Chapter 11: Cultivating Immortality but Living Like a Beast
"In today's world of cultivating immortals, a mortal who wants to cultivate immortality has only a few options," Kou Hong explained patiently.
"One is to join the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is a loose alliance formed by many immortal cultivators. In the alliance, you can gain contribution points by completing tasks or trading with others. With contribution points, you can exchange for immortal cultivation techniques and resources in the alliance."
"The second is the Five Elders Association. The Five Elders Association is an organization founded by five top powers, and it is very powerful. As long as you have the qualifications to practice, you can voluntarily join it and choose a practice method. The price is to sign a soul contract and serve the Five Elders Association for a certain period of time."
"The third is to choose to join local forces in various places. Although these forces cannot be compared with the two behemoths mentioned above, the local forces are often more united and basically will not have any dangerous tasks. They are more suitable for people with lazy and indifferent personalities. As for some other messy organizations, they are not very reliable, so it is better not to mention them." Kou Hong slowly described the general situation of the current world of immortal cultivation.
Li Fan frowned when he heard this, somewhat puzzled: "From your description, why does it seem that skills are not so scarce in the world of immortal cultivation?"
Kou Hong snorted coldly: "That's because the skills obtained through this method are all incomplete."
"Incomplete?" Li Fan was stunned, then suddenly realized. "If you want to obtain a higher level of skills, you have to continue to work hard for them?"
"That's right!" Kou Hong said bitterly. "These techniques were newly compiled by several major forces in recent years. Practicing to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining is already the limit. If you want to further build the foundation of Taoism, you have to change to a new level of techniques. The same applies to those above the foundation of Taoism."
"Change the technique? If I have to change the technique and start from the beginning every time I break through a realm, doesn't that mean all my previous efforts have been in vain?" Li Fan was a little shocked.
"That won't happen." Kou Hong shook his head. "Anyone who practices cultivation must practice the "Taishang Yuanshi Zhenjing". It is said that this scripture was the supreme scripture of the Taishang Sect in ancient times and the foundation of the sect. After the catastrophe, the Taishang Sect was reduced to ashes, leaving only the fragments of the "Taishang Yuanshi Zhenjing" in the world. This scripture is not a cultivation method, but more like a secret method. Its function is to allow practitioners to dissipate their own magic power at will without too much loss, and after dispersing their power and practicing other methods, they can quickly catch up with the original realm."
"There is such a magical method." Li Fan exclaimed. "It's just that this fragment appeared at the right time. Only in this way can many immortal cultivators in the world accept the constant change of skills."
Li Fan sneered and said, "In my opinion, there may not be only fragments left of the "Taishang Yuanshi Zhenjing". I'm afraid the person behind the scenes only wants to release the part that allows people to rebuild their skills."
Kou Hong sighed, "Who doesn't know this truth? But what can we do? True merit is hard to come by. Although it is helpless to be sucked blood by others, at least there is a visible goal and a way. If you work hard, you can still get it. After all, there are only a few people who are unwilling to be controlled by others for their whole lives and are willing to risk their lives to go to various secret realms and ancient sects to seek opportunities."
Li Fan nodded, and roughly understood the current situation of the immortal world. This was completely different from the unrestrained and immortal immortal world he had imagined, but it was somewhat similar to the world before he traveled through time.
Thinking of all this, Li Fan sneered in his heart.
Kou Hong didn't notice Li Fan's abnormality at this time, but couldn't help but sigh: "Dao Xuanzi didn't know until his death that the reason why I snatched the skills and ran away was not only because it was a Jindan skills, but because it was a real skills that could directly lead to the Yuanying realm."
"If it is really the Jindan technique, I might be able to control it. But it is Yuanying technique after all..." Kou Hong said repeatedly.
When Li Fan heard this, he felt something in his heart and touched the ring on his hand.
Kou Hong and Dao Xuanzi's belongings had been confiscated by him and stored in this storage ring. Perhaps because he had experienced many reincarnations and his spiritual power was far superior to that of ordinary people, he could use this storage ring freely, which originally required the cultivation of spiritual consciousness in the Qi Refining Stage. However, if he could not find a way to leave the Land of Immortal Absoluteness, these things would be useless to him, so he had no intention of checking them one by one.
Next, Kou Hong introduced to Li Fan some common knowledge about the world of immortal cultivation, such as the fact that the death of an immortal cultivator would trigger celestial phenomena within a certain range. He finally returned to the main topic and talked about Li Fan's possibility of flying boats left over from the great migration era.
"Maybe there is such a possibility." Kou Hong thought carefully for a long time before saying.
"I've heard some rumors before. Over the past thousands of years, mortals who were banished to the land of immortals have been secretly returning to the world of immortals. But most of them are just gossips in the streets, without any solid evidence."
"There is no smoke without fire. Sometimes rumors are often the truth." Li Fan's heart was lifted. "After all, mortals and immortal cultivators are inextricably linked. It was normal for immortal cultivators to leave a way out for their mortal families. I think these mortals were able to return by relying on the means left by the immortal cultivators."
Kou Hong was not very optimistic: "Even so, thousands of years have passed. This world is quite vast, and the possibility of finding it is very small."
"As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will not give up." Li Fan said firmly.
"I really don't know why a group of old men who are about to die can still do this..." Kou Hong muttered softly.
Li Fan pretended not to hear and said to Kou Hong solemnly: "As long as you help me find a way to go to the Xiuxian World, I will not only let you go and let you go back with me, but I will also return all your and Daoxuanzi's things."
"Including the infant-forming skill!"
"Are you serious?!" Kou Hong raised his head suddenly, a glimmer of hope suddenly appearing in his eyes.
"Of course." Li Fan nodded.
"Okay... In that case, I will do my best to help you." Kou Hong gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind.
Although he had been cheated by Li Fan several times and didn't know how credible Li Fan's promises were, he was just like Li Fan. He was unwilling to give up as long as there was a glimmer of hope.
He was trapped here for decades and then died of old age.
This is really not what Kou Hong wants!
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Therefore, with the help of Kou Hong, Li Fan collected historical books and documents from all over the world, trying to find clues about the great migration era from the fragmentary records in ancient times.
At the same time, Li Fan also mobilized the army to excavate ancient tombs in an attempt to find some clues. Although this caused public outrage and officials wrote letters of admonition every day, he suppressed them all.
Unfortunately, too much time has passed since the Great Migration Era, and the remaining life he has in this world is too short.
Sixteen years later, anchored at 66 years, Li Fan's deadline is approaching, but he still has nothing to show for it.
After ordering Kou Hong to go, Li Fan came to the underground secret room of the Grand Tutor's Mansion alone.
With a thought, Li Fan took out all the items in the storage ring and laid them out in order.
First of all, Li Fan focused his sight on the jade slip that was emitting a faint golden light.
It was the Nascent Soul technique that caused Kou Hong and Dao Xuanzi to fall out with each other.
(End of this chapter)
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