Chapter 293: Time Flies

In the paddy field covered with spirit soil, the three-foot seedling in the golden light in the center was sacred and bright, golden and brilliant, slowly absorbing the blood energy in the water.

After two years of careful cultivation by two Longevity realm giants, its growth had stalled.

Even with An Xianjing's cultivation of mind, she was secretly anxious; otherwise, she wouldn't have been desperate and sought out a junior in the Five Sea realm.

All-gold trace veins and golden rice grains were indeed easy to associate with each other.

"This isn't appropriate, is it?"

Li Youyi didn't mind helping An Xianjing raise rice, but what if an infant grew out that looked three-tenths like him? What kind of thing was that?

An Xianjing was very patient: "Blood is only one part of the nourishment; it's not as complicated as you think. Some rumors say that Ren Rice growing on mass graves absorbs the blood of thousands of the deceased. Do they have thousands of parents?"

"I feel that the existence of Ren Rice challenges human ethics and human nature too much. For people who don't care about emotions, perhaps it doesn't matter. But for those who do care?"

Li Youyi thought of many things at once.

He somewhat understood why Chan Hai Guan Wu forbade planting it back then.

An Xianjing fell into deep thought, and after a while: "You can try providing it with sunlight using the spirit light shadow of the Fusang Divine Tree first. I feel that your spirit has very rich life energy."

Li Youyi had also noticed before that the fire lotus in the lake grew very well in the area covered by the Fusang Divine Tree's light shadow.

Perhaps, it really was helpful.

Li Youyi sat on the ridge.

Gradually, his mind became clear, and he fell into meditation.

"Whoosh!"

The Fusang Divine Tree light shadow rose behind him, reaching more than ten zhang high, the brilliance like broken gold, the leaves like flames, covering the mu-sized spirit soil paddy field in brilliance.

A magical scene occurred.

The three-foot-tall seedling, whose leaves were originally drooping, gradually stretched out and stood upright.

It breathed along with Li Youyi's breathing, constantly absorbing the light rain falling from the Fusang Divine Tree.

The entire Southern Clear Palace, for several miles around, fell into darkness, only this place was bright.

An Xianjing was originally a person who loved to laugh; at this moment, a brilliant and joyful smile bloomed on her face, not at all like an ancient figure who had lived for three hundred and sixty years.

She secretly thought, "The blood energy nourishment for the golden rice is definitely enough. The reason why growth stalled is perhaps related to sunlight."

Half an hour later, Li Youyi opened his eyes.

Seeing the change in the golden rice, he showed joy: "Senior An, it seems I am still useful to you. We don't need to use blood irrigation for the time being, right?"

An Xianjing walked to Li Youyi's side and pointed at his Fengfu at the back of his head.

After probing.

She withdrew her finger and nodded gently: "It's really true; you actually tempered all your trace veins into gold, and the Fengfu has reached the level of thirty-six thousand square. Your physique is definitely not that of a mortal; you must have a great background."

"Please, Senior An, do not mention martial arts talent again."

Having the experience of talking to Yao Qingxuan, Li Youyi pretended to be pained and uncomfortable, spoke very little, and did not explain.

An Xianjing said: "The passing line for the ancestral field of a successor in the Five Sea realm is only twenty thousand square. Your Fengfu is thirty-six thousand; you can completely replace the ancestral field with the Fengfu. I'm just afraid that your ancestral field being abolished is fake, and you won't know how to plant the Dao with the Fengfu."

Li Youyi showed anger: "If senior continues to uncover people's wounds and suspects this and that, it would be better to just kill me. Anyway, after helping you grow the golden rice, I won't be able to escape death. If my ancestral field wasn't abolished, the Jiuli Hidden Gate would definitely send top experts to protect me; how could I have fallen into your hands?"

Who could have thought that the underground immortal mansion was actually the nest of the Twin Rice Sect?

And this sect had a huge force and experts as numerous as clouds.

Before Li Youyi came in, he thought there were really no Longevity giants in the underground immortal mansion.

He was lucky, at least he was still alive. More people who misjudged had long since had no bones left, or had an even more miserable end.

An Xianjing frowned: "Don't overthink it! As long as you don't go against the Divine Sect, this Hall Master won't kill you, let alone kill the donkey after it has finished grinding the mill. Believe it or not, it's up to you!"

"Give me the Divine Snow Sword!"

Li Youyi took out the Divine Snow Sword from his boundary bag and handed it over.

Extremely curious in his heart, he asked: "Was Tang Wanzhou captured?"

"You'd better take care of yourself first!"

"Keep this bottle of longevity blood well; ten drops a day, no more, no less. It should be enough for two or three months of irrigation. Put more heart into it; if you raise the golden rice to death... think for yourself what the consequences will be?"

An Xianjing threatened him indifferently, showing the majesty of a Hall Master, so that Li Youyi wouldn't think she was easy to get along with and push his luck. In fact, in front of this big boy full of kindness and idealism, it was really difficult for her to put on the airs of a Hall Master.

Just as she said, I return compassion to the compassionate. To the evil, I grant them rebirth.

Cultivating the "Formless and Imageless Buddhist Scripture" is like looking in a mirror; facing what kind of person, she is in what kind of state.

Leaving behind a cold jade bottle, she took the sword and left.

Li Youyi said: "If it has any problems, where should I go to find you?"

"Spirit Valley Hall, look for the Head of the God Child, Qionji Daoist. I have to leave for a while recently," An Xianjing said.

"Do me a favor; I have a friend named Qi Xiao who might have fallen into your hands. Help me find him."

"I am a Hall Master, not someone responsible for finding cats and dogs."

An Xianjing disappeared into the formation light screen.

"One by one, they are really difficult to get along with. Are Longevity realm giants so amazing? At that time, if I reach the transcendental realm, I will definitely put on airs in front of them too."

Li Youyi talked to himself and opened his palm.

Besides the cold jade bottle, there was also a three-inch-long green jade formation talisman in his palm, which was used to open various formations in the Southern Clear Palace.

Because the jade talisman had the three characters "Southern Clear Palace" on it.

From now on, for him, the Southern Clear Palace was free to enter and exit, and he could go anywhere.

However, An Xianjing didn't give him a life tablet, obviously wanting to restrict him within the Southern Clear Palace.

For the next three days, Li Youyi sat on the ridge, meditating while supporting the Fusang Divine Tree light shadow to provide brilliance for the golden rice. At the same time, he refined the magic power in the Fengfu, wanting to complete the sixth sea as soon as possible.

He didn't dare to activate the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, fearing that Yao Qingxuan and An Xianjing would suddenly return.

They liked to appear behind or beside him silently.

There was no news of them for three consecutive days, and Li Youyi could no longer suppress the urgency in his heart. He walked out of the formation where the paddy field was located and came to another area in the Southern Clear Palace covered by a formation.

Inside the formation was that twenty-plus-story-high black Buddhist pagoda.

There wasn't a single footprint in the desolate courtyard outside the pagoda.

It could be seen that An Xianjing and Yao Qingxuan would never enter this place; it was a good place to activate the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

As for the immeasurable danger...

Li Youyi could escape into the blood mud space, so he wasn't that afraid.

Besides, according to Chan Hai Guan Wu, his blood could wake the dead; who would overcome whom was not yet certain!

"I must take advantage of the time before the golden rice grows up to improve my cultivation and strength as much as possible. An Xianjing speaks nicely, but who knows if she will go back on her word when I have no utilization value? Faces can change as soon as they are said to, let alone words that have been spoken."

Leaving the six Phoenix-Winged Moth Emperors outside to keep watch and gnaw on various medicinal herbs in the Southern Clear Palace.

Li Youyi took out the green jade formation talisman, opened the formation light gauze, and walked in.

"Rustle!"

A cold wind blew up in the dilapidated courtyard where the black Buddhist pagoda was located, and the dust swirled.

An ancient aura rushed toward him, and vaguely, a few sounds of Buddhist chanting seemed to ring out.

Although Li Youyi felt guilty, he also knew that the formation here hadn't been opened for many years, and it was normal for there to be wind when it was suddenly opened and the air inside and outside circulated.

He glanced at the open door on the first floor of the Buddhist pagoda.

That withered bone was sitting cross-legged in the darkness, chained, and he didn't know what kind of story he had in his lifetime, why he was locked here?

Had he been locked for tens of thousands of years?

Anyway, Li Youyi had a feeling that he would suddenly stand up and rush out, a dangerous feeling.

Li Youyi didn't dare to get close and sat down right next to the formation light gauze.

First, he activated the light red fish eye of the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, and then, he entered the blood mud space.

Through the spatial power of the Shaoyang Star, Li Youyi steered the jade boat and arrived at the Tanggu Sea.

The waves were surging, and the brilliance was scorching.

He looked far into the distance at the sacred and spectacular Fusang Divine Tree on the horizon, bathed in sunlight, his vision wide. The cold aura in the Buddhist pagoda courtyard just now was swept away.

"Currently, the Shaoyang Star can only open a spatial passage to here and cannot go anywhere else. Perhaps, not only do I need to cultivate thought power, but I also need to cultivate the Dao of Space."

"Tang Wanzhou is already standing at the top of the pre-Longevity stage and has only initially touched the cultivation method of space. I'd better not aim too high and break through to the Dao Seed realm as soon as possible."

Li Youyi didn't think much more, sat on the bow of the jade boat, and mobilized his thought power to activate the light green fish eye of the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish.

Two thought power stars were consumed rapidly, the brilliance became dimmer and dimmer, and the stars became smaller and smaller.

The Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish operated...

"Whoosh!"

Strands of green light silk escaped from the fish eye and wrapped around him.

The time cocoon was still only about a zhang in size.

"After becoming a two-star spirit thought master, the cocoon silk has indeed become much more solid."

"The waves in the sea have become really slow. It seems that the time flow inside and outside the time cocoon really does have a difference."

"It is said that there are signs of time distortion in many places in the universe. Has someone mastered this power? The former owner of the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish?"

Li Youyi cleared all distracting thoughts and began to refine Qi.

Days passed by.

Every time the Golden Crow flew out from the bottom of the sea, Li Youyi would leave the Tanggu Sea, return to the Southern Clear Palace, sit on the ridge, perform meditation, restore the consumed thought power, and at the same time, use the Fusang Divine Tree light shadow to provide light for the golden rice.

It usually took half a day of meditation for the thought power to fully recover.

As time passed, Li Youyi figured out the state of the time cocoon.

With his current thought power strength as a two-star spirit thought master, the time cocoon could only be maintained for one day.

But inside the time cocoon, it was far more than one day; Li Youyi estimated it to be three or four days.

Therefore, every time the Qi refining ended, there would be a strong sense of hunger.

Originally, he estimated that even with the help of the Fusang Divine Tree, it would take three months to complete the Qi refining and cultivate the sixth sea to perfection.

In fact, it only took him a month and a half to complete the sixth sea.

During this period, he spent a lot of time restoring thought power, taking care of the golden rice, refining the Star Day Pill, cultivating his physical body..., and his strength in all aspects improved rapidly.

The underground immortal mansion was spherical, not a flat layer.

The Twin Rice Sect spent a thousand years roughly dividing the developed areas into three layers: upper, middle, and lower.

The top layer, the "Sacred Heart Layer," was the cultivation place of the two Rice Ancestors, extremely mysterious, with few people able to go there, and it held the ultimate secret left by the ancient Po Jialuo Sect.

The middle layer, the "Mortal World Layer," was the safest and most fertile area, heavily protected and isolated from other areas.

The Mortal World Layer was divided into twenty-eight prefectures, each dozens of miles in radius, which were the cultivation areas and Ren Rice planting areas for the young disciples of the main altar, responsible for propagation and education.

The Spirit Valley Hall had the greatest authority in the Mortal World Layer.

Even for foreign sect members belonging to the World Hall, when they came to the main altar, their residence and cultivation were all arranged by the Spirit Valley Hall, and they had to obey management.