Chapter 791: The False Transfer of Heavenly Geography
Chapter 791: The False Transfer of Heavenly Geography
Without pausing for long.
Xu Bai, who had just ascended to the Soul Transformation realm, made his next move.
And this time, it sent Li Fan, who was still reeling in shock, into a state of panic. His heart pounded in his chest, and a suffocating sensation washed over him.
As everyone knew.
In the Xuanhuang Realm, after the Dharma Spreader established the New Law, one had to sacrifice an Earth's Soul to reach the Dao Integration realm.
Before this, Li Fan had considered the path the holy embryo Xu Bai might take to Dao Integration.
Crimson Flame, Green Wind, Black Swamp...
Or perhaps even the immensely powerful Ink Death, which carried out the duty of world annihilation.
his understanding was once again utterly overturned!
The holy embryo Xu Bai stood motionless in mid-air, like a stone statue.
Yet, it was as if something was descending from the heavens.
It settled upon the holy embryo Xu Bai's body!
Boom!
A few images flashed through Li Fan's mind in an instant.
A fertile land, brimming with life. A blurry figure descended, and then a thousand miles were sealed in ice. As far as the eye could see, everything fell into a deathly silence.
Earth's Soul: Vast Ice!
In the holy embryo Xu Bai's originally pitch-black hair, a single streak of frost-white suddenly appeared.
Although it quickly returned to normal, this phenomenon sent a profound shock through Li Fan.
Because according to the insights transmitted from the holy embryo Xu Bai's body, in that brief moment, he had shockingly mastered the authority of the Earth's Soul, Vast Ice!
The Earth's Souls, born to uphold their heavenly duties, each possessed unique powers.
Once a cultivator killed and sacrificed one, taking its place, they could instantly seize and control the power that originally belonged to heaven and earth.
This was also why the combat prowess of New Law Dao Integration cultivators generally far surpassed that of the Old Law.
But now, on the holy embryo Xu Bai, something that seemed to violate the ironclad rules of the New Law was happening.
He hadn't killed an Earth's Soul, yet its authority had simply been transferred to him!
And that was only the first one!
Silently, a second ripple of power seemed to traverse thousands of miles.
It descended upon the holy embryo Xu Bai.
Another vision flooded Li Fan's sight.
A thousand miles of barren land, infested with strange insects, where not a single blade of grass grew. Suddenly, a fine drizzle began to fall upon the world.
The once-barren soil, nourished by the rain, gradually became fertile. The strange insects, however, seemed to have encountered a terrifying predator.
Amid desperate screeches, their bodies slowly dissolved, washed away by the rain to become fertilizer for the earth.
Earth's Soul: Indigo Rain!
The holy embryo Xu Bai's hair seemed to grow slightly longer.
Li Fan's heart stopped for a moment.
Because in that instant, the holy embryo Xu Bai had also mastered the authority of Indigo Rain.
In just a few moments, he had taken on the power of two Earth's Souls.
Yet, the holy embryo Xu Bai was not satisfied. He closed his eyes.
Facing the sky, he stretched out his hands, opening his arms as if to embrace it.
From east to west, from south to north.
Earth's Souls came one after another.
"Fuck!"
Li Fan cursed inwardly, snapping out of his stupor and quickening his pace.
"At this rate, I won't have time to set up the Chaos Character puppets in every province."
"I can only pick the provinces with the most cultivators."
"After I'm done, I need to get back to Longevity Valley as fast as possible."
As Li Fan flew towards the nearest celestial city, he replayed and observed everything happening to the holy embryo Xu Bai, his thoughts racing.
"He gained their authority without killing them."
"This is the false transfer of heavenly principles..."
"Even for an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, this is going too far!"
"Ordinary cultivators can inherit the power of an Earth's Soul by killing it because of the Heavenly Venerate's New Law."
"But what the holy embryo Xu Bai is doing..."
"This isn't sacrificing an Earth's Soul at all. He's *becoming* the Earth's Souls!"
In an instant, Li Fan understood the holy embryo Xu Bai's plan.
Even with the talent of a Heavenly Dao incarnation, reversing the logic of heaven and earth was not something that could be achieved overnight.
In fact, from the conversation he'd overheard between Sun Liancheng and Sun Qi, he knew that the deeper one's Heavenly Grace, the more difficult it was to reverse the logic of heaven and earth, and the more severe the backlash.
It was highly likely that the holy embryo Xu Bai couldn't reach the Longevity realm at all.
But after his resurrection, his opponents would undoubtedly be those Longevity Heavenly Venerates.
Dao Integration and Longevity—a single realm's difference was a chasm as wide as the heavens.
How could he possibly contend with them?
The only way was to push the power of the Dao Integration realm to its absolute limit.
A single Earth's Soul was equivalent to the power of one Dao Integration cultivator.
If the power of one wasn't enough to rival a Longevity Heavenly Venerate, then what about ten? Or a hundred!
The powers of all kinds of different Earth's Souls were merging into the holy embryo Xu Bai's body.
With each one he fused, his aura leaped to a new level.
The images Li Fan perceived were also gradually blurring.
From being fully immersed at the beginning, it was now like watching through a thin film, and then like seeing flowers in a fog.
Li Fan was losing absolute control over the holy embryo Xu Bai.
Which meant...
Mr. Bai was awakening!
Li Fan seized this last chance to extract as much information as he could from the holy embryo Xu Bai.
"So that's how it is..."
"His mastery of the Earth's Souls' powers doesn't mean they no longer exist in the Xuanhuang Realm."
"Instead, through a 'false transfer,' he is temporarily shifting the power that originally belonged to the Earth's Souls onto himself."
"Countless different types of energy are merging without the slightest hint of rejection."
"This method... no one other than a Heavenly Dao incarnation could withstand it, no matter how talented..."
"No, this isn't a matter of talent at all."
Li Fan also keenly noticed something else.
As the number of Earth's Soul authorities being falsely transferred increased, the holy embryo Xu Bai's physical form was also subtly changing.
His height and silhouette were becoming more like the phantoms of the Earth's Souls!
The pressure grew stronger and stronger, and Li Fan felt the full weight of impending doom, of life and death hanging in the balance.
Fortunately, once the holy embryo Xu Bai had finished falsely transferring all the powers of the wandering Earth's Souls in the world...
his process of Dao Integration actually slowed down.
Because next up were the Earth's Souls that didn't normally exist in the world, those that only descended at critical moments.
The sky over Tianling Province suddenly dimmed.
A barely perceptible shadow attached itself to the holy embryo Xu Bai.
Boom!
As if his head had been smashed by a heavy blow, Li Fan, who had finished all his preparations and was rushing back to Longevity Valley, nearly stumbled and fell from the sky.
Earth's Soul: Nether Shadow!
Sensing the information being transmitted, a drop of sweat trickled down Li Fan's forehead.
It wasn't out of fear.
It was because sharing a body with the holy embryo Xu Bai was now placing immense strain on him.
To put it bluntly, it was a case of, "What gives you the right to share a body with me?"
The images flickered in and out of existence, but Li Fan could sense that another extremely powerful Earth's Soul seemed to be descending upon Tianling Province.
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PS: The so-called "false transfer" is the process of transferring the numerical attributes of one item onto another.
(End of Chapter)
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