A Deadline to Break Through

"The outermost ring of Square Inch Space can hold twelve plots in all. I wonder what strange changes will come once they've all been opened."

"It won't be long."

In the real world, he had already reached the upper grade of the Mortal Embryo Realm. Seven days earlier, the Earth Pass that had stood across his path of cultivation and involved Jiang Chongguang had suddenly vanished for reasons unknown.

He had broken through without the slightest hindrance.

"Something must have happened on Jiang Chongguang's end. Whatever it was, it's good news for me."

With Fang Xun's century of cultivation experience to guide him, Li Shun's path would be smooth all the way to the middle grade of the Spiritual Resonance Realm.

"The only thing I need to worry about is the corresponding Heaven Pass."

The Heaven Pass was a trial every cultivator faced when breaking through to a new major realm. Elusive and unfathomable, it was like the inscrutable will of heaven. No two people encountered the same trial, so Fang Xun's first two breakthroughs offered Li Shun no guidance.

Li Shun devoted himself to cultivation.

The third day of the seventh month, Tomb Calendar.

The great sun hanging high in the sky suddenly disappeared. The entire Imperial Tomb plunged into darkness.

But the wardens stationed throughout the tomb had been notified in advance, so it caused no panic.

"Stop the sun for seven days to conduct an inspection." Li Shun silently weighed what lay behind those eight words.

In fact, the Imperial Tomb itself was not the only subject of the inspection. Everyone inside it, and even the stockpiles in each town, underwent rigorous scrutiny.

Those conducting the inspection were not people of the Imperial Tomb, but Black-Robed Envoys dressed in blue official robes!

The government offices of East