Chapter 89: Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect

The fall of a Qi Refining Stage Cultivator is much less impressive than that of a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator.

There were no brilliant, firework-like scenes of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, only two red clouds that suddenly appeared on the horizon.

“Qi Refining Cultivator Si Kongyi, having cultivated for a total of thirty-five years. Within the Congyun Sea, he was slain by Qi Refining Cultivator Li Fan…”

“Qi Refining Cultivator Hundred Mile Chen, having cultivated for a total of three years. Within the Congyun Sea, he was slain by Qi Refining Cultivator Li Fan…

“Now that their lives have ended and their Dao has vanished, they return their Dao to Heaven!”

…

Under the fiery clouds, Li Fan stood quietly, stroking the heaven stealing sun switching token in his hand.

It took a long while before he suppressed the greed rising in his heart.

“A fine treasure, but a pity…”

“It is not my Dao.”

The heaven stealing sun switching token was a supreme treasure of the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect.

The Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect was a hidden Sect that had existed since ancient times.

Unlike other Sects that established bases and recruited many disciples,

the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect had no fixed base, and every generation often had only a single successor.

So when the Great Calamity arrived, while other Sects faced an apocalyptic scene of blood and gore,

it had little impact on the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect.

The reason why the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect could maintain its Legacy for nearly ten thousand years without its lineage being cut off, despite having only one member, was largely due to its unique Cultivation Technique.

Stealing the Sky: By using essence blood and some special Materials, one could create a special Clone. Unlike the standard technique of External Incarnation, this Clone not only had its own unique appearance, aura, Divine Soul, Realm, and cultivation, but even possessed its own separate Luck.

This Clone could be treated entirely as another person.

Changing the Sun: When creating a Clone, if one added the skeletal remains of deceased Cultivators or mixed in the essence blood of living Cultivators, one could seize a portion of the talent and Luck that originally belonged to the other party and graft it onto the Clone.

Of course, if that were all, it wouldn't be enough to show the true power of the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect.

The Heaven Stealing Sun Switching Art, paired with the token in Li Fan's hand, was its complete form.

This heaven stealing sun switching token was forged thousands of years ago by the thirty-eighth generation successor of the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect, Si Kongyue.

Back then, Si Kongyue witnessed the arrival of the Great Calamity, where countless Cultivators slaughtered each other and lives were as cheap as ants. In her alarm, she felt deep fear and desperately wanted to find a perfect method for survival.

Thus, after a hundred years of painstaking research into countless methods of Artifact Refining, she finally forged this heaven stealing sun switching token.

The token had infinite uses.

Not to mention its extremely vast storage space, after refining, the token could transfer freely between the original body and the Clones, ignoring any spatial distance limits.

Most importantly, through the Heaven Stealing Sun Switching Art, she transferred the life essence of the Clones and even the original body entirely into this token.

As long as the token was not destroyed, even if the original body and Clones were killed, a new body could be reconstructed by consuming the essence blood accumulated in the token over time.

Thus achieving "resurrection."

Simply put, once the Cultivation Technique was completed, whether it was the original body or the Clones shown to outsiders, they were all just empty shells.

That heaven stealing sun switching token was the actual true body.

After Si Kongyue’s radical modifications, although the art had become somewhat sinister, it…

was very effective.

For thousands of years, by relying on this bizarre Cultivation Technique, the members of the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect could escape unscathed from any perilous situation.

The Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect had thus endured for thousands of years without being destroyed.

Until Si Kongyi met an anomaly like Li Fan, who could backtrack time.

The Heaven Stealing Sun Switching Art was not perfect and had certain fatal flaws.

For example, a certain distance had to be maintained between the original body and the Clones. The further the distance, the more the Clone's strength would drop. If the limit was exceeded, it would only retain the minimum cultivation of the Early Stage of Qi Refining.

Another example was that since the life essence was maintained within the token, after a member of the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect died, a portion of their soul fragments would be confined within the token, unable to find release.

These soul fragments often retained some important memory shards from their lives.

In moments of crisis, they could even be released by the token's owner to face enemies.

Li Fan's Divine Thought entered the heaven stealing sun switching token; the vast storage space was empty.

Only Si Kongyi and another soul fragment with indistinct features were floating aimlessly inside.

His Divine Sense transformed into a giant hand, grabbing these two soul fragments to read their remaining memories.

After a long time, Li Fan finally understood why the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect, with its thousand-year Legacy, had declined to such a state.

The cause of the matter started with Si Kongyi's master in name only, Si Kongbo.

For a thousand years, the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect had walked through various perils and remained safe. Consequently, they gradually became arrogant, and their actions grew increasingly unrestrained. By the time of Si Kongbo, this had reached an extreme.

On a distant continent, Si Kongbo, who had reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, felt somewhat dissatisfied with the Clone he had refined previously.

So he planned to gather Materials and refine a new one.

Coincidentally, at that time, he met a five or six-year-old young child in a remote mountain village.

The young child was born with an Immortal Body. Not only did he possess infinite strength, but his cultivation speed was also terrifyingly fast.

At that age, he was already at Qi Refining Perfection and preparing for Foundation Establishment.

This made Si Kongbo's heart race with temptation.

After observing in secret for a while, Si Kongbo discovered that the child's Luck was even more remarkable.

Every time he went hunting alone in the deep mountains, he would bring back various Heaven And Earth Treasures.

If he could seize this child's Luck, the Clone he created would surely be extraordinary!

Thus, Si Kongbo, blinded by greed, attempted to steal the child's essence blood one night while he was fast asleep.

Unexpectedly…

this child had already been pre-selected by a Nascent Soul powerhouse.

This Nascent Soul powerhouse's longevity was nearing its end, and he felt that his hopes for a Breakthrough were slim. Thus, he was searching everywhere for a target for Possession.

He happened to find this exceptionally gifted young child.

General methods of Possession would more or less damage the target's Foundation. This Nascent Soul Cultivator was counting on reaching even higher levels, so how could he allow such a thing to happen?

Therefore, he used an extreme method: transforming himself into a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object, waiting for the moment the child reached Foundation Establishment to perfectly merge into one with him.

Indeed, according to Si Kongbo's remaining memories, humans could be refined into Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.

Or rather, a large portion of the Foundation Establishment spiritual objects that constantly appeared in the world were transformed from formerly fallen Cultivators.

After a Cultivator falls, the so-called "Returning the Dao to Heaven" is not just an empty saying.

A Cultivator's "Dao," after years of transformation by the world, will slowly form various unique spiritual objects based on their personality and the characteristics of their Cultivation Technique, reappearing in the world.

Unable to Cultivate the same techniques in life, they must still be put to full use after death.

This is the attitude of this world toward all Cultivators.