Chapter 255: Ruoshui And He Zhenghao
Li Fan’s thoughts raced, and in that instant, he understood the source of the “extreme peril” in He Xinxin’s divination.
It was the same flaw his avatar had revealed when facing the Heavenly Physician.
In this lifetime, if He Xinxin hadn’t performed a divination for him, Li Fan would have proceeded with his original plan to go to Yuandao Province.
When Anchor Year 29 arrived and It once again devoured time, would It discover that this insignificant cultivator, Li Fan, strangely already bore the mark of “a bite taken out of him”?
Yet It could be certain It had never stolen Li Fan’s time before.
Li Fan believed this unknown, terrifying entity would instantly deduce the most plausible explanation for such a phenomenon.
When facing the Heavenly Physician, Li Fan had been conscious enough to activate Return to Truth.
But in the face of this monster that consumed the time of others, Li Fan wouldn’t even have a chance to silently call upon Return to Truth.
The reason this was “extreme peril” and not “certain death” likely hinged on one slim possibility: that Return to Truth’s autonomous protection could awaken Li Fan’s consciousness and shield him for a brief moment—just long enough to activate the ability.
With this, Li Fan formed a basic hypothesis about the “lost decade.”
In his view, this was also the conjecture closest to the truth.
As for other possibilities... If it were merely a matter of being unaware of ten stolen years in one lifetime, only realizing it afterward when reviewing that lifetime post-Return to Truth, Li Fan might have suspected the machinations of Lan Yu’s Lifespan-Devouring Rebirth Array.