Chapter 196: The End is in Sight
Chapter 195 – Finally Showing the Clues
The entire Ten Thousand Immortal Island and even the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance were in a state of sadness for the next period of time.
Every cultivator seen on the road had a soulful look.
Even, Li Fan had heard that many cultivators, after losing their homes, directly chose to kill themselves under the weight of their thoughts.
Every so often, one could see fireworks lighting up overhead.
There were also some gamblers who had gotten on the levers and were ready to take a shot, and after the Spirit Mist Grass plummeted, they owed huge debts.
To the point where they couldn’t afford to pay it back even if they worked for the rest of their lives.
In order to avoid the debt, some chose to resist by force.
And some directly chose to defect, breaking away from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance and defecting to the Five Elders Association.
It was estimated that there were too many defecting cultivators, and the Maneuvering Hall didn’t have enough manpower.
Rarely, many additional merit hunting missions were released in a row within the Tianxuan Mirror.
There was no limit to the number of times they could be taken.
For a time, the entire Xuan Huang Realm was in turmoil.
It was evident that this Spirit Mist Grass fiasco had a great impact.
Li Fan also followed suit and completed a few pursuit missions, raising his authority level to Diffractive Eight.
Miraculously, just after a month or so, the fiasco had spontaneously calmed down.
The sorrow on the cultivator’s face slowly dissipated, turning back into his old refreshed appearance.
It seemed as if the Spirit Mist Grass incident from not too long ago had just faded into oblivion, seldom mentioning it in their words and conversations with each other.
Even if it was occasionally mentioned, the crowd was not in a pained state.
Instead, they actually brought up banter and flirting.
“You only lost fifty thousand contribution degrees? You have the nerve to speak?”
“Hehe, look at a few of us, which one of us didn’t lose a hundred thousand or eighty thousand?”
Conversations such as these could be seen everywhere.
Gradually, the collective memory of the crowd of cultivators for the Spirit Mist Grass incident slowly faded.
In the end, all that was left was the sentiment of “Contribution degrees are really hard to earn”.
On the other hand, Li Fan’s memories did not diminish as a result.
One reason was because he was a complete beneficiary in this storm. There were no memories of pain and worry.
Secondly, it was the huge sixty-five hundred thousand points of contribution on his body that was constantly reminding him.
“It seems that for a long time, don’t worry about contribution points.”
Li Fan thought so and sent another message to He Zhenghao.
In between, Li Fan had visited He Zhenghao.
In this life, he seemed to have lost even more than in his twelfth life.
The entire person was as if he had suffered a heavy blow, and his gaze was demented.
Calling out to him was only an instinctive response.
It wasn’t until recently under the influence of the Everlasting Heavenly Father that he slowly slowed down.
He was repentant for not listening to Li Fan’s reminder at the time.
After learning that Li Fan managed to retreat in one piece before the bubble burst, he was even more envious.
“Ai, fellow Daoist Li Fan, if I had listened to your advice, how good it would have been.”
This was already the unknown number of times that Li Fan had heard He Zhenghao say this.
“If you ask me, the matter of investment still depends on talent. Fellow Daoist He, you are obviously not suitable. Take my advice, it’s better to honestly do missions to save contribution points in the future!”
“It’s good that the person is fine and the cultivation level is still there. The big deal is to start all over again!”
Li Fan said in a serious tone.
“Yes yes yes, Fellow Daoist is right.” He Zhenghao nodded his head like pounding garlic and asked tentatively, “I wonder how much you, this time, have earned.”
“Hehe, a lot. Very much.” Li Fan said in a pleasant tone.
He Zhenghao’s face showed envy and he wanted to speak.
Li Fan saw that He Zheng Hao seemed to want to borrow money, but could not pull this old face, several times his mouth opened and closed.
Just can’t say it.
Li Fan is not in a hurry to point out, but is ready to air him out again. Because of the careless investment, the Cong Yunhai township that lost all of its life savings is obviously not only He Zhenghao.
Putting away the Ten Thousand Character Communication Talisman, Li Fan’s attention, however, shifted to Zhou Qingang of Tai’an Island.
He only saw that his face was irritated and his brows were furrowed.
Walking back and forth, it seemed that he wanted to do something and could not make up his mind.
Suddenly, his face changed, pulled out a spirit talisman, and said in a hateful voice: “Rush rush rush! It’s not just 50,000 contribution points, I’m an island town guard, would I be missing out on yours?”
“Don’t worry, at the end of this month, I will definitely pay it back!”
Putting the spirit talisman away, Zhou Qingang’s face was gloomy.
Seeming to have finally made a decision, after inspiring the Hidden Shape Talisman, he flew out from the Tai’an Island’s Island Protection Formation.
Arriving at an empty, uninhabited sea, stagnating in the air for a moment, his aura abruptly changed.
Not only that, Li Fan was able to see under the perspective of heaven and earth that Zhou Qingang’s physical appearance had also changed completely in an instant.
It wasn’t a change like a blindfold, but simply became another person.
The original Zhou Qingang was the image of a quiet young scholar.
And now, it had turned into a thin, unassuming middle-aged man.
After changing his face, Zhou Qingang continued to fly towards a certain direction in a low-profile manner.
“Has he finally revealed his face.” A brilliant light flashed in Li Fan’s eyes.
From the Heavenly Xuan Mirror, he bought in a shadow-retaining stone and held it in his hand.
At the same time, he slightly changed the angle of surveillance and began to use his divine sense to record the scene he saw to.
After flying for an entire day, when night fell.
Zhou Qingang arrived on a remote and uninhabited island.
The island was so desolate that there wasn’t even a single tree. As far as the eye could see, it was filled with rubble.
Zhou Qingang landed on the island and looked around.
After carefully observing for a long time, and determining that no one was tracking him, he began to rummage around the island.
After a long time, he seemed to have found his target.
Showing a happy face, he held a stone in his hand.
The stone was completely ordinary.
There were no special symbol markings on it either.
It was just pitted with a few small holes in particular locations.
Zhou Qing’ang surveyed the stone for a long time, firmly memorizing the locations of the small holes in his mind.
He then exerted force and crushed the stone to pieces.
Flying towards the northwest of the island.
After another half a day, in an uninhabited sea, Zhou Qingang violently stopped.
Then he dove headfirst into the sea.
There was a ruin at the bottom of the sea, and Zhou Qingang searched through the ruins for a long time before finally stopping in front of an inconspicuous broken stone.
An earthy yellow light appeared on his hands, and Zhou Qingang printed his palms on top of the broken stone.
The palm prints matched.
A light surged from the broken stone, sweeping over Zhou Qingang’s entire body.
It then returned to the broken stone.
On the surface of the smooth, mirror-like broken stone, an image of a human face suddenly emerged.
“Eh? Why did you contact so far in advance this time?”
“Shouldn’t there still be six years left?”
The human face couldn’t be seen exactly as he sized up Zhou Qingang, full of doubts.
Zhou Qingang’s face was hesitant, and he stammered, “Head, the funding is not enough. Can you allocate some more to me?”
The human face was slightly stunned, “It’s only been a short while and you’ve run out?”
Then as if he remembered something, his voice changed, “You stupid bastard? You went to fry the Spirit Mist Grass as well?”
(End of chapter)