Chapter 1460 Hai Zhen's Guidance
The so-called "Spirituality" is a unique qualification that Li Fan began to sense in cultivators and living beings only after comprehending the [True Yet False] divine power.
It is almost a comprehensive assessment of all elements such as disposition, talent, root bone, and qi destiny, touching upon the probability of the living being surpassing possibilities.
In the past, Li Fan's perspective was focused solely on the countless beings of the Xuanhuang World. Those he encountered in the Sea of the Northern Stars were among the prodigies. Moreover, their numbers were too few to make a judgment.
Now, the scope of Li Buren's observation suddenly expanded across the entire Experimental Star Sea. The Xuanhuang World was just one of the countless stars, and the amount of data increased almost by tens of millions of times.
Li Fan suddenly discovered a fact: "In the vast world of immortal cultivation, the qualifications of living beings in the Xuanhuang World are indeed among the foremost."
Yet, the reason for the difference in the average qualification level of living beings in the cultivation world is unknown.
"But the True Immortals in the experimental field must have discovered this peculiarity, which makes it reasonable for them to regard the Xuanhuang World as a key observation target."
Throughout the Abyss Star Ocean, what Li Buren cared about most was the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel.
At this point in time, the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel had already begun traveling between all realms. Since the location of the Immortal Boat was not fixed, it sometimes even approached areas where constellations erupted. Thus, the experimental field's records of the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel were not continuous.
During certain periods, observation of the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel would be completely lost. Shortly after, the Boat would "jump" to another place in the star sea.
Moreover, there seemed to be some method inside the Immortal Boat that could interfere with the experimental field's recordings.
The images were very unclear, like losing a signal, intermittently cutting in and out. In Li Buren's exploration, his divine sense seemed to hit walls everywhere, completely unable to grasp the occurrences inside the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel.
"It is said that the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel discovered the fact that the living beings of all realms were being herded like livestock, hence abandoned the life of settling in one realm. Instead, they continually roam the star sea, hoping to escape such a fate. To some extent, they indeed achieved this."
"According to the current Mystic Immortal Boat's narrative, the Mystic Commerce Immortal Vessel likely possesses a Fairy treasure or a technique only True Immortals can wield. Only by Immortal means can such wonders be achieved."
As usual, Li Buren recorded the suspicious events that occurred on the Mystic Immortal Boat over the past fifty years in his mind.
Just as Li Buren was about to examine the other two Cubed Star Seas besides the Xuanhuang World, he suddenly felt as if he had overlooked something.
Pondering, his thoughts returned once again to the recorded fifty-year image of the Xuanhuang World.
This time, he no longer paid attention to the conspicuous and dazzling living beings but focused on the ordinary countless beings.
Li Buren found that some of these faces seemed remarkably familiar.
At this recorded point in time, Li Fan as a person did not yet exist.
Li Buren felt some of these people were familiar because they had previously appeared in the Reverse Life and Death Array of the Life and Death Heavenly Venerate, among the multitude of ice-sealed corpses.
"Not just these. Even one or two faces exist in the current Xuanhuang World?"
With a thought, Li Fan's true self locked onto two people in the Wuyou Dreamscape Paradise.
They were originally all mortals, and only after the Dreamscape Paradise shrouded the entire Xuanhuang did they embark on the path of cultivation.
Yet, in the influence recorded in the ancient Xuanhuang World of the Experimental Field, these two were equally insignificant mortals.
"..."
The four faces, spanning long ages, overlapped in front of Li Fan's eyes.
Even with Li Fan's current power to destroy the Xuanhuang World with a flip of his hand, he couldn't help but feel a chill deep inside.
He recalled, as seen in the recorded images, the mortal who suddenly deviated from their own life trajectory, as if they had become someone else, guiding a True Immortal.
"These mortals, perhaps used to fill the Xuanhuang World, can be infinitely recycled as NPCs. At certain critical moments, they can even receive special instructions to complete tasks issued by True Immortals..."
"Such control methods are not achieved through any divine power or spell, but are likely rooted deep in the core of these mortals."
Before ascending to immortality, Li Fan could barely create with the "Form of Life." Thus, there is no doubt that the True Immortals of the ancient Immortal World possessed the ability to mass-produce living beings.
"These life creations, recycled and reused, indicate the experimental field also considered the problem of consumption. Given the large base, every time they are cast into reincarnation, a thousand years or so have passed in the world. Almost no one could detect it."
"Even if discovered by chance, it could be easily explained as a coincidence, making it difficult to confirm."
"Only like me, traversing two time spans, having complete mastery over the appearances of the living beings in the Xuanhuang Realm, can make a definitive judgment."
"Not only are all events recorded, but even the environment of the cultivation world and most of the living beings' existence are set. Truly worthy of being an experimental field..."
"Just don't know if other cultivation worlds besides the Xuanhuang World are the same."
The other realms have all been destroyed, and Li Fan cannot verify it.
But thinking about it, their structures should be similar to the Xuanhuang World.
"The maintenance of the experimental field is undoubtedly connected to the uncertain ring in the Xuanhuang world's Ancient Array Techniques that I discovered earlier, and with the Nine-Star Red Beads. The Nine-Star Red Beads are missing, suspected to have been taken."
"The [Return] inscription trace still remains on the scene."
"If it were taken by someone within the experimental field, there wouldn't be such a need for elaborate measures. So, it should be an outsider."