There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

The puppet's advancement was kept secret, and the outside world had no way of knowing what was happening on Jupiter. Wang Ping could not possibly make this public now.

So after confirming that the puppet was in good condition, he personally designed the 'Slowness Technique' for his grand-disciple Yang Rong and made a detailed deduction for her advancement. Then, he scanned Hu Qianqian, who was advancing on a nearby asteroid, and after confirming that Hu Qianqian was fine, he returned to his main body in the Wood Spirit World.

For a long time afterward, Wang Ping continued his cultivation, completely ignoring the ongoing battles under the starry sky, and no one dared to disturb his cultivation.

When the chaotic storm had been refined to about two-thirds of the area, Wang Ping's progress in refining spatial particles in the Wood Spirit World reached (80/100). The moment the progress jumped, Wang Ping didn't even need to observe the light screen panel to sense his control over the 'space' characteristics.

He saw that under the Wood Spirit Rules, the spatial particles that had been refined were connected together, seemingly intersecting with the Wood Spirit Rules at the end of the void. He saw countless layers of space, and in countless spatial projections, the origin of everything was suppressed by the Wood Spirit Rules.

However, it was merely a suppression, not a dependence like the characteristic of 'time'. Moreover, the scene only flashed by, yet it left Wang Ping's ocean of consciousness feeling as if it could not contain it.

At this moment, a conjecture suddenly occurred to Wang Ping. He guessed that all the characteristics under the rules should be able to be captured. He couldn't help but raise his head to observe this starry sky, and it was only with great difficulty that he suppressed this thought.

Just as he was trying to construct a spatial singularity, Yu Lian appeared next to the Jianmu phantom in the Wood Spirit World through a teleportation array. As soon as she appeared, she said, "I sensed something was wrong with your emotions through my divine kingdom. What's going on?"

She asked with concern.

Upon hearing this, Wang Ping smiled and told Yu Lian his guess without reservation. Yu Lian tilted her head and thought for a moment before replying, "Your idea is correct, but I feel that based on the characteristics under the rules of the Five Elements and Yin Yang, you probably wouldn't be able to capture it."

"Feel?"

"Yes, it's just a feeling."

Wang Ping and Yu Lian exchanged a glance, then laughed and said, "It's too early to think about this."

As he spoke, he stretched out his left hand, preparing to gather the spatial particles refined from the Wood Spirit World to construct a spatial singularity, while Yu Lian floated up to Wang Ping's shoulder and perched there.

Wang Ping made a well-designed hand seal, and the spatial particles refined within the Wood Spirit World rapidly converged under his will, instantly gathering in his palm like an inverted galaxy.

A moment later, as the spatial particles linked together to form a ring, a sudden change occurred. The space within three zhang around Wang Ping suddenly twisted and folded, forming countless prism-like faults. Within these faults were more than a dozen figures of Wang Ping, each forming a different hand seal.

"Congeal!"

Wang Ping lightly tapped the void with his fingertips, and all the spatial faults suddenly contracted, condensing into a crystal-clear prism above his palm. Countless light paths intertwined within the crystal, as if compressing hundreds of worlds into it.

Then, he used his right hand to grab a portion of energy from the condensed prism crystal and gently tapped it forward. Instantly, a new set of mirror arrays appeared out of thin air. These mirrors connected most of the starry sky in an instant, and the transfer arrays marked on each puppet were several times clearer than before.

As Wang Ping's thoughts moved, he even saw the demonic world constructed by the rebels, and a dark altar that flashed by, continuously absorbing energy transmitted from beyond the realm.

Just as he was about to observe more closely, a consciousness at the top of the altar seemed to sense something, and a surge of demonic energy shattered the connecting space.

Wang Ping immediately entered a state of 'self-discipline,' suppressing all curiosity in his human nature and returning his consciousness to his true self.

"How amazing! This starry sky, except for the area where the consciousness of the other True Monarchs is located, seems to be within reach at this moment."

Yu Lian's vertical pupils reflected a prism that seemed to be embedded in the starry sky.

Wang Ping remained silent. Then, he released the prism and used his hands to form a hand seal. As the seal was formed, his will spread throughout the Wood Spirit World, while the prism transformed into a spatial rift spanning tens of miles.

In Yu Lian's vision, she sensed that the spatial rift appeared out of thin air. It moved like a living thing, cutting the Jianmu phantom of the Wood Spirit World into fragments wherever it passed. These severed Jianmu branches did not fall, but were frozen in different spatial dimensions, both existing and non-existent.

Wang Ping revealed a satisfied expression. With a grab of his left hand, all the cracks closed up like weary birds returning to their nests, and the illusory image of the cut Jianmu tree returned to its original form.

"Space exists in every material world, and no material world can escape it."

Wang Ping's cold voice rang out.

Then, he stretched out his left hand again, and a prism once more gathered spatial particles in the air above his palm. However, the moment it took shape, it transformed into countless light particles that merged into the void. The next moment, the space within a radius of ten miles began to undergo subtle distortions. This time, it was not a direct tearing or cutting, but a more bizarre twist.

Wang Ping flipped his right hand, and a locust tree petal appeared in his palm. When he flicked the petal, it split into three, and the petals fell in exactly the same trajectory.

It is just a petal, repeating the process of falling in three different spatial dimensions, and it is an endless fall, they will be permanently trapped in a spatial loop.

"This approach should be most effective against the direct attacks of Golden Spirit cultivators!"

Yu Lian made a simple evaluation.

Wang Ping did not respond. He lightly traced a line with his left fingertip. It seemed that the Nine Profound Mountain was a hundred feet ahead, and he could even sense its aura, but his primordial spirit could not detect its existence. The ancient spirit tree was visually close, but its actual location was completely different from his perception.

In other words, any spell attempting to attack will lose its way due to the disruption of spatial perception.

Next, Wang Ping experimented with spatial displacement, using the Seven Star Strangulation Array he constructed to replace a piece of starry sky. This displacement could be accomplished with just one thought from him.

When Wang Ping tried to cause the space to collapse, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis. So he decisively gave up the attempt and instinctively reached out to feel the wood spirit particles that were everywhere in the wood spirit world. At this moment, he sensed that these wood spirit particles seemed to be getting closer to him.

Then, using the Wood Spirit World and the Wood Spirit within his body, he sensed the omnipresent Wood Spirit energy in this starry sky. A magnificent yet blurry galaxy slowly emerged in his spiritual sea. The next moment, Wang Ping's primordial spirit manifested, with the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' floating beside it. The Wood Spirit energy in the starry sky surged in like a tide, forming a vortex of emerald green fireflies around the primordial spirit.

The moment the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' hovering to the side came into contact with the Wood Spirit Qi, Wang Ping immediately sensed countless rules under the Heavenly Dao. However, these rules could not be read or memorized; they could only be observed in a simple way.

This is a sign that the primordial spirit is more closely connected with the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman', but unfortunately, it failed to break through the final critical point.

After a short while, Wang Ping calmed down and his consciousness floated up. The light screen panel popped up, just as he had imagined. The cultivation progress of the 'Stealing Heaven Talisman' had reached (79/100), just one point away from the third stage.

Of these growth milestones, two are the result of his hard work over the past two decades, while the other four are the result of building a spatial singularity.

Fortunately, Wang Ping was in a state of self-discipline at this moment, and the ripples of regret about the "Heaven-Stealing Talisman" in his heart were completely calmed under the still lake of self-discipline.

Then the idea of ​​pure exploration took hold of his mind, and he decided to try combining time and space.

Under Yu Lian's curious gaze, Wang Ping's thoughts stirred slightly...

Then, the refined spatial particles within the entire Wood Spirit World responded with a roar, surging and spreading outwards from him, instantly covering every corner of the Wood Spirit World, and, with the help of the Wood Spirit energy, reaching some parts of the outer starry sky.

At the same time, the 'time' characteristic deep within his primordial spirit, which had long been intertwined with his origin, was completely activated. The river of time instantly overlapped with the Wood Spirit World, carrying an aura that spanned the past, present, and future, stretching across the star field covered by the great power of space.

In Wang Ping's vision, the entire Wood Spirit World suddenly fell into an eerie silence. Every leaf of the Jianmu phantom froze in mid-air, and even the drifting Wood Spirit energy turned into crystalline amber. But this was not stillness; rather, it was a cognitive discontinuity caused by the entanglement of time and space in a higher dimension.

In other words, the silence at this moment is one aspect among countless fragments of space. At this moment, Wang Ping's primordial spirit has split into 129,600 phantoms, which is the limit of his current cultivation. Each of his phantoms stands on a different tributary of the river of time and space.

Some phantoms are making hand seals, while others have already stopped and stood still. Some phantoms are even reversing the flow of magic. These figures, which should exist at different points in time, combine to form the real universe that continues to evolve.

"Time-space folds"

Wang Ping's true form emitted a murmur with emphasis, the sound passing through the layers of different time flows, forming layers of echoes in the real world.

Yu Lian was connected to Wang Ping's primordial spirit. At this moment, her vertical pupils exploded with thousands of stars. She saw the roots of the Jianmu tree sinking into the distorted river of time, while the canopy pierced through the spatial barrier. Each leaf reflected a different silhouette of time and space. Some leaves were covered with stardust, some had magma flowing in their veins, and some leaves had blurry future scenes emerging on them.

Hundreds of spacetime rings suddenly rose around the Wood Spirit World. In the innermost ring, the process of Wood Spirit particles gathering was stretched to a thousand years. In the middle ring, the Jianmu phantom was undergoing a cycle of growth and decay at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the outermost ring, the turbulent currents of the starry sky kept colliding repeatedly.

When Wang Ping saw this, his heart stirred slightly. His main consciousness gathered around the outer edge of the chaotic storm, attempting to directly replace the source of pollution with a purified state within the layers of spacetime. However, as soon as this idea was born, endless fatigue surged within his consciousness.

He then saw that because of his idea, billions of future scenes were overturned in an instant, so he had no choice but to try to clear the chaotic starry sky that stretched for no more than a hundred miles.

He succeeded this time. Although he still changed some of the predicted future scenarios, it was a change he could accept. Moreover, these changes will become reality, rather than just predicted future scenarios.

The chaos in the starry sky that he cleared in spacetime was restored to normal in an instant, without any refining process or the birth of any energy crystals.

"Amazing!"

Yu Lian made the simplest assessment in her spiritual sea: "If it were to affect living beings in the universe, they wouldn't even know how they disappeared."

Wang Ping shook his head and said, "The price is too high."

He stretched out his hand, and his palm was drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye. Just now, he had consumed one-fifth of the wood spirit energy in his body. However, as his consciousness emerged, the energy from various dimensions surged in like a tide, replenishing the wood spirit energy he had just given up.

"This starry sky has its own rules, and I exist under these rules. I can observe everything within spacetime, but if I want to use it to do something, I need to pay a certain price."

Wang Ping's voice sounded somewhat ethereal.

Yu Lian looked at Wang Ping and asked, "Are you thinking of Yao Xi?"

Wang Ping nodded, "He was too fixated on these illusory things and abandoned the right path."

As he finished speaking, his gaze once again fell upon the spatial dimensions that filled his field of vision. After a few moments of silence, he reached out his hand…

His action, which should have been completed instantly in normal spacetime, now exhibited a strange continuity. His palm was clearly outstretched, but his fingertips were still on the surface of his clothes. When he withdrew his palm, a spacetime singularity that was constantly collapsing and reforming was suspended in his palm.

Around the singularity, the reflection of the Wood Spirit World appeared, but the Jianmu tree in this reflection was growing in reverse, degenerating from a towering giant into a seedling. Occasionally, a few unfamiliar starry sky scenes would flash across the edge of the reflection, which were fragments of the future that had not yet happened.

"I see."

Wang Ping's voice suddenly resounded synchronously in all dimensions of space and time. The singularity in his hand suddenly expanded, transforming into a transparent membrane that enveloped the entire Wood Spirit World. Fine spacetime patterns flowed on the membrane, each pattern being a compressed galaxy trajectory.

Yulian suddenly realized that the tip of her tail had disappeared, not because it had been cut off, but because that part of her body had been moved to the location three hours earlier. At the same time, she sensed that she was currently swimming in Jupiter's orbit, while at the same time enjoying the deliciousness of fresh shrimp in a river. This contradictory perception of time and space caused the scales all over her body to open involuntarily, but she did not take any further action.

Wang Ping sensed Yu Lian's emotions, reached out and gently stroked her head. Then, all dimensions of time and space within the Wood Spirit World disappeared. Wang Ping looked up at the interwoven network of rules in the starry sky, focusing on the Wood Spirit rules above the network. He saw that under the Wood Spirit rules, the characteristics of time and space met at the end, weaving into an independent network that spread to every corner under the starry sky.

At this moment, the Wood Spirit Rules once again emitted a feedback aura, nourishing Wang Ping's physical body and primordial spirit, bringing his 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' cultivation progress to (80/100), officially allowing him to enter the third stage of 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' cultivation. (End of this chapter)