Chapter 3: Chapter 3

The third one: if you want to explore the anomaly, gather as many people as possible.

The most effective way to figure out the rules of the anomaly is to pile up lives.

Believe in yourself, you will definitely not be the first one to die!

...

Li Fan read the "Sect Ruins Survival Guide" carefully and felt that the 100 points of contribution were not wasted.

With these experiences, he would be more confident to explore the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace in two years.

In his previous life, ever since Sikong Yi found the "Cloud Water Map" from the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace and earned 100,000 points of contribution, it ignited the enthusiasm of the cultivators in Congyun Sea to explore the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace.

Although the "Cloud Water Map" had been taken away, but...

The Cloud Water Heavenly Palace was so huge, there must be more treasures than just the "Cloud Water Map", right?

With this idea, the cultivators of Congyun Sea rushed to the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace one after another, regardless of life and death.

Even some loose cultivators from distant continents came here with admiration.

Their idea was also correct.

In his previous life, until the 27th year of anchoring, when Li Fan was at the Qi Refining stage, the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace was still not completely explored.

From time to time, there would be news of cultivators getting treasures from it, making everyone envious.

And because so many people kept exploring, most of the rules of anomaly in the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace were no longer a secret.

Li Fan had heard of them in his previous life.

But...

How Sikong Yi got the "Cloud Water Map" in the first place was always a matter of debate, and there was no conclusion.

Therefore, Li Fan wanted to plot for the "Cloud Water Map" in this life. The best way was to secretly follow Sikong Yi and snatch it when he was about to succeed.

There were still two years before the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace opened. He could first secretly inquire about Sikong Yi's various information and know himself and his enemy.

At the same time, he also had to improve his strength as much as possible.

Li Fan set his eyes on a bunch of Qi Refining stage main killing techniques in the Heavenly Mystery Mirror.

The price of killing techniques was much higher than ordinary techniques.

Li Fan's previous technique, "Small Profound Water Art", only cost 1200 points of contribution.

And the price of killing techniques was basically around 1500 points.

Li Fan quickly browsed through the technique descriptions and selected the ones that suited him.

"Flowing Water Sword Art", "Small Gang Wind Sword", "Red Meteor"...

Suddenly, Li Fan's eyes stopped on a technique.

"Nether Spirit Illusion Art".

After reading the technique introduction several times, Li Fan's heart thumped.

According to the technique introduction, this was a technique that mainly cultivated illusion.

It visualized a "phantom spirit" in the mind. When encountering enemies, it could release the phantom spirit to confuse them.

When the phantom spirit became powerful, it could even drill into other people's sea of consciousness and directly launch a spiritual attack.

This technique was tailor-made for him!

Although he didn't know how his spiritual strength compared with other cultivators, but after reincarnating for hundreds of years, plus the blessing of Xuanhuang Refining Heart Art, he shouldn't be too weak.

Besides, visualizing a "phantom spirit".

A red figure appeared in Li Fan's mind inexplicably.

If he used Chi Yan as a prototype for visualization, then the power of the "phantom spirit" formed should be not bad.

Li Fan pondered in his heart and decided to buy this technique.

But this price...

Li Fan took a look and his eyelids twitched.

2500 points!

Almost as much as a slightly worse Foundation Establishment technique!

No wonder this technique looked so powerful, but it always hung here and no one cared about it.

Actually, Li Fan thought wrong about this point.

The reason why "Nether Spirit Illusion Art" had such a high price was only because illusion techniques were rare, not because it was very strong.

In today's cultivation world, most cultivators' spiritual strength were not much different.

After all, before the great calamity came, techniques that specialized in strengthening spiritual power were rare.

Not to mention that immortal techniques could not be cultivated together now.

Without means to strengthen and improve spiritual power, most cultivators' spiritual strength were on the same level.

Under this situation, few people would choose to attack others with their spiritual power.

Because this often meant mutual destruction.

This was also why "Nether Spirit Illusion Art" was considered mediocre by other cultivators.

No matter how you say it, this was just an illusion technique after all.

It was just a way of using spiritual power, not a way of enhancing it.

Spiritual attacks were not easy to use, and just for a bit of illusion, who would be willing to spend 2500 points of contribution for it?

It was also because Li Fan possessed Xuanhuang Refining Heart Art, and had seen the figure of Chi Yan, the spirit of heaven and earth, with his own eyes, that he was more compatible with the visualization of "phantom spirit".

Therefore, "Nether Spirit Illusion Art" could exert multiple effects in his hands.

No matter what, Li Fan finally gritted his teeth and bought the "Nether Spirit Illusion Art".

In the blink of an eye, Li Fan's contribution points were only 1321 left.

Contribution points came fast and went faster!

He originally wanted to buy another escape technique, but he didn't have enough points, so he had to wait for later.

The urgent matter was to cultivate the "Nether Spirit Illusion Art" to the late stage of Qi Refining.

He activated the auxiliary cultivation mode of the Heavenly Mystery Mirror, placed the Linglong Lapis Lazuli Bead beside him, and began to cultivate.

His mind was like a clear mirror, and the profound technique words became as easy to understand as elementary school textbooks in his eyes with double enhancement.

The pure cultivation in his dantian transformed from the "Small Profound Water Art" became nutrients, pushing the cultivation progress of the "Nether Spirit Illusion Art" to soar like a rocket.

It took less than a day for the "Nether Spirit Illusion Art" to reach the middle stage of Qi Refining.

At the middle stage of Qi Refining, he could visualize a "phantom spirit" in his mind.

Although it was a phantom spirit, the visualization could not be fabricated out of thin air.

It had to be based on something that really existed in the cultivation world.

His thoughts flowed slowly, and scenes from the past appeared before his eyes.

Li Fan seemed to have returned to the moment when he witnessed Chi Yan burning the sea in his previous life.

A phantom slowly appeared in Li Fan's sea of consciousness.

Just such an unformed phantom, Li Fan suddenly felt his body temperature rise sharply.

Sweat dripped down his body like raindrops.

Li Fan frowned and forcibly operated the Refining Heart Art to suppress the burning sensation.

He continued to visualize Chi Yan's figure.

As Chi Yan's phantom spirit gradually took shape, Li Fan's body temperature also got higher and higher.

If he was in a desert under the scorching sun before, then he was like being placed in a fire at this moment.

As Li Fan continued to visualize, the heat became more and more terrifying.

Finally, when the temperature reached a limit, Li Fan's clothes caught fire without any flame.

"Pu!"

The visualization state could no longer be maintained, and the phantom in his sea of consciousness disappeared.

Li Fan spat out a mouthful of blood.

The blood also seemed to have a very high temperature. Before it splashed on the ground, it turned into a cloud of white mist and evaporated.

Li Fan wiped the blood from his mouth and did not lose heart.

He bought a healing pill from the Heavenly Mystery Mirror, recovered for a while, and then continued to visualize.