Chapter 1129 The Significance of Anchors
A dark black robe, embroidered with nine golden dragons intertwined.
The crown hung down, obscuring the face, making the features unclear.
"It is worthy of being the Holy Emperor of Fate, ordinary people can hardly aspire to see the dragon's face."
Sun Erlang felt the gaze Li Fan cast upon him, and his body shook slightly, subconsciously lowering his head.
In a hoarse voice, he said, "Master, I am incompetent. I just broke through to the first stage of the Qi Refining Period yesterday."
"Relying solely on the spiritual energy concentrated in the palace, you were able to complete the process of absorbing the spiritual energy in such a short time, which is quite commendable," Li Fan nodded in reassurance without blaming him.
Sun Erlang, feeling apologetic, said, "If it weren't for the [Mysterious Yellow Immortal Heart Mantra] that the master taught me, I'm afraid I would still be affected by the miasma in my body and find it difficult to ascend the immortal path."
After Sun Erlang finished speaking, he bowed several times with deep gratitude.
Li Fan did not stop him.
After Sun Erlang stood up again, Li Fan asked casually, "How is the overall progress of the Imperial Guards in learning the Immortal Heart Mantra?"
"Up until yesterday, a total of 160 soldiers have successfully entered and shed their mortal bodies. The rest who did not pass the test have been taken care of," Sun Erlang's eyes flashed with a trace of reluctance, but he quickly concealed it.
"You will be the main force in our conquest of the myriad realms in the future, and you need to practice diligently day and night without slackening," Li Fan said.
"As for the issue of spiritual energy, you don't have to worry. In three days, you will personally take this immortal boat and head to the Eastern Depths," Li Fan pointed with his hand, and a ten-zhang-sized wooden boat appeared in front of Sun Erlang.
The boat was covered with silver lines, exuding a mysterious aura.
"It truly is a treasure of the immortals. The master unexpectedly entrusted me with such a precious item," Sun Erlang's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly nodded in agreement.
The immortal boat then flew into his embrace.
A sense of command immediately emerged in Sun Erlang's mind.
"Go down." Just as he was experiencing the marvels of the immortal boat, Li Fan's voice sounded at the right time.
Sun Erlang bowed and took his leave.
In the entire palace garden, only Li Fan remained.
Under the crown, the faceless visage in the shadows looked strange and eerie.
"Haha, if it weren't for the fact that this world is not destined to last long and the attempt to impart teachings to others, I'm afraid I wouldn't have discovered for a long time that the [Mysterious Yellow Immortal Heart Mantra] is not limited by incompatible cultivation methods."
"Is it because the Immortal Heart Mantra does not belong to the category of cultivation methods, or is it a special favor left by the Mysterious Yellow Heavenly Dao to the Great Celestial Lord of the Mysterious Yellow?" Li Fan mused to himself.
"Regardless, it will be much easier to implement the plan to select a suitable person to succeed the Great Celestial Lord of the Mysterious Yellow in the future."
Li Fan's thoughts slowly turned, and with a flicker, he appeared on the \"Holy Emperor's Throne\" in the city of Xuanjing.
The faint spiritual energy nourished Li Fan's body, maintaining his current stage of late foundation building so that he did not regress due to a lack of spiritual energy.
After more than a hundred reincarnations and reaching the realm of Divine Transformation, Li Fan, who could rival Daoist cultivators, had now returned to the stage of foundation building. However, his view of the world was different from before.
For example, in a small world like Daxuan, there was indeed no lack of spiritual energy, as it was still connected to the Mysterious Yellow Realm.
However, due to the unique structure of the small world and the blockade of the Immortal Array, the spiritual energy was extremely thin and almost negligible.
Ordinary cultivators could not use it at all, and only those long-lived creatures, through accumulation over time, could slowly gather some spiritual energy.
For example, the giant snake on Jielishan, which was hundreds of feet long.
"The spiritual energy of an entire world can only barely sustain a cultivator at the stage of foundation building..."
"However, it wouldn't hurt to borrow some from the Mysterious Yellow Realm."
Li Fan had added some formations to the Divine Ascension Boat he gave to Sun Erlang. Its purpose was to automatically fly into the Mysterious Yellow Realm, absorb spiritual energy, store it, and then return.
Sun Erlang inside the boat naturally could not see what was happening outside. All he needed to do was bring the boat to the edge of the Xuyuan.
Even though, with Li Fan's current level of formation skills, the act of stealing spiritual energy from the Mysterious Yellow Realm was hard to detect due to the concealment of the formation, it was not a long-term solution.
To create something out of nothing and generate spiritual energy, one had to rely on the Dao Chi Insect.
The Dao Chi Insect was a unique and exotic creature that Li Fan could not create.
However...
Skimming over the reminder from [Still True] to keep the options from the previous life, Li Fan looked at his own panel.
Name: Li Fan
Stage: Late Foundation Building
Physical age: 20/399
Mental age: 1399/9999
Charging progress of virtual energy: 3%
Charging progress of fixed anchor: 0%
Current anchor count: 3
Current available fixed anchor count: 1
Bound items: Origin of the Xuantian Mirror (damaged), Divine Ascension Boat, Crystal of Ten Thousand Beasts, Essence Blood of Ten Thousand People, Dao Stone, Final Dissipation Disc
...
"My physical age has returned to 399 years, the age it should be at the stage of foundation building, but there is no need to care about it. I should have returned to my true form long before reaching my limit."
"The upper limit of my mental age, even with a breakthrough to Divine Transformation in the past, there has been no corresponding increase. It seems to have reached a barrier..."
Li Fan only glanced at these briefly, instead focusing on the anchor count and bound items.
The original available fixed anchor count was 2, but after absorbing the newly-formed Five Elements Realm, it had become 3.
As for now, there was only one left.
That was because Li Fan had used an empty anchor to complete the replacement of the bound items.
"The Thousand Machine Jade Sphere Gold Chapter" had become the Source of the Xuantian Mirror.
The Fragmented Tablet of the Stopping Monument had become the Crystal of Ten Thousand Beasts.
The anchors were not easily obtained, but during the process of absorbing the nascent Five Elements Realm and generating the anchors, Li Fan gained a new understanding of the essence of the anchors.
Supernatural treasures of heaven and earth, golden pills of Dao, and infant sanctuaries.
The reason why Still True needed to absorb these things to serve as anchors might be because it needed to complete its understanding of the [External Objects].
Just as the Xuantian Mirror evolved through measuring the heavens and the earth to elevate itself, Still True simply and straightforwardly absorbed experiences through devouring.
"So it's actually the opposite of what I thought before."
"The closer something is to the essence of the world, the more charging progress it will provide. The Dao artifacts, the golden pills of Dao, are too thin to satisfy Still True's needs."
"So the temporarily generated anchor count is limited."
"On the other hand, infant sanctuaries, transformations of life, and even the soul of heaven and earth provide a large amount of charging progress."
"With the large entity of the Mysterious Yellow Realm as nourishment, the current anchor count is not something to be particularly worried about."
Therefore, Li Fan decisively used the replacement function of the anchors.
The Source of the Xuantian Mirror was obtained by chance in the previous life.
As for the Crystal of Ten Thousand Beasts...
In the last life, before ultimately implementing the apocalyptic plan, Li Fan had gone to various small worlds for a final inventory.
The Ten Thousand Beast Rotating Wheel was obtained from the Empire and Xu Ke.
Li Fan's thoughts drifted back to that time.
"The Thousand Immortals Alliance's sudden attack, the destruction of the Union headquarters?"
After hearing Li Fan's words, Empress and Little Red turned deathly pale.
"If I hadn't severed the connection between the Spirit Wood Realm and you in time, I'm afraid the Empire would have turned into ruins by now," Li Fan sighed slightly.
The Empress and Little Red exchanged a glance and felt an immense sense of relief.
"However, you don't need to worry too much. Although the Spirit Wood Realm was destroyed, the majority of the members of the Union headquarters managed to escape and are currently in hiding. Once the storm has passed, the Union will be able to rise again in an instant," Li Fan reassured them without changing his expression.
After receiving the reports on the recent situation from the Empire and the others, Li Fan arrived in the Empire's treasury.
Recap of the plot, one update for today.
(End of this chapter).