Chapter 9 There is always a way out
Looking at Kou Hong's confession on the table, Li Fan felt somewhat disheartened.
Kou Hong did not lie to him. He really did not know a way to get mortals to leave this immortal land.
“The land of immortals…” Five reincarnations and three hundred years of anticipation, now all turned into a bubble that was out of reach.
His dream of becoming an immortal was shattered, and Li Fan seemed to have completely aged overnight.
Not only physically, but mentally as well.
"The land of immortals..." He repeated the name silently in his mind again, with endless resentment welling up in his heart.
"How could I be born in a place like this? If I were born in the immortal world outside, I would have a chance to live forever with the ability of [Huanzhen] to simulate reincarnation infinitely. What a pity that I have to be born in this immortal place!"
The information in Kou Hong's confession flashed through Li Fan's mind again.
The so-called immortal land, as the name suggests, is a place where immortals have disappeared. Thousands of years ago, the ancient world of immortal cultivation encountered a great change.
At first, it was just a plague that swept across the entire mortal world, and no cultivator cared about it.
But later, after a cultivator was accidentally infected with this unknown plague, things got completely out of control.
After infecting the immortal cultivators this time, the plague seemed to have been inexplicably strengthened and became able to spread among the cultivators.
The means of transmission is nothing else but the spiritual energy on which immortal cultivators rely for survival.
The plague spread rapidly throughout the entire world of immortal cultivation through the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. For the immortal cultivators infected with this plague, at the very least, their cultivation would regress and they would fall to a lower realm; at the worst, their cultivation would be completely lost overnight and they would become no different from ordinary people. After a few days, they would die and return to heaven.
With the death of large numbers of immortal cultivators, a feeling of despair began to spread among the immortal cultivator community.
Some immortal cultivators, out of despair, vent their anger on the source of all this, the mortals.
Thus, a large-scale massacre began.
Faced with the almighty immortal master, mortals have almost no power to resist and can only be slaughtered by him.
But it wasn't long before the massacre was forcibly stopped.
It was not because they had a change of heart, but because the immortal cultivators were horrified to discover that as they slaughtered and killed a large number of mortals, the plague in their bodies not only did not disappear with their death, but instead seemed to lose its restraints and spread along the spiritual energy that filled the heaven and earth.
For a time, the level of plague in the world of immortal cultivation skyrocketed.
This in turn led to the deaths of more immortal cultivators.
In desperation, the immortal cultivators gave up the killing of mortals.
But sitting still and waiting for death is obviously not the style of the immortal cultivators. On the one hand, a group of immortal cultivators began to develop methods to treat and resist this plague. On the other hand, the immortal cultivators proposed the infamous "Great Migration Plan".
Although this plan was opposed by quite a number of cultivators when it was first proposed, for the sake of their own survival, most of the cultivators still voted in favor.
The so-called "Great Migration Plan" is based on the following considerations:
Mortals cannot be killed, and finding a way to completely solve this plague is a long way off. If mortals are allowed to reproduce freely, as the plague becomes more and more serious, the lives of immortal cultivators will become increasingly difficult.
This strange plague can only be spread by spiritual energy, so a natural solution was proposed.
Banish all the mortals in the world of immortal cultivation to small worlds without spiritual energy, broken caves and other places, and then use formations to isolate them forever to prevent these mortals from returning.
In this way, we can solve the problem of mortals once and for all, and then go back and slowly study how to fight the plague.
Anyway, the undeveloped small world is almost endless, so there is no need to worry about not having enough space for these mortals.
Thus, under the unified will of the entire world of immortal cultivation, all the mortals in the world of immortal cultivation began a migration that lasted for hundreds of years.
As for how many mortals would die during the migration during these hundreds of years, it was beyond the consideration of these immortal cultivators. In any case, in front of the power of immortal cultivators, mortals had no room to resist.
In this way, after hundreds of years of migration, all the mortals in the Xiuxian world were moved and dispersed to various small worlds around them. After nearly a thousand years, the concentration of plague in the Xiuxian world finally dropped to a lower level.
After thousands of years of continuous research, immortal cultivators finally found a way to purify the plague.
It took thousands of years for the immortal cultivators to completely eliminate the threat of this plague.
However, what makes the cultivators feel embarrassed is that this plague is still lingering and hiding in the blood of mortals.
Originally, there were no mortals in the entire world, but not every offspring produced by immortal cultivators were qualified to practice immortal cultivation.
As time went by, many mortals were born in the world. All of these mortals had the shadow of this plague in their bodies.
And because this plague has a special killing power on immortal cultivators, the descendants of mortals who want to practice immortal cultivation must eliminate the plague in their bodies.
Over time, this plague became a synonym for the difference between immortals and mortals, so people named it immortal and mortal miasma.
The rampant miasma of immortals and mortals at that time left a great psychological shadow on all the immortal cultivators. In order to prevent the miasma of immortals and mortals from making a comeback, the immortal cultivators agreed to try not to go to the places where the mortals were exiled in the past.
Over time, these places became the so-called immortal places.
There are countless immortal lands of all sizes, but there are very few cultivators willing to take huge risks to enter these places.
It was a blessing for Li Fan to meet two of them.
Now, since these two immortal cultivators have no way to allow mortals to escape, how can Li Fan possibly expect another immortal cultivator with higher cultivation to break in?
Moreover, as a mortal, his life span is limited. Even if he can continuously simulate reincarnation, it is just repeating within the scope of his life span.
He is already seventy years old this year, and his upper limit of biological life span is eighty-six.
During these sixteen years, the possibility of meeting another cultivator is basically zero.
If that’s the case, how could Li Fan not feel desperate?
Although he saw the hope of cultivating immortality and achieving longevity, he did not expect that it would end up being just a false alarm.
Could it be that I can only repeat the life of an ordinary person lifetime after lifetime?
Li Fan was really unwilling to accept this.
The road to immortality is right before our eyes, within reach, yet it is also far away and out of hope.
How could Li Fan accept this?
Thinking about everything he had experienced in his reincarnations and the nearly three hundred years of waiting, Li Fan was unwilling to give up the path to immortality.
Is there really no other solution?
Suddenly, as if a flash of lightning broke through the fog, Li Fan suddenly thought of something he had previously overlooked.
How did large numbers of mortals migrate here thousands of years ago?
Although the small world and the world of immortal cultivation are adjacent, they are not the same world after all.
Surely these mortals didn't come here on foot?
There must be some tool to carry them here, right?
Are these tools still available today?
If I find these tools, can I go to the world of immortal cultivation?
Even if it was just a tiny possibility, it made Li Fan see the hope of cultivating immortals.
His mood became excited, so he immediately went to the prison where Kou Hong was imprisoned.
He wanted to find Kou Hong to verify the feasibility of his idea.
(End of this chapter)
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