In the midst of the purple-golden whirlpool, hidden currents of wind and thunder surged.
At the very bottom of the funnel-like energy whirlpool was the somewhat panicked figure of Xuanhuang's evil thoughts.
Images of different living beings' faces flashed rapidly through the whirlpool of wind and thunder, tearing at Xuanhuang's evil thoughts like a hurricane.
Thus, its body gradually became twisted and obscure.
"I am Xuanhuang Heaven Path! The father and mother of you cultivators! How dare you treat me this way!"
"Again! Once again! All you humans should die!"
Xuanhuang's evil thoughts roared.
Not choosing to sit and wait for death, the appearance originally similar to Mr. Bai finally revealed its true form.
Its body inflated like a balloon and in a blink formed a monstrous and terrifying creature covered in blue and purple lumps. Even more chilling was the fact that Xuanhuang's facial features had disappeared. Or rather, the numerous shadows swiftly moving across its shell now served as its multiple faces!
The expressions varied, but none displayed any positive emotions. Madness, hatred, despair, brutality...
All of the darkest, most twisted parts of living beings were undoubtedly displayed on Xuanhuang's body.
A substance-like black energy surged out from inside it, shooting up into the sky, directly confronting the rotating force of the purple-golden whirlpool.
In the silent clash, there was a slight pause in Saint Emperor Li Ping's Cosmic Grinding Disk.
Li Ping noticed that about one-third of the faces of the evil fixation were staring directly at him.
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"Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die!"
A sharp curse burst forth, sweeping over him.
The three cultivators protecting Li Ping all frowned slightly at that moment.
On the empty face of Saint Emperor Li Ping, influenced by the evil thoughts, vague facial features started to appear.
Countless blue and purple lumps in the form of tentacles stretched out from the monstrous shell of Xuanhuang's evil thoughts, wildly flailing and attempting to break free from the Array of the Ten Thousand Spirits.
However, could this exceptional Great Array, the epitome of the Dissociation Disc's derivation, be so easily breached?
After a brief pause, the purple-golden whirlpool slowly began to turn again.
The sound of roaring wind and thunder was even stronger than before.
Moreover, human prayers emanated from within, resonating to form a unique rhythm that forcefully suppressed Xuanhuang's earth-shattering roar.
"Evil will ultimately not triumph over justice."
"Look at you now. Do you even deserve to be called 'Xuanhuang Heaven Path'?"
Li Ping's mild voice, tinged with a hint of mockery, penetrated the noise of the clash and reached Xuanhuang's ears.
"Damn it! Who caused this?!"
After a moment of stupor, it completely erupted in rage.
Evidently, even Xuanhuang's evil thoughts struggled to accept its current plight.
The body suppressed by the Cosmic Grinding Disk suddenly showed signs of a vigorous struggle and resistance.
Li Ping, however, simply nodded slightly. While continually provoking Xuanhuang's evil thoughts with his words, he focused on managing the Formation of Ten Thousand Spirits of Heaven and Earth.
Extracting fragments from Xuanhuang's body, he absorbed them into himself through the whirlpool.
Negative emotions flowed into Li Ping's consciousness like a trickle.
The three protectors, seeing this, couldn't help feeling tense.
Being within the Great Array, they could more clearly sense its terrifying power.
After being sealed for thousands of years, it was still a part of this world's Heavenly Dao. Yet in front of this Array Technique, it seemed to have no means of resistance whatsoever.
Even the preparations of the three were rendered useless. They merely needed to watch Saint Emperor Li Ping's performance.
The more formidable the Array Technique appeared, the more uncontrollable their worries became.
If Saint Emperor were to be influenced by the evil thoughts and lose control...
It might lead to a disaster far worse than Xuanhuang's evil thoughts breaking free.
Even though they had great confidence in the Saint Emperor's strength, they still felt nervous at the moment.
After all, they were still within the Array.
"There's no need to worry, I am fine." Li Ping seemingly noticed their emotional fluctuations and calmly explained through a psychic message.
Not to mention Li Ping's own formidable will, just the blessing of the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra alone ensured that his personality would not be twisted by Xuanhuang's evil thoughts. Not to mention, he was not swallowing it whole violently, but using the Cosmic Grinding Disk to slowly crush Xuanhuang's evil thoughts, gradually absorbing them and minimizing side effects.
"Furthermore, the collective will of the billions of Enlightened People is anchoring me."
"Billions of spirits can refine the spirit. This is just a part of the original Xuanhuang Heaven Path, how could it possibly affect me?"
Li Ping's mind remained clear.
His greater challenge at the moment was not so much dealing with the "evil thoughts" as digesting the intricate chaotic memories within the opponent's body.
Although most were blurred by thousands of years of twisted despair,
these fragmented memories were deeply embedded in its consciousness. Now, as its body was dismembered, they flowed into Li Ping's Spirit Consciousness.
Scenes of disjointed fragments rapidly flashed through Li Ping's Spirit Consciousness.
Most were too indistinct to make out any details.
Only one segment of the scene kept recurring.
Clearly, this was a memory that had deeply impacted Xuanhuang's evil thoughts. Over the years of its seal, it had repeatedly played out in its mind.
In the boundless Dark Void.
A swiftly moving figure suddenly stopped.
"Why aren't you moving?"
The voice in the memory asked.
The original emotion was a bit of relief, jubilant.
But at this moment, it carried a hint of doubt.
That figure in white, Mr. Bai, turned around and gazed back.
His expression kept changing, rather complicated.
"What in the world is wrong?"
The perception from memory, in the dead silence, gradually became somewhat irritable.
"I cannot leave."
In the end, Mr. Bai took a deep breath and slowly said.
"Why won't you leave?"
"The tribulation has been set, the trend is such, it's irreversible. Rather than staying there, better head to the high wall and give it your all—maybe there's a sliver of hope." The voice from memory first paused, filled with incomprehension, then became slightly urgent, quickly trying to persuade.
"With the remnants of the First Generation Great Heavenly Sovereign as protection, and the detonation of those Immortal Instruments as the driving force, you and I working together have a great chance of breaking through the high wall!"
"After so much preparation, how can you suddenly change your mind?"
Even after a long time, Li Ping could feel the confusion and anger within the separated Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao Consciousness.
Mr. Bai perhaps knew he was in the wrong, thus he remained silent.
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"Say something!"
It was only after Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao finally stopped that Mr. Bai slowly replied.
"There, that's my hometown."
"From birth until now, every person I've known, every person I've heard of, and those I've loved and hated, they've all lived their lives there."
"Now that it's facing Tribulation, I indeed could just walk away. But what about them?"
Mr. Bai quietly asked.
The Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao simply couldn't understand Mr. Bai's emotions, as it considered ensuring one's survival to be of the utmost importance.
"As long as I exist, find another suitable world, and we can quickly nurture another Xuanhuang World."
"I can even recreate those people you are familiar with," It couldn't help but explain.
Mr. Bai just chuckled softly and shook his head.
Without hesitation, he turned and headed back toward the Xuanhuang World.
Seeing things moving towards an uncontrollable situation, the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao became increasingly agitated.
Kept trying to persuade.
Mr. Bai merely turned a deaf ear, his mind made up.
"I know you've been good to me."
"You always say that I am the reincarnation of that person."
"But I know, I am myself."
"Su Bai. A completely ordinary mortal."
The memory of Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, becoming increasingly unstable in its rage, was still somewhat unstable.
But the words of Mr. Bai, intermittently, remained exceptionally clear.
"I never wanted to practice cultivation, to become an Immortal."
"What I want is just..."
"Just to save people I care about."
"I'm sorry."
"As for these things you've given me, the Immortal Body of a Great Heavenly Sovereign, and those Immortal Instruments..."
"Even this cultivation base, I'll return it all to you."
Mr. Bai said it with absolute calm.
...
Boom!
The memory burst like a bubble.
Carrying the force of Xuanhuang malice, Li Ping could now empathize, acutely feeling the extreme anger of deception and betrayal.
"Die! Just die!"
It was as if the voice of Xuanhuang malice was beginning to circle incessantly in his Spirit Consciousness.
Consequently, even Li Ping's breath showed slight fluctuations.
And within the Array, the misshapen malice itself, suppressed and ground down by the Cosmic Grinding Disk, seemed to sense the change occurring in Li Ping.
It couldn't help but scream: "Do you feel it?! Can you understand me?!"
"This pain of being deceived and then sealed for thousands of years!"
...
Unexpectedly, its outpouring was abruptly cut off by a single sentence from Li Ping.
"At this moment, I am in human form."
"Therefore, what I can sympathize with more is the very person you hate so much."
"I think Mr. Bai did the right thing."
"There are some things you'll never understand. So..."
"Just go in peace."
Li Ping's words gradually became ice-cold.
The features faintly visible from the bombardment of Xuanhuang malice's memory began to vanish once again.
A brutally indifferent aura emanated from the Faceless Saint Emperor.
He did not hesitate, accelerating the operation of the Cosmic Grinding Disk.
Like an indestructible towering dike, it blocked the onslaught of evil thoughts.
The three Array Guardians saw this scene and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
They were truly a bit afraid that the Saint Emperor would be influenced by the evil thoughts.
Especially Yin Shangren.
He jokingly said to Xu Ke, "Actually, my nature isn't much different from that of the Xuanhuang evil thoughts."
"If he can swallow It so easily, then swallowing me would be just a matter of convenience."
"It seems I'll have to stay far away from him in the future."
Xu Ke remained silent.
Looking at the figure in the array technique, growing seemingly larger, his heart suddenly felt a mix of hope and fear.
Unsure if handing over the Xuanhuang evil thoughts to him was right or wrong.
The purple gold whirlpool kept spinning, the sound of thunder growing louder.
The struggle of the Xuanhuang evil thoughts became weaker and weaker.
It was only a matter of time before It was completely devoured.
The strength of the Xuanhuang Heaven Path was absorbed and refined, and the majestic figure of the Faceless Saint Emperor grew even taller.
As if he was about to break through the vault of the Da Qi Miniature World and reach another realm.
Li Ping's figure appeared on the Vault of Heaven.
Billions of Enlightened People could see the Saint Emperor's face clearly at this very moment.
The boiling public sentiment reached its peak.
The gathered Qi Destiny broke through the purple color at once and turned into a dazzlingly brilliant golden light.
Even if it was just for a moment, it seemed about to fall back down immediately.
But Li Ping felt it keenly and grasped this fleeting opportunity.
With a light wave of his hand, he dispersed the part of the Xuanhuang evil thoughts' power, absorbed and transformed by the Cosmic Grinding Disk, into the Da Qi Miniature World.
Countless purple-gold spots, like flowers scattered from the heavens, drifted among the mortals.
From the perspective of the ordinary people of Da Qi below, they saw the divine grace, rumored in recent days, from the Saint Emperor.
The purple-gold flowers seemed to possess a natural magic power that tempted the heart.
Making the Daqi People disregard the Saint Emperor's majesty, they all attempted to touch them.
When the purple gold flowers entered their bodies, the changes they brought made those people kneel on the ground and cry out in adoration of the Saint Emperor's name.
The already peaked Da Qi Qi Destiny, like being catalyzed, underwent another change.
This time, with the mountains and seas of voices from the countless Daqi People unifying in high praises, the originally unstable gold Qi Destiny finally stabilized.
Billions of living beings roared like a tsunami.
Causing the three Array Guardians above Da Qi, to be lost in a moment of distraction.
"This is, what they call 'when one achieves Dao, even their pets ascend to heaven,' isn't it?" Yin Shangren couldn't help but exclaim.
Xu Ke unconsciously examined the motionless body of Saint Emperor Li Ping and, for some reason, saw the figure of Mr. Bai in him.
"Perhaps, I didn't make a mistake," Xu Ke thought.
Meanwhile, Yi Magic of the Taiyan Sect narrowed his eyes, seemingly calculating something, his expression revealing shock.
The Emperor Qi Code evolved to the final stage and completely stabilized.
As power waxed and waned, the Xuanhuang evil thoughts ultimately had no chance of resistance left.
"I will wait for you."
"Sooner or later, you'll end up just like me."
Before the consciousness completely dissipated, the Xuanhuang evil thoughts, for some reason, cursed so venomously.
Saint Emperor Li Ping remained unmoved, as if deaf to the curse.
The Cosmic Grinding Disk pressed down thunderously.
The power from the Xuanhuang Heaven Path flowed endlessly into his body.
Li Ping sensed something, as if an invisible shackle had broken.
"The Immortal Realm?"
"Or perhaps, a different kind of Immortal Realm."
He pondered thoughtfully.
...
Meanwhile.
At the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance headquarters, within the Yan Fajue space.
The breakthrough feedback from his avatar had abruptly stopped the moment the Saint Emperor reached the Immortal Realm.
Hence, it did not catch the attention of others in the space.
As for the breakthrough of the Saint Emperor, it had been within Li Fan's expectations all along.
Yet, what Li Fan truly cared about were the memories of the Xuanhuang evil thoughts.
"Immortal Instruments?"
"And the Immortal Body of the First Generation Great Heavenly Sovereign?"
Indeed, what Li Fan truly cared about were the memories of the Xuanhuang evil thoughts.
"Immortal Instruments?"
"And the Immortal Body of the First Generation Great Heavenly Sovereign?"