Chapter 214: The Treasure Box

Great Xuan.

Following the location from his memories, Li Fan found Yi Xing's Tomb and easily broke through the mechanism.

After casually setting up a Formation around it to prevent accidental entry, Li Fan, after many years, once again entered Yi Xing's Tomb.

He passed through the long tomb passage and arrived at the depths of the tomb.

Overhead, bright pearls shone like stars, and beneath his feet, a sea of clouds spread out with numerous towering peaks.

He could tell at a glance that there were traces of a Formation.

“This Formation, how can it sustain itself for thousands of years without Spiritual Qi?”

Li Fan couldn't help but be surprised and immediately began to examine it closely.

It wasn't long before he understood the reason.

“Using bright pearls as stars.”

“Using soil dug from famous mountains across Great Xuan as peaks.”

“Substituting the real for the illusory, it minimized the consumption required by the Formation to the greatest extent.”

“Moreover, this unknown magic Formation completely abandoned functions like attack and defense. Its only use was…”

“An illusion…”

In Li Fan's perception, the golden silken straw hut where Yi Xing's spiritual tablet was located was the source of the Spiritual Qi that sustained the Formation's operation.

Li Fan flew to the top of this mountain, found the Formation's node, and stepped on it.

“Break!”

The mountain peaks vanished instantly like shattered illusions.

A black void appeared beneath the golden silken straw hut.

Li Fan followed this newly appeared passage and arrived beneath the illusion Formation.

This was where Yi Xing's true tomb was located.

The tomb chamber was decorated like an ordinary study.

In front of a vermilion long table, a skeleton lay prostrate.

Beside it, a faint candle flame still flickered weakly.

On the long table, around the skeleton, and even on the floor of the entire study,

There were countless scattered papers covered with mysterious symbols.

Li Fan picked up a sheet and looked at it for a while, but couldn't make out what Yi Xing had written before his death.

He casually collected all these papers and searched for a moment longer.

To Li Fan's disappointment, he didn't find the hua dao stone.

Other than Yi Xing's skeleton and a room full of papers, there was nothing else here.

“Could it be that this is still not the true tomb?”

“Although Yi Xing was just an Outer Sect Disciple, he was at least responsible for relocating Mortals. His status shouldn't have been too low.”

“It shouldn't be this shabby.”

Li Fan, unwilling to give up, meticulously searched the place inside and out again.

But the result remained the same.

After a moment of contemplation, he collected the long table, the candle on it, and Yi Xing's skeleton.

To avoid any oversight, Li Fan simply activated Cong Yun One Sword and completely destroyed the entire room with brute force.

The immense power of the Cong Yun Sword completely exposed the geological structure around the study.

To Li Fan's disappointment, this was indeed the lowest level of the tomb.

Further down, there was only rock and soil.

“It seems I've truly come here for nothing,” Li Fan shook his head helplessly.

He had come with great expectations, only to return disappointed.

After returning to the Xuanhuang World, Li Fan cremated Yi Xing's remains, scattering them to the wind.

Then he returned to the tianxuan mirror.

“If there's anything else I've missed, it should be among the remaining three items.”

Li Fan pondered for a moment, then, under the guise of selling assets, he handed the long table, the candle, and one of the papers to the tianxuan mirror for appraisal.

The first two were ordinary items.

A silver fir red wood table and a sea whale long-burning candle, together worth no more than thirty contribution points.

But those papers covered with strange symbols were not ordinary paper.

“Heavenly Lock Treasure Box (Damaged), one contribution point.”

Li Fan's eyes flashed: “As expected, there's more to it.”

Instead of selling it, Li Fan searched for information about the Heavenly Lock Treasure Box.

As the name suggested, a Heavenly Lock Treasure Box was a storage box sealed in a special way.

It could only be opened by solving the puzzle set by the box's owner.

But even knowing there was a secret inside, Li Fan was at a loss when faced with tens of thousands of papers covered in gibberish.

Fortunately, Li Fan was not alone.

He didn't know.

Within the vast Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, someone surely would know.

As usual, he searched for keywords in the tianxuan mirror.

After painstakingly sifting through countless irrelevant pieces of information, Li Fan searched for a long time and finally found a clue in an article introducing several recreational activities ancient Daoist Cultivators engaged in during their leisure time.

“Reverse Tribulation?”

Li Fan's spirits lifted, and he began to read carefully.

The article stated that in ancient times, Cultivators believed that the world generally developed from order to disorder.

From the initial [Origin], to the Yin and Yang Qi, then to the Five Elements of heaven and earth, and then to all things in the world.

Order was lost, and Chaos accumulated.

Until Chaos completely overwhelmed order, an all-destroying power would erupt.

Returning heaven and earth to Chaos.

This was the so-called [Tribulation].

And Reverse Tribulation was a game that restored Chaos to order and disorder to order.

This game had extremely high requirements and training capabilities for a Cultivator's Divine Sense and deduction abilities.

It was generally popular among major Formation and deduction sects.

It sounded complicated, but it was actually easy to understand.

Taking the tens of thousands of papers Li Fan found in Yi Xing's Tomb as an example.

These papers originally had a fixed sequence.

All Li Fan had to do was restore this stack of disordered papers to their original fixed sequence.

It should be very simple, right…

Li Fan thought this, took all the papers out of his storage ring, and prepared to try.

But then, he realized something was wrong, and his face darkened.

Simple, my ass!

“There are a total of…” After a sweep with his Divine Sense, Li Fan's face grew even uglier when he got the answer moments later.

“Forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine sheets of paper.”

“If there are no other hints, and I just try to put them in order one by one…”

Just thinking about it made Li Fan feel dizzy.

“Even if I do nothing else in this life, I won't be able to decipher and restore it!”

Li Fan picked up a piece of paper and examined the content written on it.

“These seemingly meaningless symbols on it should be hints.”

“Unfortunately, they're like some pre-arranged key, only known to the person involved.”

“Perhaps they were commonly used among the Taiyan Sect Disciples back then?”

Unable to make anything of it, Li Fan felt somewhat helpless.

“I wonder if the hua dao stone that Jiao Xiuyuan found back then was also encrypted like this?”

Li Fan couldn't help but want to use his Clone to find out the truth.

But then, a flash of inspiration struck him, and he temporarily gave up on that idea.

“…It's just a password with more digits, that's all.”

“I can't do it, but this one definitely can.”

Li Fan lightly coughed and smiled as he asked the tianxuan mirror if it offered a decryption service.

The tianxuan mirror was silent for a moment, then gave a positive answer.

However, the fee would be charged according to the difficulty of decryption.

After inquiring, he learned that it would cost at most two or three tens of thousands of contribution points.

Li Fan, being wealthy, confidently allowed the tianxuan mirror to decrypt it.