Chapter 281

Li Li Youyi took out a bottle of spring liquid and handed it to Tang Tang Wanzhou.

"The expansion process of the inner world is extremely dangerous; you must never force it."

"Once you sense the limit of the world barrier, inform me immediately with your mental energy."

"Cultivating the Sixth Sea and the Seventh Sea is essentially opening up a broader space for the Dao Seed to accumulate richer magic energy."

"It's like planting a tree; the larger the container used and the more soil there is, the greater the space for it to grow, and the future will be more promising."

……

Tang Tang Wanzhou spoke to this point, and spatial energy erupted from her fingertips—invisible and colorless, yet the surrounding scene was distorting.

The Dao Lotus disappeared into her palm.

The next moment.

The Dao Lotus floated to the center of the inner world of Li Li Youyi's Wind Mansion at the back of his head.

It spun at high speed, and magic energy was released rapidly, turning into a storm vortex that propped up the inner world unit by unit.

Twenty-one thousand units, twenty-two thousand units, twenty-three thousand units...

Tang Tang Wanzhou poured out the spring liquid from the bottle, which turned into a small stream, flying around her fingers and striking into Li Li Youyi's Wind Mansion from the center of the spatial ripples.

As the world barrier expanded, the spring liquid was also constantly merging into it.

Twenty-six thousand units, twenty-seven thousand units...

Tang Tang Wanzhou observed Li Li Youyi's complexion, worried that he was holding on too hard.

She discovered that his expression remained unchanged, breathing and exhaling evenly, with magic energy circulating in his trace meridians and string meridians in a cycle.

After just a moment, the magic energy in the Dao Lotus overflowed completely, and it returned to calm.

It was taken out of the Wind Mansion by Tang Tang Wanzhou.

Even with her steady state of mind, she couldn't help but be secretly amazed.

Li Li Youyi's Wind Mansion had already reached over thirty thousand units, three times that of an ordinary successor.

"No wonder you could fight against the Green Luan-born Lin-young in an adverse situation; it's indeed not simple." Tang Tang Wanzhou highly suspected that his Fifth Sea had already broken ten thousand units.

She did not go to investigate, respecting the other party's secrets.

Li Li Youyi took out the Dao Fruit he had only used ten thousand units of previously, handed it to Tang Tang Wanzhou, and smiled: "Young Monarch, please help again; in one go, help me complete the opening of my Wind Mansion!"

Having polished it for several months at twenty thousand units, he was not afraid of the instability brought about by the rapid expansion of the inner world.

Tang Tang Wanzhou developed a great curiosity and an arrogant state of mind that looked down upon martial cultivators of the past and present, experiencing for the first time the feeling that "there are heavens beyond heavens, mountains beyond mountains." Taking the Dao Fruit, she gave another word of advice, then exerted spatial power to force it into Li Li Youyi's Wind Mansion.

This time, not only was Tang Tang Wanzhou much more cautious.

Li Li Youyi also concentrated his mental energy and spirit on the Wind Mansion, not daring to be the least bit careless. He had already felt that the limit of the Wind Mansion's world barrier was arriving step by step.

Once the Wind Mansion reaches the Dao Seed Realm, it can be further expanded; there is no need to hold on too hard in the Five Seas Realm.

In the end, his Wind Mansion expanded to thirty-six thousand units.

Tang Tang Wanzhou took back the Dao Fruit, put it into the box, and immediately sealed it: "There is still about thirty thousand units of magic energy inside this Dao Fruit."

Li Li Youyi sat in meditation to regulate his breathing; the newly added sixteen thousand units of strange magic energy in the Wind Mansion gradually calmed down, merging with the original twenty thousand units of magic energy, and the incompatibility weakened by more than half.

He stood up, cupped his hands, and thanked her again.

Tang Tang Wanzhou stood with her hands behind her back, looking at the map on the table, and pondered for a moment: "Why don't you lend me the strange insects, and you don't have to go down!"

Li Li Youyi asked: "Is this trip very dangerous?"

Tang Tang Wanzhou said: "That's right! Your talent is not bad, but your current cultivation is too low; everyone on this trip is much older than you. To tell you the truth, I cannot guarantee your safety one hundred percent. With your foundation of thirty-six thousand in the Wind Mansion, if you were to fall down there, the people of the Nine Li Hidden Sect would probably fight me to the death."

As Li Li Youyi was thinking seriously.

Tang Tang Wanzhou added: "Even if the Ancestral Field is damaged and crippled, unable to seed the Dao, with a Wind Mansion of thirty-six thousand, it is still broader than the Ancestral Fields of most successors; seeding the Dao with such a Wind Mansion, the threshold of the Longevity Realm cannot block you."

"The reason why those martial cultivators who seed the Dao with the Wind Mansion cannot reach the Longevity Realm is fundamentally because the growth potential of their Wind Mansion is too small, which restricts the growth of the Dao Seed."

"Let me give you an example!"

"The Dao is a tree. The Dao Seed is the seed of the tree."

"The first factor in how high a tree can grow is definitely determined by the seed."

"But the amount of soil and the size of the growth space are equally important."

"The size of the Wind Mansion is the growth space of the tree. The magic energy within the Wind Mansion is the soil."

"For martial cultivators forced to seed the Dao in the Wind Mansion, when they are in the Five Seas Realm, it is the limit if they can expand the Wind Mansion to three or four thousand units! No matter how much they expand in the Dao Seed Realm, it will always be a tree in an indoor pot; the tree will never grow big."

"This is the essential difference between you and them!"

After she finished speaking, Li Li Youyi said: "I just thought about it carefully; even if I don't accompany you, given my personality, I would eventually break in myself. Accompanying you might actually be safer, and the possibility of finding Spirit Platform Flame Star Stones and thousand-year essence medicine is greater."

Tang Tang Wanzhou smiled: "I was waiting for you to say that! In the outer area of the underground Immortal Mansion, don't even think about finding Spirit Platform Flame Star Stones and thousand-year essence medicine; it has already been swept by others countless times. The place I want to go is deeper than anyone has ever reached."

"As for the danger..."

"In this world, anything with high returns that concerns the future of cultivation cannot be fully prepared for. Anything you can be fully prepared for won't be a big deal, and you won't get much of a result."

Li Li Youyi saw in Tang Tang Wanzhou the same spirit of adventure and the same passionate, vigorous fighting spirit as himself, and smiled: "I ask the Young Monarch to help keep it a secret!"

"Go!"

Tang Tang Wanzhou issued an order to leave.

……

Returning to his residence, Li Li Youyi took a bottle of life spirit spring and sat in meditation to heal for a while, his mind unable to calm down.

He pondered whether to leave the camp and meet with the Dharma Kings of the Earth Wolf King Army. But thinking of the large number of old-generation experts gathered in the Qifeng Ancient Commandery City, and the demon clan and evil sect members lurking in the shadows eyeing him, he had to give up.

He had to give up.

His fingers touched the Dao Ancestor Wu Taiji Fish on his neck, his mood slightly excited; he could finally start testing.

He didn't dare to activate it in the room, worried that the abnormal fluctuations would be sensed by the experts of the Snow Sword Tang Ting.

He released the seven little ones from the insect bag.

After the battle with Long Ting, their spirits were quite withered.

He took out the last bottle of life spirit spring and fed it to them.

Currently, Li Li Youyi's thousand-year essence medicine was exhausted. He couldn't keep feeding them Xihe flowers, so he could only feed them hundred-year precious medicine first—at least to fill their stomachs.

He instructed them to guard the room.

After Li Li Youyi made proper arrangements in the room, he entered the blood mud space of the Shaoyang Star.

The blood mud earth before his eyes expanded again, reaching about one hectare, and his field of vision finally opened up.

"Reaching the Spirit Mind Master level, the blood mud space has grown significantly."

Li Li Youyi looked at the Dao Ancestor Wu Taiji Fish on his neck.

That pale cyan fish eye, just as Chan Hai Guan Wu had said, showed signs of flickering.

No longer hesitating, he flew onto the jade boat, sat cross-legged in meditation, and mobilized the spirit light in his brow spirit realm, turning it into a stream of light that surged toward the only remaining fish eye.

It constantly absorbed the stream of mental energy light.

The radiance emitted by the cyan fish eye became increasingly bright.

"What's going on? Half the spirit light has already surged out; why is it only flickering and emitting light, without any other changes?"

Li Li Youyi's mental energy star was only the size of a green bean; as the spirit light constantly surged out, the star was rapidly shrinking and dimming. If he continued to consume it, there would be a risk of falling in realm.

After all, he had only just condensed the mental energy star, and his realm was not yet stable.

Li Li Youyi was just about to stop the test.

"Click-clack..."

The Dao Ancestor Wu Taiji Fish slowly began to rotate.

"Whatever, since there's a change, then activate it with all your might."

Li Li Youyi continued to mobilize the spirit light; the light particles completely wrapped around the Dao Ancestor Wu Taiji Fish, constantly disappearing into the cyan fish eye.

After the Yin and Yang fish rotated for one cycle...

The Dao Ancestor Wu Taiji Fish floated up automatically, hovering above Li Li Youyi's head.

"Whoosh!"

From the cyan fish eye, dense cyan light threads flew out, turning into a circular cocoon about a zhang in diameter, wrapping Li Li Youyi inside.

Li Li Youyi's heart beat faster; he stood up abruptly, observing and sensing carefully.

The cyan cocoon threads were very faint; he could see the scene outside, like mist and gauze, thousands of threads, isolated from the outside world.

He touched it with his finger.

The cocoon body vibrated gently, ripples appearing; it was extremely spiritual.

"What on earth is this thing? Wasn't it said that the cyan fish eye might involve time power?" Li Li Youyi was very confused and wanted to jump out of the light cocoon.

But activating it once consumed a huge amount of mental energy, and he didn't dare to do so rashly.

"Time Cocoon!"

An ethereal, pleasant voice came from an unknown place, as if from the depths of time and space.

It sounded a bit like the voice of the muffled-gourd guardian wife?

Li Li Youyi's eyes rolled, searching everywhere, but he didn't find her trace, so he hurriedly asked: "Is it you? Have you finally woken up? What is a Time Cocoon?"

"The Time Silkworm feeds on the lifespan of all spirits, weaving a Time Cocoon to avoid the laws of the universe."

"The threads of your Time Cocoon are woven from mental energy. The stronger the mental energy, the more stable and profound the cocoon."

The voice gradually moved away, becoming weaker and weaker.

Li Li Youyi hurriedly asked: "What is the function of the Time Cocoon? How should I use it? How is it profound?"

"What you see now is just the beginning; the profoundness has not yet appeared... I am waiting for you in the future... I seem to have come a bit early... This is an era before the bronze warships have arrived... You must head to the Time Market as soon as possible to purchase time intelligence..."

Her voice was very chaotic, without logic, and gradually disappeared.

Li Li Youyi was bewildered and asked again: "Can you speak more clearly? Who exactly are you? Are you the bride in the wedding dress hidden in my blood?"

There was no response.

He asked a few more times, even cutting his wrist to let blood, but still couldn't summon her out.

Li Li Youyi hurriedly stopped the bleeding and then thought carefully.

He hadn't come away empty-handed.

At least there were two useful pieces of information.

First, the pale cyan fish eye was indeed related to time.

Second, the stronger the mental energy, the stronger the Time Cocoon woven.

As for the other incoherent words, Li Li Youyi silently noted them down, waiting until he found Chan Hai Guan Wu and his three masters to ask them. People who had lived for thousands or even several thousand years must certainly know more than he did.

Li Li Youyi tried to recall the cyan cocoon threads into his brow spirit realm, but failed.

Subsequently, he took out a Star Day Pill and swallowed it, then exerted the Fusang Divine Tree Meditation Method, preparing to first restore his severely depleted mental energy.

After reaching the Spirit Mind Master level, his speed of absorbing the Star Day Pill was three times what it used to be. Even absorbing the light of the Fusang Divine Tree coming from the Tang Gu Sea became much more domineering.

A large area of the sea surface became dim.

The light seemed to be swallowed, pulled into the blood mud space.

The one-hectare blood mud space became incomparably bright, the light turning into condensed light rain.

If Li Li Youyi were to open his eyes at this moment and observe the Tang Gu Sea outside the Time Cocoon, he would discover that the waves on the sea surface were rising and falling extremely slowly, completely different from how they usually looked.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

The mental energy voice of the Great Phoenix surged into the blood mud space.

(End of chapter)