Chapter 54: A Killing Machine in Heaven and Earth
Chapter 54 – Heaven and Earth Cloths a Killing Machine
“What is this situation?”
With his mind shocked, Li Fan’s Water Mirror Technique shattered with a loud bang.
His brain was rumbling, falling into a moment of confusion.
After a moment, Li Fan slowly regained his composure.
“It can’t be that there is something wrong with this Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter, right?”
His first reaction was that there was something wrong with this gongfu.
The so-called “recognizing opportunities” might no longer be applicable in the Immortal Cultivation World after the great change in heaven and earth.
After all, Li Fan was currently inside the island protection formation of Tai’an Island.
Tai’an Island was in the center of the Cong Yun Sea, which was the area of influence of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
It had been safe and sound before, so how could it be possible that he was about to be in big trouble just by closing his eyes?
However, sensing the dense dead qi around himself, Li Fan was unable to convince himself in such a simple manner.
The uneasiness in his heart gradually became stronger.
Li Fan made a snap decision, regardless of whether it was true or not, he first traveled to Ten Thousand Immortal Island to avoid the trouble.
So he immediately planned to open the teleportation array and head to Ten Thousand Immortal Island.
But what made his heart sink was that the teleportation array actually did not respond!
Li Fan’s face was somewhat gloomy.
He took out the communication spirit talisman that He Zhenghao had given him again and tried to contact He Zhenghao.
The spiritual qi was inputted, and there was still no response!
Things were already obvious, there was indeed some bizarre turn of events happening.
Continuing to stay on this Tai’an Island was a dead end, one couldn’t just sit around and wait for death!
Li Fan summoned the Taiyan Boat and took out the Cong Yunhai Atlas, preparing to personally pilot the flying boat over.
The spirit stones that originally powered the Tai Yan Boat were almost depleted, fortunately, when Li Fan went on a shopping spree, there were many spirit stones attached to the “Cultivator’s Solo Traveling Essentials Set”.
Li Fan estimated that it would take about two to three months to fly from Tai’an Island to Wanxian Island.
The spirit stones were definitely enough.
At that moment, Li Fan no longer cared about the task of guarding the island and directly piloted the flying boat, preparing to leave.
Just at the moment when the Tai Yan Boat was about to fly out of the island guarding formation, Li Fan suddenly sensed the endless killing opportunities in the outside world.
It was like ten thousand sharp swords, spreading between heaven and earth.
Li Fan’s heartbeat stopped abruptly and he stopped the Tai Yan Boat.
The premonition in his heart told him that as long as he was out of this island protection formation, he would definitely die!
Li Fan squinted his eyes and looked at the calm sea, not knowing where the crisis was coming from.
In the end, Li Fan chose not to take the risk.
He put away the Tai Yan Boat and prepared to first ask the mortals on the island what had happened recently.
And after his Divine Sense swept through the entire island, he was astonished again.
It turned out that the inhabitants of the entire island were missing by a full third.
And the rest all somehow became yellow and thin, as if they hadn’t eaten for a long time.
Knowing that something extraordinary must have happened during his seclusion, Li Fan’s face was somber and he flew to the residence of the Tai’an Island’s owner.
Since acting as the town guard, Li Fan has only been in seclusion, not paying much attention to the mundane matters on the island.
The island owner had only met him a few times.
At this time, when this island owner saw Li Fan, he directly fell to his knees and couldn’t stop kowtowing and wailing.
“Immortal Master Mercy, Immortal Master Mercy, save us!”
The island master cried out in pain, his head was bleeding from kowtowing.
“When exactly did it happen, tell us quickly!” Li Fan’s face was incredibly gloomy. “Enlightened Immortal Master, these days just can’t go on ah. The heavens haven’t rained for half a year, and the fresh water and food on the island have all been depleted. If this continues, we will all starve to death!” The island master kowtowed and cried at the same time.
“It hasn’t rained for half a year?” Li Fan remembered what Zhang Haobo had told him a few years ago.
“Is the drought still here. But why is it that when I asked Tianxuan Mirror before, the answer I got was that nothing major would happen? Could it be that a drought of this magnitude is still not on Tian Xuan Mirror’s radar?”
The island master continued to cry, “All the fish in the offshore have been caught, the weather is just too hot, and none of the fleets that went out to fish in the distant seas managed to return alive. Everyone is really about to be starved to death ah! Immortal Master Mercy, save us!”
Li Fan was disturbed by this person’s shouting, and glancing at this person’s body which had become a bit thin, but was still full of fat, he was furious and said, “Half of the mortals on the island have starved to death, how come I haven’t seen you lose weight yet?”
The island master’s face turned white, and he was about to defend himself.
Li Fan, however, was even more furious to the extreme after his divine sense swept around the kitchen in the island master’s mansion.
Without waiting for the Island Master to speak, he slapped him into mush.
“A corpse deserves to die!”
Li Fan snorted coldly and borrowed the power of the grand formation to send a message to the entire island.
“The island master has been killed by me, the rest of the people in charge will come to the island master’s mansion to meet me at once!”
A few moments later, several mortals came before Li Fan with trepidation.
Li Fan saw that they also did not have enough to eat, which suppressed his killing intent.
In the midst of these people’s tearful cries, Li Fan also finally understood what had happened during the year he was in seclusion.
The drought started half a year ago.
Initially, it hadn’t rained for many days, and everyone didn’t take it seriously.
It wasn’t until it hadn’t rained for two months in a row that everyone on the island panicked.
There is a source of fresh water on the island, but it has gradually become depleted with the lack of rain for many days.
Initially, food could be sustained by catching fish offshore, but as the weather got hotter and hotter, there was no more fish to be caught around the island, and after all the outgoing fleets never returned, Tai’an Island was plunged into starvation.
In just one month, a third of the island’s population had died, and there was no telling how many tragedies had occurred.
The rest were just surviving.
If Li Fan had come out later, I’m afraid that he wouldn’t even be able to see a few living people.
As things stood, Li Fan couldn’t see death.
When he left Daxuan back then, the Taiyan Boat was filled with food except for a few cabins that were filled with gold and silver treasures.
Originally, it was only prepared out of his cautious habit of exploring the unknown cultivation world.
He didn’t expect it to take almost ten years before it finally came in handy.
There was a dust purification spell formation within the Taiyan Boat, so naturally the food would not spoil.
Li Fan immediately put the Tai Yan Boat to the maximum and ordered the mortals on the island to move out some of the food in it for emergency purposes.
When the people on the island saw that the Immortal Master had brought life-saving grain, they all fell to their knees in excitement and kowtowed uncontrollably.
Li Fan did not bother and let them cheer.
The food inside the Tai Yan Boat, if saved, should be enough to last these people on the island for a few months.
The main thing was to solve the problem of fresh water.
With water, one can live.
Li Fan came to the main source of fresh water on the island, a medium-sized lake in the center of the island.
The area around the lake had already been guarded by specialized personnel, preventing ordinary people from approaching.
Because it had not rained for a long time, the lake had shrunk considerably, leaving only one tenth of its original size, and was about to dry up completely.
“When I first built the island protection array, I didn’t expect to encounter a water shortage …….”
Holding the Tai’an Island Township Order in his hand, Li Fan shook his head helplessly.
“It seems that it is still necessary for me to build a spell formation to purify seawater.”
(End of chapter)