Chapter 52: Guarding Tai'an Island
"All the mortals on the island have disappeared. And the city where the mortals originally gathered has now grown lush trees one after another, like a primeval forest."
"The branches of those trees were filled with fruits shaped like human faces."
"When the breeze blows, a creepy smile appears on the face of the fruit grower."
As He Zhenghao spoke, Li Fan seemed to see countless faces smiling at him.
Thinking of the fact that he had just eaten one of these fruits, Li Fan couldn't help but get goose bumps all over his body.
He Zhenghao continued speaking.
"The Jindan guard came to his senses after being shocked and went down to the city to investigate."
"No mortal survived on the entire island. They were all transformed into Smiling Face Fruits. But the Jindan Guardian couldn't figure out why this strange thing happened. So he had no choice but to report the matter."
"The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance sent someone to investigate, but no one knows what the results were. All the trees in the city were cut down, and the city returned to its original appearance. And those smiling fruits continued to live in the city as usual, as if nothing had happened."
"Generation after generation, they have continued to this day. The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance has also built a large formation here, and assigned special personnel to guard it and harvest the fruits."
After listening to this, Li Fan couldn't help but say, "So, this Tai'an fruit is a human, isn't it?"
He Zhenghao shook his head: "How can they be human? They have no consciousness of their own and act entirely on instinct. If you must say, they just retain some human obsessions at most."
Li Fan pondered for a moment, but ultimately did not refute.
This matter was too mysterious, and he didn't know how to characterize these Tai'an fruits.
However, after the immortal cultivators discovered their ability to prolong life, none of this mattered anymore.
Not to mention the Tai'an fruit, even if it is a real mortal, if eating it can prolong life, he cannot escape the fate of being eaten.
Li Fan fell into deep thought.
He Zhenghao didn't know what he was thinking about and fell into silence.
After a long time, the two came to their senses.
Next, He Zhenghao explained to Li Fan some things that needed to be paid attention to when guarding an island.
Li Fan also remembered them all.
"The formation covers the entire island. Every time it operates, it draws a trace of essence from the mortals in it."
"The amount extracted is extremely small and will not have any effect on mortals. But when these essences are gathered together, the amount will be considerable."
"After transformation, these essences can increase the concentration of spiritual energy within the magic circle."
“So practicing in this island protection formation is not as efficient as starting the auxiliary practice mode in the Tianxuan Mirror, but it is still much faster than the ordinary outside world.”
Finally, He Zhenghao proudly told Li Fan a secret that only a monk who had served as the guardian of an island knew.
After giving Li Fan some more instructions and telling him to contact him anytime if he had any questions, He Zhenghao left leisurely.
Li Fan held the guarding token in his hand, and with the help of the formation, his spiritual awareness instantly covered the entire island.
The ordinary mortals on the island and the Taian Fruit in the central core magic circle are all busy living their own lives.
After staring for a long time, Li Fan sighed.
"Pulling out the marrow of the world to serve as a spiritual practice."
If possible, Li Fan would naturally want to do something. Unfortunately, he is currently just a small cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.
The only thing we can do now is to practice hard.
Li Fan suppressed all the thoughts in his mind.
From then on, Li Fan settled down on Tai'an Island.
I have to say that the job of guarding an island is really quite easy.
The mortals on the island did not dare to disturb the immortal master unless necessary.
All Li Fan needs to do is to check whether the island protection formation is operating normally every once in a while, harvest and preserve the ripe Tai'an fruits in time, and other trivial matters.
Li Fan can do whatever he wants with the rest of the time.
Li Fan naturally devoted all his energy to hard training.
"One Hundred Techniques of Using Reiki", "The Beginning of Magic", "The Secret to Winning a Fight - Strike First", "To Live is to Win", "Only Speed Can Invincibility"...
Starting from these basic cultivation knowledge, Li Fan slowly mastered some simple little spells.
Such as the breath-holding technique, the fake death technique, the wind-controlling technique, the giant strength technique and so on.
During the study, Li Fan couldn't help but sigh at the extent to which the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance protected its knowledge monopoly.
There is no problem in learning and using the knowledge purchased and learned from Tianxuan Realm by yourself.
But if you want to teach others after learning it, that’s not possible.
Unless your strength can surpass the Tianxuan Mirror, you will naturally be able to break the restrictions contained in it.
Li Fan didn't know the power of the magical treasure Tianxuan Mirror and what level of cultivator it was equivalent to.
However, judging from common sense, he should be at least not inferior to a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage.
The power of a Divine Transformation cultivator is far beyond what Li Fan can imagine today.
So no matter how dissatisfied he is, he can only accept the reality temporarily.
After reading these books, Li Fan began to try to read related content such as alchemy, refining, and formations.
Compared to the previous spell part, these contents are too complicated.
There were so many things to learn that Li Fan didn't know where to start.
It took Li Fan more than ten days to read through the basics of alchemy in "The Beginning of Alchemy": the age and efficacy analysis of various herbs.
Not to mention the following parts: the selection and control of alchemy fire, alchemy furnace training, and actual alchemy practice. Li Fan estimated that it would take him at least a year or two to finish reading them all.
Knowing that these skills often require the guidance of a famous teacher, Li Fan hesitated for a while and finally chose to give up temporarily.
So he temporarily put aside all distractions and began to practice "Thousand Machines Jade World Gold Chapter".
This ancient Tianji Sect's technique is really obscure and difficult to understand. It is very different from the "Xiao Yan Shui Jue" that Li Fan practiced before. It seems like they are not the product of the same system at all.
Even with the constant help of glass beads to increase his understanding, it still took Li Fan more than half a year to get started.
The hardships involved made Li Fan think of going to the Tianxuan Mirror to practice "Thousand Machines Jade Gold Chapter" under the super-assisted training state.
But in the end, this thought was suppressed by Li Fan.
After all, Li Fan still couldn't let go of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
Judging from the way they act, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is obviously not a good group.
If it arouses the interest of Tianxuan Realm, it would be fine to expose the Nascent Soul technique, but if the existence of [Huanzhen] is exposed, then it would be truly irreparable.
So Li Fan would rather practice slowly on his own.
And just like that, a year passed.
Li Fan returned to Wanxian Island and received his reward for acting as the garrison commander, 800 contribution points. He then exchanged the late stage of Qi Refining for the "Xiao Yan Shui Jue".
After practicing for another five days under the auxiliary practice mode of the Tianxuan Mirror, he reluctantly returned to Tai'an Island.
After five days of rapid training, Li Fan already felt that he was not far from the late stage of Qi Refining.
(End of this chapter)
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