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The Mystic Annihilating Secret Technique, once created by the Immortal Dao Ten Clans in ancient times to hunt down members of the Mystic Sky Sect, possessed its own mystique.
After activating the [Zhu Xuan] Secret Technique, as long as there were people or things related to the Mystic Sky Sect nearby, one would hear the melodious sound of a bell ringing in one’s ears.
The higher the rank within the Mystic Sky Sect, the more numerous the bell sounds that were triggered.
Three sounds were the maximum.
However, when Li Fan, full of anticipation, carried the [Zhu Xuan] Secret Technique and strolled around the Circular Mountain, he did not hear any bell sounds.
"Hmm?"
"Elder Stone Plate does not seem like one to joke…"
Although slightly astonished, Li Fan did not doubt that Elder Stone Plate was playing a trick on him.
"That’s right, the terrain here is so peculiar, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals must have searched it thoroughly long ago. If the Mystic Annihilating Secret Technique were effective, the secrets hidden here would likely have been discovered already."
After some thought, Li Fan suddenly understood and his heart filled with even greater anticipation.
After pondering for a moment, Li Fan withdrew the protection of the Seven-color Divine Light and once again wandered through the Circular Mountain, now completely enveloped by a sky full of blooming flowers.
The Circular Mountain in Dongyong Region, known for its Spiritual Power Flowers, was said to be something to be admired from afar, but not to be trifled with.
Although these unique flowers, formed from the dispersed Spiritual Power, could not be absorbed by cultivators, getting too close would cause the strange Spiritual Power to resonate and assimilate with the Spiritual Power within a cultivator’s body.
If one did not promptly protect against and cleanse it, it could very well lead to a tragedy of growing flowers of various colors inside one’s body.
And these flowers were notoriously invasive.
Once they took root inside the body, not only the flesh was affected. Even Foundation Establishment Strange Objects and the Golden Principle Elixir would suffer from the erosion of the Spiritual Power Flowers.
So while they were beautiful, they were also exceptionally dangerous.
Yet Li Fan could boldly walk amongst these flowers, allowing them to bloom within his body without fear.
What he relied on was naturally the [Colored Jade Hollow Glare].
As long as he used the Seven-color Divine Light to seal his own Cave Heaven, even if his body were destroyed a thousand times over, it would cause him no real harm.
These Spiritual Power Flowers felt just like ordinary flowers upon touch.
They had a real texture, and one could even smell the fragrance emanating from them.
And the more he touched, the more phantoms flashed before his eyes.
One after another, the Spiritual Power Flowers appeared inside Li Fan’s body.
Far from any discomfort, Li Fan actually felt a jolt of invigoration.
The circulation of his Spiritual Energy sped up, and even his thinking became much quicker.
In Li Fan’s vision, these flowers in front of him became even more splendid, dazzling, and adorable.
He found them even harder to part with.
One by one, the flowers bloomed along Li Fan’s meridians, forming a path of blossoms, heading straight for his Dantian and his forehead.
Even though he could see clearly what was happening inside his body, Li Fan felt no sense of danger in his heart.
He even vaguely entertained the thought, "To die surrounded by a multitude of flowers, even as a ghost I would be elegant."
Li Fan quietly watched the Spiritual Power Flowers perform, his heart coldly snorting, "So strange and beguiling. Indeed somewhat similar to the Mystic Sky Sect Technique."
In just the time it took to drink a cup of tea, his Dantian was completely overtaken by these flowers.
Densely packed, beautiful, and enchanting.
The same was true for the area between his eyebrows.
Only at this moment did the true intent of these Spiritual Power Flowers reveal itself.
His body became rigid, and his thoughts seemed as if they were about to solidify.
Outside his Spirit Consciousness, the flowers even released roots, attempting to take hold and settle in.
However, before they could succeed,
Li Fan’s body exploded without warning.
There was no gore.
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Instead, like setting off fireworks, the countless flowers generated within Li Fan’s body fluttered about, filling the sky in an instant.
There was quite a bit of beauty to it.
These newly born blossoms, with the gentle breeze passing by, gradually mixed with the flowers that had always been present in the Circular Mountain.
Indistinguishable from each other.
Under this beautiful sight, a figure slowly became visible again.
It was Li Fan.
"Strange…"
Li Fan looked up at the flowers scattering across the sky and slightly furrowed his brow.
Even though he had just preemptively detonated his body to prevent further consumption by the Spiritual Power Flowers, Li Fan keenly noticed that his Divine Soul and cultivation base had inevitably lost something in the process.
For the current Li Fan, even a minor part was enough. Sensitive as he was, he detected it immediately.
Li Fan observed the sea of flowers floating in Circular Mountain that seemed to move without any pattern, his expression becoming somewhat grave.
If one could still barely describe the consumption of the Divine Soul as being characteristic of these unique Spiritual Power Flowers, then the disappearance of his cultivation base was without a doubt pointing to one thing: this sea of flowers was very likely the transformation of cultivators.
"Born yet not alive, dead yet not deceased. Without true form, transformed into blooming flowers…"
Considering further that Elder Stone Plate had indicated that clues to the Mystic Sky Sect could be found here, Li Fan was now almost certain that the strange phenomena here were inextricably linked to the Law King of the Mystic Sky Sect.
"If this Law King has been alive in such a non-human form for thousands of years…"
Li Fan took a sharp breath, "Indeed worthy of Immortal World Heritage."
The secret had been confirmed.
What needed to be done next was to solve it.
Li Fan pondered on the spot for a long time, until the second and third bodies were successively detonated.
In the process of constantly feeling the erosion of the Spiritual Power Flowers, he finally found a possible method to solve it.
Li Fan concentrated, then formed a fourth body.
He then flew into the air, embracing the sea of flowers to the greatest extent possible.
This time, Li Fan didn’t care about the strange changes within his body.
Rather, he focused all his attention on the fleeting images before his eyes.
These fragmented images were all brief snippets, gone in the blink of an eye.
And they seemed to have no connection to each other, each recording separate events.
In the Spirit Consciousness, the Huadao Stone operated to its utmost limits.
Li Fan, however, remembered every one of these fleeting fragmented images.
Once he recorded enough of them, his body could not withstand it and burst open with a bang.
Without haste, Li Fan created another new body, repeating this step.
Such an abnormal behavior naturally attracted the attention of other cultivators in the vicinity.
Initially planning to approach and make conversation, to inquire about one thing or another, but after sensing the pressure released by Li Fan, these meddlers all changed in expression, bowed their heads, and left.
Time slowly passed.
The number of flashback images Li Fan collected grew more and more.
Like a broken puzzle, Li Fan collected pieces of the puzzle while relying on the Huadao Stone’s immense computing power to try to restore the original complete scene.
Within this Circular Mountain, there were more than trillions of drifting flowers.
The fragmented images contained within were even more innumerable.
If not for the Huadao Stone’s organizing, Li Fan absolutely wouldn’t have been able to piece them back together properly.
But at the moment, as blue light flickered unceasingly, sequences of complete images also began to appear within Li Fan’s Spirit Consciousness.
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There’s one more chapter that needs slightly more than one point.
