txolops Chapter 1749 The Unrestrained Power Unleashed
Chapter 1749 The Unrestrained Power Unleashed
Chapter 1749 The Unrestrained Power Unleashed
Just like mountains and seas.
Although it barely survived Dao Yan's first wave of attacks, Dao Yi Insect is now extremely weak and can no longer withstand any further erosion.
Fortunately, Li Fan was the one who controlled the Dao Annihilation. With a slight thought, he restrained the restless waves of Dao Annihilation.
This gave the dying insect a chance to catch its breath.
With Li Fan's support, the Dao Yi insects quickly began to multiply and flourish again.
Then Dao Yan came again.
After undergoing a transformation, the Dao-One Insect swarm did indeed have a slightly stronger ability to survive under the same scale of Dao Annihilation invasion.
"But at this rate of growth..."
Li Fan frowned slightly.
"Furthermore, it cannot be determined whether this slight increase is due to the Dao Yi insect itself becoming stronger, or simply a random factor."
So Li Fan conducted the experiment again.
Within the void, the Dao Annihilation surged and rolled, dividing the insect swarm into millions of identical pieces.
Then, an attack was launched against the million-strong swarm of insects.
Under Li Fan's precise control, these Dao Annihilation invasion forces were all capable of almost annihilating the insect swarm in one round of attacks, but without completely killing them.
Like waves crashing over the shore, the once thriving swarm of insects was reduced to mere specks in an instant.
"Compared to before, there have been both increases and decreases. It was indeed due to accidental factors, not that the Dao-One Insect really became stronger in just a few short periods of time." Li Fan shook his head slightly.
This is only natural.
Even the Dao Yi Insect, fused with Mo Sha, hadn't yet reached the level of transcending realms. How could it possibly withstand Dao Annihilation, capable of destroying saints?
"but……"
“Through my hands, it is not impossible to turn the rotten into the miraculous.”
"In the mountains and seas, I can transform the mortal into the sacred. In the ethereal realm, I can also paint insects into dragons!"
Li Fan photographed a tiny Daoist insect, and with his mind like a knife, he began to carve and transform its body.
As the patterns on its back become more refined, this Daoist insect gradually reveals a unique aura.
It seemed to exude a unique allure, which made Dao Yan, who was standing to the side, eager to try again.
Fortunately, Li Fan forcefully suppressed the restless Dao Annihilation.
He gazed at his masterpiece.
On the back of the Dao-yi insect, there are many undulating lines.
It contains boundless Taoist charm, like a painting of mountains and seas.
Or perhaps, these lines were originally Li Fan's imitation of the petrified mountains and seas he had observed in his previous life!
"It is slightly inferior to the real mountain and sea stone slabs."
Li Fan was somewhat dissatisfied and directly crushed the creation to death.
It was re-engraved.
"What I saw in my previous life was ultimately just a section of mountains and seas. The true embodiment of all mountains and seas lies within this 'Outline of the Changes of Mountains and Seas,' which serves as its general framework..."
Li Fan once directly used the Shadow of Mountains and Seas to become a Saint of Mountains and Seas.
Theoretically speaking, if all the landscapes of mountains and seas were engraved on a single Dao-One Insect, the first Dao-One Insect at the Saint Realm in the entire landscape might be born.
However, after trying several times, Li Fan decisively gave up.
"A single Dao-One Insect is far too weak to withstand the immeasurable mountains and seas. Even a swarm of millions or tens of millions of insects would be of no use. We need more."
With that thought, the Dao Yi insect swarm began to multiply wildly once again.
Li Fan even ordered his subordinate Dao Yan to plunder the mountains and seas to feed himself.
After devouring several potential mountain and sea realms, the Dao Yi insect swarm finally reached a barely usable size.
"A number of billions is already the limit."
This is worthwhile, not because it represents the limit of insect colony reproduction.
Rather, it refers to the number of stone slabs that Li Fan can meticulously carve at the same time!
Li Fan's divine sense simultaneously covered billions of Dao One insect swarms, seemingly evolving into arms of equal size, which carved themselves onto the backs of these insect swarms.
The patterns on the backs of each Daoist insect are not all the same. They are all depictions of a corner of the mountains and seas.
But when they are combined...
It is a magnificent landscape painting that is almost complete!
Even with the "Outline of Changes in Mountains and Seas" as a general guideline, all Li Fan actually had to do was to copy the entire landscape painting.
Ultimately, it is an extremely mentally taxing thing.
Every so often, a little bit of Li Fan's black hair would turn white.
After his hair turned completely white, signs of aging began to gradually appear on Li Fan's skin.
As Li Fan continued his seal carving, his appearance grew increasingly frail.
"Without attaining sainthood, one's resistance to external attacks is ultimately weaker."
But Li Fan didn't pay too much attention and continued to focus on depicting the landscape.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
Suddenly, a great light shone brightly over the mountains and seas ahead.
The waves surged, causing the fellow Daoists guarding Li Fan to tremble and nearly collapse.
"Huh? They actually managed to reunite with the Mountain and Sea without me?"
Li Fan was somewhat surprised.
However, after looking at the nearly completed [Dao Yi Shan Hai Tu] in his hand, Li Fan felt relieved.
"It has taken so long just to reunite the Shan Hai sect. Who knows when it will be truly saved from oblivion?"
Ignoring the exhilarated spirits of the Mountain and Sea Saints who were overjoyed by the success of the Avengers, Li Fan coughed weakly and focused his attention back on his work.
When the mountains and seas shine brightly once again, the guardian saints of the hills have reunited once more.
Li Fan is now only one stroke away from completely completing the Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map.
But it was precisely this last stroke that Li Fan couldn't bring himself to do, no matter what he did.
At this moment, Li Fan also reached the end of his life.
"He devoted his whole life to the cause, yet failed to achieve complete success."
He looked at the newly formed swarm of insects that were heavily surrounded by Dao Yan.
Billions of people gathered together, carrying the weight of mountains and seas.
Although named an insect swarm, it is in fact a reflection of mountains and seas.
The aura it emitted was extremely similar to that of the mountains and seas themselves. This caused the surrounding Daoist demons to repeatedly lose control, disobeying Li Fan's orders and launching attacks from time to time.
But compared to their initial weak state, they are now completely different.
Their majestic presence is already established; a few storms can no longer harm them.
However, it still falls short of Li Fan's ideal state.
Before completing the final touch, Li Fan had already reached the end of his lifespan in this world.
He didn't force it, silently thinking, "Really!"
……
Another year has passed.
This time, Li Fan directly chose to inherit the [Mountain and Sea Road Map], which was not yet completed in his previous life.
With a slight thought, a meticulously crafted masterpiece appeared before Li Fan.
"He who travels a hundred li is only halfway there at ninety. This last step is still difficult to write down." Li Fan observed the work of the scholar who had sat in meditation for a hundred years, repeatedly comparing it with the "Outline of Changes in Mountains and Seas".
Ultimately, the best time to start writing was not found.
"We still need to learn from the mountains and seas!"
Li Fan put away the Dao Yi Mountain and Sea Map and got up to cultivate.
More than two hundred years have passed, and he has returned to the realm of the [Cosmic Return] Saint.
"Even without the blessing of the stars, my cultivation has still progressed somewhat faster," Li Fan thought to himself.
The new sage has arrived, and all the saints of the mountains and seas have turned their gazes toward him.
Li Fan ignored him and instead leaped straight into the void.
This caused a stir of astonishment.
Li Fan moved too fast; even the Three Saints didn't have time to stop him.
They could only watch helplessly as Li Fan vanished into the void, disappearing without a trace.
"That is... the Great Dao of the Universe. Although this path is extraordinary, entering the vast void alone would likely be fraught with peril."
"What kind of logic is this? It's as if they're avoiding us like the plague."
"What a pity, what a real pity. If we had another sage to help us, our alliance with the Mountain and Sea might have been able to recover."
The sages were in a state of heated debate.
In the end, the three sages concluded: "Everyone has their own ambitions, there's no need to force it, let it be."
The saints, however, were unaware that Li Fan's crossing of the Dao Annihilation was far from effortless.
However, there is not that much risk involved.
Compared to being surrounded and swallowed up by the Dao, the greater obstacle comes from the lack of direction and the inability to distinguish between the past and the present.
In the past, there were three sages who served as guiding lights. One only needed to move towards the predetermined goal.
However, now that he was traveling alone with no one to guide him, Li Fan had to find his way on his own.
The Three Saints exist, accompanying the mountains and seas throughout history.
Therefore, in the virtual world, one can always clearly discern the direction of travel.
Li Fan is just Li Fan.
Crossing the river was not a smooth journey.
Fortunately, there was experience in repairing the Avengers in previous lifetimes.
This dark path was, after all, one that he had personally walked step by step.
There was a certain familiarity about it.
After a few close calls, we finally arrived at our destination.
This was right before they were besieged in the mountains and seas!
When the truth is taken for falsehood, the falsehood becomes truth!
With a single thought, the true and false Daos were enveloped, and the body transformed into nothingness.
In an instant, it ignored the carefully woven web of devouring and entered the mountains and seas.
The scenery there is as beautiful as any ordinary mountain or sea landscape.
It does resemble the scene of the Xuanhuang Realm's Xuanwang (mysterious network) once soaring through the sky.
Above the sky, interwoven horizontal and vertical lines can be faintly seen.
There are also many gaps, as if a piece has been swallowed up, revealing an eerie, rolling blackness.
The entire mountain and sea was filled with the devouring thirst of the [Suo], causing the nature of living beings to become distorted, and so did the heavens and earth.
"All things contend with each other, and heaven and man contend with each other. In the end, it is the gluttonous mouths that benefit."
"If there is no external intervention."
Li Fan snorted coldly.
"The Dao is annihilated..."
"Come back!"
The gaze pierces through mountains and seas, passes through layers of rope nets, and reaches the depths of the illusory realm.
Relying on his familiarity with starlight from his previous life, Li Fan used himself as bait to lure a large number of Dao Annihilation cultivators from the Void Realm to this place!
It should be noted that at this time, the mountains and seas are a place highly valued by the Void Realm, and the power gathered by Dao Annihilation is exceptionally concentrated.
Once a vulnerability is discovered, they naturally swarm in immediately.
The Dao, which had been obliterated like a vast expanse, suddenly manifested as mountains and seas!
Suo was completely taken aback, unable to understand how the Void Realm had broken through his blockade and snatched food from his jaws.
But Li Fan's purpose was not limited to that.
"Having traveled a long way, over mountains and rivers, do you think such a small gesture would suffice?"
"The lifeblood of living beings."
Li Fan narrowed his eyes and reached out to grab tens of thousands of living beings directly from the mountains and seas.
These were not born naturally from the mountains and seas, but were born through the Great Dao of Life and Death of Qiu Tianhui.
With a gentle squeeze, all living things in the hand shattered, turning into countless tiny stars.
It was instilled into the hidden veins of the mountain and sea creatures by Li Fan.
Half of it looks to the past, and half looks to the future.
In the previous life, the Sages of Mountains and Seas only sought to stimulate the innate resistance of Mountains and Seas. Therefore, their intrusion into Dao Annihilation was limited in scale.
But in this life, Li Fan acts with complete recklessness.
Guided by the light emanating from tens of thousands of living beings, the veins were clearly visible.
Dao Yan's army then marched straight in!
The mountains and seas were shrouded in darkness, and in an instant, they were engulfed in turmoil.
Even the rope was shaken.
With Suo's strength, he could certainly survive in the Dao Annihilation Realm, but he could not protect the mountains and seas.
Moreover, He risked crossing the seas this time for the sake of the Great Dao of the Living Beings of the Mountains and Seas.
The spiritual energy channels connecting the mountains and seas have somehow been detected by the Void Realm and are being used as a conduit for attack...
Su was extremely depressed.
Unfortunately, the situation in the mountains and seas was extremely chaotic, and after searching extensively, He could not find out the reasons.
They had no choice but to flee.
All that hard work was for nothing. Traversing across the river must have been quite taxing for Him.
It's truly a case of trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead.
Li Fan hid in the shadows, watching the [Rope] gradually disappear, his gaze turning cold as he made a grabbing motion in mid-air.
"Who?!"
Suo was both surprised and furious to feel a cold aura moving over him and taking away some of his essence.
But after only a moment's hesitation, Suo decided to speed up his escape.
"This strange behavior is clearly aimed at me."
"Even with all my careful concealment, I was still discovered?"
"Which old friend is it?"
Suo felt a piece of himself missing, and felt extremely frustrated.
But the situation is unclear now, and it is clear that a trap has been set for Him.
If we stay here any longer, we might really die here.
Despite his deep resentment, Suo returned to the beginning of the mountains and seas.
"Pity."
Li Fan secretly savored the experience of the Great Dao of Devouring Mountains and Seas, gazing at the increasingly clear line of characters in the [Return to Truth] section. He felt somewhat unsatisfied.
With his current strength, he is not strong enough to confront So head-on, so he can only try to take advantage of the situation in this way.
"If you exploit others too many times, it might just become the orthodox practice!"
With the net removed, what remains is the clash between the illusory realm and the mountains and seas.
With Li Fan as an inside guide, the outer defenses of the Mountain and Sea, and even the radiant Xuanji Ring set up by the Sages, were all rendered useless!
The Dao is like a vast, surging torrent, flowing freely along the veins of mountains and seas, nourishing all living things.
Originally a source of life from the mountains and seas, it has now been transformed into a conduit for deadly poison.
Compared to slowly eroding from the outside, it's hundreds of times more efficient!
A moment later, although the present mountain and sea remained unharmed, the three isolated sections of the mountain and sea before and after it had already been engulfed in the raging tide of Dao annihilation.
It is foreseeable that if this trend continues, the mountains and seas may be in danger of collapsing in an instant.
The saints changed color, but the situation had deteriorated to such an extent that they were powerless to change it.
The three saints exchanged glances, as if they were about to make a decision.
At that very moment, the crisis itself, the mountains and seas, suddenly roared.
A mighty force burst forth from within the mountains and seas.
In a short period of time, it actually forced the floodwaters flowing into the channel back slightly.
But it was nowhere near as easy as the previous life.
Dao Yan had already gained an initial advantage. Although it was resisted by the mighty power of the mountains and seas, it still remained deeply embedded in the veins of the Holy Spirit.
Like a strategically vital location, neither side was willing to yield.
For a time, a stalemate ensued.
The saints did their utmost to try to prevent the situation from worsening.
Li Fan remained hidden in the shadows: "Just as I expected. Unless it comes to that point, even if most of the mountains and seas are in danger of collapsing, they won't choose petrification to delay things."
"I hope I'll be lucky in this life and witness the birth of a new god."
Unfortunately, things did not go as planned.
Li Fan waited for a long time, but the variable still did not appear.
This time, the battle for the division of the gods at the beginning of the mountains and seas did not yield a quick result.
"Could it be that I didn't fleece you enough?" Li Fan couldn't help but stroke his chin.