Volume 7: The Origin of Enlightenment Chapter 974 Illusion of Will!
Time passed quickly, and Li Xuanfeng seemed to be immersed in the human world. He was still sitting cross-legged in the wooden house and practicing quietly. The spiritual energy on his body had become increasingly undetectable.
If Shen Hua and his companions had not seen that there was nothing abnormal about Li Xuanfeng's five clones after they arrived, they would even have thought that Li Xuanfeng might have encountered some accident in his practice.
Although Li Xuanfeng spread out his spiritual sense to sense the life and death of many cultivators and mortals, the original power was not so easy to comprehend.
The spiritual power absorbed by Li Xuanfeng through cultivation has already affected the area within a thousand miles of Taoyuan Village. Many powerful people have come to check it out, but still have not discovered anything.
Many cultivators had no choice but to stay away from this area, and even a few small sects in the area had to move their sects away.
Nowadays, the cultivators living near this area have become completely accustomed to the spiritual phenomena here and are unwilling to enter this place, as that would seriously affect their cultivation speed.
Because monks seldom enter this area, this place has become a very suitable place for mortals to live.
Without monks, their lives would become more stable, and they would not have to worry about accidentally offending immortals and bringing about fatal disasters.
Although there is a clear order on Duling Star prohibiting cultivators from slaughtering mortals, otherwise they will be hunted down by major sects.
But the status of monks is generally much higher than that of mortals. If a mortal accidentally offends a monk, it is very common to be killed.
As the news spread, many mortals even moved from far away to cities or villages within a thousand miles.
Invisibly, the number of mortals within a thousand miles suddenly increased slowly, and doubled in a few years.
Shen Hua and others also gradually discovered the changes in this area, and they couldn't help but feel a little emotional. After reaching a certain level of cultivation, just practicing can bring about significant changes in the surroundings.
While Li Xuanfeng's original body was meditating and retreating, his five clones were still living in Taoyuan Village.
During these ten years, although Li Xuanfeng's five clones have not comprehended the origin, the five elements of spiritual power in each of their bodies have become more condensed, and it seems that their control over spiritual power has become more sophisticated.
Although the improvement in the cultivation of the five clones is minimal, if they are all integrated into the body of the original body, Li Xuanfeng's combat power will be much higher than before.
As time flies and life and death cycle, ten years soon pass again. Li Xuanfeng's original body is still sitting quietly like a clay sculpture.
Now the aura on Li Xuanfeng's body is barely detectable, as if his entire body has completely merged into the world.
During these ten years, Li Xuanfeng has witnessed countless lives and deaths, mostly the separations of mortals, and also the deaths of cultivators fighting each other.
A year ago, Li Xuanfeng had vaguely felt that he seemed to have comprehended a trace of the origin of life and death, but it seemed that he was still missing an extremely important point, which prevented him from successfully comprehending it.
At this moment, Li Xuanfeng's eyelids trembled slightly, and he suddenly opened his eyes, with an extremely deep light flashing in his pupils.
Li Xuanfeng murmured to himself: "The direction is right, but what's missing?"
After ten years of understanding, Li Xuanfeng has realized that the direction of his understanding is correct, but he seems to have not grasped the most crucial point, which has prevented him from successfully understanding the origin of life and death.
After a moment's silence, Li Xuanfeng's eyes flickered slightly, and he said softly: "The clone returns to its place!"
The five clones who were living leisurely in Taoyuan Village were slightly shocked. Then they simply packed up and turned around at the same time, rushing towards the wooden house where the original body was without hesitation.
After arriving beside the original body, the five clones turned into streams of light without hesitation and entered the original body's body, merging together in an instant.
As the five clones merged into his body, Li Xuanfeng's originally extremely dormant cultivation began to boil violently in an instant, just like pouring a spoonful of water into an oil pan.
An extremely powerful aura suddenly emanated from Li Xuanfeng, which continued to rise, causing the spiritual power vortex above the Xuanling Sect to suddenly expand several times again.
Fortunately, Li Xuanfeng did not spread the power of his cultivation beyond Taoyuan Village, nor did he expand the scope of absorbing spiritual power. Otherwise, it would affect a wider range, enough to cover half of the Spiritual Continent.
As Li Xuanfeng's cultivation level skyrocketed, his spiritual power suddenly spread rapidly, and in a flash it spread out of the Spiritual Continent and rushed towards the nearby continents.
Even if the five clones were separated, Wanli was not the limit of Li Xuanfeng's spiritual perception range.
And now with the addition of five clones, Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power is the strongest below the third realm, enough to spread over an area of more than 300,000 miles.
This is enough to cover half of Duling Star, and even cover several nearby continents.
Even though there is still a big gap between the power of spiritual consciousness and that of the third realm masters , that is because after breaking through the third realm, the power of spiritual consciousness has undergone a qualitative change.
As Li Xuanfeng's spiritual consciousness spread rapidly, the star master of Du Ling on the central island suddenly opened his eyes.
As Li Xuanfeng's spiritual consciousness spread to half of the range of Duling Star, it had already covered the central island where the star master of Duling Star was located.
Although the Star Lord of Du Ling Star was unable to sense Li Xuanfeng's spiritual power, he was in the early stage of Tian Xuan Realm after all, and was blessed by the formation of the Central Island, so he was able to sense it.
However, he only had a very vague perception. Although he immediately used all his strength to send out his spiritual sense to perceive, he did not find anything.
After sensing for a long time without finding anything , the Star Lord Du Ling had no choice but to shake his head and retract his consciousness, suspecting that it was his own illusion.
As half of Duling Star was covered, Li Xuanfeng suddenly sensed more life and death scenes.
According to Li Xuanfeng's perception, there are already more than one billion cultivators and mortals at this moment. It can be said that life and death are happening all the time.
Feeling this, Li Xuanfeng nodded slightly with a hint of satisfaction, closed his eyes and immersed himself in his perception again.
The days and months passed, time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, another ten years had passed. At this time, Li Xuanfeng had been in seclusion for half a century.
Over the years, although Shen Hua and his companions would come to Taoyuan Village once in a while, the intervals between visits had increased a lot.
Not long after Li Xuanfeng put away his five clones, Shen Hua and others knew that he had already entered into seclusion wholeheartedly .
They were worried that it would affect Li Xuanfeng's retreat, so they began to rarely enter Taoyuan Village.
At this time, inside the Xuanling Sect, Shen Hua and others stood at the edge of the square, looking in the direction of Taoyuan Village.
Zhu Lie shook his head and smiled, "I finally understand why Junior Brother was able to surpass all of us and leave us far behind."
Shen Hua and the others looked at Zhu Lie with doubt. Zhu Lie was about to speak, but Chen Gen laughed first and said, "Because he practices too crazily."
After hearing this, Zhu Lie glared at Chen Gen. He didn't expect that he had been spoken before him.
Hearing Chen Gen's words, Shen Hua and the others nodded in agreement. Shen Hua shook his head and sighed, "Xuan Feng has been in seclusion for half a century."
They never expected that Li Xuanfeng's retreat this time would last for half a century.
Although cultivators often go into seclusion for years or even decades is considered common, it is rare to see cultivators go into seclusion for more than half a century. Most of them are old monsters whose lifespans are about to end and who are eager to break through their cultivation.
Zhu Lie couldn't help thinking that if he were asked to stay in seclusion for half a century, he would probably be unable to sit still.
At this time, Li Xuanfeng's state was extremely mysterious. His spiritual thoughts seemed to have been completely integrated into the world and became a part of its will.
Li Xuanfeng had seen such records in the classics collected by the Five Elements Venerable. There was an invisible will in the world that was superior to the cultivators!
There are also records saying that this will is actually the power of the rules of heaven and earth. If someone wants to destroy the rules of heaven and earth, this will will appear and restore order!
Li Xuanfeng didn't know what form and feeling the true will of heaven and earth took, but at this moment, his spiritual consciousness had indeed become completely accustomed to monitoring the life and death scenes of half of Duling Star, making him feel as if he was above all living beings.
This is equivalent to an illusion of will!
This is an extremely wonderful feeling, but also an extremely dangerous situation!
If one truly believed that he had become the will of heaven and earth, he might completely forget who he was and only know how to monitor heaven and earth.
That would create an illusion, completely merging one's consciousness into the world, and eventually it would gradually dissipate in the unconscious, never to be able to wake up again.
Shen Hua and others were unaware of Li Xuanfeng's current condition and would not wake him up, for fear of disturbing his retreat.
And even if they knew about this, Li Xuanfeng's spiritual consciousness has now spread throughout the heaven and earth and cannot be easily awakened.
At this time on the Shichen Continent, in a sparsely populated forest, a group of more than ten bandits were chasing two young men and women.
A young man and woman rode a horse together and galloped in front, while the bandits were chasing them closely, raising a lot of dust.
The group of bandits kept laughing in a teasing manner, treating the young man and woman as prey that was about to be caught.
The young woman had an extremely pretty face, and the bandit looked at her with greed in his eyes.
The leader of the bandits laughed and said, "Sister, have fun with us, we promise to let you leave safely."
"Yes, don't worry, we will never go back on our word!" Several other bandits immediately laughed and echoed.
Hearing their words, the young woman's expression was filled with grief and anger, and she wished she could kill these people with her eyes.
The young man's expression was filled with anxiety. The bandits' horses were obviously stronger than theirs, and they would soon be caught up!
The reason they haven't been caught up yet is that the bandits just want to play cat and mouse and tease them. Otherwise, they would not have been able to escape such a long distance.
The young man was filled with anger. He and his newlywed wife had originally come out for a leisurely spring outing on horseback, but they did not expect to suddenly encounter this group of bandits.
The young man knew that the bandits were cruel and ruthless, so after being surrounded by them, he immediately agreed to hand over all his money and property, hoping that they would show mercy.
But he didn't expect that these bandits coveted his wife's beauty. After taking the money, they continued to surround him with lewd smiles.
The young man immediately realized that something was wrong, and before the bandits could get close enough, he used his fairly good skills to break out of the encirclement, mounted his horse and rode away with his wife.
But this group of bandits immediately mounted their horses and chased after them. Now they had been fleeing for an incense stick of time and they were unable to shake off this group of vicious bandits.
At this moment, he hoped very much that he could meet a group of soldiers, or a chivalrous man, to help them deal with these bandits, otherwise he would probably be doomed today.
If he was the only one attacked by this group of bandits, the young man would not be so frightened, but he had the most important person in his heart in his arms, and he didn't want her to die with him.
Feeling the young woman's resentful gaze, the leader of the bandits continued to laugh and said, "I just like this look. The more you struggle, the more excited I get!"
"Gee!" He said this and whipped the horse's butt hard. The horse, feeling the pain, immediately sped up again.
The other bandits also immediately accelerated, and the distance between them and the two people in front of them quickly closed!
