After finishing his act in front of Shang Shaojun, Holy Embryo Li Fan turned his full attention to observing the changes outside the Dust-Crossing Boat.
At this mont, the Dust-Crossing Boat had already flown to the boundary of the world.
The entire Xuanhuang Realm lay beneath his feet, visible in its entirety.
Li Fan had once observed the Xuanhuang Realm from this sa perspective. However, at that ti the Xuanhuang Realm was shrouded in a layer of hazy yellow light, just like what he had seen inside the ultra-distance teleportation formation. It appeared as one giant ball of light. The internal details of the world and the scenes upon the land could not be seen clearly at all.
But now, influenced by the enormous attractive force coming from the depths of the Star Sea, that faint yellow light had been partially stripped away.
Revealing the true appearance of the world hidden beneath.
Holy Embryo Li Fan saw the distorted white mist barrier, and...
“A monster stitched together from severed limbs and broken flesh.”
This phrase suddenly flashed through Li Fan’s mind.
Even from the Ninth Heaven above, one could still make out the subtle differences between various regions. Living beings within the prefectures might find it difficult to distinguish them, but when overlooking from outside the Xuanhuang Realm, this disharmony was obvious at a glance.
Holy Embryo Li Fan quickly recovered from his brief daze.
The Dust-Crossing Boat began emitting continuous creaking sounds, a clear sign that it was under intense external compressive force.
Holy Embryo Li Fan showed no fear whatsoever. Ignoring everything, he even accelerated the Dust-Crossing Boat further.
After fully departing from the Xuanhuang Realm, he suddenly felt the surroundings darken.
It was like the instant at dusk when the sun drops below the horizon.
Darkness, coldness, deathly silence...
All these sensations surged into Holy Embryo Li Fan’s heart.
The Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra activated on its own, helping him resist these negative emotions.
“Knowing through images and puppet synchronization is indeed different from experiencing it personally.”
“Neither the puppet sensory linkage nor the lingering influence from the dicine King Cauldron feels as real as this mont.”
Just as Holy Embryo Li Fan was thinking this, he suddenly turned his head to look behind him.
In that instant, an inexplicable sense of unease arose in his heart. It felt as though sothing might suddenly appear from behind and deliver a fatal blow. Even though his divine sense had already clearly scanned and confird there was no danger behind, the feeling in his heart kept urging him to turn around and check for himself.
Only after he finally confird that there was no imagined crisis did the strange sensation slowly fade away.
At this mont, the Dust-Crossing Boat’s earlier faint creaking had turned into loud rumbling.
It sounded as if countless ancient ferocious beasts were continuously slamming into the hull. Cracks began appearing on the boat.
The formations engraved upon it also started showing signs of fracturing.
Holy Embryo Li Fan had already prepared to abandon the boat and flee.
Ninety-nine sword shadows suddenly appeared around him, circling left and right while spinning continuously. They carved out a buffer zone of absolute space.
Holy Embryo Li Fan’s body also slowly withered. The flesh color disappeared, replaced by a strange tallic luster.
Although the enormous force from the depths of the Star Sea had indeed reduced the suction power of the Immortal Ruins to so extent.
However, after all, the Immortal Ruins held the ho-field advantage, and a considerable amount of ti had already passed since the anomaly occurred. The unknown power from the Star Sea had weakened significantly.
Therefore the Dust-Crossing Boat did not drift toward the depths of the Star Sea like the stone puppets he had placed earlier.
Instead, it inevitably began to fall slowly toward the Immortal Ruins.
However...
Whether in the curvature of the trajectory change or the magnitude of the speed variation.
Both were vastly different from when Li Fan had previously piloted the dicine King Cauldron and actively charged into the Immortal Ruins.
“My guess was indeed correct! This truly is a once-in-a-millennium golden opportunity to escape the Xuanhuang Realm!”
Seeing that the Dust-Crossing Boat was about to shatter completely, Holy Embryo Li Fan no longer hesitated.
“Ten Thousand Swords as !”
Behind him, the vague silhouettes of countless rusted swords from the Sword Tomb faintly erged. Monts later, all these sword shadows rged completely into his body.
The dark void around the Dust-Crossing Boat was illuminated as an extrely dazzling white light surged from Li Fan’s body.
Completely engulfing him.
Man and sword beca one.
Then, a brilliant sword light as if splitting heaven and earth slashed out in an instant.
The Dust-Crossing Boat was swallowed by the sword light and vanished without a trace.
The white sword light, however, moved away from the Immortal Ruins and headed decisively toward the depths of the Star Sea!
This sword light was simply too bright and eye-catching.
It even caused a white star capable of rivaling the great sun to appear in the sky above the Xuanhuang Realm below.
At this mont, countless cultivators turned their gazes toward Holy Embryo Li Fan’s position.
Shang Shaojun in particular fell into a montary daze, feeling an inexplicable sense of loss in his heart.
The sword light was unparalleled as it sped forward.
Holy Embryo Li Fan felt the binding force of the Immortal Ruins growing weaker and weaker.
The reason it went so smoothly, aside from transforming his body into the marvel of the Black Sword Heavenly Wonder and unleashing an extre sword strike, was mainly due to the influence of that mysterious power from the depths of the Star Sea.
Having left the Xuanhuang Realm and free from the interference of the world’s various laws, he could sense the remaining power in the void much more clearly.
“Unlike the eternal suction of the Immortal Ruins, this power from the Star Sea is like the tides: intermittent yet continuous, surging endlessly.”
Holy Embryo Li Fan felt waves of vast and mighty power surging toward him. He even had the illusion that he was piloting a small boat on a stormy sea, rising and falling with the waves.
“Hmm? Are those the stone puppets I placed earlier ahead?”
After traveling through the void for a short while, Holy Embryo Li Fan once again sensed the connection that had previously been severed.
However, what made his heart skip a beat was that not all the puppets remained intact.
At least one-third of the puppets had disappeared for unknown reasons!
“It is possible they were unfortunate and failed to break free from the Immortal Ruins’ shackles.”
“But it is also possible...”
Holy Embryo Li Fan was accelerating toward the puppets’ location.
But suddenly he subconsciously slowed his speed.
Because just monts ago, among the surviving seventy-four puppets, yet another one had vanished without reason!
It disappeared right under his perception and surveillance! And Li Fan had no idea how that puppet had vanished!
“As expected, the Darkest Star Sea is filled with dangers.”
An inexplicable chill rose in Holy Embryo Li Fan’s heart.
He controlled his flight speed and let the remaining seventy-three puppets lead the way while he followed far behind.
In the following period, the puppets that kept disappearing from ti to ti revealed to Li Fan just how treacherous the void of the Darkest Star Sea truly was.
As more and more puppets disappeared, Li Fan gradually ca to a realization.
“These puppets do not appear to have been attacked by so unknown entity. Rather, the places they passed through were wrong.”
“There...”
“Even space itself no longer exists. Only pure void remains.”
“It’s like on a flat road, where one pitch-black, bottomless pit appears after another. If you step on one by accident, you vanish without a trace—neither seen alive nor found dead.”
While Li Fan was pondering this, another puppet disappeared.
Only sixty-one remained.
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