Under normal circumstances, the sleeping cultivators within the true Medicine King Cauldron were protected by the Oneiric Seasons Array, and Li Fan would have had to expend considerable effort to achieve his goal.

But breaking away from the Immortal Ruins had damaged the array to some degree.

More importantly, Li Fan knew of a Medicine King Sect cultivator named Linghu Chang who had failed to integrate himself fully into the Oneiric Seasons Array in time. The chamber Linghu Chang occupied was not completely sealed; a narrow gap remained.

If Li Fan could seize the memories within Linghu Chang's mind, the true Medicine King Cauldron would be virtually defenseless against him.

He would leave cultivators at the Nascent Soul realm and above undisturbed, letting them sleep on. Those below the Nascent Soul realm he could subdue and eliminate one by one using the Insect Binding divine ability, if it came to that.

Of course, even if these Medicine King Sect disciples each carried numerous artifacts and elixirs, such external possessions held little real value to Li Fan at this stage. 

What he truly wanted was the Medicine King Cauldron itself—a vessel capable of traversing the void—along with the set of Waymarks the Medicine King Sect possessed, leading to other cultivation worlds.

Even with the Immortal Ruins temporarily trapping me within the Xuanhuang World,...