Chapter 1399: Xuanhuang as Slices

"Moreover, the destruction of the Heaven Law Realm happened a long time ago. Even my memories of it have become somewhat hazy. Yet this person before me can actually restore it..."

"And then directly state that it was created for me? Does this mean they possess the power to see into people's hearts?"

"The methods of a True Immortal are truly inconceivable."

In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Tianyi's mind.

Finally, they all converged into a wry smile: "Senior, why do you jest..."

However, the person opposite seemed truly able to read Tianyi's thoughts, gently extending a hand to interrupt him: "For this Venerable One to toy with you should be your honor."

"However..."

"If you dislike it, then let it be destroyed."

Tianyi saw the faint smile on the young True Immortal's face vanish instantly.

His gaze became incredibly indifferent.

It was a true and utter apathy, viewing all things as mere ants.

In fact, it was several times colder than Tianyi's own attitude when facing the beings of the Xuanhuang Realm!

The non-existent intimacy between them, which had briefly seemed present during their earlier conversation, vanished. Tianyi felt as if a bottomless chasm had suddenly opened up between them. On the other side of the chasm, the young True Immortal's surroundings continuously rose, eventually reaching into the clouds.

The young True Immortal looked down, gazing at Tianyi from above.

As if stared down by an ancient primeval beast, Tianyi's heart suddenly pounded.

Then, he watched as the young True Immortal, with a wave of his hand, instantly reduced Tianyi's cherished homeland, the Heaven Law Realm, to ashes right before his eyes!

Even though he knew in his heart that the Heaven Law Realm before him was an illusion.

Even though he knew he was facing a True Immortal.

As he witnessed the Heaven Law Realm being destroyed once again before his very eyes, Tianyi couldn't help but conceive the idea of fighting to the death against that lofty young True Immortal.

But it was, after all, just an impulse born of a momentary surge of emotion.

Moreover, as if sensing the contents of Tianyi's mind again, the scene in the void where the Heaven Law Realm had been destroyed changed once more.

It was none other than the current Xuanhuang Realm!

However, unlike the scene in the Heaven Law Realm, countless figures bustled within the Xuanhuang Realm.

They seemed like real beings, cultivating and living within the world.

The young True Immortal smiled again, and in Tianyi's eyes, the barrier between himself and the True Immortal vanished instantly.

Walking upon the lands of the Xuanhuang Realm, he spoke casually with Tianyi, who was compelled to follow behind him: "Originally, you had no right to speak with me."

"Nor would I be interested in conversing with any mortal. Even if you stood at the peak of the lower realm, as long as you hadn't taken that step, it would remain the same."

Tianyi's expression shifted slightly, and he opened his mouth as if to argue. But in the end, he merely said with resignation, "This, junior naturally understands."

The young True Immortal nodded, seemingly pleased with Tianyi's reaction. Then, with a soft sigh, he repeated with emotion: "Originally."

"But alas, during that great catastrophe, too many True Immortals perished. How many survived in the entire mortal realm? It is truly too desolate."

"Unfortunate. Unfortunate," Li Fan remarked with a click of his tongue.

"Therefore, for those of you who have the chance to become my kind, I will slightly alter my attitude. I might even lend you a hand to break through the shackles between immortals and mortals..."

"Perhaps."

As Li Fan finished speaking, Tianyi's heart began to tremble uncontrollably once more upon hearing his words.

Before he could ponder whether the young True Immortal's words were serious or merely a jest.

Li Fan then pointed to the Xuanhuang Realm conjured by the immortal array and said indifferently, "Your method is quite ingenious among mortals. But in my eyes..."

"It is truly laughable."

"Thousands of years of painstaking effort. If you had spent that on your own cultivation, you might have already ascended to the immortal realm. Once you become an immortal, what is there to worry about not achieving?"

Watching the young True Immortal's haughty demeanor, Tianyi hesitated to speak.

But recalling the True Immortal's cultivation, he swallowed back all his words.

However, the young True Immortal had no intention of letting him off so easily on this matter.

Li Fan's expression was unreadable, his tone distant, as he slowly said, "Bringing the dead back to life, how is that an inconvenient matter?"

"Even creating something from nothing is but a thought away!"

His white robes fluttering, Li Fan appeared eerily before Tianyi.

He extended his right hand, hovering it over Tianyi's snow-white hair.

Before Tianyi's eyes, the vibrant Xuanhuang Realm solidified. After a brief pause, it rapidly shrank, transforming in an instant into a palm-sized, frozen crystal.

It was as if he had returned to the vast void of the Star Sea, and the surroundings reverted to endless darkness.

Tianyi merely stared blankly at the "Xuanhuang Crystal" before him.

Trembling, he reached out and picked up the Xuanhuang Crystal.

Though no larger than an inch, it seemed to genuinely contain an entire world!

Touching the sacred crystal, Tianyi felt a faint premonition. He wouldn't need to rely on the real Xuanhuang Realm. Even with just this crystal containing a world, the Heaven Law Realm could be resurrected!

"This kind of power..."

Tianyi's mind was a chaotic mess.

Li Fan's voice, however, resounded in his ears once more.

"The temperaments of True Immortals vary."

"The one guarding outside the current Xuanhuang Realm..."

"Heh heh, she won't be as benevolent as I am. In her eyes, it wouldn't matter even if she were the only one left in the world."

Tianyi recalled the True Immortal in the Immortal Ruins who, while enlightened, had been about to extinguish the Star Sea without regard for the lives of its inhabitants. He couldn't help but subtly agree with Li Fan's statement.

"Therefore, if you truly wish to save your homeland, then go and achieve True Immortal status!"

"This world crystal shall be my gift to you."

Li Fan's voice gradually faded.

After a distortion, the scene before Tianyi's eyes returned to the sprawling, ruined Great Wall.

The young True Immortal had long since vanished.

Only the Xuanhuang Realm crystal he held in his hand reminded Tianyi that everything that had just happened was not his imagination.

Tianyi re-examined the miniature Xuanhuang Realm in his hand. It seemed to have resumed its operations.

The beings within the realm continued their lives, completely unaware.

They even ignored a line of large characters floating across the sky.

"Oh, and by the way, my patience isn't particularly good."

"You have a thousand days. If by then, you show no signs of breaking through..."

"Heh heh heh."

The young True Immortal's incredibly cold laughter echoed in Tianyi's mind.

Tianyi's breathing abruptly hitched.

It was as if he was once again confronted by the young True Immortal's utterly indifferent gaze.

Clenching the Xuanhuang Realm crystal tightly, Tianyi looked at the countdown in the sky. He felt a weight he had never experienced before.

From their brief encounter, Tianyi had gained a profound understanding of the young True Immortal's capricious nature and his unfathomable abilities.

Not to mention the immortal array that had instantly trapped him, leaving no discernible flaws.

Even this display before his eyes, the power to conjure an entire Xuanhuang Realm from nothing and then present it as a crystal, was beyond Tianyi's current imagination.

"A thousand days to ascend to True Immortal status?" Tianyi's brow furrowed as he began to ponder countermeasures.

"Perhaps, the only hope is that invisible high wall..."

Tianyi couldn't help but look towards a void not far away.

For a long time, through his persistent efforts at comprehension, he had come very close to truly understanding the secret of the high wall.

However, due to an inexplicable premonition in the ethereal realm and his desire to resurrect the Heaven Law Realm, Tianyi had not devoted all his energy to comprehending the high wall.

But now, it seemed he had no other choice.

As Tianyi was in a dilemma.

Li Fan's true body had already arrived before the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law.

He watched as the Heavenly Venerate, even within a complete immortal-grade illusion array, could still quickly perceive its flaws and was constantly searching for a way to break free.

Li Fan couldn't help but frown slightly.

"As expected of a Heavenly Demon. Its resistance to illusion arrays surpasses even Tianyi's."

On Tianyi's side, Li Fan had naturally removed the immortal array's seal of his own accord.

Simply toying with this Star Sea Grand Elder held little practical meaning.

What Li Fan truly wanted to see was for him to fulfill his proper value.

And indeed, as Li Fan had anticipated, under the deterrence of the immortal array and the complete Xuanhuang Realm crystal.

Tianyi was temporarily deluded.

The immortal array was, of course, created by the Immortal Disintegration Disc.

As for the Xuanhuang Realm crystal...

It was a creation from the feedback power that erupted instantly within Li Fan's dantian from the Heaven-Sitting Art, after the Xuanhuang Realm ascended to an Immortal Realm in the previous life.

Originally, during the ascension process, the immensely vast feedback power was already equivalent to tens of times the total energy of the Xuanhuang Realm in its critical sublimation state.

And after the Xuanhuang Realm had completely ascended to an Immortal Realm.

Now, within Li Fan's dantian, floated constantly shimmering Xuanhuang mist.

It was like the continuously flashing images on an immortal realm coin.

Within the mist, light and shadow shifted, and in every instant, a Xuanhuang Realm seemed to be born.

Of course, Li Fan knew this was likely an illusion.

The reason the Xuanhuang mist shimmered like a kaleidoscope was that the total amount of feedback power was simply too immense. Arranged in sequence, what seemed static became vibrant.

Although extremely numerous, it was still far from reaching the realm of infinity.

According to Li Fan's own estimation, the energy aggregated within his dantian at that moment reached approximately one hundred thousand times the total energy of the Xuanhuang Realm in its normal state.

This was a power that, in Li Fan's view, was utterly incredible. At first, there was even a terrifying fleeting thought that this Xuanhuang mist might explosively burst within him.

However, after the initial shock, Li Fan realized there was no significant difference between this and the infinite power of the Star Sea. It was even slightly inferior.

Quantitative change could not accumulate into qualitative change.

Gradually, Li Fan ceased to care much about it.

He extracted a slice, transforming it into a Xuanhuang Realm crystal, and gave it to Tianyi as a small gift.

For Li Fan, it was barely an effort.

Furthermore, to maintain continuous control over Tianyi, this Xuanhuang slice also secretly contained a wisp of residual power from the immortal array.

It could erupt again at any time to trap Tianyi.

Shifting his thoughts from Tianyi back to the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law within the array, Li Fan was not as casual as he had been with Tianyi.

Because from various signs in past reincarnations, the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law was very likely the reincarnation of Xuan Tianwang, subsequently possessed and controlled by a Heavenly Demon.

Heavenly Demons were inherently strange entities that usurped the creations of heaven and earth. Their path, the Demonic Heart Dao, merged with the world's Heavenly Dao. Even in the ancient cultivation world, they were extremely rare.

And as for Xuan Tianwang himself...

Li Fan, also at the Half-Immortal realm, could understand the immense power of "Immortals" with even greater depth.

Therefore, he became even more cautious.

At the end of the previous life, the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law's strange behavior after the Xuanhuang Realm successfully ascended to an Immortal Domain was still vivid in his memory.

How could Li Fan possibly underestimate him?

This was also why, on Tianyi's side, the immortal array had only manifested an illusionary clone, while here with the Heavenly Venerate, Li Fan's true body personally presided.

Li Fan's expression was solemn. In response to the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law's unique situation, the Immortal Disintegration Disc gradually fine-tuned the immortal array.

At this moment, the world in the Heavenly Venerate's eyes was split into two halves.

On the left was the Xuanhuang Realm, which he was intimately familiar with.

On the right was the homeland of Tianyi, Tianjue, and the other Venerates of the Transmission Realm.

The left and right worlds flickered and shifted positions continuously, like lantern shadows in the wind.

Gradually, an expression of intense pain began to appear on the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law's always calm face.

It was as if something was struggling to break free from within him.

But this splitting force did not seem powerful enough.

It eventually receded.

Seeing this, Li Fan once again activated the immortal array, accelerating the frequency at which the two worlds alternated.

He, meanwhile, shot out strands of golden thread that silently pierced into the Heavenly Venerate's body.

Previously, Li Fan had witnessed Tianyi's method of controlling the Heavenly Venerate.

With his current insight, wanting to reverse it and break the control method...

Was not difficult.

It merely required repeated attempts.

In any case, with the Immortal Disintegration Disc presiding, there was no fear of the Heavenly Venerate escaping.

Stimulated by the shifting dual worlds and the continuously assailing golden threads, the Heavenly Venerate let out a thunderous roar.

But he was truly like a bird in a cage.

No matter how much he struggled, he could not change his fate.

"Found it."

After a long while, Li Fan's eyes lit up.

With a slight pull, he tugged on the golden thread.

At the end of the golden thread, a transparent figure was slowly dragged out.

The moment the transparent figure appeared, the Heavenly Venerate's body seemed to lose its core.

It instantly collapsed to the ground.

Having left the Heavenly Venerate's body, the legendary Heavenly Demon became calm.

It floated silently in the air.

It appeared to have fallen into a state of slumber.

However, the Heavenly Demon's inherent state gave it even greater resistance to illusion arrays than when it was possessing a body.

The Disintegration Disc spun rapidly, analyzing the Heavenly Demon's weaknesses.

No matter how peculiar, it was ultimately a mundane entity.

It wouldn't be long until it was finally subdued.

Li Fan, meanwhile, first examined the Heavenly Venerate's body.

"He possesses his own independent consciousness."

"But he has been suppressed by the Heavenly Demon for too long, becoming extremely weak. For now, there are no signs of him reawakening."

"Let me take this opportunity, while he is weak, to investigate thoroughly."

"To discover the true identity of the Heavenly Venerate of Transmitted Law, who has dominated the Xuanhuang Realm for thousands of years!"

With a hint of anticipation, Li Fan manipulated the illusion array.

The scene within the array began to evolve on its own, based on the Heavenly Venerate's memories.

On a vast plain, smoke curled from chimneys.

"Goudan, time to come home for dinner!"