Volume 6: The Mighty Starry Sky Chapter 748: The Art of Deduction
When Liu Chen returned to the Huadan Sect from the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool, he immediately found the great elder who was good at deduction and asked him to predict whether Li Xuanfeng was alive or dead.
Because it was Liu Chen who commissioned him, the great elder spent a whole day divination but still found nothing. He could only tell Liu Chen that Li Xuanfeng had an accident in the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool, and he could not deduce the result.
After hearing his words, Liu Chen could only give up completely. Li Xuanfeng must have met with an accident in the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool, and he couldn't find him after searching carefully. It was most likely that he had died .
After more than two years had passed, Liu Chen had even suppressed the regret in his heart and no longer held out any hope of finding Li Xuanfeng.
Unexpectedly, when he was about to let go of the matter completely, Li Xuanfeng returned to Huadan Sect safely, which made him extremely surprised.
Liu Chen also quickly noticed that Li Xuanfeng's cultivation had reached the perfection of the Earthly Profound Realm. His eyes suddenly became extremely bright and he smiled and said, "You are not bad, your cultivation has improved so much!"
Li Xuanfeng hurriedly explained respectfully: "I killed many thunder beasts in the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pond, absorbed a large amount of thunder crystals, and was lucky enough to find a cave with ancient elixirs, which is why I was able to improve my cultivation to this level."
Liu Chen said yes repeatedly, and did not ask Li Xuanfeng what specific fortune he had obtained in the cave. He just chatted with him for a while.
During the conversation, Li Xuanfeng took out a low table from his storage ring and even took out the ice spring to start making tea.
This is the ice spring that Li Xuanfeng collected from a thousand-foot-high peak on his way to Huadan Sect. It is ideal for making tea.
Li Xuanfeng raised his hand and condensed a purple-red flame. He controlled the temperature of the flame very carefully, boiled the ice spring, and added the best spiritual tea.
After Li Xuanfeng poured out the fragrant tea, Liu Chen immediately picked it up and tasted it carefully, then smiled and praised: "You have good skills, you are so skilled in controlling the power of fire to make tea."
Li Xuanfeng shook his head and smiled, "I rarely make tea, but I often refine pills so I can control the flames better."
After chatting and laughing for a while, Liu Chen left Li Xuanfeng's cave with a hearty smile and returned to his own residence.
Li Xuanfeng felt quite emotional. As his spiritual sense spread, he had heard a lot about Liu Chen's actions after he knew about his use.
“You don’t know that when Li Xuanfeng disappeared, Great Elder Liu Chen was extremely furious and reprimanded all the elders and top geniuses who went to the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pond.”
“Not only that, Great Elder Liu Chen even personally entered the Soul-Extinguishing Thunder Pond at the end of his weakening period, disregarding the danger to search for Li Xuanfeng’s trace.”
“From what I can see now, this Li Xuanfeng is probably worthy of the attention of Great Elder Liu Chen. His cultivation has actually reached the late stage of the Earthly Profound Realm, a realm even higher than the top geniuses in the sect!”
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After hearing their conversation, Li Xuanfeng already had a rough idea of what Liu Chen had done back then, and knew how much the elder valued him.
Although Li Xuanfeng still cannot completely believe that Liu Chen has no purpose at all, he cannot help but feel touched by what Liu Chen did.
If someone didn't know, they would think that Li Xuanfeng was Liu Chen's junior and that was why he took such good care of him.
There are indeed many disciples in the sect who suspect that Li Xuanfeng is the descendant of Great Elder Liu Chen, but they dare not publicize it for fear of arousing the anger of Great Elder Liu Chen.
After being hunted by the man surnamed Gong who took over his father's body, Li Xuanfeng calmed down and thought for a long time why this man surnamed Gong suddenly came to Duling Star again and attacked him directly!
In the end, Li Xuanfeng realized that this was most likely because the man surnamed Gong deduced that he might become a threat in the future, so he immediately came to Dulingxing to eliminate the root of the problem.
At the same time, Li Xuanfeng has already experienced the subtlety of the art of deduction. The young senior has been deducing for tens of thousands of years, and finally left him with a fortune that he still remembers vividly.
Thinking of this, Li Xuanfeng has secretly made a decision that he must also learn the art of deduction.
After Liu Chen left, Li Xuanfeng activated the protective formation in the cave and began to go into seclusion.
Although his cultivation has now reached perfection in the Earthly Profound Realm and it would be difficult to achieve a breakthrough in a short period of time, his previous breakthrough speed was too fast and he now needs to consolidate his cultivation.
After Li Xuanfeng arrived, the discussions within the Huadan Sect lasted for several days before gradually subsiding, and the Huadan Sect returned to peace again.
During these few days, a man and a woman made an appointment to visit Li Xuanfeng. Li Xuanfeng had no choice but to welcome them into the cave, set up a low table, and brew some fragrant tea.
These two people are none other than the two top geniuses of Huadan Sect, Jiang Chen and Yang Xue.
When the two arrived at Li Xuanfeng's cave, they bowed respectfully together and said with gratitude: "Thank you for saving us in the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pond, Fellow Daoist Li. We are truly unworthy of your help."
Jiang Chen and Yang Xue recalled that before entering the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool , they thought Li Xuanfeng would become a burden to them. Although they did not say it, they disliked Li Xuanfeng in their hearts.
But what they didn't expect was that it was the "burden" they thought was saving their lives, otherwise they might have perished in the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool!
Li Xuanfeng waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's just a small favor, you two fellow Taoists don't have to worry about it."
Then Li Xuanfeng invited the two to sit down at the low table and poured them some brewed tea.
However, Jiang Chen and Yang Xue did not have much time to calmly drink tea at this time, because they had already clearly felt Li Xuanfeng's cultivation.
They were originally in seclusion when they heard that Li Xuanfeng's cultivation had reached the late stage of the Earth Profound Realm. They immediately felt extremely unconvinced. The two of them entered the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool, but they only barely improved a small realm and entered the middle stage of the Earth Profound Realm.
So the two of them communicated with each other and decided to go and check it out, just in time to thank Li Xuanfeng for helping them stop the powerful enemy in the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool.
At this moment, Jiang Chen and Yang Xue could clearly feel the strong aura emanating from Li Xuanfeng. They were shocked. Li Xuanfeng's cultivation was indeed as rumored. He had already reached the late stage of the Earth Profound Realm!
Jiang Chen and Yang Xue couldn't help but feel a little shocked. Although they were known as top geniuses, they seemed to have been overshadowed since Li Xuanfeng left!
Li Xuanfeng is not only a cultivator in the Earth Profound Realm, but also an alchemist in the Earth Profound Realm. Now, after a trip to the Soul-Destroying Thunder Pool, he has made another huge breakthrough and has surpassed all of their cultivation levels.
Before, because Li Xuanfeng was an alchemist, they were confident that their fighting power must be higher than Li Xuanfeng, but now they dare not say so at all.
Jiang Chen shook his head and smiled, "Fellow Daoist Li is indeed worthy of being valued by the Great Elder. His talent is so amazing. We haven't seen him for more than two years, but he has already reached the late stage of the Earthly Profound Realm. We are really far behind him."
Yang Xue also nodded silently, with a light flashing in her beautiful eyes. She was extremely proud and had never admitted that there were people of the same generation whose qualifications far exceeded hers.
However, she had to admit at this moment that Li Xuanfeng's qualifications were indeed much stronger than hers, and even made her feel a little out of reach.
Jiang Chen and Yang Xue each left behind a storage bag with some of their own thoughts in it, as a token of gratitude to Li Xuanfeng for helping them along.
Li Xuanfeng did not refuse. Since the two people were so kind, he accepted it. He did protect them once.
Afterwards, Jiang Chen and Yang Xue said goodbye and left without staying in Li Xuanfeng's cave for long. They did not have a deep friendship with Li Xuanfeng and they already felt that Li Xuanfeng did not want to chat with them too much.
After sending Jiang Chen and Yang Xue away, Li Xuanfeng hung a jade plaque outside the cave with the words "in retreat" written on it.
When his spiritual sense swept over, Liu Chen sensed the jade token that Li Xuanfeng hung outside the cave. He couldn't help but shook his head and smiled. He already knew that Li Xuanfeng didn't seem to want to deal with too many people and preferred quiet cultivation.
However, Liu Chen did not care about this matter, because he knew that Li Xuanfeng's method of rejecting guests was not used on him. As long as he arrived or sent a message, Li Xuanfeng would soon wake up from his retreat.
Time passed quietly, and three years went by in the blink of an eye. Li Xuanfeng had been meditating in seclusion in the cave and rarely left the cave.
He would only leave the cave every three months or so and go to the Huadan Sect's trading pavilion to buy materials for refining pills, and sell the refined pills as well.
As the number of times he dealt with Li Xuanfeng increased, the elder of the trading pavilion became more and more alarmed. He discovered that the quality of the pills refined by Li Xuanfeng was becoming more and more amazing, and the alchemy materials he could buy had even reached the level of refining top-level pills in the Earth Profound Realm.
According to the speculation of the elders of the Trading Pavilion, Li Xuanfeng is already able to refine intermediate elixirs of the Earth Profound Realm, and is even trying to refine top-level elixirs of the Earth Profound Realm.
What they didn't know was that Li Xuanfeng was selling lower-grade pills in order to attract less attention.
In fact, he was already able to refine top-level elixirs of the Earth Profound Realm, but he was not satisfied with the success rate, which was only about 30%.
This is already an extremely high success rate for other alchemists, but it is far from enough for Li Xuanfeng. It must at least reach 50%.
Refining pills does not require Li Xuanfeng to use his original body to concentrate all his mind. Now he has separated the fire clone and used it specifically for refining pills.
Li Xuanfeng's real body was searching through the collection left by the Five Elements Venerable, looking for records about the art of deduction.
Although he found many descriptions of the art of deduction, Li Xuanfeng soon discovered that there seemed to be no specific method in the jade slips that recorded the art of deduction. The description was quite vague, and he needed to slowly comprehend it himself.
The art of deduction is to use the power of heaven to deduce things that have happened and things that are about to happen. A skilled person can even sense it on his own without any warning signs and know that something might happen.
Although the art of deduction cannot condense into a magical technique with astonishing power, it is a deep control over the power of the Tao and is extremely difficult to learn.
Although he knew that the art of deduction was extremely difficult, Li Xuanfeng did not give up. Instead, he continued to look through the jade slips left by the Five Elements Venerable, constantly exploring and learning.
