The Cloud Water Illusory Dream Technique, the Wondrous Profound True Spirit Transformation, the Stealing Heaven Changing Sun Art...
Li Fan had cultivated these techniques before, and every one of them could well be called peerless and transcendent.
Yet compared to the Creation Furnace Technique he had just received in his mind, they all paled in comparison, hardly worth mentioning.
Li Fan was captivated by the wondrous words and lines; it felt as though, through this technique, he could glimpse the true mysteries of heaven and earth.
He even had a premonition that in this era—when the various cultivation restrictions did not yet exist in heaven and earth—with just this single technique, even a cripple with zero cultivation aptitude could temper, evolve, and sublimate themselves step by step, ultimately transcending mortality, attaining the Dao, and ascending to immortality!
What was a profound art of the Great Dao? What was a supreme orthodox method?
This was it!
It truly lived up to the word "Creation."
Li Fan read and comprehended the Creation Furnace Technique with voracious hunger, an irrepressible joy welling up in his heart.
To hear the Dao in the morning and die content in the evening!
His mind was so thoroughly immersed that he did not even realize when he had returned to Xu Ke's side.
He did not know how much time had passed, but when he finally returned to his senses, Mr. Bai had vanished without a trace.
The Beast Taming Sect had plunged into utter chaos, just as in his previous life. Having witnessed the seniors of their sect being slaughtered at will, the Beast Taming Sect disciples were filled with despair.
Xu Ke was currently carrying Li Fan, cautiously avoiding his frantic senior brothers while attempting to follow the guidance of the jade talisman Lu Ya had given him to search for Mr. Bai.
Peeking into Xu Ke's thoughts, Li Fan was surprised to discover that Xu Ke's memory contained no trace whatsoever of him transforming into a profound bird, flying to Mr. Bai's side, and receiving guidance.
After a moment's thought, Li Fan understood at once.
An ordinary man was blameless, but treasuring a jade ring invited calamity. The Creation Furnace Technique taught by Mr. Bai was a supreme wondrous method. If found on a mere Foundation Establishment monster beast like him, it would undoubtedly draw covetous eyes.
No matter how miraculous a technique was, it was all in vain if one died before mastering it. Mr. Bai had surely taken this into account, which was why he casually wiped the memories of everyone present. This way, Li Fan would not be endangered on account of this technique and would have ample time to cultivate it slowly.
"Mr. Bai truly thought of everything!" Li Fan could not help but sigh in admiration.
After seeing Mr. Bai with his own eyes, Li Fan could now be certain that he was definitely not the Heavenly Physician.
Not to mention there was not the slightest resemblance in appearance, their temperaments were worlds apart.
Mr. Bai's beauty was the kind that, once seen, could never be forgotten. Most importantly, the warmth and gentleness Mr. Bai inadvertently exuded could not possibly be faked. It was completely unlike the grim, unfathomable aura of the Heavenly Physician.
Li Fan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dealing with the beasts filling the sky as easily as slaughtering chickens and butchering dogs; discerning my cultivation method with a single glance and instantly providing the ultimate answer to the technique; effortlessly modifying the consciousness of all living beings present—his accomplishments can truly be said to rival the workings of creation.
"Mr. Bai's strength..." Considering his deeds, Li Fan could not help thinking of four words: Longevity Heavenly Venerable.
"In the understanding of the children of Ningyuan City, Mr. Bai was merely a mortal. Mr. Bai himself even admitted this personally.
"In such a short time, he went from a mortal directly to Soul Formation, and then from Soul Formation to Longevity.
"Looking at it this way, what the orphans in Ningyuan City said—that Mr. Bai was the kindest person in the world, the most skilled physician, the most handsome, the gentlest speaker, the smartest person, and so on—might not have been exaggerated nonsense after all."
Li Fan could not help feeling deeply moved.
Yet another question immediately followed.
In the present day, several thousand years later, where had Mr. Bai gone?
Was he one of the other two Heavenly Venerables in the Five Elders Association besides Yixin, Wuyou, and Zhenshi?
Li Fan felt it was unlikely. The style of conduct of the Five Elders Association was completely incompatible with Mr. Bai.
Was he in the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals?
Heavenly Venerable Dongji, who was said to have created the Purifying Spirit Pool Array to help mortals expel the miasma from their bodies, did bear a bit of Mr. Bai's shadow. But this Heavenly Venerable Dongji had only ever appeared in rumors. Even Li Fan had merely seen him mentioned in passing while consulting ancient texts.
Most cultivators in the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals probably had no idea this figure even existed.
If Mr. Bai were alive in the world, he certainly would not be so obscure.
Or perhaps Mr. Bai, like the Dharma-Transmitting Heavenly Venerable of his previous life, had successfully cast off the shackles of the Xuanhuang Realm and broken through the realm boundary to depart?
Or could it be...
Mr. Bai had already fallen?
Just thinking about it made Li Fan shake his head and cast the thought aside.
He truly found it hard to believe that a person of such dazzling brilliance like Mr. Bai would perish so easily.
Nestled in Xu Ke's hair, Li Fan turned over countless thoughts while naturally circulating the Creation Furnace Technique.
Unlike the crude method Li Fan had figured out on his own—violently hammering the secret reservoir in his body and seizing the power of the secret reservoir when it spilled over to cultivate—the Furnace Technique refined by Mr. Bai utilized the technique of Heaven-Human Resonance, using the great furnace of heaven and earth to evoke a resonance within the human body's furnace.
Under the harmony of heaven and man, one could mobilize the power of the secret reservoir at will to transform and cultivate.
Furthermore, it guided the human body furnace to evolve toward the furnace of heaven and earth. It was truly endlessly profound and extraordinarily wondrous.
With every passing instant of cultivation, Li Fan felt the body of the profound bird he possessed undergoing a metamorphosis.
And what jolted him awake from this ineffably marvelous state of cultivation was, naturally, that repulsive Beast Taming Sect disciple once again—Song Yang.
He still had not given up his covetous designs on Li Fan, the Heavenly Destiny Profound Bird.
After failing in his previous plot, he had made a comeback this time. He had even spared no expense to borrow a Golden Core stage Ink Immortal Tiger for backup, determined to seize Li Fan.
The Ink Immortal Tiger roared and strutted about, while Li Fan, having been disturbed, was thoroughly annoyed.
His body roared like a furnace as the power of the secret reservoir surged forth.
Li Fan flew into midair and his body expanded, transforming in an instant from a palm-sized little bird into a ferocious beast with a thirty-foot wingspan, two to three times larger than the Ink Immortal Tiger.
Like snatching a chick, Li Fan seized the Ink Immortal Tiger in a single claw.
Without giving it a chance to struggle, a faint profound light emanated from his beak, generating a powerful suction, and Li Fan swallowed the Ink Immortal Tiger in one gulp.
Xu Ke was dumbfounded on the spot.
As for Song Yang, scared half out of his wits, he scrambled away on all fours.
A faint stench of urine even lingered in the air.
Li Fan snorted coldly, disdaining to pursue.
Withdrawing the power of the secret reservoir, he returned to his original size and landed back atop Xu Ke's head.
Forcibly transforming seemed to have taken a slight physical toll. However, his body acted like a furnace, refining the swallowed Ink Immortal Tiger into pure energy.
Streams of warm qi coursed through his entire body, and Li Fan suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion.
Unable to resist, he fell into a drowsy slumber.
Leaving behind only Xu Ke, whose face was filled with utter disbelief, reaching up with both hands to touch Li Fan, standing there petrified like a wooden chicken.
Chapter 450