Li Fan wasn’t worried that the Heavenly Venerable Dao Teacher, absent from the world for countless years, would suddenly materialize and ask, "Young friend, what are you looking at?" simply because Li Fan had glanced at the sky.[1]

What occupied his mind was something else entirely.

The saying went: the more one tries to cover something up, the more it stands out. Only when it came to things one truly cared about would one go to such lengths to conceal them. If it truly didn’t matter, why bother to hide it from others?

Over the Xuanhuang World's thousands of years of history, there had been no shortage of geniuses and prodigies. Surely many cultivators had come close to grasping something, just like Li Fan. Yet all of their insights had been forcibly suppressed by inexplicable mean...