Chapter 390: Mirages Stored in Time

Although he didn't know why an ancient mirage would appear at the moment the Five Elements United.

And only he could see it.

But Li Fan believed that the words of the Due Sect Master and disciple were likely not false.

"The sudden unification of the Five Elements in this Five Elements Great Cave Heaven was also caused by the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance's over-extraction of resources from a cave heaven of a certain attribute?"

Li Fan's thoughts spun rapidly. After pondering for a moment, he decided he couldn't just sit and wait for death.

If a massive explosion truly occurred, even being on the crossing dust boat might not be safe.

Li Fan quickly used the Dutian Record to contact Qi Buyi and described the eerie scene he had just witnessed.

To his surprise, Qi Buyi didn't panic at all upon receiving the news.

"Oh, so it's a [Time Mirage]! Fellow Daoist, your luck is quite good…"

"Eh? I recall you only have a Golden Core cultivation, right? You can sense it too?"

"It seems Fellow Daoist's Divine Soul is exceptionally resilient, far surpassing ordinary people."

After a brief explanation, Li Fan finally understood what this so-called [Time Mirage] was.

Just as the [Transformation into God Wall] in Tianyun State had once left behind the scene of Mr. Bai transforming from a Mortal into a god and ascending to heaven in a single step.

When specific conditions are met, scenes in this world can be recorded and subsequently reappear repeatedly at special points in time.

And when the Five Elements United and return from being to nothingness, the [Time Mirage] phenomenon is extremely likely to occur.

Many years ago, when the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven's Five Elements United, a Master and disciple from the Due Sect happened to pass by.

The Master was explaining things to the disciple.

This scene was coincidentally recorded by a [Time Mirage].

Now, after countless Reincarnations, the unification of the Five Elements was happening again.

The scene of the Master clearing the disciple's doubts reappeared and was sensed by Li Fan, whose Divine Soul was powerful due to practicing the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Mantra.

…

Although Qi Buyi's words explained the origin of the illusion to Li Fan.

It didn't put him completely at ease.

Li Fan frowned and asked, "Senior Qi, will the massive explosion mentioned in the mirage really happen?"

"Should we take some defensive measures?"

Qi Buyi smiled and replied, "Rest assured, it's just a small scene. When we first learned of the signs of the Five Elements United, we predicted all sorts of possibilities. Including this big explosion, everything is within the plan."

"Fellow Daoist, just watch with a calm mind."

"Besides, the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array is almost completely constructed now. Why gild the lily and take extra defensive measures?"

Qi Buyi stopped responding, but the meaning in her words left Li Fan in deep thought.

"Tianxuan Locking Spirit is enough to ignore a massive explosion caused by the Five Elements imbalance?"

A trace of doubt flashed through Li Fan's heart.

Just as Zhang Zhiliang had said before, even the builders of the Lock Spirit Array like Li Fan and the others.

Might not necessarily know the true power of the [Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array].

Perhaps in today's Xuanhuang World, only a handful of people knew what kind of terrifying power a fully activated Lock Spirit Array would unleash.

"This is a good opportunity to see in advance what kind of Divine Ability our creation, which we've worked hard on for several years, possesses."

Regarding whether a seemingly "monitoring" Formation could withstand a massive explosion that returned everything to Chaos, Li Fan still had his doubts.

However, since Qi Buyi said so, it meant she definitely wasn't speaking without reason.

The existence of the [eternal calamity refined gold] used to protect the Formation also showed that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was indeed well-prepared.

So Li Fan stood by the edge of the crossing dust boat, quietly looking down, waiting for the Five Elements United.

The Five Elements Cave Heaven, which looked like mixed paint, became increasingly chaotic.

The massive roars and collision sounds even pierced through layers of spatial barriers to reach the crossing dust boat.

The branches of an upside-down giant tree grew wildly, spreading across the azure sea.

Raging fires burned everything to ash, and from the ashes, green wood was born.

…

Bizarre scenes completely contrary to the present world continued to play out in the Five Elements Cave Heaven, which was nearing its end.

As time passed, the five attribute cave heavens combined more and more tightly.

In the sea area covered with roots, gold and stone stood tall, twisted, and melted into scorched earth.

Immediately, fire was born from the wasteland, and wood and water connected.

Slowly, as the process of the Five Elements United intensified.

These grotesque scenes no longer existed.

It was simply variegated five-attribute Spiritual Qi mixing and interlacing.

Dyeing the cave heaven below into an incredibly abstract painting.

Li Fan concentrated his mind, staring closely at the cave heaven that was about to be extinguished.

The various colors grew paler and paler.

An invisible pitch-black, like a fierce beast, devoured the remaining colors.

Faster and faster.

However, after the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven area had completely turned into nothingness.

There were still many unspeakable hues that seemed to still exist.

Thus, these existences that appeared gray as a whole proliferated violently.

Like a massive, constantly churning vortex, as the surrounding blackness was continuously absorbed and incorporated.

The area below now looked like a rapidly expanding paint palette.

Staring at it, Li Fan also felt a sudden wave of dizziness.

But he forced himself not to look away.

He felt a vague intuition in his heart that observing this massive explosion caused by the Five Elements imbalance might be of great benefit to him.

At this moment, the anomaly in the void below also caught the attention of the other Cultivators.

While calling their friends to watch, they showed no signs of worry.

Clearly, they had great confidence in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

The variegated paint palette spun faster and faster, finally reaching its limit at a certain moment.

An extremely dangerous aura suddenly erupted from below.

Li Fan subconsciously took a step back.

A light like that of creation illuminated the dark void.

The ultimate white was born, carrying power that could destroy heaven and earth, about to sweep across everything nearby.

Just then…

Outside the void, a flash of blue light suddenly appeared.

Then, it followed the nodes of the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array's network that Li Fan and the others had built.

It extended rapidly.

Its speed was several times faster than the white light caused by the explosion.

In an instant, one crisscrossing fine blue line after another formed a massive network, completely enveloping the explosion range.

Then, before the Cultivators could react.

Countless blue threads shot out from the main network.

Endless and Never Ending.

In a flash, the dazzling white light had already disappeared.

In its place, what appeared before the Cultivators was a giant light cocoon shrouded in blue light.

With a squirm, the light cocoon suddenly shrank by several degrees.

And the blue color on the main network of the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array became increasingly bright.

Like a beating heart continuously pumping blood.

To the dumbfounded onlookers, the blue light cocoon grew smaller and smaller.

Finally, it vanished.

And the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array, which had easily resolved the massive explosion of the Five Elements imbalance, bloomed its blue radiance to its heart's content in the dark void.

"Is this the power of the Tianxuan Locking Spirit?"

Li Fan was also somewhat dazed.

He was very certain.

Even in the ancient Cultivation World where Dao Integration experts were everywhere, it would have been impossible to resolve such a terrifying explosion so easily.

But today's Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, relying on the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array, had done so with ease.

Suddenly, a chill welled up in Li Fan's heart.

The defense was already like this.

Did the Tianxuan Locking Spirit really have no means of attack?