Chapter 1269: Immortal Folding Array
After a period of tempering in the Ashes World, Sun Luyao, who survived a near-death experience under the Gui Zi Jue, has indeed made a lot of progress compared to before.
The faint light bloomed quietly, penetrating the surface land of the Xuanhuang Realm and reaching the inner core.
After a search, they indeed found the remnants of what appeared to be a protective formation.
However, compared with the small world of ash, the lines of the formations in the Xuanhuang Realm are more ancient and profound.
Li Fan activated the Infinite Mirror and continued to investigate. At the same time, he brought the discovered array data into the array model derived from the final dissociation disc.
"Most of them match. But at some key points..." Li Fan's eyes flashed, and he grabbed the Infinite Mirror, turned into a streamline and shuttled through the nine lands, and came to the deepest underground still under the Xuanhuang Earth Vein.
The surroundings were in chaos. Under the unimaginable pressure, matter no longer existed. Only a dark red aura flowed, bringing with it a mysterious, whispering sound.
In this extreme environment, Li Fan had to hide in the Wuliang Mirror and rely on the main body of the immortal weapon to survive.
The Wuliang Mirror was not so relaxed either. It actively released a faint light to protect its main body, while Sun Luyao looked around vigilantly.
"Senior, the formation ruins I just scanned from above were clearly right here. But when I got closer, I couldn't see them anymore..."
"And I can also sense the aura of the immortal seal here. A lot..."
"It's much stronger than before." Sun Luyao emphasized.
"Have your memories recovered after coming into contact with the Immortal Seal?" Li Fan asked while observing his surroundings.
After the Infinite Mirror shattered, all the information related to the Immortal Realm disappeared along with it. Even though Li Fan helped it to roughly reorganize it, the disappeared records never returned.
But after "returning" to the fairyland, there may be some variables, so I asked this question.
It seemed like a casual question, but in fact Li Fan was staring at Sun Luyao closely, watching his changes.
"No." Sun Luyao's emotions did not fluctuate in any unusual way, and he confessed honestly, "After being annihilated by the power of the Immortal Seal, my consciousness was in a blank state. And I can't sense the existence of those disappeared parts at all."
"but……"
"but……"
Sun Luyao stopped talking abruptly, as if he was lost in some thoughts and doubts.
"Um?"
“Um, I don’t know how to express it to you, seniors. Anyway, it is a very magical experience. Although I no longer exist, it seems as if I have instantly flown to another very distant world. It feels too mysterious, and I really don’t know whether it is my real feeling or an illusion between life and death.” Sun Luyao said slowly, his tone sounding quite dreamy and hazy.
After hearing his words, Li Fan paused for a moment.
"If the Immortal Realm still exists, this Gui character technique is equivalent to forcibly opening the passage to the Immortal Realm. Although it is only open to specific people."
"And now the fairy world is destroyed..."
"The passage still exists, but the destination is gone. But according to Wuliangjing, the one who experienced it firsthand, it is possible that the real immortal ruins did not disappear. It just stayed there for a short time and was forcibly expelled. In other words, the old rules cannot tolerate it!"
An impulse suddenly surged in Li Fan's heart.
Use the remaining source of energy essence to see if you can disguise it as an immortal weapon and utilize the power of the Gui character formula to explore the real immortal ruins.
Once the thought came up, it was like a raging flood, and it was hard to suppress it. It was only when the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra started to work spontaneously that the desire was suppressed.
Li Fan suddenly understood: "This is the yearning of ordinary people for immortality, and the pursuit of sublimation by low-level life forms. It is engraved deep in the soul, innate and indelible."
"For me, it's not too risky to try it out with my split spirit while I'm fully prepared to make it happen at any time. Well... it's just right that I can sit back and watch the fight between the tigers in this life, and it will take a long time until the final scene comes. I can plan it carefully..."
While Li Fan was distracted and thinking, he also found a way to crack the hidden secret of the original protective formation of the Xuanhuang Realm.
What surprised him was that the method was exactly the same as the one used to hide and seal the Book of Deliverance!
That is: the superposition of space in multiple directions. In layman's terms, it is a line hidden in different spatial dimensions. From a certain angle, nothing can be found. Only by constantly changing the perspective and "rotating" all the distributed individuals into one, the hidden formation will finally appear.
Under Li Fan's guidance, traces of the formation lines gradually began to appear on the ancient surface of the Wuliang Mirror.
It's clearer than what you see on the ground.
It was like the mark left by a terrifying behemoth that had ruthlessly run over it, and even the space itself was branded with a sense of vicissitudes.
Although Wuliang Mirror didn't notice anything, Li Fan's soul was aging at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.
And this is simply because of the closeness brought about by the action of "seeing".
This was the first time that Li Fan saw a real immortal-level formation, not just a theoretical one.
Although it was just a few strokes, Li Fan, a formation master who claimed to be at the top of the formation world, gained a lot.
"So that's how it's supposed to be."
"The inexplicable turning point of this formation is unexpected, yet it seems to be as it should be. My previous understanding was too superficial."
"Wonderful, wonderful."
Li Fan was amazed again and again, immersed in the traces and remains of the real immortal-level formation. He seemed to be blind to the crisis of his own aging and disappearance.
As for Wuliangjing Sun Luyao, he seemed to be too shocked to react, and just stared blankly, allowing Li Fan's distraction to weaken rapidly without any warning.
Just as Li Fan's spirit was about to completely dissipate due to aging, an inexplicable vitality suddenly emerged from its core.
The will to die was gone, and the dead tree was reborn. Even the remaining aura of the Xuanhuang Realm's protective formation could not shake the few miserable souls that were like candles in the wind before.
This sudden change left Sun Luyao, the infinite mirror spirit, dumbfounded.
“Senior…Senior!”
Li Fan was already able to move and talk to himself in the aura of the formation. He glanced at Sun Luyao and smiled slightly: "Why, do you want to learn?"
"This is called the Mysterious Art of Life and Death. It reverses life and turns death into nothingness, and there is no life and no death."
Sun Luyao trembled and dared not speak.
After holding it in for a long while, he slowly said, "Senior's divine power is beyond my imagination..."
Li Fan was too lazy to settle accounts with him for the time being, and focused all his attention on studying the Xuanhuang Original Protective Array.
Judging from the small part of the formation that we have spied so far, the scale of the original protective formation is unexpectedly large.
If these discovered details are magnified in the same proportion to the model derived from the terminal dissociation disc, then theoretically speaking, the range of the original protective formation is actually dozens of times larger than the original Xuanhuang Realm!
It's totally against common sense!
"What went wrong?"
Li Fan was slightly stunned. After a brief thought, he continued to activate the Infinite Mirror to reflect the remaining remains of the formation.
As the actual original formation data of the protective formation was gradually completed and some joint formation nodes appeared, Li Fan modified the deduced formation model.
He understood why theory and practice did not match.
In the previous deduction, the Great Protective Array was just a large array covering the Xuanhuang Realm. In fact, this original large array was folded several times in the same position in slightly different forms!
As the layers stacked inward and compressed and changed, they formed the real Xuanhuang Protective Array!
"Just by simply stacking them, the potential of the formation has been increased several times. And if the folded formation is unfolded, it can instantly burst out the power of the formation's upper limit under normal conditions."
"More importantly, if the Xuanhuang Realm expands its territory, the Great Protector Array can also be continuously deployed to perfectly expand the formation to new territories. Even if the connection with the Immortal Realm is cut off for a while, as long as the control of the original Great Protector Array is mastered, this method can be used to always maintain the formation in perfect condition."
The final dissociation disc in the main body releases its power to the limit, helping the spirit in the depths of Xuanhuang to comprehend the original protective formation.
In addition, the infinite mirror's dim light peeping already has a certain degree of analytical function, which enables Li Fan to gradually transform the array ruins into his own learning relatively smoothly.
During the research process, Li Fan discovered that the original formation frequently used the technique of formation folding.
Any seemingly simple array structure may contain thousands or even tens of thousands of extremely complex array units.
In order to ensure that there would be no failure in analyzing the formation due to omissions, Li Fan had to slow down the cracking speed.
Not missing any details, all are reflected thoroughly with the infinite mirror. This is hard for Sun Luyao.
Even though he was used to being exploited to exhaustion, such high-intensity work still made him miserable.
It was just that Sun Luyao had done something wrong just now, and he felt guilty. At this moment, he could only grit his teeth and endure it.
Before Li Fan finished analyzing the original protective formation, he would not really let the Infinite Mirror disintegrate. He would still use the essence of source power to save Sun Luyuan accurately before he collapsed.
Time passed slowly, and most of the formation analysis had been completed.
Arrived outside the central core area.
But at this moment, Li Fan took the initiative to stop the exploration. The remaining source of essence was enough to support the Infinite Mirror to complete the final work. But near this core area, Li Fan felt a sense of crisis.
After careful perception, Li Fan determined that the premonition of crisis did not come from the original formation itself, but from other aspects.
"Is there any restriction here?"
Li Fan narrowed his eyes.
"Sun Luyao!" he called out skillfully.
Sun Luyao responded, and pulled himself together from his exhausted state, carefully checking the surroundings once more.
"Senior, apart from the remains of the formation, nothing abnormal was found!" After completing the investigation, Sun Luyao couldn't wait to report.
Li Fan hesitated for a moment and said, "Check again!"
This time, Li Fan personally guided the dim light of the Infinite Mirror to the space outside the core of the original formation, using the method of exploring "folding" to investigate again.
As expected! A circle of alarm restrictions was found that had been folded several times, completely hiding its own traces under normal conditions!
The aura of the alarm ban is equally ancient.
But compared to the remains of the original formation, it was a bit strong on the outside but weak on the inside. It had been cracked, its core power had disappeared, and only an empty shell remained.
It was just this empty shell, but it still gave Li Fan a sense of fatal crisis.
"It should be the same source as the Xuanhuang Original Array, and it is the work of the upper realm." Li Fan came to this conclusion after careful investigation without taking any action.
"If the restriction is complete, even if I have the accumulation of more than ten generations of Xuanhuang Realm, I am afraid I can't do anything about it. Fortunately, such a terrifying immortal restriction has been broken by the predecessors!"
Li Fan discovered the loophole in the ban.
To be cautious, he sent out a portion of his spirit to test it. After confirming that it was not a trap, he brought the Infinite Mirror and entered the core area through the loophole in the restriction.
After a brief darkness.
When the light came on again, what appeared in front of Li Fan was no longer empty nothingness.
It's a weird device.
It is composed of countless concentric circles of different sizes. They have the same core, but the circles are distributed in different directions.
The use of "countless" to illustrate this is not an exaggeration or an untrue statement.
But the rings that made up this strange device were so numerous that it was impossible to count them with spiritual sense or the eyes.
Although they had lost their power source and were motionless, they still seemed to be constantly changing their numbers.
As one focuses on this device, the world before one’s eyes seems to separate into different branches.
“It’s not an illusion.”
"My existence is being weakened?"
Li Fan's mind was filled with alarm. Not only his mind, but also his original body hiding in the space of the Wanxian League's Yanfa Jue felt the terrifying crisis pressure as if it were real.
Li Fan wisely gave up exploring the strange ring device at the moment his attention was distracted.
The division and sense of crisis thus disappeared in an instant.
Li Fan tried to recall the appearance of the circular device in his sea of consciousness.
It was found that although it could be restored, the number of rings in the device was fixed. Moreover, it was not consistent with the real thing seen before, with a very obvious but unpointable difference.
What made Li Fan even more horrified was that every time he recalled, the number of rings of the device that appeared was different.
But his intuition told him that every recollection was correct.
This strange scene made Li Fan think of the quantum superposition state he had heard of before traveling through time.
"This circular device seems to be a relic from the fairy world."
Li Fan changed his approach and focused his attention not on the circular device itself, but on the missing parts of the device.
It was obvious that something was missing from those circles.
It was not Li Fan's conjecture, but the existence in the surrounding space, like a mural, had already described what this strange device should originally look like.
Endless circular device patterns make up the whole mural. Similarly, the number of circular devices in the painting is also different.
But all devices have one thing in common.
That is, in the center of the circle, there is a bead floating.
A scarlet bead that seems to have nine stars engraved on it.
(End of this chapter)
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