Chapter 458: Trivial Matters Not to My Advantage
Chapter 456 – Trivial Matters Don’t Go Your Way
From Li Fan’s encounters in his previous lives, any cultivator who attempted to merge the Dao with Red Flame in the Red Flame Burning Sea Incident would end up dead in the end.
The Ink Slayer who had gained the Destruction Heavenly Destiny was simply too horrifying.
A cultivator who had just merged with the Dao was simply defenseless in front of Him.
“Junior Master Tianyang’s actual battle power, I’m afraid it’s still not as good as Zhang Zhiliang in his last life, so I won’t let him send him to his death.”
“A puppet body is different from a mortal. If you want to increase your combat power, it may not be the only way to break through the realm.”
“The cost of construction is high, but after the Cong Yunhai breaks up and I run away with the money, it will definitely be enough for me as well.”
After pondering slightly, Li Fan eventually gave up on the plan of letting Tian Yang take the risk of attempting to merge with the Dao, and focused on observing and guarding him up.
Fifteen days later.
As the supplies within the [Return to Origin Formation] were all consumed, Tian Yang also completed his final metamorphosis.
The puppet body was perfectly replenished, and his realm was stabilized at Harmonized God Perfection.
“Junior Brother Tian Yang basically relies on his own brute strength when he fights. There is still a need to find a way to hammer it out.”
Completing his cultivation and having nothing to do, Tian Yang silently stood up and followed behind Li Fan.
Li Fan took out the clothes he had prepared long ago from his storage ring and put them on for him.
At the same time, he taught him the [Only Hands Covering the Sky] secret art.
“Junior Brother, next, you will learn this secret art. When you have accomplished your cultivation, you will be able to follow me around.” Li Fan instructed.
Tian Yang nodded sullenly and studied it seriously.
With only some instincts remaining, the secret techniques of the Tian Ji Sect were still a bit complicated for Tian Yang. Fortunately, with Li Fan’s attentive guidance, he was again free of distractions. Under slow study, he would eventually master it.
Tian Yang was seriously improving himself when he was signaled by Li Fan.
Li Fan, on the other hand, focused his attention on Spirit Mist Island.
He took the time to go to Spirit Mist Island and silently locked the island township with the Phase-less Killing Machine.
He then returned to the Heavenly Xuan Mirror and began to quietly acquire Spirit Mist Grass while waiting patiently.
Soon enough, it was the day when the Dragon Whale Fey Beast from the previous life attacked Spirit Mist Island.
However, it was unknown what had changed. Until sunset, that dragon whale still did not appear.
Li Fan had a bad premonition in his heart.
Things were just as he had feared, another three days had passed and Spirit Mist Island was still safe and sound.
Li Fan was finally convinced that the variables brought about by his arrival at the Xuan Huang Realm nearly a year in advance could not be avoided after all.
There was no hurry to act rashly, Li Fan first carefully probed for news of the disappearing beast, the Dragon Whale.
Such a beast with a strength comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a hidden spirit of its own, and the ability to strengthen itself through constant devouring, should not be able to just disappear for no reason at all.
After half a day of searching, nothing was found.
In the end, it was only through the release of an anonymous bounty mission that Li Fan finally got an answer.
It turned out that the beast, the Dragon Whale, had been killed not long ago by the Jindan Refiner named Yue Zaisen.
All the valuable materials on its entire body had been taken by him.
The other party also sent an inquiry that if a certain part was needed, it could be transferred at a low price.
Li Fan pretended to inquire and paid for several of the whalebone sections.
After completing the transaction, Li Fan chatted with the other party again, trying to learn from him the reason why his behavior was different from his previous lives.
It wasn’t a confidential matter, and Yue Jaesen was not on guard, and was quickly set up by Li Fan to find out the information.
It turned out that the reason why he had acted on an impromptu basis and went to the bottom of the Cong Yun Sea to search for materials in various places.
The reason why he went to the bottom of Cong Yun to search for materials was because he was entrusted by his good friend, Mu Rong, to build a good defense artifact.
As for why Mu Rong is well, but suddenly thought, want to prepare defense magic weapon, Yue Zaisen is not asked. “Mu Rong ……” Li Fan interrupted the communication, his complexion changed.
This name was not unfamiliar to him.
There was even a crossover.
This person was none other than Chen Ying’s assistant, and before Chen Ying traveled to the Five Elements Great Cavern in his last life, he even left his contact information for Li Fan.
Letting Li Fan have any problems, he could look for him directly.
“Can’t it be that he also developed some sort of sense of crisis after seeing Chen Ying procuring many life-preserving magic treasures? That’s why he made this move?”
“It is also possible that Chen Ying said something to him ……”
Li Fan felt a wave of helplessness in his heart.
In short, the Dragon Whale did not attack Spirit Mist Island. Wanting to correct history to its intended trajectory, it was Li Fan who needed to personally take action.
“The risk is not small, it needs to be done without leaving any traces.” Li Fan did not do it in haste, but first carefully plotted it out in his mind.
“Pretend to be a beast and do it? Or with the power of the Five Elders Association?”
“The likelihood of exposure is high for both.”
“Perhaps, it doesn’t necessarily have to be obsessed with Spirit Mist Grass. As long as it fulfills conditions such as stable demand and herbal spirit plants that only grow in certain special regions.”
“Look for a similar existence first.”
Li Fan’s heart stirred as he carefully searched in the Tianxuan Mirror.
There were quite a few targets that fulfilled the conditions, and Li Fan added the restriction to focus on checking the ones that had abnormal price fluctuations recently.
This time there were very few that met the requirements.
Li Fan scrutinized them one by one and finally fixed his eyes on the spiritual plant named [Puxian True Leaf].
This kind of herb, with a long growth cycle, would not be used much in normal times.
The biggest use was to make a talisman called [Xianming Discerning Truth].
In the era when the Tianxuan Spirit Locking Formation had not yet come out, the spies of the Five Elders Association were pervasive.
The vast majority of them were like Zhou Qingang, mastering secret arts that could transform, able to even conceal themselves from the White Jade Questioning Stage.
The Xianming Discriminating Talisman, when it was first invented a few hundred years ago, had made a notable feat.
It had uncovered quite a few spies from the Five Elders Association.
Therefore, a rule was left behind that before entering certain important places of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, one had to pass the verification of the Xianming Truth Recognition Talisman first.
Although later on, the Five Elders Association learned from their mistakes and improved the means by which the spies were hidden.
The Talisman of Xianming Discriminating Truth never came into play again.
However, using the Talisman of Virtuous Discernment had become a habit.
It was naturally impossible for the people of the Five Elders’ Association to make a big fuss about the fact that the Talisman of Virtuous Discernment had lost its effectiveness.
There was no one in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance who had made the decision to remove the Symbol of Virtuous Discernment either.
Furthermore, a chain of interests had been formed behind the production and manufacture of the Symphony Discriminating Talisman.
The combination of multiple reasons had led to the fact that today’s Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance would need quite a number of Puxian True Leaves every year.
And recently, I don’t know what the reason was, but the price of the Puxian True Leaf, which had always been very stable, had slowly had an abnormal drop.
Li Fan frowned slightly.
He remembered that in his last life, as the price of Spiritual Mist Grass soared wildly, it also drove up the prices of other spiritual plants and herbs in the market.
This Puxian True Leaf, however, was instead an exception.
(End of chapter)