Chapter 373: Cultivation Has No Years

Time passed day by day.

Every day, apart from catalyzing the spiritual herbs and preparing the "Yellow Dragon Pill" and "Golden Marrow Pill" he needed, Han Li sat cross-legged and cultivated Qi all day, completely entering bitter cultivation.

Of course, he would also adjust the white spiders and other strange insects according to the insect-rearing experience of the Spirit Beast Sect cultivators, which could be considered the only pleasure in his cultivation.

But just as Han Li had estimated, he entered the ninth layer of the Qi Condensation stage in just over a year, a speed that was like flying compared to before.

But Han Li was somewhat dissatisfied with this speed. After reaching the ninth layer, he gritted his teeth and took three Foundation Establishment Pills in succession.

Relying on the powerful medicinal power, Han Li spent another year to re-enter the Foundation Establishment stage.

At this time, he could finally use innate true fire.

Thus, Han Li immediately stopped preparing low-tier pills and began to refine the few types of pills suitable for the Foundation Establishment stage according to the pill recipes.

According to Han Li's calculations, apart from the "Qi Condensation Powder," which had no effect on him because he had taken too much, the other three types of pills should be able to advance his cultivation base to the Foundation Establishment late-stage without any problems.

However, according to the original plan, Han Li didn't immediately cultivate Qi to deepen his cultivation base, but only accumulated pills and changed to cultivate the "Great Expansion Art," to prepare for refining the "Incarnation."

Initially, Han Li's cultivation of the first layer of the "Great Expansion Art" was unexpectedly smooth, taking only half a year to complete.

This gave Han Li some confidence, knowing that although his aptitude in comprehending the Five Elements magic spells was very poor, he had not small talent in the "Great Expansion Art," so he held great confidence in cultivating the second layer of the "Great Expansion Art."

The second layer of the "Great Expansion Art," according to that half of the cultivation technique, would make the spiritual sense several times more powerful after cultivation, and at the same time, it could split the spirit into more than a hundred parts. Only when this cultivation technique was combined with that puppet technique would the terrifying power of the "Great Expansion Art" truly be revealed.

Although he knew that the second layer would be much more difficult to cultivate than the first, the amount of time spent still far exceeded Han Li's expectations.

Originally thinking it would take two or three years to complete, it actually took Han Li six years of day and night dedicated cultivation to barely complete it.

It took nearly half the time more than expected, which made Han Li helpless!

And during this period, the torture of the headache and brain swelling from forcibly exercising his spiritual sense made Han Li's face change greatly whenever he recalled it; he was truly terrified.

In addition, in the third year of cultivating the "Great Expansion Art," the disciple of the middle-aged cultivator from the Ascension Pavilion, who had suffered a great loss at his hands because of the qualification for big island trading, really came to his Little Cai Huan Island to challenge him again under the orders of the middle-aged cultivator.

As a result, he was trapped in Han Li's formation for three days and three nights before being discovered by Han Li, who happened to be coming out of seclusion, and was released.

You know, because of the difficulty of cultivating the "Great Expansion Art," Han Li had long forgotten about this matter.

Facing Han Li, who used the nameless Qi-restraining technique to cover his true cultivation base, this man, who was somewhat anxious and angry after being trapped in the formation for several days, was naturally defeated by Han Li at just the right time, making him think that Han Li's magic tool was just a bit sharper, and he had no choice but to return in dejection.

After this incident, another three years passed, and Han Li, who had cultivated the second layer of the "Great Expansion Art," prepared to cultivate the secret technique of "External Incarnation."

He rested well for a few days, let his primordial spirit reach its most powerful state, called Qu Hun to the secret room for practicing, and sat cross-legged facing him.

Han Li waved his hand, lowered the stone door of the secret room, and stared at Qu Hun opposite him, not speaking for a long time.

Looking at Qu Hun's ugly yet familiar face, Han Li couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart, thinking of many past events he had almost forgotten, the "Seven Mysteries Sect," the Rainbow Mountain, and a series of familiar figures...

However, after staring at Qu Hun's wooden and soulless eyes for a while, Han Li sighed and finally didn't hesitate anymore, pinching the magic spells with his hands like a windmill. His whole body emitted a faint green light, reflecting the secret room in a green color.

Not long after, Han Li's face twisted slightly in the green light, and tiny beads of sweat condensed on his forehead, his eyes emitting piercing white light, making people not dare to look at them.

"Hi!"

Han Li suddenly let out a loud roar, his hands formed a strange magic seal, and his body remained motionless, but a green light cluster the size of a thumb was exhaled from his nostrils. This light cluster flew quickly under Qu Hun's nostrils and also drilled into his body through his nostrils.

At this time, Han Li's face was already pale, and sweat like beans rolled down, but the white piercing light in his eyes became even more dazzling, finally spraying two thin white lights directly from his eyes, shooting straight into Qu Hun's eyes, and the two bodies trembled involuntarily...

The stone door of the secret room remained closed for more than a month. It wasn't until the middle of the second month that the stone door of the secret room finally opened slowly, and Han Li walked out with a haggard face but an exceptionally excited expression.

This refining of the incarnation was finally successful after bitter torment. Although he didn't know the effect yet, at least there was no phenomenon of refining failure or cultivation technique backlash, which made Han Li breathe a sigh of relief.

But Han Li, who had just come out of the secret room, immediately entered another stone room and began to go into seclusion.

This refining also caused not small damage to his vitality; if he didn't take medicine and cultivate Qi immediately, he might even fall to the Qi Condensation stage.

As for the incarnation "Qu Hun" in the process of refining, because the split spirit had not yet completely mastered the body, it had to continue to grind and adapt in the secret room.

A few months later, Han Li had recovered his damaged vitality, but he didn't come out of seclusion, but instead began to study the cultivation method of the "Three Revolutions Heavy Origin Technique."

The cultivation method of the "Three Revolutions Heavy Origin Technique" was very clear: when the cultivator's cultivation base reached the Foundation Establishment late-stage, they would disperse most of the cultivation of the "Green Origin Sword Art," re-cultivate from the Foundation Establishment early-stage, and compress and condense the true origin at the same time, letting the liquefied true origin of the Foundation Establishment stage lean toward solidification as much as possible, thereby reducing the bottleneck resistance encountered during Core Formation.

According to the high-level expert who created this cultivation technique, after repeating this three times, there should be a fifty percent chance of forming a golden core.

When Han Li dispersed his cultivation, although he hadn't reached the Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivation base, he had unexpectedly dispersed his cultivation at the Foundation Establishment mid-stage.

But he didn't care about this matter at all!

In Han Li's view, the difference between dispersing cultivation at the Foundation Establishment late-stage and mid-stage was just a matter of more or less true origin when compressing and solidifying.

As long as the general idea of compressing and solidifying true origin didn't change, and he would disperse his cultivation again when he reached the Foundation Establishment late-stage the next two times, there shouldn't be any major problems.

After Han Li dedicatedly studied the "Three Revolutions Heavy Origin Technique" for several months and felt that he had thoroughly understood the cultivation technique, he entered the secret room with a large amount of pills.

This time, he made up his mind that he would not come out of the cave dwelling until he had practiced this cultivation technique to the first revolution and practiced the "Green Origin Sword Art" to the sixth layer.

As for Qu Hun, who had fused with the body, Han Li let him take pills and cultivate Qi non-stop, preparing for Foundation Establishment.

Because Qu Hun's spiritual roots were of the "Three Spiritual Roots" attribute, which was much better than Han Li's aptitude, so with the assistance of pills, his cultivation base soared at a speed not weaker than Han Li's re-cultivation.

According to Han Li's estimation, he would be able to establish Foundation in just two years.

And Han Li had long ago picked out the magic technique "Blood Refining Divine Light" that the Yue Emperor had practiced from the jade slip emitting gray-white energy, and let Qu Hun practice it after Foundation Establishment.

After all, he had witnessed with his own eyes how powerful this magic technique was on the Yue Emperor.

As for the problem that there was no subsequent cultivation technique after Core Formation, making it impossible to go further, Han Li didn't care much.

Because even if the Sha Dan was formed, Qu Hun, this incarnation, could only maintain the cultivation base of the Core Formation early-stage, so it made no difference whether there was a subsequent cultivation technique or not.

Han Li's cultivation took a truly long time!

As the saying goes, cultivation has no years. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.

In such a long period of time, Han Li actually didn't take a single step out of the cave dwelling, and didn't appear in front of the island's residents again.

And for Little Cai Huan Island, since this Immortal Master Han came, it had almost no impact on the hundreds of residents in the town.

Those who should fish fished, and those who should farm farmed!

Of course, the two mountain peaks that were clearly visible were covered by dense white mist, becoming blurred and unclear. This made the mortal residents of Little Cai Huan Island somewhat unaccustomed to it at first.

But as time went by, the people in the town got used to this scene and became indifferent to it.

However, the adults in the town would still warn the naughty children in their families not to approach the white mist near the mountain peaks.

Because as long as a person walked in, they would completely lose their way and be unable to walk out again. Only after being trapped for several days and suffering all kinds of hardships, and then shouting "Immortal Master Han" several times, could they reveal the path again and be able to escape.

After several such incidents appeared, the residents in the town naturally learned to be obedient, knowing that this Immortal Master Han didn't like to be disturbed.

But not approaching the mountain peaks, just cutting firewood and picking fruits near Little Cai Huan Mountain, was perfectly fine.

And every year when the defensive formation in the town lacked spirit stones, as long as the town mayor shouted several times toward the mountain peaks outside the white mist. A year's worth of spirit stones would automatically fly out from the white mist on a tray, allowing the person to take the spirit stones back, and it had never been delayed.

Of course, after twenty years, the original town mayor had long since passed away. The current town mayor was the black-faced fisherman Hei Gui whom Han Li had seen when he first arrived at Little Cai Huan Island, but his request for spirit stones was equally effective.

In this way, the residents on Little Cai Huan Island, although they couldn't be said to be extremely supportive of this Immortal Master Han, also had a pretty good impression of him.

But on this day, Han Li finally walked out of the cave dwelling.

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