Chapter 1007: Tenfold Dissociation Disk

"I can imagine," Li Fan said coldly. "After all, with the new cultivation method for cultivators, the resources of heaven and earth become completely integrated with one's self, making them indistinguishable. If they were to be extracted again, it would be no different from being pulverized and separated."

"Enlightener Zheng is truly a rare talent. If I ever get the chance, I'd really like to meet him," Li Fan sneered.

Mo Rubing shook his head. "Because his suggestion was rejected, Zheng, in a fit of anger, returned to his own pocket dimension and isn't seeing anyone. It's unlikely there will be any opportunity in the short term. Perhaps before we leave, we can make one last plan."

Li Fan nodded in agreement.

After discussing this interesting matter, Li Fan returned to the Spiritwood Realm with the nine Disintegration Discs.

Inside the underground secret chamber, Li Fan carefully set up another layer of formation protection around himself.

Only then did he take out the nine newly formed Disintegration Discs and place them before him.

No longer suppressing the intermittent urge from his Sea of Consciousness to devour them whole, the ultimate Disintegration Disc flew out directly, like a beast starved for a long time, its eyes glowing red, fixated on its "selves" from this world.

If not for Li Fan's control, the ultimate Disintegration Disc would have probably given in to its instinct long ago and swiftly devoured the nine discs.

But Li Fan still maintained clear thought.

Should he let the ultimate Disintegration Disc devour the nine unmerged discs one by one right now? Or wait until the nine discs unified and formed a complete Disintegration Disc before devouring it?

The answer was obvious.

With great determination, Li Fan restrained the ultimate Disintegration Disc.

He then began to manipulate and facilitate the merging of the nine discs.

At its core, the merging of the nine discs was about the weak perishing and the strong surviving.

For Li Fan, who had personally experienced the unification of the nine discs before and now possessed formation knowledge far surpassing this era, it was a simple task.

He casually selected one of the nine discs as the "lucky one" and drew it into his palm. Then, with a gentle flick of his finger, the ultimate Disintegration Disc floating above emitted a beam of white light.

The constantly changing information within the white light represented countless formations that the Disintegration Discs had not yet recorded at this point in time.

These were formations that the Disintegration Discs would originally have needed a significant amount of time to learn and deduce on their own.

But now, Li Fan roughly crammed all of them into this nascent Disintegration Disc.

This was truly an act of forced growth.

As the nascent Disintegration Disc absorbed more and more formations, its outer glow visibly brightened.

The remaining eight Disintegration Discs seemed to sense danger.

They were forced to operate their deduction speed to their limits.

But how could they compare to the lucky disc that was enjoying the fruits of others' labor?

In less time than it takes to drink a cup of tea, the first Disintegration Disc was eliminated.

After devouring its companion, the lucky disc became even more powerful.

The speed at which it absorbed the new information also accelerated.

Its pace of devouring the other nascent Disintegration Discs also continuously sped up.

Finally...

After half a day, the ultimate winner emerged.

The complete form of this world's Disintegration Disc appeared.

Li Fan did not immediately devour it impatiently. Instead, like a patient gourmet, he processed it meticulously, refining this newly formed complete entity with source power.

Once everything was ready, he finally stopped suppressing the ultimate Disintegration Disc.

And so, the "lucky one" that had ultimately triumphed in the life-and-death struggle among its brethren instantly fell into the mouth of the shadowy orchestrator.

Li Fan seemed to hear faint chewing sounds.

And also, the unwilling and furious wails of the nascent Disintegration Disc.

But the fusion of the two was already fated.

Like returning to simplicity and shedding all superfluous adornments, the previously somewhat shimmering ultimate Disintegration Disc gradually reined in its brilliance as it continuously absorbed the new entity.

It came to resemble an ancient, stone-ground object, utterly unassuming.

Although the deduction process for formations was interrupted by the fusion, as the owner of the ultimate Disintegration Disc, Li Fan clearly felt an unimaginable metamorphosis occurring within it.

It was truly a "world-changing transformation in the blink of an eye."

As the ultimate Disintegration Disc ascended, an inexplicable fluctuation descended with it.

It was strikingly similar to the scene when the Spiritwood Realm ascended; the entire world trembled slightly.

All living beings in the Spiritwood Realm felt it in their hearts, knowing that something extraordinary was taking place.

However, under Li Fan's deliberate concealment, they could not pinpoint the source of the anomaly.

The changes continued.

On its stone-disc-like surface, mysterious patterns spontaneously formed.

Before Li Fan could see them clearly, they receded inward, disappearing from view.

With the blessing of these innate patterns, the faint aura emanating from the ultimate Disintegration Disc became even more extraordinary.

Above the sky of the Spiritwood Realm, a void even inexplicably tore open.

As if something was descending from beyond the void.

Li Fan looked up, his heart filled with anticipation.

However, to his surprise...

The void persisted for a while, but the desired change never arrived.

The ultimate Disintegration Disc seemed to hover just short of the peak, needing only one final step to ascend to the very top.

Yet, invisibly, something seemed to be hindering it, as if an unseen barrier stood before it.

The ultimate Disintegration Disc's aura surged ceaselessly, but it ultimately failed to complete its ultimate metamorphosis.

What rises to the extreme inevitably declines.

The void in the center of the Spiritwood Realm's sky slowly diminished with time.

Eventually, it vanished.

All the anomalies occurring on the ultimate Disintegration Disc also completely subsided.

Li Fan held the new ultimate Disintegration Disc in his hand, deep in thought.

"Something is missing."

"It seems the severance of the Immortal Path also affects pure artifacts."

After soothing the intermittent unwillingness emanating from the ultimate Disintegration Disc, and once it finally accepted this helpless reality, Li Fan began to try operating the sublimated disc.

Although it hadn't completed the transformation to an Immortal Artifact level, its efficiency in deducing formations was now incomparable to before!

Most notably, the speed at which it analyzed the Myriad Spirit Convergence Array was not just several times faster.

It even performed its own deductions concurrently with the analysis.

Moreover, it still had surplus capacity to undertake the previous deduction task of deciphering the Heavenly Venerate's prohibitions!

Even more astonishing, Li Fan keenly observed that this wasn't even the new ultimate Disintegration Disc operating at full power!

It still had reserved power!

Li Fan estimated that after devouring its other self, the ultimate Disintegration Disc's overall deduction efficiency had expanded by more than tenfold!

"This..."

While it hadn't ascended to the Immortal Artifact level, Li Fan believed that the ultimate Disintegration Disc was absolutely at the pinnacle of mortal artifacts.

In terms of pure formation deduction ability alone, it might even be comparable to some Immortal Artifacts!

The effectiveness was truly far beyond Li Fan's expectations!

"Did this self-fusion bring about an effect far greater than the sum of its parts...?"

Li Fan immediately fell into deep thought.