Chapter 83

"The heart sea is hard to cross..."

The cultivators present heard what Qin Tang said, some of them looked dazed, as if they had some enlightenment.

Some of them ignored it and didn't care.

So, the second day passed quickly.

Early in the morning of the third day, Qin Tang appeared in everyone's sight as usual.

Only this time he didn't drink, he was no longer drunk, and he looked much more energetic.

"Today is the last test." Qin Tang looked at the cultivators present, his face serious.

"On the path of cultivation, you will encounter countless difficulties or temptations. Can you persevere and not change your original intention?"

"Let me wait and see."

In Qin Tang's words, everyone felt a blackness in front of their eyes and lost consciousness.

...

In a small village in the mountains, Li Fan lay on the roof, watching the setting sun gradually fall, feeling that he had forgotten something.

He grew up in a mountain village since he was a child, living a life of sunrise and sunset.

It has lasted for fifteen years.

Such a life is plain and happy.

If he continued to live like this, it seemed not bad.

But he always had a faint feeling in his heart that he should not end his life so ordinary.

"Fan'er, Fan'er, where are you? Come home for dinner!"

Li Fan was indifferent to his mother's call.

He looked up at the sky, watching the birds flying freely, watching the sun and moon that existed forever and did not change with human will, and was lost in thought.

Until night fell and the stars filled the sky.

Under the vast starry sky, he felt even more insignificant.

So he watched for a night.

Until dawn was approaching, he suddenly came to his senses.

He turned over and jumped off the house.

He rushed into the house and said loudly to his mother who was still asleep: "Mother, you cancel the marriage with the girl next door."

"I'm not getting married. I'm going to cultivate immortality!"

His mother was startled awake by his words, thinking that her child had gone mad. She quickly got up and grabbed Li Fan's hand: "What immortality are you talking about? Where are there immortals? Child, wake up!"

Li Fan pulled away his mother's hand, his childish face full of determination: "I don't know where the immortals are, but I will find them."

After saying that, he packed his luggage simply and strode out of the door in his mother's crying voice.

Half a year later, Li Fan died in a tiger's mouth while exploring in the deep mountains.

...

In front of the dilapidated Taoist temple, amidst the jumping flames and the crying of the people, Li Fan felt lost in his heart.

"Senior brother, master is dead. What are we going to do after we leave Yun Guan?" A timid voice asked beside him.

Li Fan was about to open his mouth, but heard angry voices coming from all around.

"What else can we do? Of course we have to divide up the things in the temple and go down the mountain!"

"I originally thought that there was a real immortal on the mountain. We all came up with great difficulty. I didn't expect that this old Taoist priest was a complete liar!"

"Yeah, can a real immortal die suddenly?"

The more they said, the more excited they became. Li Fan didn't know how to explain. He could only let them loot everything in Yun Guan.

After a while, only Li Fan was left alone on the mountain.

He gathered and buried his master's ashes. He recalled his master's eyes when he was dying.

Unwillingness, regret, sadness, hope...

Was his master a liar?

Was his master's "Yun Guan Ascension Chapter" also fabricated?

Li Fan felt that maybe it was not what everyone thought it was.

Immortals might be real.

In the end, Li Fan still did not go down the mountain.

He spent the rest of his life alone in the Taoist temple, watching the clouds roll and unroll in the mountains, and the sun and moon change.

He studied "Yun Guan Ascension Chapter" all day long.

He was over fifty years old but still made no progress.

He died with regret.

...

In the palace.

Li Fan looked at the golden plate in front of him with names written on wooden plaques. He showed impatience in his eyes.

"Take it away. I still want to cultivate tonight."

"Your Majesty, you haven't favored any concubines in the harem for three months..."

"Hmm?" Li Fan's eyes flashed with murderous intent.

"...The slave obeys."

Watching the eunuch steward leave in fear, Li Fan snorted coldly.

"I don't want to be this emperor." He suddenly had this thought in his heart.

He plundered the resources of the whole country for his cultivation.

He looked like an ordinary person on the surface, but in fact he had already stepped into the door of the golden core stage.

These worldly affairs were so boring!

Thinking like this, three months later, Li Fan broke through the sky in front of the civil and military officials at the morning court.

Two hundred and sixteen years later, Li Fan was killed by a sneak attack when he explored an ancient cave.

He died and his dao was destroyed.

...

Ling Yun Peak.

"Why has this tribulation cloud condensed for so long and hasn't fallen yet?"

"The power of this heavenly tribulation is stronger than when the sect master ascended, right?"

"That's natural. In terms of combat power, junior uncle is the number one person in our Li Shan Sword Sect for a thousand years!"

Li Fan looked at the tribulation cloud above his head, which was increasing in power. He felt a surge of pride in his heart.

Three hundred years of cultivation, what was there to fear from a mere heavenly tribulation?

A sword light rose from Ling Yun Peak and pierced the sky.

It split the tribulation cloud in half!

The sunlight spilled from the crack in the tribulation cloud and shone on Li Shan Ling Yun Peak.

The sky was full of flowers, and the immortal gate opened.

Li Fan flew into the immortal gate without hesitation.

After entering the immortal realm, Li Fan was furious to find that the former ascended seniors of Li Shan had all been killed by unknown enemies.

He cultivated while looking for the culprit behind the scenes.

He wandered for a hundred years but found nothing.

Once, when he explored an ancient secret realm of cultivation, he was attacked by his close friend and died in shock and unwillingness.

...

Northern Immortal Realm.

Since two thousand years ago, Fan Tian Emperor unified Qing Tian Immortal Realm, he began a bloody conquest.

Over the years, he had achieved his unparalleled reputation with the heads of five immortal emperors and sixteen immortal kings.

In the end, there was only the Northern Immortal Realm left in the whole immortal realm that was still struggling to survive.

Now, the army was pressing on, swearing to destroy the Northern Immortal Realm within a year.

In the center of the army, Qin Tang looked at Fan Tian Emperor who was closing his eyes and cultivating. He wanted to say something but hesitated.

Li Fan opened his eyes and looked at this confidant general who had followed him all the way from obscurity. He rarely showed a smile.

"Qin Tang, you seem to have something to ask me?"

"Not hiding from your majesty, I do have something I don't understand."

"But say it."

"Your majesty started from a mortal and went through countless hardships. Finally, you became an emperor of one side. Your power is overwhelming. All immortals in the immortal realm are terrified by your name. But why does your majesty never stop? What are you pursuing?"

"After killing Zhu Tian Emperor and completely unifying the immortal realm, what will your majesty do next?" Qin Tang stared at Li Fan and asked his doubts.

"Hehe." Li Fan chuckled.

"What I seek is nothing but 'eternal life'." He said lightly.

Qin Tang was stunned. He couldn't believe his ears.

"Eternal life? With your majesty's current cultivation level, can't you be called eternal life? If there are no accidents, your majesty can live for millions of years. That's not difficult, right?" He asked in shock, seemingly unable to understand.

"Can you claim to be eternal life with a lifespan of millions of years?" Li Fan smiled and just asked back.

"In Huang Tian Tomb, hundreds of ancient immortal emperors have long become bones in their coffins."

"Even those ancient immortals who opened up the immortal realm and had supreme power are now turned into mountains and suppressed under my palace."

"This time I want to unify the immortal realm and gather the power of all immortals to create a large formation that covers the entire immortal realm. With this, I will blast open that prison cage that is said to have existed since ancient times."

"I want to step above immortality and go further." Li Fan's tone was indifferent, but he was so determined that he would not allow anyone to refute him.

Qin Tang was speechless.

Because he knew that there was nothing above the immortal realm.

So he could only lower his head silently.

Everything went according to Li Fan's plan.

It took him only a year to unify the entire immortal realm.

After that, he used extremely bloody means to suppress all opposition. He collected all resources in the immortal realm and successfully built that large formation that broke through the shackles of the immortal realm.

As the formation started, the whole immortal realm trembled.

The sky cracked and everything seemed to shatter.

Li Fan laughed and rushed into the crack

What greeted him was only endless darkness.

  ...

  At this point, the Trial of Eternity has ended.

  Because Qin Tang knew that there was no need to continue testing.

  In this test, an anomaly occurred.

  Even if he builds an infinite world, he may not be able to weaken this person's determination to move forward.

  If Master were here, he would probably be very happy to see such a genius.

  It's just a pity...

  Qin Tang's eyes flashed with sadness.

  With a long sigh, everyone woke up from their dreams.

  But still in the square at the beginning.

  Some were dazed, and some woke up and turned pale.

Some of them were enlightened, as if they had gained something.

...

Qin Tang looked at the cultivators with different performances and smiled and said: "The three tests are over."

"Among you, some of you performed beyond my expectations, and some of you were really unbearable."

"The sect master once told me that my Cloud-Water Celestial Palace accepts disciples, not in quantity but in quality."

He looked at the people and said softly: "In that case, you can leave half of them here."

The cultivators who had shown joy on their faces before, hearing what Qin Tang said, changed their faces.

"What do you mean?"

They knew very well how they performed in the three tests.

Now that they heard Qin Tang wanted to kill half of the cultivators present, they were shocked and angry.

At the end of the road, they began to attack Qin Tang.

Qin Tang was not angry.

He just smiled faintly: "Cloud-Water Celestial Palace, chief of the law transmission pavilion, Qin Tang."

"Please enlighten me."

As Qin Tang spoke, half of the cultivators present suddenly appeared with a blue figure beside them.

They were like clones of the target, with the same appearance, aura, and even strength as the original.

As soon as they appeared, they launched a relentless attack on the target.

"The sect master is strict. Master once told me that things should not be done absolutely. If you can survive from your own mirror image, I will not embarrass you anymore."

Watching the cultivators who were in a bitter battle, Qin Tang said slowly.

The other half who were not attacked, including Li Fan, chose to stay away from the battlefield to avoid being affected.

Li Fan retreated to a safe place and observed the situation in the field.

The blue mirror image was extremely fierce in its moves, tireless and invulnerable.

Ordinary cultivators were not its opponents. As soon as they fought, they quickly fell into a disadvantage.

In a short time, many cultivators died under their own mirror image.

And as more and more cultivators died, the remaining ones who were struggling to survive could not last long.

In desperation, they cursed Qin Tang.

"Wake up! What disciples are you accepting? Cloud-Water Celestial Palace has been destroyed for many years!"

"What bullshit master and senior brother! The great calamity is coming, and they all have to kill each other!"

...

"Kill each other?" Qin Tang heard this and shook his head repeatedly.

"My Cloud-Water Celestial Palace is united. We respect and love each other. Even if we sacrifice ourselves for our fellow brothers, we will not hesitate much."

"How could we possibly kill each other?"

Qin Tang said and said, his voice suddenly lowered.

"Great calamity, great calamity..."

He frowned, as if he remembered something.

"Great calamity..."

He kept repeating in a low voice. The sky above the square suddenly darkened.

And those blue illusions that attacked a group of cultivators also mutated.

Thick black gushed out from inside the illusion. In an instant, it dyed the illusion into a terrifying ink color.

The ink-colored mirror image was much more ferocious than the previous blue illusion. In the blink of an eye, most of the cultivators who were struggling to survive died.

Only a few were still lingering on.

And Qin Tang had not recovered from his madness. He was still mumbling in his mouth.

The ground of the square began to shake violently. The clouds in the sky kept pressing down.

Thunder and lightning were constant.

Those who were not attacked by the mirror image and watched from the side also felt bad.

But facing Qin Tang who had already fallen into madness, no one dared to act rashly.

For a while, everyone didn't know what to do.

Just then, Li Fan slowly walked to Qin Tang's side.

He carried a wine gourd and patted Qin Tang's shoulder and handed it over.

With a smile on his face, Li Fan quietly said to Qin Tang: "Senior brother Qin, drink."

"Don't worry, there is no great calamity at all."

Qin Tang turned his head and sniffed. He instinctively took the wine gourd and took a sip.

Then he looked at Li Fan with some confusion: "No great calamity?"

Li Fan nodded confidently and repeated: "Yes, there is no great calamity at all."

Qin Tang's eyes gradually brightened and he kept repeating: "No great calamity, no great calamity, no great calamity..."

"Hahaha, you are right! There is no great calamity at all!"

After a long time, Qin Tang laughed loudly and finally returned to normal.

The anomaly in the field also disappeared and became calm again.

The people present saw this and breathed a sigh of relief. They looked at Li Fan with grateful eyes.

Li Fan, however, felt a sudden movement in his heart.

Because he noticed that there were two faint killing intents locked on him.

Although these two killing intents were extremely weak, Li Fan was very sensitive to them and would not make a mistake.

And the owners of these two killing intents were Sikong Yi and Baili Chen!

Li Fan pretended not to notice, but secretly locked them back with his invisible killing intent.

But he didn't launch it.

The brief interlude soon passed, and the fight between the cultivators and the blue mirror image was over.

In the end, only two lucky ones survived.

Qin Tang looked at the still alive cultivators with a gentle face: "The trial is over, you can go."

The cultivators didn't understand and wanted to speak, but they saw their figures gradually fade and disappear in the square.

Soon, there was only Li Fan left among the cultivators.

Qin Tang looked at Li Fan, a complex look flashed in his eyes.

"Why don't you go?"

Qin Tang asked.

Li Fan smiled calmly: "Senior brother still owes me a pot of good wine."

As if he didn't expect Li Fan to answer like this, Qin Tang was stunned and then laughed loudly.

"Right, I still owe you a pot of good wine!"

His face suddenly changed and he looked at Li Fan seriously.

He stretched out his right hand and lightly touched Li Fan's brow with his index finger.

"This "Cloud-Water Illusion Art" is my lifelong learning, a unique masterpiece. I hope you don't waste it!"

After a while, Qin Tang withdrew his finger.

Li Fan's figure also slowly disappeared.

The huge square became only Qin Tang again.

Just like it has been for thousands of years.

"Senior brother, master, senior sister..."

Qin Tang looked around lonely, but found nothing.

So he took another sip of wine.

...

Li Fan gradually regained consciousness.

Ahead, a towering gate with the words "Cloud-Water Celestial Palace" written on it.

And below the gate, there was a stone statue standing.

The stone statue was broken and full of scars.

The heart area seemed to be pierced through, leaving a huge hole.

From the vague face of the stone statue, one could vaguely see Qin Tang's appearance.

Li Fan quietly looked at the stone statue for a moment, and then took out a wine gourd from his storage ring.

He gently placed it in front of the stone statue.

Then he used the Shadow Following Technique and quickly went to the direction where the invisible killing intent was locked.