NOVPUBDeparture Realm.
Having just finished praying, Su Yuqing, who was cultivating beside the Immortal Spirit Tower, suddenly turned crimson.
It felt as if someone brutally forced something massive inside her body, causing her to let out a painful grunt.
As she felt lost and did not know what to do, the mysterious and pure spiritual energy that had come into her body, like a melting glacier, exploded!
It surged through her body with a roar and in just a few cycles of circulation, it became a power she could control.
It obediently returned to her Dantian!
At the same time, her cultivation realm was visibly skyrocketing at a terrifying speed.
In just a few breaths’ time, she soared from the Early Stage Golden Core to Golden Core Perfection.
Her advancement reluctantly came to a halt due to the restrictions of the materials needed for a breakthrough with the new method.
Throughout this process, the bottleneck that usually limits cultivators’ progress, [Catastrophe of the Heavens], did not appear at all!
Su Yuqing stayed still, feeling her cultivation base and realm in disbelief.
As she carefully sensed the source of the spiritual power that helped her break through, Su Yuqing seemed to realize something, her expression changing rapidly.
She quickly knelt down and began to meditate and give thanks for the blessing bestowed by [Crimson Compassionate Immortal].
...
In the Spirit Tree Realm, before the Faceless God Statue.
A surge of invisible feedback of cultivation base suddenly appeared within Li Fan’s body.
It was precisely because of Su Yuqing’s consecutive breakthroughs, aided by the Immortal Formula!
After deducting what Li Fan had initially given to Su Yuqing, Li Fan’s own cultivation base had even slightly increased after the exchange.
"What is this?"
Li Fan was shocked and puzzled.
But he soon calmed down.
The generation of feedback cultivation didn’t violate common sense and was still within the operational mechanism of the Immortal Formula.
Just like if Li Fan, at the expense of his own cultivation base, helped someone else raise their cultivation realm.
After success, indeed, he could receive some feedback cultivation base.
However, the loss of cultivation incurred during this process was usually too great. It was a losing deal, not worth the cost.
"But now, through this Faceless Xuantian Statue, the loss in transfer of cultivation base is greatly reduced."
"Making this act profitable!"
Li Fan instantly understood that this was a feature of the mysterious Faceless Stone Statue.
"Connecting with believers, descending with divine gifts…"
"Even True is becoming more and more like a charlatan," he mumbled.
Li Fan squinted his eyes, his gaze once again falling on the Faceless God Statue.
"So the question arises, if there is really a powerful being behind this statue,"
"why wouldn’t they contact these [believers] directly, instead of transferring all these abilities and senses to me?"
"Has my secret been exposed?"
After a long contemplation, Li Fan’s conclusion still leaned toward no.
After all, based on the temperaments of those powerful beings, if they knew about the existence of [Real] within him, they most likely wouldn’t engage in a cat-and-mouse game with him.
More likely, they would descend directly and seize it.
"Otherwise, He must have fallen into slumber for some reason," Li Fan’s eyes flickered with thought.
He stared at the statue for a long time, then eventually walked away slowly.
He didn’t issue a command to keep ordinary people away from the Faceless Stone Statue, instead everything remained as usual, as if nothing had happened.
As Li Fan moved further away from the statue, the prayers in his spirit consciousness also gradually faded.
This made him even more certain of his judgment.
"Mystic Sky Sect..."
Li Fan urgently wanted to know more about this ancient and mysterious cult.
But it was not only in the present time, thousands of years later, even during the era of the Immortal Dao Ten Clans, the Mystic Sky Sect was an absolute taboo topic.
Only the true cores of various sects are qualified to know.
Even after many lifetimes of reincarnation, Li Fan only managed to catch a glimpse of the Mystic Sky Sect through Sister Zhao’s dreams.
"Perhaps, there is another way."
In Li Fan’s spirit consciousness, he suddenly remembered the first instance in the Fallen Immortal Realm, [Ningyuan Life Fruit].
The body he descended into, Li Chen, was the target of body-snatching by that future Law King of the Mystic Sky Sect.
"If I lie in wait, could I encounter this Law King in the Fallen Immortal Realm?"
Li Fan couldn’t help but be heartily tempted.
Since it’s only a strand of spirit consciousness that travels to the Fallen Immortal Realm,
even if he were assimilated by the Law King, there would be no harm to his real body.
"Perhaps, this is an opportunity that’s hard to come by in reality."
"When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. As he tries to occupy Li Chen’s body and merge with Li Fan, Li Chen is also trying to pry into his memories."
As for the Law King in the Fallen Immortal Realm, whether it’s possible for him to cross the boundary between the Fallen Immortal Realm and reality to affect and harm the real Li Fan...
Unless one’s strength surpasses that of the Fallen Immortal, it’s absolutely impossible to do so!
Li Fan’s eyes flickered, he pondered for a moment, and felt it was feasible.
He soon made up his mind.
His figure flickered and he arrived in the cultivation secret room within the Spirit Tree Realm.
He skillfully laid out the ritual.
"Previously, I was wary of Mr. Bai, so I thought of not re-entering the Fallen Immortal Realm until I had found a way to thoroughly resolve the hidden danger of invoking [Even True] without willingness."
"However, now, the crisis brought by the Mystic Sky Sect seems a bit more imminent."
"As for the risk..."
Li Fan’s eyes showed no fear, steadfast and resolute, "He who hesitates is lost! Am I, Li Fan, that kind of craven person!"
"Fortune favors the bold, Primordial Yellow Heavenly Sovereign!"
Mentally invoking the name, Li Fan’s surroundings suddenly distorted in the next moment.
Without any surprises, he returned to the instance [Ningyuan Life Fruit].
"Junior Brother? Junior Brother?"
Zhang Qianmo’s familiar voice came through his ears.
The feeling of strangeness receded like a tide, and Li Fan turned his head to look at Zhang Qianmo.
"Junior Brother, what’s wrong?" Zhang Qianmo’s eyes held a mix of confusion and concern.
"It’s my first time down the mountain, my heart is a bit stirred."
This time, Li Fan quickly slipped into character, picking up the conversation with Brother Zhang.
While chatting and laughing with him, they arrived at Ningyuan City.
Just like the predestined track, Brother Zhang couldn’t wait to visit his old flame Chi Xia.
He left the task of collecting Life Fruits to Li Fan.
Li Fan smiled and didn’t stop him.
After they parted, Li Fan didn’t make any outlandish moves but went straight to collect three Life Fruits from the central [Life-Extending Tree of Rebirth] in the city.
Under the guidance of Manager Song Hesong of Ningyuan City, Li Fan quickly extracted the Life Fruits from their seal.
According to the "plot," it wouldn’t be long before Chu Liang and other Cultivators of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals, who were lying in ambush in the city, would move against Brother Zhang’s sweetheart Chi Xia in an effort to infuriate Brother Zhang and then surround and kill him—who would in turn counter-kill them.
Li Fan turned back to look at Song Hesong, a sly smile emerging on his face.
Manager Song’s heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition suddenly surged up.
"Puh!"
Without warning, Li Fan violently spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his complexion pale as paper.
"Brother, save me!"
Li Fan cried out loud.
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