Chapter 416: Fulfilling Tian Yang’s Wish
Chapter 414: Fulfilling Tian Yang’s Wish
Swallowing the medicine, Li Fan was slightly refreshed.
Using the effects of the medicine as a warping board, he stimulated a trace of the secret hidden power in his body.
“Pfft!”
Spitting out a mouthful of blood, startling Master Guang Yangzi at the same time.
The Creation Baking Furnace Technique had already begun to operate.
Guang Yangzi hurriedly went to cook herbs for Li Fan again.
Li Fan, on the other hand, took this opportunity to carefully check his physical condition.
While recalling the relevant case records in the Heavenly Healer Immortal Scripture, he pondered on a strategy to deal with it.
His body was too weak, and after only a few moments, he felt a wave of dizziness.
Thus, he could only empty his thoughts and recuperate meditatively.
After building up a little more strength, he continued to think.
And so on and so forth.
Three days later, Li Fan synthesized the Heavenly Healer Immortal Scripture and improved on the prescription that he had taken during the previous second [Mimicry].
After wasting some words, he finally managed to convince Guang Yangzi to change the medicine.
The new prescription had an outstanding effect.
In addition, the “Creation and Baking Furnace Technique” improved his physique moment by moment.
After spending two months, Li Fan could already barely walk on the ground.
“Junior Brother, you are really powerful! I didn’t expect the prescription to actually work! How did you know that?” Second Senior Brother Lingshou asked while assisting Li Fan.
“It just appeared in my mind!” Li Fan said with wide eyes, full of naivety.
“Junior Senior Brother is extraordinary! It might be the hope for the revitalization of our [Body Transformation Dao]!” Third Senior Brother Lian Chang was at the side and could not help but exclaim in admiration.
Li Fan, on the other hand, giggled.
“The first step is considered a success.”
“The next key is to become stronger than Eldest Senior Brother Si Xing within six years, before the Immortal Recruitment Order arrives.”
“Go to the war in his place, and avoid witnessing the tragic scenes of the people of the Body Transformation Dao passing away one after another.”
“This is where the Heavenly Yang Master’s obsession lies.”
Li Fan pondered in his heart.
“Eldest Senior Brother Si Xing, Jindan cultivation. Trying to beat him in six years and cultivate step by step is nothing but a fool’s dream.”
“There is only another way.”
Li Fan’s gaze flickered.
On this day, he privately found his master, Guang Yangzi.
“Incarnate self?” Guang Yangzi’s face changed drastically when he was confronted with his young disciple’s inquiry.
“Where did you hear that from? Is it because that little brat Lingshi is chewing his tongue again?” Light Yangzi blew his beard and eyes out in anger and cursed.
“Master, I came up with it myself.” Li Fan said seriously.
“The mysterious thing about the [Body Transformation Other Self] technique that we cultivate in the Body Transformation Dao is that it can be faked in external objects.”
“But it suddenly occurred to me, what is an external object again?”
“Eldest Brother’s sword, Second Brother’s pen, Third Brother’s bell, these are all external objects.”
“Then this weak body of mine, can it be seen as an external object again?”
“Through the continuous refinement of the gong method, the [incarnated objects] of the senior brothers are also getting stronger and stronger. If I can treat my body as an [Incarnate Object], doesn’t that mean that I can change my own physique?”
“I would never be as weak as I am now.”
Li Fan said word for word.
Guang Yangzi’s face was changing.
After a long time, he let out a long sigh.
“Tian Yang, you are truly a heavenly genius! To have such insight at a young age, it’s really ……”
Guang Yangzi stroked Tian Yang’s head and said with some relief, “With a disciple like this, my Body Transformation Dao should prosper!”
“Not bad, practicing the [Body Transformation Other Self] technique, one can indeed achieve [Body Transformation Self].”
Guang Yangzi’s face suddenly turned solemn, looking at Li Fan, he said gruffly, “However, disciple you must not try it.”
Li Fan tilted his head and looked at his master, his small face full of incomprehension, “Why, Master?”
Guang Yang Zi looked a little dazed and froze, then explained for Li Fan, “The most important thing about Body Transformation of His Self is the [Unity of Thing and Self].”
“Body Transformation Self is indeed feasible in theory. It is also the most perfect choice in the gong method.”
“But ……”
Guang Yangzi sighed.
“Too difficult! Too hard!”
“How complicated is the human body compared to an unusual item?”
“The item can pursue compatibility with itself in constant attempts. If there is a mistake in the cultivation process, the damage is only to the incarnated object.”
“Whereas an incarnated self must always use its own flesh as a laboratory.”
“The slightest mistake will result in serious injuries.”
“The loss of the body is still secondary. The most terrifying thing is the damage to the spirit.”
A trace of sadness flashed through Guang Yangzi’s gaze, “Once upon a time, I had an amazingly talented senior brother. His natural talent was so high that there was no one else I had seen in my life.”
“At that time, he was recognized within the sect as ‘the first person in the Body Transformation Dao since a thousand years’, and was held in high regard by his master.”
“However, he was high-minded and proud, believing that he would definitely be able to succeed in practicing [Body Transformation Self].”
“Ignoring everyone’s discouragement, he forced himself to cultivate.”
“As a result ……”
Guang Yangzi paused.
“At first, he was just a little crazy, and everyone was thinking of healing him.”
“But later, his madness got worse and worse. Completely unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.”
“One night, went on a killing spree.”
“The dead, countless.”
“Ever since then, our Body Transformation Dao has been in shambles. ……”
Speaking here, Guang Yangzi shook his head slightly.
“So, good disciple remember. You must not try it!” Guang Yangzi urged very seriously.
Li Fan nodded heavily, “Uh-huh! Got it, Master!”
Saying goodbye to Guang Yangzi, Li Fan returned to his room.
After thinking for a long time, Li Fan gave up his intention to forcefully cultivate the Body Transformation Self.
Like the [Build Foundation with Me], this Body Transformation Self was really not something that ordinary people could do.
Judging from the later situation of Tian Yang Realist, he did not choose this path either.
“Puppet ……”
Thinking back to the Incarnate Self puppet some years later, Li Fan gradually had an idea in his mind.
The next day, Li Fan found several senior brothers and told them that he wanted a puppet.
“Don’t worry, Junior Brother. It’s wrapped up in me! Recently, my thoughts have been flowing like a fountain, and my pen has written several books in a row. It can be called the pinnacle of my career!” Second Senior Brother Ling patted his chest and assured. “I’ll take it to the workshop market to sell it and pick the most handsome puppet for you!”
……
A few days later, Li Fan got his wish and obtained an organ puppet.
Ling Xiaoxiao had a winning face, “Junior Brother, this puppet is said to have Jindan strength. I also wasted a lot of effort to buy it from someone!”
“Senior brother you are really great! Thank you, senior brother!” After Li Fan praised, he picked up the puppet and ran away without a trace.
“Junior Brother’s body is recovering better and better!” Ling Xiaoxiao exclaimed.
In the secret room.
Li Fan placed the puppet in front of him and cut a wound in his hand.
Dropping blood onto it.
At the same time, he operated the “Body Transformation of His Self” technique, feeling the slightest change that occurred in the puppet as he sacrificed it.
Li Fan gave up his intention of incarnating his self.
But it wasn’t completely given up.
His plan could actually be viewed as a sort of incarnated self in a special situation.
It was even a little more extreme.
That was to throw away this physical body of his and completely transform himself into a puppet.
Just like what the real Tian Yang Zhenren did in history.
Only later on, Tian Yang chose to absorb the earth fire to temper and enhance the puppet.
Li Fan’s answer, however, was to become a puppet and then incarnate his self.
Without a doubt, this was a self-destructive approach.
The difference between the upper limit of a Jindan puppet and a human body could not be measured in miles.
However, for Li Fan who wanted to urgently improve his battle power, it was the best choice.
Cultivating [Body Transformation Self] with the body of a puppet, the difficulty plummeted.
For one, the precision of the puppet was far below that of the human body, making it easier to achieve [Body Self].
The second was that there was absolutely no need to worry about injuring oneself.
The repair of a puppet, as long as the materials were sufficient, could be much too easy.
And when the puppet’s [Embodied Self] cultivation was completed, the battle power that could be erupted under the state of object-self unity was also several times stronger than simply using the puppet as an [Embodied Object].
“The first thing to do is to shed the body and integrate into the puppet.”
This dharma in “Incarnating His Self” was exceptionally smooth for Li Fan to run.
“It should be due to the fact that this body of Tian Yang was a premature baby, and the divine soul and the body were already not well coordinated.” Li Fan said thoughtfully.
Just like this, hiding the Body Transformation Dao from a few other people, Li Fan began his own cultivation program.
This program was so bizarre that even Guang Yangzi, did not notice the changes that had occurred in this young disciple of his.
It only felt that he really liked the puppet that Lingshou had purchased for him, almost to the point of never leaving his body.
Just like this, time passed.
In the blink of an eye, six years passed.
The Zha Immortal Bell rang, and the Immortal Enlistment Order arrived.
The three brothers of the Body Transformation Taoist division quarreled over who should go to the conscription.
Just then, Li Fan, along with his puppet, suddenly appeared in front of them.
“Senior Brother Si Xing, Senior Brother Ling Xiao, and Senior Brother Lian Chang.”
“Let’s see, it’s better for me to go.”
The three of them, Lingsiao, looked at Li Fan, who was full of seriousness, and were more than stunned.
“Junior Brother, what are you talking about. This isn’t a joke ……,” Lingshiao said and suddenly froze.
This was because the words that had just been spoken were actually spoken from the mouth of the puppet that was following Li Fan.
“Bang! Bang!”
The puppet stepped and came in front of the three.
“Going to the battle here will result in nine deaths. To go, naturally, it has to be the strongest among us!”
“Senior brothers, what do you guys think?”
Li Fan looked at the three Si Xing people and asked gently.
“Tian Yang! You! Nonsense!” Guang Yangzi was the first to see clearly the changes that had occurred in Li Fan’s body in an instant.
His face turned pale and he wanted to step forward, but he didn’t know what came to his mind and stopped his footsteps.
Just a slightly trembling hand showed the extreme unrest in his heart.
“You, have long predicted that there would be this day?” Guang Yangzi mumbled and asked.
Li Fan smiled but did not answer.
Looking at the several senior brothers, “I still ask for your advice!”
The three senior brothers also gradually came back to their senses.
Looking at Junior Brother’s body that had changed into a puppet, their eyes were filled with remorse and sadness.
For a moment, they stayed in place, not knowing what to say.
It was still the eldest senior brother who was the first to make a move.
He summoned his own long sword, which was as thin as a cicada’s wing and emerald green, and pointed it at Li Fan remotely.
“Senior brother, actually, this kind of thing, just leave it to me.”
“What kind of reasoning is there for a senior brother to let his junior brother go to his death?!”
Li Fan’s figure flickered, waving his fist, and came to the side of his eldest senior brother.
“Senior brother, don’t underestimate me!”
Feeling the huge force that came at him, Si Xing changed his face a little.
His long sword flew and tried to stop Li Fan.
However, the sword blade, which used to be invulnerable in the past, failed to leave a single trace when it slashed at Li Fan’s body.
The body of this puppet was not only extremely hard.
The speed was also a few points faster than an ordinary Jindan cultivator.
Between the wide open moves, it would even shoot out all kinds of strange organs from different corners of the body.
For a time, Si Xing only had to dodge in distress.
“Senior Brother Tian Yang, it seems that you have really wasted a lot of effort. However, since this is the case, I am all the more unable to let you go on my behalf!”
“Be careful!”
Si Xing raised his eyebrows as his figure transformed into a stream of light, merging with the green sword.
“Clang!”
The longsword trembled slightly, emitting a crisp ringing sound.
The sword then unexpectedly extended out in the front and back directions like flowing water.
“Sword Water Heavenly Heart!”
Eldest Senior Brother’s soft drink sounded out from the sword body.
The watery sword blade arrived instantly.
Upon impacting Li Fan’s puppet body, it did not dissipate unlike before when it was resisted.
Instead, it was like light, folding back.
After flowing in the air for a moment, it changed direction in an instant and attacked Li Fan again from the other side.
It was still bounced back by Li Fan’s hard body.
It traced an arc and arrived again in a flash.
The flowing sword light was getting faster and faster, and it looked as if there was a water-shaped giant net that slowly wrapped the bulky puppet in the center.
At this moment, it was only the puppet body, and most of the divine abilities could not be utilized.
Under Si Xing’s continuous attack, Li Fan gradually fell into a disadvantage.
“Ancient cultivators, really should not be underestimated.”
Li Fan thought so, his face solemn.
The puppet let out a loud roar to the sky and its body emitted a dark red light.
It transformed in vibration, and in an instant, the humanoid body disappeared.
In its place, there was a huge palm.
Nimbly bypassing the sword light blockade formed by the Sword Water Heavenly Heart, the giant palm came above the water net.
It expanded once again.
The shadow range enveloped all of the water swords, and then pressed down on his head.
Instead, he used his own comprehension of the 【Overwhelming Palm】.
Through the puppet’s huge body, it had the flavor of suppressing everything.
“Good divine ability!”
Senior Brother Si Xing shouted excitedly.
“I also have a style, please teach me, Senior Brother!”
“Heaven’s will is like water, onward is invisible!”
“Sword name: Heavenly Form!”
The water sword flowing under the Turning Heaven’s palm instantly disappeared.
Li Fan, however, felt a hint of inexplicable crisis.
“Swish!”
The invisible sword light flashed.
Before the giant palm had a chance to press down, a thin scar was added to the back of his hand.
Li Fan gazed at this area of space.
However, he was unable to find any trace of Si Xing.
Another sword mark surfaced.
Li Fan mobilized his spiritual energy and tried to repair his injuries.
However, he found that there seemed to be invisible sword qi attached within the sword mark, stifling the recovery of the wound.
The sword marks appeared faster and faster.
In an instant, Li Fan’s body became heavily scarred.
“Junior Brother, surrender!”
Si Xing’s voice came from all directions.
He himself, however, was always nowhere to be seen.
“Senior brother also has good aptitude!”
Li Fan sincerely exclaimed.
“But ……”
Li Fan suddenly raised his voice.
“I still have one more style, if you can block it, Senior Brother, I will immediately admit defeat!”
“Good! I will wait and see!” Si Xing responded.
Li Fan collected his Qi.
After a moment, he said to his second senior brother, Lingshou, “Senior brother Lingshou, please lend me your pen!”
“Huh?” Lingshou first froze.
“Oh, good!” An ink pen then flew and was held by Li Fan.
Pouring in spiritual energy, Li Fan swiped it in the air.
It was ……
A [Chaos] character.
The moment the word chaos descended, a terrifying crack suddenly emerged on Li Fan’s body.
No longer able to maintain the form of the giant hand, he reappeared as a humanoid puppet and fell to the ground.
“This kind of consumption ……”
Li Fan was somewhat appalled in his heart.
The hard body made of special stone was disintegrating.
There were even many places that directly exploded.
This was the divine ability that Li Fan had realized by comprehending the [Chaotic Character Stone] in the Mystic Domain. The strength of the power was far beyond Li Fan’s expectations.
The caster had still suffered such a terrible side effect.
Not to mention Eldest Senior Brother Si Xing, who was facing the word [Chaotic] directly.
The Heavenly Form’s state receded, and he revealed his form in a sorry state.
However, in front of the word chaos, it was impossible to move.
The aura in his body was storming out, uncontrollable.
The green sword, which was an incarnated object, was even more like a headless fly scurrying about.
“Poof!”
Si Xing’s arm strangely snapped in the opposite direction, and a hint of horror flashed in his eyes.
This was because he sensed that this change was about to play out all over his body.
“Enough!”
Right at this critical moment, Guang Yangzi finally stepped in.
His incarnate object was instead a willow tree.
The green willow blocked in front of Si Xing, and its branches suddenly flew wildly.
It was only after a long time that everything slowly calmed down.
The willow tree disappeared into thin air, and the palm of Guang Yangzi’s hand, which was behind his back, trembled slightly.
Si Xing’s eyes were complicated as he looked at Li Fan, who was paralyzed and also extremely injured.
“It was you who won, senior brother.” He said softly.
Li Fan let out a slight sigh of relief.
“Tian Yang, that …… you just did,” Guang Yangzi looked at his young disciple, wanting to speak.
After a moment, he let out a long sigh and gave up pursuing the question.
“It’s just. I can see that you have a big secret.”
“However, it’s also a blessing for our small, downtrodden clan that you’ve condescended to our Body Transformation Dao.”
Light Yangzi was disinterested and waved his hand to leave.
For a moment, Si Xing did not know what to say.
Only the second senior brother, Ling Liao, exclaimed and hurriedly healed Li Fan’s injuries.
……
With the body of a puppet, as long as there were enough materials, it was easy to repair even the heaviest injuries.
Lingshou ran another trip to the workshop market, and not long after he came back, Li Fan was healed.
Under the watchful eyes of Master Guang Yangzi and the three senior brothers, Li Fan and the Immortal Recruitment Messenger who came to urge him on, left the Body Transformation Dao together.
He stepped onto the battlefield.
The surrounding scenery abruptly stood still.
It then exploded like broken glass.
It turned into dots of streams of light, all of which surged into Li Fan’s mind.
Thousands of years ago, the memories belonging to Tian Yang Realist surfaced clearly and incomparably.
Including the [Body Transforms Himself] technique, the method of refining puppets, and even the [Earth Fire Ascension Formation] of using ground fire to quench and promote the level of puppets, and so on and so forth, all of them were as if they were experiencing it themselves, and they were memorized in their hearts.
However, Li Fan did not have the time to check these at the moment.
Because his mind was attracted by all the hints coming from the [Return to Truth].
“Despite death, the true spirit will not be destroyed.”
“Use your body to materialize and cross over the ages.”
“The [Incarnation] function has been unlocked.”
(End of chapter)