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第二百一十二章 逆劫锁宝盒

Great Xuan.

Following the location in his memory, Li Fan easily broke through the mechanisms to find Yi Xing's tomb. He set up an array around him to prevent any accidental intruders.

After many years, Li Fan once again entered Yi Xing’s tomb.

Passing through a long corridor, he arrived at the depths of the tomb.

Above his head, gems shone like stars, while clouds swirled beneath his feet. Mountains stood tall around him.

He immediately noticed the traces of the array.

"Such an array can still function for thousands of years even without access to spiritual energy? This is quite astonishing."

Li Fan carefully examined the area.

Soon, he understood why.

"The gems represent the stars,"

"Mountains are made from soil taken from various peaks in Great Xuan."

"Using real objects instead of illusions greatly reduced the array's power consumption."

"And this unknown array has no defensive or offensive functions. Its sole purpose is..."

"An illusion...?"

In Li Fan’s perception, the golden-threaded grass house where Yi Xing’s spirit resided was clearly the source of spiritual energy that powered the array.

Li Fan flew to the peak and found the node of the array, stepping on it with a single foot.

"Burst!"

The mountain crumbled like broken bubbles, vanishing instantly.

A black hole appeared beneath the golden-threaded grass house.

Li Fan followed this passage down to the illusionary array below.

This was where Yi Xing's true tomb lay.

The tomb room was decorated like an ordinary study.

A long red table stood before a skeleton. A weak candle flickered nearby.

On the table, around the skeleton and throughout the entire study, numerous papers covered the floor, each filled with mysterious symbols.

Li Fan picked up one of them but couldn’t decipher what Yi Xing had written.

He gathered all these papers and searched further. Disappointingly, he found no trace of the Daoist stone.

Apart from Yi Xing’s skeleton and the scattered papers, nothing else remained.

"Could this still not be his true tomb?"

"Yi Xing was an outer sect disciple but handled the migration of ordinary people. He shouldn't have been so humble."

Li Fan searched thoroughly once more.

The result was unchanged.

After some thought, he collected the long table and candle along with Yi Xing’s skeleton.

To avoid missing anything, Li Fan used Cunyun Sword to destroy the entire study with brute force.

Cunyun Sword's immense power revealed the geological structure of the area.

Disappointingly, this was indeed the bottommost layer of the tomb. Only rocks and soil lay beneath.

"Looks like a wasted trip," Li Fan shook his head in resignation.

He came with high hopes but returned disappointed.

Returning to Xuanhuang Realm, Li Fan cremated Yi Xing’s remains, letting them disperse with the wind.

Then he returned to Taiyin Mirror.

"If there's anything I missed, it should be among these three items."

Li Fan pondered for a moment and handed over the long table, candle, and one of the papers to Taiyin Mirror for appraisal.

The first two were ordinary things: a silver-spruce redwood table and a whale-bright candle, totaling thirty points in contribution.

But the papers filled with strange symbols weren't ordinary.

"Residual Heavenly Lock Treasure Box (damaged), one point in contribution."

Li Fan’s eyes lit up. "There must be more to it."

He didn’t sell them but searched for information on the Residual Heavenly Lock Treasure Box.

As its name suggests, this was a storage box sealed by some special method that could only be unlocked with the secret code set by the owner.

Even knowing there was something hidden, Li Fan faced thousands of pages filled with gibberish and was at a loss.

Fortunately, Li Fan wasn’t alone.

There must be someone in the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance who knew about it.

He searched Taiyin Mirror for relevant keywords.

After sifting through countless irrelevant pieces of information, Li Fan finally found a clue in an article describing several pastimes enjoyed by ancient cultivators.

"Reversing calamity?"

Li Fan’s attention sharpened as he read the article. It described how ancient cultivators believed that the world moved from order to chaos over time—starting with the primordial state, then Yin and Yang, followed by the Five Elements, and finally all things in existence.

Order was lost, chaos accumulated until it overwhelmed everything, leading to a cataclysmic end.

This was known as a "calamity."

Reversing calamity involved reversing chaos back into order, restoring disorder to order—a game requiring high mental acuity and calculation skills.

Generally popular among array masters and derivation masters, the concept seemed complex but was straightforward in practice.

For example, Li Fan’s discovery of these thousands of papers in Yi Xing's tomb had a fixed original sequence. He just needed to restore that order from the jumbled pile.

It should be simple...

Li Fan took out all the papers from his storage ring and began the task. But he quickly realized it wasn’t as easy as he thought, his face turning dark.

This isn't even close!

"Here are... forty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine papers," Li Fan’s expression worsened after a mental scan revealed the number.

"If there were no other hints, trying each one in sequence would be impossible!"

Li Fan picked up a paper and examined it.

"These seemingly meaningless symbols might be clues."

"Unfortunately, they're like pre-agreed keys only known to the person who set them."

"Perhaps they were used by disciples of Taiyin Sect back then?"

Unable to find any meaningful information, Li Fan felt helpless.

"I wonder if the Daoist stone Jiao Xiuyuan found was also encrypted in this way?"

Li Fan considered using his clone to ask but quickly dismissed the idea.

"...Just a longer password."

"Me? I can do it!"

Li Fan coughed lightly and asked Taiyin Mirror if it could help with decryption.

After a moment of silence, Taiyin Mirror confirmed it would provide such a service.

However, the cost was based on difficulty, estimated to be no more than two or three thousand contribution points.

With his generous finances, Li Fan confidently allowed Taiyin Mirror to handle the task.

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