"Since we entered the Demon Realm, I've begun to experience flashes of my master's past memories. It seems... my master was originally from the Demon Realm, and the Scaled Void Realm seems to have some connection to him. As for what that connection is, I don't know yet." Crab Taoist said after a moment of contemplation.

"Are you saying your master was a demon?"

Han Li was slightly stunned, then a hint of understanding dawned on him.

Wasn't it in the Demon Origin Sea that he first encountered the Crab Taoist? And that place was in the Demon Realm of the Lower Realm.

"That's right. But later, for some reason, he went to the Immortal Realm and worked as a puppet artificer in Hundred Refinements Mountain." Crab Taoist nodded.

"I'll find a way to inquire about the Scaled Void Realm later. Since this feeling only appeared in the Demon Realm, this place is likely related to it. If any other memories resurface, let me know immediately. Since I promised to help him fulfill his last wish, I naturally won't refuse." Han Li thought for a moment and said.

Crab Taoist didn't say anything more. He nodded, then took his leave.

Han Li sat alone in the bamboo building, his thoughts a little chaotic.

Ever since venturing into the True Words Sect ruins, he had been extremely busy, and even finding time to cultivate had become a luxury.

Previously, he had fortuitously broken through the fifth layer bottleneck of the Soul Refining Art in the Sin Cleansing Pool. Although there were no more obstacles to cultivation after that, he had been too busy to properly comprehend it, so the fifth layer of the technique had never been fully mastered.

As for the True Words Sect's five time-based techniques, apart from the *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra*, which he had studied the most, he hadn't done much in-depth research on the other four.

Speaking of which, back in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, he had vaguely sensed that there should be some connection between the *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra*, the *Illusory Stellar Treasure Canon*, and the *Water Evolution Four Seasons Art*.

Later, by a stroke of luck, he obtained the *Eastern Yi Withering Flourishing Scripture* and the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection*, and a guess gradually sprouted in his heart.

He believed that there must be some connection between these five techniques.

"Since I'm going to stay here for a while, I might as well try cultivating these techniques. It can also be considered as further solidifying my cultivation." Han Li muttered to himself after a moment of pondering.

With that thought, he slowly closed his eyes and began to meditate and adjust his breathing.

After a while, a flash of light appeared in his sea of consciousness, and the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection* left to him by Immortal Venerable Raging Flame began to manifest. He hadn't examined it carefully before, and now he was truly beginning to cultivate this technique.

The *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection* was quite similar to the other techniques, also having nine layers. With each layer cultivated, the comprehension of the power of time law would deepen.

It was most similar to the *Illusory Stellar Treasure Canon*, and it also mentioned a "Moment Interruption Fire Realm" similar to the "Illusory Stellar Sand Realm". It seemed that after completion, it could cause time in a certain area to fall into stillness.

This time stillness seemed to be an absolute stagnation of time, but the range of influence was limited and needed to be gradually expanded as the technique was continuously improved.

After pondering for a moment, Han Li didn't immediately start cultivating.

Another wave of light rippled in his sea of consciousness. In a hazy azure light, tiny golden characters emerged, which was another time-based technique called the *Eastern Yi Withering Flourishing Scripture*.

When he first obtained this technique, he had only skimmed through it, and hadn't had time to carefully comprehend it afterward.

After carefully examining it, Han Li realized that this technique was quite different from the other techniques. Although it also cultivated the power of time law, it didn't have much offensive power. After successful cultivation, it was possible to condense an Eastern Yi Divine Tree.

Wherever this divine tree was planted, the changes of the four seasons and the withering and flourishing of vegetation within a certain range would be controlled by the cultivator. If facing tree demons and monsters who had attained Dao through cultivation, it would also have a natural suppressing effect.

However, Han Li didn't feel much about the latter effect. After all, the Blazing Flame Firebird was enough to deal with monsters formed from plants and flowers. What he was more concerned about was the former effect.

If he could control the changes of the four seasons within a certain range, wouldn't that mean he could speed up the flow of the four seasons, thereby achieving the effect of making plants grow faster?

If that was the case, if he planted an Eastern Yi Divine Tree in his spirit medicine garden, wouldn't that allow him to ripen spirit medicines on a large scale? Although the effect would certainly not be as strong as the little green vial, it was better because it covered a larger area.

After checking it, Han Li suddenly remembered that when he was cultivating the *Illusory Stellar Treasure Canon* before, there was a key point that he had never been able to understand. In the past, he only knew to follow the cultivation methods described in the technique and comprehend them again and again. Today, after carefully reading the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection*, he discovered a method of condensing Moment Interruption Blazing Fire, which, when combined with the Illusory Stellar Sand, seemed to have wonderful uses.

Thinking of this, he quickly closed his eyes to adjust his breathing and began to cultivate using this method.

Several hours later, Han Li opened his eyes, a look of surprise on his face.

This method was indeed effective!

Seeing this, he couldn't help but feel a trace of doubt in his heart. These five techniques seemed to be time-attribute techniques, but their emphases were different. The names of each also contained the five elements. Could it be that combining them would be the so-called *Grand Five Elements Illusory World Art*?

After this thought arose, he immediately closed his eyes and mentally rotated the five techniques one by one, starting with the *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra*, which he was most familiar with, and slowly sorting out the cultivation paths of the five techniques.

Time passed little by little. Soon, the sky gradually darkened, and then the moon rose in the east and set in the west, until night ended and dawn arrived.

A night passed, and Han Li still maintained his meditative state. After a long while, he slowly opened his eyes, a wry smile on his face, and muttered to himself:

"None of the five techniques are simple and easy to understand. The paths within them are intricate and now look more and more like a tangled mess. The places that can corroborate each other are still few and far between. Forget it, forget it, if I can't sort it out, I'll put it aside for now. I might as well cultivate the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection* and the *Eastern Yi Withering Flourishing Scripture* first, and maybe I'll have some unexpected gains..."

After figuring it out, Han Li didn't hesitate any longer. After taking a pill, he pinched his fingers and silently chanted the incantation of the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection*, mobilizing the immortal spiritual power in his body to circulate. Layers of light red ripples began to ripple around him.

……

In the blink of an eye, more than three months had passed.

In the bamboo building in the Flower Branch Space, Han Li had already emerged from his cultivation state and was pacing back and forth in the building with his hands behind his back.

After a while, he frowned, pushed open the door of the bamboo building, and walked to the small courtyard with the lotus pond and rising mist.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the courtyard was extremely abundant, making people feel exceptionally comfortable when they were in it.

Han Li walked onto the small bridge, holding the railing, his eyes falling on the lotus leaves in the pond, staring blankly at the winding and sparse strands of veins on them.

In the past three months, he had begun to cultivate the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection* and the *Eastern Yi Withering Flourishing Scripture*, but he found that not only was it not as smooth as when he had cultivated the *Water Evolution Four Seasons Art* before, but he felt obstacles everywhere and progress was difficult.

It wasn't that his understanding of the power of time law wasn't enough, but that he found that when he dabbled in five techniques at the same time, there were not only places where they corroborated each other, but also many contradictions.

Especially during cultivation, the flow of immortal spiritual power in his body conformed to the *Moment Interruption Blazing Fire Collection* and followed the *Illusory Stellar Treasure Canon*, but conflicted with the *Water Evolution Four Seasons Art*. It conformed to the *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra* and followed the *Water Evolution Four Seasons Art*, but it would conflict with the *Eastern Yi Withering Flourishing Scripture*.

In short, if he wanted to cultivate five techniques at the same time, he would only become more and more confused and lose his sense of proportion if he didn't find the correct path among them.

Han Li felt depressed in his heart and felt that he had entered a dead end. He was wondering whether he should actively withdraw. At worst, he would still cultivate these five techniques as independent entities and at least cultivate the *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra* to great perfection first.

With this thought, he suddenly remembered that the Qingyu bamboo slip that recorded the complete nine-layered *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra* also contained a bizarre *Sumeru Induction Chapter*.

"That's right, that's right, how could I forget it?" Han Li raised his hand and slapped his forehead three times, shouting loudly.

After saying that, he turned his wrist, a flash of azure light appeared in his palm, and a Qingyu bamboo slip appeared.

On the bamboo slip, a line of small characters was engraved in golden seal script: "Hear the Dao in the morning and evening, fate is between heaven and earth."

Han Li held the bamboo slip, gently stroking the characters on it, with a smile on his lips, and quickly walked back into the bamboo building, closing the bamboo door.

……

This retreat lasted for several months.

During this period, Shi Chuan Kong had come to find Han Li once, but when he learned that he was in seclusion, he took the initiative to retreat.

However, before leaving, he instructed Crab Taoist that once Han Li left seclusion, he should immediately come and meet him.

Han Li was in seclusion, staying in the small bamboo building and never showing himself.

On this day, the closed door of the bamboo building finally "creaked" open.

Han Li walked out of it refreshed, shaking his shoulders, stretching his body, and a smile appeared on his face.

In the past few months, he had spent most of his time comprehending the *Sumeru Induction Chapter*, but it was only a few thousand words, but it really gave him a headache for a while.

However, fortunately, hard work paid off, and two months ago, he finally understood part of the mystery.

The reason why the *Sumeru Induction Chapter* was difficult to understand was because Han Li's initial thinking was wrong. He had always thought that this chapter should be a technique or supernatural power related to the law of time.

But in fact, this chapter was a general outline, not used for cultivation, but to outline and explain the order of cultivation of the five techniques, including the *Zhenyan Transformation Wheel Sutra*.

Of course, what it pointed out was not just a simple ordering of who came first and who came later, but rather it subtly presented the relationship of mutual generation and complementation among these five techniques, using this as a guide for truly cultivating the *Grand Five Elements Illusory World Art*.

The five techniques were to comprehend the law of time from the perspective of the five elements of heaven and earth: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. After all, everything has its time. As one of the three supreme laws of the Immortal World, the law of time was vast and boundless. The birth and death of all things could not escape the constraint of time, but the law of time was also equally illusory. Ordinary people could not touch even one ten-thousandth of the law of time until they died.

But if one could see the whole picture from a point and use the way of the five elements to generate and destroy to peep into the true meaning of the Grand Dao of Time, it might not be impossible to succeed.