Big whirlpool of the rift world

Li Fan left Qihong Island and took out *Ancient and Modern Topography Examination*.

With a sweep of his Divine Thought, he turned the pages, reading through the entire contents in just a few breaths.

A ball of flame leaped into his hand, destroying the topography examination.

Li Fan's gaze turned towards the southeast.

"The extreme south has shifted to south-southeast? The changes from ancient times to the present are truly unimaginable."

"What Ximen Yu said earlier is indeed not false. Over tens of millions of years, the Xuanhuang World has truly expanded as a whole by a circle; some places have completely disappeared, while others have miraculously gained an extra region out of thin air…"

"The once Southern Underworld Sacred Beast Mountain has now turned into a deep-sea whirlpool connecting to the endless ocean."

"Although according to Ximen Yu's probing, that Sacred Beast Mountain no longer exists there, however…"

A sharp glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes.

The outer perimeter of the great whirlpool was encircled by a ring of islands, resembling a dead giant python.

"This should be that red snake winding around the Southern Underworld Sacred Beast Mountain that I saw back in the Realm of Fallen Immortals."

"Since it is already dead, the Yao Race's journey when leaving the Xuanhuang World back then was probably not all that smooth."

Li Fan flew towards the direction of the Heavenly City in Yueyang Province.

Along the way, he transformed back into his original appearance. As a Guest Elder of the Xuan Family, his authority level had reached tier thirty, allowing him to use the ultra-distance teleportation array for free.

Originally, traveling by ordinary teleportation arrays would have taken at least over half a month of journeying time.

After using the ultra-distance teleportation array, he could arrive in just a little less than half a day.

Arriving at Yueyang Heavenly City, inside the Dharma-Transmitting Heavenly Venerable statue, the reception personnel verified Li Fan's identity and was slightly startled.

Then, they respectfully led Li Fan into the ultra-distance teleportation array space.

Furthermore, bypassing the several Cultivators queuing up ahead, they directly activated the array for him first.

Those Cultivators who had been cut in front of did not show much anger; knowing that Li Fan's identity was extraordinary, a trace of curiosity and envy simply appeared in their eyes.

A slight sense of dizziness washed over him, and the next moment, Li Fan arrived in Ningxu Province, where the deep-sea great whirlpool was located.

"Hmm?"

Breaking away from the teleportation array and adapting to the abnormalities in his body, Li Fan detected a hint of unusualness.

He had previously used the ultra-distance teleportation array before.

Because it spanned across many provinces and required traversing numerous layers of White Mist Barriers, aside from bodily dizziness and discomfort,

the bodily abnormalities brought about by the loss of Lifespan were also extremely obvious. It was as if a part of himself had been extracted, and a faint sense of loss would well up in his heart.

But this time…

Li Fan checked his own age on the Huan Zhen panel.

"It's not an illusion; it hasn't reduced my Lifespan by too much."

"Has the effect of the Essence Devouring White Mist weakened, or has the technology of the Myriad Immortals Alliance's ultra-distance teleportation array improved?"

Li Fan recalled the scene earlier when he traversed through the White Mist from Longevity Valley.

"The effect of the Essence Devouring White Mist still remains. How should I put this…"

Associating this with the Myriad Immortals Alliance secretly dispatching personnel to delve deep into the White Mist seemingly in search of something,

"It seems that aside from the Puxian True Ark, the Myriad Immortals Alliance has seemingly also found a way to deal with the Essence Devouring White Mist."

"What is hidden within the White Mist?"

Li Fan instantly thought of the Chizha Abyss he had seen in his previous life, as well as the numerous Mystic Domains said to be hidden within the White Mist.

"Wait."

Li Fan's steps paused slightly.

Because he remembered that Mystic Domain where he had once encountered the contorted monster and comprehended the Chaos incantation on the broken stone.

"Could it be because of the Chaos incantation I displayed back then that led the Myriad Immortals Alliance to delve deep into the White Mist?"

Li Fan's mind raced.

"It's not impossible. However, according to conventional logic, the first direction of investigation should definitely be within the Xuanhuang World. Yet they directly locked their target deep within the White Mist."

"Had they already searched and failed to find it within the Xuanhuang World? Or…"

"Had the Chaos incantation appeared before, and its source was precisely from within the White Mist?"

"If that is truly the case, what does it represent?"

Li Fan could not help but fall into deep thought.

The hua dao stone crystal emitted a brilliant blue light as Li Fan continuously deduced various possibilities.

Yet his body did not stop moving, flying rapidly towards the great whirlpool.

Before long, the increasingly dense and violent Water-attribute Spiritual Qi in the air reminded Li Fan that he was not far from his destination.

"Hiss…"

Waves of stabbing pain pulled Li Fan out of his thoughts.

"The Spiritual Qi here is a bit strange." Li Fan frowned slightly.

With his current Physique, after inadvertently absorbing the violent Water-attribute Spiritual Qi of this place, he actually felt unbearable sharp pains.

It felt as if sharp blades were continuously slicing inside his body.

Li Fan temporarily sealed his body, cutting off the intrusion of external Spiritual Qi. He then captured a wispy strand, held it in his palm, and studied it carefully.

"Not only is its attribute tyrannical and difficult for Cultivators to absorb and utilize, but it also naturally contains the attribute of tearing…"

"No wonder this province is sparsely populated; the closer one gets to the great whirlpool, the more devoid of human presence it becomes."

Li Fan continued to fly swiftly towards his target location, and the Spiritual Qi around him indeed grew sharper and sharper.

"Whoosh!"

During the flight, the fierce gales scraping against his face caused a stinging pain on Li Fan's face.

He had no choice but to set up another layer of protection around his body using Spiritual Qi.

"Fortunately I have the Five Elements Great Grotto-Heaven, forming a self-contained cycle within my body. If it were ordinary Cultivators, I'm afraid their internal Spiritual Qi would be exhausted not long after flying."

Feeling the rate at which his internal Spiritual Qi was draining, Li Fan was secretly startled.

Just like that, he flew rapidly all the way. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he finally saw the magnificent deep-sea whirlpool and the snake-shaped island entrenched beside the whirlpool.

Without approaching, he merely watched from afar.

In a trance, it felt as though he had returned to the scene thousands of years ago when the Yao Beast tribes collectively evacuated.

"This whirlpool should be the anomaly caused after the Sacred Beast Mountain split the realm."

"Several thousand years have already passed, yet it has still not subsided. It is enough to show what kind of scale it had back then. And how is this not a form of destruction to the Xuanhuang World?"

Thinking of this, Li Fan suddenly had an epiphany in his heart.

"Every group that breaks through the realm to leave is like cutting open a gash on the great Xuanhuang balloon that is about to be swallowed by the Immortal Ruins."

"Once discovered by the people in the Xuanhuang World, naturally they would not allow it."

"They would definitely come to stop them. That red snake might have died in battle precisely because of this."

"Then what about the Heavenly Sword Sect back then? Was it because they were also one of the Ten Immortal Sects that no one came looking for trouble? Or was it that those who left with the World-splitting Divine Weapon were not just the people from the Heavenly Sword Sect alone?"

"Or perhaps, after the Heavenly Sword Sect left, the remaining Cultivators of the Ten Immortal Sects only realized it belatedly?"

Li Fan's thoughts could not calm down for a long time, and he grew increasingly anticipated for the next trip to the Realm of Fallen Immortals.

"The bigger the wind and waves, the stronger the Dao and Dharma comprehended!"

"This place should rightfully be the place where I prove my Dao!"

Suddenly, amidst the howling gale caused by the great whirlpool, a frenzied shout faintly drifted into Li Fan's ears.