285: Health Secret

Xun Xiuyuan watched the external scenery from within Ling Tian Pagoda, as if he had entered a kaleidoscope, with various scenes appearing in rotation around him.

It felt very unreal, like watching a movie.

Finally, Ling Tian Pagoda plunged into a pool of water, sinking straight to the bottom.

Xun Xiuyuan walked out of Ling Tian Pagoda and struggled upwards, reaching the surface of the water.

He looked up at the sky, which was a hazy gray, like a city shrouded in smog in his previous life.

Just as Xun Xiuyuan was bewildered, Xiao Xuan's voice came: "This is inside the Secret Realm of Time."

Xun Xiuyuan was startled: "Secret Realm of Time? How do you know?"

Xiao Xuan said: "Because the time layer in the pagoda has opened."

Xun Xiuyuan understood. Ling Tian Pagoda had nine layers, with all nine major laws complete: Five Elements, Space-Time, Light-Dark, only lacking the Law of Life and the Law of the Soul.

Previously, Xiao Xuan could effectively control the other eight laws, but the time layer had never been opened.

It turned out that it could only be opened by entering the Secret Realm of Time.

Xun Xiuyuan asked: "Is the flow of time here different from the Extraterritorial Battlefield?"

Xiao Xuan said: "It's not different from the Extraterritorial Battlefield, it's different from the Yuan Ling Universe. Of course, the Extraterritorial Battlefield is also a part of the Yuan Ling Universe, and it's the core part."

Xun Xiuyuan said: "Then is it faster or slower here?"

Xiao Xuan said: "I don't know. The Law of Time is unfathomable."

Seeing this, Xun Xiuyuan stopped dwelling on it and flew in one direction, finally seeing a continent.

He found a safe place, took out Ye Chunlin's spatial equipment, and retrieved the three spatial Fragments.

The moment he held them, the system prompt sounded.

Fragment of the Law of Time (Seven) detected. Absorb?

Fragment of the Law of Time (Eight) detected. Absorb?

Fragment of the Law of Time (Nine) detected. Absorb?

Three consecutive prompts sounded, and Xun Xiuyuan chose to absorb them without hesitation. At this point, Xun Xiuyuan's Law of Time entered the Quasi-God Realm.

There was also a Fragment of the Law of Time in his backpack that could be integrated into his body, which was given by the attendants of the Eternal Great World. Xun Xiuyuan didn't know who exactly gave it to him.

Xun Xiuyuan pondered for a moment, deciding to first improve his strength before thinking of a way to leave.

He clicked to absorb the Fragment of the Law of Time, and the twelfth law integrated into his body.

The key was that all eleven major laws were integrated into his body.

Half a year later, Xun Xiuyuan looked at his Inner World and murmured: "Is this still an Inner World? An Inner Minor Universe?"

His Inner World was exactly like the cosmic starry sky.

And after integrating the Law of Time, the entire universe had begun to operate on its own. Living beings, secret realms, resources, and spiritual materials were slowly appearing as time passed.

"Slowly" was only relative.

Just in the instant Xun Xiuyuan observed his Inner World, life had already appeared on some planets. The time ratio was completely different.

At this time, his Inner World was surrounded by chaos, and as time progressed, the chaotic space also continued to recede, and the scope of his Inner World was also growing larger and larger, as if it had no end.

At this moment, Zhou Yuanling discovered that he was actually absorbing the spiritual energy within the secret realm, slowly empowering his Inner World.

This was something Xun Xiuyuan would not have dared to imagine before; he knew he was a good-for-nothing.

Suddenly, a tall woman in a red belly band stood before Xun Xiuyuan.

Xun Xiuyuan was startled by Xiao Xuan's sudden appearance. After a glance, Xun Xiuyuan closed his eyes.

He thought to himself: "How did Xiao Xuan grow so big?"

At this moment, Xiao Xuan looked like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, with nothing on her body except for a belly band.

Xun Xiuyuan turned around, found many girls' clothes in his spatial ring, and handed them all to Xiao Xuan.

These clothes were all spoils of war.

Xiao Xuan chuckled, took the clothes, and disappeared.

A moment later, Xiao Xuan reappeared.

Dressed in red, she looked heroic and spirited.

"Master, do I look good?"

Xiao Xuan stood gracefully before Xun Xiuyuan.

Xun Xiuyuan glanced at her and said: "Very beautiful. When did you grow so big?"

Xiao Xuan asked in confusion: "You're asking me? Your mental power has been surging, and I've been recovering, constantly falling into a coma. Now that I've finally woken up, I came out to see you."

Xun Xiuyuan understood. The three major wars in the Great Qiu World, the Great World of Slaughter, and the Yuzhu Great World, where he continuously experienced a surge in mental power, accelerated Xiao Xuan's recovery.

Xiao Xuan said: "This place is so strange."

Xun Xiuyuan was puzzled: "How is it strange?"

Xiao Xuan rolled her eyes again and said: "I've been here for half a year, and I haven't seen any living creatures."

Upon hearing this, Xun Xiuyuan was also startled. It was true.

After listening carefully for a while, Xun Xiuyuan said in surprise: "There aren't even bugs. Could it be that nothing can survive here?"

Xiao Xuan looked at Xun Xiuyuan as if he were an idiot: "Haven't you been here for half a year? How could nothing survive?"

Xiao Xuan continued: "This place seems to be inside a great formation, and life force is being extracted. Shield your Inner World and see if your vitality is being consumed."

Xun Xiuyuan was a little surprised that Xiao Xuan knew so much and did as she said.

Sure enough, after shielding his Inner World, the Inner World no longer continuously provided vitality to Xun Xiuyuan's main body. Xun Xiuyuan immediately felt his vitality slowly draining away; although it was very slow, it was undeniably present.

Xun Xiuyuan nodded without speaking, and Xiao Xuan understood his meaning.

Xun Xiuyuan asked in confusion: "Why is it like this?"

Xiao Xuan said, not too sure: "This might be someone's dao field, or someone might be extracting life force to heal injuries. There are many possibilities, I don't know either."

Xun Xiuyuan understood that Xiao Xuan also didn't know, but in her memory, it should be a very common occurrence.

Instead of thinking so much, it was better to explore for himself.

With that thought, Xun Xiuyuan flew in one direction, hoping to encounter living people, preferably ones he could communicate with.

While flying, he attacked the spatial barrier, to see if he could leave this place.

With himself missing, the Great Barren World was very dangerous, and Xun Xiuyuan was very anxious.

Extraterritorial Battlefield.

In the central basin, there was an enormous sect.

The entire sect's location was comparable in size to a Great World.

Although it looked like just a basin, upon entering, one would realize there was a World within it.

At this time, inside a cave dwelling, two disciples in the God King Realm were looking at a jade plate on the wall.

One of them said: "Fifty years ago, there was an anomaly in the secret realm, and now it has appeared again."

The other person said indifferently: "The secret realm only has one entrance here; others cannot enter. The one healing is the Holy Beast Lord, and what if there's an anomaly? The Holy Beast Lord is in the Great Saint Realm, who can do anything to it? We just need to wait here for the Holy Beast Lord to emerge."

"That's true, we just need to wait patiently. I just don't understand why the Holy Beast Lord would enter a secret realm with such a slow flow of time to heal? Isn't it better for healing if time is faster?"

The other person laughed: "The Holy Beast Lord's mortal enemy is younger than the Holy Beast Lord, and the Holy Beast Lord is afraid it won't outlive its opponent. As long as it's not wartime, it will enter this secret realm, euphemistically calling it 'health preservation'."

"That's right, with a hundred times the time difference, it'll outlive the opponent even by just waiting."