Chapter 1384: Counting Visitors Behind the High Walls

Once, twice.

Li Fan's consciousness scanned over it one after another, but he could not find the reason for the misjudgment of the Immortal Formation in this storyteller.

"Maybe it's not because of him..."

Frowning his brows, Li Fan carefully searched for nearby items.

Finally, his eyes fell on the awakening wood used by the storyteller.

"This thing..."

It seems unremarkable, just pitch black.

But Li Fan took the photo in his hand, and at the moment of contact, his soul felt a slight chill.

"Um?"

Ever since he understood the [Infinite Filling and Void Method], Li Fan's soul has always been in a "perfect" state, always at the limit of what he can achieve. Even if there is any damage, it can be healed instantly through the power of the Five Elements and the flow of Hunyuan.

The soul has reached a certain level, and only with Li Fan's breakthrough can he grow in a step-by-step manner. In fact, the strength of Li Fan's soul has not increased for a long time since he was promoted to the realm of divine transformation until now.

But now, with the integration of this cool feeling, Li Fan actually felt that his soul was slowly solidifying and the bottleneck was loosening!

"Hiss... what kind of treasure is this Xingmu?" Li Fan was more than surprised, but also wary.

You must know that the strength of Li Fan's soul is now comparable to that of the Xuanhuang Immortality Realm.

After reaching the limit, if you want to improve one point, you can no longer do it just by hard work.

"There are countless treasures in the Immortal Boat's secret cache. I haven't found any that are useful to me. There are actually still hidden in the Xuanhuang Realm..."

Li Fan was very cautious and set up an immortal formation to isolate the black awakening wood.

Then he searched the storyteller's mind for the origin of this awakening tree.

It is not an ancestral object with no origin, but he chopped down the trees in his yard and polished it.

Li Fan took the storyteller named Ge Daoquan to his home.

In the courtyard, the green tree is still standing.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Li Fan felt something was different.

It's like walking in the sun for a long time on a sultry summer day and suddenly walking into the shadows.

Just two words.

Comfortable!

If it were an ordinary monk, the contrast between before and after would probably make people groan on the spot.

Li Fan took a deep breath, without letting go of his vigilance, and gradually approached the tree.

The leaves suddenly moved automatically in the absence of wind, making a rustling sound.

Li Fan has seen many strange trees in his previous reincarnation experiences.

In the Xuanhuang Realm, there are all spirits, Tianhua, Earth Veins, the three ancient trees of Xuanhuang, and Ruomu, the source of all living things.

In the Xuanxian Zhou, there is a sacred tree from the ancient Divine Tree Sect.

But all of these are different from what is in front of me.

Whether it is a three ancient tree or a Ruomu tree.

They all have their own consciousness, and they all give Li Fan a strange and weird feeling of plants and trees becoming spirits.

But this one in the courtyard...

It is pure tree.

Pure, but extraordinary.

The crisp sound of leaves colliding with each other slowly relaxed Li Fan's tense mood.

Li Fan didn't know the name of this tree.

At this moment, he no longer had the desire to get to the bottom of it. He just sat cross-legged under the tree, meditating as if he had enlightened himself.

Another breeze blew by, and dozens of green leaves fell from the trees.

Like a stream of light, it flew into Li Fan's body.

Li Fan's eyes slowly closed.

When it opened again, it was already ten days later.

Struggled and desperate in hundreds of reincarnations, always worrying about monsters with peerless cultivation that suddenly appeared from nowhere, and how many times I almost died, I was really scared...

All the fatigue accumulated in the soul is eliminated.

It's like having a good night's sleep.

The whole body and mind are refreshed.

Li Fan stood up again and felt that his mental state had never been better.

He stared at the tree in the courtyard.

The prosperity was gone, and there was nothing special about it in his eyes.

Just like a really ordinary tree.

Li Fan recalled the scenes that flashed through his mind during his ten days of sleep.

From the memory of the trees themselves.

A stream of light pierced the sky and fell near the trees.

It seemed as if it had lost the breath of life and was as motionless as a dead thing. From the outside, it looked like a round ball stained with blood and even more than half burned.

As time goes by, the rotten skin on the surface of the ball slowly falls off.

A baby crawled out of it.

The baby didn't cry because it was just born. It just identified the left and right, then chose a direction and crawled slowly with firm eyes.

It soon disappeared from sight among the trees.

As for the outer skin of the ball, exposed to wind, sun, and rain, it slowly dissolves and turns into nutrients, which are absorbed by the trees.

…

There were terrifying vibrations and fires everywhere in the sky, as if a cruel war was going on.

A figure quietly came near the trees.

"How could it be a tree?"

“Is there something wrong with the lockdown?”

"This damn place..."

In the man's hand, stood a one-eyed man made of machinery. The villain's eyes glowed with golden light, pointing to the trees ahead.

There was some confusion and anxiety on his face. The man fiddled with it again, but the direction of the villain's gaze never changed.

The man cursed loudly and threw the mechanical doll to the ground in anger.

In the sky, it seemed that a cultivator noticed the existence of the man below.

The man's expression changed slightly, and he turned into a golden light and fled.

After who knows how many days, the mechanical puppet was buried deep underground.

As the sun rose and the moon set, the traces of the shocking battle were gradually smoothed by the years.

Occasionally, mortals would feel extremely at ease whenever they passed by here.

So some people began to choose to settle down, and a mortal town appeared.

Ten generations of people lived near this tree. Their mentality was surprisingly good. Although they also spent their lives in an ordinary way, they were content with what they had. Even if they encountered any difficulties, they would just smile and get over it.

Until the eleventh generation, in order to make a living, they chose to become storytellers. It happened that they were short of a good wake-up wood, so they chopped a piece from the tree at home.

...

Thoughts were surging, and the first thing Li Fan did was to dig around the tree.

Knowing that the divine sense search was ineffective, Li Fan had to choose to do it himself.

Not long after, the mechanical man that the man had thrown away hundreds of years ago was found.

It had been buried for many years, but now it was taken out again, and it was still as good as new.

There was no trace of time.

But the third eye of the mechanical man had been closed for some reason.

No matter how he urged it, it did not respond at all.

Li Fan played with the mechanical product and felt a familiar breath.

"Falling into the mortal world..."

Li Fan's heart began to become solemn.

After pondering for a moment, Li Fan made a decision.

He took out the white circle [Falling into the mortal world] and shone it on the mechanical man.

Falling into the mortal world is the entity condensation of the law of the great way [Xiantian].

For more than ten years, Li Fan has been holding the white circle, and his mind recalled the manifestation on the wordless monument in his previous life.

He wanted to comprehend this great way.

But what disappointed him was that no matter how he felt, he could not form his own understanding like other true immortal seal characters.

It was as if...

The principles of [Xiantian] in the world have all been gathered together. It is not something that others can touch.

Li Fan did not force it. Anyway, [Huanzhen] has been bound to the white circle and fallen into the mortal world. At present, it can be called anytime and anywhere, and the gap with his own understanding is not too big.

At this moment, the white circle light locked the mechanical man.

Under the white light, the man who should have been decomposed into nothingness was unharmed!

It was not because of its status, which was still above the mortal world and could be immune to the decomposition effect.

But the light released by the white circle suddenly turned green after sensing the mechanical man.

The mechanical man thus avoided the fate of being decomposed.

After being illuminated by the white circle, the mechanical man who had been in a dormant state came back to life.

Flying, standing in the palm of Li Fan's hand, and then opened the third eye.

As if searching for something, it kept turning.

But for some reason, the speed of the man's rotation was getting faster and faster.

As if out of control, it kept turning wildly.

It turned into a spinning top.

"Is this, broken?"

Li Fan frowned slightly.

He did not stop it for the time being and continued to let the man turn.

Li Fan first looked at the green trees in the courtyard.

"A hundred years ago, the reason why the villain pointed to this tree was because this tree absorbed the layer of skin including the baby's."

"That layer of material should have the effect of awakening and enlightenment."

"However, with the passage of time, especially after it was absorbed by me before, the effect has become negligible now, so the villain will continue to point to other places."

"I don't know how much the effect has weakened, but it still has such a miraculous effect on me. It's hard to imagine what it looked like at the beginning."

Li Fan's eyes flashed, and he continued to think: "The white circle fell into the mortal world and can produce a sense of the mechanical villain. It is enough to confirm that they are from the same source..."

"So, my guess in my last life was indeed correct. The one who was suppressed in the deepest part of the Nether Prison really came from outside the high wall."

Li Fan's expression suddenly became serious.

Yes, the man's figure that appeared in the tree's memory was the skeleton that Li Fan saw in the deepest part of the Nether Prison in his last life.

The cultivator who called himself Qin Zhuang!

"I searched his soul, but there was no memory of the previous part."

"It is obvious that he concealed and forged his experience through secret methods. Good tricks!"

Li Fan secretly praised himself. He was not angry because he was fooled, but felt a little excited.

"He thought he did things perfectly, but he didn't expect that everything would leave traces."

"Under normal circumstances, this trace is definitely not easy to find. But in front of the Xuanhuang Illusion Formation where all beings are equal, it finally appeared!"

Li Fan recalled the figure of the baby crawling out of the sphere in the tree's memory.

"Qin Zhuang... Let's call him that for the time being."

"He came to the high wall, it seems to be to search for the traces of the baby."

"In this case, this baby also came from outside the high wall?"

"Qin Zhuang is related to the Tianjian Sect. Could this baby also be a descendant of the Tianjian Sect?"

In an instant, thousands of questions emerged in Li Fan's mind.

In this life, the Immortal Alliance Hell has been shrouded by the Xuanhuang Illusion Formation. Qin Zhuang also inevitably fell into the illusion.

But I think the result is the same as the test in the previous life, Qin Zhuang will not reveal any flaws.

"Failed twice in a row..."

"It seems that the means to resist the illusion array outside the high wall have become very popular."

Li Fan pondered for a moment and did not rush to capture and torture Qin Zhuang.

"Even the immortal formation can be exempted, so other physical punishments should be useless."

"I must upgrade more special means. Maybe after I merge with the Tao, there will be new methods."

...

Thinking, Li Fan looked at the spinning mechanical man again.

It still showed no signs of stopping.

Li Fan pondered and observed carefully.

"It seems to be spinning, but there are different gaps between each rotation."

"This look is like..."

"Many different targets were found at the same time. And these targets are distributed in various places in the Xuanhuang Realm?"

Li Fan came to an incredible conclusion.

"Wait, could it be..."

In an instant, a thought suddenly appeared in Li Fan's mind.

In order to verify his guess, Li Fan held the mechanical man and slowly flew towards a place.

As he got closer, the man turned to the direction of Li Fan's advance more and more frequently.

Finally, Li Fan arrived at his destination.

Looking at the man who finally stopped spinning, Li Fan smiled meaningfully.

On the plaque of the wooden house in front of him, three big characters were written suddenly.

Qianli Hall!

The third eye of the mechanical man stared straight at Jiao Xiuyuan, who had fallen asleep in the hall.

Then, as if it had exhausted its energy again.

It slowly closed its eyes.

"That baby back then was actually him."

"Jiao Xiuyuan, from outside the high wall?"

"But he is not like Qin Zhuang, who is immune to the illusion array..."

Li Fan's thoughts were surging in his heart.

Then he closed his eyes and stood slightly, taking the mechanical man with him into the [Xuanhuang All Beings] formation.

In the illusion array, Jiao Xiuyuan was still as usual, constantly shouting and doing business.

When Li Fan appeared in front of him, Jiao Xiuyuan seemed to sense something, and his shouting stopped abruptly, and his eyes fell on the mechanical man held by Li Fan.

Li Fan pretended to turn around and leave.

"My fellow Taoist, please stay!"

Jiao Xiuyuan shouted repeatedly, and walked out to stop Li Fan.

"Since you are already here, why don't you come in? Come in and sit down." Jiao Xiuyuan said with a smile on his face, revealing a hint of honesty on his dark face.

With the absolute qualities of a businessman, he did not even glance at the little man in Li Fan's hand.

Li Fan put away the little man and sighed: "It's an heirloom. I wanted to sell it. But after repeated consideration, I decided to forget it."

"Goodbye!" Li Fan bowed and was about to leave.

"Don't be in a hurry, Taoist friend. I feel friendly when I see your face. If you have any difficulties, just ask. If I can, I will definitely help you." Jiao Xiuyuan patted his chest, looking very righteous.

Li Fan hesitated for a few minutes, but finally sat down.

Jiao Xiuyuan quietly closed Qianlitang and closed the door.

Concentrate on dealing with Li Fan alone.

"To be honest with you, Taoist friend, I have been having a repetitive dream since I was born."

Li Fan pondered for a while, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he deeply attracted Jiao Xiuyuan's attention.

"In my dream, I saw a ray of light falling from the sky. A baby crawled out of the sphere..."

Li Fan said as he carefully observed Jiao Xiuyuan's reaction.

Jiao Xiuyuan listened with great interest, but did not show any abnormality as Li Fan expected.

"I guess this dream may be related to the villain passed down in the family." Li Fan said again.