A Golden Core cultivator stumbling and falling while walking, carelessly breaking a leg.
A Nascent Soul cultivator flying in midair, destabilizing in their spiritual energy circulation, plunging to death on the spot.
A Soul Formation cultivator, battling someone too fiercely, suffering a sudden heart attack and dropping dead...
These were the bizarre examples that had occurred back then.
Later, this moderately sized catastrophe finally dissolved into nothingness as the bizarre energy surrounding that alien star slowly dissipated on its own.
In the present era, it had long since been forgotten by all, absent from any historical records.
Only the Crossing Adversity Sect had recorded it through their special cultivation methods.
"A power capable of affecting the entire Xuanhuang cultivation world is undoubtedly at the immortal level. It is merely a pity that the alien star was only an accidental passerby to the Xuanhuang Realm, never to appear again thereafter."
Li Fan could not help feeling a bit of regret.
Otherwise, the thought of all those cultivators he knew being forced to live like mortals sounded rather amusing.
The Crossing Adversity Sect paper figures were not recounting these past catastrophes of the Xuanhuang Realm to Li Fan out of sheer boredom.
Clearly, they had an ulterior motive.
As scenes of brutal catastrophes continually surfaced in Li Fan's mind, the disasters gradually receded, and the tormented Xuanhuang Realm was finally reborn.
In his heart, there could not help but arise a sense of relief—the fortune of having survived a calamity.
Toward the current peaceful and stable state of the Xuanhuang Realm, he felt a deeper appreciation and sentiment of hard-won peace.
Of course, these brainwashing effects quickly faded away as the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Incantation circulated.
Yet Li Fan continued to act with utmost dedication, letting an appropriately moved expression emerge on his face.
Finally, seeing their method bear fruit, the three paper figures obediently returned inside the Book of Crossing Adversity.
"The various tricks of the Crossing Adversity Sect mostly involve manipulating the human heart. The sheer malice of this sect is readily apparent."
"Pity they crossed paths with me. Hmph..."
Ever since he freed the Book of Crossing Adversity from Chuanfa's restrictions, they had clung to Li Fan like a shadow.
Lingering like ghosts, following him everywhere.
Although with Li Fan's current formation mastery he could easily seal them by force again with formations, Li Fan did not do so.
Because being pestered by these Crossing Adversity Sect paper figures was not without its perks.
Li Fan narrowed his eyes and gazed into the distance toward the Xuanhuang Realm.
Faintly, countless paper figures could be seen dotted across Xuanhuang like stars.
When he focused his will upon one of them, that paper figure inexplicably opened its eyes as well.
Through the paper figure's eyes, Li Fan could see the scene it was surveilling.
However, it was as if looking through frosted glass, not entirely clear. The sound was also intermittent.
Before long, the connection was forcibly severed.
"It seems my authority isn't high enough yet," Li Fan sneered inwardly.
The benefit of accepting the brainwashing from the Crossing Adversity Sect's paper figures was that he could gradually gain operating authority over the World-Observing Divine Eyes.
It seemed the process of identifying with the Crossing Adversity Sect's philosophy was also the process of joining and becoming a member of the sect.
Clearly, Li Fan intended only to reap the benefits without any intention of actually joining this so-called Crossing Adversity Sect.
"Only when one is strong enough can no calamity, no matter how severe, cause the slightest harm."
"What kind of ability is it to hide like a turtle pulling in its head?"
"What use is blind avoidance? Back when the Immortal of the Immortal Ruins wiped out the world with a single glance, didn't they disappear without even putting up a struggle?"
Having long known how the Crossing Adversity Sect performed when true catastrophe struck, Li Fan was thoroughly contemptuous of their philosophy, sneering at it.
Yet he did not underestimate them either.
Instead, he played his part meticulously, deceiving them completely.
While Li Fan was dealing with the Crossing Adversity Sect, the grand drama of the True Immortal remains was approaching its climax.
After tracking the remains for so long, the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals had finally cracked the pattern and manner of its appearances.
This time, they dispatched a full ten Dao Integration cultivators to intercept and encircle it, determined to capture these so-called True Immortal remains that had stirred up such a storm.
The operation was even assisted by three Dharma Transmitters.
Confronted by the encirclement of such immense power, the pitch-black puppet was clearly struggling to cope.
Ultimately, under Li Fan's command, its body dissolved, pouring the last traces of shadowy power stored within itself into the True Immortal remains.
Thus, replenished with power, the True Immortal remains vanished once again right under the watchful eyes of the Alliance's encirclement!
However, this time it did not flee very far.
The pursuing Alliance cultivators soon relocated its trail.
No longer elusive and ghostly as before, it was fleeing by means of normal flight, like ordinary cultivators.
"It seems it's finally grown tired of playing hide-and-seek!" one Dao Integration cultivator said with a hint of fury in his tone.
Anyone led around by the nose by a corpse for so long would inevitably harbor some temper.
"After it! Be careful, don't get careless!"
"Wait, look at the direction it's flying..."
"Not good, it's trying to flee into the Essence-Devouring White Mist!"
"No matter. I have a Puxian True Boat on hand. Keep pursuing!" one of the overseeing Dharma Transmitters, Wei, said coldly.
Releasing a flying boat, the group of Dao Integration cultivators boarded it and closely pursued the True Immortal remains.
Some among them were clearly not entering the white mist for the first time.
There was not the slightest ripple in their eyes; they calmly locked onto the position of the True Immortal remains ahead.
"Something is odd. Before this, it only moved around outside. Why would it suddenly lead us into the white mist?"
"Could there be a trap?"
They exchanged glances.
However, with their current combined strength, even if they ran into a Longevity realm cultivator, they could retreat unscathed.
Thus, they did not have too many reservations.
Without much hesitation, they quickly reached a consensus to keep chasing and see what tricks these True Immortal remains were playing.
In the white mist, time seemed to lose its meaning.
And the deliberate nature of the True Immortal remains' lure was glaringly obvious—as if afraid the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals behind would lose track, it would even actively slow down while flying.
It maintained a fixed distance between both sides.
Furthermore, as if intimately familiar with the white mist, the True Immortal remains shifted directions from time to time.
It clearly had a specific destination.
This eerie sight darkened the expressions of all the Alliance cultivators aboard the Puxian True Boat.
After pondering for a moment, Dharma Transmitter Wei ultimately decided to continue following to get to the bottom of it.
After all, as a Dharma Transmitter, he could not perish.
Even if these True Immortal remains harbored some plot, if it could be uncovered at the cost of a single life, it would be well worth it.
As for the Dao Integration cultivators beside him...
Dharma Transmitter Wei's heart remained completely unruffled.
The True Immortal remains, the Puxian flying boat.
One in front, one behind, speeding through the white mist.
After an unknown duration, the scenery before their eyes abruptly transformed.
When they clearly saw what lay ahead, every cultivator aboard the boat—including the Dharma Transmitters—was stricken with horror, their minds thoroughly shaken.
Across a boundless ocean, countless corpses floated.
Chapter 1109