Han Li felt the changes in the phenomena of heaven and earth as the image of Lei Kui dissipated, and the boundless power emanating from the heavenly gate. His heart was filled with incomparable shock.

He didn't know how long it took before he recovered from the shock and muttered to himself:

"This eye... is actually a relic of a Dao Ancestor!"

Even after dispelling the Eye of Truth and retrieving the Mantra Treasure Wheel into his body, Han Li's mood remained unsettled.

To this day, no one has ever heard of the existence of a Lightning Dao Ancestor. This Lei Kui beast was probably the previous Dao Ancestor of Lightning. With its innate lightning body, it could freely traverse the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning. However, with its harmony with the lightning laws between itself and the heavens and earth, its final destination was to be devoured by the Heavenly Dao, becoming a part of this world.

This Lightning Eye was the last remaining trace of it, forcibly left in the True Immortal Realm before being devoured by the Heavenly Dao.

Han Li once again fully activated the Divine Refining Technique. After careful exploration, he discovered that the power contained within this Lightning Eye was even more terrifying than he had estimated. However, it had already transformed into pure lightning energy, with no remaining divine will of Lei Kui within it.

However, after a little thought, Han Li became relieved.

If there was any divine will remaining in this remnant giant eye, it would have probably cultivated again and made a comeback. How could it have remained in this sea area day after day? Furthermore, how could any divine will remain after being devoured by the Heavenly Dao?

He gazed at the orange-yellow giant eye for a moment, then suddenly snapped his fingers.

A layer of golden light curtain rapidly expanded from around him, enveloping the entire thunderstorm sea.

At the same time, the Grand Five Elements Illusory World Art within Han Li's body activated. The Mantra Treasure Wheel and other time-law incarnations emerged one after another, transforming into ten thousand miles of mountains, long rivers, and a round moon and stars, surrounding the entire thunderstorm sea.

As soon as these five Heavenly Human Realm spiritual domains containing powerful time law power appeared, they immediately provoked the crazy resistance of the thunderstorm sea. The orange-yellow eyeball "gazed" at Han Li, and the Nine Heavens cloud sea immediately roared.

The entire thunderstorm sea became unprecedentedly violent. All the lightning pillars fell down in this instant, non-stop, just like a surging waterfall, bombarding Han Li's mountains and rivers.

Han Li turned a blind eye to this. He just moved his mind, and the time in the surrounding void seemed to freeze again. All the falling lightning flickered with electric sparks and stopped in the void, without the slightest fluctuation or sound.

In this small world, only Han Li could walk freely.

He gently waved his palm and walked in the void, with the seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords floating behind him, following him slowly.

Han Li walked around the Lei Kui's eye, pausing slightly every few steps. With a wave of his hand, a Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword flew out and suspended in a void outside the giant eye.

After walking three hundred and sixty steps, all seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords had already found their respective positions, arranged around the giant eye.

Han Li carefully checked the position of all the Bee Cloud Swords, confirmed that there was nothing wrong, and then turned his palm over again. A pure white, jade-like octagonal jade plate appeared in his palm.

This thing was none other than the array diagram of the Heaven Connecting Sword Formation.

During these years of closed-door cultivation, Han Li had not relaxed his research on this array diagram. With the continuous growth of his cultivation, he finally unraveled the mystery of this sword formation jade plate.

He originally thought that this object should have been refined by the founding ancestor of the Heaven Connecting Sword Sect, but later he realized that this object was so mysterious that it was beyond human capabilities. It should be a manifestation of the law of the sword, forming a Xuan Tian object.

This sword formation had no five elements wind or thunder attributes. Only because the flying swords used to set up the formation had different attributes, could it burst out powerful power of different attributes. Therefore, it originally contained the law of the sword, so it could accommodate any attribute and exert power.

At this moment, the sword formation arranged by all the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords was a "Great Refinement" formation with unparalleled power in the Heaven Connecting Sword Formation. And Han Li today was going to use this Heaven Connecting Sword Formation jade plate to refine this "Lei Kui" eye.

After completing the arrangement, Han Li pinched a magic seal with both hands, and a chanting sound then rang out from his mouth.

Only a soft "嗡" sound was heard!

The octagonal jade plate then trembled slightly. The runes on it moved quickly like flowing clouds. In an instant, the emerald light flourished. A splendid light rippled on it, turning into a huge octagonal light disk, suspended above the Lei Kui eye.

Seeing this, Han Li leaped high into the air, landed in the center of the octagonal light disk, and sat down cross-legged.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and his hands pinched a magic seal in front of him. Suddenly, the light on the octagonal light disk under him flourished. Countless illusory sword shadows flew out from it, like a spring rain, and fell on the giant eye below.

The seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords also suddenly made bursts of tremors. All the sword bodies lit up with dazzling golden light, connected with each other, and condensed into a huge illusory Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace in the void, including the Lei Kui giant eye in it.

The octagonal light disk transformed by the sword formation jade plate was like a furnace lid, covering all the phenomena in the pill furnace.

"Rumble..."

Accompanied by bursts of violent roars, a golden light lit up on the Lei Kui eye, which had been still. The lightning tumbling in the cloud sea outside suddenly stopped.

In the next instant, Lei Kui phantoms condensed from the eyeballs, wrapped in the purest golden thunder in this world, and rushed towards the surrounding of the pill furnace phantom, surrounded by purple smoke, with various phenomena.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Each Lei Kui made a deafening noise after hitting it, and the entire thunderstorm sea also vibrated violently.

Han Li sat steadily on the octagonal light disk, and his body also shook violently, with wisps of numb current penetrating out and hitting him.

But at this moment, he could not be distracted in the slightest. He had to strictly control all the flying swords and array diagrams, otherwise, once the Lei Kui rushed out, not only would the entire Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace explode, but the entire thunderstorm sea and the two nearby continents would also be swept away by an unprecedented thunderstorm, and be erased from the map of the Northern Cold Immortal Region.

"Sword defense is attack, Great Refinement Xuan Kong..." Han Li lightly shouted.

The seventy-two flying swords and array diagrams unleashed their power at the same time. Countless sword qi and sword shadows poured into the pill furnace, refining the Lei Kui eye like a furnace fire.

……

At the same time, the edge of the Barren Lan Continent.

Thousands of Grey Realm creatures, like locusts, crowded on the edge of the land, looking across the sea at the thunderstorm sea.

Standing at the forefront of these Grey Realm creatures were also hundreds of Grey Realm cultivators. The leader was a tall black-robed man, wearing armor covered in green copper rust, his skin pale, and his expression solemn.

"Lord Mo Shi, should we go and investigate?" Standing behind him, a thin old man also wearing a black robe, asked in a hoarse voice.

"No need. Whatever is there, we can't deal with it. As long as it doesn't provoke us, don't cause extra trouble. Just monitor it closely." The tall man called Mo Shi shook his head and said.

"Yes." The thin old man immediately responded.

"Restrain these guys, don't take the initiative to provoke. There are still some cities on the Barren Lan Continent that have not been captured. We need to speed up." Mo Shi instructed.

This time, several Grey Realm cultivators, including the thin old man, responded one after another: "Yes, sir."

……

Time flies, and several months have passed.

The thunderstorm sea has undergone earth-shaking changes. The boundless thunderstorm sea that was originally invisible has long disappeared. Now, only a thunderstorm cloud area of less than a hundred miles in radius remains.

Within the thunderstorm cloud area, a figure was walking back and forth around a pill furnace about ten feet high, frowning, looking quite annoyed. It was naturally Han Li.

"It's obviously been refined, why can't it still be broken?" Han Li stroked his chin with one hand, muttering to himself.

Inside the pill furnace, you could see an orange-yellow eyeball the size of a dragon's eye, covered with a layer of golden electric filaments, constantly making bursts of "sizzle" sounds.

Around the eyeball, there were also seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, shrunk by half, suspended in the void, vibrating up and down, with electric filaments linking each other, looking like a whole at a glance.

According to Han Li's original plan, with the aid of the Heaven Connecting Sword Formation diagram, with the Great Refinement Sword Formation, he could refine all the power of this Lei Kui eye into the seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, and raise its quality to the level of a fourth-grade immortal artifact in one fell swoop.

But for some reason, even though the refining had been successfully completed, this Lei Kui eye could not be split after all, so it could not all enter the seventy-two swords.

"Where is the problem? How can I break..." Han Li muttered to himself.

At this moment, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, a hint of joy appeared in his eyes, and then he turned his wrist, and a burst of light flashed in his palm.

Only to see that where the light fell, there was already a emerald green Xuan Tian gourd in his hand.

This Xuan Tian gourd absorbed the remaining power of the Xuan Tian Slashing Spirit Sword back then. What is bred in the gourd is the law of destruction. Wouldn't it be just right to use it to help break this Lei Kui eye?

Thinking of this, Han Li hesitated. Although this Lei Kui eye has been refined, it is, after all, a relic of a Dao Ancestor. The lightning power contained in it is extraordinary. This Xuan Tian gourd is ultimately of insufficient grade and may not be able to withstand its power.

"It seems that there is no better way other than this. I will send the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords in together to help suppress the Lei Kui eye." Han Li thought of a method that was not a method, and murmured.

After speaking, he didn't hesitate any longer, pinched a magic seal with his hand, and the Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace disappeared, and the Lei Kui eye and Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords were exposed in the void.

In an instant, the remaining thunder clouds covering a radius of hundreds of miles surged wildly. The electric light spewed out and the thunder roared.

Seeing this, Han Li quickly raised the Xuan Tian gourd, chanted a few sentences, raised his hand and slapped the bottom of the gourd.

A flash of light flashed on the Xuan Tian gourd, and a cloud of green mist immediately spewed out from the mouth of the gourd, condensing into a mist vortex, which rotated violently.

As a whistling wind sounded, a powerful tearing force came out of the vortex.

Holding the gourd in one hand, Han Li cooperated with a move in the other hand, guiding the Lei Kui eye and Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords to fly into the green vortex and absorbed into the Xuan Tian gourd.

As soon as the eyeballs and flying swords entered the Xuan Tian gourd, the abnormal sounds in the surrounding thunder clouds suddenly became smaller.