamber.

His heart sank.

"Can you see those two statues?" Li Fan asked Sun Luyao.

"Statues? What statues?" Sun Luyao was stunned, utterly bewildered.

"Tell your brother not to touch them." Li Fan offered no explanation and simply issued the command.

Having received Sun Luyao's warning, Sun Luyuan, out of trust in his younger brother—still stopped Ji Hongdao from probing further.

"Little brother, what exactly is dangerous about these things?"

Yet no matter how long he scrutinized the stone statues, Sun Luyuan could not discern anything unusual about them.

"I once came across a record in an ancient text that somewhat resembled these two statues. They seem to be the source of the Ten Sects' inheritance—the Great Mage of Heavenly Capital..." Sun Luyao relayed Li Fan's judgment verbatim.

"The Great Mage of Heavenly Capital?" Both Sun Luyuan and Ji Hongdao involuntarily took a step back.

They had heard of this legendary figure.

It was said he stood at the half-step True Immortal realm.

And anything even remotely connected to a True Immortal inevitably inspired dread.

The higher one's cultivation, the more one understood the vast chasm between ordinary cultivators and True Immortals, and thus the greater the fear.

Within the Boundless Mirror, Li Fan's clone thought at lightning speed.

He had once suffered greatly at the hands of the Faceless True Immortal statue.

It had taken six lifetimes of reincarnation to finally eliminate the Faceless True Immortal's influence over him.

Although the Great Mage of Heavenly Capital was not on the same level as the Faceless True Immortal, he too had once left a mark upon Li Fan.

Caution was imperative.

"The First Origin Sect's inheritance comes from the Great Mage of Heavenly Capital, and statues of the Great Mage are placed within the sect. That seems reasonable at first glance."

"But..."

"The other nine of the Ten Immortal Sects appear to have no such statues of the Great Mage."

"Moreover, even if they wished to pay respects, such statues should be placed in a grand, solemn central hall. Why would they be kept in a dim, underground secret chamber?"

Li Fan's intuition told him something was deeply wrong here.

"The First Origin Sect does not seem like a sect that reveres teachers and values the Dao. According to Senior Stone Tablet's description, as early as when the great calamity first appeared in the Xuanhuang Realm, they had already begun cultivating the Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven with the intent of directly devouring the Xuanhuang Realm to create an entirely new immortal cultivation world. They were only stopped later."

"The one who thwarted the First Origin Sect was undoubtedly Mr. Bai."

"Before the Xuanhuang heavens and earth had fully turned against cultivators, cultivators still revered the Heavenly Dao. Heaven and earth gave birth to them, like parents to cultivators."

"Yet the First Origin Sect harvested the essence of heaven and earth without the slightest mercy, little different from the new method cultivators."

"The Great Mage of Heavenly Capital..."

Once more, Li Fan employed the Primal Chaos Reveals in Form formation to scan the statues of the Great Mage of Heavenly Capital.

There were two—one large and one small.

According to legend, it was the seated one who had imparted countless techniques and secret arts to the Ten Sects without reservation.

But an indistinct intuition deep within told Li Fan that the standing child figure might be the far more extraordinary one.

Thus, the Primal Chaos Reveals in Form formation focused its attention primarily on the smiling child statue.

The Boundless Mirror's faint glow swept over the area containing the statue again and again.

With each pass of the scan, more lines gradually began to emerge in the images displayed within the Boundless Mirror.

Yet at the same time, these lines slowly faded away over time.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes and increased the speed of the Boundless Mirror's scanning.

The lines began to accumulate once more.

"Brother, help me."

Unable to withstand the excessive strain any longer, Sun Luyao appealed to his elder brother for aid.

Only after receiving support from Sun Luyuan's essence blood was the Boundless Mirror finally able to clearly reveal the true appearance of the statues in the secret chamber.

They were two bones.

As though every shred of flesh and blood had been stripped from some creature, leaving behind only these two remaining bones.