It was not merely what Li Fan had personally experienced throughout these years of reincarnations. There were also what he had witnessed from Evil Su Bai, from [Truth], and even from within the Infinite Ocean.

Countless apocalyptic scenes, cruel beyond description and terrifying to the extreme, unfolded before Situ Xing in an instant.

Even though he had once been a Nameless True Immortal, he still changed expression slightly after witnessing scenes billions of times more horrifying than hell itself.

Situ Xing did not avert his gaze and took all these scenes in. After remaining silent for a moment, he finally spoke with some difficulty.

Yet his convictions remained unchanged.

"All living beings shall perish within the Dao Annihilation. This is the fate of all living beings under the unchanging momentum of the greater situation. As the saying goes, one is born along with the Dao and perishes along with the Dao. No one in this world is born responsible for the life and death of others. Besides, in the eyes of us True Immortals, these..."

"The vast majority of them cannot even be considered [living beings]."

Situ Xing's voice was somewhat weak at first, but the further he spoke, the firmer it became.

Li Fan sneered.

"All those righteous words of yours amount to nothing more than one sentence. The weak have no right to survive. Then today, you are the meat and I am the knife. You have been sealed as a Celestial Pillar. What do you have to say about that?"

Situ Xing opened his mouth, but did not utter any contradictory argument.

"The strong prey upon the weak. I have nothing to say. Being sealed within a Celestial Pillar is merely the result of being inferior to others. It is my own calamity."

"I merely advise Senior that two or three Celestial Pillars can only exchange for temporary safety in one place. If you truly wish to seek a method of saving the world, you still need to go to that [Other Shore Great World]. With Senior's strength, there should be no problem..."

Situ Xing was about to continue speaking when he suddenly felt the surrounding Great Dao tighten around him once again.

This time, Li Fan gave him no opportunity to argue.

His body merged with the Great Dao, while his vision and thoughts were completely frozen and sealed.

Apart from the Primordial Origin Bone and the Hunger Immortal, another towering Celestial Pillar now stood within this space.

However, its foundation was merely the shadow of a Nameless Immortal. Compared with the first two, this third Celestial Pillar was clearly "thinner."

Moreover, because it had not truly been formed from the Great Dao itself, this 'celestial pillar' could not bear much of the pressure from the Dao Annihilation.

Yet Li Fan still intended to seal Situ Xing.

It was not because he feared this ancient Dharma King, the Nameless of the Lower Realm. His primary purpose was to do as he had with the Hunger Immortal, suppressing them while slowly extracting memories of the past from their minds.

In Li Fan's eyes, Situ Xing's value was even greater than that of the Hunger Immortal.

For the first half of the Hunger Immortal's life in the Immortal Realm, she had merely been a servant of [Wuwei].

Situ Xing, however, had been the ruling Immortal Minister of the Desolate Haze Star Region. From the fragments of information he had revealed earlier, it was obvious that he must know countless secrets of the Immortal Realm.

"Immortal Governing Minister. Judging by the name alone, he should be the ruler of a region of the Immortal Domain. The Nameless realm indeed possesses the qualifications to rule over a region. Although Situ Xing himself said that, because of the effects of the Dao Annihilation Calamity, the memories of his main body in the upper realm are incomplete..."

"But whether that is truly the case, I will only know after I look for myself."

If the Hunger Immortal's inner mind was merely a loosely scattered mass of light, then Situ Xing's consciousness was like a brilliant pearl. Countless thoughts and memories had been compressed into an extremely tiny point, solid beyond compare. For an outsider to pry into it, they first had to force open a crack in this hardened whole.

Li Fan was indeed a master at manipulating people's hearts. After carefully observing for a moment, he discovered where the flaw in Situ Xing's mind lay.

He could not help but sneer.

"All that talk of his. The fall of his true body into the Dao Annihilation still left him with an enormous psychological shadow. I only need to start from this aspect..."

Li Fan formed hand seals.

His clone, Li Buren, simultaneously coordinated with him.

Within the Darkest Star Sea, the phantoms of Hill Guardian, who was likewise a pillar of the Dao Annihilation, the Primordial Origin, and the Hunger Immortal all began withdrawing their respective powers.

It was as if they intended to make the newly appointed Situ Xing bear all the pressure alone.

When a towering building is about to collapse, even a lone pillar cannot support it. How much less so the Dao Annihilation that could destroy the world?

A sound like a vast and surging tide rolling toward them faintly came from beyond the heavens.

The Darkest Star Sea had only just been nourished by the relatively complete Great Dao of the external star regions. Yet now, strands of black Dao Annihilation qi suddenly emerged from within it.

Cold, sinister, and terrifying, like ghosts.

The Great Dao of Revival suddenly descended into chaos once again.

The living beings within the star sea inexplicably developed a feeling that a great disaster was approaching. Although the vast majority were sleeping peacefully within the Xuanhuang Realm's Carefree Paradise, their brows still instinctively furrowed, their expressions filled with unease.

If the people of the world were already so helpless, how much more so Situ Xing, who was supporting them from above?

Precisely because he had personally experienced the terror of the Dao Annihilation Calamity, when faced with it once again, this Lower Realm Nameless one who had previously spoken with such confidence had his defenses broken in an instant.

With disaster looming overhead, there was no longer any of the composure he had displayed in his words moments ago.

He cried out in terror and howled instinctively.

He was no different from the living beings beneath the apocalypse that Li Fan had displayed within the illusion.

"A Nameless True Immortal. Nothing more than this."

Watching Situ Xing behave like a clown, Li Fan could not help but mock him.

The Celestial Pillar formed from Situ Xing alone could not endure for long. Li Fan was also unwilling to allow the Dao Annihilation to truly descend.

Seizing the opportunity when his opponent's mental defenses had been broken, Li Fan separated a strand of divine sense and followed the crack in his mental defenses into his mind.

Although it could not compare with the thoughts of [Truth], the overwhelming torrent of memories rushing toward him still caused Li Fan to plunge into a stormy sea in an instant.

Fortunately, he had already gained experience surviving through even greater storms. After adapting for a while, Li Fan could barely move about freely.

"It seems Situ Xing did not lie after all."

"This sea of consciousness is indeed incomplete."

Li Fan looked around and discovered that Situ Xing's thoughts did not appear continuously like those of an ordinary person. Instead, at regular intervals, pitch-black voids stretched across them.

From these voids, Li Fan sensed the aura of the Dao Annihilation.

At this moment, the voids within these thoughts were resonating with the true Dao Annihilation outside and slowly expanding outward.

Presumably, one day, they would completely devour Situ Xing's mind.

"Even though the clone escaped the Dao Annihilation Calamity, his mind was still being eroded by it. It was not merely a physical blow, but also a spiritual one."

Li Fan carefully avoided these Dao Annihilation voids and first looked toward the memory closest to him, which was also the most conspicuous.

It was the most glorious moment of Situ Xing's life.

Even though his true body had fallen, the clone had still firmly preserved this memory within his heart.

It was precisely the moment when Situ Xing proved the Dao of the Nameless.

Unlike the lonely scene Li Fan had witnessed when the Hunger Immortal proved the Dao, countless figures of True Immortals stood around Situ Xing in his memories, watching and offering their congratulations.

And in the distant horizon, countless Immortals surrounded a towering figure.

"Congratulations to Situ!"

Amid the congratulations of the crowd, Situ Xing bowed deeply toward the towering figure in the distance.

"Reward him with the Desolate Haze Star Region."

"Reward him with an Innate Spirit Treasure."

"Reward him with one hundred thousand Immortal Servants."

...

One voice after another echoed.

Under the gazes of the crowd, Situ Xing's thoughts surged, and his emotions were stirred deeply.

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