Starting as a clan leader: My rules are a bit wild.

Lin Fan wasn't the type to let victory slip away when it was within reach.

That kind of person...

In the end, they will most likely be killed in return.

The best outcome would be a situation where both sides perish.

He certainly wouldn't make such a basic mistake.

He stood there at the 'gap', staring intently at that old bastard, waiting to see how he would die.

Seeing Lin Fan's caution, the old bastard felt nothing but endless bitterness.

I originally wanted to fake a self-destruction and then hide to see what would happen, but now... I can't do that anymore. All that awaits me is death.

What the hell is there to say?

If that's the case, then let's just go for it.

Time and life.

"This era is truly..."

In the last second before detonating, he sighed helplessly, "Even an old guy like me can't understand this."

"For a mere Celestial King to achieve such a feat is truly... inconceivable."

boom!
This spacetime has completely collapsed.

Lin Fan also slipped out at the last moment and closed the 'door'.

The space-time before my eyes is distorted.

In the end, however, it still failed to break through the space-time of the Three Thousand Continents and was eventually completely wiped out.

Lin Fan waved his hand to release the restriction, 'released' Fan Jianqiang and the Observation Mirror. After carefully sensing for a moment, he found that the mark he had left had been erased.

That space-time has completely vanished without a trace.

"what happened?"

Fan Jianqiang breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the scenery of the Three Thousand Continents, but he was also very curious.

Meanwhile, one by one, Fan Jians appeared around them.

They're all scarecrows!
We had already made many preparations in this area, but it seems that they are no longer needed.

"nailed it."

Lin Fan laughed and said, "Let your scarecrow clones disperse first."

He would tell Fan Jianqiang in detail about what happened after the two were sealed, which amazed Fan Jianqiang. Finally, he added, "But then again..."

"If I were in that situation, I certainly wouldn't choose to be dignified either."

"wrong."

"I could never encounter this situation."

He was certain: "He simply doesn't know how to write the character '苟' (gǒu).

Lin Fan: "..."

Sister Wu: "..."

Knowing how cunning this guy was, Lin Fan naturally wouldn't refute it, while Sister Wu smiled helplessly: "The person was rescued?"

"It should be. Since he failed, the person must be inside the Heavenly Bottle."

Lin Fan formed hand seals, releasing the ninth restriction that had previously sealed the Palm Heaven Bottle.

That space-time reappeared, but it quickly dissipated.

It's as if it wants to merge into the space-time of the Three Thousand Continents.

The Heavenly Bottle also fell into Lin Fan's hands.

Lin Fan tried to inject a trace of immortal power, but felt waves of rejection.

"It belongs to someone else."

"Qiu Yongqin should be inside."

He muttered something to himself, then called out towards the bottle opening, "Is Qiu Yongqin here?"

next second.

brush!
A pale-faced figure flew out of thin air and landed in front of Lin Fan.

"oops!"

Fan Jianqiang immediately stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "It's good that you're still alive! It seems we came at just the right time."

Qiu Yongqin immediately gave a wry smile and said to Lin Fan, "I was caught off guard and fell into a trap. I'm sorry to trouble the sect leader and senior brother."

"One family does not speak two languages."

Lin Fan smiled and said, "It's good that you're safe."

"Besides, I have also gained a lot from this trip."

He recounted his previous experience again.

"Then, shall we go home first? You look really weak, you definitely need to heal your wounds," Fan Jianqiang muttered from the side.

Qiu Yongqin was immediately speechless.

"this···"

"Senior brother, I don't have kidney deficiency."

How can a man say he has kidney deficiency?
"Well, if you say it's not, then it's not."

“No, it really isn’t!” Qiu Yongqin exclaimed, his eyes wide.

"Let's go back first and talk about it later."

Fan Jianqiang appeared magnanimous, as if he 'knew a lot' and was unwilling to argue with him.

Qiu Yongqin was left speechless, both amused and exasperated.

However, before leaving, he took the Heavenly Bottle and said, "Wait a minute, I still need to finish up."

"Oh?"

Lin Fan was surprised.

The tail isn't clean yet?!
"I'm afraid it's because Master's Nine Restrictions on Sealing Demons are too strong."

"When that spacetime was torn apart, even the very source of his obsession was torn apart, and now it is hidden within that dissipated spacetime."

Qiu Yongqin activated the Heavenly Bottle and swallowed that space-time into it.

"Once I absorb it into the Palm Heaven Bottle, it will take some time to completely obliterate it."

"oh?!"

Lin Fan suddenly realized: "That makes sense. His obsession originated from that spacetime. Since a part of spacetime still exists, a part of his origin should also have remained."

"It's careless."

"They didn't even notice."

Fan Jianqiang was also very surprised: "I can't believe such a thing exists."

"Immortal Emperor..."

"They're really not your average killer."

Even if it's just a fleeting obsession.

They exchanged a glance, and a surge of passion welled up in their hearts.

It's good that they're hard to kill!

When they eventually attain the Dao of Immortal Emperor, or even the Dao of Sacrifice realm above Immortal Emperor, how awesome will that be?
However, the highest level they both knew of was above the Sacrifice Path.

After all, the sacrificial altar can directly reflect eternity!
What does it mean to reflect eternity?

Simply put, a single thought can reflect countless eras!

Moreover, it's not the kind of "illumination of all heavens" that a Celestial King would do.

The Celestial King's illumination of the heavens allows him to project an avatar into other 'planes' within the same time and space, limited to chatting and fighting with people.

But the reflection of eternity above the sacrificial path truly manifests countless eras and countless dimensions.

They can make something out of nothing for you.

To put it in a slightly more abstract way...
What you think about, you can make happen.

What you dream about will come to pass.

Even those who have been dead for many years, whose souls have been scattered, whose true spirits have been obliterated, and even those whose karma has been erased, can be resurrected through the ritual.

Because they can reflect eternity and manifest countless times and spaces!
At worst, they can simply "reflect" a past timeline and let that timeline develop according to their own ideas, following its original trajectory without any change, and then "recover" the people who were originally gone but are now being reflected at the right time.

Doesn't that mean it's resurrected?
In fact, it's highly likely that it won't even require that much trouble.

When you reach that level, it might just be a thought, "XXX resurrects," and then the other person will be resurrected on the spot.

That's how powerful it is. That's how outrageous it is!

As for combat strength...

Tsk, the path of sacrifice has already surpassed the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao.

What river of time, what river of destiny? We are all at their mercy.

Before the sacrificial rites, neither the Way of Heaven nor the River of Destiny can change anything but humbly submit.

If you behave yourself, it's fine.

If they're not honest...
People can sacrifice their own Dao, and they can also sacrifice the so-called Heavenly Dao or the Great Dao!
However, Lin Fan and Fan Jianqiang did not have a very clear understanding of the two realms of Sacrifice Dao and above Sacrifice Dao.

I've only read about it in novels.

I've never encountered such a thing in real life.

Never heard of it!
But since even the template for the Desolate Heavenly Emperor exists, it's highly likely that these two realms also exist.

And it might be even more damn awesome than the sacrificial path in the worldview of the Desolate Emperor.

It sounds exciting (scary) to think about.

I just don't know if there are any realms stronger or more outrageous than the sacrificial path.

"If that level truly exists..."

Lin Fan muttered to himself, "How outrageous is this?"

"The sacrificial path can already reflect eternity and annihilate infinite space and time with a single thought; the so-called sea of ​​boundaries can be destroyed in an instant! Even stronger..."

"hiss!"

"I can't think of anything."

It's hard to imagine until you reach that level.

It's like bragging; it feels like you can't even reach a higher level of bragging anymore.

······
After Qiu Yongqin used the Palm Heaven Bottle to collect the 'time-space fragment' that was constantly dissipating and trying to merge into the Three Thousand Continents' time-space, he and Lin Fan embarked on their return journey.

During the journey, he also gave a general account of his experience.

It was pretty much exactly what Lin Fan had guessed.

After leaving Ascension City, he hadn't run far when he was uncontrollably sucked into the Time Illusion, where he was thoroughly beaten up.

He was almost directly 'possessed'.

Fortunately, he also had great opportunities and good fortune. At the critical moment, he turned the tables and forced the opponent to retreat temporarily. He also used the large number of fierce souls in the self-destructing Emperor Banner to block the opponent for a moment, which gave him time to hide in the Palm Heaven Bottle!

The Heavenly Bottle is a self-contained space-time, unaffected by external space-time changes.

Therefore, even if that old turtle is the absolute ruler in the illusion of time and space and can reverse time and space, he still has no way to get Qiu Yongqin out of the Palm Heaven Bottle.

In Lin Fan's understanding, it was like the Time Stone in the Marvel universe.

The Time Stone can travel back to the past and into the future.

Vision was killed by the witch, but the purple potato spirit can reverse time to revive him and then pry open the gem again.

But Dormammu is different.

It is so powerful that it can ignore the laws of time. Time reversal and time jump are useless against it. That is why Doctor Strange was so annoyed by it that he had to compromise.

The Heavenly Bottle can also disregard the laws of time.

Because it is itself a treasure of the Way of Time and Space.

How could it be swayed by a single obsession?

There's no way you can directly reverse the timeline of the Heavenly Bottle and make Qiu Yongqin, who's hiding inside, 'jump out' on his own again.

That's why Qiu Yongqin was able to hide until Lin Fan and the other person came to rescue him.

However, when he was almost possessed, he was also severely injured and nearly died.

Fortunately, the Palm Heaven Bottle is also amazing. It contains spiritual liquid that can nurture spiritual energy and can also adjust time. Currently, Qiu Yongqin can even adjust it to a ratio of 100 to 1!

While a year has passed outside, a century has passed inside the Palm Heaven Bottle.

Alternatively, it can be the other way around: a hundred years outside the world is only one year inside the Palm Heaven Bottle.

While hiding inside the Palm Heaven Bottle, he had no choice but to adjust the speed to 100x, healing his injuries while trying to cultivate and break through, preparing to fight to the death with the opponent when the Palm Heaven Bottle could no longer hold on.

Fortunately, it hadn't come to that point yet; the Heavenly Bottle hadn't been invaded by that old bastard before Lin Fan arrived.

Qiu Yongqin was also filled with emotion.

"That was really dangerous!" Fan Jianqiang was sweating bullets for him.

"So careless."

He emphasized, "Didn't I specifically teach you this before? You have to run! Have you neglected to practice the Xingzi Secret Technique? Otherwise, you should have been able to run out the moment you were sucked in."

Qiu Yongqin scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed.

"Well, well... Senior brother is right to reprimand you."

"Actually, I also wanted to cultivate the Xingzi Secret to perfection, but firstly, my cultivation level was insufficient, and secondly, I felt that my comprehension of the Xingzi Secret was somewhat slow, even dull, which is why I fell for it, cough cough."

"That's true."

Fan Jianqiang stopped cursing.

He pondered that the Nine Secrets were part of the Three Kingdoms series, and if placed within Qiu Yongqin's 'system,' it would be good enough to be able to cultivate them, let alone reach a higher level.

"In short, it's up to you to decide."

He shook his head and simply said, "Being alive is better than anything else."

"Why can't you survive first?"

Despite his rambling, Qiu Yongqin didn't find it annoying at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "Senior brother is absolutely right."

"I was careless this time. I had just ascended and gained some insights, so I was a bit negligent."

"If we hadn't been negligent, it shouldn't have ended there."

"···"

······
Return to the Lan Yue Sect.

Xiao Ling'er, Wu Xingyun, and the others breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Qiu Yongqin return safely, and all relaxed considerably.

At the same time, Lin Fan also heard good news from Xiao Ling'er.

Mitsuha showed obvious signs of improvement. Although they hadn't spoken with him yet, they could clearly feel his life force gradually increasing, and he would likely begin to recover soon.

Given San Ye's current level of cultivation and past performance, coupled with the current strength of the Lan Yue Sect, as long as he can recover and regain consciousness, a full recovery is only a matter of time.

Lin Fan smiled and said, "This is a rare treat; it's like having double happiness."

Afterwards, he and the others rested for a few days.

Then he began to learn about the current state of the Lan Yue Sect, taking care of all matters, big and small.

For example, how many disciples do we have now?

How many people are at each level of strength, and what is their rate of progress, etc.

We are also learning about the development status of various industries.

News would occasionally come from the realm of gods.

The fastest developing!
It's not 'making money' at all, it's robbing money!

Furthermore, due to the explosive popularity of the Immortal Machine in the God Realm, other industries of the Moon Embracing Sect, and even some items from the Three Thousand Continents, have gradually been accepted by the God Realm.

Although it's impossible to reverse the God Realm's disdain for the Three Thousand Continents in a short time, this is still a good start.

after all···
Even if the people of the divine realm are stubborn, once they use the things from the Three Thousand Continents, they'll be proven wrong.

Lin Fan didn't care about their attitude.

However, the vast resources earned from the divine realm cannot simply be left piled up in the treasure vault.

What's the use of being a shrew?
Resources and money need to be mobilized and circulated!

Only by taking action can money generate more money, and only then can resources be used to their fullest potential and generate greater profits.

Lin Fan was still figuring out exactly how to do it.

In addition, Lin Fan also paid close attention to some disciples who deserved attention and personally inquired about their current situation.

Like a sword.

He's also a troublesome person.

He turned a losing streak into a winning streak, and it's said he was furious when he came back.

After much thought, he realized that he couldn't handle the problem by defeating his peers, so he decided to modify the Chaotic Ancient Method himself.

A hundred failures give birth to a demonic offspring, right?

He wanted to create a 100% 'holy embryo'.

He is currently still in seclusion, and it's unclear whether it will be successful. (End of Chapter)