"Perhaps, I can even transform them into devotees of the Compassionate True Immortal!"
Watching the countless prisoners around him who were screaming in pain under the punishment of the formation, Kou Hong empathized and thought.
"But after all, this is a strictly guarded prison. To achieve this, I still need to plan for the long term."
Kou Hong's eyes flickered as he once again used the same angry tone to conceal himself.
However, this time, he deliberately showed a sporadic and weak appearance, as if he couldn't hold on.
In the following period, Kou Hong pretended to completely surrender on the surface, diverting the attention of the prison guards away from himself. Meanwhile, he madly studied the detailed explanation of formations every day and secretly accumulated strength to improve himself.
Now he had realized.
That gift of the Compassionate True Immortal, the inexplicable heat flowing in his body, turned out to be the cultivation that cultivators dreamt of.
In conventional understanding, only through constant cultivation could one accumulate the power to advance realms. But at this moment, it was like a sourceless stream, continuously irrigating his body.
His strength was also rapidly increasing at a terrifying speed as a result. In just half a month, he directly broke through to the perfection of the Golden Core stage.
This made Kou Hong even more convinced that the miraculous events happening to him were indeed the gift of the Compassionate True Immortal!
It's worth noting that it took him more than two hundred years to cultivate from an ordinary person to the middle stage of the Golden Core. And now, he broke through in the blink of an eye.
Originally, Kou Hong thought that reaching the Golden Core perfection was his limit. However, what happened next completely shattered his understanding and made him realize what true immortal power was!
As everyone knows, to break through from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage, one needs to devour a heavenly cave of the Xuanhuang Realm.
At this moment, Kou Hong was still in prison, so he couldn't meet this condition.
However, three days later, something that shocked Kou Hong happened. When he circulated his spiritual power and inspected himself, he found that within his elixir field, a faint illusory heavenly cave scene was emerging!
Upon careful perception, Kou Hong confirmed that this heavenly cave illusion was not a hallucination but a real existence!
A heavenly cave was being born within his body!
Not to mention, this was once again a gift from the Compassionate True Immortal.
Kou Hong quickly accepted this, and with the help of this newly born heavenly cave, he officially broke through to the Nascent Soul stage a month later.
Various abnormalities caused by breaking through realms were perfectly concealed by the true immortal power surging within him, without alerting the prison guards.
Kou Hong looked at his hands, feeling like he was in a dream.
The Nascent Soul stage, a realm that he had only dared to dream about, was unexpectedly achieved so easily.
"Supreme Compassionate True Immortal, I, Kou Hong, do not know why I am so favored by you."
"I will definitely fulfill your entrustment, even if it costs my life."
Kou Hong in the shadows looked at the towering prisons around him, his eyes gradually becoming firm.
After entering the Nascent Soul stage, Kou Hong's strength continued to grow autonomously every day. However, his main focus was already on breaking formations and rescuing the prisoners in the prison.
"With just me, it's a bit difficult to accomplish this."
"But where can I find help within this prison?"
Kou Hong quietly observed his "neighbors" and selected suitable candidates for cooperation.
In this way, who knows how much time passed.
One day, Li Fan looked at the message sent by Kou Hong and couldn't help but smile.
But he just pretended not to see it and didn't give any response.
Kou Hong, who was not discouraged, continued to try several times and finally had to reluctantly choose to give up.
"Could I have judged it wrong?"
"That shouldn't be."
Just when Kou Hong was in a predicament, the arrival of a new prisoner suddenly caught his attention.
Chapter 1122: Cooperation in the Abyss
This person is not a member of the Wanxian League but was imprisoned here for violating the laws of the Immortal Alliance.
Given the crimes he committed, it's likely he won't have a chance to leave for the rest of his life.
"Now you insects, always seeking death to offset your sins."
"How can it be so easy!"
"I'm going to make you beg for death, spending the rest of your life rotting away in this lightless prison!" The Wanxian League cultivator in charge of escorting bitterly stated.
The prisoner, however, remained silent, only casting a disdainful and murderous look at the cultivator.
Soon, under the brutal suppression of the formation, all turned into cries of misery.
In extreme pain, people's subconscious utterances are often the closest to their true thoughts.
Having listened for several days, Kou Hong confirmed that this new neighbor could indeed be a potential ally.
One day, after enduring torture to the brink of death, he quietly penetrated the formation and transmitted a message.
The other party immediately opened his eyes, attempting to locate Kou Hong.
Obviously, his efforts were in vain.
After a brief exchange between the two, Kou Hong learned his name—Zhang Fu.
His crime wasn't significant; he had swallowed one-third of the profits from the Moli Zhou Dan Hall for a year. In the past, such matters could be resolved with contributions and connections, dissipating the trouble.
However, this time, unfortunately, one of his enemies somehow learned of it, directly reported it to the Immortal Alliance headquarters.
The response from the Immortal Alliance headquarters was unusually swift.
Before Zhang Fu could even smooth things over, envoys from the headquarters arrived. After a simple investigation, with clear evidence, they arrested him on the spot.
They didn't even follow the usual reexamination procedures, directly taking him to the prison for suppression.
It was only then that Zhang Fu realized he had been calculated.
He thought his fate was sealed, but unexpectedly, he encountered a turning point.
"Help release the criminals in the prison?"
"This is a serious crime punishable by death. Although everyone can be reincarnated now, I heard before coming in that the Wanxian League seems to have reached some agreement with the Transcendent Being. If someone commits an unforgivable crime in the Immortal Alliance, they will lose the chance of reincarnation and truly die!"
"Similar to those members of the Wanxian League from before, it seems."
Unaware of Kou Hong's nearby reaction, Zhang Fu continued, "Although imprisoned here with no chance of leaving, it's still better than truly perishing."
"Maybe one day, we'll witness a general amnesty by the Wanxian League?"
Initially hesitant and even contemplating reporting this scheming individual to gain merit, Zhang Fu changed his mind after the following words.
"Here, death is a release."
"If you don't believe it, just look at those around you."
(End of this chapter)
In the face of the horrors of the prison, Zhang Fu had heard about it beforehand. However, during the recent round of brutal torture, he deeply experienced the dreadful punishments here.
Hearing Kou Hong's words and witnessing several cultivators being tortured into madness and deformity, Zhang Fu was well aware that he couldn't endure such cruelty. Thus, he decisively agreed to cooperate with Kou Hong.
"If things really go south, I can always back out and sell this person," Zhang Fu thought.
However, all his calculations turned to nothing after reciting an oath with Kou Hong.
"Compassionate True Immortal?" Initially indifferent to the so-called true immortal, Zhang Fu couldn't shake off an inexplicable feeling of impending doom whenever he contemplated betrayal. Finally, he realized that he had truly boarded the wrong ship.
Subsequently, Kou Hong and Zhang Fu slowly initiated their infiltration plan in the prison. Every newly imprisoned convict, after undergoing inhumane torture and on the verge of mental collapse, Kou Hong would timely make contact.
Under the illumination of the Compassionate True Immortal's divine power, these prisoners, as if grasping the last straw of salvation, joined the escape organization without hesitation.
The long-term imprisoned cultivators who still maintained basic self-awareness became Kou Hong's main targets for persuasion. However, these cultivators, having been detained for a long time, were skeptical and unwilling to trust anyone easily. Convincing them took considerable time and experience.
Fortunately, all the new members joining the organization participated in this effort, so the progress of infiltrating the prison wasn't too slow.
Three years later.
The continuous wails in the prison concealed the private exchanges among the members of the escape organization.
"Brother Kou, how much longer do we have to wait?"
"Yeah, except for the deepest part of the prison, our brothers have pretty much broken through everywhere else. On the
surface, it seems like the Wanxian League still controls this place. In reality, as long as Brother Kou gives the order, the prison will change hands in an instant."
"These years, with the protection of the Compassionate True Immortal's divine power, we've all recovered our strength. Some brothers have even advanced further. One Harmonization, sixteen Nascent Soul, and over a hundred Foundation Establishment... Compared to that, the defensive strength of the prison is nothing."
"Hehehe, it's not just about restoring cultivation. Leveraging the divine power of the Compassionate True Immortal, we can secretly bring in various resources from the outside. The delicacies I've been craving for so long, I've almost grown tired of them recently."
...
The discussions went on for a while, but everyone was confident about collectively escaping from the prison.
During these three years, witnessing the miraculous power displayed by the Compassionate True Immortal, they had become devout believers.
After much discussion, Kou Hong spoke, "Rising up is easy, but what comes after is more important. Once the prison is breached, the Wanxian League will undoubtedly react promptly, launching a massive search."
"We won't have much time to respond, so we need to plan for the arrangements before fleeing."
With these words, everyone froze.
"Arrangements for the future?"
"Could it be the divine command of the Compassionate True Immortal?"
Although they had joined the organization for three years, they only knew about the existence of the Compassionate True Immortal. They were entirely ignorant of the organization's true name and its real purpose.
Thus, they all looked at Kou Hong with anticipation.
"Yes, indeed, it's a test from the Compassionate True Immortal. Only by passing the test can you truly become a believer of the True Immortal and a member of the organization," Kou Hong said with a tone full of sacred mission.
Afterward, he handed a grand array and a map to everyone.
"The Grand Spirit Array of Heaven and Earth." The moment the cultivators saw the name of this array, they were slightly shaken in their hearts.
According to the instructions, this array had the ability to envelop the heavens and the earth, connecting with myriad realms.
"The Grand Spirit Array of Heaven and Earth?" The moment the cultivators saw the name of this array, their hearts trembled slightly in the prison.
According to the instructions, this array had the ability to envelop the heavens and the earth, connecting with myriad realms.
The group began to study the map.
The map depicted the territories within the Wanxian League, marked with hundreds of small points.
When their divine senses converged on these small points, the cultivators were shocked to discover that each represented a small world.
At this moment, Kou Hong spoke, "The test of the True Immortal is not difficult, actually. It just takes some time."
"Go to various small worlds and set up this [Grand Spirit Array of Heaven and Earth]. Once this array is established, it will automatically connect, forming a network of formations. So, as soon as the first one is completed, we will all be aware of it..."
Kou Hong explained seriously.
Seeing the doubts of some cultivators in the organization, he clarified, "Don't worry. These selected small worlds are all inhabited only by mortals. With your strength, you can easily suppress them in a short time. The Compassionate True Immortal has also bestowed the [Heavenly Furnace of Heaven and Earth] artifact to help you transform these small worlds..."
"I can say that this time, the greatest test is your perseverance and faith."
As the cultivators looked at the specific requirements of the test, each of them fell into contemplation.
However, having been subtly influenced by the power of the Compassionate True Immortal and considering that once they broke out of prison, they would inevitably face the pursuit of the Wanxian League, hiding in mortal small worlds might not be a bad thing.
So, without hesitation, they all quickly accepted and began to contemplate the details of the plan.
After assigning ownership of their respective small worlds, they discussed every detail of how to deal with various sudden situations after escaping from the prison.
Three months later, when a Wanxian League prison guard brought another fugitive here, preparing to imprison and torture him, he was shocked to see thousands of pillars within the prison shattering one after another.
Countless vicious prisoners locked onto him with murderous intent.
The overwhelming malevolent aura swept over him, causing his soul to scatter on the spot.
Those mist-like prison guards and Wanxian League cultivators who rushed over to suppress them were instantly torn to pieces by the prisoners.
"Break out, don't linger!"
Kou Hong shouted, and the group, like ferocious beasts released from their cages, rushed out of the prison.
All defensive formations were like illusions.
The prisoners, now back under the sun, roared to express their excitement. However, they didn't stay in place; after quickly identifying their target small world, they shot toward it.
In the blink of an eye, a swarm of criminals had scattered without a trace.
Shortly after, the Wanxian League special envoy was alarmed and led a team to investigate.
Seeing no signs of forced destruction in the protective formations, he displayed an angry expression.
Teams of black-clad cultivators pursued the fleeing criminals by following their tracks, venturing out to hunt them down.
Regarding the prison, such a large-scale escape event has rendered it practically nonexistent.
After completing the transfer of the remaining prisoners, the entrance to the prison was not covered again, leaving it abandoned.
As time slowly passed, no one came here, as if the world had forgotten about it.
After an unknown period, the figure of Li Fan gradually appeared.
"Suppressed in the deepest part of the prison, even I couldn't see his face."
"Even three transmission practitioners were needed for the transfer..."
"Interesting."
Rather than immediately following the group of escaped cultivators, Li Fan directly hid near the entrance. The purpose was to explore and understand the identity of the inmate imprisoned in the deepest part for the past three years, whom he couldn't get close to.
It wasn't that the formations in the deepest part were so advanced that Li Fan couldn't crack them. Instead, it was because the guards responsible for overseeing that area were surprisingly three combined Dao cultivators.
Seemingly only to suppress that one prisoner, even when the upper part of the prison was broken, and countless felons escaped, they remained indifferent and did not come out to stop them.
When the Wanxian League's reception team arrived, during their transfer, Li Fan was able to see that prisoner.
Vaguely, Li Fan felt that he was somewhat familiar.
However, obscured by a secret technique, he couldn't be completely sure.
"Before the completion of the Grand Spirit Array, it's not advisable to stir up trouble again."
"Let's wait and see in the next life."
"Now, the only thing to do is to wait patiently and witness the world turning upside down!"
Li Fan looked toward the distant horizon, seemingly seeing the Grand Spirit Array lighting up in thousands of mortal worlds.
The full name of the Grand Spirit Array displayed to the felons was not the complete name of the formation.
This formation was deduced within three years using the Endless Disintegration Disc.
It represented the highest level of formation that could be deduced in the current state of the Endless Disintegration Disc.
Taking the prototype of the Grand Spirit Array that covered the Spirit Wood Realm, the Empire, and the Beast Realm, after further deduction, it created a shocking formation.
The full name of the formation is [Grand Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Refining the Spirits of All Beings].
The main function of this formation, and the reason why Li Fan went to great lengths to release the prisoners from the prison to serve his purposes, is the phrase [Refining the Spirits of All Beings].
Similar to the Immortal Illusion Array used by Ningyuan City's Song He Song in the battle against Senior Brother Zhang, this formation's killing power was based on the thoughts of the myriad beings.
However, after Li Fan's modifications...
It became hundreds of billions of times stronger.
Because the materials needed to be consumed increased by hundreds of billions.
When Song He Song used the power of an entire city's mortals, he could almost force Senior Brother Zhang into a desperate situation, forcing him to reveal the mystery of the indestructible purple pill.
Li Fan, using thousands of small worlds and billions of living beings from the Yellow Emperors' Realm, did it just to block the faceless True Immortal for a moment.
After the Spirit Wood Realm was destroyed by the Wanxian League and during the three years hiding in the prison, Li Fan had been contemplating and reviewing the final world-destroying plan.
After all, it was the first time he had faced off against the power of a true immortal. Even if he borrowed strength to observe the battle from the sidelines, it meant endless risks.
These two were truly transcendent immortals, not single-minded Qi Condensation cultivators.
If it were so easy to manipulate, how could they be worthy of the title of True Immortals?
Once failed, it would be an irreparable situation.
Especially after experiencing the Wanxian League's siege, revealing unexpected trump cards, and directly annihilating the Spirit Wood Realm, Li Fan became unprecedentedly cautious about the world-destroying plan.
Taking everything into consideration.
So, he discovered a problem that he had previously overlooked due to his assumptions. In Li Fan's original plan, he first intended to stimulate the power of the Immortal Matrix, and then, leveraging this transcendent power, provoke a reaction from the faceless True Immortal.
Indeed, living beings subconsciously react to things that pose a threat to them.
In the simulated predictions, the Faceless True Immortal and the Immortal Matrix Immortal should have first noticed each other and engaged in battle.
However, the instigator of this event, Li Fan, was ignored.
But this was only in an ideal scenario.
In case, after ascending to immortality, their thought patterns no longer resembled those of mortals.
Or, perhaps, they sensed the existence of the "True" on Li Fan.
What if they didn't lock onto an evenly matched opponent immediately but instead focused on Li Fan first?
If no preparations were made, and they were locked onto by True Immortals, there might not even be time to escape the Netherworld, let alone forcibly return to reality.
The more he thought about it, the more restless Li Fan became.
So, he ultimately decided that, at the very least, he needed to find a way to delay this tiny bit of time for him.
And the [Grand Spirit of Heaven and Earth, Refining the Spirits of All Beings] Grand Array was the final answer given by the Endless Disintegration Disc.
Although the gap between cultivators and mortals, and between True Immortals and cultivators, was like the difference between heaven and earth, when the quantity reached a certain level, a terrifying qualitative change could occur.
"Plunging into the endless sea of countless living beings' thoughts, even True Immortals will inevitably experience a momentary shake."
"The time I gain from this slight distraction is almost my only chance for survival."
The power of a True Immortal could indeed instantly destroy the Yellow Emperor Realm.
However, if things developed as Li Fan estimated, after locking onto Li Fan, the True Immortals wouldn't directly destroy the Yellow Emperor Realm just to catch this secretly scheming ant.
This gave Li Fan an opportunity.
"Hehe, thousands of mortal worlds, countless living beings' thoughts."
"This is an incredibly vast power. But no matter how I deduce it, I can only delay them for a bit."
"This absolute gap in strength..."
"It's truly something to look forward to."
Li Fan folded his hands behind his back, silent.
With the restraint of the Faceless True Immortal's power, those ferocious felons would undoubtedly dutifully complete the construction of the Grand Array.
Li Fan didn't need to worry about this.
Once the Grand Array was built, it would be beyond their control.
"The day the Refining the Spirits of All Beings Array is completed will be the day of the Yellow Emperor's world destruction."
"It's getting closer, probably within a year."
During this period, Li Fan only needed to wait patiently.
At this critical moment of the world, Li Fan still had some finishing touches.
He first arrived at the Tianlingzhou, the original location of the Five Elements Grand Immortal Cave.
Since Li Fan had swallowed the Five Elements Grand Immortal Cave, which had been gestating for an unknown number of years, a new Five Elements Grand Immortal Cave began to take shape in the invisible void named [Root of Heaven and Earth].
However, this process was particularly lengthy.
It was only now that the embryonic form of the Grand Immortal Cave began to faintly appear.
Li Fan strolled through the void, activating the Transcendent Heavenly Dao technique, contemplating the principles of heaven and earth.
Feeling the rhythmic pulsations resembling a heartbeat, Li Fan squinted his eyes, carefully awaiting the prompt from the True Immortal.
From this innate treasure that he possessed, Li Fan faintly sensed a dissatisfied emotion.
[True Immortal]'s emotions, Li Fan had felt them more or less before.
The tremor when encountering the Eternal Relic for the first time and the eagerness facing Mr. Bai's skull.
Now, as Li Fan attempted to "feed" True Immortal with the newly born Five Elements Grand Immortal Cave, True Immortal once again gave feedback.
"Not entirely satisfied. It can be reluctantly accepted."
A glint of cold light flashed in Li Fan's eyes. Countless red threads flew out of his body, like countless tentacles, piercing into the void of the [Root of Heaven and Earth].
Snatching the ownership of the newly born Grand Immortal Cave from this motherly entity.
The Root of Heaven and Earth was only responsible for nurturing the Immortal Caves. Thus, when Li Fan slowly deprived the created object destined to separate from itself, it didn't cause much resistance.
On the contrary, the newly born Grand Immortal Cave seemed to sense something.
It exerted every effort to resist, attempting to prevent Li Fan's devouring.
But how could a newborn compare to a robust adult brother?
No suspense.
Amidst continuous low rumbling, the newly born Grand Immortal Cave was pulled into the shadow of the Five Elements Grand Immortal Cave, akin to a background painting.
Until it was completely swallowed and disappeared.
"Humming..."
Sharp tinnitus rang in Li Fan's ears, and the scene before his eyes seemed to darken for an instant.
After everything returned to normal, Li Fan looked at his True Immortal panel.
"Current available anchor quantity: 3"
"An additional one, it works as expected. After devouring the Law of Golden Core, which couldn't satisfy True Immortal's appetite, the next step is to use Immortal Caves of a higher grade."
Verifying his speculation and adding another usable anchor point for True Immortal, Li Fan did not feel particularly happy.
Instead, he continued to ponder the emotion that True Immortal had just displayed.
Tasteless when eaten, regrettable to discard. But at Li Fan's insistence, True Immortal eventually devoured the newly born Grand Immortal Cave.
"Now it's an Immortal Cave, what will be desired in the future? A small world, the realm of cultivation, or the soul of the upcoming new law system for the changing world?"
"Anyway, it's time to tease its appetite. Being too picky is not a good habit."
In the dim and vast void space, Li Fan stood alone.
After contemplating for a long time, he slowly walked away.
Coming out of the [Root of Heaven and Earth], Li Fan then went to the location of the blood-red Long River.
Due to the lingering power of the fishing pond, this place still hadn't been discovered by the Ten Thousand Immortals League. The surviving cultivators within this stronghold were the last backbone of the Multiverse Federation.
They had already known the news of the complete annihilation of the headquarters of the Spirit Wood Realm. Despite the grief and anger, none of them wavered in their faith in the compassionate True Immortal of the mortal world.
Li Fan dispatched the cultivators searching for historical fragments in the blood-red Long River. Most of them were young and passionate individuals with cultivation levels not exceeding the early Golden Core stage.
The Ten Thousand Immortals League was formidable, and they knew they were no match for it in their current state. Thus, they could only bide their time, silently accumulating strength.
Without the support of the headquarters and losing everything they had relied on, their only hope for revenge lay in the vast blood-red Long River.
With unwavering determination, ignoring the depletion of their life force, they threw themselves into it time and time again.
Trying to explore its mysteries.
In three years, of the original one hundred or so people, only thirty-three survived.
Moreover, these survivors all had greatly diminished lifespans.
Despite that, they hadn't gained nothing.
Li Fan studied the insights they had summarized.
"Compared to simple profit-driven motives, those with deep-seated hatred can better maintain their sobriety while exploring the blood-red Long River."
"Projecting the blood-red Long River seems to have a mutual attraction based on similarities. For example, we, a group of avengers, are more likely to observe cultivators in history who harbored immense hatred."
"In addition to recording shadows, perhaps it can also bring out something that existed in history. It seems to be a manifestation of the power of the Blood-Red Long River. However, the triggering probability is too low. Since the establishment of [Seeking the Profound], this phenomenon has only occurred once. Currently researching the conditions needed to achieve the goal..."
Li Fan noted down all these highly valuable research materials.
He also remembered the name of the cultivator responsible for meticulously organizing and recording these achievements.
Chen Chen.
"Not bad. Previously among everyone, this person's performance was quite unremarkable. It's only in the desperate situation of the federation's collapse that he finally showed his leadership abilities."
"A promising individual. I should consider promoting him early in the next life. Hmm, let me see which small world he comes from..."
After achieving his goal at the blood-red Long River, Li Fan didn't appear to disturb them.
Instead, he let this group continue their mission.
After all, the outcome would be the same a year later.
Quietly leaving, Li Fan visited various places like the boundary, the empire, and the ghost realm.
He harvested the results and repeatedly tested and verified his escape plan.
...
The river of time flowed forward.
One day, Li Fan, who was tinkering with a Tianxuan small mirror, suddenly looked up and gazed into the distance.
The first Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits Grand Formation had been completed.
In an instant, Li Fan's gaze pierced through layers of spatial barriers to the mortal world where the grand formation was.
The cultivator in charge of building the formation felt the reward of cultivation bestowed by the compassionate True Immortal within him, revealing excitement on his face.
Guided by an unseen force, he did not hesitate and immediately activated the grand formation.
This mortal world, compared to Li Fan's hometown, Grand Xuan, was larger in scale.
However, as the Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits Grand Formation activated, the once azure sky suddenly took on a strange blood-red hue.
The blood-red color rotated in the sky like a brush, eventually transforming into a bizarre and terrifying blood-red giant eye.
The giant eye looked down indifferently at the countless living beings below, resembling the eye of a divine being.
All living beings in the world, at this moment, felt an inexplicable and intense fear in their hearts.
Driven by instinctive fear, their bodies couldn't help but tremble and collapse on the ground.
Even though nothing had happened yet, a sense of despair had already spread across the land.
Of course, there were beings daring to resist this blood-red giant eye.
However, all they could do was point and curse, displaying impotent rage.
The cultivator who had constructed the Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits Grand Formation stared blankly at the blood-red giant eye in the sky.
Muttering to himself, "Something's wrong, something's wrong. How could it be like this?"
"Heaven and Earth Myriad Spirits Grand Formation connects the myriad realms. How could such a bizarre change occur after the formation is set up? There must be a mistake somewhere."
An extreme sense of unease surged in the cultivator, and he was about to deactivate the formation.
But...
It was already too late.
For some unknown reason, the formation suddenly started operating on its own.
The blood-red giant eye slowly opened, revealing its eerie vertical pupils.
Boom!
The entire mortal world shook violently.
Countless streams of blood-red light rose from the earth, like columns of light converging into the blood-red giant eye in the sky.
Stunned for a moment and understanding what had just happened, the cultivator's face was instantly filled with endless despair and fear.
Because the moment the blood-red pupil appeared, all living beings in this mortal world were instantly killed.
They turned into blood-colored light, absorbed by the blood-red pupil.
The cultivator's body trembled incessantly, and an endless chill enveloped his heart.
Although he had committed significant sins, they were nothing compared to the act of instantly killing all beings in one realm.
"We've all been deceived. What compassionate True Immortal..."
"This is clearly a terrifying evil god!"
Scenes from the past four years surged in his mind, and an unspeakable fear gradually engulfed the cultivator.
But at this moment, the remaining trace of conscience suddenly awakened him from despair.
A ray of hope burst into the cultivator's eyes as he remembered something. "No, I can't let others follow in my footsteps. I need to hurry and inform them..."
As the cultivator was about to escape from the scene in embarrassment, he found that the blood-red vertical pupil in the sky had already locked onto him.
Just when the cultivator felt a chilling sensation, thinking he would die under the blood-red giant eye...
It seemed like a gentle breeze passed through the heavens and the earth, and a phantom figure inexplicably manifested.
Instantly attracting the attention of the blood-red vertical pupil in the sky.
Meanwhile, in the Grand Xuan Realm, Li Fan squinted his eyes.
He was not unfamiliar with the phantom figure.
"Mr. Bai?"
"Did the mass killing of so many beings cause a sudden outbreak of the Immortal and Mortal Plague, triggering a countermeasure?"
The phantom figure stood between heaven and earth. Although its facial expression couldn't be seen, an endless anger could be sensed.
The phantom figure swept across the sky, then locked onto the only survivor in this world.
That was the cultivator who had set up the formation.
The cultivator suddenly realized he couldn't move, and a sense of imminent death overwhelmed him. He struggled to say something.
The phantom figure didn't bother to listen to his explanation.
A fluctuation traversed thousands of miles, descending from the phantom figure to the cultivator.
The cultivator's body suddenly stiffened.
Then, strands of hair turned from black to white, skin wrinkled like dry wood...
In the blink of an eye, the cultivator transformed from a middle-aged figure into an elderly person on the brink of death.
Then, he completely turned into a skeleton.
Falling from the sky.
After avenging all of this, the phantom figure of Mr. Bai looked at the blank world where no other living beings existed.
A trace of sorrow appeared on his face.
Reluctantly, he took a final glance before dissipating with the wind.
...
In the Grand Xuan Realm, Li Fan shook his head slightly.
"I didn't expect the Immortal and Mortal Plague to have such a form."
"No wonder the Grand Xuan Realm cultivators quickly agreed to the proposal of migrating mortals. It seems they discovered this secret."
"Each to his own sins. Whoever set up the formation can deal with it; it has nothing to do with me." Li Fan sneered.
"It also conveniently saves me the trouble of cleaning up."
The demise of a villain didn't attract the attention of other villains.
As one supreme formation after another was established and integrated into the Soul Refining Network, Li Fan drew closer to the ultimate goal of this world.
He observed the countless sentient consciousness within the Soul Refining formation. Despite being the mastermind behind this, claiming authority after obtaining the True Self, he couldn't help feeling a shiver in his heart and dared not gaze for too long.
"The power of endless sentient beings is truly terrifying."
"I think even a True Immortal would pale in comparison within this sea of sentient beings."
Li Fan's icy soul, like millennia-old ice, surprisingly wavered ever so slightly at this moment.
However, soon his gaze became resolute once again.
"All of this is necessary."
"If the Immortal path is severed, even figures like Chuanfa, Xuantian King, and Mr. Bai would be forever trapped."
"Only by finding a true liberation method can everything be ultimately resolved."
"Otherwise, even if I don't take action, the inevitable outcome for the entire Grand Xuan Realm is destruction."
...
Li Fan's gaze became extremely indifferent again.
Under his guidance, the construction speed of the Myriad Spirits Grand Formation accelerated once more.
In the end, this supreme formation covering numerous mortal worlds was completely formed.
At this moment, five Crossing Calamity Sect paper men appeared timely by Li Fan's side.
This time, they didn't engage Li Fan in conversation.
Instead, they all looked towards the sky of the Grand Xuan Realm.
"How strange. Why does it seem like the Grand Xuan Realm has become somewhat uncontrollable and accelerated after taking a nap?"
"Could it be that the attraction force of the Immortal Abyss has strengthened again?"
"For so many years, nothing strange like this has happened. The changes are limited, and we didn't notice it immediately..."
The five small figures discussed, completely ignoring Li Fan's presence.
After carefully observing, Li Fan discovered that they were not the same ones who occasionally advised him before.
They were previously unseen characters, seemingly holding high positions in the Crossing Calamity Sect, overseeing the crisis in the Grand Xuan Realm.
Li Fan had no intention of communicating with them.
Instead, he directly activated the formation, forcibly retracting them into the Crossing Calamity Scripture.
"Hmm?"
This abnormality quickly alerted the five small figures.
They stared at Li Fan, their expressions gradually becoming horrified.
"So, you've been doing this all along..."
"No good!"
The Crossing Calamity Scripture trembled continuously, its pages flipping autonomously without wind.
It seemed like a large number of paper men would soon surge out of it.
However, before they could achieve anything, under the constraint of an invisible force, the five small figures were forcibly pulled into the Crossing Calamity Scripture.
The book then slowly closed.
It continued to vibrate and resist, but Li Fan remained composed, reinforcing the sealing formation.
Until the Crossing Calamity Scripture was completely silent.
"If you choose to be a turtle, then stay that way."
"The Grand Xuan Realm doesn't need you to come to the rescue."
Li Fan spoke calmly, suppressing the Crossing Calamity Scripture at the deepest part of the Five Elements Heavenly Realm.
The Grand Xuan Realm's Myriad Spirits, the Sentient Being Refinement Grand Formation, was now fully arranged.
Li Fan secured the final layer of insurance, preparing for the ultimate plan.
"After observing for a year, I'm pretty sure Chuanfa is not in the Grand Xuan Realm."
"Just like in the past."