At this moment, inside the Ancestral Space.
The clansmen stared at everything happening within the Great Evolution Immortal Palace through the monitoring Spirit Artifact, everyone secretly wiping away cold sweat.
An immortal battling a hidden faction—they certainly had to carefully observe such a monumental event.
And what an observation it was.
As soon as the Red Dust Immortal made his move, it truly broadened the family's horizons.
The Red Dust Immortal, who had acted so subserviently under Ancestor Lan and Lu Niang, was actually such a formidable existence!
Within the Great Evolution Immortal Palace.
From the outside, it looked exactly like a massive cube, containing countless smaller cubes within.
These cubes sectioned off the Immortal Palace's cultivators—who were clearly right next to each other—making them seem worlds apart.
Immortal mist surged, isolating both prying eyes and lines of sight, leaving the entire Immortal Palace shrouded in a hazy condition and plunging the entire sect into a state of absolute chaos.
Li Dalong said in a deep voice,
"It's an array—an array formed by immortal arts. The Red Dust Immortal and Xinri evaded the eyes and ears of the Central Plains cultivators, hiding in the Immortal Palace for three years.
We thought he was hiding in the most dangerous place, but in reality, he spent these three years forging an array with immortal arts, aiming directly at the Thunder Ancestor."
"Not only that."
Li Kuanghua said,
"I have received numerous pieces of intelligence from my believers.
The exact moment the Red Dust Immortal struck, the many factions of the Central Plains also received the news. Unfortunately, they had no time to pay the Red Dust Immortal any heed."
"Hm?" The family members were momentarily startled.
"The Red Dust Immortal's timing was impeccable. Within this past month, the hidden factions of the Central Plains have suddenly been thrown into chaos, seemingly tracking some highly important things.
Remember when the Red Dust Immortal told Xinri in the tavern that there were many immortals in the Central Plains? Only immortals could throw the Central Plains factions into such chaos."
Li Kuanghua raised an eyebrow.
"Although he has constantly been fooling around with Xinri, I suspect his Red Dust immortal methods have been continuously laying out schemes across the Central Plains, all for the sake of today."
"..."
The crowd remained silent for a long time. They were both Heavenly Immortals, yet compared to the Red Dust Immortal, the Immortal Infant was practically a wild boar.
"Then, Second Sister is about to achieve her Dao."
Li Yaotie's large, bull-like eyes widened.
The clansmen all revealed smiles. They hadn't expected that having an immortal handle affairs on the outside would make accomplishing things so incredibly easy.
Amidst their rejoicing, they completely failed to notice a person clutching a spiked mace-like staff running madly along the cobblestone path in the corner of the image.
Even Li Zhijing and Li Xinghuo didn't see him.
Only Li Wei, the Old Ancestor, caught sight of it.
He rested his forehead in his hand, murmuring, "As expected of the most easily overlooked person in the family, and the one who understands best how to play the pig to eat the tiger."
...
In the cloudy sky above the Immortal Palace.
Rolling red dust surged.
The Red Dust Immortal was locked in a great battle with an old man. The Red Dust Immortal remained perfectly still, while the old man's eyes were completely devoid of focus.
In the old man's eyes, he had fallen into the mortal world.
Everything in this mortal realm was incredibly unfamiliar. No matter how he tried to destroy it, the shouts of commoners would reappear within the dust.
These scenes shifted continuously. Suddenly, he was on a battlefield, caught between two warring mortal armies.
Subsequently, he plunged into a scene of cultivators engaged in a massive battle, or an expanse of freezing ice and snow...
He had only barely caught a glimpse of the Red Dust Immortal before entirely losing sight of him.
In front of the Red Dust Immortal, his Dao-Comprehending realm abilities were pitifully weak.
Even knowing full well that this was an illusion formed by immortal arts, he simply could not overcome it no matter what he did.
Only an ethereal voice could be heard ringing out.
"I stayed in the Great Evolution Immortal Palace for a few years. Lu Niang asked me to kill you, but I did not wish to kill.
Within the red dust of the mortal realm, even mighty figures are merely a part of the red dust."
"I am the Red Dust Immortal; I enter the red dust, and I oversee the red dust."
"Yet ironically, the people of the red dust do not know the goodness of the red dust, instead seeking to cross over and become immortals."
Thunder Ancestor He Xingfei's face was extremely ugly. He knew the Red Dust Immortal was right within this illusion.
His body gradually turned ferocious, and his Dao Domain also writhed like flesh and blood.
He roared furiously, "You are an immortal! You cannot escape the Central Plains, nor can you escape the Imperial Dynasty's suppression!"
The ethereal, elusive voice echoed once more.
"Mortal, before you die, why not tell this immortal exactly how you became a half-immortal? Throughout the entire Imperial Dynasty, how many more people like you are there?"
He Xingfei remained speechless.
His Dao Domain actually broke through the Red Dust Immortal's illusion, and tentacles pierced out from within the Dao Domain, carrying the power of Nature in an attempt to erode the red dust.
Unfortunately, he still could not find the Red Dust Immortal's whereabouts.
The Red Dust Immortal's dissatisfied voice still lingered within the Dao Domain: "Since you are within my red dust, even if you refuse to speak, I can find the answer myself."