A faint glow flickered in his mind, and moments later, the Terminal Dissociation Disc, radiating a soft white light, appeared in Li Fan's hand.
Not much time had passed since Li Fan had last sliced off a piece.
The Terminal Dissociation Disc seemed not to have fully recovered its vitality yet.
"Back then, nine discs contended for supremacy before merging into one."
"Which means this Terminal Dissociation Disc can be divided into at most nine pieces again."
"Its deduction and array-breaking capability won't be affected; its power level is merely fixed at the moment of division."
"It's just that from then on, the speed at which it evolves through its own deductions will be considerably slower."
"No matter, though. Every so often, I just need to synchronize the mother disc's deduction results over to it."
Thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Fan formed a sword with his fingers and chopped down fiercely toward the Dissociation Disc.
*Boom!*
Amid a slight tremor of the Terminal Dissociation Disc, a thin child shard was sliced away.
Putting away the increasingly weakened mother disc, Li Fan held the child shard in the palm of his hand.
Then, tens of thousands of blood-red threads reached out from his body once more, streaking toward every corner of the Spirit Wood Realm.
This eerie spectacle instantly drew the eyes of every living creature in the Spirit Wood Realm.
None of the treemen dared look directly at it, bowing their heads immediately.
Only cultivators like Tianyang and Shang Tianci watched Li Fan with curious gazes.
The countless blood threads acted like paintbrushes, using the pre-prepared formation materials as ink, carving a colossal formation across the earth of the Spirit Wood Realm.
Normally, completing an array that spanned an entire realm would take an ordinary Nascent Soul formation master at least several years of hard labor to barely finish.
Yet supported by the immense computing power of the Dao Transformation Stone in his mind, Li Fan worked across countless points at once.
Single-handedly, he undertook what would have taken hundreds of formation masters laying the array simultaneously.
At a rate visible to the naked eye, a grand formation slowly took shape across the expanse of the Spirit Wood Realm.
"An array can be laid like this?"
This left even cultivators who knew nothing of formations dumbfounded, staring blankly at the spectacle.
The formation Li Fan was engraving upon the Spirit Wood Realm was a brand-new creation never seen before in the Xuanhuang Realm, invented by Li Fan himself.
Its core drew upon top-tier great arrays such as Myriad Miles of Mountains and Rivers, Heavenly Origin Creation, and Heavenly Profound Spirit Lock.
Originally, Li Fan had also contemplated interweaving the essence of Reversing Life and Death into it.
Yet the moment that thought surfaced, an unexplainable sense of crisis welled up in his heart, so he decisively abandoned the idea.
In a mere seven days, the core foundation of the formation was complete.
Li Fan tossed the child disc aloft.
With an eruption of dazzling radiance, the child shard vanished into the air, merging into the array's core.
"With the Terminal Dissociation Disc as the core, it can achieve complete surveillance and control over the Spirit Wood Realm, just like the Heavenly Profound Spirit Lock."
"What's more, it can employ the Infinite Method to strengthen the protective array endlessly."
"Until it becomes impregnable."
Li Fan's eyes gleamed.
As the Dissociation Disc entered the array, the formation's completion speed across the land of the Spirit Wood Realm accelerated by more than a thousandfold in an instant.
If before it was like a child sketching by hand, now it was like a printing press in full gear.
Before the onlookers could even react, the earth of the Spirit Wood Realm rumbled and shook.
Beams of light erupting from the ground shot straight into the sky.
Beneath this dazzling, blinding brilliance, every creature in the pocket world was forced to shut their eyes.
When they opened their eyes again, all the phenomena had vanished without a trace.
Yet the Spirit Wood Realm at this moment was entirely different from before.
Those with weaker cultivation were fine, unable to sense anything amiss.
Cultivators at the Dao Integration stage like Tianyang, however, could not help but glance around and gaze at the sky with suspicion.
It felt as if countless pairs of eyes were staring fixedly at him, unsettling his heart.
It was Li Fan's hearty laughter that drew Tianyang's attention back.
Li Fan had already retracted his myriad blood threads and descended before the ninety-nine-zhang-tall gateway tower of the Myriad Realms Association.
Using his hand as a brush, he carved four sweeping, vigorous characters onto the black jade plaque: "Union of Myriad Realms"!
Flowing like dragons and snakes, finished in a single breath!
The moment he finished the stroke, the Spirit Wood Realm reacted, vibrating with a subtle, continuous tremor.
Li Fan carefully inspected his handiwork, his satisfaction plain on his face.
In the sky of the Spirit Wood Realm, a projection of the four characters "Union of Myriad Realms" appeared for reasons unknown.
Led by their matriarch, the treemen kowtowed and prostrated themselves one after another.
All the cultivators also landed on the ground, looking up at the spectacle in the sky.
With Li Fan finishing his strokes, the headquarters of the Myriad Realms Association was officially complete.
Most of the main structure required no further perfection, leaving only minor touches to be patched up.
"Magnificent as it is, such a massive headquarters for the association is far too empty."
"If outsiders come and see it so deserted, they'll inevitably have second thoughts."
Li Fan stroked his chin, and an idea struck him.
With a light snap of his fingers, one figure after another began appearing across the association's headquarters moments later!
Hurrying about, they all seemed bustling and busy.
Some of them were even conversing with each other, indistinguishable from real people.
They breathed a great deal of vitality into the previously deserted Myriad Realms Association.
"Mm, this looks much better."
"Though it smacks a bit of self-deception, it doesn't matter. It won't be long before this place truly becomes lively."
A satisfied smile appeared on Li Fan's face.
"Senior..."
Just as Li Fan was indulging in his reverie, Shang Tianci approached him somewhat nervously.
Li Fan initially thought he was going to ask for permission to go see Lin Ling.
Unexpectedly, it was related to a new member of the Myriad Realms Association.
"Senior, after my persuasion during this period, Yan Fangzhou has agreed to join our association."
"However, he said he wants to see our strength first."
Terrified of angering Li Fan, Shang Tianci spoke with cautious hesitation.
"Yan Fangzhou?" Li Fan's expression stirred.
He had some impression of this person. It was none other than the member of the Shanhe Pavilion—the Xuanhuang Realm's organization of young geniuses—whom Shang Tianci had mentioned before.
At a young age, he was already at the Soul Formation stage. He had even proposed that savage idea to Shang Tianci of using the Xuanhuang scenes manifested by the Heavenly Scenery Gourd to forcibly burst open another Nascent Soul cultivator's grotto-heaven.
His personality suited Li Fan's tastes well.
Li Fan showed an amiable smile. "No matter. Bring him over yourself."
"When the time comes, I shall give him a proper reception."
Overjoyed to hear this, Shang Tianci said, "Yan Fangzhou is far stronger than me. If he can join our association, he will definitely be of even greater help to the cause of the Union of Myriad Realms."
With that, he took his leave of Li Fan and hurried off to guide Yan Fangzhou in.
Watching Shang Tianci's departing figure, Li Fan shook his head slightly.
Then, in a flash, he appeared in the circular hall at the entrance of the association.
Looking at the empty hall, Li Fan pondered for a moment, then took out the Profound Heaven Divine Statue obtained from Mr. Bai's secret chamber.
Chapter 883