My Simulated Road to Immortality-Chapter 1681 - 1396: Tian Beast Achieves Remarkable Feats

Chapter 1681 -1396: Tian Beast Achieves Remarkable Feats

The ancient stone tablet guarded at the center of the array was just like the Nine-star Red Beads Li Fan had seen before in the ruins of the Xuanhuang Guardian Immortal Formation.

However, the Nine-star Red Beads were long gone without a trace, while the ancient stone tablet still stood prominently in place.

Li Fan squinted his eyes, attempting to clearly discern the content engraved on the stone tablet within the array.

The stone tablet remained utterly motionless, yet the lines on its surface seemed to constantly shift, hazy and indefinite.

This instantly brought to Li Fan’s mind the copper coin he had previously seen in the Northern Cold Immortal Realm.

“It seems to be a recording method unique to the Immortal World. However, the engravings on this stone tablet…”

“…are far more complex!”

Li Fan’s heart stirred slightly, yet he refrained from impatience to study it thoroughly. He keenly noticed that the array before him appeared to have a certain misleading effect; what is glimpsed through the array may not necessarily be accurate.

With the help of the Dissociation Disc, Li Fan began to analyze the array in front of him.

“No traces of Immortal Spirit Energy. It seems for the sake of its concealment, even the most basic Spiritual Power is absent. Then what exactly sustains this array to keep it functioning for so many years?” Piqued by his research, Li Fan’s interest was sparked.

At this point, Li Fan’s aptitude in the Array Path could absolutely be considered that of an array master; he was capable of fusing and deriving Immortal Arrays according to his needs. Yet this style of array before him was something he had never encountered before.

“It’s not simply that the energy consumption for the array is minimal, supported by nothing but some object. The true might of this array…” Li Fan mused, experimentally transforming his Spiritual Power into the form of a small bird, attempting to send it into the array.

It encountered no obstruction.

But the moment it crossed the boundary of the array, the bird of Spiritual Power vanished without a trace, as if evaporated into thin air.

Li Fan’s pupils contracted sharply.

For he could not sense at all how the bird he controlled had disappeared or by what mechanism.

Li Fan snapped his fingers lightly, and then unleashed thousands of birds, dark and dense, surging toward the array en masse.

Under Li Fan’s precise control, the total quantity of Spiritual Power contained in all the birds was virtually negligible, kept just below a certain threshold to ensure the array did not trigger stronger defense reactions.

All of them met the same fate.

Li Fan carefully savored the process of the birds’ disappearance.

“Spiritual Power wasn’t [consumed]. Rather, the very foundation that sustains the existence of Spiritual Power was drained away…”

As the swarm of birds vanished, Li Fan faintly gained some insight.

Something about this array gave him an oddly familiar feeling.

Li Fan then used physical objects for experimentation.

Stones, magic tools, plants, and birds.

The results were nearly identical.

Anything that entered the array—without exception—was entirely obliterated, reduced to nothingness.

Li Fan’s expression grew increasingly somber. “All the items tested so far belong to the domain of [mortal]. What if they were tied to [immortal] instead?”

The Essence of Golden Source Energy transformed into a small, drifting dragon that surged toward the array. The air seemed to twist as if burned by flames. Then, the golden light dimmed, and the outcome was the same!

Following this, Li Fan produced a mass of True Immortal Flesh, threading golden lines into the flesh ball. The True Immortal Flesh, resembling a puppet doll, moved shakily and drifted into the array.

The golden manipulation lines Li Fan used snapped in half. Yet, once inside the array, the True Immortal Flesh underwent a transformation distinct from any mortal objects tested before.

That ancient stone tablet, which had been lying quietly within the array, suddenly froze its flickering patterns for a brief instant.

At that moment, Li Fan caught a fleeting glimpse of what seemed to be a bolt of thunder emanating from the stone tablet, striking the mass of True Immortal Flesh.

The eerie, mystical aura of the True Immortal Flesh abruptly vanished, no longer belonging to the domain of the immortal. In an instant, it was reduced to mortal material.

And then, it dissolved within the array!

This transformation occurred in the blink of an eye. To the casual observer, it would appear that the True Immortal Flesh had met the same fate as the mundane items previously tested—incapable of persisting within the array for even a moment.

But Li Fan’s keen perception noticed something.

He repeated his prior experiment, continuously using True Immortal Flesh as his probe, hoping to capture and fully discern that brief opportunity when the thunder manifested.

“The light that flashed upon the stone tablet seems to have been one of the engravings from the Ascension Platform of Xuanhuang Tian’s ancient imprint? It actually possesses the ability to transform immortal to mortal?”

Li Fan’s heart quaked with astonishment.

Yet he understood that the flesh he used for experimentation was not truly [immortal], merely a mass of revived blood and flesh scavenged from the remains of a True Immortal.

It could not compare with the grandeur of an actual True Immortal.

Regardless, the dreadful regenerative and defensive capabilities of True Immortal Flesh had already been verified on the Tianyang Immortal Puppet. It could resist nearly all mortal attack methods and even possess a certain immunity to True Immortal Seal Characters.

But this existence, so transcendental and terrifying, was utterly defenseless before the thunder pattern on the stone tablet.

“If it can transform immortal to mortal, then why can’t it transform mortal to immortal?”

“The Ascension Platform… the Ascension Platform…”

Li Fan’s previous speculations seemed to have gained some validation as he gazed at the stone tablet not far ahead, his emotions gradually growing more impassioned.

After several more attempts, nearly consuming a full tenth of his stockpile of True Immortal Flesh, yet still yielding no success, Li Fan finally abandoned this clumsy method.

The thunder-like pattern on the stone tablet appeared for far too fleeting a moment. Moreover, what was visible through the array still bore a certain degree of distortion. Trying to discern it clearly under such conditions was nothing short of wishful thinking.

“In my prior events of annihilation, when the Xuanhuang World was completely reduced to void, I never noticed the presence of this array or the stone tablet.”