Chapter 1098: Dark Tide
Seeing the abnormality of the You people in front of him, Li Fan remained calm. He ignored their extreme fear and forced them to complete the oath of membership in front of the stone statue of the Faceless Immortal.
After they finally calmed down, Li Fan asked why they were so scared.
The leader of the You tribe trembled all over, and after a long while, he finally explained: "We have never had the honor to see the True Immortal Stone Statue before. But the moment we saw it, our tribe members instinctively felt boundless fear."
"We have lived in darkness for many years, and our bodies have adapted to the special environment there. In normal daylight, we can barely hold on for a while, but in front of the True Immortal Stone Statue..."
"It was like a light source a thousand times brighter than the sun suddenly appeared in the pitch darkness."
The You tribe leader spoke incoherently, but Li Fan understood what he meant.
Just as a mortal would feel fear when facing the abyss, the You people also felt extreme fear when they saw the faceless immortal stone statue because they were under a fatal threat.
But the Immortal's Net is invisible and formless. Even Li Fan, if he were not the agent of the Faceless Immortal in the Xuanhuang Realm, would probably not be able to detect its existence.
On the other hand, this group of You people, even the newly born children among them, all felt the power of the True Immortal without exception.
"It seems that it has something to do with the dark power they control."
Next, Li Fan learned from the leader of the You tribe about their understanding of darkness.
The You people were actually originally human beings.
According to the ancient legends passed down among their ethnic group, in ancient times, the world they lived in still had blue sky, white clouds and bright sunshine.
But suddenly one day, when the sun set, it never rose again.
People begged desperately in the darkness, but no miracle came.
The vast majority of people have since disappeared forever in the darkness.
And those who survived, without exception, were all favored by the power of darkness.
Under the erosion and transformation of the dark power, their bodies also slowly changed.
It turned into a horrible appearance with no head and facial features squeezed into the chest.
In fact, the You people did not understand the nature of the dark power. They just worshipped and prayed to it as the only straw to save their lives and the terrifying evil god that brought destruction to the normal world.
And this dark power seemed to understand their words. It actually responded and was used by them.
The You people do not believe that they have mastered the power of darkness, but rather that it is a gift from the great God of Darkness.
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What the You tribe leader said was different from the introduction of the Dharma teacher Zhou.
The You people are clearly the natives of the You World, but the Dharma Transmitter Zhou said that they are just a special group that discovered the power of the You World and made use of it.
There should be no need for Preacher Zhou to deceive himself on such a small matter.
"It seems that the process of the Ten Thousand Immortals League discovering the Netherworld was not as simple as he mentioned."
A cold light flashed in Li Fan's eyes.
Next, he began to think about the manifestation of this dark power.
"Pray and wait for a response?"
“No wonder the entrance to the Netherworld is opened through a singing and dancing ceremony.”
Li Fan's eyes flashed.
Li Fan was no stranger to power that could respond to the inner touch of a cultivator.
The golden essence of source power is the remnant of power abandoned by the True Immortals in their pursuit of the root of Tao. It is called the Flower of Tao.
"Being able to sense each other, there may be some connection between the two."
According to the leader of the You Clan, although the power of darkness only appears in their hometown, it is actually everywhere in the Xuanhuang Realm. It is just that it is not specifically condensed, so it is difficult for ordinary people to detect it. However, if you pray and call it through special methods, you can cross the barriers between small worlds and call on its power.
Under the witness of Li Fan, the leader of the You tribe looked pious and muttered something.
He attacked a ferocious beast like a lion or tiger in front of him.
This lion-tiger beast was a new breed that the empire had recently cultivated. Its body was as hard as steel. Even if an ordinary foundation-building cultivator attacked with all his strength, it would be difficult to hurt it in the slightest.
But an extremely strange scene happened.
Without any warning, the once majestic lion-tiger beast suddenly went limp and fell to the ground.
His eyes were full of fear and he tried helplessly to struggle to get up.
But underneath it, there seemed to be an invisible quagmire, as if countless hands were constantly pulling it.
Under Li Fan's gaze, the lion-tiger beast was slowly swallowed by the darkness.
No body was found.
From beginning to end, Li Fan did not "see" the existence of darkness.
But the liger did disappear right under his nose.
Li Fan carefully examined the ground where darkness had descended, and found no remaining power.
"He comes and goes without a trace, and is impossible to guard against." Li Fan touched his chin and fell into deep thought.
The group of You people closed their eyes and prayed devoutly again.
"It seems that only they can respond to the darkness through this kind of prayer. Ordinary humans, no matter how similar they look, cannot trigger the power of darkness."
"It's easy to understand. Only if he joins our Federation of All Worlds, passes the oath of the True Immortal Statue, and joins the True Immortal Network, can his prayers be sensed by me. I think the power of darkness also has such an invisible network."
Li Fan thought to himself: "So the key is how to join this network without being swallowed by the darkness."
In the netherworld, the strange appearance of Mo Rubin's remains was still vivid in my mind. Just by touching it with my flesh, I ended up like this. It was hard to imagine that my body and soul could be spared after being thrown into the darkness.
Next, Li Fan ordered his assassins to try to imitate the attempt to communicate with the darkness, which also proved his guess.
They disappeared without a sound, swallowed up by the darkness. No one was seen alive, and no one was seen dead.
And in a short period of time, the dark power was frequently invoked, and some subtle changes seemed to have occurred.
Li Fan, the master of the spiritual wood world, vaguely felt that the whole world darkened for a moment.
After confirming with the leader of the You tribe, Li Fan knew that this was not his illusion.
But the darkness does have a tendency to flow towards this place.
Li Fan decisively stopped the experiment temporarily.
After asking various members of the You Clan for a long time, Li Fan finally roughly figured out the current situation of the dark power in the Xuanhuang Realm.
It’s like a dark ocean gathering on the “back” of Xuan Huang.
Although they were fixed in place by some mysterious power, the pervasive nature of darkness caused them to sometimes invade Xuanhuang and various small worlds through any possible "gap".
Invade and finally return to the underworld.
This cycle repeats itself, forming a "tide-like" existence.
(End of this chapter)
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