NOVPUBFanyong Island, true to its name.
"Fanyong", meaning fence; "island", meaning useless.
This island is situated in an extremely remote area of the ocean, with no other islands within a thousand miles. However, it may be precisely because of this reason that all the Spiritual Energy within this ocean area has gathered on Fanyong Island, resulting in this large island enjoying good weather and an extraordinary abundance of produce year after year.
Even without any human cultivation, the naturally growing crops were enough to keep the island’s residents clothed and fed without worry.
Even the island’s several large warehouses were all filled with food, slowly rotting away without anyone feeling distressed.
And this situation seemed to have persisted ever since the Misthaven Ocean came into existence.
This also led to a phenomenon: the inhabitants of Fanyong Island no longer had any pressure to survive. Aside from eating and sleeping, the most common activity was something called [Tackle].
The competitors would fight bare-bodied, and the winner would obtain the loser’s social identity for a month, gaining control over the other’s assets and the power to exercise their identity.
Besides not engaging in actions that would harm the island, there were no other taboos.
During this month, the loser could only watch helplessly as the other person became their alternate self.
Spending all their wealth, sleeping with their wife...
Of course, if they felt dissatisfied, they could issue another challenge after a month.
However, if they lost again, the duration would double to two months.
And so on.
As the island’s only and most popular form of entertainment, Tackle would attract almost the entire population of Fanyong Island every time it took place.
The crowd would shout and cheer, with the contestants seeing red, and their families extremely anxious.
However, after the most recent Tackle ended, something unbelievable happened to all the spectators.
The winner, right before everyone’s eyes, transformed into the image of the loser!
And the one who had lost just then disappeared into thin air amidst the crowd!
What was even more bizarre was that despite such strange phenomena occurring, the island’s inhabitants didn’t stop the Tackle competitions.
Rather, their enthusiasm swelled even more.
To win over a person, to truly win everything they have! What could be more thrilling than this?
Indeed, that’s how people initially viewed this new form of Tackle.
But soon, they realized something was wrong.
Panic began to spread across Fanyong Island.
But the Tackle did not stop...
Because this game had long been out of their control.
In the midst of strange phenomena, at least half the number of Tackles occur on Fanyong Island every day. They are enforced regardless of the will of both parties.
The loser vanishes, and the winner morphs into the appearance of the failed competitor.
Not just in form and stature, but also related changes happen to physical capabilities.
Only internally, it remained the winner in control, having consumed the loser’s memories.
And during the competition, both sides’ willpower would be influenced to some extent. They would fight with all their might, never intentionally conceding defeat.
As days passed, the Tackles continued incessantly, and the population of the island quickly dwindled.
Some people couldn’t bear it and chose to end themselves.
Those who remained switched identities through one bout after another.
When Li Fan eventually found the only survivor on Fanyong Island and sorted out the origins and developments of the events from over a hundred thousand jumbled memories in his Spirit Consciousness, he couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart.
The dark and strange force on Fanyong Island had vanished.
The odd creature in front of him, who looked like a cylinder, with a face almost drowned in flesh leaving only several vertical lines, was now the final winner.
This was originally the most frail existence on Fanyong Island.
Because the body weight was so enormous, even stretching an arm or moving was a difficult task. Thus, in every [Tackle] contest, he couldn’t even fight back. He could only take hits for nothing, losing the chance of victory in the competition.
But the will within this body was the collective will of over a hundred thousand people on Fanyong Island. The dominant one had always been an absolute powerhouse who has been winning continuously.
It seemed that every victory allowed him to devour something from his opponent to enhance himself, and now he alone weighed more in the overall will than everyone else put together.
However, after such a nightmarish scene, this fleshy sphere was about to collapse.
He just sat there dumbly on the ground, his face full of confusion.
But when Li Fan appeared in front of him, he instinctively initiated a [Tackle] contest.
And it was in this instant that Li Fan faintly sensed a dark force being stimulated from the opponent’s body, as if invisible tentacles were about to latch onto him.
However, Li Fan snorted coldly and concealed his trace.
Leaving those dark forces grasping at empty air.
The rotund figure therefore continued to sit there dumbly.
Li Fan had a premonition that if he hadn’t dodged the [Tackle] contest just now,
then after becoming the winner, he might have ended up in the same state as the figure before his eyes.
As for whether his Cultivation Realm would be preserved, there was no way to know.
"This ability..."
Li Fan’s first thought was of Mo Rubing’s Mirror Replacement.
However, what happened on Fanyong Island was clearly weaker than Mo Rubing’s and had greater restrictions.
But if used properly, it still definitely counted as a remarkable ability.
Although it seemed that this [Tackle] contest would ultimately cause the winner to regress towards weakness...
But that’s under the circumstances of the strong defeating the weak.
What if the weak overcame the strong?
Wouldn’t it be possible to quickly transform one’s strength in a short period of time by relying on this ability step by step?
Usually, the weak are the losers and the strong are the winners.
But for Li Fan, there were too many ways to achieve victory with weakness overcoming strength.
Thinking of this, Li Fan couldn’t help but become interested.
He went out and casually grabbed a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, ignoring their terrified gaze, and directly bound them with a Binding Worm.
Then he threw them down before the fleshy sphere.
Driven by instinct, the fleshy sphere extended an invitation for a [Tackle] contest to the Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
Although the fleshy sphere’s body was nearly immovable, it was dominated by a powerful spirit.
Gazing at this healthy, yet immobile body, his eyes which were originally filled with confusion suddenly burst with an intense will to survive.
Struggling, he almost wasted half a day to finally complete the contest.
But to his immense disappointment, even though he won the contest, he did not transform into his opponent’s appearance.
He was stunned for a moment, but then he understood why.
Because the contest wasn’t fair.
An external force had interfered with the competition...
Therefore, the result of the contest was invalid!
Linking this to the sudden appearance of someone who originally did not belong to the residents of the island, he instantly realized that there were still others hidden on the island!
And...
Such means to immobilize a person were very likely those of the legendary Immortal Teachers!
At this thought, his heart immediately filled with excitement.
