Chapter 329: Chief Formation Master

Thinking of this, Li Fan's eyes flashed with a peculiar look.

"Stand on one foot, turn two circles to the left first, then turn three circles to the right."

To verify this, Li Fan commanded coldly once more.

If the previous question could be considered somewhat impolite, then Li Fan's current request could be called rather absurd.

To make a Foundation Establishment female Cultivator meeting for the first time perform such a grotesque and comical action—

No normal person would possibly agree to it.

Yet, Lu Xuejing actually and meticulously completed the entire set of actions step by step.

However, she stared fixedly at Li Fan, her eyes seeming as if flames were burning within them.

She wished she could grind Li Fan to dust and scatter his ashes.

What kind of person was Li Fan? How could he possibly be frightened by an inexperienced young girl?

He smiled slightly and said to Lu Xuejing, "It seems you still aren't clear about your current situation."

"Hm, you even dared to speak insolently to the Old Fisherman whose background is unknown… Perhaps you really lack a bit of discipline."

"Spin around just like before, and you are not allowed to stop without my command."

Li Fan said coldly.

A trace of humiliation flashed across Lu Xuejing's eyes, yet her body was very honest.

She comically started spinning in circles.

Li Fan temporarily ignored her and instead pondered the reason why the current scene had come about.

Previously, when the Old Fisherman handed Lu Xuejing over to Li Fan, the terms he used to describe her were "piece", "thing", and the like.

Clearly, in the Fisherman's eyes, this naive young girl was an item belonging to him.

Afterwards, having obtained the heaven stealing sun switching token, he gave this "item" to Li Fan as an exchange.

Thus, the ownership of this item fell upon Li Fan.

As the master of the item, Li Fan naturally possessed the power to control everything about her.

Although he didn't know how the Old Fisherman accomplished it, judging from Lu Xuejing's obedient behavior towards Li Fan now, this had already become an established fact.

"The thing is right."

"But where is its great use manifested?"

However, no matter how breathtakingly beautiful a Foundation Establishment female Cultivator was born, in front of Li Fan, who was single-mindedly pursuing longevity, she could definitely not be considered of much great use.

"Unless…"

Thinking of this, Li Fan didn't let Lu Xuejing stop her spinning action and directly asked, "Tell me the information about your mother."

A glimmer of hope flashed across Lu Xuejing's eyes, and she said intermittently, "My mother's name is Lu Xichan, the Chief Formation Master of the Myriad Immortals Alliance Strategy Formation Hall, with Dao Integration cultivation…"

As the young girl's words fell into his ears, Li Fan's heart shook, and a brilliant flash even more cut across his eyes as he looked at Lu Xuejing.

"Strategy Formation Hall Chief, the grotto-heaven needs to deploy the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array, the Five Elements Great Grotto-Heaven…"

"Could it be like this?"

In an instant, Li Fan thought of a possibility.

"I don't know what the Old Fisherman actually saw in me. But since he has already placed this great opportunity before me, I must certainly not miss it."

"If I can probe some information about the Five Elements Great Grotto-Heaven, even if I directly execute Huan Zhen in this lifetime, it will be worth it. If I can personally enter the grotto-heaven and observe from the inside, that would be even better."

Li Fan's gaze burned brightly, and his heart was somewhat exhilarated.

However, he was not carried away by this unexpected windfall and quickly calmed down.

"A Dao Integration Immortal Venerable, and also a Chief Formation Master. Her strength must undoubtedly be unfathomably deep. Although I have now obtained control over her daughter, if I want to rely on this to coerce or seek any benefits, I am afraid it is simply a path to courting death."

"As for how to do it specifically, I still need to plan carefully."

I don't know how much time passed, looking at Lu Xuejing, whose anger in her eyes had gradually disappeared, turning back into tearful eyes and a face full of begging expression.

Li Fan gradually formed an idea in his mind.

"Stop!"

He finally shouted.

Lu Xuejing felt a great sense of relief and stopped her comical movements.

"Alright, you can go home." Li Fan said directly.

Lu Xuejing was first somewhat stunned, looking at Li Fan in disbelief.

Afterwards, a trace of wild joy surged onto her face.

Her body regained its freedom, and subconsciously she wanted to escape this place and stay away from Li Fan's side.

But many devil-like whispers came successively into her ears.

"Remember, the relationship between the two of us is your most important secret. You cannot reveal even a shred of information to anyone in any way."

"If others notice anything, even if it's just generating suspicion—"

"Then—"

"End your own life."

Li Fan's voice was incomparably cold.

Lu Xuejing's body trembled slightly.

"After going back, don't say anything, and behave as usual in everything. Await my notice quietly."

"If anyone asks, just say that you were captured by the Fisherman and lost consciousness. Afterwards, you were saved by a stranger, but before you had time to express gratitude, your benefactor had already vanished without a trace."

A communication spirit talisman flew to her side.

Li Fan's voice sounded along with it.

"Put it away."

"Alright, you can go."

Having received the master's command, Lu Xuejing put away the communication spirit talisman.

Not even daring to look back, she flew away toward the distant horizon.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes, watching the young girl's receding figure.

"Bargaining with a tiger, although extremely perilous, once successful, the gains will be a thousand or a hundred times greater."

"As long as I am a bit cautious and immediately execute Huan Zhen upon sensing something is wrong, I can reduce the risk to the minimum."

"Perhaps, in reality, it isn't as dangerous as I imagined. The Fisherman's methods are eerie and bizarre, unable to be detected even by me, who am the party involved."

"Had that girl not been truly unbearable and behaved too obviously, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought such bizarre and unreasonable things could happen."

"Wait…"

In an instant, Li Fan seemed to realize something.

"This feeling seems a bit similar to eeriness?"

In Li Fan's mind, the crowd in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace of the Congyun Sea and the master pulling the cart with a green ox couldn't help but surface once again.

"The Heavenly Fiend Sword is hidden within the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, and everyone in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace has turned into eerie entities."

"Is the master of the Heavenly Fiend Sword also like this?"

"Back then, what on earth happened?"

Just as Li Fan fell into deep thought, an inexplicable feeling suddenly surged in his heart.

Raising his head to look, he saw that far away on the horizon, Lu Xuejing, who was originally flying high in the sky, had already become the size of a mere black dot.

But suddenly, like a kite with a broken string—

She plummeted straight downwards.

Breaking many branches, she disappeared from Li Fan's field of vision.

At the same time, a scene suddenly surfaced in Li Fan's mind.

Lu Xuejing, with an extremely painful face, her body twisted, rolling all over the ground.

Her entire body convulsed endlessly.

As if she were a Mortal without air, or like a fish that had left the water.

Struggling in despair.

Watching this scene before him, Li Fan seemed to understand something.

As an item belonging to the master, without permission, one cannot leave the master.

Although Li Fan had spoken those words verbally just now, he had not exercised his authority as the master.

Because at that time, he still didn't know what kind of permissions he actually possessed regarding his own items.

But now, Li Fan had experienced it firsthand after all.