Han Li stayed by the white Spiritual Pool for a while, then turned around and walked outside.
After returning to his bedroom, he immediately fell asleep.
He had been refining the Myriad Wheel Pill for three years without rest. He needed to concentrate and did not dare to be careless. At the same time, he had to calculate the timing of activating the Wheel of Truth from time to time. Even with his Late Stage True Immortal cultivation and the power of his Divine Sense, he felt very tired.
Before starting the next cultivation, it was necessary to take a good rest so that his body, mind, and spiritual power were at their peak state.
This sleep lasted for three days and three nights.
Three days later, Han Li came to the secret room in high spirits. He sat cross-legged and held a green jade bottle in his hand.
The bottle tilted slightly, and a pale golden pill the size of a longan was poured out. It was the Myriad Wheel Pill.
Han Li held the pill with two white fingers. After pondering for a while, he put it into his mouth and swallowed it.
The Myriad Wheel Pill quickly melted into his stomach and turned into a scorching and powerful warm current that flowed through his body's eight extraordinary meridians.
Han Li's brows furrowed slightly upon seeing this, and he felt as if these streams of warm energy were galloping through his meridians at his behest. They flowed faster and faster through his meridians, and they gradually formed a series of warm vortexes, causing his meridians to throb and swell with pain.
After a while, Han Li's brows gradually relaxed, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.
The medicinal power of the Myriad Wheel Pill was greater than he expected.
He quickly let out a light breath and calmed his mind. He silently operated the Wheel of Truth Scripture and began to cultivate diligently.
A layer of soft golden light appeared and enveloped his body.
Spring passed and winter came. The four seasons changed, and one year passed after another.
The dust outside the door of the cave mansion accumulated more and more. At this moment, it was almost impossible to see that there was a door on the mountain wall.
More than five hundred years was an extremely long period of time for mortals. During this period, there could even be the change of dynasties and the migration of races. But for cultivators, it was just a period of seclusion.
On this day, the wind and clouds suddenly surged over the island. Countless black clouds appeared out of nowhere, and arcs of lightning flashed wildly.
Within a radius of ten thousand miles, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi tumbled violently, forming an incomparably huge Spiritual Qi vortex that revolved slowly.
Countless balls of spiritual energy visible to the naked eye appeared in the air. As the vortex of spiritual energy spun, they converged toward the small island.
A hundred miles away from the nameless island, there was a fiery red island in the sea.
This island was extremely small, only about a kilometer in circumference. It was made up of piles of bright red corals that sparkled under the sunlight, looking very beautiful.
The seawater beside the Coral Island surged and a scarlet monster beast drilled out of the water.
This demon was over a hundred feet long, and it looked like a pig. However, its entire body was covered in crimson fur that stood up like steel needles. Two snow-white fangs grew out of the side of its mouth, flickering with a cold metallic light.
What was even more peculiar was that this beast had six legs.
This beast's appearance was rather peculiar, and even a little sinister. However, its body was rather plump and round like a watermelon. It didn't exude any domineering aura, and instead, it looked rather comical.
If a cultivator familiar with the Black Wind Sea was here, they would be shocked to discover that this was a low-grade demon beast commonly seen in the Black Wind Sea, the Pig Dolphin. However, the aura it was exuding was that of a late-Nascent Soul cultivator.
The beast's round body abruptly swelled, and it opened its mouth wide to emit a powerful suction force.
Some of the balls of spiritual energy in the air immediately descended and disappeared into its mouth.
A layer of red light appeared on the Pig Dolphin's body, and it flickered erratically.
The grand phenomenon on the distant island lasted for around two hours before it slowly dissipated. The balls of spiritual energy in the air also disappeared.
The Pig Dolphin closed its mouth and stopped emitting suction force. The red light on its body appeared to be slightly brighter than before.
The Pig Dolphin looked toward the distant island, and it let out a few cries as if it hadn't had enough.
It had been entrenched here for a long time. Hundreds of years ago, an extremely powerful human cultivator came to this island, and the nearby demon beasts with profound cultivation bases all migrated away.
However, at that time, its sentience had just been awakened, and it was still a little muddle-headed, so it didn't leave.
After that human cultivator took up residence here, he didn't attack the nearby small demon beasts. Instead, he stayed in seclusion.
The Pig Dolphin had been living a peaceful life for the past few years, and because the other powerful demon beasts had all migrated away, its life was actually quite good.
After that, it unknowingly awakened its sentience, and after careful consideration, it still didn't choose to leave.
As for the reason why it stayed, it was because the huge whirlpool of spiritual energy would appear on the island every once in a while, and it had already appeared 11 times.
Each time, the Pig Dolphin would use its innate ability to absorb some of the materialized balls of spiritual energy, and its cultivation base would rise again and again. In just a few hundred years, it had grown from a small Qi Condensation stage beast that had just awakened its sentience to its current cultivation base.
The Pig Dolphin glared at the small island a few more times.
Its cultivation base was already close to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. If that phenomenon had continued for a while longer, it might have already broken through to the next stage.
Looks like I'll have to wait for next time …
The Pig Dolphin thought to itself as it flicked its tail and dove back into the water.
Inside the cave abode, Han Li's body was surrounded by golden light, and his entire body was emitting an extremely powerful aura.
Golden dots of light flickered all over his body, and there were already 35 of them.
The golden light flashed wildly for a while, and then slowly faded away.
Han Li opened his eyes, and a trace of excitement flashed across his eyes.
His cultivation base had improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and in just 500 years, he had opened 11 immortal apertures in one go.
If outsiders were to find out about this kind of cultivation speed, they would probably be dumbfounded.
But if others knew that he was using the Myriad Wheel Pill as if it was a normal pill, even Golden Immortals would be so jealous that they would vomit blood.
Honestly speaking, opening 11 immortal apertures in a mere 500 years was already out of Han Li's expectations.
According to his original estimation, it would be impossible to reach this stage without at least a thousand years. He didn't expect to do it in just 500 years.
Other than that, there was something else that he didn't understand about this pill, and that was the problem of resistance.
He had been using the Myriad Wheel Pill all these years, but he didn't develop any resistance to it like other pills.
In this regard, he naturally spent a lot of effort to find the reason behind it, but after trying several methods, he did not find anything. Naturally, he did not think too much about it. After all, it was not a bad thing, otherwise, he would have a headache.
He shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Then, his face revealed a hint of contemplation.
Currently, he had opened 35 immortal apertures, and the next step was to open the 36th immortal aperture to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm.
If he could succeed, he would become a Golden Immortal!
Although the difference between a Golden Immortal and a True Immortal was only one word, the difference in strength and status was like a heavenly chasm. In contrast, the difficulty of breaking through was so great that it was comparable to the tribulation of the Great Ascension cultivators in the Spiritual Realm.
In order to break through this bottleneck, apart from opening the 36th immortal aperture, the most troublesome thing was the last decay of the Three Heavenly Decay, which was also known as the "Aperture Decay".
Speaking of which, Han Li hadn't experienced any decay since he started cultivating, but he knew how powerful the Three Heavenly Decay was. Even with his magical power, he didn't dare to have the slightest carelessness.
To resist the Three Heavenly Decay, the most practical way to deal with it was to truly master the power of laws.
He cultivated the law of time, which was one of the three supreme laws. If he could truly master it, even if it was just a little, it would probably have a miraculous effect when resisting the Three Heavenly Decay of the True Immortal Realm.
But all these years, he had tried his best to succeed, but he couldn't. Now, his biggest hope was to be able to refine a Dao pill.
Han Li suddenly thought of something. He got up and walked out of the secret room. Soon, he came to an area of the medicine garden.
It was a dark spiritual land, and the air exuded a damp and cold feeling.
There was a white spirit ginseng in the spiritual land. Its surface was crystal clear, as if it was carved out of white jade. It looked extremely extraordinary.
This thing was a missing material for a Dao pill, the Heavenly Ginseng.
All these years, his hard work finally paid off, and he got a Heavenly Ginseng seedling from the Anicca Alliance at a high price.
Han Li looked at the white spirit ginseng with a hint of joy in his eyes and nodded.
Once he got the Heavenly Ginseng seedling, he immediately let the giant ape puppet mature it with the green liquid. Now, it seemed that the cultivation process was quite smooth. It was at least 100,000 years old, which was enough to be used for alchemy.
Now, he only lacked the Condensed Dew Grass, but even though he bought it at a high price, there was still no news about it.
This was something that could only be encountered by chance. Now that he was in the Black Wind Sea, he could only continue to wait for news from the Anicca Alliance.
Han Li sighed softly, returned to the secret room, and sat down cross-legged.
Although he still couldn't refine the Dao pill, he naturally didn't want to wait in vain. Instead, he tried to break through the final 36th immortal aperture. At least, he had to open most of it and push his cultivation to the peak of the late True Immortal Stage.
With this thought, Han Li took out a Myriad Wheel Pill, put it in his mouth, and closed his eyes to cultivate.
The sea was vast and the sky was clear. The sea seemed to have been like this since ancient times, never changing. The passage of time gave people a very vague feeling.
In the blink of an eye, another 50 to 60 years had passed.
On the coral island a hundred miles away, the sea's waves rolled, and a scarlet sea beast appeared. It was the pig pig beast, and it looked towards the island in the distance.
According to its past experience, the spirit whirlpool should be appearing soon.
In these years, the pig pig beast came out every day to check, afraid that it would miss the opportunity.
However, it had been close to 10 years since it predicted it would appear, and the spirit whirlpool still hadn't appeared.
Not only that, there was no movement on the island at all. The spirit energy fluctuations that would occasionally appear in the past few years also didn't appear.
The pig pig beast looked at the island in the distance, and its eyes gradually became anxious. That human cultivator couldn't have already left, right?