Chapter 1937: Chapter 1525

Li Fan couldn’t help but speculate whether Hai Zhen had fallen silent to help him escape the impact of the three merging paths. For him, Hai Zhen had accompanied his rediscovery, cultivation. Suddenly losing it as a trump card made Li Fan extremely uncomfortable.

Fortunately, those decades experienced during amnesia barely served as a buffer. It seemed to tell Li Fan that even without Hai Zhen, relying solely on himself, he could carve out a path of cultivation leading to the Heavensreach.

“Compared to the Mindful Activation that can salvage everything, Hai Zhen, the Reverse Boat, is really much inferior. Without a life-saving trump card, I need to be even more cautious. Otherwise, if I die this time, it might truly be the end.” A hint of gloom flashed in Li Fan’s eyes.

Abandoning the idea of continuing to entangle with the sleeping Hai Zhen, Li Fan shifted his focus to the Reverse Boat.

Though weak, as the only current means of self-preservation, it still needed close attention.

Traveling upstream for eight thousand years had already left it in a state of disrepair; the Reverse Boat at the brink of its limit could currently only be described as pitiful. After Li Fan forcibly landed it, only a bare deck and some pillar remains were left. If not for the faint aura of the Path of Reverse Flow sensed on this deck, Li Fan would have thought the Reverse Boat was damaged.

“Although Emperor Tai Tian mentioned that as long as one understands the Path of Reverse Flow, anyone can create a Reverse Boat. Yet in the entire Primordial possibility, over countless years, it seems only two Reverse Boats have been made. Apparently, it’s not as simple as Emperor Tai Tian stated. At least…” Li Fan sensed the reverse planks, observing for a long time, yet remained at a loss on how to repair it.

Let alone creating a new one.

Hai Zhen, the Eternal Life Path, the Reverse Boat, are now almost all in a state of strike. Li Fan’s current situation is certainly not pleasant.

Thus, the goal for this lifetime has temporarily become clear.

The main thing is to quickly find a way to help Hai Zhen awaken. Secondly, repair the Reverse Boat and gather the power of the Eternal Life Path.

Regardless of which, it is beyond Li Fan’s abilities right now.

Now several issues face Li Fan.

First, Hai Zhen has fallen silent, so does the [Truth and Deception Transformation] and [Illusion as Reality] divine technique he comprehended still hold any value?

Second, with the help of Emperor Tai Tian, he returned to eight thousand years ago. At this time node, beneath the Mountain Sea Fishery village, is there another Emperor Tai Tian? If so, can he sense the things that happened to himself eight thousand years later? If not…

Third, once his strength restores to its original state and his condition is refilled, what next? Should he return to the familiar safety time domain anchored in one year, or continue drifting into the past until a truly safe place is found?

…

Even for Li Fan, facing these problems at once was quite daunting.

He could only tackle them one by one.

Faced with the encirclement of these suspected disciples from the Immortal Dao Ten Clans, Li Fan first tested the Truth and Deception Transformation. His current body was without cultivation base. However, under the aid of the remnant Eternal Life Path, he was still able to sustain a power equal to his Unity-Path stage from the past.

“When the true becomes false, the false becomes true~”

Li Fan silently chanted in his mind.

Yet nothing happened, calm as clouds and wind.

However, Li Fan didn’t feel fear because of this. Instead, he exhaled deeply, relieved.

Actually, at the moment Truth and Deception Transformation was cast, Li Fan indeed felt the fluctuation unique to Truth and Deception Transformation. It proved that even without Hai Zhen, he could realize the true and false transformation by himself. After all, this was a path he had comprehended on his own. As long as the Path of Truth and Against Falsehood still existed between Mountain and Sea World, he could calmly apply it.

The reason there was no change in his body was simply because the time eight thousand years ago had significantly different great path environment from eight thousand years later.

Nearly a thousand years of time, Dao Life and Dao Destruction, plus the influence of external Path-obliterating Calamity, can entirely be considered two different worlds.

Therefore, although Li Fan successfully cast the True Illusion Technique, his attempt to reflect the visualized cultivation base into his body failed.

As the saying goes, missing by a fraction varies by a thousand miles. Detail discrepancies and environmental transformations led to the failure of Li Fan’s True Illusion Technique. Frankly, the effectiveness of Truth and Deception Transformation requires a thorough understanding of the world’s Tao. Now the situation is that the Tao has changed, requiring Li Fan to reevaluate.

This doesn’t pose a major issue. Though eight thousand years might pass, it’s ultimately still the same possibility, the same world. As long as Li Fan is given time to reestablish his understanding of the great path environment, he’ll be able to smoothly use the Truth and Deception Transformation.

“What is regrettable, however, is that the Illusion as Reality divine technique seems to have disappeared from me with Hai Zhen’s silence.” After careful sensing for a long time, finally determined, Li Fan sighed faintly in his heart.

Yet he wasn’t particularly surprised. After experiencing the gain and loss of the Eternal Life Path, Li Fan was clear in his heart that there was a fundamental difference between his own and what others bestowed upon him.

But even losing it, Li Fan still hadn’t completely forfeited the [Illusion as Reality] which was deemed the strongest life-saving divine technique between Mountain and Sea. Being able to transform and conceal his identity before the Infinite Sea, once tasted, how could Li Fan willingly abandon it?

“So-called Illusion as Reality, is merely an extremely advanced application of the Truth and Deception Transformation. Based on my understanding of Truth and Deception Transformation…” Li Fan reminisced, dwelling on the feeling under the protection of Illusion as Reality.