Chapter 70: Desire to Seek the Law of the Firstborn
Chapter 70 – Desire for the Yuan Ying Method
Listening to He Zhenghao’s rambling explanation.
The figure of him in front of Li Fan’s eyes gradually overlapped with the figure of the Immortal Cultivator that he had met when he first entered the Immortal Cultivation Realm in his previous life and saved a group of people from the Leaving Realm.
“Good, so it was you kid who was the one who supervised the theft! No wonder the Heavenly Treasure House has been doing the smuggling business under your nose and yet nothing has happened. Even the rumors of Heavenly Treasure House smuggling mortals all over the island in the last lifetime didn’t lead to any trouble.”
Upon closer examination, indeed.
With such a money-hungry character as He Zhenghao, how could he possibly give away the fat meat at the edge of his mouth to someone else?
It was quite reasonable.
Li Fan was a bit speechless in his heart, but he still quickly accepted the reality.
“Then what does Fellow Daoist He mean?”
Seeing that Li Fan did not object, He Zhenghao became happy, “This matter is simple. All that is needed is for you, Fellow Daoist, to make a trip to the Departed Realm for me and bring back to me the supplies that I had the people in the Departed Realm collect ten years ago.”
“After these supplies are sold, the contribution earned will be half for you and half for me.”
“I need to guard Liuli Island, I can’t get away. I was originally going to find someone else to cooperate with, but it just so happened that you sent me a message, so I contacted you instead.”
After thinking about it, there really wasn’t any risk in this matter.
More than a thousand contribution points in thirty days was also far more than the tasks one could normally receive.
“I wonder how long it will take to make a round trip?” This had to be asked in advance, Li Fan did not want to miss the opening of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.
“Don’t worry, it will only take twenty to thirty days at the most, it won’t delay your cultivation.” He Zhenghao assured.
“Good, then I shall take on this matter.”
He Zhenghao smiled with satisfaction and took out another tiny wooden boat and handed it to Li Fan: “After you get the supplies, you will hand this over to the mortals of the departed realm, and do not worry about anything else.”
Li Fan took a look, the wooden boat was somewhat similar to the Tai Yan Boat, but was far less refined.
“It’s just an ordinary wooden boat engraved with some spell formations, not a magic weapon. But it’s enough to escort those mortals through the Immortal Overwhelming Formation and come here.” He Zhenghao explained.
“Of course, the strength of the formation will only support crossing once. After coming to this Immortal Cultivation Realm, the formation on the wooden boat will run out of energy and dissipate on its own.”
“This is also just to prevent those mortals from imitating it.”
“Fellow Daoist He is really thoughtful.” Li Fan said without a word.
He Zhenghao laughed and didn’t care.
Pulling out another spirit talisman, somewhat reluctantly, he handed it to Li Fan.
“No matter what, the matter of helping mortals to sneak across the border is still not to be seen in the light of day. In case it is discovered by other cultivators, not to mention losing face, we may have to face the censure of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. To be careful, it is better for you to carry this Hidden Shape Talisman on your body to avoid being recognized.”
Li Fan nodded and accepted it since.
“This Hidden Shape Talisman can conceal your body and breath, it is an advanced version of the Hidden Qi Talisman. Even Jindan realm cultivators cannot see through it after using it. It is really a killing ……”
“It is really a must-have item for my cultivator to go out.” He Zhenghao paused and said with some regret, “It’s a pity that the Spirit Mist Grass required to draw this Hidden Shape Talisman is relatively rare, causing the price of the Hidden Shape Talisman to remain high.”
“Just one requires 50 contribution points.”
“However, in the future, if you have a need, you can go to the Ten Thousand Immortal Islands and look for a cultivator called Jiao Xiuyuan. This person has a large number of remnants of Hidden Shape Talismans there, which are said to have been eliminated from the Talisman Hall of Ten Thousand Immortal Islands. Although it was called a defective product, it could be used as usual. It’s just that it’s not very effective and can only make it impossible for Foundation Establishment cultivators to see through it.”
“But the good thing is that the price is low, just 20 contribution points. Little friend, if you go out in the future, you might as well prepare a small amount.” He Zhenghao tirelessly popularized Li Fan again.
After that, He Zhenghao recounted in detail for Li Fan the precautions to be taken when traveling to the Offworld as well as the various situations he might encounter. After this, everything was ready and Li Fan was ready to leave for the Offworld.
He aimed to go early and return early.
However, before he left, Li Fan still couldn’t help but ask out loud, “Fellow Daoist He, there is one thing that I have always been a little confused about. Yet I don’t know if I should ask ……”
He Zhenghao was stunned, then said, “But there is no harm in saying it.”
“Fellow Daoist He, you are a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, and you lead the position of Liuli Island’s town guard. You’re also a great expert in formation, so logically, you shouldn’t be so short of contribution degrees. Why ……”
“…… still look a little embarrassed?” Li Fan pondered and asked politely.
He Zhenghao thought that Li Fan was worried about his future in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
With a bitter smile, he explained, “Fellow Daoist has misunderstood. Within the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, although the contributions of Foundation Establishment cultivators are still not as free, they will never be like me.”
“Oh? What’s so difficult for Fellow Daoist He to say?” Li Fan wondered.
“Truth be told, I have my eye on a YuanYing gong method, which is very compatible with my foundation building wonders. If I can change to practicing that gong method, I will definitely be able to achieve Jindan within a hundred years, and even the YuanYing realm will be a sure thing.” A trace of longing flashed through He Zhenghao’s gaze.
“Unfortunately, the Yuan Ying True Technique is just too precious. The required contribution degree is still short by a lot even though I’ve saved up for a long time.”
“So, I can only save as much as I can normally.” He sighed. “Even so, I don’t know when and how I’ll be able to redeem it.”
“And I don’t know if this technique that I’ve been longing for will be redeemed early before then.”
He Zhenghao sighed.
Then remembering something, he said to Li Fan, “By the way, you are now in the late stage of Qi Refining. When picking a Foundation Establishment Technique, if you have the conditions, remember to pick one that is compatible with your own Foundation Establishment Qi. In this way, not only will you be able to cultivate in the future with half the effort. There will also be more other benefits. Specifically due to the Tian Xuan mirror limitations, I can not tell you too much. Anyway, if you keep this in mind, there’s nothing wrong with it.”
“Is the Foundation Establishment Wonderful Object compatible with the gong method ……” Li Fan nodded slowly as he heard the words.
However, he also heard He Zheng Hao sigh, “In fact, this gong method that I am practicing now is also extremely extraordinary. It was accidentally obtained when I was exploring an unnamed cave when I was young. There are all sorts of incredible techniques in it.”
“It’s just a pity that the difficulty of practicing it is a little too high, and it can easily take tens or hundreds of years to improve by a small realm.”
“The Foundation Establishment Stage is already so difficult, if I were to forcefully cultivate this technique at the Jindan Stage, I would inevitably have to wait for a breakthrough in my realm before I would have to exhaust my lifespan and die first.”
“Changing the technique is also really a helpless move.” After saying this, He Zhenghao fell into a deep silence.
Hearing this, Li Fan arched his hand and went straight to the departing realm.
He Zheng Hao looked at Li Fan’s distant figure and sighed again in his heart.
He actually had a sentence left unsaid.
It wasn’t true that the Sitting Mountain Decision was able to gain feedback from helping later generation cultivators, but ……
Cultivating the Way was simply too difficult.
Over the years, he had cast his net around and lifted up his juniors.
As a result, the vast majority of them died inexplicably before long, without even reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage.
To meet a genius like Li Fan, who had already reached the late stage of qi refining at such a young age, was already a blessing from heaven.
After all, how can there be so many geniuses in the world that he could have met on his own?
Thank you for the reward of the book friend who is destined for three lives and half a lifetime of mourning!
(End of chapter)