Xuanwang comes to the world again

“However, I was worried that Fellow Daoist would spend all day drinking with me and neglect his cultivation, which is why I tried to advise him earlier.”

“But I see you are also a person of clear understanding, so you must have a good grasp of things. I won't say any more.”

Sima Changkong rested for a while, recovering some of his Origin Qi, before speaking again.

Li Fan’s eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't say much.

He just feigned an expression of regret: “Brother Sima, such heartfelt words truly shame me!”

“Haha, if Fellow Daoist continues to act like this, you’re truly treating me as an outsider!” Sima Changkong pretended to be angry.

Li Fan could only sigh again, remaining silent.

After a heartfelt exchange, the bond between the two deepened considerably.

After another short while, Li Fan finally brought the topic back to the Tianling State battlefield.

“What exactly did Brother Sima see on the battlefield?” he asked with a frown. “Brother, you oversee the history of the Xuanhuang World; for you to call something ‘extraordinary’ must mean it’s an extremely terrifying existence.”

Sima Changkong sighed: “Fellow Daoist, you flatter me. However, the latter half of what you said is indeed correct.”

“What the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance brought out this time is truly a great weapon.”

As he spoke, he activated a drop of blood within his body, intending to form a blood screen to show Li Fan, just as he had done before.

Indeed, an image appeared on the blood screen.

But then, Sima Changkong’s expression changed.

“How could this be?!” he exclaimed in shock, his face filled with bewilderment.

Li Fan, meanwhile, stared at the scene on the blood screen.

He saw countless Five Old Men Association Cultivators, filling the sky and earth, forming a formation that surrounded a group of Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance Cultivators in the center.

And on the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance side, although they were surrounded and numbered only about a hundred people, none of them showed the slightest fear; each one was incredibly brave.

As if bolstered by some power, they charged towards enemies who outnumbered them by a hundredfold.

This war, which seemed to have no suspense and whose outcome was already decided, suddenly underwent a drastic change.

In the center of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance Cultivators, one person suddenly raised something high.

And then…

Large swathes of Five Old Men Association Cultivators, without any warning, fell from the sky.

They crashed to the ground, bloody and mangled, groaning and unable to move.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance Cultivators seemed to have anticipated this scene.

They swiftly and mercilessly harvested the lives of their enemies.

For a time, in the sky above, the falling anomalies overlapped, blending into a bizarre image.

“How could this be?” Sima Changkong looked at the scene recorded in the blood screen in disbelief, his expression somewhat dazed.

Seeing Sima Changkong’s strange reaction, Li Fan suddenly thought of something and asked, “Is it that the scene recorded in this blood screen is different from what Brother personally witnessed?”

“Precisely!” Sima Changkong immediately nodded.

“What I saw was this Cultivator holding a square mirror high in his hand.”

“And in the sky, thousands of green threads then descended.”

“It was precisely because of the existence of these inexplicable green threads that the Five Old Men Association Cultivators instantly lost their ability to resist.”

“But why…”

After explaining, Sima Changkong still seemed unable to accept it.

For Sima Changkong, whose duty was to faithfully record historical events, the appearance of something unrecordable was clearly a huge blow.

“Unrecordable, green energy…” Li Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly.

“As expected, it’s the Xuan Net. I had previously speculated that the Xuan Net had descended. Sure enough, once the war escalated, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance couldn’t resist bringing it out for use.”

“It’s just that this world’s Xuan Net is different from the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation I saw in my previous life.”

“It can actually be summoned just by a small, portable square mirror.”

“Is it a semi-finished product, or…?”

Li Fan also fell into deep thought for a moment.

“No, I must find a way to record it.” Sima Changkong muttered to himself, still not having recovered from the blow, looking somewhat obsessed.

“Brother Sima, you’re mistaken. Even if it can’t be directly recorded with images or language, its existence can still be recorded through indirect description,” Li Fan reminded him at this moment.

Sima Changkong was stunned.

Then he said with great joy: “I was foolish!”

He slapped his head and forced out a few more drops of blood, which merged into the blood screen.

They formed several lines of distorted text, which integrated with the blood screen.

“The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and the Five Old Men Association battled in the northeast of Tianling…”

“Green light, like silk, suddenly descended from the sky…”

“Those struck lost their immortal power and fell to the ground.”

…

Just as the characters gradually stabilized and were about to merge with the blood screen, a wisp of green thread suddenly emerged from the distorted blood characters.

“Not good!”

Sima Changkong’s face instantly turned pale, and he cried out in alarm.

Before he could finish speaking, the green thread had already turned into surging green light.

After completely distorting the scene recorded in the blood screen, it suddenly retracted, condensing into a single point of light.

There was a moment of silence.

The green dot exploded violently.

“Huan…”

As soon as the green thread appeared, before Sima Changkong could even shout out his warning, Li Fan had already activated the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Escape to its maximum.

At the same time, two bone wings protruded from his back, and the Peng Flight technique was also applied to him.

He fled into the distance at the fastest speed he had achieved since entering the Cultivation World Reincarnation.

But Li Fan clearly hadn't expected the Xuan Net’s reaction to be so intense this time.

It was even more violent than what had surged out earlier in the Wanxian Island Yanwu Hall.

The green dot exploded, and the light wave swept outwards in an instant.

Just as the green light was about to touch his body, although he felt some reluctance, Li Fan still called out Huan Zhen.

But very quickly, he swallowed the remaining word “Zhen.”

Because he found that the charging level of Huan Zhen for body protection had not changed at all.

“Hmm? So it was a false alarm?”

Li Fan immediately stopped his escape and hovered in mid-air.

He waited for a moment, and still nothing unusual happened; the surroundings were calm and clear.

After pondering for a moment, Li Fan decided to go back and take a look.

Inside the Crystal Palace, everything was as before.

Only, it was eerily quiet.

Sima Changkong remained in his original spot, his horrified expression frozen on his face, his body motionless.

“Brother Sima?”

Li Fan called out from afar.

No response.

After a moment, Li Fan cautiously approached: “Brother Sima?”

Although he could still faintly feel the Life Qi on the other party’s body, for some reason, Sima Changkong remained unresponsive.

And…

That Life Qi also seemed to have solidified.

Li Fan felt something was amiss and slowly retreated.

“Pfft!”

Just then, Sima Changkong’s entire body suddenly exploded from within.

What splattered everywhere was not fresh blood and flesh, but rather pools of viscous green liquid.

It splattered all over the floor of the Crystal Palace.

Li Fan barely dodged the attack of the green liquid.

But looking at Sima Changkong, who was utterly annihilated, his face twitched.