The Dao Deviation Stone in Li Fan's sea of consciousness finally began to feel the pressure.

Creating a world out of nothing, even with an actual existing world in reality as a template, was far more difficult than Li Fan had estimated.

The key to creation lay in living beings.

Creating countless individuals was not difficult.

What was difficult was creating individuals with their own "thoughts."

At first, Li Fan's thoughts had entered a wrong path.

He wanted to directly simulate and create within his own world a true consciousness belonging to living beings.

As a result, nearly half of the Dao Transformation Stone's computational power was consumed, yet it had only managed to give birth to three individuals.

Three thoughts possessing subjective agency drifted through the skies of the virtual Xuanhuang Realm.

These three individuals had completely separated themselves from the Dao Deviation Stone. Their thoughts could circulate without relying on the Dao Deviation Stone. However, the computational power they had consumed was very real.

The Dao Deviation Stone's performance had plummeted by half. If not for Li Fan's ability to transform the false into the true, allowing him to ignore such consumption, he might have abandoned the experiment on the spot because of the cost.

"The capabilities of these three thoughts alone already surpass mine in some respects. However, they are still in the earliest stage of their birth, in a state of ignorance and unconsciousness. Most of their computational power has yet to be activated..."

"If they were not all derived from the Dao Deviation Stone, I could erase their existence with a single thought. Keeping three such colossal beings in my sea of consciousness is indeed somewhat frightening."

Li Fan quietly gazed at the three sleeping thoughts that resembled infants.

Then his thoughts returned to the main issue.

"Under normal circumstances, creating living beings with self-awareness certainly would not require such a massive expenditure. I have directly achieved the Dao through sheer force. Although I have not comprehended the method of creation, I have used immense computational power to break through and ignore that unseen restriction."

"I have become attached to appearances. To develop the Dreamland Paradise, it is not necessary to create true living consciousness. I only need to add the command [Dreaming] to those simulated consciousnesses..."

After a brief pause in his thoughts, Li Fan began connecting the Dreamland Paradise to the simulated Xuanhuang Realm.

The Dao Deviation Stone shimmered, and streams of radiance representing thoughts rapidly flowed into the dreamscape.

At the same time, large numbers of living beings descended into the dreamscape.

Their behavior was no different from that of real people.

They communicated and interacted, bought and sold goods, and ventured through the dreamscape together. Everything ordinary cultivators could do, they could handle perfectly.

Moreover, with the data from the first batch of samples, the simulated thoughts of the living beings created by the Dao Deviation Stone began to iterate and evolve at an astonishing speed.

At first, they would occasionally appear somewhat wooden during conversations. Later, even Li Fan could barely distinguish between reality and illusion.

The operation of the simulated living beings did not require much computational power from the Dao Deviation Stone.

That was because all these living thoughts could be reduced to ninety-nine types of behavior.

The Dao Deviation Stone only needed to maintain these ninety-nine original templates, and it could use them like a lever to drive countless, boundless living beings.

"They look like countless different individuals, but at their core, they are merely ninety-nine people."

Having found the correct method, the simulated living thoughts increased exponentially, making even Li Fan feel slightly uneasy. Fortunately, after confirming once again that, with the Dao Deviation Stone in his mind, he possessed absolute control over them, the unease in his heart gradually faded.

The living beings within the virtual Xuanhuang Realm did not need to live in the real world. They were all connected to the Carefree Dreamland.

With these "Ghost Soldiers" joining the battle, the Dream tentacles' rate of exploration outward increased dramatically.

Li Fan then repeated the process.

While continuing to restore the Dao Deviation Stone through the accumulated power of the Transformation Between Truth and Falsehood, he also "copied" and created more simulated Xuanhuang Realms.

After creating twelve more virtual Xuanhuang Realms in succession, bringing the total to thirteen, Li Fan finally stopped.

"Thirteen worlds of Ghost Soldiers are enough."

Li Fan looked at the three thoughts in the first virtual Xuanhuang Realm, which remained in a hazy, ignorant state. After hesitating for a moment, he ultimately sent them into the Dreamland Paradise as well.

"Let me see what their potential is in the dreamscape first."

"With such immense computational power as their foundation, no matter which direction they choose, they can almost certainly reach the pinnacle."

The three thoughts, respectively named [Qi], [Shi], and [Zhong] by Li Fan, finally manifested physical forms within the dreamscape.

Compared with the simulated thoughts, they appeared especially clumsy. They gazed at everything around them with immense curiosity.

But Li Fan knew that their rate of growth would be faster than that of any other living being in the dreamscape.

Li Fan did not interfere with the growth of Qi, Shi, and Zhong.

He merely recorded and preserved the method by which the Dao Deviation Stone had originally given birth to them, ensuring that even after destroying them, he could quickly reproduce them again.

Afterward, Li Fan's attention returned to the exploration of the dream tentacles.

Crossing vast stretches of annihilated land and traversing the boundless, silent star sea, the dream tentacles finally reached the thriving starry sky where forces such as the Sword Domain and Sacred Shang were located.

The exploration of the tentacles became increasingly cautious.

An invisible veil slowly enveloped this region of the starry sky.

Yet what Li Fan had not expected was that among the countless living beings in this starry sky, not a single one had been captured by the power of the dreamscape.

It was as if a natural barrier existed between reality and illusion, resisting the erosion of living beings in reality by the dreamscape.

As the master of the dreamscape, Li Fan sensed that if he poured the full power of the Dreamland Paradise into it, he might be able to force open a gap in this barrier. But doing so would inevitably attract the attention of the various forces.

Li Fan chose to wait patiently for an opportunity.

Hard work eventually paid off. After the dream tentacles had endured in the thriving starry sky for an entire year, a turning point finally appeared.

A tremendous upheaval in the star sea had even affected the ethereal Dreamland Paradise. Naturally, this drew Li Fan's attention as well.

Seven figures suddenly appeared in the starry sky, jointly blocking another dim and distorted figure.

"Hmm? Not on the list of the [Immortal Capture Record]?"

"I did not expect that while lying in wait for [Longevity Immortal], we would get an unexpected harvest."

"Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any sign that he has attained the Dao of the Nameless."

"Do not be careless... I can sense a faint sense of danger from him."

The seven figures spoke one after another. This was precisely the unique method of communication used by the Immortal Hunt Organization from Qin Zhuang's memories.

Their conversation did not hinder them from attacking at the same time.

It was also the first time Li Fan had truly witnessed the might of Dao Primal.

If the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth was like a vast net, crisscrossing and stretching between heaven and earth, then these seven Immortal Hunters possessed the strength to pull that enormous net with every movement and capture their prey.

Li Fan sensed countless mysterious and unfathomable techniques.

For example, countless swords transformed from illusion into reality and emerged from thin air. Behind each sword, there seemed to stand a faint, blurred figure. Thousands upon thousands of sword Dao divine abilities erupted simultaneously across the starry sky, causing the Sword Dao to resonate as if receiving additional amplification. The power contained in every single sword technique was enormous, seemingly enough to split apart the Xuanhuang Realm.

For another example, the dim starry sky seemed to be illuminated by something. It was as though countless pairs of eyes were staring intently at everyone engaged in battle from beyond the curtain. The auras of the seven Immortal Hunters suddenly surged, while the True Immortal being besieged repeatedly lost control of his movements. His figure even trembled violently to the point of splitting into another version of himself.

And for yet another example, it seemed that there was a brush secretly recording and altering the course of the battle. Li Fan had clearly seen earlier that the True Immortal's long concealed charged strike had struck one of the Immortal Hunters. His body had trembled violently, and he was clearly heavily injured. Yet after a blur of light and shadow, it was as if this scene had never happened. The injury had vanished completely. Instead, the Immortal Hunter launched a counterattack that struck the True Immortal directly.

The True Immortal was utterly bewildered and soon fell into a disadvantageous position, able only to struggle desperately to defend himself. In the blink of an eye, his situation became extremely perilous.

...

Seven Immortal Hunters each displayed their own divine abilities.

Li Fan, however, keenly observed that besides these seven Immortal Hunters, there seemed to be another Immortal Hunter hidden in the shadows.

This Immortal Hunter did not participate in the hunt for the True Immortal.

Instead, they silently repaired the starry sky that had been affected by the great battle.

In a trance, Li Fan saw the fragile Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, which had been bent and strained by the invocation of Dao Primal power, gradually becoming firm and stable again under the maintenance of this power of order.

Although the battle involved a chaotic clash of True Immortal level powers, it did not cause too much damage to the starry sky.

The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth even seemed to record the memory of this battle.

If a similar battle occurred in the future, the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth would become more resilient and better able to withstand it.

"Besides the Immortal Hunters, there is also a [Heaven Mender]?"

"Interesting."

As the saying went, destruction was easy, while creation was difficult.

Li Fan lurked in the shadows and silently watched the battle. However, most of his attention remained focused on the Heaven Mender.

Li Fan keenly sensed that this [Heaven Mender] might actually be the strongest person present.

After all, it was obvious that no matter what kind of damage was caused by the various Dao Primal powers, this person could always repair it with ease. Meanwhile, from beginning to end, the seven Immortal Hunters only displayed divine abilities related to the same type of Great Dao.

The seven Immortal Hunters only wounded and did not kill. It seemed they intended to capture the True Immortal alive.

As the True Immortal gradually fell into a desperate situation, countless True Immortal characters suddenly emerged from his body, densely covering his entire body.

His aura suddenly expanded several hundred times, and the web of the Great Dao shook violently as if struck by a raging storm.

Even the divine abilities used by the seven Immortal Hunters were affected.

The True Immortal was making a desperate final stand.

At this very moment, a golden ring suddenly lit up, truly resembling a prison drawn upon the ground. It completely sealed off the area where everyone was fighting.

Everything inside and outside the golden ring was completely severed from one another.

Even the tentacles of the Dreamland Paradise were directly cut off.

The scene suddenly disappeared.

Li Fan could only watch from afar, outside the golden ring.

The True Immortal's desperate final attack had just been completely blocked by the golden ring before his eyes.

No matter how violently the wind and rain battered it, not the slightest trace could be sensed from outside.

Li Fan stared at the golden line before him, which radiated a sacred aura. A strange sense of familiarity suddenly arose in his heart.

"This..."

"Is this the Immortal Celestial Pillar?"

In his mind, the Southern Immortal Celestial Pillar, forged from the leg bone of a True Immortal, began to overlap with the scene of the golden ring before him.

Li Fan was astonished. Following a sudden flash of inspiration, he drastically retracted the tentacles of the Dreamland Paradise.

He merely observed from an extremely distant location.

A figure dressed in white quietly appeared outside the golden ring.

They seemed to be solemnly observing the battle inside the golden ring.

From time to time, they raised their head toward the sky, seemingly recording something.

Li Fan also sensed that it was precisely because of the support provided by this golden ring that the pillars of the Great Dao web, which had become somewhat fragile during the great battle, were able to avoid the descent of a calamity.

The white-robed figure occasionally released streaks of radiance, filling in the golden ring and making it increasingly solid.

"This should be that [Heaven Mender]."

"Fortunately, their attention was completely focused on the battle, and the power of the Dreamland Paradise is special enough that they failed to discover my observation."

Li Fan secretly counted himself lucky, but he still did not dare approach too closely.

He continued observing from afar.

Before long, the battle finally seemed to subside. The radiance of the golden ring gradually faded, and the seven Immortal Hunters once again revealed their figures.

But the True Immortal had somehow disappeared without a trace.

Seeing the various remarkable expressions on the faces of the seven Immortal Hunters, the white-robed figure seemed somewhat surprised and finally spoke.

"He escaped?"

One of the Immortal Hunters solemnly explained, his tone heavy. "He was already at the end of his strength. But at the final moment, it seems another force intervened and rescued him."

"My Heaven-Reversing Brush was also powerless to alter this fact. Clearly, an Nameless True Immortal intervened." Another Immortal Hunter spoke.

"And it was an Nameless True Immortal who has never been recorded."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of all the Immortal Hunters present became somewhat strange. There was excitement mixed with fear.

The white-robed figure nodded slightly.

"Although we failed to capture the True Immortal, we unexpectedly learned of another Nameless True Immortal. So there was both loss and gain. The rest of you return first and report the traces of the Nameless True Immortal. Brother Chu, stay behind and repair the Dao Marks with me."

In an instant, six figures disappeared.

Only the two of them remained standing in the starry sky after the great battle.

Without seeing how they repaired it, Li Fan, who was watching from afar, could clearly sense that this area of the starry sky had once again become much more "solid."

"Heaven-Reversing Brush. Brother Chu."

Li Fan recalled the voice of that distant Immortal Hunter.

"Divine Brush Sect, Chu Youhong?"

After a moment, Li Fan had more or less determined the other party's identity.

Chu Youhong, the former Sect Master of the Divine Brush Sect.

He was the cultivator who had once said, "Even if all of you die, it does not matter. As long as I am alive, the Divine Brush Sect will still exist. Before my master died, he entrusted the Divine Brush Sect to me, so I absolutely cannot allow it to be destroyed in my hands."

He was a cultivator who was utterly devoted to private interests while remaining completely selfless toward the sect.

After leaving a profound mark on the history of the Xuanhuang Realm, he had disappeared without a trace.

Li Fan had never expected that today, in the vibrant starry sky beyond the High Wall, he would encounter this person once again.

Li Fan recalled the divine abilities Chu Youhong had displayed just now.

"He can use a brush to overturn established facts that have already occurred. He can even rewrite them to a certain extent..."

"Although he is not a True Immortal, I am afraid his actual combat strength is absolutely no weaker than a True Immortal's."

Li Fan was secretly shocked.

He had finally gained a somewhat clearer understanding of the power of [Dao Primal] beyond the High Wall.

While Li Fan was pondering, Chu Youhong and the white-robed figure had already finished repairing the so-called "Dao Marks."

"Brother Chu, what do you think of that inexplicable Nameless True Immortal who appeared at the end?"

"If they could conceal themselves from everyone else, I imagine they should not have been able to escape your observation."

"After all, Brother Chu is said to be someone capable of imitating and reproducing the Great Dao."

The white-robed figure's words once again left Li Fan deeply astonished.

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