Chapter 1403: Two Mysterious Sounds of the Immortal Realm

Angry Squid

The whispering sound appeared in the spiritual seas of all cultivators who had ever entered the Myriad Immortals Alliance Headquarters.

Although it only existed in their memories and seemed unlikely to cause any disturbance, if the power accumulated covertly over time became sufficient to free Xuanyuan Tuo, its sudden eruption, solely due to its eerie nature, could completely drain most cultivators through a segment of their own past memories. Li Fan's eyes flickered.

The immortal array contracted into a speck of light, drawing the still-slumbering Xuanyuan Tuo and the Heavenly Demon's illusion into Li Fan's palm and into his body for suppression.

Then, facing the direction of the Xuanhuang Realm, Li Fan calmly and slowly extended his right hand.

The power of a True Immortal, commanding from above.A palm descending upon the mortal world, spanning the Star Sea.

From the fringes of the Star Sea, Li Fan remotely struck a palm towards the Xuanhuang Realm.

He did not employ immortal-grade techniques, merely using his superior power to deliver a top-down strike.

The True Immortal of the Immortal Ruins was deeply engrossed in enlightenment. Li Fan had verified this multiple times in past reincarnations: as long as there were no True Immortal-level energy fluctuations or manifestations related to the Calamity of Dao Annihilation, she would not be disturbed.

Even when the Immortal Descent, the world-destroying immortal array that returns all things to the ruins, occurred, she merely dispatched a wisp of divine sense to observe.

Li Fan's palm strike landed precisely on the Central Four States of the Myriad Immortals Alliance in the Xuanhuang Realm.

The target was not the Immortal Ruins, and there was no other energy overflow or diffusion.

The True Immortal of the Immortal Ruins remained completely unaware. Li Fan's immense palm descended silently.

No abnormalities appeared in the sky above the Xuanhuang Realm.

However, the Central Four States of the Immortal Alliance began to shake violently, without warning, as if the apocalypse had arrived.

Li Fan's finger traversed the Star Sea, reaching out to perceive.

The Central Four States of the Immortal Alliance were an extension of the Heavenly Profound Mirror's internal space within the Xuanhuang Realm.

When Li Fan first entered the Myriad Immortals Alliance Headquarters, he had witnessed a scene within the Heavenly Profound Mirror: countless black and white lines intersecting. These lines collided, the two colors continuously intertwined, eventually forming an infinitesimal void. Infinite specks of light flickered, appearing and disappearing, constantly extending outwards in the void, ultimately resolving into color.

At that time, Li Fan had not understood the mysterious scene within the Heavenly Profound Mirror. Now, he realized that the Heavenly Profound Mirror was deconstructing the Xuanhuang Realm in its own way.

A glint flashed in his eyes, and Li Fan's five fingers, like blades, instantly severed the connection between the Heavenly Profound Mirror and the Xuanhuang Realm.

Then, he curled his fingers and clenched them tightly!

Feeling a slight recoil, Li Fan pulled with a gentle force.

His palm instantly traveled through space-time, returning from the Xuanhuang Realm to the fringes of the Star Sea.

It was as if he were reaching underwater to retrieve something.

Li Fan now looked at his palm, where an ancient bronze mirror, glowing faintly, struggled ceaselessly.

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Li Fan sensed faint, almost imperceptible lines extending from the Heavenly Profound Mirror's main body before him, leading towards the Xuanhuang Realm.

"These are the various restrictions initially set by the Dharma Transmitter, and the connections between the Heavenly Profound Mirror, his human clone, and numerous sub-mirrors."

"As expected of a former immortal artifact, it maintained the stability of these connections even amidst drastic changes while traversing the entire Star Sea in an instant."

Li Fan praised it inwardly.

He described it as a "former" immortal artifact because Li Fan detected no fluctuations of immortal spiritual energy from the Heavenly Profound Mirror's main body.

Even the few immortal artifacts preserved from the Xuanhuang Grand Celestial Venerable's legacy still retained some residual immortal spiritual energy despite generations of use in the Xuanhuang Realm.

The Heavenly Profound Mirror, however, seemed to have completely severed its connection with immortal spiritual energy.

"To some extent, it has transformed from an immortal to a mortal artifact."

"An incomplete severance is equivalent to no severance at all. Perhaps only in this manner can one truly evade the blows of the Calamity of Dao Annihilation." Li Fan mused, recalling the wind of annihilation he had seen within the Boundless Mirror and other surviving immortal artifacts of the Xuanhuang Realm.

With a slight shift in thought, a white ring flew out, firmly binding the Heavenly Profound Mirror's main body.

Li Fan dispatched a wisp of his divine sense into it.

Knowing that the whispering demonic sound had been imprinted within the Heavenly Profound Mirror, he proceeded with caution.

Having ascended to the immortal realm, even a single wisp of his divine sense surpassed the mortal.

With the Heavenly Profound Mirror suppressed and forcibly taken by a mysterious hand from beyond the heavens, the Immortal Alliance Headquarters had fallen into unprecedented chaos. The Dharma Transmitter had originally established the Myriad Immortals Alliance Headquarters within the Heavenly Profound Mirror to maximize its security.

Little did they expect that many years later, this seemingly impregnable defense would be instantly destroyed by an unknown entity!

Even knowing they faced an unimaginably terrifying entity, the Myriad Immortals Alliance Headquarters did not immediately abandon their counterattack.

All the Dharma Transmitters gathered.

Within the Immortal Alliance Headquarters, arrays and restrictions were fully activated, entering a state of maximum emergency.

However...

To the current Li Fan, all these measures were like child's play.

If he wished, Li Fan could destroy all the Myriad Immortals Alliance's defensive measures with just a single wisp of divine sense.

But he did not.

His silently infiltrating divine sense went undetected by anyone.

The divine sense transformed into a body, standing within the Heavenly Profound Mirror. It sensed a faint, mysterious power enveloping it, attempting to draw it into the Dharma Transmitter's memory illusions.

Although the whispering sound was a True Immortal-level technique, it was, after all, unleashed using the Dharma Transmitter Celestial Venerable as a vessel. It might be unfailingly effective against mortal beings.

However, attempting to deal with Li Fan, who was already at the Half-Immortal realm, was somewhat beyond its capability.

Merely by generating a thought of resistance, the whispering sound could no longer drag Li Fan.

Contact was reciprocal.

During the time it attempted to corrupt Li Fan, Li Fan had also, on some level, "seen and heard" it.

In Xuanyuan Tuo's continuous perception, it was a meaningless, ethereal whisper.

But for Li Fan...

...it was a solemn, sacred scripture chanting!

"...Empty words, endlessly. Intent, spirit, body, soul, born of chaos, returning to chaos."

"Once existent, eternally existent. Lost yet present."

Perhaps because Xuanyuan Tuo had relayed only one fragment, Li Fan tried his best to discern it but could only make out that single passage.

The rest was indistinct, rapidly chanted murmuring.

This sacred yet eerie chanting sound did not emanate from a single individual but seemed to be sung collectively by countless beings.

What made Li Fan slightly unnerved was that he could faintly hear the voices of some acquaintances within it.

Not just their vocal tones, but words spoken by these old acquaintances during their interactions with him.

"Dao Xuanzi, you go too far!""A late-stage Qi Refining cultivator at twenty-nine...""Young friend, what are you expecting?""Tian Yang, in his lifetime, is inferior to no one!"

And so on.

This extended not only to his current life but also traced back to Li Fan's past reincarnations.

Along with these voices, blurred figures also appeared in Li Fan's spiritual sea.

Even without faces, Li Fan could easily discern their identities.

Under the influence of this chanting, Li Fan even faintly felt the same sensation Xuanyuan Tuo once experienced:

He seemed capable of influencing their true, present selves through these memory phantoms!

Within the Heavenly Profound Mirror, the divine sense clone stood quietly, eyes closed in contemplation.

Outside the Heavenly Profound Mirror, Li Fan's true body was already prepared for a fierce confrontation.

The profound chanting sound could even project images of past reincarnations from his soul's memory, which was testament to its extraordinary nature.

While it didn't necessarily mean it had discovered the secret of his continuous reincarnation, it compelled Li Fan to be extremely cautious.

Immortal array rings were already in place, guarding him, ready for any counter-response.

Fortunately, the worst-case scenario Li Fan had anticipated did not materialize.

Li Fan did not lower his guard, synchronizing with the knowledge and sensations of his divine sense clone.

As he listened, Li Fan, for some reason, felt a subtle sense of familiarity.

After a brief thought, a seemingly familiar voice, accompanied by surging memories, emerged in his mind.

"The Dao, from ancient times. Xin, annihilation.""Cultivate intent, comprehend meaning, transcend to spirit.""A thousand lines of soul transmigration, a hundred twists of spirit transformation.""No fault."

This voice stood alongside the profound chanting sound.

When both resounded together, not only were they unaffected by each other, but their respective sounds became even clearer!

Before Li Fan, it was as if two figures had appeared, one on his left and one on his right, expounding some profound truth of the world to him.

After a moment of slight daze, Li Fan quickly realized the origin of this voice.

It was an immortal incantation chanted by Grand Master Tiandu during the Sacred Emperor's era when facing the wind of annihilation.

In the previous-to-last incarnation, when the Wordless Stele emerged, threatening to transform everything into characters on its surface, before the waterfall-like torrent of light, the Grand Master had also chanted this immortal incantation to avert disaster.

At that time, upon hearing it, Li Fan had attempted to memorize it.

But he had been met with the Grand Master's disdain and mockery.

Back then, Li Fan had not known why. Now, after ascending to the immortal realm and listening again, Li Fan realized that, just like the profound chanting sound, immortals and mortals heard the same segment of sound, yet there was a crucial difference.

"The Dao gives birth, transmitted from ancient times. Sorrow and bitterness, the Dao perishes.""Cultivate chaotic thoughts, comprehend the Dao's intent, transcend to the divine.""A thousand lines of soul transmigration, a hundred twists of spirit transformation.""Infinite, boundless, no fault."

The hearing of immortals and mortals was vastly different!

Li Fan's mind was greatly shaken, and he couldn't help but immerse himself in this true immortal incantation to avert disaster.

"It seems my body hasn't changed at all."

"But it can, to a certain extent, erase the profound chanting sound's corruption of me..."

A sharp glint burst forth in his eyes; Li Fan had an epiphany and began to recite this immortal incantation for averting disaster.

Enveloped by the profound chanting sound, the slight sense of dread and unease in his heart gradually receded.

Li Fan himself had barely noticed this subtle fear.

Only after it truly dissipated did the significant difference before and after allow Li Fan to realize its presence.

"If I had been influenced by only one of these profound sounds, even as a Half-Immortal, I would inevitably have fallen deep into it. But now, with both profound sounds present, a kind of balance seems to have formed."

"They compete against each other, yet I remain unharmed."

Li Fan let out a long breath.

True Immortal-level power was indeed exceedingly mysterious and treacherous. One could not be careless when interacting with it.

"The Grand Master's Dao sound is the immortal incantation to avert disaster."

"Perhaps it is precisely because of this immortal incantation that it has been able to remain safely hidden in the Xuanhuang Realm, undisturbed."

Having personally experienced the marvels of the immortal incantation for averting disaster, Li Fan looked back at the profound chanting sound.

"Influencing and changing reality through the phantoms of past memories..."

He observed the countless illusory figures standing in his spiritual sea.

Li Fan's gaze fell upon one of them.

His thoughts focused...

There were no fluctuations of immortal spiritual power, nor even any mortal energy fluctuations.

Yet, something profoundly mysterious occurred in an instant.

Xuanhuang Realm, Glazed Island.

He Zhenghao was staring intently at his Heavenly Profound Sub-mirror. Due to Li Fan's palm strike and the shocking disappearance of the Immortal Alliance Headquarters, the prices of all goods had spiraled out of control, like a roller coaster.

"Damn it, they won't even let us sell now.""This is my life's work!"

He Zhenghao's eyes were bloodshot, and he was subtly teetering on the edge of madness.

But suddenly, his face turned deathly pale.

His mind felt as if it had been cleaved open, struck heavily, and he collapsed to the ground.

After an unknown period, he finally recovered.

He was drenched in sweat, as if half his life had been drained away.

"Spirit Mist Grass?""All my contribution points are safe?""Mountain and River Hidden Dragon Art?"

He Zhenghao stared blankly at the countless memories popping into his mind.

"Am I hallucinating because of the immense shock?"

The memories appearing in his mind were too numerous and chaotic; it took He Zhenghao a long time to barely sort them out.

"This... it's too real. It's as if I experienced it myself. What in the world is happening?"

The more he sorted through them, the more his heart pounded, and the more incredible he found it.

"But, the Mountain and River Hidden Dragon Art? Isn't this the cultivation technique I've dreamt of and longed for day and night?"

Suddenly, he seemed to realize something, and his expression changed dramatically.

"This can't be real, can it?"

He Zhenghao cautiously and quickly scribbled down the words that appeared in his memory.

After writing just the beginning, his body uncontrollably stiffened.

"There's no mistake; this is the genuine Mountain and River Hidden Dragon Art."

"It actually appeared in my mind by itself! Doesn't that mean I've just saved hundreds of thousands of contribution points in an instant?!"

He Zhenghao's heart instantly thumped wildly.

But soon, remembering the strict Law Enforcement Hall of the Myriad Immortals Alliance, he wilted like a frostbitten eggplant, becoming dispirited.

"Wait, the Immortal Alliance Headquarters has disappeared! The Myriad Immortals Alliance can't even protect itself, so who would care about a cultivation technique leaking out..."

"In this chaotic era, dragons and serpents rise. Perhaps this is an opportunity for people like us."

A dangerous glint appeared in He Zhenghao's eyes as he pondered something.

"Profound Heaven Spirit Sealing Array?"

Next, as He Zhenghao sorted through his memories, he continued to discover more gains and surprises.

At the fringes of the Star Sea, after Li Fan used the power of the profound chanting sound to alter He Zhenghao's memories, he himself underwent a corresponding mysterious change.

Li Fan keenly noticed that a few wisps of spiritual power had appeared within his body.