I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

The Lin family's spiritual root testing event concluded on June 6th.

The candlelight and sandalwood incense in the ancestral hall have long since dissipated, but the emotions of joy and sorrow lingered in everyone's hearts for a long time.

Life must go on.

The children stepped into the new classroom and began their formal cultivation journey.

Xuanqi and the others continued with their respective work.

The Chamber of Commerce, the Garrison Army, the Family Guard... every task weighed heavily on their shoulders, yet no one complained of being tired.

Of course, they would also steal a moment from their busy schedules to occasionally meet in the council hall for a small gathering and to savor the boss's cooking.

Meanwhile, Lin Che began a new test.

Azure Mystery Realm, the island in the middle of the lake.

The morning mist had not yet dissipated, and the lake surface was like a mirror, reflecting the pale white line of the horizon.

Lin Che stood with his hands behind his back in the center of the island.

Opposite him, the Azure Profound Realm Spirit hovered in mid-air, its entire body shimmering with a faint blue light.

Lin Che nodded to the Azure Profound Realm Spirit.

The spatial power began to fluctuate in the latter's eyes.

Deep within those deep blue pupils, silvery-white light swirled like a river of stars, condensing, spreading, and condensing again, each flash accompanied by a mysterious rhythm.

The next moment, an invisible ripple surged from its body and began to spread throughout the entire Qingxuan Secret Realm.

The ripples were silent, colorless, and formless, yet wherever they passed, everything in the secret realm underwent subtle changes.

The wind has slowed down.

The water flow is slow.

The spirit beasts running on the grassland slowed down a beat, then returned to normal.

It's not that things have actually slowed down, but rather that time itself has been stretched out.

All the spirit beasts in the secret realm sensed something different from before.

The alligator snapping turtle raised its head from the mud, a hint of confusion flashing in its cloudy old eyes;

The Cangming Jiao rolled over at the bottom of the lake, its tail splashing up a spray of water.

The golden lion beast lay on the grass, its ears standing straight up;

Even the most oblivious petrified lizards sensed something and slowly opened their eyes.

Lin Che sensed it too.

The newly added time rules in the secret realm are like invisible threads, intertwining and covering the entire space.

One day, two days, three days...

For a whole month, Lin Che spent his time cultivating.

Without leaving the secret realm, he sat cross-legged under the spirit tree every day, breathing in and out spiritual energy and circulating the Myriad Beasts Paying Homage to the Ancestor Technique.

His breath rose slowly and steadily, like spring water overflowing a dam, silently and without a sound.

"call--"

He exhaled a long breath, circulated his spiritual energy through his meridians to complete the last major cycle, and slowly opened his eyes.

He stood up, and with a sway of his body, he left the secret realm.

Ancestral home, seclusion room.

The room was dimly lit, and the walls were engraved with intricate patterns, completely isolating it from the noise of the outside world.

On the stone platform in the very center, there was a palm-sized timekeeping compass, its spiritual light flickering slightly, and its hands turning slowly and steadily.

Lin Che walked to the stone platform and looked down at it.

"Fifteen days," he murmured to himself.

Fifteen days have passed outside, but a month has passed inside the secret realm.

"A time acceleration ability twice as strong?" Lin Che nodded slightly, a satisfied smile appearing on his lips.

In this way, under normal circumstances, the spirit beasts in the secret realm can have twice as much time for cultivation and breeding.

Spirit beasts that normally take ten years to grow can mature in five years;

What was originally a bottleneck that would take a century to overcome may now be possible in fifty years.

This represents a qualitative leap in the Lin family's accumulated wealth and resources.

The Lin family made many preparations on the surface.

The expansion of the Chamber of Commerce, the reclamation of sacred fields, and the training of the garrison.

But all of these things are ultimately superficial; time is too tight.

There are still several decades before the once-in-a-century beast tide arrives, and relying solely on these measures will hardly be enough to withstand it.

Within the Azure Profound Realm, the spirit beast clans he cultivated were Lin Che's true source of confidence.

"However..." Lin Che paced back and forth in the secret room, his brows furrowed, pondering in his heart.

"Isn't it a bit wasteful to only give it to spirit beasts?"

He stopped in his tracks.

If cultivation resources are plentiful, is there any race that cultivates faster than humans?

Definitely not.

The human race's cultivation speed is already among the best of all races.

Even those spirit beasts with extraordinary talents need a long time to break through their bottlenecks.

But what if we put human cultivators into a secret realm with accelerated time to cultivate?

A Golden Core cultivator spends one year in the outside world and two years cultivating in the secret realm.

What does this mean?

For an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, it takes at least twenty or thirty years to progress from the early to the middle stage.

However, if time were accelerated, this time could be halved.

What about those exceptionally talented geniuses?

It will probably be even more astonishing.

The Lin family has no shortage of vehicles for accelerating time.

After a moment of contemplation, Lin Che finally made up his mind.

He flashed and returned to the secret realm once more.

On the island in the middle of the lake, the Azure Profound Realm Spirit still hovered above the blue stone platform, its entire body shimmering with blue light, making final preparations for breaking through to the Golden Core stage.

It sensed Lin Che's presence and slowly opened its eyes.

Lin Che went straight to it and got straight to the point.

"I need you to help me create a separate and special space within the Azure Mystic Realm."

He paused for a moment, then explained his thoughts one by one.

Lin Che did not intend to reveal the existence of the Azure Profound Realm Spirit.

The Azure Profound Realm Spirit believes that the secrets of this secret realm can only be known by him alone. It's not that he doesn't trust his clansmen, but rather that some secrets are safer if fewer people know them.

But he could take a roundabout approach.

The Azure Profound Realm Spirit possesses a divine power called the "Realm Spirit Token".

Consuming a small amount of essence can condense a unique spirit talisman.

Within a certain range of the Azure Profound Realm Spirit, the holder can activate the talisman with a thought, opening a temporary portal to the secret realm in front of them.

Most importantly, the Azure Profound Realm Spirit can completely control the Realm Spirit Symbol.

It can sense who enters and can sever the connection between the talisman and the secret realm in an instant.

Even if an outsider manages to obtain the token, they will not be able to enter.

If this special ability were used to build an independent space in a corner of the Azure Mystic Realm, completely isolated from other areas.

Set the transmission path for the message.

It doesn't need to be too big; in fact, the smaller the better.

It can be made into a multi-tiered tower, with each tier having a different environment and time flow rate.

To outsiders, the Lin family claimed that this secret realm was called the "Trial Tower," and that it was a magical artifact they had obtained in the Burial Valley secret realm years ago.

It can be used as long as you have enough spirit stones.

Once the token is activated, one can enter. The tower contains various training environments for clansmen to cultivate and hone their skills.

Over the years, the Lin family's contribution value system has been gradually established and improved.

This reward could definitely be included in the Lin family's resource exchange program.

If you make enough contributions, you can exchange them for the qualification to enter the Training Tower for cultivation.

The tower can be configured with floors that follow time rules to accelerate the cultivation of its inhabitants.

They could also build an environment with malevolent energy similar to the Sword Tomb Mountain from back then, to provide training opportunities for their clansmen.

In this way, although the effect of this item is also very strong, it is absolutely incomparable to the Azure Profound Secret Realm itself.

If it is accidentally leaked, it can be treated as a high-level cultivation artifact, so that it won't attract the attention of all forces.

After all, while time-related magical artifacts are rare, they are not non-existent.

Most Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators possess a few of these items, and even formations can achieve similar effects, thus avoiding excessive conflict.

Of course, everyone who enters must plant a tacit understanding in their sea of ​​consciousness.

Or rather, in the Lin family, this condition is mandatory for all new members, wives, and guest retainers.

It wasn't for control, but to ensure that the Lin family's intelligence wouldn't be leaked by them.

This is the bottom line; there is no room for negotiation.

After listening to Lin Che's requirements for the new area, the Azure Profound Realm Spirit nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

A glint of silver flashed in its eyes, and it immediately began to work.

Above the island in the middle of the lake, countless silvery-white points of light began to gather, rotate, and intertwine, like a net being woven.

The net grew larger and denser, eventually coalescing into a faint, tower-shaped phantom in a corner of the secret realm.

Lin Che stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the tower that was taking shape, and pondered the next steps.