Chapter 644

Chapter 644: The Saint of the Doomsday Calamity Path

Bai Xiaolu was shocked that her husband had saved five million big coins, enough to buy a very spacious wooden house, but…

Li Hui felt anger rising in his heart. He never expected survival in the Extreme Huan Continent would be so difficult. Many people worked their whole lives just to end up with a wooden house. He shook his head resolutely, “Uncle Da, I’m going to find a way to get the money. I need to make Xiaolu proud.”

Uncle Da, a bald man, slapped his forehead, saying, “Young man, don’t aim too high. I’ve watched Xiaolu grow up, so I’ll speak plainly. Although your father-in-law has some tendencies to favor the wealthy over the poor, he’s not as harsh as you imagine. A wooden house is enough!”

“Doing my best and going straight to the point,” Li Hui replied, leaving Uncle Da’s home. He thought to himself, “It’s strange that not favoring wealth is the norm! You can see the coldness in your eyes. Like attracts like; since you gathered together, Xiaolu’s father must not be much better.”

Before long, Li Hui found a black market in the city and spent all five million big coins to buy thirty-two market towers for mining. After that, he randomly found a private mine, concealed his presence, and jumped down.

He entered the layer of the mining area that was the most spacious, where the ore reserves exceeded many smaller mines.

Upon arrival, he saw many miners just managing to reach the Bosa stage. Though they were only simplified Bosa stage miners, with no battle experience and quite terrible energy levels, they were enough to mine, and their speed wasn’t slow. No wonder the housing prices were so high.

Li Hui ran deep into the mining area, releasing the Bronze Pot. He held the Hammer and struck it eighteen times, and a layer of coldness and darkness suddenly expanded.

“Come back!”

With a massive sound, the Bronze Pot shattered, and dozens of light shadows dashed back to Li Hui’s Dao robe. Suddenly, vines flew around, attacking in all directions.

Although he had not drawn on the tools to mine the time force, the impact was still significant, and the range of influence expanded rapidly outward, creating a terrifying scene. Even with Li Hui’s skills, he couldn’t escape in time and plunged into the time storm in an instant.

Most of the mining area fell into chaos, and deep within the darkness, loud bangs rang out. The Chaotic Dao Body tried various attack methods, but none were effective.

“Retreat…” Li Hui dashed back as chaotic black lines swept in front of him. The mining area began to collapse inward, unexpectedly revealing how terrifying it was after multiple time phantoms merged; it seemed ready to swallow the entire mining area at any moment.

“Cloud talisman, arise!”

Thousands upon thousands of cloud talismans rapidly gathered. According to common sense, they could only remain for an instant, as they were illusory talismans without any true substance. However, there was so much Time Dust nearby that mixing it with the cloud talismans prolonged their existence.

“Hmm? Time Dust has this benefit?” Li Hui pondered. As the time phantoms launched their attack, his figure suddenly expanded, and purple spring water emerged, not spraying water, but talismans.

As the wind roared and the Dragon Spring erupted, the purple talismans appeared, and the void shook.

The time phantoms crashed into the mining area, blending their Time Dust into the cloud talismans, giving them a lasting presence in the world. Li Hui focused on this point, using the cloud talismans to manifest the Dragon Spring in his heart.

He knew the Heart Talisman had already formed the Dao Fruit; this achievement meant the Dragon Spring Purple Talisman Classic had been mastered to a minor success, breaking through the limit of using one talisman as six, allowing one talisman to serve as nine.

At that moment, the Dragon Spring gushed forth, generating countless purple talismans with astonishing power, condensing all of Li Hui’s learnings.

He set up this array to test which talismans could affect the time phantoms and soon found it was surprisingly simple.

“Ah, the answer lies in the word ‘phantom.’ It can transform into something that devours, yet cannot distinguish between the real and the illusory. As long as illusionary talismans keep creating illusions, it will be easy to ensnare them and weaken them.”

“Let’s try again!” Li Hui waved his hand, and illusionary purple talismans quickly created illusions, while countless vines danced madly, seemingly tirelessly attacking the fakes. At the same time, various purple talismans circled the time phantoms—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, Yin-Yang, lightning, frost, poison, magnetism, soul, and evil.

He soon discovered the phantoms were immune to the Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and wind, frost, and lightning talismans could not shake them at all. However, they did respond, albeit weakly, to enhancement and soul-related talismans.

“As long as there’s a response, that’s good. I’m afraid of there being none. Let’s test the Extreme Dao Burn Spirit talismans and the Soul Return talismans.” Li Hui thought, channeling a massive number of purple talismans that slowly ascended like mirrors shining on the time phantoms.

One could enhance strength, and the other could regulate souls, but there were perhaps too many of them. The vines rapidly expanded and strengthened, creating faint spatial rifts while a massive red glow floated up from the ground. This red glow was the essence of the time phantoms, which began to retract inward, becoming alert and nimble.

“Indeed effective. Now let’s try the Damage Yuan and Eradication of the Dao talismans.” Li Hui began to go all out, thinking, “Since enhancement works, then it should be possible to reduce power. The Damage Yuan and Eradication of the Dao talisman is the most ferocious weakening talisman I know of. It may not be highly effective against humans, but it is incredibly effective against spirit beings and divine entities. Moreover, the stronger the phantoms’ essence, the more of their source the Damage Yuan and Eradication of the Dao will extract.”

The purple talismans spewed forth like a fountain, and grand light and shadow surrounded the time phantoms, applying the Damage Yuan and Eradication of the Dao. Though each talisman could only draw out a thread of purple light, it quickly added up.

Soon, they gathered into a ball of purple light the size of a fist, looking very pure, safe, and stable.

Li Hui was not careless. He used Bai Ze’s divine eye to observe for a while, and then exclaimed, “Is this the essence of the time phantoms? It’s composed of destructive desires and time force. If I could use it to draw talismans, there might be hope to manifest the doomsday talisman method left by Old Li.”

He summoned his future self with a golden needle; two thousand years later, Old Li painstakingly drew the Kunpeng Decree to leave behind a doomsday talisman method. This talisman method explored the extremes of heaven and earth, appearing on the brink of world destruction, recording various Dao traces during moments of annihilation. Countless disciples of the Heavenly Talisman Sect had perished while studying such talismans.

It represented the heart and soul of generations of cultivators—bringing destruction to enemies while granting hope to oneself. They went on the offensive with poison against poison and used violence against violence, annihilating all tangible and intangible foes, and could leverage the power of stars that once existed but had long been destroyed, forming a doomsday star sky with terrifying might.

Half an hour later, with a soft “poof,” the time phantoms left behind a ghostly shell as their essence was entirely extracted by the Damage Yuan and Eradication of the Dao talisman, proving that this entity could be dealt with.

Li Hui cautiously touched the shell, contemplated for a moment, then took out a fragment of the triangular mace to use as a talisman brush, dipping it in the essence of the time phantoms to carve inscriptions.

He began to depict scenes of doomsday, enhancing the great terror, even intertwining with the doomsday of the heavens. After reaching a profound level, he shifted the brush, using the inscriptions to express the calamity of the world. When the shell could no longer bear the aura of the doomsday catastrophe, he turned the brush again to sketch out a figure that broke through the calamity, suppressing all disasters.

The Extreme Huan world became aware and was about to unleash a great calamity to destroy this talisman scroll. At that moment, Li Hui reacted swiftly, pushing all the essence of the time phantoms onto the shell, then quickly pocketing the talisman scroll to suppress it deep in his dantian, laughing, “Success! The Chaotic Dao Body will serve as the saint of the doomsday calamity path.”