NOVPUBEven when his spiritual consciousness reached out to explore the surroundings, what he sensed was emptiness alone.
Day after day, soaking in the lingering aura left by the Celestial Dharma Bearer, the bodies and divine souls of the thirty-three chosen immortals slowly began to transform.
In the darkness, the passage of years was unknown.
When they all finally emerged from their confinement, their demeanors, actions, and even their gazes had become strikingly similar.
...
At this moment, a flash of insight crossed Li Fan’s spirit consciousness.
He finally remembered where the sense of familiarity with that middle-aged cultivator came from.
The chill in those eyes was nearly identical to that of the First Weaver!
"Just like these chosen immortals, although they are not the same person. However, due to some reason, they have shared experiences. Thus, they started to become similar..."
"No wonder I could never find another person with the same face."
"The First Weaver, as well as that middle-aged cultivator. And those black-clothed cultivators who seemed to emerge from an era, as well as that ’Wu’, they all share a faint difference. How many secrets is the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals hiding?"
Countless thoughts flashed through Li Fan’s mind, as he continued to examine Wei Qizheng’s subsequent encounters.
...
After the second lesson ended, the final training commenced.
The thirty-three chosen immortals were led to different state regions.
In a special space, they sensed the residual thoughts hidden within the Sky Sovereign Statues.
With the training they had received earlier, this task became much easier.
Of course, that is relative.
In the sealed space, there was only one thing they could do.
Even within it, there was a certain power that guided the mind, preventing them from thinking of anything else.
They did nothing but sense day and night, hoping to achieve synchronization as soon as possible.
It must be said that at this point, the thirty-three chosen immortals were indeed nearly indistinguishable from one another.
Almost uniformly, they completed the initial contact with the Heavenly Venerate’s Legacy within the same period, not differing by more than two days.
All thirty-three of them had completed the preliminary sensing of the Heavenly Venerate’s Legacy.
Then, connected by a pure beam of light, even though they were located in different places within the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals,
their consciousnesses were interconnected.
It was an extremely wondrous experience.
The thirty-three people were as one entity, able to communicate instantly without words.
A single thought was worth a thousand words.
And the tacit understanding formed over a long time resulted in a very uniform collective thought, with hardly any fluctuations.
...
"Hmm?" Li Fan’s train of thought was interrupted once more.
"What’s going on, this pure beam of light..."
"Why does it have a hint of Sister Zhao’s Unity of Thousands?"
A flicker of puzzlement crossed Li Fan’s eyes.
As someone who knew the Immortal Sovereign very well, Li Fan had personally experienced Sister Zhao’s unique trait of Unity of Thousands not just once.
After scrutinizing the scene where the pure beam of light appeared dozens of times, Li Fan finally noticed some clues.
The thirty-three chosen immortals’ perfect unity of mind could not accommodate any other presence.
"Is it the application of pure law forces, not another One-Heart Emperor. Has Sister Zhao’s power been stolen?" Li Fan frowned slightly.
"Does the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals possess such abilities?"
And then, just as Li Fan had guessed,
as the chosen immortals’ thoughts began to blend, the pure beam of light also gradually vanished.
Eventually, even without external aid,
these thirty-three could still achieve mental synchronization.
After thousands of attempts, they finally managed the first activation of the massive power left by the Celestial Dharma Bearer.
Because the profound impact of the middle-aged cultivator’s phrase, "Glimpse of Heavenly Venerate, could match a blow of the Immortal Realm," had been far too immense,
the thirty-three chosen immortals unanimously decided that the first appearance of the Heavenly Venerable Law Phases would be "Opening Eyes to Flatten Nine Mountains."
After their first success, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals finally allowed them some rest.
However, this so-called rest was merely a bit of free time.
They were still confined to that special space, forbidden from leaving.
After a brief respite, what followed was attempt after attempt.
They were becoming more adept, and the power of the Heavenly Sovereign they summoned grew increasingly vast.
Until this day...
When the Heavenly Venerable Law Phases, gripping the net woven from the Sky Petrol Arrows, were thrown toward the territory of the Five Elders Organization.
It finally drew the intervention of the Immortal Sovereign of the Five Elders Organization.
According to the plan, the thirty-three Chosen Immortals instantly detonated their Law Phases, unleashing their power to the maximum in an instant.
They attempted to hinder the five Heavenly Sovereigns, causing the net to land.
And indeed, they managed to do so.
Although they were somewhat weary, a sense of pride couldn’t help but surge within them.
To clash head-on with the five strongest Heavenly Sovereigns in the Xuanhuang World without being at the Unity Realm!
What an honor it was!
However, they didn’t have time to feel joy.
Another command was issued once more.
"Continue to evolve the Law Phases!"
All thirty-three shook in their hearts.
Even now, for them, invoking the Law Phases of the Celestial Dharma Bearer was not an easy task.
It extremely exhausted the Spirit Consciousness, and they needed to recover for a while afterward.
But this inexplicable voice seemed to possess a kind of magic power.
It made the thirty-three Chosen Immortals unable to defy it.
All of them unconsciously began to do as they were told.
Thus, another Law Phase emerged.
Before they could rest, that cold and merciless voice resonated once more.
"Continue!"
The thirty-three Chosen Immortals were starting to sense that something was amiss.
If this continued, they feared that they would all die from overexertion!
However, they couldn’t defy the command of that voice.
Command after command.
In the end, five Heavenly Venerable Law Phases appeared between heaven and earth.
And because they had been drained of a vast amount of their essence and divine souls in such a short time, these thirty-three Chosen Immortals also reached the end of their lives.
"Why?"
"Aren’t we the hope for the revival of the Immortal Alliance?"
"Aren’t we heroes?"
In the last moments of their lives, their minds were filled with confusion and resentment.
Yet, as their consciousness fell completely into darkness,
from beginning to end, not a single person came forward to explain to them.
Not even with a single word.
And there was not even any mockery.
...
"People always say I, Master Li, am a grand villain."
"I used to think of myself that way, too."
"But today, I’ve realized..."
"Compared to the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, I still have much to learn."
After viewing the entirety of Wei Qizheng’s experience, Li Fan couldn’t help but sigh.
Back to the present.
Due to the standoff between the five Law-Phases and the Five Celestial Venerables, tremors in the Xuanhuang World were still intensifying.
And it seemed for a moment that the battlefield had come to a standstill.
Five Radiance beams were entangled with the Heavenly Venerable Law Phases at one spot.
The Law Phases summoned using the life essence of the thirty-three Chosen Immortals were much stronger than the ones that had appeared before.
Facing the siege of the five Heavenly Sovereigns, their bodies shattered but remained unscattered.
Until the Sky Petrol Arrow Net finally landed on the territory of the Five Elders Organization
The scene in the Tianxuan Mirror began to change once again.
