Thus, with every breath Li took, his body continuously grew stronger. Only after that golden morning sun had been completely absorbed into his body did Li finally open his eyes.
Yet contrary to what Li had expected, night had already fallen. This surprised him. When he had cultivated the first two revolutions, they had been completed almost instantly, so why had it taken him from day until night to finish cultivating the fourth revolution?
"System, what's going on? Why was cultivation so slow this time?" Li asked unhappily. Could something have gone wrong with the system?
"Do you think cultivation is really something that can be completed in an instant?" the system said with considerable displeasure. "Please, I can only compress the time needed for cultivation by tens of thousands or millions of times."
Hearing this, Li finally came to his senses. Previously, he had succeeded in cultivation in an instant, but even an instant was still time! Yet he had mistakenly believed that, because of the exchange, he did not need any time at all to comprehend it.
The system continued, "Why do you think the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art is called the most difficult top-tier cultivation art to cultivate? Because it consumes an enormous amount of time!"
"An enormous amount of time? Didn't they say that once you reached the Taiyi True Immortal realm, you would essentially possess infinite life? Why worry about time, then?" Li was deeply puzzled. Time? What did time matter? Even if cultivation took a hundred thousand years, that would be nothing to cultivators, wouldn't it?
The system sighed. "It seems I still need to teach you some basic knowledge. In terms of the entire dimension, one yuan is divided into twelve hui, with each hui lasting eighteen thousand years. In other words, one