My Simulated Road to Immortality-Chapter 1225 - 1178: Mysterious Secrets Hidden in the Ocean of Legacy

Although he had already decided to search for news of the Star Sea’s mighty power from this other surviving civilization, the Sacred Embryo Li Fan did not rashly approach them outright.

After all, he had crossed over half of the Abyss Star Ocean to resist the erosion of the void’s black dot disease and continually severed his Divine Soul, greatly weakening his strength.

If his inquiries failed and he was inadvertently captured by the other party, wouldn’t that be an enormous joke?

"Since there is a civilization surviving here, there ought to be methods to avoid the strange erosions of the void. I will first lurk in secret, slowly recover my strength, and then make plans,"

Li Fan settled on his plan in an instant.

He first pointed a finger to his glabella and set up a Forbidden Formation within his already fragile Divine Soul. With the slightest mishap, he could liberate himself and his soul would shatter in an instant.

Then Li Fan finally concealed his figure and began to explore this ocean of relics.

He did not follow the previous shadowy figure, fearing it could be a trap to lure him deeper. The Sacred Embryo Li Fan chose another direction and turned to delve deeper.

"There are dangers lurking in every corner of the void. If there are cultivators hiding, they would definitely use Array Techniques and Forbidden Formations for protection. I just need to find these traces, and follow the vine to get to the melon. My Array Path skills are generations ahead of those in the Xuanhuang World; I should have no peers here," he thought.

That’s what Li Fan initially thought.

But after searching in the ocean of relics for more than ten days, he found no hint of Array Techniques or any signs of civilization. He didn’t even sense a trace of life.

So much so that the Sacred Embryo Li Fan began to doubt whether the shadow he had encountered previously was just his imagination.

But he did not give up easily, like a patient hunter, he always lurked in the shadows, waiting for his prey to appear.

Another seventeen days passed, and he finally made a discovery.

A team of three cultivators, they were wearing strange armor, walking back to back, very cautious.

Their appearance was indeed beyond Li Fan’s expectations.

The position of those dead still relics floating silently in the void changed, and then a passage appeared out of nowhere.

After the three walked out, those dead still relics returned to their original positions, and the entrance to the passage closed.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes, scanned around, and took in all the relics left by those cultivators.

A moment later, he had an epiphany.

"Brilliant! It’s not isolated Array Techniques, but rather a transformation based on these naturally floating relics, almost merging completely with the surrounding environment."

"More crucially..."

Sacred Embryo Li Fan slowly approached these floating relics.

"These items from the Demise of the Cultivation World, more or less, had been tainted with the power of True Immortal Seal Characters. As a result, a natural protection was formed, which could shield a cultivator’s Divine Sense from detecting them to the greatest extent. That’s why despite my hard search, I still couldn’t find their hiding place..." Li Fan instantly understood.

The complexity of this Array Technique was ordinary, but once mixed and channeled with the power of the True Immortal Seal Characters, responsible for the destruction of many worlds, its level had substantially increased. Even with Li Fan’s current Array Path abilities, he had no good solution for it.

Of course, if he chose to ignore the potential side effects of these relics and wanted to forcibly break the Array, he could still do so. However, this would contradict his plan to stay hidden and collect information.

Li Fan looked at the hidden passage entrance and finally gave up the idea of forcing his way through.

Instead, he followed those three, observing carefully all the way.

Apart from wearing strange armor, these three cultivators did not look any different from the people of the Xuanhuang World.

This time they came out, it seemed, to search for materials within this ocean of relics.

However, the things they needed seemed somewhat strange to Li Fan.

There didn’t seem to be any commonality among them, from fragments of Magic Treasures to chunks of ruins, or even bones of cultivators, all were their targets for collection.

They didn’t directly store them in Storage Rings but used a black rope to tie them all together, dragging them behind.

"This scene..." Li Fan was slightly stunned.

It reminded him of the time when Law Transmission used golden chains to transport world fragments in the void.

"Could there be some connection?"

Half a day later, after the relics tied behind them reached more than twenty items, the three cultivators seemed to have a disagreement.

In the end, though, they gave up the search, led by the one in charge.

Taking their supplies, they turned and flew toward the passage’s entrance.

Seeing this, Li Fan also quietly followed behind.

The range the three cultivators left seemed limited; they didn’t stray far from their hiding place. They quickly returned to the front of that hidden passage.

Suddenly, rhythmic flashes of light began to flicker on the armor of one of them.

Li Fan sensed an odd rhythmical oscillation emanating from the armor.

As if triggering some mechanism, the relics in the silent surroundings rapidly changed position, and a round entrance quietly appeared.

The three cultivators pulled the twenty-odd items and flew into it.

Li Fan, his figure concealed, tried to follow them in.

But just as he approached the entrance to the passage, a piercing alarm suddenly sounded.

Li Fan’s heart skipped a beat, and he quickly attached his prepared split spirit to one of the items.

His true self, however, rapidly retreated farther away.

Because his split spirit remained, the alarm did not stop even after the Sacred Embryo Li Fan had left.

The three cultivators looked around nervously but found no signs of an enemy invasion; they then focused their attention on the items they had collected this time.

After a brief discussion, they separated the items and tried to place them one by one.

Eventually, they found the one with Li Fan’s split spirit attached.

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Instead of destroying it, they forcefully threw it into the depths of the ocean of relics.

With the threat’s source gone, the warning sound also ceased.

The three then turned to return.

Not far away, watching the slowly closing entrance to the passage, Li Fan ultimately chose not to force his way through.

"Interesting, the surveillance measures actually detected me."

His eyes flickering, he approached the thrown artifact.

"Sure enough, something’s fishy. On the surface, the influence of the True Immortal Seal Characters still persists. But in fact, the attached power has become negligible."

"After such a long time, my weak split spirit hasn’t sustained any damage..."

He retracted his split spirit back into his body and casually picked up the relic, observing it closely once more.

It seemed to be a command flag magic treasure, but the flag was decayed, leaving only a bare pole.

Its spirituality was entirely lost, no longer able to exert its original powers.

"What do they want with these trinkets?"