"My true form is a Twelve-Petal Azure Lotus. After countless ages of tempering, it gained the attribute of reincarnation, while the rule I created was the Path of Illusion and Annihilation. So as long as I hold fast to these three points, I can't go wrong!"
Light flickered in Li Yi's eyes. Countless scenes flashed through his mind: mountains and seas collapsing, ancient battlefields, brilliant stars, swaying blades of grass, the sunset at dusk...
A kaleidoscope of wonders, with nothing beyond its reach.
Time had completely lost its meaning to Li Yi, immersed as he was in deducing his cultivation arts. He was like a statue carved from ancient divine stone, his expression forever still, forever unchanging.
Everything in the outside world had ceased to matter to Li Yi. Seas became fields, the world shifted, the stars wheeled overhead, and in the blink of an eye tens of thousands of years passed.
Creating a new technique was an extraordinarily complex undertaking. He had to find scenes and forms that matched his physique and rules. The hardest part was making those scenes or forms of attack evolve along unpredictable trajectories governed by the rules.
It took Li Yi until the seventieth millennium to settle on the types of attacks he would use. They fell into two main categories. The first consisted of spiritual powers suited to his physique, namely External Manifestation Spiritual Powers. Li Yi continued to use the form of a lotus, but now he did more than condense sword energy into lotus flowers: he also incorporated the Reincarnation Gears, the River of Destiny, the Annihilation Rule, and other properties of his attacks.
The second category consisted of spiritual powers suited to his conception of the rules, which Li Yi called Great World Spiritual Powers. He brought together scenes that