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Novel: [The Primordial Law]
Volume 4: [Shuangsheng Dao Sect (Twin Rice Sect)]
Chapter 25 (280): [Cocoon of Time]
(25th of Volume 4)
Translator: Shadow Knight AK
Editor: Shadow Knight AK
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Li Weiyi took out a bottle of Spring Liquid and handed it to Tang Wanzhou.
"The process of expanding your Innate World is extremely dangerous. Never push yourself too hard."
"When you sense the limit of your World Barrier, immediately inform me with your Psychic Power."
"Cultivating the Sixth Sea and Seventh Sea is essentially creating a more expansive space for your Dao Seed to grow and accumulate richer Spiritual Qi. It's like planting a tree: the larger the container and the more soil you provide, the more room it has to grow, and the greater its potential for the future."
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Tang Wanzhou paused, her fingertips erupting with invisible, colorless Spatial Power that warped the surrounding scenery.
The Dao Lotus vanished from her palm.
The next moment, it reappeared, suspended above Li Weiyi's Wind Mansion, at the center of his Innate World.
It spun rapidly, releasing Spiritual Qi that coalesced into a vortex, supporting the expansion of his Innate World.
21,000 cubic meters... 22,000 cubic meters... 23,000 cubic meters...
Tang Wanzhou poured out the Spring Liquid from the bottle, transforming it into a stream that danced around her finger before entering Li Weiyi's Wind Mansion through the center of the spatial ripples.
As the World Barrier expanded, the Spring Liquid continued to merge with it.
26,000 cubic meters... 27,000 cubic meters...
Tang Wanzhou observed Li Weiyi's expression, concerned he might be pushing himself too hard.
To her surprise, his face remained unchanged. His breathing was steady and even, and his Spiritual Qi circulated continuously through his Veins and String Meridians.
In just moments, the Spiritual Qi within the Dao Lotus had completely dissipated, leaving it calm and still. Tang Wanzhou retrieved it from his Wind Mansion.
Even with her composed demeanor, she couldn't help but marvel inwardly.
Li Weiyi's Wind Mansion had already surpassed 30,000 cubic meters, three times the size of an ordinary Inheritor's.
"No wonder he could defeat the Luansheng Linyou against all odds. Truly remarkable," Tang Wanzhou mused, highly suspecting that his Fifth Sea had already exceeded 10,000 cubic meters.
She refrained from probing further, respecting his privacy.
Li Weiyi took out the Dao Fruit he had previously used for only ten thousand cubic meters and handed it to Tang Wanzhou, smiling slightly: "Young Lord, please lend me a hand again. Let's finish opening my Wind Mansion in one go!"
Having spent months refining his Innate World at twenty thousand cubic meters, he wasn't afraid of the instability that rapid expansion could cause.
Tang Wanzhou, her proud heart that had once looked down on all Martial-Mystic Cultivators throughout history, felt a profound sense of wonder.
For the first time, she truly understood the saying, "Beyond the heavens, there are still heavens; beyond the mountains, there are still mountains."
Taking the Dao Fruit, she offered a final word of caution before channeling her Spatial Power to infuse it into Li Weiyi's Wind Mansion.
This time, both Tang Wanzhou and Li Weiyi were far more cautious.
Li Weiyi focused all his Psychic Power and Spiritual Energy on his Wind Mansion, not daring to make the slightest mistake. He could already sense the World Barrier of his Wind Mansion reaching its limit, step by step.
At the Dao Seed Realm, the Wind Mansion could be expanded further; there was no need to stubbornly cling to its size at the Five Seas Realm.
Finally, his Wind Mansion expanded to thirty-six thousand cubic meters.
Tang Wanzhou retrieved the Dao Fruit, placed it back in its box, and immediately sealed it.
"This Dao Fruit still contains approximately thirty thousand cubic meters of Spiritual Qi."
Li Weiyi sat in meditation to regulate his Qi.
The sixteen thousand cubic meters of newly added, foreign Spiritual Qi in his Wind Mansion gradually settled, merging with the original twenty thousand cubic meters. The rejection between the two energies diminished by more than half.
He stood up, clasped his hands in gratitude once more.
Tang Wanzhou stood with his hands clasped behind his back, gazing at the map on the table.
After a moment of thought, he said, "How about you lend me the rare insect? That way, you won't have to go down there!"
Li Weiyi asked, "Is this journey very dangerous?"
Tang Wanzhou replied, "Indeed! You have remarkable talent, but your cultivation is still too low. Everyone else on this expedition is far older than you. To be frank, I can't guarantee your safety. With your Wind Mansion's foundation of 36,000, if you were to perish down there, the people of the Jiu Li Hidden Sect would likely come after me for revenge."
While Li Weiyi pondered this seriously, Tang Wanzhou continued, "Even if your Ancestral Field is damaged and rendered useless, preventing you from cultivating the Dao, your Wind Mansion of 36,000 is still more vast than the Ancestral Fields of most Inheritors. With such a Wind Mansion to cultivate the Dao, the threshold of the Immortal Realm won't stop you."
"The reason those Martial-Mystic Cultivators who cultivate the Dao through their Wind Mansions fail to reach the Immortal Realm is fundamentally because their Wind Mansions have limited growth potential, which restricts the growth of their Dao Seeds."
"Let me give you an analogy!"
"The Dao is like a tree, and the Seed is the seed of that tree."
"How tall the tree can grow depends first and foremost on the seed itself."
"But the amount of soil and the size of the growing space are equally important."
"The size of your Wind Mansion is like the growing space for the tree, and the Spiritual Qi within your Wind Mansion is like the soil."
"Martial-Mystic Cultivators forced to cultivate the Dao in their Wind Mansions can only expand them to a maximum of three or four thousand cubic meters in the Five Seas Realm! Even in the Dao Seed Realm, it's like a tree in a pot - it can never grow to its full potential."
"That's the fundamental difference between you and them!"
After she finished speaking, Li Weiyi said, "I've thought it through. Even if I don't go with you, my nature would still drive me to venture in alone. Traveling with you might actually be safer, and we'd have a better chance of finding the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone and Millennium Essence Herbs."
Tang Wanzhou smiled: "That's exactly what I was waiting to hear! You won't find the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone or Millennium Essence Herbs in the outer regions of the Underground Immortal Mansion. Those areas have been swept clean countless times. I'm going to a place no one has ever reached before - deeper within."
"As for the danger..."
"In this world, any endeavor with high rewards and crucial implications for one's cultivation path will never be perfectly safe. If you can prepare for every contingency, it's not a truly significant undertaking, and you won't achieve any great results."
Li Weiyi saw in Tang Wanzhou the same adventurous spirit and passionate fighting spirit that burned within himself.
He smiled and said, "Young Lord, please keep this a secret!"
"Go," Tang Wanzhou said, dismissing him.
Back at his residence, Li Weiyi consumed a bottle of Life Spirit Spring and sat in meditation to heal his injuries. However, his mind remained restless.
He considered leaving his tent to meet with several Dharma Kings from the Earthwolf King's Army. But then he remembered that Qifeng Ancient County City was teeming with veteran masters, and that members of the Demon Race and Heretical Sect were lurking in the shadows, eyeing him like prey.
He abandoned the idea.
His fingers traced the Dao Ancestor's Tai Chi Fish around his neck, his heart pounding with excitement. He could finally begin the test.
He dared not activate it within his room, fearing the unusual fluctuations might alert the masters of the Snow Sword Tang Court.
He released the Seven Little Ones from his Insect Pouch.
After their battle with Long Ting, they were visibly exhausted.
He produced his last bottle of Life Spirit Spring and fed it to them.
Li Weiyi had completely exhausted his supply of Millennium Essence Herbs. Xihe couldn't take them continuously, so he would have to feed them precious medicine for now, at least to fill their bellies.
He instructed them to guard the room.
After making preparations, Li Weiyi entered the Blood Mud Space of Shaoyang Star.
The Blood Mud Land before him had expanded once more, now covering an area of about a hectare.
His vision finally opened up.
"Reaching the level of Spiritual Master significantly expands the Blood Mud Space."
Li Weiyi glanced at the Dao Ancestor's Tai Chi Fish around his neck.
The pale cyan fish eye was indeed flickering, just as Zen Hai Guanwu had predicted.
Without hesitation, he leaped onto the Jade Boat, sat cross-legged, and channeled the Spirit Light from his Spirit Realm between his eyebrows into a stream of light that surged toward the remaining fish eye.
The azure fish eye's radiance grew brighter as it absorbed the stream of Psychic Power.
"What's going on? Half of my Spiritual Light has already poured out, yet it's only flickering. Why hasn't anything else changed?"
Li Weiyi's Spiritual Power (Nianli) Star was only the size of a mung bean. As the Spiritual Light continued to flow out, the star rapidly diminished and dimmed. If he kept this up, he risked losing his cultivation level.
After all, he had only just condensed his Spiritual Power Star, and his cultivation realm was still unstable.
Li Weiyi was about to stop the test when-
"Crack..."
The Dao Ancestor's Tai Chi Fish slowly began to rotate.
"No matter. Since there's a change, I'll pour everything into it."
Li Weiyi continued to channel his Spiritual Light. Tiny particles of light enveloped the Dao Ancestor's Tai Chi Fish, constantly disappearing into the azure fish eye.
After the Yin-Yang Twin Fish completed a full rotation...
The Dao Ancestor's Tai Chi Fish automatically floated up and hovered above Li Weiyi's head.
"Whoosh!"
Countless pale cyan threads of light shot out from the Azure Fish Eye, forming a circular cocoon about ten feet in diameter that enveloped Li Weiyi.
Li Weiyi's heart raced. He stood up abruptly, carefully observing and sensing his surroundings.
The pale cyan cocoon threads were thin enough to see through, like mist or gauze, a myriad of strands isolating him from the outside world.
He touched the cocoon with his finger.
The cocoon trembled slightly, sending ripples across its surface, radiating an exquisite sense of spirituality.
"What exactly is this? Didn't they say the Azure Fish Eye might involve Time Power?" Li Weiyi was puzzled and wanted to break free.
But using his Psychic Power even once had been incredibly draining, so he hesitated to risk it.
"Time Cocoon!"
A faint, melodious voice echoed from an unknown source, as if from the depths of time and space.
It sounded a bit like the Gourd-Mouth Guardian Wife's voice?
Li Weiyi's eyes darted around, searching for her, but she was nowhere to be seen.
He quickly asked, "Is that you? Have you finally woken up? What is a Time Cocoon?"
"The Time Silkworm feeds on the lifespans of all living beings, weaving a Time Cocoon to evade the Laws of the universe."
"The cocoon silk of your Time Cocoon is woven from Psychic Power. The stronger your Psychic Power, the more stable and profound the cocoon becomes."
The voice gradually faded, growing fainter and fainter.
Li Weiyi quickly asked, "What exactly does the Time Cocoon do? How do I use it? What makes it so profound?"
"This is only the beginning; its true profundity has yet to be revealed... I will wait for you in the future... I seem to have arrived too early... This is an era before the Bronze Ship has even arrived... You must hurry to the Time Cosmic Market to purchase Time intelligence..."
Her voice was chaotic and illogical, gradually fading away until it disappeared completely.
Li Weiyi was left bewildered and confused.
He asked again, "Can you explain more clearly? Who are you? Are you the bride in the wedding dress hidden within my blood?"
There was no response.
He repeated his questions several times, even cutting his wrist to draw blood, but still couldn't summon her.
Li Weiyi quickly stopped the bleeding and began to think carefully.
It wasn't entirely fruitless.
At least two pieces of useful information emerged.
First, the Pale Cyan Fish Eye was indeed related to time.
Second, the stronger one's Psychic Power, the stronger the Time Cocoon woven.
As for the other nonsensical ramblings, Li Weiyi silently recorded them, intending to consult Zen Hai Guanwu and his three Masters when he found them. Figures who had lived for thousands, even tens of thousands of years, would surely know more than he did.
Li Weiyi tried to retract the azure cocoon threads into his Spirit Realm between his eyebrows, but failed.
Next, he took a Star Spiritual Pill and began the Fusang Divine Tree Meditation Technique to replenish his severely depleted Psychic Power.
Having reached the Spiritual Master level, his absorption rate for the Star Spiritual Pill was now three times faster than before.
Even absorbing the Fusang Divine Tree's radiant light from the Tanggu Sea had become much more aggressive.
A vast area of the sea surface dimmed.
The radiant light seemed to be devoured, pulled into the Blood Mud Space.
The one-hectare Blood Mud Space became incredibly bright, the light condensing into a rain of concentrated light.
If Li Weiyi were to open his eyes now and observe the Tanggu Sea outside the Time Cocoon, he would find the waves moving at an impossibly slow pace, completely unlike their normal appearance.
Time passed, its passage immeasurable.
Big Phoenix's Psychic Power voice reached the Blood Mud Space.
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END OF CHAPTER
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