My Simulated Road to Immortality

Chapter 1507: Chapter 1314: The Shortcut to Proving the Dao_2

Members of the Immortal Boat had not expected that Li Fan could so quickly discern the essence of the Zhu Zi mantra. While they were shocked, Jian Dusheng hurriedly explained to Li Fan: “Fellow Daoist, you’ve misunderstood! It was not my intention to conceal anything, but for us in the Lower Realm, Zhu Zi characters with only thirty percent similarity are actually more useful than those with higher completeness!”

“Of course, if Fellow Daoist insists, I’d have no objection to revealing the complete Zhu Zi characters.”

Having said that, Jian Dusheng once again started to write the Zhu Zi character.

In the void, even though [Zhulei Fa] greatly reduced the power of the True Immortal Seal Characters, Li Fan still felt the instant the characters formed, the warmth around him turn into a suffocating heatwave. The zest for life disappeared in an instant, transforming into a grim killing intent.

Li Fan memorized the complete Zhu Zi character and then said, “Well, I have to admit, you’re right.”

“Since it was a misunderstanding, let’s continue our exchange!”

Hearing Li Fan’s words, the Elders of the Immortal Boat all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Fan coughed lightly, drawing everyone’s attention: “Gentlemen, watch carefully!”

With a flourish of his brush, he quickly wrote the [Luo] character.

The moment the Luo character appeared, the expressions of the Elders of the Immortal Boat became somewhat peculiar, especially Ai Tianjue.

He stared blankly at the characters in the void.

It probably never crossed his mind that the True Immortal Seal Characters he had studied most in-depth would be written out by the other party first.

“The completeness has far surpassed the current progress of the Immortal Boat; it’s probably close to ninety percent. This…” Ai Tianjue couldn’t help but feel a sense of loss.

In fact, what Ai Tianjue did not know was that the [Luo] character Li Fan had just written did not reach a ninety percent level of analysis. As a disciple of Ai Tianjue many decades later in his past life, Li Fan’s analysis of the Luo character was just around eighty percent.

However, Li Fan, based on his understanding of Creation, the mysterious characters representing the Shift between Immortal and Mortal, and even mixing in a bit of [Change of True and False], had reorganized and transformed the Luo character.

Tainted with a deeper level of power aura, it made the [Luo] character written by Li Fan appear even more “advanced.” It even looked more like the Luo character compared to the original one.

Whether he could deceive the Members of the Immortal Ark in this way, Li Fan had not been sure before. But judging by their expressions now, it was absolutely feasible.

At the moment, Li Fan chuckled coldly inside, feeling more confident about the smooth progress of his plan.

“Gentlemen, what about this [Luo] character?” Li Fan asked loudly.

Although they wanted to say that this Luo character was a repetition of the Immortal Boat’s research, the progress was undeniably less than theirs. And in a short time, the Elders of the Immortal Boat weren’t able to elevate their understanding of the Luo character to Li Fan’s level.

The Elders of the Immortal Boat looked at each other, and after discussing for a while, they finally decided to swallow this bitter pill.

This time, it was the Immortal Boat’s turn to make a move.

Broken Immortal Tower’s Lu Yuzhi wrote the True Immortal Seal Character [Du].

Although Li Fan’s research on this True Immortal Seal Character was still above that of the Immortal Boat’s, he didn’t go all out in order to catch the big fish by casting a long line.

He pretended to mutter, “The [Du] character is not rare in the Star Sea. However, our research progress is indeed not as good as yours.”

Li Fan cupped his hands: “I’ve learned a lot!”

This time, the Members of the Immortal Boat regained some ground.

The Elders couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, up to this point in exchange, the Immortal Boat had suffered a significant loss. The turn in the situation was finally a good start.

It was Li Fan’s turn, and the [Zhen] Character descended.

This Zhen character also stemmed from the Immortal Boat’s research. However, the analysis progress hadn’t even reached one-third and wasn’t systematic.

In his past life, Li Fan taught the incomplete [Zhen] Character to Sun Tianci, who, with his extraordinary comprehension, further derived it.

Adding his understanding in this life, he reconstructed and fabricated, completing the concoction.

Again, he planned to test the Elders of the Immortal Boat’s level.

And the result…

After some discussion, Zhong Daogong and the others recognized the True Immortal Seal Character provided by Li Fan.

Li Fan stayed silent on the surface, but internally he knew, “It seems that the Mystic Immortal Boat definitely hasn’t encountered [Creation] level True Immortal Seal Characters.”

“Tracing and imitating from top to bottom, indeed they cannot see through it in such a short time.”

“Of course, given enough time, they might notice something…”

Li Fan pondered silently, while the Immortal Boat presented a new True Immortal Seal Character.

The moment the character emerged, both the Array laid by the Members of the Immortal Boat and the “Illusion Array” arranged by Li Fan trembled slightly without prior agreement.

As the absolute Array Technique expert, Li Fan keenly felt that under the influence of the new True Immortal Seal Character, the tiniest building blocks maintaining the Array Structure were starting to collapse.

Li Fan was suddenly startled.

To know, what he had seemingly deployed casually was by no means a simple illusion or truth.

Instead, it was a Pseudo-Immortal Array that amalgamated downgraded versions of two Immortal-Level Great Arrays: [Wasteland, Void Blooming Array], and [All Things Return To Void].

It concealed lethal traps within the invisible, silently capable of killing all enemies who entered the array.

Yet, such a level of array technique was undermined by the weakened True Immortal Seal Characters to the extent that its foundation was damaged…

“If the power of these True Immortal Seal Characters were to fully emerge, I fear my Pseudo-Immortal Array could be broken in a snap.” Li Fan, who had regarded array techniques as his most important trump card, immediately became exceedingly solemn in his heart.

While repairing the gradually collapsing array, he studied the newly appeared True Immortal Characters.

“Without a doubt, it’s a targeted attack against array techniques.”

“With such True Immortal Seal Characters, it’s no wonder that the array level of the Immortal Boat is so low.”

“It’s hard to say whether the Immortal Boat showing me this character bears any intention of demonstration.”

“Knowing this character, this trip has not been in vain.” Li Fan was quite satisfied with this exchange of True Immortal Seal Characters.

He also gradually deciphered the true meaning of the character before him.

[Disperse].

The moment he comprehended the original true meaning of the True Immortal Seal Characters, Li Fan thought of his treasure, the Final Separation Disk.

“Perhaps, my Dissociation Disc is now similar to the Yan Fajue, considered a part of the Tao projected from the lower realms upwards.”

“Perhaps, by using the Dissociation Disc, I can attempt to glimpse the one path of [Disperse].”

…

As he mastered more True Immortal Seal Characters, Li Fan slowly realized that what was powerful was not the True Immortal Seal Characters themselves, but the Tao they indicated.

True Immortal Seal Characters are but a means, a tool to help ordinary people, even ordinary Immortals, to touch the Tao directly.

“Likewise, the world’s marvels and Eternal Mementos are similar tools for shortcuts.”

“Their essence is actually interconnected.”

“Inscription Dao Immortal.” Li Fan suddenly thought of the Nameless Immortal who was said to have inscribed tens of thousands of paths, making them more “accessible” to others.

“Different paths cannot be cultivated together. Yet this Inscription Dao Immortal manages to have such understanding of various Taos…” It was somewhat beyond Li Fan’s current imagination.

…

These fleeting thoughts of Li Fan did not affect the ongoing exchange of True Immortal Seal Characters in the void.

Li Fan used characters like Chaos, Lost, Nameless, and Xuan learned from the Immortal Boat in his previous life.

He nearly drained the Immortal Boat’s thousands of years of research on True Immortal Seal Characters.

Of course, characters like Chaos and Lost were not the complete versions he had witnessed.

They were slightly modified and weakened versions.

Except for the characters Disperse and Resolve.

Li Fan also became familiar with [Cold] and [Loss] characters.

At this moment, the reserves of both parties were almost depleted.

The atmosphere in the arena also began to subtly change.

“Gentlemen!”

Li Fan took the initiative to speak, breaking the deadlock slightly.

“I must admit that your research on True Immortal Characters is truly no less than ours in Da Qi.”

“It’s truly unexpected that within the Star Sea, there still survives a civilization on par with ours…”

Li Fan sighed with a mix of relief and frustration.

Suddenly, his expression changed: “However, there are differences among True Immortal Seal Characters themselves!”

“The True Immortal Seal Characters we’ve exchanged up till now, combined, are probably not as good as this next one I’m going to reveal!”

With one statement, it was as if a stone had shattered the sky.

The Elders of the Immortal Boat, momentarily, suppressed all of their scheming thoughts and stared blankly at Li Fan.

“Fellow Daoist, one must not speak recklessly.”