153: The wind is picking up!

"Stop right there! Are you really going to be greedy for my Nine-Colored Stone?"

Xu Le forcibly suppressed the urge to call out to Gong Yuan.

From the look on his face, one could tell how much it pained him deep down.

Forget it, quit while you're ahead. If I really push him too far and he decides to go down in flames with me, that won't be good.

Xu Le began to set up a defensive Formation.

The Little Peach Tree took the center, while the remaining contracted beasts were responsible for guarding the four sides.

Xu Le lay down under the peach tree and closed his eyes.

Gong Yuan looked at Nine Phoenix, the Little Black Snake, and the Little Dog, who were guarding and scrutinizing him. Even though he had no ill intent, he couldn't help but curse silently in his heart.

"WTF, those gazes are too piercing, too dazzling!"

"The old Daoist really has some ideas. Does he think a mere few contracted beasts can stop me?"

Xu Le squinted, saw that the other party had no reaction, felt relieved, and activated "nanshan pure land".

Now he had 300 Divinity points, which could sustain the Divine Domain for three days.

With a thought, the Divine Domain opened.

He appeared in the main hall of Nanshan Temple.

He immediately took out the Divinity fragments and began to refine them.

Because of the foundation he had laid previously, he completely digested the fragments in just one hour.

After feeling refreshed all over, his Divinity reached 400 points, and the duration the Divine Domain could be maintained was extended once again.

Only then did he slowly fish out the void realm stone.

It was a black stone, only the size of a fist, without any sharp edges, polished until it was smooth and shiny.

Looking inside, one could vaguely see black mist rolling, boundless and endless.

"How do I refine this thing?"

"A drop of blood to claim ownership? Scold it into submission? Or just contract it as a contracted beast..."

"If I go out and ask Old Man Yuan, will he tell me?"

Xu Le's thoughts raced, and in the end, he decided to use the most primitive method first.

He cut his finger, dripped a few drops of bright red blood onto the void realm stone, but they just swirled around and slid right off.

Great, it's a "blood"-proof material. Plan A failed!

"Little Void, hurry up and acknowledge me as your master, or I'll chop you to pieces with my saber!"

"I'm really going to chop!"

Xu Le wielded his yanyue saber and slashed down with all his might. The sharp blade cut through the air but stopped abruptly just before hitting the void realm stone.

"How about I give you another chance?"

Xu Le shook his head, shaking the thought out of his mind.

An item personally certified by the Divine Eye, how could it be threatened? How could it be contracted?

He grabbed the void realm stone and poured mana into it with all his might.

The vast majority of his mana was quickly repelled; less than 0.1% successfully entered the stone.

It's working!

Xu Le felt a surge of joy. He poured his mana into the void realm stone with all his might. Although the process was extremely arduous, he persisted with all his strength.

He didn't stop until he was drenched in sweat and couldn't squeeze out another drop of mana from his body.

His whole body felt empty and lost.

Looking at the void realm stone again, about 1% of it had become clear and bright, like the radiance cast by the full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Worth it!

One hundred more times and I can completely make it my own.

A sense of satisfaction lingered in his heart.

It's a pity he didn't bring the Little Peach Tree in; otherwise, the mana recovery speed could have been 10 times faster.

He pulled a pile of recovery potions from his space ring and began his journey of drinking potions to replenish his mana.

Until his mana was fully restored, he immediately gripped the stone and continued to inject mana.

Time passed slowly.

The potions on the ground were all gone, and Xu Le had even forgotten how many times he had injected mana.

Initially, injecting mana felt very difficult, but later he realized that was the easiest part.

As there was more and more mana in the stone, injecting more became even harder.

By the time it was 80% refined, a single injection of mana wouldn't even increase it by 0.01%.

At this moment, he had long since refined the void realm stone to 99.99%, but the final 0.01% remained impossible to complete.

"Damn it, if one path doesn't work, I'll sleep on it, recover, and try again."

"At worst, I'll swallow my pride and ask Old Man Yuan if he has any experience."

Xu Le slept. He didn't know how much time had passed, but he felt refreshed, and all his fatigue was swept away.

"Continue!"

"Huh? Where is my void realm stone?"

"I was holding it just a moment ago, how did it suddenly disappear?"

"Could it be that Old Man Yuan made a move?"

"No, this is the mental space; theoretically, time outside is stagnant."

Xu Le searched a few more times but still couldn't find any trace of the void realm stone.

It couldn't have grown legs and hidden, right?

He closed the "nanshan pure land" and appeared in the outside world.

Crack, crack, crack, crack...

He saw that the original space was covered in dense cracks.

Xu Le quickly put the contracted beasts into the Contract Space and turned to look at Gong Yuan, who was watching from not far away.

"What's going on?"

"How the hell would I know? Did you refine the void realm stone? You one-second man!"

Gong Yuan's anger flared up to his head. He had just turned around for a second, still debating whether to cast aside his moral complexes and be a happy person, when the surrounding space directly shattered.

This meant the void realm stone had already been refined or taken away.

"I..."

Xu Le didn't have time to speak; he fled towards the outside at high speed.

His two wings flapped desperately, his feet moved like the wind, and he flew and ran at the same time, his speed incredibly fast.

"Borrowing the wind!"

Seeing Xu Le's speed, Gong Yuan hurriedly threw out two yellow talismans.

One turned into a cyan thread and landed on the invisible wind behind Xu Le;

The other turned his body into a stream of light, directly pulled by the cyan thread, floating behind Xu Le like a kite.

The "Void Emperor's Tomb" scattered and disintegrated. Xu Le stepped on piece after piece of space debris and rushed out.

Seventy-two Void Creatures looked up, their eyes filled with surprise: "What happened?"

"The wind has risen!"

Xu Le blurted out.

Gong Yuan, floating in the air, had his heart in his throat. If they were blocked, they would definitely be hit by the shockwave of the Void explosion behind them.

He secretly pulled out a stack of yellow talismans, preparing to throw the remaining forty-plus talismans when the fight started. As long as one Puppet escaped, he would be successful!

"That's great," the seventy-two Void Creatures lowered their guard, put away their prepared Skills, and continued to ask: "Which way is the wind blowing?"

?

Xu Le suddenly felt that he had accidentally stumbled upon their secret code, and his brain raced.

Heart Buddha can convert Possession; this wave must be for something big, so it should be blowing behind me.

Being in front of the wind represents leading the trend and changing the world.

Having finished his analysis, he confidently replied: "It's blowing behind me."

???

Seeing the astonished expressions on the faces of the Void Creatures, Xu Le knew he had said the wrong thing and quickly continued to rush forward.

Fortunately, during that question-and-answer session, he had already passed through the encirclement of most of the Void Creatures.

Kill!

The Void Creatures were enraged.

Dense Skills were thrown over.

Xu Le hurriedly activated "Clone Puppet".

His main body turned into a stream of light, his speed increased by a full fold, and he continued to run forward.

The Physical Body left behind was just a Puppet; it turned around and gave a mysteriously evil smile, bluffing most of the Void Creatures into staying put.

Only the sheep-man stupidly charged up.

Boom!

The "Void Emperor's Tomb" space behind them collapsed, erupting in a terrifying explosion. The change in pressure caused a new void wind to set sail.