Chapter 576: Five Elements Life and Death Power

Old Sun frowned slightly, "It's best not to spread groundless rumors."

"After all, they were great warriors who died gloriously for the Immortal Alliance. How could the higher-ups allow those shameless villains to desecrate their bodies?"

The lazy cultivator immediately felt a bit indignant, "What makes you say it's just hearsay? I saw it with my own eyes!"

"That brat, Zhang Debiao, relying on his appointment from the Immortal Alliance, openly gathered corpses with a group of people. Their storage rings, any usable magic treasures – weren't they all secretly pocketed by them!"

"I even heard that the remaining Golden Cores and Heaven-Abode fragments within the corpses were all dug out by these people!"

"You also came back from the battlefield; the Battle of Tianling Province was so brutal. Those corpses were almost all incomplete and disfigured. How else could they be collected? Weren't they all just directly burned to ashes, with only some powder remaining as proof? Who would ever know?"

"As the saying goes, 'If the people don't complain, the officials don't investigate.' Ordinary cultivators are almost all solitary individuals; if they die, they die. Who would truly care...?"

The lazy cultivator rambled on, speaking without restraint, while Old Sun's face slowly darkened.

Suddenly feeling a chill rise from his back, the lazy cultivator saw Old Sun's expression, and for some reason, his heart trembled; he subconsciously shut his mouth.

It wasn't until the other's gaze finally moved away from him that the lazy cultivator felt a sense of relief and secretly sighed.

Accustomed to their usual interactions, he had almost forgotten the legends surrounding the man before him.

Old Sun's name was Sun Qi.

Although on the surface, like the other guards, he was also a Golden Core cultivator.

He was usually very amiable to others and appeared to be honest and unassuming.

But Sun Qi was truly a formidable individual.

He was a native cultivator of Tianling Province and was conscripted at the beginning of the great war.

It's unclear whether it was good luck or some other reason, but countless Nascent Soul cultivators had perished in the war.

Yet, he, a mere Golden Core cultivator, stubbornly managed to survive.

A person who had carved a bloody path through mountains of corpses and seas of blood always carried an aura that made people tremble with fear. Normally, it remained dormant, but once he truly became angry, it would cause people to feel immense dread. Seeing this, the lazy cultivator wisely stopped provoking the old man.

Meanwhile, Li Fan, hidden in the air and secretly observing, again saw Sun Qi's gaze subtly sweep over his hidden location.

His interest in this person grew even stronger.

He instantly activated Formless Killing Intent and locked onto the other party.

Watching Sun Qi's face show a mix of surprise and uncertainty, as he abruptly flew around to check his surroundings but consistently found nothing, Li Fan couldn't help but smile faintly to himself.

For now, he left him be. Li Fan quietly flew to a collapsed mountain range, filled with deathly silence, as if it had been crushed from the sky.

As usual, he delved deep underground and dug out a secret chamber.

After sealing it off, Li Fan closed his eyes to check his own status.

Name: Li FanCultivation Level: Early Nascent SoulBiological Age: 31/999 (Heaven's Ire)Mental Age: 1332/9999Void Transformation Charge Progress: 200%Anchor Setting Charge Progress: 0%Current Anchor Points: 3Current Available Anchor Sets: 1Bound Items: "Thousand Mechanisms Jade Ring Golden Tome", Grand Genesis Boat, Stop Tablet Fragment (Damaged), Essence Blood of Ten Thousand Men, Dao Transformation StoneCultivation Techniques: Xuanhuang Heart Refining Mantra, Cloud Water Illusory Dream Art, Body Dao Transformation, Mysterious True Spirit Transformation, Myriad Forms Furnace Art, Creation Furnace Art, Mountain Sitting ArtDivine Abilities: Chaos, Reversal Five Elements Life-Death Sword, Life-Death Chain, Formless Killing Intent, Binding Insects, Cloud Cluster Sword, Heaven-Overturning Palm

"Phew!"

Li Fan gently exhaled a breath of turbid air.

He felt vast and pure life force surge from all parts of his body, nourishing his physical form.

Spiritual energy was even more continuous and endless.

In his Dantian, where his Golden Core once resided, he could vaguely see the outlines of five interweaving Heaven-Abodes.

"So this is the Nascent Soul realm," he mused, "a single breakthrough turns everything upside down!"

To test the difference from when he was at the Golden Core stage, Li Fan immediately unleashed the strongest divine ability he currently possessed.

Using his hand as a brush, he wrote in the air.

At the same time, he sensed the changes within his body.

After writing the upper-left part of the character "Chaos," he still had strength to spare.

Continuous spiritual energy and life force surged from his Heaven-Abodes, supporting the consumption of casting the "Chaos" technique and preventing his body from collapsing.

Li Fan continued writing, completing half of the character in an instant.

In the underground secret chamber, the surrounding soil was affected, rising and constantly vibrating, dense and numerous, like an army of mortals.

Upon closer inspection, the vibration frequency of each particle was surprisingly different.

Seemingly uniform, yet in reality, each was in its own chaos.

Li Fan's eyes narrowed slightly. Then, his finger, suspended in the air, suddenly stopped.

"I have a good grasp now."

"Having entered the Nascent Soul realm," he thought, "I no longer need to worry about physical damage, and can finally unleash this killing move completely."

"However, I still cannot continuously use it without restraint, otherwise..."

Li Fan felt the Five Elements Heaven-Abode within his body faintly trembling, and a hint of solemnity flashed in his eyes.

"The might of the 'Chaos' character is truly terrifying."

"As the caster, even with my Five Elements Heaven-Abode, I suffer such backlash. An ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator would probably have their own Nascent Soul Heaven-Abode instantly collapse with even a slight touch."

"I wonder if a Spirit Transformation cultivator could withstand me."

The "Chaos" technique was something Li Fan comprehended in the White Mist Maze.

Extremely profound, as his cultivation improved, Li Fan felt the extraordinariness of the character "Chaos" even more keenly.

"Even my clumsy imitation possesses such power."

"I truly wonder how terrifying the genuine 'Chaos' technique must be."

"It seems to have already exceeded the limits of power ordinary cultivators can wield. Could it be that..."

Li Fan frowned, deep in thought, remaining silent.

After a moment, he temporarily suppressed his thoughts, and his gaze refocused on the Reversal Five Elements Life-Death Sword in his True Divine Abilities panel.

The Reversal Five Elements Life-Death Sword was a divine ability Li Fan comprehended and enlightened upon, by observing the roots of heaven and earth weaving the Five Elements Heaven-Abode, and combining it with the scene of the Five Elements returning to unity in his previous life.

It incorporated the essence of the Great Five Elements Annihilation Sword, not only possessing powerful destructive force that could annihilate everything, but also the ability to create life from nothing.

Li Fan casually drew a crawler from beside him, which had been caught in the aftershocks of the "Chaos" technique and was now on its last legs, into his palm.

A gentle milky-white light surged from his palm.

A moment later, the crawler, bathed in the white light, miraculously regained its vitality.

It struggled to flip its body over, and hastily flew out of Li Fan's hand.

Li Fan paid no further attention to the small insect that had escaped death, merely remarking thoughtfully, "Reviving from near-death is just a minor trick. Other medical arts can easily achieve this."

"The true power of the Reversal Five Elements Life-Death Sword lies in creation."

He took out a spirit stone from his storage ring, holding it in his left hand.

His right hand, meanwhile, continuously emitted light.

After half a day, when the light dissipated, a spirit stone that looked exactly like the one in his left hand slowly appeared.