NOVPUBJust like the first time he encountered The Curse of Scorn.
The moment the True Immortal Seal Characters appeared within Li Fan’s Spirit Consciousness amidst the Realm Defensive Array, he understood the meaning they represented.
Return!
It was unlike other curses such as Scorn or Chaos; rather, it felt like a royal decree!
"A complete True Immortal Seal Character..."
As Li Fan was emotionally stirred, he had already firmly memorized the appearance of the "Return" character.
"Return? But to where? Or perhaps, is it to return to its original state?"
Li Fan squinted his eyes, deeply pondering the Mysterious Power.
Meanwhile, the Infinite Mirror Spirit had completed its investigation of the areas outside the central core of the Realm Defensive Array.
"Elder, over there..." Sun Luyao stared blankly at the void.
An invisible connection suddenly formed, seemingly linking the "Return" character with the Immeasurable Mirror.
Li Fan could clearly feel the sudden fear and confusion arising in Sun Luyao’s heart.
Even the Immeasurable Mirror itself, without any warning, began to tremble slightly. Amid the intensifying quivering, Sun Luyao, who was the Artifact Spirit, seemed on the verge of being ejected from the Mirror!
"Elder, save me!" Sun Luyao called out instinctively.
Naturally, Li Fan was the first to notice the changes in the Immeasurable Mirror.
Without directly confronting the power of the "Return" character but merely affected by the overflow of its force, the "Immeasurable, Primordial Aspect Formation" Great Array that Li Fan had painstakingly repaired showed signs of slowly collapsing.
Not only that, but the Immeasurable Mirror itself began to gradually "disintegrate."
In Li Fan’s perception, the entire Immeasurable Mirror was like a piece of burning paper. Its essential composition was disappearing, making its dissolution inevitable.
And those parts that were ignited, which were affected by the "Return" character, appeared like wisps of green smoke drifting into oblivion.
Li Fan’s heart sank as he attempted to stop the disintegration of the Immeasurable Mirror. Yet, even he, in his original form, couldn’t contend with the power of the True Immortal Seal; let alone this fraction of his split consciousness.
With a tinge of regret, he watched as the Immeasurable Mirror, amidst Sun Luyao’s continuous wails, grew smaller and smaller.
Just when Li Fan thought that this helpful Immortal Instrument was about to be completely destroyed.
Something unexpected happened.
The "green smoke," summoned by the "Return" character and headed to an unknown destination, suddenly returned!
As if a reversal of time had occurred on the Immeasurable Mirror, the tiny piece, no bigger than a thumb, was suddenly before Li Fan’s eyes again, regaining its fullness! 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝓬ℴ𝓶
Sun Luyao, who was wailing and thought his end was near, his voice growing weaker, was stunned as he watched the Immeasurable Mirror restore itself to normal, clueless about what had happened.
Li Fan too was momentarily stunned, watching the Primordial Aspect Formation spontaneously reconstruct itself from nothingness.
The event that had just unfolded seemed like an Illusion Dream.
After snapping back to reality, Li Fan looked back at the "Return" character.
It seemed that after being subjected to the decree once, the restored Immeasurable Mirror was now able to completely ignore the presence of the Return character.
And the Return character also chose to ignore the Immeasurable Mirror, continuing to quietly lie within the empty core of the Great Array.
Both were untroubled.
"What is happening? Is there nowhere to return?"
The scene unfolding before him left Li Fan somewhat puzzled. However, from the meaning of the "Return" character itself, and changes in the Immeasurable Mirror before and after, he could infer a thing or two.
"The Lower Realm’s Realm Defensive Array are all created and controlled by the Immortal World. And the Immeasurable Mirror, being an Immortal Instrument, is also subjected to the regulation of the Immortal World."
"If we view them as the elite soldiers of the Immortal World, then the ’Return Curse’ seems to have the authority to command troops. Whether this is a special power of the ’Return Curse’ itself or a common situation in the Immortal World is still unknown."
"Under normal circumstances, those summoned by the ’Return Curse’ should shed their armor and return. But now, with the disintegration of the Immortal World, the execution of the decree has been affected."
"It seems that the ’Return Curse’, compared to the other True Immortal Seal Characters, is fundamentally different. It might even have been a part of the operational foundation of the power structure of the bygone Immortal World."
Li Fan thoughtfully said, "But such speculations inevitably lead to a problem."
"Since the ’Summoning Curse’ is already in a semi-invalid state, where then have the central cores of these Realm Defensive Arrays gone?"
Li Fan gazed at the ’Return Curse’ lying quietly in the core area.
Several possibilities had already emerged in his Spirit Consciousness.
The ’Return Curse’ was inscribed by some entity, cast toward the core of the Arrays across all realms. However, upon reaching the predetermined location, it found that the targets had vanished. Since then, it had been circling here, waiting for the targets to appear.
Or perhaps, the ’Return Curse’ had successfully acted on the Array core, the cores of the Lower Realm had sequentially disappeared, returning to the Immortal World. With the collapse of the Immortal World, the cores would reappear in the world. At that moment, they were intercepted by some unknown entity and the cores were abducted.
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"Currently, there’s too little information. The truth cannot be confirmed yet."
"If the scope of the ’Return Curse’ is limited only to the original power of the Immortal World, although it’s a True Immortal Seal, it has limited effect on me," Li Fan couldn’t help but shake his head slightly.
"However, since the ’Return Curse’ can impact an Immortal Instrument..."
"I wonder if it works on the TianXuan Mirror?"
Even if it doesn’t cause substantial damage to the TianXuan Mirror, if it can cause it to malfunction for a period, it could play a significant role at a critical moment.
It is known that the current system of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, especially the defense measures at the Immortal Alliance Headquarters, are all closely related to the TianXuan Mirror.
Once the TianXuan Mirror malfunctions, the impregnable defenses of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals would suddenly become full of holes.
The original Li Fan, possessing the essence of the TianXuan Mirror, may not find it very significant.
But for the Saint Emperor Li Ping, it’s entirely different.
The ability to instantly turn the tide of battle, a power comparable to dozens united in the Unity-Path!
After passing the content of the ’Return Curse’ to Saint Emperor Li Ping through a faint intuition in the cosmos.
The split consciousness in the Ashen Small World began its next actions.
The ’Return Curse’ was an unexpected gain.
His purpose for coming here was still to verify his previous suspicions.
"From here to there, the Xuanhuang World should also possess Realm Defensive Arrays."
"And those Realm Defensive Arrays, left by the Immortal World, only exist in the Original Xuanhuang World," he casually set up an Array Technique, sealing the Ashen Small World to prevent anyone from accidentally entering and encountering the ’Return Curse’. Li Fan’s split consciousness took the Immeasurable Mirror and returned to the Xuanhuang World.
He arrived at the location of the Central Four States of the Immortal Alliance.
In his Spirit Consciousness, miniaturized images of the Xuanhuang World appeared, just the shadows of the Original Xuanhuang.
A series of horizontal and vertical lines appeared on the model, those were the Realm Defensive Arrays deduced by Li Fan.
Even with some slight error, he could roughly pinpoint their location.
Then, using the power of the Immeasurable Mirror, and spending some time, he could find the hidden core central area of the Realm Defensive Arrays in the Xuanhuang World.
The only concern was, making too much noise.
