Chapter 277: Dharma Word Heaven and Earth

Half an hour later, within the territory of Red Cloud Peak.

On a wasteland strewn with rocks, a streak of azure light swept across, and Han Li's figure emerged from within.

It was somewhat amusing that this place had originally been a scenic valley, but over a hundred years ago, when he was cultivating the Reversed True Wheel divine ability here, he had accidentally collapsed the mountains on both sides of the valley, filling it in and turning it into its current state.

Han Li hovered in midair, his expression solemn, and a faint, peculiar fluctuation emanated from his body.

Just then, a golden light suddenly flared in his eyes, and a powerful spiritual sense was released, instantly enveloping the surrounding area for a hundred li.

Without any hand seals being formed, a circle of extremely tiny runes suddenly appeared in his pupils. The characters written within were none other than the incantation he had heard from the Big-Eared Monk that day, but not all of it—only three and a half lines.

These three and a half lines of incantation were presented in the form of runes, but they were not arranged in the original order the monk had chanted them. The sequence of each character was scrambled, seemingly reassembled without any pattern.

In fact, the original meaning of these incantations seemed unimportant; rather, the characters themselves possessed some special power. After some contemplation, Han Li successfully combined them with his powerful spiritual sense and comprehended a unique divine ability he named “Dharma Word Heaven and Earth.”

"Wind, arise," Han Li softly commanded.

Whoosh...

The weather over the wasteland suddenly changed. From a clear sky, thick dark clouds drifted in from nowhere, gathering together to shroud the entire sky, and the daylight dimmed.

A fierce gale howled, sweeping the snow on the wasteland into the sky. A vast expanse of yellow sand rose with the wind, and boulders as large as bushels rolled along the ground, colliding with each other, producing rumbling sounds.

"Thunder, fall," Han Li said again with an unchanged expression.

High in the sky, the dark clouds churned, forming a huge black cloud vortex.

Deep within the vortex, rumbling sounds echoed continuously, and dim blue lightning flickered incessantly.

With a loud "Boom!"

A blue lightning pillar as thick as a water vat descended from the sky, striking straight into the ground. The boulder it hit shattered instantly, sending up a large cloud of dust and debris.

Then, thunder roared repeatedly, and thick lightning pillars rained down, continuously smashing into the ground, leaving the entire wasteland scarred and battered.

The ground was covered with rubble and scorched black, with a layer of wildly leaping blue electric arcs.

In the air, a pungent smell of burning could be detected.

Han Li's expression remained unchanged as he spoke again: "Heaven and earth, overturn!"

In an instant, the wind and clouds raged, and heaven and earth changed color.

An indescribably terrifying force swept through, enveloping the entire world.

Han Li felt his vision blur and a dizzy spell; when he looked again, beneath him were dense dark clouds and rolling thunder.

He looked up and saw a vast expanse of land, stretching for who knows how many thousands of li, hanging inverted above his head.

Nearby, he could see scattered rocks and a layer of dust covering the ground; in the distance, thousands of zhang-tall peaks hung down like stalactites, the closest of which was his own Red Cloud Peak.

However, strangely enough, although these things were inverted, none of them showed any sign of falling, and even the layer of dust covering the land did not seem about to scatter.

Han Li looked around for a long time, a smile appearing on his face, and he lightly clapped his hands.

Instantly, heaven and earth turned back, the dust scattered, and the clouds, thunder, wind, and rocks all vanished.

The entire world suddenly returned to clarity, as if nothing had happened.

At that moment, the circle of runes in Han Li's eyes had also disappeared, and his pupils returned to normal.

"It's even more effective than I expected. Now I have more confidence when facing powerful enemies," Han Li said with a smile.

His "Dharma Word Heaven and Earth" divine ability was, in essence, an extremely powerful illusion technique, but it required no formation assistance or cultivation technique support.

As long as he covered a nearby area with his spiritual sense and spoke verbal curses like "wind and clouds surge, move mountains and fill seas, heaven and earth overturn," he could create an illusion at will, trapping his opponent within it.

If the opponent's spiritual sense was not as strong as Han Li's, or if they lacked special secret techniques or protective treasures, they would be affected by this divine ability, though the degree of influence varied.

Imagine Han Li fighting an opponent of similar strength; if he suddenly used a verbal curse to bring them into his constructed illusion, the opponent, caught off guard, would reveal a flaw and inevitably lose.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Han Li returned to his cave dwelling.

In the secret chamber, he sat cross-legged, with a purple jade slab on his knees. On it was carved a flower-like pattern formed by extremely fine lines, beautiful and unique.

This item was obtained from Ping Yaozi's purple jade box, but because it had a spiritual sense seal that he couldn't unlock, it had been set aside until now.

He took it out today because the dao patterns on his True Word Wheel had fully recovered, allowing him to use the True Eye again.

Compared to the Bright Clarity Spirit Eye, the True Eye, empowered by one hundred and eight dao patterns, was now over ten times more effective at seeing through illusions, restrictions, and even spiritual sense seals.

Han Li formed hand seals, and with a "hum" sound behind him, golden light flashed, and a golden wheel appeared.

As he chanted, the golden vertical eye at the center of the True Word Wheel slowly opened, casting a beam of golden light that enveloped the purple jade slab.

The flower-like pattern on the jade slab lit up with golden light, rippling with a golden radiance, and golden runes flew out to block the light cast by the True Eye.

However, that layer of light seemed illusory, unaffected by the runes, and fell onto the jade slab.

Han Li no longer used his eyes to see but looked at the jade slab through the True Eye.

He saw golden light flowing on the surface like rippling water, and the flower-like pattern that served as the restriction floated on the water's surface.

Han Li could directly ignore it and see the scene beneath the water's surface.

There, it seemed like a riverbed lying beneath a golden river, covered with a layer of fine golden sand, on which golden seal characters were inscribed as if by a finger.

Han Li's eyes swept over them, and his heart filled with joy.

As he had guessed earlier, the writing on the golden sand recorded nothing other than the Dao Pill formula he had long dreamed of!

"Thunder Pool Golden Liquid, Tu Ling Flower Stamen, You Wu Grass, Fu Sheng Fruit, Tian Zao Ginseng..."

As Han Li looked at these unfamiliar names of spiritual materials, his excitement and fervor gradually cooled. Gathering all these materials would be extremely difficult.

Take the main ingredient, Thunder Pool Golden Liquid, for instance. It was not an ordinary heavenly treasure. It was produced within the body of a Thunder Devouring Beast born in the Nine Heavens, after it had devoured vast amounts of Nine Heavens True Thunder over a hundred thousand years, with only a certain probability of being formed.

It was precisely because of this that Thunder Pool Golden Liquid contained a trace of the law of thunder.

For such spiritual materials, it was no longer just a matter of time accumulation but more of the work of heaven and earth. For alchemists to obtain them, it was entirely a matter of luck.

However, Han Li had anticipated this, so he was not too discouraged. Instead, he felt that once this pill was refined, it would surely be extraordinary.

He read through the long section of text recording the refining method, committing it all to memory. But when he reached the end, his eyebrows rose slightly, revealing a look of surprise.

The text recorded: "For any Dao Pill to be naturally formed, the auxiliary medicines serve as the foundation, determining the pill's grade; the main medicine serves as the guide, determining the pill's method. Thus, if the foundation remains unchanged, the pill's grade remains unchanged; if the main guide is replaced, then the methods differ..."

"If the foundation remains unchanged, the pill's grade remains unchanged; if the main guide is replaced, then the methods differ..." Han Li murmured this sentence, suddenly enlightened.

It turned out that for any Dao Pill formula, if the auxiliary medicines were not altered, only the main medicine containing the law power was changed, the law attribute of the pill would change accordingly.

Simply put, if the Thunder Pool Golden Liquid in his formula was replaced with heavy water containing the law of water, a water-attribute Dao Pill could be refined; if replaced with crystals containing the law of time, a time-attribute Dao Pill could be refined.

However, the text later noted that alchemy required compatibility; after replacing the main material with a different law attribute, although a pill could still be formed, the success rate often varied greatly.

Han Li was not too concerned about this. He had been trying to comprehend the law of time through the True Word Wheel but had made no progress. Now, knowing that this formula could help him refine a time Dao Pill was enough.

He suppressed his joy, withdrew the True Word Wheel into his body, waved his hand to put away the jade slab, then flipped his hand and took out the green ox-head mask, putting it on his face.

The spiritual medicines recorded in the formula were all rare treasures hard to find in the world, and gathering them all would not be accomplished in a day or two. Han Li planned to first search within the Wuchang Alliance; if he couldn't find them, he would issue tasks and slowly collect them.

He had almost no spirit stones left, and though he still had some immortal essence stones, the quantity was not large. Therefore, his requirements for these spiritual medicines were not high; as long as the types matched, he was willing to purchase even seeds.

With a flash of azure light, a huge azure light array disk appeared on the wall.

Han Li focused his gaze and began scanning the exchange section...

A few days later, several more types of spiritual medicines appeared in the spirit medicine garden within the cave dwelling, most of which were seedlings less than ten years old, while the remaining two were seeds that had not yet sprouted.