The idea of escaping the world of Dream of the Red Chamber was just a thought; Fairy Jinghuan and the others knew it was unrealistic.
Although they were all at the True Immortal Perfection Realm, which is equivalent to the Divine Power Perfection Realm in the main world, they could only last for half an incense stick's time in that chaotic energy before being assimilated by it.
The world of the Red Chamber was destroyed, and they needed to rely on the celestial realms like the Realm of Illusion to survive. However, those celestial realms were formed from fragments of the world and were enormous in size. With their strength, they simply could not move the Realm of Illusion through the chaos.
Once Wang Xuan has broken the Divine Stone Sealing Heaven Formation, he can easily mobilize the Xuan Tian Will to hunt them down.
No matter how anxious they were, Wang Xuan remained unmoved, sitting calmly on his fishing platform.
With Wang Xuan locked in a standoff with the three powerful figures, including Fairy Jinghuan, neither side could afford to be distracted. Meanwhile, Wang Xuan's two good disciples had already begun establishing the Xuan Tian Sacred Sect's mountain gate.
Their establishment of this sect was supported not only by the Lin and Xue families, but also by nobles and ministers. Even the emperor himself set aside a mountain as the gate of the Xuantian Holy Sect.
Immortality is something every living being desires deep down, even emperors. The Xuan Tian Holy Sect's open teaching of cultivation methods offered them a possibility of immortality; how could they not support it?
Many nobles and officials sent their children to the Xuantian Holy Sect, and some officials even came to the Xuantian Holy Sect in person to learn martial arts and cultivate martial arts techniques.
Originally, the retired emperor and the new emperor were busy vying for power, but with the establishment of the Xuantian Holy Sect, they stopped fighting for it, because the retired emperor also moved to the Xuantian Holy Sect and became Xue Baochai's disciple.
Unfortunately, the old emperor's talent was mediocre. He was already in his sixties or seventies, and his body had been ruined by wine and women in his youth. How could he possibly achieve anything of note?
Even with the secret medicines of the Xuan Tian Holy Sect to nourish his body, he could only live for a dozen or so more at most; it was impossible for him to cultivate into a god.
The old emperor was not worried at all. He had already received assurances from the two fairies that as long as he helped the Xuan Tian Holy Sect spread its faith, he could become a mountain god after death and achieve an alternative form of immortality.
With the full support of this retired emperor, the Xuantian Holy Sect quickly spread the Xuantian faith throughout the entire Dream of the Red Chamber world, and the whole country worshipped Xuantian.
The Xuan Tian Will that descended into the Red Chamber World was merely a rootless duckweed, needing power to replenish its energy. This power of faith replenished the Xuan Tian Will's energy just right, allowing Wang Xuan to persevere.
Three months passed in the blink of an eye. A muffled sound echoed between heaven and earth, and the sealed world passage was finally reopened. Jia Baoyu's true form—the Heaven-Mending Stone—flew out of the world passage.
Without the obstruction of that stubborn rock, the will of Xuan Tian descended once more, accompanied by a succession of martial arts experts.
"Let's all work together to set up the Seven Star Demon-Slaying Formation and wipe out these enemies first." At Wang Xuan's command, Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Xu Chu, and Dian Wei quickly gathered around him.
They had practiced this formation many times and were already very familiar with it.
The power of one person quickly merged into one, and the first to attack was not Wang Xuan, but Huang Zhong.
Huang Zhong drew his bow and nocked an arrow. After the arrow was released, it tore through space and pierced into the cave of Beiman Mountain, heading straight for the Immortal Miaomiao!
Immortal Miaomiao quickly summoned a shield to defend himself. With his cultivation at the peak of the Divine Power realm, this attack should not have been able to harm him.
But almost at the very moment the arrow struck, Xuan Tian's will suddenly pressed down, causing Miao Miao Zhenren to momentarily freeze, forgetting to resist.
An arrow pierced his brow, and the violent martial will tore apart his primordial spirit, leaving him severely injured and on the verge of death.
"They're still alive? Experts at the peak of the Divine Power realm are indeed resilient!" Wang Xuan raised an eyebrow, about to unleash his two flying swords, Purple Lightning and Frost, to kill them.
Purple lightning crackled on the Purple Lightning Sword, while a chilling aura emanated from the Frost Sword. The two flying swords, one possessing lightning attributes and the other ice attributes, were both capable of annihilating and freezing souls.
The purplish-blue sword light slashed down, completely annihilating the primordial spirit of the Immortal Miaomiao, and incidentally leaving a sword mark hundreds of miles long and thousands of feet deep in the cave heaven of Beiman Mountain!
With the death of Immortal Miaomiao, the entire Beiman Mountain Grotto-Heaven immediately became ownerless. The will of Xuantian descended upon it, plundering the origin and laws within the grotto-heaven to strengthen the Xuantian World.
The world of Dream of the Red Chamber has been fragmented and has no potential for development; it will only decline further. Since that's the case, Wang Xuan didn't bother to manage this world and instead proceeded to savagely plunder the essence of the Northern Mang Mountain Grotto-Heaven.
Originally, even with the combined efforts of Fairy Jinghuan, Immortal Miaomiao, and Great Master Mangmang, they were still repeatedly defeated by the will of Xuantian. After Immortal Miaomiao's death, they were even more powerless to fight back.
Under the suppression of Xuan Tian's will, countless laws transformed into chains, binding Fairy Jinghuan tightly.
As for the Great Master Mangmang, he doesn't have that kind of treatment. Fairy Jinghuan has mastered the Illusionary Realm of the Great Void and has already comprehended part of the laws of reincarnation. She can go to the Xuantian World to work for Wang Xuan and help improve the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the Xuantian World.
Wang Xuan can only recruit one expert at the peak of the Divine Power realm at most; recruiting more than that might lead to unforeseen circumstances.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the power of the Xuan Tian Will is comparable to that of gods, demons, and golden immortals. It won't be too much of a burden to suppress two or three experts at the peak of their supernatural powers. But Wang Xuan still wants to expand outwards!
If two powerful beings at the peak of the Divine Power Realm were to cause trouble within the world while Wang Xuan was engaged in a fierce war with other worlds, it might plunge the Xuan Tian World into a state of annihilation!
"Slash!" Wang Xuan shouted coldly, unleashing a simultaneous strike of Purple Lightning and Frost, imbued with the power of the Xuan Tian Will, instantly shattering the golden body of the Great Master Mangmang into fragments.
Buddhism does not cultivate the primordial spirit, but rather the golden body and relics. After the Buddhist golden body was broken, a relic the size of a fist flew out from the body of the Great Master Mangmang, attempting to escape into the Spirit River.
The Spirit River is a sacred treasure possessed by the Great Master Mangmang. Only by immersing one's relics in it can one hope to preserve them and be reborn in the next life.
But Wang Xuan wasn't about to give him a chance. With a flick of his finger, the relic was sent flying, landing directly in the Xuan Tian World through the world passage, where it was suppressed and sealed.
"There's no need to leave the Western Pure Land here either. This world, like the Northern Mang Mountain Grotto-Heaven, will have its origins and laws directly extracted and integrated into the Xuan Tian World!" With Wang Xuan's command, the Xuan Tian Will immediately began to act.
Chapter 185 The Curtain Falls on the Dream of the Red Chamber
Two of the three True Immortal level powerhouses in the Dream of the Red Chamber died in an instant, and the remaining Fairy Jinghuan also gave up resisting.
She was self-aware enough to know that she was no match for the will of a complete high-level martial arts world. Since the other party had not attacked her after killing the Great Master Mangmang and the Immortal Miaomiao, it meant that there was still a chance for things to turn around.
Wang Xuan ignored her for the time being, and instead focused on comprehending the laws within the Northern Mangshan Grotto and the Western Pure Land.
Whether a world is powerful or not depends not only on the amount of its original elements, but also on the completeness of its laws.
The world of Dream of the Red Chamber was also a mythical world in ancient times. Although it is now fragmented, its laws are still extremely profound and serve as a great supplement to the Xuan Tian world.
As the Xuan Tian Will digested these laws, Wang Xuan's mind merged with the Xuan Tian Will, and countless insights flooded into his mind.
After a long while, he stopped his contemplation and sighed, "The potential of my Xuan Yin incarnation is ultimately limited; otherwise, I could have broken through to the Divine Power realm just now!"
After sighing, Wang Xuan turned to look at Fairy Jinghuan.
"I am an incarnation of the Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor. My true form governs the Xuan Tian World. Are you willing to serve me?" As for the consequences of refusal, Wang Xuan didn't need to say anything; Fairy Jinghuan could naturally guess.
"You want me to be your underling? Don't even think about it!" Fairy Jinghuan roared, refusing to relinquish her dignity as a powerful being.
Wang Xuan couldn't help but chuckle. How could he not see that Fairy Jinghuan, despite her seemingly firm refusal, was actually a little nervous inside? After all, she was a proud fairy, and he needed to give her a way out.
"Serve me, and I will lead you to conquer various worlds in the future. With your knowledge of the laws of all realms, you will have a good chance of breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm!" Wang Xuan directly promised the benefits.
Fairy Jinghuan was instantly convinced by him. She had been in this dilapidated world of the Red Chamber for twenty-four cycles. Each cycle lasted three thousand years, and in more than seventy thousand years, her cultivation had not improved much. Wasn't it just that the world was limiting her?
Now that Wang Xuan has given her a chance to break through, becoming a subordinate is not out of the question. After all, in the ancient world of Dream of the Red Chamber, Fairy Disenchantment was also a subordinate of those immortals and Buddhas.
Wang Xuan watched as Fairy Jinghuan entered the spatial passage and went to the Xuan Tian World. As for the Tai Xu Illusionary Realm, it naturally became ownerless.
Wang Xuan brutally dismantled both the Northern Mangshan Grotto-Heaven and the Western Pure Land, absorbing their essence and laws to strengthen the Xuan Tian World. However, the Tai Xu Illusionary Realm cannot be done in the same way. This secret realm possesses the function of illusory reincarnation, and it must be brought back to the Xuan Tian World intact.
Wang Xuan, suppressing his pain, spent over a dozen units of world essence to activate the world fusion function of the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth. Instantly, the Illusory Realm of the Great Void vanished before his eyes, traversing endless chaotic spacetime and heading towards the Profound Heaven World.
If it were the complete Dream of the Red Chamber world, the amount of origin energy required to merge it with the Xuan Tian world would be enormous, and Wang Xuan certainly couldn't afford that cost right now.
However, the Realm of Illusion is just a fragment of the Dream of the Red Chamber world, about the same size as the original Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio world. Wang Xuan only needs to consume a portion of the source energy extracted from the Northern Mang Mountain Grotto and the Western Pure Land.
Without the support of the three great secret realms, the Dream of the Red Chamber world is now just the mortal world, and its grade has fallen to that of a mid-level martial arts world, the lowest of the low.
Wang Xuan did not make any further plans in this world; he simply moved the world passage leading to the Xuan Tian World into the Xuan Tian Holy Sect.
In the future, whenever a master who has attained the Dao through martial arts appears in the Dream of the Red Chamber world, they can ascend to the Xuan Tian world through this world passage.
"This conquest of the Dream of the Red Chamber world has come to a perfect end, it's time to check the spoils." Wang Xuan smiled broadly and waved his hand, and the Burial Coffin quickly flew back into his hand.
He flung open the coffin lid, and a piece of radiant jade flew out. This jade seemed to possess a certain sentience, immediately trying to escape Wang Xuan's clutches and return to its owner.
However, its owner, Fairy Jinghuan, had already gone to the Xuan Tian World. Without Fairy Jinghuan's magical power, even though it was a spiritual treasure, it could not exert much power.
Wang Xuan unceremoniously grabbed the magical jade in his hand, suppressing all its resistance.
Wang Xuan has no shortage of spiritual treasures now. Although this spiritual jade is good, he has no intention of taking it for himself.
However, the threat posed by Fairy Jinghuan possessing a spiritual treasure is immense. The treasure must be returned to its rightful owner only after the Xuan Tian World has been strengthened once again.
Besides the Spirit Jade, the spiritual treasures of the Vast and the Mysterious also fell into Wang Xuan's hands. The sacred mountain was towering, and the spiritual river was vast; both the mountain and the river possessed extremely powerful energy.
The legendary Fantian Seal was forged from a section of Buzhou Mountain, while the magical treasure of the Immortal Miaomiao was forged from the Wuji Cliff of the Great Wilderness Mountain, and its functions and uses are roughly the same as the Fantian Seal.
As for the Spirit River of the Vast and Boundless Master, it also possesses some mysteries, as it can actually melt Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. Anything within the Yin and Yang and the Five Elements that falls into the Spirit River will be dissolved and transformed into a part of the Spirit River.
With the three spiritual treasures in hand, Wang Xuan made a fortune. In the future, if he encounters any powerful enemy, he can simply unleash a whole bunch of spiritual treasures to crush them.
After taking stock of his spoils, Wang Xuan descended upon the Xuantian Holy Sect in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber and gave a few instructions to his two female disciples.
"I've returned to the Heavenly Realm. Once you've found a suitable successor, come to the Heavenly Realm as soon as possible. The spiritual energy in your world is thin and not suitable for cultivation." Wang Xuan gave a few instructions, and then told Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu the location of the world passage.
The two girls were already eagerly anticipating the trip to the legendary "Heavenly Realm," and immediately patted their chests, saying, "Master, don't worry, we already have a candidate for the next sect leader, that boy Jia Baoyu!"
"Although Jia Baoyu is lazy and always tries to cheat when cultivating, his talent is exceptionally high. If we just invest more cultivation resources in him, I believe that in one or two decades he will be able to enter the Dao through martial arts and support the Xuan Tian Holy Sect of this world."
Wang Xuan nodded. Jia Baoyu was, after all, the chosen one of the Dream of the Red Chamber world, his talent was undeniable. Once Jia Baoyu broke through to the Daoist realm, Xue Baochai and Lin Daiyu could come to the Xuantian world.
After explaining all this, Wang Xuan didn't linger in the Dream of the Red Chamber world. He stepped into the Great World Passage and returned to the Xuan Tian World.
Chapter 186 Cowardly as a Ball
Ten years have passed, and the Xuan Tian World has completely changed from what it was back then.
Since transforming into a high-martial-arts world, the laws of the Xuan Tian world have become much more complete, and the will of heaven has even evolved to the level of gods and demons. Naturally, the speed at which it absorbs chaotic energy and transforms it into the world's origin has also increased significantly.
The current Xuantian world is at least thirty times the size of the Sui and Tang world of that time, and seven or eight times larger than the original Liaozhai world.
Moreover, over the years, the Eternal Tower of Heaven and Earth has successively explored the dimensional coordinates of more than a dozen low-level martial arts worlds. Wang Xuan naturally did not stand on ceremony and opened the world passage to descend into those worlds.
Now, those dozen or so low-level martial worlds have all been transformed into subordinate worlds of the Xuantian World, and are connected to the Xuantian World by world passages.
The Xuan Tian World finally began to resemble the celestial realm, and cultivators in its subordinate worlds all considered ascending to the Xuan Tian World as their ultimate goal.
After Wang Xuan withdrew his Xuan Yin avatar, he couldn't help but look ahead, his lips twitching slightly.
A fist-sized golden bead darted about, struggling to escape. But it had barely flown a short distance when Miss Diaochan swung a delicate fan, sending the golden bead flying back.
The golden bead turned and tried to escape in another direction, but Miss Diao Chan was faster and was already waiting ahead, giving it another blast with her fan...
Needless to say, that golden bead is the relic of the Great Master Mangmang. Although the Great Master Mangmang's Buddhist golden body was destroyed, the relic remains, containing a complete soul, fully capable of possessing another's body and being reborn!
Unfortunately, under the suppression of fate, this relic could not exert much power and was used as a ball by Miss Diaochan.
"Chan'er, you can play around with him for a bit. He is, after all, a true immortal, comparable to a master at the peak of supernatural powers. You should at least give him some face!" Wang Xuan smiled wryly. After Miss Diao Chan had played for a while longer, he went over to stop her from frolicking.
Diao Chan stuck out her fragrant tongue, and her charming and adorable appearance made Wang Xuan's heart melt.
Miss Diao Chan was originally just an ordinary person with no cultivation whatsoever. Now, after ten years of arduous training, she has finally entered the Dao through martial arts and can fly by controlling magical artifacts.
For Miss Diaochan, who is practicing flying on her sword, isn't the relic of the Great Master Mangmang the perfect sparring partner delivered to her doorstep?
As for how powerful the Great Master Mangmang is, I'm sorry, Miss Diaochan's knowledge is limited, and she has no idea how terrifying a powerful being at the peak of supernatural powers can be.