Chapter 2: Aspiring to Eternal Life
Chapter 2 Aspiring to Seek Eternal Life
In the darkness, lines of small glowing words appeared one after another along with the picture.
[You have returned to the year of anchoring, and in your ecstasy, you did something out of the ordinary, and were almost drowned by your aunt in the exorcism water from the witch in the village].
There are still half a year to go before the countryside examination, and you study hard at home day and night. Since you already know the questions, you seem to be full of confidence. Although your aunt complains about you, she has always supported you in your studies.
[The village chief’s brother covets your family’s ancestral fertile fields and secretly presses for it. Auntie, as a woman, resisted but was unable to do so. You managed to get rid of this matter with a little trickery. Auntie looked at you in a different light from then on.
Half a year later, you took the countryside examination, and although you were only at the bottom of the 30th percentile, you finally succeeded in winning the Jiu Ren, honoring your ancestors.
Anchored for 2 years, you traveled to Xuanjing City to take part in the Imperial Examination. You were prepared for the test questions and naturally, you won the high school. You excelled in the Imperial Examination, and were awarded the rank of second-ranked scholar.
[You traveled around Xuanjing City and finally got your wish and got the post of magistrate of Wen County in Jiangnan.]
[Anchored for 3 years, you picked up your aunt at home and assumed the post of Wen County. You began to secretly train your inner circle. In the same year, you led your men to find some minerals in the mountains that you remembered from your previous life.
[Anchored for 4 years, you successfully made a batch of explosives and muskets. Your musketry team was able to eliminate a nearby mountain bandit at the first attempt] [Anchored 5 years, you successfully made a batch of explosives and muskets.
In the 5th year of Anchor, there was a severe drought in Jiangnan and displaced people were everywhere. Because you have been early to build water conservancy, building waterwheel diversion, so you ruled the Wenxian County has not been greatly affected. In the same year, a group of migrants gathered to rebel, the impact of Langya Wang Fu. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers, and the company’s goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers, and to provide the best possible service to its customers. The king of Luangya was very grateful to you.
In the 6th year of the Anchor’s reign, you were promoted to be the governor of Jianghuai Province. In the same year, you married the daughter of the minister of the Ministry of Justice.]
In the 7th year of the Anchor, there was a locust plague in Jiangnan Province and the grain harvest was poor. Only under your rule was minimally affected. In the same year, your wife gave birth to a son for you.]
[Anchored 8 years, your men succeeded in making flintlock pistols]
[Anchored 10 years, the princess of Langya gave birth to a son, you personally came to your door to congratulate you, and sent a well-prepared gift]
In the 15th year of the Anchor, the Emperor was struck by a sudden illness. Before he died, he declared the king of Luangya to come to the capital, and passed the throne to him. The King of Langya succeeded to the throne and changed the name to Xuanjing.
In the 16th year of the Anchor, Emperor Xuanjing summoned you to the capital and promoted you to be the Minister of War. In the same year, there were simultaneous rebellions of various sizes in various places. Emperor Xuanjing ordered you to lead the army to quell the rebellions].
In the 18th year of the Anchor, you traveled all over the world and finally swept away the rebels. After returning to the capital, Emperor Xuanjing took back your military power and promoted you to Minister of War and Crown Counselor.
[Anchoring 20 years, the Empress was suddenly caught in a witchcraft case. Emperor Xuanjing was furious and sent her to the Cold Palace. Crown Prince privately seek your help, you decisively agreed. After a private visit to investigate, found the evidence of Xi Fei framed the Empress, but also the Empress innocence. Emperor Xuanjing razed Xi Fei three tribes, but did not release the Empress from the Cold Palace].
[Anchor 21 years, someone secretly accused you of rebellion, and submitted your year private mining minerals, secretly mastered a number of armed forces evidence. You were terrified and wrote a letter of apology. Emperor Xuanjing dismissed you from the post of minister, and only asked you to teach the crown prince.
[Anchored 23 years, Emperor Xuanjing spring hunting, suddenly feel something, decided to go back to Jiangnan Road Luangya Wangfu to see.]
Anchored 24 years, Emperor Xuanjing a Jiangnan, ordered you to accompany. In the south of the river at the same time, also went to see when you privately exploited a few mines.
In the 25th year of the Anchor, Emperor Xuanjing went to Jiangnan for the second time. Only this time, he did not bring you. Three months later, you secretly received news that someone had denounced you for privately traveling to the Cold Palace to visit the Empress. In the same year, Emperor Xuanjing was assassinated on his way back to the capital. When the news came back, the capital was shaken. The officials invited the Empress out of the cold palace, and then the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne with the name of Kangning.
[Anchor 26 years, you were appointed as the Imperial Advisor, the leader of the Parliamentary Court of the University, the position of the most important person. The emperor is young, you have a lot of dependence on you. Taking this opportunity, you have established your own team in the court.
In the 27th year of the Anchor, your aunt passed away. You once again thought of seeking immortality, so you sent people to explore the traces of the existence of Immortals.
[Anchor 28, the Emperor came of age. But your power is growing, and the court has become almost your own.
“Anchor 30 years, the world only knows the Master but not the Emperor.
[Anchor 31, the Empress Dowager is pregnant and urgently calls you to the palace to discuss countermeasures. Under your great joy, you will secretly take the Empress Dowager back to the master’s residence to take care of. In the same year, the Empress Dowager gave birth to a son.
Anchor 33 years, when you entered the court alone, you were surrounded by the guards secretly trained by Emperor Kang Ning. Luckily, with the help of a special treasure, you managed to save your life. You were furious and wanted to kill the emperor and establish yourself. Under the Empress Dowager’s bitter plea and the persuasion of the ministers around you, you did not do it. You killed all of the Emperor’s close ministers. After that, Emperor Kangning only had the name of Emperor, but not the reality of Emperor]
[Anchoring 38 years, Emperor Kangning dies in a state of depression. You installed his first son as Emperor and changed his name to Longchang.]
In the 40th year of the Anchor, the Empress Dowager died of illness. Your quest for immortality grows stronger.
[Anchored 45 years, your wife died]
In 46, your eldest son died of illness.
[Anchored 48 years, after years of fruitless searching for immortality, you gave up the idea of searching for immortality]
[Anchored 50 years, two immortals came east from the Market Abyss, destroying Xuanjing City, you were lucky to save your life]
……
[This simulation ends]
[You can choose one of the following options to keep:
1. an item held by yourself in this simulation.
2.Your own cultivation realm in this simulation.
3. the simulation memory of a person close to yourself in this simulation. This memory can be inherited by that person.
4. Abandon the above choices to speed up the recharge progress.]
Li Fan regained consciousness and found himself back in his humble study.
Looking around at the unfamiliar yet familiar scenery, the past decades of experience crossed his mind one by one, Li Fan couldn’t help but feel a few emotions: “Is it true that reality has become illusion, or is it that everything is a simulation that is just too real and thus leads to an illusion? Or, when a certain level is reached, there is no boundary between the fake and the real.”
However, Li Fan was not a pretentious person after all. Soon, he settled his mind and focused his attention on the 4 options.
The first and second items were nothing to write home about, and if Li Fan were to embark on the path of cultivation, these two items could definitely help him greatly. Unfortunately, he was only a mortal in his last life as well. There was no cultivation realm at all.
As for the most valuable item he possessed, I’m afraid it was that Jade Seal of Transmission.
Again, it was useless and would only invite disaster.
As for the third item, let someone similarly get the memories of this simulation ……
This was something that made Li Fan’s heart thump. For a while, several figures flashed through Li Fan’s mind.
But in the end, he shook his head.
After all, the human heart was the most difficult to gauge. No one knew what a person would become after getting decades of memories.
Now that the [Return to Truth] hadn’t finished recharging, he was still a weak scholar with no hands, and he didn’t have the capital to start over.
Therefore, everything should be done with stability.
That only left the fourth option.
Accelerate the recharge progress.
The [Return to Truth]’s transformation of reality into reality requires recharging.
According to Li Fan’s experience of fumbling in his previous life, this charging progress could only grow naturally with the passage of time. It would take about twenty years to fill up.
The recharge progress would not increase after reaching a maximum of 200%.
At the same time, when Li Fan was hit by a fatal blow, [Still True] would consume the recharge progress for automatic body protection. This was also the reason why Li Fan was able to survive several close calls in his last life.
Therefore, the fourth item was the most prudent choice.
Having taken note of it, Li Fan no longer hesitated and recited it in his mind.
Immediately, a line of small glowing characters scattered into points of light and then quickly formed into several lines of brand new characters.
Name: Li Fan
Realm: Mortal
Physical Age: 20/86
Mental Age: 166/1056↑
Progress of Void Charging: 30%
“Three lifetimes as a human, one hundred and sixty-six years. It turns out that I’ve already lived for so long. On the contrary, the upper limit of the mental age at the back, I remembered that my last life was only nine hundred years, but now it has increased to one thousand years. It seems this will increase with my experiences. It has rather reduced some of the anxiety in my heart.”
Just as the body’s lifespan had a limit, there was also a certain threshold for the mind’s ability to endure.
After carrying too many memories, a mental burden would form. Once that burden became too heavy, it would completely crush one’s soul.
This is the so-called “wear and tear of the years”.
However, the upper limit of the mental age increases with the ability to recognize it.
For the time being, Li Fan didn’t need to worry about this.
“As long as I embark on the path of Immortal Cultivation, everything will not be a problem. Now that I’m starting anew, glory, wealth and beauty are not what I’m after.”
“I just want to live forever!” The pain after the beloved relatives and friends around him in his previous life faded away one by one, and the powerlessness and trepidation brought about by his own body’s growing old age, all made Li Fan’s mind and will become even more determined at this moment.
“The goal of this life is to learn the secrets of Immortal Cultivation from those two Immortal Cultivators. Fifty years later, they will descend on Xuanjing City. By having a heart, even if they are the so-called Foundation Stage powerhouses, I may not have no chance of winning.”
“Perhaps what I can rely on, aside from guns and gunpowder, is the Immortal Mortal Miasma …… they speak of.”
“Also, with fifty years, I can’t just wait. They are coming from the Eastern Market Abyss, so perhaps I can send someone deep into the bottom of the Market Abyss first to find out what’s going on.”
……
The most feared thing in life was not having a goal. In his previous life, many times when Li Fan woke up in the middle of the night from the Empress Dowager’s couch, he would feel an overwhelming sense of emptiness and confusion.
In this life, he had stood at the very top of the ordinary people.
He was the master of the Son of Heaven, and even more so, he held the world’s army in his hands. Nine out of ten ministers in the court were his inner circle.
He was able to abolish the Emperor and even the Empress Dowager was at his mercy.
It couldn’t be higher.
Even in another life.
The next simulation, is it going to be the same?
In that case, what is the point of reincarnating from one life to the next?
Power and pleasure, even after repeating it too much, tastes the same.
Perhaps, if there were no variables, after a certain reincarnation, Li Fan would voluntarily give up and choose to end his life.
But!
The appearance of those two Immortal Cultivators allowed Li Fan to see a whole new set of possibilities!
It allowed Li Fan to see an unfamiliar and tempting world beckoning towards him.
It gave Li Fan a great ambition and goal.
He wanted to cultivate immortality!
He wanted to live forever!
No one could stop him!
Li Fan pushed open the door of the house and walked out with his head held high.
The pace was firm!
(End of Chapter)