Chapter 924: War Needs No Further Words

In a few breaths, the Sacred Embryo Li Fan rapidly ascended, directly progressing from a mortal to the early stage of Qi Refinement, completely ignoring the Heavenly Tribulation. It continued its ascent towards the completion of Qi Refinement, only stopping due to the lack of a Foundation Establishment wondrous item.

This time, no special wondrous item was chosen. Instead, Li Fan's main body and his clone worked together, using their sword dao to conjure a low-grade human wondrous item out of thin air, which served as the material for the Sacred Embryo's advancement.

With this "Indomitable Sword" as its dao foundation, the Sacred Embryo was able to continue receiving the massive cultivation transmitted by Li Fan. Transforming sword dao into a Golden Core method was already a familiar process, and for the Grotto-heaven required for the Sacred Embryo to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, Li Fan directly cut a small portion from his own Five Elements Grand Grotto-heaven.

Thus, in just three days, another early-stage Nascent Soul clone was created.

However, compared to Li Qing, the Sacred Embryo was remarkably weak. It merely possessed the cultivation realm; if it were to truly fight, the Sacred Embryo might not even be a match for an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator from the Myriad Immortals Alliance. Nevertheless, as a consumable item to be dispatched for dangerous missions, it was sufficient.

After preparing all the necessary materials for the Sacred Embryo, Li Fan controlled it to fly out of the Spiritwood Realm, unaware of its surroundings. It only fully awakened when it was half a state away from the entrance. With the mission requirements surfacing in its mind, the Sacred Embryo unhurriedly proceeded towards its destination.

Li Fan then looked at Li Qing and said, "I have removed the imprint of the new defensive grand array that was on you. However, you should not go out recently. Focus on refining your sword dao. I have a premonition that chaos will soon erupt again in the Xuanhuang Realm."

Li Qing nodded slightly. Li Fan's words were not unfounded; just now, in He Zhenghao's memories, he had seen a familiar figure: Gongsun Qixuan, from the Heavenly Mechanism Hall of Congyun Sea. This person's cultivation wasn't particularly strong, and they didn't seem very proficient in array formations. Yet, they had appeared at the headquarters of the Myriad Immortals Alliance's Strategy Array Hall, which was, to say the least, extremely peculiar.

Recalling the 115th life, the anomaly of the Xuan Net was precisely triggered by this person. Li Fan could almost certainly conclude that there was a subtle connection between this individual and the Heavenly Xuan Mirror.

"Let the fight begin. The fiercer, the better. Let me see what trump cards you truly possess."

Li Fan's gaze seemed to pierce through countless spatial barriers, landing on the boundary line between the Myriad Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association.

In the Xuanhuang Realm, cultivators like Li Fan, who constantly wished for a war between two behemoths, were truly rare. The vast majority still hoped to live out their lives peacefully, never even contemplating a full-scale war between the Myriad Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association. After all, once war broke out, countless lives would be lost. Without irresolvable conflicts, why would they insist on fighting?

However, on this very day, the Myriad Immortals Alliance directly found an excuse to declare war: "The Five Elders Association must promptly return the Myriad Immortals Alliance's lost treasures. If not returned, the Immortal Alliance army will personally retrieve them."

The cultivators of the Immortal Alliance exchanged confused glances, looking at this baffling and abrupt declaration. "What are the Immortal Alliance's lost treasures? And how did they end up with the Five Elders Association?" they wondered. "This excuse... isn't it too crude?"

As the cultivators remained bewildered, a detailed explanation was quickly released. It turned out that this was indeed not a randomly fabricated excuse. Back when the Five Elders Association was still the Ten Immortal Sects, they had launched a brutal massacre against the nascent Myriad Immortals Alliance. At that time, not only did many core high-ranking members of the newly established Myriad Immortals Alliance perish tragically, but it was also said that numerous secret treasures of the Alliance fell into the hands of the Five Elders Association. Although a great catastrophe later descended, causing the Ten Immortal Sects to collapse without being attacked, and thousands of years had passed, the deep-seated blood feud remained, unshaken through a thousand lifetimes!

Of course, the Myriad Immortals Alliance was also reasonable; they weren't necessarily intent on utter annihilation. As long as the Five Elders Association apologized for the past events and returned the Immortal Alliance's secret treasures, the matter could be dropped.

The announcement quickly spread throughout the world, and most cultivators were indifferent to the truthfulness of its content, because anyone with discerning eyes could see that it was merely an excuse for the Myriad Immortals Alliance to launch a war.

The Five Elders Association was momentarily unable to react to the Myriad Immortals Alliance's illogical move. It seemed there were internal disputes, and no official clear response was given. Consequently, exactly one day after the Myriad Immortals Alliance's announcement, the Myriad Immortals Alliance brazenly launched an attack.

Moreover, seemingly very confident in its strength, this war was not launched in secret as previous ones had been. Instead, it was broadcast live to all cultivators of the Immortal Alliance via the Heavenly Xuan Mirror. Of course, while called "live," there was still a slight delay, but this did not deter all the excited cultivators of the Myriad Immortals Alliance from gathering before the Heavenly Xuan Mirror to watch the war unfold.

The first to enter the battle was none other than the Heavenly Venerate Dharma Idol, which had not appeared for some time. Compared to its last appearance, the changes in the Dharma Idol were almost visibly discernible. Gazing at the land below, a hint of disdain flashed in its eyes. Then, it extended its right hand and pulled something from the airspace above the Myriad Immortals Alliance. Instantly, thousands of Sky-Patrolling Arrows, which had been patrolling within the Myriad Immortals Alliance, were all pulled before the Heavenly Venerate Dharma Idol in one swift motion. These Sky-Patrolling Arrows glowed with silver light, like fine threads weaving a large net. The Heavenly Venerate Dharma Idol lightly swung the net in a circle, then hurled it towards the Five Elders Association!

Five distinct rays of light instantly surged from various locations, attempting to intercept the descending colossal net. But...

The Heavenly Venerate Dharma Idol let out a soft snort, its form transforming into countless streaks of light, which then violently charged towards the five rays of light. The five rays of light were momentarily halted, obstructed by these flowing lights from the Dharma Idol. And at this very moment, another Heavenly Venerate Dharma Idol quietly appeared, directly intercepting one of the Five Elders Association's purple rays of light.

Amidst intense vibrations, the feed from the Heavenly Xuan Mirror was interrupted for a moment. When the picture resumed, what countless cultivators saw was an astonishing scene: five Heavenly Venerate Dharma Idols, each with a different expression, confronting the five rays of light! The entire Xuanhuang Realm seemed to tremble under the impact of such power.

Meanwhile, Li Fan in the Spiritwood Realm had already vaguely sensed earlier that Wei Qizheng, one of the Thirty-Three Xuan Practitioners and a host of a Doomsday Disintegration Disc, was rapidly depleting his life force! He had now completely burned out and perished!

"This is..." A sharp glint flashed in Li Fan's eyes. In his mind, the Doomsday Disintegration Disc emitted a faint white light, receiving a large amount of data. These were all scenes experienced by Wei Qizheng during his lifetime.

"Whether the Immortal Alliance can unify the Xuanhuang Realm, all hope rests on you all!"