Chapter 165: Laying the True Foundation for the Hundredth Century
Chapter 164 – Laying the True Foundation of the Hundred Worlds
“This simulation has ended.”
……
In the familiar yet unfamiliar study, Li Fan stood still, still immersed in the afterglow of the “Heaven Turning Palm”.
Only after a long time did he take a deep breath.
Although he had killed a Yuanying cultivator with his late Foundation Establishment cultivation, Li Fan’s heart did not have much complacency.
That red-haired YuanYing’s own cultivation was not strong was one reason.
More importantly, Li Fan was not relying entirely on his own strength.
He had used the [Explosive Dharma Surprising God Formation] to force the power of his moves to the Jindan realm; and then he had inspired a bunch of formations to assist him.
In the end, the Cong Yun 28 Swords and the Turning Heavenly Palm, the two major killing moves came out in unison.
In the end, it was still just a fight with the other party to end up in the same place.
If there is not [also true] in, I am afraid that at this moment is already dead.
However, then again. If it is not with the 【Return to the truth】 as a dependence, to Li Fan’s character, I’m afraid that will not give up their lives and forget about their deaths, and ultimately comprehended the reversal of the situation of the heavenly palm.
Gazing at the several options of Returning Truth.
Li Fan of course chose the second option without a doubt, retaining his cultivation.
While finalizing his choice, he concentrated his mind and carefully kept an eye out for the changes that were about to take place within his body.
When he inherited the late stage of Qi Refining cultivation, the Immortal Mortal Miasma in his body silently dissolved and disappeared when his cultivation descended.
What Li Fan was curious about now was how [Returning Truth] would act in the face of the law of this heaven and earth that “the foundation must be built by assuming the wonders of heaven and earth”.
Holding his breath and concentrating, the cultivation of the late stage of Foundation Establishment surged out of his body.
The Immortal and Mortal Miasma was like snow falling into water, dissipating without a trace.
Spiritual Qi inexplicably surged within his body, followed by his aura climbing upwards.
In an instant, it came to the late stage of Qi Refining.
Subsequently, in the middle of the dantian, a small azure blue bead suddenly appeared just like that without any warning.
It was none other than the Canghai Pearl that should not have descended by now!
The Root of Heaven and Earth attached itself to the Canghai Bead, transforming the laws within it, into Li Fan’s Dao Foundation.
It was just that this foundation building process was a hundred or a thousand times faster than Li Fan himself!
In just a split second, the Canghai Bead disappeared.
A blue ocean silhouette was perched within Li Fan’s dantian.
In a matter of moments, Li Fan completed the foundation building process.
The aura on his body then continued to rise until it reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment before stopping.
“It seems that even if I rely on the power of [Returning Truth] to raise my cultivation level. In this world, it is also necessary to follow step by step the cultivation laws set down by the Heavenly Father of Transmission in the first place.”
“Is this the power of [Reversing the Reason of Heaven and Earth].”
“The nature of the rules of cultivation has completely changed, and if you want to play the game of Immortal Cultivation, you have to follow the rules set down.”
Li Fan pondered for a moment, recalling a scene he had seen in his last life, his heart was enlightened.
“After the Everlasting Heavenly Father reversed the reasoning of heaven and earth, he did not show himself in the world.”
“A Harmonized Dao powerhouse suppressing a state is the strongest battle force in the open.”
“Under the Harmonized Dao ……”
Thinking about the origin of the Dao state all the various transformed deities killed each other, but they were just sacrifices for the Blue Feather Heavenly Father to prove the Dao.
Li Fan couldn’t help but sigh, “Under the Harmonized Dao, all are ants.”
“Transformation God, Yuan Ying, Jindan, Foundation Establishment.”
“There is no essential difference.”
“Only after sacrificing the Heavenly and Earthly Prana and achieving Harmonization is one barely able to enter the Eternal Heavenly Father’s eyes.”
“But ……”
“Without witnessing longevity, it is ultimately illusory.”
“The Blue Feather Heavenly Father has been lingering for thousands of years, but it’s still not the end of his days.”
“Prove Eternal Life ……”
“Prove Eternal Life ……”
……
Li Fan muttered and repeated these three words as if he was thinking about something, his brows locked.
“Not certifying longevity is ultimately a falsehood.”
“Having certified immortality, what then?”
“In the beginning, the Heavenly Father passed on the Law and set a new way of practicing the Law.”
“From now on, if you do not follow his way of cultivation, you will not be able to cultivate.”
“But if one does follow His path of cultivation, then even if one does attain immortality, one will still be under His shadow.”
As if Li Fan had figured something out, his face suddenly calmed down.
“This world, the path of cultivation, has already accomplished the fixed rules according to His will.”
“If you want to transcend, unless at the beginning, you jump out of the chess game.”
“But as a chess piece, or the weakest chess piece, how can one jump out of the game by oneself?”
“Unless, one pretends to be outside the game.”
“[Return the truth] ……”
Li Fan stared at the [Return the Truth] light screen in front of him, his eyes flickering continuously.
“From the day I realized that everything that exists in the world can be considered as wonders of heaven and earth, I have had the idea of using [Returning the Truth] as a proof to build the foundation of the Dao.”
“For this reason, I have observed the process of building a foundation thousands of times before and after.”
“And unlocked two more anchor points.”
“Now, it’s time to make an attempt.”
With a resolution in his heart, Li Fan flew to the top of the Dissolution Mountain where he had first realized the Phase-less Killing Machine.
A grass hut was simply made and arranged around it to prevent outsiders from entering by mistake.
Then he sat cross-legged in the house, and with a thought, the prompt of [Returning Truth] jumped out at the right time.
“Is the current time point set as the second anchor point?”
Li Fan did not hesitate, “Yes!”
The second anchor fell in response.
“Now, it’s just a matter of waiting for the return to true to finish recharging.”
“The rate of recharge of the Still True has not been improving, it still needs about nine more years.”
“During this time, it’s not like we can be idle.”
“He Zhenghao’s [Mountain and River Hundred Veins Formation Diagram] hasn’t been studied much, but Zhang Zhiliang’s [Infinite Method], I remembered it roughly.”
“It’s just as well to take this opportunity to continue strengthening my formation attainments.”
“It’s just a pity that this Grand Xuanxian Immortal Extinction Land. It can only enhance the level of theory, it’s impossible to practice laying down formations.”
Li Fan sighed with emotion, then his mind settled into his formation sensitization.
Nine years passed by in a flash.
“It’s time!”
Being able to go back into gear at any time, Li Fan finally had the courage to start building his Dao Foundation with [Returning Truth].
Currently, the heaven and earth wonders that he used to build his foundation were still the Canghai Pearl.
Therefore, the first step is ……
Shattering the Dao Foundation.
The “Tai Shang Primordial True Scripture” turned far and wide, transforming all of his power into a refined cultivation that was stored in his body.
Afterward, looking at the oceanic shadow within the dantian that was in between the real and the unreal, Li Fan slammed a finger on top of the dantian.
Li Fan spat out a large mouthful of blood, his breath rapidly weakening.
And the clump of clouds and ocean shadow shook violently, and a black crack appeared from the center.
The ocean silhouette became more and more illusory.
Li Fan made another finger.
After doing so three times, the Cong Yunhai completely disappeared between heaven and earth.
Li Fan, on the other hand, was as out of breath and his face was as white as a sheet of paper, and he almost died.
“Exerted too much force, the next life could be a bit lighter.”
Li Fan secretly said in his heart.
The cultivation in his body was re-refined, Li Fan’s injuries quickly recovered and he came back to the realm of Qi Refining Perfection.
“If it wasn’t for this Supreme Primordial True Scripture, I’m afraid that it would be a hundred times harder for me to attempt to build a Dao Foundation with [Returning Truth].” The ups and downs of the realm in this instant caused Li Fan to think so.
Settling his mind, Li Fan began his first attempt.
Unlike building a foundation with a physical heaven and earth oddity, although [Returning Truth] was inside Li Fan’s body, it was formless and faceless.
It was incomparably difficult to sense.
Fortunately, Zhang Haobo’s foundation building oddity at first was also the formless and phaseless [Heavenly Fury Sword Intent].
Li Fan, who was fortunate enough to witness the entire process, happened to use this as a reference to sense the rules that the [Return to Truth] contained within his body.
After a long time, a hazy white light emerged from Li Fan’s dantian.
Subsequently ……
Bang!
Li Fan’s dantian exploded.
“Return the truth!”
Before his consciousness disappeared, Li Fan recited silently in his heart.
The light and shadow changed, and instead of returning to the study at the beginning, he was still within the small grass hut at the top of the Dissolution Mountain.
Naturally, he chose to return to the second anchor point.
Choosing to shorten the recharge time.
After reducing the recharge time by thirty percent, it would only take six years to complete the recharge process.
Li Fan frowned slightly, carefully recalling the process of building the foundation in his last life and pondering over his feelings.
Six years passed in a flash.
The [Return to Truth] recharge was complete, and Li Fan began his attempt once again.
Three fingers to shatter the foundation of the Dao.
This time, although Li Fan’s face was still pale, he only spat out a small mouthful of blood.
Returning to Refining Qi Perfection, he attentively sensed the [Returning Truth] rules.
This time, the glistening white light appeared slightly softer.
The situation improved, but it didn’t last long.
Bang! Li Fan’s dantian exploded again.
“Return the truth!”
Six years later, Li Fan began his third attempt.
The white light that represented the [Return the Truth] rule was again a little milder.
This time, it lasted longer than the previous two times.
However, it was still far from the time when the [Return to Truth] Void was formed.
Li Fan’s dantian exploded in obeisance.
“Return the truth!”
For the fourth time.
“Why does the dantian always explode?” Recalling the process of foundation building in his previous lives, Li Fan couldn’t help but ponder.
The cultivation path established by the Heavenly Dharma Transmission Father was highlighted by the word stability.
Even if the qualifications were poor, as long as the lifespan was sufficient and the conditions were met, one would definitely succeed in cultivation.
However, Li Fan’s current process of building his foundation with [Returning Truth] was contrary to the way of the Heavenly Father of Transmission.
“Originally, I thought that the difficulty in building my foundation would be in how to perceive that formless and faceless Returning Truth.”
“But I didn’t expect that, perhaps because the [Returning Truth] itself is fused with me, sensing its existence isn’t as difficult as I thought.”
“Instead, it was the explosion of the dantian caused by this seeming incompatibility with the Heavenly Father’s cultivation path that became the biggest obstacle to my success in building the foundation.”
“Perhaps, if I can solve this problem, I won’t be far from building my foundation with [Returning Truth].”
Thinking of this, Li Fan’s heart slightly perked up.
The fourth attempt began.
Bang!
Fifth time!
Bang!
Sixth time!
……
Each time, it represents six years.
Though each time, he had failed and exploded his dantian at the last moment.
But that still true radiance did grow warmer and softer. Things were moving in a good direction.
Li Fan also strengthened his faith as a result.
Constantly reincarnating, Li Fan tirelessly and over and over again repeated the process of building the foundation.
Without any distractions, he left everything else behind.
The tenth time.
Twentieth.
Thirtieth.
……
All the way to fifty-six times later, Li Fan finally saw a major improvement.
In the dantian, the warm white light seemed to have condensed into a solid entity, like congealed smooth jade, pleasing to the eye.
The light no longer changed, and what changed with it, was its shape.
“It’s hard to believe that it’s finally going to work?”
Seeing this, Li Fan’s mind, which was so ancient and wave-free, could not help but ripple.
But obviously, things were not that easy.
This time, the dantian was intact and did not burst open.
Instead, Li Fan felt that all over his body, deep within his skeletal muscles, it was as if there were tiny worms wriggling around.
That itchy, numb, and painful feeling couldn’t help but make Li Fan let out a muffled grunt.
And this, was just the beginning.
One after another round lump of flesh suddenly protruded on Li Fan’s body.
It then seemed to have a consciousness of its own as it kept swimming.
The meat chunks grew bigger and bigger, and in a few breaths of effort, they almost became half the size of a head.
With this ghastly blood-colored sarcoma growing all over his body, Li Fan looked like an inhuman monster at the moment.
Moreover, this blood-colored sarcoma was still expanding.
In the end, with a “poof!” A sound was heard.
The sarcoma reached the limit of what the Qi refining body could bear, and like a balloon, it collapsed.
Pieces of meat and blood splashed everywhere.
All over the small grass house.
Li Fan was also drenched in his own flesh and blood.
But was unmoved.
In the sea of consciousness, the Blue Flame Illusion Spirit emerged.
At the same time, the Xuanhuang Refining Heart Mantra continued to operate.
Li Fan fell into the realm of no worry, no terror, and no fear.
It was only the [Returning Truth] Void Shadow that had coalesced in his dantian, allowing his flesh to crumble without changing his face.
But the physical body of a Qi Refining cultivator was weak after all.
Slowly, Li Fan’s life breath became iffy.
It was all about to die out subsequently.
At the last moment, Li Fan silently recited [Return the truth] in his heart.
Fifty-seventh time!
Six years later, Li Fan tried again.
The White Jade Light Duo changed shape with Li Fan’s mental perception.
The sarcoma on Li Fan’s body rose and fell.
After a long time, it failed again.
Fifty-eighth time.
Failure!
Fifty-ninth.
Failure!
……
Failure after failure did not deplete Li Fan’s determination and faith.
He summarized the lessons learned and compared each base building process.
It was found that he was under the deliberate manipulation of his senses, and in turn, he did not last as long as he did when he was ignorant and in a state of chaotic ignorance.
“[Returning Truth] is one with me, and although I am imperceptible to it, my body itself, in the underworld, is affected by it.”
“To build the foundation with my own consciousness is much smoother than self-consciousness, however.”
During the seventy-fifth foundation building process, Li Fan was enlightened.
Next, it was just as he expected.
The shape of the white jade light mass gradually became regular.
Each attempt was like a pruning, restoring it towards its original shape.
……
Ninetieth time.
When the white jade light mass finally became an oval-like shape, it finally stabilized.
No more sarcomas appeared on Li Fan’s body.
The light flickered, turning from virtual to real.
It seemed to be about to materialize in the dantian.
But ……
Li Fan suddenly flashed a bright realization in his heart.
It was still a little bit short.
It was as if something had steeply descended into the small grass hut at the top of the Dissolution Mountain.
In an instant, Li Fan’s hair turned snow white.
The skin dried up and wrinkled.
A terrifying furrow and crack appeared on his face.
Muscles dissolved, leaving only a layer of skin that drooped above the skeleton.
Unhumanized, the appearance was horrifying.
Li Fan’s age was increasing rapidly, and he was only afraid that after a few moments, he would die of old age on the spot.
“Still true!”
Li Fan did not hesitate.
Ninety-first to ninety-eighth.
Every time Li Fan tried, it was the same.
It was all that much closer to succeeding in building the foundation with [Returning Truth].
For the ninety-ninth time, he returned to the top of the Dissolution Mountain.
“Where exactly is the difference?”
Li Fan frowned slightly.
He knew that at this point, he was a hair’s breadth away from success.
However, it was not something that could be solved by mere attempts anymore.
It took that moment of epiphany to figure out what was wrong.
Li Fan had a hunch in his heart that the answer should be simple.
He himself was separated from it by a layer of windowpaper that would be broken at the first poke.
But right now, Li Fan was in this mountain and didn’t know the true colors.
It was impossible to find where the right solution was.
As Li Fan pondered, he drifted down the mountain.
He strolled through the dusty world, seeking his answer.
At the same time, he observed, for the first time, the great Xuan who was not under his influence.
In the 5th year of the Anchor, there was a great drought in Jiangnan.
A group of stragglers stormed the Luangya royal residence.
The Luangya royal family suffered heavy losses.
Except for the King of Langya who escaped from a dog hole and got his life back.
The rest of the royal family was killed by the stragglers.
When the news broke, the whole country was shaken.
The Emperor was furious and ordered the army to kill the stragglers.
At the same time, he summoned the king of Langya to the capital and comforted him.
From then on, the king of Langya stayed in the capital.
Anchored for 15 years.
The Emperor suffered a sudden bout of malady.
Before his death, the King of Langya is declared to enter the palace and pass the throne to him.
The King of Langya succeeded to the throne and changed the name of his reign to Xuanjing.
In the 16th year of the Anchor, there were simultaneous rebellions of various sizes in different parts of the country.
Emperor Xuanjing appointed his own trusted advisor as the Great General of Zhenwei to lead the army to pacify the judgment.
It took three years for General Zhenwei to finally put down the rebellions.
He returned to the imperial court in splendor.
Emperor Xuanjing ordered all the officials to meet him from outside the capital, and at the same time greeted him with the Emperor’s rites.
General Zhenwei was arrogant and accepted it openly.
He did not dismount from his horse when he saw the officials and did not kneel down when he met the emperor.
Emperor Xuanjing did not look different, and welcomed him into the palace with his hand.
He was welcomed into the palace and entertained with wine and feasts.
After three rounds of wine, the hundred officials quietly retired.
Dozens of axemen poured in.
The eloquent and drunken Great General Zhenwei was suddenly awakened and questioned Emperor Xuanjing.
Emperor Xuanjing was gloomy and did not answer.
Under the siege of sword and axemen, the Great General Zhenwei was full of stab wounds despite his bravery.
He was dying.
Before he died, he pointed at Emperor Xuanjing and said spitefully, “If there is a time when I come back, I will definitely lead my army, step on Xuanjing, and use your head as a wine pot to ease the hatred in my heart!”
Then he died under the sword.
……
Time seemed to stand still in this instant.
Li Fan, who had been silently watching, revealed himself at this moment.
His gaze brightened as realization dawned on him.
“The world did not come again when it did.”
“There is no time for this world to come again either.”
“But I have.”
“My [still true] ……”
“is more beyond the world.”
In an instant, the surrounding scenery became illusory, and Li Fan returned to the top of the Dissociation Mountain.
Li Fan once again exhaled [Return the Truth].
“When true is false, it is also true ……”
“When False is True ……”
He stared at the seven large characters generated by [Returning the Truth], and his heart was clear.
“With the rules of [Returning the Truth] within this world, I build the foundation of the Dao!”
The water flowed without any obstruction.
The white jade light mass suddenly appeared in the dantian.
The third anchor fell in response.
(End of chapter)