Chapter 867: Immortal Elect Shows Power

“Golden chain piercing the void?” Tian Yang was momentarily stunned, but quickly reacted.

“There seemed to be such a scene. But I didn't quite understand what it meant, so I didn't pay much attention to it.”

Tian Yang focused more on utilizing the spatial power contained within the Spirit Body of the Yellow Springs.

Li Fan, who already knew little about spatial abilities, completely concentrated on those ancient secrets.

Like blind men examining an elephant, their perspectives differed.

Li Fan then looked at the Yellow Springs water here.

“This great river can be called the River of Creation for the Soul Yin Realm. But the cycle of life and death has been shattered, and no matter how much power it possesses, its continuous generation of spirit bodies is destined to lead to a day when it dries up.”

“The Yellow Springs dries up, and countless spirit bodies drift out…”

“Under normal circumstances, this process might take thousands to tens of thousands of years. Its premature occurrence in the 115th generation was likely due to the three-eyed skull being brought into the Yellow Springs for some reason.”

“To resurrect itself, the skull absorbed all the power of the Yellow Springs water.”

Insights from his previous life and on-site investigations in this life allowed Li Fan to deduce the likely truth of what happened in this most remote subsidiary mini-world of Xuanhuang.

After a long deliberation, Li Fan did not disturb the Yellow Springs water, which was still flowing with life.

Before leaving with Tian Yang, Li Fan thought to himself, “If there’s an attempt to escape the Xuanhuang Realm in this era, perhaps the Soul Yin Realm would be an excellent testing ground.”

After traversing a long spatial passage and spending nearly another month, Li Fan and Tian Yang finally returned to the Xuanhuang Realm.

Six months had passed, and the flames of war between the Five Elder Council and the Myriad Immortal Alliance had been fully ignited.

However, Li Fan had not expected that the Myriad Immortal Alliance, which had previously been at a disadvantage, would be the one to actively instigate the conflict this time.

With their first move, they caught the Five Elder Council off guard and even recaptured the lost territory of Jiushan Province in one fell swoop!

The fortifications that the Five Elder Council had painstakingly built upon the nine mountain ranges now seemed like a complete joke!

Despite achieving such significant results, the Myriad Immortal Alliance uncharacteristically refrained from widespread publicity.

The members of the Immortal Alliance only knew that continuous victory reports were coming from the front lines, but how the Myriad Immortal Alliance achieved such incredible results remained a matter of speculation, with no reliable conclusion.

Everyone simply speculated that it might be related to the previous Thirty-Three Immortal Chosen plan.

During these past six months, Ji Shaoli, the clone stationed on Haixuan Island, had also gone to the small temple by the fishing pond, attempting to learn the truth about that battle from Senior Stone Slab.

However, the other party seemed engrossed in comprehending the Way of Fishing and paid no attention at all.

Due to the defeat on the front lines, the Five Elder Council seemed to have grown somewhat distrustful of the Myriad Realms United Association.

Several attempts to initiate contact and understand the war's internal details went unanswered.

Ji Shaoli had no choice but to temporarily give up.

During this time, Lin Ling gradually became familiar with Liu Li.

Although Lin Ling possessed a Dao Harmonization cultivation, she had only recently been born and had the mentality of a child, never putting on airs as a senior.

She actively sought out Liu Li to play every time.

This gradually led the outwardly naive-looking but actually somewhat alert young Daoist attendant to let down her guard.

After spending all day with Liu Li, when Li Fan saw Lin Ling again, he keenly noticed something.

This inherently naive spirit seemed to have "opened its mind" or "gained understanding."

Or rather, she had become more "human-like."

Li Fan looked thoughtfully at the young Daoist attendant hiding behind Lin Ling.

However, he didn't address her for now, only instructing Lin Ling: “You come with me to the border of Jiushan Province.”

In the past, Lin Ling would certainly not have asked any questions, merely nodding in agreement.

But this time, a hint of doubt flashed in Lin Ling's eyes, and she hesitated to speak.

Li Fan's gaze flickered, but he still simply explained: “I was away for half a year and made some new discoveries. Perhaps they will be helpful for the Five Elder Council’s current situation.”

Only then did Lin Ling bid farewell to Liu Li.

She then led Li Fan, traversing through underground ley lines.

Before long, the two arrived at a remote location in Jiushan Province.

They first investigated the area, and after confirming there were no cultivators lying in ambush, they quietly emerged from underground.

Their divine senses swept across the area, and upon seeing this "Jiushan Province," which was both familiar and utterly strange, both Li Fan and Lin Ling were momentarily lost in thought.

“I’m afraid Jiushan Province will have to be renamed from now on,” Li Fan mused, a moment later, having recovered, sighing lightly.

On the land of Jiushan Province, the nine majestic mountain ranges that had once stretched across it were, for some unknown reason or power, completely leveled.

The region, originally characterized by its treacherous terrain, had astonishingly become a vast, flat plain.

However, the region, formed from the corpse of the exotic beast Tian, was already spatially unstable.

After experiencing another world-shaking battle, this instability became even more pronounced.

Black spatial rifts were visible everywhere in the sky.

They appeared and vanished like lightning, constantly fluctuating.

“Perhaps I can bring Tian Yang here to visit once he finishes his seclusion and achieves enlightenment,” this thought flashed through Li Fan’s mind.

“Master, there seems to be a remnant of a terrifying aura here,” Lin Ling said, closing her eyes, taking a deep breath, and then speaking with a hint of fear, her focus differing from Li Fan’s.

“For even a Dao Harmonizer to feel fear, it must be a Longevity Realm combatant. Combined with the terrifying sight of these nine mountains being leveled…”

“Could it be that the Transmitter acted?”

However, Li Fan quickly dismissed this conjecture.

“Unless the Xuanhuang Realm itself is endangered, the Transmitter should remain indifferent to conflicts of this level.”

“But besides the Transmitter, who else in the Myriad Immortal Alliance has Longevity Realm combat power?”

“Could it be Dongji, who only exists in ancient records, or Emperor Sanmo, the curator of the Museum of Divine Artifacts?”

Li Fan then recalled the rumors circulating among the Immortal Alliance populace.

“Could it really be that Thirty-Three Immortal Chosen plan?”

Li Fan narrowed his eyes.

Li Fan had once given Wei Qizheng, one of the Immortal Chosen, a piece of the severed Disc of Final Disintegration. Although it lacked real-time communication capabilities, it could meticulously record most of what Wei Qizheng experienced. The stored information could be synchronized with Li Fan, either by seeing Wei Qizheng again or at the moment of Wei Qizheng's demise or the Disintegration Disc's damage.

While curious about the Myriad Immortal Alliance's methods, Li Fan also knew that it was not yet time to reap the rewards.

The longer this "nail" remained hidden, the more secret information he would be able to uncover.

“Just wait a little longer.”

Suppressing this thought, Li Fan first activated the special wave frequency used to contact the Five Elder Council.

After waiting for a long time, there was still no reply.

But Li Fan did not give up.

He activated it repeatedly, one after another.

After repeating this a full seven times, a faint response came from a certain location in Jiushan Province.

After Li Fan went there, he discovered that what emitted the resonating wave was merely a stone, smooth as a mirror.