Chapter 270: Filling the Gap in Time and Space

With this thought, a hint of peculiarity flickered across Han Li's face.

Thanks to the medicinal herbs from the small bottle, although he had only cultivated the first layer of the technique, he had already condensed a full twenty-four Dao patterns on the Truthful Speech Wheel, so he could naturally cultivate the True Vision secret art.

He formed a hand seal, silently recited the incantation, and a golden light flashed behind him as the Truthful Speech Wheel immediately materialized.

The white sparrow standing on the stone tablet, which had been pecking at moss, felt the strange fluctuation from the wheel and immediately raised its head to look over, its movements smooth yet still unaffected by the wheel.

Han Li took another deep look at the technique text on the stone tablet, his gaze firm, and continued reciting the incantation for the second layer.

A moment later, his hand seal suddenly changed, and the sound of his chanting quickened abruptly.

Behind him, the Truthful Speech Wheel spun rapidly, radiating brilliant golden light.

A gleam of light flashed in Han Li's eyes. Of the time Dao patterns engraved on the wheel, only six had been emitting a soft glow, but now they lit up one after another.

With each Dao pattern that lit up, the flow of time within a radius of ten zhang slowed by one degree, and the rotation speed of the Truthful Speech Wheel increased further.

As it spun rapidly, the wheel's body became a blur, and faint golden threads could be seen swimming out from the wheel, converging toward the hollow center.

Han Li felt his immortal spiritual power draining quickly, the consumption being twice as much as when he refined pills.

He immediately flipped his hand and took out an immortal essence stone, holding it in his hand. While rapidly absorbing immortal spiritual power to replenish himself, he fully drove the wheel's operation, pushing the secret art to its limit within his body.

After dozens of breaths, when the twelfth Dao pattern was also activated and lit up, the entire golden wheel hummed loudly, and its rotation came to an abrupt halt.

The golden threads that had gathered in the center intertwined and condensed into a golden thread ball the size of a fist, shimmering with flowing golden light.

Seeing this, Han Li stopped reciting the incantation, focused his eyes, and suddenly shouted in a low voice, "Condense!"

The golden thread ball immediately blazed with intense golden light, emitting a dazzling radiance like the sun.

Han Li felt a sourness in his eyes, as if he wanted to cry, and couldn't help but close his eyes.

After a few breaths, the dazzling golden light gradually dimmed.

Rubbing his eyes, Han Li ignored any changes to the golden wheel behind him, flipped his hand to take out an immortal essence stone, and held it in his palm to absorb the immortal spiritual power.

After a long while, he turned around and looked at the golden wheel behind him.

The originally foot-sized golden wheel seemed to have grown a bit larger. In the hollow center, a large golden vertical eye floated, its eyelids closed tightly.

"So this is the True Vision..." Han Li murmured, staring at the golden eye.

With a thought, he formed a hand seal and, following the True Vision secret art method, activated the golden vertical eye.

This time, there was no massive drain of immortal spiritual power as before.

The twelve Dao patterns on the Truthful Speech Wheel lit up simultaneously, and a strange fluctuation emanated from them. After a tremor, the golden vertical eye's eyelids parted from the center to the sides, revealing a golden eyeball.

Though the eyeball was entirely golden, the color distribution was uneven. At the pupil's center, the gold was much denser, almost as if cast from molten gold.

Outside the pupil, the golden light was slightly lighter, surrounded by a ring of dense, strange runes. Beyond the runes, the light was even dimmer, appearing no different from ordinary golden light, even less than the eyelids.

As the eyelids suddenly opened, the ring of strange runes in the True Vision eye began to spin rapidly, and a pale golden light projected from the pupil.

Han Li shifted his focus, no longer seeing with his own eyes but through the golden vertical eye, looking around.

The surrounding green mountains disintegrated inch by inch, revealing their true form as translucent spatial barriers. Beyond the barriers was a gray expanse, as if shrouded in mist.

Is that all?

Han Li couldn't help but wonder. If the True Vision's power was limited to this, it wouldn't be much different from his Brightclarity Spirit Eyes, merely allowing him to see hidden things more clearly.

This was far from his expectations.

He slowly turned, and the golden wheel behind him turned as well, causing the golden vertical eye to shift to the side.

When Han Li turned toward the incomplete stone tablet, the golden eye also looked at it.

A layer of pale white light appeared on the stone tablet, hazy like a thin smoke, blocking his gaze so he couldn't even read the text. The white sparrow standing on the tablet turned into a mass of energy similar to heaven and earth origin qi.

Greatly surprised, Han Li focused his mind and fully activated the Truthful Speech Wheel.

The wheel blazed with light, and one by one, the translucent Dao patterns lit up quickly, until all were illuminated.

When all twenty-four Dao patterns were activated simultaneously, the golden vertical eye's pupil swelled with golden light, and a beam of almost solid pale golden light shot out, piercing through the white light membrane on the stone tablet in an instant.

The golden light, like a sharp blade, split the white membrane from the center, tearing it apart to both sides.

At that moment, the stone tablet rumbled, startling the white sparrow, which flapped its wings and flew away.

With a flash of golden light, strange fluctuations emanated from within the broken stone tablet. Han Li sensed a faint yet familiar trace of time power.

"This stone tablet... is actually a magical artifact containing time power," Han Li said, somewhat surprised.

But what happened next left Han Li utterly astounded.

Above the broken edge of the tablet, large swaths of golden light surged and extended outward, interweaving in the void to form patches of light and shadow, rapidly filling in the missing part of the tablet.

In just a moment, the missing surface above the break was gradually repaired completely, even the heads of the strange beasts on both sides were restored. The entire stone tablet seemed to have been reconstructed and refurbished.

"Could it be that the True Vision has the power to repair old objects and reshape magical artifacts?" Han Li's mind raced as he thought of something, and he murmured to himself in great shock.

After a brief deliberation, he lightly tapped the ground, leaped up to the top of the stone tablet, and reached out to touch the restored surface.

But as soon as his palm touched the tablet surface, it passed through into empty space, straight into the stone wall, grasping nothing.

"So it's just a reflection projected by the True Vision," Han Li said with a smile, withdrawing his hand and landing back on the ground, looking up at the restored part of the tablet.

But as he looked, he was stunned again.

Above the blank area separated from the second section of text, a new section of golden seal script appeared.

It was precisely the third layer technique of the True Speech Wheel Sutra!

Han Li's heart was filled with a mix of surprise and joy, barely able to contain himself, knowing that a great opportunity had arrived.

"One hour left," a somewhat stiff and mechanical voice sounded from the side.

It was the white sparrow, which even the True Vision couldn't see through, speaking to remind him.

Han Li quickly composed himself, frowning slightly as he silently recited and focused on memorizing the third layer incantation of the True Speech Wheel Sutra.

With all twenty Dao patterns fully activated and the True Vision open, Han Li's immortal spiritual power drained like a tide. Even with the immortal essence stone replenishing him, after half an hour, he felt a hollow emptiness inside, and the True Vision could no longer be maintained.

As the golden vertical eye disappeared on its own, the restored upper part of the giant stone tablet flickered a few times and vanished into patches of golden light. The Truthful Speech Wheel behind Han Li also retracted into his body.

Han Li let out a light breath, flipped his hand to take out another immortal essence stone, and held one in each hand to replenish his immortal spiritual power.

A smile lingered on his face, and his heart could not calm down for a long time. He had come to White Sparrow Valley this time with the mindset of trying his luck, never expecting so many unexpected gains.

Not only had he resolved the issue with the second layer of the True Speech Wheel Sutra, but he had also obtained the third layer, which he could never have acquired otherwise. How could he not be overjoyed?

"Time's up," the white sparrow said, flying back onto the broken tablet.

"Thank you... um... Senior," Han Li said after a moment of deliberation.

"I am merely a spirit body restriction of this secret realm, hardly a senior," the white sparrow said slowly.

"May I ask, Senior..." Han Li began, but the white sparrow flapped its wings and dove straight toward him, its speed seemingly slow but actually fast, making it impossible for Han Li to track.

Still holding the immortal essence stones, Han Li felt the entire space around him shift with the sparrow, pushing toward him. Before he could react, he was engulfed.

The next moment, ripples surged on the crescent-shaped lake in Half Que Valley, the water churning as if boiling. Han Li's figure slowly rose from beneath the surface, finally standing steadily on the water.

He looked down and saw the water below gradually calm, only small ripples spreading outward. His reflection was cast in the water, looking back at him.

In the valley, the light was somewhat dim, and the white snow reflected the soft reddish glow of the sun, indicating it was already evening.