Chapter 52: Defending Tai’an Island
Chapter 52 Defending Tai’an Island
“The mortals on the island have all disappeared. Instead, the city where the mortals originally gathered is somehow growing one big tree after another with many branches and leaves, just like a primitive forest.”
“On the branches of those trees, a human-faced fruit was hanging.”
“When the breeze brushes by, the fruit’s human face reveals an oozing smile.”
As He Zhenghao narrated, it was as if Li Fan saw countless human faces smiling at him.
Then remembering that he had just eaten one of these fruits, Li Fan couldn’t help but get goosebumps.
He Zhenghao then continued to speak.
“That Jindan town guard came back to his senses after the shock and went down to the city to investigate.”
“Not a single mortal survived on the entire island, all of them turned into Smiling Fruits. But exactly why this bizarre thing happened, this Jindan town guard couldn’t figure it out. So he had to report the matter.”
“The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance sent specialists to check it out, and who knows exactly what results they came up with. It’s just that later on, all the big trees in the city were cut down and the city returned to its original appearance. And those Smiling Fruits also continued to live in the city as if nothing had happened, in the same way as before.”
“Generation after generation, they multiplied to this day. The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance also constructed a large formation in this place and ordered special guards to harvest the fruits.”
After hearing this, Li Fan couldn’t help but say, “In that case, isn’t this Tai’an Fruit a human being?”
He Zheng Hao, on the other hand, shook his head, “How is it a human being? They are completely devoid of their own sanity and act on instinct. If I have to say, they are at most only remnants of some human obsessions.”
Li Fan pondered for a moment, but in the end, he did not refute.
This matter was too mysterious, and he did not know how to characterize these Taian Fruits.
However, after their efficacy of being able to increase longevity was discovered by the Immortal Cultivators, none of this mattered.
Not to mention this Tai’an Fruit, even if it was a real mortal, if they could increase their lifespan by eating them, they would not be able to escape being eaten.
Li Fan fell into deep thought.
He Zhenghao also didn’t know what he had remembered and also fell into silence.
Only after a long time did the two of them come back to their senses.
Next, He Zhenghao explained to Li Fan some of the matters that he needed to pay attention to when guarding an island.
Li Fan also memorized all of them.
“The grand formation covers the entire island, and every time it operates, it will extract a trace of essence from the mortals who are in it.”
“The amount extracted is extremely small and will not have any effect on the mortals. However, when these Essence Qi are gathered, the amount will be more considerable when a small amount is gathered into a large amount.”
“After these essence qi are transformed, they can increase the concentration of aura within the spell formation.”
“Therefore, cultivating within this Island Protector Formation isn’t as efficient as turning on the Assisted Cultivation Mode in the Heavenly Xuan Mirror, but it’s still quite a bit faster than the unusual outside world.”
In the end, He Zhenghao rather proudly told Li Fan a secret that only cultivators who had been the island’s town guards were aware of.
Only after some more instructions for Li Fan to contact him at any time if he had any problems did He Zhenghao leave with a flourish.
Li Fan held the town guard token, and under the big formation, his divine sense instantly covered the whole island.
The ordinary mortals on the island, the Taian Fruits in the central core formation, were all busily going about their lives.
After eyeing them for a long time, Li Fan sighed.
“Knocking and stripping the marrow of the world to serve the cultivation.”
If he could, Li Fan naturally wanted to do something. Unfortunately, he was currently just a small Qi Refining Stage cultivator.
The only thing he could do at the moment could only be to cultivate hard.
Li Fan suppressed all the thoughts in his mind.
Since then, Li Fan was stationed on this Tai’an Island.
It had to be said that the position of island town guard was really quite easy. The mortals on the island did not dare to disturb the Immortal Master for nothing.
What Li Fan needs to do is to check every once in a while whether the island guard formation is functioning properly, and harvest the ripe Tai’an Fruit in time to preserve it, and other such trivial matters.
The rest of the time was at Li Fan’s disposal.
Since then, Li Fan had devoted all of his time to practicing hard.
One Hundred Techniques of Using Aura, The First Explanation of Spells, The Secret of Definitive Victory in Spell Fighting – Strike First, To Live is to Win, Only the Fastest is Not Broken ……
Starting from these basic cultivation knowledge, Li Fan slowly mastered some simple small spells.
Such as the Breath Convergence Technique, Fake Death Technique, Wind Control Technique, Giant Power Technique, and so on.
Along the way of learning, Li Fan also had to lament the degree of protection that the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance had for monopolizing knowledge.
These knowledge purchased and learned from the Heavenly Xuan Realm was no problem to learn and use on one’s own.
However, if one wanted to teach others after learning it, it would not work.
Unless your strength is able to surpass the Heavenly Xuan Mirror, you will naturally be able to break the prohibitions that are mixed in.
The strength of the Tianxuan Mirror, a spiritual treasure, was equivalent to a cultivator of which realm, Li Fan did not know.
However, from common sense, it should be at least not below the Divine Transformation Stage cultivators.
The might of a God Transformation Cultivator was far beyond the speculation of today’s Li Fan.
So even though he had more grievances, he could only accept the reality for the time being.
After reading these books, Li Fan began to try to read up on alchemy, artifacts, formations, and other related content.
Compared to the previous section on spells, these contents were too complicated.
With a thousand things to learn, Li Fan didn’t know where to start.
Just the alchemy basics in the Dan Dao Beginning Explanation: the year and utility identification and analysis of various herbs, just to read through it in its entirety, Li Fan had used a full ten days.
Not to mention the following: the selection and control techniques of the Dan fire, the Dan furnace ritual practice, and the actual practice of alchemy, Li Fan estimated that if he wanted to finish reading it completely, it would be impossible to do so without a year and a half.
Knowing that these skills often require a master teacher to lead the way, Li Fan finally chose to give up for the time being after some agonizing.
So he temporarily put aside his distractions and started practicing the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Golden Chapter.
This Ancient Heavenly Machine Sect’s technique was really obscure and difficult to understand, very different from the “Small Diffractive Water Decree” that Li Fan had practiced before, and was not a product of a system in general at all.
Even if the moments were supplemented with glazed beads to increase his enlightenment, it took Li Fan a full half a year to be able to get started.
The hardships involved caused Li Fan to once entertain the idea of traveling to the Heavenly Xuan Mirror and cultivating the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter under a super-assisted cultivation state.
But in the end, this thought was suppressed by Li Fan.
In the end, Li Fan still could not let go of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
Judging from the way it acted, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was clearly not a kindred spirit.
If it aroused the interest of the Heavenly Xuan Realm, exposing the YuanYing Technique would not be a big deal, but if it exposed the existence of the [Returning the Truth], then it would be truly doomed.
So Li Fan would rather cultivate slowly by himself.
Just like this, a year passed.
Li Fan returned to Ten Thousand Immortals Island and received his payment for acting as a town guard, 800 contribution points. He then exchanged the Late Refining Qi portion of the Small Diffractive Water Decree.
Only after cultivating under the auxiliary cultivation mode of the Tianxuan Mirror for another five days did he reluctantly return to Tai’an Island.
The five days of rapid cultivation had allowed Li Fan to already faintly feel that he was not far from the late stage of Qi Refining.
(End of Chapter)