NOVPUBEmperor One Beast had already led the Demonic Beast Race to flee the Xuanhuang World, while Emperor Tri-Moa was deeply hidden within the headquarters of the Immortal Alliance, rarely seen by ordinary people.
However, they both had appeared in the Fallen Immortal Realm during the "Transformation of the Beast Taming Sect" and could be approached directly to clarify things.
"Friend Sun?"
The transmitted message from Elder Zhang Xu interrupted Li Fan’s thoughts.
His attention returned to the Yan Fajue Guarded Space, where the little girl was handling an urgent Yan Fa task.
An extra task had appeared out of nowhere, and she looked visibly annoyed, her face full of resentment.
The task only required a Unified Dao Technique, yet it had already taken three days and nights without success.
It was highly likely that the little lady was taking the opportunity to slack off.
In the Yan Fa space, apart from the three guards of the Unified Dao, there was also a young man in blue robes.
Although he stood erect and motionless, his impatient heart could still be discerned from his demeanor.
Considering the high level of the current Yan Fa task, any real delay might lead to trouble. Thus, Guard Zhang Xu secretly transmitted another message, asking Li Fan to play the bad guy.
After all, during this period, Li Fan’s image in Yan Fajue’s mind had come to be categorized among the most despicable people in the world.
No need for a Copper Gong to manifest as a reminder.
When a sand timer silently appeared above Yan Fajue’s head, the little girl’s face dramatically changed, and the speed of the rotating Character Light Ball suddenly increased several fold.
It wasn’t long before she derived the technique required by the blue-robed young man.
The young man expressed his enormous gratitude and then hurriedly departed.
"So urgent, it seems the Qingxuan Army has encountered trouble," sighed Zhang Xu.
After repeatedly intervening and stopping Yan Fajue’s slacking multiple times, Li Fan gradually became acquainted with the other two Unity-Path Guards.
Zhang Xu had entered more than a hundred years before Li Fan.
The other one was named Hua Yeyue. Though the name sounded somewhat feminine, he was truly a formidable man.
He hated evil so vehemently that he couldn’t stand a Dharma Transmitter’s behavior and ended up fighting him on the spot.
The consequences were as one might expect.
Although with the help of friends and family, he ultimately avoided death, he was still punished to guard Yan Fajue for five hundred years.
As of now, not even half of that time had passed.
Initially, when Li Fan had first arrived, Hua Yeyue hadn’t even bothered to greet him. Now, after becoming familiar, he actually talked more than Zhang Xu.
"Although I really dislike Shang Shaojun’s style, but guarding the Demon Abyss and not stepping back for hundreds of years, one has to admire him..."
"Qingxuan Army..."
During their casual conversation, Li Fan also recalled the identity of the blue-robed cultivator he had just encountered.
He had once met him, named Yan Huan.
A confidant of Shang Shaojun, stationed in the Duan zhang Immortal City within the White Mist, along with the million-strong Qingxuan Army, responsible for guarding and suppressing the [Dominating Abyss].
"The Young Master is even more stubborn than I am, once he’s set his mind on something, fearsome probably even the Heavenly Sovereign can’t pull him back. A rejected proposal by both a Dharma Transmitter and a Mirror Handler, yet he has not given up on it after all these years."
"Ahem, speak cautiously!"
...
From fragments of their casual conversation, along with some secret news Li Fan had browsed before, he pieced together an obscured historical event of the Immortal Alliance.
In the past, there had been a popular notion within the Immortal Alliance to "venture deeply into the Enshrouded Realm of White Fog for expansive exploration."
It was somewhat different from the Great Exploration Era that Li Fan had experienced.
In that era, the exploration carried out for the ascension of the Tianxuan Mirror more resembled a full-map scan of the White Mist.
Mark out all the Mystical Realms and Secret Realms hidden in the White Mist.
However, they didn’t delve deep into the nature of the Mystical Realm itself.
The proposal put forth by the Dharma Transmitters, which was outright rejected, was to undertake a complete purge of the Mystical Realm.
The White Mist Barrier in the Xuanhuang World appeared under rather curious circumstances.
And the Mystical Realms within the White Mist were bizarre and concealed who knows how many secrets.
Just the ones Li Fan had encountered included World Shards destroyed by the Word Confusion Technique, and an Ice-Sealed Great Array that reversed life and death, as well as giants made from countless corpses…
Setting aside the danger factor, Li Fan didn’t believe that the cultivators of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals were not curious about the Mystical Realm.
But this curiosity was decisively quashed by the high-ranking members of the Immortal Alliance.
"The Law Transmission dismembers and reconstructs Xuanhuang, and with such a unified action by the top brass of the Immortal Alliance, it’s obvious that the Mystical Realms within this White Mist are inherently connected to Him."
Li Fan remembered how, back in the White Mist, he could always hear sounds similar to the wails and murmurs of the Celestial Doctor.
And whenever he followed these sounds, he invariably discovered unknown Mystical Realms.
Li Fan suddenly speculated.
"These Mystical Realms, just like Misthaven Ocean and Luoyan State, might be remnants of the Heavenly Law Realm of old. Perhaps, affected by disasters such as the Word Confusion Technique, their remaining laws are more twisted and chaotic. They are not suitable for direct integration with the Xuanhuang World."
"Therefore, they were first concealed within the White Mist. Hmm… Perhaps there are remnants from other realms of Immortal Cultivation as well."
"Law Transmission is waiting. Waiting for the instant when the Heavenly Law Realm successfully resurrects from the dead."
As his attainments had not yet reached the level of the Law Transmission, Li Fan currently could not fully understand the specific uses of these World Fragments.
"However, this does inspire me. Although the Celestial Dharma Bearer holds overwhelming power, the cultivators of the Xuanhuang World still harbor doubts about the drastic changes His world transformation brings about. Perhaps I can induce them to unearth the truth."
Li Fan knew well that the more forbidden something was, the more it could arouse people’s curiosity.
Once this group of cultivators discovered the potential massive conspiracy involving the Celestial Dharma Bearer, whether they liked it or not, they had already become Li Fan’s allies.
"Shang Shaojun, let’s start with him."
Li Fan nodded slightly, hiding the faint light in his eyes.
...
Remnants of the Heavenly Sword Sect, Sword Tomb.
Sacred Embryo Li Fan was sitting cross-legged next to the Black Sword, sensing the myriad Sword Daos swirling around him.
Although he had built his Tao Foundation with the Black Sword Sky Oddity before, at this moment, inside this Sword Tomb, surrounded by countless swords, Sacred Embryo Li Fan still had new insights emerging continuously in his heart.
"Heaven’s Oddities are manifestations of the laws of the Heavenly Dao."
"The world changes, and laws circulate. They are not unchanging. The different times when I collected the Black Sword here gave birth to subtly different Sword Daos."
Sacred Embryo Li Fan was delighted in his heart.
His understanding of the workings of the world advanced further.
Struck by an inspiration, he let out a long howl, and the millions of swords on the ground trembled slightly.
And in the center of those ten thousand swords, the wood sword left by Mr. Bai also bent ever so slightly.
It seemed to resonate slightly with Sacred Embryo Li Fan’s epiphanies.
"Good."
His mouth slightly open, Sacred Embryo Li Fan’s Black Sword soared into the air, directly entering his belly and becoming part of his own Tao Foundation.
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Another chapter around 1 a.m…. I wanted to make up for it, but I’ve had physical issues, my brain is rusting, and it’s turning very slow.
Orz
