Chapter 1278: The Xuanhuang Island Sermon

Chapter 1265 – Xuan Huang Island Says

“Senior, it seems like I can’t take it anymore!” Limitless Mirror Spirit Sun Luyao’s agonized voice came faintly from the mirror.

“Hmph, can’t die.” Li Fan, however, as if he did not hear it, not only did he not allow the Infinite Mirror to stop snooping, but instead, he played a spell, controlling it to once again release its ghostly light towards the Split Boundary Maelstrom.

After speaking, many patterns appeared on the surface of the Infinite Mirror. The cracks on the surface of the mirror perfectly overlapped with each other, and in the clear and ghostly light, the wounds were slowly healed.

“Eh ah ……,” Sun Luyao’s contradictory voice that seemed to be both agonizing and soothing resounded.

Li Fan just squinted his eyes and stared tightly at the fragmented images that kept flashing by in the Limitless Mirror’s Xuan Light.

“Let me see what really happened here back then.”

In fact, the Creation Tablet, was a record of the matter of the Demonic Beast Clan cracking the boundary and leaving.

However, after a force powerful enough to destroy the heavens and destroy the earth erupted from the South Underworld Mountain, the Genesis Slate lost its ability to monitor this place.

It wasn’t until the riot of energy slowly subsided and the place returned to a visual state. The former holy mountain of the demon race as well as the entire demon beast race had disappeared. All that remained was a horrible hollow wound that had not healed for thousands of years.

Li Fan’s use of the Infinite Mirror this time was certainly to try to find out whether the demon race had actually succeeded in escaping from the rift back then. But more than that, he was still trying to analyze the method of cracking the boundary.

The space was pierced by an unimaginably strong force, even breaking the barrier of the high wall and connecting to the sea of stars beyond.

In this instant, it was as if a seal had been knocked down in time and space, leaving behind an imprint.

Even though time passed by and a thousand years passed by. This mark still remained in time and space itself, not yet dispersed.

By studying and analyzing this rift seal, it might be possible to recreate the only two cases in the Xuanhuang Realm that had successfully escaped to the Dark Star Sea.

Like a black-and-white picture with intermittent signals, Li Fan vaguely saw from the flickering scene that Emperor Yi had revealed his true form and was making a final mobilization to the demonic beast clan.

He also saw that there were still quite a few demonic beasts watching from afar and not following the common departure.

The image suddenly flickered, and the giant python that coiled around the South Underworld Mountain let out a heaven-shaking roar. Wailing and writhing, its body emitted a blazing light. It seemed like something was breaking out of its body.

And yet, Emperor Yi, the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, stared at this coldly. It was only when the python fell helplessly to the surface of the sea, shaking up huge waves, that Li Fan saw clearly what was inside its body.

It was a key that had been enlarged by an unknown number of times!

Layers of ripples immediately rippled on Emperor Yi’s body that was constantly writhing and resembled a gray ball of flesh. A moment later, an indifferent face without any emotion emerged from his body.

This face seemed to have a magical power.

Not only in Emperor Yi’s own body, those other heads and faces that were originally moving foolishly, instantly became honest and stopped moving.

Around the South Underworld Sacred Mountain, countless demonic beasts that were previously watching, also couldn’t help but lower their heads and avoid their gaze. Not daring to look directly at their faces.

Even thousands of years later, Li Fan, who had traveled through the long river of space and time and peered at its image through the rift seal, had a feeling of instinctive fear as if he was facing a superior being in his heart the instant he saw that face.

“This is …… a mere body made up of a single distraction, which for a moment became less stable under the divine face’s mighty pressure. That was, after all, an imaginary image from thousands of years ago, and Li Fan’s underlying strength was not comparable to that of any other person. After a short period of adaptation, the invisible pressure quietly dispersed.

In the Split Realm Seal, the scene afterward was once again reflected in Li Fan’s eyes.

After Emperor Yi’s true body appeared on the divine face, the large, bronze-colored metal luster key instantly shrunk by a circle.

And then, under the maneuvering of Emperor Yi, it flew straight towards the Southern Underworld Sacred Mountain that towered in the sky.

The tip of the key was aimed at the tip of the Southern Underworld Mountain.

Brilliant and dazzling points of light appeared from the point of contact.

A uniform luster spread instantly from that small spot, throughout the key body as well as the South Underworld Mountain.

As if some sort of certification was reached, a moment later, the Key, the Sacred Mountain, was bathed in light. It became vaporized and vaguely invisible.

And around the Sacred Mountain, including Di Yi, those countless demonic beasts.

They were also wrapped in gusts of white light, and they all turned into threads and flew into the Copper Key South Underworld Mountain.

Then ……

A terrifying light that seemed like a great explosion of heaven and earth erupted from it.

It obscured all prying eyes.

Even though Li Fan forced himself to endure the white light that stung his soul to continue peering, what he saw in his eyes was only endless white awns.

And at this point, the Infinite Mirror had truly reached its limit.

In an instant, it lost its spirituality and could not even maintain its levitation, falling from the air. The Infinite Mirror Spirit, Sun Luyao, also completely fainted and died without a sound.

Li Fan mused and put away the Infinite Mirror.

In his mind, he was constantly recalling the scene he had just seen.

“Previously, in the Meteoric Immortal Realm, that Di Yi recounted the principle behind the South Underworld Mountain being able to successfully rift the world. He said that this is the end of the sky, the corner of the sea, and the end of the world. Thus, it has gathered many of the energies that have been straying and accumulating in the Xuanhuang Realm since its inception ……”

“Now it seems that it’s not at all as simple as He said. Relying on the Xuanhuang Realm’s own strength alone, it is difficult to split the realm and go, let alone some free energy.”

“The Ancient Copper Key as well as that Divine Face should be the key for them to be able to crack the boundary and go.”

Li Fan suddenly remembered again, the secret stories that the Holy Emperor had heard from the Duoyue Sect in this life.

“From the Heavenly Sword Sect’s rift boundary gap, the Duo Er Sect found the arcane power that could be used to monitor the Xuan Huang Realm, and once implanted, even the Transmission Laws could do nothing about it. And here, at the second rift boundary place, a mysterious existence that transcends the Xuanhuang Realm itself has also appeared.”

“The Xuanhuang Realm is extremely special even among the many cultivation realms of the ancient past, and these two places seem to touch the key.”

While pondering, Li Fan’s body fluttered as he left the Rift Realm Maelstrom with the Infinite Mirror.

“The reasoning of the world is not the same. To be able to specially use the post of [Xuan Huang Great Heavenly Father] to supervise and oversee the Xuan Huang Realm. It shows that the Xuanhuang Realm definitely has its unique utilization value in the eyes of the Immortal World.”

“Just like the thousands of islands in the Cong Yun Sea, only those islands with specialties would have the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance send out cultivators to guard and build island protection formations.”

“Change your way of thinking and simplify things. The so-called Xuanhuang Great Heavenly Father is equivalent to the Xuanhuang Zhenguo. And the Xuanhuang Realm is equivalent to one of the islands in the Star Sea of the Lower Realm.”

“And I’m afraid that the arcane power used to refine the World Viewing God’s Eye discovered by the Dui Yu Sect, as well as the Southern Underworld Sacred Mountain that Emperor Yi used an ancient bronze key to open up, is part of the Xuanhuang Realm’s [Island Protecting Formation].”

“It’s not the power from the Xuanhuang Realm proper, but it’s built from the upper realms.”

“It’s just that with the Immortal Realm Cataclysm occurring, this Boundary Protecting Grand Formation, too, has been affected to a certain extent.”

“Back then, the [Floating Starry Sky Array] that the Xuan Heavenly King deduced based on the many canonical books he obtained in the Ascension Passage, perhaps it might have also been constructed by remodeling this Boundary Protection Array. Otherwise, it’s really hard to imagine how a mere half-immortal body, and relying only on Xuan Huang’s first realm materials, could construct an Immortal-level Grand Formation capable of spanning a high wall.”

“And ……”

Li Fan flew faster and faster, and the clues in the many mists of the past were all of a sudden strung together.

“The Floating Starry Sky Grand Formation is capable of spanning the endless void and locking onto other Immortal Cultivation Realms in the depths of the distant Star Sea.”

“My formation dao level, with the End Dissociation Disk’s enhancement, has already vaguely reached the limit of Mortality. Moreover, I already know three of the Xuan Yuan Beginning Spirit Formations. Even if it’s an Immortal-level formation, I’m still considered to be at the beginning of the path. Even so, I am still puzzled as to how the Floating Starry Sky Grand Formation can be precisely locked in the endless sea of stars with that golden chain.”

“I had previously thought that it was because my attainments in formations were insufficient. It caused the Terminal Dissociation Disk to fail in its deduction every time. The Xuan Heavenly King is learned in the heavens, and his half-immortal body and array formation level are even higher than this strange object, the Terminal Dissociation Disk. ……”

“Now that I think about it, perhaps I overlooked an important factor.”

A brilliant light flashed in Li Fan’s eyes.

“What if those Immortal Cultivation Realms that have been locked, share certain common factors with the Xuan Huang Realm? With this mutual induction, the golden chains of the Floating Starry Sky Array can precisely lock them one by one.”

“That is, they all have the existence of a boundary-protecting grand formation!” “Hundred Flowers once said that even the original Xuan Huang Realm was a behemoth-like existence among the many Immortal Cultivation Realms now. Her hometown, the Wansheng Realm, is only the size of a single state.”

“Still, analogizing the Xuan Huang Realm to a clump of cloud-sea islands, it is like the Liuli Island I went to back then, an existence of a larger scale. And the other worlds and caverns captured by him are those smaller existences in the Sea of Stars.”

“Well …… perhaps later on as all these worlds were slowly sucked towards the Immortal Ruins, the Xuan Huang Realm captured some more along the way. After that, when the Ten Great Immortal Sect broke up, it was the Transmission of the Law and the Heavenly Doctor who took over, sewing up the pieces, and only then did the Xuan Huang Realm become as prosperous as it is today.”

“If my speculation is correct, then those regions that were initially captured by the Xuan Huang Realm definitely have a Boundary Protector Formation in existence.”

Thinking of this, Li Fan seemed to realize something and his thoughts gave a slight lurch.

Initially, the Xuan Huang Realm had merely simply captured and annexed, not dismembered and reorganized as it did today.

So initially, those devoured regions should actually be on the outskirts of the Xuan Huang Realm.

“The end of the sky, the corner of the sea. The borderlands of the world.”

“Plus, Di Yi’s words seemed to vaguely reveal that the Xuan Huang demonic beasts were from the outside world. ……”

“I see.”

Li Fan was suddenly enlightened.

“It seems that the ancient bronze key that Emperor Yi utilized to open was not the Boundary Protection Formation that originally belonged to the Xuanhuang Realm itself ……”

Li Fan’s thoughts turned sharply.

In fact, if he wanted to verify his speculation, there might be a simple method.

In the discovery of the golden skull as well as the small world of the [didn’t] word trick, clearly has the memory of the Floating Starry Sky Array golden chains breaking through the boundary and locking the world in place.

It was only necessary to go and explore it again.

Thinking of this, Li Fan changed his direction and rushed straight towards the target place.

And on the way, Sun Luyao was slowly waking up.

“Senior, where are we going?”

Without any complaints about Li Fan’s extreme labor force oppression earlier, Sun Luyao just asked with some doubts.

“To an interesting place. You take advantage of this hiatus to have a good rest. Next, you may still be needed to make a move.” Li Fan said indifferently.

Sun Luyao couldn’t stop his shadow in the mirror from shaking when he heard this.

“Senior, I feel that I am very weak right now ……,” After a moment of silence, Sun Luyao gathered his courage and said.

What responded to him was a thick golden substance.

Sun Luyao’s attention was immediately drawn firmly like some absolute treasure he had seen.

He knew that this was the magical substance that Li Fan had previously used to draw out the abrasive wind plague from the Infinite Mirror.

It had a fatal, irresistible instinctive attraction to him, and the meditative intuition in his heart told him that this substance was a great tonic for him.

Thus, Sun Luyao shut up at once and wolfed down the Source Power Essence.

A moment later, his spirit shook. The feeling of weakness disappeared.

“Hmph.”

Coming back from the wonderful taste, Sun Luyao was still thinking of pleasing Li Fan and asking for some more.

However, he was knocked back to reality by a cold snort from the other party.

He didn’t dare to ask for more, but only hoped that he could get some more rewards after completing the next task.

Not long after, through the long void passage, Li Fan finally came back to the dead world full of ashes.

“Go!”

At Li Fan’s gesture, the Infinite Mirror once again released a burst of ethereal light.

Compared to the previous time at the Split Realm Maelstrom, this time’s snooping and parsing was undoubtedly a lot smoother.

Very easily, the image in the ghostly light restored the place.

A vibrant world.

A large river that gave birth to endless living beings.

After the living beings die, they are reborn in the river. A perfect cycle is reached.

……

“Not these, go deeper.”

Just as Sun Luyao was immersed in the sub-scene, Li Fan’s voice came.

Sun Luyao’s heart and mind panged, and he increased the intensity of the Infinite Mirror’s peeping.

The scene of vitality became broken and vaporized.

The river also became like starlight, dreamy and vain.

Beneath the appearance of everything, a crisscrossing line steeply appeared in the infinite mirror.

“Ah!”

However, the moment these lines were seen, it was as if they had touched some kind of prohibition as if they had been touched.

Sun Luyao only felt an irresistible sizzling sensation suddenly strike him.

It was as if it was being roasted by flames, and the Infinite Mirror would melt at any moment.

“Senior save me!”

Sun Luyao couldn’t help but howl.

Li Fan, however, remained unheeded as the golden source power essence poured down, allowing Sun Luyao to endure the severe pain and continue peering.

Amidst Sun Luyao’s screams, the cornerstone hidden under the ruins of the world slowly began to appear.

It was different from the small world that had been reduced to rubble. Those lines were intermittent and had suffered some sort of blow, and were covered in a layer of decay.

But in the end, the original form was still preserved.

As the lines were probed more and more, a formation prototype emerged in Li Fan’s mind.

At the same time, in the Diffractive Law Jue space.

The Final Dissociation Disk temporarily stopped all other tasks, recording and analyzing the fragmented lines of the formation.

“Save me ……”

Nay, this formation relic was too massive, and with less than one-tenth of the peeping progress, Sun Luyao was already dying and about to perish.

(End of chapter)