Arriving in the Cultivation World

Arriving in the Cultivation World

"So this was the Cultivation World..."

The Taiyan Boat burst through the Immortal Forsaken Grand Formation and appeared amid an unbroken mountain range.

Below lay a bottomless Heavenly Pit, from which an aura faintly similar to the Void Abyss emanated.

Mountains rose and fell, wreathed in clouds and mist—a magnificent sight.

Atop the tallest mountain, an incomparably vast city stood suspended in the air.

Li Fan wanted to laugh, but he could only cough uncontrollably, blood spilling from his mouth.

He was already too old.

He had already been standing at the brink of life and death, and the pressure of crossing the Immortal Forsaken Grand Formation had utterly destroyed what remained of his vitality.

Still, being able to glimpse the Cultivation World before dying meant this life had not been lived in vain! "Return to Truth!"

This simulation had ended.

After the darkness passed, Li Fan's consciousness gradually returned.

Thinking back on how he had painstakingly tried every possible method in his previous life, yet failed to break through the Immortal Forsaken Grand Formation, only to stumble upon the means of cracking it by sheer accident at the end, Li Fan could not help but sigh at the unpredictability of the world.

What Li Fan found even harder to forget was that final glance back at the World-Splitting Whale swarm.

"Just how much did the cultivators of old hate mortals? It wasn't enough to exile them all and seal them away with the Immortal Forsaken Grand Formation—they even deployed so many World-Splitting Whales..."

"No wonder the Darkness Layer was so vast, larger than all the previous layers combined. It must have been forcibly carved out of the void by those World-Splitting Whales over the past several thousand years."

"As the distance grows greater and greater, after enough years, the Immortal Forsaken Land may truly break away from the Cultivation World..."

All manner of thoughts churned through Li Fan's heart, only for him to press them down one by one.

In their place came an irrepressible delight.

After nine lifetimes of reincarnation and nearly five hundred long years, he had finally touched the threshold of cultivation.

The road ahead was certain to be even more difficult.

But Li Fan's heart in pursuit of immortality would not change in a hundred lifetimes, nor would he regret it in a hundred lifetimes!

Returning to the present, Li Fan found himself uncharacteristically torn over the choice following the end of this simulation.

According to his original plan, he had intended to choose accelerated charging progress. The sooner Return to Truth finished charging, the sooner he could head to the Cultivation World.

That was right. Even though the path to the Cultivation World had become a smooth road, devoid of the slightest danger, Li Fan still decided he would only set out after gaining another chance to start over.

After all...

The immortal path was difficult! And this Cultivation World looked anything but friendly toward mortals.

Safety came first. Nothing wrong with that!

Yet when Li Fan saw the list of selectable items, he hesitated once more.

Because he saw the Halting Remnant Stele among them.

After considering it for a while, Li Fan ultimately chose to retain the remnant stele.

He intended to use this opportunity to verify one of his suspicions.

Name: Li Fan

Realm: Mortal

Physical Age: 20/86 Mental Age: 483/1116 Transformation of Emptiness Charging Progress: 0%

Anchor Charging Progress: 51%

Current Anchor Point Count: 1 Bound Items: "Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter", Taiyan Boat, Halting Remnant Stele (damaged)...

Thus began Li Fan's tenth life.

During the first twenty years while waiting for the charging to finish, Li Fan followed the established course of history with practiced ease.

During this time, he did only a few things that would not affect the course of history, making preparations for his eventual journey to the Cultivation World.

In the third year of Anchoring, Li Fan arrived outside Qian Hong's Tomb.

After pondering for a moment, he did not choose to use Immortal-Mortal Miasma to breach the tomb. Instead, he directly took the Halting Remnant Stele out of Return to Truth.

After the remnant stele Li Fan had brought over from his previous life appeared in this world, it underwent some strange change.

A soft white glow shrouded the remnant stele, making it appear somewhat illusory.

Not long afterward, it slowly dissipated like ice beneath the blazing sun.

Li Fan then ordered his men to force their way into Qian Hong's Tomb.

Just as Li Fan had expected, the Halting Remnant Stele inside Qian Hong's Tomb had clearly become much more powerful!

"So that was it! Immortal arts cannot be cultivated together, and the same goes for these Heavenly Earth Marvels."

"Two identical marvels could never have existed in this world, yet through Return to Truth, I created another identical one out of thin air. The result was that the two marvels fused of their own accord and ultimately became one."

"As for which one vanished and which one remained..."

"Of course, the strong survive, while the weak vanish!"

Li Fan narrowed his eyes and ordered his men to begin breaching the tomb with Immortal-Mortal Miasma spray.

The strengthened Halting Remnant Stele was indeed extraordinary. Even with the Immortal-Mortal Miasma, it took considerable effort to gradually weaken its power.

Wearing Steel Armor, Li Fan entered Qian Hong's Tomb and fixed his gaze upon the Halting Remnant Stele.

Its outward appearance had not changed much. It merely looked slightly less damaged.

Return to Truth still cannot absorb it. It seems this is merely a quantitative change; it has yet to reach the level of a qualitative change. Li Fan inwardly lamented the missed opportunity.

After ordering his men to carry the remnant stele out of the tomb chamber, the destructive force lingering around it abruptly vanished as well.

That suited Li Fan perfectly.

He stored this enhanced Halting Remnant Stele inside the Taiyan Boat, treating it as part of his assets for the future journey to the Cultivation World.

In the twentieth year of Anchoring, Return to Truth was about to finish charging.

Li Fan ruthlessly purged a group of corrupt officials, unscrupulous landlords, and powerful clans, taking all the gold, silver, and jewels their families had accumulated over generations into his possession.

This was because he would still have to deal with mortals after arriving in the Cultivation World, so he naturally needed to prepare gold, silver, and valuables in advance.

Moreover, cultivators also needed to mix gold and silver into their Artifact Crafting from time to time, so there was no need to worry about gold and silver becoming useless after reaching the outside world.

Besides money, food was also indispensable.

But grain was the foundation of a nation, and Li Fan wanted far too much of it at once.

The civil and military officials all submitted memorials in opposition. Even the merchants in the capital seized the opportunity to drive up grain prices, hoping to make a killing.

Li Fan did not waste words. During the morning court, before all the civil and military officials, he enlarged the Taiyan Boat to its greatest size and suspended it in the air above the Imperial Palace.

The enormous Taiyan Boat floated above Profound Capital City like a dark cloud.

Countless commoners fell to their knees and kowtowed at the sight. When the civil and military officials saw Li Fan display such immortal methods, all their expressions changed, and they hurriedly shifted their stance.

All the complaints that had arisen from Li Fan's killing and accumulation of wealth vanished in an instant. The officials even eagerly took the initiative to help Li Fan procure food.

With the active assistance of the officials, along with another batch of profiteering merchants put to death, the Taiyan Boat was finally packed to the brim.

Everything was prepared, and Li Fan had no attachments left in the mortal world.

Piloting the Taiyan Boat, he returned once more to the skies above the Void Abyss.

He relaxed his mind and allowed the Taiyan Boat to travel automatically at a constant speed.

Only a few hours passed from beginning to end, yet to Li Fan, they seemed longer than the several hundred years he had experienced before.

After the long wait, Li Fan finally crossed the Immortal Forsaken Grand Formation and arrived in the Cultivation World! After adapting to the tearing sensation caused by crossing between the two worlds, Li Fan excitedly looked outside the Taiyan Boat.

Yet after seeing the surrounding scenery clearly, Li Fan was left somewhat dumbfounded.