NOVPUBThere’s no denying that at this moment, Yan Fangzhou looked as if he had truly lost his wits.
Even the cunning Li Fan, for a moment, couldn’t tell whether he was faking it or not.
"But it doesn’t matter, a try will reveal the truth."
With a thought, thousands of ferocious and terrifying ghosts suddenly descended within the array.
Darkness enveloped the entire space.
All the deformed monsters were now uniformly staring at Yan Fangzhou.
Each of them revealed a chilling demeanor before they pounced toward Yan Fangzhou.
For a moment, the sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling echoed throughout.
In the midst of thousands of ghosts, the previously motionless Yan Fangzhou suddenly leaped up.
His eyes blood-red, he shivered uncontrollably as he faced the countless ghostly creatures surrounding him.
But as the ghosts were about to close in on him, Yan Fangzhou gritted his teeth and bellowed in desperation, "I’ll fight you all!"
Then, he summoned the last bit of his cultivation base and fiercely fought against the ghosts.
"Not bad, you’re quite the actor. You almost had me fooled."
Li Fan rare praised him.
But at his signal, the ferocious ghosts intensified their attacks.
Since they were all created from divine sense, every attack that hit Yan Fangzhou not only caused physical harm and pain but also inflicted corresponding agony on his divine soul.
The ghosts seemed to be toying with him and did not shred Yan Fangzhou to pieces right away.
Instead, with each attack, it was as if they tore off a tiny piece from his divine soul.
The damage wasn’t fatal, but the torment was amplified a thousandfold.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Yan Fangzhou let out an impotent, desperate roar, eventually overwhelmed by the multitude of ghosts.
"When Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a man, it first strains his mind and body..."
"Kid, I have high hopes for you."
Li Fan nodded in satisfaction.
He flickered away from the place, leaving only the myriad ghosts to keep Yan Fangzhou company in his training.
Back in the cultivation secret room, Li Fan pondered privately, "Now that my techniques are initially established, my presence is sufficient to impersonate the Law King Sun Xingwang of the past."
"Appearances and memories, these can be concealed with the help of the ’Sitting Forget Sutra’."
"With everything ready, all we wait for is Mo Rubing to reach out to us."
"I wonder how He Zhenghao is doing..."
Soon, with the help of the faceless stone statue, numerous scenes appeared in Li Fan’s mind.
He Zhenghao had been praying less frequently lately.
It wasn’t that his faith in the Crimson Compassionate Immortal had weakened but rather he had been too busy recently.
Even before he could form a silent prayer of gratitude in his heart, he would be interrupted by pressing matters.
The so-called "pressing matters" involved the full implementation of [Xuan Tian Soul Seal].
Following Li Fan’s guidance, He Zhenghao had totally mastered the complete set of array diagrams for the Xuan Tian Soul Seal, as well as the understanding of the array.
After an audit, the Strategic Formation Hall of All Immortal Alliance also recognized the feasibility of the Xuan Tian Soul Seal.
The decision was swift, starkly different from the usual procrastination.
The approval from the higher-ups had passed quickly and the mission was issued: to construct the real Xuan Tian Sealing Spirit Formation as soon as possible.
At the same time, the Immortal Alliance Headquarters would provide a Tianxuan mirror physique as the subject for testing the array’s power.
This experiment was almost the highest secret of the Immortal Alliance.
He Zhenghao had been transferred from the Headquarter of Array Strategy Hall to another unknown location.
It was obviously a highly confidential place with many defensive measures, and even the sensing images of the faceless stone statue were somewhat blurred.
But after all, His level of power was higher than that of the Xuanhuang World.
So the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals couldn’t completely block Li Fan’s scrutiny.
Knowing and understanding an Array Diagram is an entirely different concept from being able to independently construct an Array.
He Zhenghao, who was theoretically eloquent, encountered unimaginable difficulties when it came to actual practice.
However, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals was also aware of the difficulty in creating such an Array, and dispatched six equally talented Array Masters to assist.
Together they explored and discussed.
Even Lu Qixian, the head of the Array Strategy Hall, would often come to inquire about the latest progress of the Array.
This certainly put immense pressure on He Zhenghao, but at the same time he felt a surging excitement in his heart.
Without pleading to the Crimson Compassionate Immortal, he managed to push his natural talent in Arrays to the extreme and successfully created the preliminary Xuantian Sealing Spirit Formation.
A faint light shot out, directly hitting an ancient small mirror in front of it.
From the mirror itself, waves emitted instinctively, as if to resist the erosion of the faint light.
The two competed against each other for a moment, but in the end, the ancient small mirror emerged victorious.
A look of disappointment inevitably filled He Zhenghao’s face.
The pent-up urge to prove himself did not come to fruition and he fainted on the spot.
This caused a flurry of chaos among the Cultivators present.
Although the first experiment had failed, the Immortal Alliance did not blame him.
On the contrary, they offered comforting words.
They even made a promise that if he truly succeeded in developing the Tianxuan Sealing Spirit Formation, the Immortal Alliance Headquarters would intervene to speak on behalf of He Zhenghao.
They would reconcile him with Heng Ruoshui.
Upon hearing this, He Zhenghao, who had seemed barely alive a moment ago,
suddenly sprang to his feet the next second, ready to conduct the next experiment immediately.
He Zhenghao knew that although the Heng family was powerful, they were insignificant in front of the entire Alliance of Thousands of Immortals.
If the Immortal Alliance Headquarters intervened, the Heng family elders would have no reason to hinder their marriage.
Imagining the glorious scene of his return to the Heng family, He Zhenghao became extremely motivated.
Forgetting all fatigue and hardship.
This scene made Li Fan shake his head repeatedly.
"Since even He Zhenghao’s past records have been thoroughly investigated, it’s inevitable that his skyrocketing status after joining the Misthaven Cooperative Union can’t be concealed either,"
"It’s just a matter of time before Morubin comes knocking on the door."
A glint flickered in Li Fan’s eyes.
But waiting passively was never Li Fan’s style.
He decided to take the initiative and do something to attract Morubin’s attention.
As his figure flickered, Li Fan left the Spirit Tree Realm.
After swiftly escaping for half a day, he arrived in Jiushan Province on the border.
At this moment, Jiushan Province was no longer the open and empty plain it once was.
Since the Five Elders Organization had proactively apologized, Jiushan Province had returned to the rule of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals.
Furthermore, as the place where the Heavenly Venerable Law Phases first showed their might, it attracted many Cultivators from the Immortal Alliance to observe.
Some Cultivators even attempted to comprehend and derive the Divine Techniques of the Heavenly Venerable Law Phases from this location.
With the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals already having an absolute strategic advantage, there were no immediate troubles of invasion from the Five Elders Organization for a while.
Thus, what was once the barren frontier became quite lively.
The construction of the new Floating Sky City was not yet complete; most Cultivators were resting within a defensive fortress on the ground.
Discussing the previous war with the Five Elders Organization, the Cultivators were still extremely excited.
