Chapter 768: Known as the Little Heavenly Doctor
Chapter 768: Known as the Little Heavenly Doctor
But unlike Li Fan, the divine ability Wang Wan was comprehending didn't seem to be nearly as complex.
At the very least, Wang Wan remained perfectly calm as he received the data.
The black lines that formed the lower half of his body showed no signs of even stirring.
Let alone threatening to detach and fly away.
"Could it be that I was the 'lucky' one who drew the grand prize?" A shadow of doubt crossed Li Fan's eyes.
"This Wang Wan... it doesn't seem like his first time using the Heavenly Profound Mirror to deduce a divine ability. Perhaps I can ask him about it."
Having finished the deduction of his divine ability, the black lines connecting Li Fan to the platform below had already severed their link.
However, the countdown timer was still ticking, so he hadn't been expelled from this space yet.
Time trickled by, and soon, less than two hours remained.
Deng Mingqian, who had yet to make her choice, was clearly growing anxious.
She looked rather helpless and finally seemed to make a decision she wasn't entirely happy with.
Meanwhile, Wang Wan, like Li Fan, had already completed the comprehension of his divine ability.
The lines connecting to his feet disconnected, and he opened his eyes.
Sensing Li Fan's gaze, Wang Wan seemed a little surprised.
But since communication was impossible here, he simply gave a nod before turning his attention to Deng Mingqian.
After a moment of observation, he shook his head slightly.
The countdown hit zero.
A seven-colored radiance shone down from above.
The black and white lines began to fade, and the surrounding space grew vibrant with life once more.
In a daze, his vision blurred for a moment.
An instant later, the three of them found themselves back on Lotus Stone Mountain, just outside Tianquan Province.
Deng Mingqian unleashed a blast of energy, furiously striking a nearby mountain face.
It was a clear attempt to vent the anger boiling inside her.
But the rock here was unlike any ordinary mountain; it was incredibly hard.
Deng Mingqian's strike failed to leave so much as a crack.
Tears of frustration welled up in her eyes.
"Greed leads to loss, young lady," Wang Wan sighed, seeing her distress.
After some probing questions, Li Fan slowly learned from the man why the deduction process could be so treacherous.
It turned out that the divine ability tree initially generated in a cultivator's mind by the Heavenly Profound Mirror was not something every cultivator could fully perceive.
It contained far too many branches, making it impossible for an ordinary cultivator to grasp them all.
They could only rely on luck to make their choice.
Deng Mingqian, for instance, had been so dazzled by the overwhelming number of options that she'd wasted all the time she should have spent on comprehension.
"Don't be too discouraged. You're still young. You can just come back in another hundred years. When I first came here, I was just like you, always trying to pick the most suitable and powerful divine ability from that tree. In the end, I just wasted a precious opportunity," Wang Wan continued to console her, seeing she was still upset.
Deng Mingqian said, vexed, "It's all my brother's fault. Before I came, he secretly told me that the Heavenly Profound Mirror assesses a cultivator's potential based on how much of the divine ability tree they can survey."
"The more you survey, the greater your potential is deemed to be, and the higher the power ceiling of the ability you receive."
"So I just thought, the more I could see, the better..."
The more she spoke, the more aggrieved she sounded, as if she were about to burst into tears.
"That brother of yours might not have had your best interests at heart," Li Fan thought to himself.
"What did you say?!" Deng Mingqian froze, her head snapping toward Li Fan in an instant.
"Hm?" Li Fan's expression changed.
"What did you mean by what you just thought?" Deng Mingqian stared at him, her tone accusatory.
Li Fan reined in his thoughts and narrowed his eyes. "Fellow Daoist Deng, I don't know what you mean."
"Stop pretending! I can sense what other people are thinking, especially when it's about me!" Seeing Li Fan play dumb only fueled her anger.
"You were just thinking that my brother didn't have good intentions. What did you mean by that?"
"I sensed it very clearly! When my brother Qingyu secretly told me this secret, he was completely thinking of my well-being," Deng Mingqian declared, full of conviction.
"This girl is really naive," Li Fan deliberately thought to himself again.
Sure enough, Deng Mingqian, sensing his thought, flushed an even deeper shade of red.
"She really can read minds," Li Fan noted internally, surprised.
He gathered his thoughts once more, deciding to stop teasing the young woman, and began to explain.
"This brother of yours, Qingyu... from what you've said, he must be very close to you. That means he must also be very familiar with your cultivation level. How could he not know whether you possess the spiritual sense necessary to survey the entire divine ability tree?"
"If he truly had your best interests at heart, he never would have told you such a thing. He would have simply told you to focus on choosing a suitable ability to deduce."
"But instead, he deliberately, under the guise of helping you, 'casually' revealed it to you."
Li Fan sneered. "That was a deliberate attempt to stir your greed and ensure you came back empty-handed this time!"
"As for the intentions you sensed from him..."
"If he didn't know about your ability beforehand and wasn't on guard, then what you sensed might have been genuine."
"But he clearly knows you can read minds. In that case, what you sensed proves absolutely nothing."
Hearing this, Deng Mingqian was about to argue.
But she suddenly froze, because in that instant, she sensed an overwhelming wave of affection and pity radiating from Li Fan's mind.
It was so intense, so direct, that she had never experienced anything like it in her life.
Deng Mingqian's face turned beet red in an instant.
"You..."
She stamped her foot, utterly mortified. No longer daring to look at Li Fan, she turned and flew away.
"Hmph." Li Fan chuckled softly.
"If possible, fellow Daoist, you should probably leave Tianquan Province for a while and lay low." Having witnessed the entire exchange, Wang Wan couldn't help but offer a word of warning.
"Although it was an unintentional slip, letting the young woman hear your thoughts, you did expose Deng Qingyu's actions to her."
"That man is narrow-minded and has always been vengeful over the smallest slight..." Wang Wan added via a private voice transmission, his intentions purely helpful.
Li Fan cupped his hands. "Oh? The Deng family... I wonder how they compare to the Xuan family?"
"Xuan..." Wang Wan first froze, then his face paled dramatically. "You are..."
"I am an intermediate guest elder of the Xuan family," Li Fan stated calmly.
"In that case, I have spoken out of turn. The younger generation of the Deng family..." Wang Wan was at a loss for words.
He hurriedly apologized to Li Fan.
"It's no matter. You were only offering a kind warning," Li Fan said, unconcerned. After exchanging contact information with the man, he flew off.
As he flew, Li Fan felt a sense of relief.
"I never expected that after all this time, I'd run into another cultivator who can read minds like the Heavenly Doctor."
"Good thing she was just a naive girl with no cunning. Otherwise, I might have been in trouble again."
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