Chapter 197: Chapter 183: How to Use One’s Heart Effortlessly

Translator: 549690339

Assisted by [Real], he could perpetually reincarnate.

Beyond the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, Li Fan planned to explore other organizations such as the Five Elders Organization when chances arose.

He believed they might also possess methods akin to the Heart-Asking Platform.

To prevent exposure and avoid getting slain directly as a spy, it was necessary for him to find a secret technique that could help him conceal himself.

Moreover, a method to conceal the secrets of one’s heart was particularly important for Li Fan, who harbored [Real].

“I do hope you are a spy, Daoist Zhou,” he muttered silently, recalling the scene when he first met Zhou Qingang.

He then sent messages to He Zhenghao, Gao Yuan, Chen Ying, and other acquaintances, inquiring about Zhou Qingang.

After half a day, he began to progressively receive their responses.

Disregarding those who were unfamiliar with the person, all the other responses were quite consistent.

Zhou Qingang was originally an unaffiliated cultivator.

Over seventy years ago, he joined the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals during the final stage of his energy refining.

After advancing to the Foundation Establishment Phase, he passed the triennial assessment and successfully became the guard of Taian Island.

Zhou Qingang was diligent and responsible in his daily work.

Most of the time, he would stay quietly on the island, seldom venturing beyond.

With this information, Li Fan became more certain of his initial judgment.

Now, he had to find a way to expose him.

Having infiltrated the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals for so many years without being discovered, Zhou Qingang must be incredibly cautious. For others to find his frailties might be somewhat challenging.

But for Li Fan, who possessed the Formless Killing Machine,

As long as Zhou Qingang was indeed a spy, he would be exposed eventually under a 24/7 round-the-clock, omnidirectional, unbounded monitoring.

With a genial smile, Li Fan left the Tianxuan Mirror and went to Taian Island by means of the teleportation array.

Having served as a deputy guard for a few years, Li Fan was quite familiar with this island.

Above the city where the peculiar human-face fruit resided, Li Fan met Zhou Qingang and explained his intentions.

“Taian Fruits, eh? Daoist, you’re out of luck. All of the remaining fruits have been sold, there’s none left, ” Zhou Qingang shook his head apologetically.

“Oh, what a shame. Having just heard of this affordable life-extending miracle, and not being able to snatch any in the Tianxuan Mirror, I hurried here hoping that you might have them in stock,” Li Fan sighed, a look of regret on his face. Yet while he was speaking, he was simultaneously activating the Formless Killing Machine and locking onto Zhou Qingang.

The Formless Killing Machine was exceptionally arcane, and Li Fan’s cultivation was even a minor realm higher than Zhou Qingang’s.

Unsurprisingly, Zhou Qingang did not perceive anything and even offered help, “There’s no need to worry, if you are in need, I can reserve a fruit for you from the next harvest. ”

Through the Communication Talisman, Li Fan readily agreed, “I would appreciate that, Daoist.”

From there, Li Fan began to add Zhou Qingang as a friend.

“At present, I hold a position as Array Repair Staff in the Array Strategy Hall, we can keep in touch and visit each other!” Li Fan said.

“I don’t know if you are familiar with the guard of Liuli Island, He Zhenghao? I have a close relationship with Daoist He.”

Zhou Qingang’s eyes lit up instantly, and he accepted the friend request right away.

“Hehe, I also have a good relationship with Daoist He. It turns out we all are acquaintances!”

Following Zhou Qingang’s words, Li Fan chatted casually for a while

Before eventually returning to the Ten Thousand Immortals Island.

In the Tianxuan Mirror, Li Fan directly transferred a hundred merit points to Zhou Qingang.

“Daoist Zhou, I’ve sent you the merit points first. Don’t forget to hold onto those Taian Fruits for me.”

Sure enough, Zhou Qingang replied back quickly.

“Rest assured, Daoist, even if I fail to complete my yearly task, I will reserve one for you!”

“Daoist Zhou is indeed a straightforward person!”

Whilst praising Zhou Qingang, Li Fan was observing his every move through the Heavenly-Earthly View.

His expression was entirely normal.

Li Fan didn’t expect to find his flaws all that quickly.

Under the surveillance of the Formless Killing Machine, the day would come when Zhou Qingang would inevitably slip up.

Li Fan decided to set this matter aside for the moment.

After transferring the 15,000 merit points to He Zhenghao,

He began to officially sort out the merit tasks.

His plan was to first raise his authority level, then see if he could find techniques related to multitasking.

This was quite important to him.

During his 12th life, he had encountered the “not enough brain power to go around” problem.

With the gradual expansion of his lending business in the Moon Palace, Li Fan had to simultaneously maintain the research of array techniques for both his main body and his avatars, as well as keep track of almost a hundred borrowers at any given time.

Although he only devoted a sliver of his consciousness to most of them, the impact on his main body was unavoidable as the number of consciousnesses sent out increased.

The specific manifestation was the temporary suspension of brain activity at times, and a reduction in normal thought speed.

Simply put, Li Fan would occasionally feel his brain was “lagging.” There were two ways to solve this problem.

One was to increase the overall strength of the consciousness.

The other was to enhance the multitasking capability of the consciousness, also known as multitasking.

Compared with ordinary cultivators, Li Fan’s consciousness was already very strong.

His consciousness strength at the late stage of Foundation Establishment was equivalent to the late stage of Golden Core, which was a full great realm higher than that of ordinary cultivators.

Now he had also found a method to enhance consciousness by entering the Fallen Immortal Realm and absorbing the body of the host.

So, for the time being, he did not need to look for other methods to increase his consciousness strength.

Consequently, what Li Fan needed to do now was to enhance his weak point.

Find a way to multitask.

During his 12th life, although Li Fan had a large fortune, there were unfortunately no such techniques in the Tianxuan Mirror.

He had no choice but to make do.

In this life, however, since he had joined the structure of the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals, he naturally had to take this opportunity to find a technique that could improve his brain’s multitasking capacity.

Li Fan searched earlier but with his current authority level of one, he couldn’t find any suitable techniques.

However, Li Fan believed that as his authority level increased, satisfactory results were bound to emerge.

At present, as a foundation establishment cultivator, most of the merit tasks Li Fan could undertake mostly corresponded to the lower ranks.

Occasionally, there would be one or two lower-ranked tasks that had been marked with high risk.

Li Fan had his sights set on these high-risk tasks.

The so-called high risk was actually subjective.

For the ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Alliance of Ten Thousand Immortals, a Golden Core Stage level task would clearly exceed their abilities.

Yet for Li Fan, who possessed many unique abilities, the risk of these tasks wasn’t as high.

For example, one of the tasks required joining a certain team from the Martial Arts Battle Hall to eliminate the exotic beasts on Wanlai Island in the Misthaven Ocean.

According to the task description, these exotic beasts multiply incredibly fast and are social in nature, creating a large herd.

They had to be substantially reduced at regular intervals.

Even though the exotic beasts were proliferating, their individual strength was relatively weak.

They had basic combat power equivalent to the early phase of foundation establishment.

It appeared to be perfectly suited for Li Fan..