“However, what exactly should we do?” Yin Shangren’s eyes shone sharply as he pointed out the key issue.

In truth, their strengths were all roughly on the same level.

With Old Method Longevity Immortal cultivation, let alone helping the star sea recover, they were incapable of even reversing the crisis of the Xuanhuang Realm itself.

It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over them. The group quickly calmed down and all turned to look at Li Fan.

Li Fan sat upon the lecture platform, as if he had long expected Yin Shangren to ask this question, and replied unhurriedly, “Do you all know that a world is like a person, and the star sea is the same?”

“If a person falls ill, the treatment is to prescribe the proper medicine, then supplement it by stimulating acupoints and meridians.”

“When a world or the star sea suffers calamity, the same principle applies…”

A humanoid light projection slowly appeared before everyone as Li Fan spoke.

Important acupoints and meridians were all clearly marked.

Li Fan lightly waved his hand. The light projection suddenly transformed. It expanded, spread outward, and eventually became a faintly glowing yellow cloud mass. The acupoints and meridians that had originally been inside the human body were also redistributed throughout the cloud according to the pattern of transformation.

The group had just returned from the outer starry sky beyond Xuanhuang. How could they fail to recognize that this cloud mass represented the Xuanhuang Realm? Just as they were concentrating on observing, Li Fan pointed once more.

The cloud mass expanded again, by a thousand times, ten thousand times.

The magnificent scene instantly submerged everyone, causing them to lose themselves within it.

It was clearly a dazzling star sea.

The group faintly sensed that the occasional flickering lights within the star sea, emitting unusual radiance, were precisely the acupoints and meridian pathways from the earlier human and world projections.

“From man to world, from world to domain. This is indeed how it should be.” Yin Shangren appeared thoughtful.

The others also seemed to enter a state of enlightenment.

Just as they wished to continue observing, Li Fan waved his hand, and the star sea instantly reverted, becoming once more the image of the Xuanhuang Realm.

“To restore the star sea, one must first restore Xuanhuang. To restore Xuanhuang, this is where we must begin.”

On the miniature projection of the Xuanhuang Realm, various locations were marked out by Li Fan.

“The Xuanhuang Realm has suffered thousands of years of devouring and plundering by cultivators. By all logic, it should already be completely depleted. Fortunately, the Immortal Ancestor has continuously gathered world fragments from the star sea to nourish it. The remnant worlds are like medicine. Xuanhuang has already taken them, but has not yet fully absorbed them…”

Those scattered markings emitted rosy crystalline light, seemingly containing boundless vitality and energy.

By this point, everyone already understood Li Fan’s meaning.

In short, a single sentence: help Xuanhuang digest the medicinal effects.

Li Fan continued, “Xuanhuang has been weak for far too long. There is the danger that it cannot bear supplementation despite its deficiency. Therefore, it must be guided and enticed, using acupoints to lead meridians, and points to influence the whole…”

The lecture continued for a full seven days and seven nights.

After Li Fan’s figure dissipated, the group still remained immersed in the principles he had explained, the unity of man, heaven, and medicine, unable to contain themselves.

Yin Shangren was the first to recover. “Remnant worlds as medicine, this metaphor is truly exquisite. Absorption, digestion, integration into oneself. And those that cannot be absorbed are completely discarded. That is medicinal residue…”

Qiao Gong was absentminded, casually offering a few perfunctory words before taking his leave.

Hundred Flowers, however, frowned slightly. “Enticing Xuanhuang to digest remnant worlds is no easy matter. Xuanhuang cultivators have stood in opposition to the Heavenly Dao for so many years. Any action involving the power of remnant worlds may provoke hostility from Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao. Even if we are doing it for its own good.”

“That is why we must first resolve this misunderstanding and gain Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao’s trust.” Yin Shangren looked toward the place where Li Fan’s figure had disappeared.

Before leaving, Li Fan had said that before the next lecture, he would help handle this matter.

The only question was what method he would use.

As a remnant world wandering specter, Yin Shangren understood far better than the others just how difficult it was to dissolve the Xuanhuang Realm’s hostility.

Seven days later, when Li Fan appeared again, he invited everyone above the Great Xuan small world.

Upon arriving, Yin Shangren felt as though he had fallen into a swamp. Every movement faced immense resistance. His nature as a wandering specter of a world offered no help in overcoming this obstruction. He could not even determine the source of the strange resistance.

Hundred Flowers and Qiao Gong also wore extremely solemn expressions, indicating they too had sensed how extraordinary this place was.

“Everyone, allow me to introduce someone to you.” Li Fan said with a smile.

Then a hunched white-haired old man appeared before them.

The old man’s strength was not particularly remarkable, but the coffin strapped to his back drew everyone’s attention.

The towering resentment faintly emanating from the coffin caused Yin Shangren and the others to narrow their eyes.

“This is Fellow Daoist Xu Ke, formerly a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect. Because of the mission he carried, he concealed himself within the small world and sat in withered seclusion for thousands of years…” After briefly introducing Xu Ke’s background, Li Fan signaled with his eyes, and Xu Ke removed the coffin from his back.

It floated in the sky.

As if sensing the temporary absence of its guardian, the sealed entity inside the coffin instantly became even more violent. The coffin lid jumped continuously, as though whatever was imprisoned inside might break free at any moment.

“Do you know what is sealed inside this coffin?” Li Fan asked.

Without waiting for a reply, he directly revealed the answer. “It is a strand of Xuanhuang will.”

“However, this strand of will is now filled with resentment, madness, obsession, and other negative emotions. It has completely transformed into nothing less than Xuanhuang Evil Thoughts.”

“Today, we shall purify this evil thoughts, and then return it to Xuanhuang.” Li Fan said solemnly.

Xu Ke coughed lightly and added, “When this evil thoughts separated from Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao back then, it intended to completely sever itself forever. To Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, it was far more than simply cutting off a piece of flesh. It is more like a clone.”

“If we can return it to Heavenly Dao and restore the missing part, it will absolutely invoke Xuanhuang Heavenly favor…”

“Of course, that assumes we can completely purify the evil thoughts within.” Xu Ke looked at Li Fan.

Li Fan appeared entirely confident. “It is merely evil thoughts. With everyone working together, how could it not be purified?”

Qiao Gong had listened for quite a while, and after learning the true identity of the sealed object, he had become somewhat impatient. “Specifically, how do we do it? I will certainly cooperate with all my strength.”

“What it hates is simply that it did not leave back then. In that case, we shall fulfill its wish and let it cross the High Wall as it once desired.” As Li Fan spoke, a whisk suddenly appeared in his hand.

He raised it high, then fiercely swept it toward the coffin.

The countless white strands of the whisk shot forth like ten thousand meteors, plunging into the coffin.

The violently shaking coffin leapt high, then froze rigidly in midair.

The white strands of the whisk emitted dreamlike silver light. Within that silver glow, countless different scenes flashed.

They were all dream scenes infused by Li Fan.

Although each dream differed, without exception, they all depicted great terror and great annihilation beyond the High Wall.

After the Xuanhuang evil thoughts attached itself to Mr. Bai and successfully crossed the High Wall, escaping into the Darkest Star Sea.

Every single time, it failed to survive longer than three breaths before dying to various indescribable unknown calamities.

In the blink of an eye, the Xuanhuang evil thoughts had already experienced ten thousand deaths within the illusion.

Qiao Gong muttered to himself, “Is this not a bit too outrageous? The outside of the High Wall may be unknown, but it should not be like this, right? Even an ordinary-looking cat can swallow it in one bite? In terms of strength alone, this Xuanhuang evil thoughts is probably no weaker than Old Method Longevity Immortal cultivators. Can this really fool it?”

Xu Ke, who had spent thousands of years with the Xuanhuang evil thoughts, keenly noticed that the struggle coming from inside the coffin had indeed weakened slightly, and he could not help showing joy. “It truly works!”

At that moment, Li Fan’s voice came from above. “Everyone may also help create dream scenes. No matter how bizarre or horrifying, it does not matter. As long as the Xuanhuang evil thoughts ultimately perishes.”

The whisk’s radiance surged, expanding before the group. At the end of the handle, a vortex faintly appeared.

Yin Shangren and the others immediately understood, each projecting into it the most terrifying dreams they could imagine.

Among them, the dreams created by Yin Shangren were especially strange and horrifying.

Even with Li Fan’s current experience, after observing them, he could not help but feel chills run down his spine.

Compared to this, the illusion dreams woven by Qiao Gong, Hundred Flowers, and Xu Ke were far more ordinary.

Qiao Gong’s dreamscapes mostly involved world destruction, the self transforming into a puppet, and the inability to distinguish truth from illusion.

Hundred Flowers’ dreamscapes were connected to the withering of life, with all things falling into frozen silence.

Under the repeated baptism of these different terrifying dreamscapes, the Xuanhuang evil thought had already quietly undergone a qualitative transformation.

“So the outside of the High Wall is actually this terrifying?”

“If I had known earlier, I should never have left the High Wall. Even if I could only struggle on in miserable survival, it would still be better than instantly losing my life!”

Thoughts like these accumulated within the Xuanhuang evil thoughts after each dream ended.

Although each one was merely a nearly negligible scar, the speed at which the dreams generated and cycled through reincarnation was far too fast.

At every instant, hundreds of thousands of dreams vanished and were born anew.

More importantly, these were not merely ordinary dreamscapes in appearance. They were the world’s highest grade illusion formations, enhanced with a trace of Li Fan’s comprehension of False Becomes Real.

From the outside, one might wonder why those trapped in the formation could not distinguish dream from reality. But only those truly inside could personally experience the terrifying power of this illusion where falsehood became reality.

Looking at his masterpiece, Li Fan could not help but feel a trace of pride.

“It was reborn from the Cloudwater Illusory Dream Technique, but the effect is far stronger than the original.”

“And with the amplification of illusion formations integrated into it, even though it is not an Immortal formation, it surpasses Immortal formations.”

As the dreams continuously iterated, the speed at which the Xuanhuang evil thoughts sank into corruption grew faster and faster.

At first, it would occasionally still produce emotions of doubt and resistance.

But later, all questions completely vanished.

What remained was only endless regret and fear.

Looking at the Xuanhuang evil thoughts trembling within the formation, Li Fan understood that this dish had finally reached the moment to be served.

“Rise!”

Li Fan extended his hand forward and grasped the enormous horsetail whisk in midair.

Then he stirred it slightly.

The countless silver-white strands of the whisk also began continuously stirring within the coffin.

Like countless sharp blades, they sliced the Xuanhuang evil thoughts, which had already completely abandoned resistance, into innumerable tiny fragments.

As the evil thoughts disintegrated, the sealed coffin also became illusory.

Li Fan lightly waved the whisk, and part of the strands coiled around a portion of the dismembered Xuanhuang evil thoughts, bringing it before Yin Shangren.

“Fellow Daoist, please!”

Yin Shangren first gave a bow, expressing his thanks to Li Fan. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Then he solemnly accepted the divided Xuanhuang evil thoughts before him.

Li Fan then separated another portion and delivered it before Qiao Gong.

Like carving up a defeated nation, before long Li Fan had completed the division of the Xuanhuang evil thoughts.

Everyone present received a share.

Li Fan himself did as well, and compared to the others, he received slightly more.

But naturally, Yin Shangren and the others had no objections.

“Go!”

Controlling the enormous horsetail whisk, Li Fan’s expression turned solemn as he hurled it toward the sky.

It tore apart the heavens, opening a passage leading to the Xuanhuang Realm.

“Dim and boundless azure abyss, let the soul return~”

Li Fan chanted softly.

And without Li Fan needing to do much more, from the moment the passage opened, the Heavenly Dao consciousness of the Xuanhuang Realm had already noticed the fragment of its own consciousness that had once been split away and now existed within Great Xuan.

Within the passage, enormous rumbling continuously echoed.

It was as though the Heavenly Dao consciousness of Xuanhuang was about to descend.

“Let the soul return!”

Li Fan pointed into the air.

The portion of purified and divided Xuanhuang evil consciousness before him flew toward the passage.

Its speed grew faster and faster, vanishing from everyone’s sight in an instant.

After that, Yin Shangren and the others followed suit.

After half a day, the Xuanhuang evil thoughts that had been scattered for many years had finally completely returned to the Xuanhuang Realm.

The passage closed, and all strange phenomena vanished completely.

Xu Ke looked at the sealed coffin that had completely turned illusory and disappeared, feeling a sense of emptiness in his heart.

Qiao Gong, however, was somewhat worried.

“That is it? We did not just work for nothing, did we?”

Li Fan smiled faintly.

“Rest assured, everyone. Xuanhuang does not mistreat those with merit.”

“But the Xuanhuang Realm needs some time to digest this. Before the harvest arrives, all you need to do is wait patiently.”

Li Fan’s figure faded away along with those words.

Leaving behind everyone with different expressions.

Yin Shangren looked toward Xu Ke and began asking him about Mr. Bai.

Xu Ke, who had originally still been somewhat lost, immediately became energized.

The two spoke joyfully, feeling as though they had known each other forever.

Hundred Flowers and Qiao Gong, however, did not get along very well, and each went off to attend to their own affairs.

They were all waiting for the reward from the Xuanhuang Realm that Li Fan had spoken of.

Meanwhile.

Within the Xuanhuang Realm.

Li Fan’s true body concealed his traces and quietly observed the changes in the Xuanhuang Realm.

If absorbing Immortal spiritual qi caused changes to occur on the mountains, rivers, and surface of the Xuanhuang Realm.

Then absorbing its own lost consciousness caused silent changes to occur within the world itself.

Only cultivators deeply familiar with the operation of the Xuanhuang Realm’s Heavenly Dao could perceive it.

“Comparing it to cultivators like us, it is like the strengthening of soul and divine sense.”

“The first beneficiaries should be the laws of the Xuanhuang Realm. In other words, the Xuanhuang Realm’s Longevity Immortals…”

Li Fan sensed several vast consciousnesses sweeping across heaven and earth.

Some of them were quite familiar.

“Hmph, I will let you taste a little sweetness first. In the end, all of it will have to be spat back out to me!”

Those vast consciousnesses searched several times, yet never found the cause of the mysterious changes occurring in the Xuanhuang Realm.

In the end, they could only give up.

Li Fan merely sneered inwardly and paid them no further attention.

He continued carefully comprehending the changes in the Xuanhuang Realm.

Changes completely different from the world ending transformations he had comprehended.