Chapter 777 - 353: Essence of Time
On the cosmic dust above, chaos reigned, with sand and stones not yet settled, still hovering in the air, void fluctuations lingering unceasingly.
An Li, Li Qingran, and the others stared at the cloaked figure for a long, long time, all lost in thought.
Indeed, they were all stunned. The Immortal Dao is arduous, ordinary cultivators, in striving for advancement, need to pay a huge price to refine a Spell or Divine Power, and in any confrontation among immortals, there is a back-and-forth fight, with Magical Artifacts, Talismans, Spells each revealing their prowess before victory or defeat reveals itself. Yet now, there exists such a figure, invincible in the world, who can demolish all techniques and perform all arts with a mere gesture?
It truly is... shocking.
In fact, even Li An was lost in thought for a long time!
Ever since he attained the title of Profound Immortal in Immortal Vine Cave, he hadn’t truly unleashed his full strength.
In other words, he knows he is certainly not weak, but he does not have an accurate grasp of how strong he actually is.
Two Qi fused into Profound, generally, three-color to five-color Profound Immortals are most common, and to reach beyond five colors, they are without exception the prodigies of the world.
Li An’s Mysterious Cultivation had reached its peak - seven-color Profound Immortal.
Yet his Immortal Cultivation is beyond even the seven-color Profound Immortal, transforming into black and white Two Qi, breaching the earthly extremity, he could be described as a "Forbidden-breaking" immortal. Regarding this step, he has searched through ancient books but has not found a corresponding discourse.
Until today’s battle, his years of foundation erupted in a day, the black and white Two Qi emerged, naturally formed into the Taiji Dao Map, at that moment, Li An’s mind felt divinely inspired, without much thought, spontaneously evolved, naturally broke all worldly methods, and naturally manifested many wondrous arts!
In that instant, he was almost at the pinnacle of the Enlightenment Realm.
"It is tied to that cup of wine..."
Li An carefully pondered, during the battle just now, the only difference from usual was that the white mist in his Dantian became rapidly active, flowing throughout his body like a river, allowing his Primordial Spirit to enter the Dao, his entire being reached a perfect state.
Thus, he ultimately achieved the Taiji Dao Map technique.
And this white mist was generated only after he drank a cup of wine from the deceitful realm’s person in the divine descent area of Purple Cloud Mountain.
Ordinarily, no matter how he operated his Cultivation Technique, he could not mobilize it even a bit.
Until just now, facing an attack from dozens of experts of the same level, Li An was indeed at a life-and-death juncture, prepared to deploy all his foundation, which finally triggered a fluctuation, allowing him to take such a big step forward!
Could it be that this thing only moves when he is at the brink of death?
Li An is puzzled, at this moment in his Dantian, the aura has once again calmed down completely, and he cannot mobilize or awaken it.
He couldn’t help but recall what that person said at the time...
"Even moths can overturn fire; ascending to heaven is not difficult, you merely need to agree, and you will naturally have the strength to kill them."
-- When that person discussed the deal with Li An, Li An was evasive due to his lack of cultivation, then the person said this.
In hindsight, it truly turned out to be prophetic...
He took a deep breath, pondered no further, and looked calmly at An Li and the others, saying: "You are all too weak, not even possessing the value to be used by me, leave --"
"But remember, you are not to leak a single word of the happenings here, understood?"
In reality, at present, Li An was not revealing his true self to others, so whether it was leaked or not made little difference to him, for in the boundless Space-Time Secret Realm, the presence of talented individuals among the forces is abundant, thus appearing a powerful expert is common, who could verify his identity?
An Li and the others, upon hearing, awoke from their dreaming state and reacted immediately. An Li promptly saluted, saying, "Thank you, senior, for saving our lives!"
"Rest assured, senior, not a single word of what occurred here will be known to anyone, should we betray this vow, may we die struck by five thunders!"
Li Qingran and others also saluted one after another, solemnly swore an oath, and then quickly departed.
After they left, Li An approached Song Lan’s corpse and extracted his Array.
This Array, and the one used by Dao Qian, while not identical, serve similar purposes.
Both sacrifice others to resist the life-devouring force within the void, to fulfill one’s destiny.
Li An glanced at the distant star burning with green ghost fire, pondered briefly, then restarted the Array, refining the bodies of Song Lan and the others one by one!
His Life Seed power was strong, capable of exploration on its own, but since Song Lan and the others were already dead, their bodies should not be wasted, given that they had prepared the Array, it should be utilized.
While refining the Life Seed power from their bodies into the Array, Li An also stripped their belongings clean, such as storage rings.
The disciples of this famous mountain indeed had no shortage of resources, simply the Immortal Crystals alone added up to eighty to ninety thousand, and there were also Immortal Treasures, Magical Artifacts, Pills, etc. Among the Magical Artifacts, most are defensive tools designed against the disruptive void force, the highest-grade naturally being the gray coat worn by the gray-clothed man, surprisingly it was a Golden Immortal Treasure, capable of partially isolating the disruptive void force.
No wonder he could withstand the void for so long.
But this item was likely made to counteract the void force, hence its defense in other areas is weak, if it were a normal Golden Immortal-level defense Magical Artifact, Li An would need to use the Celestial Corpse Small Sword to kill him!
Now it belonged to Li An, and of course, Li An donned it immediately, because although his Life Seed power could withstand the disruptive void force, having external tools to utilize means they should certainly be used.