Within Li Fan’s sea of consciousness, a Endstone disc emitted a faint, eerie glow, constructing a layer of disguise outside his true spirit to guard against potential spying from the Tianxuan Mirror.
Before him stood a towering ancient tree, on which Li Fan saw countless vastly different yet seemingly interconnected scenes.
All of them were derived from the evolution of the [Reverse Five Elements Creation-Destruction Sword], presenting various possible outcomes.
One path strengthened the “Destruction” attribute, pushing the power of slaughter to its absolute limit.
Another path emphasized the “Creation” attribute, enabling not only instant healing of injuries but also the power to create objects from the void and give birth to living beings.
Yet another focused on the “Five Elements Force”, integrating the elements into one or allowing them to counterbalance one another, generating endless possibilities.
The sudden influx of such colossal amounts of divine ability data overwhelmed even Li Fan’s current mental strength. When attempting to examine the “Divine Ability Tree”, he felt a slight mental strain.
Every specific divine ability he focused on would produce corresponding feedback in his mind.
After roughly understanding the overall picture, Li Fan glanced at the countdown timer continuously flashing at the top of his vision.
With less than five hours remaining, Li Fan pondered for a moment before swiftly making a decision.
He chose one of the potential branches from the fusion of the five elements, summarized in sixteen words: “The Five Elements unite as one, the limitless ebbs and flow; its power endures unending, the divine soul remains unextinguished.”
Indeed, the divine ability that Li Fan desires is a wondrous secret technique capable of protecting the divine soul!
The power of the Five Elements’ mutual generation can greatly enhance the circulation and recovery abilities of a cultivator’s physical body. It can almost reach a state where, even without external aid, the body achieves perpetual motion of spiritual energy. Ordinary physical injuries can also be healed in the blink of an eye.
In the deductions of the Tianxuan Mirror, it is similar to the power of the Five Elements’ mutual generation. When the Five Elements unite as one, there is a certain possibility of entering a marvelous state of limitless fullness and emptiness.
In the ebb and flow of fullness and emptiness, it is like a person’s breath bringing forth the source of life, generating an endless power that nourishes and strengthens the divine soul.
With this power to support him, even if his soul were severely injured, he could gradually recover on his own.
“Ordinary slaughter abilities are essentially useless to me,” Li Fan mused to himself.
“For weaker opponents, I can simply use the [Insect Binding] divine ability to suppress them. For slightly stronger ones, [Heaven-Shattering Heart Sword] or [Extracting Threads, Cutting Life] would suffice.”
“But if I were to encounter an overwhelmingly powerful opponent, I would have no choice but to face reality.”
“For me, survival techniques—especially those related to the soul—are invaluable.”
The mysterious impact caused by Mr. Bai on his clone had aroused a profound sense of crisis within Li Fan, forcing him to take it seriously.
Without hesitation or second-guessing, he resolutely locked onto his chosen divine ability in his mind.
In an instant, the once lush Divine Ability Tree began to fade from its branches and leaves, leaving behind a solitary, bare branch standing between heaven and earth.
It then transformed into a beam of light, shooting straight into Li Fan’s sea of consciousness.
“Boom!”
It was as if a catastrophic explosion erupted within his mind, accompanied by blinding radiance and a flood of detailed divine ability information.
It felt as though someone was violently stirring his sea of consciousness with a thick wooden stick.
The unimaginable pain made Li Fan involuntarily let out a muffled groan.
However, within the world of the Tianxuan Mirror, only countless black-and-white lines representing rules existed—there was no physical sound.
From an outsider’s perspective, Li Fan’s line-figure appeared to tremble and sway as if suffering a tremendous impact.
Li Fan noticed that from time to time, one or two black lines on his body would separate and dissipate into the surrounding space under the intense transformation.
As this happened, he inexplicably felt a bit weaker.
Alerted, Li Fan focused his mind and made every effort to absorb and process the data that the Tianxuan Mirror was transmitting into his consciousness.
However, the complexity of this divine ability far exceeded his expectations.
With his current level of spiritual sense, even after a long time, the redundant data showed no signs of decreasing.
“The amount of data contained in this divine ability is too vast. At this rate…” Li Fan’s heart sank.
In just a short moment, his threaded figure had already dissolved by half.
“Should I abandon this divine ability and try again next time?”
In a flash of thought, Li Fan suppressed this instinctive idea.
Although startled, he remained calm and quickly devised a better approach.
Under the Endstone Disc, the Dao Deviation Stone suddenly erupted with a brilliant azure light under Li Fan’s control.
Similar to the previous white light emitted when the Tianxuan Mirror transmitted the divine ability, the azure light instantly swept through Li Fan’s entire sea of consciousness.
Within the blue glow, all the divine ability data was completely absorbed.
Like relentless waves washing away chaotic footprints on the shoreline, the divine ability data, filled with blue light, was gradually absorbed by the Deviation Stone.
“I have the Deviation Stone, so there’s no need to rush. I can store it now and study it later.”
With the crisis slowly dissipating and his thoughts returning to normal, Li Fan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
When the divine ability data of the [Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method], named by Li Fan himself, was fully absorbed by the Deviation Stone, he noticed something unusual.
To his surprise, the once crystal-clear azure Deviation Stone had lost its transparency. The blue color seemed ready to overflow, even shaking faintly.
Moreover, faint, fine cracks appeared on the surface of the crytal stone.
“This…”
“Wasn’t it said that divine abilities of the Soul Transformation Realm were the most it could handle? How could the data volume be so terrifying?”
For a moment, Li Fan was filled with doubt and uncertainty.
Although he wasn’t sure how other Soul Transformation Realm cultivators’ divine abilities compared, he was certain that his Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method was far beyond the ordinary level of divine abilities in the Soul Transformation Realm.
“Could it be that the Tianxuan Mirror discovered something and left behind some sort of hidden mechanism?”
The thought startled Li Fan, but he couldn’t be sure. Perhaps he was just scaring himself.
After some contemplation, Li Fan decided to take no immediate action.
He neither began practicing the Limitless Fullness and Emptiness Method nor deleted the stored divine ability data.
Coming back to his senses from his insight, Li Fan glanced at the two cultivators nearby.
Deng Mingxi still seemed to be selecting and deducing which divine ability to cultivate.
Meanwhile, Wang Wan had already entered the process of comprehending a divine ability.