As if to confirm Li Fan's statement.
Three days later, Li Fan received a hush fee.
Ten thousand contribution points, plus three intermediate-grade Ethereal Techniques.
This made Li Fan forget all matters related to Zhou Qing'ang from now on and not mention it to anyone.
Li Fan had no objections.
He accepted the reward openly.
Ten thousand contribution points were not a small amount.
More importantly, his permission level successfully reached Rank Ten, unlocking new privileges.
When searching for information in the Tianxuan Mirror, he could now preview relevant information that would normally be beyond his cultivation realm.
For example, some secret information that only those in the Golden Elixir stage would be qualified to know, Li Fan, even though he was currently in the Foundation Building stage, had the qualifications to view it due to his Rank Ten permissions.
Li Fan conducted a routine search for techniques that enhanced multitasking abilities.
This time, he finally got results, but after carefully reading the introduction of the technique, Li Fan frowned, feeling dissatisfied.
The technique was called "One Person, Thousand Faces."
After successful cultivation, it could indeed greatly enhance the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
However, it had an unavoidable negative effect: over time, uncontrollable multiple personalities would form within the practitioner.
It was equivalent to a personality split.
Naturally, Li Fan didn't want to cultivate a technique that would turn him into a mental patient.
He could only reluctantly give up.
In reality, concerning techniques related to multitasking, Li Fan already had someone in mind to consult.
It was none other than Jiao Xiuyuan, who practiced the art of a thousand puppets.
Jiao Xiuyuan's puppet substitutes were spread throughout the cultivation world, numbering in the thousands.
Moreover, each of his puppets was lifelike, with expressions and movements identical to a real person.
The first few times Li Fan saw him, he couldn't distinguish any difference.
Controlling so many puppets simultaneously without any lag must have some special method.
However, it was unknown whether it was due to the unique technique of the "Thousand Puppets Art" or if there were other methods.
Li Fan's clone had been wanting to contact Jiao Xiuyuan to inquire about it.
But it seemed that he hadn't recovered from the massive loss of Spirit Mist Grass, as the Qianli Hall remained closed, and there was no response.
Li Fan could only wait again.
Since there was no gain from the technique, Li Fan tried his newly unlocked privilege.
He had always been unable to search for information about the Fallen Immortal Realm. To understand how to bring items back, he had to disguise himself and inquire indirectly.
No need for such trouble in the future.
After searching for the Fallen Immortal Realm, numerous pieces of information instantly appeared.
Li Fan discovered that all this information came from a relatively independent section.
[Seeking Immortals].
On Seeking Immortals, only discussions about matters related to the Fallen Immortal Realm took place. All remarks related to reality would be locked and deleted in the first instance.
Speaking on this board could be done with one's real identity or by applying for a fake account to avoid the risk of exposure.
Li Fan didn't register but directly began browsing the relevant information on Seeking Immortals.
Most of the posts were discussing and sharing encounters in the Fallen Immortal Realm and methods of bringing items out.
Some cultivators who had successfully brought items from the Fallen Immortal Realm would publish their strategies.
All it took was paying a certain fee and signing a confidentiality agreement to access them.
Curious, Li Fan searched for information about Ningyuan City.
To his surprise, although there was an immense amount of information on Seeking Immortals, there wasn't a single post related to Ningyuan City.
Li Fan then searched for information about Zixiao Sect and Zhang Qianmo.
Similarly, no other cultivators had encountered Zhang Qianmo, but there was quite a bit of information about Zixiao Sect.
After browsing, Li Fan found that the Zixiao Sect encountered by other cultivators had long since become a ruin.
The ground was strewn with corpses, with not a single living person left.
Li Fan then realized that the time point he and ordinary cultivators entered the Fallen Immortal Realm was different.
Chapter 205: Ancient Realm Destruction Battle
The time when Zhang Qianmo and Senior Brother Li Chen went to Ningyuan City to obtain Longevity Fruits was shortly after the birth of the new law, which was not yet known to the world.
However, for the majority of cultivators who entered the Fallen Immortal Realm, the dispute between the new and old laws had long since ended.
The rule that different laws couldn't be cultivated simultaneously had been in place for over thirty years.
The order was on the verge of collapse, and a great massacre was about to descend.
"The dispute between the new and old laws will last for at least several decades. After that, the prosperity of the new law and the development of the cultivator population will attract the counteraction of heaven and earth. This will take hundreds of years..."
"Being trapped in a separate area is one thing, but how could the time point differ so much from that of ordinary cultivators?"
Countless doubts surged in Li Fan's mind.
So he began searching for information related to the discrepancy in time points.
He discovered that although this situation was rare, it wasn't entirely unheard of.
There was once a cultivator who appeared in an area of the Fallen Immortal Realm where no cultivators existed at all.
This area seemed to form its own realm, a unique space that evolved from the extinction of cultivators and the subsequent development of mortal civilization over thousands of years.
This could be a possible future time point.
There was also a cultivator who appeared at a location in the Fallen Immortal Realm that was in a more distant past.
It seemed to be the scene of a earth-shattering battle.
The two sides in the conflict were unknown, but the number of participating cultivators was simply staggering.
According to the cultivator named "Bueren" who witnessed it, "They were densely packed, like ants, covering the entire space."
"The radiance of magical treasures and spells kept flickering."
"Every moment, countless cultivators died."
"Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul cultivators could only serve as cannon fodder for charging formations. Nascent Divinity, Unity, and even Eternal Heavenly Lords were all fighting and falling."
"The earth and space were torn apart, and chaotic black lightning struck the battlefield from outside the space, causing cultivators to fall like rain."
"It truly was a terrifying scene as if it were the end of the world."
Because the images described by this cultivator were too bizarre, and he was the only one who had ever encountered such a scenario, the majority of cultivators believed he was fabricating stories and dismissed it.
Bueren, however, swore an oath that everything he described was something he had personally witnessed.
Any exaggeration would lead to his death and complete annihilation of body and soul.
Such a cruel vow did manage to silence many skeptics.
Nevertheless, there were still a majority of cultivators who remained unconvinced.
Apart from these two individuals, there were also many other strange encounter records.
Li Fan finally truly understood what Chen Ying had told him initially, that the Fallen Immortal Realm was a world formed by the consciousness before the fall.
Anything unimaginable could happen in the Fallen Immortal Realm.
"This magnificent world, and I'm stuck in the small Ningyuan City. It's really unacceptable."
Li Fan couldn't help but sigh.
"I wonder if it will be the same when I enter next time."
After casually glancing at the Seeking Immortals section again, Li Fan was about to leave.
However, he couldn't help but be drawn to a certain phrase.
"Gathering," "Exchange."
Li Fan couldn't help but click on it.
(End of this chapter)