The mountain finally fell silent.
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"It seems to be just a simple parable. But if combined with the piece about the Creator God, and what I saw on the Infinite Sea, there might be more to it. Sun Piaomiao..."
Li Fan pondered for a moment, deciding to find the lost ancient manuscript.
However, back then, the Medicine King Sect fled en masse, deemed by the Ten Sects as a betrayal of the realm. The sect was soon ransacked and plundered; amidst the chaos at the time, no one knew where the ancient manuscript went. It might have even been directly burned.
Li Fan first summoned the stone tablet.
Although the stone tablet is said to record everything that happens in the Xuanhuang World, Li Fan knew it was limited to the primordial Xuanhuang World. Also, transcendent forces like the Fishing Pond couldn’t be recorded by the stone tablet.
So he didn’t hold much hope.
As expected, he didn’t find the ancient manuscript from Liu Ruchen’s memory.
However, with Li Fan’s current control over the Xuanhuang World, as long as the book still exists within it, it will definitely be found.
No need for Li Fan to personally handle it; a command was issued, and the cultivators from the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals and the Five Elders Organization woke from their dreams, rummaging through their own storages, in search.
Li Fan’s attention temporarily returned to his puppet doppelganger Li Buren.
Although he didn’t use Celestial Spiritual Power, Li Buren, who returned from the Infinite Sea, already possessed the "infinite" trait.
Plus, a remaining wisp of Immortal Spirit Energy transmitted over through Immortal Skin.
As if he had passed some kind of verification.
Originally just a corner, like an invisible high wall, the boundary quickly manifested into a solid form, folding backward.
This was a rather peculiar but hard to describe visual change.
Li Buren felt that this small space was rapidly expanding outward.
As the space expanded, a slanted staircase gradually appeared in a previously nonexistent location.
The expansion seemed endless, and the staircase before Li Buren seemed to eternally stretch upward.
Without a visible end.
Li Buren did not rashly step onto the staircase but first observed his surroundings.
This space did not infinitely extend like the staircase but gradually presented a peculiar curvature once it expanded to a certain limit. Although still in a state of expansion, the rate of increase in space volume had slowed considerably.
The space gradually filled, but besides the faintly silver-glowing stairway to the heavens before him, there was nothing else.
To explore the true secret of the high wall, Li Buren finally set foot on the staircase.
In the next second, Li Buren unexpectedly felt a sense of returning to the Infinite Sea.
Before him, the surroundings were filled with fast-moving lines. The lines, either solitary or clustered together, some only in simple grey and white, others in dazzling, colorful scenery.
Li Buren tried engaging with the lines and found they resembled the seawater of the Infinite Sea, storing and recording vast amounts of history and living beings information.
However, the volume of information here was not at the same scale as the real Infinite Sea; Li Buren could handle it effortlessly.
Moreover, the information in the lines was encrypted in some way, and Li Buren could only glimpse some vague shadows within.
Amidst the torrent of lines, rushing forward at high speed.
Soon, Li Buren emerged from it.
He arrived at the entrance of a dim, deathly-still passage.
The closed door to the passage had been blasted open, leaving a large hole, with four broken puppets lying around.
Puppet components scattered all over the place.
Li Buren looked back towards where he came from and realized this was already the end of the passage entrance.
"No boundaries ahead."
"If you want to leave, you need to go through the form of traversing those lines again."
Li Buren looked at the nearby fallen puppets.
Though damaged for who knows how many years, Li Buren could still feel a faint threat from them.
He picked up a fragment from the ground, and under full pressure, he couldn’t crush it completely, only causing further damage.
"The material forged for the puppet isn’t ordinary."
Choosing not to entangle with these guardian puppets further, Li Buren flickered and teleported into the passage door.
"Hmm?"
Flying through, Li Buren keenly noticed the difference between this place and the external Star Sea.
In the mundane Star Sea, he would merge with the Dao Network, speeding across the Abyss Star Ocean in just three breaths.
But here seemed to be a dead end where the Great Dao did not manifest.
His connection with the Dao Network seemed obstructed by an invisible barrier, making it much harder.
In his divine sense, the once-bright Dao Network projection instantly dimmed, with only certain paths unaffected, as though the complete Dao Network had been burned down to leave just a few remnants.
Li Buren’s escape speed greatly decreased, with his combat capabilities also significantly reduced.
Yet, he wasn’t anxious.
Instead, he took the opportunity to study this dark passage with interest; just discovering this place was already worthwhile for him.
"Before the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance Hall of Enforcement, there’s a long path paved with Spirit Transforming Stones. Within the range, it’s a prohibited zone for Spiritual Power, making cultivators unable to escape but walk honestly."
"This passage has a similar effect, only the restriction target is not ordinary cultivators but True Immortals Who Comprehend the Dao!"
"Furthermore, it’s not just this passage but all the buildings here."
The opened passage Li Buren walked had no solid boundaries, only conceptual limits like a high wall.
Forcing those who enter to head in a specific direction.
"This passage’s walls should have some images, but they seem damaged and have not appeared."
The passage wasn’t long, and when he reached the exit, Li Buren suddenly looked back, sensing something.
Thereafter, no more twists and turns as he walked out from the only round light exit in the darkness.
A strangely chaotic cylindrical hollow hall appeared before Li Buren.
The cylindrical hall was towering, the top unseen.
Seemingly ravaged in some way, it appeared quite empty.
Following the faint deathly energy sensed earlier, Li Buren found a spot on the ground showing traces of being cleaned.
"This is..."
Rubbing the ground with his fingertip, Li Buren raised it before his eyes, revealing a vague and twisted face.
Screaming and howling, "Save me!"
Just a remaining trace, reignited by Li Buren’s immortal power, unable to communicate with it, only repeating mechanically for rescue and to flee.
Li Buren shook his head slightly, withdrew his immortal power, and the twisted face dissolved by itself.
After careful examination, Li Buren found thirty-seven remaining intentions within the cylindrical hall, and these are just the remnants.
As for those thoroughly cleaned, they couldn’t be speculated further.
"Judging from the strength of these residual intentions, they should all be left by fallen True Immortals."
"The reason they’re far weaker than the desire to survive in the Ocean of Darkness is firstly due to the strength difference in life, secondly due to the thorough cleaning this place endured."
"True Immortals slaughtered like ants. What truly transpired here?"
Other than the thirty-seven traces, there was nothing more to gain in the cylindrical space.
And besides the passage Li Buren came from, the cylindrical hall seemingly had no other connection points.
The investigation suddenly stalled at an impasse.
After pondering for a while, Li Buren suddenly looked into his divine sense at the few bright paths still shimmering within the micro Dao Network.
Gradually forming a plan in his mind, Li Buren transformed, folding his Immortal Domain Fragment back.
Transforming into a game piece, hidden within the other suppressed paths here.
Leaving only the bright parts aligned with the remaining Daoist Principle.
The originally infinitely tall cylindrical hall abruptly shrank to nine zhang and nine.
One item after another appeared, filling the once empty hall. Searᴄh the NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
And on the circular walls of the hall, Li Buren saw countless cubical spaces displaying scenes clearly.