"System, begin check-in."
With Ye Bufan and Huang Xuan deep in cultivation, Hua Yunfei had nothing to do. He sat down at the table, picked up a teacup, poured himself some tea, and took a sip as he spoke softly.
[Ding, check-in successful. Total check-in duration: one hundred years and seven months] [Check-in reward: one Space-Time Divine Realm]
"The Space-Time Divine Realm?"
Hua Yunfei raised an eyebrow. What was this thing?
"You don't need me to teach you what to do, right?"
[Ding, the Space-Time Divine Realm is a special secret realm where time flows thirty times faster than in the outside world. In other words, when one day passes outside, one month will have passed within the Space-Time Divine Realm]
"Holy shit!"
Hua Yunfei shot to his feet, his expression stunned.
The Space-Time Divine Realm was actually such an incredible treasure!
1:30!
He could cultivate for thirty days while only one day passed outside.
If the outside world discovered such a treasure, the struggle for it would surely unleash a storm of blood.
Time was the hardest law to control.
Even a Great Emperor could only walk briefly within the River of Time, finding it difficult to change anything within that river.
And time-related treasures were practically nonexistent on the entire Big Dipper Star.
At most, their time differed from the outside world by only a few hours.
Even that already made them exceedingly rare and precious time treasures.
Yet this Space-Time Divine Realm had reached an astonishing thirtyfold difference.
"Now I'll have somewhere to go when I'm bored. I can lie low and cultivate at the same time."
"Isn't immortality practically beckoning to me?"
Hua Yunfei was overwhelmed with delight.
[Ding, a reminder to the host: because of the immense difference in the flow of time, lifespan will also be consumed correspondingly faster within the Space-Time Divine Realm. Anyone with little lifespan remaining who enters will approach death thirty times faster] [Furthermore, remaining within space-time for extended periods may cause you to lose yourself, leaving you unable to distinguish reality from illusion. Powerful time law may erase some of your memories...]
Upon hearing the system's words, the corners of Hua Yunfei's mouth suddenly lifted.
He had thought of a way to deal with those old fossils if they came looking for trouble in the future.
"Those old fellows are usually ancient. Whoever provokes me, I'll lock him inside the Space-Time Divine Realm and let the erosion of the years kill him!"
"That'll save me from having to do it myself!"
Just then, an ancient-looking Token appeared in Hua Yunfei's hand. It was dark gray with blue-lined patterns, and the words "Space-Time" were engraved on its reverse.
[The Space-Time Divine Realm resides within this Token. The host may enter with a single thought]
"What I want to know is, does the Space-Time Divine Realm have any offensive capabilities?"
[No]
"Then what can I control?"
[The host can control the time law within the Space-Time Divine Realm and concentrate all of it on a single person, instantly changing the flow of time around that person to 1:]
"Ten thousand days... how many years is that?"
As Hua Yunfei pondered this, the entire Dao Origin Peak suddenly began to shake violently.
"Formations, activate!"
Hua Yunfei's brows drew up. Unruffled by the sudden danger, he joined two fingers and gestured, activating every formation on Dao Origin Peak to stabilize the mountain.
The shaking immediately diminished until only the faintest tremors could be felt.
"What's going on?"
Hua Yunfei walked out of his cave abode. True Lord Tianji had also emerged, astonishment on his face.
True Lord Tianji pressed two joined fingers to the space between his brows. A vertical eye opened above it, golden light blazing forth with soul-shaking intensity.
This was True Lord Tianji's divine ability, the Heavenly Eye!
With his Heavenly Eye open, he surveyed the tens of thousands of miles surrounding the Kaoshan Sect and discovered that the entire earth was trembling violently under the influence of a mysterious force.
Then he gazed into the distance and discovered, to his shock, that seemingly... the entire Eastern Domain was shaking.
True Lord Tianji closed his Heavenly Eye and exchanged a look with Hua Yunfei. Both realized that something momentous was about to happen.
Soon afterward, Daoist Xuanhe of the Kaoshan Sect emerged from the Ancestral Land to investigate. Daoist Xuancheng came out after him.
The two performed divinations for a long time but could not deduce the cause.
Yet the more they divined, the more their hearts quailed. In the end, they simply gave up.
Afterward, Daoist Xuanhe did not send any Kaoshan Sect disciples out to investigate.
Instead, he deployed the Blood Demon Clan, whose life and death he could control, sending them out of the Blood Demon Secret Realm to scout the situation.
Extraordinary times called for extraordinary measures. Safety came before everything else.
The Kaoshan Sect's legacy had endured for so many years precisely because of its caution.
Lying low came first in everything.
Having caught the scent of danger, they naturally could not rush to the front.
When the Blood Demon Ancestor sent word that the Mysterious Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum had emerged, even Xuanhe and Xuancheng, both nearly a thousand years old, looked shocked, losing their usual composure.
Upon receiving the news, Hua Yunfei immediately returned to his cave abode and unleashed Dao techniques to reinforce its concealment formations.
He looked at Huang Xuan, utterly certain that the appearance of the Mysterious Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum was due to Huang Xuan repairing the origin of his Mysterious Yellow Undying Body!
Perhaps this was precisely a contingency Great Emperor Xuanhuang had left behind long ago.
Xuanhuang's cultivation methods, divine abilities, and even his constitution were all incomplete.
Great Emperor Xuanhuang must have anticipated this and deliberately left a fallback.
And that fallback might well be the Mysterious Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum!
Within it, there might be things Huang Xuan needed to remedy his deficiencies!
If so, perhaps his saint-grade top-tier aptitude could even advance to emperor grade!
For now, Huang Xuan was still soaking in the immortal pool water, cultivating, and had not awakened. Everything would have to wait until he woke up.
Three months later, imperial might still permeated the emperor's mausoleum, showing no sign of weakening.
Yet more and more cultivators flocked to Cangzhou, hoping merely to glimpse the grandeur of the emperor's mausoleum.
The enormous disturbance in the Eastern Domain had naturally also drawn the attention of the neighboring Central State, Northern Domain, and Southern Domain.
Powerful factions from all three regions arrived in secret, staying out of the Eastern Domain public's sight.
After all, the Eastern Domain was the territory of the Yaoguang Holy Land and the Sun Moon Divine Cult.
And the Mysterious Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum had appeared in the Eastern Domain.
With the imperial might still lingering, it was not suitable for them to reveal themselves. Otherwise, they would surely provoke the hostility of the Eastern Domain's two great holy lands.
But once the mausoleum's imperial might dissipated, whether they would reveal themselves was another matter.
It was worth mentioning that, although the imperial might had yet to dissipate, and the xuanhuang qi in the air was extremely difficult to capture.
More and more cultivators sat cross-legged around the mausoleum to cultivate and comprehend imperial Dao law. Some even drew xuanhuang qi into their bodies. Although it would leak back out, they could still gradually comprehend its profound mysteries!
Some broke through to the Divine Infant Realm as a result, while others broke through to the Heavenly Being Realm.
As for those who advanced through the minor stages within each realm, they were simply too numerous to count.
Even the number of cultivators who had broken through to the Lin Dao Realm had already reached several dozen!
The strongest among them was a mysterious old man. It was said that he already had one foot in the Sage Realm. A month earlier, by drawing insights from the imperial might, he seemed to have advanced further and was on the verge of reaching Sage Tier!
Once this news spread, even more ancient beings came rushing over.
Most already had one foot in the grave. Though they were Lin Dao Realm experts, they had little lifespan remaining. Without a breakthrough, it would not be long before they passed away in seated meditation.
They wanted to try their luck!
True to everyone's expectations, some old undying fellows did indeed break through, gaining a little more lifespan and coming back to life, temporarily free from the threat of death.
"I heard the Yaochi Holy Land and the Tianshu Holy Land from the Central State have already arrived. They're hiding in the shadows!"
"Wankushan Mountain from the Southern Domain seems to have come too. Someone caught a whiff of poisonous fumes that made their scalp crawl!"
"The ones from the Northern Domain seem to be the most mysterious faction of all, the Kunlun Divine Palace. Rumor has it their ancestors came from another star region!"
Powerful cultivators whispered among themselves. After three months of change, undercurrents were already surging around the emperor's mausoleum.
Although the imperial might had not disappeared, some supreme factions had long since made their preparations!
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