Chapter 89

The fall of a Qi Cultivation practitioner is much less spectacular compared to that of a Foundation Establishment practitioner.

Without the dazzling spectacle of celestial wonders, only two streaks of crimson cloud suddenly appeared on the horizon.

"Qi Cultivation practitioner Sikong Yi, who has practiced for thirty-five years, was slain by Qi Cultivation practitioner Li Fan in the Congyun Sea..."

"Qi Cultivation practitioner Baili Chen, who has practiced for three years, was slain by Qi Cultivation practitioner Li Fan in the Congyun Sea..."

"Now, his body is dead, and his Dao has vanished, returning to the heavens!"

...

Beneath the fiery clouds, Li Fan stood quietly, caressing the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Token in his hand.

After a long while, he managed to suppress the greed that had risen in his heart.

"What a treasure, but alas..."

"It is not my Dao."

The Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Token is the supreme treasure of the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect.

The Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect is a secretive sect that has existed since ancient times.

Unlike other sects that establish their own territories and widely recruit disciples,

the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect does not have a fixed base, and often has only one successor per generation.

Therefore, when the great calamity came, while other sects faced a world of blood and rain,

it had little impact on the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect.

The reason the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect has been able to continue for nearly ten thousand years with only one disciple per generation, without breaking its lineage, is largely due to its unique cultivation techniques.

Heaven Stealing: Using essence blood and some special materials, one can create a special avatar. Unlike ordinary external avatars, this avatar not only has its own appearance, aura, soul, realm, and cultivation level, but also has its own, separate destiny.

It can be regarded as a completely separate individual.

Sun Replacing: When creating the avatar, if the bones of deceased cultivators or the essence blood of living cultivators are added, one can strip away part of the original abilities and destiny of the other and graft them onto the avatar.

Of course, if it were only this, it would not fully demonstrate the power of the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect.

The *Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Technique*, combined with the token in Li Fan's hand, is the complete form.

This Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Token was forged thousands of years ago by the 38th successor of the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect, Sikong Yue.

Sikong Yue witnessed the great calamity with her own eyes, where countless cultivators slaughtered each other, their lives as insignificant as ants. Shocked and terrified, she desperately sought a perfect way to save her life.

After a century of arduous research and countless methods of forging, she finally created this Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Token.

The token has countless uses.

Not only does it have an extremely spacious storage space, but after being refined, the token can freely transfer between the main body and the avatar, ignoring spatial distance.

Most importantly, through the *Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Technique*, the essence of both the avatar and the main body is transferred to the token.

As long as the token is not destroyed, even if the main body and the avatar are killed, one can reconstruct a new body by consuming the essence blood stored in the token.

Thus, achieving "resurrection."

In simple terms, after the technique is cultivated, whether it is the main body or the avatar, what is seen by others is just an empty shell.

The token is the true main body.

Although this technique was modified by Sikong Yue in a rather unconventional way, making it somewhat sinister, it is...

very effective.

For thousands of years, relying on this bizarre technique, no matter how dangerous the situation, the disciples of the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect could always escape unscathed.

The Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect has thus continued for thousands of years without being destroyed.

Until Sikong Yi encountered Li Fan, who could trace back through time.

The *Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Technique* is not perfect and has certain fatal flaws.

For example, the main body and the avatar must maintain a certain distance. The farther apart they are, the weaker the avatar becomes. If the distance exceeds the limit, the avatar will retain only the lowest cultivation level of Qi Cultivation.

Another example is that because the essence of life is maintained in the token, when a disciple of the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect dies, a part of their soul will be constrained within the token, unable to be released.

These residual souls often retain some important memory fragments.

In times of crisis, they can be released by the token's owner to fight against enemies.

Li Fan's divine sense entered the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Token, and in the vast storage space, it was empty.

Only Sikong Yi and another indistinct residual soul were aimlessly drifting.

His divine sense transformed into a giant hand, grabbing these two residual souls and reading their remaining memories.

After a long time, Li Fan finally understood why the thousand-year-old Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect had fallen to such a state.

The cause of the incident can be traced back to Sikong Yi's adoptive master, Sikong Bo.

For a thousand years, the Heaven Stealing Sun Replacing Sect had always been safe in various dangerous situations. Gradually, they became arrogant and acted more recklessly. By the time of Sikong Bo, it had reached its peak.

In a distant land, after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, Sikong Bo was dissatisfied with the avatar he had previously refined.

So he decided to gather materials and refine a new one.

Coincidentally, at this time, he encountered a five- or six-year-old child in a remote village.

The child was born with a divine body, not only incredibly strong but also had an astonishing cultivation speed.

At this age, he had already completed Qi Cultivation and was preparing to establish his foundation.

This made Sikong Bo very excited.

After secretly observing for a while, Sikong Bo discovered that the child had an extraordinary destiny.

Every time he went hunting alone in the deep mountains, he would bring back various celestial treasures.

If he could strip away the child's destiny, the avatar he would create would be extraordinary!

Blinded by greed, Sikong Bo, on a certain night, tried to steal the child's essence blood while he was sleeping.

Unexpectedly...

The child had already been chosen by a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator.

This Nascent Soul cultivator was nearing the end of his life and felt that he had no hope of breaking through. So he searched everywhere for a suitable body to possess.

Coincidentally, he found this talented child.

Ordinary possession methods would more or less damage the foundation of the possessed. This Nascent Soul cultivator, hoping to advance further, would not allow such a thing to happen.

So he adopted an extreme method: transforming himself into a celestial wonder, waiting for the child to establish his foundation, and then perfectly merging with him.

Indeed, according to Sikong Bo's remaining memories, humans can be refined into celestial wonders.

Or rather, a large part of the celestial wonders that continuously appear in the world are transformed from fallen cultivators.

After a cultivator falls, the so-called "returning to the Dao" is not just an empty phrase.

The "Dao" of a cultivator, after being transformed by the heavens for many years, based on their personality and the characteristics of their cultivation techniques, will slowly form various unique wonders, reappearing in the world.

What cannot be cultivated together in life must still be used to the fullest in death.

This is the attitude of this world towards all cultivators.