Chapter 539

Chapter 539: Flower of the Other Shore Robe

The Undying Curse felt that the curse power she had cultivated was vast as the ocean. How could it be simple to impact a small pond? She never anticipated that the little cultivator across from her could dig the pond into an underground river, proving that even the sea had its limits.

“How could this happen?” Now it was her turn to feel fearful.

The treasure cabinet, having undergone many improvements, could store vast amounts of spiritual energy and harmonize itself based on various energies. At this moment, it effectively functioned within the robe, continuously refining Li Hui’s self-painted bone with curse power.

Suddenly, the Undying Curse was terrified to discover that the robe unleashed a terrifying might, resembling another Undying Curse. This was truly infuriating!

“Hahaha!” Li Hui laughed and shook his head, “One must give and take. Sacrificing the treasure cabinet has led to the creation of my self-painted bone. It is not me, but the decree. It has transcended the Jade Symbol, achieving a Celestial Talisman with curse power!”

Previously, he had reached the Celestial Talisman level using the Jade Turtle as a vessel, a result of its extraordinary origins, equivalent to tying a swift steed to a lead; its speed depended on the horse, not the lead.

Today was different; Li Hui bet everything, truly forging a decree of a Celestial Talisman. The robe fluttered in the wind, shedding its jade-like luster and becoming ethereal.

At that moment, heavenly tribulation descended, shaking the Yuan Chen Heavenly Mansion, yet it paled in comparison to the heavenly tribulation brought by Prime Minister Turtle.

Clearly, Prime Minister Turtle’s origins reversed countless layers of heavenly numbers, or perhaps the heavens desperately sealed the Crystal Palace he knew, which made that calamity infinitely enormous!

Li Hui stomped hard, and the wooden turtle exploded, sending countless black wooden splinters flying outward, instantly disrupting the heavenly mechanism and causing the calamity to spread.

The Undying Curse also felt the lightning strike. Even though she didn’t care about that slight impact, it disturbed the surrounding energy, making her unable to reclaim the Curse on the Other Side in that instant.

If a decree could become a Celestial Talisman and still face continuous heavenly tribulation, what of such an immensely malevolent decree? Thus, divine lightning struck successively.

Prime Minister Turtle had wrapped himself in twenty-three layers of Xuan Yin wood to self-destruct at a crucial moment to fend off the enemy and resist the heavenly tribulation. Now, layer by layer, he exploded, except that Li Hui’s position on top remained unaffected.

Heavenly tribulation spread continuously, failing to strike the robe, and even the Undying Curse was pushed further away from the wooden turtle.

Li Hui felt empty inside; his presence here relied entirely on a surge of fierce energy.

The heavenly tribulation persisted for two hours, and after Prime Minister Turtle had exploded twenty layers of Xuan Yin wood, he shrank down to the size of a grinding wheel before it finally ended, with calamity clouds drifting away bit by bit.

The Undying Curse was frantic; heavenly tribulation inherently suppressed curses. That obnoxious brat’s robe also countered her efforts. She employed various methods but rendered ineffective, realizing he had truly become the nemesis of her curses.

At that moment, Li Hui stowed the wooden turtle and strode toward the Undying Curse, as all curse power around converged into the robe, subtly forming the Curse on the Other Side behind him. However, unlike before, all shadows had dissipated, leaving only one figure standing, smiling faintly.

The phenomena flashed and vanished; the robe remained unchanged.

The Undying Curse retreated in shock, secretly calculating how much power she still retained. To her dismay, she discovered that she barely possessed a third of her original strength. In a battle against an ordinary Myriad Forms Stage cultivator, her success rate was only fifty-fifty.

“Retreat your grudges back into the Flower of the Other Shore! You are the Flower of the Other Shore; the Flower of the Other Shore is you,” Li Hui said lightly. The woman let out a shriek, trying to escape. However, after fleeing a distance, she suddenly found herself on the Other Shore. The self-painted bone waved gently at her, and all her curse power immediately dispersed, leaving behind a lotus root-like body that dove into the Flower of the Other Shore, transforming into the flower’s stamen.

After all was done, Li Hui fell to the ground with a “thud,” barely managing to cross his legs and slowly recover from his injuries.

He had extracted the Jade Heart of the Earth Court and the treasure cabinet from within himself, along with all the talismans from the Heavenly and Earthly Arrays. Utilizing extreme measures, he did not know how much essence blood he had bled; the loss was beyond measurement.

After ten whole days, Li Hui relied on the Qi of Taiqing to heal his wounds. Without the Heavenly and Earthly Arrays and the treasure cabinet, his cultivation speed plummeted to the depths, lacking spiritual energy to support the Seize the Day Talisman, making him feel sluggish in every endeavor.

“Alas! Even the Spirit-Refining Formation and jade bed were given to the self-painted bone, and not a single piece of Enamel Dragon Crystal was left. Where can I search for similar Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Treasures to reconstruct the treasure cabinet? As for the Jade Heart of the Earth Court, how easy is it to descend to the Earth Court?” Li Hui smiled bitterly, glancing around with a more pained expression.

“There’s no hope for artifacts and spirit treasures; everything else was shattered during the heavenly tribulation, losing their original forms. Even the corpse of the Nine-Headed Worm vanished during the accumulation of curse power. Those cultivators who wanted to kill me, except for Tan Tiandi and that Yin-like man who managed to escape, the rest are all dead without a trace. This is good; meeting the Undying Curse has settled all debts, and I have become a fallen individual!”

The Cloud Palace no longer existed, only a collection of ancient bamboo slips remained, while other items like the chime stones and palace lanterns, which belonged to the artifacts, were already sacrificed to the Snake’s mouth.

Now these bamboo slips were stored with Prime Minister Turtle, and Li Hui took them out to study closely, hoping to find any fragments of heaven palace descriptions.

Quickly flipping through, he was astonished to discover dozens of ancient cultivation methods. Just a glance at one set of cultivation formulas caused a stir within him, and the Qi of Taiqing burst forth.

“Cloud Leaping Technique?” Li Hui felt a rush as if he were about to soar to the heavens, thinking, “This could be interesting; my trip wasn’t in vain.”

Not just interesting; earlier, when he practiced Void Escape, he found it unsteady and difficult to control. Now, with immense resolve emerging, he could surge through artistic realms, far surpassing ordinary movement techniques.

Without the treasure cabinet to store spiritual energy to support the Seize the Day Talisman, even when his normal actions could reach twenty times the flow of time, during array traversal, if he pushed his speed to a hundred times, he would quickly plummet.

Having lost such a reliance, Li Hui didn’t dare to wander aimlessly within the Yuan Chen Heavenly Mansion, as there were many dangers here. One wrong move could lead to disaster, except in the areas where the Illuminated Pattern Evil Worms were active.

The bug nest was having a bad day; whenever the swarms rushed in, the next moment all the Illuminated Pattern Evil Worms would fall to the ground, trembling, watching helplessly as their eggs were taken from the nest and then retreating.

Wearing the Flower of the Other Shore robe, Li Hui could casually release a hint of curse power to frighten away the Illuminated Pattern Evil Worms. In fact, if he wanted, he could kill all those worms. However, butchering them wouldn’t resolve the problem; there were still places in the heavenly mansion he couldn’t enter. Moreover, no cultivators had come here in recent days, and he had no idea when the outside world would close this cave sky. He still needed to make a trip to see the Golden Luan, so he had to hurry.

After searching every corner and scavenging everything he could, he prepared to leave the Yuan Chen Heavenly Mansion to utilize the Cloud Leaping Technique. Unexpectedly, a gentle breeze lifted him, whisking him away as the robe emitted an ethereal aura. Overjoyed, Li Hui laughed heartily, “With the Dao Escape leading to the Other Shore, I can swiftly reach wherever I’ve been before. Let’s go!”