NOVPUB"How could one save the Xuanhuang World?"
The Saint Emperor shook his head slightly, his figure flickering.
Before long, he had already arrived atop Taixu Mountain.
However, the secrets he discovered here deviated somewhat from his expectations.
Beneath Taixu Mountain, in a deep valley.
Li Ping uncovered an underground secret chamber buried beneath silt.
The aura seeping from the chamber made him, an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, feel distinctly uncomfortable.
What concerned him more was that Kitty Treasure, which had been asleep on his shoulder, suddenly woke up, looking around vigilantly.
As if it had found some delicious food, Li Ping could sense an extreme excitement emanating from it.
But after locking onto the target, Kitty Treasure suddenly lost all enthusiasm, as if it were a deflated balloon, and lazily fell back to sleep.
However, Li Ping’s attention never strayed from the target.
"What is this..."
A statue.
Like him, it was faceless.
Though it seemed commonplace, devoid of any spiritual power fluctuations.
But Li Ping felt an unprecedented pressure from the stone statue.
Even during his previous encounter in the Abyss Star Ocean, facing the remnants of the catastrophe there, he had not felt this way.
The faceless statue seemed to have some kind of magical power.
Li Ping took slow steps, gradually approaching it.
Two empty faceless visages stood facing each other across the void.
For some reason, Li Ping suddenly felt an urge in his heart.
He wanted to communicate with the statue.
...
Inside the Yan Fajue space.
Li Fan’s breath hitched slightly.
The images he could sense from the Saint Emperor’s avatar were now extremely blurry.
But after the Saint Emperor serendipitously discovered the Faceless True Immortal Statue buried beneath Taixu Mountain,
Influenced by the instinctual sense of lethal danger, the connection became clear once again.
Li Fan closed his eyes and focused, trying to alter the avatar’s intention.
Although he could escape from the True Immortal’s Net once, he could escape a second time.
But it would be troublesome to fully break free only after many cycles of reincarnation. It would be better to avoid it if possible.
However, the will of the Saint Emperor was unexpectedly firm.
Perhaps he sensed something within the same void of faces.
He still walked slowly towards the Faceless True Immortal Statue.
Standing in front of the stone statue, motionless.
At that moment, even though the Saint Emperor was his avatar, Li Fan couldn’t quite figure out what the Saint Emperor was thinking.
"So this is the Mysterious Heavenly Immortal."
After a long while, Li Ping found the origin of the statue in the records of the Tablet of Creation.
The Faceless True Immortal worshipped by the Mystic Sky Sect.
Li Ping touched his own empty face, his aura fluctuating.
"Interesting."
Li Ping couldn’t determine if there really was a connection between him and this Faceless True Immortal.
But he faintly felt that the statue was extraordinary.
He was very cautious and chose not to touch it himself.
Li Ping summoned the most ordinary of the Sacred Army Puppets to move the statue to the dark void outside the Da Qi Miniature World.
He set up layer upon layer of array techniques and sealed the statue.
Only when the sense of crisis in his heart gradually faded did he stop.
He was so careful because, after contact with the statue during this time, he had confirmed a familiar sensation.
And this familiarity stemmed not just from the strange similarity that the statue, like himself, was faceless.
More so, it came from an image.
Himself, in the Central Star Sea, sensing from the huge intention at the origin of the Star Sea.
"What has this to do with me! What has it to do with me!"
The body that gradually faded within that wanton laughter.
Strikingly similar to the feeling he got from this statue.
"Is it the same person? Or is it not?"
Li Ping simply couldn’t confirm it from the fleeting glimpses he had seen.
"If I get the chance to go to the Central Star Sea again."
"If that grand intention of the Star Sea personally judges it, then I should be able to clear things up."
Such a thought flashed through Li Ping’s mind.
"Perhaps, I could try again. However, the reserves of the Kongming Flow Crystals have almost been depleted in the last action, and moreover..."
Li Fan looked again at the faceless statue in the Void, sealed with dense arrays.
Though eyeless, it seemed to be watching him.
"If the original culprit was indeed this Faceless True Immortal, implicated by the raging intention of the Star Sea, I’m afraid that even if a puppet body went there, my main body here would be impacted."
"Compared to the entire Abyss Star Ocean, the Xuanhuang World is really no more than a drop in the Vast Ocean..."
Li Ping’s vision was suddenly filled with an image of the Xuanhuang World being torn apart instantly by violent energy.
He couldn’t help but suppress his previous thought.
After a long silence, the figure of the Saint Emperor disappeared. When he appeared again, he placed another object next to the Faceless True Immortal Statue.
It was none other than the Ancestral Temple’s Relic he had collected from under the Fuguangzhou Great Rift Valley.
The relic appeared ordinary, but the Great Magician’s Relics within it, and the hidden Obliteration Storm Calamity, necessitated that the Saint Emperor handle them with utmost caution.
The Ancestral Temple’s Relic and the Faceless True Immortal Statue stood facing each other across the void.
A premonition flashed through Li Ping’s heart.
If there were no array seals between them to block...
A terrifying catastrophe might erupt on the spot.
"Immortal..."
The deranged laughter of "What has it to do with me?" faintly echoed in Li Ping’s ears.
He snorted coldly in his heart and cast thousands more array techniques.
Strengthening the prisoners’ cages.
These unstable elements buried in the Xuanhuang World, he wouldn’t feel at ease placing them anywhere else. Only with his personal guard were they truly secure.
