Chapter 143: Far Away from the Clouds
Chapter 142 – Far Away from the Cong Clouds
Since they were responsible for collecting Dao Rhythmic Ancient Objects together, Little Sister Su and Sister Yin Yue Ting were very close to each other.
Plus, Su Xiaomei hadn’t had much contact with outsiders other than Xiao Heng and Su Changyu since she had grown up.
So the two years of spending time together had cultivated some feelings.
Under the encouragement of Su Xiaomei, the Yin Yue Ting sisters also started practicing the Xuan Huang Qing Xin Mantra, attempting to get rid of the miasma in their bodies and embark on the path to immortality.
However, their cultivation was a few points tougher than Su Changyu.
However, they were only treating it with a normal mind, so while slow, their progress was increasing all the time.
Li Fan just observed the circle without showing up.
After determining that there were no surprises, Li Fan returned to Ten Thousand Immortal Island.
Handing back the Formation Coronet to Zhang Zhiliang, Li Fan re-immersed himself in the study of formations.
At this time, it was the 22nd year of the Anchor, and he had set a period of 6 years for himself.
In his previous life, when he had come out of the gate in Anchor 31, the Red Flame Burning Sea had already begun.
And in Anchor 30, he had also been to Ten Thousand Immortal Island and turned in the Taian Fruit.
So the Red Flame appeared, it should have been between Anchor 30-31 years.
But in this life, there was the unstable factor of Zhang Haobo.
To be on the safe side, Li Fan decided that he would have to leave in Anchor 28 years at the latest.
Before that, it was better to seize all the time to learn about formations.
After all, after this village, there would be no more stores.
After arriving in the unfamiliar Yuan Dao State, where else could you find a formation master to teach you hand in hand.
With time running out, Li Fan became more and more diligent.
Immersing himself in the formation study, he did not stop for a moment.
Even Zhang Zhiliang politely advised him to rest for a few moments, but he refused righteously.
Over the course of several years, the Formation Dao apprentices around Zhang Zhiliang changed again and again.
However, there was no one else like Li Fan, who always had no distractions and persisted as one.
Zhang Zhiliang’s eyes became softer and softer as he looked at Li Fan.
Time passed, and four years passed in a flash.
The time came to Anchor 26.
Li Fan, who was studying the formation, was slightly stunned.
However, it was the doppelganger Lin Fan, who had been in seclusion deducing the technique, who had run out of contribution and was forced to come out of seclusion.
The result of the equivalent of two hundred and seventy years of enlightenment was not good, but not bad either.
Creating one’s own merit law was too difficult, even if it wasn’t creating something out of nothing, but just adapting a merit law that was already there, it was still a thousand times more difficult.
With two gong methods, there was only time to deduce one.
The progress of the remaining one was only half completed.
Li Fan estimated that another thirty years should be about right.
On average, it would be almost one hundred and fifty years before he could deduce a new method.
This was still just the Foundation Establishment Stage technique.
No wonder the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association were able to achieve a monopoly on merit laws.
Li Fan could not help but lament in his heart.
It was really a case of the gains outweighing the losses, and the costs far outweighed the benefits.
Li Fan checked the new gong method he had comprehended.
The Spirit of Intent Illusion Technique.
It was derived from his synthesis of the Underworld Spirit Illusion Technique, and Zhang Haobo’s enlightenment of Sword Intent Foundation Establishment.
With this gong method, the Blue Flame Illusion Spirit would grow further.
As for the new stance technique modeled after the Ru Shadow Following Technique, it hadn’t been deduced yet.
Not bothering to cultivate it for the time being, Li Fan still seized the remaining time to improve his understanding of formations as much as possible.
The doppelganger Lin Fan, on the other hand, was doing some errand tasks on the Ten Thousand Immortals Island while saving up some contribution points to maintain what he needed to survive in the Tianxuan Realm.
While doing so, he poked around to find out what had happened in the past few years.
However, he did not pry into any useful news.
Ever since Anchor 22, the entire Cong Yunhai had fallen into a bizarre calm.
It was as if there was something brewing.
The river of time continued to rush forward. A flash came to the 28th year of anchoring.
The time for Li Fan’s planned evacuation from Cong Yunhai had arrived, just as he wanted to find a way to say goodbye to Zhang Zhiliang.
Instead, he was taken to a confined space alone by Zhang Zhiliang.
In the distance was a dazzling river of stars, and Li Fan, who had been studying formations for nearly ten years, could vaguely make out the traces of a slowly running grand formation.
“I have a matter that I need you to do for me.” Zhang Zhiliang looked at Li Fan with a serious face.
The words were unusually strong, not giving Li Fan a chance to refuse at all.
“You run a trip for me to Tianyu Prefecture, where the headquarters of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is located.”
“After you arrive there, you will open this object and naturally know what to do next.”
Li Fan was slightly stunned and took the object that Zhang Zhiliang handed over.
He only saw that it was a small rectangular black box with a smooth and ghostly black appearance.
A spell formation was engraved on it and used as a seal.
“If you carry this item, you will not be able to use the teleportation spell formation. You will need to fly all the way there.”
“Tianyu Prefecture is a long way away, and with your speed, it’s estimated that it will take you two or three years to get there. Don’t be idle while you’re rushing.”
“Crack the sealing spell formation on this. I believe that with your current level of formation dao, when you arrive at Tianyu State, this seal will naturally be undone as well.”
Li Fan didn’t understand what was going on with Zhang Zhiliang’s inexplicable and ingenious task at first.
However, after listening to his series of requirements, it was understood.
Silently, he put away the small black box and did not ask about the payment, preparing to say goodbye and leave.
On the way out, Li Fan still asked, “Master Zhang, aren’t you leaving?”
Zhang Zhiliang froze, then re-sized Li Fan carefully.
His eyes were full of praise, “Go? The sky and earth are so big, where can one go.”
“You and go!”
Li Fan respectfully saluted, stopped saying anything and left the Ceremonial Formation Hall.
“I hope I didn’t look at the wrong person.” Zhang Zhiliang sighed as he looked at the direction Li Fan had disappeared.
……
On the Law Transmission Square, the black box was stowed away in the storage ring, and Li Fan tried something.
The Transmission Array yet still worked.
It seemed that the task explained by Zhang Zhiliang was just an excuse to detach Li Fan and make him disappear far away from the Cong Yun Sea.
The reason why he said that he couldn’t use the teleportation array was because he was afraid that Li Fan would come back in a short period of time.
Looking at the Cong Yun Sea cultivators who came and went hurriedly in front of the Transmission Immortal Elephant, Li Fan understood in his heart.
It was time.
Using the communication spirit talisman, he contacted Little Sister Su.
Tell her to join the crowd and wait at the Night’s End Island.
At that moment, through the teleportation array, he arrived at Liuli Island.
Intending to bring Little Sister Su and the others, they left together.
However, he didn’t want to be stopped by Yu Wenxing, the town guard of Liuli Island, just as he exited the teleportation array.
“I have a good errand here, I wonder if you are interested?” Yu Wen Xing looked at Li Fan enthusiastically.
“Oh? I wonder what kind of errand it is.” Li Fan asked politely and did not take it to heart.
He would definitely refuse whatever Yu Wenxing said anyway.
“The Tai’an Island town guard has a good relationship with me, and now that he is encountering a bottleneck in his cultivation, he wants to go out and look for opportunities.”
“Nay, with his duties, he is not allowed to leave without authorization. So he asked me if there are any suitable people to recommend.”
“By coincidence, I met you.”
Yu Wenxing said with a smile.
Li Fan words only heard one sentence and knew it was not right.
When Yu Wen Xing finished his words, his face was even darker.
“Still coming?”
“No, no. I was entrusted by someone to go out for a trip. I can’t get away.”
“Fellow Daoist should hire another person!” Li Fan refused with an arch of his hand without mercy.
(End of chapter)