Chapter 2 Aspiring to Live Longer

In the darkness, rows of glowing small characters appeared one after another along with the picture.

[You returned to the anchor year. You were so happy that you did some extraordinary things, and your aunt almost drank the exorcism water that the witch in the village asked for]

[There is still half a year before the provincial examination, so you study hard day and night at home. Since you already know the test questions, you appear confident. Although your aunt usually complains about you, she has always supported you in studying.]

[The village chief's brother covets your family's ancestral fertile land and secretly persecutes you. As a woman, my aunt tried to resist but was unable to do anything. You settled the matter with a little trick. Auntie will look at you differently from now on】

[Half a year later, you took part in the provincial examination. Although you were only at the bottom of the 30s, you succeeded in being elected and honored your ancestors]

[Anchored for 2 years, you went to Xuanjing City to take part in the examination. If you are prepared for the test questions, you will naturally go to high school. And he performed well in the subsequent palace examinations, ranking among the top two, and was awarded the title of Jinshi]

[You traveled around the city of Xuanjing, and finally got what you wanted, and got the post of magistrate of Wen County in the south of the Yangtze River]

[Anchoring for 3 years, you took office in Wen County after picking up your aunt at home. You begin to secretly cultivate your own team of confidants. In the same year, you led your men to find several minerals in the mountains that you remembered from your previous life]

[Anchored for 4 years, you successfully made a batch of explosives and matchlocks. The musketeers under his command tried their best to annihilate and consolidate a nearby mountain bandit]

[After five years of anchoring, there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and refugees were everywhere. Because you built water conservancy projects and built waterwheels to divert water early, Wen County under your rule was not greatly affected. In the same year, a group of refugees gathered to rebel and attacked the Langya Palace. You led your troops to arrive in time and saved King Langya's family. King Langya is very grateful to you]

[After 6 years of anchoring, you were promoted to the prefect of Jianghuai Prefecture. In the same year, you married the daughter of the minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. 】

[Seven years after anchoring, a locust plague broke out in Jiangnan Road and the food harvest was poor. Only under your rule will the impact be minimal. In the same year, your wife gave birth to a son for you. 】

[After eight years of anchoring, your men successfully produced a flintlock gun]

[Anchored for 10 years, Princess Langya gave birth to a son. You personally came to congratulate her and gave you carefully prepared gifts]

[After 15 years of anchoring, the emperor suddenly became seriously ill. Before his death, it was announced that King Langya would come to the capital and his throne was passed down to him. King Langya succeeded to the throne and changed his reign to Xuanjing]

[In the 16th year of anchoring, Emperor Xuanjing called you to the capital and promoted you to Minister of War. In the same year, major and minor rebellions occurred simultaneously in various places. Emperor Xuanjing ordered you to lead troops to put down the rebellion. 】

[Anchored for 18 years, you traveled around and finally wiped out the rebels. After returning to Beijing, Emperor Xuanjing took back your military power and promoted you to Minister of the Ministry of War, leading you to be the Crown Prince and Grand Master]

[Anchored for 20 years, the queen was suddenly involved in a witchcraft case. Emperor Xuanjing was furious and sent him to the cold palace. The prince came to you privately for help, and you agreed decisively. After private visits and investigations, evidence was found that Concubine Xi framed the queen, and the queen was cleared. The three clans of Emperor Xuanjing and Concubine Yi Xi did not release the queen from the cold palace]

[Anchoring for 21 years, someone secretly accused you of treason and handed over evidence that you secretly mined minerals and secretly controlled a group of armed forces. You were extremely frightened and wrote a letter to plead guilty. Emperor Xuanjing removed you from your position as minister and only asked you to teach the prince]

[Twenty-three years after anchoring, Emperor Xuanjing was hunting in spring. Suddenly he felt something in his heart and decided to go back to the Langya Palace in Jiangnan Dao to have a look. 】

[Anchoring for 24 years, Emperor Xuanjing came to Jiangnan and ordered you to accompany him. While touring the mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, I also took a look at some of the mines you mined privately back then]

[Anchoring for 25 years, Emperor Xuanjing went to Jiangnan for the second time. Only this time, he didn't take you with him. Three months later, you secretly received news that someone had reported that you secretly went to the cold palace to visit the queen. In the same year, Emperor Xuanjing was assassinated on his way back to Beijing. When the news came back, the capital was shocked. The officials invited the queen out of the cold palace, and then the prince succeeded to the throne, with the reign name of Kangning]

[In the 26th year of anchoring, you were awarded the title of Grand Master, and you were appointed as the Grand Master of the Yizheng Pavilion. You were a highly respected minister. The emperor is young and relies on you a lot. Take this opportunity to unite your party against differences and establish your own team in the court]

[Anchoring 27 years, your aunt passed away. You once again came up with the idea of ​​​​seeking immortality, so you sent people to various places to explore for traces of the existence of immortals]

[Anchoring for 28 years, the emperor has come of age. But your power is increasing day by day, and the court has almost become your voice]

[After 30 years of anchoring, people in the world only know the Grand Master but not the Emperor]

[Anchored for 31 years, the Queen Mother is pregnant and has urgently summoned you to the palace to discuss countermeasures. You were overjoyed and secretly took the Queen Mother back to the Grand Master's Mansion to take good care of her. In the same year, the Queen Mother gave birth to a son for you]

[Anchoring 33 years, when you entered the court alone, you were surrounded by the confidant guards secretly trained by Emperor Kangning. Thanks to the help of the exotic treasure, I was lucky enough to save a life. You are furious and want to kill the emperor and establish yourself. After the Queen Mother begged hard and the ministers around her persuaded her, she did not take action. You kill all the emperor's closest officials. From then on, Emperor Kangning only had the name of emperor, but no actual emperor.]

[After 38 years of anchoring, Emperor Kangning died in depression. You make his eldest son emperor and change Yuan Dynasty to Longchang. 】

[After 40 years of anchoring, the Queen Mother died of illness. Your desire to seek immortality becomes more and more eager]

[Anchor for 45 years, your wife passed away]

[Anchored 46 years ago, your eldest son passed away due to illness]

[Anchored for 48 years, many years of seeking immortality to no avail, you gave up the idea of ​​seeking immortality]

[Anchored for 50 years, two immortals came from the east of Xuyuan and destroyed Xuanjing City. You were lucky enough to save a life]

…

[This simulation ends]

[You can choose one of the following options to keep:

1. An item you hold in this simulation.

2. Your own cultivation realm in this simulation.

3. The simulated memory of a person who is closely related to you in this simulation. This memory can be inherited by this person.

4. Give up the above options and speed up the charging progress. ]

Li Fan regained consciousness and found that he was back in his simple study.

Looking around the strange and familiar scenery, the experiences of the past few decades passed through his mind one by one. Li Fan couldn't help but sigh: "Is it true that it has become illusory, or is everything a simulation, just an illusion caused by being too real? Or, when it reaches a certain level, there is no boundary between false and true."

However, Li Fan is not a hypocritical person after all. Soon, he calmed down and focused his attention on these four options.

There is nothing to say about the first and second items. If Li Fan embarks on the path of cultivation, these two items will definitely be of great help to him. Unfortunately, he was just an ordinary person in his previous life. There is no realm of cultivation at all.

As for the most valuable item he owns, it is probably the imperial seal.

It is also useless and will only bring disaster.

As for the third item, let someone get the memory of this simulation...

This makes Li Fan's heart beat.

For a moment, several figures flashed in Li Fan's mind.

But in the end, he still shook his head.

After all, the human heart is the most unpredictable. No one knows what a person will become after getting decades of memory.

Now [Zhenzhen] has not been fully charged, and he is still a weak scholar who has no power to tie a chicken, and there is no capital to start over.

So, everything should be stable.

Then there is only the fourth option.

Speed ​​up the charging progress.

[Zhenzhen] needs to be charged to turn reality into virtuality.

According to Li Fan's experience in his previous life, this charging progress can only increase naturally with the passage of time. It takes about 20 years to be fully charged.

After the charging progress reaches 200%, it will no longer increase.

At the same time, when Li Fan is hit by a fatal blow, [Zhenzhen] will consume the charging progress to automatically protect the body. This is also the reason why Li Fan was able to survive several near-death experiences in his previous life.

Therefore, the fourth option is the safest choice.

Having made up his mind, Li Fan no longer hesitated and silently recited in his heart.

Then, the lines of glowing small characters suddenly scattered into light spots and quickly formed several new lines of characters.

Name: Li Fan

Realm: Mortal

Physiological age: 20/86

Psychological age: 166/1056↑

Void charging progress: 30%

"Three lives as a human, 166 years. It turns out that I have lived for so long. As for the upper limit of the psychological age, I remember that it was only more than 900 years in the previous life, but now it has increased to more than 1,000 years. It seems that this will increase with my experience. It has reduced some of my anxiety."

Just as the life span of the body has a limit, the psychological endurance also has a certain threshold.

When carrying too many memories, it will form a mental burden. Once this burden is too heavy, it will completely crush a person's soul.

This is the so-called "wear and tear of time".

However, the upper limit of psychological age will increase with the improvement of psychological recognition ability.

At present, Li Fan does not need to worry about this.

"As long as you embark on the road of cultivating immortals, everything is not a problem. Now that I have started again, wealth, luxury, cars and beauties are not what I pursue."

"I just want to live forever!" The pain of the loved ones around him in his previous life, and the powerlessness and fear brought by his aging body, made Li Fan's mind more determined at this moment.

"The goal of this life is to learn the secret of cultivating immortals from the two immortals. Fifty years later, they will come to Xuanjing City. With intention and unintentionality, even if they are so-called foundation-building masters, I may not have no chance of winning."

"Perhaps I can rely on, in addition to guns and gunpowder, there is also the immortal miasma they talk about..."

"In addition, I can't just wait for fifty years. They came from the Eastern Xuyuan, maybe I can send someone to the bottom of the Xuyuan to find out."

...

The most frightening thing in life is to have no goals. In his previous life, Li Fan would feel extremely empty and confused when he woke up from the Empress Dowager's bed in the middle of the night.

In this life, he has stood at the top of ordinary people.

He is the teacher of the emperor, and he controls the world's troops. Most of the ministers in the court are his confidants.

He can depose and enthrone the emperor, and even the Empress Dowager lets him do whatever he wants.

It can't be higher.

Even if it comes again, it will be the same.

Will the next simulation do the same?

In this way, what is the meaning of reincarnation after reincarnation?

Power and enjoyment are boring after repeated repetition.

Perhaps, if there is no variable, after a certain reincarnation, Li Fan will give up and choose to end his life.

But!

The appearance of the two immortal cultivators made Li Fan see a new possibility!

Let Li Fan see a strange and tempting world waving at him.

Let Li Fan have great ambitions and goals.

He wants to cultivate immortality!

He wants to live forever!

No one can stop him!

Li Fan pushed open the door and walked out with his head held high.

His steps were firm!