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When Li Fan opened his eyes again, he saw an unfamiliar ceiling, cough cough, and a clear blue sky. He was lying in a snowfield, with the towering Yinshan Mountain behind him.

For a moment, Li Fan thought he had been soaking in the bath for too long and that Yuntai Peak had thrown him out.

He stared blankly for three or four seconds, as if he were opening his eyes early every Monday morning, realizing he had to go to work, and desperately trying to recall what the hell he had done on the weekend. He struggled to organize his thoughts until many memories flooded his mind like a tide. Then, looking at his pale hands, almost the same color as the snow and with an ivory-like texture, he gradually understood.

Daoist Qiongqi woke up.

Perhaps it was because he ate too much at the banquet with his fellow disciples from Moshan that night, that Tai Xuan Nascent Soul Stage, who had been destroyed once in Guigu, regained consciousness. And without any doubt, he suppressed the many Tai Su Dao Body in this body and reshaped the white evil energy Dao body that he had spat out into a human form.

Moreover, everyone is probably familiar with Daoist Qiongqi's style of rule; he is not as magnanimous and benevolent as Gui Xu Nascent Soul.

Li Fan glanced into the Divine Court and saw a Daoist in white robes, still looking like he was fifteen or sixteen years old. However, his eyes were filled with a murderous aura, and his golden tiger eyes were even more ferocious and terrifying. He had a nine-headed Guiche the size of a crow on his shoulder and held Blood Infant that was fast asleep after eating its fill in his hands. He sat on a black lotus platform.

Five skull and bone swords stood in a row behind them, clearly carved on the spot by the Five Mountain Gods. Gonggong's long bone spear and Fuli's double bone knives were still under construction. Three fish hid in a corner, afraid to approach, lest they be bitten into fish bones and used as throwing knives...

However, since he broke through normally using the Three Flowers method, Li Fan was able to control the Tai Xuan Nascent Soul Stage without any obstacles. He pulled out the Mountain God White Bone Sword from his back and examined it, feeling the fear and pleading signals transmitted by the Mountain God.

Fortunately, Qiongqi only ate all the meat and drained its true essence. As long as it doesn't take the bone sword and fight against something at the level of Blood God Child, it can still be repaired later. It's good that it didn't waste his mood points.

Then Li Fan examined the Dao body constructed by Daoist Qiongqi.

To some extent, the Tai Xuan Dao truly has unique insights into opening up new worlds and researching new substances. Qiongqi has already modeled its storm based on Yang Ying's model, establishing a cycle of Black and White Evil Qi within its body. Of course, it's still very rudimentary. If Yang Ying's was a tropical storm, Qiongqi's is at most atmospheric convection. However, at least this Dao body can control evil energy, and Qiongqi's original form's innate ability can also control gales. With the added power from various Dao bodies, it at least has some self-defense capabilities.

During this internal physical examination, Li Fan and Qiongqi's memories were also fully integrated.

While Li Fan was still watching the mountain lord being brutally beaten from the earthen mound, Qiongqi, the creature whose spine often tingled and whose fur stood on end, had already given a heads-up and decisively finished eating and made a run for it. Xueying also dared not get close to those Xuanmen Daojuns, so it retreated as well. Thus, the two of them managed to cross to the other side of Yinshan before Yuntai Peak entered the arena, and were then buried by an avalanche, thus escaping a calamity.

So, is this the north side of Yinshan Mountain...?

Li Fan stood up and turned to look behind him. He could still vaguely see a seven-colored light shining on the other side of the mountain, illuminating the snow-capped peak with various colors. It seemed that Yuntai Peak was still near Shuofang. Perhaps that Grand Tutor really intended to relocate the soldiers and civilians of the northern border garrison back to the Central Plains to make up for the losses in the Kun Country's war. Perhaps compared to becoming slaves of the Hu Barbarians and refugees worshipping the Yellow Heaven, finally being able to return to the Central Plains was already a good ending.

But Li Fan definitely can't head south now to reunite with his main body. Given the Xuanmen's style, they'd likely just smash him to pieces without a second thought. He can only temporarily head north to avoid them, waiting until the system is back online to confirm his safety.

To avoid revealing his whereabouts, Li Fan used a technique from the <Tai Xuan Scripture>, transforming himself into the wind, like a faint white mist, drifting along the snow towards the northern border.

Along the way, Li Fan occasionally spotted gatherings of what appeared to be Hu Barbarians tribes or groups of demonic beasts within his Divine Sense range. He tried to keep a low profile, taking detours to avoid them and drifting towards uninhabited areas. However, for some reason, he didn't receive any system notifications even after flying for a long time.

As dusk approached, Li Fan had reached the uninhabited icy plains, where there were definitely no monsters left, yet he still hadn't heard the system's online notification. He couldn't help but begin to suspect that if there wasn't some source of signal interference nearby, then there was only one possibility.

Only Li Fan's main body was contracted with the system; this clone of Daoist Qiongqi was not included in the system's contract.

However, the Blood Infant is half created by the system's code, so the system should be able to locate it. Perhaps trying to Moon Worship could help re-establish contact with the system?

After much deliberation, Li Fan felt that he had accumulated a large amount of intelligence, including information about Xuan Tian, Manifestation, and Mo Shan. Since his main body was currently recuperating at Yuntai Peak and unable to be contacted, he should indeed communicate with the system to confirm the strategy for future actions.

So he found an iceberg, revealed his form, and used his powerful winds to carve a statue of Qiongqi, the Celestial Devil Statue, in preparation for attempting to Moon Worship.

However, to Li Fan's utter surprise, when the False Moon shone down and the purple moonlight shone on the ice tiger, Li Fan stared at the Moon for a long time, but did not enter the Void Abyss!

Of course, he could feel the baleful energy being generated around him and being absorbed into his body, but Li Fan did not leave his body, nor did he fly or physically traverse the icy plains. He simply sat on the ice plains and Moon Worship to cultivate!

What's going on...? Why can't Moon Worship go to the Tai Su Realm anymore??

Li Fan kept blinking, crossing his eyes, and rolling his eyes at False Moon, but it was all in vain. Gradually, Li Fan calmed down and realized that this Qiongqi Dao Body was vastly different from his original body.

For some reason, although the same consciousness was in control, this Dao body was merely Moon Worship the Moon Worship. According to the Mo Shan lineage, he was Moon Worship, but without 'Moon Worship into a dream and flying across the Void Abyss'.

Of course, it might not be impossible. In fact, according to Mo Shan's cultivation notes, Moon Worship should actually be like this: cultivating at night, absorbing evil energy, and refining the body and skills.

Entering a dream to cross the Tai Su Realm is actually an extremely rare and dangerous accidental occurrence; in a sense, it's a case of 'cultivation going mad'. Li Fan had previously read his notes and always assumed it was due to the dullness of the Mo Shan disciples, so he didn't take it seriously. But after all this time, even with a different body, he really can't successfully cross the Moon Worship every time like Li Fan original self?

But this left Li Fan somewhat speechless.

Who would have thought that his 'Li Yi' body would actually possess such a bizarre and rare genius Dao body? Logically speaking, shouldn't this Qiongqi Four Fiends clone's inheritance from the Tai Xuan Dao Daoist be quite good? So why can't it freely enter and exit the Tai Su Realm?

Furthermore, thinking about it this way, if this body hadn't signed a contract with the system, wouldn't it also lack the special emotional defense of 'calm down'?

So actually, his original form is the most ridiculous one... It's a good thing he didn't undergo physical transformation, otherwise he would have suffered a huge loss...

Is a sixty-year royal mandate really that powerful? Then why are the princes and nobles of the Immortal Palace so weak? Or does 'Li Yi' have some other particularly powerful hidden passive ability that's truly perfect for the Tai Su Dao cultivation, allowing him to fly every night?

Li Fan was now completely bewildered. He hadn't expected to have transmigrated for so many years. Just a couple of days ago, he thought the game was about to end, but it took him ages to finish the tutorial and watch the opening animation! What the heck? Was the game only starting after he reached the level cap?

These unsolved mysteries, deep-seated hatreds, and the exploration of maps and epic quests are actually getting more and more freaking...

Li Fan was a little tired for a moment, but he now genuinely had two Nascent Soul Stage accounts, so he wasn't at the point where he couldn't play anymore. If he failed to Moon Worship tonight, he wouldn't fail every time. Even if all else failed, Qiongqi's clone was outside the system's radar, which might be a backup plan, right? In any case, he couldn't keep acting so recklessly. He should learn to manifest, be a little more insidious, and develop his strength cautiously for safety.

So Li Fan temporarily composed himself and began to True Cultivator to adapt to Qiongqi's Dao body.

As previously confirmed, this Dao body can control baleful energy, but cannot condense the Tai Sha Sword Qi; it can only barely create the Heavenly Ice Armor. The Qiongqi's true form has no problem with the gale force, but the Tai Chi Five Qi cannot be generated naturally. It must hold the Mountain God Bone Sword and borrow the Mountain God's residual true essence and magic power to control the Qi. The biggest weakness is that this Dao body is not very sturdy.

Qiongqi's true form is made of steel and iron, which is why Li Fan hasn't been completely destroyed yet. However, this white, malevolent aura body doesn't have very high physical strength. Forget about using the Four Hundred and Eightyfold Gang Fist. Its only advantage is that it can quickly regenerate if it's broken. It's basically similar to the antelope in terms of attributes.

Since this was practically a new body, Li Fan spent quite a while getting used to it. He tried to imitate Yang Ying's method of using the Black and White Evil Qi, mimicking the Qiankun Flying Dragon Sword Storm, but the effect was really not good. Using Qiongqi's innate Gale Wind was still the most effective way to kill. In short, his combat power had dropped quite a bit; he could only instantly kill some weak Nascent Soul Stage, and he had to be cautious when encountering Daoist disciples from the Xuanmen sect.

For several days in a row, Li Fan would Moon Worship and cultivate immortality at nightfall, and continue his exploration to the north at dawn. Besides wanting to contact the system, he also hoped to see if the Dao Ancestor Youquan was indeed Xuantian. Unfortunately, he never managed to fly out of the snowfield and reach the North Sea, he couldn't go to the Tai Su Realm by Moon Worship, the system remained silent, and Qiongqi was hungry...

Ah, how I miss the days when I could trigger story events just by wandering around, and find magical treasures just by strolling Fourth Department...

After wandering on the icy plains for ten to fifteen days, Li Fan finally discovered something had entered his Divine Sense range one night while he was Moon Worship.

He was so bored that he immediately smashed the Revered Heavenly Demon Ice Statue and transformed into a gust of wind to investigate. Unfortunately, this time it wasn't a connection with immortals, or even with humans, but with demons.

On the vast snow-covered plain, three horses galloped wildly. Two were fighting in front, and one was chasing behind. It seemed that the two were vying for... the right to mate.

Li Fan Fanfei took a closer look and saw that the northern horses were indeed quite robust. The female blue horse was even a head taller than the military horse "Quan Mao Ju" that Gao Ming had given him. Moreover, it was definitely a sentient being. Imagine, a horse that even had delicate features and could put on a sad expression like a human saying, "Please stop fighting!" That was pretty damn impressive...

The two stallions kicking and biting each other in front, one of which was also a wild horse with a blue mane, looked like it might be paired with a mare and probably wanted to keep its mate. However, this guy was clearly at a disadvantage in the fight and was just stubbornly refusing to admit defeat.

Meanwhile, the other beast that gained the upper hand in the fight resembled a horse, but was extremely ferocious. It had a white body and a black tail, tiger teeth and claws, and a sharp horn on its head, somewhat resembling a unicorn. Its roar sounded like the beating of war drums, leaving the blue-maned horse covered in wounds and bloodstains.

Wait... really... it can't be that he changed into a demon body and even the storyline and questline shifted to the Demon Race's side...

Li Fan thought for a moment, then with a gust of wind, he revealed his tiger form, intending to ask these three fellow Demon Race from the demon race where he had wandered off to.

Before he could even speak, the mare cried out in alarm. The blue-maned stallion, though badly beaten, still rushed over to protect him. The one-horned demon horse, however, sniffed the air, its face showing delight, and with a roar, pounced on Li Fan, its clawed hooves aimed straight for Qiongqi's head! It was even drooling!

Wow, this beast has quite the nerve.

Li Fan's figure flickered, transforming into a gust of wind to evade the opponent's leap, then he returned to human form and attempted to communicate, "Fellow Daoist, please wait. I mean no harm, I simply wish to ask for directions..."

With a long neigh, the unicorn horse suddenly charged forward, its sharp horn hurtling straight at Li Fan! It clearly intended to pierce him through!

Judging from the physique and strength of this demon's prototype, it is probably a great demon at the Nascent Soul Realm. Qiongqi is not so patient as to play and wrestle with it. The law of demons is even simpler: eat or be eaten.

So he casually transformed into a gust of wind to dodge a few times, then seized an opportunity, using the wind to transform into claws. One claw slashed through the throat, the other ripped open the abdomen. Appearing and disappearing intermittently, he wielded the wind and used his Tiger Claw Technique to tear and kill wildly. This demon had never seen such a maneuver before and could not resist at all. In just a few rounds, its internal organs, small intestine, heart, liver, and lungs were all pulled out and torn apart. With a mournful cry, it collapsed to the ground and could not get up.

Li Fan subconsciously licked his hand, then realized what he was doing, suppressed his thirst, and tried to communicate with the two blue horses in the Hu language.

"Where is this? How far is it from Yinshan? How far is it from the North Pole Ruins? If you don't answer, I'll eat you all!"

These two horses were indeed demonic creatures; they were quite genuine. The stallion even spoke in human language.

"Yinshan, three days, Arctic, three years."

Li Fan frowned and repeated, "It would take you three days to run from here to Yinshan, but three years to reach the North Pole?"

The stallion nodded.

"Alright, you can leave now." Li Fan nodded and waved for them to leave.

Two blue horses galloped away in a flash, treading on the snow as if a strong wind had swept through, and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Li Fan wasn't in a hurry. He transformed into Qiongqi and ate the unicorn first. Anyway, he had already memorized the scent of the two foals. This was just a small appetizer to whet his appetite before he went to find the herd.