Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 2606: Chapter 2601: Severing Immortal Fate

Yes, Fu Qian was looking at the tool person Ah Fei.

It was also the only flesh and blood body in this place so far.

However, this time, he didn’t call out the nickname used during battles, but a more familiar name.

Yes, it was the fourth dean of the Academy, that Li He, Li Weixuan’s grandfather, and the one despised by Lady Ji Ning.

Of course, it wasn’t recognized from the appearance or voice, because the first time he appeared, he was already unrecognizable, barely maintaining a human form.

But don’t forget that every special guest has left traces at the Inverted Lake.

And all the way, ”Ah Fei” has proven his independence.

Among his most dazzling features is his talent in Sword Dao.

Within a short series of battles, he sequentially switched weapons from a saw-toothed blade, to a rapier, to a giant sword, and finally didn’t even need to pick flowers or leaves. With an invisible sword in his hand but a sword in his heart, he conjured up weapons from thin air to injure others.

Although there was guidance from the arsenal which was designed for his defeat, the speed of progress was still unparalleled.

For those associated with the Sea of Ashes who excel at Sword Dao Cultivation, only one name was known to himself.

It was exactly that Mr. Li Sr., who retired early, neglecting the Academy’s affairs, leading to the dean position being vacant for many years.

Not to mention, from Cass’s account, it was known that although Li He did not participate in the initial exploration, he almost immediately rushed to the scene after the incident.

He personally handled the aftermath, with strict orders prohibiting private investigations and requiring absolute confidentiality from the professors.

In summary, the probability of Li He having been here and interacted slightly is very high.

Just this content is enough for someone to immediately connect a Sword Dao genius they met here with him.

Not to mention there’s another famous saying that Fu Qian also remembers clearly.

[I have witnessed many undescribable things, flesh and blood transforming and sublimating under transcendent sculpting, humanity collapsing into fireworks in the night...]

It was at the Em House Palace, related to the Larea Family task, when Mr. Li Sr. made the vow of certain death after Lady Ji Ning perished.

He even plagiarized it once himself when he returned to the Academy to guide his juniors.

But as previously mentioned, ”At first listen, one does not understand the meaning of the tune”.

Although the realization of great enlightenment could be felt from the old man’s words at that time, without the details, not much association was made.

Looking at the scene now, setting the target first before shooting, integrating the experience of the Sea of Ashes, isn’t it quite fitting?

Witnessing many indescribable things, flesh transforming and sublimating under sculpting... If one had the fortune to glimpse the true nature of the Crystal Blessing, even such exclamations would have been considered modest.

In general, the more you talk, the more they correspond neatly from beginning to end, seamlessly forming a loop.

However, in face of a certain kind of absolute contradiction, this all seemed powerless - Mr. Li Sr. was only a Demigod.

Although he retired early looking healthy, at most he was slightly stronger than Li Weixuan now.

According to Lord Rom’s words, characters with insufficient ranking are not enough to leave traces in the ”script”.

Which means the background of ”Ah Fei”, who had been active for so long, even having parts in the fourth and fifth acts, wasn’t strong enough.

Not to mention, after defeating the Creator of Wisdom, Ah Fei himself had surpassed being a Demigod.

In comparison, another Sword Dao expert in the exploration team seems more logical—

Yes...

However, at the moment a series of thoughts flashed by, it was supposed to be a moment of complete Unity of Human and Sword, severing all ties with the mundane, yet it was the first time ”Ah Fei” had a reaction.

He didn’t say anything, just slowly turned around, as if seeing who was calling him.

Although he wasn’t truly ”looking” at the Tyrant, it was more like self-examining, even the invisible blade in his hand dissipated along with it.

...

Really impressive.

Indeed worthy of being the former leader of our Academy, much stronger than a certain Mr. Feng Sr.

If one forcibly interpreted this scene as a Sword Dao expert in the exploration team being familiar with Li He, it would be somewhat far-fetched.

For Fu Qian, it not only somewhat confirmed that he indeed overstepped bounds, ruthlessly driving retirees to be tool people along the way, but even the previously mentioned issue of insufficient ranking was resolved.

Who said the ranking was insufficient?

He remembers very clearly, after the above vow of certain death, the old man reached the Second Phase without batting an eye, feeling at the time that this cultivator crowd really defied logic.

Was it just in the Reminiscence Record? It’s not genuine history?

No problem at all, this is the place where things can perfectly match.

Why did the old man manage to upgrade so unreasonably?

Fu Qian never marvels for nothing, and had naturally considered the reason while marveling.

Indeed, the cultivators don’t need the usual cumbersome ritual materials, but mere enlightenment seems rather vague.

But if you reverse-engineer it, compare it with your own performance at that time?

Harnessing the essence of the Reminiscence Record to guide consensus, leaping rapidly from less than a Demigod to the Second Phase, isn’t that even more outrageous?

Yes, rather than believing that the old man had an epiphany at that time, is it possible that he was actually in the same situation as I was, just returning to a previously existent state?

Just like now.

...

Every anomaly has its reason, and logic is not just empty talk.

Although Fu Qian does not believe that Mr. Li Sr. and himself, along with Jade Soul, have specifically mastered how to act low-key, pretend to be harmless when not necessary.

More inclined to believe that when they met, he really was just a Demigod, only having been higher once.

But how was that achieved—crystal.

The answer almost appeared in sync.

The reason it was considered by the Exploration Team to have certain blessing effects is because crystals can complete the Extraordinary Form, even bring sublimation.

If Li He really, as previously thought, touched some essence of the crystals, then what are the odds he remained untainted?

And if Kaldora could thereby directly gain divinity, what’s impossible for a Sword Dao expert, predestined to a bright future, to advance further or even a step and a half, thereby touching the true meaning of Sword Dao?

Though it seemed he refused.

No knowledge of the process, no awareness of the struggle, yet Mr. Li Sr. appeared to sever his immortal ties with the sword, rejecting this unspeakable temptation for any transcendent.

Even possibly destroying his own foundation because of this, never to advance another step in his lifetime...

[None of this has made me ashamed of my insignificance, but rather more cherishing of those not so noble things, even insistences that are in essence fallacies.]

Once this setting is accepted, another remark Mr. Li Sr. made at that time becomes even more impressively determined.

”Pleased to meet you.”

In the midst of these thoughts, although the other party no longer paid attention to himself, Fu Qian still exchanged pleasantries, then lowered his head to write down the title of the third act.

[Those Who Gaze at Shadows Shall Become Part of the Shadow]