Cultivation of immortality begins with an eighty-year-old eunuch.

The tenth year.

Chen Fan encountered the fifth great formation.

This is an illusion array; it has no real attack, yet it can stir up the deepest, most hidden obsessions and fears in people's hearts.

The moment Chen Fan stepped into the illusion array, he saw many scenes that he thought he had long forgotten.

He saw the patriarch of the Soul Refining Sect, the sealed land deep in the Great Yu Wilderness Continent that had suppressed countless years, and the figures trapped within the seal.

He also saw the Mirror of Reincarnation.

The legendary treasure floated within Chen Fan's reach, its surface shimmering with iridescent light.

You can get it as long as you reach out.

As long as you get the Samsara Mirror, you can revive Tianxiangzi!

This thought coiled around Chen Fan's mind like a venomous snake, frantically gnawing at his reason.

However, he stood in the center of the illusion array, expressionless as he watched the illusions swirl before his eyes.

"An illusion array is ultimately just an illusion array."

Chen Fan closed his eyes and pushed the Fixed Word Technique to its limit.

Grayish-white ripples spread through his mind, peeling away and disintegrating the illusions layer by layer.

The illusion array trapped him for nine months.

Nine months later, Chen Fan opened his eyes, and the illusion before him had completely vanished. His state of mind, after experiencing the baptism of this illusion array, had become even more unbreakable.

The eleventh year.

Chen Fan encountered the sixth great formation.

This is an ancient and wondrous array governed by the laws of time.

The flow of time within the formation was completely different from that outside, sometimes as fast as a galloping horse, sometimes as slow as a snail. While inside, Chen Fan felt his lifespan passing by at a terrifying speed; sometimes a day felt like a hundred years, and sometimes an instant felt like eternity.

This formation tests not one's mastery of formations, but one's understanding of the Great Dao.

Chen Fan sat in the formation for a year.

During that year, he reviewed all the techniques, concepts, and formations he had learned in his life. Cause and effect, life and death, and stillness—the three concepts constantly collided and merged in this extreme flow of time, and there were faint signs that a breakthrough was about to occur.

When Chen Fan stepped out of the time array, he had a few strands of white hair at his temples.

However, his eyes were more profound than before.

The twelfth year.

Chen Fan stood in front of yet another large formation.

This grand formation far surpasses any of the previous ones in scale, covering an area spanning hundreds of miles. Within the formation, the power of the five elements, the power of wind and thunder, the power of spacetime, and even a faint fluctuation of the law of cause and effect are simultaneously at work.

This is a complex array.

An ancient and unique formation that integrates at least ten different laws.

Chen Fan stood at the front line for three days and three nights without sitting down or making any calculations.

He just watched quietly.

Three days later, he moved.

Instead of trying to crack the array's core or searching for a way out, he directly stepped into the most dangerous core area of ​​the array.

One step and it landed.

The entire formation began to operate with a roar.

The power of the five elements pressed down from all directions, the power of wind and thunder poured down from above, the power of spacetime distorted the surrounding space, and the law of cause and effect wrapped around it like countless invisible threads.

Chen Fan's expression remained unchanged.

He slowly spread his hands in front of him, his ten fingers encircling all the true essence of array formations that he had comprehended in the sea of ​​array formations over the past twelve years.

The left hand represents the immortals, the right hand the demons.

The power of the fusion of immortals and demons transformed into array patterns, flowing from his fingertips and weaving into a dense network in mid-air.

Although this array is far less massive than the surrounding arrays, it is exquisitely crafted.

Each array pattern was precisely embedded in the gaps in the operation of the array, like a key inserted into a lock, fitting perfectly.

"break."

Chen Fan gave a soft shout.

All the profound mysteries of array formations that he had comprehended over the past twelve years erupted at this moment.

The array suddenly expanded, like an invisible maw, swallowing up all the surrounding forces of the Five Elements, wind and thunder, and spacetime. Then, the array rotated in reverse, pushing these forces back along their original paths.

"Boom!"

A deafening roar exploded on the sea.

The entire formation was like a powder keg that had been detonated from within, with countless runes exploding in mid-air and turning into countless fragments of spiritual light.

Chen Fan stood in the rain of spiritual light, his hands behind his back.

Before him, a golden road slowly emerged, stretching straight to the horizon.

Chen Fan walked forward along the golden avenue.

This time, he did not encounter any formations to obstruct him.

The sea beneath their feet grew calmer and calmer, and the runes in the arrayed seawater gradually thinned out and eventually disappeared completely.

Instead, a golden beach has been erected.

The golden sand is fine and soft, making no sound when you step on it. On both sides of the beach, the seawater is crystal clear, without a trace of any ripples.

Chen Fan stopped at the edge of the beach.

He looked down at the golden sand beneath his feet, then looked up ahead.

At the end of the beach, there was a misty void. There were no objects in the void, only a warm and soft white light, waiting quietly like a mother's embrace.

Only at this moment did Chen Fan finally confirm that he had arrived.

He's done.

Twelve years.

It took a full twelve years from stepping into the Sea of ​​Formations to stepping onto the golden beach.

Standing on the beach, Chen Fan suddenly felt his legs go weak. It wasn't the depletion of his spiritual energy, nor was it physical fatigue; rather, it was a deeper weariness that came from the depths of his soul.

Twelve years of tireless deductions, twelve years of life-and-death trials, twelve years of immersing all his mind in the endless changes of the formation.

He hadn't slept for a long time.

It's been a long time since I've felt this kind of down-to-earth and secure feeling.

Chen Fan slowly exhaled, just as he was about to step towards the ball of white light!

Suddenly, the void ahead rippled.

The next second, a towering figure slowly emerged from the white light.

The newcomer was clad in ancient armor, treading on a galaxy, his long, purplish-black hair moving without wind. Nine purplish-black stars shimmered with a deep light between his brows, like nine eternal stars.

It was the remnant soul of the ancient demon Rosa.

"Twelve years."

Rosa's voice was deep and resonant, yet there was a hint of approval in his tone:

"You took twelve years to traverse the sea of ​​formations that I set up back then. While that speed isn't fast, it's certainly not slow either."

Rosa stood with his hands behind his back on the beach, his eyes, as black as cosmic black holes, fixed on Chen Fan, scrutinizing him from head to toe:

"What's even more remarkable is that your foundation in array formations has been honed to an extremely solid level over the past twelve years. I can see that you're not just breaking arrays, but learning them. The essence of every great array has been integrated into your own array formation system. This comprehension, this mindset... not bad."

Chen Fan bowed slightly, his tone calm:

"You flatter me, senior. But I wonder, have I passed this first test?"