Chapter 628: Groping

As Han Li changed the hand seal, a beam of golden light shot out from his True Eye again and vanished into the Time Severing Pot.

The Time Severing Pot immediately shimmered with dazzling golden light. After a moment of circulation, the originally somewhat aged pot became brand new and emitted a rather strong time law fluctuation.

Han Li closed his eyes briefly to sense it, then quickly opened them.

The time force contained within the Time Severing Pot was quite similar to that of the True Word Wheel, both being a type of time force with a slowing effect, so there was no need to spend time studying it.

After setting down the Time Severing Pot, he flipped his hand and took out the Bottle Gourd, dripping a drop of green liquid from it into the Time Severing Pot. Then he closed his eyes and released his divine sense to sense it again.

After a long while, Han Li opened his eyes and sighed softly.

The Time Severing Pot indeed had the effect of delaying the decay of objects, but it did not truly sever the influence of time; it only slowed it down. Although the green liquid placed inside dissipated at a much slower rate, it was still slowly dissipating.

He shook his head, turned his gaze to the final cyan wooden ruler, and formed a hand seal to activate the True Eye.

A beam of golden light shot out and vanished into the cyan wooden ruler.

Hum!

The cyan wooden ruler trembled, its appearance unchanged, but it burst forth with dazzling golden and cyan light while emitting a strong time law fluctuation, even stronger than that of the Time Severing Pot.

Han Li's eyes brightened slightly, and he immediately closed his eyes to carefully comprehend. After a moment, he opened his eyes.

The time force contained within this cyan wooden ruler was somewhat similar to time acceleration, quite akin to his Reverse Truth Wheel.

However, unlike the Reverse Truth Wheel, which only affected oneself, the time law force within the ruler tended to alter the flow of time in a region.

In this respect, it was somewhat similar to the "Illusory Time Sand Sea."

Han Li formed a hand seal to retract the True Word Wheel, took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and repeatedly recalled the previous scenes in his mind, comprehending the three types of time law forces.

Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, over ten days had gone by.

Han Li opened his eyes, a glimmer of understanding shining within them.

It seemed he had gained a deeper understanding of the time law.

In particular, after repeatedly pondering the time law contained within the cyan wooden ruler, he had made some breakthroughs in the connection between the "True Word Wheel Sutra" and the "Illusory Time Treasure Code."

With this thought, Han Li formed hand seals with both hands. Golden light radiated from his body, and the True Word Wheel emerged again.

At the same time, golden light flickered before him, converging into a golden jade bottle—the Time Cleansing Vase.

Golden light shot out from his body in all directions, then rolled together and condensed into grains of golden sand, quickly forming a stretch of golden sand.

Han Li simultaneously activated the three time cultivation techniques, and three distinct strands of time law power emerged, interweaving with each other and emitting a resonant Sanskrit chant.

Moreover, compared to the previous time, the resonance was much stronger now, especially the time power of the True Word Wheel and the Illusory辰 Sand Sea.

A flicker of joy passed through his eyes, but he soon regained his composure, formed hand seals to drive the three time laws, and attempted to fuse them again.

The three strands of golden light interwove, forming a golden vortex that rumbled as it spun.

Han Li recalled the previous fusion of the three law powers and raised his hand to wave.

Streams of cyan light shot out, which were cyan formation flags that landed in various parts of the secret chamber, quickly forming a thick cyan light barrier, the same cyan restriction as before.

Then, he shook his sleeves.

A crackling sound arose!

Streams of yellow formation flags shot out, scattered in a well-arranged manner around the secret chamber, and soon a semi-transparent yellow restriction spread out in midair.

The cyan and yellow restrictions interwove, showing signs of merging, forming an even tougher light barrier.

He nodded slightly, then raised several defensive immortal artifacts to protect his entire body, and once again activated the three techniques.

The golden vortex soon reappeared, spinning rapidly and slowly beginning to shrink.

Rumble!

Countless golden runes of various sizes emerged within the golden vortex, colliding fiercely with each other, emitting a violent fluctuation of time law power.

Seeing this, Han Li did not stop but instead formed hand seals more urgently.

The golden vortex spun rapidly, emitting a dazzling golden light from its center that was impossible to look at directly.

A terrifying law aura emanated from the center of the vortex, threatening to burst at any moment.

Han Li hesitated slightly in his mind, then fiercely formed hand seals and urged.

The golden vortex suddenly shrank by nearly half again, and the cluster of golden runes at its center rolled violently, on the verge of exploding.

At that moment, the three fiercely conflicting time laws suddenly changed and merged with each other.

The violently conflicting golden runes abruptly condensed into a small golden ring.

Seeing this, Han Li felt a sense of relief.

It seemed that the fusion of the three time law powers was no accident; this put his mind at ease.

Although he did not know what this golden ring was, its power was clearly extremely strong.

Waves of immense time law fluctuations spread from the golden ring, causing the nearby blue-yellow light curtains to ripple violently, but this time they did not shatter immediately.

At that moment, the Vase Gourd on the ground suddenly rose and shot into the air, appearing near the golden ring.

However, flying up together with the Vase Gourd were also the three immortal artifacts containing time power on the ground.

"Eh!" Han Li exclaimed, his expression startled.

The golden ring seemed to sense something and suddenly burst into dazzling golden light.

The three immortal artifacts were clearly much lighter than the Vase Gourd; with a whoosh, they were the first to be sucked into the golden ring.

A cracking sound came, and as soon as the three immortal artifacts flew into the golden ring, they exploded, turning into three clusters of dazzling golden light that merged into the ring.

The golden ring brightened once more, then with a flash of crystalline light on its surface, it spat out eight golden crystalline threads—time law crystalline threads—which flashed and entered Han Li's body, then appeared above the True Word Wheel.

The True Word Wheel originally had eighteen time law crystalline threads, but now suddenly gained eight more, becoming twenty-six.

Rays of crystalline light emanated from the twenty-six time crystalline threads, interweaving with the light of the True Word Wheel.

Seeing this, Han Li was both surprised and delighted.

This golden ring actually had the ability to refine the law power within time immortal artifacts and condense it into law crystalline threads.

At that moment, the Vase Gourd suddenly brightened, emitting a towering green light, and then sucked the golden ring inside.

The Vase Gourd immediately swelled rapidly, becoming the size of a house. Inside the gourd, countless green runes appeared, then condensed into a rolling green cloud.

A powerful law fluctuation burst forth from the green cloud. The True Word Wheel behind Han Li suddenly brightened, and a golden vertical eye appeared in its center, spitting out a golden crystalline thread that flashed into the Vase Gourd.

This golden crystalline thread was much thicker than the last one.

A green light flashed inside the gourd, turning into a thick green beam that shot into the void ahead.

The void split open to both sides, and countless crystalline lights emerged from within, coalescing into a crystal wall. Countless scenes flashed across it rapidly.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on Han Li's face.

Previous traversals had all been triggered by chance. After a series of explorations and attempts, he had finally gradually found a way to activate the Vase Gourd and unlock its traversal ability.

On the crystal wall, the light suddenly blazed, and a巨大 whirlpool emerged, rumbling as it turned.

"Boom!"

A tremendous suction force surged from the whirlpool, enveloping Han Li's body.

This suction force was much stronger than last time. His body swayed, and his feet slowly lifted off the ground, floating in midair, faintly drifting toward the whirlpool.

A trace of surprise flickered across Han Li's face. Could it be that this whirlpool intended to suck in his physical body as well?

But the devouring power of the whirlpool still seemed insufficient; the next moment, his body shook and fell back to the ground.

However, a pain shot through Han Li's mind, and his soul, unable to resist, was sucked into the whirlpool. His vision went black, and he lost consciousness.

After an unknown period, his consciousness slowly recovered, and he looked around.

He had once again appeared in that desolate gray space, with the silver great river suspended in midair, flowing with a gurgling sound.

Seeing this, a contemplative expression crossed Han Li's face.

It seemed that after using the vast time power contained in the golden ring to activate the Vase Gourd, his soul would come here.

He did not act immediately but carefully recalled in his mind the scene just before his soul traversed.

During these two traversals, the whirlpool on the crystal wall had shown signs of wanting to devour and suck in his physical body.

Moreover, the devouring power of the whirlpool just now was noticeably stronger than before.

Han Li looked thoughtful. Compared to the last traversal, his strength and understanding of time law had hardly changed. If there was any difference, it was that he had just gained eight additional time law crystalline threads.

"Could it be that when the number of time law threads reaches a certain level, the physical body can also traverse here?" A strange thought suddenly arose in his mind.

Han Li was silent for a moment, then quickly cast aside these distracting thoughts. He rose into the air and, in a few flashes, arrived by the great river.

In the river, countless water droplets of light spheres flowed past, each sphere flickering with various scenes.

From his previous experience, he had roughly figured out the function of these water droplet light spheres.

If he was not mistaken, each water droplet light sphere represented a past event. Although he did not know where these spheres came from, they were used to determine the destination of traversal.

Han Li did not approach too close to the river. He watched these water droplet light spheres from a distance and did not use his divine sense to touch those droplets.

The droplets flowed quietly past, not sucking his soul in.

Han Li felt slightly relieved. It seemed that standing at this distance, as long as he did not actively use his divine sense to touch the droplets, traversal would not be triggered.

Having understood this, he relaxed and carefully observed these water droplet light spheres.

Although these spheres flowed at an astonishing speed, with his eyesight, he could still see many things.