Chapter 651

Chapter 651: Breakthrough! Breakthrough!

The next day, Li Hui prepared himself and headed to the largest private mine in Sanjiu City.

Resolving the issues surrounding Bai Xiaolu was not going to happen overnight. Since Ouyang Xiao Yi had made her move, Li Hui had every reason to respond.

“I understand now why this Li Hui on the Extreme Huan Continent has caught Bai Xiaolu’s attention. Even when everyone disapproved or opposed, she chose to marry him. It’s because of the attraction of the Six Paths; she has discerned through reincarnation that I will continue the essence of this Li Hui in Extreme Huan, so she approached me in advance to become familiar and wait!”

“Bai Xiaolu is not Ouyang Xiao Yi, yet Ouyang Xiao Yi is indeed Bai Xiaolu, just like me in the past, cultivating the heart of Dao into demons and integrating the demonic heart with the Dao. This entanglement will last through life after life until the soul either scatters or achieves the Dao.”

“The calamity of achieving the Dao lies in humanity; my human tribulation has arrived! It approaches silently, without sound—she is called Ouyang Xiao Yi, cultivating the Six Paths, and has fallen into the cycle of reincarnation!”

Li Hui decided to stride forward, first to maximize the miner level, to see how many benefits he could gain at each level. Then he would fully focus on dealing with the Time Claws on Wan Nest Island to drag his true self out of the perception range of the Departed Immortals.

“It’s time to use the Kui Niu Drum—the Human Path Drum to reshape my fate.”

He entered the uninhabited mining area and set things up, applying numerous soundproof and sound-accumulating talismans. In an instant, his form dove into the time, “bang, bang!” he struck the great drum. In the light of the various market bridges and market towers, countless rocks and stone walls transformed into quicksand, where he could see arms of shifting sand supporting the ores from afar.

“Collect!”

In less than a stick of incense, Li Hui cleared out a vast mining area beneath the private mine.

“Boom…” The time phantoms appeared, and upon their emergence, six of them began to fight fiercely, seeking to grow by devouring each other.

Meanwhile, dozens of seedling ores flew out, and with a wave of his hand, Li Hui directed them into a specific market tower for storage.

Among the six time phantoms, one was particularly powerful, having consumed at least two of its kind. In a fleeting moment, it overwhelmingly devoured the remaining five time phantoms, but unfortunately, a pitch-black cave mouth silently appeared, swallowing it entirely, erasing all traces of its emergence.

“Every day, I can strike the Kui Niu Drum ten times in the lower mining area…”

Li Hui did not remain fixed in one place, knowing it was easy to cause problems that way. He moved to different private mines, and under the intense impact of the Kui Niu Drum, he cleared out ten mining areas in just two hours. Afterward, he began drawing the Cracking Ground God Fist talisman, relying on this talisman to empower his fist wind and whip up sand waves in the uninhabited mining area.

On the third day, he welcomed the period of breakthrough.

The heart shield emitted a pleasant chime, and it became more mottled and gradually converged into the grand script of the Extreme Huan Continent—“twenty-five”.

“Boom…” At the moment of enhancement, Li Hui felt the mine’s augmentation toward himself, with countless time traces swirling around his body, a mysterious force surging into his dantian.

“Eh? The Extreme Huan Time Anchor? It grants the ability to view the traces of time.”

“Roar…” His spiritual sense surged like flames, initially transforming into Bai Ze, then morphing into a monkey, and finally changing into various flying birds and beasts, each possessing increasingly profound gazes.

Li Hui promptly sat down, concentrating on feeling the traces of time. In his left eye appeared a Dao talisman with a few strokes resembling rough and faded runes. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Bai Ze, reclining on a large stone in a life of ease.

“The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. Time flows like water, leaving no trace. The opportunity has arrived; let the Dao return to its prime!”

“Boom, boom…” The Bai Ze Dao Talisman rose rapidly, breaking through established limits, as if trying to regain the power of its heyday.

However, heaven did not favor it; this talisman should not have appeared, and immediately a calamity descended.

Li Hui smirked; as the Bai Ze Dao Talisman shone with brilliance, the expansive calamity power it invoked was just what he wanted. He had long laid a formation in his dantian, poised to await various calamities without alerting the outside world, thus dissipating the heavenly tribulation.

Indeed, whenever the calamity power was about to trigger the heavenly tribulation, it seemed that an invisible mouth would swallow the calamity power, preventing the heavens from reacting until the impending heavenly tribulation lay quiet.

“May time stand still! It’s been a long time, Bai Ze!”

“Roar…”

In Li Hui’s left eye, Bai Ze appeared, stepping into his right eye. Suddenly, his vision transformed uniquely, revealing a mist like a veil. At the same time, it seemed as if a large hand was lifting the veil, allowing him to glimpse the hidden scenes behind it.

“I see it! No wonder the Extreme Huan Continent is unknown to the outside world; they have nurtured so many to absorb vast fortunes to suppress the nineteen Departed Immortals hidden deep within time. They use these nineteen immortals as a formation base to create the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Great Formation. Truly a grand undertaking, but it is extremely dangerous.”

“Blast it! It’s like cultivating poison—once you embark on this path, you must expand your population frantically. As long as there comes a day when you cannot suppress the immortals hidden deep within time, the poison will spread throughout the body, and everyone will become Dark Immortals supporting the presence in the world.”

“These nineteen immortals must have been extraordinary during their era, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to hide the entire continent nor allow Extreme Huan to slowly accumulate strength to resist the great calamity of heaven and earth.”

Li Hui’s gaze dimmed; with the current cultivation of the Human Path Legal Form, he could not use the Bai Ze Dao Talisman for long. He could only see this much for now.

“Take it slow. I have grasped the pulse; soon I will unlock the joints and find a way to suppress the Time Claws. I wonder how Mufeng City has developed these days. The Extreme Huan Continent clearly still holds secrets. After twelfth sister and those cubs trained using the methods I taught, their advancement is dozens of times faster than outside cultivators. Once the Bai Ze Dao Talisman accumulates enough talisman power, I need to find a good time to examine the reasons behind it.”

From this moment on, Li Hui began mining with even greater diligence, considering it a form of cultivation! This method of cultivation was quite unique; while mining, he continuously absorbed the power of time, akin to cultivating poison. Once he got the hang of it, stopping would lead to a complete loss of effort—he would be unable to make use of all the benefits gained during the upgrade for years.

Five days later, Li Hui found a better method.

He inscribed runes, arranging the Chaotic Dao Body to respond correctly to different circumstances. Then he focused his mind on crafting a talisman to collect the Time Dust, separating his mind and body.

After another five days, he faced his second breakthrough, reaching level twenty-six in the mining profession.

This advancement was entirely different from the previous ones; it seemed to brew a great momentum, capable of consciously accelerating the flow of time. Especially within the mine, he received augmentations almost constantly, achieving a maximum of ten times the flow of time.

“Again! Breakthrough! Breakthrough!”

With the ability to accelerate the flow of time, Li Hui’s mining grew even swifter.

The private mines of Sanjiu City lost vast amounts of ores, and at the same time, many Miao Jade appeared in the market, though they were only of low and middle grade, with none of the high-quality ones. Not a single ore seedling surfaced, so it did not attract the city’s regulatory office’s attention.

Two months later, Li Hui broke through to level twenty-eight. The heart shield transformed into a silver mask, losing its mottling and shining with a radiant glow…