He soon forgot the one who had offered the treasure; Baili Shan’s attention was wholly captured by the thin sheet in his hand. Although common sense told him that this thing of unknown origin could not possibly be the real Supreme Dao Scripture, for some reason his gaze simply could not move away from it.
But after studying it for most of the day, he found nothing special about the thin sheet. He could only give up temporarily with a wry smile, telling himself it was a groundless delusion.
Until three days later.
When Baili Shan returned from his master’s dwelling, still recalling his master’s teachings, he unknowingly took out the thin sheet named [Supreme Dao Scripture] again to turn it over in his hands.
“Third level of the Four Seasons Evergreen Classic—how exactly is this line, ‘Heaven has four seasons; follow them and be evergreen, go against them and be long-lived,’ supposed to be explained? Evergreen isn’t long-lived, is it…”
As he was surrounded by such questions, a mysterious green light quietly surged from the thin sheet in his hand, devouring Baili Shan’s thoughts.
When Baili Shan came back to his senses, he was already in a vast, boundless starry sky. He could faintly make out rolling mountain-sea phantoms standing against the starry background.
Above his head, countless mysterious characters floated, shining brilliantly like stars, as if the Great Dao had descended into the world, revealing its true form!
Baili Shan’s mind instantly rang with a roar, his thoughts falling into a brief blankness.
“The Supreme… Supreme Dao Scripture? It’s actually real?” Just as he gaped in shock, a streak of light sliced across the starry characters above his head and flew into his body.
“Green is the order of heaven and earth. The long-lived transcends heaven and earth. Heaven and earth have an end, but the long-lived is endless…” A majestic, sacred voice simultaneously rang out in Baili Shan’s mind.
It echoed endlessly for a long time.
Baili Shan was instantly enlightened, overjoyed: “So that’s how it is!”
…
Right after the first user of the Supreme Dao Scripture finally opened a connection with Li Fan, its creator Li Fan also successfully probed the Dao of the present emptiness from Baili Shan’s mind.
Though it was like seeing flowers in a mirror or the moon in water, Li Fan already understood flowers and the moon extremely well; he just needed a fixed existence as an auxiliary anchor.
Right now, the veiling cover over the Xuanhuang Great Dao had been lifted by someone’s help, and Li Fan followed the thread, validating this spacetime’s reality Dao against the Dao he had once comprehended to the greatest extent.
Almost in the blink of an eye, all the Dao scenes Baili Shan had glimpsed in his cultivation career were known to Li Fan.
Using the unreal Dao comprehended by other cultivators to reverse-engineer the true Dao in reality—this was Li Fan’s ability as a former half-step transcendence expert.
As a matter of course, Li Fan’s realm instantly completed a three-level leap: mortal, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment.
Synced to Baili Shan’s late Foundation Establishment.
Li Fan’s late Foundation Establishment and Baili Shan’s were utterly incomparable.
“Even facing a Nascent Soul cultivator, I could kill them at will. That counts as barely having the power of self-preservation.” Li Fan examined his body’s condition and nodded slightly.
“But this so-called realm isn’t very important. The key is still the degree of Dao comprehension. After all, Baili Shan is just a Changqing Sect disciple with limited vision. I need to distribute more Supreme Dao Scripture as soon as possible…”
Li Fan first checked his progress in the Transformation of Real and Unreal.
The Dao Baili Shan had glimpsed was but a drop in the bucket for advancing the Transformation of Real and Unreal, but it also proved the feasibility of Li Fan’s plan.
Through Baili Shan’s replicated Dao comprehension, it did not attract the attention of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao, nor that of the Great Heavenly Venerable hidden behind the scenes.
“Next is to go to where the heroes of the world gather…”
Li Fan gazed into the distance and departed gracefully.
One month later, the Dadao Sect was faintly visible.
Along the way, Li Fan was not stingy with the Supreme Dao Scripture in his hand. Whoever he met with even a little talent, he would actively give it to them. And his strength rose from Foundation Establishment to late Golden Core.
But this seemed to be the limit of ordinary disciples outside the Ten Sects.
During this period, the cultivators Li Fan met were not few. Below Golden Core, they were everywhere. But Nascent Soul and above were rare. Even if occasionally encountered, most were old in years and did not meet Li Fan’s requirements.
“The ancient Xuanhuang Realm barely counts as a great cultivation world. It shouldn’t have such a desolate scene of withering talent. Could it be…”
Associating with what Elder Song of Changqing Valley had said earlier about chaos soon arriving, Li Fan guessed that perhaps right now, the Ten Sects were launching a war to open up other cultivation worlds.
The Ten Sects’ elite disciples had all been mobilized.
“No wonder the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao’s rejection is so intense.”
“Just don’t know if now they’re facing the Tianfa Realm where the Heavenly Physician is.”
After several calamities, Xuanhuang Realm’s history was long broken and distorted, hidden as if in mist. Even with stone slab records, its original true appearance could not be restored.
Only by returning to the past and experiencing it personally could one witness its original appearance.
Li Fan’s main purpose in coming to the Dadao Sect this time was to find Zhao Ruoxi in the Dadao Sect. She would ultimately achieve the future Longevity Heavenly Venerable; Zhao Ruoxi’s talent could absolutely be called top of Xuanhuang.
Though he had long been familiar with Zhao Ruoxi’s memories, he could not determine the specific node of her existence.
“However, back then I didn’t see her waging war on the outside world in those memories. Could it be she hasn’t been born yet?” Li Fan couldn’t help but feel some regret.
The Dadao Sect mountain gate—Li Fan knew his way around.
As for the mountain gate’s grand array, after observing it, he paid it no heed.
He quietly sneaked in.
Compared to what Senior Sister Zhao saw in her memories, the current Dadao Sect mountain gate was very different.
The most obvious difference was that a melee seemed to have broken out in various places at the mountain gate.
The air gave off a faint, lingering bloody smell, and shocking battle traces could be seen on the buildings and ground.
“The fighting has already reached the Dadao Sect’s gate?” Li Fan grew increasingly surprised and suspicious.
This history seemed to be something he had never seen in later generations.
Sensing where vitality gathered most, Li Fan changed into Dadao Sect disciple clothing and quietly sneaked over.
“Simply an utter disgrace! They almost had the mountain gate taken…”
“If the other Ten Sects find out, we’re afraid we’d be struck from the list!” Not yet close, he faintly heard an old man’s extremely angry roar.
“Uncle-Master need not be angry. After the war ends, I will personally invite the Furnace of Burning Dao to erase this matter. What’s most important now is still to discern the enemy’s movements.” The next lightly soothing voice, however, Li Fan found somewhat familiar.
It was Dadao Sect Sect Master Fang Dingge.
Around him at this moment gathered about five hundred cultivators.
From Qi Refining at the low end to Dao Integration at the high end.
All had somewhat solemn expressions.
“Have to say, we underestimated the enemy a bit. After all…” Only Fang Dingge spoke unhurriedly with a faint smile on his face.
However, he was interrupted by that old man halfway through.
“I never agreed with your plan. Xuanhuang is where the Ten Sects established their foundation; how can one say abandon and abandon it! Rather than fighting others, better unite and find countermeasures against the great calamity…”
“Uncle-Master says too much.” Fang Dingge glanced sideways slightly.
The old man still had dissatisfaction in his heart, but just hummed and said no more.
Fang Dingge looked at the surrounding crowd, thought for a moment, and a strange tripod floated from his palm.
Invisible fire rose from the tripod’s bottom.
The tripod’s image suddenly expanded, enveloping all the surrounding people within.
“Immortal spiritual energy?”
Li Fan was startled in his heart; unexpectedly, he was also enveloped by this tripod.
However, the tripod fire raged, but did not threaten Li Fan’s life.
But Li Fan vaguely sensed that his memory of that conversation just now was becoming somewhat blurry.
But Li Fan was, after all, not an ordinary cultivator.
He had even experienced the calamity of three Daos merging and survived safely.
That tripod immortal artifact, though somewhat marvelous, could not affect him.
Before that invisible flame seemed to start burning in Li Fan’s mind, it suddenly extinguished without reason.
“Furnace of Burning Dao?” Li Fan pondered.
He had never heard of this immortal artifact before.
From Fang Dingge and that old man’s conversation just now, at this time point, it should be when internal dissent arose within the Ten Sects.
About the Ten Sects holding immortal artifacts, Li Fan was not surprised.
But the power displayed by this Furnace of Burning Dao was somewhat unexpected.
“Fang Dingge said to invite the Furnace of Burning Dao to erase this matter. And later generations have no record of this battle…”
“If it really has this ability, this Furnace of Burning Dao, even in the Immortal Realm back then, would not be an ordinary item. Just don’t know where this thing ended up later.” While Li Fan was pondering, Fang Dingge spoke again.
He skipped the concluding remarks and directly issued an order.
From among the five hundred, one hundred Golden Core and below were separated out to go support. The rest remained in the sect, responsible for repair and defense.
“Golden Core and below?” Li Fan almost thought he had misheard.
But seeing the other Dadao Sect disciples not very surprised, obviously there was something hidden in this matter.
So he did not make a fuss.
Just that his luck seemed not good; he happened to be chosen by Fang Dingge among the hundred going to support.
Li Fan noticed that when selecting support personnel, Fang Dingge’s gaze stayed on him longer.
“It seems Illusion Becoming True still cannot fully affect strong beings like Ten Sect Sect Masters.”
Li Fan had to temporarily choose to follow, waiting to find a good opportunity later.
A golden chain appeared out of nowhere above the Dadao Sect.
Then Fang Dingge, sweeping up the selected Dadao Sect cultivators, shuttled away along the chain.
As if crossing an incredibly long starry sky; when Li Fan reacted, he had already come to a very strange space.
The Momentum of this world had an extremely low upper limit.
Only at the level of Xuanhuang Realm Golden Core Perfection.
But the Great Dao’s suppression power inexplicably was not at all weaker than Xuanhuang Realm.
Therefore, all the cultivators who came here now had their exertable strength limited to the Golden Core realm.
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