NOVPUBAnd Immeasurable Mirror Sun Luoyao appeared to be too shocked to react, just staring blankly as Li Fan’s split soul rapidly weakened without any warning.
Li Fan’s split soul was on the verge of completely dissipating due to aging, but a mysterious vitality suddenly emerged from its core.
Death’s intent faded away, and like a withered tree meeting spring, even the lingering aura of the Xuanhuang World Defense Array could not shake that previously fragile soul that was like a candle in the wind.
Such a sudden change left Immeasurable Mirror Sun Luoyao dumbstruck.
"Pre... Predecessor!"
Li Fan was now able to move and speak on his own in the Great Array’s aura, he glanced at Sun Luoyao and slightly smiled, "Why, do you want to learn?"
"This is named Life and Death Mysterious Skill. Reversing life and death, neither life nor death."
Sun Luoyao shuddered with fear and dared not speak.
After hesitating for a long time, he slowly said, "Predecessor’s divine might is beyond junior’s imagination..."
Li Fan was not inclined to settle with him at the moment, focusing all his attention on studying the Xuanhuang Original World Defense Array.
Looking from the part of the Array Structure that had been observed so far, the scale of the Original World Defense Array was unexpectedly large.
If these details that had been discovered were scaled up proportionally to the model derived by the Final Separation Disk, theoretically, the range of the Original World Defense Array would be dozens of times larger than the original Xuanhuang World!
This completely defied common sense!
"Where did it go wrong?"
Li Fan paused briefly, and after a short pondering, he continued to activate the Immeasurable Mirror, reflecting the remaining Array Structures.
As the data for the actual Original World Defense Array was gradually completed, and some pivotal Array nodes appeared, Li Fan modified the derived Array model.
He understood why the theory and reality did not align.
The previous derivations only considered the Realm Defensive Array as a large Array covering the Xuanhuang World, but in reality, this Original Great Array, at the same location, slightly altered its form and folded several times!
Layer by layer folding inward, the transformations and compressions formed the true Xuanhuang Guardian Array!
"Simply stacking them has multiplied the potential of the Array Technique several times. Also, if the folded Array is deployed, it can instantly unleash the power up to the maximum potential that it could normally achieve."
"More importantly, if the Xuanhuang World itself were to expand its territories, the Guardian Array could also perfectly expand through this unfolding method to new territories. Even if it loses contact with the Immortal World temporarily, as long as the control over the Original World Defense Array is held, it can always maintain a perfect state of the Array."
The power of the Final Separation Disk within his original body was released to its limit, aiding the deep understanding of the Original World Defense Array by the split soul in the depths of Xuanhuang.
Adding to that the faint illuminating ability of the Immeasurable Mirror, which inherently had some deciphering function, enabled Li Fan to smoothly and gradually transform the Array remnants into his own knowledge.
During the study, Li Fan found that the Original Great Array frequently employed the technique of Array folding.
Any seemingly simple Array Structure might potentially conceal thousands or even tens of thousands of extremely complex Array units.
To ensure no details were missed which could cause the deciphering to fail, Li Fan had to slow down his pace of breaking through the Array.
Not overlooking any detail, he thoroughly reflected all of them with the Immeasurable Mirror, much to Sun Luoyao’s suffering.
Though he had grown accustomed to being exhausted to the brink, such high intensity work still made him miserably tired.
However, since he had just made a mistake, Sun Luoyao felt guilty and could only grit his teeth and endure.
While Li Fan did not intend to disassemble the Immeasurable Mirror before fully deciphering the Original World Defense Array, he would still precisely save Sun Luyuan from collapse using the Essence of Source Power, just in time.
Time slowly passed, and most of the Array deciphering had been completed.
They came to the area outside the Central Core Area.
But at this moment, Li Fan voluntarily stopped the exploration. The remaining Essence of Source Power was sufficient to complete the final tasks of the Immeasurable Mirror. However, near this core hub area, Li Fan faintly sensed an impending crisis.
After careful reflection, Li Fan confirmed that this premonition of crisis did not originate from the Original Great Array itself, but from elsewhere.
"Is there a Forbidden Formation here?"
Li Fan narrowed his eyes.
"Sun Luoyao!" he commanded expertly.
Sun Luoyao responded and, reviving his extremely fatigued spirit, seriously rechecked the surroundings once more.
"Senior, aside from the Array Technique relics, there is nothing unusual!" After completing the investigation, Sun Luyao reported eagerly.
Li Fan pondered for a moment and said, "Check again!"
This time, Li Fan personally guided the ghostly glow of the Immeasurable Mirror to survey the space outside the core of the Primordial Array Technique, using the method of "folding" to re-inspect.
As expected! He discovered a ring of alarms, Forbidden Formation that had been folded numerous times, completely hiding its traces in a normal state!
The aura of the Forbidden Formation was equally ancient.
However, compared to the Primordial Array Technique relics, it seemed somewhat superficially strong but internally weak. It had already been deciphered, its core power was gone, leaving behind only an empty shell.
But it was this empty shell that still brought Li Fan a deadly premonition of crisis.
"It must be from the same origin as the Xuan Huang Original World Defense Array, crafted by the Upper World." Without taking any rash action and after a careful investigation, Li Fan concluded.
"If the Forbidden Formation were intact, even with the heritage of more than ten generations in Xuan Huang World, I would probably be helpless against it. Fortunately, such a terrifying Immortal Forbidden Formation has been broken by the predecessors!"
Li Fan found the loophole in the Forbidden Formation.
For caution’s sake, he dispatched a part of his Divine Soul to test. Having confirmed it was not a trap, he then proceeded with the Immeasurable Mirror through the loophole to enter the Central Core Area.
After a brief darkness.
When the light shone again, what appeared before Li Fan was not the empty nothingness.
But a strange device.
Made up of countless concentric circles of varying sizes. They shared the same core, yet the rings were distributed in different directions.
Describing them as countless was not an exaggerated or unrealistic statement.
Rather, the number of rings making up this bizarre device truly couldn’t be counted by Divine Sense or eyes.
Although it had lost its power source and was motionless, it still seemed to be constantly changing its number of rings.
Focusing on this device, the world before his eyes seemed to split into additional branches.
"It’s not an illusion."
"Is my existence being weakened?"
Alarms blared in the mind of Li Fan’s split soul. Not just this split soul, but also his original self hidden within the space of the Immortal Alliance Yan Fajue, felt an almost tangible, terrifying pressure of crisis.
Li Fan’s split soul wisely abandoned the investigation of the strange ring device in an instant.
The division and the sense of crisis disappeared at once.
Li Fan tried to recall the appearance of the ring device in his sea of consciousness.
He found that although he could reconstruct it, the number of rings in the device was fixed. Moreover, they did not match the actual device he had seen earlier, displaying a very noticeable yet indescribable difference.
What disturbed Li Fan even more was that each time he recalled, the number of rings in the device appeared different.
Yet his intuition told him that each recollection was correct.
This eerie scene made Li Fan think of the quantum superposition state he had once heard about before crossing over.
"This ring device, it seems, is also a relic from the Immortal World."
Li Fan tried a different approach, focusing not on the ring device itself but on the parts that were missing from the device.
It was obvious; something in those rings was missing.
It wasn’t just Li Fan’s conjecture, but the surrounding space, with its mural-like existence, had already depicted what this bizarre device was supposed to look like.
Infinite ring device patterns made up the entire mural. Similarly, the number of rings in these devices in the painting was also all different.
However, all the devices had one thing in common.
That was a bead floating in the center of the rings.
A red bead that seemed to be engraved with the pattern of nine stars.
