Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 781: Chapter 18: It Turns Out to Be the Innate Five Elements Divine Light

Having infused his True Yuan into the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle, and with Ah Jing confirming the spatial coordinates, Luo Yan promptly transported himself and Shi Liuli to the Shennong Secret Realm.

Even though they were up against an elder of the Demon Race, Luo Yan also had extremely rich experience in dealing with enemies of the elder rank.

For example, in the underground caverns of South State in the Eastern Emperor Realm, Long Long had led a group of friends, following behind the elder-ranking Lv Yan, using the Mirror Flower Water Moon Illusion Technique to conceal their presence and scanning to maintain distance, without ever revealing their tracks throughout the journey.

With the successful experience from last time, Luo Yan was naturally completely unhurried now, simply holding the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle and steadily stimulating the True Yuan.

On the other hand, Shi Liuli hugged his arm with one hand to avoid being separated during the transportation process, while the other hand was constantly flipping a copper coin, silently calculating something.

Although she was calm and composed, she had never done something as dangerous as tracking an immortal before, so even though she appeared as composed as Luo Yan on the outside, she was actually extremely nervous inside.

The sensation of breaking into the spatial barrier felt like being trapped in a thick mattress, with pressure coming from all directions making it difficult to breathe.

Suddenly, the surrounding pressure vanished, and as Luo Yan focused his gaze once again, he found that the two of them had now unexpectedly found themselves within a strange cave heaven.

Nearby were rolling bare hills with neither grass nor trees, and the soil beneath their feet had become dry and hard, cracked with spider-web-like fissures that extended densely towards the horizon.

In the distance were towering peaks sharp like knife blades, also without a hint of green, seemingly comprised entirely of stone.

Luo Yan licked his lips, realizing that even the air was devoid of any moisture, extremely dry.

“This place…” Shi Liuli quickly scanned the surroundings to confirm there was no trace of the old dragon, then hesitantly said, “This place doesn’t seem to be like a cave heaven.”

“Hmm,” Luo Yan nodded and said, “The Five Elements are completely out of balance here.”

“A normal Immortal Sect’s cave heaven should have both Yin and Yang, and the complete set of Five Elements, but here the Metal element is overwhelmingly strong, which overwhelms Wood, hence there’s no wood.”

As if to validate his claim, Luo Yan took out a Peach Wood Sword from his Heavenly Craft hundred treasure bag and pointed it towards the ground.

Instantly, a tree sprouted from the ground, but it only grew to a few meters before it seemed to be sliced by a blade and disintegrated, turning into numerous rustling wood chips, scattering in the knife-like sharp wind.

“So that’s how it is,” Shi Liuli said, feeling truly enlightened, “But what does this tell us? Where should we go next?”

“Don’t you know, my lady?” Luo Yan asked.

“How would I know?”

“Ask your copper coin.”

Shi Liuli paused for a long time before she realized he meant for her to perform Divination, and not without embarrassment, she coughed a few times and asked:

“Calculate what?”

“Calculate where those people went,” Luo Yan answered, “From the previous conversation, these people seemed to have come prepared.”

Shi Liuli sighed, thinking to herself that if others encountered an enemy immortal from an opposing faction, they would wish to flee thousands of miles away, yet here they were purposely drawing closer. She then cast the copper coin to start the divination, and after a moment, she pointed towards the blade-like mountain range in the distance and said:

“They should have gone in that direction.”

“Let’s go,” Luo Yan quickly commanded the Sword Light.

“Wait a moment…” Shi Liuli wanted to remind him that controlling the sword was too ostentatious and could easily be detected, but Luo Yan had already darted a hundred yards away. She could only hurry to follow, inwardly blaming her husband’s reckless behavior.

But this was actually a misunderstanding of Luo Yan: after all, he had Great Divine Powers like scanning at his disposal, and the Mirror Flower Water Moon Illusion Technique to confound Divine Sense. It was uncertain who would detect it first.

The two skimmed over vast wastelands, only to see many Demonic Beasts gradually appearing on the plains below.

Upon closer inspection, Luo Yan recognized them as sword slaves.

Sword slaves were demonized remnants of broken swords that absorbed Sun Essence and Moon Splendor. They were a very special type of demon.

From their appearance, they looked like segments of broken sword blades hovering in mid-air with many tiny metal fragments orbiting around the sword body like stars around the moon.

Although these sword slaves looked bizarre and ferocious, they didn’t have much of a fighting spirit. They preferred to dig through soil to find ores, gnawing and digesting metal to repair themselves, until the sword body was completely mended, and then they would officially transform into Flying Swords—Shushan Demon Locking Tower raised a large number of sword slaves for this purpose, to provide a stable output of Flying Swords.

However, the sword slaves here seemed different. Seeing the two people swiftly skimming through the air, they quickly shot their fragments toward them, as if trying to knock them down.

The power of these fragments wasn’t significant, roughly only one-fifth or even one-seventh of the force exerted by an ordinary Golden Core True Person using a Flying Sword thrust. But the issue was their overwhelming numbers, which made them difficult to defend against.

Luo Yan, who was well-versed in Sword Control Technique, naturally did not fear this barrage of attacks. He nimbly wove through them unscathed.

Shi Liuli, however, dealt with it somewhat clumsily. She wasn’t very experienced in Magical Competitions and faced with such chaotic onslaughts, she could only rely on the Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Technique and the minuscule star sands from the constellation of Taiwei star to protect herself.

The Southern Dipper Galaxy Secret Technique consumed too much True Yuan for defense, and when it was usually employed for trapping and killing enemies, it wasn’t suitable. Therefore, she manipulated a massive amount of star sands to shield herself, ensuring that she wouldn’t be injured by the fragments.

As the star sands enveloped her, their weight increased, and the speed of the Purple Extreme Han Yuan Sword slowed down.

Seeing his wife in distress, Luo Yan had no choice but to turn back and rescue her. Seeing the sword slaves below becoming more vigorous in their attacks, he couldn’t help but feel annoyed.

I’m just trying to hurry along, and not in the mood to fight with you all, and yet you’re getting all excited, huh?

He rubbed his hands together, and a surge of Five-colored Divine Light burst forth, plunging towards the ground.

The sword slaves uttered a terrified hum and scattered in panic, but how could they outrun the speed of Divine Light? In an instant, they were engulfed by the radiant multicolored streamers. Under the cycle of creation and destruction of the Five Elements, they were instantly obliterated.

This Divine Light spread out, and a wide expanse of sword slaves rapidly melted into liquid metal, spreading over the cracked and parched wasteland, immediately forming ponds like oases in the desert.

Shi Liuli silently watched her husband wield his Divine Skills, thinking to herself that the power of the Five Elements Divine Light seemed much stronger than before.

When her husband used to deploy the Five Elements Divine Light, wherever it swept would disintegrate, but it had never altered the environment within a hundred paces so thoroughly as it did now.

Unnoticed, she took out a copper coin and tossed it a few times, divining that Luo Yan’s Five Elements Divine Light had actually advanced to Innate.

Seeing Shi Liuli’s shocked expression, Luo Yan realized she had figured it out and felt secretly pleased.

Since he would definitely be using this Innate Five Elements Great Chaos Divine Light frequently in the future, it was better to let his wife know about it first, but he had to choose carefully how to reveal it.

If he were playing the role of Qiu Changtian, he could nonchalantly say to Junior Sister Xu, “This Innate Five Elements Great Chaos Divine Light wasn’t too difficult to master, I’ve already got it,” and bolster his Invincible Character Setting’s Synchronization Value. Xu Yinglian, spurred by a competitive spirit, would have her mind filled with thoughts of surpassing her senior brother, negating any attention to potential discrepancies.

But Shi Liuli had no such concerns. If he directly told her about the advancement of the Five Elements Divine Light, there was no guarantee she wouldn’t ask, “Oh, where did the Innate Five Elements True Vein come from?” If he were to gloss it over, it might not deceive her, as she would do all sorts of calculations… It was better not to articulate it explicitly, just hint at it subtly, letting her decide it was too challenging to pursue.

As Luo Yan expected, Shi Liuli’s thoughts were now dominated by “Where did my husband find the Innate Five Elements True Vein? He actually managed to gather it!”

She was tempted to ask, but remembering that her husband had not mentioned it, she worried that if she asked hastily, he would retort, “How do you know my Five Elements Divine Light has become Innate?” exposing the fact that she had been using the copper coin to divine his secrets.

Never mind, since he’s not saying anything, I won’t pry further. I’ll wait for him to tell me himself.