Chapter 1114: Blood-Red Formation Activated

Li Fan had experienced similar emotions from Xuanzhen before, to varying degrees.

This included the trembling he felt when first encountering the Eternal Relic, and the intense desire when facing Mr. Bai's skull.

Now, after Li Fan attempted to "feed" Xuanzhen with the recently formed Five Elements Heavenly Cave, Xuanzhen once again provided feedback.

"Not entirely satisfied. Meaning, it's barely acceptable."

A cold glint flashed in Li Fan's eyes. Countless red threads flew out from his inner Heavenly Cave, like billions of tentacles, piercing into the void of the Root of Heaven and Earth.

He intended to seize ownership of the nascent Heavenly Cave from this progenitor entity.

The Root of Heaven and Earth was solely responsible for nurturing Heavenly Caves, so when this creation, destined to separate from it, was slowly stripped away by Li Fan, it did not put up much resistance.

Instead, the nascent Heavenly Cave itself seemed to sense something.

It exerted its utmost to produce faint resistance, attempting to stop Li Fan's assimilation.

But how could a newborn infant compare to a robust adult brother?

Without a doubt.

Amidst continuous faint rumbling, the nascent Heavenly Cave was pulled into the illusory image of the grand Five Elements Heavenly Cave, which resembled a background painting.

Until it was completely swallowed and vanished.

"Buzz… Buzz… Buzz…"

A sharp ringing sound echoed in Li Fan's ears, and the scene before him seemed to dim for a moment.

After everything returned to normal, Li Fan looked at his Xuanzhen panel.

"Current available anchor points: 3"

"It increased by one; it really works. Since devouring Golden Core laws can no longer satisfy Xuanzhen's appetite, the next step is to use Nascent Soul Heavenly Caves of higher quality."

While his conjecture was confirmed and Xuanzhen gained another usable anchor point, Li Fan did not feel particularly happy.

Instead, he kept replaying the emotion Xuanzhen had just displayed.

It was tasteless to eat, yet a pity to discard. But at Li Fan's insistence, Xuanzhen ultimately devoured the nascent Heavenly Cave.

"Currently it desires Heavenly Caves, but what will it want in the future? Small worlds, cultivation realms? Or perhaps the 'Spirit of Heaven and Earth' from the coming changes in the new cultivation system?"

"In any case, it's time to make it crave. Being a picky eater is not a good habit."

In the dark, void space, Li Fan stood suspended.

After pondering for a long time, he slowly departed.

Emerging from the Root of Heaven and Earth, Li Fan then proceeded to the location of the Crimson River.

Protected by the remaining power of the Fishing Pond, this location had still not been discovered by the Myriad Immortals Alliance. The surviving cultivators in this stronghold were the last remaining members of the Myriad Realms Alliance.

They had long known of the complete annihilation of the Spiritwood Realm headquarters. Despite their sorrow and anger, not a single one of them wavered in their faith in the Merciful Immortal of the Mortal World.

This was because they could still feel the omnipresent great divine power of the Merciful Immortal during their meditations.

The cultivators Li Fan sent to the Crimson River to search for historical fragments were mostly hot-blooded young individuals whose cultivation did not exceed the early Golden Core stage.

The Myriad Immortals Alliance was powerful; although their desire for revenge was immense, they knew they were no match.

Therefore, they could only lie dormant for now, secretly accumulating strength.

Without headquarters' support and having lost all their previous reliance, they could only pin their hopes for revenge on that vast Crimson River.

With unwavering conviction, disregarding the depletion of their life force, they immersed themselves in it again and again.

Attempting to uncover its mysteries.

Over three years, out of the original more than one hundred people, only thirty-three ultimately survived.

Moreover, all these survivors had suffered significant life span depletion.

Though young, they all had white hair, appearing like people of advanced age.

However, they were not without gains.

Li Fan studied the insights they had summarized.

"'Compared to those driven purely by self-interest, individuals burdened by deep-seated hatred are better able to maintain clear minds during the exploration of the Crimson River.'"

"'Projecting into the Crimson River seems to involve a sympathetic attraction. For instance, we avengers find it easier to observe cultivators from history who also harbored immense hatred.'"

"'Beyond simply recording light and shadow, it might even be possible to genuinely retrieve things that existed in history. This appears to be a manifestation of the Crimson River's power. However, the trigger probability is extremely low; since the establishment of the Seeker of Secrets, this phenomenon has only occurred once. We are currently researching the conditions required to achieve this goal...'"

Li Fan recorded all these extremely valuable research materials.

He also noted the name of the cultivator diligently responsible for organizing and recording these findings.

Chen Chen.

"'Good. Previously, this person seemed unremarkable among the group. It was only now, under the desperate circumstances of the Alliance's destruction, that he finally demonstrated his leadership abilities.'"

"'He's a promising talent. In the next life, I can put him in an important position earlier. Hmm, let me see which small world he's from...'"

Having achieved his objectives at the Crimson River, Li Fan did not reveal himself or disturb them.

Instead, he allowed this group to continue their mission.

In any case, a year later, the outcome would be no different.

Li Fan quietly departed and then visited various other locations, including the Li Realm, the Empire, and the Nether Realm.

He completed the harvesting of achievements and repeatedly tested and verified his escape plan.

The river of time surged forward.

One day, as Li Fan was tinkering with a small Heavenly Profound Mirror, he suddenly looked up, gazing into the distance.

The first Grand Array of Heaven and Earth's Myriad Spirits was completed.

Li Fan's gaze instantly pierced through layers of spatial barriers, arriving at the mortal world where the Grand Array was located.

The cultivator responsible for constructing this Grand Array, feeling the cultivation reward bestowed by the Merciful Immortal from within, showed excitement on his face.

Guided by an unseen force, he activated the Grand Array without the slightest hesitation.

This mortal world was somewhat larger in scale than Li Fan's homeland, Da Xuan.

However, as the Grand Array of Heaven and Earth's Myriad Spirits activated, the originally clear blue sky suddenly became tainted with an eerie crimson hue.

The crimson color spun back and forth in the sky, like a paintbrush, eventually transforming into a bizarre and terrifying colossal blood-red eye.

The colossal eye gazed indifferently at the myriad living beings below, like the eye of a god.

All living beings in heaven and earth felt an inexplicable sense of extreme dread rise within their hearts at that moment.

Under instinctive fear, their bodies trembled uncontrollably, and they collapsed to the ground.

Even though nothing had happened yet, a sense of despair had already spread across the land.

Of course, there were those who dared to resist the colossal blood-red eye.

But all they could do was curse at the sky and rage ineffectually.

Meanwhile, the cultivator who had personally created the Grand Array of Heaven and Earth's Myriad Spirits in this world stared blankly at the colossal blood-red eye in the sky.

He mumbled to himself, "No, no, how could this be?"