Half an hour later.

Wang Yu returned to the mountain where his cave abode was located.

At this moment, he stood with his hands clasped behind his back on the stone steps in front of the cave.

In the square in front of him, densely packed disciples of the Candle Dragon Dao stood, their gazes converging on him as he appeared, their expressions varying – some with joy, some with apprehension, but mostly with reverence and aspiration.

Although this secret realm was reassigned different True Immortal elders to oversee it every so often, nothing unexpected usually happened here. Therefore, most of the time, these True Immortals were in seclusion and rarely appeared to handle matters in this place.

An anomaly like today's was naturally a rare sight. Being able to witness a True Immortal taking action firsthand filled the disciples on duty with a sense of both fortune and awe, further fueling their motivation on the path of cultivation.

"This change in Floating Mountain is truly a calamity sent by the heavens. You all responded appropriately, preventing excessive losses. I will truthfully report this to the sect and seek deserved merit rewards for you," Wang Yu said, his gaze slowly sweeping over the disciples.

"Thank you, Elder Li!"

Everyone initially thought that disturbing the True Immortal elder's seclusion would cause displeasure. However, upon hearing these words, they were overjoyed and expressed their gratitude.

"The dense fog in the Great Gulch has gradually receded, and there is still cleanup work to be done. After the losses are tallied, hand them over to me. I need to report them to the sect as well. Alright, go about your business," Wang Yu continued.

"Yes!" The crowd responded in unison and flew away.

Wang Yu then kept Hu Zhen and the others behind, bestowed upon them some suitable elixirs, and then turned and returned to his cave.

Inside the secret chamber.

A flash of golden light appeared behind Wang Yu, and the Mantra Treasure Wheel emerged, slowly rotating.

Upon the treasure wheel, twenty-four clusters of Time Dao Runes flickered, emitting waves of the power of laws.

Ordinary cultivators practicing the *Zhen Yan Hua Lun Jing* might not even be able to condense eighteen clusters of Time Dao Runes even if they cultivated to the third layer. Yet he, with his True Immortal mid-stage cultivation, had condensed twenty-four clusters. Today's small test in the Great Gulch made him even more delighted.

With this treasure wheel at his side, combined with the Qing Zhu Feng Yun Sword after disguise, he reckoned he could handle an opponent with strength like Gu Jie's avatar, even if he had to face one again.

Of course, if Gu Jie personally came to hunt him down, he would still have to flee without saying a word.

As thoughts raced through his mind, he sat down cross-legged.

Now that he had cultivated the first layer of the *Zhen Yan Hua Lun Jing* to perfection, according to the book, he could attempt to comprehend and control the Law of Time.

However, although the power of time on the Mantra Treasure Wheel was now dense, it gave him a sense of disarray. He couldn't even condense a strand of law, which was far from those who truly mastered the power of law, and even inferior to the Earth Immortals who condensed laws with the power of belief.

Otherwise, the Law of Time, one of the three supreme laws, should have more than just a slowing-down effect.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but recall the various uses and powerful effects of the Law of Wood by Gu Jie's avatar that day. In addition to envy, he felt even more anticipation.

If the Law of Time could one day condense a strand of law, its power would definitely be far above the Law of Wood.

Wang Yu took a deep breath, flipped his hand, and took out a Immortal Essence Stone, holding it in his hand. He then activated the Mantra Treasure Wheel behind him to rotate slowly. The Time Dao Runes on it flickered, forming a ten-foot-sized golden ripple area around him. Circles of golden ripples slowly flowed, rising and falling.

He closed his eyes, carefully sensing the changes in the power of the laws around him, comprehending them meticulously.

There was no specific method for comprehending the Law of Time in the *Zhen Yan Hua Lun Jing*. It all depended on one's own understanding.

Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, three or four months had passed.

Wang Yu sat there cross-legged, motionless, like a statue.

A flash of golden light appeared around him, and he opened his eyes, his brows furrowed.

After comprehending for several months, he had no clue about the Law of Time and saw no hope of success.

He was not surprised by this situation.

If the laws were so easy to comprehend, there wouldn't be so few True Immortals who understood the power of the laws. What's more, he was comprehending one of the three supreme laws.

He had made many preparations for comprehending the power of the laws.

A flash of gray light appeared in Wang Yu's hand, revealing a hazy stone bead, which was the eye of the one-eyed giant.

This was one of his preparations.

Wang Yu held up the stone bead with both hands, mobilizing the power of the Law of Time around him and slowly injecting it into the stone bead.

A faint white light rose from the stone bead, emitting a unique fluctuation of the Law of Time.

He immediately closed his eyes, sensed the Law of Time in the bead, and compared it with his own power of the Law of Time, trying to make some breakthroughs.

In the blink of an eye, several months had passed again.

Wang Yu opened his eyes, his face slightly gloomy.

Sensing the power of the Law of Time in the stone bead, he still gained nothing.

His eyes flickered, and he put away the stone bead. He flipped his hand and took out a green vial, in which a drop of green liquid gently rolled.

Wang Yu looked at the vial, remained silent for a moment, and held the vial, pouring the Immortal Spiritual Power in his body into it.

Boom!

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth near the cave abode suddenly rolled violently, and a huge spiritual energy vortex appeared, affecting tens of thousands of miles.

The disciples of the Candle Dragon Dao, seeing such a change, were slightly surprised at first, but soon stopped paying attention.

Such a situation had occurred countless times in the past two hundred years, and they were already used to it.

Several days later.

Inside the cave abode, Wang Yu's face was slightly pale, and he held a crystal grain in his hand.

After breaking through to the mid-stage of True Immortal, the Immortal Spiritual Power in his body had greatly increased. Condensing crystal grains would no longer suck him dry because of insufficient Immortal Spiritual Power, as it had in the past.

He flipped his hand and took out a recovery elixir and swallowed it, and his face quickly recovered.

Wang Yu held the crystal grain, and his divine sense sank into it.

The golden crystal threads in the crystal grain suddenly lit up, and the Mantra Treasure Wheel behind him also flashed golden light. The Time Dao Runes on the treasure wheel fluctuated, as if resonating with the crystal grain.

Wang Yu was overjoyed and immediately closed his eyes, comprehending carefully.

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, a month had passed.

The golden crystal threads in the crystal grain disappeared without a trace, and the crystal grain shattered and disappeared with a soft sound.

Wang Yu opened his eyes, with a hint of excitement on his face.

Although this comprehension was still not successful, it was a little progress compared to the previous few times, and he vaguely touched the edge of the Law of Time.

It was like a ray of light in endless darkness, allowing him to see a glimmer of hope.

Wang Yu flipped his hand and took out the green vial, in which a drop of green liquid had been condensed again. He looked at it carefully, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

His cultivation of the *Zhen Yan Hua Lun Jing* had been so smooth, which was largely due to the vial. Now it seemed that he still had to rely on this thing to comprehend the Law of Time.

However…

His face showed a look of contemplation, and his eyes flickered.

Previously, whether he comprehended the crystal grains or the stone beads, although he could sense the power of the laws in them, he always had a feeling of watching flowers across the bank.

If he wanted to sense the power of the laws more deeply, he needed to let them come into closer contact.

Wang Yu's eyes flickered, and after a moment, a trace of determination flashed across his face.

He flipped his hand and took out a jade bowl the size of a washbasin, filled it with spiritual liquid, and then dripped the green liquid in the vial into the jade bowl.

The originally colorless liquid suddenly turned into a light green color, gently rippling.

Wang Yu flipped his hand and took out a jade bowl, and waved his other hand.

A stream of light green liquid flew out of the jade bowl and fell into the bowl, filling most of it.

He was planning to drink the green liquid into his body, so as to sense the power of the Law of Time contained in the green liquid at the closest distance.

Wang Yu put the jade bowl aside, and after a moment of silence, he waved his hand, and seventy-two Qing Zhu Feng Yun Swords appeared. Although they were not deliberately activated, the astonishing sword energy had already spread out, causing the nearby void to buzz.

He waved his hand and cast a magic formula, and all seventy-two Qing Zhu Feng Yun Swords merged into one, turning into a green small sword.

Wang Yu flipped his hand and took out a silver talisman and attached it to the small sword.

The sword energy emitted by the green small sword disappeared completely, turning it into an ordinary green small sword.

He then placed the vial next to the green small sword, and then a flash of silver light appeared on his body, and the Jing Yan Firebird flew out.

With a flash of silver light, the Jing Yan Firebird turned into a silver flame villain, dancing around Wang Yu's body, making cheerful chirps.

A trace of a smile appeared on Wang Yu's face, and he teased the silver flame villain for a while, holding it in his palm.

"Little guy, do you remember this person?" A burst of green light lit up in his hand, and a figure of a white-clothed girl appeared in the green light, it was Nangong Wan.

The silver flame villain tilted its head and looked at the image of Nangong Wan, and nodded.

When he was in the Spirit World back then, although the Jing Yan Firebird did not have the spiritual wisdom it has now, its spirituality was not weak, and it remembered Nangong Wan.

"These two things are given to you for safekeeping. If something happens to me, you take these two things to find this person, no matter how long it takes, you must find her and give the two things to her for safekeeping." Wang Yu said to the Jing Yan Firebird.

The Jing Yan Firebird tilted its head and looked at Wang Yu for a while. Although its intelligence did not quite understand why Wang Yu did this, it quickly understood what Wang Yu meant and nodded.

Wang Yu touched the silver flame villain's head and put it aside, his expression becoming serious.

Back then, when he first discovered the green liquid in the vial, the two wild rabbits whose bodies were burst open were still vivid in his mind.

Later, in the Chaotic Star Sea, he used the green liquid to trap Feng Xi, the Nascent Soul stage Wind-Rending Beast, almost killing it.

Although his current cultivation base was far above Feng Xi back then, and he had cultivated the Xuan Immortal Body, the green liquid in the vial was not the green liquid of the past.

Wang Yu could clearly sense that the special energy contained in the current green liquid was many times stronger than before.

Even if it was him now, drinking this green liquid would still bear great risks, and even falling was not completely impossible.

However, he was willing to bear this kind of risk. If he couldn't bear it, he would find a way to force the green liquid out of his body as much as possible. In case of emergency, he was even prepared for the Nascent Soul to leave his body.

After comprehending for so long, he gradually understood that if he wanted to comprehend the Law of Time, one of the three supreme laws, it was absolutely impossible to succeed without taking some risks.

As the saying goes, How can you get what you want if you do not enter the tiger's lair?