Teleporting to Ten Thousand Immortals Island

The moment he stepped into the Qi Refining Stage, Li Fan felt the earth-shattering changes within his body.

Spiritual energy churned and circulated through him, silently nourishing and improving Li Fan's somewhat aged body.

The fine wrinkles on his face vanished, and his skin became smooth and delicate once more.

Long-lost vitality surged through Li Fan, as though he had returned to his youth, brimming with inexhaustible energy.

He had regained his youth, and his physique had been greatly strengthened.

Most importantly, Li Fan could finally wield Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy.

Thread after thread of spiritual energy moved under Li Fan's control, shifting into all manner of shapes.

Unfortunately, he could only control spiritual energy by instinct for now. To use it more efficiently, he would certainly need the corresponding spells.

After experimenting for a while, Li Fan dispersed the spiritual energy in his hand and focused his attention on the Return to Truth Panel.

Name: Li Fan

Realm: Early Qi Refining

Physical Age: 47/199 Mental Age: 510/2169↑

After breaking through to the Qi Refining Stage, Li Fan's lifespan limit had reached its maximum of one hundred ninety-nine years.

The Five Spirits Qi Induction Method had mentioned that although cultivators lived far longer than ordinary people, their lifespans had still been greatly suppressed compared to Ancient Times.

The lifespan of a Qi Refining cultivator could not exceed two hundred years.

As for Foundation Establishment cultivators, they could only live another hundred-odd years before their allotted lifespan ran out.

Only by achieving the Golden Core and glimpsing the Heaven and Earth Method could one's lifespan soar to around five or six hundred years.

In contrast to his physical age was his mental age.

It had barely increased at all.

After all, it had already risen greatly through cultivating the Profound Yellow Heart Refining Mantra, so Li Fan was not particularly surprised.

Next, Li Fan took the Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter from the Taiyan Boat.

He had long obtained this Nascent Soul Realm cultivation technique from Kou Hong, but without Divine Sense, he had never been able to examine it.

Still, it had remained on his mind all this time.

Now that he had finally stepped into the Qi Refining Stage, Li Fan could not wait to learn what it contained.

"The Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter, a Nascent Soul Realm cultivation technique. Current number of cultivators: 0."

The moment he picked up the Jade Slip, the technique's description naturally appeared in his mind.

Li Fan knew this was also a change that had emerged after the Great Heavenly Calamity, when immortal arts could no longer be cultivated together.

As his Divine Sense touched the Jade Slip, countless words and images flooded into Li Fan's mind like a tidal wave.

It was Li Fan's first time reading a Jade Slip, and he was still somewhat unaccustomed to it.

It felt as though a great deal of information had been forcibly crammed into his brain, making his temples throb faintly.

Fortunately, his Divine Sense was far stronger than that of an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator. He quickly adapted and returned to normal.

He immediately calmed his mind and carefully studied the cultivation technique.

After a long while, Li Fan finally gained a rough understanding of it.

The Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter was the cultivation technique practiced by the Ancient Heavenly Mystery Sect.

In Ancient Times, Heaven and Man Unity was held in high regard.

The Heavenly Mystery Sect believed that all things between heaven and earth, like humans, possessed their own thoughts.

Such things were difficult to perceive by ordinary means.

Yet just as killing intent would spread when a person harbored murderous thoughts, all things between heaven and earth would also occasionally emit faint traces of their own aura.

When heaven unleashed killing intent, all things withered, and stars shifted from their courses.

When earth unleashed killing intent, azure seas turned to mulberry fields, and dragons and snakes rose upon the land.

By capturing and refining the various auras between heaven and earth, one could trace them back to their source, resonate with them, and attain the realm of unity.

The Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter was precisely a cultivation technique for sensing and refining such auras for one's own use.

Once this technique was mastered, one could not only borrow Heaven and Earth Killing Intent to harm others, but also use aura-based deductions to calculate and predict the future.

This cultivation technique was powerful. But it was also extremely dangerous to cultivate.

The will of heaven and earth was vast beyond measure. Even the slightest aura it stirred was hundreds or thousands of times stronger than a cultivator.

Recklessly coming into contact with it could easily result in being injured by the aura itself.

One might even be assimilated without realizing it, becoming a puppet of the will of heaven and earth.

Therefore, when the Ancient Heavenly Mystery Sect cultivated, they did not choose to refine and sense the auras of heaven and earth directly. Instead, they settled for lesser alternatives, employing all sorts of substitute methods.

They nurtured their own killing intent, drew upon the vitality of all things flourishing in spring, and sensed auras from certain spiritual treasures of heaven and earth...

They gathered countless auras to conceal themselves, thereby confusing the heavenly mystery and achieving the goal of sensing the will of heaven and earth.

In theory, upon cultivating this method to its highest realm, one could merge with heaven and earth and transform into the Dao.

Unfortunately, that was only in theory.

In reality, even with such shortcuts, the Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter was still incomparably difficult to cultivate.

The Ancient Heavenly Mystery Sect had endured for ten thousand years, and tens of thousands of cultivators had practiced the Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter.

Yet the highest any had reached was merely the Nascent Soul Realm.

If it had been so even back then, there was even less need to mention the present Cultivation World, where the malice of heaven and earth lurked everywhere.

However, with Return to Truth aiding him, Li Fan did not need to worry too much about the risks of cultivating this technique.

Li Fan pondered for a moment. There was no rush to decide on his primary cultivation technique.

He could first go to Ten Thousand Immortals Island and see what the current Cultivation World was truly like before making plans.

Thus, Li Fan went to the Central Formation on Liuli Island, intending to meet He Zheng Hao.

The moment he arrived outside the formation, he discovered that several servants had already been waiting for quite some time.

Led by the servants, Li Fan met He Zheng Hao once again.

This time, He Zheng Hao was no longer on that towering peak, but on an utterly ordinary little mountain.

Surrounded by mountains, it was completely inconspicuous.

He Zheng Hao was seated in a small pavilion atop the mountain.

"The moment I sensed a disturbance in the island's spiritual energy, I knew you must have broken through."

He Zheng Hao looked at Li Fan with a pleased expression. "Though it took you a little long, you broke through in the end, didn't you?"

"I must thank you for your guidance, Senior," Li Fan said politely.

"It was merely a small effort." Sensing the slight increase in his cultivation, He Zheng Hao said with a smile.

"You came to see me because you wish to go to Ten Thousand Immortals Island?"

"Precisely. I no longer have any mundane ties to worry over, so I can depart at any time." Li Fan nodded.

"Good. In that case, follow me."

With a flash, He Zheng Hao appeared before Li Fan and grabbed his shoulder.

"Do not resist."

He Zheng Hao's voice sounded beside his ear. Hearing this, Li Fan dispersed the spiritual energy that had instinctively risen to protect his body.

Carried by He Zheng Hao, Li Fan rose into the air and flew toward the heavens.

They moved with extreme speed. In the blink of an eye, they pierced through the sea of clouds and arrived above the mountain range.

"Rise!"

He Zheng Hao formed a hand seal with one hand and pointed at the endless mountains below.

A moment later, countless mountain peaks within his field of vision shot out beams of white light. They gathered before He Zheng Hao, forming an enormous sphere of light.

"Open!"

He Zheng Hao pointed upward.

The sphere of light suddenly accelerated, shooting straight upward along the direction He Zheng Hao indicated.

In an instant, it formed a pillar of light that pierced heaven and earth.

It struck the sun in the sky.

The sun's surface twisted, then split apart into two halves.

A teleportation gate formed in the middle.

"Let's go!"