"First, I need to figure out what that arrow was all about."
Not long after, having settled on a plan, Li Fan spent heavily to conduct an investigation through his avatar, Ji Shaoli, and finally obtained his answer.
"The Sky-Patrolling Arrow. One of the latest achievements developed by the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals to counter the massive offensive of the Five Elders Association.
"Its speed is unimaginable. It takes barely a single day to circle the Alliance's entire territory and complete a patrol. Furthermore, it automatically locks onto suspicious targets, descending from the sky to deliver a devastating strike.
"Below Dao Integration, it is virtually an instant kill. Even Dao Integration cultivators will be severely wounded on the spot if caught off guard."
Li Fan carefully read through the information on the Sky-Patrolling Arrow, his expression solemn.
"Most crucially, these things can be mass-produced. It is estimated that right now, at least five Sky-Patrolling Arrows are constantly patrolling the Alliance's airspace.
"In wartime, they could probably launch dozens of arrows simultaneously, creating an airspace of absolute dominance."
Li Fan could not help but frown.
The power of this Sky-Patrolling Arrow was formidable indeed. If Tianyang and Lin Ling had not stepped in to shield him this time, he would likely have died with bitter regret and triggered True Reversion right then and there.
Furthermore, as a vital instrument of war, the Sky-Patrolling Arrow carried an exemption clause.
In other words, if you had poor luck and happened to be in the arrow's flight path, getting pierced through and tragically killed...
No one would be held responsible for your death.
You simply died in vain.
"Looking at it this way, Ou Daozi and his son had no connection to the Sky-Patrolling Arrow.
"They purely foresaw its trajectory, intending to kill with a borrowed knife and seize the chance to escape."
Li Fan nodded to himself.
Having grasped the general situation, Li Fan initiated his plan.
Ou Daozi and his son surely never would have imagined that Li Fan's vengeance would arrive so swiftly.
And that it would be so completely unreasonable!
In just three days, a piece of footage spread across nearly the entire Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals.
The unbelievable scenes in the recording left countless cultivators throughout the Alliance thoroughly shocked, while killing intent and greed inevitably surged in their hearts.
Indeed, Li Fan had completely abandoned any thought of hunting down Ou Daozi and his son on his own.
Instead, he made public the fact that they possessed divine abilities and secret treasures!
Under normal circumstances, human nature was always greedy and selfish.
Upon learning that someone possessed a supreme treasure, anyone would typically scheme by every possible means to claim it for themselves.
They would plot in secret—the fewer people who knew, the better.
Even if they lacked the ability and had to seek help, or simply decided to sell the secret for a high price...
In short, such a matter would only ever circulate within a small circle.
Yet Li Fan did not play by the rules at all. Without the slightest hesitation or greed, he made it known to everyone in just a few days!
To an outsider, what Li Fan did truly seemed harmful to others without benefiting himself.
Cultivators under heaven were as numerous as the sands! Even if the secrets Ou Daozi and his son possessed changed hands, Li Fan would certainly miss out on them.
Just to vent his spite, he had even thrown away the opportunity to profit from it...
It was truly foolish in the extreme, outright lunatic behavior.
In reality, without True Reversion, Li Fan certainly would not have acted this way.
Yet having True Reversion, if he wanted something, he was in no hurry to obtain it in a single lifetime.
"The kid is indeed tricky to deal with. Let the Alliance cultivators blaze the trail for me and see what effective strategies exist to capture him.
"In the next life, I can simply follow suit." Li Fan's eyes gleamed.
And Li Fan's plan proved remarkably effective.
Foreseeing the future, techniques that reverse time!
No one who watched the abilities displayed by Ou Daozi and his son in the recording could resist the pounding excitement in their hearts or the urge to seize those powers for themselves!
All at once, a frenzy to hunt down Ou Daozi erupted across the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals.
Several major clans even posted enormous bounties: anyone providing information on the whereabouts of Ou Daozi and his son would receive lavish rewards, reaching as high as Dao Integration cultivation methods.
"No matter how well you can run, vast as the world is, there will be no place left for you to hide." Li Fan, having orchestrated all of this, looked upon the cultivators gradually descending into madness and recalled the mocking look of Ou Daozi's son, snorting coldly in his heart.
When nearly all cultivators across the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals joined forces to achieve a single goal, just how terrifying would their efficiency be?
The exploration of the white mist and grotto-heaven pocket worlds in his 115th life had already provided the answer long ago.
Less than five days after the footage was released, Ou Daozi and his son, hiding deep in the forest, were discovered.
Though they relied on bizarre methods to narrowly escape once more, now that they had shown themselves, under the watchful eyes, pursuit, and blockades of countless Alliance cultivators, the time until their capture was certainly close at hand.
What surprised Li Fan somewhat was that the father and son held out even longer than anticipated.
Throughout this process, their abilities and intelligence were gradually ferreted out.
Ou Daozi's son was named Ou Shangtian.
Foreseeing the future and Reversing Heaven and Earth were both Ou Shangtian's personal abilities.
Current deductions suggested they likely originated from Ou Shangtian's companion wonder.
And the so-called future foresight was somewhat different from earlier guesses.
Not all details of the future could be foreseen. It seemed Ou Shangtian only received premonitions when his life faced grave danger.
To put it simply, he could foresee the countless ways he might die, thereby seeking good fortune and avoiding calamity to find a path to survival.
Meanwhile, Reversing Heaven and Earth aligned with Li Fan's speculation: it could not truly turn back time, but merely rewound the state of an object or energy to a certain point in the past. Furthermore, during this process, he could establish a mysterious connection between himself and that object.
For instance, Ou Shangtian had once reversed dozens of attacks launched against him, and even mastered the ability behind one of them, turning around to wipe out the besieging cultivators before making a clean getaway.
However, the power of Reversing Heaven and Earth could not be used without limit. Each time he unleashed it, Ou Shangtian had to rest for a period before he could cast it again.
Once the truth came to light, quite a few cultivators were sorely disappointed and abandoned the pursuit of Ou Shangtian.
Indeed, while these two abilities were potent, they still fell far short of the imagined power to reverse time.
Even so, a sizable number of cultivators pressed on.
After all, in the past, cultivators endowed with such natural talent were always recruited by major factions and held elevated statuses. A rare opportunity like this to beat a drowning dog was hard to come by.
Armed with specific knowledge of Ou Shangtian's abilities, the cultivators coordinated with exceptional harmony in the subsequent pursuit.
When laying plans, they refrained from using lethal force, seeking only to capture him alive, which rendered Ou Shangtian's predictive ability largely useless.
Rather than striking all at once, they employed continuous waves of attrition, wearing down his power of Reversing Heaven and Earth...
Gradually, fleeing became increasingly difficult for Ou Shangtian.
Finally, on the tenth day after the footage was published, the father and son were driven into a desperate impasse.
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