This is the martial arts world, what are you cultivators interfering in?

Chapter 183 Li Lan's Alienation

"Your cultivation progresses very quickly, but your path forward has already been cut off."

The place where the cat cultivates is filled with abundant and surging source energy. Long Bao swims in the pond, and its Dao Yuan Grass is planted on the source vein, where it continues to grow.

"What's the next step? Do you have any ideas?"

The cat looked at Li Lan.

"Observe a thousand swords to recognize their quality, play a thousand tunes to understand their sound. Since the Phoenix Clan's Heavenly Fire Path has been severed, then we should simply observe all the laws of the world and severely damage one path!"

Li Lan said calmly.

This was something he had planned long ago.

The cat suddenly raised its paw, and a beam of light entered Li Lan's mind, saying, "Since we're continuing the methods of the world, let's try this first?"

"If you can't even master this technique, you might as well stop here and stop struggling."

Li Lan was surprised. What did the cat mean by that?

In the past, she was very concerned about cause and effect. Li Lan had to exchange something before asking her to help him. But now she took the initiative to give Li Lan her cultivation technique.

This seems somewhat unusual.

But he remained calm and carefully examined it once more.

"The Strange Secrets".

This is the name of this martial art.

Li Lan frowned. This cultivation technique was vastly different from all the techniques he had ever seen!

Li Lan had already mastered the True Dragon Technique, the Heaven-Mending Technique, and the Bright Venerable Technique. He had also glimpsed the techniques and arts of many powerful races within the refining array. However, the technique that the cat was giving him was something he had never seen or heard of before, and it had nothing in common with any kind of immortal technique.

It's like it came from another world.

Moreover, the profound mystery of this method is unparalleled, touching upon the most fundamental and deepest secrets of life.

He glanced at the cat instinctively, but the cat simply said lazily, "If you don't dare to cultivate, you don't have to."

Li Lan smiled and immediately sat down to meditate and cultivate. Without hesitation, he poured his Immortal Source Points directly into the meditation.

While he was meditating, the cat raised a paw, and a gray mist flowed out from under her paw and entered Li Lan's body.

The gray mist entered his body and, guided by the cultivation technique, circulated within Li Lan's body for several cycles before accumulating in his dantian, forming a source of gray mist!

The source of the gray mist accumulated rapidly, and wisps of gray mist swirled between Li Lan's hair, making him look like a strange and eerie being.

The extraordinary technique is divided into nine levels. In Li Lan's opinion, the obscure and difficult nature of the technique even surpasses that of the True Dragon Technique and the Heaven-Mending Technique. However, the continuous infusion of Immortal Source Points has caused his first level of power to increase, and his skin has rapidly become as dull and withered as tree bark.

The first layer is: heterodermis.

The second layer is different bones, the third layer is different blood, the fourth layer is different treasures, the fifth layer is different souls, the sixth layer is different fates, the seventh layer is different paths, the eighth layer is different sources, and the ninth layer is the same yet different!

When the first layer of the alien skin realm was perfected, Li Lan opened his eyes. He had already consumed a daily amount of 100,000 jin of immortal source points.

"This is...mutation?!"

Li Lan looked down at her own condition and was immediately shocked.

His skin was no longer human; it was exactly the same as the strange creatures he had seen in the gray fog.

Moreover, a mysterious gray sapling has now appeared in his dantian. The sapling is only about the height of a palm, but it emits a gray mist, and the surrounding True Dragon Qi, Heaven-Mending Dao Laws, etc., cannot get close to it.

With a thought, the gray sapling receded, and his skin instantly returned to normal. All the eerie aura on his body seemed to have returned to the mysterious gray sapling.

Li Lan was even more surprised. Did this mean that from now on, with the cultivation of the extraordinary technique, his life form could be changed at any time?

One thought can make you human, another can turn you into the uncanny!

"Can it really succeed!?..."

The cat looked at Li Lan with a hint of surprise in its eyes for the first time.

"Is this the method of alienation?"

Li Lan couldn't help but ask.

"Yes and no."

The cat looked at him quietly and said, "So-called alienation is about adapting one's life form to the gray fog, but this technique is the opposite, it's about making the gray fog adapt to you."

"If you try to adapt to the gray fog, you will eventually become its slave, an indescribable, a walking corpse, and so on. But if you let the gray fog adapt to you, you will use the gray fog as nourishment and eventually control it without losing yourself."

Upon hearing this, Li Lan was deeply shocked.

The cat spoke casually, but he knew exactly how many years had passed!

Throughout history, countless brilliant and talented individuals have tried to actively guide the gray fog, but what was their ultimate fate?

They've all died out!

Even figures like the Great Sage Luo Tian were trapped in the Ten Thousand Yuan Mountain Range for thousands of years and never truly merged with the gray mist.

It can be said that the path of alienation is a dead end.

However, now there is a cultivation technique that allows living beings to cultivate using gray mist as fuel?

If this gets out, it will be enough to shock the world!

"Can this method save all living beings?" Li Lan asked solemnly.

"What are you thinking about..."

The cat replied, "Since this technique was created, no one has ever mastered it."

"I failed to master it, but that dog forced it to, which is why it went mad."

A hint of reminiscence seemed to flash in her eyes, and a thought crossed her mind: "The last thing he left in this world can indeed be forged. Are you his projection, or the person he chose?"

Although she knew that the person had long since disappeared and no longer existed, she still couldn't help but activate the Great Dao True Eye Technique once again to observe Li Lan's cause and effect.

But this time, what they saw was an even more chaotic scene than before. The ocean of cause and effect was turbulent, and the chain of order involving Li Lan collapsed and disappeared. It was simply not worth watching!

"It's getting more and more chaotic..."

She murmured something, seemingly disappointed.

Li Lan was also somewhat surprised. No one had ever successfully refined it before? The Black Emperor, who was renowned even in the gray mist and had once frightened the True Dragon Clan into fleeing the Immortal Realm, had also gone mad because of this.

Suddenly, he felt a chill run down his spine. The cat was using him as an experiment!

If it weren't for the panel's help, I'd probably be either insane or dead by now.

After careful consideration, he realized that if anyone else were to master this technique, they would indeed be unable to do so. This is because any real living being would have its essence, soul, and so on eroded by the gray mist, resulting in ominous and bizarre consequences.

But Li Lan can master any cultivation technique!

Therefore, the gray sapling and the true dragon's blood and energy within his dantian are now coexisting peacefully.

Just because he succeeded doesn't mean others can too.

"Was this martial art created by that person back then?"

Li Lan suddenly asked a question.

This method must have an extremely powerful origin, so powerful that even a cat couldn't master it, and it drove a big black dog crazy... Perhaps only the person that both the cat and the dog once followed could have accomplished it?

You'll find out later.

The cat looked at Li Lan with a complex expression in its eyes: "Remember, from now on, in addition to trying to continue on your path, you must also cultivate this method at the same time."

"Once you've paved the way forward, you might truly have the power to change everything, but without extraordinary methods, you won't find or see those things..."

As she spoke, she suddenly let out a howl, as if she were using some mysterious and powerful force to resist the erosion of some other power, and continued:

"The source was suppressed for hundreds of thousands of years, but ultimately failed because those things could not be found. The techniques he left behind must be able to break this... Meow!"

That was all she could say. Suddenly, as if struck by something, she curled up into a ball, appearing incredibly frail!

Clearly, what she told Li Lan had touched upon the deepest level of cause and effect, and the most terrifying taboos.

Just saying it out loud will bring unimaginable strangeness; even a cat, a creature of nature, was injured!

Li Lan was even more shocked.

He knew that in ancient legends, there was once a person who, with a cat and a dog, suppressed the so-called source for hundreds of thousands of years.

Later, however, the man disappeared, the dog became the Black Emperor in the gray fog but went mad, and the cat left from the source and met Li Lan.

What the cat is talking about now is probably about that person.

Why did that person, who was able to suppress the source for hundreds of thousands of years, fail to completely resolve everything, leading to the fact that all living beings in the world still face great calamities? Now it seems that it's because they couldn't find something unspeakable?

Are we invincible before the source, yet unable to find the real enemy?

And the secret formula is the solution to this problem?

"There is another method called Guiding. This method requires you to select some people to cultivate with you. After you have mastered it, you can have them guide the long-vanished beings of your clan to return."

As the cat spoke, it raised its paw again, and a cultivation technique entered Li Lan's mind.

Clearly, Li Lan's ability to master the extraordinary technique had already passed some of her tests, which is why she also passed on the Guiding Technique to Li Lan.

"The bones you brought back from the gray fog can serve as a medium to guide them to suitable descendants, giving them a chance to reappear."

Li Lan was astonished; could there really be such a technique in the world?

This is just too incredible.

It should be noted that there have been extremely amazing figures in history, such as true dragons, phoenixes, stone people, and even humans. What a scene it would be if we could bring those beings back.

Isn't this a rebirth from death? To summon back from the brink of extinction what has long since vanished?

"Actually, the divergence in routes isn't just in the Immortal Realm; it also exists within the Gray Mist."

The cat explained calmly, "These strange creatures were once made of flesh and blood, just like you. Their greatest goal is rebirth."

Li Lan had entered the gray fog once and encountered many strange creatures, so he already had a sense of this.

"There are only two methods of rebirth that have been vaguely discovered throughout history: one is parasitism, and the other is guidance."

"The so-called parasitism is to find a body that can carry itself, like possession, so as to enjoy a new life. To take this step, a flesh and blood creature needs to actively mutate. Only after the flesh and blood creature has mutated can it become a container for the arrival of strange creatures."

"The so-called 'guidance' is that living beings in this world cultivate the guidance method, reverse cause and effect, trace the long river of time and space, find the shadows of those who have passed away, and pull them into this space-time. They are then reborn in this life."

“The method of parasitism is easier, while the method of guidance is very difficult. It requires someone to bear unimaginable consequences, consequences that no one can bear.”

"Therefore, the beings in the gray fog ultimately chose to parasitize, which is why there are people in your immortal realm who are pushing the path of alienation."

Upon hearing this, Li Lan instantly felt enlightened and understood!

What the cat was saying was the root cause and the true trend behind the entire gray fog invasion.

In a sense, all the conflicts in the immortal realm actually stemmed from the strange creatures in the gray mist.

The reason those beings invaded the immortal realm was to be reborn.

For someone to be reborn, someone in the Immortal Realm needs to take the path of transformation. That's why the Feather King reached a certain cooperation or deal with the Immortal Court!

"The method of guidance is another way. If you can make the method of guidance successful, perhaps the immortal realm can avoid the calamity of alienation."

A glimmer of hope seemed to flash in her eyes: "Of course, one day, perhaps you can actually bring him back from the brink of non-existence..."

This may be the real reason why she passed on her teachings to Li Lan.

He instructed Li Lan to cultivate the method left behind by that person, and also taught Li Lan the art of guiding others... One day, when Li Lan's realm and cultivation reach a certain level, perhaps he can find the shadow that has long since disappeared in the long river of time.

Li Lan remained silent for a long time, realizing that the cat's trust... was also a heavy burden.

Why are you suddenly telling me all this?

He slowly raised his eyes and looked at the cat.

The cat said, "I wanted to tell you, so I did. Why ask so many questions?"

"I'm going to sleep now, you can leave—"

"By the way, you'll know the answer to Shangguan Xiaoxiao's question in a few days."

When Li Lan first came, he did indeed want to ask the cat for advice, but the cat only gave him the secret technique and the method of guiding.

Li Lan looked at the cat intently for a moment, then suddenly said solemnly, "Thank you!"

Then he turned and left.

The cat squinted at his departing figure and murmured, "From now on, you'll be all alone, meow... Good luck."

She slightly raised her eyes, seemingly gazing into the far distance, and said, "We've finally found hope, how could I let you discover it..."

She waved her claws, and in an instant, an ocean of cause and effect seemed to appear before her. As she waved her claws, chains of order seemed to continuously form, and vast nets emerged...

Those vast webs of cause and effect stretched out in all directions, obscuring all the causes and traces related to Li Lan.

……

Not long after Li Lan emerged from seclusion.

"Reporting to the clan leader, the True Dragon Clan has returned, and an envoy has arrived to see you!"

Liu Ziwen came to report.

Li Lan raised an eyebrow slightly and said calmly, "Please—"

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