Chapter 640: My Will Does Not Change In A Thousand Lifetimes

From “Refinement” to “Immortal”, it was the difference of a single word. Yet it spanned the gulf between heaven and earth.

The path forward in the Xuanhuang World had been severed for countless ages. Immortality had become a distant, unreachable goal, a thing that existed only in the dust-laden annals of antiquity, a target for cultivators to yearn for and imagine.

But now, Li Fan had seen it. A technique that might be related to a True Immortal!

A True Immortal’s inheritance? The mere thought sent a surge of excitement cascading through him. This thrill, this shaking of his very soul, was a sensation he had only experienced once before: back when he had first met Kou Hong and Dao Xuanzi, and finally confirmed that cultivators truly existed in this world.

No wonder this Xuanhuang Sutra has always ranked first among all my cultivation techniques. Even the Cloudwater Dream Illusion Art of the Dao Unity realm passed down by Qin Tang is inferior to it! So this is a true inheritance from an Immortal!

The path to immortality is not severed! The Immortal Path was never broken!

An indescribable fervor raged within Li Fan, refusing to be calmed for a long time.

Even with his current level of mental cultivation, it was a full half-hour before he finally steadied himself.

After carefully comprehending this so-called Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra, he found that, perhaps because it was still an incomplete version, there was no great change compared to the previous Heart Refinement Sutra.

Or perhaps, with Li Fan’s current level of attainment, he was simply not yet capable of perceiving the difference between the two.

Li Fan carefully recalled the origin of the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra.

It first began as the method widely circulated and nearly ubiquitous in the Xuanhuang World, used to expel the miasma from within the body: the Xuanhuang Heart Clarification Sutra.

Because the Heart Clarification Sutra offered no other benefit to a cultivator aside from removing the Immortal-Mortal Miasma, it was rare to find a cultivator who, having already drawn qi into their body, still persisted in practicing it.

But back then, Li Fan, limited by his own poor aptitude, had been unable to expel the miasma from his body for the longest time. Thus, while waiting for the chance to enter the Body Purification Spirit Pool, he had practiced the Xuanhuang Heart Clarification Sutra day and night with relentless effort.

Furthermore, because he possessed Return to Truth’s panel, which allowed him to perceive every slight change within himself, he firmly believed that the Xuanhuang Heart Clarification Sutra was indeed effective. So he never gave up.

Within the Body Purification Spirit Pool, during the agonizing process where the Immortal-Mortal Miasma was forcibly expelled from his body, even when he almost lost consciousness and fainted, Li Fan’s desire for the Dao never wavered for a single moment; it remained constant.

And the confidence granted by Return to Truth, the ability to start over endlessly, also left Li Fan without worry or fear.

In the end, when Li Fan successfully transformed from a mortal into a cultivator of the Qi Refinement realm, the Xuanhuang Heart Clarification Sutra also metamorphosed into the Xuanhuang Heart Refinement Sutra.

Along the path of cultivation and hundreds of simulation cycles, through continuous exploration and experimentation, Li Fan gradually discovered the true method of cultivating the Xuanhuang Heart Refinement Sutra: inversely refining the Dao Heart.

Like a great millstone, it ground all obsessions of the heart into dust, turning them into nourishment for the refinement of one’s own soul. Its miraculousness was far beyond what any technique currently circulating in the Myriad Immortals Alliance could compare to.

Li Fan had originally thought that this was the limit of the Xuanhuang Sutra. But he never expected that after an unexpected incident led him to execute “Chaos” in this lifetime, the Heart Refinement Sutra would activate on its own in the face of the backlash from the Glimpses of Myriad Lifetimes, finally shedding its outer disguise and revealing its true form.

Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra... Li Fan murmured the name over and over in his mind.

Without a doubt, this was a technique so powerful it defied imagination.

The saying goes, “The mundane affairs of the mortal world can corrupt even Immortals and Gods.”

No matter how powerful a cultivator, once caught in the rolling currents of the mortal realm, their Dao Heart would inevitably be wounded.

Those Glimpses of Myriad Lifetimes were nearly identical to truly experiencing hundreds of thousands of lifetimes.

If not for the fact that Li Fan himself had already endured a hundred simulation cycles, and his mental fortitude far exceeded the ordinary, those countless images and emotions suddenly erupting within his mind all at once would have shattered his spirit on the spot, reducing him to raving madness.

Without the aid of the Immortal Heart Sutra, even with Li Fan's extraordinary will, escaping the influence of those Glimpses of Myriad Lifetimes on his own would have taken decades.

But with the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra, the result was completely different. In the span of a breath, those genuine emotions and those vivid memories were all dissolved and absorbed.

To experience a myriad lifetimes in an instant, yet the Immortal Heart remains unchanged...

So this is the might of an Immortal. A surge of longing rose unbidden within Li Fan.

With an immortal technique like this, I can likely regard the various illusions within the Xuanhuang World with indifference. A sharp gleam flashed through Li Fan's eyes.

His first thought went to the scene back when he was pulled into the Great Dao Sect by Senior Sister Zhao.

With the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra, perhaps I can maintain my awareness within that illusion. With a conscious sense of self and subjective initiative, I might be able to learn even more secrets.

I will give it a try in the next life.

After pondering for a long time, Li Fan's gaze settled on the word “incomplete” that followed the Immortal Heart Sutra.

For now, this immortal technique is still incomplete. To complete it, I need the experiences and memories of numerous lifetimes as raw material. Originally, employing “Chaos” and using the spiritual backlash it produced was the best method.

But...

Li Fan's brow furrowed slightly.

He was still deeply wary of that immense divine sense that had appeared later. Intuition told him that the owner of that divine sense had likely already marked “Chaos.” If he were to use it again, he would probably be discovered in an instant.

The reason I escaped calamity before might also be because the world had not seen “Chaos” for many years.

It can only be used once, but not twice...

No matter. Li Fan thought of the esoteric treasure he carried, and a faint smile touched his lips.

Even if I’m granted only one opportunity to strike by surprise in each lifetime, that is still an inexhaustible supply for me!

I suspect that neither the one who deliberately concealed the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra in the first place, nor that vast divine sense so concerned with “Chaos,” could ever imagine that an anomaly like me exists in this world!

Reviewing his past experiences, Li Fan understood perfectly just how arduous it was to gradually transform the Xuanhuang Heart Clarification Sutra back into the Xuanhuang Immortal Heart Sutra.

Add to that the powerful beings who were always watching, constantly monitoring...

Even if a lucky few could occasionally succeed through fortune, they could never remain in the blind spots of those great figures, undetected, the way Li Fan did.

Among countless futures, as long as a single thread of hope exists, I can find it. I can turn the impossible into the possible.

Once again, Li Fan deeply sensed the terror of Return to Truth.

And, in his heart, he was grateful.

If he did not possess this esoteric treasure, no matter how great a genius he was, he doubted he could ever achieve transcendence from within this Xuanhuang World.

Amidst these reflections, Li Fan began searching the Tianxuan Mirror for bits of information regarding the Xuanhuang Heart Refinement Sutra.

Come to think of it, it makes sense. The Immortal-Mortal Miasma is a product that defies the principles of heaven and earth. How could the method for dispelling it be simple?

A gleam of insight flashed through Li Fan's mind.

With Li Fan's current permission level, he could see much content that ordinary cultivators were unable to access.

However, regarding the origins of the Xuanhuang Heart Refinement Sutra, opinions varied widely, and there was no definitive account.

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