“Hahaha, I’ll try my best to live up to Fellow Daoist’s kind words.”
He Zhenghao laughed heartily and couldn’t wait to fly to the destination.
“We’re here!”
After a short half-day, He Zhenghao suddenly stopped, then plunged into the sea.
Li Fan followed, diving all the way to the depths of the sea.
With his spiritual consciousness, he scanned the three major faults formed by the countless rugged mountain ranges below.
“Indeed, the atmosphere is extraordinary, with a unique charm as compared to mountains found on land.”
Li Fan couldn’t help but think to himself.
He Zhenghao stood on the bottom of the sea and closed his eyes, seemingly searching for something.
Above his head, the “Hundred Veins Formation Diagram” suddenly appeared.
In an instant, as if there was an inexplicable fluctuation emanating from the continuous mountain range below, faintly resonating with the formation diagram.
He Zhenghao continuously adjusted his position, determining the optimal location.
Li Fan quietly observed on the side.
After a while, He Zhenghao suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a gleam.
Above his head, the “Hundred Veins Formation Diagram” grew rapidly.
In an instant, it became the size of a hundred miles.
The sharp-eyed Li Fan also noticed that the appearance of mountains and rivers in the formation diagram kept changing.
Surprisingly, it gradually became more similar to the underwater mountain range shrouded below.
The resonance fluctuation became stronger and stronger.
When the scenery in the diagram completely matched the actual scene, He Zhenghao shouted loudly.
The formation diagram emitted a dazzling white light, then seemed to completely merge into the lower mountains, disappearing from view.
He Zhenghao pinched his fingers and continuously pointed. Beside him, the mountain and river formations subtly changed.
It seemed to form a large formation, guarding He Zhenghao in the center.
“Hundred of veins, mountains, and rivers, all incorporated together as a formation… What a great treasure.”
Li Fan had once peeked into He Zhenghao’s “Interpretation of the Hundred Veins Formation Diagram,” so he was not unfamiliar with this method of transforming mountains and rivers into a formation.
“Please, fellow Daoist, guard me!” He Zhenghao said solemnly to Li Fan.
Afterward, he gathered his thoughts and officially began core formation.
Although this place was quite remote, and rarely visited by cultivators, Li Fan remained vigilant.
He flew above He Zhenghao, overlooking his core formation process, while also monitoring the surroundings to act as a guard.
It was different from the majestic scene of Sword, Water, and Wind laws dominating the sky and earth when Zhang Haobo formed his core.
In the beginning, there was only silence.
No anomalies occurred, and He Zhenghao sat cross-legged above the Three Undersea Faults, silent and motionless.
If Li Fan hadn’t faintly perceived that something seemed to be brewing beneath the sea bed, he might almost have thought He Zhenghao was just in closed-door cultivation.
Li Fan patiently waited.
The process of accumulating strength took even longer than he had imagined.
It took more than ten days before any changes finally occurred.
In the quiet underwater world, a heartbeat-like sound suddenly rang out.
“Thump!”
Li Fan squinted his eyes.
The moment he heard the sound, he had a strange illusion.
This underwater triple fault which stretched for a hundred miles seemed to have suddenly come alive.
It was as if a deep-sea behemoth that had been sleeping for countless years had suddenly awakened, and it brought him an inexplicable sense of danger.
“Thump!”
The heartbeat sound rang out again.
The earth trembled slightly.
Li Fan’s sense of unease grew stronger.
From the Vision of Heaven and Earth, when he looked down at the mountain range below, Li Fan could faintly see.
As the echoing heartbeat continued, deep in the earth, streams of earth-colored energy surged like blood rushing through veins.
It brought endless power to the earth.
“The law of Earth Veins…”
Li Fan seemed to have gained some insight.
The “Hundred Veins Formation Diagram,” which had expanded to a hundred miles and merged with the seabed below, suddenly erupted with a bright light along its edges.
It was as if a silver dividing line separated it from the original underwater mountain range.
Heartbeats echoed as endless earth-colored Earth Veins energy surged from the boundless distant continental shelf.
Like all rivers flowing into the sea, they were all absorbed by the formation.
“Just the law of Earth Veins alone has such momentum?”
“Extraordinary, truly extraordinary!”
“Worthy of being the man I value!”
Li Fan praised repeatedly, looking forward to the remaining two laws.
The force of Earth Veins continued to surge and gradually stabilized.
He Zhenghao began to delve into the law of Mountains and Rivers.
Li Fan noticed that the seawater, which should have been still, began to flow slowly at this moment.
From the highest seabed, it flowed downward.
With each drop of thousands of meters created by the faults, unique underwater waterfalls were formed as the momentum of the seawater increased.
After the baptism of the three major faults, the slow undercurrents had turned into a surging underwater current.
Sweeping through the underwater mountain range, it roared past.
Compared to the heartbeat of the Earth Veins, it sounded like heavy breathing.
The rushing currents traversed through the dense mountains.
Strands of blue-green energy were absorbed by the array.
“Law of Mountains and Rivers…”
Li Fan’s eyes flashed with a hint of understanding.
The Earth Veins and the Mountains and Rivers complemented each other.
Heartbeats and breaths echoed constantly in his ears.
The three undersea faults below gave an increasingly obvious sense of “vitality.”
Blue-green and earth-colored light continuously emerged from the seabed.
It seemed to have attracted some cultivators to come and observe.
Most of them could tell that a cultivator was breaking through the Golden Core stage.
Later, Li Fan revealed his identity as a Formation Repairer of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
These cultivators, seeing that a member of the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance was standing guard, dispelled their thoughts and chose to keep a distance.
However, there were still some stubborn and unscrupulous cultivators lurking in secret.
Most of them were nameless loose cultivators.
Their strength was all below the Golden Core stage.
Li Fan didn’t hold back and directly captured them with his Insect Binding Technique, throwing them far away.
After three days like this, the spectacular scene gradually began to converge.
The heartbeat sound gradually diminished.
The breathing sound became lighter.
The laws of Earth Veins and Mountains and Rivers gradually converged.
The sense of “vitality” also slowly faded away.
It reverted to the appearance of a normal underwater abyss.
However, Li Fan could clearly feel it.
This was hiding, not disappearing.
A mysterious and obscure energy concealed all the anomalies, making them difficult to perceive.
If Li Fan hadn’t witnessed all the changes from beginning to end and meticulously observed from the Vision of Heaven and Earth, he probably wouldn’t have understood the inexplicable changes here.
When Li Fan witnessed the abyss below, it was as if he was staring directly at an ancient ferocious beast ready to devour someone at any moment.
Occasionally, waves of indescribable palpitations surged in his heart.
“Law of Hidden Abyss…”
“Wonderful!”
“The three laws are completed. It seems that fellow Daoist He is not far from completing the core formation!”
Li Fan thought to himself.
The seabed returned to its previous quiet appearance.
It was another seven days later.
However, He Zhenghao still hadn’t succeeded in forming his core.
The laws of Earth Veins, Mountains and Rivers, and Hidden Abyss had all stopped fluctuating.
According to reason, he could complete the core formation at this point.
But He Zhenghao had yet to make a move.
It didn’t seem like a failure.
It was more like he was waiting for something.