Chapter 197: New Law Unstoppable

Clearly, no one else could log in to the same location repeatedly like Li Fan.

However, one Core Formation cultivator, full of self-satisfaction, boasted about his own experience. On one occasion, when he appeared in the Immortal Vanquishing Realm, he occupied the body of a young boy. When the boy was young, his family was wiped out. His entire family died tragically, with only the boy surviving. While struggling to survive, the boy also investigated the true culprit behind his family's massacre.

By a stroke of luck, one day the boy encountered two cultivators fighting to the death in the mountains, eventually perishing together. From the bodies of these two cultivators, the boy found some elixirs and two cultivation techniques. He eventually embarked on the path of cultivation.

Just as he achieved success in cultivation, reached the Foundation Establishment realm, and found clues to the massacre from that year, he was coincidentally possessed by this Core Formation cultivator. Following the clues, the Core Formation cultivator successfully found the killer from that year within the limited timeframe of a dozen days. And likewise, he wiped out their entire family as an act of revenge.

After leaving the Immortal Vanquishing Realm, the Core Formation cultivator successfully brought back a cultivation technique. He sold it for a good price of thirty thousand contribution points. Everyone listened, filled with envy, praising his good fortune.

"Therefore, I believe that one possible way to bring items out is through exchange," this Core Formation cultivator, named Ji Xingwen, spoke eloquently. "If I wanted this boy to give me the cultivation technique, I had to help him fulfill his long-cherished wish. His wish was to avenge the massacre of his family from that year, and I accomplished it. In exchange, he naturally was willing to give me the cultivation technique."

Li Fan and the others, upon hearing this, all wore thoughtful expressions.

Having obtained the desired information, Li Fan waited for the fish-setting results, noted the appearance of the winning fish, and then hurried back to Myriad Immortals Island. He accelerated his cultivation in the Sky Profound Mirror while waiting.

A dozen days later, Li Fan inexplicably felt an intuition, signaling that he could enter the Immortal Vanquishing Realm again. He immediately performed the ritual. As expected, just like the previous two times, he possessed Li Chen of the Violet Heavens Sect.

Li Fan followed the exact same procedure as last time. It was as if he pressed the fast-forward button.

"Junior Brother, wait here. I'll be right back!" Before Zhang Qianmo's voice faded, he was already far away.

This time, Li Fan chose another person to soul-search. His second application of the Violet Heavens Soul Observation Art felt somewhat more practiced, but it still consumed a significant amount of energy. He browsed through this person's past experiences one by one but found nothing particularly remarkable. His experience was largely similar to Liu Tu's; he was also an ordinary mortal. He had coincidentally met someone spreading the Immortal Venerable's new method and had since embarked on the path of cultivation, joining the Myriad Immortals Alliance.

However, in his memories, the one popularizing the new method among mortals was not the spirited young man who achieved Core Formation in ten years. Instead, it was a woman in snow-white clothes, of exquisite beauty. This woman's cultivation speed was even more outrageous. It was said that in just over twenty years, she had already achieved the Nascent Soul True Monarch realm.

"It seems there were quite a few cultivators who personally witnessed the Immortal Venerable impart the method and later helped spread the new method." Li Fan casually tossed the cultivator, now like a heap of mud after the soul-search, onto the ground and looked towards the center of Ningyuan City.

Some time had passed, but the battle still hadn't commenced. After a long while, Li Fan saw Zhang Qianmo emerge contentedly from the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, slowly walking towards the Reincarnation Longevity Tree. Li Fan also noticed that Zhang Qianmo had clearly set up a barrier outside the Drunken Immortal Pavilion. Presumably, he was worried that his later fight with Song Hesong might affect his old flame named Chixia.

"It seems Senior Brother Zhang is truly a romantic at heart," Li Fan mused. "Perhaps, to bring back the Violet Heavens Soul Observation Art, I can approach it from this angle." Li Fan's eyes gleamed with an inexplicable light.

"Boom!" A bolt of purple lightning as thick as a bucket suddenly descended from the sky. Song Hesong's agonizing scream immediately echoed throughout Ningyuan City.

Li Fan saw the Life Transformation Array within the city rapidly activating, drawing strands of azure vitality from mortals and sending them flying towards the direction of the two combatants.

"Zhang Qianmo, although you are an inner sect disciple, you are only at the Foundation Establishment realm! Do you really think I'm afraid of you?" Song Hesong's voice, like muffled thunder, resounded throughout the entire city. A colossal blood-colored bell instantly enveloped Zhang Qianmo.

Then, Li Fan saw Song Hesong casually strike, and countless buildings instantly turned into ruins. The trembling mortals inside the buildings perished without even time to scream. From the corpses of the mortals, a large mass of almost tangible blood-colored malevolent energy surged forth, soaring into the sky and gathering beside Song Hesong. Within the bloody light, were strikingly the faces of the recently deceased mortals. Innumerable human faces charged towards Zhang Qianmo, who was trapped within the great bell.

A moment later, Senior Brother Zhang fell into a state of stunned immobility.

"This Myriad Lives Soul Refining Array is indeed extraordinary. Although Zhang Qianmo took the initiative this time, he was still trapped by the formation," Li Fan thought. "Unfortunately, using mortal lives as a medium, it's probably useless now."

Li Fan silently watched Song Hesong wantonly harvest the lives of mortals within the city, transforming them into means for combating his enemy. Within Ningyuan City, in an instant, everything became desolate and ruined. It was unknown how many mortals died at Song Hesong's hands. Only the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, protected by a barrier Zhang Qianmo had set up, and where Li Fan was currently located, remained safe.

As mortals within Ningyuan City continued to die, half of Zhang Qianmo's head, trapped within the Myriad Lives Soul Refining Array, had already exploded. But his vitality remained unceasing. Song Hesong's expression changed, just as it had before. But his fear was quickly suppressed by greed. Red flames scorched Zhang Qianmo, revealing the purple core within his body.

Song Hesong finally sensed that something was amiss. He repeatedly struck with his palm, killing all remaining mortals in Ningyuan City, summoning blood-colored human faces to block. While he himself swiftly fled backwards. He actually realized the danger and immediately took off.

Li Fan's eyes narrowed slightly. Towards the direction he fled, Li Fan threw Li Chen's long spear artifact. At the same time, he activated the Violet Heavens Thunder Control True Art, and a bolt of Violet Heavens Divine Lightning struck down directly on Song Hesong. The divine lightning struck him squarely, and Song Hesong's fleeing figure instantly froze. The long spear, like a dragon, carried wisps of purple lightning, arriving in an instant, poised to pierce fiercely into Song Hesong.

However, he was a Core Formation cultivator after all. At this critical juncture, he still recovered from his rigidity. He tightly gripped the purple lightning spear. A burst of lightning suddenly erupted from the spear, and Song Hesong subconsciously loosened his grip. The spear instantly broke free from his control and returned to Li Fan's hand.

Song Hesong, from above, glanced in Li Fan's direction. Although Li Fan was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, Song Hesong, despite being a Core Formation cultivator, had no intention of fighting at this moment. He merely gave Li Fan a resentful look and was about to transform into a bloody light and escape again.

"Junior Brother, well done!" The purple core radiated brilliantly, and Zhang Qianmo's physical body reappeared. The radiance receded, transforming into clothes. He stepped forward, transforming into purple lightning, blocking the bloody light. Exactly like before, Zhang Qianmo seized Song Hesong from within the bloody light.

"Traitors to the sect, die!" Violet Heavens Divine Lightning descended from the sky, announcing Song Hesong's impending death. A Core Formation cultivator died so easily at Zhang Qianmo's hands. As if casually slaughtering a chicken or a dog, Zhang Qianmo's face showed no change in expression.

He flew to Li Fan's side, his aura completely concealed. "With affairs here concluded, Junior Brother, let's return to the sect as soon as possible. Take these few with us as evidence." Zhang Qianmo said, pointing to the four captured Foundation Establishment cultivators. As for Ningyuan City, now a landscape of ruins and countless casualties, it was directly ignored by him.

He summoned the Violet Heavens Flying Cloud, brought the captives aboard, and flew high into the sky. Just as they were about to leave, Li Fan suddenly knocked the captives unconscious and asked aloud, "Senior Brother, what are your thoughts on this new method?"

Zhang Qianmo remained silent for a long time, then slowly replied, "It's a heterodox path, not orthodox!"

Li Fan chuckled softly. "Is that truly what you think, Senior Brother?" Pointing to the several individuals lying haphazardly on the purple cloud, Li Fan's voice was faint, "Senior Brother, look at these people. Not to mention compared to you and me, even compared to the outer sect disciples and chore disciples within the sect, they are far inferior. Their cultivation time is shorter than ours, yet now they are all at the Foundation Establishment realm, just like me!"

Zhang Qianmo frowned. "Junior Brother, what exactly are you trying to say?"

Li Fan didn't answer but continued, "When the thousands of junior brothers within the sect who haven't received true inheritances learn of the new method's existence, will they still willingly be driven by the sect, toiling without complaint at trivial tasks, just hoping to advance further on the path of immortality? Now the path of immortality is wide open, but it doesn't lead to our Violet Heavens Sect."

Li Fan pointed to Ningyuan City, now a ruin below, and said, "Today, Senior Brother's battle with Song Hesong impacted mortals, resulting in countless deaths and injuries. After all, immortals and mortals are different; the power of mortals is too weak. In the hands of cultivators like us, they have no power to resist whatsoever. But, Senior Brother, do you believe they harbor no resentment at all? Those mortals who survived, those mortals as weak as ants in this world, but numbering in the billions. If they learned of the new method's existence, what choice would they make? Senior Brother's divine might can easily slaughter four or five cultivators of equivalent cultivation. But what if, today in Ningyuan City, one-tenth of the mortals were at the Foundation Establishment realm? Would Senior Brother still dare to be so unrestrained?"

Zhang Qianmo remained silent.

Li Fan's gaze was piercing, fixed on Zhang Qianmo. "Senior Brother's comprehension far surpasses mine. What I can understand, Senior Brother must have long since figured out."

"Junior Brother..." Zhang Qianmo was about to speak but was directly interrupted by Li Fan.

"The rise of the new method is unstoppable. Those who follow it will prosper, those who oppose it will perish. Does Senior Brother agree?" Li Fan pressed.

Although he thought the same in his heart, seeing his junior brother utter it so easily, Zhang Qianmo's face involuntarily turned a little pale. If it weren't for the fact that this junior brother had never left the mountain since joining the sect, Zhang Qianmo would have almost thought he had already embraced the new method.

"Junior Brother, you must not speak recklessly..." Zhang Qianmo urged. "This matter... The sect elders will make a decision."

Li Fan smiled slightly, not discussing the topic further, but suddenly changed the subject, saying, "Earlier in the mountains, I often heard Senior Brother lament that Miss Chixia couldn't cultivate because she lacked spiritual roots, and thus was unwilling to return to the sect with you. Now that Senior Brother already knows about the new method, I wonder if you informed Miss Chixia just now?"

Zhang Qianmo was ruthless and cold in killing enemies, yet here, facing Li Fan's questioning, he stammered and looked embarrassed.

"Senior Brother, mortals are not like us cultivators; they cannot maintain eternal youth. You must know that youth fades easily, and beauty quickly perishes. How much time do mortals have to waste and squander? Can Senior Brother truly bear to watch her grow old day by day like this? And then no longer associate with you?" Li Fan spoke rapidly, pressing closer inch by inch, questioning Zhang Qianmo.

After a long while, as if having gone through an intense internal struggle, Zhang Qianmo finally let out a long sigh. "Junior Brother, wait here. I'll be right back!" With that, he flew towards the Drunken Immortal Pavilion below.