Chapter 396: Preparations
The Earthly Deity Avatar made a hand seal as it channeled is Black Sea Heavy Water Tome, and the thread of light above its head began to emit beams of blue light with countless tiny blue runes within them, shining upon the first level heavy water in its hands.
The heavy water instantly began to condense, slowly evolving into second level heavy water.
However, this process was extremely slow, and Han Li could only heave a faint sigh upon seeing this.
The rate of heavy water manifestation was extremely slow to begin with, and now that the avatar's water law powers had been significantly impaired, this process was only going to be even slower.
At this rate, it wasn't going to be able to manifest much second level heavy water at all in three years.
After a brief moment of contemplation, Han Li flipped a hand over to summon his Heaven Controlling Vial, inside of which was a drop of green spirit liquid.
He then cast an incantation into the vial, and all of a sudden, countless dark clouds began to gather in the sky, while the world's origin qi began to churn violently.
Several days later, Han Li was holding a time crystal in his hand.
With his immense late-True Immortal Stage immortal spiritual power, manifesting these time crystals was no longer very taxing on him at all.
With a sweep of his sleeve, the time crystal flew over to his Earthly Deity Avatar, following which the translucent golden thread inside fused into the thread of blue light.
The thread of blue light instantly brightened significantly as a layer of golden light appeared on its surface, while the rate at which the ball of first level heavy water in its hands was being converted into second level heavy water was sped up significantly.
Before long, the entire ball of first level heavy water had been converted into second level heavy water.
The Earthly Deity Avatar stowed the ball of heavy water away, then produced another ball of first level heavy water to continue the conversion process.
Han Li heaved an internal sigh of relief upon seeing this.
Thankfully, the time crystals were capable of accelerating this process. Otherwise, he would've been at a loss for what to do.
After lingering on the seabed for a while longer, he rose up through the water and quickly broke through the surface.
From there, he inspected his surroundings briefly before descending onto a small coral island near Dark Veil Island.
The seabed was quite peaceful and safe, but the moonlight wasn't able to reach the seabed, so he wouldn't be able to manifest more spirit liquid.
With a sweep of his sleeve, a series of array flags flew out before landing near the island.
This was a very secluded place, so Han Li didn't bother to be too meticulous with his security measures, only setting up a few arrays before sitting down with his legs crossed and setting down his Heaven Controlling Vial beside him.
After that, he swept his sleeve through the air once again to summon the ingredients required to refine the Golden Soul Pill.
He had already gathered all of the required materials, but he had been too busy to refine the pill prior to this.
Now that he had nothing to do anyway, he decided to take advantage of this opportunity to refine this pill in preparation for a future breakthrough.
After meditating for some time to prime himself into the best condition, he flipped a hand over to produce his silver cauldron, then opened his mouth to release his Flame of Essence onto the underside of the cauldron.
After doing all of that, he summoned the jade box that contained Tao Yu's nascent soul, then removed all of the restrictions around the nascent soul before transferring it into the cauldron.
Once that was done, he opened his mouth to release a stream of azure nascent flames that mixed together with the Flame of Essence, and the temperature within the cauldron was instantly significantly elevated.
Enveloped within the two flames, the nascent soul was being subjected to scorching heat while Han Li observed the changes taking place within the nascent soul with rapt focus.
At the same time, he was constantly making hand seals to control the two-colored flames within the cauldron.
Close to a month flew by in the blink of an eye.
At this point, the nascent soul within the cauldron had shrunk down into a fist-sized golden bead with streaks of translucent light surging over its surface.
Han Li picked up another ingredient before transferring it into the cauldron, and close to another month flew by in a flash.
On this day, the world's origin qi in the area suddenly began to rumble and churn, while beams of golden light emerged to form a series of golden flowers.
At the same time, heavenly music was ringing out across the heavens, and an ecstatic look appeared on Han Li's face as he stared at the cauldron in front of him.
Hovering in the air above the cauldron was a longan-sized golden pill that was giving off dazzling golden radiance, and it was none other than a Golden Soul Pill.
The refinement process for the Golden Soul Pill wasn't actually all that complicated, and with Han Li's current level of pill refinement proficiency, he was able to successfully refine the pill in less than two months.
There was a projection of a miniature humanoid figure around the pill, and it was as if the pill possessed a soul.
At the same time, it was giving off a peculiar medicinal aroma, and as soon as Han Li breathed in this aroma, he could feel his own soul beginning to display signs of making a breakthrough.
"As expected of a pill that can elevate one's soul," Han Li praised as he carefully stored the Golden Soul Pill into a jade box, then adhered a few talismans to the box before stowing it away into his storage bracelet.
After that, he made a beckoning motion to draw his Heaven Controlling Vial to himself, then cast an incantation seal into it, and all of the world's origin qi around the coral island instantly began to converge toward the Heaven Controlling Vial in a frenzy
Several days later, the surging world's origin qi around the coral island gradually subsided, while the Heaven Controlling Vial slowly descended, and the drop of spirit liquid inside had been converted into a time crystal.
He stowed the vial away, then took a recovery pill before sweeping a sleeve through the air to release a burst of azure light, which enveloped the time crystal before transporting it to the seabed.
Moments later, the streak of azure light returned from the seabed, carrying a Heavenly Water Pouch.
It was flying in a rather sluggish manner, as if it were carrying a huge mountain.
Han Li reached out to grab the Heavenly Water Pouch, and his arm instantly sank down a little.
He released his spiritual sense to inspect the contents of the pouch, and to his elation, he discovered that it already contained enough second level heavy water to fill a pond.
It seemed that with the time crystal speeding up the process, the Earthly Deity Avatar was able to manifest second level heavy water quite quickly, even though the avatar's water law powers were severely hampered.
With that in mind, he summoned his Heavy Water True Axis, then drew a ball of second level heavy water around the size of a human head out of the Heavenly Water Pouch.
The ball of heavy water then spread over the axis at Han Li's behest, and blue light began to radiate from the nine Water Dao Runes on the Heavy Water True Axis, illuminating the entire nearby area a bright blue color.
The nine Water Dao Runes began to rapidly devour the second level heavy water like nine mouths, and it didn't take long before all of the heavy water had been absorbed, following which the light radiating from the axis became slightly brighter once again.
Han Li continued this process without pause, infusing another ball of heavy water into the axis.
One ball of second level heavy water after another flew out of the Heavenly Water Pouch before fusing into the Heavy Water True Axis, and after a day and a night, the Heavenly Water Pouch was finally emptied.
The axis was glowing with dazzling blue radiance, and as it revolved, it was giving off astonishing power that was causing the nearby space to tremble incessantly.
It was clear that the axis had become noticeably more powerful after absorbing the heavy water.
Furthermore, unlike before, when the axis's spiritual connection with Han Li had been severed after it had absorbed too much first level heavy water, even though the axis had absorbed close to a pond's worth of second level heavy water, its spiritual connection with Han Li still remained completely unaffected.
Han Li's gaze fell upon the nine Water Dao Runes on the axis as a contemplative look appeared on his face.
The axis's improved tolerance capacity for heavy water was most likely due to the increase in the number of Water Dao Runes.
This was certainly good news as he wouldn't have to refine the axis with his nascent flame like before.
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Three years later.
Han Li was seated with his legs crossed on the coral island, and it was as if he had never moved from that spot in the past three years.
At this moment, a ball of radiant blue light was hovering in front of him, and beside it was a ball of heavy water.
Within the ball of blue light was the Heavy Water True Axis, and even though it was merely hovering in mid-air, it was still giving off an incredibly heavy aura that was causing the nearby space to tremble and ripple, as if even the space itself were unable to bear its enormous weight.
Han Li made a hand seal, and the Heavy Water True Axis began to slowly revolve.
The trembling of the surrounding space instantly became even more violent, while enormous waves were swept up over the nearby sea and gusts of ferocious wind were howling through the air. Thankfully, the coral island remained unaffected thanks to the restrictions that had been set up in advance.
The blue light radiating from the Heavy Water True Axis enveloped the surrounding heavy water before rapidly absorbing it.
Once all of the heavy water was gone, Han Li made a beckoning motion, and the Heavy Water True Axis instantly stopped revolving. The blue light that it was radiating also faded as it fell into Han Li's grasp.
As soon as the axis ceased in its rotation, all of the unrest in the surrounding area also subsided, and it was as if nothing had ever happened here.
The Heavy Water True Axis looked no different from before aside from the fact that the nine Water Dao Runes on its surface had become noticeably larger, and they resembled nine blue swirling vortexes.
Furthermore, they were giving off far more formidable water law fluctuations than before.
The nine bursts of law fluctuations came together to form a formidable stream, and in terms of sheer volume of law power, the axis possessed far more than any of Han Li's other immortal treasures.
With this significantly enhanced Heavy Water True Axis, Han Li's chances of survival in the Infernal Frost Immortal Manor would undoubtedly be increased.
A hint of excitement appeared on his face as he examined the axis. Even though it had been absorbing second level heavy water for the past three years, it showed no signs of slowing down, so it was clear that it could still absorb far more.
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