Chapter 229: Eternal Memories (Combined Chapter)

A Soul Transformation Stage Cultivator attacking without restraint is enough to cause immense destruction to an entire province.

When the Tianyang Puppet appeared, it, as expected, attracted Hongxi Immortal Lord from Wanxian Island.

The earth-shattering battle between the two Soul Transformation experts drew the attention of countless Cultivators in the surrounding area.

Xiao Heng and Ye Feipeng, who had been fleeing in disarray and finally found a safe place to hide, watched this scene from afar, their faces subtly pale.

Even from such a distance, the residual shockwaves of the battle still made it difficult for the two small Qi Refining Cultivators to steady themselves.

It was unimaginable how terrifying the power of a Soul Transformation Cultivator's every move was.

Thinking of how he had foolishly competed with that Puppet not long ago, Xiao Heng swallowed hard.

"Fatty, next time, don't call me for this kind of thing. I still want to live a few more years," Xiao Heng said slowly, giving Ye Feipeng a faint look.

Ye Feipeng also looked as if he had lost his parents, greatly shaken.

"It wasn't easy for me to muster up the courage to risk my life and charge in."

"But I didn't find any Opportunity."

"You're a Soul Transformation big shot, are you really that stingy?"

The little fatty looked at the Tianyang Puppet roaring proudly in the distance and sighed.

"You really didn't find anything?" Xiao Heng was a little unconvinced.

Ye Feipeng immediately became annoyed and said, "When did you become so suspicious, kid!? You don't even believe what I say anymore."

"Besides, why would I lie to you for no reason?"

He threw the storage ring in his hand over: "See for yourself, we're so poor now, there's nowhere else on me to hide things."

At the same time, he complained, "That Immortal Cave was truly empty. There was nothing but the remains of a child."

"I searched it several times, but the result was always the same."

"You were also shouting loudly outside, and the Tianyang Puppet was about to appear. Sticking to the principle of never returning empty-handed, I hastily collected the skeleton before fleeing in a hurry."

"Ugh, after all that effort, I only got a skeleton. How unlucky!"

Xiao Heng scanned the storage ring and also looked disgusted: "It's fine if you didn't find any treasures, but why bring out this skeleton?"

"Who knows how many years it's been dead. It looks like it was even younger than us when it died."

"And I wonder what relationship it has with that Soul Transformation Puppet."

Saying that, Xiao Heng returned the storage ring to Ye Feipeng.

Ye Feipeng suddenly had a strange idea: "We can use it to nourish that old Skull Senior."

"They're both skeletons anyway. Maybe if it eats it, it really can speed up its recovery from injuries."

Xiao Heng's expression became serious: "Don't make jokes about Senior!"

Seeing Xiao Heng's serious look, Ye Feipeng pouted but didn't argue.

He tilted his head and pondered for a moment, then suggested, "This time, we've caused quite a stir. Let's go back to the Barren Island and lie low for a while. We can talk about it after the storm passes."

Xiao Heng nodded upon hearing this: "Hmm, not long after we escaped from that Immortal Cave, it seems the second exploration team of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance you mentioned just happened to go in."

"One Nascent Soul, a dozen Golden Core Cultivators. Just like that, they were gone."

"If it weren't for the strange phenomena in the sky, probably no one would have known how they died. Tsk tsk."

Xiao Heng sighed with emotion.

Ye Feipeng, however, was stunned: "Really? I was too busy escaping at the time, I didn't pay attention to what was above."

"But, it turns out that group of people really couldn't escape death. I tried to go in as early as possible, but I still ran into them…"

The little fatty seemed to have realized something and lowered his head, lost in thought.

As Immortal Lord Ziyun made his move, Tian Yang and Hongxi were transferred to another location, and the Congyun Sea became calm again.

The two quietly returned to the Barren Island.

However, Ye Feipeng was somewhat distracted the whole way.

"Oh, right, Fatty, give me the remains you found," Xiao Heng suddenly said.

"Hmm." The absent-minded Ye Feipeng subconsciously took out the skeleton from his storage ring.

After handing it over to Xiao Heng, he finally came to his senses and felt inexplicably bewildered: "Why do you want this thing? I was planning to see how hard it was and if it could be polished into a Magical Artifact later."

Xiao Heng replied earnestly, "I thought about it, and I think what you just said makes some sense."

"Hehe, what I say has always been…"

"Wait, you're not actually going to feed these remains to that skull, are you?" Ye Feipeng reacted and immediately looked at Xiao Heng with an idiotic gaze.

"Maybe." Xiao Heng didn't mind and urged, "Fatty, hurry up, don't be reluctant."

Ye Feipeng felt a faint sense of reluctance in his heart, so he showed hesitation.

Xiao Heng became a little displeased at this: "Look at you, what kind of useful Magical Artifact can you forge with bones? Forget it, consider this my debt to you. When I have the chance in the future, I'll specially give you a good one!"

Provoked by this, Ye Feipeng's face immediately fell.

He pretended to be generous and said, "Hmph, I was just saying it casually. It's just a useless skeleton, would I, Ye Feipeng, even care about it? What a joke! It's yours!"

Xiao Heng chuckled and accepted the remains, then activated the ritual to enter the White Bone Vanguard Realm.

Although Ye Feipeng felt a little lost, he was young after all and didn't think much of it.

He turned his attention back to his recent enlightenment on "couldn't escape death."

In the Vanguard Realm, Xiao Heng carefully placed the skeleton down and softly called out to Senior.

Unfortunately, he received no response.

Although Xiao Heng was a little disappointed, he didn't put the remains away.

Instead, he placed them where he had originally found Skull Senior, hoping it would be of some help to Senior.

Then he quietly left.

Not long after Xiao Heng left, Li Fan's Clone appeared.

Looking at the skeleton lying quietly on the ground, Li Fan couldn't help but feel a sense of amusement and frustration.

"This kid, he wouldn't really think this thing is useful, would he?"

Li Fan had been watching Ye Feipeng the whole time with his Formless Killing Intent.

He saw it clearly; from the perspective of heaven and earth spirit, this was indeed just an ordinary human skeleton.

"However, his intention is genuine. This kid is as pure-hearted as ever."

"In comparison, that fatty Ye Feipeng is much worse."

With the thought of not letting the child's good intentions go to waste, Li Fan still planned to put away this skeleton and then find a place to dispose of it later.

However, the moment the Clone touched the skeleton, Li Fan's expression changed slightly.

"This feeling is…"

His expression was solemn, and he began to examine it carefully again.

But after looking at it repeatedly for a long time, he still couldn't find anything unusual.

"Strange…"

"Where does this throbbing in my heart come from?"

Li Fan frowned and murmured to himself.

Still unwilling to give up, he studied it repeatedly for another half a day, but still gained nothing.

"It's purely a Cultivator's skeleton, there's absolutely no mistake about that. It's not some Heaven And Earth Treasure disguised."

"But that strange feeling in my heart wouldn't arise for no reason."

"So where's the problem?"

Li Fan put down the skeleton, placed his hand lightly on it, closed his eyes, and carefully experienced the feeling in his heart.

After a long time, he slowly began to discern something.

"This feeling is actually somewhat similar to when I first saw the heaven and earth spirit."

"Is it…"

"Hungry?"

"No, it's not that I'm hungry. It's…"

Li Fan understood something, and a strange glint flashed in his eyes.

"Huan Zhen is hungry."

In the tianxuan mirror, Li Fan's main body, who was in seclusion Cultivating, suddenly stood up.

The ritual was instantly set up, and in an instant, he arrived in the White Bone Vanguard Realm.

The moment he touched the remains of the young Cultivator, Huan Zhen's crisp notification sound immediately rang in his mind.

"Found absorbable item: [eternal legacy]."

"Absorb?"

A huge sense of joy immediately surged into Li Fan's heart.

Since discovering that Heaven And Earth Treasure could charge Huan Zhen more than six hundred years ago, Li Fan had finally found a second item useful for Huan Zhen.

"Heaven And Earth Treasure can increase Huan Zhen's anchor charging progress and unlock additional anchors."

"I wonder what use this eternal legacy has."

Taking a deep breath, Li Fan suppressed the urge to absorb it immediately.

He put away the remains, returned to the tianxuan mirror, made some preparations, and then quietly left Wanxian Island.

In the previous life, Heavenly Doctor's forceful breaking of the tianxuan mirror left Li Fan with a considerable psychological shadow.

But at the same time, it also made Li Fan understand that inside the tianxuan mirror, it was not absolutely safe.

If Huan Zhen caused any unusual movements during the absorption of the eternal legacy.

It would be even more dangerous in the tianxuan mirror, which was full of Cultivators.

It would be safer to randomly find a remote, uninhabited place outside to go into seclusion.

Normal Cultivation was one thing, but when it involved Huan Zhen, Li Fan decided to be even more careful and cautious.

He randomly chose a teleportation Formation and left Wanxian Island.

After leaving the Town Guardian island and flying for most of another day.

He arrived at a rarely visited sea area, and Li Fan plunged headfirst into the sea.

While activating the trace-erasing talisman, he transformed Huan Zhen into the [Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart] and operated the secret technique [Appearance Changes with Heart].

After changing his appearance, Li Fan then found a deep trench at the bottom of the sea and dove into it.

He didn't go to the deepest part, but instead carved a large hole in the cliff face of the trench.

He went thousands of meters deep into the rock body before stopping.

After opening up a space suitable for living deep within the earth, Li Fan turned back and re-sealed the carved-out passage.

At the same time, he did not forget to use the secret technique from the [Day Stealing Sun Replacement Art] to cover his tracks.

Returning to the hollow space, he then set up protective Formations around it.

After all these arrangements were properly made, Li Fan then took out the skeleton again.

"Found absorbable item: [eternal legacy]."

"Absorb?"

Huan Zhen's prompt sounded again.

This time, Li Fan chose yes.

The surrounding space instantly became illusory.

The skeleton on the ground gradually decomposed into sparkling white light, which was absorbed by Li Fan.

The moment the remains completely disappeared, Li Fan's mind was violently shaken.

"Tian Yang's life, not weaker than anyone!"

The stubborn voice of a young child echoed continuously in his ears.

Then, Li Fan's vision went black, and he lost consciousness.

He didn't know how long passed before he slowly woke up.

His eyes were a little dazed at first, but they quickly cleared.

Just now, he seemed to have had an extremely realistic dream.

No, rather than a dream, it was more like he had truly possessed another person.

He had lived a long life from that person's perspective.

During this process, he could only see and hear, unable to control the body to make any movements.

And his own thought activity was also suppressed to the lowest level.

From beginning to end, Li Fan didn't even realize anything was wrong.

And when Li Fan woke up, everything he had experienced suddenly receded like a tide.

He couldn't remember exactly what he had experienced.

Only some vague images remained, which were also rapidly being forgotten.

Li Fan didn't insist on recalling what had happened during his contact with the [eternal legacy].

Because Huan Zhen's prompt had already appeared again.

"Though the Mortal dies, the legacy remains Eternal."

"[eternal legacy] (Tian Yang Immortal Master) absorption complete."

"Current uses: 3."

At the same time, much information naturally appeared in Li Fan's mind.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes, carefully sensing.

"Consuming a use allows for the simulated construction of memory scenes within the [eternal legacy]."

"Everything in the scene is indistinguishable from reality."

"However, to bring items and information from the scene back to reality, one needs to resolve the obsession that maintains the [eternal legacy]…"

"This behavior, how is it so similar to the Fallen Immortal Realm?"

Li Fan was slightly stunned.

"Fallen Immortal, legacy…"

Li Fan pondered for a moment and vaguely had some reasonable guesses.

"Resolving obsession, huh? Perhaps next time I enter the Fallen Immortal Realm, I can try to approach it from this angle."

Temporarily suppressing these thoughts, Li Fan continued to sense the information feedback from Huan Zhen.

"In the simulated scene, one will completely take the place of the legacy's owner."

"At the same time, one will also synchronously receive the relevant memories and abilities of the legacy's owner."

"Hmm… also consistent with the Fallen Immortal Realm."

"When the uses are exhausted, the [eternal legacy] will completely disappear."

"Perhaps it can be understood this way: Huan Zhen uses the energy contained within the [eternal legacy] to simulate and construct a small Fallen Immortal Realm."

"Each simulated construction requires energy consumption."

"Once the energy is depleted, the eternal legacy will dissipate."

"However…"

Li Fan's heart stirred.

According to Huan Zhen's prompt, the [eternal legacy] cannot be used as a bound item.

However, each time he started over, he could find the carrier of the [eternal legacy] again, and after absorbing it, he could continue to use it repeatedly.

"Perhaps other Cultivators in this realm can use this [eternal legacy] through other methods."

"But for them, the number of uses is limited. If they cannot bring the Opportunity within it back to reality within the limited uses."

"The [eternal legacy] would be wasted for nothing."

"But for me, its number of uses…"

"Is infinite."

Thinking of this, Li Fan no longer hesitated and activated Huan Zhen's [Mimicry] function.

A familiar sensation came over him.

As if his head was covered with a sack, Li Fan's vision went black, and he immediately lost consciousness.

…

"Tian Yang! Tian Yang!"

A slightly aged voice gently called out in Li Fan's ear.

"Tian Yang, it's time to take your medicine…"

A bowl of strange-tasting herbal medicine was poured into his mouth.

A ball of fire seemed to burn in his stomach, and the immense pain instantly woke Li Fan up.

Weakness.

Extreme weakness.

A weakness as if he could die at any moment.

This was Li Fan's first feeling after waking up.