Chapter 484

Chapter 484: Breaking into the Altar

"Cough, cough, this jade pill has a powerful effect!" At that moment, the silver snake Legal form, smaller than a needle’s eye, coughed. "Why is my Legal form shrinking? I really don’t understand; others’ Legal forms keep enlarging, while mine keeps getting smaller."

Indeed, Li Hui’s silver snake Legal form had shrunk again, but he sensed that he could ride this form to very distant places, unrestricted within a thousand miles.

After taking a round, he found that with just a slight mental thought, he could burrow underground for over two thousand zhang, while normally, Earth Escape could only reach a hundred zhang before hitting its limit.

"The Legal form has definitely grown stronger; its range has expanded a lot," Li Hui opened his eyes and looked at the other two jade pills. Remembering the pain he just felt, he shook his head and smiled wryly. "Forget it; taking this pill without preparation is too painful and doesn’t suit my style. I should have brought various treasure talismans and divine talismans to reduce the pain."

"Is it just the expanded range?" Xiuqiu believed that the Dragon-Tiger Jade Pill was rare in the world and should have more benefits than just that.

"What more could I want? Moving freely within a thousand miles is something even the All-Manifestation Realm’s Legal form cannot achieve. Plus, the Legal form has further shrunk, seemingly becoming more concealed and indistinguishable, and can also shrink items to carry close by. Moreover, the Ideal Body and the Legal form have begun to integrate."

"Wait? Isn’t the Ideal Body a body refinement profound skill? How can the Legal form be used?" Xiuqiu was puzzled; although many profound skills existed in the world, she had never heard of body refinement techniques reaching the Legal form through borrowed strength.

"Why can’t it? The highest achievement of the Ideal Body is integrating with the Legal form, otherwise, why is it called the Ideal Body? The two will not be separated, and now it’s just starting to show some preliminary signs."

"What a terrifying body refinement profound skill!" Xiuqiu exclaimed in awe.

Li Hui shook his head. "There are countless profound skills in the world. I don’t know how many predecessors left behind opportunities. The black kid Chen Changsheng I met in the Grand Xuan Dynasty seems to have a technique that subtly counters the Ideal Body."

"Counter the Ideal Body? Don’t joke around; how could such a technique exist? I can’t think of any profound skill that would counter the Ideal Body." Xiuqiu was utterly unconvinced.

Li Hui explained, "The Ideal Body, in simple terms, is about unraveling the Yin-Yang and Five Elements, like the miraculous curve between the yin-yang fish of Taiji, similar to the shifting numbers of Heavenly Evolution. Now that I think about it, the technique Chen Changsheng practices is precisely the Heavenly Evolution of Forty-Nine, calculating everything under heaven. He can assess his own bones, vitality, fortune, lifespan, meridians, and skill execution based on his circumstances."

"My heavens? What kind of unparalleled divine skill is that?" Xiuqiu was truly enlightened by Li Hui’s explanation today.

"So, even the most ordinary techniques, in Chen Changsheng’s hands, can be sculpted into a beautiful pattern. The more profound skills he finds, the stronger his personalized technique becomes! His future accomplishments are limitless," Li Hui remarked with a sigh. As his cultivation progressed, his perspective widened day by day, making him increasingly cautious. He understood that this world is vast, and there are indeed realms beyond this one.

"I understand now; there are no supreme techniques, only supreme people and demons," Xiuqiu learned from him. Earlier, he could teach Li Hui, but now Li Hui could teach him; one human and one demon became each other’s teachers and close friends.

"Ha ha, and you still barely forgot to add in the demon part," Li Hui chuckled, swirling his form and burrowing into the ground, where a black-purple moon hung high in the sky.

Xiuqiu transmitted a message, "It’s the end of the month again; the dark moon blocks the sunlight. Only at noon can we see a dull light in the world. The Giant Armored Tribe seems unaffected."

Li Hui observed the altar and said, "They would be affected. Inside the mountains, there are many dips and hollows suitable for collecting dark energy. You and I will jointly create a gathering Yin talisman to lure the ghostly beings over and distract the Giant Armored Tribe. We also need to trace the origin of that trace of demonic energy and see if there was an opportunity to slip in when the cave entrance closed."

"I think the chances are slim; if there was a chance to slip into the cave heaven, Changsheng Tian would have long since done so. Besides, with so many Traveling Realm high-level cultivators overlooking the world, is there really not one with a plan to break into the cave heaven?" Xiuqiu was not being pessimistic but rather thinking realistically.

"Ha ha!" Li Hui smiled confidently. "In this world, things can be wonderfully surprising. I have opportunities to try, while others, no matter how high their cultivation, may not get the chance. Do you think Changsheng Tian built so many altars at the cave entrance for no reason? Who is he guarding against if not those Traveling Realm cultivators? Moreover, I heard that Changsheng Tian hasn’t shown himself in a hundred years; maybe he’s preparing for a heavenly tribulation."

"So that means we have a chance?" Xiuqiu perked up.

"There’s definitely a chance. They say expertise in a specific field exists; this is my development direction. Even if Traveling Realm cultivators came here, they wouldn’t necessarily compare to me."

Li Hui retreated into the mountains, grabbing numerous palm-sized leaves. He dipped his talisman brush in stream water to write on the leaves and then raised them high, letting the dark wind carry them deep into the mountains where the dark energy was densest.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…" The howling sound rose as the dark energy spun into the cave and shadows, and many faint ghostly figures chased after the dark energy!

Within a thousand miles, most ghostly beings gathered, expanding like a rolling snowball within twelve hours.

Li Hui was busy preparing; he continually searched for clues and found the items he wanted after combing through over six hundred mountains. That was the old tree resin that had existed for at least three hundred years, sealed in the burls of towering ancient trees. Only this kind of old tree resin could be used to make talisman ink capable of trapping a bit of demonic energy to create a demonic trace talisman.

"I still need the leaves of lightning-struck wood and the sap of dodder."

When Li Hui returned near the altar, seven or eight hours had already passed. This was still due to the abundance of materials in the mountains and the meticulous searching of Bai Ze’s divine eye. Otherwise, it would have been necessary to return to the city of Great Daxia to gather the ingredients.

He waited for the gathering Yin talisman to continue fermenting while invisibly drawing talismans.

Finally, dark energy exploded in the mountains, with over ten places echoing with ghosts howling. The ghostly beings began attacking each other, consuming one another to grow stronger…

"Now’s the time, let’s go!"

Saying it was slow but acting quickly, Li Hui maneuvered his Legal form forward, straight into the altar area.

"Boom, boom…" The eighty-one altars trembled simultaneously, flames flickering like colossal torches illuminating the vicinity, as if clearing layers of mist to reveal the intruder.

"Ah!" A scream rang out fifty zhang to the left, followed by another from sixty zhang behind. The flames extinguished two ghostly beings but did not retract; instead, they spread outward.

The reason Li Hui chose this moment to advance was that he noticed ghostly beings approaching, which he could use to create chaos.

In no time, the flames extinguished two reckless ghostly beings that had intruded into the altar area. In the shadows, a tiny talisman light flickered, trapping a bit of demonic energy as it moved forward.

"Rush, trace the source, restore the trace!" The silver snake Legal form swiftly darted through, avoiding the flames that swept by and quickly hiding in the shadows. The defenses at the cave entrance were so tight that even a fly couldn’t get in, but the Legal form was much smaller than a fly.

Before the jade pill, it was the size of a needle’s eye; after taking the jade pill, it was comparable to a needle tip. Crossing layer upon layer of obstacles, Li Hui finally approached the mountain wall, filled with joy.