Chapter 1 Where Do Immortals Come From?
The Great Xuan Kingdom, Xuanjing, and the Grand Tutor’s Mansion.
Li Fan held the wine glass and looked at the civil and military officials who came to celebrate his birthday. Even though he was already in his seventies, he couldn't help but feel secretly proud.
You must know that today, eight or nine out of ten officials and ministers of the court are here in the Grand Tutor's Mansion! What a momentum this is!
Think about Li Fan. When he first traveled to this world, he was a poor scholar.
Over the past fifty years, he has gone from having nothing to being an imperial tutor with great power. All these events are enough to write a novel of several million words.
Life is like this, what more can you ask for?
Li Fan stroked his beard and drank the wine in the glass.
"To the Grand Master's birthday!"
All the officials present congratulated in unison.
Li Fan became more and more proud.
At this moment, there were suddenly bursts of discordant exclamations from outside.
"Look! What is that!"
"Fire is falling from the sky. This is a good omen. It is a good omen! Go and tell Grand Tutor!"
"Why does it seem to be flying towards our Grand Tutor's Mansion?"
…
Hearing the noise outside, Li Fan frowned.
The lobby, which was originally quite lively, suddenly became quiet.
Li Fan stood up and walked out first.
However, before he had the chance to scold his servants and express his dissatisfaction, he was attracted by the scenery in the sky.
In the distant sky, two silver lights, one in front and one behind, were flying towards this side like meteors.
"This is..." Li Fan was stunned.
In a blink of an eye, two meteors came over the sky above Xuanjing City, but suddenly stopped.
At the same time, a voice like thunder came from the sky and exploded in everyone's ears.
"Dao Xuanzi! Don't go too far!"
…
Everyone present was shocked and horrified. Some even called out "Master" and bowed to the ground.
A word that was buried deep in his memory and almost forgotten suddenly popped up in Li Fan's mind.
"Cultivator... Immortal cultivator!" Li Fan was stunned and muttered to himself, "How is this possible..."
The two immortal cultivators in the sky obviously don't care about the thoughts of the mortals below.
Then another voice rang out: "Kou Hong! Do you think I will let you go just because you have escaped to this immortal land? Hand over the skills you got that day, or I will fight you to the death!"
"What a joke! It's because of the lack of the method to form the elixir that I have been trapped in the foundation-building stage for nearly a hundred years. Now that my deadline is approaching, I will be reduced to dry bones. But I have this elixir-forming method, how can I give it to others!" Kou Hong snorted coldly, his tone full of disdain.
“That’s right!” Daoxuanzi sighed, “On the path of Golden Elixir, I am the only one. Although there are many methods of forming an elixir in this world, there are more cultivators stuck in the foundation-building stage!”
Dao Xuanzi's tone suddenly turned fierce: "If that's the case, now that the method of immortality is in front of me, how can I let you go? How can I not go too far!"
Kou Hong laughed loudly: "It was just a fight! How ridiculous that you and I have been brothers for a hundred years, but now we are fighting against each other for a glimmer of hope!"
Daoxuanzi sneered and did not answer.
Kou Hong suddenly said, "I know I am no match for you. I will not be able to escape today. But there are so many mortals here. I don't know if you can withstand such a dense miasma!"
Dao Xuanzi's face suddenly changed: "Kou Hong! What do you want to do!"
Kou Hong laughed crazily: "It's just a glimmer of hope!"
Listening to the conversation between the two immortal cultivators above his head, Li Fan suddenly felt something was wrong. However, before he could react, he saw a red flame explode above Xuanjing City.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!”
A huge roar kept exploding in Li Fan's ears, and his eyes instantly turned blood red. In just a moment, he fainted.
…
It was unknown how long it took before Li Fan woke up.
At first, he was a little confused. It took a long time before he remembered what had happened before.
Li Fan coughed, spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, climbed up tremblingly, and looked around.
It was still night, and the once luxurious Grand Tutor's Mansion had turned into a ruin.
The air was filled with the unpleasant smell of burning corpses.
All the civil and military officials in the court just a moment ago were killed and their souls returned to heaven.
Li Fan's wives, concubines, and five sons were not spared either.
There was no trace of expression on Li Fan's old face. His eyes were dull.
After standing there for a long time, he dragged his weak body out of the Grand Tutor's Mansion.
Xuanjing City, which was so prosperous and bustling just a moment ago, has now become a hell of blood and fire. All you can see are broken bodies and collapsed buildings.
Presumably, only one out of a hundred people would survive this disaster.
All of this happened because of the sudden appearance of two "immortal masters", two immortal cultivators.
Li Fan was out of strength and sat down casually in a broken corner.
His hearing had already been damaged by the violent explosion just now. However, it didn't matter.
At this moment, he just wanted to laugh.
How could there be immortal cultivators in this world?
From the moment he became an official, he used the power in his hands to look for traces of the possible existence of immortals.
When he became the imperial teacher and was above everyone else, he searched the entire world!
It extends from the Ice Sea in the north to the ocean in the south, from the Abyss in the east to the Lianshan Mountains in the west.
In the entire Daxuan, there is not a single trace of the existence of immortals!
But today, when he was already very old and had given up hope for several years, two immortal cultivators suddenly descended from the sky, came before him, and without any explanation crushed everything he had.
Is this a fairy?
Where do immortals come from?
All the anger and unwillingness in my heart finally turned into endless confusion.
It’s fate!
At the same time, Li Fan felt extremely fortunate.
Fortunately, before he died, he finally confirmed the existence of immortals!
Otherwise, wouldn't he have to waste another fifty years of his life in vain when he started his next life? !
That's right! How could Li Fan, a mere mortal, rise from a small scholar to the world's imperial teacher without support?
This is also the reason why he was able to survive the death at the hands of the immortal.
“Really!”
Li Fan muttered in his heart, and then, the surrounding scenery suddenly dimmed. It was as if there was a thick layer of water curtain between them, psychedelic and somewhat unclear.
“When truth becomes false, falsehood becomes truth”
Seven large characters lit up in the darkness, then suddenly spread out and turned into a curtain of light.
"Charging completed."
“Whether to virtualize the current scene and return to the initial anchor point.”
Two lines of small characters appeared one after another.
At the same time, pictures appeared one after another, rapidly covering the entire light screen.
That was Li Fan’s life for the past fifty years.
Li Fan looked at himself in each picture and was stunned for a long time.
【Really】
This is the name Li Fan gave to the rare treasure he carried with him.
It has only one function, which is to turn truth into falsehood and reality into illusion!
The so-called transformation of reality into illusion is to transform everything that Li Fan has actually experienced into a simulated illusory experience, so that Li Fan can return to the originally set anchor point, which is when he just crossed into this world.
In fact, this life is already Li Fan’s second life.
In his first life, Li Fan had great ambitions, but he was just an ordinary person. He failed many times in the exams, and finally gave up the idea of studying and becoming an official after he turned 30. He started a small business and became an ordinary rich man. Then he married and had children, and spent his ordinary life. When he was old and about to die of illness, he finally awakened to [Huanzhen].
This is how Li Fan was able to rise to prominence in his second life, becoming unstoppable.
It’s a pity that it now seems to have been used in the wrong place.
After pondering for a moment, Li Fan did not choose to end this life immediately. Before that, he still had a few things to do.
After turning off the light curtain and returning to reality, Li Fan forced himself to cheer up and deal with the aftermath of Xuan Jing being severely injured by the immortal.
After searching for some survivors, Li Fan finally managed to calm people's hearts a little with his prestige over the years.
Even though Li Fan couldn't hear, he could still find paper and pen. Although communication was a little troublesome, it did not prevent Li Fan's orders from being passed on one by one.
First, Li Fan ordered the trusted guard camp stationed outside the city to rush to Xuanjing City to maintain order after the disaster. Then he sent orders to the surrounding cities to dispatch food and officials to Xuanjing.
Most of the buildings in Xuanjing were destroyed. After the garrison camp took over Xuanjing, Li Fan simply stayed in the barracks to preside over the aftermath.
And following Li Fan's decree, materials and talents from surrounding cities were continuously transported to Xuanjing City.
A month later, the ruined city of Xuanjing finally regained some of its normal life.
After the Great Xuan Kingdom finally recovered from the attack by the immortals, Li Fan began to order all places to collect information about the two immortals who appeared that night.
Including where the two came from originally, where they went afterwards, whether they had any other conversations along the way, etc.
Unfortunately, after several months of investigation, apart from knowing that these two cultivators seemed to have appeared from the direction of Xuyuan in the east, nothing else was found.
What Li Fan expected, that the two immortals would fight to the death, did not happen.
"I shouldn't have expected anything like this." Li Fan sighed inwardly. "Since this is the case, there is nothing left for me to miss in this world."
Standing in the newly built Grand Tutor's Mansion, Li Fan once again activated [Huan Zhen].
“Whether to virtualize the current scene and return to the initial anchor point.”
Li Fan no longer hesitated and chose yes.
On the screen, countless lifelike images froze at the same time. Then, all the maneuvers, prosperity and wealth of this life shattered and exploded like a dream bubble, turning into meteors and flying into Li Fan's mind.
Scenes flashed before Li Fan's eyes like a kaleidoscope, and the final image froze on the scene of two immortal cultivators facing off high above the Grand Tutor's Mansion.
"Dao Xuanzi, Kou Hong." Li Fan whispered their names. "Fifty years later, I will still be waiting for you in Xuanjing City."
"Wealth and honor are nothing but clouds to me." Li Fan's consciousness gradually became blurred, but his will and goals became firmer than ever before.
"In my next life, I want to catch immortals!"
The light in his mind gradually disappeared, and Li Fan slowly fell into a deep sleep.
(End of this chapter)
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