Weaving Bureau
The Yangxiang Marquis's family had made preparations for the calamity. These powerful clans stood at the center of power, holding astonishing resources. Now, this floating immortal island was a mansion with hundreds of acres of land and mansions. The private soldiers, retainers, servants, He Nu guarding the house alone numbered over a thousand, which was about the same as a medium-sized sect.
If one were born into such a top-tier aristocratic family, even if penniless, simply giving their name would allow them to travel the world with ease. Countless disciples, former officials, and powerful local tyrants would fawn over them. Along the way, they could cultivate in pairs with others, receiving free elixirs delivered by express courier. They could easily reach the Nascent Soul Realm official.
But so what?
In times of peace and prosperity, everyone is a respected figure, and people would still give each other some face when they speak. But now that everyone has dropped all pretenses, they naturally no longer need to worry about such empty reputations.
The queen ant's name also contains the word "queen," but ultimately, she's just a larger ant.
In an instant, the Yangxiang Marquis's mansion was razed to the ground.
The Immortal Palace's magic array was breached in almost no time, and the personal guards were swarmed in the face by a wave of magical light, slaughtered and wiped out. The neighbors, in-laws who had formed a stronghold for self-defense, their devoted allies, and other members of the collateral branches were also affected and all were tragically wiped out.
The servants and attendants in the Marquis's mansion fled in panic, like monkeys in a tree. The high and mighty cultivators naturally didn't care about the lives of these ants, but those scions of powerful families with some cultivation couldn't escape. Every single one of them was grabbed by the Golden Rope, chains, iron claws, hooks, pouches, and treasure bottles thrown down from the blood-red clouds in the sky. They couldn't even think about slipping away from the nose of this master who was a cultivator of all ranks.
The current Minister of Works, Yangxiang Marquis, was the first to be targeted. He didn't even have a chance to escape before a group of "Blood Record Devil Sect's Guardian Demons" stormed into his mansion and tore him into seven or eight pieces on the spot. In the end, the "Blood Demon" who got his head smashed his skull to death, and even peeled off his face and threw it onto the plaque of Yangxiang Marquis's mansion, covering up the words. His soul couldn't escape either; it was already captured by a sky lantern and tortured in the raging fire to find out the whereabouts of the Wanyu Silkworm.
As for the other sons of dukes and marquises, uncles and brothers, young ladies and wives, they didn't even have a chance to cry out for mercy. They were captured on the spot and executed on the spot. A group of demons in the blood cloud pointed and pointed at them. If they pointed at someone who was destined to die, they would be turned into minced meat by divine light. If they pointed at someone who was destined to die, evil demons would come up and rip out their heart.
Then, Fourth Department bloody light enveloped the scene of slaughter. No matter what kind of noble lady, princess, young master, or noble lord you were, in the blink of an eye, you were all decapitated, your limbs shattered, your skin peeled off, and torn into gourd-like strips. Your soul was sealed in your flesh with blood talismans, and you screamed for seven days before your soul was scattered and your spirit was gone.
The Marquis's mansion was thoroughly excavated, even the Ancestral Hall was destroyed, and every brick and tile was dismantled as if the land had been plowed. All the family's treasured gold and silver heirlooms were dug out, and whoever found them first got to keep them, and they were divided up cleanly on the spot.
Li Fan stood by, arms crossed, watching.
Yes, this is the standard procedure for the annihilation of a demonic cult.
Blood for blood, tooth for tooth. After all, as everyone just saw, it was the Immortal Palace that struck first.
However, speaking of which, the Demon Palace likes beheadings, the Demonic Cult has a penchant for skinning, and the Demonic Sect mainly depends on the personal preferences of its leader.
For example, some were used for alchemy, some for crafting artifacts, and Ink Bamboo Mountain mostly used them as a snack with wine. Now that Li Fan has taken over, they are generally planted in the Mozhu Mountain Epiphyllum Forest.
However, compared to this, the Sword Ancestor Xuantian is truly a rare gentleman. He killed you with a single sword strike and that was it; he didn't bother with all those strange and unusual tricks...
Alas, what a chaotic world! This is the chaotic world of the Taiji Immortal Realm. This is how the Three Great Sects fight each other. If you don't like it, don't play.
If it were when he was a child, and had just transmigrated, his compassion was overflowing, and his values clashed with his own, Li Fan might have intervened and intervened, at least sparing two children smaller than a car hood, rather than going too far as to wipe out the entire family.
However, after seeing and calculating for so many years, his thinking has indeed become more rational. When faced with a situation, he calculates first and then acts, understanding the cause and effect before taking action. So now, unless it's a mortal suffering a disaster, he basically doesn't pay much attention to others who are cultivating immortality or undergoing tribulations.
To be honest, nine out of ten of these nobles and kings of the Three Enclosures don't treat commoners and servants as human beings. Even if they aren't the kind of inhuman scum like those in the Ziwei Yuan, most of them are the kind of people who think, "My master is kind-hearted and can't bear to see people suffer. Quickly drive these stinking beggars away so they don't die at the gate."
Over time, this accumulation will eventually lead to accidentally stepping on and killing a couple of ants. In this way, who isn't burdened with countless blood debts and whose home is filled with wronged spirits? After seeing and calculating so many cases, Li Fan became less sentimental.
At this moment, he casually calculated with his fingers and saw that the Yangxiang Marquis's family was also a bunch of wicked people whose fate had run out and deserved to suffer a calamity. Looking at the flower field that had been dug up in the courtyard, there were also many white bones buried there to be used as fertilizer. They were probably all pitiful worms who lost their lives for breaking teacups or seducing the young master. So he was too lazy to bother with the Marquis's affairs anymore.
So, while the 'Devil Sect Dharma Protector' were skinning the entire Yangxiang Marquis and hanging their skins on flagpoles, displaying a hundred blood banners to show that we were truly members of the Demonic Cult, Li Fan took out his Si Nan, made hand seals, and rushed into the mansion to search for the whereabouts of the Immortal Silkworm.
There's never too much of a strategic resource like Wanyu Silk. The fact that Divine Transformation have come this time suggests that Yuntai Peak had already planned to seize the treasure of the Weaving Bureau.
However, the fact that he wasn't invited to share in such a good thing clearly shows that they look down on the nouveau riche of Ink Bamboo Mountain. If he doesn't fight for it now, he probably won't even get a share.
With the help of the Si Nan and the system, and having gained an early advantage, Li Fan managed to find the Weaving Bureau first.
Yes, that includes the entire Weaving Bureau.
This is a complete magical artifact. According to the secrets passed down within the Inner Sect of Emei, it was originally the silkworm cocoon of an ancient spirit insect clan. After being modified by the Immortal Palace and the company, it looks from the outside like an ancient-style pavilion hidden in the palace of a marquis's mansion. Even when Li Fan himself used his Divine Sense to search for it, he did not find anything unusual from the outside, nor did he find any eye-catching arrangements such as spiritual energy arrays.
In fact, if the system hadn't prompted him to 'detect subspace signal,' he would have thought he had used the wrong Si Nan again.
So where is the door?
Li Fan wandered around the attic bedrooms, and no matter whether his eyes were open or closed, they all looked like ordinary guest rooms.
'This is a subspace gap folded from a higher dimension, but it's more stable than a typical subspace rift. There must be equipment maintaining its balance inside the subspace. It's not local company technology; it's likely alien insectoid technology.'
"A simpler and more direct method would be to open the black hole's domain, forcibly disrupting the higher-dimensional balance and tearing open this gap. However, this carries the risk of destroying the entire subspace. Anything hidden inside might collapse and be destroyed."
"Perhaps I can transform into Wanyu and mimic Nanxin's biosignals to try and trick the door open?"
"It's probably not that simple. Those aren't just four-dimensional beings. You can't simulate the physical characteristics of a superdimensional being using only material things. It's safer to wait until those people get the key to the Immortal Palace and Door Opening."
'Yes, since they can reliably produce large quantities of fairy silk, there must be a 'key' to it.'
While giving Li Fan advice, the system projected and marked the extent of the spatial rift for him.
Li Fan calculated and observed at the same time, and found that there was really no particularly good way.
As the system says, its Tai Sha Star Core, due to its special properties, can now generate a special closed string field. With the assistance of the system chip, it can receive, scan, and process data signals within eleven dimensions.
However, Li Fan's method of Tai Su transformation has its limitations; he can only transform and create things Non-Thing that can exist in the material world.
To put it bluntly, even if the model is made according to Qin Nanxin's Dao body, Qin Nanxin is only at the first stage of the Heavenly Silkworm Skill and has not yet evolved to the complete form, so the data collection is really slow.
Therefore, what is created in this way is merely a strange insect resembling a moth, just like those Non-Thing demon gods. The Wanyu Insect is simply a 'projection' of those subspace insect races in the Taiji Realm.
However, Li Fan still gave it a try, since he already knew Qin Nanxin's Dao body very well. So he casually grabbed a handful of dust, rubbed and kneaded it in his palm, and made a chubby, fluffy, and rather cute multi-legged moth clone.
' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the Wanyu Dao Body (Beginner Level), consuming 200 points of his maximum mood.'
'Li Fan's current mood, 3k/210k'
Yes, you read that right. In the ten years that Li Fan has been stationed at Ink Bamboo Mountain, he has defeated over a hundred demon gods. With the combined boost from the sect's great calamity and the destruction of the mountain and temple, his mood cap has already exceeded 200k...
Of course, Li Fan's mood-boosting speed isn't slow either. Although he's currently being tricked by the "calm down" strategy, only getting a tiny bit of mood increase after defeating a Nascent Divine Transformation, he still gains increased baleful energy through Li Fan nightly Moon Worship and Devouring of the Primordial Demon Devil Domain. Furthermore, successfully completing life skills like solving math problems, crafting talismans, and refining pills also grants a small amount of mood boost. Now everyone understands why he's been frantically grinding through math problems...
In short, Li Fan can probably generate 60k-80k mood points per year, so even though his mood cap is ridiculously high, he's still managed to participate in the lottery seven or eight times. However, all these years, he's used the lottery to buy various equipment for the system to improve the technological strength of Ink Bamboo Mountain and to build the Celestial Immortal Base and fishing grounds. Although he's mostly buying secondhand civilian goods and junk discarded by the company, technological advancement can't be rushed. You need at least a vehicle to overtake others, right?
In short, Li Fan casually tossed the moth clone into the attic and saw where it would fly off to.
Then I saw the moth fluttering and crashing into the palace lantern, like a moth drawn to a flame? But the lantern wasn't lit yet... Oh right...
Li Fan stepped forward and examined it. The palace lantern candlestick was carved and cast in brass. The mold was in the shape of a maid kneeling and holding a lantern. There was no candle or oil in the lampshade. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that there was not even any soot. It looked like a brand new object, an unused decoration.
Li Fan tried to rub a little flame, but obviously ordinary fire couldn't open the passage. He then tried using true yang fire, but that didn't seem to work either. However, Li Fan noticed that there were two special slits in the lampshade. When illuminated by the firelight, they formed interlacing light and dark interference fringes on the wall not far away, looking like a grating door from a distance.
Is it a technique similar to 'mystical arts'?
However, it seems the wavelength is incorrect. Although he found the 'door,' Li Fan still can't enter the Weaving Bureau. It probably requires a specific wavelength of light radiation to activate the signal. So, a key is indeed needed...
Looking at the moths flitting about, a thought suddenly flashed through Li Fan's mind.
The fact that Emei could directly ascend to immortality through the Heavenly Silkworm means they must have had direct contact with the Wanyu Immortal Insect. Their ascension from the Golden Summit should also be similar, escaping into a subspace rift. Perhaps Emei's Daoist practices contain a 'key' needed to access the Immortal Insect's remains, or more specifically, a 'celestial fire' capable of generating specific wavelengths of radiant light... Emei's celestial fire... and so on!
Li Fan's mind raced, and he suddenly remembered something.
He had actually seen Emei's unique immortal fire with his own eyes!
The Daoist formula at that time was indeed...
"Water, fire, wind, and thunder, without form or attachment; all heavenly dragons, without delusion or demonic influence, silently proving emptiness, the mind unmoved, enduring all suffering, heaven and man in harmony, the three gods returning to one, the body itself becoming Bodhi, the nine heavenly treasures, the South Bright Li Fire."
Then a tiny blue flame, the size of a lamp wick, flew from Li Fan's fingertip and landed inside the lampshade.
Although it is almost powerless compared to the power of Han the Divine Lord back then, when it comes to Daoist magic and supernatural powers, strength is not important, effectiveness is the most important!
A flash of blue light appeared, and a thin, elongated blue arc of light appeared within the light grid on the wall!
Li Fan seized the opportunity, manipulating his moth clones to charge headlong into the arc of light and plunge into the gap!
They've entered! The Weaving Bureau! No, the Wanyu Immortal Realm!
Upon entering this plane, Li Fan understood why Emei wanted to move here.
The Immortal Realm, truly the Immortal Realm! To this day, Li Fan has cultivated not only in many secret realms and grotto-heavens of the Taiji Realm Tai Su Realm, but also in many heavens of the Taisu Realm, and has never seen a space as dense with Dao Breath as the Wanyu Immortal Realm.
This place is simply unsuitable for human habitation. The spiritual energy is completely viscous, in a state of high-concentration elixir, as if you've been soaked in a spiritual Spiritual Spring. Immortal energy and Daoist Dao Breath spray out and pour in from every pore of your body. Forget about cultivation, it's the kind of thing that could burst a person!
The moth clone that Li Fan conjured exploded with a snap in the time it takes to take a deep breath! It molted! Molted! Molted! The moth, originally the size of a thumb, rapidly transformed into a cicada in an instant! It visibly grew to the length of an adult male!
He broke through to the Golden Core, reached the Perfect Golden Core stage, and then the Nascent Soul Realm!
' Wanyu Dao Body (Beginner) evolves, breaking through to the Golden Core Realm; Mood cap increases by 200 points.'
' Wanyu Dao Body (Beginner) has undergone a super evolution, breaking through to the Golden Core Perfection stage, increasing the maximum mood score by 500 points.'
' Wanyu Dao Body (Beginner) has undergone ultimate evolution, breaking through the Nascent Soul Realm, and increasing the maximum mood point by 1200.'
' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the Wanyu Dao Body (First Rebirth)! His mood cap has increased by 1200 points!'
' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the Wanyu Dao Body (Second Rebirth)! His mood cap has increased by 1200 points!'
' Li Fan has successfully cultivated the Wanyu Dao Body (Third Reincarnation)! His mood cap has increased by 1200 points!'
'Li Fan, current mood: 3k/215.5k'
Good heavens, it's not a little fat moth anymore, it's a huge fat moth the size of a person.
Li Fan was also sweating bullets.
Fortunately, he was in a good mood, his three flowers were blooming freely, and he had learned the Emei Heavenly Silkworm Skill after just one glance, so he could forcefully break through. Otherwise, this moth clone would have been burst apart by the surging immortal energy as soon as it entered the room.
However, he actually rushed all the way to the third stage of the Heavenly Silkworm Skill before stopping. Li Fan used the system to collect data and model it, and made calculations for his moth clone.
According to the Heavenly Silkworm Skill's setting, the fifth stage is invincible in the Nascent Soul Realm, the seventh stage is among the top in enlightenment, and the ninth stage is direct ascension. Qin Nanxin, the current reference point, is only at the first stage. It took her ten years to refine and perfect it, allowing her to freely switch between human and moth forms. However, she is already a top-tier expert in the True Person realm within the Xuanmen.
Li Fan has already broken through to the third stage of cultivation with just a few breaths upon entering the gate. If he continues to cultivate at this speed, it will only be a matter of time before he reaches the fifth, sixth, seventh, or eighth stage.
While Li Fan's incredible speed of evolution certainly contributed to this, it must be said that the basic conditions and cultivation environment of Wanyu Heaven are simply too good. No wonder Emei has become so arrogant...