Chapter 56: Preparations

Veil of Heaven World

A Certain Barren Domain

Blackie stared dumbfounded at the Innate Dao Diagram that had evolved from Heaven and Earth, as though it couldn't find a target — or was hesitating about whether to strike.

He had thought Ye Fan was crazy, seeking death — without any preparation, without enough Divine Source, daring to charge into the Four Extremes Mystical Realm, attempting to break the Holy Body Curse.

What kind of situation is this?!

Ye Fan, covered in wounds, seized the moment and fled into a teleportation gate.

Ye Fan: "Really nothing?"

Su Lin: "Really nothing."

You guys really do treat me like Doraemon, don't you? Where am I supposed to find a time machine that travels to the future for you!

Su Lin looked at Ye Fan — who had just stumbled over from his own world in a sorry state, his attempt to break through to the Four Extremes realm having failed, his whole body pitch-black — and felt quite helpless.

It couldn't really be called a failure either; he didn't even make it halfway through the tribulation.

"Is he really me? Above the Sacrificial Dao realm — does he even know what a power-fantasy novel is?!" Ye Fan's eyes were a bit red: "Even that kid Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan knew to show off a bit of enhancement with his future self — and he possesses me just to deliver opportunities to Lu Mingfei?!"

If not for Blackie's Great Emperor formation patterns, combined with having cultivated a hand of 【Gu Tianwang】, plus some scripture foundations from Water Mirror Peak, he would likely have already been suppressed by the Innate Dao Diagram.

Could it be that he really has to follow the trajectory of the past, and let the White-Clothed Divine King Jiang Taixu pay an enormous price to continue his path forward?

The Holy Body's path was severed; the Heaven and Earth of the Veil of Heaven World do not acknowledge the Holy Body.

The Lei Jie is easy to cross — the key is Heaven and Earth's acknowledgment.

【Gu Tianwang】 truly is a fine art — drawing close to the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth; cultivated to its utmost extreme, it is man wielding the Heart of Heaven.

Just now, precisely because he had cultivated Gu Tianwang, Heaven and Earth wavered back and forth between acknowledgment and non-acknowledgment, sparing him from being cast into the abyss by the Innate Dao Diagram and the Lei Jie.

Right now he was operating Gu Tianwang at full power, merging with the Dao through the Heart of Heaven, forgetting himself.

"I thought you'd say something about this being tempering, about life and all that…" Su Lin didn't know what to say — in any case, he couldn't speak carelessly; it wouldn't be good if the you who is above the Sacrificial Dao realm overheard it.

"He's a f***ing **." Ye Fan was somewhat frantic, unceremoniously grabbing a spirit fruit and biting into it; as the fruit's juice entered his belly, the lightning-scorched black skin on his body began to scab over at an accelerated pace: "Slurp~~, have you even read the description of above Sacrificial Dao? I'm already at that realm — does it even matter whether I cultivate now or not, whether I temper myself or not!"

"F*** taking it one step at a time — give me cheats, damn it! Does he have a self-harm tendency or what?"

This was already the umpteenth grumble this month — indeed, judging by the performance of the above Sacrificial Dao realm, every Ye Fan had already become "the One"; whether the path of the past followed the original trajectory or not, it wouldn't affect the fruit of the future in the slightest.

"You can actually hear my complaints, can't you?" Ye Fan stood up and shouted toward the sky: "Hurry up and arrange all the Nine-Secret Mantras, Emperor Scriptures, immortal medicines — everything for me!"

Rumble rumble rumble—

Water Mirror Peak automatically shifted its position, and a passenger plane streaked across through the clouds above.

"Sigh, what the hell…" Ye Fan sighed, casually tossing the fruit core onto the grass nearby and sitting back down in his original spot.

Su Lin didn't dare speak or chime in, could only silently drink tea. Right now every single one of them was a big shot — who still remembered his own glory from just a few months ago when he had first drawn Water Mirror Peak?

Recalling those brilliant days of yore…

Not far away, a whale-swallowing sensation spread forth; the world's spiritual energy gathered toward that direction.

"Late-stage Qi Refining." Ye Fan said: "Two months already?"

"About that." Su Lin didn't pay it much attention — besides Lu Mingfei, who else could it be? Emiya Shirou had only just broken through to mid-stage not long ago, and Zhong Li, since the last small gathering, had been reading books and researching something, having already stayed at Wangshu Pavilion for a full month.

"Speaking of which, does he know about his other self?" Ye Fan asked — he had only learned about it later from others; his future self had left him not a single memory.

"He just knows that some badass version of himself gave him some inheritances, and that those Parallel Worlds were all set up by that big shot." Su Lin, following the request of the other Lu Mingfei, didn't explain things too clearly to this Lu Mingfei:

"Anyway, he'll find out himself later — knowing too much isn't good either, it'd be oppressive."

Ye Fan nodded, took out a jade bottle, and said: "I'll go find him first to draw some blood."

"Take care~." Su Lin waved his hand and continued flipping through the spell in his hand.

During this period, Su Lin's cultivation hadn't lagged either. Originally, with his ordinary physique and aptitude, cultivating to mid-stage Foundation Establishment would have taken many years — but his resources were simply abundant enough.

Aged spirit plants and medicinal herbs were planted all over a back mountain.

Pills were provided by Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan and Han Li; Elder Yao had refined quite a lot too, most of which were stored in the pavilion — anyone who needed them just had to say so in the group chat and help themselves.

Of course, he himself occasionally refined pills too, to improve his proficiency in the alchemy skill.

Han Li and Elder Yao paired together — there was nothing to say about it; they were practically a mobile pill mass-production line.

Su Lin's current routine was reading books during the day to accumulate knowledge, and exchanging for 【Sand of Time】 at night to cultivate — otherwise his strength wouldn't have progressed so quickly.

He was about to break through to late-stage Foundation Establishment, and once he did, he could consider going to the Dragon Race world to stir up trouble.

In any case, according to the agreement — the other Lu Mingfei had consented before disappearing, and this Lu Mingfei had also signed the contract.

The only issue was to be careful of those schemers in the Dragon Race world.

Each one hiding deeper than the last.

Being too reckless might capsize the boat at any moment.

Su Lin glanced at the Manifestation Points in his system space: 5,192 points.

Fewer and fewer, huh.

After all, the Sand of Time was a point-card item charged by time…

It was about time to prepare some props in advance for heading to the Dragon Race world.

Survival first.

He also had to egg Lu Mingfei on to stir up trouble — this needed to be planned carefully; given Lu Mingfei's personality, this matter was quite difficult.

In any case, as long as the final ending was a Happy End, anything done in the middle could be forgiven, right?

Closing the 【Grand Primeval Escape Art】 in his hand, Su Lin faintly heard a pig-slaughtering-like howl from afar.

A 1/5 karmic conversion rate — he didn't ask for him to be wildly cool and flashy, but at least he couldn't be absent at crucial moments.

He also couldn't be like Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, always cutting it close.

A streak of azure light flashed, and Su Lin arrived at the martial arts arena — Miss Kelaien had just walked up.

"Pretty punctual today." Su Lin said, casually drawing a standard-issue pistol from history.

The two often practiced close-combat techniques here, and of course, because Miss Kelaien had plenty of experience, his win rate stayed at a fairly high level.

"I've always been pretty punctual." Miss Kelaien, noticing the weapon in Su Lin's hand, asked with some surprise: "Haven't you been going on about how the times haven't changed?"

Bang—

The instant the bullet was fired, it transformed into a streak of sword-light.

Miss Kelaien rolled aside; the sword-light grazed past him, kicking up stone chips and a cloud of dust.

"Who told you this isn't a sword?"