Chapter 255: 235: Legacy Passed Through Generations
Chapter 255: 235: Legacy Passed Through Generations
The draft order for the war, as promised, arrived.
The master and disciples of the Body Transformation Dao gathered to discuss their strategy.
Li Fan wanted to join quietly, but he was sternly dragged away by Master Tianyang.
He could only vaguely overhear the conversation from outside the door.
“What the hell is this draft order, why should we care! Those big sects have members numbering in the thousands or tens of thousands, they can afford to send some people.”
“We Body Transformation Dao only have this many people, and they want us on the front lines? On what basis?”
The second senior brother’s stance was consistent.
And the final outcome was the same as Li Fan’s previous experiences.
The eldest senior brother was the first to go to war.
Before leaving, everyone bid farewell in tears.
Li Fan asked his big brother who he was going to fight.
Si Xing simply smiled, patted his little junior brother’s head, and said he was going to fight the bad guys.
Then he transformed into a beam of green light and flew away.
The eldest senior brother was no longer there.
The usual atmosphere of the Body Transformation Dao was now much more gloomy.
Fortunately, the second senior brother was a lively spirit who often brought laughter and joy.
Moreover, Li Fan’s successful breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage made everyone in the Body Transformation Dao celebrate for a while.
However, the happiness was always short-lived.
One year and three months after Si Xing left.
Bad news.
The elder brother died on the battlefield.
The second senior brother Ling Xiao was furious. According to the information he obtained privately, this was clearly due to the contempt of the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
The battle started off very successfully.
The enemy retreated continuously.
But the team led by the Ten Great Immortal Sects had seriously underestimated the enemy’s hidden strength.
During one chase, they were ambushed and caught off guard.
They suffered heavy losses, and the frontline was in jeopardy.
So the Immortal Sects issued a new draft order again.
Although they had a hundred grudges against the Immortal Sects,
under the absolute pressure, as long as the Body Transformation Dao did not want to be completely annihilated like other small sects in the wilderness, they had no choice but to obey the order and enlist again.
This time, the one who went to the war frontline was the second senior brother.
For this, the second senior brother had a fierce fight with the third senior brother.
In the past, when the two senior brothers sparred, the third senior brother Lian Chang always had the upper hand.
This time, in order not to let each other go to the death, both of them put forth their real skills.
However, this time Lian Chang lost.
The second senior brother Ling Xiao was very strong.
The Skillful Brush danced in the air, instantly drawing dozens of flying swords.
Although constructed by the brush, they seemed to be as real as they could be.
The brush didn’t stop, countless illusory magic tools scattered like celestial maidens throwing flowers, attacking incessantly.
Lian Chang was on the defensive, almost unable to fight back.
It turned out that Ling Xiao had always been holding back in previous sparring sessions with Lian Chang.
Lian Chang was dispirited.
But Ling Xiao laughed and bid farewell to everyone.
Before he left, he gave several dozen of his unpublished works to Li Fan for safekeeping, and instructed him not to peek.
If he really couldn’t resist, he should take it easy.
Then he left without turning back.
After the departure of the second senior brother Ling Xiao, the Body Transformation Dao went completely silent.
Watching his disciples one by one leaving him, Master Tianyang seemed to have aged a lot.
The third senior brother, Lian Chang, was always quiet. After the stimulation, he started to cultivate frantically.
Li Fan did the same.
Two years and three months after Ling Xiao left.
The draft order came again.
Senior Brother Ling Xiao could not return.
Perhaps considering the possibility of resistance, this time the Ten Great Immortal Sects sent a messenger.
If there was any disobedience, they would be killed without question.
Like the previous experiences, after some persuasion.
Master Tianyang went to the battlefield.
Only Li Fan and the third senior brother Lian Chang were left in the Body Transformation Dao Mansion.
Even though Li Fan had already known how things would turn out.
But in the face of a mighty current, him being a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, how could he resist?
He could only watch helplessly as the events unfolded again just as before.
This round of battle seemed even more cruel than the previous two combined.
Just six months later, the weary envoy of immortal recruitment returns with the orders of the Ten Great Immortal Sects.
“This battle has reached its most crucial moment.”
“All sects in the world and solitary cultivators in the wilderness must work together to overcome this difficulty.”
“Those who defy the orders, delay the battle, spread rumors, or plot to betray us…”
“Shall be killed without mercy.”
The might of the immortals was awe-inspiring.
The envoy of immortal recruitment used the youngest in the Body Transforming Taoist Mansion, Li Fan, as leverage.
Then they made several empty promises.
Lian Chang clenched his fists, but ultimately agreed to the envoy’s orders.
Before he left, Lian Chang left Li Fan a jade scroll.
It was filled with the cultivation experiences of the past masters of Body Transformation Dao.
He reminded Li Fan not to go out easily, then firmly closed the door and departed with resolve.
Again, Li Fan was the only one left in the Body Transforming Taoist Mansion.
History had once again returned to its original course.
Reflecting on this [Art of Mimic], Li Fan felt a touch of helplessness in his heart.
Honestly speaking he had done well so far.
Relying on the “danger” word technique in his medical texts, he successfully woken up from his slumber.
He had spent a joyous time with the members of the Body Transformation Dao.
He possessed the ability of foresight.
He could change one person’s fate.
But he couldn’t change the fate of many people.
The war in ancient times involved the entire Immortal Cultivation World.
Even the Immortal Sovereign was deep in this vortex of war, unable to avoid it.
Li Fan was completely incapable of changing all of this.
Then what, was Tianyang’s obsession?
As Li Fan pondered, he continued to cultivate. “In Tianyang’s life, he was never inferior to others…”
Slowly, Li Fan began to have his own conjecture.
The young Tianyang, had watched his masters and senior brothers dying one by one on the battlefield to protect each other.
As the weakest in the sect, the one most protected by everyone, he was the only one who survived till the end.
All because he was “weak”.
Inside Tianyang was filled with guilt and regret.
If he had been stronger at the time.
Stronger than his senior brothers.
Perhaps he could have taken their place on the battlefield?
Maybe he wouldn’t have to watch his senior brothers die one by one?
Could there have been a chance for one of his senior brothers to survive?
Perhaps this was Tianyang’s simple and unpretentious obsession.
Time slowly passed in Li Fan’s cultivation.
Five years and three months after Lian Chang’s departure.
The doors of the Body Transforming Taoist Mansion abruptly opened.
Seven cultivators who had the absurd idea of occupying the Body Transforming Taoist Mansion rushed in.
Despite his years of cultivation and being seated in mediation, Li Fan, who lacked Golden Core experience, still hadn’t managed to break free from his restraints and achieve the Golden Core.
The outcome was the same as before.
The [Art of Mimic] world disappeared, and Li Fan was back in the real immortality cultivation world.
The use count of Tianyang’s [Legacy of the Eternal Will] also dropped to one.
However, Li Fan unexpectedly discovered something.
This time he didn’t come out empty handed.
The dozens of works that his second senior brother Ling Xiao left behind before leaving, now appeared clearly in Li Fan’s consciousness.
Li Fan fell silent for a long time, gradually gaining some understanding.
Perhaps Tianyang carried an obsession too, maybe it was because he was always asleep during that time and wasn’t able to properly spend the final moments with his senior brothers.
After destroying the undersea vestiges, Li Fan returned to Ten Thousand Immortals Island.
He uploaded the fourteen remaining works one by one under the name of Ling Xiao.
And thus, the author, who had passed away thousands of years ago, began to
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