Chapter 1141 The Flow of Time
Looking carefully, those star points seemed to be like tiny windows.
Through the windows, reflected more or less scenes.
Countless characters fluttered, clearly a series of martial arts.
Under the dome, no guardian hall cultivators were seen, only a continuous stream of light shuttling through the space.
The head of the Sun family, Sun Xingyao, seemed to be reporting to someone. Before long, a figure flew down from the dome and landed in front of Li Fan and the others.
An incarnation formed entirely of moving characters, not a real person.
He looked at Li Fan and nodded slightly, "I've seen this kid more than a hundred years ago, when he was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator. In the blink of an eye, he's grown so much..."
"Come with me."
After speaking, the characters laid out a path, leading straight to the dome.
Li Fan followed Sun Xingyao and stood on this path of characters. After a while, his body seemed to have turned into countless characters, as if about to scatter on the road in a flowing manner.
Suddenly, a sense of crisis arose in his heart.
Li Fan realized that, under the influence of these characters around him, the memories in his soul seemed to unconsciously overflow, as if his life story were being reproduced.
"Is this a method of perceiving past experiences through the soul?" Li Fan thought, and in an instant, the first half of the life of Sun Ang, the person he was trying to possess, reappeared in his soul. Then it spread out, causing the surrounding character paths to perceive it.
The characters transformed into the unique personal markings, clearly distinguishing the path they had taken.
As for Sun Xingyao, it seemed that he had not been subject to inspection.
The character path quickly reached its end, and Li Fan and the others arrived at a window of starlight on top of the dome.
Their forms changed from characters to actual people, but Li Fan's experiences had been transformed into a single scroll.
The guiding cultivator, at this moment, had revealed his true appearance.
He looked even younger than "Sun Ang," with the appearance of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old youth.
With long hair hanging down and vermilion between his brows, he looked delicate and gentle.
"This is Elder Nangong of the Guardian Hall," Sun Xingyao introduced to Li Fan.
Nangong glanced at the scroll in his hand and nodded slightly, "No problem. You've passed the first test."
With a toss, the scroll recording Sun Ang's life turned into a stream of light and flew off to parts unknown.
Li Fan, on the other hand, looked around.
It seemed as if he were in the void outside the Xuanhuang realm, with a giant ball of light floating in front of him.
It was just like the miniature model of the Xuanhuang realm he had seen in the teleportation array.
"Pass through the Xuanhuang Realm. If you don't cause the light ball to shake, you'll pass the second test," Nangong said, then transformed into a streak of light and flew off.
Without hesitation, Li Fan followed.
The yellow light halo was dreamlike, even giving off a strange sense of warmth. It was as if he had returned to his mother's womb and had not suffered any upheaval. Soon, Li Fan flew out of the light ball.
When he left, he even felt a faint reluctance in his heart.
Li Fan also keenly observed the increased speed at which his Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Mantra operated.
"This verifies whether you are a native cultivator of the Xuanhuang Realm," Li Fan suddenly realized.
The third test was to verify whether he was a cultivator of the Five Elders Association.
In the void, five stone statues with indistinct faces surrounded him in a circle.
Li Fan needed to stand quietly in the midst of the stone statues for half an hour.
During this time, there was no abnormality, so he passed the test.
In this life, Li Fan was completely clean and had not established any connection with the Five Elders Association.
So it was natural for him to pass the test easily.
"These stone statues are quite mysterious. It seems that they are attached to a trace of the power of the Five Celestial Lords..." while being observed by the stone statues of the Five Elders Association, Li Fan was also observing the Five Celestial Lords.
At the same time, he felt: "Even if they are not the Celestial Lords themselves, they are not much different."
As the stone statues of the Five Elders Association dispersed, Li Fan completed the final test before entering.
Suddenly, the surroundings fell into a realm of nothingness.
Sun Xingyao and Elder Nangong, who had just been by his side, suddenly disappeared.
Li Fan frowned slightly and looked around.
There was no sign of any abnormality.
There was no trap, no conspiracy.
This was just a pure void.
Apart from Li Fan, there was nothing else.
"What kind of test is this?" Li Fan understood and didn't rush.
Standing in the void, he wanted to see what tricks the Guardian Hall was playing.
In the realm of nothingness, even time seemed to lose its meaning.
After what felt like an eternity, even with Li Fan's patience, he began to feel restless.
It was as if the whole world had forgotten him, and everything else in the world had disappeared except for himself.
Elder Nangong still hadn't appeared.
"Are they just going to leave me here like this?"
Out of his innate lack of trust in others, a thought arose in Li Fan's mind.
Even the idea of revealing his true cultivation and breaking through the mechanism to leave directly flashed through his mind.
But in an instant, Li Fan suppressed it.
After calming down, Li Fan opened the True Panel.
When he saw that it was still anchored for eight years, all his unease and restlessness disappeared in an instant.
He continued to wait in the void.
After what seemed like hundreds or thousands of years, Li Fan suddenly thought of something.
He began to show signs of impatience.
Instead of standing still, he began to fly around, exploring, as if he wanted to find a way out.
Then, gradually, Li Fan started to amplify his emotions.
But he did not lose control, only revealing some negative emotions.
Like this, it seemed as if a hundred or thousand years had passed...
Finally, in the dark void, the light returned.
Elder Nangong and Sun Xingyao reappeared.
Li Fan squinted his eyes, as if he had come back from a different world. He even looked at the two of them carefully, as if pondering their identities.
"You have passed the final test," Elder Nangong finally smiled slightly.
He looked at Li Fan and praised, "Your mood is good. It took more than two hundred years for signs of losing control to faintly appear in the flow of time. And you were able to maintain your composure. This achievement is quite remarkable in all the previous tests."
After hearing this, Li Fan remained silent for a long time.
It seemed as if he were digesting this information.
Elder Nangong then explained, "This test is to examine the stability of a cultivator's mental state."
"After all, you need to accompany Yifan Jue for over three hundred years, without leaving for any reason. If you can't bear this kind of torture and become crazy, there will be trouble."
Li Fan suddenly asked, "Has there been a cultivator who has remained calm from beginning to end, showing no signs of impatience?"
The End of This Chapter.