NOVPUB"Senior, I think I can’t take it anymore!" The pained voice of Mirror Spirit Sun Luyao faintly transmitted from within the mirror.
"Hmph, you won’t die." Li Fan, however, acted as if he hadn’t heard, not only did he not stop the Immeasurable Mirror from probing, but he also cast a Taoist technique, controlling it to once again release a ghostly light towards the Great Vortex of Realm Rending.
As soon as he finished speaking, many patterns suddenly appeared on the surface of the Immeasurable Mirror. Perfectly aligning with the cracks on the mirror, the serene colored light actually began to slowly heal these wounds.
"Ah..." A contradiction of pain and relief echoed in Sun Luyao’s voice.
Li Fan merely narrowed his eyes, intently focusing on the fragmented scenes flickering in the profound light of the Immeasurable Mirror.
"Let me see, what exactly happened here in the past."
Actually, the Tablet of Creation had records of the Demon Clan’s Rift into the Monster Beast Clan’s Rift.
However, after a power strong enough to destroy Heaven and Earth erupted from Nanming Mountain, the Xuanhuang Stone Slab lost its ability to monitor this place.
Not until the violent energy fluctuations gradually subsided, and this place returned to a visible state, did they discover that the sacred mountain of the Demon Tribe, along with all the Demonic Beasts, had vanished. What remained was a terrifying hollow wound, unhealed for thousands of years.
Li Fan, this time utilizing the Immeasurable Mirror, of course wanted to know whether the Demon Tribe had managed to escape through the rift. But even more, he was attempting to decipher how the rift was created.
Space was pierced by a formidable force beyond imagination, even breaking through the High Wall, connecting to the outside of the Star Sea.
In that instant, it was as if a seal was stamped in space-time, leaving behind a mark.
Even as time swiftly moved forward, changing in the blink of an eye over a thousand years, this mark still lingered in the essence of space-time, yet to dissipate.
By studying and deciphering this mark, they might be able to replicate the two instances in the history of the Xuanhuang World where they successfully escaped to the Abyss Star Ocean.
Like a signal flickering in and out, Li Fan caught glimpses of Emperor One revealing his true form, rallying the Demon Clan for one last time.
He also saw many Demonic Beasts observing from afar, not following in the collective departure.
The scene abruptly flickered, and a gigantic serpent coiled around Nanming Mountain let out a thunderous roar. With lamentation and convulsion, its body emitted a blazing light. It seemed as though something was about to break out of its body.
Emperor One, who was the lord of myriad demons, merely watched with indifference. Not until the serpent collapsed powerlessly onto the Sea surface, stirring up towering waves, did Li Fan finally see the object within it.
It was, astonishingly, a key that had been enlarged countless times! 𝑛𝘰𝘷𝑝𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝘮
On Emperor One’s continually writhing body, which was like a grey lump of flesh, ripples suddenly spread out. Moments later, a face devoid of any emotion emerged from his body.
This face seemed to possess magical power.
Not only did the other heads and faces that originally stirred within Emperor One’s body calm down in an instant, but they also ceased all movement.
Around Nanming Sacred Mountain, countless Demonic Beasts that were previously observing couldn’t help but lower their heads, avoiding eye contact, not daring to look directly at the face.
Even thousands of years later, Li Fan, who peered through the mark across the long river of space-time, felt a sudden instinctive fear rise in his heart upon seeing that face, as though he were facing a superior Living Being.
"This is..." Merely a distraction-formed body temporarily became unstable under the pressure of the Divine Mask. After all, it was only an apparition of thousands of years past, and Li Fan’s foundation was no common match. After a brief adjustment, the intangible pressure quietly dissipated.
In the mark of the rift, the following scenes once again entered Li Fan’s view.
After Emperor One revealed his Divine Mask, that enormous key, gleaming with the luster of ancient bronze, instantly shrank.
Then, under Emperor One’s control, it flew directly towards the towering South Ming Sacred Mountain.
The key’s tip aimed at the peak of Nanming Mountain.
A dazzling light emerged from the point of contact.
A uniform sheen spread in an instant from that small point, covering both the key itself and Nanming Mountain.
As if a certain recognition was achieved, moments later, both the key and the Sacred Mountain, bathed in light, became ethereal, barely visible.
Around the Sacred Mountain, including Emperor One, the countless Demonic Beasts...
Were also enveloped in waves of white light, each transforming into strands of threads, flying into the bronze key within Nanming Mountain.
And then...
A terrifying light, like an explosion that shook Heaven and Earth, burst forth from it.
Blocking all prying eyes.
Even as Li Fan continued to observe through the piercing white light that strained his Divine Soul, all he could see was the endless white radiance.
And at that moment, the Immeasurable Mirror truly reached its limit.
It fell from the sky as if it had lost its Spirituality, unable to maintain its levitation. Mirror Spirit Sun Luyao also completely passed out, silent and without further sound.
Li Fan, contemplative, collected the Immeasurable Mirror.
Yet, in his Spirit Consciousness, the scenes he had just witnessed played back repeatedly.
"Previously, in the Fallen Immortal Realm, Emperor One explained the principle behind Nanming Mountain’s successful realm fissure. He said this place is the End of the Sky, the Corner of the Sea, where the edge of the world resides. Thus, it accumulated many Xuan Huang energies that have been wandering since the world’s creation..."
"Now it seems, it isn’t as simple as He said. Relying solely on the power of the Xuanhuang World itself, it’s difficult to create a rift and escape, let alone with some wandering energies."
"The Ancient Bronze Key and that Divine Mask must be the key to their successful rift."
Li Fan then suddenly recalled the Secret news he had heard from the Calamity Transcendence Sect during this lifetime of The Emperor.
