The brush falls, startling wind and rain; the characters form, settling heaven and earth!
Following the pattern step by step, Li Fan successfully etched the complete seal characters for the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal—revealed upon the nameless True Immortal's leg bone—onto the Key of Dao stone slab.
At that exact instant, something ineffable seemed to descend from the vortex high in the firmament.
Amidst the turmoil, the Xuanhuang heaven and earth—and indeed everything within the mortal world—seemed forced into an abrupt standstill.
Even Li Fan, who was orchestrating and driving the Xuanhuang Realm's ascension, was frozen in place.
Tens of thousands of thunderbolts flared across the canopy of the Xuanhuang Realm all at once.
With every flash of lightning, the Xuanhuang Realm shuddered faintly, as if struck by a massive hammer.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Originally pieced together from numerous disparate worlds, the Xuanhuang Realm began to fuse even deeper under the pounding of such tremendous might.
The Essence-Devouring White Mist that served as the boundary lines between provinces grew thinner and thinner under these concussive blows, finally dissipating completely.
The distance between heaven and earth also drew steadily closer beneath this relentless hammering.
What was even more terrifying was that every flash of lightning was accompanied by the annihilation of a region within the Xuanhuang Realm. Unable to withstand the colossal pressure of ascending to an immortal domain, these lands seemed to disintegrate into dust.
The voids left behind by these annihilated regions were swiftly compressed and supplanted by other territories.
Transformations that would ordinarily require hundreds of millions of years of worldly accumulation played out across the Xuanhuang Realm in a matter of moments. At this moment, it was as if the realm were being smelted in thunder and raging fire, purging the dross to preserve the essence.
Even as the aura suffusing heaven and earth grew increasingly sacred, the overall expanse of the Xuanhuang Realm was whittled down step by step.
Though Li Fan's physical body was immobilized by the mighty power of the realm's ascension, his mind remained agile.
He stared fixedly at the vortex in the sky, from which he indeed sensed the primordial, ancient aura of the Great Dao governing the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal.
Compared to the seal characters of the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal, this presence was far more incomprehensible, inspiring instinctive awe.
It was precisely under the influence of this Great Dao's aura that the Xuanhuang Realm was able to breach the threshold of ascension and earn the qualification to continue climbing toward becoming an immortal domain.
For a cultivator to transform from mortal to immortal was already as difficult as ascending to the heavens. How much more so for an entire world?
Even with Li Fan's extensive preparations and an accumulation enriched to the absolute limit, the formal process of ascending to immortality was fraught with peril—like a frail fishing boat tossed about in a tempestuous storm, teetering on the brink of capsizing at any second.
Tens of thousands of thunderbolts within the vortex struck like hammers, hammering ceaselessly without end.
The bloated frame of the Xuanhuang Realm was shaved away inch by inch.
"Something isn't right."
"The expenditure required for this world's Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal is far too exaggerated!"
Li Fan faintly sensed an anomaly, his expression turning exceedingly solemn.
"It matches my own prior experiments..."
In a flash, Li Fan recalled the ancient cultivation realm's records concerning cultivators who successfully overcame tribulation and ascended.
"There is no apparent heavenly tribulation, nor is there any immortal spiritual energy pouring into the body to assist in the metamorphosis. It relies entirely on its own foundation to endure the transformation between immortal and mortal through sheer force. Under normal circumstances, this is simply impossible to accomplish."
The Xuanhuang Realm's terrified pleas for help echoed in his ears once more. However, tormented by the tribulations of ascending to immortality, it had already grown weak to the extreme.
For the time being, Li Fan's interests were bound to the Xuanhuang Realm. He swiftly made his decision.
Drawing upon the remaining power of the Xuanhuang Realm, he temporarily regained his mobility from the oppressive dread of the Great Dao of the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal.
With a thought, the Dao Child Qiushui reverted into the azure sword. Sword light then rained down across every corner of the Xuanhuang Realm, utilizing the sword body as a conduit to draw upon the power of the boundless starry sea.
At the same time, hundreds of fountains erupted without warning from the earth of the Xuanhuang Realm, soaring into the sky. It was the life force Li Fan had stolen and channeled from the ravines and lowlands of the Pitch-Black Star Sea.
These two continuous streams of power acted like potent restorative pills, fiercely sustaining the Xuanhuang Realm's precarious life.
Yet within the celestial vortex, the lightning flashed with ever-increasing speed. The intervals between flashes became so fleeting that they formed an unbroken purple glow, casting a somber light upon the Xuanhuang Realm below.
As the distance between heaven and earth diminished, the sky seemed to tilt, bearing down with crushing weight.
Of the five heavenly pillars, only the central one formed from the nameless True Immortal's leg bone could still hold firm.
The other four crumbled to dust from top to bottom beneath the terrifying pressure.
This formed a domed expanse, high in the center and low on all four sides.
Seeing that the heavenly pillars manifested by the Xuanhuang Realm were insufficient to support the collapsing sky, Li Fan narrowed his eyes, his hands continuously forming incantation seals.
The little Tian beast, slumbering and nourished by immortal spiritual energy, suddenly let out an earth-shattering roar of fury.
Its body flipped over uncontrollably.
In an instant, it expanded ten million times over. With its four legs thrust toward the sky like heavenly pillars, it propped up the continuously collapsing firmament.
The immense pressure of the falling heavens was borne by the little Tian beast. Even though its constitution was extraordinary and it had swallowed several immortal domain chess pieces, it was unwilling to be used as mere consumable fodder.
A dangerous red glint flashed in its eyes as it struggled relentlessly, growling and roaring in an attempt to break free from Li Fan's control.
"I summon the wooden sword Wonder of Heaven!" Li Fan chanted aloud, his expression grave.
The wooden sword that had once been venerated by ten thousand swords in the ruins of the Heavenly Sword Sect's sword tomb suddenly let out a faint hum.
With a flash of sword light, it flew into Li Fan's hand a moment later.
This wooden sword had been crafted by Mr. Bai in the past as the manifestation of the Xuanhuang Realm's Sword Dao.
Throughout the Xuanhuang Realm's ascension, this Sword Dao had undergone continuous metamorphosis alongside it.
Now resting in Li Fan's grasp, it had already incorporated supreme sword daos that transcended the mundane.
"Sever!"
The sword moved with his intent. In the blink of an eye, the wooden sword Wonder of Heaven turned into a streak of white light, making a complete circuit around the four corners of the Xuanhuang Realm.
Roar!
Amidst the little Tian beast's agonized bellow, its four limbs fell away.
"Go!"
Li Fan commanded the natural forces of the Xuanhuang Realm, fusing the little Tian beast's limbs into the four heavenly pillars.
Having absorbed a portion of immortal domain laws, the endurance of the Tian beast's limbs far surpassed anything found in mortal cultivation realms. The sky continued to descend for a short time, but once the beast's limbs fully merged with the Xuanhuang Realm's heavenly pillars under the extreme external pressure, they finally managed to hold back the collapsing firmament.
Li Fan breathed a faint sigh of relief and looked down at the wooden sword Wonder of Heaven in his hand.
While it could forcibly sever the Tian beast's limbs through its sharp, indomitable Sword Dao properties, cleaving through the immortal domain laws contained within those limbs had inflicted unimaginable damage on the sword itself.
The wooden sword broke apart inch by inch, dissolving into streaks of faint glow that scattered across heaven and earth.
The Way of the Sword ceased to exist in the Xuanhuang Realm.
For it to recover naturally would perhaps take millions of years.
With the support of the Tian beast's limbs, the Xuanhuang Realm's perilous situation improved significantly.
Even though the overall expanse of the realm was still being steadily whittled down, the distance between heaven and earth would at least shrink no further.
However, the fundamental issue remained unresolved.
The transformation of a world from mortal to immortal consumed far too much. Even with the dual influx of the ravine's vitality and the starry sea's power, expenditures still vastly outstripped intake.
Li Fan realized that it was not that the energy required for the Xuanhuang Realm to ascend into an immortal domain exceeded the infinite power of the starry sea. Rather, relying solely on Qiushui resulted in far too low an efficiency for drawing that energy.
Possessing infinite power was meaningless if it could not be fully tapped.
Thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Fan formed a plan.
Bowing slightly, the tassels of the crown upon his head dangled low to obscure his facial expression. Li Fan's voice resounded across the Xuanhuang heaven and earth: "I summon the Great Heavenly Venerables of past generations!"
His voice was like an imperial decree; to speak it was to make it so.
Amidst the violent tremors of the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal, ethereal figures manifested between heaven and earth one after another.
The current Great Heavenly Venerable, Wuming, rose autonomously to take his place at the very end of the line.
Starting from Wuming, the further back in time one went, the hazier the silhouettes of the Great Heavenly Venerables became.
First was the silhouette of Mr. Bai, whose facial features were still faintly discernible. Before him, only the silhouette of a form could be seen, his face reduced to a blank void.
Before that blank-faced silhouette stood a figure whose features were obscured, yet Li Fan recognized him at a glance: it had to be the imprint left by King Xuantian.
Prior to King Xuantian, there were four others.
Yet each was blurrier than the last, with the first Great Heavenly Venerable Xuanhuang reduced to nothing more than a faint outline.
These eight phantoms all represented past Great Heavenly Venerables of Xuanhuang. Even though they had passed away for various reasons, they still retained their unique imprints within the Xuanhuang heaven and earth.
In the past, Heavenly Dao Bai had once walked the world anew through Li Fan's Sacred Embryo.
And now, having secured near-total control over the Xuanhuang Realm, Li Fan leveraged the realm's existential crisis to forcibly summon all eight Great Heavenly Venerables at once.
"Xuanhuang faces calamity today. I ask all Great Heavenly Venerables to lend your strength."
With a solemn expression, Li Fan bowed once more toward the eight silhouettes.
Immediately after, the Taijia Divine Technique was unleashed with a roar.
As if sensing the earth-shattering changes occurring within the Xuanhuang Realm, the starry sea's consciousness intentionally evaded, offering no response to Li Fan for a time.
While persisting relentlessly, Li Fan also imparted the Taijia Divine Technique to the Great Heavenly Venerables of past generations.
The eight silhouettes then joined the ritual to communicate with the starry sea one by one.
Those who could become a Great Heavenly Venerable of Xuanhuang were without exception the world's most peerless talents, and the first Great Heavenly Venerable had even possessed the body of a True Immortal.
Even though they had perished, the imprints they left behind still retained a portion of their original traits. With eight such figures joining forces to perform the ritual, the boundless starry sea was forced to connect, despite its immense reluctance.
"Equalize the heavens!"
Under Li Fan's direction, the eight silhouettes simultaneously unleashed the Juntian Divine Technique upon the starry sea's consciousness.
Boundless, dazzling starlight instantly illuminated the Xuanhuang Realm.
The stillness imposed by the ascension to an immortal domain was briefly dispelled, allowing motion to resume.
"I invite the Great Heavenly Venerables to sacrifice your daos!"
Solemn-faced, Li Fan bowed to each in turn.
First was Wuming.
Without the slightest hesitation, Wuming used his own body as a conduit to absorb the infinite power of the starry sea and channel it into the Xuanhuang Realm.
Next was Heavenly Dao Bai.
One after another, the silhouettes of the Great Heavenly Venerables flew to various corners of the Xuanhuang Realm, guiding in the limitless power of the starry sea.
Finally, it was the first Great Heavenly Venerable Xuanhuang's turn.
Infused with the boundless power of the starry sea, his hazy outline transformed into a radiant blue glow. Yet this giant of starlight did not fly directly to his designated position.
Instead, he looked with an inscrutable expression at the stone slab Li Fan had been holding aloft.
The Great Heavenly Venerable's phantom did not linger for long.
A moment later, he arrived in an instant, closing in beside Li Fan.
A single finger tapped lightly upon the stone slab.
It all happened far too fast.
The first Great Heavenly Venerable's movement was so swift that even Li Fan, empowered by the might of the Xuanhuang Realm, failed to react in time.
Startled, Li Fan had already summoned the Huanzhen interface to guard against any ensuing disaster.
To his surprise, after the first Great Heavenly Venerable's phantom tapped the stone slab with his finger, he made no further move.
Nor did any anomaly occur.
After a stalemate lasting several breaths, the phantom withdrew his finger of his own accord. Then, as if fulfilling some lingering obsession, he departed for his designated position.
Li Fan was taken aback at first, but after a moment's reflection, he understood: "This is not the original Key of Dao stone slab from the Immortal Ascension Platform of the past. It is merely a replica left behind by King Xuantian."
"...Fortunately."
"Had it been otherwise, this phantom, which still retains some instinct of the first Great Heavenly Venerable, might have caused me tremendous trouble."
Li Fan secretly rejoiced.
Within the Xuanhuang Realm, supported by the Tian beast's limbs and the continuous aid channeled by the eight Great Heavenly Venerables linking to the starry sea's infinite power, the teetering world finally began to stabilize amidst the violent turbulence of transcending the boundary between immortal and mortal.
Within the vortex of the manifesting Great Dao, the dense flashes of purple lightning began to decrease in frequency.
The tremors across the Xuanhuang heaven and earth gradually subsided as well.
Wielding the power of the Xuanhuang heaven and earth, Li Fan could see clearly even with his mortal eyes.
Within the seemingly unchanged Xuanhuang Realm, an unknown, mysterious power was painting stroke after stroke over reality. The nature of things appeared unaltered from inside out, yet they became firmer, more vivid, and closer to their origin.
A surge of joy welled up in Li Fan's heart.
He knew that having weathered the critical phase, the moment of ascension and metamorphosis had arrived.
"However, now is not the time to hold an early celebration."
Li Fan stood quietly, continuing to bide his time.
He waited until the vortex in the sky began to shrink, and the Great Dao's manifestation of the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal drew near its conclusion.
Only then did Li Fan move again: "I invite the Great Heavenly Venerables to mend the heavens!"
His expression was earnest as he transmitted his intent.
By equalizing the power of the starry sea to help the Xuanhuang Realm weather this crisis, the phantoms of the past Great Heavenly Venerables had already become entities akin to Star Spirits.
In the past, the Xuanhuang Realm had resided within the starry sea, so a Great Heavenly Venerable could perhaps serve both roles.
Now, however, the Xuanhuang Realm was ascending and transforming into the Xuanhuang Immortal Domain.
How could a Great Heavenly Venerable of an immortal domain remain subordinate to the starry sea?
Li Fan's intent was exceptionally clear.
It was also what truly aligned with the Xuanhuang Realm's interests.
Having recovered from its near-death state and seeing hope of attaining an immortal domain, the Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao cooperated with Li Fan and issued the command.
Except for Wuming, the other seven Great Heavenly Venerables were originally manifestations of worldly imprints.
Thus, offering little resistance, their indistinct forms slowly dissolved.
They vanished into the boundless power of the starry sea.
Even though Star Spirits were undying and indestructible, once the vessels upon which they relied ceased to exist, they could only vanish between heaven and earth.
This was not merely dismissing a summon. Through this act, the Xuanhuang Realm completely erased the primordial imprints left behind by those former Great Heavenly Venerables.
This meant that from this day forward, the Xuanhuang Realm would never again be able to summon the phantoms of the Great Heavenly Venerables.
As the Star Spirits dispersed, the channels connecting to the infinite power of the starry sea gradually closed.
However, the consumption demanded by the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal was also dwindling rapidly.
With Qiushui's support, it was more than enough.
Having sent off the seven most threatening phantoms of the Great Heavenly Venerables, Li Fan turned to the final one: Wuming.
Great Heavenly Venerable Wuming possessed neither consciousness nor perception, merely harmonizing with the natural operation of the Heavenly Dao.
Now that the time had come for him to make the right choice, Wuming first established the succession trial for the next Great Heavenly Venerable.
Then, a nameless fire suddenly erupted within his body, burning furiously.
Just like the previous Great Heavenly Venerable, Su Bai, he chose to end his own life.
When the flames upon Great Heavenly Venerable Wuming completely consumed him and subsequently faded away, the Xuanhuang Realm's path of ascension—fueled by the sacrifice of eight Great Heavenly Venerables—finally arrived at its ultimate moment.
It was about to cross the line dividing mortal from immortal.
A sudden realization dawned upon Li Fan.
The instant the Xuanhuang Realm ascended to become an immortal domain, all past treaties it had signed with Li Fan would turn into scrap paper!
They would no longer hold any validity!
Between mortals, covenants and contracts still existed.
Between immortal and mortal, how could one be bound by such things?
Enlightenment striking him, Li Fan seized the final moments of his control over the Xuanhuang Realm's power to summon the Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Mo Sha.
The very next instant...
The vortex in the firmament sealed completely.
With a thunderous roar, the Xuanhuang heaven and earth resumed motion.
Streaks of seven-colored light appeared in every corner of the world, dancing continuously across the realm.
The Xuanhuang Realm, previously compressed to the absolute extreme, hit bottom and rebounded into metamorphosis.
It began to expand at a pace visible to the naked eye.
In a flash, the Xuanhuang Realm once more became vastly lofty and expansive.
Spanning hundreds of millions of li in a single instant, even Li Fan's vision could no longer clearly discern the pillars supporting the heavens at the four corners after several breaths.
Li Fan took in the Xuanhuang Realm's astonishing transformation.
With the aid of the last remnant of the Xuanhuang Realm's power, he faintly perceived that far beyond the realm, in the Immortal Ruins, the Hungry Immortal seemed to have awakened.
Yet she looked upon the newly appeared immortal domain with an unreadable gaze, cautiously choosing not to appear rashly, merely observing from afar.
Meanwhile, within the Xuanhuang Realm's Yuandao Province, the Archmage and that phantom remained in a deep slumber.
However, the phantom, whose voice of preaching the Dao had long been silent, began to chant spontaneously once more.
In his slumber, the Archmage's brows furrowed tightly. His mouth opened and closed erratically, similarly uttering words of preaching the Dao.
When the two voices met, they did not amplify each other. Instead, they canceled each other out.
Ultimately, all dissolved into utter silence.
Outside the Xuanhuang Realm, Heavenly Physician and Chuanfa had just shattered the high wall Li Fan had erected.
Looking upon the inexplicably manifested Xuanhuang Realm—both familiar and strange—they stood frozen on the spot.
To Li Fan's surprise, Heavenly Venerable Chuanfa's face began to flicker and shift, as if something were about to break through its shell.
Inside the Xuanhuang Realm, countless changes unfolded in rapid succession following its formal ascension to an immortal domain.
Yet Li Fan focused the vast majority of his attention upon the Spirit of Heaven and Earth before him—or rather, the Immortal Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Mo Sha.
As the Xuanhuang Realm transformed from mortal to immortal, Mo Sha had also completed its metamorphosis before Li Fan.
Originally a vague human form composed of deep ink, its appearance and details became far richer and more concrete upon becoming an Immortal Spirit of Heaven and Earth.
It was even draped in a long robe that billowed in the wind.
Mo Sha's face lacked ordinary human facial features; instead, inky symbols continuously drifted and shifted across it.
Locked in a gaze with the Immortal Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Mo Sha, Li Fan's inner instincts screamed in frantic warning.
Yet perhaps because Li Fan had personally orchestrated the Xuanhuang Realm's ascension and was its foremost benefactor, Mo Sha—the pure embodiment of the laws of destruction—did not choose to attack immediately.
This did not mean Li Fan would hesitate.
"Xuanhuang... World-Ending Transformation."
Li Fan chanted silently in his heart.
The bomb he had secretly planted within the Xuanhuang Realm long ago was detonated in an instant.
Back when the Xuanhuang Realm was an ordinary cultivation realm, the World-Ending Transformation had already been terrifying to behold.
Now that the realm had ascended into an immortal realm, the World-Ending Transformation erupting within was unspeakably horrific.
Before the myriad living beings could even enjoy the blessings brought by ascending alongside their world, catastrophic disaster descended.
Chilling winds howled, freezing heaven, earth, and space-time in a flash. All living things within were turned into crystal ice before they could even react.
Terrifying thunderbolts rained down from the sky. Wherever the lightning swept, everything was reduced to pure nothingness. The lightning born of heaven and earth seemed bent on destroying the world itself.
Having only just stabilized after ascending to an immortal domain, the realm immediately faced the terrifying onslaught of myriad tribulations.
The Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao was both furious and bewildered.
Meanwhile, the Immortal Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Mo Sha, was momentarily stunned.
For it keenly sensed that the vast majority of these apocalyptic tribulations were aimed directly at it!
No longer paying any heed to the cultivator before it, Mo Sha moved to unite with the Xuanhuang Realm's other Immortal Spirits of Heaven and Earth to quell these various apocalyptic calamities.
"Immortal Descent, All Things Return to the Void."
An exceedingly cold voice cut off Mo Sha's movements.
As if suddenly plunged into an entirely foreign territory, the scene of the Xuanhuang Realm before Mo Sha's eyes shifted abruptly.
In its place was an endless storm of destruction!
Li Fan, concealed within the phantom of the wooden sword, saw hundreds of millions of brilliant stars ignite simultaneously within his mind.
Every single star was deducing a portion of a magnificent immortal array.
Under the collective deduction of these hundreds of millions of stars, a genuine immortal array was brought into the world!
The Immortal Array Dissociation Disc!
With the aid of immortal spiritual energy, the Terminal Dissociation Disc, which had previously shattered into countless micro-particles, was formally reborn from the ashes.
Under the miraculous effect of immortal spiritual energy, every single particle evolved anew into a brand-new Dissociation Disc.
Hundreds of millions of stars shone brightly, the newly born Dissociation Discs standing like countless True Immortals, radiant and resplendent!
The deductive capacity of the Immortal Array Dissociation Disc had already begun to exceed Li Fan's comprehension.
With merely a stray thought from him, the Dissociation Disc iterated the array according to his needs in what seemed like an endless progression.
Li Fan did not even need to lay out the array personally.
Droplets of immortal spiritual power diffused from the hundreds of millions of cores within the Immortal Array Dissociation Disc, spontaneously manifesting into the formation!
Thus, a genuine immortal-grade grand array was born.
Compared to what Li Fan had arranged in the past, its power was as different as heaven and earth.
Even in the instant of its generation, the Immortal Array Dissociation Disc was iterating and refining it.
From the start of the array's deployment to its completion, it had already evolved through dozens of generations!
It truly seemed to possess the might to reduce all things to complete nothingness.
In the past, a mere phantom of the Hungry Immortal could disperse this Immortal Descent, All Things Return to the Void Grand Array with a wave of her hand.
Yet now...
Within this immortal-grade array, Mo Sha was being battered and whittled away at a pace visible to the naked eye!
"Hmm?"
"This Immortal Spirit of Heaven and Earth is weaker than I imagined?"
Witnessing this scene, Li Fan felt little joy, only a sudden, caught-off-guard astonishment.
While manipulating the immortal array, he observed the Xuanhuang Immortal Domain.
Only then did Li Fan notice several abnormal conditions.
Even though an immortal domain had clearly descended, the black mist of the Dao Annihilation Tribulation at the center of the starry sea showed hardly any reaction.
It could not be compared to the reaction when a true immortal domain unfolded in his previous life.
Nor was any new immortal spiritual energy being generated within the newly born Xuanhuang Immortal Domain.
It had crossed the shackles of the Transformation Between Immortal and Mortal in vain, failing to achieve the qualitative transformation into a true immortal entity.
For some reason, all of this reminded Li Fan of King Xuantian in the past.
"Clearly having ascended to immortality, yet possessing no immortal spiritual energy."
"Half-immortal, half-immortal..."
"Could it be that despite pouring everything I had into it, what I delivered was merely a half-immortal domain?"
A surge of irritation rose within Li Fan.
Yet he swiftly regained his composure.
A half-immortal was still an immortal.
From King Xuantian ten thousand years ago to the Xuanhuang Realm today, both had ended up like this.
Perhaps there was no flaw in his attempt at all.
Rather, after the destruction of the Immortal Realm, the entire historical path of cultivation had developed a massive problem.
Sensing that the cautious Hungry Immortal had seemingly decided to come investigate, Li Fan hesitated no longer.
The Immortal Array Dissociation Disc ran at full capacity.
Under the Grand Array of All Things Return to the Void, the Immortal Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Mo Sha, was snuffed out inch by inch by the endless tempest.
As Mo Sha dissolved into heaven and earth, an immensely profound power descended upon Li Fan.
Li Fan had finally stepped into the realm of Uniting with the Dao.
Yet it deviated somewhat from his planned ideal state.
Before he even had time to reflect, the Xuanhuang Realm's Heavenly Dao—sensing Mo Sha's demise and realizing the culprit was Li Fan—went completely mad.
In its eyes, Li Fan had accompanied it from mortal origins to this day, acting as both teacher and friend.
Now, when the Xuanhuang Realm faced an apocalyptic crisis, he had chosen to turn his blade against it.
This was an utter and complete betrayal.
Enraged to the absolute limit, the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao disregarded the apocalyptic crises erupting across its domain.
Innumerable Immortal Spirits of Heaven and Earth descended around Li Fan, swearing to execute him.
Standing within the Grand Array of All Things Return to the Void, Li Fan felt little fear.
He utilized the final moments of this life to observe the semi-ascended Xuanhuang Immortal Domain.
The sun in the sky, the Five Elements circulating through the world, the light of the Nether Lamp guarding the Xuanhuang Realm, and the four immortal pillars supporting the heavens—within this so-called Xuanhuang Immortal Domain, these were the only places that bore traces of immortal spiritual energy.
"Perhaps with the passage of time, this immortal spiritual energy will slowly spread and permeate, transforming it into a true Xuanhuang Immortal Domain."
"However..."
"It still cannot be compared to the glorious Immortal Realm of the past that I once beheld."
Li Fan sighed wistfully in his heart.
"Indeed."
"Now that the Immortal Realm is destroyed, how can anyone become an immortal?"
A sudden sense of listless emptiness arose within Li Fan.
The Grand Array of All Things Return to the Void was gradually breached by the fearless Immortal Spirits of Heaven and Earth.
Clinging to no regrets, Li Fan silently invoked Huanzhen.
When Huanzhen activated once more, the dejection in Li Fan's heart vanished without a trace.
For the manner in which Huanzhen activated was noticeably different from before.
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