Chapter 1123: Myriad Spirits Subduing True Immortal |
As for the Nether Prison, after such a large-scale escape incident, it had become a name without substance.
After completing the transfer of the remaining prisoners, even the entrance to the Nether Prison was no longer concealed. It was thus abandoned.
Time slowly passed, and no one came here again. It was as if the world had forgotten it entirely.
After an unknown period, Li Fan's figure slowly appeared.
"Suppressed at the deepest part of the Nether Prison, even I could not see the face clearly."
"The transfer required three Dharma-Transmitters to come personally..."
"Interesting."
Instead of fleeing immediately with the group of escaped cultivators, Li Fan hid directly at the entrance. His goal was to explore the object imprisoned at the deepest part of the Nether Prison, which he had been unable to approach during those three years.
It was not that the formation at the deepest level was so profound that Li Fan could not break it, but rather that the jailers in charge there were three Dao Integration Immortal Sages working together.
When the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's relief team arrived and began the transfer, Li Fan finally caught a glimpse of that prisoner. It vaguely felt familiar to Li Fan.
However, obscured by secret arts, he could not confirm it completely.
"Before the Myriad Spirits Great Formation is completed, it is not advisable to stir up more trouble."
"I will investigate it thoroughly in the next life."
"The only thing to do now is to bide my time and watch the world turn upside down!"
Li Fan gazed toward the distant horizon, as if he could see the Myriad Spirits Great Formation lighting up across over a thousand mortal worlds.
The Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits Great Formation displayed to the group of vicious criminals was not the complete name of the formation.
This formation was derived from the Final Dissociation Disc over the course of three years. It represented the highest level of formation that the Dissociation Disc could derive in its current state.
Taking the previous Myriad Spirits Great Formation that covered the Spiritwood Realm, the Empire, and the Beast Realm as its prototype, it was further evolved into a shocking formation of the world.
The full name of the formation was [Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits, All Beings Refine the Spirits].
The primary function of this formation, and the very purpose for which Li Fan had gone to such lengths to free the prisoners from the Nether Prison and make them fight for him, was embodied in those four words: [All Beings Refine Spirits].
It shared a similar principle with the All Beings Refine Spirita Formation that Song Hesong of Ningyuan City had used against Senior Brother Zhang in the Fallen Immortal Realm.
The killing power of the formation came from the intent of heaven and earth myriad spirits and countless beings.
However, after Li Fan's revised version... It was hundreds of billions of times stronger. Because the required materials to consume had increased by hundreds of billions of times.
Back then, Song Hesong, using the power of one city's mortals, had nearly forced Senior Brother Zhang into a desperate situation, compelling him to reveal the mystery of the Purple Core's immortality.
But Li Fan, using over a thousand small worlds and trillions of lives in the Xuanhuang Realm, aimed only to block the Faceless True Immortal for a moment.
After the Spiritwood Realm was annihilated by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, during those three years hiding in the Nether Prison, Li Fan had been constantly reflecting and reviewing the final world-destroying plan.
After all, this was the first time clashing with True Immortal power. Even if it was borrowing force to strike force and watching immortals fight from afar, it still carried endless risks.
These two were genuine immortals who had transcended the mortal world. Not stubborn Foundation Establishment cultivators.
If they were truly so easy to scheme against, how could they be worthy of the name True Immortal?
Once it failed, it would be a state of no return from endless calamities.
Especially after experiencing the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's siege, which revealed an unexpected trump card and directly wiped out the Spiritwood Realm, Li Fan had become unprecedentedly cautious regarding the world-destroying plan.
He calculated every possible scenario into account. Thus, he discovered a problem that he had previously overlooked due to his assumptions.
In Li Fan's original plan, he would first draw upon the power of the Immortal Ruins Immortal, and then use this transcendent force beyond the mortal realm to provoke a reaction from the Faceless True Immortal.
Indeed, living beings always instinctively react to things that threaten them.
In the simulation and prediction, the Faceless True Immortal and the Immortal Ruins Immortal should first notice each other and engage in battle. While ignoring Li Fan, the true instigator of the matter.
But this was only in the ideal scenario. What if, after ascending to immortality, their thought patterns no longer resembled those of mortals?
Or, if they sensed the presence of [Truth] on Li Fan's body. Instead of immediately targeting their evenly matched opponent, they locked onto Li Fan first?
If no preparations were made, and if he were targeted by a True Immortal at that moment, he might not even have time to flee to the Dark Realm or forcibly activate [Truth].
The more he thought about it, the more Li Fan found it hard to eat or sleep peacefully.
In the end, he decided that at the very least, he needed to find a method to buy him that sliver of time.
And the [Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits, All Beings Refining Spirits] Great Formation was the final answer provided by the Dissociation Disc.
The gap between cultivators and mortals, or between True Immortals and cultivators, was as vast as a heavenly chasm.
But when the quantity reached a certain level, it could produce a terrifying qualitative change.
"Even a True Immortal, plunged into the endless sea of thoughts from trillions of living beings, would surely experience a moment of hesitation."
"This fleeting daze it buys me is my only chance of survival."
The power of a True Immortal could indeed destroy Xuanhuang in an instant.
However, if things developed as Li Fan predicted, after locking onto him, the True Immortal would not directly annihilate the Xuanhuang Realm just to capture this ant scheming in the shadows.
This would give Li Fan an opening to exploit.
"Heh, over a thousand mortal worlds, countless living beings' thoughts."
"What a colossal power this is. Yet no matter how I simulate it, it can only delay them by a mere instant."
"This absolute disparity in strength..."
"It truly makes one yearn for it."
Li Fan clasped his hands behind his back and fell silent.
With the Faceless True Immortal's power constraining them, those vicious prisoners would undoubtedly complete the construction of the great formation obediently.
Li Fan did not need to worry about that point.
And once the great formation was complete, it would no longer be something they could control.
"The day the All Beings Refining Spirits Formation is completed will be the day Xuanhuang meets its end."
"It is near, within a year."
During this period, Li Fan only needed to wait patiently. At the final juncture of this world, Li Fan still had some loose ends to tie up.
He first arrived in Tianling Prefecture, at the site of the original Five Elements Great Cave-Heaven.
Ever since the Five Elements Cave-Heaven, nurtured for who knows how many years, was devoured by Li Fan, a new Five Elements Cave-Heaven had begun to form in this formless void known as [Root of Heaven and Earth].
However, this process was particularly slow. Only now had the embryonic form of the Cave-Heaven faintly begun to manifest.
Li Fan strolled through the void, circulating the False Misconversion Heavenly Dao Divine Ability to perceive the principles of heaven and earth.
Sensing the rhythm like a heartbeat, Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, carefully awaiting the prompt for [Truth].
And from this innate wondrous treasure of his, Li Fan faintly sensed a thread of dissatisfaction.
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