Chapter 34: The Heart Cleansing Mantra Has Miraculous Effects

Li Fan made some inquiries in secret and confirmed that Yin Yuzhen had not lied about the Lichen Pill.

Therefore, three days later, he met with Yin Yuzhen again and agreed to her request.

Both parties agreed that before the Net Body Spiritual Pool opened, Li Fan would help the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion collect a certain amount of treasures periodically.

When the Net Body Spiritual Pool opened, Yin Yuzhen would hand over the Lichen Pill to Li Fan.

Of course, to show her sincerity, Yin Yuzhen took out the deed to the Tingyou Tower again.

Since both parties had an agreement, Li Fan did not stand on ceremony and accepted it.

Thus, Li Fan moved again.

Tingyou Tower was located in the center of Liuli Island, surrounded by a bustling and lively area.

However, through its unique architectural structure and the embellishment of plants and trees, it completely isolated itself from the noisy environment.

Although located in a busy market, it felt as if it were situated deep in the mountains.

This was the meaning of finding tranquility within the bustle, hence the name Tingyou.

The area of Tingyou Tower was several times larger than Li Fan's previous small courtyard, and its interior rockeries, lakes, flowers, and trees all required people to maintain them.

Once again declining the maids sent by the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, Li Fan hired a few laborers on the island himself, telling them it was enough to come over and clean every three days.

Yin Yuzhen was quite helpless regarding Li Fan's caution.

Fortunately, Li Fan did not cut corners regarding the things they had agreed upon.

During the year he lived in Tingyou Tower, Li Fan first completed three official voyages for Liuli Island, bringing back several chests of treasure each time. This shocked the entire island while successfully winning a fleet quota for the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

Afterwards, Li Fan would accompany the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's fleet every time they went to sea.

Over the course of a year, the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion made a fortune, with earnings nearly equal to the total profit of the previous five years.

He also established prestige in the hearts of everyone at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion; everyone was both respectful and fearful when they saw him.

In the eyes of the people at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion, this Elder Li not only possessed immense skills, being able to lead everyone to find treasure every time they went to sea, but he was also meticulous and decisive in killing.

Once, when the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's fleet was at sea, a few crew members became greedy for the salvaged treasures and harbored evil intentions, wanting to unite to kill and seize the loot.

Unexpectedly, Elder Li had long since noticed the abnormality and struck first before they could even act, beheading them all.

The bodies were thrown into the sea, and their heads were strung together to deter others.

Everyone said in private that perhaps those crew members were just speaking nonsense after drinking and might not have really had the guts to commit murder and robbery.

But just because there was that sliver of possibility, Elder Li killed them all without any hesitation.

Furthermore, neither the Liuli Island authorities nor the Manager blamed him; instead, they praised Elder Li's actions, calling them a reasonable and effective protection of Liuli Island's assets.

Even the people on the island, after learning about it, cursed those bandits for deserving to die, saying that Elder Li did a great job.

Since then, no one in the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's fleet dared to harbor ulterior motives.

Everyone was cautious when they saw Li Fan, fearing he would find an excuse to execute them.

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Li Fan naturally did not care about what others thought of him.

To fully control the fleet as quickly as possible, some methods of killing the chicken to warn the monkey were necessary.

He did not have that much energy to waste on these trivial matters.

Over the past year, he practiced the "Mystic Yellow Heart Cleansing Mantra" diligently whenever he had free time.

It was not just because it could dispel miasma, but because Li Fan had discovered something that made him overjoyed.

The charging progress of [Huan Zhen] had accelerated!

Before this, the charging progress of [Huan Zhen] could only increase naturally with the passage of time.

It reached 100% every twenty years and would stop increasing after slowly reaching the upper limit of 200%.

In his previous nine Reincarnations, Li Fan had tried various methods to speed up the charging progress, but none had succeeded.

Li Fan had left Great Xuan and arrived in the Cultivation World for over a year.

According to previous patterns, the charging progress should have been between 6% and 7%.

However, Li Fan was pleasantly surprised to find that the charging progress had actually reached 15%.

The charging speed was nearly twice as fast!

Apart from the Heart Cleansing Mantra, Li Fan had not come into contact with any other things that might have helped with this.

The only explanation was that practicing the "Mystic Yellow Heart Cleansing Mantra" could actually accelerate the charging progress of [Huan Zhen].

Although he did not yet know the principle behind it, this did not hinder Li Fan from practicing even more diligently.

And with the display of the [Huan Zhen] panel, every bit of progress could be clearly seen.

This also prevented Li Fan from losing motivation due to the long, boring, and repetitive practice.

Besides the charging progress, Li Fan's age limit had also increased significantly.

Name: Li Fan

Realm: Mortal

Biological Age: 42 / 95 ↑

Mental Age: 505 / 1210 ↑

Virtualization Charging Progress: 115%

Anchor Charging Progress: 51%

Current Number of Anchors: 1

Bound Items: "Thousand Machines Jade Universe Golden Chapter", Taiyan Boat, zhibu remnant stele (Damaged)

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Time slipped away quietly amidst Li Fan's self-forgetful practice.

Soon, there was only one year left until the opening of the Net Body Spiritual Pool.

Liuli Island also announced the list of supplies needed for this time.

Li Fan was currently studying this list with everyone from the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion.

"The other things on this list are easy to talk about, but what is this Starsea Quicksand?" Li Fan asked, frowning after reading it once.

Having worked at the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion for a year, Li Fan had not gained nothing; at the very least, he had a rough understanding of the common Ore and rare Materials circulating within the Congyun Sea.

Not only was Sun Zhang confused, but even the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion's Manager, Yin Yuzhen, fell silent.

"The Materials required this time are all very common, only this Starsea Quicksand has never been heard of. It seems the key point of this quota competition lies in this Starsea Quicksand," Sun Zhang said.

"I have been in business for over a decade and have never heard of this thing either," Yin Yuzhen said, tapping the table with her finger. "It seems we need to ask the people from the Wanhua Merchant Guild."

"Those people are all like reincarnated starving ghosts; they are very greedy. I'm afraid we'll have to bleed heavily," Sun Zhang sighed.

"I am determined to get the quota for the Spiritual Pool," Li Fan said in a deep voice.

The Wanhua Merchant Guild was not a local merchant guild of the Congyun Sea, but one that came from a continent who knows how many thousands of miles away.

It is said that the merchant guild had the support of Immortal Masters behind it, which is why it could easily cross the endless sea and come to this remote Congyun Sea to do business.

Ever since Yin Yuzhen connected with the Wanhua Merchant Guild over a dozen years ago, both parties had maintained trade relations over the years.

And it was precisely by relying on the Wanhua Merchant Guild that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion was able to quickly digest the large amount of treasure Li Fan salvaged and convert it into profit.

"There is still one year of preparation time. The Wanhua Merchant Guild's traveling merchant should pass by the Congyun Sea in three months, and I can contact him then," Yin Yuzhen said.

"We cannot place all our hopes on the Wanhua Merchant Guild. In the past year, Liuli Island has taken in many refugees from other islands. These refugees come from all over the Congyun Sea, and it's possible that some of them know about this Starsea Quicksand; we can ask them. Other factions on the island will also be looking for this Starsea Quicksand, so we need to keep a close watch. Once they discover something, we can follow up immediately," Li Fan said, making the final decision.