Sacred Embryo Li Fan's voice echoed across this endless sea of techniques.
"The less obtainable something is, the more desperately one desires it.
"Therefore, to thoroughly quiet the craving in your heart, you need only satisfy your desire to rest all at once.
"Give yourself a long vacation. One so long that you have nothing left to do, until you are utterly bored to tears..."
Hearing Li Fan's words, the little girl's eyes instantly lit up.
She couldn't help saying, "How could anyone ever find being idle boring?! If I didn't have to deduce techniques anymore, I'd definitely sleep for a few decades first!"
As if envisioning that wonderful vacation life, the little Yanfa girl's face was filled with yearning.
Soon, however, she grew deeply dejected. "Sigh, forget resting for decades. Even getting ten days or half a month off is terribly hard.
"How wonderful it is not having to work!"
Recalling her joyful times slacking off earlier, the little Yanfa girl sighed with emotion.
Then she glanced at Li Fan and grumbled, "It's all your fault. If not for you, I could have kept pretending for a while longer."
"Blindly running away is no solution," Li Fan smiled faintly. "Tackling the root cause of the ailment is the true path."
The little girl huffed. "Easy for you to say. Back then, I made a pact with the Dharma-Transmitting Heavenly Venerable: only once I deduced every last technique in this world could I take a permanent rest.
"Sigh, at my current pace, it'll probably take another few thousand years. It's worrying me to death..."
Pouting, the little Yanfa girl sighed and groaned.
"If only we could find another Yanfa Jade to help you deduce them. Wouldn't you be able to rest then?" Sacred Embryo Li Fan remarked casually at that moment.
The little girl rolled her eyes at him. "This young miss is one of a kind in the entire world! Where would you find another me?!"
Yet right after, she froze. "Wait, if my future self from a few thousand years later could just hand the completed techniques directly to me, wouldn't that be amazing? Then on the surface I'd look like I was working, but in secret I could just rest!"
Her eyes shone with radiant excitement as she drifted off into her daydream.
Through his conversation with the Yanfa Jade, Sacred Embryo Li Fan had already gleaned enough information.
He decisively spoke up to snap her out of it: "I have explained the root of your ailment. Where is the technique I need?"
The Yanfa Jade gave no reaction, staring blankly ahead and giggling foolishly.
Li Fan had no choice but to raise his voice and repeat himself.
Only then did the little girl awaken as if from a dream.
She cast Li Fan a resentful glance and complained, "Just let me rest a little longer, geez...
"It'll still be quite a while before those fellows come over to press me.
"Besides, your technique really is quite complicated, so I can use this chance to rest a bit more."
Waving her hand to tell Li Fan to wait, the little girl spaced out once again.
Li Fan did not try to stop her either. Instead, he turned his gaze to the countless techniques floating around him.
Unlike when the Yanfa Jade had feigned sleep earlier, he could only see the names written on the book covers now.
The contents of the techniques themselves were bound by chains of glyphs, making them impossible to read.
Li Fan gave up the thought of prying. Eyes on nose and nose over heart, he patiently waited for the little girl to rest her fill.
A full day passed. Seemingly under the urging and inquiries of the outside world, the Yanfa Jade finally stirred awake with a hint of regret.
"Sigh..."
She reached out a tiny hand, and a book titled *Bright Spirit Method of Three Disasters and a Hundred Tribulations* instantly materialized out of thin air.
Evidently, she had deduced it long ago.
"Here, take it. It's time for you to go.
"I hope the next person who comes to deduce a technique brings something just as difficult, so I can shave off a bit more free time."
Amid the little girl's chatter, Sacred Embryo Li Fan returned to the space within the sphere of glyphs.
The moment they returned, the Yanfa Jade reverted to her previous listless, drowsy state.
Catching the faint, veiled warning in her eyes, Li Fan immediately understood.
The Yanfa Jade's actual speed of deducing techniques was far faster than what she showed outwardly.
Every deduction could be completed very quickly, leaving the remaining time for her to rest freely.
This was likely one of the reasons she had managed to endure thousands of years of continuous labor.
Perhaps the Protector Hall of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals was aware of this as well.
However, pushing too hard might backfire, so they simply chose to turn a blind eye.
With the technique in hand, the objective of this trip was accomplished.
Li Fan cupped his hands to bid farewell to the white-haired Dao Integration elder.
Before leaving, he also gave a detailed explanation of the source of the Yanfa Jade's ailment.
Just as he was about to depart, Li Fan recalled something and took out the token the white-haired elder had given him earlier.
"Before leaving the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals headquarters, I would like to visit the Museum of Divine Archives. Would that be permissible?"
The white-haired elder stared blankly.
Visiting the Museum of Divine Archives was something the elder could arrange at any time.
Yet the token he had gifted represented a personal favor from him, carrying immense value.
Out in the world, countless cultivators would fight tooth and nail for it.
Was it really to be squandered so easily?
"Young man, why don't you reconsider?" Even the white-haired elder felt it was a reckless waste of a treasure and couldn't help advising against it.
"No need. My mind is made up," Li Fan replied calmly.
The white-haired elder shook his head slightly and urged no further.
Taking back the token, he escorted Li Fan out of the Protector Hall, gave instructions to the reception cultivator, and returned inside.
Li Fan followed behind the reception cultivator, heading toward the Museum of Divine Archives.
His sudden change of mind to visit the museum on a whim was actually the true body's intent.
First, it was to take a look at a skull displayed in the very center of the museum.
Second, he intended to use the time spent touring the museum to fully memorize the *Bright Spirit Method of Three Disasters and a Hundred Tribulations*.
Inside the Museum of Divine Archives, he should be safe.
Once he left the Alliance headquarters, however, that might no longer hold true.
Furthermore, his performance in the Protector Hall had been somewhat out of the ordinary, making it inevitable that someone might take notice of him.
Li Fan had therefore decided that the moment he left the Alliance headquarters, he would directly discard this sacred embryo to prevent anyone from tracking him.
After entering the museum, various memories regarding the exhibits surfaced in his mind.
It seemed his true body had indeed visited this place before.
Even so, Li Fan continued to act as though it were his first time, letting out soft gasps of admiration.
In secret, he was rapidly scanning through the *Bright Spirit Method of Three Disasters and a Hundred Tribulations* deduced by the Yanfa Jade.
The complexity of this technique was in no way inferior to the immortal arts of the Profound Heaven Sect.
Its sheer might was simply lower by more than a single notch, possessing only the power and combat performance of the Dao Integration realm.
Nevertheless, it would be more than enough for Li Fan to put on an act and dupe Mo Rubin.
Having committed the entire technique to memory, Li Fan nodded with satisfaction.
Immersed in comprehending the technique, he only snapped back to reality when he finally arrived at the very center of the Museum of Divine Archives.
He stared blankly at the skull before him, lost in thought.
It looked no different from the cranium of an ordinary mortal.
Yet across the layers of protective seals, Li Fan could still sense an extraordinary, distinct aura.
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