Tianji Sect’s stone changes

Li Fan meticulously scrutinized the hollow cavern.

Above, numerous structures seemed to grow from the ceiling of the stone cave, hanging upside down in mid-air.

Li Fan also saw stone statues resembling Cultivators.

Their feet were integrated with the buildings, also hanging upside down above his head, extending their hands in desperate helplessness, seeking assistance.

However, their bodies were forever frozen at that moment, their faces filled with terror.

“This should be a mountain peak of Tianji Sect, swallowed by this Guiyuan Clam through a stroke of Opportunity.”

“Judging by its appearance, it must have been swallowed after being entirely petrified.”

Li Fan raised his guard and flew to the upper part of the cavern.

Ignoring the petrified Cultivators, he moved through the ruins, heading directly for the most conspicuous stone pagoda.

“The Skysight Pagoda, a vital place used by Tianji Sect to peer into the Dao.”

Li Fan arrived in front of the stone pagoda and found that even after several millennia, a faint light still shone upon it.

“Although the Restriction remains, it is merely a facade.”

As if unimpeded, Li Fan entered the Skysight Pagoda.

“Hmm?”

The moment he entered, Li Fan’s expression changed.

Because he felt a gaze fiercely directed at him.

Li Fan looked in the direction from which the gaze came, only to see a disheveled Cultivator standing in front of him.

His face was distorted, with one eyeball bulging as if it would pop out of its socket, staring intently at Li Fan.

The lower half of the Cultivator’s body, like the Tianji Sect Disciples outside, had turned into stone.

However, his upper body seemed to still be in the process of petrification, presenting a bizarre mixture of flesh and stone.

“Is it dead or alive?”

Li Fan did not dare to be careless and immediately unleashed a Five Elements Extinction Sword.

“Bang!”

The black light sword struck the Cultivator’s body directly.

After piercing through his chest, the Cultivator’s body instantly shattered into pieces, scattering across the ground.

Only the half-petrified eyeball remained floating in the air, its pupil tightly fixed on Li Fan.

As Li Fan slowly approached, he continuously changed his position.

He found that this eyeball seemed to be able to sense his presence, constantly locking onto his location.

He arrived in front of the petrified eyeball and waited for a while, but it showed no other reaction.

Li Fan took it into his hand and observed it carefully.

“So it’s not a real eyeball, but something implanted into the body of this deceased Cultivator during his lifetime.”

“Strange, I don’t remember Xiao Heng and the others finding this…”

“Did they not discover it? Or was it secretly taken by Linghu Chang?”

Li Fan played with it for a while but found no use for this eyeball.

Temporarily putting it in his embrace, Li Fan continued to explore deeper into the Skysight Pagoda.

The Skysight Pagoda had a total of nine floors.

From the second to the fifth floor, Jade Slips and Magical Artifacts were scattered all over the ground.

However, most of them were already damaged.

Li Fan found a storage ring among them and happily put the still intact items into his possession.

“Taiwei Heavenly Numbers,” “Nine Heavens One Qi Skill,” “Heaven’s Will Descending Body Skill,” “Thousand Machines Hidden Records…”

There were Cultivation Techniques and treatises on the study of the Dao.

In the end, Li Fan collected a total of twenty-six Cultivation Techniques and forty-eight books.

Among them, seventeen Golden Core Stage Cultivation Techniques and nine Nascent Soul Stage Cultivation Techniques.

“This is a true windfall, though I wonder how many unique copies there are among them.”

“However, among these Cultivation Techniques, only two show signs of being Cultivated by someone. I imagine the proportion of Cultivation Techniques available in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance isn’t too high.”

Li Fan suppressed his joy and continued upward.

The sixth to eighth floors were filled with peculiar objects.

For example, lotus flowers with a face growing within their petals.

Unknown fruits shaped like a Dragon.

Rectangular stone blocks with naturally appearing patterns.

…

These strange objects seemed to have once been enveloped by some special power.

However, with the passage of time, this power had completely dissipated.

Now, they just looked rather odd.

“These should be the objects Tianji Sect used to sense the Dao back then,” Li Fan mused.

Tianji Sect believed that the Qi of heaven and earth, interacting and sensing each other, manifested in the world.

Those things that defied common sense were the result of intense interaction between the Qi of heaven and earth.

By using these strange objects, one could deeply comprehend the Qi of heaven and earth.

“It’s the same principle as when I used the cang hai pearl to sense heaven and earth,” Li Fan said, collecting all these items regardless of whether they were useful or not.

Finally, he arrived at the ninth floor of the Skysight Pagoda.

After opening it, it was empty, with nothing inside.

“Just as Xiao Heng said.” As expected, Li Fan was not disappointed.

Li Fan searched carefully once, and after still finding nothing, he was about to leave.

Suddenly, a thought came to him, and he turned back.

He stared at the ninth-floor space.

“From the situation outside, the calamity that befell this mountain peak of Tianji Sect was sudden.”

“They had no time to react and suffered a tragic fate.”

“They didn’t even have time to save themselves, let alone transfer treasures.”

“So why is the ninth floor of this Skysight Pagoda empty?”

Li Fan felt suspicious, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there seemed to be some secret hidden here.

However, no matter how he searched, he couldn’t find anything valuable.

It seemed to be just his wishful thinking.

After some thought, Li Fan simply activated the Five Elements Extinction Sword and directly cut off the ninth floor of the stone pagoda.

The black extinction light, like a destructive force, destroyed the remaining millennia-old Restrictions of the Skysight Pagoda.

Then, amidst a huge roar, the top floor of the Skysight Pagoda was thus taken into Li Fan’s storage ring.

“Better to take it by mistake than to let it go.”

Li Fan nodded in satisfaction.

Afterward, he thoroughly plundered the rest of the ruins.

Finally, he found four more Cultivation Techniques in several other individual Immortal Caves.

Three Golden Core and one Nascent Soul.

And this Nascent Soul Cultivation Technique was precisely the Thousand Machines Jade Ring Golden Chapter.

“It must have been this Immortal Cave, located at the edge of the ruins, that was accidentally exposed decades later, which is how Kou Hong and his brother discovered it.”

“However, these two’s luck was truly terrible. If they had just searched a bit more carefully, they would have found the true Tianji Sect ruins not far away.”

“As a result, Kou Hong had evil intentions as soon as he saw the Nascent Soul Cultivation Technique. Instead, he missed out on the treasure vault.”

Understanding the reason, Li Fan couldn’t help but feel a mixture of amusement and exasperation.

Having made a great haul, Li Fan no longer lingered.

He transformed back into a stone spirit worm and carved out a passage from the re-sealed stone wall.

Leaving the Hundred Stone Grotto Heaven, he headed in the direction of Congyun Sea.

…

Liuli Island.

He Zhenghao had been very troubled, confused, and panicked recently.

“To go, or not to go?”

He Zhenghao frowned, sighing deeply.

He didn’t know what was happening, but a while ago, while Cultivating the Sitting Mountain Skill, he suddenly felt a spiritual connection.

There was inexplicably another person in this world Cultivating the Sitting Mountain Skill.

The Sitting Mountain Skill was already incredibly slow to Cultivate, and now there was another person Cultivating it concurrently.

How could this be tolerated?

It could basically be said that it was impossible to Cultivate now.

His primary Cultivation Technique suddenly experienced such a change, leaving He Zhenghao at a loss as to what to do.

He had obtained this Sitting Mountain Skill by chance while exploring an Immortal Cave in his youth and had never revealed it to anyone.

How did the other party know about it?

This matter was bizarre, and He Zhenghao, who was not particularly brave to begin with, dared not rashly seek them out to investigate, fearing an unexpected encounter.

He could only hide in the island-protecting Great Array all day, agonizing.

Just then.

“Who dares to secretly learn my sect’s Cultivation Technique?!”

“Get out here!”

A thunderous voice echoed throughout Liuli Island, reverberating continuously.

He Zhenghao was stunned for a moment, then was about to go out and check the situation.

Then he immediately reacted.

“Is the other party coming for me?”

Feeling the powerful aura emanating from the other party, He Zhenghao’s face instantly turned ashen.

“Golden Core Stage?”

Many readers asked why Li Fan was still at the Golden Core Middle Stage.

In his previous life, he broke through in the 28th year of anchoring, and he died in the 41st year of anchoring.

That was only a little over ten years, and all his energy was spent on constructing the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Formation.

Asking Li Fan to Breakthrough might be a bit too much to ask.

I’ll make up for the missed weekend work; I’ve been a bit busy with work recently.