Chapter 790: World Birthing Change
Chapter 790: World Birthing Change
Sensing Dongfang Yao’s distant figure through his Formless Killing Intent, Li Fan thought to himself.
“That man, Dongfang Yao...”
“He’s impressive.”
Withdrawing his gaze, Li Fan quietly made his way to an unremarkable stone forest.
It was located in Zhuhuai Province, a barren region with scarce resources. Explorations had already confirmed the absence of any small worlds or entrances to grotto-heavens, so cultivators rarely ventured here anymore.
It suited Li Fan's purpose perfectly.
Like Dongfang Yao, he planned to spend the coming days setting up his own contingencies across the Xuanhuang Realm.
After descending nearly ten kilometers underground and carving out a hidden chamber, Li Fan took out a pile of shattered puppet components.
Upon closer inspection, the red filaments on each component appeared to be part of a character's stroke.
This was the method Li Fan had devised to deconstruct the Chaos Character technique!
He laid out a formation, placing the puppet's core at its center.
Then, he arranged the various components randomly throughout the formation.
“When a specific condition is met, the formation will activate the core, and the puppet will reassemble in an instant.”
“The Chaos Character will become whole.”
“Then, the puppet will self-destruct, providing the energy to unleash the technique.”
As these thoughts ran through Li Fan's mind, he finished arranging the last of the scattered components.
Thin strands of silver light flowed through the formation, passing through the puppet components that served as nodes, linking the entire array.
With a gentle tap from Li Fan, the formation went dormant, not a single trace of its aura escaping.
“This one is done.”
“It's a simple setup, but its very simplicity makes it less likely to be discovered.”
Li Fan nodded in satisfaction. He didn't even bother setting up a concealment array before quietly departing.
After all, he had refined over a thousand of these Chaos Character puppets.
Even if a few were discovered by chance, it would be no great loss and wouldn't compromise his overall plan.
After emerging from the earth, Li Fan scanned his surroundings to ensure he wasn't being followed.
He proceeded to bury two more Chaos Character puppets in other locations within Zhuhuai Province.
Once his work there was done, he headed for the neighboring Shouyi Province.
He intended to plant three or four puppets in every province of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
“When the time comes, all the Chaos Characters will activate at once. Even a Longevity Celestial Venerable would be distracted, their sight momentarily clouded.”
Li Fan moved quickly.
Just as he methodically finished his work in the thirty-fifth province, he abruptly stopped what he was doing.
“Is it finally time to ascend to the Soul Transformation stage?”
Li Fan looked up, his gaze fixed on the horizon.
The journey of his Holy Embryo clone, Xu Bai, across the Xuanhuang Realm had, at that very moment, reached its destination.
The final World Birthing Change he absorbed into his personal grotto-heaven was the [Birthing of the Tianling Flower].
“I once thought the Tianling Flower, tainted by malevolent qi and its beauty lost forever, would never be seen again. Yet here it is, reborn.”
“It seems the self-regenerating power of the Xuanhuang Realm is truly extraordinary,” Li Fan reflected.
As Xu Bai absorbed this worldly transformation, a metaphorical spring breeze swept through the grotto-heaven world.
Countless flowers burst into bloom one after another, creating a breathtakingly beautiful scene.
Even Li Fan, countless miles away, could almost smell the floral fragrance wafting from Xu Bai's grotto-heaven.
It was as if the final piece of a grand puzzle had fallen into place.
The entire grotto-heaven finally ascended, reaching the status of a small world.
A peculiar energy began to circulate within the new world.
It flowed from the heavens, through all of creation, and into the very soil.
Then the cycle would repeat.
A faint rumbling echoed from deep within the earth.
It joined the sounds of rain and wind, the chirping of insects and the calls of birds, all combining into a grand, vibrant symphony of life.
Li Fan felt as if he could see the future of this world: a continuous process of expansion and ascension.
His clone, Xu Bai, stood suspended in the void above Tianling Province.
Though no other cultivator detected his presence, the subtle change he had caused in Tianling Province did not go entirely unnoticed.
For instance, Sun Qi, who was in the middle of reporting his progress on the [Reversing the Heaven and Earth Record] to Sun Liancheng, suddenly fell silent.
He lifted his head, his gaze turning to the sky outside.
“What is it?” Sun Liancheng followed his gaze but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
Sun Qi's brows furrowed in concentration. After a long moment, he slowly shook his head.
“Perhaps it was just my imagination.”
“For a fleeting moment, I thought I felt the world reviving.”
“But it lasted only an instant.”
“The feeling is gone now.”
Sun Qi spoke slowly, enunciating each word. Yet, the lingering doubt in his eyes suggested it was far more than a simple illusion.
“The world, reviving...” Sun Liancheng murmured, his eyes narrowing as he fell deep into thought.
Meanwhile, perceiving the scene through his Formless Killing Intent, Li Fan felt a sense of gravity.
He was the only one who knew that Sun Qi's intuition was correct.
The nascent power of revival in Tianling Province had been extracted by Xu Bai and infused into his own grotto-heaven world.
Without this catalyst, it would take Tianling Province a great deal of time to gather the strength needed to return to its former prosperity.
The revival force of Tianling Province was slightly different from that of the Cong Yun Sea.
The Cong Yun Sea represented a creative transformation—from life to death, and from destruction to rebirth.
Tianling Province, on the other hand, embodied the natural cycle of life, a transition from desolation to flourishing vitality.
With the addition of this transformation, the grotto-heaven within Xu Bai finally completed its evolution into a small world.
Sharing a connection with his clone, Li Fan had an unobstructed view of the scenery within this nascent world.
His divine sense swept across the landscape, gazing down upon the sprawling, vibrant continent below.
A flicker of familiarity stirred within him.
“This terrain...”
“I feel like I've seen it somewhere before.”
To confirm his suspicion, he quickly located several iconic mountain ranges and river systems.
“Just as I thought. It's identical.”
A tremor ran through Li Fan's heart.
“This is...”
“...the ancient Xuanhuang Realm?!”
Through the writings of Ximen Yu, Li Fan had learned about the topographical differences between the ancient Xuanhuang Realm and its present-day form.
If one were to remove the White Mist Barrier and piece together the scattered provinces, the result would be the Xuanhuang Realm in its original, ancient form!
And that was precisely what Xu Bai had accomplished during this time!
“Ordinary Soul Transformation cultivators rely on the transformation of a single province, a single type of change.”
“But for Xu Bai to ascend to Soul Transformation, he used...”
Li Fan's heart jolted.
“The World Birthing Change!”
“He used the world within his body to simulate the very changes the Xuanhuang Realm itself is destined to undergo!”
“The result of the Xuanhuang Realm's evolution, free from the interference of cultivators and Celestial Venerables!”
“This...”
The more Li Fan contemplated it, the more profound his shock became.
“Unless one were an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, with the full support of the world itself, this would be impossible!”
“Not even I could do it, no matter how many times I tried with [Truth]!”
Understanding dawned on Li Fan.
Despite ascending to the Soul Transformation stage, Xu Bai's aura remained utterly unchanged.
He stood silently in the void, appearing no different from an ordinary mortal.
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