Mysterious feat swallows the earth veins

Seeing Jiao Xiuyuan agree so readily, Li Fan nodded. "Then, I will have to trouble Fellow Daoist Jiao with this matter. I await your good news!"

After saying that, he tossed a communication talisman to Jiao Xiuyuan, without mentioning anything about leaving a receipt, and left directly.

"This person really trusts me quite a bit," Jiao Xiuyuan muttered softly, tossing the Delusion-Breaking Stone Eye in his hand up and down.

The next moment, the stone eye vanished into thin air, going who knows where.

As for this Puppet on Ten Thousand Immortals Island, it reverted to its previous lazy appearance.

Jiao Xiuyuan would never have thought that it was not because Li Fan trusted him completely.

Rather, this Delusion-Breaking Stone Eye was purely an excuse for Li Fan to establish a connection with him.

Even if he could not sell it or even embezzled it, it did not matter at all to Li Fan.

What Li Fan truly cared about was the "big business" that would follow.

Returning into the Tianxuan Mirror, Li Fan thought of another item discovered in the ruins of the Ancient Tianji Sect.

It was an entire level of a tower that he had cut off entirely and brought back.

His premonition back then had been correct.

Through the identification of the Tianxuan Mirror, the entire stone tower was actually a Magical Artifact named the [Qiankun Tianji Die].

Mortals throw dice and get numbers like five or six.

Cultivators, however, throw dice to obtain the numbers of celestial mystery.

Cultivators of the Ancient Tianji Sect relied on this Qiankun Tianji Die, taking sufficient information as a foundation and using Qi sensing as power, to deduce the countless possibilities of the future.

And the reason why what Li Fan saw was merely an empty expanse…

…was because the Qiankun Tianji Die was locked in the scene where the deduction had been completed back then.

"A blank void."

"I wonder what the Cultivators of the Celestial Mystery Sect back then were deducing to actually get such a result."

Li Fan reached out, and a crystal-clear, regular twenty-sided die suddenly appeared in his palm.

On each side, upon closer inspection, different images seemed to flicker.

Although Li Fan had tried a few times before to use this Qiankun Tianji Die to deduce the future, seeing if it matched what he had experienced before…

…perhaps due to not using the proper method, what he obtained were only shattered, meaningless images of no practical use.

Even so, Li Fan did not sell it. He always had a premonition in his heart that keeping it might prove greatly useful in the future.

After toying with it for a while and putting away the Tianji Die, Li Fan's mind shifted to his Clone, Zhou Qingang.

He had been staying on Taian Island these days, only occasionally using communication talismans to contact necessary people.

He was not simply spacing out, but rather researching methods to overcome the side effects of the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art.

This secret technique was perhaps created by imitating the ancient exotic beast Returning Origin Clam.

Although it truly possessed the ability to devour heaven and earth, one's mind could easily lose control, with the ultimate result being either stuffing oneself to death or being discovered and beaten to death alive.

However, Li Fan mastered the power to maintain his own state of absolute sanity.

That was the Azure Flame power originating from the visualized phantasm.

He did not ask to remain calm at all times during the process of Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art, only needing to withdraw at the critical moment.

Under the dual blessing of the Enlightenment Pill and the Enlightenment state, Li Fan exerted some effort and finally succeeded in doing this.

However, wanting to increase his cultivation base through the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art still required solving the problem of earth veins solidifying and being unable to be absorbed.

Regarding this, Li Fan already had a contingency plan early on.

Concealing his figure and teleporting to Spirit Wood Island in the western Congyun Sea, he continued flying westward.

After about five hundred miles, Li Fan quietly sneaked into the sea.

Penetrating deep into the seabed and searching for a moment, he indeed found the ruins of the sunken island.

In his previous life, shortly afterwards, this island would resurface from the sea due to inexplicable earth vein fluctuations.

The reactivated island-protecting formation would also attract the attention of the various Formation Masters of the Strategy Formation Hall in the Congyun Sea.

However, before all this happened, this place looked no different from other ruins scattered across the seabed.

Li Fan arrived amidst the ruins and waited patiently.

Seven days later, the seabed suddenly trembled slightly.

"It is here!"

Li Fan thought to himself, stepping fiercely with both feet as his body instantly sank.

At the same time, he circulated the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art and began to sense.

From an unknown, extremely distant place, a surging and endless power was transmitted from afar through the earth veins.

Slowly reactivating the originally withered earth vein node here.

If there were no other external forces interfering, this revitalized earth vein node would push the sunken island back to the surface of the sea.

But now that Li Fan was here, such a thing would not happen.

Beneath his feet, a huge vortex seemed to be generated.

The swarming power of the earth veins, before taking form, was entirely sucked into Li Fan's body by him and transformed into pure Spiritual Qi.

At the same time, the Cultivation Technique practiced by the Clone also rapidly and spontaneously circulated.

It was not the Cultivation Technique originally practiced by the spy Zhou Qingang.

Instead, it was another Nascent Soul Cultivation Technique that Li Fan obtained from the Celestial Mystery Sect, the "Tianyi Xuanji Gong".

This ancient method was originally extremely slow to practice.

But at this moment, under the unrestricted acceleration effect provided by the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art, it was improving at a horrifying speed.

The power of the earth veins was endless, and Li Fan's Clone also ate his fill unscrupulously.

Meanwhile, a change in mountains and rivers that should have alarmed all directions of the sea area was silently neutralized without anyone knowing.

In just a split second, the Clone's cultivation base had reached the Bottleneck of the early Golden Core stage.

Due to the existence of the Heavens Calamity, no matter how fast the "Tianyi Xuanji Gong" circulated, the cultivation base could not advance any further.

Li Fan frowned slightly and did not stop his devouring action.

Even if the earth vein power devoured at this moment was completely wasted in vain, he did not feel distressed in the slightest.

The spiritual power transformed by the Devouring Heaven and Earth Great Art continuously accumulated within the Clone's body, completely filling every part of his physical body.

Seeing that this Clone was about to be completely bloated and burst, Li Fan slapped his own chest, and a suction force burst forth from his hand.

Once again, he began to devour and transform the excess spiritual power within his own body.

In the ancient era without the [Heavens Calamity], a situation like Li Fan's current one would not have occurred; the acquisition of spiritual power would only fail to keep up with the rate of cultivation increase.

However, the existence of the cultivation Bottleneck caused Li Fan, who was devouring heaven and earth at the moment, to fall into a bizarre situation.

The power transformed by devouring was all used to accelerate the Cultivation Technique's practice.

Yet it still could not advance even an inch.

The circulation of the Cultivation Technique had already reached a terrifying speed, resembling a surging tide, relentlessly attacking an incomparably sturdy embankment wave after wave.

Li Fan carefully experienced and recorded everything happening in his body.

Compared to the majestic power of the earth veins, the power of a mere Golden Core cultivator was simply not worth mentioning.

But this power, which should have allowed a Golden Core cultivator to advance to at least the Nascent Soul Stage, was continuously consumed in the process of impacting the Heavens Calamity.

However, facts proved that everything Li Fan did was not in vain.

Amidst countless impacts, the Bottleneck finally showed a trace of loosening.