Chapter 217: Patience in the old ways (Joint Chapter)
Chapter 216: Patiently Doing Old Things (Combined Chapter)
The top of Dissolution Mountain.
The spontaneous body protection of [Still True] allowed Li Fan to get out of the sight of the Heavenly Doctor and successfully return to the anchor point.
The illusory scenery became real again, and Li Fan quickly scanned his surroundings to make sure that he had returned to the third anchor point.
Only then could he not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Moments later, the fear brought about by narrowly escaping death from the white-haired old man’s henchmen came belatedly.
It descended on his heart, causing his heart to beat violently.
As if he had been drowning for a long time and finally surfaced, Li Fan uncontrollably breathed heavily.
It was only after a long time that he slowly came out of the fear of escaping after the robbery.
“Heavenly Doctor, above the Harmonized Dao ……”
Replaying the scene just now over and over again in his mind, Li Fan’s face was gloomy.
How could he not have expected that the strength of this [Heavenly Doctor] would be so terrifying?
It far surpassed the black-clothed Harmonized Dao that was in the Origin Dao State.
Heavenly Doctor, he seemed to be able to see through people’s inner thoughts.
The doppelganger had merely had a thought naturally flash through his mind at that time, and he had actually detected an abnormality.
Even more frighteningly, he didn’t know what method he used, but actually made the bilocation, without any resistance or concealment, spit out everything in its heart.
After that, he came back from the dead, tearing through space and finding Li Fan’s main body in a flash.
All sorts of means, even more beyond Li Fan’s current cognition.
“The Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun Resolve, the principal and the doppelganger, can be completely viewed as two unrelated people.”
“How exactly did he determine my identity?”
“As the Heavenly Xuan Mirror is the foundation of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, security is rightfully guaranteed.”
“When I joined the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, the Heavenly Xuan Mirror had also stated to itself that when practicing in the space within the mirror, there was absolutely no need to worry about being attacked.”
“But this Heavenly Doctor, however, was able to forcefully break into my cultivation space without the Heavenly Xuan Mirror having the slightest reaction to it.”
“When the Heavenly Xuan Mirror introduced him, it didn’t even mention his name.”
“This old man, what exactly is his identity?”
The more Li Fan thought about it, the more incredible he felt.
At the same time, his heart could not help but surge with a gush of fear.
If it wasn’t for the fact that he had been cautious and knew that this old man’s strength was terrifying, he had been using his doppelganger to make contact with him.
If he hadn’t realized that something was wrong, and without half a moment’s hesitation, he had directly launched [Returning Truth].
If it wasn’t for the fact that [Returning the Truth] had accumulated some recharge progress and the automatic body protection had taken effect.
I’m afraid that everything would really be over for him this time.
Falling into the hands of this mysterious and unpredictable old man, it would definitely be difficult to keep any secrets, and it would be hard to escape death in the end.
“This Immortal Cultivation World is truly too treacherous, even I’m carrying such an exotic treasure as [Returning Truth], but I’m still having a hard time walking. The slightest carelessness is going to fall to pieces.” Li Fan could not help but feel a vague chill in his heart.
While appalled, Li Fan also did a self-reflection.
Since stepping into the Immortal Cultivation World, with the help of [Returning the Truth], his path of cultivation was not even too bumpy.
The last time he escaped from the Harmonious Dao, Li Fan had a vague feeling of “underestimating the heroes of the world”.
Thinking about it carefully, the great powers that have survived the [Great Havoc Era], the [Great Plague Era], and the [Dark Era] to this day.
How could they be simple characters?
He was carrying the secret of [Returning the Truth], and it was fine if he didn’t enter the line of sight of the great powers.
If one’s cultivation was low, one would still be wandering around in front of their eyes without knowing whether they were dead or alive.
It is really the way to take death.
“In the future, more caution is needed.” Li Fan secretly sighed.
“The 100,000 contribution degrees for this Cloud Water Talisman, don’t want it.”
After doing a deep reflection and summarization, and after his thoughts calmed down a little, Li Fan suddenly remembered the Heavenly Healer Immortal Scripture that he had once read.
As a medical book, its object of study was not just humans.
It also included all kinds of plants and animals in heaven and earth.
It is said in the book that the way of healing is basically in the four words of “looking, smelling, questioning and cutting”.
“Look, smell, ask, and cut ……” Li Fan’s mouth kept repeating in a low voice.
“Looking and seeing the difference in the bilocation’s heart.”
“Ask, got an honest answer from the bilocation.”
“Cut, a finger in the air, raising the dead.”
“Smell, instantly discovered the relationship between the Honored One and the bilocation.”
“What a look and smell.”
“What a heavenly healer.”
……
The Heavenly Doctor, for the first time, allowed Li Fan to deeply understand, for the first time, the terrifying nature of those high-ranking cultivators in the Xuan Huang Realm.
However, recognizing the gap, he didn’t lose confidence because of it.
“[Returning Truth] is in my hand, as long as I don’t die and build up my strength one reincarnation at a time. One day, I will catch up and surpass them.”
Li Fan said silently in his heart, suppressing all thoughts about the Heavenly Doctor in the deepest part of his heart.
Surveying up the few options of Returning True.
When the third anchor point was set, the realm was the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
The last life was brought to a screeching halt after only a hurried two years or so.
There was no breakthrough to the minor realm, so naturally Li Fan would not choose this option.
He decisively chose the first item, retaining the one item he held, the Dao Transformation Stone.
After selecting it, Li Fan first checked the Returning Truth panel that he hadn’t checked for a long time.
Name: Li Fan
Realm: Late Foundation Establishment
Physical Age: 20/399
Mental Age: 1212/3700
Void Transformation Charge Progress：0%
Anchoring Charge Progress: 1%
Current number of anchors: 3
Currently available anchors: 0
Bound Items: Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter, Taiyi Yan Boat, Stopping Remnant Tablet (Loss), Ten Thousand People’s Essence Blood, Dao Transformation Stone
Technique: Xuan Huang Refining Mantra, Cloud Water Illusion Dream Technique, Stealing the Sky and Changing the Sun Technique, Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Golden Badge, Spirit of Intent Illusion Technique
Avatars: Life and Death Link, Undifferentiated Killing Machine, Binding Insects
Physiological and mental upper age limits have all stagnated in growth.
It should not be until after breaking through to the Jindan realm that there would be any major changes.
Anyway, two thousand years of reincarnation time was definitely enough for the current Li Fan.
In addition to the ones on the list of feats, Li Fan also mastered: two exclusive feats, the Sea Defining Divine Sword and the Canghai Treading Waves.
The inner cultivation method of Sitting Mountain Skill.
The two secret techniques of Transformation God Dao I and Purple Sky Soul Search.
Zhang Zhiliang’s infinite method inheritance.
The perversity of [Return to Truth] was revealed at this time.
Not to mention the ninety-nine lifetimes of using Returning Truth to build a foundation, Li Fan’s actual effective number of reincarnations in the Immortal Cultivation World, up to this point, had only been four lifetimes.
With four reincarnations, Li Fan’s accumulation was so rich that it far exceeded that of any foundation-building cultivator.
……
“This period of time waiting for the [Returning Truth] to finish recharging is just right for practicing that Art of Transforming Dao Divine One.”
With this thought, Li Fan’s mind moved and the dark blue Dao Transformation Stone appeared in his hand.
After arranging some arrangements near the Dissolution Mountain to prevent mortals from accidentally entering.
Li Fan placed the Dao Transformation Stone in the center of his brow, and his divine thoughts slowly merged with the Stone, entering a state of cultivation.
There were no years in the mountain, and in the blink of an eye, it was the Anchor 5 years.
On this day, as Li Fan’s divine thoughts and the Dao Transformation Stone completely merged into one.
A brilliant blue crystal appeared in a flash at the upper dantian on his brow.
Thoughts flowed and he sensed it attentively.
A few moments later, Li Fan quickly sensed something different from before.
He couldn’t help but show a joyful expression, “Ancient secret art, it is truly extraordinary!”
After cultivating the [Dao Transformation Divine One], not only was the speed of thinking and calculating more than a hundred times faster than before.
Moreover, all the scene images that he had experienced could be retrieved at will in a single thought.
It was as if they were experiencing it all over again.
Li Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly, when he first encountered the Heavenly Doctor, he pointed between his eyebrows and imparted the Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture to his doppelganger.
At this moment, it was also slowly resurfacing under the powerful Diffraction Processing ability of the Dao Transformation Stone.
After spending almost a year, Li Fan had thoroughly memorized the Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture.
Of course, memorization did not mean skillful application.
It was just as if there was a huge gap between Li Fan’s theoretical level of Formation Dao and the actual level of laying formations.
“It’s true that it’s just a pure medical scripture that doesn’t help much in cultivation.” Li Fan shook his head rather regretfully.
“The art of looking, sniffing, and cutting in the book is also a far cry from the means of a Heavenly Doctor.”
“But ……”
“The Heavenly Doctor seems to have entered the Dao from medicine. This Heavenly Doctor’s Immortal Scripture must be the foundation of his life’s learning.”
“If one day, a supreme celestial pride is found to teach him this medical scripture.”
“It may not be impossible to emulate the Heavenly Doctor’s story.”
“It’s just that it’s definitely not possible to do so in the Xuan Huang Realm, perhaps in a remote small world far away from the Immortal Cultivation Realm, one could try it.”
Putting it behind his mind for the time being, Li Fan, however, suddenly thought of the Tai Yan Sect’s technique of deduction.
The Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter of the Tian Ji Sect could also measure the future when cultivated to its depths.
However, that was through qi sensing and deduction.
The Tai Yan Sect’s Derivation Art, on the other hand, utilized the ability of Derivation and Calculation to the extreme, exhausting all possibilities to find the one that most closely matched the direction of the future.
“In fact, these two types of deduction techniques may not necessarily contradict each other.”
“On the contrary, they can complement each other. Qi Derivation, determines the general vague direction. Tai Yan Divine Calculation, accurately predicts the future.”
“Hehe, however, none of them can compare to my [Returning Truth].”
“What technique of deduction can be more accurate than coming from the future and experiencing it firsthand!”
On a whim, Li Fan drifted down the mountain and left.
Great Xuan, Jiangnan, Gan Guang City.
Recently, a strange thing had happened in this rich city.
A strange man called the Divine Calculator traveled across the border and set up a stall to tell fortunes.
Only three fortunes per day.
There is no charge, but only to choose people to count.
At first, the residents of the city thought that the Divine Calculator was only a gimmicky liar.
Because the fortunes he told were not accurate.
But with the passage of time, the success rate of the fortune-teller is getting higher and higher. Whether it is lost where the lost things, missing children where the whereabouts of the whereabouts of the child, or ask the marriage, ask the sex of the fetus in the womb.
All are accurate.
Gradually, the name of this divine calculator slowly became louder and louder.
Inside Generali City, men and women, young and old, were all in awe of him.
One day, a nobleman came to visit Generali City. After hearing about it, he became interested.
He dressed up and came to the stall of the God Calculator with only one of his men.
He saw that the fortune-teller was lying on a bench, resting with his eyes closed.
“This Taoist master, today’s trigrams can be counted?” This nobleman had already inquired about the rules before he came, and asked in a loud voice.
The Divine Reckoner did not even open his eyes, lazily said, “You knowingly ask. If it is full, I naturally close the stall and go home. Will still be here?”
The nobleman was a little embarrassed at his words.
On the contrary, it was that beloved one who saw his master being insulted and became furious.
At that moment, he did not care about the reputation of the “Divine Calculator”, and was about to smash the stall.
The nobleman reached out to stop the believer and said, “In that case, please give me a fortune teller.”
As usual, the Divine Calculator closed his eyes and said: “Poor Taoist has already counted that you two will come, have already counted in advance for you.”
“Just in that small wooden box in the upper left corner of the stall, there is a note. You will know as soon as you read it.”
When the heartlander heard this, he was even more disdainful and coldly grunted, “Pretending to be a god!”
The nobleman, on the other hand, had a grave expression on his face as he thanked towards the Divine Calculator.
Afterward, he opened the wooden box, took the note, and slowly unfolded it.
After seeing the handwriting on the note, his face immediately turned pale.
In his heart, he was shocked, fearful and happy, his hand softened, and the note fell to the ground.
Seeing this, the nobleman did not care about any manners, and hurriedly squatted down and picked up the note.
Firmly saved in the palm of the hand, afraid of being seen by others.
His body was trembling because of excitement, just repeatedly reciting in his mind, the sixteen big words on the note.
“Nine years of hibernation, waiting for the heavenly time. The day my brother dies, the time to become an emperor.”
Seeing that the Lord was so out of sorts, the beloved was confused in his heart.
Ever since the tragic events of that day, there had been very few things that could cause this one to change his demeanor.
Could it be that this Divine Calculator really had some skills?
It was just that I don’t know, what exactly was written on the small note he gave to the Lord.
The nobleman didn’t care about the small thoughts of his men.
After taking a deep breath to calm the excitement in his heart, he was about to bow solemnly towards this divine Calculator.
However, he was shocked to realize that the Divine Calculator, who was clearly still there just now, had suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes at some point!
The nobleman and his beloved were all appalled.
Could it be that there really are ghosts and gods in this world?
The two of them returned to their residence full of worries and disoriented, and returned to their respective rooms to rest.
But the believer accidentally found that his own pocket, do not know when there is a note.
Curious, the heart will open the note.
After seeing the handwriting of the note, he couldn’t help but look blank.
Only two lines of poetry were written on it.
“Peace was originally set by the general, the general is not allowed to see peace.”
The heartthrob repeatedly recited it silently, subconsciously tearing the note to shreds and swallowing it into his stomach.
……
In the sky above Gan Guang City, after seeing the reaction of the beloved, Li Fan’s face, could not help but show a hint of inexplicable smile.
“Earlier, I listened to your dying words, thus I had an epiphany and succeeded in building my foundation with [Returning Truth].”
“Now that I am telling a fortune for you, I am also returning the favor of that day.”
“I hope that you will have a different fate in this life.”
Today’s fortune-telling two people, naturally, is the king of Langya and the future commander of the army to quell the rebellion Zhenwei great general.
Li Fan incarnated as the Divine Reckoner and traveled around the world to understand the way of divination and fortune-telling.
After settling down in Guang Gan City, the art of deduction became more and more refined.
And by chance, he met two acquaintances, the King of Luangya and his beloved, and on a whim, he came up with this today.
It was a spontaneous act to clear up a cause and effect.
Li Fan’s thoughts are clear and happy.
He no longer stayed in this place and returned to the mountain of dissociation.
A scene from this period of time flashed through his mind in an instant, and Li Fan had his own knowledge of the so-called art of deduction.
“Within that Guang Gan City, my divine sense enveloped everything and everyone within the city.”
“With the terrifying Diffraction Calculation ability of the Dao Transformation Stone, everything was in my eyes.”
“Speaking of the events within the city alone, with all the causes in place, I was able to make a prediction.”
“But there is more than just this one city in the world. Gan Guang City is located at the confluence of canals, and has well-developed shipping.”
“There is an endless stream of merchants coming and going, with tens of thousands of people coming in and out every day.”
“This is the so-called variable.”
“The more variables there are, the less accurate my projections will be.”
“In addition to external influences, the unpredictability of people’s hearts is also a variable.”
“When the number of people, as well as the scope of the city, continues to expand, there are more and more variables that need to be dealt with.”
“At this point, relying solely on pure diffraction ability to deduce, the effect is already minimal.”
“It still requires the addition of derivation feats.”
After realizing this, Li Fan did not have the idea of purposely searching for a deduction gong method.
To put it bluntly, this Divination Technique was just a casual attempt that Li Fan made when he was bored while waiting for the [Returning Truth] to finish recharging.
It’s just a casual attempt in the process of waiting for the [Returning Truth] to finish recharging, and he was bored.
The most important thing is still the enhancement of the cultivation realm.
Li Fan secretly set a goal in his heart, in this life, he must break through to the Jindan stage!
……
Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was about to reach the Anchor 9 year.
The Returning Truth was about to be recharged, and Li Fan made another trip to Yi Xing’s Tomb to put away the Heaven Locking Treasure Box.
After that, he didn’t forget to bring along the bound Stopping Remnant Tablet and the piece of fusion in Qian Hong’s grave by the way.
Afterwards, he swept around as usual and filled up the Tai Yan Boat.
After everything was ready, Li Fan broke through the Immortal Overwhelming Formation and returned to the Immortal Cultivation World.
The layout and planning of his last life, before he met the Heavenly Doctor, Li Fan felt that there were no major problems.
And this life had the same starting point of cultivation as the previous one, there was no better cut-off event.
Considering that if he changed his actions, there might be unexpected variables happening again.
So Li Fan decided that he would follow the same path and perform the old events of the previous life.
Slaughter the Giant Glazed Fish, obtain the Linglong Glazed Pearl, and ensure that the Spirit Mist Grass event would happen.
Subsequently, through He Zhenghao, he joined the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
Do the Blue Blood Coral quest and use the Blue Flame Phantom Spirit as bait to befriend Chen Ying of the Medicine Hall.
Kill Sikong Yi and obtain the Order of Stealing the Sky.
Scare He Zheng Hao into suspending his smuggling business.
Loan the Spirit Mist Herb in the Green Wind Hall.
Joined the Ten Thousand Immortals League and successfully passed the Questioning Platform test with the addition of the seven exquisite hearts.
Doing meritorious tasks to raise the level of authority.
In the Spirit Mist Grass fiasco, there is no profit without capital.
Use Zhou Qingang’s spy story to bully He Zhenghao into signing a part-time job contract.
Re-learning the “Sitting Mountain Technique” and purchasing the Advance Realm.
Diving away from the realm alone, causing Ye Feipeng Xiao Heng and others to be re-stranded on an isolated island.
Commissioned Jiao Xiuyuan to excavate the Small Pill King Tripod.
……
It was just a matter of retracing the process of the previous life, but only for a year or two.
Li Fan was very patient.
Only, with the experience of the previous life, Li Fan still fine-tuned the handling of a few things.
The first was that during the Spirit Mist Grass fiasco, he clearly knew the point in time when the Tianxuan Mirror released the announcement.
However, in order not to arouse suspicion, Li Fan prudently did so before the price of the Spirit Mist Grass rose past three hundred and twenty points and reached three hundred and fifty points.
In batches, he sold all of the two thousand nine hundred Spirit Mist Grasses in his hands.
A total of nine hundred and eighty thousand contribution points were earned.
The second was that Li Fan had used a piece of the heaven and earth wonders he had purchased in the Advancement Realm when he was practicing his split body in this life.
The cultivation level of the doppelganger instantly increased to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
After that, when he purchased the White Bone Advance Realm and played the role of a skull to coax Xiao Heng and the others, it was all done by the doppelganger.
Even more, he recounted the might of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance clearly, urging Xiao Heng that everything should be focused on raising his cultivation.
Simply pretend to be an unusual casual cultivator with a strange encounter.
And give, in order to prevent unforeseen circumstances from occurring, Li Fan did not choose to purchase a merit law from the Heavenly Xuan Mirror this time either.
The one that was passed on to Xiao Heng was the Sea Setting Divine Sword, and the one that was passed on to Ye Feipeng was the Canghai Treading Waves.
It would be some time before Su Xiaomei and Su Changyu were able to cultivate.
As long as they searched for the Masterless Merit Technique before then, they would be fine.
The main body and the doppelganger would each go to Qin Tang to gather some wool, and the problem would be solved.
However, considering that he might need a large number of merit laws in the future, Li Fan felt that it was still necessary to find a stable channel to purchase merit laws outside of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
After thinking about it, Li Fan’s doppelganger contacted Jiao Xiuyuan.
Soon, the other party had a reply.
“Eh, fellow Daoist wants to purchase the Jindan Technique? Why don’t you buy it in the Heavenly Xuan Mirror? Can it be that you haven’t found a suitable one?”
“Hehe, I don’t have any feats for sale on my side, I can’t cover this kind of big deal.”
“However, if you have a genuine need, I do know a place that can fulfill your requirements.”
“The Ten Thousand Laws Chamber of Commerce, have you ever heard of it?”
Li Fan was slightly stunned, and a name that was extremely similar to it, with only a single word difference, suddenly surfaced in his mind.
“This Ten Thousand Laws Chamber of Commerce, is it related to the Ten Thousand Chinese Chamber of Commerce?” Li Fan asked.
“That’s right. Actually, the Ten Thousand Chinese Merchants Association is the Ten Thousand Laws Merchants Association, only that it specializes in the business of mortals, hence the other name.” Jiao Xiuyuan replied.
“Wanfa Chamber of Commerce ……” Li Fan couldn’t help but remember that before the Red Flame Burning Sea descended, the Wanhua Chamber of Commerce had received a notice to evacuate the Cong Yun Sea altogether.
“This Wanfa Chamber of Commerce, something.”
(End of chapter)