Chapter 344: Unforgettable Memories
"When was the clone refined?"
Li Fan felt like he had forgotten something extremely important.
His brows furrowed, thoughts racing in his mind.
But try as he might, he couldn't recall any related memories.
Even scanning the storage in his mind's Dao Crystal was futile.
"And, my cultivation technique..." Li Fan suddenly realized something, his expression turning grim.
"Immortal Sage Jicheng offered longevity treasures, with the use of the Pearl of Derivation as a reward. 'Mysterious Spiritual Transformation' should have been derived from the Pearl of Derivation."
"I've always been cautious, so the true body wouldn't have taken such a risk personally. Thus, it should have made a clone to handle this. But..."
"To have absolutely no recollection?"
"Is it once again the method of that venerable who causes forgetfulness?"
Li Fan closed his eyes in contemplation, attempting to recollect once more, but to no avail.
"No, that's not it."
After a long while, Li Fan opened his eyes, wearing a pensive expression.
"Rather than saying I forgot, it's more like, the experiences of the clone were completely erased."
"Events that never happened naturally leave no traces."
"What could it be?"
The fear of the unknown almost prompted Li Fan to immediately seek Truth, to rid himself of this influence and explore further.
But he restrained himself.
"Regardless, I must record this. After this world's end, perhaps atop the Disintegration Peak, I might remember what disappeared."
"However, this method of vanishing from memory inadvertently is truly insidious. To prevent even the possibility of forgetting this in the future, it must be documented in advance." With this thought, Li Fan prepared to retrieve a blank jade slip from his storage ring to record his forgotten memories.
"Huh? What's this?" Suddenly, he noticed three jade slips placed in a corner of his storage ring.
"When were these placed there? Why do I have no recollection?" Li Fan blinked in slight confusion, then his heart stirred as he took out the jade slips to examine them one by one.
Strangely, one of the jade slips was completely blank, with no records at all.
While the other two jade slips, one of them had only a single Dao character written on it.
The other jade slip only had the character 'source' written on it.
"Source of Dao? Dao of Source? What does it mean?" Li Fan felt the term was very familiar, yet he couldn't recall where he had encountered it.
As if shrouded in a dark cloud, Li Fan's mood inevitably grew heavy.
"Thinking about it now is pointless." After half a day passed, Li Fan finally shook off the influence of this powerful negative emotion.
He meticulously recorded the situation where his clone clearly existed but couldn't be detected, and even certain memories were forgotten, on the blank jade slip.
Then, he carefully placed the three jade slips back where they were originally.
"Although I can't remember what happened for now, judging from these three jade slips I prepared as reminders, I must have known about this matter."
"It's probably just a miscalculation of the actual impact when the event occurred, causing all these preparations to be futile."
"If 'it' refers to that unknown event, then can't we deduce that after the event, not only memories related to it will be affected, but all related records will also be unable to be preserved?"
After calming down, Li Fan carefully pondered and vaguely inferred some clues.
"Since I made preparations, it means that its influence didn't exist from the beginning of Anchor Point 1 year. So, at least after I use Truth, I should be able to understand what happened."
Thinking of this, Li Fan felt slightly relieved.
"Although it's quite incredible to realize this for the first time, in this perilous world, I surprisingly feel it's somewhat natural." Li Fan shook his head, self-deprecating.
Despite the unexpected turn of events, Li Fan didn't forget the purpose of leaving the city this time.
To test the effectiveness of the 'Mysterious Spiritual Transformation' technique.
With a calm mind, he gradually cleared away the distractions in his mind and began to operate the Mysterious Spiritual Transformation.
A power entirely different from spiritual energy, but seemingly rooted in it, surged from his limbs and spread throughout his body in an instant.
Under the influence of this unpredictable power, Li Fan felt as if countless ants were crawling all over his body, causing unbearable itching and pain.
Enduring the discomfort, Li Fan continued to operate the technique, aiming to achieve his first random transformation after successfully cultivating the technique.
The pain and itchiness kept accumulating.
The heat within his body continued to rise.
Just when Li Fan felt like every bone in his body was about to melt, he suddenly felt his whole body relax.
All the discomfort disappeared in an instant, as if he had exchanged for a brand-new body...
No, he had indeed acquired a new body.
Summoning a water mirror in front of him, Li Fan observed his reflection.
It was a face he had never seen before, and the height, demeanor, and initial impression it gave differed greatly from Li Fan's true self.
If not for the fact that every movement of the figure in the mirror corresponded to Li Fan's own, he would find it extremely difficult to believe that it was himself.
With a thought, he operated the technique once again.
Soon after, another face appeared in the secret chamber.
Like a child with a new toy, Li Fan continued to transform incessantly.
With each transformation, the time required grew shorter amidst increasing familiarity.
Eventually, he could complete a transformation almost in the blink of an eye.
"Mysterious Spiritual Transformation, truly unpredictable and mystical. In my opinion, it's almost like divine magic!" Li Fan couldn't help but sigh after the experiment.
Now, he had only just begun to cultivate this miraculous technique.
Thus, the ability to transform was only available with his current Qi Refinement cultivation.
However, he had already grasped all the essentials, and from now on, it was just a matter of accumulating practice over time.
With the proficiency in multitasking granted by the Divine Dao, he believed he could soon elevate the Mysterious Spiritual Transformation to the level matching his own Golden Core cultivation.
Surveying the messy secret chamber, Li Fan used the Grand Five Elements Annihilation Sword to erase all traces.
Then, he quietly returned to Tianyu City.
With a mindset of experimentation, Li Fan began searching for information related to the terms 'Source of Dao' and 'Dao of Source' in the Tianxuan Mirror.
As expected,
After browsing for a long time, he found nothing suspicious, only ordinary fragments of information.
"It seems I'll have to set this matter aside for now." Li Fan felt helpless and had to give up.
"It's already mid-year in Anchor Point 29. The one-year preparation period for the Tianxuan Spirit Lock Array Popularization Plan has come to an end. It won't be long before I receive a summons from Ji Hongdao."
"Following him to set up the spirit lock arrays in the subworlds, I'm afraid I'll have little freedom for quite some time."
"However, I have a secret pawn, the daughter of the chief formation master of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance. Perhaps, in critical moments, she can play a miraculous role."