Chapter 628: Chapter 628: Lan Die’s Discovery, Three-Star Promotion Celebration
Spirit Gathering Tower.
Lan Die, a second-generation disciple, was in secluded cultivation, attempting a breakthrough in her realm.
Initially, Lan Die was a disciple of the Heaven-Devouring Demon Sect, planted by the Great Elder of the Divine Wind Sword Sect as an undercover agent within the Misty Sect.
But in the end, Lan Die became a true disciple of the Misty Sect.
Her aptitude was not bad.
After joining the Misty Sect, Lan Die devoted herself to diligent cultivation, and thanks to the timely Heavenly Dew, her cultivation level soared, reaching the eighth peak of the Element Gathering Realm.
Today, she was challenging the ninth level of the Element Gathering Realm.
Pfft!
A soft sound, not a fart but the release of her breath, indicated that she had failed to break through to the ninth level of the Element Gathering Realm.
“Sigh… I failed.”
Lan Die sighed softly.
The ninth level of the Element Gathering Realm was quite difficult to break through. After her failure, she left the Spirit Gathering Tower and stood by the expanded bank of the Spirit Lake, enjoying the cool breeze, gazing at the shimmering water, and contemplating life.
“What’s the matter, did the breakthrough fail?”
Ye Feng’s gentle voice came from behind her.
Lan Die quickly turned around and, with a bow, said, “Disciple Lan Die greets Sect Master.”
“No need for such formalities.”
Ye Feng waved his hand dismissively.
“The Element Gathering Realm is about transforming the spiritual energy of nature into True Yuan and using it to temper your body, corresponding to skin, flesh, bones, the five viscera, and the brain. When you reach the peak of Element Gathering, you can be described as having tough skin, a resilient aura, and the durability to withstand heavy blows.”
“Your failure to reach the ninth level of the Element Gathering Realm is due to insufficient self-tempering.”
“Inspect yourself carefully with your Spiritual Sense to see which part hasn’t met the standards.”
After hearing Ye Feng’s guidance, Lan Die had an epiphany. She meticulously scanned her body with her Spiritual Sense and discovered that her tempering of the five viscera was still lacking.
“Sect Master, I understand now!”
She was visibly excited, bowed three times to Ye Feng, glanced at the high-hanging sun in the sky to gauge the time, and then re-entered the Spirit Gathering Tower.
This time, Lan Die consumed a large quantity of Spiritual Liquid from the Misty Peak Spiritual Spring, and combining it with the vital energy of the Spirit Gathering Tower, she successfully tempered her five viscera to the Perfect Stage.
“Phew! It took five hours.”
Lan Die calculated the time, then began her challenge to break through to the ninth level of the Element Gathering Realm.
This time, the process went smoothly.
One hour later.
She left the Spirit Gathering Tower full of joy and saw Ye Feng talking to Stone Spirit by the lakeside.
“Sect Master, I’ve made the breakthrough… Huh?”
Lan Die felt something was very wrong.
She had spent a total of six hours on her breakthrough, and by all rights, it should have been dark outside by now.
Yet, the sun was just beginning to set as if only more than half an hour had passed.
“Lan Die, do you feel there are many questions?”
Ye Feng turned around, noticed the puzzled look on Lan Die’s face, and asked with a smile.
“Yes.” Lan Die expressed her confusion about the time discrepancy, which made Ye Feng’s smile even brighter.
“Because the Spirit Gathering Tower has a Time Array, not just the Spirit Gathering Tower, but the Cultivation Tower has one too.”
Ye Feng stood with his hands behind his back, looking toward the glittering lake, “The flow of time within the tower speeds up tenfold, a day outside corresponds to ten days inside, to facilitate your secluded breakthroughs.”
“Tenfold speed?!”
Lan Die was shocked.
“Sect Master, is it really a Time Array? But… but I heard that such a domain could only be accessed by an Ancient Saint!”
She swallowed hard, increasingly astounded.
Ye Feng smiled faintly, traced a formation in mid-air with his finger, creating a small-scale Time Array that slowed the flow of time, which he then sent into Lan Die.
Then, Lan Die found everything around her speeding up by tenfold.
“No, that’s not it, my time flow has slowed down to one-tenth of the normal!” Lan Die realized, astonished.
“Indeed, you’re within a Time Array that has slowed down the flow of time. As long as you are enveloped by the time formation, you won’t feel any change, but in reality, every action you take is much slower than usual.”
Ye Feng nodded, “In such a state, if your opponent wanted to kill you, it would be as easy as flipping their hand.”
This conversation made Lan Die’s heart tremble.
Indeed, within the range of the time-slowing array that decelerated time by a factor of ten, her speed and reaction time were both reduced to a tenth of normal, making it impossible to block an opponent’s casual attack.
Ye Feng waved his hand, dispelling the Time Array.
Lan Die’s flow of time returned to normal, and she thought back on the experience with lingering fear.
“Go back and cultivate!”
Ye Feng slowly turned around and sat on a lounge chair by the lake, picked up a fishing rod, and began to fish.
“Understood.” Lan Die nodded lightly.
She thought for a moment, then plucked up the courage to ask, “Sect Master, may I inform my fellow disciples about the existence of the Time Array?”
“You may.”
Ye Feng gestured with his hand.
“Disciple takes her leave.” Lan Die returned to the Spirit Gathering Tower.
Soon, news about the Time Arrays set up in the Cultivation Tower and Spirit Gathering Tower, which sped up time tenfold, quickly spread within the Misty Sect.
In less than half an hour, everyone knew about it.
“Truly fitting for the Sect Master, even a Time Array is within his capability to arrange, his methods are indeed becoming more and more profound and inscrutable.”
Inside the Spirit Gathering Tower, Mo Ying exclaimed in admiration.
“With the Time Array, we can cultivate for ten hours inside the tower, and only one hour will pass in the outside world; our progress will certainly speed up significantly.”
Huo Yunjie said from beside her.
“Our lifespan won’t change, will it?” Li Jiaojiao asked curiously.
“It must change.” Ji Ziling interjected with an explanation, “We still experience time as it is. For example, if a year passes outside, we would have experienced ten years inside. If we entered when we were 20 years old, afterward, we would become 30.”
“So, what’s the point of that?” Li Jiaojiao pressed further with her question.
“Of course, there’s a point,” Ji Ziling said while flipping through a book, continuing her explanation.
“Think about it, the flow of time outside is normal. Some secret realms, for example, may not be accessible to us at first due to insufficient strength. But after we speed up our cultivation inside the array, our strength will increase after some time. Isn’t that useful?”
Li Jiaojiao had a rethink and felt that seemed to make sense!
Before long, everyone continued their cultivation.
In the blink of an eye, several days passed.
The day of the Misty Sect’s Three-Star celebration arrived as scheduled.
Almost all of the star-level sects of the Mystique Kingdom were present, seated in the brand-new Sect Main Plaza.
After the last massive terraforming, the Sect Main Plaza extended for several miles, able to accommodate a hundred thousand people.
Around it, a hundred pillars, three meters in diameter and a hundred meters tall, were erected with complicated patterns covering them, forming a powerful Formation capable of withstanding attacks from those at the Peak of Divine Origin.
The Sect Main Plaza was abuzz with voices.
People from various powers were seated in their places, watching as maids from the City Lord’s Mansion of Whitefloat City bustled about, delivering delicious dishes that whetted the appetite.
At the main seat of the Sect Master.
Ye Feng sat there, graciously receiving the admiring gazes of all the visiting guests.
“Sect Master Ye, congratulations, congratulations!”
“Sect Master Ye, I wish the Misty Sect leaps and bounds in success, becoming a Four Star and even Five-Star force soon.”
Ancestor Jinling, Ancestor Lingmiao, Multitreasure Daoist, Ancestor Leiwu, and others successively made their True Body Descent, bringing generous gifts in person.
“You are all too kind.”
Ye Feng nodded, his face always wearing a smile.
At this celebration, guests from places such as Mystique Kingdom, South Ming Country, Great Liang Demon Nation, and Leiwu Dynasty came to congratulate, and even from Jiaoyang Holy City, many unfamiliar Void Break elders came.
As the saying goes, one does not slap a smiling face.
Despite the unfamiliarity of these Void Break elders, Ye Feng still nodded and maintained a faint smile on his lips.
“Sect Master Ye, spare our lives!”
Just as people were preparing to dine, dozens of elders with cultivation levels up to the third layer of Void Break knelt in the Sect Main Plaza, bearing whips, crying and sniffling.
This scene stunned the crowd.
Even Ye Feng was taken aback for a good while.
What… What is happening?