Traveling through time to cultivate immortality: a life and death test

Liu Xing lay motionless on the seafloor, as still as a stone, devoid of any life or movement. Soon, fish, shrimp, and crabs swam overhead, and predators emerged, staging various disguised attacks. A day later, Liu Xing felt a divine consciousness sweep past him, then fade away without stopping. Chen Gongfeng was furious. He had been running non-stop all day, exploring every direction, but hadn't seen a single trace of the meteor.

His spiritual energy was also greatly depleted, so he stopped on a reef to meditate and recover. The next day, he resumed his search, blanket-combing the area within a thousand miles, vowing to find and slay this evil thief. Liu Xing was patient; his life was at stake, and he dared not be careless. Another spiritual sense scanned the area the next day, followed by another three days later, and then another two weeks later.

"Could it be that this little thief has truly gotten far away? No longer in this area?" Three months later, Chen Gongfeng was still stationed nearby, feigning his departure to lure Liu Xing out. He wanted to keep Liu Xing's treasures for himself, so he didn't notify the other cultivators in the city for reinforcements. Liu Xing lay motionless, and his strategy was to "wait." He believed that as a Jindan-level senior, Chen Gongfeng would surely have many tasks assigned to him by the City Lord's Mansion, and he couldn't stay here forever. As for whether he would leave early, he wasn't sure. Since he wasn't sure, he remained motionless, lest he fall into the enemy's trap. In short, he could remain constant in the face of change.

Apparently, his strategy was right. Three months later, the long-absent divine consciousness reappeared. Chen Gongfeng planned to conduct one final, thorough search. If he still couldn't find anything, he would have to return to the City Lord's Mansion to report. This guy was from Haibin City, so he secretly sought his whereabouts. If he returned to the city, he would be caught in the act. Naturally, this time, like before, nothing was found.

After that, there was no spiritual sense exploration for half a year, and then there was no spiritual sense exploration for a year. Liu Xing estimated that there was a 90% chance that the other party had left. Then he quietly released his spiritual sense and carefully extended it outward. There was no movement within 20 kilometers. So, he quietly got up and used the earth escape technique to slowly continue walking northwest in the mud and sand on the seabed. This direction was deep in the sea, far away from the coastal city. He did not pursue speed, but only safety. His spiritual sense was always paying attention to the surrounding situation, and he would immediately stand still at the slightest movement. A month later, he went 30,000 miles deep into the sea. Only then did he emerge from the sea and find a small island that had been explored long ago. He opened a cave, set up restrictions, and began to take healing pills.

This time, his body was completely drained, his spiritual energy and blood essence severely depleted. He hadn't dared to move in the nearly two years he'd been hiding, and naturally, he couldn't heal or practice his skills. Fortunately, he'd prepared a large amount of healing and blood-replenishing elixirs, and he hadn't used much of them before. This time, he'd used up nearly half of them, and finally, six months later, he was back to normal, his face showing color, and his magic power had fully recovered.

In the coastal city, Nie Xiaoqian was a little restless, because the City Lord's Mansion had been looking for a murderer for the past two years, and the clue was vaguely to his brother Liu. Brother Liu had been missing for almost ten years, and no matter how she called out, there was no response from her talisman. In the first few years, she couldn't contact Brother Liu, and when she really missed him, she would run to the door of Liu Xing's cave in Yulan Bay to take a look. Every time she saw the restrictions were fully open, the cave door was tightly closed, and he looked like he was in seclusion practicing. She didn't care much, because of course she couldn't disturb him during his retreat. She just came to take a look to see if Brother Liu had come out, and when she saw that everything was normal, she felt relieved, and then left contentedly. But six years ago, she discovered that the restrictions on the cave had been broken by brute force. She was horrified, and asked the property management, only to find out that the rent had expired, and the tenant had not come out to renew the lease. She summoned him many times but to no avail, and was worried that something had happened to the tenant inside, so she broke the restrictions and went in to take a look. When it came to breaking the restriction, the management complained that the restriction was too powerful, and even their formation master couldn't open it. Later, they recruited three late-stage Foundation Establishment worshippers to bombard it for an entire afternoon before finally breaking it. After opening it, they found the cave was covered in dust. No one had been inside, presumably having left many years ago.

Nie Xiaoqian left Yulan Bay in a depressed mood. She understood that Brother Liu had left after seeing her for the last time, but he just left without saying goodbye. The fallen flower wants to follow the flowing water, but the flowing water has no intention of lingering on the fallen flower. Miss Xiaoqian shed tears for this many times. She had gradually forgotten about it. She buried this unsprouted feeling deep in her heart, returned to her hard work, and successfully broke through to the middle stage of foundation building. But two years ago, Chen Gongsheng of the City Lord's Mansion came back from overseas, but began to secretly investigate a young monk who controlled five foundation building puppets. After two years of investigation, he found nothing. In the end, because the five late foundation building monks of the City Lord's Mansion disappeared for no reason after going out to sea with him, the City Lord's Mansion suffered heavy losses, which forced him to tell the truth. He was killed by this puppet monk.

When the news broke, everyone was in disbelief. How had the man, with only a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivation base, managed to annihilate five late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators from the City Lord's Mansion? Even a typical Jindan cultivator couldn't pull it off. Speculation and rumors swirled, and as the news spread, the City Lord's Mansion suffered not only heavy losses but also a slap in the face, vowing to find the culprit and rip him to pieces. The five puppets had been bought at auction by a white-bearded elder, whose identity was known only to the Tongda Chamber of Commerce's management. Under pressure, Chang Qing admitted to the man's temporary alchemy service, but he hadn't appeared to complete the task in ten years. He also confidently claimed that the man was only in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, far inferior to himself, and a high-level alchemist whose elixirs had once been commissioned by the City Lord's Mansion. How could he possibly possess such powerful combat power? He questioned whether the City Lord's Mansion had made a mistake. However, Chang Qing had no idea where Liu Xing lived in the city, or what his life was besides alchemy. He knew that Liu Xing was looking to buy a fourth-level demon beast's inner core, and if he couldn't find one, he might take the risk of going deep-sea monster hunting. However, he didn't believe that Liu Xing was so powerful.

Another person who knew the identity was Nie Xiaoqian. She was also shocked when she heard the news, but she was certain that the murderer was Brother Liu. She had no doubt that her Brother Liu possessed such formidable combat prowess. Combining the skills of a master of formations, alchemy, and weaponry was unprecedented, and yet, her Brother Liu had achieved it. She also realized that the demon-hunting helpers Brother Liu had mentioned to her were actually those repaired puppets; she had thought they were teaming up with others.