Just as Meng Qianqian was cultivating, a loud boom came from the distance, echoing throughout the entire Crimson Cloud Peak!

The sky above Han Li's cave residence instantly changed color, dark clouds covered the sky, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth frantically gathered, forming a visible vortex of spiritual energy.

Meng Qianqian opened her eyes and looked towards Han Li's cave residence, a look of joy on her face.

This situation had occurred from time to time in the past thirty years. Although she didn't quite understand what it meant with her current cultivation level, according to Sun Bu Zheng and others' private guesses, it should be a sign that Elder Li was making breakthroughs in his cultivation.

Everyone was already used to it.

Of course, this speculation was explicitly forbidden by Meng Yun Gui, and he warned everyone not to reveal anything about what happened here.

Inside the secret chamber, golden light shone brightly.

Han Li sat cross-legged, seven points of golden light flickering above his lower abdomen.

Each flicker seemed like seven giant mouths devouring and exhaling, sucking in the massive spiritual energy of heaven and earth nearby into his body, gradually transforming it into pure immortal spiritual power as the cultivation method circulated.

This speed of absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth was many times faster than before.

A faint golden wheel rotated gently behind him, and fourteen clusters of time Dao patterns emerged on the wheel.

After a long time, Han Li slowly opened his eyes, revealing a hint of joy.

In twenty years of hard work, he broke through four immortal apertures one after another.

In just a few decades, he had opened seven immortal apertures in one go. If this were to be spread, it would even alarm the Golden Immortal realm.

He stood up, golden light radiating from his body. With a thought, a golden wheel emerged, with fourteen clear clusters of time Dao patterns on it.

The fourteen clusters of Dao patterns wriggled, emitting bursts of powerful time law fluctuations.

Feeling the powerful force of law contained in the Mantra Treasure Wheel, Han Li's heart surged with the urge to test its power once again. With a flicker, he transformed into a ray of light and flew outside.

As the celestial phenomenon in the sky disappeared, Meng Qianqian took a deep breath and closed her eyes again, beginning her cultivation cross-legged.

As streams of fiery light gathered and entered her body, a flush of red appeared on her delicate face once more, and her eyebrows furrowed slightly, seemingly in pain.

Just then, a figure flashed beside the array, and Han Li's figure appeared out of thin air.

Without saying a word, he flicked his finger, and a ray of light flashed and disappeared into Meng Qianqian's forehead.

Meng Qianqian's delicate body trembled, the redness on her face quickly faded, and she opened her eyes.

"Elder Li." Seeing Han Li standing there, Meng Qianqian hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Diligent cultivation is a good thing, but you can't pursue advancement too much and put too much burden on your body. You must understand the principle of excess," Han Li said lightly.

He had just left the cave residence not long ago when he discovered that this woman's cultivation seemed to be on the verge of going berserk, so he helped her out.

"Yes, thank you, Elder Li, for your guidance." A blush appeared on Meng Qianqian's cheeks, and she barely calmed her mind and said with her head lowered.

"It seems that if nothing unexpected happens, you will be able to condense your Nascent Soul in a few years. At that time, I will have other tasks for you to arrange." Han Li nodded, his figure flashed, and then disappeared without a trace, leaving these words in the air.

Hearing this, Meng Qianqian quickly raised her head to say something, but the next moment she was slightly stunned, and hurriedly looked around, but there was no trace of Han Li anywhere.

Inside a valley within the Crimson Cloud Peak territory, a ray of green light descended from the sky, and Han Li's figure appeared out of thin air.

The valley was surrounded by mountains, blocking the cold wind, and the earth's atmosphere was quite warm. There was no snow to be seen in the valley, but instead it was lush green everywhere, dotted with many flowers of red or purple.

A waterfall descended from the sky, like a white jade belt, hitting the protruding rocks on the stone wall, splashing countless jade beads. A hazy water mist rolled, and bursts of moisture rushed towards him.

Near the waterfall grew several fruit trees, covered with heavy yellow peaches. A group of monkeys jumped and played on the fruit trees, numbering dozens, squealing and not afraid of seeing Han Li.

Han Li smiled faintly, ignoring the monkeys. Golden light shone brightly from his body, and a Mantra Treasure Wheel emerged.

A layer of golden ripples radiated out, enveloping the surrounding ten feet, including half of the waterfall.

Wherever the ripples covered, everything instantly froze!

The surging water flowing down instantly became slow, as did the splashing water droplets and rolling water mist.

Moreover, the slowing effect this time was even more powerful, slowing down by three times.

Half of the waterfall surged forward, flying and rushing, while the other half was frozen, slowly flowing down.

In contrast, the situation was strange and shocking.

The monkeys nearby, seeing such a strange situation, were immediately panicked. Some monkeys screamed in terror, while others showed excitement, gesticulating and squealing.

At this moment, a red monkey, almost twice the size of the other monkeys, grinned and roared, waving its ape arm and leaping into the distance, seeming to be the monkey king.

The other monkeys immediately followed and fled into the distance.

Han Li raised his eyebrows and waved his hand.

A monkey's body stopped in mid-air and flew towards Han Li.

The monkey's face showed horror, and its hands and feet flailed wildly, squealing as if calling for help from its companions.

The other monkeys, seeing this scene, immediately stopped fleeing and all looked at the red monkey king.

The monkey king's eyes were bright, obviously very intelligent. After turning them a few times, it turned around and slowly walked towards Han Li.

Seeing this, the other monkeys also quieted down and slowly followed behind.

The monkey that Han Li had sucked in quickly entered the range of the golden ripples, and its waving arms immediately slowed down by three times. Its screams were also drawn out, sounding strange.

The monkey's expression was still horrified, but now there was more astonishment, obviously because it sensed the time delay.

Seeing this, Han Li nodded secretly.

He caught the monkey not for fun, but to observe what specific feelings living things have when they step into the range of the Mantra Treasure Wheel.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

The group of monkeys walked over at this moment, and under the leadership of the monkey king, all prostrated on the ground, bowing to Han Li, their faces pleading.

"It's a psychic monkey. I have no intention of harming your people, so don't worry." Han Li glanced at the red monkey and nodded slightly.

Then he rolled up his sleeves and sent the monkey back to the monkey group, landing without any damage.

At the same time, he pointed his finger, and a ray of green crystal light flew out, turning into dozens of strands, and entered the bodies of each monkey.

After the green light entered the body, it immediately turned into a heat current, flowing through the monkeys' limbs and bones in an instant, indescribably comfortable.

A layer of red light suddenly appeared on the red monkey king's body, flashing a few times before fading away.

The monkey king's eyes showed a dazed look, and then immediately returned to clarity, and were even more intelligent than before. Immediately, it led the monkeys towards Han Li and bowed down.

Before the waterfall, a group of monkeys worshiping an immortal, this scene looked quite special and artistic.

Han Li ignored the monkeys and tried the power of the Mantra Treasure Wheel again, his eyes filled with satisfaction.

If he were to fight Fang Pan, who had mastered a trace of the law of speed, again at this moment, he would definitely not be as embarrassed as before, and could even easily defeat him.

With the power of this Mantra Treasure Wheel, he finally had a powerful means of self-preservation in the Immortal World.

After pondering in place for a while, he flickered and turned into a ray of green light, flying towards the top of the mountain.

The red monkey king stared blankly in the direction Han Li disappeared, while the surrounding monkeys looked around, a little confused.

……

Han Li quickly returned to the cave residence and continued to cultivate in seclusion.

In the blink of an eye, several more years passed.

Inside the cave residence, Han Li sat cross-legged, golden light flowing all over his body. The seven immortal apertures at his chest and abdomen flickered, constantly devouring the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy.

After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes, the golden light on his body flashed and then disappeared, but his brows furrowed slightly.

Since opening the seven immortal apertures, his cultivation speed had plummeted, and his cultivation speed had suddenly slowed down a lot.

In fact, his cultivation speed was not really slow. In fact, it was still much faster than other true immortals of the same realm, but he was used to the previous rapid cultivation speed, and now that it had suddenly slowed down, he was really not used to it.

Han Li stood up, walked back and forth in the cave residence with his hands behind his back, as if considering something.

After a moment, he stood still suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, and walked outside.

If he were an ordinary person, it would be fine to cultivate at a normal speed, but his current situation was not safe.

Although Fang Pan was dead, the mysterious figure behind him was still there, and no one knew when that person would appear.

Now that he had recovered the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords and spent so many years erasing the mixed sword spirits of other swords, his cultivation strength had greatly increased, and he also had the supernatural power of the Mantra Treasure Wheel, but he still didn't have much confidence to deal with that person.

Now was not the time to rest easy, he must improve his strength and speed up his cultivation as soon as possible.

If we talk about methods to improve cultivation speed, the first is naturally pills.

He had not paid attention to pills before because his immortal aperture cultivation had progressed rapidly, but now it seemed that it was time to go out and find some pills suitable for him. After all, during these years of seclusion, he had also opportunistically ripened a batch of ordinary spiritual medicines that were more than ten thousand years old.

Moreover, he had been cultivating in seclusion for decades since he entered the sect, and it was time to complete the three tasks every hundred years.

Rumble!

The array restrictions covering the entire Crimson Cloud Peak emitted a muffled sound and slowly dissipated.

Various colors of light intertwined and flickered, very dazzling.

When Sun Bu Zheng and others saw this scene, they immediately thought of something and gathered in front of Han Li's cave residence.

The gate of the cave residence slowly opened, and Han Li walked out slowly.

"Welcome Elder to exit seclusion!" A group of nine people lined up and said in unison.

"Has Meng Yun Gui not returned yet?" Han Li glanced at everyone and asked.

Among the nine people now, Sun Bu Zheng had successfully condensed his Nascent Soul, and Meng Qianqian had also become a Nascent Soul stage cultivator. Most of the others had reached the late stage of Core Formation, but no one had been able to advance to the Nascent Soul stage.

In just a few decades, three of the ten people had successfully condensed their Nascent Souls. This speed was not slow even in the Candle Dragon Dao, especially Meng Qianqian, who seemed to be surpassing her elder brother.

"Reporting to Elder, Meng Yun Gui was ordered to go out and has not returned yet," Sun Bu Zheng said.

A trace of worry appeared on Meng Qianqian's face.

Han Li frowned slightly. Meng Yun Gui's cultivation was not high, so he hoped that nothing unexpected would happen.

He had given him two magic weapons for protection and his identity, as long as he did not leave the outer periphery of the Candle Dragon Dao's forces, he should be fine.

"These years you have guarded the cave residence and worked hard. These pills are a reward." He waved his hand, and nine medicine bottles fell in front of everyone.

"Thank you, Elder, for your gift!" Sun Bu Zheng and others were overjoyed, put away the medicine bottles, and bowed.