Trivial matters are not satisfactory

Judging from Li Fan's experiences in his previous lives, in the Crimson Flame Burning Sea incident, any Cultivator who attempted to fuse with the Crimson Flame met a dead end.

Ink Kill, who had obtained the Destiny of World Destruction, was truly terrifying.

A Cultivator who had just fused with the Dao had no power to resist him.

"Tian Yang Junior Brother's actual combat power is probably not even as good as Zhang Zhiliang's in the previous life, so I won't let him go to his death."

"A Puppet body is different from a Mortal. To improve combat power, Breakthrough in Realm is not necessarily the only method."

"Although the cost is high, once the Congyun Sea is destroyed and I abscond with the funds, it will certainly be enough for me."

After a brief thought, Li Fan finally gave up on the plan to let Tian Yang risk attempting to fuse with the Dao, and instead focused on observing and protecting him.

Fifteen days later.

As all the Materials within the Reversion Array were consumed, Tian Yang also completed his final transformation.

His Puppet body was perfectly supplemented, and his Realm stabilized at Soul Transformation Perfection.

"Tian Yang Junior Brother relies almost entirely on brute strength when fighting. We still need to find a way to temper him."

Having completed his Cultivation and with nothing else to do, Tian Yang silently stood up and followed behind Li Fan.

Li Fan took out pre-prepared clothes from his storage ring and put them on him.

At the same time, he imparted the Only Hand Covers the Sky secret art to him.

"Junior Brother, next, you will learn this secret art. Once you have achieved success in Cultivation, you can follow me and act together," Li Fan instructed.

Tian Yang nodded sullenly and began to study it seriously.

With only a few instincts remaining, the Tianji Sect's secret art was still a bit complex for Tian Yang. Fortunately, with Li Fan's careful guidance and his single-minded focus, he would eventually master it through slow study.

While Tian Yang diligently improved himself at Li Fan's behest, Li Fan focused his attention on Lingwu Island.

He took some time to visit Lingwu Island, silently using Formless Killing Intent to lock onto the island's Town Guardian.

He then returned to the tianxuan mirror, quietly began to acquire lingwu grass, and waited patiently.

Soon, it was the day the Dragon Whale attacked Lingwu Island in the previous life.

However, for some unknown reason, even by sunset, the Dragon Whale still did not appear.

Li Fan immediately had a bad premonition.

Just as he had feared, another three days passed, and Lingwu Island remained safe and sound.

Li Fan finally confirmed that the variables he brought by arriving in the Xuanhuang World nearly a year early were ultimately unavoidable.

Without rushing into action, Li Fan first carefully inquired about the missing Dragon Whale.

Such a Dragon Whale, with strength comparable to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, subtly developing its own intelligence, and capable of strengthening itself through continuous吞噬, should not have disappeared without a trace.

After more than half a day of searching, he found nothing.

Ultimately, it was by posting an anonymous bounty mission that Li Fan finally got the answer.

It turned out that this Dragon Whale had been killed by a Golden Core Artifact Refiner named Yue Zaisen not long ago.

All valuable Materials from its body had been taken by him.

The other party even sent an inquiry, offering to transfer any specific part at a low price if needed.

Li Fan feigned interest, asked some questions, and paid to buy several sections of whale bone.

After completing the transaction, Li Fan chatted with the other party, trying to find out the reason for his actions being different from previous lives.

It wasn't a secret, and Yue Zaisen, without precaution, was quickly coaxed into revealing the information by Li Fan.

It turned out that his impromptu decision to search for Materials in various parts of the Congyun Seabed was entirely at the request of his good friend, Mu Rong, to forge a good defensive Magical Artifact.

As for why Mu Rong, out of the blue, suddenly wanted to prepare a defensive Magical Artifact, Yue Zaisen had not asked.

"Mu Rong…" Li Fan cut off communication, his expression shifting.

This name was not unfamiliar to him.

He even had some interactions with him.

This person was Chen Ying's assistant; in the previous life, before Chen Ying went to the Five Elements Great Cave Heaven, she had left his contact information with Li Fan.

She told Li Fan that if he had any problems, he could contact him directly.

"Could it be that he saw Chen Ying purchasing many life-saving Magic Treasure and also felt a sense of crisis? Is that why he did this?"

"It's also possible that Chen Ying told him something…"

Li Fan felt a wave of helplessness in his heart.

In any case, the Dragon Whale did not attack Lingwu Island. To correct history back to its predetermined trajectory, Li Fan would have to act personally.

"The risk is not small; I need to act without leaving a trace." Li Fan did not act hastily but first carefully planned in his mind.

"Disguise as a Dragon Whale and act? Or use the power of the Five Old Men Association?"

"The chances of exposure are very high for both."

"Perhaps, I don't necessarily have to be fixated on lingwu grass. As long as it meets the conditions of stable demand and grows only in certain special regions, any herbal spirit plant would suffice."

"Let's search first to see if there's anything similar."

Li Fan's heart stirred, and he carefully searched in the tianxuan mirror.

There were quite a few targets that met the conditions, so Li Fan added a restriction, focusing on those with abnormal price fluctuations recently.

This narrowed down the qualified candidates to a mere few.

Li Fan scrutinized them one by one, finally fixing his gaze on a spirit plant named puxian true leaf.

This medicinal herb had a relatively long growth cycle and was not commonly used.

Its main purpose was to create a Talisman called "Xianming Bianzhen."

In the era before the Tianxuan Locking Spirit Array came into being, the spies of the Five Old Men Association were ubiquitous.

Most of them, like Zhou Qingang, possessed secret arts that could transform, even deceiving the White Jade Heart-Questioning Platform's test.

The Xianming Bianzhen Talisman, when first invented hundreds of years ago, had achieved significant merit.

It had exposed many spies of the Five Old Men Association.

Therefore, a customary rule was established: before entering certain vital areas of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, one must first pass the verification of the Xianming Bianzhen Talisman.

Although later, the Five Old Men Association learned from their mistakes and improved their spies' concealment methods, the Xianming Bianzhen Talisman no longer served any purpose.

However, using the Xianming Bianzhen Talisman had become a habit.

The people of the Five Old Men Association naturally couldn't openly declare that the Xianming Bianzhen Talisman had lost its effectiveness.

Nor did anyone in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance decide to remove the Xianming Bianzhen Talisman.

Moreover, a chain of interests had already formed behind the production and manufacture of the Xianming Bianzhen Talisman.

Due to multiple reasons, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance still required a significant amount of puxian true leaf every year.

And recently, for some unknown reason, the price of puxian true leaf, which had always been very stable, began to fall abnormally.

Li Fan frowned slightly.

He remembered that in the previous life, as the price of lingwu grass soared, it also drove up the prices of other spirit plants and herbs in the market.

However, this puxian true leaf was an exception.