Chapter 1276: Capturing Mo Rubin (7K, monthly ticket requested!)
At first, Yan Fajue was a little cautious. But when she really tasted it, the expression on her face instantly became extremely wonderful. Then she swallowed it in big mouthfuls.
"Woo woo...good porcelain...woo woo"
In no time, he ate a full plate of fried rice. After finishing, he touched his slightly bloated stomach with a look of surprise on his face: "Your fried rice looks just like the real thing? How did you do that?"
As he spoke, Yan Fajue burped again.
Li Fan smiled and said, "When the fake is made to look real, the real becomes fake; when the real is made to look fake, the fake becomes real. How can it be so easy to distinguish between the real and the fake?"
“As long as you have enough understanding of the nature of things, you can also create something that seems extremely realistic.”
Yan Fajue sat down on the ground: "I have only eaten fried rice and never made it. The same goes for other delicacies. It seems that there is no hope of being self-sufficient. But..."
She looked at Li Fan and said, "You were not a cook before..."
Li Fan's face twitched, and he avoided answering and changed the subject: "Are you full? Do you remember the immortal character?"
Yan Fajue shook his head quickly: "Just one dish, it's not enough! Can you give me more?"
Li Fan snorted coldly, but still waved his hand lightly, and the stove, cooking utensils, and ingredients appeared one after another in front of him.
As the kitchen fire flickered, delicious dishes filled with fragrance were served one after another.
Yan Fajue's mouth was watering as he watched, but he accepted all of them and stuffed them all into his mouth.
"belch……"
After having a delicious meal, the little girl's belly was as round as a ball, and she lay on the ground in an indecent manner.
"You know what, although you don't look very good, your cooking skills are really good." Yan Fajue praised.
Li Fan responded calmly, "It's just that when I was a mortal, I used this skill to do some small business. It's not worth mentioning."
Yan Fajue squinted his eyes happily, savoring the taste that had just lingered on his tongue.
Then he said, "Well, I'm a little sleepy. I need to take a nap. You can watch it yourself."
As he spoke, Yan Fajue was already snoring loudly and falling into a deep sleep.
In the character light ball, the crisscrossing strokes formed a huge character that occupied the entire sky.
The profound sound of the great way that I had heard in the illusion before suddenly sounded again.
It's just intermittent, like an illusion.
Li Fan looked up at the character without moving, until it slowly faded away, then he revealed a thoughtful expression.
"It is indeed the seal characters of the True Immortal. However, due to the loss of Yan Fajue's memory, she cannot fully understand the meaning of the seal characters of the True Immortal. In fact, the characters she presented are slightly different from the real seal characters of the True Immortal."
"but……"
Li Fan used his hand as a pen and tried to write in the air.
But he always paused at the critical moment and shook his head slightly.
"The structure of the strokes, the style of the turns, and the various details of the brushstrokes are very similar to the "hungry" and "chaotic" paintings I saw before. But they are more beautiful and more natural."
"The difference between the original and the imitation is so huge."
In his eyes, the many immortal seal characters that Li Fan had encountered before were already perfect, without any flaws. Each one showed the vast and sacred power of the immortal.
But the worst thing is comparison.
Compared with the authentic inscription of the Taoist Immortal in Yan Fajue's memory, those that caused chaos in the Dark Starry Sea were as crude as children's graffiti.
But Li Fan discovered that this gap would only be created when the two were presented and compared in the mind at the same time.
If Li Fan only reproduced single words such as "hunger" and "chaos", he would still instinctively feel that it was flawless.
It was a very contradictory and strange experience.
After repeated attempts, Li Fan came to the conclusion that the seal characters of the True Immortals were like a vast ocean to him. He could only be trapped in it and could not see the whole picture. However, if he had the real characters of the Inscription Dao Immortals as a comparison, it would be like an immovable anchor and an eye in the sky, allowing him to shake himself out and open his eyes to see the real scene.
Following the example of Ming Daoxian's authentic writings, Li Fan reorganized the seal characters for "hunger", "chaos" and other true immortals that he knew.
Sure enough, the effect was excellent. Although at first glance, it still looked the same as before, Li Fan was very sure that the power of these True Immortal Seal characters, which were improved based on the original, had increased by at least one third.
"It's a pity that this original copy of Ming Dao Xian is also incomplete. Moreover, it was passed from one hand to another from Yan Fa Jue's memory, so it is still somewhat distorted."
After a while, Li Fan came to his senses and let out a long sigh.
"From the clues we have so far, the True Immortal seal characters can be divided into three categories. The first is the chaos character formula, which will bring all kinds of disasters and destruction. The second is the return character formula, which is the decree of the immortal world. The last one is this one..."
"The raindrops that fell from the appearance of the characters can be called [Immortal Sound Jade Dew]. They were also born along with the mysterious sound of the Great Dao, attracting all the True Immortals to fight for it. I'm afraid it is closer to the legendary [Inscription Dao]."
Li Fan's thoughts were in turmoil, and he couldn't help but try to gesture again to repair the missing characters of the inscription.
The result is predictable, it can only be futile.
"The fairy world is destroyed. Where are the authentic works of the Taoist Immortal now?" Li Fan couldn't help but think so.
…
While Li Fan himself learned about the secrets of the ancient fairyland from Yan Fajue and gained some insights, the Faceless Saint Emperor Li Ping also finally completed the final blockade of the Faceless True Immortal stone statue and the Yi Shi Zong ruins.
And from what he could sense, Mo Rubin, who had fled so quickly before, had not moved for a long time.
"What is this location?"
Li Ping hesitated for a moment and did not pursue him directly. Instead, he called over the skilled craftsman.
"This place... is said to be where the giant beast's heart turned into after its death. It's the place where the earth's energy of Jiushanzhou converges. I've been there once, but didn't find anything special about it." The skilled craftsman sensed the picture sent by the Holy Emperor and shook his head slightly.
The place the Holy Emperor pointed to was a swamp in Jiushan Prefecture, the old nest of the Lingyuan Sect.
"It's just that the spiritual energy is a little thicker than other places, there's nothing special about it otherwise." Qiao Gong asserted.
"How much do you know about that [Tian Beast]?" Li Ping asked again.
Qiao Gong shrugged and said, "If there weren't some local monks from Jiushanzhou in my sect, I probably wouldn't even know the legend that Jiushan was formed from the corpse of a giant beast. It turns out that thing is called Tian Beast. I've learned a lot."
"However, if you are interested in that place, there is a Yuanying cultivator in my sect named Shen Yurou. You can call him over to ask."
The skilled worker explained the reason to Li Ping.
It turns out that Shen Yurou's family has made a living by digging underground objects in Jiushan for generations. Jiushan is a chaotic place where countless monks have been buried since ancient times. It can even be traced back to the reign of the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao.
The Shen family has accumulated a lot of capital with this craft. But it is a shady business after all. Since Shen Yurou joined Lingyuan Sect, she has abandoned this ancestral skill.
"I seem to have heard him say before that the ancestor of the Shen family once dug up a strange building near the swamp. However, it was empty except for some strange statues. After his ancestor left in dismay, he fell seriously ill and almost died."
Li Ping's heart moved and he flipped through the creation stone tablet.
As expected, the information about this ancestor of the Shen family was found. However, there was no record of the discovery of the ruins in the swamp of Jiushanzhou.
Li Ping then left Daqi and came to Lingyuan Sect.
He disguised himself as the leader of Lingyuan Sect, summoned Shen Yurou and asked her for details.
Shen Yurou was somewhat surprised by the summons from the long-lost leader. He said very cautiously, "This matter is indeed a bit strange. Since that mistake, our ancestors have contracted some strange diseases."
"For example, the underground building scene often reappears in my dreams, or for example..."
"From then on, all the members of our Shen family became girls with male features and boys with male features. The yin and yang are reversed." Shen Yurou seemed to have accepted the reality and said calmly.
Li Ping's mind swept over Shen Yurou's body, and he did not find any influence of alien power. It seemed that it should be like this.
"Is the specific location of that building still preserved?" Li Ping asked.
Shen Yurou showed a look of distress: "In order to prevent the tribe members from mistakenly entering again, our ancestors did not tell us the exact location. However, there are paintings and calligraphy left behind about the specific scene of that building."
As she spoke, Shen Yurou flicked her fingers and a picture appeared in the book.
There is a stone statue in each of the four corners.
It is a headless person making different movements as if he is praying.
In the center of the four stone statues, stands a bare column.
The surface of the cylinder is very smooth, without any carvings. But the strange thing is that the shadow of the cylinder projected on the ground seems to be a ferocious beast with bared fangs and claws. It seems to come alive at any time with the light and shadow.
"According to my ancestor, in this building, you can constantly hear the sound of violent heartbeats. And if you look along this pillar, it's like falling into an abyss, with endless darkness all around..." Shen Yurou added.
Li Ping stared at the four headless figures in the picture.
Even though it had no head, one could still vaguely see that it was very similar in style to the faceless immortal statue that he had encountered at the foot of Mount Taixu.
It should undoubtedly be a product of Xuantian Sect.
"Borrow his image, but cut off his head."
"This column..."
That smooth cylinder is undoubtedly the core of this strange building.
But we can't tell the clues just from the picture.
After Li Ping asked Shen Yurou to leave, he quietly came to the swamp of Jiushanzhou.
Theoretically, it is unreasonable for such a large-scale swamp to appear in a place with nine continuous mountains. Many monks have come here to explore, hoping to find some secrets, but they all found nothing.
Li Ping stood in the middle of the swamp and only sensed the stench of corruption. He did not notice anything strange.
If it wasn't clearly sensed that Mo Rubin was hiding here.
Mo Rubin probably hadn't noticed Li Ping's approach. Although he had been moving in a small area deep in the swamp, he never left the area.
After setting up formations around him, Li Ping dived into the swamp and slowly approached the sensing point.
"Gu..."
Suddenly, his figure stopped abruptly.
Just now, Li Ping faintly heard a crawling sound.
With his current cultivation level, he could almost rule out the possibility that it was an illusion. So...
Li Ping looked around.
The sticky, fetid swamp mud moved with the regularity of life.
Li Ping suddenly had a feeling that the entire swamp seemed to have suddenly come alive.
"trap?"
This thought flashed through Li Ping's mind, but he quickly denied it.
The swamp's attention was not on him.
The Holy Emperor continued to hide his whereabouts, following the sensation in his heart, which was also the source of the swamp's life rhythm. Not long after, he discovered the strange building that Shen Yurou's ancestor had encountered.
From a macroscopic perspective from the outside, the building appears to be a blank face.
The tall smooth cylinder was located between the blank face's eyebrows, like a third eye protruding high, gazing at the sky from underground.
Such a strange scene made Li Ping's heart freeze.
The building blocked his view of the interior, and he could only rely on the mark he had left on Mo Rubin to confirm that the other party was indeed busy with something inside.
The Holy Emperor did not enter without permission, but quietly laid a net of source energy essence on the periphery.
In addition, they surrounded it with numerous formations to completely block the place. They also called upon the power of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao to block the surrounding earth veins...
Even though he had already deployed so many means, for some reason, Li Ping still felt unsure.
After thinking for a moment, Li Ping woke up the cat on his shoulder and took something out of its stomach.
It was obtained from the fishing pond, a rare treasure that can seal off space.
The appearance of the strange treasure looks rather ordinary, just a simple ring.
But the golden and white light flowing on it vaguely reveals the terrifying power hidden within it.
"Binding Ring."
"A ring-shaped world was created by killing all living things and integrating them into the world. It not only has the weight of the entire world itself, but also the weight of billions of lives. Once it is bound, even my movements will be greatly affected."
Although the refining method can be described as an outright evil weapon, Li Ping is not a pedantic person, so he has no psychological burden in using it.
Throwing it gently, the Sky Binding Ring flew to the top of the building with the face of nothingness. In the blink of an eye, it expanded several times and covered the entire surrounding area.
Looking at the gradually disappearing golden and white ring, the Holy Emperor pondered for a moment and took one final measure.
After everything was ready, Li Ping flew towards the inside of the building.
“You’re here.”
"I've been waiting for you for a long time."
As soon as I entered, I heard Mo Rubin's voice ringing in my ears.
Li Ping looked carefully but could not see his figure.
But the wandering shadow at the bottom of the smooth cylinder in the center of the building looks like a human figure.
He confronted Li Ping with a look of sarcasm on his face.
"I have been with Brother Xuanyuan for so long. Even if I haven't entered the semi-immortal realm, I should know something about it. What's more, you are using a plan that was abandoned and rejected by Brother..."
"The power of immortals in the mortal world may be strong, but it is harmful and useless." Mo Rubin said sarcastically.
Li Ping knew that the mortal power that Mo Rubin mentioned was the essence of the source power that he condensed with the faith of the You people.
The way of taking shortcuts will certainly come with a corresponding price. But what he wanted was not to ascend to immortality, but for the Xuanhuang world.
There is nothing wrong in seeking the most powerful force within the scope of what one can seek.
Ignoring Mo Rubin's words, the Holy Emperor looked at the details of the building.
"The relics of Xuantian Sect?" he asked.
Mo Rubin seemed to be waiting for something as well, and did not take any action. He responded, "Haha, rather than saying it's the Xuantian Sect, it's better to say it's a backup plan that I left behind personally."
"Brother Xuanyuan, you are too idealistic. You believe in yourself too much."
"I am different."
The shadow under the cylinder seemed to be stimulated by something and moved around faster and faster.
"I once had the same mentality as Brother Xuanyuan, thinking that I was born to be the protagonist and that as long as I did it, there would be no possibility of failure. But later, I was hit hard and my cultivation was regressing every day. I also had to face the ridicule of those miscellaneous people who used to be in my eyes..."
“I understand!”
Mo Rubin's shadow suddenly rose from the ground, floating in the air, looking at Li Ping viciously.
"I am not a protagonist. I am just an insignificant little person in the long river of history. A little person must prepare for failure. So I built this place without telling Brother Xuanyuan!"
Mo Rubin manifested a shadow arm, pointed at the four headless stone statues around him, and said with a sinister smile: "Look at these stone statues."
"He was an out-and-out True Immortal, and he saved Brother Xuanyuan's life. Everyone in the sect, including Brother Xuanyuan himself, respected him. But I chopped off his head, didn't I?!"
Mo Rubin's crazy laughter echoed throughout the secret room.
Li Ping said calmly: "Aren't you afraid of the revenge of the True Immortal?"
Mo Rubin laughed even harder: "You don't understand at all. Let alone beheading me, even if I peed and shit on His statue, the True Immortal wouldn't care!"
"How can such mundane things be in the eyes of a true immortal?! Immortal..."
“Only care about what they care about!”
Li Ping just listened silently, neither agreeing nor refuting.
"I know that immortal power is like the presence of a real immortal. But even a real immortal doesn't have infinite power. How could they waste their power on such a small statue?"
After laughing, Mo Rubin slowly regained his composure: "Unless..."
"Something that the True Immortal is concerned about has appeared around the statue."
Before he finished speaking, the shadow that Mo Rubin transformed into shrank back into the smooth cylinder.
The ground of the building shook slightly, and the columns began to emit a faint light, as if something was growing inside.
"I don't know who you are. But I'll give you a piece of advice..."
Mo Rubin's voice came from the cylinder, and as if it had passed through layers of obstacles, it became unclear.
"Don't become a true immortal unless you have no other choice!"
Li Ping vaguely felt that the four faceless statues around him seemed to come alive.
Even if his head was chopped off, he could still keep an eye on the scene.
But their eyes were not on Li Ping.
Instead, they were all focused on that column of light.
Logically speaking, even if it was not the personal arrival of a true immortal, but just a sight transmitted across countless time and space, it should be difficult for ordinary cultivators to bear.
But the Faceless Holy Emperor, who was surrounded by the four statues, did not feel any pressure.
"The power was extracted and absorbed?"
Li Ping's heart was slightly shaken.
In his sight, four forces of the same nature entangled into lines, all encircling the smooth cylinder, circle after circle.
Inspired by this great power, the light of the cylinder became more and more dazzling.
The surface seemed to be melted, revealing the true appearance of the interior.
"This is……"
A bare flagpole.
The flag had long disappeared, leaving only the white jade pole with intricate carvings standing.
"Things from the fairy world."
Feeling the increasingly violent energy fluctuations around him, Li Ping stepped back a little, but his eyes were always firmly fixed on the white jade flagpole.
"Not only is the True Immortal statue watching me, but even the essence of the source power I have arranged outside, that is, the mortal power, is being subtly mobilized by this flagpole..."
At this time, Mo Rubin's voice sounded again: "When Brother Xuanyuan returned from the fairyland, he really brought back a lot of good things."
"Not to mention those skills, even immortal weapons can be picked up anywhere..."
"It's a pity that most of them have been sealed and we are not allowed to use them because they are said to be contaminated by disasters."
The energy formed a substantial vortex around the flag.
Amid the constant tremors, the flagpole seemed like it would break through the air at any time.
"Okay, I haven't talked to anyone in many years. I finally feel comfortable after saying so much in one breath."
"We'll see you later if we have a chance."
"I'm going to get down to business."
Mo Rubin's words slowly faded away.
A bright light burst out from the flagpole, blocking out all prying eyes around.
The next moment, Lingqi was about to escape from here.
But Li Ping had been tracking him for so long, it was impossible for him to let him go just based on Mo Rubin's words.
The formation and the net of source energy essence exploded with a loud bang.
Golden interwoven threads appeared from the void, and an impenetrable net blocked the flagpole.
Even the space is completely blocked.
"The mortal power dares to compete with the real power?!"
Mo Rubin's sarcastic voice came.
At the front end of the white jade flagpole, under the blazing light, the golden source of energy was actually melting slowly like snow.
Li Ping remained unmoved. He summoned the remaining source of energy essence and launched a formation to intercept.
"A mortal formation is also worthy of..."
"Um?!"
This was the first time that Mo Rubin sounded surprised.
Because the formations Li Ping performed were far beyond his understanding.
He even slowly pulled back the white jade flagpole that was about to pierce the void.
In Mo Rubin's perception, the surroundings seemed to be filled with blocking media, preventing the flagpole from moving forward.
"Has the Xuanhuang Realm's formation already developed to this extent?"
"The level of sophistication is even better than the Floating Starry Sky Array!"
Although he was shocked, Mo Rubin did not slow down his momentum of leaving.
A white light burst out from the flagpole again.
A flash of white light passed by, and everything blocking the way ahead was completely eliminated.
The flagpole can easily break free from the numerous obstructions.
And for some reason, Mo Rubin stopped making sarcastic remarks.
Just wanted to leave silently.
"Edict!"
At this moment, Li Ping's cold voice rang out.
The Void Binding Ring appears in the void.
Lock the white jade flagpole tightly.
"It's useless! It's useless! It's just a boundary device!"
"Damn it! You're like a fly, so annoying!"
Mo Rubin's tone was obviously different from before.
He kept on talking, even a little crazy.
For the first time, something other than white light appeared in the white jade flagpole.
It was a human silhouette.
A figure holding a long sword flew out gracefully and slashed lightly at the Binding Ring.
bite!
The golden and white ring that contained billions of lives and the entire world of immortal cultivation was broken in the middle!
However, releasing the white figure obviously consumed a lot of energy of the white jade flagpole.
The light became much dimmer.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it…”
Mo Rubin's vicious curse echoed.
But he did not stay to cause trouble for Li Ping.
Instead, he continued to move towards the designated location with great determination.
"I told you, you can't stop me!"
In the flashing light, the white jade flagpole turned into a thin line, breaking free from all restraints and about to leave.
At this moment, the ancient song suddenly rang out.
The sound was not loud, but it drowned out the sound of Mo Rubin and the vibration of the white jade flagpole.
An extremely dark door quietly opened on the road ahead of the white jade flagpole.
Li Ping, who had not taken any action himself, suddenly appeared and came to the end of the white jade flagpole.
The golden armor protected his body, and behind the Holy Emperor, the shadow of the Xuanhuang Realm also emerged.
"Go in!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Li Ping kicked hard at the end of the white jade flagpole.
This caused the flagpole, which was already eager to leave, to suddenly jump forward.
There was no time to dodge and he flew straight into the dark door.
Li Ping also flew in immediately after.
Close the channel at the same time.
He also did not forget to bring along those loyal members of the You tribe who risked their lives to set up the ceremony and open the path to the Dark Sea.
In the dark sea.
It was pitch black and silent.
Even in the outside world, like a white jade flagpole as bright as the sun, it can only illuminate a small and limited area around it here.
And Mo Rubin, who had always been very noisy, seemed to be mute at this moment.
There was silence for a long while.
"Wait, this is..."
"here……"
After a long while, he finally spoke in a daze.
"Now, we can talk."
The radiance of the white jade flagpole slightly dispelled the darkness of the Dark Sea.
This allowed Li Ping and Mo Rubin to communicate temporarily using language.
Mo Rubin seemed not to have heard Li Ping's words at all.
He emerged from the white jade flagpole and looked around in incredible detail.
His expression was one of both anticipation and fear.
"Is there the aura of King Xuantian here?"
After a brief silence, Li Ping asked.
The three words "Xuantian Wang" were like touching some kind of switch.
Mo Rubin suddenly came back to his senses.
He stared at Li Fan: "How do you know this place?"
"Besides, can it open the passage here?"
Mo Rubin's tone was very dangerous, as if he would fight to the death if Li Ping's answer was slightly wrong.
"Nearly ten thousand years have passed since you fell asleep. Nothing can happen."
Li Ping's attitude was very indifferent.
"Not only me, even the largest immortal cultivation organization, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, has mastered the path to open up here."
"And it's stealing power here."
"Don't you feel it?"
Li Ping asked.
After hearing this, Mo Rubin's face changed again.
He looked into the distance, and his aura fluctuated violently.
"How dare they?!"
"He deserves to be killed! Kill!"
Mo Rubin said angrily.
(End of this chapter)
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