NOVPUBAfter casually eliminating Sun Luyao, Li Fan’s split spirit still stood silently in the Mysterious Space, his face stern as he pondered in silence.
"Real, Real, Real..." he repeated in his mind.
The surroundings became blurry and dimmed.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it brightened up again.
"Turning the True to False, the False becomes True."
Seven characters emanating calm, as if eternally existing in light, appeared in front of Li Fan.
This was the phrase that appeared every time he activated [Real]. He is very familiar with it after hundreds of cycles of Reincarnation.
But now, discovering the deepest secret of the Xuanhuang Original World Defense Array, these seven characters held a completely different meaning in Li Fan’s eyes.
"False and True, False and True..."
After a long while, Li Fan let out a sinister and low chuckle once again.
Undeniably, the tip of the iceberg revealed by the Primordial World Defense Array showed Li Fan a certain possibility.
It’s a possibility chilling to contemplate, hard to accept.
"Real and false."
"Who is real, and who is false?"
"Yes, none of this really matters. As long as I’m always in control of the only button, I am the True!"
"I am the Only One!"
The madness in Li Fan’s eyes gradually faded, and his pupils slowly regained their vitality from pitch black.
As if he had returned to the Grand Preceptor Li Fan of the Court, the one who once had supreme control.
When the very foundation of the world’s reality is shaken, teetering on the edge.
When the line between reality and illusion cannot be distinguished, cannot be verified.
The only thing to do is to tightly grasp onto that unchanging anchor.
[Real] might inherently transcend the arrangements of the Immortal World for the Lower Realm, but it might as well be a part of the apparatus left by the Immortal World.
For Li Fan at present, it’s an existence that can’t be verified.
Even though he once tried to guide the variables beyond the Abyss Star Ocean to determine the specific range of influence of Real.
But now, thinking back, the additional variables outside the high wall might have been deliberately shown for the reorganized world following Real to see.
The truth is hard to discern.
But...
Regardless of whether he actually fell into such a situation, what made Li Fan extremely relieved was that the button for [Restart], amid the endless variables and change, was always in his possession, unchanging.
Therefore, to unlock the answer to the puzzle, what needs to be done is still no different from what Li Fan had been tirelessly pursuing before—longevity and Xiaoyao.
Restarting time after time, using the Xuanhuang World, the Sea of Obscured Stars, and even the infinite variables born beyond the Star Sea to nourish himself.
To achieve Transcendence.
If he finds an existence that could contend with him for the button, then he would kill it.
Once he finds the ultimate of everything, the answer will reveal itself.
Now, for Li Fan, aside from the Law Transmission and Celestial Doctor, there was one more blocking his path.
One even more threatening and difficult to ignore, an unknown existence that urgently needed to be resolved.
That was the mysterious person who had stolen one of the Array Hubs of the Xuanhuang Original World Defense Array, the Nine-star Red Beads.
"Within the Nine-star Red Beads should be recorded all the characteristics of Xuanhuang creatures prior to the destruction of the Realm Defensive Array. With the Red Beads in hand, it shouldn’t be difficult to deduce the same conclusions as mine."
"With such a huge disparity in strength, before finding a way to counter it, the wise move is to first hide."
"Or perhaps, once he is certain of the true collapse of the Immortal World, with the artifact in hand, unprecedented ambitions are bound to arise, and he may be secretly crafting other schemes."
Li Fan’s gaze swept over the empty Array Hub of the Array Technique.
"Perhaps, some clues can be glimpsed from the other Array Hubs of the Primordial Array."
But now, with the Infinite Mirror Spirit destroyed, the ability to continue the investigation is beyond reach.
We’ll have to wait until the next life.
Li Fan’s split sighed softly, his figure turning into a dark line, leaving the underground.
...
Sun Family Secret Chamber.
A sudden surge of inexplicable sorrow, tears unknowingly falling, Sun Luyuan, who rushed back from the outside world without care and burst into the underground room, saw the familiar Immeasurable Mirror floating quietly in front of him and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Little brother?"
Sun Luyuan called out softly.
The figure of Sun Luyao immediately emerged from the Immeasurable Mirror, "Brother, you were looking for me?"
"What’s wrong?" Sun Luyao asked with some curiosity.
Sun Luyuan’s mind suddenly became dazed.
For some reason, although the image in front of him was exactly the same as in his memory, there was always a feeling of extreme strangeness.
Sun Luyuan was stunned for a long time.
After a while, he said blankly, "Nothing. Maybe I’ve been too tired recently, a bit paranoid."
Sun Luyao showed a look of concern, "Brother, you should take care of yourself. The future of the Sun Family still depends on you."
Sun Luyuan smiled.
After carefully giving a few instructions, he left the Underground Secret Chamber.
What Sun Luyuan didn’t know was that Sun Luyao did not, as he had always been doing before: watching the direction in which his big brother disappeared, sending him off.
Instead, the expression on his face flickered and vanished instantaneously, and then he teleported into the Immeasurable Mirror without any attachment.
In the very moment of the real Sun Luyao’s death, the strand of Divine Sense he had left behind was also cut off from its source.
It was merged into the counterfeit Immeasurable Mirror, becoming an existence that could only mechanically respond.
Even though the mechanical responses were somewhat convincing, they still weren’t real life.
It wasn’t the real Sun Luyao.
Not long after, Li Fan’s Split returned with an empty shell of the Immeasurable Mirror.
"Without the Artifact Spirit, then I’ll create it myself."
Li Fan called out the remnant will left by Sun Luyao, closely observed it, and then made a resolute decision.
Within this strand of Divine Sense, there dwelled the complete memories of Sun Luyuan’s life.
His personality, his way of thinking.
In theory, it was entirely possible to "resurrect" him.
"Although I don’t have treasures like the Indefinite Copper Ring or the Nine-star Red Beads at hand."
"But I don’t need to consider the body. Just a true reenactment of a strand of Divine Sense, in practice, makes it much easier."
Remembering the many details of Array Techniques, under the continuous extrapolation of the Final Separation Disk, a part of a simplified version of the Xuanhuang Original World Defense Array began to take shape.
"Imitation, Various forms of life."
"This name is quite good."
Li Fan, following the naming convention of the three Immortal Level Formations he already mastered, named the Array Technique.
Then he attempted to "create", "resurrect" Sun Luyao.
For safety’s sake, Li Fan first split Sun Luyao’s lingering intent into several parts for preservation.
Then he took one of them and placed it into the simplified Simulated Array.
An extraordinarily mysterious aura began to emanate from the Array Technique.
As the Array Technique slowly operated, Sun Luyao’s figure reappeared within a pearly white light.
The eyes held a bit more spirit, and his communication with Li Fan was very smooth.
Within a few breaths, they had exchanged divine senses millions of times, never once revealing any flaw that shouldn’t be there.
But Li Fan still shook his head slightly, dissatisfied, and destroyed it.
"It’s too real. So much so that it feels fake." n𝚘𝚟pub.𝚌o𝚖
