Chapter 134: Heaven-Defying Spirit Object

With a thunderous boom!

The crystal grain suddenly burst apart, and the surrounding void was instantly filled with countless fine ripples, with faint shadows flickering densely, rapidly spreading outward.

Being too close and caught off guard, Han Li immediately formed a layer of True Extremity Membrane on his body, but he had no time to dodge. He was struck solidly by an invisible, immense force.

His body flew backward as if hit hard, blood churning within him, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

When he stabilized himself several hundred zhang away and looked back, the island reef where the Earth Deity Incarnation had stood was gone. The surrounding seawater was pushed aside by the force, forming a vacuum zone hundreds of zhang in radius, which only returned to normal after a while.

Although the incarnation had also formed a protective light screen with Water Law at the first moment, its right arm and a small part of its body were mangled, looking quite miserable.

Fortunately, it was only severely injured, not fatally damaged.

“Eh!”

Han Li let out a soft exclamation and turned his gaze to the Law Thread that had appeared above the incarnation’s head.

The originally pale blue Water Law Thread had inexplicably thickened, with faint golden light flickering on its surface, exuding a trace of aura similar to Time Law.

Suppressing his astonishment, he summoned the incarnation before him, spat out a stream of Nascent Flame to envelop it, and with a flick of his sleeve, various spiritual materials flew out, gradually melting and deforming in the flame...

A day and a night later.

Deep in the seabed, Han Li looked at the fully restored Earth Deity Incarnation, his eyes flickering slightly, then he urged with his mind.

The Earth Deity Incarnation immediately sat cross-legged, hands cupped before its chest. The Law Thread above its head hummed and trembled, emitting a dazzling blue light, much brighter than before.

The entire sea surface churned, stirring up monstrous waves. A vortex larger than before gradually formed, and the waves soon reached Wumeng Island, thousands of li away.

The entire island rumbled and shook as if an earthquake had struck, causing both mortals and cultivators on the island to change expression. Many cultivators above the Deity Transformation stage flew into the air to investigate the source of the anomaly.

But soon, all cultivators seemed to receive some instruction simultaneously and silently returned. The island was covered by light screens in various places, and the commotion gradually subsided under subtle influence.

At this moment, deep in the seabed, Han Li’s face was full of astonishment.

Before him, the Earth Deity Incarnation sat with eyes closed. Between its cupped hands, a sesame-sized drop of black Heavy Water spun rapidly, slowly growing larger at a visible rate.

Rice-grain size!

Bean-grain size!

Thumb size...

In just one hour, a clump of black Heavy Water the size of a chicken egg appeared before Han Li, and it continued to grow as the surrounding water flowed.

Han Li took a deep breath, his astonished expression turning into delight.

However, when he shifted his gaze slightly upward, his brow twitched.

The golden light in the Law Thread above the incarnation’s head, like the golden threads in the crystal grain earlier, was slowly dissipating.

“Could it be...”

His eyes flickered, and a thought crossed his mind.

Time passed, and half a month flew by.

Deep in the seabed, Han Li sat cross-legged. Not far before him, the golden light in the Law Thread above the Earth Deity Incarnation’s head had become extremely dim.

Even so, the incarnation’s speed in refining Heavy Water had not diminished.

At that moment, the Law Thread suddenly trembled, and the golden light on it completely dissipated.

At the moment the golden light vanished, the turbulent seawater around the incarnation suddenly calmed by more than ninety percent, and the massive vortex on the sea surface rapidly shrank back to its previous size of several hundred li.

The speed of refining Heavy Water also instantly returned to its original pace.

Han Li looked at the large clump of black Heavy Water before the incarnation, a thoughtful expression crossing his face.

As he had expected, the trace of Time Law power within the crystal grain, after somehow merging with the Law Thread used by the incarnation, greatly accelerated the incarnation’s refining of Heavy Water. However, the fusion was unstable, and the Time Law power continued to dissipate. Once it completely vanished, the refining speed naturally dropped sharply.

In any case, he had now figured out the crystal grain’s function. Based on his previous speed, refining such a large amount of Heavy Water would have taken at least fifteen hundred years.

This heaven-defying object was worth the risk of nearly being drained dry.

With this thought, Han Li flipped his hand and took out the True Water Pouch, absorbing all the Heavy Water before him.

After putting away the pouch, he did not linger. His form turned into a streak of blue light, breaking through the water and flying toward Wumeng Island, while his Earth Deity Incarnation remained there to cultivate and continue refining Heavy Water.

Half a month later.

On a clearing on a solitary island far from Wumeng Island, the ground was engraved with complex and profound spirit patterns. Around it stood nine silver pillars, also covered with spirit patterns and many star-like silver specks.

It was indeed a rather profound arcane formation.

Han Li sat cross-legged with eyes closed in the center of the formation. Beside him were placed over a dozen jade bottles, wooden boxes, and other vessels containing medicinal pills. Although the lids were tightly sealed, one could still sense a pure fragrance of medicine faintly emanating.

After a long moment, he let out a light breath, opened his eyes, and flipped his hand over, revealing the Heavenvoid Bottle in his palm.

As a faint green light rippled over his body, the immortal spiritual power within him began to flow along his arm, continuously pouring into the bottle.

The dark green leaf-like patterns on the bottle's surface lit up in rings, quickly becoming dazzlingly bright, as if he were holding a ball of brilliant green light in his hand.

A moment later, with a 'whoosh,' the small bottle flew out of his hand, hovering in midair after a flicker.

As Han Li's ten fingers flicked rapidly, streaks of green light flashed and vanished into the bottle's body. The surrounding天地灵气 immediately began to fluctuate, and the drop of green liquid inside the bottle slowly dripped out.

As silver eyes and a silver mouth reappeared on the bottle's surface, spraying silver haze and flames that enveloped and scorched the green liquid, the天地灵气 converging around also formed a massive pillar of light enveloping the bottle, standing between heaven and earth.

Before long, Han Li's body trembled, and the immortal spiritual power within him surged out uncontrollably, absorbed by that drop of spiritual liquid.

Seeing this, he was not alarmed but instead rejoiced, secretly relieved in his heart. He formed a single hand seal and pointed.

A beam of green light shot out, landing on the surrounding grand formation.

Rumble!

The grand formation immediately began to operate. The spiritual patterns on the ground lit up in rings, emitting dazzling white light, vaguely transforming into a white sphere over ten zhang in size that enveloped his body and hummed as it spun.

The天地灵气 converging from all sides gathered into the white sphere.

As streaks of spiritual light wandered erratically within the white sphere, the density of spiritual energy inside rapidly increased, soon reaching several times that outside, continuously replenishing the immortal spiritual power swiftly draining from Han Li's body.

At the same time, he picked up a green jade bottle beside him and poured out a green, lustrous pill the size of a dragon's eye.

This pill was called the Green Flower Pill, the best restorative pill he could currently obtain.

Although the loss of immortal spiritual power in his body was not yet severe, he still unhesitatingly tilted his head back and swallowed the pill, then began to refine it through circulation.

This was not enough. As a series of several hand seals landed on the nine stone pillars around him, the surfaces of the pillars burst forth with large swaths of silver light. Countless star runes rolled out from them, drawing down the power of the stars from the night sky, which transformed into seven pillars of starlight that plunged into his body and merged into his limbs and bones...

As a result, within no more than five days, Han Li's expression began to turn somewhat grim.

Although he had prepared the best pills and supplemented them with a spirit-gathering formation, these external aids seemed somewhat futile.

Now, the immortal spiritual power within his body had once again nearly bottomed out.

With a bitter laugh inwardly, he had no choice but to first activate the secret technique of burning his essence blood to convert it into immortal spiritual power for absorption.

After several more days like this, he had become a bag of bones, though overall, his qi and blood seemed slightly better than before.

Fortunately, by then, that drop of spiritual liquid had solidified again, turning into a translucent crystal grain.

Looking at the crystal grain in his hand, Han Li first gave a bitter smile, but a glint of joy flashed deep in his eyes.

A few days later.

On a reef near the coast of Wumeng Island, Han Li sat cross-legged, his body enveloped by several spiritual treasure barriers. Before him in the void, a crystal grain floated motionless.

In front of him, the Earthly Immortal incarnation sat cross-legged, also covered by several additional spiritual treasure barriers.

After a brief deliberation, Han Li waved his hand, and the strand of law thread hovering above the incarnation flew over, slowly sinking into the crystal grain in his hand.

This time, he wanted to personally sense the power of the Time Law!

After all, this was the supreme law power. Since the incarnation could accelerate the refining of heavy water by fusing with this strand of law power, perhaps something unexpected might happen to him as well.

Yet, when the law thread entered the crystal grain, there was no explosion as expected.

"What's going on?" Han Li was startled at the sight.

The crystal grain before him was no different from the one condensed last time, also containing the power of the Time Law. However, after he manipulated the Water Law power, it seemed unable to fuse with this crystal grain?

Naturally unwilling to accept this result, he tried again back and forth four or five times, but the result was the same as before.

Han Li furrowed his brows slightly. After a moment's thought, he waved his hand, sending that strand of Water-attribute law thread back above the incarnation, then flicked his sleeve, tossing the crystal grain over as well.

The Earthly Immortal incarnation caught the crystal grain, then urged the Water-attribute law thread to sink into it.

Rumble!

The crystal grain instantly exploded, and a violent shockwave spread outward.

But this time, both Han Li and the incarnation had made ample protective preparations, so naturally, they were not injured again.

And that strand of law thread was once again tinged with a trace of gold.

"It seems this object is only useful for the incarnation, but has no reaction to me, the main body..." Seeing this, Han Li could not help but give a bitter smile and muttered to himself.