Chapter 1164: Chapter 1065: Boss, Stop Acting

Fan Paiming, utterly shocked, looked at his sister.

Even with his cultivation level, so powerful, facing the opponent’s Sword Qi, he almost couldn’t bear it…

How could his sister seem as if nothing had happened…

And Fan Yaoyao, at this moment, also had her large eyes filled with confusion, as she instinctively glanced towards Li Fan next to her.

Yet, Li Fan seemed oblivious and said:

“Your sister must be tired from traveling too long; she needs some rest.”

Fan Paiming: “???”

What is this guy talking about? His sister is a cultivator of the Najin first level, and is considered a genius in Bianleicheng, tired from traveling?

He was about to refute Li Fan, but Fan Yaoyao interjected, “Big brother, I’m tired, I need to rest!”

Fan Paiming: “???”

His own sister… What is she doing?

“Sister, you…”

Fan Yaoyao said:

“I will go with Fan Li to rest for a bit…”

Upon hearing this, Fan Paiming suddenly froze, then looked towards Li Fan, becoming extremely alert in his heart!

Damn, my sister is naive, she couldn’t have been fooled by this Fan Li, right…

This Fan Li does look somewhat more handsome than himself…

He suddenly turned into a protective brother and said:

“Sister, you must not get close to this person, be careful…!”

But before he could finish, Fan Yaoyao had already walked to Li Fan’s side, her eyes filled with curiosity, saying:

“Where are we going to rest?”

Fan Paiming felt like vomiting blood!

Li Fan said:

“It’s cooler under that tree there, let’s go.”

He appeared nonchalant.

Immediately, Fan Yaoyao followed Li Fan to the tree.

And behind, Fan Paiming was gritting his teeth, but felt somewhat… powerless.

Is his sister too easy to be taken away?

…

And Fan Yaoyao, at this moment, looked nervously at Li Fan.

She was certain, just now… it was Li Fan who had helped her.

Otherwise, she definitely wouldn’t have resisted Linyihao’s Sword Qi!

“Fan Li, what realm of cultivator are you?”

She asked cautiously.

Li Fan was able to ignore Linyihao’s Sword Qi and casually helped her out of trouble…

This was enough to suggest that Li Fan’s cultivation level definitely surpassed that of Najin!

He might have reached the Chengfeng Realm!

She also recalled, Li Fan daring to walk alone in the Kongshou Mountain Forest…

This has to be a high-level expert, right?

And Li Fan, hearing her question…

Suddenly seemed reluctant to answer…

He guessed, Fan Yaoyao’s realm was probably much stronger than Nascent Soul!

“I… I actually don’t have much cultivation… Let’s not talk about this.”

He pretended to be composed as he spoke.

And Fan Yaoyao, hearing this, was puzzled.

“This is called having no cultivation?”

But, her mind instantly flashed.

“Wrong… It’s not that he has no cultivation… He doesn’t want people to know his cultivation level!”

She felt she suddenly understood! Throughout their journey, none of them had sensed Li Fan’s cultivation aura, which means, he was actively hiding it!

And just now, he had to act to help her out of necessity…

Thinking of this, she quickly nodded and said:

“I know, you have no cultivation, you’re super weak!”

Li Fan: “…”

His blood pressure couldn’t help but rise!

Although I know I am weak, do you really need to be so straightforward about it?!

Forget it, calm down, maintain composure.

No need to argue with a young girl.

“Fan Li, who are you looking for?”

Fan Yaoyao continued to speak.

Li Fan said:

“My… disciples, they went off to do some tasks and haven’t returned.”

Disciples?

Fan Yaoyao instantly became more convinced… This must be a high-level expert, otherwise who dares to accept disciples?

“When the time comes, I’ll help you look for them too!”

Fan Yaoyao said.

Li Fan couldn’t help but smile, although Fan Yaoyao’s mouth is a bit harsh, she is… quite nice really.

“The recruitment competition is about to begin!”

At this moment, a voice had already transmitted, saying:

“At Qingjian Peak, there are the Qingjian Stone Inscriptions, left by the founding master of Qingjian Sect!”

“Those who can observe the stone inscriptions and gain insights, the top three will directly become disciples of our sect and also receive a Daoyuan Pill each.”

“The top three hundred will pass through this recruitment event and proceed with our sect to the Hanque Mountain Range, and upon return, will then join our sect!”

An elderly person flying on a sword, pointed towards a towering cliff ahead!

On that cliff, there were several graceful stone carvings, which from afar, vaguely resembled a Sword Immortal wielding a sword.

“Begin!”

The elderly person of Qingjian Sect declared.

Immediately, a surge of people crowded towards that cliff.

Thousands stood beneath the cliff, their eyes gazing at the stone inscriptions.

But, merely at the instant their gaze touched the stone inscriptions.

“…a Sword Immortal hidden in these carvings?”

“So powerful, I feel like I’m about to go blind!”

“Sword Immortal… Sword Immortal!”

In the eyes of the crowd, the image of the carvings greatly transformed.

Some saw a Sword Immortal dancing.

Some felt the onslaught of Sword Qi.

Some saw the Supreme Sword techniques.

Many people directly fell to the ground, worshipping, convulsing, trembling!

— This is the trial of Qingjian Sect.

As long as one observes the stone inscriptions, they are bound to experience the true intent of Sword Dao contained within them.

Only a genius can withstand it and gain something from it.

However, among the seventeen stone inscriptions, the strongest genius since ancient times could only observe up to the fourth!

“…Hanque Mountain Range is a forbidden area, and the three Sword Ancestors of the sect cannot possibly venture into danger themselves… we need to find three geniuses…”

Meanwhile, in the sky, the old man flying with his sword was muttering.

“The three Sword Ancestors can leave a clone in each of those three geniuses’ Path-Scenic Lands, and then they can descend through these lands when the time comes…”

This is the reason they recruit for Qingjian Sect.

They’re looking for cannon fodder!

Hanque Mountain Range is a forbidden, peculiar place that suppresses the mighty, where the more vigorous the blood and energy of a youngster, the more advantageous it is.

…

At this moment.

Countless youthful cultivators could no longer bear it.

They couldn’t even withstand the true intent of the first Sword Dao stone inscription!

“So strong… so powerful…”

Fan Paiming’s face also turned somewhat pale at this moment.

He struggled to reach the third piece but felt he had reached his limit and could not continue.

Behind him, Fan Yaoyao also looked up, but after only a glance, she found it too dazzling and said,

“Ah, it’s too difficult… I won’t look any further.”

She gave up directly and turned to say, “Fan Li, be careful, this is really difficult…”

However, she noticed that Li Fan’s gaze… swiftly swept over those dozen or so stone inscriptions.

It looked as if he was merely browsing them casually.

She was immediately gobsmacked; he could actually glance over a dozen or so stone inscriptions in one look?

It’s known that even for a genius, the first stone inscription could be life-threatening!

Yet Li Fan merely gave it a cursory glance and indifferently commented,

“Hmm, it’s pretty difficult to look at.”

These stone inscriptions… don’t have much standard at all.

From the perspective of carving, they didn’t even make it through the doorway, too ugly.

“The first stone inscription, the position of the sword is not placed right, the person sculpted should have the sword drawn in a backhand manner, which would harmonize the overall composition. The second stone inscription, the person’s hand is placed too high, making the hand higher than the eyes, asymmetrical…”

He casually critiqued.

But when Fan Yaoyao heard this, it felt to her like the voice of great Dao reverberating in her ears!

At that moment, she instinctively looked up, only to see those stone inscriptions seemingly come to life following Li Fan’s words, with shadows of Sword Immortals burgeoning and dancing.

Sword Dao’s true intent flowed into her heart!

…

Meanwhile.

On the other side.

“Sword Immortal sister, these stone inscriptions… look very difficult.”

Linyihao also spoke with some difficulty.

In his mind, a faint female voice said,

“Qingjian Sect’s Sword Dao is merely minor paths; let me inspect them.”

In an instant, Linyihao felt as if his eyes were enveloped by a layer of light, allowing him to see the true essence of Sword Dao!

At that moment, within Linyihao’s Path-Scenic Land, the decayed Female Sword Immortal, through Linyihao’s eyes, finally saw the outside world.

“Thirteen Sword Immortals, how is it? Can you understand?”

Linyihao spoke a bit nervously.

The Corroded Sword Immortal disdainfully and scornfully said:

“In this world, there is no Sword Dao I cannot comprehend.”

Immediately, her gaze through Linyihao’s eyes peeked at the stone inscriptions!

But, in an instant, she was shocked.

“Not right… What is this?!”

She exclaimed, because she discovered…the stone inscriptions were changing?!

Sword Dao’s true intent was also changing!

“So profound… such a powerful Sword Dao true intent, it’s almost perfect! Did the person who left these stone inscriptions reach the pinnacle of Sword Dao?!”

“Such a person… should have long been under our watch, why don’t I know of this…”

She murmured, immensely shocked.

These stone inscriptions, they are left by predecessors and generally shouldn’t change.

Unless…

Unless the powerhouse who left the stone inscriptions reached a certain extraordinary peak in Sword Dao, evolving a perfect Sword Dao, and hence, due to causality, the Sword Dao he left behind also transformed!

…

“The manifestation of Ancestor’s Dao!”

At this moment, within Qingjian Sect, excited voices immediately erupted.

Suddenly, within the sect, three astounding beams of sword light appeared and landed in front of the cliff.

All the strong cultivators of Qingjian Sect were stirred.

“The Ancestor must be somewhere nearing the ultimate in Sword Dao; otherwise, this kind of illusion wouldn’t have happened…”

Among the three Sword Ancestors, a female Sword Ancestor wearing a veil, extremely excited, suddenly knelt before the entire stone wall!

She is the current Sect Master of Qingjian Sect–Yin Qing.

All in Qingjian Sect knelt, all watching those stone inscriptions.

The stone inscriptions seemed to come to life, evolving Sword Dao, evolving profound true intent!

“It’s too powerful, even we can’t understand!”

“Heavens, our Qingjian Sect has great fortune!”

Even Yin Qing and others were completely astounded and dazzled; the Sword Dao’s true intent bursting from the inscriptions now was many times higher than before, beyond their comprehension.

The first stone inscription transformed into a backhanded sword strike, the figure elegant, evolving a perfect form of the sword.

But upon completion of the evolution, that stone inscription directly disappeared from the cliff!

As if the cliff, those stone inscriptions…couldn’t bear such caused effects!

The second stone inscription, arm hanging down, one sword stabs through millennia, similarly disappearing quickly!

Seventeen stone inscriptions, in the blink of an eye, all were gone.

On the cliff, only a blank expanse of rock remained.

Everyone present was somewhat stupefied.

And at this moment.

Fan Yaoyao was somewhat dazed; she subconsciously looked at Li Fan and said:

“Fan Li, you…”

Li Fan looked up, glanced at the stone inscriptions, and questioned:

“Huh, where did those stone inscriptions go?”

Fan Yaoyao:

“…”

She really wanted to say, big shot, stop acting, your acting is really terrible!!

……

Killed by laughter.

Good night. Continuing to think about the plot.

It’s really, really, really tough to write.