Chapter 461: The Mystery of Law

With his nascent soul within the lightning pool, Han Li felt every moment was extremely agonizing. A mere seven days felt like seventy years.

One night, a thunderclap exploded in the high sky!

A bolt of golden lightning as thick as the Milky Way streaked across the horizon. Though it flashed only briefly, it illuminated the entire night sky as bright as day.

After the great sound, all lightning ceased. The golden lightning pool seemed to surge away with the golden river of lightning, vanishing completely into the sky.

A small nascent soul figure, three or four inches tall, descended slowly from the sky. Its features were ordinary, its face wore a smile, and its entire body shimmered with dazzling golden light. From afar, it looked like a tiny golden sun.

It landed gently on Han Li's crown, looked around for a moment, stretched, and then sank in.

Han Li, who had been sitting cross-legged with eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. Two beams of golden light, almost solid, shot out from his eyes, extending three feet beyond his body, looking somewhat odd and comical.

Fortunately, this did not last long. He blinked a few times, and the golden light gradually receded, eventually sinking into his eyes and disappearing. However, the sharp light in his eyes became even more concentrated.

With a thought, golden light flowed around him, and the Truthful Word Wheel emerged from behind him, flashed, and flew before him, hovering in midair, spinning rapidly.

Its surface shone brightly, and the time patterns condensed on it flickered with light. The original three hundred and sixty patterns had all recovered, and on the wheel's body, three golden crystal threads were entwined, unmistakably threads of time law.

Han Li looked at these three golden crystal threads, raised an eyebrow, and showed a hint of joy.

It seemed that at the moment after he took the Golden Soul Pill and his soul transformed, he had a very peculiar feeling about the small space he was in. It was this indescribable feeling that gave him a faint insight into the power of time law.

At that time, he felt that the thread of time law within him was restless, but since he was about to advance to the Golden Immortal stage, he did not think much of it.

During these days of bathing his soul in the lightning pool, he was in a rather agonizing state, each day feeling like a year. But the strange feeling of connection with this space emerged again, and the time power within him underwent a subtle change, causing him to unknowingly condense two more threads of time law.

He had gone to great lengths to condense the first thread of time law, trying every possible method, even risking his life by directly swallowing the green liquid from the Vial Gourd, all to no avail. It was only by refining the Time Dao Pill that he succeeded. Now, suddenly condensing two more threads, his joy was imaginable.

But now, try as he might, he could not reproduce that state again.

Perhaps this is what they call fate playing tricks.

Han Li sighed softly. With a flick of his finger, the three crystal threads immediately flew off the wheel like spirit snakes and coiled around his fingertip.

He immersed his divine sense into them and immediately felt waves of intense time law fluctuations.

Just then, the Truthful Word Wheel suddenly lit up with a dazzling light.

From within his chest, a green light suddenly flared. The small green bottle flew out uncontrollably, hovering in midair, radiating brilliant light, turning into a green sun.

The two resonated with each other, simultaneously emitting powerful fluctuations.

With a whoosh, the three time crystal threads on his finger flew off, shooting straight like arrows into the small green bottle, vanishing in a flash.

With a dull thud, the surface of the Vial Gourd flickered with spirit patterns, the green light it emitted became blinding, and its size rapidly expanded, soon turning into a jade millstone.

Countless green runes flashed out from the bottle wall, and a mass of green cloud condensed inside the bottle, forming a violently churning green vortex.

Rumble—

Waves of special aura fluctuations continuously emanated. The green cloud in the Vial Gourd turned into a thick green light, directly tearing the void, and condensed into that strange crystal wall as before.

"Here it comes again..."

Han Li looked at the green vortex gradually emerging within the crystal wall, his mind stirred, and he murmured.

As soon as he spoke, a huge and peculiar suction force suddenly emerged from the vortex, which had grown to the size of a house, enveloping his entire being.

His soul power immediately left his body and, in a flash, plunged into the vortex.

Han Li felt a sharp pain in his mind, then his vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness.

In a daze, he heard rumbling sounds in his ears, accompanied by strong howling winds.

Startled, he quickly opened his eyes.

Looking around, he found himself tens of thousands of feet in the air, flying rapidly forward, with the intense rumbling coming from behind him.

Having experienced a soul traversal before, Han Li was not too panicked this time. He did not stop flying but looked down at himself.

This look made him freeze in shock, and his flying figure trembled violently.

His body was covered in a hazy golden light, as if cast from molten gold, but his arms and torso were short and stubby. He was holding a green storage bracelet, and he was not a cultivator but a nascent soul fleeing for its life.

Han Li was stunned, feeling bitter. Last time, Ling Yunzi was at least a dying man, but this time he was directly a fleeing nascent soul.

However, although it was a nascent soul, its strength was far greater than Ling Yunzi's.

Han Li thought to try to recall the nascent soul's memories, and immediately, his mind exploded like thunder, buzzing incessantly.

Fragments of memories and complex, indescribable emotions flooded into his mind.

Han Li let out a soft cry and his body began to fall downward.

Fortunately, this feeling lasted only a moment. He quickly steadied himself, but he also stopped and did not continue fleeing.

With a strange expression, he turned around and looked into the distance behind him.

There, in the void, spherical light screens of various colors covered large areas of land and sky, emitting fluctuations that made Han Li's heart tremble, still clear even from such a distance.

Dozens, even nearly a hundred, powerful domains radiating intense law fluctuations, completely different from any he had seen before, either containing each other or colliding, erupting into earth-shattering waves.

"Is this really the Minghan Immortal Palace..." Han Li muttered to himself, looking at the torn sky and broken land.

By now, he had figured out the identity of the nascent soul he was inhabiting. Its name was Jin Hai, a Golden Immortal disciple of the Wusheng Sword Sect, who had just escaped from the sect.

The memory fragments he obtained from Jin Hai were chaotic, mostly scenes of fierce battles, seemingly from recent events.

After much deliberation, Han Li managed to piece together some thoughts, but they were only vague guesses.

For some reason, two days ago, the Reincarnation Palace forces suddenly launched a massive attack on the Minghan Immortal Palace. Although the palace was prepared, they could not repel the enemy, who broke into the inner palace.

As a subsidiary force of the palace, the Wusheng Sword Sect naturally had to resist desperately alongside the palace forces. They intended to sacrifice the sect's foundation and activate the Sword Sea Grand Formation to inflict heavy damage on the enemy. However, when the formation was activated, an enemy cultivator at the Taiyi Jade Immortal stage released his domain, trapping the entire sect.

His domain was filled with a strange law power that suppressed the vast sword qi in the Sword Sea, preventing its activation, ultimately causing the sword formation to fail.

The disciples of the Wusheng Sword Sect had to form a formation to escape the Jade Immortal domain, only to encounter the battle between the Immortal Palace and Reincarnation Palace cultivators. Jin Hai's fellow disciples fell one after another, some escaping as nascent souls, others perishing completely.

He inadvertently entered the domain of a Golden Immortal peak cultivator, where his sword intent was completely stripped away. He was attacked from both sides and died on the spot. In his final moment, he used a secret technique to self-destruct his life-bound flying sword, escaping as a nascent soul.

But even so, his nascent soul was severely damaged and on the verge of collapse. If Han Li's divine sense had not taken over, it would have dissipated completely.

Why did the Reincarnation Palace attack the Minghan Immortal Palace? Was the fall of the Minghan Immortal Palace related to this? Doubts swirled in Han Li's mind.

He hesitated, then looked up to his left front.

There, a faint golden wheel was suspended, unmistakably his Truthful Word Wheel.

The time patterns on it flickered with translucent light, but more than a dozen of them had dimmed.

Han Li let out a soft exclamation of surprise, feeling something was off.

If it were like last time, at least thirty breaths of time should have passed, and at least thirty patterns should have dimmed. Why were only a dozen or so lacking luster?

"Could it be..." Han Li raised an eyebrow, staring fixedly at the Truthful Word Wheel, observing without blinking.

After a moment, his brow relaxed, and a look of joy appeared on his face.

He discovered that each time pattern now lasted about three breaths instead of the previous one breath per pattern.

Perhaps this was related to his now having three threads of time law?

If so, each thread of time law could extend the duration of the time patterns. As the number of time patterns on his Truthful Word Wheel increased and the number of condensed time law threads grew, this duration might further extend.

He wondered if, when the number of time law threads increased to a certain level, another soul traversal might bring about other changes.