Cultivation of immortality begins with an eighty-year-old eunuch.

"Sizzle!"

A dark red lightning bolt appeared out of thin air and struck him squarely in the face. Chen Fan reacted extremely quickly, immediately using his spatial manipulation to retreat half a step, barely managing to dodge it. However, the lightning still grazed his cheek, leaving a deep, bone-revealing bloodstain.

The road ahead was completely blocked.

Chen Fan tried to retreat to the area he had come from, but was horrified to find that the seawater behind him had turned into a chaotic maze, and he could not find the way he had come from at all.

It's hard to move an inch.

There is no way to go back, nor can there be any way to go forward.

Trapped in this raging central region, even the slightest movement would trigger a chain reaction, attracting the deadly array that could obliterate him.

Damn it.

Chen Fan wiped the blood from his cheek, a cold glint flashing in his dark eyes.

"Since we can't walk anymore, then we won't walk anymore."

He then sank the power of the fusion of immortals and demons into the soles of his feet to stabilize his body, and then sat down cross-legged on the arrayed sea surface amidst the raging waves and thunder!

Close your eyes and shut down your five senses.

Only a sliver of extremely keen perception remains to sense every subtle pulsation of the surrounding array patterns.

As time passed, Chen Fan became completely immersed in deducing the formation.

This is a practice that is both extremely tedious and extremely dangerous.

The deduction of the formation was also extremely slow.

This is because Chen Fan needs to shatter all his past understanding of formations and relearn the ancient formation principles left behind by the ancient demon race.

Spring goes and autumn comes, time leaves no trace.

In this arrayed space where there is no alternation of day and night, time seems to have lost its meaning.

A year has passed.

Chen Fan sat motionless on the sea like a stone statue. His clothes were torn to shreds by the occasional bursts of energy around him, and his black hair was loose, obscuring his face.

His mind was undergoing countless cycles of collapse and reconstruction.

"No, the 'Gate of Life' here isn't about reversing the Eight Trigrams, but rather about working backwards in accordance with the Five Elements..."

Two years have passed.

Chen Fan's face was as pale as paper, due to the excessive consumption of his spiritual energy. Whenever his spiritual energy was exhausted, he would mechanically take out a handful of Rejuvenation Pills and stuff them into his mouth.

"The cycle of cause and effect means that the core of the formation is both the gate of life and the gate of death. To break this formation, one must use demonic energy as a guide and immortal power as an aid, forcibly severing the spiritual energy supply node at the moment the formation reaches its peak operation..."

Three years!

He sat in meditation for three whole years!

One day in the third year.

Chen Fan, who had been completely still, suddenly moved.

He suddenly opened his eyes, his dark pupils filled with fine blood vessels, looking extremely exhausted.

Yet beneath this weariness shines a brilliant light of wisdom, as dazzling as the stars!

"We've got it."

A hoarse, dry voice came from Chen Fan's throat, which had not uttered a sound for a long time.

He slowly raised his right hand, with an extremely pure fusion of immortal and demonic power swirling around his fingertips.

"break!"

With a low shout, Chen Fan pointed a finger, not at the raging lightning and water columns, but lightly at a seemingly harmless array pattern wave a foot in front of him.

"Buzz!"

A finger fell.

It was as if the first domino had been pushed over.

The wave collapsed instantly, and then the surrounding raging seventh-grade composite formation, like a sandcastle that had lost its core support, began to crumble in large sections!

"Boom!"

The massive, sky-covering array net dissipated, and the thunder that filled the sky vanished.

A calm passage, about ten feet wide, slowly unfolded before Chen Fan, leading straight ahead.

Three years of hard work, breaking through the enemy lines with a single finger!

Chen Fan let out a long breath and stood up, supporting his numb legs.

I'm amazed that the formation is already so powerful in the central region.

How difficult will the formations become later on?

Without time to think further, Chen Fan continued to extrapolate.

After breaking through the seventh-grade formation, his understanding of this sea of ​​formations underwent a qualitative leap.

For the next few hundred miles, although the formations were still dangerous, most of them were seventh-grade formations.

For the experienced Chen Fan, it was simply a matter of spending more time!

However, the good times did not last long.

Two months after Chen Fan set out, he encountered an even more difficult formation ahead.

Looking around, the seawater in front of you no longer appears as water.

Instead, it transformed into nine enormous, towering array hurricanes!

These nine hurricanes are interconnected, forming an impenetrable array wall that stretches across the sky and earth.

Within the hurricane, there is not only a terrifying law that strangles the physical body, but also a demonic sound that bewitches the mind and devours the soul!

This is no longer a seventh-grade formation, but an ancient and wondrous formation that has surpassed the limits of understanding in the cultivation world of Tiannan Star!

Chen Fan stood before the hurricane, feeling the terrifying pressure that could tear him to shreds in an instant, and shook his head helplessly.

He tried to deduce it.

In an instant, countless array variations flooded his mind.

The sheer volume of calculations nearly caused his mind to collapse on the spot.

"It seems this is the real test."

Chen Fan's lips twitched. He wiped away the blood that had spilled from the corner of his mouth due to the backlash, and a hint of helplessness appeared in his eyes.

Retreat is out of the question.

Since we can't avoid it, we might as well keep enduring it!

Chen Fan had no complaints. He dusted off the tattered clothes and sat down cross-legged again in front of the hurricane.

This formation is more than ten times more complex than the previous one.

The process of enlightenment became more arduous and slower.

These nine hurricanes deep within the array sea seem to contain some primordial law from the beginning of time.

Chen Fan's deductions failed time and time again.

His mood, even amidst this extreme boredom and frustration, became slightly irritable.

Inner demons arise silently.

"Give up, you can't break through this formation..."

"Even if you sit in solitude for a hundred years, it will be in vain..."

The hurricane-like noise in his ears amplified his negative emotions.

Yet Chen Fan's will was so firm!

"Certainly!"

He suddenly activated the Fixed Word Technique, and gray-white ripples of artistic conception exploded in his mind, forcibly suppressing the burgeoning inner demons!

"It's just a formation; anything set up by humans will inevitably have flaws!"

Chen Fan bit the tip of his tongue, using the intense pain to keep himself awake.

He completely immersed himself in the profound and mysterious deduction of the array.

In his first year, he had no clue what to do, and was simply trying to remember the hundreds of millions of runes in the hurricane.

In the third year, he finally found the array node of the first hurricane.

The fifth year.

Chen Fan sat cross-legged in front of the hurricane formation, his body motionless, like a stone sculpture that had sat for countless years.

His robes had long since turned into tattered strips of cloth amidst the overflowing energy of the array, and his disheveled black hair was streaked with the color of frost.

Five years of tireless research had left his cheeks deeply sunken, his cheekbones high, and his eye sockets surrounded by a dark, bluish-black tinge.