An endless water-attribute Cave-Heaven sea began to freeze for thousands of miles.
In the scorching fire-attribute Cave-Heaven, the flas grew dim.
But they did not extinguish.
Instead, they continuously contracted and condensed.
Transforming into clusters of strange, wandering free flas.
All sorts of inconceivable changes successively occurred on Li Fan's body. His realm also broke through Nascent Soul and surged wildly forward in the Soul Transformation stage. Soul Transformation early stage, Soul Transformation mid-stage, Soul Transformation late-stage... It did not stop until reaching Soul Transformation perfection.
Powerful. Full of vitality. Highly aggressive. This was Li Fan's current sensation of himself.
But Li Fan had no ti to savor all this in detail. As he had expected, he within the True Immortal's Web had, in a short ti, achieved such a transformation, already drawing the attention of that Faceless True Immortal beyond the High Wall.
The surroundings no longer seed so dark, as specks of light appeared. It was as if waves were constantly surging; the silent dark sea had an uninvited guest arrive.
"[Truth]," Li Fan said decisively.
The surrounding scene beca still. Then it rapidly misted over. Perhaps because the Faceless True Immortal did not fully probe the disturbance in the net, or perhaps because the dark sea shielded most of the Faceless True Immortal's power.
In any case, this Returning to [Truth] process went very smoothly. The void white mist did not last long before it suddenly dispersed. Light reappeared.
Anchor 1 year, Jieli Mountain Peak!
"Safe return."
"This proves my thod is feasible."
Li Fan let out a breath of relief and first ignored the [Truth] prompt. He carefully examined his own face. The influence of the Faceless True Immortal's power, after another activation of [Truth], had indeed weakened to a certain degree.
Li Fan's face was no longer a smooth, empty void. Instead, there were faint outlines of facial features slightly protruding. However, this appearance seed even more eerie than pure facelessness.
Li Fan did not mind.
"Next, I just need to follow the sa procedure."
He flew toward the Great Xuan Capital City with practiced ease.
What followed in Great Xuan and several other small worlds was almost completely identical to the previous lifeti, that is, the 120th lifeti. The only possible difference was that Li Fan was more proficient and skipped many probing steps.
For safety's sake, Li Fan did not cause any extraneous trouble; he even stopped his research on the You Clan people's power of faith. Minimizing all variables.
In the 121st lifeti, the [Truth] recharge progress sped up a bit. It completed charging three months early. Hiding in the dark sea, inheriting cultivation, Returning to [Truth]. All in one seamless flow.
Next ca the 122nd lifeti, 123rd lifeti... Up to the 125th lifeti. In the 8th year of anchoring, Li Fan once again arrived at the dark sea.
He had a premonition that after this activating of [Truth], he would completely shake off the Faceless True Immortal's influence. Now his face was already no different from a normal person's. He could still sense certain flaws undetectable by the naked eye or divine sense. The True Immortal's Web's influence still existed. But it was fragile, ready to shatter at a touch.
Li Fan suppressed the impulse in his heart to court death. He took a deep breath and silently recited in his mind.
"[Truth]!"
The scene instantly shifted between illusion and reality. The mist condensed and then shattered in an instant.
126th lifeti, anchor 1 year, Jieli Mountain!
"Hu!"
A completely different feeling from his previous lives welled up in Li Fan's heart. It was unbound, true freedom and ease.
"Long confined in a cage, now returning to nature."
Li Fan murmured softly as he slowly walked to the edge of the cliff.
"Xuanhuang Realm, I am back!"
Facing the boundless sea of clouds, Li Fan chose to inherit his cultivation.
Above the Great Xuan, the winds and clouds shifted dramatically in an instant. The entire world seed to buckle under the pressure, emitting creaking groans as if overwheld. But the change lasted only a mont. The vast aura emanating from Li Fan quickly subsided and dispersed. The sky returned to normal.
"At Soul Transformation perfection, even the Great Xuan world struggles to bear it."
"If I were at Dao Integration perfection, the world might shatter into fragnts the instant I inherit my cultivation."
"But no matter. By then, I can inherit it within the Xuanhuang Realm. Or first upgrade the Great Xuan world."
Li Fan shook his head slightly, then shifted his thoughts to the plans for this life.
"In this life, I will stay behind the scenes."
"Unless absolutely necessary, I will not act myself."
"Everything else is incidental, only to verify my previous conjecture."
Li Fan narrowed his eyes, gazing into the distance as if seeing the skies of the greater Xuanhuang world.
"What exactly is the connection between the Immortal Ancestor and the Heavenly Doctor..."
Setting aside the argunt that the Immortal Ancestor and the Heavenly Doctor never appeared together. Li Fan's suspicion about their relationship stemd from the 'nding Heaven Record' passed down by the Heavenly Doctor.
At the end of the nding Heaven Record, it described a thod to heal the heavens, one that existed only in theory. That was "borrowing a shell to return the soul, breaking to be reborn." Even the mightiest cultivation world has an end to its life, just like any living being.
When a world inevitably heads toward ruin and decline, no matter how advanced the healing arts, it is powerless to reverse it. One can only watch helplessly as it perishes. That is the normal, theoretical situation.
Yet the Heavenly Doctor proposed a possibility for saving the world. That is, to find another cultivation world in its pri and perform a soul possession.
"The Heavenly Dao changes hands, the world flips."
"Though it seems absurd and inconceivable, for the Heavenly Doctor, it may not be impossible."
"And moreover..."
Since stepping into the Xuanhuang Realm, every scene he had witnessed flashed rapidly before Li Fan's eyes.
"The various phenona speculated in the nding Heaven Record during a world's shell-borrowing rebirth align too closely with the current state of the Xuanhuang Realm."
"Strangeness abounds, the Heavenly Dao mutates abruptly."
"More importantly..."
"The Heavenly Doctor hails from the Heavenly Law Realm, yet places such emphasis on the Xuanhuang Realm. Desperately wandering the Darkest Star Sea to gather fragnts from other worlds."
"Combined with the Heavenly Doctor's previous words and actions..."
A glint flickered in Li Fan's eyes.
"The accuracy of the Heavenly Doctor's nding heaven plan can almost be confird."
"The only truly terrifying detail is the Immortal Ancestor's attitude."
"If the Immortal Ancestor clearly knew the Heavenly Doctor was from another world, seeking to borrow the Xuanhuang Realm for a corpse revival, yet offered no obstruction from beginning to end."
"Instead, like the Heavenly Doctor, venturing into the Star Sea to collect world fragnts."
"..."
A heaviness settled in Li Fan's heart.
"Either, aside from this, the Immortal Ancestor has no better way to save the Xuanhuang Realm and is forced into it."
"Or..."
"The Dharma-Transmitting Immortal Ancestor and the Heavenly Doctor are actually the sa person!"
"Or rather, the Immortal Ancestor is the Heavenly Doctor's clone!"
A sharp gleam flashed in Li Fan's eyes. In the hearts of countless cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm, there was one question. Why, while the Immortal Ancestor wanders beyond the heavens, does he not leave a clone behind? As long as one clone remained, it would suffice to suppress all petty threats in the Xuanhuang Realm.
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