NOVPUBAbout half a cup of tea later.
Li Fan and his two companions found a hiding place within a cave at the bottom of the Deep Valley.
An Array Technique concealed the entrance, and a Secret Technique hid its aura.
For most cultivators, even if they searched deliberately, it would be very difficult to discover this entrance.
But in front of Li Fan, who possessed the [Disk of The End], and Lin Ling, whose eyes and ears were the myriad trees of the mountain, it was all flaws.
However, what surprised Li Fan again was.
There was still no one inside the cave!
They had just escaped not long ago, and their presence had not yet dispersed!
Li Fan couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.
"Is this..."
"Are they hiding from me?"
"Can they foresee my arrival?"
"Is it prophecy, or..."
All of a sudden, Li Fan remembered the collapse and reappearance of Revival Mountain.
"Time Reversal?" 𝘯𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
The moment the guess appeared, Li Fan’s heart couldn’t help but pound violently.
However, after all, he had experienced a lot, and he quickly regained his composure.
"It is merely a conjecture, not necessarily the reality."
"As to what the truth is, I will know after I capture them, father and son."
Driven by an excitement he had not felt in a long time, Li Fan turned to look at Lin Ling again.
But Lin Ling looked around and shook his head: "They didn’t leave this cave."
Hearing this, Li Fan began to examine carefully once again: "There are no signs of spatial teleportation. Could it be..."
Li Fan and Lin Ling looked at the ground simultaneously.
A hint of a smirk appeared at the corner of Li Fan’s mouth, and he lazily ordered: "Let us pursue."
Lin Ling nodded, a green light enveloped him, and he burrowed into the ground.
In theory, it’s dark and confusing underground, hard to distinguish between east, south, west, and north.
It would be easy to throw off pursuers.
But unfortunately, among Li Fan’s party, there was Lin Ling, who had a connection with the Leyline Ancient Trees!
Although the underground space was vast, it was all the territory of the Leyline Ancient Trees.
Every move, unable to escape the Law’s eye!
With guidance, it didn’t take long for Li Fan and company to find the traces of the other party’s movements.
However, Li Fan also found that they had only walked a short distance underground before they hastily returned to the surface.
"Did they realize we were pursuing them again?"
"Truly troublesome."
Thinking so, he returned to the surface.
This time, the sensation Lin Ling received was that Ou Daozi and his son had taken to the skies to escape.
Unfortunately, the Flying Technique would inevitably leave behind fluctuations of Spiritual Energy.
Soon, Lin Ling found the direction of their flight.
He led Li Fan, closely following them.
No matter how Ou Daozi and his son changed their direction or set up feints, they couldn’t shake off Lin Ling’s pursuit.
Eventually, Ou Daozi and his son seemed to give up their struggle and no longer fled.
They stood still within the clouds ahead, waiting.
"Lin Ling, this little fellow, is really useful," Li Fan couldn’t help but inwardly sigh with relief as he finally caught up, looking at the figures of a man and a boy in front of him.
"May I ask, senior, for what reason have you been doggedly pursuing us?" Ou Daozi, facing Li Fan and the other two who had surrounded him, inquired with a raised fist, neither servile nor overbearing.
"Originally, I only wanted to ask for your assistance with construction work at my home. But unexpectedly, there turned out to be an unexpected gain," Li Fan said with slightly squinted eyes, sweeping his gaze back and forth over the two of them.
Ou Daozi’s son, only eight or nine years of age, didn’t possess a handsome face, but when confronted with Li Fan, who was subtly releasing a murderous aura, the boy was undisturbed and composed, possessing an unusual air of dignity.
Especially his gaze, firmly fixated on Li Fan, as if harboring some deep-rooted enmity.
Even though the two had never met before, their stance was so...
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It seemed to increasingly confirm Li Fan’s suspicions.
Ou Daozi also noticed something abnormal about his son, his complexion changing. Placing his son behind him, he said, "I don’t understand what you’re implying!"
Li Fan snorted coldly, "The collapse and reappearance of Revival Mountain, that was your son’s doing, wasn’t it?"
"What exactly is his ability? Could it be the legendary Technique of Time Reversal?"
Although Li Fan appeared to be just a Golden Core Cultivator on the outside, Lin Ling and Tianyang, one Unity-Path and one God Transformation, both followed his lead.
Ou Daozi couldn’t figure out Li Fan’s true Cultivation Base, merely saying, "Senior, please don’t joke. How could there be such a thing as time flowing backwards in this world..."
"As for my son’s Divine Technique..."
Ou Daozi was speaking when he suddenly lowered his voice, but intentionally left his sentence hanging.
As if he were waiting for something!
Alarms blared within Li Fan’s mind: "Binding Worm!"
The target wasn’t Ou Daozi, but his son!
The child lost control in an instant, but his eyes betrayed no panic.
It was as if everything was within his expectations.
Instead, he looked at Li Fan with a hint of mockery.
At the same time, Tianyang’s body swelled rapidly, forming a black and red sphere around Li Fan at the center.
"Boom!"
Colliding with something unknown, a tremendous roar erupted all at once.
Li Fan was immediately dizzy and disoriented, and Tianyang’s Puppet Body even began to show cracks.
Thankfully, Lin Ling acted swiftly to rescue, thus averting a fate of being torn asunder.
"What the hell is that thing!"
Li Fan cursed silently and glanced at the Even True panel where the protective energy charge progress hadn’t decreased.
He felt immediately at ease.
In his Spirit Consciousness, the Transformation Stone Blue Light flickered, playing back the recorded scene at countless times slower speed.
Only then did he see clearly the culprit responsible for the recent upheaval.
And everything that transpired in the blink of an eye.
The attacker, who was too fast for even Lin Ling and Tianyang to react, turned out to be an arrow.
Ou Daozi and his son seemed to have anticipated its trajectory all along.
They lingered in front purposely.
Luring Li Fan and the others onto the arrow’s path.
While buying time, and at the moment the arrow collided with Li Fan,
a burst of yellow light emitted from Ou Daozi’s son.
It seemed to ignore the arrow’s speed, locking onto it with deadly accuracy.
And then, in the space of a heartbeat, the arrow did not change its direction of advance,
yet strangely, it flew back along its original path!
The yellow light enveloped Ou Daozi and his son, and using the unimaginable speed of the arrow, they instantly escaped from the encirclement of Li Fan and the others!
"Master, they’ve vanished. They’ve fled too far; we can’t sense their presence anymore," Lin Ling said with some self-reproach.
Tianyang also shook his head, feeling somewhat guilty.
Li Fan, however, waved his hand, not minding at all.
After replaying the recent event in his mind, Li Fan vaguely knew what the other party’s Divine Technique was.
It wasn’t what he had imagined, the reversal of time...
Or perhaps it was related to a certain extent.
Reversing the state of an object to a specific point in time!
Faced with a technique that a mere seven or eight-year-old child possessed, Li Fan was not shocked but rather delighted.
Because this was the only Cultivator related to The Path of Time he had encountered since Reincarnation.
"Run? Can you really run away!"
"You might escape for a moment, but not for a lifetime!"
"Once I’ve set my sights on you, there’s no chance of escape!"
Li Fan’s eyes flickered, and in an instant, dozens of strategies flashed through his mind.
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