Chapter 670: Stillness

After leaving the peak, Han Li flew down the mountain and soon reached its base.

Looking around, this place appeared to be a huge valley with fairly flat terrain, where tall buildings stood one after another, somewhat resembling the layout of the previous Water衍 Palace.

However, the buildings here were predominantly golden, and though mostly dilapidated, they still glittered brilliantly.

Seeing this, Han Li did not dwell on it and began searching the area.

In the blink of an eye, half a day passed. He had searched most of the valley but found nothing significant except for a few scattered spirit herbs.

Having experienced treasure hunting before, he was not surprised and continued deeper into the valley.

After advancing no more than a thousand li, his expression shifted, and a hint of joy appeared in his eyes.

Over a thousand li ahead, another fluctuation of time law power was emanating!

Without hesitation, Han Li blurred and shot toward that location, but he did not relax his divine sense探查 of the surroundings.

Before long, following the感应, he found the source of the time law fluctuation.

At this moment, he stood before a golden hall, looking it up and down.

This hall was built against the mountain, several hundred zhang high, covering over a thousand mu, constructed entirely of some jade material, coated with a golden pigment-like substance, appearing glittering and very conspicuous.

The hall and its surroundings bore many traces of battle, with some places even pierced through into round holes, from which streams of golden light seeped, emitting strong fluctuations of time law.

Han Li looked at the golden hall, a hint of joy on his face. He carefully extended his divine sense to thoroughly inspect the area around the hall. After detecting no danger, he slowly approached the tightly closed door.

He raised his hand, pressed it against the door, and pushed gently.

The door flickered with a faint golden light and swung open, which surprised him slightly.

Blinding golden light shone from within, dazzling and impossible to look at directly, as if a golden sun were hidden inside the hall.

Seeing this, Han Li did not immediately step inside but first probed with his divine sense.

However, as soon as his divine sense entered the hall, it was blocked by a resilient, formless force, unable to advance an inch, let alone探查 the interior.

After a moment's deliberation, Han Li's eyes blazed with purple light as he activated the Nine Serenity Demon Eye technique and looked into the hall.

But then he found that even his Nine Serenity Demon Eye could not penetrate that formless force; he could only vaguely see a few blurry shadows inside, but no matter what, he could not discern what they were.

After pondering for a moment, he still stepped into the hall.

As soon as he entered, everything before his eyes suddenly blurred, and the surrounding void churned violently, as if he had entered another space.

Han Li felt his body instantly tighten, enveloped by a vast force, and he could not move even a little finger.

Greatly alarmed, he was relieved that his vision remained intact and quickly looked ahead.

Inside the hall, streams of golden light waves surged like flowing water, emitting waves of powerful and mysterious time law power.

It was this time power that had immobilized Han Li's body.

Besides him, there were dozens of cultivators standing in the hall, divided into two groups. Judging by their attire, one group was from the Heavenly Court, and the other were disciples of the True Word Sect.

These two groups were completely different from the corpses and skeletons outside; their clothes and bodies were bright and fresh, frozen in the act of fighting each other, in various postures, with protective light shining on their bodies and various treasures floating around them.

These people seemed quite formidable. Although he could not sense their cultivation levels, from the radiance of their treasures, they were mostly True Immortal cultivators, with two leaders being Golden Immortals.

However, everyone was motionless, as if frozen in place.

Except for the slowly flowing golden light, everything around was completely still, appearing eerie.

Han Li looked at the scene before him, his heart filled with extreme shock.

This scene was clearly related to that time power, and its effect was somewhat similar to his True Word Wheel, except that his True Word Wheel could only slow down the flow of time, while here time seemed to have completely stopped.

It seemed that these Heavenly Court cultivators and True Word Sect disciples had been trapped here, still frozen in the battle from millions of years ago.

Although shocked by what he saw, Han Li quickly recovered and thought of another more important matter.

Having carelessly stumbled into this place and become trapped in frozen time, how could he escape?

He had already tried; relying on his physical strength alone, he could not break free from the time power's restraint.

However, although he was now completely immobilized by the time power, he was somewhat relieved to find that his immortal spiritual power and time law power were not completely frozen, but could still flow, albeit at a very slow pace.

Perhaps this was related to his cultivation of time law techniques?

With this thought, Han Li dared not delay any longer. He concentrated his mind and began to circulate his immortal spiritual power with all his might.

A faint golden light emerged from Han Li's body, flickered once, and slowly grew larger, gradually engulfing his body.

What would normally take an instant to complete now took him several hours.

Han Li was not anxious either. He continued to circulate his immortal spiritual power and used the power of the Time Law to resist the influence of the external Law power as much as possible.

After an unknown amount of time, the Truth Speech Wheel slowly emerged behind him, then slowly reversed, unleashing the divine ability of the Reversed Truth Wheel.

The flow of time around his body also gradually accelerated, and the surrounding time imprisonment power began to slowly recede.

Although his physical body still could not move, the imprisonment of his immortal spiritual power and the Time Law within him had already begun to loosen.

Han Li felt a slight relief, and the tension in his heart eased a bit, but he still did not dare to let down his guard and continued to fully operate the divine ability of the Reversed Truth Wheel.

As the Truth Speech Wheel reversed faster and faster, the time imprisonment around him rapidly loosened.

After about another half an hour, the Truth Speech Wheel reversed and transformed into a blurry golden shadow.

Joy flickered in Han Li's eyes. He moved his arm and slowly raised it.

The surrounding time imprisonment had greatly weakened, and his physical body could finally move a little.

However, the divine ability of the Reversed Truth Wheel had now been pushed to its limit and could no longer counteract the surrounding time imprisonment.

Han Li did not mind this. The palace gate was not far away; as long as he could move, he could walk out.

Having regained his mobility, the heavy stone in his heart finally fell, and he looked around to survey the area.

His gaze fell on the two groups of cultivators not far away, and then he walked over extremely slowly.

The storage artifacts on these people were still there, and the surrounding magical treasures and immortal artifacts also seemed quite extraordinary.

Han Li slowly walked up to those cultivators and collected their storage artifacts, as well as the immortal artifacts and magical treasures floating in the air, one by one.

After collecting these items, he did not leave but continued walking toward other parts of the great hall.

Although those storage artifacts and immortal artifacts were good, he did not care much about them. The fact that time here was completely frozen must have a reason.

That was why he did not leave immediately.

Unfortunately, the surrounding area was filled with extremely powerful Time Law power, making it impossible to use divine sense; he could only investigate with his naked eyes.

The great hall here was not large; it looked like an ordinary palace with nothing special. At the deepest part of the hall, there was an altar-like stone platform, most of which had collapsed.

Han Li quickly inspected the rest of the hall and found nothing unusual.

He shifted his gaze to the collapsed altar and walked up a few steps.

As soon as he stepped onto the stone platform, Han Li felt an extremely intense fluctuation of the Time Law emanating from the altar.

Han Li's eyes lit up, knowing that he had finally found the source of the time freeze here.

At this moment, he wanted to speed up, but unfortunately, the Time Law power ahead increased sharply, and his speed decreased instead of increasing. Fortunately, he was not frozen again.

Han Li took one step at a time, spending a full half day to ascend this small altar.

At the center of the altar, there was a round hole as thick as a bucket, pitch-black and bottomless, seemingly caused by some kind of attack.

Inside the round hole flickered a strong golden light, from which intense Law fluctuations emanated.

This golden light was precisely the source of the time freeze here!

This golden light was not an immortal artifact containing Time Law power; it seemed to be residual power left after some kind of attack.

Han Li looked up toward the ceiling. There was also a large hole in the roof of the hall, aligned with the round hole on the ground.

After a moment of deliberation, golden light flickered slowly around him. The rapidly spinning Truth Speech Wheel quietly stared at the golden light inside the round hole, but he felt somewhat horrified inside.

Just a trace of residual power could freeze time in this great hall. The attacker's mastery of the Time Law far exceeded his imagination.

"Could it be a Time Ancestor..." This thought flashed through Han Li's mind, and he urged his spell with a mental command.

Golden light flickered at the center of the wheel, and a golden vertical eye slowly emerged—the Eye of Truth.

Golden light flickered within the vertical eye, and after a moment, a beam of golden light shot out, entering the round hole.

Hum!

The golden light inside the round hole blazed brightly. Large swaths of golden light rolled and surged, interweaving into patches of light and shadow in the void. The golden light rapidly transformed into a golden finger shadow several feet long, then shot backward as if retreating into the air.

Meanwhile, the broken altar before him quickly repaired itself, restoring to its intact state.

Han Li paid no attention to the altar, his gaze fixed on the golden finger shadow.

Golden light flickered on this golden finger shadow, faintly revealing strands of Time Law crystal filaments interwoven according to some extremely profound pattern, condensing into this finger shadow. It looked incredibly mysterious.

A piercing-through-all-things aura emanated from the golden finger shadow.

Just by looking at this finger shadow, he felt as if his body was being pierced through.

"What is this..." Han Li stared at the golden finger shadow, utterly shocked.

Since entering the True Immortal Realm, he had always been silently comprehending and cultivating alone. Although he could now use some Time Law power, compared to the golden finger shadow before him, his level of application was truly inadequate—it was like the difference between clouds and mud.