NOVPUBLu Chengxue, undoubtedly a core disciple of the Lu Family, was extremely popular.
In the half day that Li Fan had secretly surveilled him, a total of thirty-seven people had met with Lu Chengxue. All of them were polite and greeted him with smiles.
Moreover, Li Fan noticed that the smiles on their faces were not feigned; they stemmed from genuine joy.
After being busy for half a day, Lu Chengxue finally returned to his own Cave Mansion at a leisurely pace.
Li Fan likewise followed stealthily into the mansion.
In the face of today’s Li Fan, the defensive Array Techniques of the Cave Mansion were naturally as insubstantial as thin air.
Silently, without anyone in the Cave Mansion noticing.
"The master has returned!"
As soon as Lu Chengxue returned to the Cave Mansion, immediately, eleven women, both plump and slim with all possessing top looks, came out to greet him.
Three of them were even visibly pregnant.
Faced with such a welcoming lane of beauties, Lu Chengxue just slightly nodded, his expression cold.
He walked directly to the deepest and largest room in the Cave Mansion.
The eleven female cultivators followed, laughing merrily.
The door of the house slammed shut, and soon after, intense sounds of masculine and feminine delight faintly emanated from it.
Li Fan observed the scene inside the room, his brow slightly furrowed.
But it was not because he envied Lu Chengxue’s treatment.
It was rather that throughout the process, Lu Chengxue maintained a completely expressionless face.
It seemed not so much that he was enjoying himself but rather like he was fulfilling a task.
And from his conversation with the eleven female cultivators, Li Fan learned the reasons behind it.
It turned out that producing as many offspring as possible was the most crucial method by which the Lu Family maintained its prosperity.
It’s not easy to be a great benefactor in the Xuanhuang World, after all.
Sometimes, to help others, one may even risk one’s own life.
And the reason why the Lu Family could maintain its charitable image for a long time was because there were simply too many members in the Lu Family.
They wouldn’t hesitate to exchange the lives of their clan members for the growth of their family’s reputation.
Apart from the tasks assigned by the family, producing a certain number of offspring every year was obligatory.
Every member of the Lu Family was also very aware of their fate. Any day might necessitate the sacrifice of oneself, thus living in the moment had always been the Lu Family’s modus operandi.
Almost all members of the Lu Family had more than ten spouses.
Whenever there was spare time, it was essentially spent producing offspring.
Perhaps some people would continuously indulge in this without exhaustion. But evidently, not everyone could maintain enthusiasm in a daily, routine task.
From Lu Chengxue at this moment, Li Fan sensed weariness and exhaustion.
"So-called core disciples of the family, yet they can’t escape the fate of being breeding stock. At best, they just get to choose slightly more attractive partners."
"In that case, liberating you might not be such a bad thing."
Li Fan, peeking outside the house, remained expressionless.
He waited until the heated ordeal ended, and Lu Chengxue and the eleven beauties all lay resting with closed eyes.
Only then did Li Fan stealthily enter the room.
Lu Chengxue had a God Transforming Cultivation Level, while the other women were at most at the Nascent Soul Realm.
Li Fan quickly pressed down on Lu Chengxue’s head, seizing him into his own Cave Heaven without any defense.
He even left without alarming the other female cultivators, disappearing like a ghost.
When they woke up, even if they did not see Lu Chengxue’s trail, they would only think he had left earlier due to weariness.
And by the time they finally discovered that Lu Chengxue was missing, several days would have passed.
In the secret room of the Spirit Tree Realm.
Without waking Lu Chengxue, Li Fan granted him a swift end.
He let him die quietly in his sleep.
The phenomena of the cultivator’s downfall were also concealed by Li Fan using an Array Technique. No one in the Spirit Tree Realm could sense it.
Soon, a top-quality Dao Transmutation Stone, emitting radiant white light, appeared before Li Fan.
Currently, within the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, there was one Stone Mother Fragment, three top-quality Dao Transmutation Stones, and sixteen high-quality ones.
Li Fan had not expected the three targeted individuals to possess the top-quality stones or the Stone Mother Fragment.
To him, the high-quality Dao Transmutation Stones were enough.
With each life’s continuous integration and enhancement, he was bound to reach the realm of the Transformation Stone Mother.
This high-quality Dao Transmutation Stone still contained the memories of Lu Chengxue’s life.
Instead of wiping them, he began to browse through the images contained within it.
"He even obtained this Dao Transmutation Stone as a child, and it was from his father’s legacy, acquired effortlessly," he thought.
Lu Chengxue’s father sacrificed his life to save another, who, out of gratitude, delivered this Dao Transmutation Stone as a thanks.
Since Lu Chengxue was still young at that time, the person worried that the stone would be seized by the Lu Family and thus secretly reached out.
Consequently, the fact that Lu Chengxue possessed the Dao Transmutation Stone was unknown to the Lu Family.
With the Dao Transmutation Stone, Lu Chengxue also exhibited remarkable "talent" and was gradually nurtured as a core disciple until he met his unfortunate end at the hands of Li Fan today.
Overall, Lu Chengxue’s life was lackluster.
Besides having a total of sixteen offspring, there was nothing else particularly noteworthy about him.
After carefully watching all the images, Li Fan shook his head slightly and remarked, "A mundane and pitiful life. Not even as exciting as my days in Da Xuan."
"Such a waste of a treasure."
From Li Fan’s perspective, such a life was naturally unappealing.
However, he did not delete Lu Chengxue’s memories; instead, he stored them in a corner.
Then he began the integration with his own Dao Transmutation Stone.
Instead of merging, it was more about absorbing and strengthening.
After all, the main entity was still the Taoist Divine One stone in Li Fan’s Spirit Consciousness.
As the Dao Transmutation Stone carrying Lu Chengxue’s entire life transformed into dots of light, like a river of stars, it continuously flowed into Spirit Consciousness of Li Fan.
Transformation also occurred on the Dao Transmutation Stone in his Spirit Consciousness.
It seemed like in an instant, everything, the sky, the earth, and all things in between, became even more brilliant.
All past experiences, noticed or overlooked, significant or trivial, resurfaced in Li Fan’s mind.
Including information and techniques glimpsed at previously, all rearranged from the sealed memories.
...
"The difference between high-quality and middle-quality is a single word, yet it’s like heaven and earth apart. I can’t even imagine what the extreme-quality or the Transformation Stone Mother would be like," he mused.
Images of worlds ceaselessly being born and perishing seemed to emerge in Li Fan’s eyes as he quietly sighed.
He tested the Immortal Level Formation using the Final Separation Disk.
With the assistance of the Dao Transmutation Stone, Li Fan’s handling of data redundancy greatly improved.
Gone were the days of feeling overwhelmed with myriad thoughts and not knowing where to start during his research.
Now no longer lost, he merely glanced through once and a general research direction immediately appeared in his mind.
Li Fan then tested the Celestial Gauge.
"The number of images that can be monitored simultaneously has skyrocketed by tenfold…."
With quantified results in hand, Li Fan was very satisfied with this acquisition.
