Chapter 863

The Infinite Method Debuts

With Li Fan's roar, a giant tens of times larger than the previous Heavenly Sun Puppet suddenly appeared in the vast depths of space. It was Li Fan's Nascent Soul avatar, conjured by drawing upon the nearly inexhaustible elemental energy of the Five Elements Cave-Heavens! If it were to appear in the Xuanhuang Realm, this giant would be large enough to prop up the heavens, drawing the gaze of all cultivators worldwide.

Behind the giant's head, the faintly emerging illusory images of the five great Cave-Heavens resembled five interconnected rings, making Li Fan's avatar appear incredibly sacred. Compared to this giant, Heavenly Sun's size was almost like an ant's.

“Suppress!”

The giant looked down, extended its right index finger, and pressed it down forcefully towards Heavenly Sun's head. The finger overshadowed Heavenly Sun's head, as if the sky itself were falling. Its fingerprints appeared like rings of confining talismans, poised to suppress Heavenly Sun in an instant.

For the first time experiencing what he looked like in the eyes of ordinary cultivators, Heavenly Sun did not panic when faced with the giant's overwhelming strike. His clothes fluttered without wind, and the space around him underwent a wondrous distortion. The spatial distortion rippled outwards like layers of waves, originating from Heavenly Sun. As it expanded, Heavenly Sun's form became increasingly blurry. In just a moment, he had completely vanished from the scene!

Li Fan's index finger pressed down, but it struck empty air!

“Interesting!” the colossal avatar boomed. “I used the power of the Five Elements, combined with a space-sealing formation, yet I still couldn't prevent your escape…” Its gaze swept continuously around, trying to find Heavenly Sun's trace. But Heavenly Sun seemed to have completely vanished into thin air, not even revealing the slightest ripple of aura.

“Junior Brother, don't…”

Li Fan was halfway through his sentence when, without any warning, Heavenly Sun, like a ghost, suddenly appeared directly in front of the avatar's head! Appearing out of thin air, he pointed from a distance at the avatar's glabella. Like a drop of water falling into a still pond, the avatar's head underwent a strange distortion. Then, with a boom, it shattered!

Heavenly Sun was about to withdraw his hand. However, even with its head shattered into fragments, the avatar's movements remained completely unaffected. Its hands quickly clasped together in front of it, fingers bent and extended, forming a cage. The energy fragments of the head, as if sentient, flew rapidly closer. Outside the cage formed by the fingers, they instantly transformed into a formation!

Heavenly Sun paused slightly in surprise. He realized that within this formation, not only could he not shatter space to escape, but even the spatial folding technique he had just used was rendered ineffective! It had been effective just moments before, but in the instant they exchanged blows, Li Fan had already found a way to counter it with a formation! What a genius!

Before Heavenly Sun could think further, outside the finger-cage, layer upon layer of illusory formations ceaselessly appeared. As if there were no limit, in just a few breaths, the power accumulated by these stacked formations had expanded to a degree that even Heavenly Sun, a Dao Integration realm cultivator, was moved. Of course, the price was that Li Fan's Nascent Soul avatar shrank instantly like a deflating balloon.

Feeling the imminent danger of explosion all around him, Heavenly Sun dared not move. Li Fan's form then appeared not far away, grinning triumphantly: “How about that, Junior Brother? Convinced?”

Heavenly Sun nodded sullenly.

“Haha,” Li Fan didn't press Heavenly Sun further, a blue light flashing in his eyes. Then he lightly pointed towards Heavenly Sun's location. In an instant, that vast and unimaginably complex formation in Heavenly Sun's eyes was effortlessly dismantled by Li Fan!

“I haven't even used my true abilities yet. It wouldn't be good if I hurt you,” Li Fan couldn't help but emphasize, seeing Heavenly Sun's somewhat unconvinced expression.

“Me… too,” Heavenly Sun uttered these three words with some difficulty. He then looked at Li Fan again and proactively requested another fight.

“Hey!” Unexpectedly, Li Fan merely waved his hand, refusing. “Sparring is just for practice; we should stop before things get serious. Are we, fellow disciples, really going to fight to the death?” “No more fighting, no more fighting!” Li Fan said with a chuckle.

Heavenly Sun was helpless, but found it difficult to insist.

“By the way, Junior Brother, your power is also related to space. Not far ahead, there's a small world filled with a certain type of spiritual entity, which might be helpful to you,” Li Fan said, introducing Heavenly Sun to the relevant situation of the Soul Yin Realm.

Although Heavenly Sun had already achieved Dao Integration, apart from the power of laws contained within the Soul of Heaven and Earth, his knowledge was actually not much different from that of Body-Dao Foundation Establishment cultivators from a thousand years ago. Regarding such unusual matters, he was naturally at a loss. However, he always listened to Li Fan.

So, the two continued deeper along the spatial passage. This place was already far from the main Xuanhuang Realm, and Li Fan no longer had any misgivings. Seven-colored divine light streaked across the sky, traveling thousands of miles in an instant. Heavenly Sun, who expertly controlled spatial power, could shrink distances into inches, following closely behind. Even with their incredible speed, the length of this spatial passage still exceeded their imagination. According to Li Fan's calculations, it took them over a month before they vaguely sensed the rift-realm whale pod ahead.

Li Fan halted his steps. Looking into the distance, they saw countless rift-realm whales, resembling a sea of whales, moving in massive pods and forging paths through the void. And this was only what was visible. In the dark void, it was unknown how many more rift-realm whales truly existed. The immense collective aura emanating from the rift-realm whale group made even Li Fan's expression subtly change.

“This is already the extreme point of quantitative change leading to qualitative change.”“How can there be so many of them?”

Li Fan couldn't help but turn his head to look at the Soul Yin Realm, hidden not far away.

“Let's go.”

Transforming into a rainbow light, Li Fan, moments later, descended into this small world.

“Brrr…”

The moment he landed, Li Fan couldn't help but frown. This place was simply too cold. Even the spiritual energy within his body showed a tendency to freeze. The power of the Five Elements circulated within him as Li Fan intended to resist the severe cold by transforming his spiritual energy into the fire element. But the moment he did so, a terrifying cold energy inexplicably surged from within Li Fan's body. He instantly transformed into an ice sculpture, and then, as a chilling wind from an unknown source swept past, he disintegrated into countless ice particles, scattering across the ground. A moment later, with a spatial fluctuation, Li Fan's body reappeared.

“Peculiar.”

An intrigued expression appeared on his face. Just moments ago, what appeared alongside the fire-elemental energy within him was not heat. Instead, it was extreme cold. This coldness didn't originate externally, but was an intrinsic characteristic of the fire element in this place.

“Senior Brother, something is amiss here.” Heavenly Sun, uncharacteristically, spoke a complete sentence fluently. His expression was serious. “It feels as if something around me is gnawing away at my abilities. But I can't find them.” Heavenly Sun then continued to convey his discovery via spiritual transmission.