Chapter 1048: Mutated Spiritual Energy

However, based on past experience, using the 'Chaos' technique in the Xuanhuang Realm would inevitably attract the attention of the Dharma Transmission Elder, recalling him from the void. With the Dharma Transmission Celestial Venerable personally suppressing the Xuanhuang Realm, very little trouble could arise. All manner of evil spirits and demons would have to steer clear of his might, which is why Li Fan generally would not consider such a method.

Within this colorful space, besides the two creations mentioned above, there was also a third, relatively more mature, world-destruction plan.

This involved launching reinforced small flying objects towards the Immortal Ruins. These flying objects, based on the principle of Tianyang transforming into puppets, were like living beings. Besides the parts that flew towards the Immortal Ruins and attracted the attention of the immortals there, the other half of these entities remained in the Xuanhuang Realm. Once they entered the Immortal Ruins, like the gaze of a prying human, they would alert the immortals within. Then, following the connection between these flying objects, they would traverse the void and pinpoint the Xuanhuang Realm, thereby achieving the effect of world destruction with a single glance, just as Li Fan had inadvertently done before.

Beyond these three methods, all others were still under research and development. They were only theoretically feasible and had not yet been truly tested.

For instance, within the Tianling Continent space, the crisscrossing lines representing the principles of heaven and earth in the Xuanhuang Realm could be completely severed. This would destroy the cornerstone of the Xuanhuang world, causing the world itself to naturally decay and crumble.

Another example would be to mass-produce Dharma artifacts imbued with divine abilities and disseminate them throughout the Xuanhuang Realm. This would inevitably cause chaos in the operation of heaven and earth. Filled with erroneous heavenly commands, they might even overwrite the original, truly necessary operational mechanisms of heaven and earth, leading to global turmoil. Subsequently, the Xuanhuang Realm would likely undergo a certain degree of self-adjustment, which might even trigger drastic changes again.

Li Fan still held the origin of the Heavenly Profound Mirror, and with his highest-level authority, he could voraciously examine the long-sealed archives of the Myriad Immortals Alliance.

The various hardships and disasters that had occurred in the Xuanhuang Great Land throughout history, due to the divine power of the Carefree Celestial Venerable, had long been forgotten by people. Only Li Fan rediscovered them and regarded them as treasures.

The various world-destruction measures within the space were currently Li Fan's only key to contending with powers at the Longevity realm or even beyond.

As the only pure land surviving to this day in the Sea of Utter Darkness, the existence of the Xuanhuang Realm was a prerequisite for cultivators to survive.

And by mastering the methods of world destruction, he held the bargaining chip for negotiating with everyone in the Xuanhuang Realm.

It was not only greatly useful in this world. As long as Li Fan remained in the Xuanhuang Realm, it would be of utmost importance to him.

Therefore, Li Fan simply separated a Saint Embryo, and then used the Faceless True Immortal Stone Statue to bestow cultivation upon it. Forcefully elevating the Saint Embryo to the Golden Core realm was sufficient to support its research work within the space.

Carefully reinforcing the surrounding seven-colored divine light seal, Li Fan then quietly left the place and arrived in the Imperial Small World.

Due to the integration with the Spiritwood Realm, the world itself had undergone some subtle changes. A large number of exotic beasts in the Empire died because they could not adapt to these drastic environmental changes. The remaining ones were listless and took nearly two or three years to slowly regain their vitality.

Currently, in the center of the Empire, where the royal castle once stood, a new dome-shaped building had appeared. It was an experimental facility established by the Myriad Realms Alliance in the Empire.

The spiritual energy synthesizers, after three consecutive generations of improvements, had almost doubled their efficiency in generating spiritual energy. Furthermore, the probability of occasional mutations leading to the failure of the Heaven and Earth Furnace had been significantly reduced. Now, a single Heaven and Earth Furnace could stably and continuously release spiritual energy for a century. This basically met the demands of the Myriad Realms Alliance.

Five years had passed, and the overall spiritual energy concentration in the merged Spiritwood Realm was no longer weaker than that in the Xuanhuang Realm. Of course, this was also partly due to the vastness of the Xuanhuang Realm.

The focus of work for Xiao Qing, Xiao Hong, and others in the Empire had also shifted to coordinating the integration of the Imperial Small World with the Spiritwood Realm.

As for the Imperial Daughter, Li Fan had assigned her another task.

Inside the dome laboratory, the Imperial Daughter was intently staring at countless Dao-One insects, densely packed like a black mist in the space before her. She was so engrossed that she didn't even notice Li Fan's quiet arrival.

Li Fan glanced at the experimental records.

“Ancestral Dao-One Insect Variant, Seventy-Sixth Test.”

“After integrating with the fission fungus, although the lifespan of this variant was greatly shortened, its reproductive efficiency increased by more than a hundredfold.”

“According to calculations, with sufficient resources, a single Dao-One insect would only need seven days to multiply its population to the hundreds of millions.”

“Key recorded information: Although the spiritual energy produced by this type of Dao-One insect could also be absorbed by cultivators without any initial abnormality, if absorbed in excessive amounts, exceeding half of the spiritual energy stored within their bodies, it would subtly influence the cultivators. Cultivators would become more irritable and aggressive.”

“More critically, they would develop a certain dependency on the mutated spiritual energy, feeling that normal spiritual energy was insufficient.”

Li Fan nodded in great satisfaction as he read the detailed experimental information recorded by the Imperial Daughter. The imperial bloodline, derived from Xu Ke's Saint Embryo and passed down through generations, was truly remarkable. The Imperial Daughter had perfectly inherited Xu Ke's talent.

Over these five years, many of the experimental projects she led had achieved significant breakthroughs, especially in the research of Dao-One Insect variants.

The spiritual energy produced by the Dao-One insects underwent many subtle changes in these variants. The new appearance, which made cultivators more irritable, was one such change. Previously, there were also variants that could make cultivators lazy and lose their drive. Alternatively, if the spiritual energy concentration was too high, absorbing it would produce a 'spiritual intoxication' effect. If absorption continued, it could even cause irreversible destructive effects on the cultivators' own minds.

There were countless such examples.

Although these mutated spiritual energies could not destroy the Xuanhuang Realm, they could, to some extent, modify cultivators, causing those within a certain area to uniformly adopt a specific personality.

Li Fan was genuinely interested in this aspect.

After sealing the data of this new variant and hundreds of sample insects into his personal cave-heaven, Li Fan woke the Imperial Daughter, who was still engrossed in her research.

“Greetings, Envoy!” A hint of nervousness flashed in the Imperial Daughter’s eyes, and she quickly bowed in greeting.

“What is the progress on searching for the Holy Emperor?” Li Fan asked.

“Half of the small worlds have already been ruled out. There is still no trace of the Holy Emperor. We estimate that within five more years at most, we will be able to explore all remaining worlds and finally pinpoint the Holy Emperor’s hiding place,” the Imperial Daughter answered truthfully.