Chapter 496: The Initial Law Transmitter
Chapter 494 – Initial Dharma Transmitter
The other party’s original attitude was still relatively kind, but after seeing Li Fan raise this question, his face changed slightly.
“Hehe, fellow Daoist is afraid that you have heard it wrong, what initial preaching location, I don’t know!” He hastily waved his hand, looking like you have the wrong person.
Without waiting for Li Fan to respond, he flew straight towards the far side.
The speed was so fast that it was even a few points better than an ordinary YuanYing cultivator.
Li Fan could not easily come across a knowledgeable person, how could he let the clues just slip away.
Immediately, he hurriedly followed, but didn’t follow too closely, just hanging far behind.
At the same time, he kept transmitting his voice, “Fellow Daoist, don’t misunderstand, I have no malice. It’s just that I’m very interested in what you just said.”
Instead of answering back, the person in front sped up a few more points in an attempt to shake off Li Fan.
Li Fan, on the other hand, always followed closely behind, persevering and persuading.
After a full half a day, the other person saw that he had been unable to get rid of Li Fan, before he finally gradually stopped.
Surveying the left and right, seeing no one around, his face was cloudy.
After hesitating for a while, he whispered, “This is not the place to talk, you come with me!”
Li Fan smiled faintly and arched his hand, “In that case, thank you in advance, fellow Daoist!”
Following this person, he went all the way to the west and flew for a few hundred miles before diving into the bottom of the sea.
Coming inside a building that looked like a crystal palace.
Inviting Li Fan to a room deep inside the cave to sit down, the other party sighed slightly, “It’s not that I refused to tell you earlier, it’s really because I’m afraid that trouble will come out of my mouth!”
“How do you call yourself, fellow Daoist?” Li Fan nodded his head, not rushing to dig deeper, but first inquired about the other party’s name.
“My name is Sima Changkong!” The other party waved his hand, and surprisingly, a servant with the upper half of his body as a human and the lower half of his body as a fish appeared.
After pouring two cups of tea for the two of them, he bowed and retreated.
Li Fan could not help but glance at that servant.
“It’s just a beast breed, a private fetish, I’ve made you laugh, fellow Daoist!” Sima Changkong took a shallow sip and said without changing his face.
“Beast Seed ……,” Li Fan’s eyes flickered.
Those half-beast, half-human bones once found in Mr. Bai’s basement in Ningyuan City, Senior Zhang had also called them so.
Originally thought to be extinct, but I did not expect to be able to see them nowadays.
However, Li Fan didn’t have any snarky thoughts, and just nodded slightly to steer the topic back on track.
“Fellow Daoist Zhou is it ……,” Sima Changkong said with a single word, revealing the identity of Li Fan’s outwardly revealed doppelganger.
“Now that I am in my private residence, I will also speak freely.”
“Do you know that Ten Thousand Immortal Island, why is it called Ten Thousand Immortal Island?”
Sima Changkong asked.
Regarding this question, Li Fan had also had doubts.
It was because the Heavenly Cities of the states were all named after states.
For example, Dao Yuan City, Shi Lin City, Tian Yun City, and so on.
But only this Cong Yunhai’s residence was not called Cong Yun City or Island, but Ten Thousand Immortal Island.
However, he also checked the canonical books, did not find any special records, so for a long time, only thought it was the name of the convention.
Now, it seems that there is another hidden secret here.
“I wish to hear about it.” Li Fan’s face was solemn and he washed his ears.
“A long time ago, when this area of the Cong Yun Sea was still a plain, there was a large lake.”
“There were islands in the lake. In the past, when the Heavenly Father of Transmission first preached to the people, it was here.”
“When that time came, thousands of cultivators and mortals gathered here in groups to listen to the Immortal Father’s teachings.” “In the end, they all comprehended the Heavenly Father’s Immortal Dharma and achieved the initial foundation of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.”
Sima Changkong narrated.
“Perhaps it was with the blessing of the Heavenly Father, and while the mountains and rivers changed and the seas changed, this island was never easy to take shape.”
“Until thousands of years later, when the present-day Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was established, and when the location of the state city was selected, this island was chosen in order to express respect for the Heavenly Father of Transmission.”
“In a way, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that this island is the place of origin of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. That’s why the people refer to it as, [Ten Thousand Immortals Island].”
Sima Changkong explained the ins and outs for Li Fan in a concise manner, drinking a cup of tea deeply and secretly sizing up Li Fan.
Li Fan savored the meaning of Sima Changkong’s words and frowned slightly, “Since it is the place where the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance originated and the place where the Heavenly Father first passed down the law, why is it rarely known today?”
“It’s even difficult to find relevant information.”
“Not only that, but it was also negligently guarded and directly taken captive?”
Li Fan shook his head, seemingly not quite believing Sima Changkong’s words.
Sima Changkong, on the other hand, let out a long sigh, “This is the reason why I was unwilling to say much earlier.”
He paused and was silent for a moment.
Afterward, he spoke frankly in a low voice, “Tens of thousands of ancestors, sacrificing their lives and forgetting their deaths, spreading the Heavenly Father’s new method. That’s how we came to have the current foundation of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.”
“This was originally a magnificent cause worthy of being written about and remembered by all cultivators now.”
“But now it’s being treated coldly and even sealed.”
“The reason for this is because the Heavenly Father has not come out of the world for many years. And the ones who now control the handle of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance are long gone from the original tens of thousands of law transmitters back then.”
Sima Changkong drank the remaining tea in one go and said, “The battle between the old and new Dharma is actually even more tragic than we imagined. In the past, when the sects were faced with this existence that was enough to shake their own rule, they naturally would not be stingy with the butcher’s knife in their hands.”
“The truly pure transmitters of the Laws were almost all sacrificed in the struggle with the sects of the past.”
“Those who live on today are merely petty people who steal the Heavenly Sovereign’s authority.”
A hint of disdain flowed from Sima Changkong’s tone.
……
Li Fan, on the other hand, narrowed his eyes slightly.
This reason was barely acceptable.
In mortal dynasties, it was nothing new for the change of power to cause the image of the previous generation’s meritorious officials to be forgotten or even distorted.
This reasoning, when placed in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, also still existed.
“To be able to go through the vicissitudes of the sea without changing its shape. This Ten Thousand Immortals Island might indeed be hiding some secret.”
“And the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance must have carefully explored it before and failed to find out anything, which is why they ignored it.”
“But on the side of the Five Elders’ Association, it was that they had recently gotten some news. That’s why they didn’t hesitate to risk an all-out war to forcefully capture Ten Thousand Immortal Island.”
Thoughts raced through Li Fan’s mind.
Not long after, he looked towards Sima Changkong, who was still secretly indignant, and asked out loud again, “Fellow Daoist Sima, it seems that you know quite a lot about the various hidden secrets of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.”
“But according to you, the symbolic significance of this Ten Thousand Immortals Island seems to be greater than its actual value.”
“It doesn’t seem like it’s worth the risk of the Five Elders Association’s side to forcibly take it away, right? I don’t know what do you think about this matter, fellow Daoist?”
Sima Changkong’s face became grave.
After pondering for a moment, he slowly said, “I do have an idea.”
“The initial Dharma Transmitters had concepts and habits that were quite similar to mortals due to their extremely fast cultivation speed.”
“When mortals die, there is the saying that they return to their roots.”
“So back then, after the Dharma Transmitters died in battle with the Immortal Dao sects, the remaining bones were often sent back to Ten Thousand Immortal Islands by their companions for burial.”
(End of chapter)