Fantasy: I'm Really Not A Supreme Master!

Li Fan returned to the bonfire to find that the fire was still burning, but the people had begun to disperse.

However, this time, he found that only Gong Ya remained, passed out on the ground... and Dugu Yuqing had actually disappeared!

This took Li Fan by surprise. Dugu Yuqing usually had a high tolerance for alcohol. Didn't he need someone to drag him away?

"Hm?"

Suddenly, he noticed the drunken Fan Paiming crawling on the ground, scraping at the dirt as if about to put it into his mouth!

Seeing this, Li Fan was immediately shocked. What the hell was this?

Why had they all started eating dirt?

Was this dirt-eating phenomenon spreading from person to person?

He hurried forward, pulled Fan Paiming up to look, and saw that Fan Paiming's mouth was all muddy.

It looked like... he ate quite a bit.

Li Fan was speechless. He settled Fan Paiming down and then went on to conduct a thorough inspection of Fan Yaoyao and Shui Qingling.

Sure enough, there was some grime in the mouths of Fan Yaoyao and Shui Qingling, but they didn't seem to mind at all. They tried hard to swallow it down, their expressions even bearing a trace of a smile, as if they quite enjoyed it.

Li Fan felt that there were hints of mental illness...

"Ming Tianbei."

Li Fan couldn't help calling out:

"Take these three to the mental hospital to stay overnight and observe them."

He felt that these three had a trend of evolving into mental patients!

Ming Tianbei and Blood Spear were still around. Hearing this, they immediately rushed over and took them away.

Only then did Li Fan pick up Gong Ya and head towards the small courtyard, feeling that Dugu Yuqing had most likely gone back there.

Meanwhile, Ming Tianbei and the others, while supporting Fan Paiming and the rest, Ming Tianbei disdainfully said:

"What a lack of experience, the ground here is usually burned and has already hardened, the soil in the backyard of our mental hospital tastes much better..."

With that, he said to Blood Spear and the others:

"Let's go, fellow Demon Marshals, time for some midnight snacks!"

...

Li Fan returned to the small courtyard, pushed the door open, and indeed, saw Dugu Yuqing under the peach tree!

Li Fan approached, first set Gong Ya to rest on a chair, and then upon checking, became puzzled.

Because, under the peach tree, there were clear traces of soil having been dug up.

But Dugu Yuqing's mouth was very clean, with no sign of having eaten dirt...

This was getting peculiar...

He felt that something was amiss, so he immediately dragged Dugu Yuqing back.

As he pulled Dugu Yuqing away, at that moment, the peach tree's branches gently drooped and brushed lightly across the ground, causing some of the dirt to disappear without a trace.

The unconscious Gong Ya beside instinctively opened her small mouth, and the dirt transformed into a beam of light, disappearing inside her body.

After leaving, Li Fan did not overthink and carried Gong Ya back to her room.

After settling Dugu Yuqing and Gong Ya, Li Fan turned and headed to the woodshed.

In the shed, Li Fan found a dust-covered bottle which contained a mass of black liquid.

- This was something Li Fan found when he first entered the village. The villagers claimed it was "Divine Jumper's" consecrated divine oil. Back then, the villagers even thought it was a good thing and wanted to drink it.

Li Fan analyzed it for a bit and realized... it was kerosene, indeed.

So, to prevent the villagers from drinking this stuff, he took the kerosene away and let it gather dust in the woodshed.

Today, having obtained the Bronze Ancient Lamp, Li Fan recalled this kerosene.

After all, the fire in the Bronze Lamp burned black, indicating it should be using kerosene. If he used other fuels, he was afraid it might damage the lamp, and then the antique would lose its value in the future.

Thereupon, Li Fan took the kerosene and the Ancient Lamp to his study. He placed the ancient lamp on the study table; then, casually, he poured some of that "kerosene" into the lantern.

Immediately, the flame grew more vigorous. When the kerosene burned, it seemed as if black vapors continuously surged out.

Li Fan nodded to himself, having guessed correctly that the lamp indeed burned kerosene.

Originally, the lamp should not have been lit.

So many years had passed, and kerosene lamps were already outdated, no longer fitting for the current times.

But now that the lamp was lit, Li Fan simply went with the flow.

- It was a good opportunity to add some kerosene to burn off the antique's verdigris. If it were to be sold in the future, the appearance would be better.

Then, Li Fan gracefully stood up and walked out of the study.

He stretched his body and went to sleep.

...

Not long after Li Fan had rested.

...

In the study.

The black flame was unpredictable and suddenly transformed into a black lotus platform.

Above the lotus platform, a figure gradually appeared!

This person sat cross-legged atop the Dark Lotus Platform, and at this moment, that "kerosene" turned into streams of darkness, merging into his body.

This person's appearance... was exactly the same as Li Fan's.

Just then.

In the study, the bow hanging on the wall, unaided, quietly drew itself, aiming an arrow at the lampwick.

On the bookshelf, a spineless ancient book slowly shifted towards the edge, as if about to fall onto the lampwick.

But, at that very moment, on the desk, a rusty sword suddenly emitted a faint hum.

Instantly, the bow on the wall relaxed, and the arrow fell back into its quiver.

The ancient scroll on the top shelf of the bookcase slowly returned to its place.

At the same time.

In the small courtyard, for a moment, the shadow of a dragon loomed large, a golden True Dragon silently roared, fixing its gaze upon the study, brimming with combativeness!

Phoenix light pervaded all around, and suddenly, each Earth Chicken transformed into a Nine Heavens True Phoenix, each of its feathers seemingly capable of collapsing the aeons!

Even the spiders swung between the webs, and the ants in the yard arranged themselves like an army, facing the study!

The entire small courtyard... was tense to the extreme!

But at this time, the Peach Tree swayed its branches and softly spoke, saying:

"Do not be overly tense."

"The master is still here, a mere Ancient Lamp of Darkness won't overturn the heavens, do not disturb the master's interest in sleep."

Upon hearing this, the intense atmosphere in the courtyard slightly eased.

However, the shadows of the Phoenix did not completely recede, and the voice of an old mother hen heavily spoke up, saying:

"What... exactly is happening..."

"Why has the master's Dark Entity, which was contaminated under the Dark Firmament, appeared here... and moreover, that Dark Entity is still absorbing the Dark Origin!"

There was profound concern in her words.

The Peach Tree whispered:

"In the past, the master faced the Dark Firmament alone, barely surviving nine deaths, chopped the nine lives contaminated by darkness, only then did he find the method to forge twelve Lamps of Origin..."

"After the master was saved by the Divine Jumper from within the Lamp of Origin, he mentioned that those nine Dark Entities of his were a major problem, which could only be restrained by forging the legendary Nine Worlds Forbidden Tower..."

"During that battle, you and I were both in deep slumber, unaware of what happened later... but now this Entity has shockingly appeared here, and moreover, it's nesting within the Flame of Darkness, accommodating the Dark Origin..."

"All of this is within the master's control."

As she slowly spoke, finally, the hovering Phoenix shadows receded, the old mother hen was as usual, but now with some tremors, saying:

"You mean, this is a trap set by the master?..."

Muttering to itself, it said:

"Looking at it today, the Divine Witch's contingency plan was to replace... he refined the Origins of the Ancestors of Darkness, and then made them cultivate the White Mist Origin, intending the villagers to replace the master in lighting the lamp..."

"But, the master took the lamp back... and moreover, allowed one of his Dark Entities to accommodate the Dark Origin... this..."

It seemed completely puzzled!

Before this, they were also unclear about what contingency the Divine Witch had prepared.

Only today did they suddenly understand – the Ancestor of Darkness.

The Origin of Darkness within the villagers had long been refined by the Divine Witch, and through countless years, those Ancestors of Darkness had even cultivated enough White Mist Origin.

So, the Divine Witch intended for the villagers... to replace the master in lighting the lamp, to die in his stead!

It must be said that the Divine Jumper was indeed... ruthless enough.

This was his contingency plan, his scheme.

The Peach Tree spoke up, saying:

"The Divine Witch underestimated the Dark Firmament."

There was a kind of clarity as if she understood something in her words, saying:

"His contingency plan, though seemingly effective, has too many flaws. If the darkness fully emerges, it could all be for naught."

The old mother hen seemed to understand as well, its gaze inadvertently shifting toward Li Fan's bedroom, saying:

"So... a scheme within a scheme is needed?"

"In doing so... the Divine Witch on the first layer, the Dark Firmament on the second, while the master..."

The branches of the Peach Tree drooped slightly, saying:

"Do you remember the day the master came to the village, the first thing he did was to collect the Origin of Darkness that the Divine Witch had refined from many Ancestors of Darkness bodies and threw it into the woodshed..."

"From that day on, he had been strategizing, waiting for today."

-- The "kerosene" in the woodshed... was precisely the Origin of Darkness refined by the Divine Witch!

The old mother hen nodded, saying:

"All this, should have been prepared by the master after we fell into slumber back then..."

In the past, when the Flame of White Mist extinguished, the master emerged from it, originally heading towards the Grey Mist Sea, the True Ancestor World to create Samsara, but darkness struck and he was forced to turn back to battle.

During that battle, beings like the Phoenix True Dragon and others... all fell silent.

Therefore, they... remained oblivious to everything.

Thinking of this, suddenly, the branches of the Peach Tree, the gaze of the old mother hen, the True Dragon in the pond...

All converged in one direction...

In that direction, the Big Black Dog lay in its doghouse, pretending to be asleep, shivering terribly!

......

Cough, cough, I feel that many readers might be a bit confused, so here is a rundown of the timeline:

Li Fan single-handedly faces the Dark Firmament, chops down nine lives contaminated by darkness, and forges twelve Lamps of Origin.

The Forebears took control of the Lamp of Origin and stepped forth, creating the Forbidden World, lighting the Flame of White Mist.

Darkness strikes, the ancestor of the Forebears dies amid the darkness.

The Divine Jumper (Divine Witch) deceives the Tribes of the Forebears to extinguish the Flame of White Mist and then disappears himself.

"That person" returns, heads towards the True Ancestor World to create Samsara.

Darkness strikes again, Emperor Zhantian among others perish, "that person" confronts it, along the way grants Black White the Path of Reincarnation, making it the Lord of Reincarnation. Beings like the Phoenix, True Dragon, Peach Tree fall silent, only Da Hei withstands until the end.

Li Fan enters the small mountain village.

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The timeline is as above, so as not to confuse many readers...

The overall picture of the story is gradually unfolding, striving to finish within the year 2022, hoping everything goes smoothly.

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Good night.