My Simulated Road to Immortality-Chapter 1630 - 1370: A Glimpse Beyond the High Wall_2

Chapter 1630 -1370: A Glimpse Beyond the High Wall_2

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Li Fan had not forgotten the reason he infiltrated the Immortal Boat in this lifetime.

Aside from coveting the many treasures hidden within the Immortal Boat’s Mi Chang, a more important reason was to use the Immortal Boat as a vanguard to explore as far as possible beyond the High Wall.

Now that all the Elders of the Immortal Boat had entirely transformed into Star Spirits, they possessed a force capable of rivaling the Star Sea—sufficient to carry out the plan from long ago, imitating the Merchant Immortal Boat by crashing into the High Wall.

Watching these Star Spirits about to be driven by the Star Sea Consciousness to various parts of the Star Sea, how could Li Fan squander such a prime opportunity?

“Taija Divine Art, Immortal Boat Derivation—Perfected Version, Condense!”

In mere moments, this Divine Technique capable of connecting to the Star Sea emerged again.

This time, however, Li Fan sought to connect not to the Star Sea’s primal true meaning but to the eighteen Star Spirits before him!

Compared to the Star Sea itself, communicating with Star Spirits that had evolved from cultivators was far more accessible.

The instant Taija Divine Art’s radiance appeared, it captured the Star Spirits’ attention.

Li Fan’s consciousness instantly linked with theirs.

Had these Star Spirits still been human, upon seeing Li Fan—who had once participated in rituals with them, now neither fallen nor transformed into a Star Spirit but still alive and vibrant—they would have undoubtedly been consumed by rage, suspicion, and other tumultuous emotions.

Never mind communication; drawing blades immediately would have been the natural response.

But now, Li Fan felt no emotional fluctuations from any of the eighteen Star Spirits.

“Immortal Boat, beyond the High Wall.”

“Companions, sacrifice.”

“Never forget!”

Li Fan, having initially grasped the essentials of communicating with the Star Sea, spoke simply and succinctly.

As though stirring memories from the Star Spirits’ mortal pasts, their once-human faces became markedly clearer in an instant.

Their movements froze as they began to look at Li Fan, hesitation evident.

“Abandon halfway, sacrifice in vain!”

“With the Star Sea’s force to assist, the Immortal Boat crossing the High Wall is but a trivial matter!”

Under Li Fan’s persuasion, the lingering obsessions and thoughts these Star Spirits once held gradually began to resurface.

Sensing the Star Spirits’ awakening thoughts, Li Fan continued his encouragement.

“Even if the Star Sea could revive, it would take hundreds of thousands of years. You, esteemed Elders, have already become Star Spirits and can no longer protect the Immortal Boat perpetually. What will become of the Immortal Boat in the future? Will we simply watch as its legacy withers and dies?”

Zhong Daogong, who had been transformed into a Star Spirit, was finally swayed.

Sporadic thoughts were transmitted.

It felt entirely different from communicating with a cultivator.

The Star Spirit Zhong Daogong made an emotionless statement of certain facts.

As time progressed, the remains of their original consciousness would inevitably weaken until they became pure Star Spirits belonging entirely to the Star Sea. While they still retained some degree of subjective consciousness, they couldn’t defy the Star Sea’s Will and were helplessly bound by it.

However, borrowing the Star Sea’s power to help the Immortal Boat cross the High Wall might not necessarily meet the Star Sea Consciousness’s opposition.

The True Immortal Seal Characters were loathed by the Star Sea Consciousness, and the Star Spirits could no longer utilize them.

The plan’s success in crossing the High Wall would still require Li Fan’s assistance to take charge.

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More and more Star Spirits temporarily regained their own consciousness.

They reached a consensus with Li Fan.

The Star Spirit Zhong Daogong, relying on what little remained of his consciousness, handed over the Immortal Boat’s most classified plan for crossing the High Wall.

The eighteen Star Spirits encircled the Immortal Boat, dragging it toward the vicinity of the marks left by the Merchant Immortal Boat’s attempt to cross the High Wall in the past.

“Time is running short; begin as soon as possible.”

Li Fan lightly nodded, his gaze falling on the dozens of sheets of white paper suddenly drifting out of the Immortal Boat.

Though they appeared blank, faint traces of a million engravings seemed etched into them.

These were the painstaking works the Immortal Boat Elders had labored over for countless years.

Endless tracings, comprehensions, and discussions had sought to restore all known True Immortal Seal Characters as closely as possible to their primordial form.

“These old foxes are truly remarkable!”

“After receiving my guidance, they silently advanced their research on the True Immortal Seal Characters by this much in such a short time!”

“This generation’s Immortal Boat is far stronger than the one that perished ignominiously beneath the Immortal Array in the previous lifetime!”

“Not only deeply rooted in its foundations but possessing terrifying talent for research and advancement.”

Li Fan stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar characters with an astonished heart.

The engravings on the white paper seemed like molds forged through the relentless tempering of the Immortal Boat Elders. There was no need for Li Fan to familiarize himself or rewrite them—he only had to channel energy along the engravings, and the True Immortal Seal Characters would manifest by themselves!

“This must be the fail-safe left behind by the Immortal Boat Elders. With these True Immortal Seal Character engravings, even if all members of the Elders Council were annihilated, the Immortal Boat’s heritage would not be completely severed. Given time, there might still be a chance at a revival of their peak.”

As these thoughts crossed his mind, Li Fan’s spiritual power surged forth like swimming dragons, pouring into all the engravings.

Only someone with Li Fan’s overwhelming foundation could sustain such an act. With the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven and the Xuanhuang Annihilation transformation, Li Fan alone was as formidable as an entire Immortal Cultivation World.

Other cultivators would likely find themselves entirely drained the moment their spiritual power was absorbed by the True Immortal Seal Character engravings. Even the Star Sea Supreme Celestial Doctor might struggle to support such consumption!

The boundless force within Li Fan’s body was wholly converted into the driving power for the True Immortal Seal Characters to take form.

The eighteen Star Spirits began executing the next phase of the plan.

They emitted continuous, resonant howls—each sound harmonizing with the next—raising the Immortal Boat step by step, like ascending a staircase!

These were not ordinary howls but rather a kind of ripple, akin to colossal waves containing the force of [infinity].

For Li Fan to ascend, he had needed True Immortal flesh as a medium. Yet now, the eighteen Star Spirits relied solely on the infinite source power of the Star Sea to ceaselessly elevate the Immortal Boat!

Throughout this process, the aura exuded from the Star Spirits remained utterly steady, as though the consumption of ascending carried no consequence for them.

Still retaining memories of the Merchant Immortal Boat’s collision point, the Star Spirits halted their lift once they had heightened the Immortal Boat to a certain position.

They continued their unbroken howls, maintaining the Immortal Boat’s momentum.

At this moment, the sound echoed in Li Fan’s heart like heavy hammers, urging him that it was time to take the next step.

Experiencing the Star Sea’s overwhelming might firsthand, Li Fan was momentarily stunned, forcing the seething blood within him back into submission.

“What a pity. Once it crashes into the High Wall, its fate will be uncertain. The treasures aboard the Immortal Boat will undoubtedly be obliterated in the impact!”

Though this thought pained him, his hands did not hesitate. As he looked at the once-sealed True Immortal Seal character papers before him, now imbued with energy, he made a swift, clawing gesture.

He compressed them all together into a “paper ball.”

Then, with a sudden toss, he hurled it toward the Immortal Boat encircled by the eighteen Star Spirits.

The chaotic and eerie force representing the pinnacle of True Immortal power hurtled toward the Mystic Immortal Boat.

“Explode!”

Li Fan roared in his heart as his figure rapidly retreated.

The storm of True Immortal Seal Characters erupted beneath the Immortal Boat.

The destructive force capable of temporarily obliterating all vitality across the Star Sea caused the blue bodies of the eighteen Star Spirits to flicker intensely. Yet the momentum of the Star Spirits remained unbroken. The unending replenishment of infinite Star Sea power ensured that even as they faced the True Immortal Seal Character storm head-on, they survived unscathed.

Under their control and guidance, the unleashed True Immortal power did not directly destroy the Mystic Immortal Boat. Instead, it became the final push for the Immortal Boat’s ascension.

A feat entirely unattainable for normal living beings within the Star Sea became possible in this moment!

“Truly surpassing the mortal realm, a power equivalent to that of a True Immortal! A force unmatched in crossing the High Wall!”

As one of the architects of this endeavor, Li Fan watched from afar as the storm erupted at the base of the High Wall and, above the storm, the Mystic Immortal Boat soared upwards.

He couldn’t suppress the surge of excitement in his heart.

After countless cycles of reincarnation, finally.

The chance to glimpse what lies beyond the High Wall had arrived.

Long before he helped reconstruct the Immortal Boat’s defensive systems, Li Fan had secretly laid down traps.

What the Immortal Boat saw would also be seen by him, Li Fan!

Everything was ready.

The Immortal Boat was about to collide with the High Wall.

And at this very moment…

The eighteen Star Spirits, transformed from the Elders of the Immortal Boat, suddenly behaved as though sensing the presence of an immensely terrifying force.

The least likely of beings to abandon the battle, they vanished in an instant.

The Mystic Immortal Boat, however, continued advancing toward the invisible High Wall, crashing into it.

And it, too, vanished within the Abyss Star Ocean.

Only Li Fan remained, his face full of astonishment.

Though he had witnessed the Immortal Boat’s collision with the High Wall in its entirety, he had not sensed even the slightest hint of danger.

And moreover…

The measures he had left within the Mystic Immortal Boat had failed to activate in any way.