What Is an Immortal?

Upon hearing Li Fan agree to accept the two artifacts, Huo Ling'er and Mu Qianning were overjoyed, thinking that they had finally done something that suited Senior Li's wishes...

But they had never expected that Li Fan would turn around and give them to Ziling and Nan Feng?

They were both utterly astonished.

However, after thinking it over, they were relieved.

What kind of person was Senior Li? How could he possibly need mere immortal artifacts?

He could only have intended to give them to his disciples to use...

At that thought, they could not help feeling envious of Ziling and Nan Feng.

Although they could also receive some of Senior Li's favor, how could that compare with learning at Senior Li's side?

To be able to remain at Senior Li's side—that was the true supreme immortal path!

"Thank you, thank you, Teacher!"

Nan Feng and Ziling were even more excited as they spoke!

They each took the brush and qin.

As the immortal artifacts entered their hands, they both fell into a daze, unable to believe it.

How many people had Three Absolutes Holy Land sent into Cangli Mountain Range in the past? Too many to count. Yet in the end, they had all met with failure, sinking like weapons into sand, without even uncovering the slightest trace of news.

But now, they had obtained them with ease...

With Teacher beside them, so many things truly became this easy...

"By the way, Senior, there are several seniors outside who also participated in this matter. They have long wished to pay their respects to you. I wonder if you would be willing to receive them?"

At that moment, Mu Qianning asked.

Upon hearing this, Li Fan immediately understood.

It seemed that the calligraphy and paintings he had given Huo Ling'er and the others this time had indeed attracted some attention at the calligraphy and painting exhibition.

That was why more people were willing to come...

Could this count as becoming famous?

A trace of delight also rose in his heart. He said, "Since they have come, invite them in."

Huo Ling'er immediately bowed, then withdrew.

"Three seniors, Senior Li has agreed to receive you."

She spoke to the three people waiting outside.

At once, delighted expressions appeared on their faces.

This senior was willing to receive them!

They all hurried forward.

They walked into the Small Courtyard.

"What a terrifying aura... It feels as though this place is filled everywhere with peerless, terrifying existences. I seem like nothing more than an ant..."

Lingchao Supreme murmured, sensing the Dao Rhyme and Dao laws faintly surging like a boundless ocean.

"This... this place... contains so many..."

Yuanyang Supreme swept his gaze around. When he saw the flock of native chickens and the goldfish in the pond... he was rendered speechless, staring blankly in shock.

As for the white-haired woman, she had already stopped in a daze.

Her entire being seemed to have lost its soul.

"The immortal path... the supreme immortal path..."

"It is here..."

She stared blankly at Li Fan. Suddenly, she fell to her knees with a thump!

At the sight of this, Lingchao Supreme and Yuanyang Supreme were even more shocked.

This was a quasi-immortal... yet she had actually knelt down without hesitation?

What was the background of this existence?

The two exchanged a glance and, without the slightest hesitation, knelt down as well!

Li Fan was instantly thrown into chaos.

Damn, what... what was going on?

They knelt the moment they met?

These calligraphy and painting enthusiasts were truly more outrageous than the last!

Huo Ling'er and the others beside her subconsciously opened their small mouths wide.

The identities of these three people stood at the highest clouds of the entire Profound Heaven Realm... one quasi-immortal and two Holy Lords!

Yet they had knelt the moment they met.

Their expressions became complicated.

Everyone present was utterly astonished. Only after finally coming back to himself did Li Fan say, "There is no need for such courtesy. Please, rise quickly!"

To the three of them, Li Fan's words sounded like an supreme imperial decree. An unseen force seemed to compel them to rise.

"...Senior's attainments reach the heights of creation. A single calligraphy work made us kneel and worship. Now that we have met Senior, even if we died, we would have no regrets!"

Lingchao Supreme spoke from the bottom of his heart.

"Throughout heaven and earth, it is difficult to find a figure like Senior. To have the good fortune to meet you—what greater fortune could there be? What greater fortune could there be!"

Yuanyang Supreme spoke as well.

Li Fan smiled and said, "The two of you flatter me. I merely understand a few minor paths. How could I accept such praise from all of you?"

Upon hearing this, the two of them became even more awestruck.

This was a true peerless master—living in seclusion amid the mortal world's winding lanes, free and transcendent, humble and easygoing.

The Great Dao that even Immortals could not touch was, in the eyes of such a peerless great power, merely "a few minor paths."

"Senior... may I... follow at your side and listen to your teachings?"

At that moment, the white-haired woman spoke.

For the first time, a nervous, uneasy expression appeared on her originally stern face.

Although she had been a quasi-immortal for countless years and had become an existence supreme throughout the Profound Heaven Realm, the existence before her was too terrifying, something she could only look up to. Thus, she could not help feeling nervous.

Upon hearing this, Li Fan's brows drew together slightly.

Why had another person come to take him as her teacher?

He had no interest in that...

"Senior... this time, it was all thanks to her efforts that things went smoothly. In order to come and seek Senior's guidance, she even gave up a great opportunity..."

Mu Qianning could not help speaking up for the white-haired woman.

It had been the white-haired woman who first entered the Ascension Platform and drew out the True Immortal.

After the True Immortal died, she had not even collected the True Immortal's blood, choosing instead to come pay her respects to Li Fan.

It could be said that her Dao heart was extraordinarily firm.

Mu Qianning truly could not bear to see her rejected.

Upon hearing this, Li Fan could not help sighing. It seemed this was another infatuated one.

He then said, "I will not be accepting disciples for the time being. However, in consideration of your firm Dao heart, I can clear up one or two of your doubts. What would you like to ask?"

Hearing this, the white-haired woman was deeply disappointed, yet at the same time, extremely excited!

She knew that although she could not remain at this senior's side, she had still obtained an opportunity that was exceedingly rare in this world!

To receive answers from someone of this stature... What a precious opportunity this was!

What should she ask?

She absolutely had to think it through!

For a moment, countless thoughts flashed through her mind.

Seeing her hesitate for a long while, Li Fan smiled and said, "There is no need to be nervous. Meeting is fate. Just ask whatever you wish."

He could understand the woman's state of mind. Before transmigrating, when he had been studying, if he wanted to ask a teacher a question, he would have to deliberate again and again, afraid that the teacher might think he was an idiot.

This woman was so obsessed with this path that she would certainly care even more.

The woman nodded at his words, took a deep breath, and finally selected the question she cared about most. "May I ask, Senior... what is an Immortal?"

An Immortal!

The moment this question was asked, Yuanyang Supreme and Lingchao Supreme also became intensely attentive!

Li Fan was slightly startled.

An Immortal?

He was not a cultivator. How would he know what an Immortal was?

However, the other party was clearly not asking about cultivation. Thus, she was obviously asking about the realm of calligraphy and painting.

At this thought, he smiled faintly and said, "An Immortal is all living beings."

Everyone's expressions shifted as they listened in silence.

"A blade of grass, a grain of sand, a cicada... all are Immortals."

"To mortal eyes, everything is naturally ordinary. But true transcendence, the true Immortal, is hidden within the ordinary."

"If you wish to enter the Dao, you must first recognize the ordinary."

"To understand what white is, you must first understand what black is. To understand what is right, you must first understand what is wrong."

"Therefore, if you wish to understand what an Immortal is, you must first understand what is ordinary."

He spoke at length.

In reality, this was why he had made Ziling repeatedly draw a single egg.

One had to use one's true eyes to see, to see through the laws hidden behind ordinary things.

Only in this way could one truly enter the Dao, whether in calligraphy or painting.

Upon hearing this, the woman fell into deep thought.

"To understand what white is, I must understand what black is... To understand what an Immortal is, I must understand what a mortal is..."

In her daze, she seemed to understand something.

Was this the reason this senior had secluded himself within the ordinary?

Ever since becoming a quasi-immortal, she had remained hidden within Profound Ice, believing that only in this way could she nurture an immaculate immortal heart. Could it be that she had actually gone south while facing north and taken the wrong path?

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she had wasted these nearly thousand years of her life, allowing them all to drain away in vain.

"I think I understand."

She murmured, took a deep breath, and said, "Thank you for your guidance, Senior!"

Li Fan waved his hand. "It was nothing more than a small effort."

"Everyone, don't just stand there. As it happens, several peaches in my courtyard have ripened over the past few days. I shall use them to entertain you all."

Li Fan smiled.

Some of the fruit on the peach tree had already ripened. It was just right for letting Huo Ling'er and the others taste them as well.

Everyone looked toward the peach tree, but they all froze in an instant.

W-with these peaches... he was going to entertain them?!