Mortals cultivate immortality, and their IQ is playing with their heartbeats

#268 - Nine-color flame

With the secret art activated, Li Chengfeng successfully returned to two breaths prior. At that time, the three men had not yet launched their fire attacks; they had only just taken out their gourds.

Li Chengfeng acted swiftly, his feet employing the Steps of Life and Death, flashing like lightning, instantly seizing the gourds and severing the arms of his opponents.

Everything vanished as if erased from a painting. When he returned to reality, the three men's arms were already severed, the three magical treasures were in his hands, and the original flames had all been absorbed into the gourds.

Such was the power of the Forgetful Regret Art.

However, Li Chengfeng was also aware that this secret art was only effective against cultivators whose strength was far inferior to his own. If he faced a powerful opponent, he would be unable to extract their lifespan, making its use a major challenge.

Despite this, the experiment was a valuable experience for Li Chengfeng.

He had successfully used the opponent's lifespan to sever their arms and seize their opportunities.

In this exchange, he felt a profound understanding, as if he had gained a glimmer of enlightenment.

Li Chengfeng's success was no accident; he possessed the unique experience and deep understanding of returning to nine days prior three times.

Each death and rebirth had subjected him to unspeakable pain, but it had also forged his incomparably powerful soul.

This painful process, though vague, combined with the inspiration given to him by the secret art, and coupled with his skillful extraction of the opponent's lifespan, allowed all conditions to perfectly align, completing this feat.

For others, this might be an unattainable joke, but Li Chengfeng, with his clear thinking and scientific research approach from Blue Star, had successfully grasped the true essence of the secret art.

He now had two clear paths: first, to find cultivation methods that could increase his lifespan, allowing him to continuously use this art; second, to research and create a magical treasure or formation that could store lifespan, using it to cast the secret art by killing opponents and storing their lifespans.

At this moment, the three fellows had regained consciousness. They were in excruciating pain, their arms severed, standing before Li Chengfeng as if they had experienced a nightmare.

They had clearly activated their magical treasures, but why were they now standing before their opponent in such a miserable state? And their magical treasures had been taken away.

Before they could sort things out, Li Chengfeng waved his hand, releasing a powerful force that sent the three men flying, spitting blood.

However, Li Chengfeng did not kill them, but chose to observe their reactions and states after being subjected to this secret art.

The three men suffered a heavy blow from Li Chengfeng and were in great pain.

Their meridians were all shattered, and their storage bags were also taken away, leaving them prostrate on the ground like lambs to the slaughter.

The three men exchanged glances, and their expressions changed drastically.

They felt as if they had aged several decades, each losing more than thirty years of lifespan.

The old ones became even older, their teeth falling out of their mouths, clumps of white hair falling out, and their skin becoming wrinkled and creased.

The man in his forties was slightly better off, but his hair was already half black and half white, and his skin was wrinkled with age spots.

Faced with this bizarre scene, they were stunned, completely unaware of what kind of methods had been used.

They tried their best to recall, but they could not remember what had happened.

They only remembered that after activating their magical treasures, a vortex appeared beneath their feet, and then they seemed to have entered a time fault.

Li Chengfeng carefully observed them, scanned them with his divine sense, and asked in a cold voice, "How do you feel? Speak quickly, and if there is any concealment, I will make you wish you were dead."

At this time, the three men were already terrified, and dared not hide anything.

These rogue cultivators were inherently opportunistic and cowardly. When they encountered the powerful Li Chengfeng, they immediately lost any courage to resist.

The middle-aged man said in a trembling voice, "I feel like I've aged many years.

Both my memory and soul have gaps, as if I were drunk.

It's like I had a dream, and I can't remember what just happened."

Li Chengfeng nodded, knowing that this should be the effect of the "Forgetful Regret Art."

Although this two-breath time was short, it felt like a long time to the other party, which was the result of the infinite magnification of the time fault.

Li Chengfeng re-examined the three rogue cultivators, and their condition was already very miserable.

The old man trembled as he described how he seemed to see the process of death and fragments of the past, but his memory was extremely vague.

The old woman's voice was slurred, and she only knew that everything came too suddenly and she didn't know what had happened.

Li Chengfeng nodded, confirming that they were not lying by scanning their emotional fluctuations with his divine sense.

He said lightly, "You gave me the opportunity to experiment with the secret art, allowing me to succeed once.

To thank you three fellow cultivators, I will send you to the Land of Ultimate Bliss to enjoy yourselves."

As soon as he finished speaking, he gently patted the mouth of the gourd in his hand, and with a buzz, the solar flames spewed out.

As soon as the flames appeared, the three-colored flowers suddenly rotated, enveloping the three men.

After three shrill screams, they turned to ashes.

The flames flew back into the gourd, and everything returned to calm.

Li Chengfeng looked at the gourd in his hand, feeling somewhat emotional.

This magical treasure was very interesting. The flames inside actually had a trace of spirituality, and they were from the same source.

He guessed that these three flames were originally one, but were separated and placed into three gourds, forming a formation.

He couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. It was a waste of such treasures to be obtained by these rogue cultivators.

He thought of the 'Fire Nurturing Art' he had just obtained, which could be used to melt and refine these three flames to increase their power.

He had not been cultivating his natal true fire because he did not have good materials and secret arts.

Now that he had obtained these three flames, he planned to cultivate diligently.

With a thought, Li Chengfeng left the place and soared into the sky. He stepped on his flying sword, leisurely moving forward, because he had changed his appearance and was not worried about being discovered.

Even if he was discovered, he was confident that he could escape quickly.

After flying for a while, Li Chengfeng entered the Merchant Realm space.

He cautiously sent out a Qi Refining stage substitute puppet to control the flying sword, in case he was discovered by the enemy.

He himself hid in the Monk Realm space and began to concentrate on comprehending and cultivating the secret art.

His Regretful Tree Art had been basically successfully cultivated, but there were still some drawbacks that needed to be improved.

However, he knew the importance of the Desire Fire Art and had to cultivate it successfully as soon as possible.

Therefore, he sat cross-legged and arranged formations around him to prevent anyone from disturbing him.

Lou Lan, as his housekeeper, dutifully managed the entire space in an orderly manner.

He skillfully built a good relationship with the mother and daughter in the puppet carriage, often letting them out to get some air, and then letting them go back.

He told them that Li Chengfeng was out on business, and he was responsible for protecting the carriage, and claimed to be Li Chengfeng's good friend.

The mother and daughter believed it, which saved Li Chengfeng a lot of trouble in explaining.

With a thought, Li Chengfeng summoned the three gourds in front of him.

He carefully observed the flames in the three gourds and found that they all had spirituality and should be spiritual flames of heaven and earth.

These three spiritual flames of heaven and earth were captured and refined into magical treasures, forming a powerful formation.

However, Li Chengfeng believed that if these three flames could grow naturally, their value would far exceed being refined into magical treasures.

First, he put the three gourds aside and cast the Desire Fire Art with a thought.

His fingers flicked out spells, changing unpredictably. The three flames slowly floated out of the gourds and actually began to merge into one.

The flame rolled like a cloud, and Li Chengfeng constantly changed his spells, guiding them to merge.

He knew that the reason why these three flames had not been melted together by the other party was because there was a relationship of mutual generation and restraint between them, and forcibly merging them might cause an explosion.

But Li Chengfeng had the sealing technique. He first sealed the three fires together, and then slowly peeled off the restraining force between them with the silkworm peeling technique.

Finally, he used the 'Cauldron Bottom Source' method to draw away the substances that prevented them from being compatible, and stabilized the force of their fusion.