Published: August 27, 2025
Chapter 374: Cultivating Without the Passage of Time
Time passed day by day.
Every day, besides accelerating the ripening of spirit medicines and concocting the needed Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills, Han Li would sit in meditation, refining his qi, fully immersing himself in bitter cultivation.
Of course, he also followed the Imperial Spirit Sect cultivators’ experience in raising insects, regularly training the white spiders and other exotic insects, which was the only enjoyment he found in his cultivation.
But as Han Li had anticipated, in just over a year, he had reached the ninth level of the qi refining stage—an unbelievably fast speed compared to before.
Still, Han Li was somewhat dissatisfied with this speed. Upon reaching the ninth level, he decisively took three foundation establishment pills intermittently.
With the powerful medicinal strength, Han Li spent about another year to re-enter the foundation establishment stage.
At this point, he could finally use innate true fire.
Therefore, Han Li immediately stopped concocting low-level pills and began refining several types of pills suitable for the foundation establishment stage, following the pill formulas.
According to Han Li’s calculations, except for the Qi Refining Powder—which had lost its effect due to excessive consumption—the other three pill formulas should be able to advance his cultivation to the late foundation establishment stage without issue.
However, according to the original plan, Han Li did not immediately deepen his cultivation through qi refining but instead accumulated pills and shifted to cultivating the Great Yin Technique, preparing to sacrifically refine his “clone.”
Initially, Han Li advanced through the first level of the Great Yin Technique remarkably smoothly, completing it in just half a year.
This gave Han Li confidence, knowing that although his aptitude for comprehending the five-element spells was poor, he had considerable talent in the Great Yin Technique and thus held great hope for mastering its second level.
According to the half-volume of the cultivation method, upon reaching the second level of the Great Yin Technique, one’s spiritual awareness would become several times stronger, and one could divide their spirit into more than a hundred fragments. Combining this technique with puppet technique would truly reveal the terrifying power of the Great Yin Technique.
Although he knew the second level would be much harder to cultivate than the first, the time required far exceeded Han Li’s expectations.
He originally thought two or three years would suffice to master the second level, but after six years of day and night focused cultivation, Han Li barely managed to complete it.
That was nearly twice the expected time, leaving Han Li utterly helpless.
During this period, the torment of the intense headaches from forcibly training his spiritual awareness made Han Li’s face change color whenever he recalled the experience—he was truly terrified.
Moreover, in the third year of cultivating the Great Yin Technique, a disciple of a middle-aged Ascension Pavilion cultivator—who had given Han Li a hard time due to island trade qualifications—really came to Little Huan Island by the middle-aged cultivator’s order to challenge him again.
As a result, he was trapped in Han Li’s grand formation for three days and nights, only to be discovered and released by Han Li just as he emerged from seclusion.
Han Li had almost completely forgotten this matter due to the difficulty of cultivating the Great Yin Technique.
Facing Han Li, who concealed his true cultivation with the nameless qi suppression technique, the frustrated man, trapped for several days, was naturally defeated by Han Li’s precise strike and left thinking Han Li’s magical artifacts were simply sharper. Reluctantly, he departed.
Three more years passed after this event, and having mastered the second level of the Great Yin Technique, Han Li prepared to cultivate the secret art of external manifestation.