2000 contribution points.
Without blinking an eye, he purchased it.
Li Fan began to browse carefully.
Heaven and earth oddities are the key to a cultivator's foundation of the Dao.
They are divided into three categories: Heavenly Oddities, Earthly Oddities, and Human Oddities.
Heavenly Oddities resonate with the heavenly principles, but are elusive and difficult to find; not to mention seeing one, even hearing about them is rare.
The book only provided one example.
It is the foundation of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals.
Its importance even surpasses that of the Profound Mirror.
The item is called the Yanfa Jue.
The specific identity of the person who created this foundational oddity is unknown.
Its special effect is that it can spontaneously derive new techniques day and night.
...
Upon reading this, Li Fan's thoughts paused, and he stopped.
"I previously heard Kou Hong say that the techniques cultivators practice today are all newly compiled. I thought there were some extraordinary talents creating such a variety of techniques."
"It turns out it is not artificially derived, but relies on these heaven and earth oddities."
Li Fan pondered for a moment, then continued to read.
Earthly Oddities are also quite rare, but there are traces to follow.
They often appear alongside extraordinary natural phenomena.
The book provided several examples.
In Cangwu Prefecture, four rivers and twenty-eight mountains.
One year, one month, overnight, they vanished without a trace, leaving only an unfathomable abyss.
The Earthly Oddity, the Cangwu Landscape Painting, originated from this.
The continent's waterways should flow from west to east into the sea.
One year, one month, one day, all rivers flowed backward, converging at Penglai Mountain.
It lasted for three months.
The Earthly Oddity, the Mother of All Waters, originated from this.
...
Li Fan read with great interest.
"Then the Cang Hai Pearl also belongs to the category of Earthly Oddities," he couldn't help but think.
There were still more than ten years until the emergence of the Cang Hai Pearl.
It seemed to be near Liuyun Island.
He must not forget this matter.
...
Next came the Human Oddities.
The vast majority of foundational oddities in the world belong to the category of Human Oddities.
Human Oddities are often formed from the remains of cultivators who fell thousands of years ago, transformed over many years.
According to their quality, they are divided into upper, middle, and lower grades.
The higher the quality, the stronger the cultivator who achieves their foundation with it.
Li Fan couldn't help but recall the Horned Dragon Branch and the Rusted Sword Dao Xuan.
He wondered what quality these two were.
However, judging by the power they exhibited, they were at least of middle grade or higher.
...
While Li Fan's avatar was immersed in the secrets of the Immortal Cultivation World, his true self, Li Fan, took advantage of the night to arrive at Glass Island via the teleportation array.
He did not see He Zhenghao.
Guarding the Island Protection Array was a stranger.
He Zhenghao must have gone to explore a cave and had not returned.
Li Fan didn't think much of it. After nodding to the stranger, he exited the grand formation, concealed his figure, and quietly arrived at the home of Zhang Haobo, the captain of the Cangyuan Ship.
Looking at the sleeping Zhang Haobo, Li Fan smiled slightly.
There were still 19 years until the Red Flame would scorch the sea.
Now that the avatar had completed its refinement, some plans could already be set in motion.
The Cloud Water Dream Illusion Technique activated.
...
Zhang Haobo suddenly awoke from a nightmare, drenched in cold sweat.
He gasped for breath, the fear in his heart still lingering.
After a long while, he regained his composure and looked around in confusion.
Where is this...
Glass Island?
Could it be that everything was just a terrible nightmare?
But where is there a dream so vivid?
In the dream, he had once fished up a corpse while out at sea.
Along with the remains was a book.
Even after being soaked in seawater for a long time, the characters on it remained clear.
"The Ocean-Calming Divine Sword."
It is a cultivation secret technique from the ancient Cloud Water Heavenly Palace, capable of cultivation up to the Foundation Establishment stage.
It allows the practitioner to condense twenty-four Ocean-Calming Divine Swords in their dantian to fight, which is incredibly powerful.
It was thanks to this technique that he rapidly advanced in the dream, going from a mortal to the later stage of Qi Refinement in just over a decade.
He had originally hoped to reach Foundation Establishment, but unexpectedly...
Just thinking about the terrifying scene in the dream made Zhang Haobo tremble uncontrollably.
In the sky above the Congyun Sea, a transparent figure appeared abruptly, red as fire.
In its hand flickered what seemed to be a weak flame.
Yet it was this flame that slowly dried up the entire Congyun Sea over the next decade.
His friends, his hometown, everything around him was utterly destroyed.
The cultivators of Ten Thousand Immortals Island fought desperately against it, but unfortunately, that figure was too powerful.
Its appearance was so sudden.
The Congyun Sea had become a forbidden zone, inaccessible.
Without reinforcements, in the end, all the cultivators of Ten Thousand Immortals Island sacrificed their lives, only managing to injure it.
Raging flames descended from the sky, turning Ten Thousand Immortals Island to ashes.
The nightmare ended here.
Zhang Haobo, however, could not calm down for a long time.
Was that really just a dream...
As a mortal, how could he dream so vividly of Ten Thousand Immortals Island, the Profound Mirror, and other things that had never even existed in his imagination?
Even that cultivation technique...
Wait.
Zhang Haobo's gaze sharpened.
The technique of the Ocean-Calming Divine Sword suddenly flashed in his mind!
Every word and sentence was crystal clear.
He suddenly stood up.
Not a dream?!
Then am I...
Reborn?!
He had read many strange tales, featuring characters who died and were reborn decades in the past.
He never expected that one day he would encounter this himself.
It took a long time for Zhang Haobo to calm down.
He tried hard to recall scenes from his past life.
Unfortunately, perhaps due to the overwhelming terror of that red figure, which occupied all his thoughts, he only retained vague impressions of significant events from his previous life.
However...
This was already enough.
He turned to look at his still-sleeping wife, his gaze becoming resolute.
There were still over a decade until that tragedy occurred.
If he prepared early and set an ambush, he could surely kill that red figure!
The first thing to do was to break through to the initial stage of Qi Refinement.
Then he would join the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals.
The matter of rebirth was too mysterious to disclose to others.
He also needed to find a way to convince the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals that the red figure would truly appear.
Zhang Haobo restored the mindset of a Qi Refinement cultivator from his previous life, constantly calculating in his mind.
...
Li Fan watched Zhang Haobo's changing expression and noted that he had no intention of fleeing immediately, secretly nodding in approval.
What Zhang Haobo thought was rebirth was, in fact, the effect of Li Fan's Cloud Water Dream Illusion Technique.
Using the future experiences he truly lived through as a blueprint, creating a fictional dream to deceive a mortal was more than sufficient.
Unfortunately, his current cultivation was still shallow, and even though he had experienced future events, he could not fully grasp them.
Thus, the constructed illusion still had considerable flaws.
To enhance the dream's credibility, Li Fan had invested heavily, even presenting a modified version of the Ocean-Calming Divine Sword that had been altered to the Foundation Establishment stage.
The purpose was to have Zhang Haobo, in his place, push the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals to confront that Red Flame.
Li Fan wanted to know how the cultivators of Ten Thousand Immortals Island would react if they were forewarned of the arrival of the spirit of heaven and earth.
Of course, to prevent Zhang Haobo from being frightened by the Red Flame's power and choosing to flee, he had also provided some psychological suggestions in the dream, instilling a sense of responsibility in him to prevent the tragedy for his family and companions.
At the same time, he modified the Red Flame's strength, making it appear not so invincible, but rather capable of being defeated.
Now it seemed the effect was quite good.
In the future, he would need to come back periodically to reinforce the dream with the Cloud Water Dream Illusion Technique.
With this in mind, Li Fan used formless killing intent to secretly lock onto Zhang Haobo, preventing him from slipping away unnoticed.
(End of Chapter)