Chapter 1131: Great Xuan Conquers the Myriad Worlds
Chapter 1131: Great Xuan Conquers the Myriad Worlds
If it weren't for the need for a Heavenly Treasure to advance further, Sun Erlang would likely have soared straight to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.
Sun Erlang, however, possessed a steady temperament and didn't let his excitement show. He simply took the initiative to report the matter to Li Fan.
"The Great Xuan Forbidden Army, and in time, the soldiers and citizens of all the worlds we conquer, will all serve as catalysts for your cultivation of the Sitting Immortal Technique."
"Within five years, I need you to forge them into a formidable, battle-ready force at my command."
Li Fan spoke serenely, floating upon the Sacred Emperor's Throne as he looked down upon the kneeling Sun Erlang.
"As for the resources required for your advancement, you need not worry."
Sun Erlang's heart surged, his blood boiling with fervor. He accepted the command and withdrew.
He headed off at once to train his Forbidden Army.
This particular mirror was an unexpected acquisition from the Grand Derivation Boat's recent excursion into the Xuanhuang Realm.
While the Grand Derivation Boat was siphoning spiritual energy from the Xuanhuang Realm, a Golden Core cultivator happened to pass by.
Whether by sheer coincidence or due to some exceptional innate talent, he managed to faintly perceive the boat's anomaly, even though it was concealed by a formation.
Thinking he had stumbled upon some hidden treasure, the man excitedly began to explore the area.
In the end, he triggered the Grand Derivation Boat's defensive arrays and was unceremoniously captured and suppressed within the vessel.
He was now imprisoned in a Great Xuan dungeon, where Li Fan intended to let him stew for a while.
"A pity. It's just a standard Tianxuan Minor Mirror, without the direct item-transfer function."
Even though he had yet to join the Myriad Immortals Alliance in this lifetime, and even though this particular Tianxuan Minor Mirror wasn't his, Li Fan still accessed the Tianxuan Mirror's network without the slightest hindrance.
This was all thanks to the Heavenly Profound Mirror Origin.
In his previous life, as the world-ending plan unfolded, Li Fan had used a blank Anchor Point to swap the *Thousand Mechanisms Jade Cosmos Golden Chapter* for the Heavenly Profound Mirror Origin.
On the panel for [Truth], it had transformed into [Heavenly Profound Mirror Origin (Fragment)].
The Tianxuan Mirror itself seemed completely unaware of this new, inexplicably manifested fragment of its own origin.
But in this lifetime, as the true master of that origin fragment, Li Fan felt a distinct difference when he re-entered the Tianxuan Mirror's network.
In his previous life, the Heavenly Profound Mirror Origin had been a gift from the mirror's human avatar.
While that had granted him various permissions exclusive to the Tianxuan Mirror, the ultimate source of that authority still resided with the mirror itself.
If it had so wished, the Tianxuan Mirror could have revoked the gifted origin at any moment, rendering his privileges void.
But in this lifetime...
As Li Fan navigated the endless streams of information within the Tianxuan Mirror, he felt a sense of true freedom.
His authority was now completely independent.
He could even accomplish things the Tianxuan Mirror itself could not.
For instance, he could delete transaction data.
Perhaps due to the influence of being refined by the Xuantian King long ago, the Tianxuan Mirror was incapable of forgery, deception, or similar acts.
To maintain the stable operation of the Alliance, all data within the Tianxuan Mirror was permanent and traceable.
This was how, in his past life, Mo Rubin's use of the Tianxuan Mirror to deduce the Xuantian King's whereabouts was eventually unearthed by the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
It wasn't a betrayal on the mirror's part; it was simply its inherent nature.
But now, empowered by this new fragment of origin, Li Fan could do just that.
He erased the original owner's information from the Tianxuan Minor Mirror and registered a brand-new, blank identity for himself.
By selling off key pieces of information, he quickly amassed tens of thousands of contribution points.
Using those points as his initial capital, he engaged in high-frequency trading. In less than half a month, the contribution points in his account had ballooned to several hundred thousand.
He then went on a spending spree, purchasing all the necessary supplies.
He set the transaction location to a sea region near the Great Xuan's exit.
Li Fan remotely controlled the Grand Derivation Boat to retrieve the goods.
...
Though it might seem convoluted, the process was effortless for Li Fan.
He acquired all the resources needed for the Great Xuan Forbidden Army's advancement.
Freed from the bottleneck of requiring Heavenly Treasures, the strength of the Great Xuan Forbidden Army skyrocketed for the first time.
Foundation Establishment cultivators emerged one after another, and Sun Erlang, as their commander, reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage in short order.
His power even surpassed Li Fan's own current cultivation level.
However, backed by the national destiny of the Great Xuan, Sun Erlang wouldn't last a single exchange against him.
Sun Erlang's cultivation was advancing too rapidly, so Li Fan ordered him to temporarily suppress it.
He then taught Sun Erlang the Tai Shang Sect's art of the Tribulation Body, allowing him to store the excess cultivation he received as feedback.
By the third year of the anchor point, the Great Xuan Forbidden Army already boasted fifty-six Foundation Establishment cultivators and eight hundred forty-two at the Qi Refining stage.
On this day, Li Fan gave a sermon above the city of Xuanjing.
His image, broadcast via the Sacred Emperor's Throne, reached every corner of the nation.
As Li Fan spoke, his words seemingly resonating with the infinite Great Dao, auspicious phenomena materialized across the skies of Great Xuan.
Celestial flowers rained down, and countless golden dragons danced in the air.
The Heaven and Earth Furnaces, which Li Fan had sealed with arrays, began to release the spiritual energy they had generated over the past three years.
Even mortals could feel the wondrous change sweeping across the land.
To say nothing of the cultivators in Xuanjing.
Among the fifty-six Foundation Establishment cultivators, three felt a sudden enlightenment and broke through to the Golden Core stage.
Sun Erlang was, naturally, among them.
However, it was merely an advancement in their cultivation stage.
In terms of actual combat prowess, they were still far inferior to an ordinary cultivator from the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
But for Li Fan's purposes, it was more than enough.
Li Fan didn't expect them to fight enemies directly; he only needed them to act as spiritual energy batteries to power his formations.
He passed the formation techniques to Sun Erlang, ordering the Great Xuan Forbidden Army to practice day and night until their coordination was seamless.
The might of the Great Xuan grew with each passing day.
In the fifth year of the anchor point, the Great Xuan, having amassed its strength for so long, finally launched its first campaign of conquest.
The target was a world Li Fan knew quite well: the Spirit Wood Realm.
Lacking a Dao Integration cultivator, they couldn't directly connect the entrance of the Spirit Wood Realm to the Great Xuan.
Thus, the route of conquest this time was to pass through the Xuanhuang Realm before invading the Spirit Wood Realm.
To avoid detection by the Myriad Immortals Alliance, the expeditionary force consisted of only fifty cultivators, led by Sun Erlang.
Riding the Grand Derivation Boat, they arrived in the Spirit Wood Realm in utter silence.
Upon seeing the colossal tree that stretched from earth to sky, the entire contingent of the Great Xuan Forbidden Army was momentarily lost in awe.
But years of harsh training quickly allowed them to regain their focus.
A formation was instantly deployed, and a streaking shadow shot towards the great tree with a howl.
It was the Sky Patrolling Arrow!
The attack of the Sky Patrolling Arrow naturally enraged the tree-folk.
They tried to intercept it.
But even their Nascent Soul-level elders were as fragile as paper before the arrow's might.
Agonized cries echoed through the air as the tree-folk threw their bodies in its path, but they could not stop the Sky Patrolling Arrow from ultimately striking the great tree.
Boom!
A terrifying hole was blasted through the center of the great tree.
Within, the pulsing heart of the spirit wood was faintly visible.
Sun Erlang, clad in black and gold battle armor, flew forward.
A full ninety Sky Patrolling Arrows circled before him.
"Surrender, or die."
(End of this chapter)
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