Chapter 1533: Mysterious Yellow True Immortal Birth

Inside the Xuanhuang Realm, there was first a deathly silence, followed by an uproar.

"What exactly is happening?""Can he really fight again? Give up, it's too terrible. There's no hope of winning at all.""Where are the cowards of the Ten Sects? Let me in, I want to go to the Taiyuan Realm and die alongside the God of War!"

Most cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm only saw "Li Ping" stand up once more, seemingly intending to continue fighting. Only a very few understood the meaning of the inexplicable aura that erupted from Li Ping.

All of them looked horrified and rose abruptly.

"Sect Master Fang, if I'm not mistaken, is that...?" asked Xiahou Yan, the Lord of Wuding Prison, with a hint of disbelief.

Fang Dingge also lost his former composure, scrutinizing for a long time with uncertainty, afraid he might be mistaken.

But as the distorted scene in the sky became increasingly clear, he finally confirmed: "A breakthrough. Is this a sign of a breakthrough?"

"He's clearly at the peak of the Dao Integration Realm; if he advances further..."

Fang Dingge's mouth hung open, utterly astonished.

"An immortal?"

The few people in the hall exchanged glances, their hearts filled with shock and confusion.

However, they soon looked up in unison, afraid of missing any detail.

In the sky, the distorted ripples intensified, all centered around Li Ping's standing figure.

It was like a stone dropped into a large lake, causing circles of disturbance on the surface.

The Taiyuan cultivators, who had been silently mourning, also noticed this anomaly. Disregarding everything else, they swiftly launched another attack.

However, around Li Fan, a raging storm seemed to have erupted.

Any living being attempting to approach was inevitably swept away by the fierce winds, spinning uncontrollably in the air like ants. Even cultivators at the Dao Integration Realm were no exception!

Even with their full power, they couldn't get a single inch closer, let alone harm Li Fan.

In the eye of the storm, Li Fan's vitality and aura seemed to ascend endlessly. This surge even transmitted into the Xuanhuang Realm through the Horizontal Golden Lock.

All beings gazing at the figure in the center of the storm instinctively felt a sense of oppression, wanting to prostrate themselves in worship.

Though they didn't understand why, they knew something extraordinary was about to happen.

The Xuanhuang Realm was filled with deathly silence. In the Taiyuan Realm, all cultivators, fueled by the fear rising in their hearts, still wanted to make a final struggle, hoping to prevent Li Fan's transformation.

Unfortunately, it was all in vain.

When the storm finally subsided, Li Fan's unharmed body reappeared before everyone.

Having shed the bloody aura of his previous fierce battles, he now appeared ethereal and otherworldly, like a being from the heavens.

"An immortal!"

This word simultaneously popped into the minds of all beings from both realms who saw Li Fan.

Their bodies began to tremble uncontrollably.

Since the severance of the immortal path, there had been no true immortals in the world for tens of thousands of years.

Unexpectedly, today, an immortal was born right before their eyes!

The inhabitants of Xuanhuang couldn't help but fall to their knees, worshipping fervently.

Meanwhile, the Taiyuan Realm cultivators, though still fearful, bravely launched an attack against Li Fan, this "immortal."

However, the moment Li Fan achieved enlightenment, the battlefield situation underwent a drastic change.

Previously, Li Fan had no way to avoid the sky-covering divine abilities and spells of the Taiyuan Realm cultivators.

But now, he simply extended his hand forward in silence.

Countless converging streams of multicolored light were all deflected and absorbed into his palm.

Then, he gently blew a breath.

All these released killing moves were instantly reflected back, striking their casters.

Caught off guard, the Taiyuan cultivators suffered heavy losses. Especially as they were all gathered together, unleashing their concentrated divine abilities, which led to immense casualties among them.

The area around Li Fan, previously impenetrable due to the encirclement, became largely empty after the cultivators suffered the backlash of their own divine abilities.

If Li Fan's method of turning their own tactics against them didn't completely terrify the Taiyuan Realm cultivators, then what happened next plunged even these infinitely resurrecting cultivators into deep despair.

Li Fan gently raised his left hand upwards.

Scattered across the battlefield, the relics of the fallen Xuanhuang cultivators seemed to sense something, flying up into the sky.

As if summoned, ethereal figures emerged beside these relics.

They were the original owners: the Xuanhuang Realm cultivators who had died in battle!

Although their faces weren't perfectly clear, the beings in the Xuanhuang Realm recognized these resurrected friends and family. Many wept openly on the spot.

All the ethereal figures of the Xuanhuang warriors first bowed respectfully to Li Fan. Then, gripping their weapons, they fearlessly charged towards the Taiyuan cultivators.

With one side real and the other ethereal, the forces of the two realms clashed violently once more.

This time, the roles of offense and and defense had reversed!

It must be known that, whether in terms of overall or average combat strength, the Taiyuan cultivators were far inferior to those of the Xuanhuang Realm. It was solely by relying on the Taiyuan Revival Furnace's ability to resurrect infinitely that they had driven the Xuanhuang Realm into its current desperate situation.

But now...

When the Taiyuan cultivators exerted all their might to shatter the ethereal figures of the Xuanhuang cultivators, a stream of light shot out from Li Fan, who was holding the line. In mere moments, those ethereal figures reappeared. The Xuanhuang cultivators, instantly "revived," struck down their bewildered enemies before them.

Then they charged towards other opponents on the battlefield once more.

Having finally experienced their enemy's greatest reliance firsthand, the Xuanhuang cultivators, as if emboldened a hundredfold, slowly forced the Taiyuan cultivators to retreat.

The ethereal figures who died in battle would quickly be replenished by Li Fan.

On the battlefield, streams of light continuously flickered, like a magnificent meteor shower blooming above the Taiyuan Realm.

When the meteor shower ended, the Taiyuan cultivators who had gathered nearby were either dead or had fled in panic.

"Kill!"

Li Fan did not stop there. He pointed his sword forward and uttered just one word softly.

The direction his sword pointed was none other than the Heavenly Abode Dao Palace and the Taiyuan Revival Furnace!

Consequently, countless streams of light slowly advanced towards the depths of the Taiyuan Realm.

Irresistible, unstoppable.

Anything blocking this surging torrent would be instantly torn to shreds.

This awe-inspiring sight made the blood of countless beings watching in the Xuanhuang Realm boil with excitement.

They wished they could participate.

Only a select few, however, could see the true mystery behind the outwardly thrilling scene.

Although the resurrected Xuanhuang cultivators were mere ethereal figures, the divine abilities, spells, and killing moves they unleashed undoubtedly possessed genuine destructive power.

On the Taiyuan battlefield, there were hundreds of thousands of resurrected cultivators.

And "Li Ping" alone could sustain their consumption?

As if realizing something, Fang Dingge became completely lost in thought, no longer able to conceal his inner turmoil. He muttered to himself, "Infinite, the infinity of an immortal. Could it be that he truly is an immortal?"

All cultivators who had any understanding of the nature of true immortals reacted just like Fang Dingge at that moment.

Amidst this shock, Li Fan, leading a million ethereal figures, advanced step by step to the foot of the Heavenly Abode Dao Palace.

In front of this formidable army of a million, the Taiyuan Realm's greatest combat advantage no longer existed.

You can revive, but I can revive even faster than you.

Your will is tenacious; you follow commands without faltering and won't collapse even in desperation. Our warriors, however, don't even possess subjective will; they are merely the persistent desire for revenge.

Although the power of the immortal spirit was infinite, the operational efficiency of the immortal formation had its limits.

With continuous resurrections over a long period, the pressure on the Taiyuan Realm's ancient protective immortal formation finally reached its critical point.

Visibly, the resurrection speed of the Taiyuan cultivators significantly slowed down.

In the Xuanhuang Realm, bursts of cheers erupted.

However, the expressions on the faces of the Ten Sects' leaders and elites who had entered the Heavenly Abode Dao Palace remained grim.

The combat power displayed by "Li Ping," this half-immortal, indeed exceeded their imagination. Yet, the immortal formation deep within the Dao Palace was equally despair-inducing.

However, Li Ping's next action once again caught them by surprise.

He did not lead his forces to attack the Dao Palace directly.

Instead, he brought his sword down squarely on the ninety-nine-storied edifice standing atop the mountain.

A dazzling light illuminated the entire world, blinding people's vision.

A terrifying roar, like continuous peals of thunder, echoed through the heavens.

The immense tremor even passed through distant space and time, reaching the Xuanhuang Realm.

Both worlds trembled intensely under the sword light unleashed by Li Fan.

When vision returned, the Heavenly Abode Dao Palace and the Taiyuan cultivators had all vanished.

All that remained was a deep, dark, bottomless trench embedded in the earth.

Only Li Fan's ethereal figure stood.

And...

A strange cauldron in his hand.

Deathly silence once again permeated the world.

"Is this the might of a true immortal?"

All living beings' minds went blank, deeply shaken by the immense power of the true immortal's single sword strike.

Meanwhile, the members of the Ten Sects, upon recovering from their shock, began to ponder more.

With a true immortal having descended, how should the Ten Sects position themselves from now on?

There seemed to be no other answer to this question.

Even if all the cultivators of the Ten Sects combined their strength, they likely wouldn't be a match for this true immortal. Even deploying all their remaining immortal artifacts might not yield any advantage.

They wondered if this true immortal would blame them for their past act of abandonment.

Unease stirred within the hearts of the Ten Sects' members.

In the Taiyuan Realm, another anomaly occurred.

The cauldron tightly held in Li Fan's hand suddenly erupted with a heaven-piercing burst of multicolored light.

It illuminated the entire Taiyuan skyline.

Li Fan looked down at the Xuanhuang ethereal figures, who, having completed their mission of revenge, seemed somewhat at a loss.

Then he smiled faintly.

The multicolored light pouring from the cauldron, like numerous waterfalls, streamed down towards each of them.

After receiving the infusion from the Taiyuan Revival Furnace, significant changes began to occur in the million Xuanhuang ethereal figures.

Their illusory faces gradually became clear.

Their faint figures solidified.

The life force unique to living beings emerged upon these ethereal figures.

They...

Were truly coming back to life, experiencing resurrection!

Although they had already experienced many shocks that day, the people of Xuanhuang were still overjoyed upon witnessing this scene.

Especially when they saw their deceased friends and family, resurrected and disbelievingly examining their own bodies, they too shed tears of overwhelming joy.

A million Xuanhuang warriors, returned from death, wept tears of joy.

After the initial excitement, they all came to their senses.

One by one, they knelt and kowtowed to the true immortal above, who had saved them and granted them new life.

However, after a long time, the true immortal remained motionless.

The cultivators couldn't help but look up.

They witnessed a scene they would never forget.

Tiny specks of starlight began to appear from the true immortal's figure.

As a gentle breeze blew, these specks of starlight drifted away from the true immortal.

At first, there were only dozens or hundreds of starlike points.

Then more and more appeared.

Like stars from the nine heavens, scattering across the mortal realm.

In the high sky, as the myriad stars filled the heavens, the true immortal was no longer to be seen.

The beings of both realms collectively fell into a daze.

It was only after a quarter of a day had passed that they finally understood what had happened.

Cries of pain and lamentation then resounded throughout both realms.

They lasted for a long time.

One month later.

The war that had changed the fate of the Xuanhuang Realm had long ended, but the beings of Xuanhuang had not yet emerged from their grief.

Without an enemy capable of infinite resurrection, the Xuanhuang Realm successfully occupied the Taiyuan Realm.

They had successfully established another safe haven for themselves on the other side of the starry sky. It was also then that the threat of the Immortal Ruins outside the Xuanhuang Realm slowly began to become known to the world.

However, compared to the Immortal Ruins, the beings of the Xuanhuang Realm were currently more concerned with what had happened to the Xuanhuang True Immortal.

After deduction by the leaders of the Ten Sects, combined with observations of the scene, a preliminary conclusion was reached.

The immortal path was severed; this was an unchangeable fact. The "immortal" that "Li Ping" had become was not a true immortal in the literal sense.

Rather, due to his unprecedented talent, he had forcefully overdrawn himself, elevating to a realm between Dao Integration and True Immortal, perhaps best described as a 'half-immortal'.

Had he become a true immortal, he should have been able to reverse the heavy injuries that led to his death.

Unfortunately...

Before his demise, he held on by sheer will.

He not only led his forces to complete their revenge against the Taiyuan Realm, but also used the Taiyuan Revival Furnace to resurrect as many of the fallen Xuanhuang cultivators as possible.

In the end, however, he could not defy fate and passed away suddenly.

Compared to a true immortal who survived, it was clear that this true immortal, who had sacrificed himself to save the people of Xuanhuang, would be remembered even more.

In every household, memorial tablets and statues of the Xuanhuang True Immortal were erected. Incense was burned, prayers were offered, and scriptures were chanted for blessings.

Even in cultivation sects of all sizes, temples dedicated to the Xuanhuang True Immortal were built.

Initially, there were a very few dissenting voices, but they quickly faded away.

Though the true immortal was gone, his aftermath lingered, enduring for a long time.

The improved versions of the Ten Sects' ultimate techniques, left by Li Fan under his pillow, were also found.

They were designated top secret by the Ten Sects.

On the very day these ultimate techniques were brought back to the Xuanhuang Realm, the leaders of the Ten Sects gathered to discuss and study them.

"Truly worthy of someone who could attain the Dao of a true immortal! These improved divine abilities even surpass our sects' most guarded, unshared secrets..."

All members of the Ten Sects were filled with admiration.

Meanwhile, a rumor quietly spread among the populace.

"He who obtains the Scripture of the Grand Supreme Dao can attain True Immortality!"