Chapter 1054: Immortal Alliance's Golden Sword Emerges

Li Fan, through repeated observations by deceiving the Heavenly Dao, confirmed that the spiritual energy attributes, once they fully permeated the world again, would in turn influence the Xuanhuang Realm to a certain extent.

For example, if the spiritual energy carried the attribute of "slaughter," the Heavenly Dao of Xuanhuang might encourage cultivators to engage in killing.

If the spiritual energy possessed the attribute of "chaos," it was highly likely that the laws of the Xuanhuang Realm would become unpredictable and unusually strange.

Li Fan recalled an urban legend he had heard before his transmigration, about how people's personalities gradually resembled the original organ donors after receiving organ transplants. The Heavenly Dao was truly like a person, and the Heavenly Physician certainly had not deceived him!

In Li Fan's world-annihilation space, over ten types of mutated Dao-One insects were sealed. Each type possessed unique spiritual energy release attributes, allowing Li Fan to reshape the Xuanhuang Realm to a certain extent according to his own will after the spiritual disaster.

Furthermore, this entire process required no assistance from transmitters like Zhou.

He could accomplish this by himself. In every future reincarnation, he could easily replicate the process.

The so-called cooperation with the transmitters in this life was merely about spreading the arrangements for the impending apocalypse throughout the Xuanhuang Realm in advance.

This had no connection to the current spiritual disaster.

Although Transmitters Zhou and Wei appeared to be the architects of the spiritual disaster, they were, in fact, already ensnared within Li Fan's world-annihilation scheme.

The situation in Shilinzhou unfolded exactly as Li Fan had anticipated.

When the Immortal Alliance Headquarters received the distress call from Shilin Immortal City, their habitual arrogance led them to not attach much importance to it. After all, it was merely an insect plague. A Dao Integration expert could easily suppress and resolve it. Compared to the various emergencies reported by other states, this was truly not a major issue.

Therefore, after some evaluation, the Immortal Alliance Headquarters decided to follow their standard procedure for general affairs.

First, a special envoy was dispatched to Shilinzhou to verify the authenticity of the matter.

Only then would a suitable Dao Integration cultivator be sent to deal with this minor nuisance.

It was only after the Immortal Alliance special envoy reached Shilinzhou, witnessed the horror of the insect plague firsthand, and hastily returned,

that the Immortal Alliance Headquarters increased its level of concern, armed with the firsthand information brought back by the envoy. However, the increase was not significant.

After lengthy discussions and rounds of inquiries to numerous Dao Integration cultivators about their availability,

the chosen person to handle the disaster was finally decided: Immortal Venerable Golden Sword.

When Immortal Venerable Golden Sword unleashed his myriad golden swords, their spiritual power was restrained, inflicting harm solely with their sharp edges. This made them perfectly suited to deal with these black insects.

Upon receiving the Immortal Alliance's appointment, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword readily agreed.

However, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword had a condition: he was currently participating in a very important exchange council and could not extricate himself.

He would only be available in about seven days.

The Immortal Alliance Headquarters then re-evaluated this sudden development.

The attendees unanimously agreed that in just seven days, the insect plague wouldn't undergo any particularly major changes. Waiting would be fine.

After all, other Dao Integration Immortal Venerables might not be as efficient as Immortal Venerable Golden Sword. Moreover, every Dao Integration Immortal Venerable was exceptionally busy. Even if they chose someone else, they might not be able to spare the time.

In truth, there were quite a few Dao Integration cultivators within the Immortal Alliance Headquarters who were currently free.

However, such arduous tasks were typically, by default, assigned only to Dao Integration experts from "outside" the headquarters.

Deliberately finding a difficult task to temporarily transfer a Dao Integration expert from the headquarters was often seen as a precursor to some form of provocation or conspiracy, and thus was not easily resorted to.

Everyone within the Immortal Alliance Headquarters frequently encountered each other, mostly adhering to the principle of "harmony brings wealth."

In summary, due to various conventional reasons, by the time Immortal Venerable Golden Sword, full of satisfaction, bid farewell to the two Transmitters and formally set off for Shilinzhou to deal with the insect plague,

nearly half a month had passed since the plague first erupted.

As per custom, upon arriving in Shilinzhou, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword did not immediately rush to the site of the insect plague.

Instead, he participated in a warm welcoming ceremony hosted by the cultivators of Shilinzhou.

The guests were all pleased, and the event was a complete success.

The next day, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword rested as usual.

It was only on the third day that, accompanied by others, he reached Baishi Grotto-Heaven, which was overrun with black insects.

Upon personally witnessing the overwhelming swarm of densely packed black insects in the underground grotto, even the initially confident Dao Integration Immortal Venerables felt a sudden jolt in their hearts.

However, being seasoned Immortal Venerables, they did not show their emotions. He immediately summoned his myriad golden swords and began slaughtering the black insects.

After taking action, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword felt a little relieved.

Under his sharp sword edges, these black insects, which had strong resistance to spiritual energy techniques, were utterly like paper.

They died in droves, and in just a few moments, the grotto before him was cleared.

Seeing the overjoyed and adoring gazes of the people from Shilinzhou, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword felt quite pleased with himself.

He casually inquired about the size of the underground grotto-heaven, intending to quickly resolve the troublesome situation there in one fell swoop.

To his surprise, the answers from the crowd caught him off guard.

Immortal Venerable Golden Sword's expression turned grim as he demanded to know what they meant by "they didn't know."

After the cultivators of Shilinzhou explained, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword gasped sharply.

It turned out that the so-called Baishi Grotto-Heaven was a massive underground cavern located on the border of Shilinzhou.

Countless branching paths intertwined within the cave.

At regular intervals, the paths would suddenly open up into vast underground chambers.

Within these large halls, grotesque rocks jutted out, growing wildly downwards from the ceiling and outwards from the walls.

They varied in shape, resembling both humans and beasts, striking fear into observers.

Many cultivators had lost their way inside, never to return.

As for the true size of this Baishi Grotto-Heaven, it had never been fully explored.

Some cultivators speculated that the Baishi Grotto-Heaven was excavated by an ancient mythical beast called a Guiyuan Toad.

Although no cultivators had seen such a mythical beast for thousands of years, it was possible that one or two Guiyuan Toads still survived deep within this endless underground labyrinth.

The entire underground area of Shilinzhou might have been hollowed out.

Upon realizing that he might be facing a number of black insects equivalent to the entire area of the state, Immortal Venerable Golden Sword's face darkened, and he demanded to know why such important information hadn't been disclosed earlier.

The Shilinzhou cultivators, looking innocent in the face of Immortal Venerable Golden Sword's questioning, replied that they had fully informed the Immortal Alliance Headquarters when they reported the matter.

Immortal Venerable Golden Sword's face turned ashen. Fully grasping the gravity of the situation, he wasted no more words, raising his sword and cutting deeper into the grotto.

Due to the extensive slaughter of her offspring, the Dao-One Insect Mother seemed to become somewhat agitated. She rolled her plump body.

However, it was merely agitation.

This level of numerical reduction was even slower than the natural rate of the swarm's demise.

Even if three more Immortal Venerable Golden Swords appeared, they would still pose no threat to the Dao-One insect swarm.