In the void of darkness.
Lin Zheyu sat cross-legged in the void, eyes closed tightly.
The energy within his body, under his control, began to operate in a specific way, causing the spatial rule power around him to surge violently.
Suddenly.
The rule power on Lin Zheyu’s body vanished instantly, his eyelids trembled slightly, and he slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were filled with deep fatigue.
"It’s still not working, this Cultivation Technique is much harder than I imagined."
Lin Zheyu shook his head slightly.
Over twenty days had passed, yet the Cultivation Technique still showed no progress, even though he tried all the techniques he could think of exhaustively.
He still couldn’t develop the Fourth Layer of Shrinking the Earth into Inches.
"It seems that with my current strength, I am not capable of creating such a technique; my accumulation is still too little."
Lin Zheyu shook his head slightly, deciding not to continue attempting it.
He had tried almost every technique he could think of, and the remaining ones, Lin Zheyu could tell right at a glance, were not feasible.
There was simply no need to try.
"Forget it, let’s optimize the Martial Arts Divine Pattern first, maybe there’ll be unexpected gains from the Demonic Pattern."
Lin Zheyu stood up, his figure wavered slightly, and he disappeared from the cultivation space within the Primordial Pool.
He reappeared in a space full of mythical creatures.
Lin Zheyu squinted his eyes, looking at the Shadow Demon Dragon floating in the void; it was a rare species among the mythical creatures.
Unlike other mythical creatures, this Shadow Demon Dragon no longer had life.
Lin Zheyu had intentionally preserved it to research the Demonic Pattern on its body, as this rare species held significant research value.
Unfortunately, despite researching for a long time, he wasn’t able to derive anything valuable.
But that was before.
Lin Zheyu’s research on Demonic Patterns wasn’t deep enough then, his understanding was still lacking.
After he researched the mythical creatures he had captured this time, from shallow to deep, from weak to strong, one by one.
Returning to research the Shadow Demon Dragon should yield some results.
"It’s a pity there’s only this one Shadow Demon Dragon’s corpse. If I could capture a few more, and live ones at that, it would be perfect."
"The Shadow Demon Dragon’s special talent, which allows it to merge itself into shadow gaps, might help me create a short-distance Instant Teleportation technique."
Lin Zheyu said with a bit of regret.
Actually, it’s not just the Shadow Demon Dragon.
The Barbarian Race member who collaborated with Si Tianyun back then also had abilities somewhat similar to the Shadow Demon Dragon.
If he could gain some insights from the totems on its body, it would also have a significant effect.
Unfortunately.
After Lin Zheyu killed that Barbarian warrior, he couldn’t keep the opponent’s body, and it ran off.
This left him somewhat speechless.
The person was already dead, yet the corpse could still escape.
He sighed softly.
Clearing away the distractions in his heart, focusing his spirit.
The Celestial Eye in his sea of consciousness abruptly opened, and Lin Zheyu began another round of tedious secluded cultivation.
The path of cultivation naturally becomes increasingly difficult.
With Lin Zheyu’s current strength level, achieving a major breakthrough requires more and more time and accumulation.
Even with Source Power assistance.
But in the consciousness space, the accumulation and insights consumed during Lin Zheyu’s cultivation aren’t created from nothing.
These accumulations and insights require him to cultivate, accumulate, and comprehend in the real world.
Once he gains a lot of knowledge insights, these insights can become nutrients, nurturing abundant results under the influence of Source Power.
In cultivation, there are no years.
Time slowly passed, and in the blink of an eye, more than a year had gone by.
Since Lin Zheyu’s traversal, this was the first time he had been in secluded cultivation for so long.
This retreat was different from before. Lin Zheyu didn’t step out of the courtyard once, nor did he leave the internal void of the Primordial Pool.
Every day, besides researching the Demonic Patterns on the mythical creatures, he would perform extreme training at intervals, quietly accumulating Source Power.
In the void space.
Lin Zheyu’s eyes suddenly opened.
"Fan Hongwei?"
Lin Zheyu was somewhat surprised.
His spirit was in a trance for a moment, and after calculating with his fingers, he found that nearly a year and a half had passed.
"It feels like only a few days of retreat, yet more than a year has passed; truly, in cultivation, there are no years..."
Lin Zheyu murmured softly.
With a flip of his right hand, a Communication Jade Talisman crafted by Lingyun Pavilion appeared in his hand.
This was a Communication Jade Talisman left by Fan Hongwei.
"The old man’s injuries have recovered. I wonder when my young friend will be free so we can set a time to explore the Witch Race relic together."
Looking at the message left by Fan Hongwei, Lin Zheyu pondered for a moment, not planning to reply immediately.
With Fan Hongwei’s ability, he probably already knows that I’m in seclusion.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have used communication, but would have directly visited Flame Martial City himself.
"Just how severe were Fan Hongwei’s injuries back then, that it took him so long to recover."
"It seems that the relic is quite dangerous."
"No rush to go. Let Fan Hongwei wait for a few years; once I’ve researched all these mythical creatures, then I’ll consider it."
Lin Zheyu mused to himself.
Over a year, he had completed only about a third of the progress.
However, as Lin Zheyu mastered more and more Demon Demonic Patterns, his speed in researching other patterns would also increase.
For the remaining two-thirds of the mythical creatures, Lin Zheyu estimated that it wouldn’t take more than two years to complete it all.
Thinking of this, Lin Zheyu put away the Jade Talisman and returned to his research on mythical creatures.