Chapter 1071: Untitled

Su Fan is not lacking in Taoist Sect Inheritances. Even without the one passed down to him by the Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi, his own personal Inheritance is not bad; the Five Elements Art he primarily cultivates is the Taoist technique most suited to him, formed by merging methods from numerous worlds.

Although he has only deduced this Taoist technique to the late stage of Golden Immortal for now, the next step still requires a vast amount of time to deduce.

Compared to cultivating the Taoist techniques of other powerhouses, the former is certainly more difficult to cultivate, and the speed will also be slower.

After all, the subsequent parts of the cultivation method require time to deduce.

However, Su Fan's cultivation speed has never been slow.

This was the case even before he became an Immortal.

The reason for this is precisely because he constantly deduces his own cultivation method, which is in fact a form of comprehending the Dao; every time he deduces the subsequent parts of the method, it is also a form of self-awareness regarding his cultivation, and after comprehending the Dao, his realm also rises accordingly.

It is precisely because of this that his cultivation speed is very fast.

In the Yuanyang Jie, his cultivation speed is truly not slow, even when including the time spent traveling through other worlds, it remains the same.

From the beginning of his cultivation to the Primordial Spirit Stage, he only spent less than a thousand-plus years.

This is even including the years of his soul reincarnation; otherwise, it would be even less.

Even placed in this Mythical World, reaching the Refining Spirit stage in a thousand years is not considered slow; in this world, it is not to say that Golden Immortals are as common as dogs and Great Luo are everywhere, but there are still many Immortals.

However, those who truly understand the cultivation world know very well that reaching Refining Spirit in a thousand years is considered a minor genius.

Even for the sects in Nanzhan Buzhou, most disciples who can reach Refining Spirit within a thousand years are considered elites.

This also means they have the opportunity to break through to higher realms.

Su Fan walked step by step from a mortal to his current position; although the Universe Mirror did indeed play a great effect, it also had to do with his temperament.

As a rich second-generation in his past life, his personality was actually not bad, but because there was an older brother at home, he could only be a parasite.

Then, reincarnated into the Yuanyang Jie and soul-traveling to the Xiaoao World again, he was able to lead the remnants of the Huashan Sect to become a top-tier sect on par with Shaolin and Wudang.

How could that be possible without any ability?

One must know that after soul-traveling to Xiaoao, the Universe Mirror could not play any role at all; that entire life was completely dependent on his own planning.

Although he had some understanding of Xiaoao, there is still a huge gap between novels and reality.

A novel might only describe a person's personality with a light touch, but in reality, one can only see clearly what that person is truly like after coming into real contact with them.

In the novel, the changes in Yue Buqun were only seen through by his wife at the very end, despite decades of living together.

This shows how terrifying human nature is.

And was Old Yue really the born hypocrite as depicted in the novel?

Only after coming into contact did Su Fan truly discover the truth.

In that world, Old Yue was not a good person, but were those righteous people from Shaolin and Wudang necessarily good people?

Don't joke; there are no heroes in Xiaoao, and even the righteous Shaolin and Wudang, if placed in later generations, would be equivalent to gangs.

Usury, collecting protection fees, and so on—what did they not do?

Otherwise, how could they afford to support so many disciples?

How many disciples does Shaolin have? On Songshan alone, there are no fewer than three thousand disciples, and as for lay disciples, there are even more.

Whether they are warrior monks or scholar monks, they do not produce anything and rely entirely on tenant farmers; Shaolin has at least two hundred thousand mu of land, and these landholdings are tax-exempt.

It would not be an exaggeration to call them a major landlord.

The Huashan of those years was actually the same in the Shaanxi region; in Guanzhong, the Huashan Sect was the biggest gang-landlord.

Peddlers and merchants entering Guanzhong had to pay taxes to the government and also pay tribute to the Huashan Sect; the larger the business, the more they had to pay.

The Xiaoao World was full of all sorts of things, all of which were the darkness of officialdom, and ancient officialdom was even more dangerous.

But when it comes to danger, how can it compare to the Jianghu? The direct fighting in the Jianghu is dangerous, but the hidden arrows in the dark are even more terrifying.

The various affairs of the Huashan Sect were related to internal power struggles, but how could there not be external inducement?

Why did the Demonic Sect, the Sun Moon Holy Cult, like to attack the Five Mountains Sword Sects alliance?

One must know that at that time, the righteous Shaolin and Wudang were the most powerful.

If the Sun Moon Holy Cult wanted to establish prestige, wouldn't it have been better to move against Shaolin and Wudang? After all, Shaolin was still the Alliance Leader of the righteous path.

As a result, the slogans were shouted loudly, but the actual bloody battles were often with the Five Mountains Sword Sects; it can be said that the Sun Moon Holy Cult disciples who died at the hands of the Five Mountains Sword Sects were the most numerous.

The characters in the Xiaoao World were all very difficult to deal with; Su Fan was just a rich second-generation in his first life, and if he hadn't had some talent to grow up quickly, he probably would have been played to death long ago.

At the very least, Su Fan did not think that protagonist Linghu Chong was of any use, even though he looked very glorious later on and became a great hero of his generation.

However, in reality, almost everyone close to him died, and what did the Huashan Sect, which had raised him for many years, turn into?

Old Yue died because he courted death, so that's fine, but the mistress, the junior sister, and a whole group of junior brothers—it can be said that if Old Yue hadn't taken this guy in, the Huashan Sect probably wouldn't have turned into that state.

Su Fan understood very well why Old Yue eventually wanted to cultivate the Pixie Jianpu.

In Su Fan's view, the greater reason was actually because of Linghu Chong; as the successor to Old Yue's Inheritance, he was nearly thirty years old, and not to mention being steady, he didn't even have a normal concept of distinguishing right from wrong.

Perhaps from the perspective of later generations, the righteous path of Xiaoao was not righteous, but in the world of Xiaoao, the righteous and the demonic are incompatible; one can see the consequences of being involved with the Demonic Path by looking at Liu Zhengfeng's family.

Although there was also the reason that Zuo Lengchan wanted to weaken the Hengshan Sect, one can see it from the fact that those guests did not speak up for Liu Zhengfeng.

There were many people with a sense of justice who entered the Liu residence; why did they all remain silent in the end? Were they really afraid of the Songshan Sect?

There were also some experts and wandering cultivators among them who might not necessarily fear Zuo Lengchan.

But they did not speak up precisely because of the Demonic Path, the Sun Moon Holy Cult; in that era, the Sun Moon Holy Cult was truly a Demonic Path, and what they did was indeed hair-raising.

How could Linghu Chong, a righteous disciple with a correct background, associate with the demons of the Sun Moon Holy Cult and not affect how the outside world viewed the Huashan Sect?

That was why Old Yue was disappointed; at the beginning, he had also given Linghu Chong many opportunities.

As a result, Linghu Chong wasted them, and since there was no successor for the Huashan Sect afterward, Old Yue was also anxious.

With no successor internally and the Songshan Sect eyeing their Huashan Sect covetously from the outside, that was why he embarked on a path of no return.

And Su Fan's arrival ultimately changed the Huashan Sect; Old Yue did not go down a dead end because of Su Fan, the successor.

With a successor, there was no need to worry about the Huashan Sect having an accident, and as for that Pixie Jianpu, how could Old Yue not know its effects?

After all, that Pixie Jianpu was also related to the Huashan Sect.

And the fact that Su Fan could contend with those people in his first life after reincarnation shows his talent.

This is also the reason for his rapid growth, life after life.