Immortal Reincarnation Tribulation

Chapter 278 The Yellow Universe Ring

Without wasting any more time, Du Fan immediately stood up, patted his storage bag with one hand, and quickly took out a brand-new green robe. He immediately changed out of the tattered clothes he was wearing, and then went straight to Guo Huaifu's side. He separated a wisp of his divine sense and carefully infiltrated the other party's primordial spirit space.

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Two hours later, Du Fan and Guo Huaifu emerged from the bottom of Ten Mile Lake and stood on the edge of the lake.

"senior……"

Guo Huaifu glanced at the lake behind him, his gaze slightly complicated. Then, his expression turned solemn, and he bowed to Du Fan. Just as he was about to say something, Du Fan waved his hand, interrupting him.

"This isn't the place to talk. Let's leave first." After saying that, Du Fan turned and left without any expression.

Seeing this, Guo Huaifu opened his mouth, but ultimately said nothing more. After a sigh, he could only move his feet and follow.

……

Half a day later, Du Fan found himself in the former Kunwu Sect, now a branch of the Green Forest Village. He sat in the main seat of the council hall, while Guo Huaifu sat on a wooden chair to his left, looking somewhat uneasy.

Apart from that, there was no other person in the vast hall.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, it seems your ancestor wasn't so kind to you after all." Du Fan suddenly smiled slightly, glanced at Guo Huaifu, and spoke casually, with a hint of mockery on his face.

"Senior is too kind. I am truly grateful for your life-saving grace regarding the cave dwelling." Guo Huaifu smiled wryly, immediately stood up, bowed deeply to Du Fan, and said solemnly.

"Oh? Which matter are you referring to?" Du Fan's gaze fell on Guo Huaifu's face, a strange look in his eyes, and he spoke slowly.

"What I'm referring to is the matter of you using that golden talisman to stop my ancestor's attack for me. Of course, if you hadn't killed the skeleton that my ancestor had transformed into, I would still have died here without a doubt," Guo Huaifu said somewhat awkwardly, his expression unnatural.

"Hehe, I thought you really didn't know about that." Du Fan chuckled and shook his head.

"Please forgive me, senior. Given the circumstances, this was the only way I could have escaped," Guo Huaifu chuckled twice and explained.

Du Fan saved the other party, but the scene where Guo Huaifu thanked the skeleton still makes Du Fan want to curse him out.

However, now that the other party had explained things clearly, Du Fan's slight frustration completely dissipated. Otherwise, if he had used his last talisman to save Guo Huaifu and the other party still didn't appreciate it, even with Du Fan's magnanimity, he would have felt quite resentful for a while.

As for the fact that the other party could recognize the talisman soldier, Du Fan was not too surprised. After all, the other party had an ancestor who was at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage, and it was quite possible that the ancestor mentioned it in some of his relics.

"Given the circumstances at the time, if I were in your shoes, I would most likely have done the same thing, so you don't need to worry about it."

As for saving your life, you don't need to take it too seriously. After all, you kept your promise to me throughout the trip to the cave and never harbored any ill intentions. It was only right for me to save your life within my power.

"Also, you don't need to call me 'senior' anymore. In the stone chamber, our ancestor made it very clear that I am not a Foundation Establishment expert. I am just a little stronger than the average Qi Refining cultivator. You can just call me Fellow Daoist Li from now on." Du Fan picked up the tea on the table, took a sip, and said slowly.

"Since Fellow Daoist Li has said so, I will not stand on ceremony any longer. May I ask what Fellow Daoist Li's plans are next?" Guo Huaifu immediately said a few polite words, but in the end he seemed to hesitate.

Du Fan glanced at Guo Huaifu and immediately understood what the other was thinking. He smiled slightly and took the initiative to speak, "Now that things are settled here, I will naturally return to Green Forest Village. However, before that, I must take care of the matter I promised you. Please take a look. Is the technique recorded in this jade slip the inherited cultivation method of your Guo family?"

With a flick of his wrist, Du Fan made a grabbing motion in the air, and a crystal jade slip radiating milky white light immediately appeared in his hand. He then tossed it directly to Guo Huaifu, who was not far away.

Guo Huaifu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately raised his arm and grabbed the white light. After the light faded, a crystal clear milky white jade slip was revealed in his palm.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Li." After expressing his gratitude, Guo Huaifu immediately released a wisp of divine sense with an excited expression, penetrating the jade slip without any hesitation and beginning to examine it on the spot.

After about half a cup of tea's time, Guo Huaifu's face lit up with ecstasy. He withdrew his divine sense, cupped his hands in greeting to Du Fan, and said excitedly, "That's right, the contents recorded in this jade slip are a complete set of inherited cultivation techniques."

"Hmm, that's good. Here are two more bottles of Qi Refining Pills, which I no longer need. I'll give them to you as well." Du Fan patted his storage bag with one hand, took out two small emerald green bottles, and tossed them out with a flick of his wrist.

"Ah? Two bottles! That's wonderful, thank you so much, Fellow Daoist Li!" Guo Huaifu said with a beaming smile as he took the two bottles of pills.

"No need to be polite, these two bottles of pills also come from the cultivators of those gangs."

"By the way, regarding your ancestral cave, I hope Fellow Daoist Guo can keep this a secret, as it concerns the lives of both of us." Du Fan nodded first, said a few polite words, then seemed to have thought of something, his expression suddenly turned serious, and he spoke solemnly.

"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Li, I am aware of the implications," Guo Huaifu said solemnly, taking a deep breath and clasping his hands in a fist salute.

"Alright, if Fellow Daoist Guo has nothing else to say, I'll take my leave." Du Fan put down his teacup, spoke calmly, and stood up as he did so.

"Alright, I'll see Fellow Daoist Li out." Guo Huaifu quickly stood up and said with a smile.

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When Du Fan returned to Green Forest Village, it didn't cause much of a stir. The bandits in the village were clearly already used to Du Fan's ability to disappear and reappear at any time.

Du Fan casually called over a bandit and asked him to go and give a message to the Four Elders of the Green Forest on his behalf.

The bandit naturally had no objections and readily agreed before leaving. Du Fan then returned to his bamboo hut with a smile on his face.

After closing the door, he immediately took out the forbidden magic artifact and spread it out. Then, his figure flashed and he appeared directly on the wooden bed. He immediately sat down cross-legged, took a big gulp of ginseng essence oil, and then used the circulation of his cultivation to heal his injuries.

In the battle against the skeleton, although Du Fan was defeated in just a few exchanges due to the vast difference in strength between the two, and seemed to have been largely unaffected, before he lost consciousness, the opponent had used some hidden force, and he still suffered some internal injuries from that attack.

A day later, Du Fan had completely refined the ginseng essence oil in his stomach. After examining himself with his divine sense, he found that the minor internal injuries he had suffered had been completely healed during his rest period. Moreover, his cultivation level had also increased slightly due to the magical power emanating from the ginseng essence oil.

Of course, now that Du Fan has officially entered the seventh level of Qi Refining, he doesn't expect to use the Ginseng Qi Oil to greatly improve his cultivation. He has some other plans for his cultivation path after reaching the seventh level of Qi Refining.

"My current cultivation level should be able to barely cope with the events of the next few years. I can postpone improving my cultivation for now." After a moment's thought, Du Fan temporarily abandoned his plan to immediately transition to the stabilization phase.

A moment later, he patted his storage bag with one hand and took out a pale yellow ring.

This ring has an ancient and simple design, and is crystal clear throughout. It also faintly emits a soft halo. This item is none other than the high-level storage magic tool, the Qiankun Ring, which was obtained from the cultivator's cave at the bottom of Ten Mile Lake.

Du Fan's eyes flashed, and immediately a wisp of magic power and a strand of divine thought emanated from his body and instantly entered the Qiankun Ring. Then, various colored lights flashed out from the Qiankun Ring.

The next moment, these precious lights transformed into various colorful items, numbering nearly a thousand. In the blink of an eye, they piled up into a small mountain on the ground in front of Du Fan.

Most of them were spirit stones and demon cores. Among the spirit stones, there were more than thirty mid-grade spirit stones, the rest were low-grade spirit stones, and there were no high-grade spirit stones.

After a quick scan with his divine sense, Du Fan determined that the total value of these spirit stones was around twelve thousand.

For a Golden Core cultivator, having over ten thousand low-grade spirit stones is not particularly unusual, especially in the Central Continent, which is known as a sacred place for cultivation.

Du Fan had heard other elders from the Qixia Sect mention that when Ouyang Xuan and the elder from the Wentian Sect made a bet outside the Hundred Flowers Valley, they casually took out a high-grade spirit stone as the wager. A high-grade spirit stone was worth ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.

Of course, that was a matter in Zhongzhou, and it happened between super sects. In New Moon Island, a Golden Core cultivator possessing more than 10,000 spirit stones was an extraordinary thing. According to Du Fan's understanding, in the Earthly Fiend Islands, only Nascent Soul cultivators could possess this number of spirit stones.