Long Zixuan's voice ca from outside the courtyard gate.
In the courtyard, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads.
It was seen that Long Zixuan and others had already pushed the door and entered.
"Greetings, Master!"
Jiang Li and the others stepped forward to pay their respects.
"No need for formalities, how was it? Was your journey smooth?"
Li Fan spoke, quite expectantly.
Long Zixuan had already stepped forward and said,
"Reporting to Master, our journey was smooth, and this is the rare plant we found."
With that, he handed over a broken wooden pot he was holding with both hands.
Li Fan looked over and saw that the broken wooden pot was filled with clear water, and within the water floated a withered lotus, on the surface of the water.
Beneath the lotus, there appeared to be a few small mud fish.
However, those small mud fish, at this mont, seed to be very frightened, hiding under the withered lotus, daring not to move.
Li Fan said, "Is this the rare plant?"
"Yes, Master, this lotus is called the Martial Dao Heavenly Heart Lotus!"
Long Zixuan looked hopefully at Li Fan and said,
"Master, can it still be revived?"
To this, Li Fan was left speechless.
Ever since he had begun searching for rare plants, none of the rare plants brought back by his disciples were trouble-free.
They were all either half-dead or completely extinct.
If it wasn't for his profound familiarity with the cultivation of various plants under the tornt of the System, it would have been a complete disaster.
"Host has completed the task, collecting nine rare animals and nine rare plants!"
At this mont, a voice rang in Li Fan's mind!
It was the voice of task completion!
Upon hearing this, Li Fan felt imdiately joyful, finally... was it done?
After these few years, this dog System's task had finally been sorted out.
"System... Where's the reward?"
Li Fan couldn't help but ask expectantly in his mind,
"Shouldn't I be establishing my foundation now?"
Upon hearing this, the System seed to pause, sowhat confused:
"Establishing foundation?"
Upon hearing this, Li Fan realized... the tone of the dog System sounded uncertain?
Was it planning to break the agreent?!
He beca anxious imdiately and said,
"Dog System, you previously said, completing the task would allow to break through my current realm!"
"You can't go back on your word. If I can't establish the foundation today, I'll fight you!"
He was truly furious!
This broken System, having tricked him for so many years, had him raising chickens and fish, taking disciples, and searching for animals and plants...
In the grand Cultivation World, he could only be a mortal, living a plain, ordinary, and impoverished life in this poor remote mountain village...
Who else in the world could be as frustrated as such a transmigrated individual? Not being the protagonist of this world was one thing, but this broken System couldn't even grant him a supporting role.
It was as if he were fated to be insignificant as an ant!
Lowly, weak, poor...
Three years over three years and yet another three years, Li Fan had almost tolerated it for ten years!
Enough, truly enough!
If he could not establish the foundation this ti... Li Fan's ntality... was afraid it would explode.
As the System listened to Li Fan's anxious and angry words, it seed to catch on and said,
"Oh, you… you want to break through your current realm?"
Li Fan said indignantly,
"Of course! How can I establish foundation without breaking through Qi Refinent Realm, and how can I reach Golden Core without establishing foundation, and without reaching Golden Core, how can I fly with my sword?"
System: "..."
"To break through is all, you should have said earlier… hmm, from now on, you have broken through your current realm."
Upon hearing this, Li Fan was montarily stunned.
Had he, really broken through?
He felt... the tone of the System seed to be fooling him?
"Are you deceiving ?"
Li Fan spoke suspiciously.
The System responded,
"Um... why not try it, draw Qi into the Dantian, if it heats up, then the foundation has been established successfully!"
Li Fan was skeptical.
He imdiately tried as the System had suggested, thinking about guiding his breath into the Dantian.
Indeed, he instantly felt... his Dantian was indeed heating up?
Was this, the Foundation Establishnt period?
Had he... reached Foundation Establishnt Level One?
The broken System, it hadn't lied to him after all...
At this mont, Li Fan's heart was filled with confidence!
Foundation Establishnt was an entirely new realm!
Even in so minor sects within the Cultivation World, the Foundation Establishnt Realm could count as a middle-level disciple.
Reaching Golden Core, one could even take on the role of an elder.
The future... seed incredibly bright.
At least this broken System still had so credibility!
...
And beside him, Long Zixuan, after watching Li Fan stay silent for a long ti, felt very uneasy, wondering if the Martial Dao Heavenly Heart Lotus could not be saved?
He timidly said, "Master... can it, can it be saved?"
Hearing this, Li Fan then ca back to his senses.
At this mont, feeling jubilant and quite pleased, he glanced at the lotus in the broken wooden pot and said,
"Perhaps, there might still be a glimr of hope."
"Bring it here."
Li Fan imdiately walked towards the pond side.
Long Zixuan followed, carrying a wooden basin.
Li Fan casually scooped up the withered lotus flower and directly threw it into the pond water.
The withered lotus floated on the surface, and a small black fish the length of chopsticks swiftly swam over, swaying around the lotus.
Li Fan nodded, thinking that in sumr, when the lotuses blood and fish swam in the shallow water, the pond would indeed present a delightful scene.
"Lu Rang, take the peach leaves you've collected, chop them up, mix them with the Peach Root Soil, and bring it here,"
he spoke up.
Though clear water harbors few fish, Li Fan preferred the pond to be clearer, so it was relatively clean with few aquatic plants.
But now, with the lotus struggling to survive, the water's nutrients definitely needed enhancing!
After the peach leaves rotted in the water, they would provide sufficient nutrients for the lotus!
Hearing this, Lu Rang imdiately grew excited and said,
"Master, don't worry, leave it to . I'll handle it right away!"
He walked toward the peach tree as he spoke,
"Peach Sister, you heard that… the master asked to do this…"
He was still a bit scared.
However, the peach tree gently dropped a branch, and two leaves fell right in front of Lu Rang.
Lu Rang picked up the leaves and noticed that the vitality and power within these two were significantly greater than those naturally shed by the peach tree!
Peach Sister… she was actively helping.
Master's words indeed carried weight!
"Well, Peach Sister, a bit more soil please, I'll handle this myself."
He carefully scooped up a few handfuls of soil.
Then, as the master had instructed, he crushed the two leaves given by the peach tree along with several yellow leaves he had collected before, and mixed them into the soil, stirring it together.
anwhile, by the pond side,
"Nan Feng, what exactly happened on this journey? There were Ultimate Celestial Phenona in the Martial Desolate Realm… are they related to you guys?"
Nan Feng transmitted his voice to Long Zixuan.
—In the Martial Desolate Forbidden Zone, when Long Zixuan triggered the Ultimate Martial Celestial Phenonon, Nan Feng and the others also sensed it from afar.
It was then that the master had a dream where he saw Long Zixuan looking miserable…
Everyone looked at Long Zixuan, quite curious.
Long Zixuan transmitted back:
"The Ultimate Celestial Phenonon… it was triggered by the Hunting Heaven Six Arts."
He explained everything that had happened in the Martial Desolate Forbidden Zone.
After listening, the disciples were all exceedingly shocked.
"Your past life… the Martial Venerate Evil Corpse… was it actually guarded by soone?"
Qing Chen muttered:
"A past life's evil intention once ntioned that if the corpse was turned into an Evil Corpse, it might bring calamity to the Ancestral Realm… It seems, it's not just , everyone is in the sa boat…"
"The gamble of twelve, so this was the aning, the one at the End of Myriad Paths pulled our past life's corpses from their graves, and had twelve strong beings guard them to this day…"
Nan Feng's expression also beca stern.
"Master… to think you appeared in the hall where the Martial Path is ultimately honored?"
Dugu Yuqing looked imnsely admiring, wondering when he himself could trigger the hall of the Ultimate Sword Dao. He was really looking forward to it!
…
"Master, it's mixed well."
At this mont, Lu Rang had evenly mixed the soil and crushed leaves, and he brought the mixed container over to Li Fan.
Li Fan nodded, took the container, grabbed a handful, and then scattered it towards the part of the pond where the withered lotus was.
Ultimately, he emptied the entire container.
One could see in the water the black fish striving hard, as if it was trying to gather the soil and peach leaf fragnts near the withered lotus.
"Tsk, this fish is growing quite fast. I've heard that black fish make a delicious soup..."
Li Fan said, observing the black fish.
Recently, their diet had been really bland, even the little cat hadn't had much at.
Hearing this, the actively swimming black fish suddenly froze, appearing… quite scared!
But then, Li Fan shook his head and said, "However… it lacks a bit of fat, it's too small, not enough to eat."
His gaze then turned towards the koi fish on the side: "It's these koi that are fattier…"
Upon hearing this, the small black fish finally relaxed!
But the koi that were swimming around suddenly panicked, wanting to flee to the bottom, yet they dared not, and could only play dead in the water, motionless!
But, seeing this, Long Zixuan suddenly beca anxious and said:
"Master, no... we can't eat the fish from here."
"I… we brought back lots of seafood this ti, there's fish, master, you and Sister Cat can have your fill!"
Hearing this, Li Fan couldn't help but feel delighted. Seafood?
They really brought it back?
"Yes, master, oysters, giant lobsters, mantis shrimps, yellow croakers, turbot, abalones… everything is there, more than enough to eat."
Jiang Li also hurriedly added.
Li Fan was quite pleased, he hadn't really eaten these things much.
"Then let's go, call everyone in the village, and let them co and have seafood."
He spoke.
"Master, everyone has already gathered, let's go out and start the feast!"
Wu Dade was also very much looking forward to it.
"Alright!"
"Let's go!"
Li Fan spoke up, then suddenly, sothing else ca up, saying:
"Oh right, bring along the raw brew I made, eating seafood definitely calls for so raw brew."
These past few days, Li Fan had brewed so raw brew, indistinguishable from the raw beer of his previous life.
Hearing this, the group of disciples was overjoyed, aning they were in for a treat.
"Drink raw brew, eat seafood!"
"Off to eat seafood!"
"I've never had seafood before!"
"It must be delicious!"
Everyone was extrely excited and imdiately headed out of the courtyard.
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