Chapter 1764: Chapter 1436
Those who survived the initial massacre already possessed some experience in survival. Lurking, hiding, and striking in secret made the rhythm of the slaughter gradually slow down.
However, the shrinking Ji Le City forced them to concentrate together again, speeding up the pace of the game once more.
Repeated viewings led to aesthetic fatigue. No matter how bloody or bizarre, it just became mundane after a while.
The three from the Sword Domain had begun to grow numb. No unusual expressions surfaced anymore, and impatience started to creep in.
Only Li Fan continued observing seriously, noting the different reactions and decisions of every living being in Ji Le City when faced with life and death.
The promised Ji Le City’s three-year cycle of Reincarnation.
This slaughter truly lasted for three full years.
It seemed that behind the scenes, a mysterious force was manipulating the game’s progress secretly.
During these three years, the three from the Sword Domain drank bowl after bowl of red soup. Now, drinking it felt like plain water, without any sensation.
Li Fan’s treatment wasn’t as favorable.
He was bestowed only six bowls in the first year. After that, Scholar Zhu deliberately ignored him.
Li Fan knew Scholar Zhu was gradually increasing the endurance of the Sword Domain trio, preventing the consequence of consuming the fruit and being idiots due to the infinite slaughter intent within.
After all, they were people from the Sword Domain, Scholar Zhu had to give them some face.
As for “Ma Tiande”…
He’s purely left to fate.
The three-year period ended. The blood-colored sun finally disappeared beyond the horizon.
Ji Le City, now left with only a tiny region, fell back into darkness.
At this moment, it’s as if time came to a standstill, with all survivors frozen like in ice.
Light and shadow contracted, flying directly into the City Lord’s Mansion.
Survivors, glowing faintly, flew out from Ji Le City’s hologram.
Ghosts and humans split apart.
“Five ghosts, five humans? You really guessed it right, kid!” Situ Tiantian looked at Li Fan with some shock.
The three from the Sword Domain were a bit frustrated as the extra meal flew away.
Li Fan knew Scholar Zhu was saving their lives.
With the strength of these young ones, perhaps they could endure ingesting one fruit. However, swallowing two consecutively would certainly lead to no survival.
“It seems this Scholar Zhu is indeed petty-minded.”
Li Fan sneered inwardly.
From how the duration of slaughter in Ji Le City can be precisely controlled.
The entire process was just going through the motions.
The final oute was entirely at the whim of Scholar Zhu.
Li Fan guessed the final result would be an equal number of humans and ghosts.
So the last survivors would definitely be in equal numbers of humans and ghosts.
“Not bad. I’ll entrust these two fruits to you!”
The survivors with shimmering white light seemed to have returned to the womb, curling up like fruits.
Scholar Zhu picked out the two most robust ones and handed them personally to Li Fan.
Li Fan bowed in thanks.
The Sword Domain trio showed signs of displeasure but didn’t dare to act out. They could only swallow theirs in dissatisfaction.
Li Fan sensed Scholar Zhu’s gaze fixed on him constantly.
He also followed suit, first swallowing one fruit.
There was no sensation from these fruits; they melted as soon as they entered the mouth.
Countless intents, memories, and emotions layered on top, suddenly exploding in Li Fan’s spirit consciousness.
Like a terrifying storm sprouting from a flat surface, capable of destroying everything.
Li Fan’s original intent was swept up by this gale, uncontrollable and endangered.
“This is called, the thought of all beings can refine the gods.”
“If I, with a hundred lifetimes of Reincarnation, reflect the divine sense of the Tao, no storm can shake me. But Ma Tiande simply doesn’t have such ability…”
“Unless the Dao Network is used.”
Hiding within the storm of sentient thoughts, Li Fan observed Scholar Zhu from the side, sneering inwardly.
He had long devised a plan to counter it.
“Within the Dao Network are Life Stakes of Nameless Immortals.”
“From one of the nodes, I vaguely sensed an aura similar to Scholar Zhu…”
Li Fan’s thoughts spun quickly.
Meanwhile, in reality, Ma Tiande was crying, face twisted.
His face displayed multiple expressions simultaneously. Limbs slipped uncontrollably, waving as if a drowning man were searching for any lifeline.
Scholar Zhu showed an expression of enjoyment, watching Ma Tiande struggle.
Only his peripheral vision couldn’t help but glance beyond the heavens.
The death of a Dao Network operator would generate a signal sent to the Governing Council through the Dao Network.
Within the Sea of the Northern Stars were surviving forces from various Immortal Cultivation Worlds, even different Star Seas. There was even a past existence of True Immortals. Various mysterious means appeared one after another, and only the Dao Network was able to overlook everything and deliver the status of the operator to the Governing Council.
This was the means by which the Sea of the Northern Stars maintained its own stability.
Yet it became the phenomenon Scholar Zhu anticipated and waited for.
This was the real reason he wished for “Ma Tiande” to die all along.
However, his expected event didn’t occur.
That operator, who was dying, seemed to have really found something to cling onto.
Despite the twisted expressions, Scholar Zhu could see, his self-divine sense hadn’t dissipated internally.
“Hmm?”
This piqued Scholar Zhu’s interest.
“This is…”
Squinting to observe, Scholar Zhu’s face changed abruptly.
He saw, within the opponent’s consciousness.
The threatened Ma Tiande by death instinctively wrote numerous meaningless Dao Origin Symbols.
These symbols couldn’t form a Dao Yuan Directive.
Thus, it didn’t cause the Dao Network’s disturbance.
But inexplicably, formed a long dike, blocking the storm created by the Fruit of Sentient Thoughts outside.
“By coincidence, without connecting formally to the Dao Network, you still managed to utilize its power?”
Scholar Zhu had a profound understanding of the Dao Network.
He had already seen through the fundamental reason Ma Tiande could survive.
The Dao Network was already a real entity.
Though trapped under some people’s control, those who controlled the Dao Network can only adjust its behavior and directives.
Unable to affect all its instinctive reactions.
After all, the Dao Network imitating the Tao of Heaven and Earth.
“Dao Yuan Directive triggered the Dao Network.”
“In theory, it should cause the Dao Network to move. Yet it was blocked by the Governing Council over there.”
“Amid infinite binations, it somehow formed such a life-preserving one.”
“Was it coincidental?”
Scholar Zhu remained silent.
He didn’t intervene, allowing Li Fan to consume and digest the first fruit.
The storm of intent gradually calmed down.
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These symbols couldn’t form a Dao Yuan Directive.
Thus, it didn’t cause the Dao Network’s disturbance.
But inexplicably, formed a long dike, blocking the storm created by the Fruit of Sentient Thoughts outside.
“By coincidence, without connecting formally to the Dao Network, you still managed to utilize its power?”
Scholar Zhu had a profound understanding of the Dao Network.
He had already seen through the fundamental reason Ma Tiande could survive.
The Dao Network was already a real entity.
Though trapped under some people’s control, those who controlled the Dao Network can only adjust its behavior and directives.
Unable to affect all its instinctive reactions.
After all, the Dao Network imitating the Tao of Heaven and Earth.
“Dao Yuan Directive triggered the Dao Network.”
“In theory, it should cause the Dao Network to move. Yet it was blocked by the Governing Council over there.”
“Amid infinite binations, it somehow formed such a life-preserving one.”
“Was it coincidental?”
Scholar Zhu remained silent.
He didn’t intervene, allowing Li Fan to consume and digest the first fruit.
The storm of intent gradually calmed down.
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