Saved enough points but still can’t find what you want?
Then your permission level isn’t high enough. Go grind merit tasks for a few more years and rack up more points.
Even though he didn’t know the exact situation in the Five Elders Council, he suspected it worked much the same way.
Most cultivators in the present day likely didn’t even reach the level of the rogue cultivators in Zhang Qianmo’s eyes.
Because in Liu Tu’s memories, the early Myriad Immortals Alliance offered techniques that included all manner of wondrous arts and secret methods.
Take the commonly practiced Heavenly Net Divine Technique: its scope was as vast as heaven and earth, covering everything.
Concealment, escape arts, divine sense tempering, physical strengthening, Qi Refinement, alchemy, talisman crafting, array construction... every detail was accounted for, lacking nothing. It truly deserved to be called the finest introductory cultivation technique available.
While it might not excel in any single aspect, its comprehensiveness was its greatest strength. Li Fan couldn't even estimate how exorbitantly expensive this technique would be if sold by the current Myriad Immortals Alliance.
And that was only one of dozens of techniques the Alliance was handing out freely at that time.
The contrast made Li Fan curse inwardly: Damn, how did the Myriad Immortals Alliance end up like this?
The gap was this vast even when compared to rogue cultivators of this era, let alone elite disciples from major sects like Zhang Qianmo.
Even though Li Fan possessed the mysterious Return to Truth and had lived through countless simulation cycles, giving him divine sense far beyond ordinary cultivators, he had never strengthened himself systematically, nor had he consumed heavenly treasures to bolster his cultivation. Thus, the disparity between him and this Senior Brother Zhang was still significant.
After checking his own condition, Li Fan’s brow tightened.
Because my divine sense is overly depleted, the time I can stay in the Fallen Immortal Realm has been sharply reduced.
Originally I could remain for about half a month; now I can only last seven or eight days.
Still, I’ve gained something. According to Chen Ying, this is enough to leave early—I only need to mentally run the ritual in reverse.
I just don’t know whether that satisfies the requirements to bring anything back into reality.
To carry objects or information from the Fallen Immortal Realm into the real world, certain conditions had to be fulfilled.
When Chen Ying explained it before, he had intentionally been vague about what those conditions were.
Since the Tianxuan Mirror currently provided no information about the Fallen Immortal Realm, Li Fan had no choice but to deduce the answer himself.
The more valuable the item, the harder it is to retrieve.
For now, the Heavenly Net Divine Technique is out of the question. If I can bring back the Purple Firmament Soul Observation Art, my goal will be achieved.
So what are the conditions? Killing Zhang Qianmo?
At present, Li Fan had no clue.
Either way, I should return to reality first. Maybe once I’m back, I’ll be able to recall the Soul Observation Art’s contents?
After a brief moment of thought, Li Fan made up his mind and immediately began performing the reverse ritual in his mind.
A dizzy spell washed over him. In the next instant, the scenery around him shattered into starlike fragments.
Li Fan’s consciousness returned to the Tianxuan Mirror.
He carefully retraced every detail of his trip into the Fallen Immortal Realm. Every event and every conversation with Senior Brother Zhang remained clear and vivid.
But when he tried to recall the Purple Firmament Soul Observation Art or the Heavenly Net Divine Technique, there was nothing, no matter how he tried.
It was like trying to carry water in a bamboo basket: all his efforts came to nothing.
As expected, it isn’t that simple. To grasp treasure in your hand, yet find it as unreachable as flowers in a mirror or the moon on water... it’s a hard feeling to endure.
Then I’ll have to enter again and figure out the exact conditions.
Fortunately, because I left voluntarily last time, the cooldown period before I can reenter is much shorter.
While waiting, Li Fan bought an Aura Exaltation Talisman to disguise himself as a Golden Core cultivator.
He then purchased a Face-Changing Pill, altered his appearance, and headed for the island where the fish-betting game was held.
After the Spirit Mist Grass incident, far fewer cultivators were gathered there than usual.
Li Fan casually picked a fish to wager on, then began discreetly questioning the Golden Core cultivators in the crowd about the Fallen Immortal Realm.
From their discussions, he learned that each entry dropped them into different locations.
Sometimes they arrived in the middle of a orthodox-versus-heretical battle and were casually killed by top powerhouses on the field.
Other times, if they were luckier, they would inhabit the body of a disciple from some sect.
But even then, figuring out the conditions to bring techniques out within a mere ten-plus days was extraordinarily difficult.
All they could do was watch helplessly as the techniques slipped from memory, leaving only bitterness behind.