Chapter 90: Everything Has a Cause

Li Fan had seen many Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects.

Setting aside the cang hai pearl condensed from the will of the Congyun Sea, there was Kou Hong's Azure Dragon Branch, as well as Dao Xuanzi's rusted sword, Dao Xuan.

Looking at it now, it was highly likely that eight or nine out of ten were transformed from Cultivators who had fallen in the past.

The Azure Dragon Branch used the small to overcome the large and performed the act of devouring; the rusted sword Dao Xuan possessed an unyielding will and the ability to slow and rust.

The shadows of Cultivators could clearly be seen within them.

Suddenly learning the secret of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, Li Fan was somewhat startled.

However, Li Fan had witnessed grand scenes like the Crimson Flame Burning Sea with his own eyes, so he quickly calmed down.

In Li Fan's view, the conflict between this world and the Cultivators had clearly reached a sharp extreme.

As the conflict intensified, any bizarre occurrence was possible.

Li Fan continued to examine Si Kongbo's memories.

That Nascent Soul powerhouse had long ago transformed himself into a Foundation Establishment spiritual object, attaching himself to a young child.

He usually just fell into a deep sleep.

He would only wake up when guiding the child's cultivation or when the child encountered life-threatening danger.

Therefore, he had never discovered Si Kongbo, who was secretly observing with malicious intent.

It wasn't until that night, when Si Kongbo attempted to take the child's essence blood, that he was startled awake.

The Nascent Soul powerhouse was instantly enraged. This child was the key to his hopes of Soul Transformation and even Dao Integration; how could he allow others to covet him?

He immediately revealed his form, which was a green willow, intending to kill Si Kongbo on the spot.

One was a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object transformed from a Nascent Soul Cultivator, his strength greatly reduced.

The other was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, but he possessed the Legacy of a thousand-year-old hidden Sect, with endless methods at his disposal.

For a time, the two were actually evenly matched in their struggle.

Both sides exhausted their means, fighting with real fury, neither willing to retreat.

After a long struggle, both were heavily injured, and only then did they each vaguely feel like retreating.

Just then, the young child suddenly appeared.

With a cold expression, he looked at the two indifferently, a completely different person from the innocent five or six-year-old child from before.

His cultivation had already reached the limit of Qi Refining; as long as he had a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object, he could step into the Foundation Establishment Stage at any time.

The green willow vaguely felt something was wrong.

He wanted to flee, but it was already too late.

During these days, while he was asleep, the child had already placed various Restrictions on him.

Now suddenly activated, the green willow was instantly absorbed into the child's body.

In a matter of moments, he was completely refined.

Seeing this scene, Si Kongbo was terrified and turned to run.

The child, of course, was unwilling to let him go.

Although the child had just entered the Foundation Establishment Stage, his every move vaguely carried the air of a Grandmaster. Every strike unerringly hit Si Kongbo's vital points.

Furthermore, he seemed to have quite an understanding of Si Kongbo's background.

Every time Si Kongbo tried to separate from his Clones to escape, the Clones were destroyed by him immediately.

The two chased each other all the way; Si Kongbo's Clones were completely destroyed, and he himself was heavily injured and at his wits' end.

Thus, he had no choice but to release all the remnant souls of the Sect's elders from within the heaven stealing sun switching token, hoping to hold him off for a moment.

Those remnant souls did indeed cause some interference for the child, allowing Si Kongbo to get away.

However, he saw from a distance a bolt of purple lightning descending from the sky, reducing all the remnant souls to ashes.

Si Kongbo was instantly scared out of his wits, his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, and he fled frantically without looking back.

He fled all the way to this remote Congyun Sea region before finally stopping.

However, his injuries were too severe, and after staying in the Congyun Sea for not long, his time was nearly up.

Before he died, Si Kongbo found Si Kongyi and took him as a Disciple.

After hurriedly handing over the Heaven Stealing Sun Switching Art and the token to him, he perished.

As for Si Kongyi's memory, compared to his Master's thrilling experiences, it was much simpler.

Although he had obtained the Legacy of the Stealing the Sky Changing the Sun Sect, this cheap Master had left him almost nothing before his death.

How difficult it was for a Loose Cultivator.

Even the Materials for refining a Clone were hard to gather.

So, after fumbling through his cultivation to the Qi Refining stage, he decisively chose to join the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.

After breaking through to the Middle Stage of Qi Refining, he began to collect Materials to refine his own Clone.

By a stroke of luck, during an exploration of the seabed, he encountered a skeletal remain.

Si Kongyi vaguely felt that this skeleton was extraordinary, perhaps belonging to a powerful Cultivator during their lifetime.

So he used this skeleton as material to create his Clone.

This Clone was Hundred Mile Chen.

At the same time the Clone was successfully refined, blurred images appeared in his mind.

It turned out that this skeleton was a Disciple of the ancient Yunshui Heavenly Palace.

When the great calamity arrived, he was heavily injured and fled from the Yunshui Heavenly Palace.

Unfortunately, he couldn't hold on for long before his soul returned to the west, losing his life in the sea.

It wasn't until thousands of years later that he was refined into a Clone by Si Kongyi.

Through this Clone, Si Kongyi not only obtained a Cultivation Technique called the Technique of Calming the Sea Divine Sword, but also learned of some secrets within the former Yunshui Heavenly Palace.

Unfortunately, they were only blurred fragments and could not be fully known.

Moreover, the Yunshui Heavenly Palace had long been hidden by a grand array and did not appear in the world. Si Kongyi wanted to explore but had no way.

Later, when he discovered that the bounty item worth as much as one hundred thousand contribution points, the Cloud Water Diagram, existed within the Yunshui Heavenly Palace, he was incredibly excited.

Knowing his Opportunity had come, he kept a close eye on any abnormalities in the central sea area, secretly waiting for the Yunshui Heavenly Palace to open.

In the 11th year of Anchoring, after the Yunshui Heavenly Palace reappeared in the world, he entered it immediately.

He had planned to take the Cloud Water Diagram, obtain the one hundred thousand contribution points, and from then on, his cultivation path would be smooth sailing.

But he hadn't expected to encounter Li Fan.

Si Kongyi didn't even know until his death exactly who had killed him.

And how had the other party noticed him?

He had clearly learned from his Master's lesson and acted with extreme caution, hadn't he?

…

Feeling the deep resentment within Si Kongyi's remnant soul, Li Fan's expression remained as usual.

He summoned the Blue Flame Illusion Spirit and completely annihilated the two remnant souls.

"If not for me, this Si Kongyi should have successfully obtained the Cloud Water Diagram, exchanged it for one hundred thousand contribution points, and then left the Congyun Sea through an ultra-long-distance teleportation array before anyone could react."

"No." Recalling what happened in his previous life, Li Fan shook his head inwardly again.

"In the previous life, many people witnessed Si Kongyi leaving alone through the teleportation array. Yet no one noticed Hundred Mile Chen at all…"

"Perhaps, this should be the 'Cicada Shedding its Golden Shell' strategy used by Si Kongyi. In the end, he probably didn't leave the Congyun Sea at all."

"His true body left the Congyun Sea under the watchful eyes of everyone, creating the illusion that he had already departed. In reality, through the Heaven Stealing Sun Switching Art, he secretly returned to somewhere in the Congyun Sea."

"There's no need to deceive the tianxuan mirror; he only needed to vanish from the sight of those who were envious of the one hundred thousand contribution points…"

"A good method. Perhaps I can do this in this life. After all, the temptation of one hundred thousand contribution points is truly too great."

Li Fan put the heaven stealing sun switching token into his storage ring and flew toward the island not far away.

He needed to return to Wanxian Island first.

The gains from this trip to the Yunshui Heavenly Palace were too great, even a bit overwhelming.

He needed to spend some time properly digesting them.