My Mysterious Left Hand

Chapter 117 Unaware of Time

The underground secret chamber of the main hall.

This place was opened up by Li Chen using the divine power of space and time, creating an independent space. The interior is ten zhang long and wide, and the four walls are engraved with complex Dao patterns, which isolates all aura from leakage.

Li Chen sat cross-legged in the center, and with a thought, Situ Jiao, who had been sealed in the Origin Cave Heaven, was released.

The old woman's body was still shriveled, bound by silver-gray sealing chains, unable to move. Only her turbid eyes stared intently at Li Chen, filled with resentment.

"Kill me if you want!" she hissed.

Li Chen ignored it, his Space-Time Divine Eye operating at full power. Under his silver-gray vision, he could see Situ Jiao's body structure, energy flow,

Even the very essence of one's soul is revealed in minute detail.

"As expected, it's different from the cultivation system of this era—"

He muttered to himself.

In the vision of the Divine Eye of Time and Space, Situ Jiao's body did not open up a cave heaven like contemporary cultivators, but instead a "golden core" the size of a walnut was condensed in her dantian.

The golden pill was dark gold in color, with nine cracks on its surface, and grayish-brown light and mist flowing inside.

Deep within the Golden Core, a fragment of a divine spark can be faintly seen.

That was the core of power she stole from the demon god "Time Toad".

What Li Chen cared about even more was Situ Jiao's meridian system.

Unlike contemporary cultivators who primarily focus on the twelve regular meridians and eight extraordinary meridians, Situ Jiao possesses three hundred and sixty-five main spiritual meridians within her body, crisscrossing like a star map, each resonating with the natural world in some way.

"In the ancient era of cultivation, the path followed the sequence of 'Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Deity Transformation' —"

Li Chen reached out and pressed down, sending a wisp of divine power into Situ Jiao's body, flowing along her spiritual meridians.

"Uh..."

Situ Jiao let out a painful groan, and the sealing chains rattled.

Li Chen remained unmoved, continuing to extend his divine power until it reached the dark golden core.

The moment they made contact, the golden core trembled violently, and the mist of time within surged out wildly, attempting to erode Li Chen's divine power.

But as the Dao Seed of Returning to the Void stirred slightly, the gray-brown Daoist aura flowed, and the mist of time, which was enough to corrode the lifespan of an immortal, melted away as quickly as ice and snow meeting the sun.

"Personality suppression —"

A flash of understanding crossed Li Chen's eyes.

Although his Dao Seed of Returning to Nothingness is in its initial stage, its essence is extremely high, containing the concept of reincarnation of "annihilation" and "rebirth", which has already surpassed the power of the demon god stolen by Situ Jiao in terms of level.

"Perfect, I'll borrow your body to glimpse the mysteries of ancient cultivation."

With a thought, Li Chen slightly loosened the sealing chains, and Situ Jiao regained some mobility in her right hand.

"What—what do you want to do?!" Situ Jiao exclaimed in terror.

Li Chen didn't answer, but instead grasped her wrist.

It feels cold and dry to the touch, like holding rotten wood.

But the next moment, he activated the power of the Returning Void Dao Seed, and the gray-brown Dao rhyme flowed into Situ Jiao's body through his wrist.

"Aaaaaah—!"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the secret room.

Situ Jiao trembled violently, and countless ancient Dao patterns appeared on her body.

That was her fundamental cultivation technique, the "Time-Corroding Bone Scripture," which she had practiced for millions of years, resisting the invasion of external forces on its own.

Li Chen observed intently.

Under the impact of his Dao Seed power, those Dao patterns were activated, manifested, collapsed, and then reassembled one by one.

The whole process was like dismantling a sophisticated array.

The composition of every pattern and the connection method of every energy node are laid bare in the vision of the Space-Time Divine Eye.

"So that's how it is—ancient cultivation emphasized the unity of heaven and man," using spiritual veins to communicate with heaven and earth, drawing in the great power of nature into the body, refining it into true essence, and finally condensing the golden core and nurturing the nascent soul—"

As Li Chen analyzed the text, he compared it with his own "Void Divine Scripture".

He discovered that although the "Time-Eroding Bone Scripture" followed an evil path, it had an extremely solid foundation and unique insights into the use of spiritual veins and the manipulation of the rules of heaven and earth.

In particular, the way the 365 spiritual veins in Situ Jiao's body were constructed subtly resembled the workings of the stars in the heavens. If one could learn from and improve upon this, perhaps one could further perfect one's own grotto-heaven system.

Time slipped away quietly during the research.

Li Chen was completely immersed in analyzing the ancient cultivation system, occasionally stimulating one of Situ Jiao's spiritual veins with divine power to observe the energy reaction.

Occasionally, a wisp of time mist is peeled away, and the Dao Seed of Return to Nothingness attempts to devour and transform it.

Sometimes, it is even necessary to use physical contact to more directly perceive the subtle changes in the flow of energy within the other person's body.

Inevitably, some contacts in this process went beyond the scope of pure research.

For example, to explore the deep connection between the "Golden Core" and the Dantian, Li Chen needed to place his palm on Situ Jiao's lower abdomen and use his divine power to penetrate and explore.

For example, in order to analyze how the "divine fragments" merged with the divine soul, his divine sense needed to delve into Situ Jiao's sea of ​​consciousness. That kind of contact at the level of the divine soul was more private and profound than physical contact.

Situ Jiao initially struggled and cursed, but as the research deepened, she gradually became numb, only staring blankly at the ceiling of the secret room, occasionally letting out a few meaningless groans.

Li Chen didn't care about this at all.

In his eyes, Situ Jiao was nothing more than a precious research sample, a living vessel carrying the secrets of ancient cultivation.

Those contacts were merely necessary steps in the experiment and had nothing to do with romantic feelings between men and women.

He would even deliberately create stronger stimuli at certain key moments.

For example, stimulating multiple spiritual meridians simultaneously could trigger an energy surge, allowing for observation of Situ Jiao's body's extreme reactions.

"Cough cough—kill me—please—"

Situ Jiao's breathing grew weaker and weaker, and true fear finally appeared in her eyes.

This young man is terrifying.

Not only was his strength ridiculously high, but his calmness and ruthlessness during research were even more terrifying to her.

It was a gaze that completely transcended good and evil, morality, as if she were not a person, but an object that needed to be disassembled and analyzed.

Li Chen stopped what he was doing, looked at the dying Situ Jiao, and suddenly asked, "How did you bypass the backlash from the demon god when you stole the power of the Time Toad?"

Situ Jiao was taken aback, then gave a bitter laugh: "You want to learn? Dream on—that's a secret technique I obtained by trading three million years of my lifespan, why would I tell you—"

"It's fine if you don't say anything."

Li Chen calmly replied, "I have my own ways of finding out."

His eyes shone with a bright silver-gray light, and his Space-Time Divine Eye was operating at full power, forcibly reading the memory fragments deepest in Situ Jiao's soul.

"No!!!"

Situ Jiao let out a final, desperate scream before her consciousness plunged into endless darkness.

She didn't die; she was just temporarily in a state of suspended animation.

Inside the secret chamber, only Li Chen's calm breathing and the faint humming sound of divine power flowing could be heard.

Outside the Void Dojo, the humans of Moonspring Star are striving to survive and cultivate in their new home.

On the plains, the more than one hundred students were excitedly exploring this world with its unusually fast time flow.

The creator of all this is currently immersed in the pursuit of the mysteries of cultivation in another era, completely unaware of the passage of time in the outside world.