"All the mortals on the island have disappeared. However, the city where mortals originally gathered has grown one after another with leafy trees, just like a primeval forest."
"The branches of those trees are covered with fruits with human faces."
"The breeze blows, and a charming smile appears on the face of the fruit person."
As He Zhenghao narrated, Li Fan seemed to see countless faces smiling at him.
Thinking again that he had just eaten one of these fruits, Li Fan couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body.
He Zhenghao continued talking.
"The Jindan guard came back to his senses after being shocked and went down to the city to investigate."
"Not a single mortal survived on the entire island, and they all turned into smiling fruits. But why this strange thing happened, the Golden Pill guard couldn't figure it out. So he had to report the matter."
"The Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance sent a special person to check, and no one knows the specific results. However, all the big trees in the city were cut down later, and the city returned to its original appearance. And those smiling fruits seemed to be nothing.
Whatever happens, continue to live in the city the way you did before."
"Generation after generation, it has multiplied to this day. The Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals has also built a large formation here, and ordered dedicated personnel to guard it and harvest the fruits."
After listening to this, Li Fan couldn't help but said: "So, isn't this Tai'an really a human being?"
He Zhenghao shook his head: "How are they human? They have no mind of their own and act entirely on instinct. If anything, they only have some remaining human obsessions at most."
Li Fan pondered for a moment, but finally did not refute.
This matter was too mysterious, and he didn’t know how to characterize these Tai’an fruits.
However, after their life-extending effect was discovered by immortal cultivators, these were no longer important.
Not to mention this Tai'an fruit, even if you are a real mortal, if eating it can increase your life span, you will not be able to escape the fate of being eaten.
Li Fan fell into deep thought.
He Zhenghao didn't know what he thought of, and fell into silence.
After a long time, the two of them came back to their senses.
Next, He Zhenghao explained to Li Fan some matters that need to be paid attention to when guarding an island.
Li Fan also remembered them all.
"The formation covers the entire island, and every time it moves, it will draw a trace of essence from the mortals inside."
"The amount extracted is very small and will not have any impact on mortals. But when these essences are gathered together and the small amount becomes large, the amount will be considerable."
"After transformation, these essences can increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the magic circle."
"Therefore, practicing in this island-protecting formation is not as efficient as turning on the auxiliary training mode in the Tianxuan Mirror, but it is also much faster than the ordinary outside world."
In the end, He Zhenghao proudly told Li Fan a secret that only monks who had served as island guards knew.
After another reminder to Li Fan to contact him anytime if he had any questions, He Zhenghao Shi Shiran left.
Li Fan held the guard token, and under the blessing of the formation, his consciousness suddenly enveloped the entire island.
Ordinary mortals on the island, the Tai'an fruit in the central core array, are all busy living their lives.
After looking at each other for a long time, Li Fan sighed.
"Knock out the marrow of the world to worship and practice."
If possible, Li Fan would naturally want to do something. Unfortunately, he is still only a small monk in the Qi refining period.
The only thing I can do now is practice hard.
Li Fan suppressed all the thoughts in his heart.
Since then, Li Fan has been stationed on Tai'an Island.
I have to say that the role of island guard is really relatively easy.
Mortals on the island dare not disturb the immortal master if they have nothing to do.
All Li Fan needs to do is to check whether the island protection array is operating normally every once in a while, harvest and preserve the ripe Taian fruits in time, and other trivial matters.
Li Fan can spend the rest of the time as he wishes.
Li Fan has since devoted himself to hard training.
"One hundred techniques for using spiritual energy", "Initial explanation of spells", "Secrets to victory in martial arts battles - strike first to gain the upper hand", "To live is to win", "Only the fastest will never break"...
Starting from these basic cultivation knowledge, Li Fan gradually mastered some simple little spells.
Such as breath gathering, suspended animation, wind control, giant strength, etc.
While studying, Li Fan had to lament the extent to which the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance protected knowledge monopoly.
There is no problem in learning and using the knowledge purchased and learned from Tianxuan Realm.
But if you want to teach others after learning, it won’t work.
Unless your strength can surpass Tianxuan Mirror, you can naturally break the restrictions contained in it.
Li Fan didn't know which level of monk the Tianxuan Mirror, a spiritual treasure, was equivalent to.
However, based on common sense, it should be at least not lower than the monks in the Transformation Stage.
The power of the god-transforming monks is far beyond what Li Fan can predict today.
So no matter how dissatisfied he is, he can only accept the reality temporarily.
After reading these books, Li Fan began to read about alchemy, weapon refining, formations, etc.
Compared with the previous spell parts, these contents are too complicated.
There are so many things, Li Fan doesn’t know where to start.
It only took Li Fan more than ten days to read through the basics of alchemy in "The First Interpretation of the Way of Alchemy": the age of various herbs, and their effectiveness identification and analysis.
Not to mention the following: the selection and control of alchemy fire, alchemy furnace training, and the practical part of alchemy. Li Fan estimated that it would be impossible for him to read it completely in less than a year and a half.
Knowing that these skills often require the introduction of famous teachers, Li Fan finally chose to give up temporarily after struggling for a while.
So he temporarily put aside his distracting thoughts and began to practice the "Qianji Yuhuan Golden Chapter".
This ancient Tianji Sect's technique is really obscure and difficult to understand. It is very different from the "Xiao Yan Shui Jue" that Li Fan practiced before. It is not the product of a system at all.
Even with the help of glass beads at all times to increase his understanding, it still took Li Fan more than half a year to get started.
The hardships involved made Li Fan once have the idea of going to Tianxuan Mirror to practice the "Thousand Machines Jade World Golden Medal" in a super-auxiliary training state.
But in the end, this idea was suppressed by Li Fan.
After all, Li Fan still can't let go of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
Judging from the way they act, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance is obviously not a good person.
If it arouses the interest of Tianxuan Realm, exposing the Nascent Soul Kung Fu is fine. If the existence of [Huan Zhen] is exposed, then it will be truly doomed.
So Li Fan would rather practice slowly by himself.
In this way, one year has passed.
Li Fan returned to Ten Thousand Immortals Island and received the reward of acting guard, 800 contribution points. He then exchanged it for the late Qi refining part of "Xiao Yan Shui Jue".
After another five days of practicing under the auxiliary practice mode of Tianxuan Mirror, I reluctantly returned to Tai'an Island.
After five days of rapid practice, Li Fan already vaguely felt that he was not far from the late stage of Qi refining.