Time flew by. In the blink of an eye, the Xuanhuang Realm once again arrived at Anchor Year 15.

On this day, Li Fan repeated his old trick and once again captured the Medicine King Cauldron after it returned from beyond the heavens.

As before, he subdued everyone from the Medicine King Sect and forced them to work for him.

At the same time, he secretly captured Ruan Tianxiao and returned to the former site of the Medicine King Sect, where he once again had him swallow that "Stone Pill."

Just like in the previous life.

After swallowing the pill, Ruan Tianxiao's figure and bearing became ethereal and otherworldly, resembling an exiled immortal descended from the heavens.

At the same time, he began lecturing those around him on the [Dao Refining Medicine King Scripture].

The profound sounds continued without end.

Even though this was not the first time Li Fan had heard this peerless scripture, all kinds of profound insights still surfaced within his mind.

It was as if his understanding of the Dao of alchemy had unconsciously advanced another step.

The lingering echoes continued for a long time.

Combining his newly gained understanding of the Medicine King Scripture, Li Fan once again made some minor adjustments to his plan for sublimating the Xuanhuang Realm.

"After more than ten years of nurturing and the nourishment provided by various hidden means, the Xuanhuang Realm has gradually recovered from its former weakness."

"The conditions are ripe. It is time to begin the first step of refining the pill."

A faint glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes. His gaze pierced through the firmament of the Xuanhuang Realm, revealing the countless small worlds connected to it.

"All worlds under heaven shall return to Xuanhuang."

"All laws shall return to one, and all under heaven shall become one!"

There was a faintly strange quality to his voice. With these soft words, Li Fan determined the fate of those countless small worlds.

At this very moment, the simulated Heavenly Mandates within these small worlds began to mobilize the power of their respective worlds.

Their world forms expanded on their own, like countless tentacles extending along the passages Li Fan had already arranged.

They touched and connected with the Xuanhuang Realm.

First, a single point of light in the darkness became tinged with the color of Xuanhuang.

Then, hundreds and thousands of golden stars soon lit up one after another. They surrounded the Xuanhuang Realm, shining brilliantly and dazzlingly.

"Reverse the principles of heaven and earth..."

At this moment, Li Fan separated a figure from himself and drifted toward the sky.

At the same time, he softly chanted.

The return of so many small worlds naturally required the cooperation of the Xuanhuang Realm as well.

Otherwise, there was a high chance that the Heavenly Dao of the Xuanhuang Realm would regard them as attacks from unknown enemies beyond the realm.

"Although the power of any single small world is almost negligible compared to the Xuanhuang Realm, there are simply too many small worlds surrounding the Xuanhuang Realm. A quantitative change is enough to produce a qualitative change."

"Like a surging flood directly injected into the Xuanhuang Realm, it might trigger a backlash."

"The same approach is still needed. We require a [medicinal primer]."

As Li Fan's thoughts moved, figures resembling hazy Spirits of Heaven and Earth descended one after another.

They stood there in a daze for a moment before quickly flying toward various parts of the Xuanhuang Realm.

They were taking on their "Heavenly Duties" and would absorb the small worlds that were returning to Xuanhuang.

Li Fan roughly divided the regions they were each responsible for. Given the carrying capacity of these Spirits of Heaven and Earth, absorbing and incorporating dozens of small worlds into themselves was not a problem.

Even so, in order to complete the initial stage of Li Fan's plan, hundreds of Spirits of Heaven and Earth were continuously generated at this moment.

It was truly like Heavenly Demons descending upon the world, causing the atmosphere throughout the Xuanhuang Realm to churn violently.

Compared to normal Spirits of Heaven and Earth these Spirits of Heaven and Earth that Li Fan had artificially summoned had much hazier figures.

They did not even contain much concentrated power of laws.

They were more like empty shells, serving as vessels to bear the return of the myriad worlds into Xuanhuang.

But they still belonged to the category of Spirits of Heaven and Earth.

Such an unusual disturbance, like a procession of countless ghosts roaming through the night, naturally attracted the attention of cultivators throughout the Xuanhuang Realm.

As a result, more and more people began to discover the changes occurring throughout the world.

Was this a transformation originating from the Xuanhuang Realm itself, or was someone manipulating and orchestrating everything from behind the scenes?

The people of the world were uncertain.

But even more cultivators began to stir, wanting to hunt these Spirits of Heaven and Earth.

After all, for the vast majority of cultivators, being able to achieve Dao Integration was already something they could only dream of. As for the quality of the Spirit of Heaven and Earth used for Dao Integration, that was simply beyond their consideration.

Just as the cultivators gathered in groups of three or five, calling upon their friends and tracking the traces of the Spirits of Heaven and Earth.

Boundless dark clouds suddenly covered the skies of the Xuanhuang Realm.

Night descended upon the land.

All the cultivators felt various ominous premonitions rise within their hearts.

Yet they did not know where this unease came from.

Very soon, the dark clouds disappeared.

The countless living beings continued what they had been doing.

Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

However, in Li Fan's eyes, the living beings of the Xuanhuang Realm had already fallen into an endless dream.

The [Illusory Xuanhuang, Multitudinous Living Beings] Grand Formation had truly descended upon the living beings of the Xuanhuang Realm.

Apart from a very small number of locations such as Daoyuan Prefecture and the Fishing Pond, every living creature in the Xuanhuang Realm had already entered the formation.

With the support of the boundless power of the Star Sea, combined with the massive amount of source power essence accumulated by the returning You Clan over the past ten years.

Li Fan was able to unleash this peerless Immortal-grade formation that enveloped the entire Xuanhuang Realm.

Compared to the previous life, when this formation had trapped the Heavenly Doctor, it had advanced another step.

Although the deductions of the Final Dissociation Disc had already fallen into a bottleneck.

But Li Fan had also incorporated his own insights into refining the Dao and the Transformations Between Truth and Falsehood into the formation.

He further upgraded the [Xuanhuang Multitudinous Living Beings Grand Formation].

It was no longer merely a simple illusion formation.

If someone happened to die within the illusion formation, then death would truly descend upon them in reality.

On the other hand, if they experienced various things within the illusion and gained something as time passed, those gains would not be synchronized with reality.

Instead, they would be absorbed by this peerless illusion formation, becoming nourishment that was offered up to Li Fan.

Under the shroud of the Immortal Formation, from this day onward, all living beings of the Xuanhuang Realm could only retreat, never advance.

Every bit of their evolution toward a "better" state would be intercepted and harvested by Li Fan.

As long as the formation remained unbroken, they would serve as diligent slaves working for Li Fan for all eternity.

Yet Li Fan would not keep all the essence he harvested for himself.

He would even retain only a small portion.

The vast majority would be handed over to the Xuanhuang Realm.

This was certainly not because Li Fan had suddenly reformed and developed a great compassion.

First, it was to gain even more of the Xuanhuang Realm's trust.

After all of Li Fan's various actions in this life, his favorability in the eyes of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao had already reached a level almost unprecedented in history.

With the arrival of the Xuanhuang Multitudinous Living Beings Grand Formation, which had captured all the cultivators who were parasites upon heaven and earth in one sweep, this goodwill had reached an entirely new peak.

Just moments ago, Li Fan had manipulated the laws of heaven and earth and summoned tens of thousands of Spirits of Heaven and Earth. Yet the Xuanhuang Realm Heavenly Dao had not shown the slightest trace of anger.

Instead, it had sent over an indistinct, almost fawning connection, as if asking whether Li Fan wanted more.

"With every additional moment that the Xuanhuang Multitudinous Living Beings Grand Formation operates, the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao will trust me a little more."

"Until..."

"Heh heh heh."

Li Fan sneered coldly in his heart.

He completely ignored the affectionate thoughts transmitted by the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao. Narrowing his eyes, he gazed into the Xuanhuang Realm beneath the formation.

"As for the Five Elders Association, aside from those protected by the Carefree Paradise, none of them escaped."

"The moment the formation descended, Carefree seemed to want to split his power and protect every living being within the entire Five Elders Association, just as he did when the World-Destruction Immortal Formation descended before."

"But for some reason, he ultimately backed down."

Li Fan pondered for a moment. He had no intention of confronting Carefree head-on.

"As for the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance..."

"The Tianxuan Mirror at the Immortal Alliance headquarters seems to have avoided the formation's invasion. As expected of an Immortal Artifact."

"There are also several other places that actually escaped the influence of the Immortal Formation."

Li Fan became interested and inspected them one by one.

He discovered that most of them had escaped because of their special spacetime locations.

Some were secret realms, while others were remnants of ruined cultivation worlds that had been devoured and fused into the Xuanhuang Realm.

"With only a slight improvement, they can all be covered next time."

Li Fan paid little attention to these exceptions.

There was not even a Dao Integration cultivator among them. They could not cause any trouble at all.

Among all the exceptions, there was only one that made Li Fan take it somewhat seriously.

In Liuguang Prefecture of the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance, there was an ordinary mortal town where nearly a hundred people had barely been affected by the illusion formation.

It was not that they had escaped completely.

They had indeed been captured by the Immortal Formation and fallen into boundless illusions.

Yet very soon, these nearly one hundred people actually broke free from the illusion formation.

One had to know that even the Heavenly Doctor had not awakened so quickly!

Li Fan proceeded extremely cautiously, separating a strand of his consciousness to investigate them carefully.

"There are truly many strange things in this world. What the storyteller once told us has actually come true!"

"But a dream is still a dream. The storyteller told us back then that we only needed to constantly remember that whenever something was too agreeable to our hearts, there must be something wrong with it. Then we would be able to awaken from the dream!"

"Wait. Hiss, according to what you just said, isn't the fact that we awakened so smoothly also something that is 'too agreeable to our hearts'? Could it be that we are still dreaming?"

...

Before the words had even finished.

The several hundred people in the small town were once again enveloped by the power of the Xuanhuang Multitudinous Living Beings Grand Formation, falling back into the illusion formation.

"The storyteller."

Li Fan pondered thoughtfully. His divine sense swept across the area, and he quickly found the person everyone had mentioned.

At this moment, the storyteller had also awakened from the illusion formation.

His expression showed neither surprise nor fear.

Instead, as he looked at the seemingly frozen world around him, a trace of delight appeared on his face.

"This person..."

"Even I cannot see through his cultivation."

"Could it be that there is still an expert hidden within the Xuanhuang Realm?"

"Impossible. During the previous two world-ending calamities, this person never displayed anything unusual."

Li Fan shook his head slightly, refusing to frighten himself with his own suspicions.

He simply reached out and pulled the storyteller toward him.

"Greetings... greetings, Immortal Master."

The storyteller was startled at first. Then, instead of showing fear, he seemed somewhat pleasantly surprised as he respectfully greeted Li Fan.

Li Fan confirmed that the other party truly was an ordinary mortal who could not even tie a rooster.

"How did you awaken from the illusion formation?" he asked slowly.

The storyteller shook his head somewhat blankly.

"I do not know either. I simply felt that there was something indescribably discordant about the world before my eyes."

"Discordant?"

The storyteller pondered for a moment. Looking at Li Fan, he hesitated before explaining.

"Although a dream may seem real, it is still different from reality."

"I know my own abilities. No matter how hard I try, at most a hundred people would come to support my storytelling. Yet within the dream, nearly half the people in the entire town came to listen..."

Upon hearing this, Li Fan immediately frowned.

The Xuanhuang Multitudinous Living Beings Grand Formation could not possibly make such a low-level mistake.

"What is interfering with the Immortal Formation's judgment?"

A thought stirred in Li Fan's mind, and he once again carefully searched the storyteller's body.

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