Chapter 1030, In the Blink of an Eye, Locking the Void
The final realization of that divine ability was just a step away, but Li Fan had stagnated outside this threshold for half a month.
This was to ensure that his will would not be influenced by the laws of the Xuanhuang world.
"A gentleman does not differ from others; he uses what is available."
Li Fan, who had achieved enlightenment, slowly chanted, his figure flashing, and instantly appeared outside the Lingmu world.
With his divine ability just developed, Li Fan needed to find a suitable place to test its power.
"This technique, 'False Heaven's Way,' is as marvelous as my 'Unseen Killing Intent.' Both make use of borrowing fate from the heavens. Although it can borrow the authority of the heavens and earth, there is also the risk of being discovered and punished."
"For the first test, I need to find a place in the Xuanhuang world where the laws of the heavens are relatively weak."
With this thought in mind, Li Fan's figure transformed into a virtual line in the sky, heading straight for the sea of clouds.
The sea of clouds was the area where the remnants of the heavenly laws and the Xuanhuang world had not yet completely merged.
Like a thorn plunged into the flesh, the Xuanhuang world would need several years of the fiery purging sea to complete the fusion.
Compared to the original domain, the laws of heaven in the Xuanhuang world were much weaker in the sea of clouds.
Before long, Li Fan arrived at an uninhabited sea area.
Standing above the clouds, he concentrated his breath, and then displayed the newly realized "False Heaven's Way."
In an instant, the world in Li Fan's eyes changed.
It was as if he had returned to the "Root of Heaven and Earth," where countless intersecting lines formed the basis of all things in the world.
Everything within the giant web had to follow the rules of the intersecting lines.
That was the existence known as the laws of heaven and earth.
And Li Fan's body, as if it had disappeared into thin air, and his spiritual will slowly merged into this giant web.
In an instant, the pressure from the countless intersecting lines almost tore Li Fan's soul apart. In that moment, he caught a glimpse of the basic rules of the operation of the heavens and earth.
It was as if he had seen countless events happening in the Xuanhuang world.
But this fusion with the laws of heaven and earth only lasted for a moment before Li Fan actively stopped it.
Because if he continued like this, his soul would be torn into countless pieces by the immense power and then merge into the countless laws of heaven and earth.
Perhaps in the future, a divine Li would be born, but that would not be Li Fan.
After withdrawing from the fusion with the laws of heaven and earth, Li Fan took advantage of the moment when his profound insight had not yet faded, and once again activated the "False Heaven's Way."
This time, he did not reach the point of merging his soul with the laws of heaven and earth.
He was just trying to connect the intersecting lines of the laws of heaven and earth to himself.
With each contact with a line, Li Fan felt as if a huge mountain was pressing down on him.
Using the Infinite Balance and Soul Burning Technique to the extreme, he eased the burden on his body.
Li Fan continued to integrate the lines of the laws into his body.
It was like extracting threads from the web of heaven and earth, forming a tangled line within himself.
When Li Fan felt that he had reached the limit of what his body could bear, he stopped continuing to integrate the lines.
"So, this is the weight of the laws of heaven and earth..."
Now, Li Fan felt as if he were trapped under a mountain and unable to move.
Only when he came into contact with the tremendous power of the heavens and earth could he truly feel the terror of the power of the heavens and earth.
"The realm of longevity is about overturning these great mountains and reversing the laws of heaven and earth..."
"I still have a long way to go."
Li Fan's eyes flashed, and he temporarily suppressed this thought, focusing on his current state.
Although he couldn't move, Li Fan's field of vision was now broader than ever before.
Fom the high vantage point, he could see five domains around the sea of clouds, all within his sight.
All living beings seemed insignificant, easily within his view.
There were also many incomprehensible murmurs in his ears.
They did not come from any unnameable monsters, but from the mechanism of the self-operation of the heavens and earth.
The so-called Great Dao has no sound.
The heavens and earth were like a constantly running and highly precise machine. During the evolution of the heavens and earth, they would constantly emit their rumbling sounds.
However, ordinary people could not perceive it at all, only someone like Li Fan, who had become a part of the Great Dao, could hear a little bit of the hubbub from the heavens and earth.
As he listened carefully in the sea of clouds, Li Fan found that most of these murmurs were related to the evolution of the heavens and earth in the sea of clouds.
The most prominent among them was the imminent eruption of the fiery purging sea.
He also heard about the arrangements of the heavens and earth regarding the Qingfeng Sword.
But what surprised Li Fan was that the heavens and earth's hubbub about the Qingfeng Sword only ranked third amidst this cacophony.
The second...
Following the direction indicated, Li Fan cast his gaze.
It was deep beneath the surface of the Wanxian Island, where, even from the heavenly perspective, it was shrouded in darkness.
The "Golden Seal," the soul of the heavens and earth, coiled around and constantly suppressed the darkness below.
"Passage of the Void?"
A word suddenly came to Li Fan's mind.
During the 115th era, the entire Wanxian Island was seized by the Five Elders. With it, the passage of the void beneath the Wanxian Island was exposed.
While serving as the acting city lord and receiving the task of rebuilding the Immortal City, he also received an order from the First Principle to set up the Xuantian Locking Void Array, sealing the passage of the void.
"It turns out that with the continuous expansion of the passage of the void, the suppression of Wanxian Island has gradually lost its effectiveness."
"Perhaps this is also why there are often strange occurrences in the sea of clouds."
"In secret, the heavens and earth have already begun to address this, without any of the cultivators noticing."
Li Fan suddenly realized.
The Xuantian Locking Void Array had a style similar to that of the Xuantian Sect.
According to the information he found in the Tianxuan Mirror, all of these originated from the ancient legacy of the Xuantian Sect.
However, with Li Fan's current understanding of formations, he could see at a glance that although this array was innovative, it was clearly not up to the level of an immortal-grade array.
It was even far inferior to the Reversal of Life and Death Array.
"The strangeness arose from the fusion of the Xuanhuang world with other cultivation worlds."
"During the time of the Xuantian Sect, this formation already existed. It shows that at that time, problems of strangeness began to emerge when using the Floating Crossing Starry Array to capture the Xuanhuang world from other worlds."
"However, the level of the formation also indicates that the strangeness was not serious at that time. This rough array was enough to deal with it."
"But as the world to be fused increased, this Xuantian Locking Void Array..."
"It seems a bit inadequate."
Using the spare computational power of the dissolving disc in his mind, almost in the blink of an eye, Li Fan derived a completely new Locking Void Array with ten times the sealing ability.
Li Fan shook his head slightly. "So many years have passed, and the Wanxian Alliance still has no ambition, treating ancient relics from a thousand years ago as treasures."
End of chapter.