Azure Heaven
Li Fuchan had already appeared before the Nian Renshang.
The Nian Renshang looked at the young man who, despite the influence of the Human Reversal, could still appear so calmly before him, and his eyes widened in surprise. "I thought that Thunder Cultivator from Six Hundred Years was already the pinnacle of cultivators outside, but I didn't expect there to be someone like you. How did you deduce our existence?"
Li Fuchan met his gaze and said calmly, "It's just that you were too domineering and confident, blatantly writing your scheming into your Hegemonic Art."
Momentum governs the flow of time and the terrain, using the overall momentum to govern the world. When people use it, it enhances six transformations: Military Formation, Breaking the Vanguard, Coercion, Overwhelming, Borrowing Fortune, Assimilation.
Whose luck are we borrowing?
Assimilation whom?
He had personally witnessed the Ancient Arts in the Flying Earthworm Cave that allowed one to cultivate oneself into a Pill Material, and he had seen Fei Yiming's Method Formula of refining himself into a Spirit Object. Therefore, he was exceptionally perceptive to such methods.
After easily obtaining the Hegemonic Art that Nian Renshang, he had some suspicions.
The one who is being Assimilation through this Borrowing Fortune is probably someone else entirely.
His guess was even bolder; he had long wondered if there might be someone who hoped to let some Celestial Person cultivate their Hegemonic Art.
When those Celestial Person stir up the great forces within the Blessed Land, forming alliances and unifying the Three Kingdoms, and when the great forces accumulate to their peak, that person in the shadows will emerge to reap the rewards.
His conjecture was based on the fact that the River Kingdom's Book Collection Pavilion did not contain detailed methods for cultivating the art of law, demonstrating the extremely strict control that all nations exercised over the cultivation of Hegemonic Art. Yet, he easily found the methods for cultivating the art of power in the Year Kingdom's Book Collection Pavilion, as if they had been prepared specifically for him.
No, it's prepared for all Celestial Person who might be interested in the Hegemonic Art.
He just hadn't expected that the person he had imagined would actually be the Nian Renshang from Six Hundred Years. But with Human Reversal, such a thing wasn't surprising.
Li Fuchan paid close attention to the Thunder Cultivator from over two hundred years ago in the Nian Renshang, thinking to himself, "It seems that my prediction was correct. Many people have already entered this Blessed Land. Those Celestial Person didn't see through this. They must have cultivated the power prepared for them by the Nian Renshang, and when it reached its peak, they used them as sacrifices."
"However, those people might have wandered in by mistake, as for me..."
Li Fuchan rolled up his sleeves.
The Slender drape made him feel a sense of security he had never felt before.
At this moment, the Nian Renshang, his vast aura pressing down with overwhelming force.
Li Fuchan did not flinch, and Dark Shadow suddenly crashed out from behind him.
The Nian Renshang was slightly taken aback.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Fuchan quickly distanced herself from him.
But this scene, witnessed by the Nian Renshang, was even more alarming than Li Fuchan's ability to get close to him. In this place, retreating meant getting close.
Sure enough, as soon as Li Fuchan regained his footing, the effects of the Human Reversal form immediately took hold.
He clearly moved backward, but in reality, the distance between him and the Nian Renshang was rapidly closing. Li Fuchan's palm was already glowing with the Lesser Yin Spell Light, and a surge of Sword Qi rushed towards him.
The Nian Renshang had recovered from his previous daze.
A surge of black light emanated from his palm, yet his five fingers slowly parted.
Under the influence of the Human Reversal, the black light suddenly contracted in this posture, flowing back from his body and gathering towards his heart.
In the outside world, this palm strike would be a wave of black light, spreading outwards and covering the sky. But here, it collapses inwards, and at the end of the collapse is where Li Fuchan is.
His sword Sword Qi was instantly swallowed up.
Using power to intimidate others is nothing more than this.
Li Fuchan moved unhurriedly, a vertical pupil between his brows stretching his skin and flesh, his double pupils turning, their black and white colors contrasting.
The dark Spell Light, which should have shot outwards, instead flowed backwards into his pupils from the outside.
It was this reversed black light that collided with the black light that Nian Renshang had gathered. Nian Renshang's face turned pale.
This is no longer a simple battle of wits, but a contest of their understanding and control over the Human Reversal.
And yet, he found himself at a disadvantage.
"Have you been here before?"
Li Fuchan opened her eyes, her double pupils closed, leaving only a pair of gray-black eyes coldly staring at him, but she did not answer.
"Hiding in their Blessed Land, thinking they can outsmart everyone in the world, they're nothing but frogs in a well."
However, as he spoke, the Nian Renshang had already deduced some of the truth.
He stood atop the cloud that had been repeatedly crushed and reassembled by the Human Reversal, and said in a deep voice, "Your understanding of the Human Reversal is so profound that you've probably not been here before... There's something about you that's very similar to the Human Reversal. It was through that you that you propelled the Human Reversal's progress."
The greed in his eyes grew stronger.
Ultimately, their ability to act arrogantly and domineeringly in this world, adopting an attitude of scheming against the world, relies solely on the Human Reversal.
Once the Fifth Human Reversal ceases, they will be reverted to their original form and die again, only to awaken once more when the next Fifth Human Reversal arrives.
For over six hundred years, this cycle has repeated itself, relying on the sacrifices of the people to nourish itself, and in the end, what it gains is no more than that of these foreign Celestial Person. This person can see through their existence and cultivation, and is probably no ordinary person in the outside world either.
If they could seize that thing that propels Human Reversal acceleration, perhaps they could transcend it more quickly.
Just as his thoughts were racing, a deep drumbeat echoed from the depths of the dim sky.
"The Wu-Gui Di-Yin Spell Light".
The Spell Light between Li Fuchan's brows no longer receded inward, but suddenly shot outward, the interwoven black and white Spell Light striking directly at Nian Renshang.
The Human Reversal was offset by the "Errant Thunder Drum".
After several tests, Li Fuchan had long known that Human Reversal and Contrary Thunder were not the same. The rebellion of Contrary Thunder was about going against the grain and being violent, while Human Reversal had no reason at all. This kind of rebellion only existed in Blessed Land.
However, it is the best catalyst to trigger the reversal of the Contrary Thunder's power, and can even allow him to activate the Law Treasure without using Law Power.
After all, the "Errant Thunder Drum" doesn't always work. In many cases, the "Errant Thunder Drum" might even turn on its master. For example, if Li Fuchan is determined to kill someone, activating the "Errant Thunder Drum" might allow that person to live under the power of the Contrary Thunder, or it might cause the Contrary Thunder to kill him.
Therefore, he rarely uses this drum in the outside world. However, in the Human-Reversal Blessed Land, he activates the drum very frequently, precisely because of the effect of Human Reversal.
If everything is contrary to what people do, then under the "Errant Thunder Drum", the reversal will be reversed and the right will be achieved, and naturally every activation will be successful.
The Nian Renshang by Li Fuchan's sudden burst of Spell Light, knew he couldn't defeat him quickly and, unwilling to engage in further futile fighting, scattered and vanished into the clouds above.
Li Fuchan did not chase after him, but descended from the clouds.
Below, Wei Xinyun was confronting Wei Shuo. Upon seeing him appear, Wei Shuo immediately made his move without saying a word. Since he could not compete with Li Fuchan when Human Reversal was at his peak, he would settle for second best and just try to restrain Li Fuchan.
Li Fuchan ignored his attack, grabbed Wei Xinyun's wrist, and disappeared into the sky once again.
"This is..."
Wei Xinyun watched the churning clouds so close at hand. The once imposing Nian Renshang and Jiang Bianyan did not rush forward. Instead, they were busy gathering their strength in the distance, leaving them to linger.
Li Fuchan explained, "I have already fought him once. Seeing that I could not defeat him, he stopped pursuing me and is now focusing all his efforts on accumulating power throughout the world, using this power to support himself and the Jiang Bianyan."
"Senior brother, what should we do now?"
Li Fuchan remained calm and said indifferently, "Nothing needs to be done."
"But they..."
They are not important.
Li Fuchan could tell that Wei Xinyun's mind was still preoccupied with the scene just now. The Nian Renshang broke through the sky and came down, while the Jiang Bianyan rose from nothingness and appeared. Six Hundred Years of scheming and power pressed down at the same time. As a direct descendant of the Purple Mansion Direct Lineage, she was used to seeing the adults make their moves with ease, but she had never seen such a breathtaking scene.
In her view, once she entered the Blessed Land, there should be an earth-shattering battle, a fight with Wei Shuo, a fight with these heroes of the Blessed Land, a back-and-forth exchange of blows, listening to their grand pronouncements, and finally, the hero's tragic end, a tragic song to the end.
They had been anticipating the Fifth Human Reversal even before entering the Blessed Land, but now the Fifth Human Reversal has arrived far too hastily. She hadn't even had time to do anything; she had just woken up, and this story was about to come to an end.
And all of this seems to have been driven by the person in front of him.
Li Fuchan shook her head and said, "You're overthinking it."
Wei Xinyun was slightly taken aback, then bowed and said, "Please enlighten me, Senior Brother."
Li Fuchan gazed at the two figures in the sky frantically gathering power and feeding back into themselves, and said calmly, "They are the undisputed heroes of this Blessed Land. They created Hegemonic Art, stole the world, used Human Reversal as Chessboard, and planned every step of the way. Even outsider cultivators who mistakenly entered this place became their prey. For Six Hundred Years, how many people have died with resentment because of them, how many died without ever knowing that they were merely a link in the sacrificial process?"
He paused, his voice devoid of disdain or sigh, "No matter how outstanding a person, how heroic, or Six Hundred Years of scheming and plotting, none of that matters here."
The Human Reversal enough wealth, and the chaos in the Blessed Land became a reality at this moment.
Wei Xinyun seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky.
A rolling purple qi arrives from the east.
The Purple Mansion Lord has arrived. (Clang)
A sword's cry resounded throughout the heavens and earth.
Amidst the billowing purple qi, a sliver of sky appears.
The Azure Heaven has returned.
Li Fuchan withdrew her gaze.
From the moment he entered the Blessed Land, he never cared about any scheming or conspiracy. Everything he did was simply to prove his abilities.
Whether it's Jiang Huai, the Regent King, or the Three Ancestors of the Blessed Land, among all the heroes and outstanding figures in the world, there is only one kind of person.
The Purple Mansion Lord.
Boundless ambition burst forth from Li Fuchan's lowered eyes.