Aside from comprehending the Great Dao, another extremely difficult aspect of cultivating the Great Dao Embodiment Body Art was finding a delicate balance between tempering the body through enlightenment of the Dao and ensuring that the body was not injured.

Before the majestic Great Dao, the mortal body was an existence even more insignificant than an ant.

One could indeed borrow the pressure of the Great Dao to temper the body. But with the slightest carelessness, there was also the risk of being crushed into dust by the Great Dao.

This was precisely why Nangong Hongzhao had repeatedly warned him before transmitting the technique. When cultivating this technique, one had to proceed carefully and gradually.

In truth, for an ordinary person, without the experience and insights of starting from zero and painstakingly cultivating and exploring the Great Dao Embodiment Body Art, even taking the first step into this technique was extraordinarily difficult.

However...

Li Fan was far from an ordinary person.

Although Body Refinement had long since disappeared from the Xuanhuang Realm, Li Fan had already conducted his own explorations in this field.

At the very beginning, after obtaining the Heavenly Doctor Immortal Scripture, he had combined it with numerous other ancient texts and independently developed a method for activating the body's hidden treasures and tempering the physical body. He had named it the Creation Furnace Technique.

As Li Fan's experiences increased, this technique had also continued to grow stronger.

The incorporation of the Demonic Beast Furnace, Flesh and Blood Factory, the Mending Heaven Record, and other things had caused the Creation Furnace Technique to undergo several iterations.

But due to the restrictions imposed by the Xuanhuang Realm itself, it was ultimately difficult to attain the Dao through this path.

Thus, Li Fan eventually turned toward the ordinary method of ascending to immortality.

This technique, whose name was exceptionally domineering, the Creation Furnace Technique, also stagnated and ceased to advance.

"Back then, in the Fallen Immortal Realm, within the Beast Taming Sect scenario, I used the body of the Black Bird, Xiao Hei, and received guidance from Mr. Bai."

"The perfect version of the Creation Furnace Technique."

"But because of the memory restrictions of the Fallen Immortal Realm, I was never able to bring this perfect technique back. Later, as my strength rapidly expanded, even surpassing Mr. Bai, whom I had believed to be merely at the Longevity Immortal realm, I gradually stopped caring about this technique. However, now I know the hidden history of Mr. Bai, who was once contaminated by Evil Su Bai from beyond the other possibilities."

"Having obtained the memories of Evil Su Bai, Mr. Bai's strength may perhaps still be at the Longevity Immortal realm. But his horizons are probably beyond what anyone trapped within the [Yuanchu] possibility can compare with. Even the projection of his imprint left behind in the world was capable of deducing the general outline of a completely new technique, which confirms this point. If so..."

"When I first saw the perfect version of the Creation Furnace Technique, I was deeply shaken, as though I had truly glimpsed the secrets of the Great Dao. This was not simply because my knowledge was shallow due to my weaker strength at the time. Rather, this technique truly possessed such profound mysteries."

"It seems I need to go there once more, investigate it thoroughly, and use it as a reference."

Within the Shuo Star Sea, five years passed.

Within the Xuanhuang Realm, only a little more than ten days had passed.

Li Fan's main body was still racking his brains, trying to find a way to prevent his Consciousness Soul Transformation projection from being reflected upon by the Nameless True Immortals and meeting their gazes.

After sensing the experiences of his clone, his eyes immediately flickered, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

The Creation Furnace Technique was already a memory from a very distant past for Li Fan.

He had never expected that after reaching the Half-Immortal realm, there would come a day when he would once again seek it out.

"This also proves that my decision back then to give up and not stubbornly insist on obtaining it first was actually correct. In the Fallen Immortal Realm, the greater the value of something, the more difficult it is to bring it into the real world. If the Creation Furnace Technique is truly as mysterious as I now believe, then even now, it would probably not be easy for me to bring it out."

"I just wonder whether my method of Consciousness Soul Transformation can ignore the memory erasure restrictions of the Fallen Immortal Realm."

People in different circumstances could look at the same thing and arrive at completely different conclusions.

Li Fan wanted to investigate the perfect version, the true [Creation Furnace Technique], once more.

But now that he knew how extraordinary Mr. Bai and the master of the Fallen Immortal Realm were, Li Fan naturally needed to make further preparations.

For a very long time, Li Fan had been unwilling to personally set foot in the Fallen Immortal Realm again. Even when facing the trial illusion of the Xuanhuang Great Celestial Venerable, he had allowed someone else to act in his place.

This was because he carried the supreme treasure [Truth], while it seemed that people from the Immortal Realm had already been waiting for him there.

However, in this life, after Li Fan comprehended the method of Consciousness Soul Transformation, the situation changed once again.

"At first, I recklessly entered the Fallen Immortal Realm because ignorance made me fearless. Now, however, I already possess enough strength to protect myself."

His consciousness contracted, completely converging into that miniature Dao Net.

Then the Dao Net blossomed with countless rays of light, and from within it, a new strand of divine sense unexpectedly emerged.

However, everything contained within this strand of divine sense had been fabricated by Li Fan as a disguise.

Though it was said to be fabricated, it was actually a nearly authentic worldline deduced by the Dao Deviation Stone.

Aside from the fact that no such person actually existed in the world, everything else was no different from reality.

He was adding another layer of identity on top of his own.

This was the method Li Fan had temporarily devised to reduce the possibility of being discovered by the True Immortals hidden within the Great Dao.

Sure enough, once this disguised divine sense emerged, Li Fan could clearly sense that the gaze of the reflected Nameless True Immortal projection within his miniature Dao Net had inexplicably decreased by a great deal.

The oppressive sense of crisis receded. Li Fan felt as though he had hidden himself behind the scenes, concealed within the darkness, and immediately relaxed.

Of course, this was merely a method that treated the symptoms rather than the root cause.

This layer of disguise could still conceal him for now, but as Li Fan's Consciousness Soul Transformation continued to grow stronger in the future, it would inevitably attract the attention of the Nameless True Immortals within the Great Dao once again.

If one day the scale of the Great Dao projections within Li Fan's consciousness surpassed even the Dao Net of the Shuo Star Sea, then stepping from behind the scenes onto the stage would absolutely attract the gazes of every surviving Nameless True Immortal.

Given Li Fan's cautious nature, unless he possessed absolute confidence in dealing with this crisis, he would never take that step.

But those were matters for the future. For now, after adding this layer of disguise to his consciousness, Li Fan had already entered the Fallen Immortal Realm.

Just as he had expected.

Because this fabricated life had never cultivated the Xuanhuang Heart Refining Mantra, what he saw upon entering the Fallen Immortal Realm was not the scene of Ningyuan Taking of Longevity Fruit.

Li Fan immediately killed himself and exited the Fallen Immortal Realm.

Afterward, he modified the identity of his disguised persona.

Aside from changing his life history once again, he also added the experience of ‘coincidentally comprehending the Xuanhuang Heart Refining Mantra within the Body Cleansing Spirit Pool,’ an experience that Li Fan himself had actually gone through.

Within the Fallen Immortal Realm's perception, this disguised persona seemed to have genuinely become another person.

Without being restricted by the interval required between entries into the Fallen Immortal Realm, he once again arrived within it.

And this time, he experienced the very scene of Ningyuan Taking of Longevity Fruit!

With his abundant experience in clearing the scenario, Li Fan resolved it in the shortest possible manner.

There was still plenty of time remaining before his limit for staying within the Fallen Immortal Realm, so Li Fan directly arrived at the Beast Taming Sect scenario.

Repeating his previous method, he waited for Mr. Bai to come to him. Then the Heavenly Fate Black Bird soared into the sky and arrived before him.

The scene from back then played out once again.

Mr. Bai examined him and shook his head slightly.

"You child, why did you practice recklessly on your own?"

He then imparted the true [Creation Furnace Technique] to him without holding anything back.

Time seemed to fall into stillness.

Although Li Fan had already reached the Half-Immortal Realm, he remained completely immersed in the mysteries of this Creation Furnace Technique.

"My intuition back then was correct. Even a mortal with absolutely no aptitude for cultivation can cultivate this technique, transform step by step, advance continuously, and ultimately enter the immortal realm!"

"If the myriad restrictions of heaven and earth did not exist, and the Immortal Realm still remained."

"As for now..."

Li Fan was no longer the same Li Fan he had been back then.

Even while marveling and becoming immersed in its mysteries, he occasionally offered his own comments on the Dao.

At the same time…

Beyond the Fallen Immortal Realm, Li Fan’s true self, whose divine sense was hidden behind the miniature Dao Net, was attempting to spy on the true [Creation Furnace Technique] through the synchronized reflection of the miniature Dao Net.

There was no denying that the Fallen Immortal Realm was truly an extraordinary creation.

Existing in the gap between reality and illusion, even though Li Fan could cross the countless High Walls and the vast distances of the Star Sea through the miniature Dao Net, when sensing the scenes occurring within the Fallen Immortal Realm, it was as though he were looking through a distorted mirror.

Everything he saw and sensed had undergone a certain degree of distortion.

In some places, it was even completely distorted beyond recognition.

But ultimately, he had truly broken through the boundary between the Fallen Immortal Realm and reality.

He could gaze into the illusory from within reality.

“If I did not possess the heaven defying method of [Consciousness Soul Transformation], I fear I would have to surpass the strength of the Great Master who created the Fallen Immortal Realm before I could disregard this restriction.”

“To reflect the Xuanhuang Realm with a single thought, and then undergo endless transformations throughout the countless years to come…”

“My current self is still incapable of that.”

Li Fan even strongly suspected that this True Immortal had once possessed a supreme treasure like the [Dao Deviation Stone Mother]. Only then could he have achieved such a feat.

Within the Fallen Immortal Realm, Li Fan disguised his divine sense and personally practiced the perfected Creation Furnace Technique.

Meanwhile, in reality, Li Fan relied on his comprehension to correct and reconstruct the distorted and corrupted portions he had glimpsed.

Then he began cultivating the Creation Furnace Technique himself.

By comparing the different sensations transmitted by his body during cultivation, he once again calibrated his understanding.

Consciousness Soul Transformation relied on the ubiquitous power of the Great Dao to reflect the illusory objects existing within the Fallen Immortal Realm into reality.

Through Li Fan’s unrelenting efforts, he finally reconstructed the [Creation Furnace Technique] in reality.

However, Li Fan did not allow the divine sense within the Fallen Immortal Realm to withdraw immediately.

He remembered that during the next scene, Mr. Bai would also appear while the Heavenly Sword Sect forged swords. Perhaps he could pry into even more secrets through him.

Moreover, the Heavenly Sword Sect was now closely connected with the Sword Domain of the Shuo Star Sea. There was also a need to investigate it.

His true self synchronized the completed and calibrated Creation Furnace Technique to ‘Ma Tiande’ in the Shuo Star Sea.

Because that strand of divine sense had ventured deep into enemy territory alone, and because there were suspected to be numerous Nameless True Immortals within the Shuo Star Sea, Li Fan placed some restrictions on it.

The divine sense could not fully perceive what was happening on the side of his true self.

Nor would the divine sense actively use the miniature Dao Net to spy on events occurring in the Xuanhuang Realm.

This was to ensure that, should matters be exposed, Li Fan’s true self would have sufficient time to use [Truth].

Although the Shuo Star Sea had a time difference of one hundred and twenty times compared to the Xuanhuang Realm, the flow of time within the Fallen Immortal Realm was also different from that of the Xuanhuang Realm’s reality.

Thus, by the time Li Fan completed the calibration of the Creation Furnace Technique, only half a day or so had passed.

In the Shuo Star Sea, less than a month had passed.

The others’ vacation had not even ended yet.

And even without using the Creation Furnace Technique as a reference, Li Fan’s [Great Dao Embodiment Body Art] had already reached the initial stage of mastery.

Within his divine sense, the strands of the Dao Net were as thin as cicada wings.

They emitted a lustrous, pure white radiance that reflected upon this body.

Li Fan was as though seated directly at the center of the Dao Net, enduring an immense pressure.

If he magnified his attention to the utmost limit, he could see that every part of this body’s flesh and blood was being crushed into ashes under the pressure of the Dao Net.

Yet almost at the very instant they were destroyed, they would once again evolve out of the miniature Dao Net.

This was because Li Fan had combined the Transformation Between Truth and Falsehood with the Dao Net’s ability to create objects.

He continuously generated and reconstructed all the flesh and blood tissues of this body.

“If I did not possess sufficient experience, I would not even be able to maintain this body’s vitality.”

“This Body Refinement technique has only just reached the entry level. Although it cannot compare to when I once carried fragments of an Immortal Domain, the pressure is already almost equivalent to carrying an entire cultivation world.”

“An ordinary person would not even be able to cultivate it. They would probably be crushed to death on the spot.”

Li Fan knew that his ‘entry level’ was still vastly different from the normal meaning of ‘entry level.’

However, relying on the foundation accumulated through a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, he had no need to cultivate slowly from the most basic level.

“The normal method of cultivation should proceed step by step and follow a gradual progression. If one wants to advance faster, at the very least, one needs to supplement the process with numerous heavenly and earthly treasures. A simple and crude method like mine is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to reproduce.”

After gaining a preliminary understanding of the Great Dao Embodiment Body Art, this body underwent a complete transformation.

Li Fan finally understood why the forces of the Shuo Star Sea placed such great importance on Body Refinement.

Take this body as an example.

Compared with his previous frail body, when issuing the same number of Dao Net commands, this new body could mobilize more than twice the power of the Dao Net.

“The circulation of the Dao Net takes into consideration the limits that the operator can withstand.”

“Those with stronger bodies can naturally withstand more.”

With the same weapon, the stronger one’s body became, the more smoothly it could be controlled.

“Moreover, this feeling…”

Li Fan moved his stiff body slightly and temporarily stopped the reflection of the miniature Dao Net.

He slowly walked back and forth, seemingly strolling within the courtyard.

In reality, he was wandering within the Dao Net of the Shuo Star Sea.

“It actually feels somewhat familiar.”

Li Fan frowned slightly, then closed his eyes again and carefully sensed it.

Several breaths later, he finally understood where this inexplicable sense of familiarity came from.

The Great Dao pressed down upon him, continuously crushing and reconstructing his flesh and blood.

During this process, his flesh and blood naturally retained the imprint of the Great Dao.

The miniature Dao Net within Li Fan’s divine sense and the Dao Net of the Shuo Star Sea were both projections of the Great Dao.

They originated from the same source.

Therefore, the sense of familiarity that Li Fan cultivated while practicing the Great Dao Embodiment Body Art naturally carried over into the [Dao Net].

“So this is the Acquired Saint Body.”

“According to this method, if it is tempered to the extreme…”

Li Fan’s expression suddenly changed.

“Consciousness Soul Transformation is a projection of the Dao Net.”

“And the flesh and blood throughout the body are the mold formed by the Dao Net’s continuous crushing and hammering.”

“Theoretically perfect limit is to use the body itself to reproduce every Great Dao in heaven and earth.”

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