"It's really good." She picked up a piece and offered it to Yin Wanluan.

The other party readily accepted and used the magic of spirit fire to construct three small chairs to sit down.

After Xi Heng sat down, he only tasted the white cakes and drinks and said nothing more.

Yin Wanluan continued to communicate with Su Ziyuan. From the initial greetings, they quickly got to talking about what color clothes she liked, and then he talked about his current profession, how he could use the available materials to make a set of clothes for her in a short time.

"Nice clothes?" Su Ziyuan blinked repeatedly.

"It should look pretty good," Yin Wanluan said calmly.

"I'd like purple, pink is fine too, thank you so much!" The little girl thanked her repeatedly and then chuckled.

From the moment she was born until now, she has only ever worn the bright white robe that accompanied her, and the simple, well-fitting Taoist robe that she is wearing now, which was custom-made in the Xuanxiao Realm. She has never worn any truly beautiful clothes.

Yin Wanluan leaned closer and ruffled the girl's hair, agreeing to her request.

After the meal, Xi Heng also talked about the necessary registration after entering the Imaginary Realm, and planned to take her out for a trip later to learn about this realm.

This time, Su Ziyuan wasn't treated as a summon by the Imaginary Realm System, so she was able to register a normal identity.

"The sweet potato fries are good too, they're very sweet." The girl picked up a piece and put it to her lips; the syrup was as sweet as honey.

"Right, right?" Su Ziyuan said with satisfaction, "That restaurant was so crowded, I waited for ages before I got a table."

"Are there any other delicious foods in that world?" She also became slightly interested in this.

"Yes, yes, yes." The girl counted on her fingers: "Like grilled meat skewers, hot and spicy meat and vegetable dishes, green fish and mustard greens sour soup, jasmine white flower waterfall cake, hot fried noodles, and so on and so forth."

After reading a long list of names, she couldn't resist her craving and grabbed a piece of cake to savor.

"Over the years, that once dull spiritual city has developed quite a few good things..." Xi Heng planned to pay more attention to it when he had time in the future.

As for now, her most important goal is still cultivation—thanks to the Heavenly Pill's exponential boost to her cultivation, her current realm is close to the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage, and she is about to break through.

"Speaking of which, it's time to collect all the materials needed to advance to the Dao Integration Realm."

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Volume 1: Chapter 374, Time Settles

Half a year has passed since Su Ziyuan entered the Imaginary Realm and began living with Xi Heng.

During this period, he naturally completed the registration of his account in the virtual world, wove his identity, and became a newcomer to the realm.

Chen Fenghuo, who was familiar with him, would occasionally take him out on missions to earn points and purchase rare delicacies, elixirs, and other precious items.

However, Su Ziyuan mainly purchased various spiritual items out of curiosity, without prioritizing practicality.

Even so, without relying on any treasures to accelerate cultivation, his realm breakthroughs were still rapid. After entering the Imaginary Realm for half a year, he easily broke through the Golden Core shackles and reached the Nascent Soul stage.

After that, his cultivation speed did not slow down much, as if he would not stop until he reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, which Su Xuanhua had once reached.

While Chen Fenghuo and the girl traveled together, Xi Heng returned to his cultivation room to slowly refine the few Time Stones he had previously saved.

There's no rush in terms of cultivation anymore, because with the highly efficient boost from the Heavenly Pill, it will probably only take thirty or forty years to cultivate a single cultivation level to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

In these short span of decades, it may not be possible to acquire several precious materials for advancing to the Dao Integration Realm.

It would be better to temporarily halt the growth of cultivation, instead focusing on cultivating one's state of mind and refining the passage of time.

Each egg-sized Time Stone was held in the palm of the hand, its power being slowly absorbed like a trickle of water.

During his cultivation, Xi Heng spared a little of his mind to recall the so-called 'other dimension' that Chen Fenghuo had seen through the Sea of ​​Time.

Because there are two Chen Fenghuo in the same world, they are connected from the Sea of ​​Time, and a line connects them from the darkness.

Through this, they can glimpse a higher realm that does not belong to mortals or cultivators.

That might be a place where powerful concepts like time and calamity exist.

However, each attempt to peek had significant side effects. Even as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he felt dizzy and had to constantly rub his forehead to actually see anything from there.

This may be the effect of forcibly crossing levels; even with only a single perspective, it is quite uncomfortable.

However, its actual function is also quite powerful. It can directly see through the weaknesses of the calamities in the present world and make it easier to learn secret techniques to improve one's realm and connect with those things in the heavens.

Is it possible for me to acquire similar abilities?

They possess the power to access the Sea of ​​Time, and also wield a nascent, yet-to-be-fully-developed calamity.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be too difficult.

"I can try sending a little bit of my mind to the Sea of ​​Time..." As he thought this, Xi Heng had already separated a small piece of his divine consciousness, like a finger touching the realm of time.

Then, I felt a steady, sloshing sensation, similar to dipping my finger into a river.

She released the shackles, letting that sliver of consciousness drift away with time, leaving only faint, intermittent connections.

Once released, the consciousness wanders and drifts aimlessly.

The strands of divine consciousness stretched and stretched along the river, becoming thinner and thinner.

In a short moment, the strands of divine consciousness grew to an incomprehensible length, yet were so fine that they could be considered nonexistent.

That wisp of divine consciousness seemed to have vanished, and it was completely imperceptible in the Sea of ​​Time.

But Xi Heng could still feel the connection between himself and the thread; that thing still existed, only it dispersed as easily as a drop of ink being thrown into the sea.

"It doesn't seem to be working?" She tilted her head.

At this ratio, even if one were to devote all of one's divine consciousness to the Sea of ​​Time, it would only be stretched into an infinitely long yet infinitely thin thread by the river, rendering it meaningless.

She recalled Chen Fenghuo's state—the other party had not invested their divine sense, but rather, due to the special nature of their existence, the Sea of ​​Time had spontaneously created a connection that linked their minds together.

This 'connection' cannot be deciphered; all that is known is that Chen Fenghuo can see more through this object.

"It doesn't seem too difficult to replicate it. It requires creating another 'me' on the level of time..." Xi Heng recalled the many techniques he had learned.

It seems to be of little use from beginning to end.

She thought for a moment, then calmed her main body and continued her cultivation, turning her attention back to her avatar in the distant Jingtian Realm to see if there was any way to help.

……

Amidst the wind and snow, on the snow-covered plains.

His avatar was seated in the midst of the undead army, atop a dragon chariot made of countless skeletons and lifted up by numerous ghosts and monsters.

A pale, tattered dragon head, its body covered in scales and mangled flesh, hung before the chariot. Two dark eye sockets gleamed with a faint, eerie light, and its entire body was shrouded in a deathly black mist.

Yesterday, the legion she directly controlled encountered a small group of beastmen from the Calamity. They have been fighting for a day now, but the rate at which they are wearing each other down is quite slow.

In a whole day, they hadn't even managed to wipe out one percent of the enemy's forces. At this rate, the battle might last for six months or even a whole year.

Fortunately, this is the northernmost region, far from the actual battlefield of the Heavenly Realm War. The enemy will not send reinforcements. After the battle, the enemy can be resurrected with death energy without losing much combat power.

The deathly calamity that Xi Heng currently manipulates can become increasingly powerful through continuous death and rebirth.

However, her primary goal is no longer to enhance the power of death energy expansion, but to collect light rune points by defeating external monsters, and then exchange them for materials to advance to the Dao Integration Realm.

However, if you want to farm Light Runes using summoned creatures, you must personally take the lead.

When her scattered summoned creatures kill other monsters, they will not increase her rune points.

Therefore, he began to personally lead the legion in the attack, instead of continuing to search for places where death energy gathered and creating more disasters.

In the previous six months, I had already earned 30,000 points, and now I have 330,000 Light Rune Points available.

"But even the cheapest materials for advancing to the Dao Integration stage require more than a million light runes... I wonder how long it would take to collect all the materials if we farm them slowly like this."

Perhaps several hundred years, or even longer?

The white-robed girl sitting on the skeletal throne gently shook her head, letting the legion below fight the enemy, while she shifted her mind to the cultivator interface of the Heavenly Realm, casually swiping through the various spells arranged in an orderly fashion in the shop.

The techniques learned on the main body are not applicable to the Sea of ​​Time.

However, the Heavenly Realm contains countless secret techniques, which are directly displayed in the shop, and most of them can be learned simply by clicking on them.

A small portion of the texts are either incomplete or have too limited applicability to be widely disseminated, requiring readers to purchase the relevant books for study.

Among the myriad secret techniques from all realms, those related to time have failed to become widespread due to their ineffectiveness, but at least there are books and volumes available for purchase.

"There are also records of dragon-patterned script... After learning these, I should be able to perfect my concept, right?"

"At least it will be of some help," Xi Heng thought.

So, amidst the battlefield, he acquired one book after another about the techniques, classics, scriptures, and even stories and biographies related to time, and began to peruse them.

Time passes.

When she leisurely finished reading the tenth long story, only seven days had passed, and the war was still in its early stages.

For a cultivator of her rank, time is far too much.

If most of it is not used for spiritual practice, there will be not much left to do.

The three hundred books about time that Yu Jing purchased from the Heavenly Realm Cultivator Mall contained mostly repeated content from other books, with some concepts simply renamed and explained many times over.

Xi Heng read through more than 300 books in just over 40 days and understood most of them.

Most of them were useless, and some concepts were not as profound as she had studied herself. Only a few classic texts passed down from the True Dragon Clan were truly profound.

As a great race that is naturally connected with time, the True Dragons are extremely long-lived and their research on time far surpasses that of others. Each dragon inscription they carve is enough for time cultivators to study for a long time.

The essence lies in the dragon-script characters, accompanied by detailed explanations in several classic texts left by true dragons, which is enough for her to slowly comprehend for hundreds or thousands of years.

"Among them are several types of dragon-script script, all of which can utilize the power of the Sea of ​​Time..."

Xi Heng silently took notes in his mind, combining several small formations with dragon-patterned characters to form a comparison with several classic time-based formations in ancient texts.

"The method of severing the dragon's head allows the true soul to be immersed in endless time for a short period without decaying, capturing a wisp of time to flow into the world, causing a vast change in time..."

"Adding the four chapters of 'Mirroring,' 'Combined Arms,' 'Empty Couch,' and 'Empty Stand' allows one to refine their own concept in a short time by utilizing the Sea of ​​Time...concept?" The girl was somewhat confused as she read this.

This dragon script classic, translated by a great monk a thousand years ago, should use words that are unimpeded.

But reading this part left her a little confused.

How can the act of perfecting and filling in the concept of text and words be applied to monks?

"Could it be a translation error?"

She retrieved the Dragon Script tome, only to find the crooked characters a jumbled mess of gibberish, lacking any discernible order, and completely incomprehensible.

In short, let's continue reading for now—after perfecting the concept, we can tread the sea of ​​time and strive to go against the current, carving the Dragon Seal, and placing a small part of our 'self' at the top of the sea of ​​time.

Once the spell ends and the body returns to its physical form, the true energy of the Time Sea can be transferred through the fixed object, greatly increasing the effectiveness of subsequent Time-based spells.

Furthermore, the location determined by the Dragon Descending Chapter is earlier than the actual timeline, allowing cultivators and true dragons to see future scenarios at any time.

The further you travel against the tide of time on the sea of ​​time, the further into the past you can normally see.

Generally speaking, after performing this method, one can see the future two breaths ahead at any time; those with talent can see five breaths ahead, and those with exceptional talent can see ten breaths ahead.

"This approach also involves establishing a presence on the Sea of ​​Time, making slight modifications to this classic formation, and perhaps connecting it to my design..."

Xi Heng nodded slightly, and began to study various other knowledge around this as a center, slowly supplementing his lack of knowledge about dragon chapters.

The surrounding battles continued, and by the 300th day after the start of the war, the Skeleton Legion had surrounded the few remaining infected beasts and was slowly grinding them down like a meat grinder.

The battle was fierce and brutal, and the blood, flesh and bones stained the icy land with large areas of chaotic pollution in shades of gray-black and purplish-red.

The noise continued for a long time, while Xi Heng himself was only a few thousand meters away, waiting for the battle to end.

I also took the opportunity to learn some knowledge about time and space, and from time to time I would open the cultivator interface of the Heavenly Realm to check how many light runes I had collected in this battle.

"Forty-seven thousand...that's too little."

She calculated that at this rate, she would have to fight more than twenty similar battles to exchange for the cheapest Dao Integration advancement material.

"Does using summoned creatures to farm Light Runes result in fewer runes?" she clicked her tongue.

"The most efficient way would be to go south and join the main battlefield between cultivators and monsters, along with the benefits and stipends of the warband?"

It's really slow for me to hunt alone in this cold, remote place on the edge of northern Xinjiang.

However, since the power of calamity cannot be used casually by the cultivator garrison, it's better to stay here and slowly grind it out.

In just over ten days, the enemies fighting against the skeleton legion were completely defeated.

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