NOVPUBLi Fan’s aura rapidly diminished.
However, his voice was incredibly loud, instantly spreading throughout Ningyuan City.
Song Hesong stared wide-eyed at the scene before him, his mind going blank as he couldn’t seem to react in time.
Li Fan’s figure quickly flew towards Zhang Qianmo, while he didn’t forget to toss the Jade Box containing three Longevity Fruits in the opposite direction.
Song Hesong hesitated for a moment but ultimately chose to catch the Jade Box first.
Thus, Li Fan gained some time to catch his breath.
"Junior brother?!" Zhang Qianmo sensed the events unfolding on Li Fan’s side and with a loud shout, arrived beside Li Fan as fast as Purple Electric.
"Attack!" Although he did not know why Song Hesong had chosen to make the first move, the situation had escalated to the point of no return.
Chu Liang and the other three Cultivators from the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals lying in ambush within the city showed themselves at once.
After catching the Longevity Fruits, Song Hesong also slowly flew over.
The five of them had grim expressions, encircling both Zhang Qianmo and the seemingly comatose Li Fan in the center.
The other four kept a close watch on Zhang Qianmo; only Song Hesong looked at Li Fan with a trace of doubt flickering in his eyes.
"Brother Zhang! Long time no see!" Chu Liang said with a cold sneer.
"Brother? Do I know you?" Zhang Qianmo swept his gaze over the man, his tone laced with a hint of murderous intent.
Chu Liang stumbled over his words, then flew into a rage.
What followed was not much different from what Li Fan had experienced before.
However, this time, Zhang Qianmo revealed his Purple Elixir in advance in order to protect his heavily injured "junior brother" against the joint attack of the others.
Facing the assault of five people, Brother Zhang easily overpowered them, crushing them with overwhelming force.
He then stopped caring about those insignificant characters and, carrying the still unconscious Li Fan, quickly returned to the Violet Firmament Sect.
Amidst the noise, Li Fan soon felt someone treating his wounds.
To make the act more convincing, the self-injury he had inflicted earlier was quite severe.
Fortunately, it was not beyond the help of medicine.
After slowly recuperating, his injury finally stabilized, and his life was no longer in danger.
However, under Li Fan’s deliberate control, he remained in an unwaking state.
At first, many people came to visit.
But as time passed, and with no sign of Li Fan waking up, the visits dwindled.
Gradually, only Zhang Qianmo occasionally came to check on him.
Li Fan’s room grew cold and silent.
Thus, six months later.
One night, a ghostly figure stealthily approached Li Fan’s bedside.
In the veil of the night, the figure’s features were indiscernible.
Yet, staring at the sleeping Li Fan, a sinister smile emerged.
Suddenly, a faint line appeared between him and Li Fan.
The scenery twisted, and the room was divided in two along the line.
It became two completely opposite mirror worlds.
The indistinct figure also seemed to be grievously injured, lying quietly on the bed.
As the dividing line emitted light that flickered on and off, the two mirror worlds gradually approached and fused together.
When the two figures completely merged as one,
the dividing line vanished without a trace.
In the dark little room, tranquility was restored.
Yet, within the Spirit Consciousness of the body on the bed, tumultuous changes akin to raging waves took place.
"What’s happening? This Li Chen’s Divine Soul is an empty shell?"
After devouring the Divine Soul of the Li Chen from the Violet Firmament Sect lying on the bed, the Mystical Sky Sect King found nothing within the soul.
It was like an apple hollowed out by worms, with only the thin outer skin remaining!
The Mystical Sky Sect King felt a sense of foreboding, fearing this was a trap set by the Immortal Dao Ten Sects to capture him.
But then, his expression changed abruptly.
Because by merging with "Li Chen’s" Divine Soul, his own Spirit Consciousness seemed to have acquired some foreign objects as well.
Hidden very well.
Even he, due to the shock he had just felt, neglected the other’s presence.
Now that his mind recovered, this tiny speck naturally couldn’t escape his mystical sight.
"Courting death!"
Discovering that the other party was actually spying on the memories within his spirit consciousness, the Law King of Mystic Sky Sect became even more furiously enraged.
Divine sense thundered, instantly grinding that speck into fragments.
...
"Uh..."
Li Fan, returning to reality from the Fallen Immortal Realm, let out a muffled groan.
It seemed that due to this encounter in the Fallen Immortal Realm, his divine soul had sustained no small injury.
The Infinite Fulfillment and Emptiness Method operated naturally, repairing the injury.
Li Fan remained immersed in the memory he had just glimpsed from the Law King of Mystic Sky Sect.
Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, it allowed him to see a massive amount of critical and shocking information.
"King of Mystic Sky, Floating Star Crossing Formation."
"And..."
"Faceless True Immortal."
A strange color burst forth in Li Fan’s eyes.
This individual, taking over Li Chen’s body, named Mo Rubing, was a member of the Cultivators Sect known as Nine Refining Observation before the creation of Mystic Sky Sect in the Ancient Xian Realm.
Later, convinced by the King of Mystic Sky, he joined the Mystic Sky Sect.
...
"Abyss Star Ocean, High Wall."
"I didn’t expect to have crossed over into such a desperate situation."
Yet there wasn’t the slightest hint of despair in Li Fan’s heart.
After learning about the wider world background, his vision also expanded in an instant.
"It seems that my previous idea of fleeing the Xuanhuang World is unattainable. To seek a line vitality, I must still base myself in the Xuanhuang World."
"Power of the True Immortal, able to jump over the High Wall, eh."
Li Fan’s gaze flickered.
Suddenly, Li Fan thought of the Supreme Treasure Fishing Pool.
He seemed to realize the possibility of a breakthrough, as his thoughts spun rapidly.
"Elder Stone Plate said that while we are fishing in the Fishing Pond, the pond is also fishing in the heavens, collecting treasures from the outside to replenish itself."
"If the information I learned from Morubin’s divine sense is true, then the starry sky where the Xuanhuang World is located, most of the Immortal Cultivation Worlds, have already been devoured by the Immortal Ruins."
"Then..."
"It’s very likely, the newest treasures collected by the Fishing Pond, come from ’beyond the High Wall’."
"This also means that the so-called High Wall isn’t completely sealed off."
"Inside and outside the High Wall, there is still contact. It’s like..."
"That statue of the Faceless True Immortal."
Now that he knew part of the truth, Li Fan’s concern about this stone statue had lessened somewhat.
It’s obvious that places like the Darkest Starry Sky, even True Immortals wouldn’t want to venture into lightly.
Thinking on the bright side, this also means that aside from that True Immortal within the Immortal Ruins, Li Fan need not worry, for the time being, about other True Immortals arriving to slap him to death.
"The Darkest Starry Sky. A forbidden land for living beings."
"But for me, it is a relatively safe place to advance."
"The premise is, I can successfully escape from this deadly place."
Having learned much of the other’s information, Li Fan’s fear regarding the one named Morubin had also diminished considerably.
He even began to scheme about how to seek some benefits from him.
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There was a bug in the last chapter; it was Li Fan’s first entry into the Fallen Immortal Realm without the presence of other replica orbs. It has been corrected.
