Chapter 255: Ten Years of Disappearance
Chapter 253 – Ten Years of Disappearance
Every time Li Fan woke up from his seclusion, he glanced at the [Return to Truth] panel and calculated the time based on how much his physical age was.
Anchoring 1 year was 20 years old, and so on.
In his twelfth life, he had also checked the Return to Truth panel many times.
But when time suddenly leapt from Anchor 29 years, to Anchor 39 years.
Li Fan was unable to detect any hint of abnormality.
Even when he looked back at his twelfth life experience again and again, he failed to notice that this [ten years that had disappeared] in himself.
This was partly due to stereotypical thinking.
After all, in the vast majority of people’s perceptions, time was continuous and indivisible.
How could it be that one second it was anchored for 29 years, and the next it was anchored for 39 years?
Still another, even more important reason, was that it was as if there was some kind of presence that distorted his perception.
Causing him to overlook it without realizing it.
This is what is called “seeing is not strange”.
What’s going on?
Who stole my time?
Li Fan could not help but fall into a deep state of fear.
Fear because of the unknown.
If the Heavenly Doctor was strong, he was strong.
But at least there’s a concrete image there.
Li Fan is not his enemy in this life.
But reincarnating ten or a hundred times ……
Under infinite reincarnations, one day he would grow to the same height as him.
Eventually defeating him.
But this unknown existence was what gave Li Fan a sense of powerlessness for the first time.
He didn’t even know what the other party was or by what means he had stolen the time that originally belonged to him.
What made Li Fan feel even more fearful was that it exerted all sorts of influences that he still could not get rid of even after [Returning the truth].
This meant that the other party was most likely something in the same realm as [Return the truth].
At the very least, the might of the other party was already very close to [Return to Truth].
This was the true source of Li Fan’s fear.
All along, [Returning the Truth] was the reliance on which Li Fan’s hope for longevity was based.
As in, it was the source of Li Fan’s confidence in being able to deal with changes no matter how powerful an enemy he encountered.
No matter how great a crisis he encountered, he silently recited [Returning Truth] in his heart.
The reality and emptiness transform, and everything returns to the starting point.
The crisis will disappear.
But now, the absolute dominance of [Return to Truth] was threatened ……
The father and daughter, He Zhenghao and He Xin Xin, who were on the side, also saw that Li Fan’s face was not right.
He Xin Xin was about to ask a question, but He Zheng Hao pulled him back and shook his head.
Fear echoed in his heart for a long time.
Fortunately, Li Fan was tough-minded after all.
Having experienced too many near-death scenarios, and now that it was just a not-quite-deadly threat from a point in time in the past, Li Fan slowly calmed the fear in his heart.
Carefully pushing and analyzing.
Soon, he perceived the phenomenon that was out of the ordinary in this event.
Straightening his face, Li Fan inquired about He Zhenghao, “Fellow Daoist He, I wonder what is the origin of this deduction technique of Xin Xin? Can you reveal a bit or two?”
Saying that it was an inquiry, there was a meaning in his eyes that could not be refused.
He Zhenghao hesitated and had to explain, “The name of my daughter’s deduction technique is [Dao Net Tian Luo].”
“It is a customized deduction spell based on her companion wonder [Dao Wen Luo Compass].”
“The specific quality is barely half a Heaven’s Wonder.”
Speaking of this, He Zhenghao couldn’t help but display a slightly smug look on his face.
“Companion wonder?” Li Fan’s heart stirred.
In the Theory of Curious Objects, there was a relevant record.
Certain cultivators, since birth, had heaven and earth wonders accompanying them in their bodies. These wonders all have their own extraordinary features and fit in perfectly with the cultivator himself.
However, this situation is extremely rare, the book only mentioned, and did not spend too much ink description.
Where there is a companion strange object in the body, from the mother’s womb, it is nourished by the law of strange objects.
Cultivation speed is incredibly fast, but all can safely survive to grow up, none is a party of pride.
I did not expect this He Xin Xin, belongs to this category.
No wonder at such a young age, has already built the foundation cultivation.
Li Fan sized up this little girl and thought secretly.
He Xin Xin was stared at by Li Fan, and a sense of nervousness inexplicably surged in her heart.
“Xin Xin, just explain for Uncle Li, roughly, the principles of deduction of the [Dao Net Celestial Luo].”
He Zhenghao spoke out.
He Xin Xin nodded at his words, out of trust in her own father, she did not have much defense.
At that moment, she softly explained for Li Fan.
“A person born between heaven and earth is like living in a giant net.”
“Every move you make will have an effect on the people, events, and things around you.”
“Those who are not allowed to transcend, in turn, will inevitably be affected by other people and things.”
“Intersecting and interacting with each other. Forming all things in the world.”
“Things in this world, but wherever they have happened, they will leave traces.”
“By observing these traces left on the giant net, one can know all the things in the world.”
“This net is called the [Dao Net Tianluo]. The traces are [Dao Seal Script Etchings].”
……
During the little girl’s narration, the doubts in Li Fan’s heart were solved.
The theft of ten years of his own time in the Dao Origin State was something that happened in the twelfth life.
He Xin Xin was only a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, even if he was more talented, it was absolutely impossible to peek through the [Returning Truth] and project what happened nearly a hundred lifetimes ago.
Even the unknown existence that had stolen ten years of his own time was extremely high in rank, and by definition was not something that He Xin Xin could project.
But on the contrary, she could see the end.
This is because ……
An apple that has been bitten ……
is not the same as a whole apple.
Similarly, a creature that has had its time stolen by this inexplicable being must be different from other normal creatures.
Tainted with a touch of uniqueness.
Though through [Returning Truth], Li Fan went back to before the time was stolen.
But it did not manage to completely get rid of its influence.
The fact that Li Fan had been unaware of it before was evidence of this.
He Xin Xin’s [Dao Net Heavenly Luo] had not directly measured the [Returning Truth], and the unknown existence that had stolen time.
But by deducing Li Fan, he had spied the influence of [It], so he was able to restore what had happened to Li Fan.
Li Fan even guessed that if He Xin Xin was allowed to deduce any cultivator within the Origin Dao State, it would be impossible to predict the same result as Li Fan.
That, was something that not a Foundation Establishment cultivator would be able to perceive.
Even if there was half a Heaven’s Wonders [Dao Wen Compass] as a base, it wouldn’t work.
If an analogy must be drawn.
That unknown existence that stole time was like a black hole.
It silently stretched across the sky above the Source Dao State.
Every time a period of time passed, it devoured ten years of light from the entire state.
Under normal circumstances, it was impossible to go and directly discover its existence through ordinary means of observation and deduction.
But because of [Return the Truth], Li Fan escaped from this black hole.
The influence of the black hole had not disappeared.
So Li Fan was like the light that was distorted around the black hole.
With the help of him, it was possible to surmise that [it] was stealing time in Gendo State.
(End of chapter)