Chapter 214: Reverse Calamity Lock Treasure Box

Daxuan.

Following the location from his memory, Li Fan easily broke through the mechanisms to find Yi Xing's tomb. He casually set up a formation around to prevent others from accidentally entering.

After many years, Li Fan entered Yi Xing's tomb once again.

Passing through the long tomb passage, he arrived at the depths of the tomb.

Overhead, bright pearls sparkled like stars, and beneath his feet, a sea of clouds filled the surroundings, with peaks standing tall.

With just one glance, he could see traces of formations.

"This formation here can actually last for thousands of years in a situation without spiritual energy?"

Li Fan couldn't help but feel amazed and began to carefully examine it.

After a short time, he figured out the reason.

"Using pearls as stars."

"Using soil dug from various famous mountains in Daxuan as peaks."

"Substituting reality for illusion, minimizing the consumption of the formation to the greatest extent."

"And this unknown array completely abandons functions like attack and defense. Its only purpose is..."

"Concealment..."

In Li Fan's perception, the source of spiritual energy supporting the operation of the formation was surprisingly the Golden Thread Grass hut where Yi Xing's spirit tablet was located.

Li Fan flew to the mountain's peak, found the node of the formation, and stepped on it.

"Break!"

The peaks shattered like bursting bubbles, instantly disappearing without a trace.

A black void appeared beneath the Golden Thread Grass hut.

Li Fan followed this emerging passage and arrived beneath the illusionary formation.

Here was the true burial chamber of Yi Xing.

The tomb was decorated like an ordinary study.

In front of a crimson long table, a skeleton was lying prostrate.

Beside it, a dim candle flame was still flickering weakly.

Around the long table, the skeleton, and even the floor of the entire study were scattered with densely packed papers covered in mysterious symbols.

Li Fan picked up one, looked at it for a while, but couldn't discern what Yi Xing had written during his lifetime.

He casually collected all these papers and searched for a moment.

To Li Fan's disappointment, he didn't find the Transmutation Dao Stone.

Apart from Yi Xing's skeleton and the room filled with papers, there was nothing else.

"Could it be that this place is still not the real burial chamber?"

"Although Yi Xing was only an outer disciple, he was once responsible for relocating mortals. His status shouldn't be too low."

"It shouldn't be so simple."

Li Fan, unwilling to give up, carefully searched inside and outside once again.

But the result remained unchanged.

After pondering for a moment, Li Fan collected the long table, the candles on the table, and Yi Xing's bones.

To avoid any oversight, Li Fan simply activated the Cangyun Sword, completely destroying the entire room with brute force.

The vast power of the Cangyun Sword exposed the geological structure around the study completely.

To Li Fan's disappointment, this was indeed the bottom layer of the tomb.

Going further down, there was only rocks and soil.

"It seems that I've really made a trip in vain," Li Fan sighed helplessly.

Coming with high expectations, he left with disappointment.

After returning to the Huangxuan Realm, Li Fan cremated Yi Xing's remains, letting the ashes scatter in the wind.

He then returned to the Tianxuan Mirror.

"If there is anything left, it should be among the remaining three items."

After some thought, Li Fan, using the pretext of selling assets, handed the long table, the candles, and one of the papers to the Tianxuan Mirror for identification.

The first two were ordinary items.

A silver fir rosewood table and a whale oil lamp, totaling only thirty contribution points.

But the paper covered in strange symbols was not an ordinary piece of paper.

"Heaven-Locking Treasure Box (Incomplete), one contribution point."

Li Fan's eyes flashed, "Indeed, there is another mystery."

Without choosing to sell, Li Fan searched for information about the Heaven-Locking Treasure Box.

As the name suggested, the Heaven-Locking Treasure Box was a storage box sealed in a special way.

Only by completing the decryption set by the owner of the box could the storage box be opened.

Even if he knew there was a secret inside, Li Fan, faced with tens of thousands of papers covered in mysterious symbols, was at a loss.

Fortunately, Li Fan was not alone.

He didn't know.

In the vast Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals, there must be someone who knew.

Following the usual routine, he searched for keywords in the Tianxuan Mirror.

Eliminating countless irrelevant and messy information one by one, Li Fan searched for a long time and finally found a clue in an article introducing several pastime activities that ancient cultivators engaged in during their leisure.

"Reverse Calamity?"

Li Fan's spirit shook, carefully reading through.

The article introduced that in ancient times, some cultivators believed that the world generally evolved from order to chaos.

From the initial "Primordial," to Yin and Yang, then to the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, and finally to all things in the world.

Order is lost, and chaos accumulates.

Until chaos completely overwhelms order, a force that destroys everything will erupt.

Returning the heavens and earth to chaos.

This is the so-called "Calamity" (劫).

Reverse Calamity, on the other hand, is a game that transforms chaos back into order, turning disorder into order.

This game requires high demands on the cultivator's spiritual awareness and computational abilities, and it is generally popular among major formations and deduction sects.

Although it may sound complicated, it is actually quite easy to understand.

Taking the tens of thousands of papers Li Fan found in Yi Xing's tomb as an example:

Originally, these papers had a fixed order. All Li Fan needed to do was to shuffle the papers that had lost their order and restore them to their original fixed sequence.

It should be simple, right...

Thinking so, Li Fan took out all the papers from the storage ring, ready to give it a try.

However, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and his face turned dark.

Simple, my foot!

"There are a total of..." After scanning with his spiritual awareness and after a while, Li Fan's expression became increasingly ugly.

"Forty-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine sheets of paper."

"If there are no other hints, and I simply try them one by one..."

Just thinking about it made Li Fan feel dizzy and overwhelmed.

"Even if I don't do anything else in my life, I won't be able to decrypt and restore it!"

Li Fan picked up a sheet of paper and observed the content on it.

"The seemingly meaningless symbols on it should be hints."

"Unfortunately, it's like a pre-agreed key that only the person involved knows."

"Maybe it was something commonly used among the Taiyan Sect disciples back in the day?"

Unable to discern anything significant, Li Fan felt somewhat helpless.

"I wonder if the Daoist Jiao Xiu found by Jiao Xiu at that time was also encrypted in this way?"

Li Fan couldn't help but consider using his avatar to find out.

However, in the next moment, he had a flash of insight and temporarily gave up on this idea.

"...It's just a password with a few more digits."

"I can't do it, but this one should be able to."

Li Fan cleared his throat and smiled as he inquired with the Tianxuan Mirror whether it provides a service for breaking passwords on behalf of users.

The Tianxuan Mirror remained silent for a moment and then gave an affirmative answer.

However, the cost would be based on the difficulty of decryption.

After inquiring, he found out that it would cost at most two or three thousand contribution points.

Being wealthy and bold, Li Fan confidently let the Tianxuan Mirror proceed with the decryption.

(End of this chapter)