Chapter 498

Chapter 498: The Egg Becomes Spirit

Li Hui took out the map and searched tirelessly until he suddenly focused on a specific image: nine waterfalls cascading down.

“This spot is so remote? This place is called Shanhai Heaven, and its overall terrain is quite high, situated on a plateau with numerous mountains. There are so many that no one has ever reached the end, which is why it’s called Shanhai, or Mountain and Sea.”

The ball of threads transformed into a human shape, an eighteen or nineteen-year-old silver-haired youth, and he shaded his eyes to look for a moment, saying, “There are indeed many peaks, but there seem to be few tall mountains; they’re all small hills, none over a thousand zhang high.”

“The spiritual energy here is abundant, supporting a twenty-fold time flow,” Li Hui said casually, summoning several whirlpools of spiritual pressure around him.

The spiritual energy within a thousand miles instantly decreased by thirty percent, subsequently affecting a radius of ten thousand miles, with some locations revealing spirit springs. Bai Ze’s divine eye had already locked onto the positions.

“Hehe, let’s quickly check around for any good treasures; Bai Ze’s spiritual sense is best suited for this,” the ball of threads rubbed its hands together, excited at the opportunity to enter the Great Thousand Cave—something it had never even dared to dream before.

Li Hui shook his head, “I’ve already looked over everything; there are only a few spirit springs to replenish spiritual energy, and everything else can be bought outside. The map marks a few places where rare treasures can be found, but they’re useless to us. If we go too far, it will take too much time, and the effort won’t be worth it. Other cultivators certainly have their targets; I don’t know how much stronger they’ll become by the time we meet again, so we must find some useful treasures and never stagnate!”

“True, we can’t afford to stagnate,” the ball of threads nodded. “That would be a miserable end, but where should we go to strike it rich?”

“Ha ha, I have a plan!” Li Hui looked into the distance and said, “Since those rare treasures are guarded by powerful spiritual beasts, we just need to sense the qi to find them, and with the Cloud-Brush Dragon Claw Technique combined with the Claws of Time, I have a huge advantage.”

“Great! Let’s get moving quickly; I can’t wait to draw the jade symbols…” the ball of threads said eagerly. It was currently stuck at a bottleneck and unable to ascend, but once it broke through, it could return to its peak condition.

Li Hui replenished his spiritual energy at the spirit spring and then sped toward the mountains and seas that no one had ever reached the end of. With a fifty-fold time flow and the Ideal Body, he moved like lightning, not consuming too much clear qi while using void escape. He didn’t have many Small Reincarnation Talismans left.

His figure flickered among the shadows of the trees, sometimes swimming against the powerful river, every moment covering dozens of towering mountains, gradually drawing closer to a specific location.

“Roar…” An ancient spiritual beast let out a fierce roar, but the Claws of Time suppressed it, catching the massive figure and sending it into the Mysterious Pearl.

“Be careful; this is a self-moving jade, and it’s sleeping. Who knows how many years it has been asleep? Any disturbances from other spiritual beasts could awaken it. If it uses Earth Escape to leave, no one can deal with it,” the ball of threads warned.

Li Hui crouched down cautiously, slowly inserting his hands into the ground.

At that moment, the ground trembled slightly, and a palm-sized piece of jade tried to escape. However, it was caught by the Claws of Time with two loud thuds and pulled into the treasure cabinet.

“Whew, that was close,” Li Hui got up and sighed in relief, then oriented himself, saying, “The reason I chose this place was to grab this self-moving jade. With this jade ground into jade powder, we can draw the Great Voyaging Jade Escape talisman.”

The ball of threads halted him, “Wait, what’s the use of the Great Voyaging Jade Escape talisman? It’s similar to the Ideal Body; the main benefit of self-moving jade is nurturing the soul.”

Li Hui puffed out his chest and smiled, “Don’t forget my Legal form! The Great Voyaging Jade Escape talisman is a symbol specifically for the Legal form; each time we move, we can control everything within a hundred thousand miles, then implement the jade escape, taking valuable items without alarming the guarding spiritual beasts. Only by raiding with this speed can we hope to defend against those who want to take my head.”

“Right! Why didn’t I think of that? We’re little Traveling Realm practitioners with a Legal form!” The ball of threads laughed heartily, praising, “Little Traveling Realm, how does that title sound? Isn’t it cool?”

“Not cool at all; I’m just an ordinary Bosa practitioner. That Jian Wujie can reincarnate, and with his previous life as a Legal form, it’s hard to imagine to what extent other continents have reached. If I get the chance, I’ll definitely go take a look,” Li Hui said, clenching his fists. This was just a practitioner allied with the Nine-Mystic Continent, yet he was so hard to deal with. He didn’t know how many powerful opponents lurked in the shadows, waiting to strike with force.

“In the end, he’s definitely not a common Bosa practitioner!” The ball of threads, without needing Li Hui’s help, completed the Great Voyaging Jade Escape talisman. The ordinary talisman-making materials in this mountain were more than sufficient, making it very convenient.

Li Hui prepared himself, though it was just a brief outing for the Legal form; it required careful arrangements to ensure his body was not harmed.

To say one hundred thousand miles is not a short distance; in the outside world, it could span half a country, yet now his perspective was far too high to gauge how many useful things he might find.

“Boom…” The wind roared, and the grass swayed.

The size of a soybean Legal form flew out, scouting every corner, surveying the land. To his surprise, the Great Thousand Cave was indeed different; it took five consecutive trips to scour ten thousand miles.

“Hahaha, mine, all mine! Little one, you can roam freely! I’ll figure out talisman-making; we’ll work together to ensure you have symbols to use.”

The silver snake Legal form said nonchalantly, “Consume as you please; I didn’t find any opportunities to draw jade symbols. But that Xuanwu Stone Core is definitely mine; that’s crucial for the Ideal Body to reach the late-stage Bosa.”

“Don’t worry, the Xuanwu Stone Core is yours,” the ball of threads said joyfully, dreaming of restoring his peak condition. As the saying goes, “One person achieves the Dao, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.” As Li Hui grew stronger, he unexpectedly approached this day; perhaps there would be a chance to open the originally sealed path and reach a new peak.

“Alright, let’s see how many amazing things there are in the Great Thousand Cave.”

Li Hui began to frantically scour the area, and in just one day, he explored three hundred thirty thousand miles. Over the next five days, he sped up dramatically, covering twenty million miles, yet the mountains and seas remained boundless.

On the sixth day of entering the cave, he finally stopped.

The Legal form discovered a mysterious item, a giant white egg two zhang tall. It was indeed an egg, but it bounced around, devouring spiritual beasts, even swallowing larger beasts whole.

“This egg has become spirit?” Both the ball of threads and Li Hui crouched on a tree, observing from afar.

“Strange, there’s no demonic energy and no dark energy, but it has a mystical clear qi. It has devoured so many spiritual beasts without any blood energy, as if it’s been sent to some place, like a moving portal,” Li Hui chewed on half a piece of Awakening Grass, encountering something he couldn’t decipher even with Bai Ze’s divine eye. So he used the Awakening Grass but still couldn’t see through it thoroughly.

“What portal? This is clearly an egg that has become spirit!” The ball of threads shook its head and pulled out five bamboo dragonflies, saying, “I made these; let’s see how they perform. They’re made from top-grade treasure talismans, considered artifacts! Each bamboo dragonfly is equivalent to a Phantom Talisman, which can stealthily infiltrate.”