Chapter 281: Time Cocoon

Li Weiyi took out a bottle of spring water and handed it to Tang Wanzhou.

“The expansion process of the intrinsic world is extremely dangerous; you must not force it.”

“As soon as you perceive the limit of the world barrier, inform me immediately with your spiritual power.”

“Cultivating the Sixth and Seventh Seas essentially involves opening up a more expansive space for the Dao Seed and accumulating richer spiritual energy.”

“It’s like planting a tree: the larger the container and the more soil you use, the more room it has to grow, and the more promising its future will be.”

As Tang Wanzhou spoke, a surge of spatial energy erupted from her fingertips, invisible and colorless, yet the surrounding scenery began to distort.

The Dao Lotus then vanished from her palm.

The next moment, the Dao Lotus floated to the center of Li Weiyi's Fengfu intrinsic world, located at the back of his head.

It rotated rapidly, releasing spiritual energy quickly, transforming into a swirling vortex that supported the intrinsic world, expanding it in all directions.

Twenty-one thousand square units, twenty-two thousand, twenty-three thousand...

Tang Wanzhou poured the spring water from the bottle; it turned into a small stream that flew around her finger and entered Li Weiyi's Fengfu from the center of the spatial ripples.

As the world barrier expanded, the spring water continuously integrated into it.

Twenty-six thousand square units, twenty-seven thousand...

Tang Wanzhou observed Li Weiyi's expression, worried he might be enduring more than he could handle.

She found that his face remained unchanged, his breathing was steady, and spiritual energy circulated continuously through his Mark and String Meridians.

In just a moment, all the spiritual energy from the Dao Lotus overflowed, and it returned to stillness.

Tang Wanzhou then retrieved it from his Fengfu.

Even with her composed demeanor, she couldn't help but be secretly amazed.

Li Weiyi's Fengfu had expanded to just over thirty thousand square units, which was three times the size of an ordinary successor's.

"No wonder he could fight against the young Qilin in adverse conditions; he truly is extraordinary." Tang Wanzhou strongly suspected that his Fifth Sea had already surpassed ten thousand square units.

She did not probe, respecting his privacy.

Li Weiyi took out the Dao Fruit, which he had previously only used for ten thousand square units, and handed it to Tang Wanzhou, smiling, "Young Lord, please help me again. Let's do it in one go and help me fully open up my Fengfu!"

He had already spent several months refining his intrinsic world at twenty thousand square units, so he wasn't afraid of the instability caused by a rapid expansion.

Tang Wanzhou felt immense curiosity. Her arrogant demeanor, which usually looked down upon martial cultivators of all ages, for the first time felt the sentiment that "there are heavens beyond heavens, and mountains beyond mountains." Taking the Dao Fruit, she gave another instruction, then used her spatial power to send it into Li Weiyi's Fengfu.

This time, not only was Tang Wanzhou much more cautious, but Li Weiyi also fully concentrated his spiritual power and mind on his Fengfu, daring not to be even slightly careless. He could already sense that the limit of his Fengfu's world barrier was approaching step by step.

His Fengfu could expand further when he reached the Dao Seed realm, so there was no need to push its limits in the Fifth Sea realm.

Ultimately, his Fengfu expanded to thirty-six thousand square units.

Tang Wanzhou retrieved the Dao Fruit, placed it back into its box, and immediately sealed it.

"There are still approximately thirty thousand square units of spiritual energy inside this Dao Fruit."

Li Weiyi sat in meditation to regulate his breath. The newly added sixteen thousand square units of heterogeneous spiritual energy in his Fengfu gradually settled down, merging with the original twenty thousand square units, and their incompatibility significantly diminished.

He stood up, cupped his hands, and thanked her again.

Tang Wanzhou, with her hands clasped behind her back, looked at the map on the table and mused for a moment, "Perhaps you should lend me your exotic insects; that way, you won't have to go down yourself!"

Li Weiyi asked, "Is this journey very dangerous?"

Tang Wanzhou replied, "Indeed! Your talent is impressive, but your current cultivation level is too low. Everyone on this journey will be much older than you. To be honest, I cannot guarantee your safety one hundred percent. With your Fengfu's foundation of thirty-six thousand, if you were to perish down there, the people of the Nine Li Hidden Sect would likely come after me, risking their lives."

As Li Weiyi pondered seriously, Tang Wanzhou added, "Even if your Ancestral Field were damaged and rendered unusable for planting the Dao, a Fengfu of thirty-six thousand square units would still be more vast than most successors' Ancestral Fields. With such a Fengfu to plant the Dao, the threshold to the Longevity Realm wouldn't stop you."

"The fundamental reason why those martial cultivators who plant the Dao in their Fengfu cannot reach the Longevity Realm is that their Fengfu's growth potential is too small, which restricts the growth of their Dao Seed."

"Let me give you an example!"

"The Dao is a tree, and the Dao Seed is its seed."

"How tall a tree can grow primarily depends on the seed."

"However, the amount of soil and the size of the growing space are equally important."

"The size of the Fengfu is the tree's growing space, and the spiritual energy within the Fengfu is the soil."

"Martial cultivators who are forced to plant the Dao in their Fengfu can only expand it to three or four thousand square units at most in the Fifth Sea realm! No matter how much more it expands in the Dao Seed realm, it will always be like a tree in an indoor pot; it won't grow large."

"This is the fundamental difference between you and them!"

After she finished speaking, Li Weiyi said, "I've thought it over carefully. Even if I don't accompany you, given my nature, I would eventually venture in by myself. Traveling with you might actually be safer, and the likelihood of finding the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone and thousand-year elixirs would be greater."

Tang Wanzhou smiled, "That's exactly what I wanted to hear! In the outer regions of the underground immortal palace, you can forget about finding the Spirit Platform Blazing Star Stone or thousand-year elixirs; they've been scoured countless times already. The place I'm going is much deeper, a place no one has ever reached."

"As for danger..."

"In this world, anything that offers high rewards and significantly impacts one's cultivation future cannot be fully prepared for. If you can be fully prepared for it, it won't be a significant matter, and you won't achieve grand results."

Li Weiyi saw the same adventurous spirit and passionate, vigorous fighting will in Tang Wanzhou as he had in himself, and he smiled, "Please help me keep this a secret, Young Lord!"

"Go!"

Tang Wanzhou dismissed him.

Back at his residence, Li Weiyi consumed a bottle of Life Spirit Spring water and meditated for a moment to heal, but his mind remained restless.

He considered leaving his tent to meet with some of the Dharma Kings of the Earth Wolf King Army. However, he remembered that the Qifeng Ancient City area was filled with numerous senior experts, and even more lurking demon race and cult members were eyeing him menacingly.

He had no choice but to give up the idea.

His fingers went to the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish around his neck, and his heart stirred slightly with excitement; he could finally begin the test.

He didn't dare to activate it in the room, fearing that abnormal fluctuations would be detected by the experts of the Snow Sword Tang Court.

He released the seven little ones from his insect pouch.

After the battle with the Dragon Court, they were quite listless.

He took out his last bottle of Life Spirit Spring water and fed it to them.

Currently, Li Weiyi had run out of thousand-year elixirs. The Xihe Flowers could not be continuously consumed, so he could only feed them hundred-year precious herbs for now, at least to fill their stomachs.

He instructed them to guard the room.

After making arrangements in the room, Li Weiyi entered the blood-mud space of Shaoyang Star.

The blood-mud ground before him had expanded again, reaching about one hectare, and his vision finally broadened.

"Upon reaching the Spiritual Mind Master level, the blood-mud space has significantly increased."

Li Weiyi looked at the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish around his neck.

The pale green fish eye, just as Chan Hai Guanwu had described, indeed showed signs of flickering.

Without further hesitation, he flew onto the jade boat, sat cross-legged in meditation, and mobilized the spiritual light from his Mind Sea Realm between his brows, transforming it into a stream of light that surged towards the sole remaining fish eye.

The spiritual power light stream was continuously absorbed.

The radiance emanating from the green fish eye became increasingly bright.

"What's happening? Half of the spiritual light has poured out, yet it's only flickering and glowing; why aren't there any other changes?"

Li Weiyi's spiritual power star was only the size of a mung bean, and as the spiritual light continuously poured out, the star rapidly shrank and dimmed. If he continued to expend it, there would be a risk of his realm declining.

After all, he had only just condensed his spiritual power star, and his realm was not yet stable.

Li Weiyi was about to stop the test.

"Whoosh..."

The Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish slowly began to rotate.

"Never mind, since there's a change, I'll activate it with full power."

Li Weiyi continued to mobilize the spiritual light; the light particles completely enveloped the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, continuously disappearing into the green fish eye.

After the Yin and Yang fish completed one rotation, the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish automatically floated up, suspending itself above Li Weiyi's head.

"Whoosh!"

From the green fish eye, countless pale green light threads flew out, forming a spherical cocoon about a zhang in diameter, enveloping Li Weiyi.

Li Weiyi's heart raced. He suddenly stood up, observing and sensing carefully.

The pale green cocoon threads were faint, allowing him to see the outside world through them, like mist or gauze, an intricate web that isolated him from the outside.

He touched it with his finger.

The cocoon body vibrated gently, ripples appearing, displaying extreme sentience.

"What exactly is this? Didn't they say the green fish eye might be related to time power?" Li Weiyi was very confused and wanted to get out of the light cocoon.

However, activating spiritual power consumed a huge amount, so he did not act rashly.

"Cocoon of Time!"

An ethereal, pleasant voice came from an unknown place, as if from the depths of time and space.

It sounded a bit like the voice of the quiet gourd Dao Protector wife?

Li Weiyi's eyes darted around, searching, but found no trace of her. He quickly asked, "Is that you? Have you finally woken up? What is the Cocoon of Time?"

"The Time Silkworm feeds on the lifespans of all beings, weaving the Cocoon of Time to evade the laws of the universe."

"The threads of your Cocoon of Time are woven from spiritual power. The stronger your spiritual power, the more stable and profound the cocoon."

The voice gradually faded, becoming fainter and fainter.

Li Weiyi quickly asked, "What exactly is the purpose of the Cocoon of Time? How should I use it? What makes it so profound?"

"This is merely the beginning; its profundity has not yet manifested... I await you in the future... I seem to have arrived a bit early... This is an era before the bronze warships... you must quickly go to the Time Universe Market to purchase time intelligence..."

Her voice was chaotic, illogical, and gradually disappeared.

Li Weiyi, bewildered, asked again, "Can you explain more clearly? Who exactly are you? Are you the bride in wedding attire hidden in my blood?"

There was no response.

He asked a few more questions, even cutting his wrist to bleed, but still could not summon her.

Li Weiyi quickly stopped the bleeding, then thought carefully.

He hadn't come away empty-handed.

At least two pieces of useful information.

Firstly, the pale green fish eye was indeed related to time.

Secondly, the stronger his spiritual power, the stronger the Cocoon of Time woven from it would be.

As for the other disjointed words, Li Weiyi silently noted them down, planning to ask Chan Hai Guanwu and his three masters about them when he found them in the future. Figures who had lived for thousands of years, or even several millennia, would certainly know more than he did.

Li Weiyi attempted to retract the pale green cocoon threads back into his Mind Sea Realm between his brows, but failed.

Afterward, he took out a Star Day Pill and consumed it, then performed the Fusang Divine Tree Meditation method, preparing to first restore his severely depleted spiritual power.

After reaching the Spiritual Mind Master level, his speed of absorbing Star Day Pills was three times faster than before. Even his absorption of the Fusang Divine Tree's radiance emanating from the Tanggu Sea became much more forceful.

A large area on the sea surface grew dim.

The radiance seemed to be swallowed, pulled into the blood-mud space.

The one-hectare blood-mud space became incredibly bright, its light condensing into a luminous rain.

If Li Weiyi were to open his eyes at this moment and observe the Tanggu Sea outside the Cocoon of Time, he would notice that the waves on the surface were rising and falling extremely slowly, completely unlike how they normally appeared.

An unknown amount of time passed.

Da Feng's spiritual power voice entered the blood-mud space.