Translator: 549690339
Da Xuan.
Following the location in his memories, Li Fan found the Tomb of Yi Xing without much effort and broke the mechanism.
He set up an array around him to prevent anyone from accidentally entering later.
After many years, Li Fan entered the Tomb of Yi Xing again.
He went through the long tomb passage and arrived deep inside the grave.
Bright Pearls shone like stars on the ceiling, a Cloud Sea lingered beneath his feet, and mountains stood in clusters.
He could discern the traces of the array at first glance.
“Can this array actually remain operational for thousands of years even when the Spiritual Energy is cut off?”
Li Fan was somewhat surprised and started to carefully inspect it.
Before long, he understood the reason.
“Using the Bright Pearls as stars.”
“Using the soil duq out from various famous mountains in Da Xuan as mountains.”
“Substituting the real with the virtual to minimize the energy consumption of the array.”
“Moreover, this unknown array has discarded all attack and defense functions.
Its only purpose is…”
“A deceptive trick…”
In Li Fan’s perception, the Golden Grass Hut where Yi Xing’s spirit tablet was located was the source of Spiritual Energy that supported the array’s operation.
Li Fan flew to the peak of the mountain and found the array’s node. He stepped on it.
“Break! ”
Like shattered illusions, the mountains disappeared instantly.
A black hole appeared beneath the Golden Grass Hut.
Li Fan followed the tunnel that had appeared and arrived under the illusion array.
This is where the real tomb of Yi Xing was located.
The tomb room was decorated like an ordinary study room.
In front of the dark red long table lay a set of bones.
Next to it, a faint candle flame still flickered weakly.
On the long table, around the bones and even on the floor of the bookroom.
Pieces of paper covered in complex symbols were scattered everywhere.
Li Fan picked up a piece, looked at it for a while, but couldn’t decipher what Yi Xing had written.
He absentmindedly gathered these papers and searched for a while longer.
What disappointed Li Fan was that he couldn’t find the Huadao Stone. Other than Yi Xing’s bones and a room full of paper, there was nothing else here.
“Could it be that this is still not the real tomb?”
“Even though Yi Xing was just an outer disciple, after all, he had been in charge of moving mortals. His status shouldn’t be too low.” “This should not be so shabby.”
Li Fan, not giving up, carefully searched the place again.
But the result was the same.
After pondering for a while, he collected the long table, the candle, and Yi Xing’s bones.
To avoid any oversights, Li Fan used his Mist Blade, and with brute force, destroyed the entire room.
The vast power of the Mist Blade completely exposed the geological structure around the bookroom.
What disappointed Li Fan was that it was indeed the bottommost layer of the tomb.
Below was nothing but rocks and soil.
“It seems like this was a wasted trip,” Li Fan shook his head helplessly.
He had arrived with great expectations, only to return empty-handed.
Back in the Xuanhuang World, Li Fan cremated Yi Xing’s bones and let them scatter in the wind.
Then he returned to the Tianxuan Mirror.
“If anything is overlooked, it should be among the remaining three artifacts.”
After pondering for a while, Li Fan used the excuse of selling assets to submit the long table, the candle, and one of the papers for appraisal by the Tianxuan Mirror.
The first two items were ordinary.
The Silverspruce Mahogany Table and the Whale Errant Candle generated thirty contribution points in total.
But those sheets of paper covered in strange symbols were not ordinary pieces of paper.
“Heavenly Lock Treasure Box (incomplete), one contribution point.”
Li Fan’s eyes flashed. “There is indeed a mystery.”
He chose not to sell it and instead searched for information about the Heavenly Lock Treasure Box.
As the name suggests, the Heavenly Lock Treasure Box is a storage box sealed in a special way.
Only by completing the decryption set by the owner of the box, can the storage box be opened.
Even knowing that there was a secret within, Li Fan was at a loss facing these tens of thousands of sheets of paper covered in cryptic symbols.
Fortunately, Li Fan was not alone.
While he did not have the knowledge, someone from the vast Alliance of Thousands of Immortals must know.
As usual, he began searching for keywords in the Tianxuan Mirror.
Eliminating numerous irrelevant and chaotic information one by one, Li Fan searched for a long time, finally finding a clue in an article introducing several entertainment activities that ancient cultivators undertook in their idle time.
“Inverse Catastrophe?”
Li Fan perked up and started reading carefully.
The article explained that in ancient times, some cultivators believed that the world generally developed from order to disorder.
From the initial “Primordial” to the Yin Yang Twin Energy, to the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, and finally to all things in the world.
Order was lost, chaos accumulated.
When chaos thoroughly surpassed order, it would trigger a force that destroyed everything.
It would reset Heaven and Earth to chaos.
This is the so-called “Catastrophe.”
The Inverse Catastrophe was a game to revert the chaos to order, disorder to order.
This game has a high requirement and training capability for cultivators’ Divine Sense and Computational Ability.
It was generally popular among great Array and Computational Sects.
It seemed complicated, but it was actually easy to understand.
Take the tens of thousands of papers Li Fan found in the tomb of Yi Xing, for example.
These papers originally had a fixed order.
What Li Fan had to do was just to reorder the papers which had been scrambled back to their original sequence.
Which should be very simple…
Thinking thus, Li Fan took out all the papers from his Storage Ring.
He planned to try it.
But soon after, he realized his mistake and his face darkened.
There is nothing simple about it!
“There are totally…” A sweep with his Divine Sense and a moment later, Li Fan’s face grew even more solemn.
“Forty Nine Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Sheets of Paper!”
“If there were no other clues and he just kept trying permutations and combinations…”
Even the thought of it made Li Fan feel dizzy.
“Even if I don’t do anything else in this life, I can’t break the code and restore
Li Fan picked up a piece of paper and began examining the content written on it.
“But regrettably, they are equivalent to a pre-agreed cipher key that only the involved party understands.”
“Perhaps it was commonly used among the Taiyan Sect disciples back then?” Unable to discern anything, Li Fan was somewhat helpless.
“I wonder if the Huadao Stone that Jiao Xiuyuan found back then was also encrypted like this?”
Li Fan couldn’t help but think about using his clone to ask. But then an idea hit him, and he temporarily gave up that thought.
it’s just a long password.”
“Even if I can’t crack it, this one definitely can.”
Li Fan coughed lightly and asked the Tianxuan Mirror with a smile if it offered a password cracking service.
The Tianxuan Mirror was silent for a moment, then gave an affirmative response.
However, the cost was calculated based on the difficulty of the decryption.
After asking, he found out that it wouldn’t exceed twenty or thirty thousand contribution points at the maximum.
Li Fan, with his deep pockets, reassuringly let the Tianxuan Mirror execute the decryption..