Chapter 1068 The Crisis of Ascension
At first, the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance had some restraint over the gradually irrational cultivators, making the relatively safe within the immortal cities of each state.
But as the two sides became more and more bloodthirsty, the Alliance's orders became less effective. Cultivators would fight to the death in the cities at the drop of a hat.
Initially, the punitive array in the city was still effective. Towering stone statues would emit a white light to eliminate cultivators who violated the laws.
However, as the number of cultivators engaged in deadly battles increased, even the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance hesitated to take action.
They only selectively deployed arrays in the city.
This kind of approach undoubtedly exacerbated the cultivators' frenzy.
The fanatical atmosphere caused the few remaining calm-minded cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm to slowly change as well. They began to participate in the slaughter of their peers.
The mutual slaughter of cultivators was not only limited to their earthly lives. Even enmity in the Xuan Mirror could lead to bloodshed.
A mysterious figure named "Heavenly Eye" gradually gained notoriety among the cultivators, offering to reveal the true identities of cultivators behind Xuan Mirror accounts in exchange for secrets about themselves.
At first, the cultivators were somewhat skeptical.
But practice proved the truth.
The sudden deaths of over a hundred cultivators at the hands of their enemies was the best proof of Heavenly Eye's power!
Arguments and grudges that led to conflict in the Xuan Mirror were common occurrences. However, due to the strict confidentiality of the Xuan Mirror's information, there was no way to understand these conflicts. They festered as unsolvable mysteries.
Now, the appearance of the Heavenly Eye changes everything!
Have you ever offended someone without preparation and been suddenly targeted for revenge?
Then why not strike first?!
Under the influence of the Heavenly Eye, the frequency of vendettas within the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance skyrocketed.
The phenomenon of cultivators falling from the sky became commonplace.
The progress of the Doomsday Plan was going smoothly, but Li Fan's mood was not as good as one might think.
In the Hundred Stone Cave of the Shilin Prefecture, two very similar figures stood in front of a Xuan Mirror.
One of them was Li Fan himself.
The other was a puppet body crafted for Li Fan by the artisan Qiao during this time.
Without using the essence of source power, the puppet body's strength did not match that of the Longevity Realm like Tianyang's.
However, Li Fan was not concerned about the puppet's actual combat capability. He was more interested in its ability to seamlessly merge with cultivators.
At this moment, the source of the mirror bestowed by the Xuan Mirror had been transferred to this pseudo-immortal puppet.
In addition, to prepare for the impending arrival of the transmission law user Jiang, Li Fan had modified the consciousness implanted in the puppet.
In his consciousness, he truly believed himself to be a member of the vast Alliance of Ten Thousand Worlds, responsible for hunting down the remnants of the Xuantian Sect.
As for the memories of Li Fan's true self and other secrets, they were completely absent.
The puppet Li Fan naturally became the prominent "Heavenly Eye."
Using the power of the mirror source, he not only facilitated the mutual slaughter of cultivators but also obtained many confidential pieces of information.
Although some of it seemed completely valueless, it might prove useful in the future.
At this moment, the puppet Li Fan was dedicatedly playing the role of the Heavenly Eye.
Meanwhile, the true Li Fan furrowed his brow.
"To this extent, neither Moru Bin nor the Xuan Mirror have taken any action?"
"Only the holder of the mirror source can read encrypted information from the Xuan Mirror. Moru Bin should have realized long ago that the recent series of events leading to the world's destruction were being manipulated by me."
"But I still haven't noticed anyone investigating along these lines…"
"Did Moru Bin and the Xuan Mirror ignore me? Or are they busy with more urgent matters?"
Even though he had deduced countless possible scenarios in his mind, there were too many factors to consider at this point.
Everything was going smoothly according to plan, which was unrealistic.
Li Fan had to remain flexible.
But unexpectedly, before the third step of the plan had even begun, there was an unexpected mishap that caught him off guard.
After a day when hundreds of cultivators had finished their deadly battles, a mysterious blood-colored vortex appeared out of nowhere, swallowing all the signs of imminent death among the cultivators!
These blood-colored vortexes appeared in every location where a cultivator had fallen in the Xuanhuang Realm.
People speculated about the origin of these vortexes.
But their growing hatred was unaffected.
The killing continued.
Li Fan looked up at the increasingly numerous blood-colored holes in the sky and felt a familiar aura emanating from them.
"Reversing life and death?"
"At this critical moment, is the Ascension God ready to achieve enlightenment?"
As if to confirm Li Fan's speculation, endless rays of crimson light gushed forth from the vortexes in the sky.
In addition to bathing the world in a blood-red hue, the sky also revealed the looming, majestic avatars of palaces.
On the ground, the details of the palaces were unclear to the cultivators, but the central one, the "Ascension Court," captivated all their attention!
As the words "Ascension Court" floated into their minds, information about it naturally appeared.
Not truly dead, but to be reborn into the cycle of life and death?
At that moment, all the cultivators stopped their battles, united in the deep shock brought about by this profound change in the world.
Unlike the Ascension Court that Li Fan had experienced before, this one was beyond the control of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance. It had become a natural phenomenon in the world, like the "Law of Non-Cohabitation," and nothing could influence it except to defy it once again.
Correspondingly, at this moment there were no cultivators aware of the specific details of reincarnation.
They only knew that with the appearance of the new Ascension Court, the future of the Xuanhuang Realm would be fundamentally changed.
How to be reborn, whether memories and cultivation would remain after rebirth.
All these answers would only be revealed when a cultivator completed a full cycle.
Nevertheless, the fact that death was not truly death but a form of rebirth directly influenced the cultivators' choices.
The psychological burden of killing was once again significantly reduced.
The cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm were all portrayed as vicious criminals, ready to fight each other to the death at the slightest provocation.
But for Li Fan, the deaths of cultivators no longer posed a threat to the Xuanhuang Realm, and thus had lost their significance.
"What is this Ascension Court all about?"
Li Fan was the first to challenge the transmission law user Zhou and the others.
(End of chapter).