181: Chapter 181 Time Realm, Hundredfold Flow Speed

Deep within the Grotto-Heaven, beside the newly born world tree sapling.

Lin Yue, Little Star, and Lin Mo stood, gazing up at the three-chi-high silver-gray sapling.

The sapling's branches and leaves were crystal clear, and the veins of every leaf flowed slowly, seemingly carrying the trajectory of time.

“Revered Master, is this... the manifestation of the Law of Time?”

Star light shimmered in Little Star's eyes. As a Formation Genius, he was extremely sensitive to Law fluctuations.

He could clearly feel that the flow rate of time around the sapling was completely different from the outside world.

Sometimes it was fast like a galloping horse, and sometimes slow like a snail, containing a profound regularity amidst the chaos.

“Yes, and no.”

Lin Yue reached out and lightly touched a leaf. The leaf trembled slightly, and a circle of silver-gray ripples spread out.

“It is merely the 'sprout' of the Law of Time; it is far from complete. But for us... it is enough.”

He turned to look at the two of them, his expression solemn: “For the next hundred days (Secret Realm time), we will Cultivate around this sapling. The time flow rate here is one hundred times that of the outside world, but the cost is... it can only be opened once every hundred days, and only three people can enter each time.”

“This is our last opportunity for time acceleration.”

“One day outside equals a hundred days in the Secret Realm. We must complete our respective Breakthroughs within these hundred days.”

Little Star nodded heavily, his eyes filled with determination: “This Disciple will not fail Revered Master's expectations, and will definitely Break through to a Fourth Rank Formation Master!”

Lin Mo looked at Lin Yue with some concern: “Family Head, your injuries...”

“It's fine.”

Lin Yue waved his hand: “Although the imbalance of the four Origins is troublesome, I have enough time to recover in this Time Secret Realm. Rather, it is you...”

He looked at Lin Mo's chest—it had been pierced by the General's Bone Spur, his Golden Core cracked, and his Origin burned out. Even with miracle Spirit Pills to save his life, his cultivation had fallen back to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

“Your injuries are more severe than I imagined.”

Lin Mo gave a wry smile: “It's already a blessing to have salvaged my life. As for my cultivation... I can just slowly Cultivate again.”

“No, we don't have time to take it slowly.”

Lin Yue shook his head and took out a jade bottle: “Inside are three drops of Star Origin Essence, the Origin Power I stripped from the star dragon nascent soul. After you consume them, use the Star Sacred Canon along with the time acceleration. Within a hundred days, you will be able to re-condense your Golden Core, and perhaps even... touch the surface of the Law of Time.”

“Star Origin Essence?!”

Lin Mo was shocked.

This was a Soul Transformation Rank treasure! An ordinary Cultivator could be reborn just by getting one drop, yet the Family Head gave him three?!

“Family Head, this is too precious, I cannot...”

“Take it.”

Lin Yue shoved the jade bottle into his hand, his tone leaving no room for doubt: “The Lin Family's Seven Star Guards cannot be without a Guard Captain. After a hundred days, I want to see a Lin Mo at the Late Golden Core Stage, understand?”

Lin Mo's eyes warmed. He clenched the jade bottle and knelt on one knee: “Lin Mo... will not fail the mission!”

“Get up.”

Lin Yue helped him up, then looked at Little Star: “Your Formation talent is extremely high, but you lack a systematic Legacy. These hundred days, I will teach you the entire lower volume of the Star Great Formation Chapter. If you can Revered Master thirty percent of it, you will be a true Fourth Rank Formation Master.”

Little Star's small face was flushed with excitement: “This Disciple will study with all his might!”

“Then...”

Lin Yue took a deep breath and formed a hand Seal.

“Time Secret Realm—Open!”

Buzz—!!!

The newly born world tree sapling suddenly erupted with brilliant silver-gray light!

The light spread out like a tide, enveloping the three people.

The next moment, the surrounding scene began to twist and change.

The sky was no longer the dome of the Grotto-Heaven, but a flowing silver long river.

The ground transformed into crystalline sand, and every grain of sand slowly rotated, seemingly bearing the weight of time.

The air was filled with a faint silver-gray mist, which was the manifestation of the Law of Time.

“This is... the Time Secret Realm?”

Little Star looked around curiously, reaching out to touch the mist, but Lin Yue stopped him.

“Don't touch it. Before the Law of Time is complete, this mist is extremely dangerous. A slight mistake could lead to accelerated aging, or even... reverting to childhood.”

Lin Mo's face paled, and he quickly withdrew his hand.

“Follow me.”

Lin Yue led the way toward the center of the Secret Realm—there was a natural silver stone platform where the time flow rate was most stable.

The three of them sat down cross-legged.

“Now, one breath outside has meant a hundred breaths have passed here.”

Lin Yue felt the speed at which his injuries were recovering, and a look of satisfaction flashed in his eyes: “Begin.”

He closed his eyes and circulated the star lord secret record.

The star dragon nascent soul slowly emerged, hovering above his head.

On the surface of the Nascent Soul, the four-colored Dao Marks were dim, especially the silver-gray Dao Mark representing the spatial origin, which was almost completely extinguished—this was the price of forcibly accelerating time.

“The four Origins are imbalanced, they must be nourished by time...”

With a thought, Lin Yue drew the time mist from the Secret Realm and slowly merged it into his Nascent Soul.

As the mist entered his body, the Nascent Soul trembled slightly.

Immediately after, a miraculous scene occurred.

The silver-gray Dao Mark representing the spatial origin actually began to slowly regain its luster under the nourishment of the time mist!

Although the speed was very slow, it was indeed recovering!

“As expected, the Law of Time can promote the healing of other Origins...”

Lin Yue felt reassured and fully circulated his Cultivation Technique.

And beside him.

Little Star took out the Jade Slip containing the lower volume of the Star Great Formation Chapter and immersed his Divine Sense into it.

The next moment, his face flushed red, and fine sweat seeped from his forehead.

It was too profound!

The Formations recorded in the lower volume were at least Fourth Rank High Grade, with even Fifth Rank and Sixth Rank peerless Great Formations!

Every formation pattern contained the ultimate truth of the Law of the Stars, and every change affected the spatial structure.

He absorbed this knowledge ravenously. Countless Formation prototypes rapidly constructed, shattered, and reconstructed in his mind... Time was accelerating, and so was his thought process.

One breath outside, a hundred breaths in the Secret Realm.

And Little Star's learning efficiency, under time acceleration... increased a hundredfold!

On the other side.

Lin Mo consumed the first drop of Star Origin Essence.

The Essence entered his abdomen, transforming into majestic Power of the Stars, washing over his cracked Dantian and broken Meridians like a flood.

Intense pain surged, and he gritted his teeth, circulating the Star Sacred Canon.

Inside his Dantian, the originally dim Golden Core fragments began to slowly aggregate under the nourishment of the Power of the Stars... On the first day (Secret Realm time), Lin Mo re-condensed a phantom image of the Golden Core.

On the tenth day, the Golden Core solidified, and his cultivation recovered to the Early Golden Core Stage.

On the thirtieth day, he refined the second drop of Essence and Broke through to the Middle Golden Core Stage.

On the seventieth day, he refined the third drop of Essence, touching the threshold of the Late Golden Core Stage.

And during this process, he was surprised to discover—his perception of time was becoming increasingly acute.

He could faintly capture the trajectory of the changes in the Secret Realm's time flow rate.

Furthermore, when he Cultivated to the ninetieth day, he attempted to... accelerate the localized time around himself!

Although it only accelerated by less than ten percent and lasted for only three breaths.

But this meant he had touched the threshold of the Law of Time!

“Is this... the Family Head's Realm?”

Lin Mo was deeply shaken.

He finally understood why the Family Head could defeat a Spirit Transformation Ancestor while only being at the Late Nascent Soul Stage.

The Law of Time was too Heaven-Defying!

And just as the three were absorbed in their Cultivation—

High above the silver long river deep within the Secret Realm.

A blurry image suddenly appeared.

In the image, a white-robed figure stood with his back to all living beings, holding up a star with both hands and smashing it fiercely toward a dark red rift.

On the other side of the rift, countless demonic creatures roared, but under the suppression of that star... they shattered inch by inch!

“This is...”

Lin Yue suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the image.

The white-robed figure in the image... was the Star Lord!

He was Sealing the Spirit Devouring Clan!

“Time Reversal Illusion!”

Lin Yue immediately understood.

This was a historical fragment naturally recorded by the Time Secret Realm, triggered to appear under specific conditions.

Without hesitation, he plunged his Divine Sense into the illusion.

The next moment.

He “saw” the truth from one hundred thousand years ago.

One hundred thousand years ago, in the Burial Dragon Abyss.

The Star Lord and three Fellow Daoists stood suspended in the air. Below them was a bottomless rift, from which countless demonic creatures were frantically pouring out.

“The Seal can't hold much longer!”

An old man spat blood: “There are too many of these damned things, we can't kill them all!”

“Then... we won't let them come over.”

The Star Lord's voice was calm, yet carried an absolute resolve.

He formed hand Seals, and the Power of the Stars frantically gathered around him.

“Using my Origin, I forge the star constellation demon suppressing monument.”

“Using my residual Soul, I transform into the Time Displacement Formation.”

“Once this Formation is complete, the time flow rate difference between the two ends of the rift will be... ten thousand times!”

“One day outside, ten thousand years inside the Formation.”

“I want these damned things... to grow old and die in the time interlayer!”

As his voice fell, the Star Lord burned his Essence Blood, transforming it into four streams of light that merged into the four directions of the Void Realm.

Wherever the streams of light passed, the Law of Time was forcibly distorted, and the space around the rift began to... stratify!

On this side of the rift, the time flow rate was normal.

On the other side of the rift, the time flow rate was slowed down ten thousand times!

The moment the demonic army rushed through the rift, their movements slowed ten thousand times, like insects trapped in amber.

Meanwhile, the Human Race Cultivators could slaughter them... at a normal speed!

“So that's how it is...”

Lin Yue muttered within the illusion.

“The core of the Star Lord's Seal is not suppression, nor extermination.”

“It is... spatiotemporal displacement!”

Banishing the Spirit Devouring Clan into an interlayer where the time flow rate is extremely slow, allowing them to naturally perish... in the slowed time!

“This is the ultimate means... of fighting the Spirit Devouring Clan!”

A sharp light flashed in Lin Yue's eyes.

He finally found his direction.

But the next moment.

The illusion shattered.

The Star Lord's final voice, like a sigh, entered his ears: “Although this method is clever, it requires a complete 'Law of Time' to operate...”

“If anyone in later generations gains my Legacy, remember...”

“Time... is the only answer.”

The voice dissipated.

Lin Yue's Divine Sense returned, and he sharply opened his eyes.

Silver-gray light flowed in his eyes.

He raised his hand, and a mass of silver-gray mist appeared in his palm.

The mist slowly rotated, and the surrounding time flow rate... began to change!

Accelerating, decelerating, and even... briefly pausing!

“The surface of the Law of Time...”

Lin Yue clenched his fist, and a realization flashed in his eyes.

“I finally understand the key to the Grotto-Heaven advancing to Level 13.”

“It's not the convergence of the five elements origin.”

“It is... the completion of the Law of Time!”

And at this moment.

The hundred days in the Secret Realm had reached their end.

Outside, only one day had just passed.