Chapter 467: The One Who Was Destined to Be Robbed
Qianli Hall fell into an eerie silence for a moment. Jiao Xiuyuan looked at Li Fan with disbelief, his face full of surprise.
"Don't look at me like that. I wanted to pay, but no matter how I called you, you didn't respond."
Li Fan shrugged. "And when you woke up, you exploded before I could say anything. Can you blame me for that?"
Jiao Xiuyuan looked at Li Fan's innocent expression and his face twitched.
After thinking about it, the other party didn't seem like the kind of person who would take something without asking, so he could only pretend to be generous and said, "Forget it, it's just a puppet, blow it up! I still have a lot of puppets!"
"Brother Jiao is very magnanimous!" Li Fan applauded and praised.
"I remember that the painting should depict the scene of the Tianjian Sect in ancient times. Could it be that Brother Li was reminded of the past by the sight of the painting?" At this moment, Jiao Xiuyuan suddenly glanced at Li Fan and asked inexplicably.
Li Fan looked at Jiao Xiuyuan, thoughts racing through his mind.
After a moment, Li Fan shook his head, saying in a puzzled tone, "Tianjian Sect? You must have made a mistake, fellow Daoist. Although I have lost some of my memories during my thousands of years of slumber, I still have some impression of the two stone tablets "Stop" and "Stop War" in front of the Tianjian Sect's mountain gate. The sect in this painting doesn't look like it!"
Jiao Xiuyuan slapped his head and said, "Haha, look at my memory. It may be because I just lost a puppet, which caused my memory to become disordered."
"Taishang Sect, it should be Taishang Sect!" Jiao Xiuyuan said again.
"Taishang Sect..." Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, as if recalling something.
After a while, he slowly shook his head and said, "No, I visited the Supreme Sect before. The thirty-three floating mountains in the sect don't correspond to the scenery in the painting."
Li Fan looked at Jiao Xiuyuan with some suspicion: "Fellow Daoist Jiao, you..."
Jiao Xiuyuan laughed dryly a few times and said quickly: "I remembered it wrong again! Uh, let me think..."
"It should be the Du'e Sect! There is no doubt about it!" he said confidently.
"Du'e Sect?" Li Fan's heart moved.
Jiao Xiuyuan's two intentional attempts both failed. The Du'e Sect he mentioned this time should not be fake.
In his previous life, outside the Five Elements Cave, when the five elements returned to one, Li Fan once saw a time mirage of a pair of master and disciple of the Du'e Sect.
Moreover, at that time, among all the cultivators on the Duchen Boat, I was the only one who could see it.
Li Fan originally thought that it was just because his spirit was strong and different from that of ordinary people.
But if the scene he saw at the bottom of the abyss was also from the Du'e Sect...
Li Fan recalled that when he was standing beside the Abyss and looking down at the bottom of the abyss, there was a moment when he was bewitched by the power of the Abyss.
He almost lost his mind and committed the suicidal act of exploring the abyss before Huanzhen had finished charging.
And at that critical moment, a bright light suddenly appeared at the bottom of the abyss.
The four words [The way to immortality is dead] came into his sight, and he returned to normal.
It can be said that it saved his life.
"It seems that this Du'e Sect is inextricably linked to me. Strange..."
After thinking for a long time and recalling past experiences, Li Fan was unable to find the reason for the connection.
"Du'e Sect. I've only heard of it, but I think I've never been there. Fellow Daoist Jiao, how much do you know about the Du'e Sect?" Li Fan turned to ask Jiao Xiuyuan.
"For some reason, I feel familiar with the scenery inside the Du'e Sect. Could it be that my memory is also confused?" Li Fan showed a puzzled look on his face.
Jiao Xiuyuan ignored the teasing in Li Fan's words and said in surprise: "Is that true? That's really incredible!"
"Oh? What do you mean?" Li Fan asked hurriedly.
"Fellow Daoist, you are most likely the [person destined to suffer the calamity] of the Du'e Sect cultivator who left this painting!" Jiao Xiuyuan said solemnly, his eyes turning deep as he looked at Li Fan.
"The one who will be robbed?" Li Fan repeated the phrase several times. "What does this mean?"
"The name of the sect is just as it says. The monks of the Du'e Sect use [Du'e] as their cultivation nourishment. Their technique [Eternal Tribulation] is to draw strength from various disasters. Every time they overcome a disaster, their strength will make a qualitative leap."
"The stronger the disaster, the more feedback power you will get after successfully overcoming it."
"But on the other hand, the next time you advance, you will need to target a more dangerous disaster."
"But there are countless disasters in the world. Even the heaven and earth may be destroyed in a disaster. How can the monks of the Du'e Sect be absolutely sure that they can survive it?"
"When they realize they may not survive the next disaster, they will use secret methods to temporarily hide in the world."
"At the same time, leave behind various means to wait and sense the emergence of someone who can resolve this disaster."
"This kind of person is what is called a 'person destined for disaster'!
Jiao Xiuyuan slowly explained to Li Fan.
Hearing this, Li Fan frowned deeply, "Is there such a technique? If so, isn't it possible that I'm being targeted by a cultivator from the Du'e Sect? Does Fellow Daoist Jiao have a way to crack it?"
Jiao Xiuyuan waved his hand: "Don't be so nervous! Thousands of years have passed, who knows if the monk from the Du'e Sect who left this transformation behind is still alive?"
"Besides, even if he is here, you don't have to worry about anything. If he wants to survive the disaster, he has to rely on you completely. Before he survives the disaster, he will definitely not do anything bad to you."
"And if you help him get through the disaster, then he will owe you a big favor. At that time, he must repay this favor. This is also the rule that has been passed down by the Du'e Sect. Otherwise, who would play this trick with them."
"Besides, think about it. You can overcome a disaster that the other party can't overcome. I'm afraid that by then, your strength will be above that of the other party. If you don't cause trouble for the other party, he should be very lucky. How dare he make trouble with you?"
Jiao Xiuyuan didn't take Li Fan's worries seriously. Instead, he looked at Li Fan with interest again.
“Fellow Daoist Li Fan, you have been sensed as a person destined to calamity by the monks of the Du’e Sect. Your future is truly limitless!”
After hearing what Jiao Xiuyuan said, Li Fan felt a little relieved.
But in the end, a thorn grew in my heart.
Judging from the other party’s previous help in Xuyuan, this Du’e Sect monk must still be alive.
Although it is not possible to monitor Li Fan's every move all the time, one could never tell what he might discover if he spied on him for a long time.
"It seems that I need to find an opportunity to resolve this hidden worry." Li Fan said to himself.
"Fellow Daoist, you are truly knowledgeable. You even know the secrets of these ancient sects like the back of your hand. I admire you! I admire you!"
"By the way, how much contribution points does this painting cost? I'll buy it. I can't let you make a loss!"
While thinking in his mind, Li Fan's actions did not show any abnormality. He said to Jiao Xiuyuan.
(End of this chapter)
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