Chapter 1203: A Secret Encounter in the Star Sea
Chapter 1203: A Secret Encounter in the Star Sea
This was clearly a top secret of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
It was buried deep, and even with the Boundless, Primordial Vision Array partially repaired, the search was agonizingly difficult for the Immeasurable Mirror.
It also had to be careful not to be discovered by the Heavenly Profound Mirror. Under the constant strain of the search, the Immeasurable Mirror was gradually being pushed beyond its limits.
The mirror’s body began to shudder violently, and faint cracks spiderwebbed across its surface.
Sun Luyuan’s eyes were bloodshot as he watched, and several times he fought the urge to retract the Tianxuan Minor Mirror.
But each time, the unwavering resolve transmitted by Sun Luyao stopped him.
“Brother, I can hold on a little longer.”
“I’ve already found a trail. We can’t give up now!”
Hearing Sun Luyao’s voice, strained with barely suppressed agony, the wavering thoughts in Sun Luyuan’s mind gradually hardened into resolve.
Time seemed to crawl by at an excruciatingly slow pace. Sun Luyuan felt as though his heart was being sliced by knives, as if he were sitting on a bed of needles.
Besides the fear that his brother wouldn’t be able to hold on and would be annihilated, body and soul, there was also the gnawing anxiety of being discovered by the Heavenly Profound Mirror.
Finally, the Immeasurable Mirror severed the devouring black light on its own.
The strange little mirror could no longer even stay afloat, clattering to the ground with a dull thud.
Sun Luyuan hastily retrieved a vial of his own essence blood and poured it over the mirror.
After a long while, the Immeasurable Mirror tremulously regained a sliver of its power.
“How is it...?” Sun Luyuan hardly dared to ask.
“Brother, I have fulfilled my mission.”
Fortunately, his brother did not disappoint him. The moment he heard those words, a wave of immense relief washed over Sun Luyuan.
And after reviewing the top-secret information his brother had unearthed, his expression shifted constantly through a storm of emotions.
“Fu’s suspicions were correct. Cang has indeed been turned and is now being controlled.”
“Weidu...”
“It seems the inner circle of the Mirror Holders is far more complex than we imagined,” Sun Luyao’s shadowy form said, his voice weak and listless. “Brother, our Sun family is still too weak. The slightest misstep, and we’ll be torn to shreds.”
“Don’t worry. Leave the rest to me,” Sun Luyuan declared in a low, determined voice.
“By the way, brother. Can you leave the Tianxuan Minor Mirror with me this time?” Sun Luyao asked suddenly, just as his brother was about to depart.
Sun Luyuan couldn’t help but hesitate.
“Don’t worry, brother. I haven’t lost control. In fact, after these last few extreme explorations, for some reason, my command over the Immeasurable Mirror has deepened. I was thinking I could try a few more times when I have the strength, to become more proficient...”
In the end, Sun Luyuan was persuaded by his brother’s sincere tone.
And his brother’s condition did seem much better than the last time he’d lost control after a search.
Thus, after a few more stern warnings, he left the Tianxuan Minor Mirror behind.
Not long after Sun Luyuan’s hurried departure, A phantom figure drifted out of the Immeasurable Mirror and into the Tianxuan Minor Mirror.
A moment later, flashes of light flickered as a vast quantity of soul-nourishing supplies were purchased.
Li Fan’s splintered consciousness greedily devoured them, its weakened state rapidly mending.
Possessing a fragment of the Heavenly Profound Mirror’s origin, he could covertly steal vast resources through the minor mirror without anyone noticing.
At that moment, Sun Luyao’s figure also floated out.
He looked at Li Fan, his form radiating an intense, palpable fear.
These soul-nourishing treasures were useless to him.
But a casual pointer from the being before him could smooth his fusion with the Immeasurable Mirror, making it more complete.
This was something he and his brother had struggled to achieve for centuries, to no avail.
The terrifying nature of this great being was beyond question.
In Sun Luyao’s eyes, he was far more frightening than any Mirror Holder.
And so, his own surrender seemed only natural.
“Brother, surely you can understand my choice,” Sun Luyao thought to himself silently.
The agony he had displayed for Sun Luyuan was, of course, an act.
Despite a few complications, the plan had gone off without a hitch.
He just didn’t understand the significance of the information the great being had worked so hard to uncover.
“Sixteen cultivators, summoned by the Dharma Spreader, have left the Xuanhuang Realm for the world beyond.”
To Sun Luyao, this information didn’t seem particularly extraordinary.
But to Li Fan, its meaning was profoundly different.
As his splintered consciousness slowly recovered, Li Fan pondered the matter.
“The Dharma Spreader is actually summoning cultivators to leave the Xuanhuang Realm? That's unheard of.”
“What’s going on?”
“With his power, even if the Immortal Alliance trained these sixteen into Dao Integration cultivators in short order, they would still be nothing but ants to him.”
“And he didn’t even select from the Alliance’s existing Dao Integration cultivators.”
Li Fan thought of the pawn he had put in place, Yang Fei.
There didn’t seem to be anything special about him.
Li Fan wasn’t worried that Yang Fei would expose him if he actually met the Dharma Spreader, because the man himself didn’t even know he was a spy for the Great Qi Sage Dynasty.
Yang Fei was a genuine cultivator of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. It was just that, before taking the Alliance’s grand examination, he happened to befriend a couple who had studied the exam extensively and correctly guessed a few of the questions.
“One thing is certain: the Dharma Spreader’s summons has something to do with the Echoing Star Power that has been shaking the Xuanhuang Realm.”
“I just don’t know what the Dharma Spreader has encountered that would require the help of these sixteen cultivators.”
“Moreover, the Echoing Star Power near the Immortal Ruins has now vanished. How will this group leave the Xuanhuang Realm?”
The matter was too secretive; even the records within the Heavenly Profound Mirror were sparse.
“It’s a pity my Holy Embryo is so far away on the other side of the Star Sea. Otherwise, I could follow them and investigate.”
As this thought crossed his mind, Li Fan’s train of thought suddenly paused.
He abruptly recalled that the Dharma Spreader’s purpose in the dark Star Sea was to collect the fragments of various cultivation worlds.
And the location of his Holy Embryo, the Relic Sea, was a place where the mysterious Echoing Star Power had gathered all the relics of cultivators from across the Star Sea.
“Since relics have gathered, could the same be true for the fragments of cultivation worlds?”
“Could there be a ‘Sea of Realm Fragments’ beyond the Relic Sea?”
On the other side of the Star Sea, Li Fan’s Holy Embryo, lying dormant and hidden outside the Mysterious Immortal Boat, suddenly opened its eyes.
His gaze seemed to pierce through the endless ruins and darkness, staring into the depths of the Relic Sea.
“Could it be... that I’m already very close to the Dharma Spreader?”
Li Fan couldn’t help but wonder.
“If my guess is correct, then by waiting here, I might even be able to intercept those sixteen cultivators from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.”
“Taking it a step further, a being as powerful as the Dharma Spreader, who has roamed the dark Star Sea for millennia, couldn’t possibly be unaware of the Immortal Boat civilization hidden here. It’s possible they’ve already had contact.”
“Though, the Immortal Boat civilization might not know the Dharma Spreader’s true identity.”
Although the information he currently possessed suggested the Immortal Boat civilization was weak and decrepit, its ability to survive for ten thousand years in the dark Star Sea, and even dabble in the power of the True Immortal Script...
The ultimate power of the Immortal Boat was surely not to be underestimated.
“Zhao Xian is too weak, and his knowledge of the Immortal Boat’s past is limited.”
“It seems I’ll have to accelerate his growth a little.”
(End of this chapter)
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