Chapter 967: Gods and Demons Unleashed Upon the Alliance
Chapter 967: Gods and Demons Unleashed Upon the Alliance
Deep within the hearts of Luoyan Province’s cultivators, a potent brew of dissatisfaction and despair had long been fermenting.
Now, deliberately stoked by Li Fan, these simmering emotions were like a volcano on the verge of a cataclysmic eruption.
And just then, Li Fan offered them an outlet—and a glimmer of hope.
It was a supreme secret art, a path to power that required no cultivation, yet promised to utterly crush the arrogant scions of the great clans who lorded over them!
“Beyond all realms, adrift in the boundless void, there exists a supreme being—the Red Dust Compassionate Immortal—who witnesses the suffering of all living things.”
“Though bound to an infernal realm, tasked with suppressing countless gods and demons, his heart remains ever with the mortal races.”
“Thus, he has bestowed this secret art upon the world, granting all an equal footing, a chance to fight for their own destiny...”
As these whispers spread, the mysterious veil shrouding the [Divine Advent] technique was finally lifted before the assembled cultivators.
To their astonishment, they actually summoned avatars of gods and demons powerful enough to rival Nascent Soul and even Soul Transformation cultivators!
No matter how unbelievable it seemed, the proof was undeniable.
The temptation to achieve, in the blink of an eye, a leap in power that might otherwise take a lifetime was a lure few could resist.
Even the few who suspected it was a trap...
...found themselves willingly swallowing the poison.
In their minds, this newfound power was the key to achieving all the things they had only dreamed of before.
What they did not know, what they could never have foreseen, was that...
...the moment they cultivated the Divine Advent technique and summoned their demonic avatars, their thoughts and actions would cease to be their own.
Under Li Fan’s subtle guidance, these once-ambitious cultivators of Luoyan Province cast aside their personal goals.
They slipped away from Luoyan Province, traveling to remote prefectures they would have never considered visiting before.
It was as if some unseen force was drawing them there, awaiting their arrival.
With a Dharma Transmitter visiting Luoyan Province, security was on high alert.
However, the Transmitter had issued orders to avoid disturbing the populace and maintain a low profile, so all defensive measures were highly specific and targeted.
Consequently, Luoyan Province was never fully locked down, allowing these cultivators to depart without any obstruction.
The simultaneous departure of so many cultivators in such a short time was certainly suspicious.
Under normal circumstances, it would have immediately triggered an alarm within the local Immortal Alliance.
But with the Dharma Transmitter present...
...what could possibly be more important than ensuring the great man was well-received?
If they failed to provide proper hospitality and the Transmitter, in his anger, decided to lay blame, not even Immortal Sage Jicheng could protect them. They would be forced to cut their losses and sacrifice whatever was necessary to survive.
Centuries of carefully built prosperity in Luoyan Province would vanish in an instant.
It was a consequence they could not afford.
Therefore, hosting the Dharma Transmitter had become the absolute priority, overshadowing all other matters in Luoyan Province.
As a result, any investigation into the mass departure of the cultivators was temporarily shelved.
By the time the disciples had all quietly completed their transfer and spread out, the Dharma Transmitter, having enjoyed his stay, finally took his leave at a leisurely pace.
Upon his departure, a retinue of black-robed cultivators destroyed a portion of the local records, citing the need to strictly protect the Transmitter’s movements and maintain confidentiality.
After the pandemonium of the visit subsided and Luoyan Province returned to normal, the local cultivators conducted a thorough inspection. They found nothing amiss.
Everything seemed exactly as it had been before.
Back on track, the cultivators of the Luoyan Province Immortal Alliance began to dream of the bright future that awaited them. Having earned the favor of a Dharma Transmitter, surely their fortunes were about to soar.
They were blissfully unaware, however, that a terrible catastrophe had already slipped through their fingers, unleashed upon the world by their own negligence.
“It is time.”
Thirty days later, the cultivators who had spread from Luoyan Province had, through their efforts, increased the number of indoctrinated disciples by an order of magnitude.
Feeling the time was ripe, Mo Rubin contacted Li Fan through one of the demonic avatars.
Li Fan, in turn, gazed down at a map spread before him, depicting every prefecture of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
His eyes fell upon the countless red dots scattered across its surface, and a faint smile touched his lips.
In his sea of consciousness, the gloomy, spectral domain instantly emptied.
All the demonic gods vanished without a trace, leaving the space vacant and unexpectedly bright.
And at that exact moment, countless ancient gods and demons, born from Li Fan’s imagination, descended upon the Xuanhuang Realm!
The cultivators who practiced the Divine Advent technique had all lost the capacity for independent thought.
They were now mere puppets, vessels for the powerful entities they had summoned, acting in perfect accordance with Li Fan’s will.
One by one, the avatars of gods and demons launched simultaneous assaults on the Alliance’s celestial cities across the land.
Even with the defensive arrays of the celestial cities now being rotated every three months, they were utterly useless against Li Fan.
The demonic avatars bypassed the grand defensive arrays with contemptuous ease, as if the barriers didn't exist at all.
They poured into the heart of each celestial city.
Compared to the war-torn territories of the Five Elders Council, the celestial cities of the Immortal Alliance had known true, lasting peace.
The great war between the Alliance and the Council was confined to a few border prefectures. For the overwhelming majority of cultivators, the conflict was a distant affair, something witnessed only through the Tianxuan Mirror.
It remained a world away from their daily lives.
They never imagined that they themselves would one day face such an attack!
The moment the demonic gods breached the defenses and flooded into the cities, the vast majority of the Alliance cultivators chose to flee...
...rather than stand and fight.
“The Immortal Alliance is *your* Alliance, not mine.”
This was the thought that echoed in the minds of nearly every fleeing cultivator.
Only a handful of cultivators—those with fire still in their hearts, along with the members of the Martial Hall tasked with security—rallied and charged forward to meet the threat.
They clashed with the thousands of demonic invaders.
But behind these demonic entities was Li Fan, pulling every string.
Though his consciousness was split among too many avatars to allow for perfect control over each one...
...the sheer collective power of the demonic host, forged from the absorbed consciousness of countless cultivators, was more than enough to overwhelm the defenders.
After all...
...Li Fan was not fighting alone.
He was wielding the minds and spirits of hundreds of thousands of cultivators.
Combined with his own combat acumen, which far surpassed that of any ordinary cultivator, the Alliance's standard defenses quickly crumbled and fell.
Aware of the existence of the Immortal Ruins, Li Fan chose not to slaughter them.
Instead, his avatars split again and again, forcibly invading the minds of the defeated Alliance cultivators.
They became new hosts, fresh fuel for the Divine Advent technique.
Before long, these bodies, now devoid of their original consciousness, would involuntarily summon demonic avatars of their own.
The infection spread, fueling itself, multiplying continuously.
In just half a day, the number of demonic avatars under Li Fan's command had swelled to a truly terrifying magnitude.
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