Chapter 1922: Chapter 1517: Faan Between the Mortal Dust (Part 2)

“Perhaps…all of this is true.”

“It’s all things I experienced in the so-called [Simulation].”

Li Fan closed his eyes, forcibly suppressing the endless phantom thoughts. He couldn’t help but think this.

“If these are my memories, then anyway, I couldn’t be as weak as I am now.”

“So, there must have been some mishap in the simulation process.”

“Cultivation…”

Li Fan couldn’t help but stare again at the second option given in the character reminder.

During these days, Li Fan had quietly inquired about this. Combined with the countless phantoms in his spirit consciousness, Li Fan determined that only a true cultivator would be connected to the words [Cultivation Base].

“No matter what I went through in the simulation, the Realm I reached in cultivation must have been better than now. Viewing it this way, choosing this option of inheritance seems to have no problem.”

“Flying in the sky, moving across the ground, Immortality.”

Thinking of this, Li Fan felt a natural twitch in his heart. It represented an innate longing and seemed to foretell an inexplicable fear.

But even after so long without making a decision, Li Fan wouldn’t change his mind in a moment’s notice.

Comparing the option of inheriting cultivation base with the other options one by one.

“If it’s just an item, it doesn’t seem to help change the current predicament. Moreover, with my now extremely weak body, I can hardly hold a pair of chopsticks. Even if I obtained an Immortal Treasure, I probably wouldn’t be able to use it.” Li Fan shook his head silently.

“Choose the most intimate person, inherit the memories.”

Li Fan pondered for a long time.

“The most intimate person…If the other party inherited the memories from the simulation, seeing me in such a predicament now, should come forward to lend a hand.”

When his attention was focused on this option, countless different figures emerged in Li Fan’s spirit consciousness.

Li Fan scanned through each one.

When he paused on an elderly person with white hair, an innate feeling of comfort surged within him. As for the others…

“They all don’t seem like the good kind.”

“Could it be, in the simulation, I was actually with them?” Li Fan felt somewhat incredulous.

He stared at the image of the old man for a long time.

Li Fan then turned his gaze to the last option hint: “Accelerate charging speed.”

Based on this period of speculation, Li Fan roughly guessed that charging should be a necessary condition to initiate the simulation.

“In other words, I can perform the simulation again.”

…

Li Fan slowly opened his eyes in reality.

He had been in this quiet place outside the village for a long time. As dusk approached, Li Fan hurried back.

In the coming days, he disguised everything as usual.

His body recovered, reading tirelessly day and night.

In fact, patiently waiting for so-called charging to be completed.

Finally, one day, he felt an inexplicable sense in his heart. The so-called simulation could be initiated again.

Muttering silently in his heart, Li Fan again fell into darkness.

When he awoke again, he scanned around, suddenly feeling a sense of astonishment.

It was still that familiar room.

Everything seemed unchanged.

“Could it all truly have been my imagination?” Li Fan felt a tremor in his spirit, disappointment was beyond words.

But soon, he noticed subtle differences in the house he was in, compared to what he knew well in the past.

“This ink, I remember I’ve already used most of it.”

“Moreover…”

Li Fan’s heart stirred, quickly flipping through his books and papers on the desk.

“That’s right. It’s as if I’ve returned to more than a month ago?”

To verify his conjecture, Li Fan hurried out to find his aunt. Indeed, she appeared significantly younger. The gray hair on her head had dramatically decreased.

“So this is the so-called simulation!”

After immense excitement, Li Fan quickly calmed down again. Obviously, this body had become accustomed to this.

“Going back in time, with foresight and perception.”

“Although the world is vast, I could go anywhere.”

“However, caution must be exercised. Whatever in the simulation caused me great harm.”

An indescribable aura emanated from the young Li Fan.

Clearly a fresh-faced scholar, yet exuding an ineffable majesty.

Twenty years later.

“Congratulations to the Grand Preceptor!”

In the Grand Master Mansion, Li Fan watched the Da Xuan ministers, smiling as he raised his glass.

Facing compliments from the court’s senior ministers, his thoughts drifted elsewhere.

“What exactly is cultivation like?”

In twenty years’ time, he rose from an insignificant scholar to become the Grand Preceptor with power immense.

Yet he never forgot that he was merely in a simulation.

Nor did he forget his purpose.

To pursue the truth of his lost memories.

“These years, I have tirelessly analyzed, finally figuring out some patterns. However, without Immortal Spirit Energy, even with numerous plans, I simply can’t implement them.” Li Fan sighed within his heart.

After several rounds of drinks, when guests had dispersed.

Li Fan returned to his bedroom, quietly gazing at himself in the mirror.

He touched his densely bearded face, and then removed the disguise.

“Compared to twenty years ago, there’s been no change whatsoever.”

“Ha.”

“And even this body.”

Li Fan stretched and moved his body.

Twenty years had passed, he not only felt no aging. Instead, felt as time elapsed, with accumulation, this body seemed increasingly young and invigorated.

Needless to say, he had not yet officially embarked on the path of cultivation.

“I certainly am no mere mortal.”

To conceal his secret of Immortality, Li Fan, though having wives, rarely shared a bed with them. Merely using the guise of busy national affairs. Moreover, every few years, his wife would die abruptly from illness.

Originally, people in the court used this as a point, spreading many rumors.

But once he personally killed the former emperor, supported the young crown prince to ascend. All criticism ceased across the land.

Li Fan became the Grand Preceptor, not due to greed for power.

But to seek a way to exit this world.

Though his body possessed a longevity ability, in other respects, it was no different from a mortal. To tread across the world with his own strength, searching for the path to cultivation was somewhat challenging.

But after becoming Grand Preceptor, he established a Secret Organization, pursuing the quest for immortality.

Future actions would be more convenient.

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Very soon restored.

In twenty years’ time, he rose from an insignificant scholar to become the Grand Preceptor with power immense.

Yet he never forgot that he was merely in a simulation.

Nor did he forget his purpose.

To pursue the truth of his lost memories.

“These years, I have tirelessly analyzed, finally figuring out some patterns. However, without Immortal Spirit Energy, even with numerous plans, I simply can’t implement them.” Li Fan sighed within his heart.

After several rounds of drinks, when guests had dispersed.

Li Fan returned to his bedroom, quietly gazing at himself in the mirror.

He touched his densely bearded face, and then removed the disguise.

“Compared to twenty years ago, there’s been no change whatsoever.”

“Ha.”

“And even this body.”

Li Fan stretched and moved his body.

Twenty years had passed, he not only felt no aging. Instead, felt as time elapsed, with accumulation, this body seemed increasingly young and invigorated.

Needless to say, he had not yet officially embarked on the path of cultivation.

“I certainly am no mere mortal.”

To conceal his secret of Immortality, Li Fan, though having wives, rarely shared a bed with them. Merely using the guise of busy national affairs. Moreover, every few years, his wife would die abruptly from illness.

Originally, people in the court used this as a point, spreading many rumors.

But once he personally killed the former emperor, supported the young crown prince to ascend. All criticism ceased across the land.

Li Fan became the Grand Preceptor, not due to greed for power.

But to seek a way to exit this world.

Though his body possessed a longevity ability, in other respects, it was no different from a mortal. To tread across the world with his own strength, searching for the path to cultivation was somewhat challenging.