Chapter 55:
Chapter 55 – Life After Death
Half a month later, a rudimentary desalination spell was built.
Having sufficient drinking water and food again, the surviving residents of Tai’an Island kowtowed and knelt down to thank the Immortal Master for his gift of survival.
Li Fan was not so happy in his heart, instead he was a bit worried.
After constructing a spell formation with his own hands, Li Fan was considered to have barely set foot on the path of formations.
It was then that he realized that Tai’an Island’s Island Protector Formation was being damaged at an extremely abnormal rate.
Generally speaking, island protection formations tended to last for hundreds of years.
However, if this current rate of damage was followed, after another two or three years, the grand formation would completely lose its effectiveness.
After careful investigation and combining it with the description in the Introduction to Formations, Li Fan found the reason for the damage to the Grand Formation.
The aura between heaven and earth had become extremely violent and fiery.
This blazing aura was as if it had given birth to its own will, and after being absorbed by the Island Protector Formation, it began to slowly erode the key nodes in the spell formation.
The Island Protection Formation was now like a machine whose key parts were slowly rusting, and every time it operated, its lifespan would be reduced by one point.
The cause was found, but Li Fan had no good way to save it.
The Island Protector Formation was too complex, with more than 10,000 key nodes, each of which was often compounded by dozens of miniature spell formations.
It was said that when it was first constructed, it was built by a number of YuanYing realm formation masters from the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance working together.
When something went wrong at the moment, where was Li Fan, a cultivator who had just been introduced to the Dao of Array, able to solve it.
Moreover, the main cause of the problem was still in the spiritual qi absorbed by the grand formation.
Even if the formation was temporarily repaired, as long as the nature of the raging spiritual qi in the outside world remained the same, it could only be considered as drinking hemlock to quench the thirst.
“Staying on this Tai’an Island can only be waiting for death, we must find a way to leave this place.”
“But I don’t know what kind of change has happened in the outside world, the raging spiritual qi is rampant, going out rashly is also a dead end.”
Advancing and retreating, for a while it appeared to be caught in a deadlock.
“Is this the heavenly hair killing machine?……” Li Fan stared tightly at the sky outside the island protection array, only feeling that he was a flying insect that fell into the spider web, unable to move and dying to struggle.
But Li Fan didn’t directly choose [Return the truth] either.
Not to mention the fact that he would have to waste more than ten years of recharging time to go back, and without figuring out what exactly happened, the odds were that he would still be unable to escape death next time in the end.
Even if you escape from the Cong Yunhai, can you guarantee that you won’t encounter a new crisis?
You have to know that this world’s Heavenly Dao’s malice towards Immortal Cultivators is omnipresent.
Li Fan did not think that he could avoid it by changing places.
Therefore, he would not choose to just give up this world as a last resort.
For the next period of time, Li Fan continued practicing and searching for a way to break the situation.
However, the raging aura in the outside world not only had no intention of calming down, but instead became more and more tyrannical with the passage of time.
The Island Protector Formation became precarious under its destruction.
It would collapse at any time.
“Is there no way out.” Li Fan was somewhat helpless in his heart.
To end this life so unexplainedly, he was really a bit unwilling.
But it seemed that there was not much other choice.
“Return the truth!”
Li Fan took one last look at Tai’an Island with some reluctance, exhaled [Return the Truth], and prepared to end this life.
Just then, he stopped.
Because, looking at the mortals below who were gradually regaining their vitality, it suddenly occurred to Li Fan that the raging aura in the outside world seemed to be not directed at mortals.
According to the description of the mortals on the island, it was only a bit hotter outside the Island Protector Formation, other than that there was no special danger.
“The Heaven and Earth Killing Machine is only targeting Immortal Cultivators, if it’s a mortal it should be fine.”
If he transformed himself into a realm of magical power and temporarily became a mortal again, wouldn’t he be able to survive?
Li Fan thought of the Tai Shang Primordial True Scripture. With this miraculous skill in place, one would not lose much cultivation by transforming and re-cultivating. As long as he found a safe place, it wouldn’t take long for him to return to his original realm again.
“Is this the so-called placing death before life?” Thinking of the solution, Li Fan could not help but feel some joy in his heart.
Subsequently, he naturally had more considerations.
He was currently practicing two techniques.
One was the “Small Diffractive Water Decree” that he had redeemed in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, and the other was the “Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Golden Chapter” of the Ancient Celestial Mechanism Sect.
One door was a new method and the other was an old method.
The cultivation method of the new method was to plunder the heavens and seize the earth.
Because of this, it caused heaven and earth to be malicious.
Now heaven and earth had laid down heavy killing machines, targeting the cultivators who practiced the new method.
What if one merely dispersed the Minor Diffractive Water Decree while retaining the realm of the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter?
Wouldn’t the killing opportunities in heaven and earth be smaller then?
Li Fan was decisive.
The grand formation could collapse at any time, so he made a snap decision, the aura in his body flowed, and he ran the Tai Shang Primordial True Scripture.
“There is no name on the Tai Shang, return to the primordial ……”
As the gong method ran, the water attribute aura obtained from practicing the “Small Diffraction Water Decree” slowly dissipated like ice and snow, transforming into a pure energy that resided in Li Fan’s dantian.
However, in a small half day’s effort, the “Small Diffractive Water Decree” had been completely dispersed.
And Li Fan did not feel any discomfort.
“This ‘Tai Shang Primordial True Scripture’ is truly miraculous.” Li Fan sighed with emotion and flew to the edge of the Island Protector Formation.
“Sure enough, it works!”
Sensing the sudden weakening of the Heaven and Earth’s killing machine permeating the outside world, Li Fan’s heart was delighted.
“Unfortunately, the Thousand Mechanisms Jade Huan Gold Chapter is still practiced in accordance with the present method of plundering the heavens and seizing the earth. Although the malevolence of heaven and earth is quite a bit smaller compared to before, probably due to the intention of the gong method, it has not completely dissipated after all.”
Noticing that his life would still be in danger when he went out now, Li Fan was ruthless and chose to continue dispersing his gong.
Soon, there was another stream of pure energy within the dantian.
The two strands of energy were originally created by different gong methods, but at this moment, they were able to merge into one place without any conflict.
“According to the description in the Supreme Primordial True Scripture, these pure energies obtained from the transforming gong can be sufficiently maintained in the dantian for about a hundred years.” Li Fan’s realm had already changed back to mortal at this moment.
However, he was not particularly worried.
“As long as I return to Ten Thousand Immortals Island, I will soon be able to cultivate back again.”
At that moment, Li Fan no longer hesitated and piloted the Tai Yan Boat, slowly flying out of the Island Protector Formation.
The raging blazing spiritual qi raged, haloing the distant sky into an orange-red color.
However, Li Fan was already a mortal, and this riotous spiritual qi in the sky just whistled past and did not launch an attack.
Li Fan sighed in relief and chose a direction, increasing the speed of the Tai Yan Boat to the maximum and flying towards the Ten Thousand Immortal Island.
On the way, Li Fan passed by quite a few islands.
All of the mortals on these islands were all as dead as they could be, without any breath of life.
Li Fan was secretly shocked.
The speed of the rush became more and more rapid.
Three months later.
Li Fan arrived at the location where the original Ten Thousand Immortal Island was located.
He opened the map and compared it four or five times, but he still couldn’t believe his eyes.
The former huge Ten Thousand Immortal Island had completely disappeared.
All that was left was a giant black hole that stretched empty across the ocean.
(End of chapter)