Chapter 93 – The Celestial Physician’s Immortal Scripture

Chapter 93 – The Celestial Physician’s Immortal Scripture

The white-haired elder looked somewhat familiar, yet Lin Fan couldn’t recall where he had seen him before.

He had kind brows and gentle eyes like the grandfather next door—approachable and warm.

It was impossible not to feel a natural fondness toward him.

Lin Fan, of course, would never assume the other party was merely an ordinary person.

Without a doubt, the elder’s cultivation was far too high, far exceeding the range Lin Fan could currently perceive.

And so Lin Fan grew even more cautious.

He bowed respectfully. “Greetings, Senior.”

The white-haired elder responded with a genial chuckle. “No need to be so formal. I’m nothing but an old man who should have died long ago but hasn’t.”

After a brief pause, he asked kindly, “Are you the one turning in 《The Cloud-Water Chart》?”

Li Fan nodded, then handed over the iridescent model.

The white-haired elder took the miniature Cloud-Water Celestial Palace and examined it carefully, his eyes filling with infinite nostalgia.

“That’s right, this is it.”

“Hanhai, Taiyi, Fuyun…”

“It’s been a long time.”

As if lost in memory, the elder’s gaze grew somewhat hazy.

Lin Fan’s heart skipped a beat at the elder’s words.

He stood silently to the side, not daring to make any careless moves.

From what the elder was saying, this old man was actually of the same generation as that Turtle-Snake Taiyi?

The destruction of the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace had occurred who knew how many years ago. And this man had survived from that era all the way to the present?

One had to understand that after the Great Calamity, cultivators were universally targeted by the malice of heaven and earth.

They could no longer enjoy the longevity that ancient cultivators once had.

Living a thousand years was already extremely difficult.

What level of cultivation would it take to survive this long?

Spirit Transformation? Dao Merging?

Lin Fan didn’t dare speculate recklessly, but his inner vigilance only deepened.

In this world where immortal arts could not be dual-cultivated, to have survived from the Great Calamity all the way to the present…

A powerhouse of this caliber…

If one truly believed he was as “kindly” as he appeared, that would be far too naive.

The white-haired elder noticed Lin Fan’s nervousness and let out a faint, knowing smile.

“What is the current state of affairs inside the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace?” he asked.

Lin Fan then described in detail Qin Tang, who had turned into a stone statue; the Insect Daoist, who was refining himself into a pill; and Taiyi, whose body was pierced through with countless broken swords.

“Were it not for special reasons preventing me from entering the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace, I would never have sat by and watched them suffer all this time.”

After a long silence, the elder let out a sigh of endless emotion.

“To have made it out of the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace alive—you do have some sharpness about you.” The elder looked Lin Fan over and nodded approvingly.

“It was merely luck,” Lin Fan said modestly.

“I have another commission. I wonder if you’d be willing?” the white-haired elder suddenly asked.

“Please speak freely, Senior.”

“When you have the time, make another trip to the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace for me and place this object inside. That will suffice.” The white-haired elder produced a small white jade figurine and handed it to Lin Fan.

The white jade figurine bore no special aura; it seemed to be carved from ordinary jade.

And the figurine’s appearance was identical to the white-haired elder standing before him.

“Since I cannot enter the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace myself, let this figurine stand in my place, keeping them company forever.”

“As for payment…”

The white-haired elder pondered for a moment, then pointed a finger at the center of Lin Fan’s brow.

In an instant, a flood of information surged into Lin Fan’s mind.

Even with the spiritual sense of a mid Qi Refining stage cultivator, Lin Fan couldn’t help but feel dizzy and lightheaded, his head swelling with pressure.

By the time he came back to his senses, the white-haired elder’s figure had long since vanished from the Celestial Mystery Mirror.

And the hundred thousand contribution points had successfully been credited to his account.

Slowly sorting through the vast information in his mind, it was quite some time before Li Fan finally understood what the white-haired elder’s payment actually was.

《The Celestial Physician’s Immortal Scripture》.

It was not a cultivation technique, but a medical scripture.

It encompassed not only the study of human physiology, pathology, diagnostics, treatment, and pharmacology.

Its scope of study even covered every manner of animal and plant between heaven and earth.

It could truly be called all-encompassing, containing everything one could imagine.

The sheer volume of information was so vast that Lin Fan estimated it would take him at least a dozen years just to read through it once.

This immense and precious treasury of knowledge had been casually transmitted to Lin Fan by the white-haired elder with a single gesture.

“It’s certainly a good thing. But unfortunately, studying it would consume far too much time and energy. I’ll have to set it aside for now.”

Lin Fan didn’t dare neglect the white-haired elder’s commission.

After all, such a powerful figure had even paid him in advance.

And so Lin Fan made another trip to the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace.

He had expected that upon his clone entering again, he would have to undergo Senior Brother Qin Tang’s illusory dream trial once more.

But after the figurine in his storage ring emitted a burst of white light, Lin Fan appeared directly before the great gates of the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace.

The elder’s figurine detached itself from Lin Fan’s storage ring and flew into the sky.

Then, like ice and snow melting, it slowly dissolved and disappeared.

“The mission is complete just like that? That was a bit too easy and smooth.” Lin Fan muttered to himself, feeling suspicious.

He waited a while longer, but nothing unusual occurred within the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace.

“I wonder what that figurine was even for.”

Unable to discern any hidden mysteries, Lin Fan could only choose to leave.

Safely back inside the Celestial Mystery Mirror, Lin Fan gazed at his balance of one hundred thousand contribution points and fell into deep thought.

Originally, Lin Fan had planned to have his clone exchange the needed techniques and treasures after obtaining the hundred thousand contribution points, then hand everything over to his true body.

Just as Xiao Heng had exchanged the 《Minor Cosmic Water Art》 and sent it to Li Fan in the previous life.

But after encountering the white-haired elder, Li Fan had abandoned that idea.

For now, it seemed best that his clone and true body maintain absolutely no connection whatsoever.

The white-haired elder gave Li Fan an overwhelming sense of danger.

His clone had already fallen within the elder’s line of sight.

If his true body and clone made rash contact and the elder discovered the link between the two…

Given the miraculous nature of the 《Steal-the-Heavens, Swap-the-Sun Scripture》, even if this white-haired elder’s cultivation was supremely high, there was no guarantee he wouldn’t be tempted.

After all, in this dangerous cultivation world, people could be refined into Heavenly-Earthly Wonders.

One could never be too careful.

As for whether the hundred thousand contribution points might go to waste sitting idle with his clone, never to be spent—

There was absolutely no need for such worry.

After all, the most precious things in this world were the various forms of knowledge, including cultivation techniques!

While the clone browsed through various knowledge, the true body was simultaneously reading the same material.

So whether the hundred thousand contribution points were spent by the clone or by the true body, the effect was exactly the same.

Collecting his thoughts, Lin Fan first searched for information related to the “ancient war.”

While inside the Cloud-Water Celestial Palace, he had been deeply curious about the frontline war that Qin Tang and the Insect Daoist repeatedly mentioned.

That war seemed to have been exceptionally brutal—so much so that even after they had become the bizarre, it still haunted their minds.

Before long, Lin Fan found a few scattered fragments.

Unfortunately, perhaps because the events were so ancient, all related records were vague and lacking in detail.

The only thing that could be confirmed was that such a great war had indeed taken place.

The war seemed to have lasted an extraordinarily long time, beginning even before the Immortal Venerables spread the Dao.

It continued all the way until the Great Calamity descended before finally coming to an end.

Lin Fan next searched for information related to Heavenly-Earthly Wonders.