Chapter 1209: Space of Accelerated Time

After close to half a day of toil, the Celestial Time Array was repaired, and Han Li brought out his Immortal Origin Stones to power the array.

After that, he sat down beside the array with his legs crossed, and after a brief hesitation, he released his spirit domain to encompass the array, but he limited the size of the spirit domain to only around two hundred to three hundred feet in diameter. After all, the larger the spirit domain, the more energy it required to maintain.

Weeping Soul was standing nearby, and she was also encompassed within the spirit domain.

A hint of surprise appeared on her face, and she was clearly unsure of why Han Li had released his spirit domain, but she didn't say anything.

Han Li summoned his time-attribute law treasures one after another, and the Mantra Treasured Axis and the Time Severing Torch flew up into the air to transform into a moon and a sun, respectively, while the Illusory Dawn Hourglass descended to form a sea of golden sand. The Eastern Vicissitudes Divine Tree transformed into a sprawling forest over the golden sand, while the Clear Time Vial became a golden river.

In the blink of an eye, it was as if his spirit domain had become an actual world, and only the sea of sand and golden river were still looking a little insubstantial.

Right at this moment, the golden moon formed by the Mantra Treasured Axis suddenly descended to hover above the Celestial Time Array.

The latter instantly lit up and began to operate at a far faster rate than before, while the Mantra Treasured Axis was also glowing radiantly while revolving rapidly, but in the reverse direction, and the two were resonating with one another.

At the same time, golden sand began swirling within the spirit domain, while the golden river churned violently. The golden sun radiated fiery heat, while the forest down below also began to rustle and sway incessantly.

The spirit domain had once again escaped Han Li's control, but given the experience from last time, he remained calm and allowed the spirit domain to resonate with the Celestial Time Array.

A resounding boom abruptly rang out as a burst of blinding golden light erupted out of the Mantra Treasured Axis, forming a wave of golden light that swept through the entire spirit domain.

The Celestial Time Array itself also released a burst of time law power fluctuations, and the two immediately fused together.

The five bursts of conflicting time law powers in the spirit domain quickly subsided as peace was restored, but the flow of time within the spirit domain had been accelerated to around ten thousand times its normal rate.

Weeping Soul was quickly able to detect this change in the flow of time, and a stunned look appeared on her face, following which she turned to look at Han Li with an admiring expression.

The hundredfold space of accelerated time that Han Li had set up last time had already been quite extraordinary in her eyes, and this was nothing short of a miracle to her.

Master really is blessed by the heavens,

she thought to herself as she sat down to refine the Infernal Ghost Claw and the Soul Scattering Ghost Flute.

These two immortal treasures possessed tremendous power. In particular, once she completely refined the Soul Scattering Bone Flute, she would be able to easily scatter the souls of others.

𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Unfortunately for Elder Xi Tang, he hadn't yet had a chance to refine the immortal treasure before he encountered Weeping Soul. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn't have been defeated so easily.

Meanwhile, Han Li heaved an internal sigh of relief, having just proved to himself that the ten-thousandfold space of accelerated time was something that was replicable, rather than just a one-off occurrence.

However, just like last time, he was unable to control his own spirit domain in this state, so he had to find a more reliable way to deactivate the space of accelerated time. Otherwise, he would have to damage the Celestial Time Array every time he wanted to leave.

He closed his eyes and channeled his Great Five Elemental Illusion Mantra, sensing the flow of time law powers in the surrounding spirit domain.

This space of accelerated time was a product of a fusion between his spirit domain and the Celestial Time Array, so if he wanted to deactivate it, then he would have to focus his efforts on those two things.

He didn't know much about the Celestial Time Array, so he would have to focus his attention solely on the spirit domain to see if he could somehow wrest back control of it.

He had tried the same thing the last time he was trapped in this space, but at the time, he had been very agitated and quickly gave up, resorting to breaking out of the space of accelerated time through brute force.

On this occasion, he was far calmer than before, and he was meticulously examining the changes in the time law powers in the spirit domain.

Five hundred to six hundred years flew by in a flash.

On this day, Han Li's eyes suddenly sprang open as an elated look appeared on his face.

Over these past few centuries, he had noticed some things that had escaped his attention in the past.

Firstly, he had developed a decent understanding of how this space of accelerated time had come into existence.

The formation of the space of accelerated time relied on the power of the Heavenly Wheel Sundial. Even though the sundial had already vanished, the time law powers and abilities that it possessed weren't lost. Instead, it had merely fused as one with the Mantra Treasured Axis, so the current Mantra Treasured Axis was essentially equivalent to the Heavenly Wheel Sundial.

That was why the Mantra Treasured Axis could resonate with the Celestial Time Array to create this space.

Additionally, some type of peculiar interaction seemed to have taken place between his Great Five Elemental Illusion Mantra and the Celestial Time Array, resulting in the rate of time acceleration reaching ten-thousandfold.

Another interesting discovery that he had made was related to the energy that the Celestial Time Array consumed. Originally, it required Immortal Origin Stones and time law powers to function, and this remained the same, but the time law powers were no longer coming from the Eon Divine Lamp because the lamp had already fused with the Time Severing Torch.

Hence, the time law powers supporting the space of accelerated time were coming from his spirit domain.

With the incorporation of the Eon Divine Lamp, the Heavenly Wheel Sundial, and the Twin Birth Tree, Han Li's spirit domain contained tremendous time law powers, more than enough to power the Celestial Time Array.

On top of that, even if the time law powers in his spirit domain were to be used up, it would be able to recover over time.

Han Li had always been concerned that the time law powers in the Eon Divine Lamp would be exhausted by the Celestial Time Array, but that was now no longer a concern.

However, due to the fact that the Heavenly Wheel Sundial and the Eon Divine Lamp had been incorporated into his spirit domain, there were some other limitations that he had to deal with.

With a sweep of his sleeve, the golden sun formed by the Time Severing Torch descended from the sky to arrive before him.

Peering into the golden sun, he could see over a hundred and eighty Time Dao Runes, but several of them had already gone dim.

Once all of the Time Dao Runes faded, the spirit domain would deactivate on its own, so that provided Han Li with a method to deactivate the space of accelerated time.

However, this was far too passive and unreliable, and he wouldn't have control over when the spirit domain was deactivated, so it was not a truly viable solution.

The golden sun flew back up into the sky at his behest, following which he raised a hand, and five beams of golden light shot out of his fingertips.

The golden light contained countless golden runes that were giving off five bursts of incredibly formidable time law powers, and he chanted an incantation while making a rapid string of hand seals, upon which the five beams of golden light formed five golden rings.

The time law powers emanating from them instantly became several times more potent, and each of them vanished into one of the time-attribute law treasure manifestations in the spirit domain.

The golden moon, the golden sun, the lush forest, the turbulent river, and the golden sand all lit up in unison, and the entire spirit domain began to struggle against the restrictive forces outside.

The spirit domain instantly began to tremble, but it remained firmly intact.

Weeping Soul was roused from her cultivation upon sensing the disturbance, but she didn't say anything to interrupt Han Li upon seeing the look of concentration on his face.

The entire spirit domain began to churn violently, but the restrictive forces outside remained insurmountable. Instead of the spirit domain breaking, the Celestial Time Array was beginning to flash erratically, as if it could fail at any moment.

Han Li hurriedly stopped what he was doing as he heaved a faint sigh.

Looks like brute force alone won't do the trick, after all.

At this rate, the Celestial Time Array was going to be ruined before he could break the restrictive forces outside the spirit domain.

That would allow him to undo the space of accelerated time, but he wanted to search for alternative solutions that were more sustainable.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly as he examined the surrounding spirit domain, and he wasn't discouraged by his failure.

Over these past few centuries of observation, he wasn't able to identify why the spirit domain had been restricted, but he had developed some ideas on how to dispel the restrictions.

Han Li swept a sleeve through the air to release a burst of golden light, which enveloped the Immortal Origin Stones near the Celestial Time Array before stowing them away into his storage tool.

Immediately thereafter, he suppressed his own immortal spiritual power and time law powers, doing everything in his power to sever his connection to his spirit domain.

The spirit domain was formed by his immortal spiritual power, so surely it would fade away on its own after losing its power source.

The spirit domain immediately began flashing erratically as if it were about to fail, and Han Li's eyes lit up with excitement upon seeing this.

However, right at this moment, a burst of tremendous devouring force erupted out of the spirit domain, forcibly drawing the immortal spiritual power out of Han Li's body against his will.

The flashing spirit domain instantly stabilized itself again, and having lost its powers source in the form of the Immortal Origins Stones, the Celestial Time Array had begun rapidly devouring the immortal spiritual power in the spirit domain, thereby further compounding Han Li's rate of immortal spiritual power expenditure.

His eyes narrowed slightly as he allowed the immortal spiritual power to surge out of his body.

He wanted to see if the spirit domain would be able to continue operating once his immortal spiritual power was completely exhausted.

Having reached the Great Encompassment Stage, he now possessed tremendous reserves of immortal spiritual power, and only after close to half a day did his immortal spiritual power finally begin to run out.

However, the spirit domain and the Celestial Time Array were still rapidly absorbing his immortal spiritual power without displaying any signs of stopping.