Han Li felt the changes in the heavens and earth as the image of Lei Kui dissipated, and the endless power emanating from the Heavenly Gate, and his heart was filled with shock.

He didn't know how long it took before he recovered from the shock and muttered to himself:

"This eye... is actually a relic of the Dao Ancestor!"

After withdrawing the Eye of Truth and taking back the Mantra Treasure Wheel into his body, Han Li's mood was still difficult to calm down.

To this day, no one has ever heard of the existence of a Lightning Dao Ancestor, and this Lei Kui beast is probably the previous Lightning Dao Ancestor. However, its innate lightning body allowed it to roam freely in the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, but its final destination, with its own harmony with the thunder method between itself and heaven and earth, was to be swallowed by the Heavenly Dao, becoming a part of this heaven and earth.

This Lightning Eye was the last trace of its remaining essence in the True Immortal Realm before being swallowed by the Heavenly Dao.

Han Li once again fully operated the Refining God Technique and carefully explored it. He discovered that the power contained in this Lightning Eye was even more terrifying than he had estimated, but it had already turned into pure lightning energy, without any trace of Lei Kui's divine sense will.

However, after a little thought, Han Li was relieved.

If there was still divine sense remaining in this remnant giant eye, it would probably have been re-cultivating and making a comeback long ago. How could it remain in this sea area day after day? Moreover, how could there be any remnant of divine sense under the Heavenly Dao's swallowing?

He stared at the orange-yellow giant eye for a moment, then suddenly snapped his fingers.

A layer of golden light curtain then expanded rapidly from around him, covering the entire thunderstorm ocean.

At the same time, the Great Five Elements Illusion World Technique in Han Li's body started to operate, and the Mantra Treasure Wheel and other manifestations of the law of time emerged one after another, turning into thousands of miles of mountains, rivers, and a round moon and stars, surrounding the entire thunderstorm ocean.

As soon as these five Celestial Realm spiritual domains containing the power of the powerful law of time appeared, they immediately aroused the mad resistance of the thunderstorm ocean. The orange-yellow eyeball "stared" at Han Li, and a loud roar suddenly sounded on the Nine Heavens Cloud Sea.

The entire thunderstorm ocean became more frantic than ever before, and all the giant pillars of lightning fell down in an unbroken stream at this moment, just like a constantly surging waterfall, bombarding Han Li's mountains and rivers.

Han Li turned a blind eye to this. He simply moved his mind, and the time in the surrounding void seemed to freeze again. All the falling lightning flickered with electric sparks and stagnated in the void, without the slightest fluctuation or sound.

In this small world, only Han Li could walk freely.

He gently waved his palm and walked leisurely in the void. The seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords floated behind him, moving slowly with him.

Han Li walked around the Lei Kui's eye, pausing slightly every few steps. With a wave of his hand, a Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword would fly out and hover in a void outside the giant eye.

After taking three hundred and sixty steps, all seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords had already found their positions and were arranged around the giant eye.

Han Li carefully examined the positions of all the Bee Cloud Swords and confirmed that there was nothing unusual. Then, he flipped his palm again, and an octagonal jade plate, pure white and as smooth as jade, appeared in his palm.

This object was none other than the formation map of the Tongtian Sword Formation.

During his years of secluded cultivation, Han Li had not relaxed his research on this formation map. As his cultivation continued to grow, he finally solved the mystery of this sword formation jade plate.

He originally thought that this object should have been refined by the founding ancestor of the Tongtian Sword Sect, but he later discovered that this object was so mysterious that it was beyond human ability. It should be a Xuan Tian object formed by the manifestation of the law of swords.

This sword formation originally did not have any five elements wind and thunder attributes. Only because the flying swords used to set up the formation had different attributes could it explode with powerful power of different attributes. Therefore, it originally contained the law of swords, so it could accommodate any attribute and exert its power.

At this moment, the sword formation arranged by all the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords was a kind of extremely powerful "Great Refinement" formation in the Tongtian Sword Formation. Today, Han Li was going to use this Tongtian Sword Formation jade plate to refine this "Lei Kui" eye.

After completing the arrangement, Han Li formed a hand seal and a chanting sound rang out from his mouth.

A soft "buzz" sounded!

The octagonal jade plate then trembled slightly, and the runes on it moved quickly like flowing clouds. In an instant, emerald light flourished, and a dazzling light spread out on it, turning into a huge octagonal light disk, suspended above the Lei Kui's eye.

Seeing this, Han Li leaped high into the air and landed in the center of the octagonal light disk, sitting down cross-legged.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and he formed a hand seal in front of him. Suddenly, the light on the octagonal light disk under him flourished, and countless illusory sword shadows shot out from it, like a spring rain, falling on the giant eye below.

The seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords also trembled, and dazzling golden light lit up on all the sword bodies, connecting with each other and condensing into a huge illusory image of an Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace in the void, encompassing the Lei Kui giant eye.

The octagonal light disk transformed from the sword formation jade plate was like a furnace lid, covering all the phenomena inside the pill furnace.

"Rumble..."

Accompanied by a series of violent roars, a golden light lit up on the Lei Kui's eye, which had been calm all along, and the thunder and lightning churning in the cloud sea outside suddenly stopped.

In the next instant, Lei Kui phantoms condensed from the eyeballs, wrapped in the purest golden thunder in the world, rushing madly towards the surrounding pill furnace phantoms, their bodies surrounded by purple smoke, with myriad phenomena.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Each Lei Kui made a deafening roar after the impact, and the entire thunderstorm ocean shook violently.

Han Li sat steadily on the octagonal light disk, and his body also shook violently. Among them, there were strands of numb current penetrating out and hitting his body.

But at this moment, he could not be distracted in the slightest. He had to strictly control all the flying swords and formation maps. Otherwise, once the Lei Kui broke out, not only would the entire Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace explode, but the entire thunderstorm ocean and the two nearby continents would also be swept by an unprecedented thunderstorm, and would be erased from the map of the Northern Cold Immortal Territory from then on.

"Sword defense as offense, Great Refinement Profound Sky..." Han Li whispered.

The seventy-two flying swords and formation maps simultaneously exerted their power, and countless sword qi and sword shadows poured into the pill furnace, refining the Lei Kui's eye like a furnace fire.

……

At the same time, the edge of the Desolate Ripple Continent.

Thousands of gray realm creatures, like locusts, were crowded on the edge of the land, looking across the sea to the thunderstorm ocean.

Standing in front of these gray realm creatures were also hundreds of gray realm cultivators, led by a tall man in black robes. He was wearing a suit of armor covered with green copper rust, his skin was pale and bluish, and his expression was solemn.

"Lord Mo Shi, should we go and investigate?" Standing behind him, an old man in a black robe, but with a thin figure, asked in a hoarse voice.

"No need. Whatever is there, it is not something we can deal with. As long as they don't provoke us, don't make trouble. Just monitor them closely." The tall man called Mo Shi shook his head and said.

"Yes." The thin old man immediately replied.

"Restrain these guys, don't take the initiative to provoke. There are still some cities on the Desolate Ripple Continent that have not been conquered. We need to speed up." Mo Shi ordered.

This time, several gray realm cultivators, including the thin old man, responded, "Yes, sir."

……

Time passed, and several months had passed.

The thunderstorm ocean had undergone earth-shaking changes. The thunderstorm sea, which originally had no boundaries in sight, had long disappeared. Now, there was only a thunderstorm cloud area less than a hundred miles in radius.

Within that thunderstorm cloud area, a figure was walking back and forth around an Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace that was only ten feet tall, frowning, looking quite annoyed. He was naturally Han Li.

"It's obviously been refined, why can't it be broken?" Han Li stroked his jaw with one hand and muttered to himself.

Inside the pill furnace, a dragon-eye-sized orange-yellow eyeball could be seen, covered with a layer of golden electric filaments, constantly making a "sizzle" sound.

Around the eyeball, there were also seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, reduced in size by half, hovering in the void, trembling up and down, with electric filaments connecting each other, looking as if they were integrated at a glance.

According to Han Li's original estimate, with the assistance of the formation map of the Tongtian Sword Formation, relying on the Great Refinement Sword Formation, he would be able to refine all the power of this Lei Kui's eye into the seventy-two Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, and raise their quality to the level of fourth-grade immortal artifacts in one fell swoop.

However, for some unknown reason, even though the refinement had been successfully completed, this Lei Kui's eye could not be split after all, so it could not all enter the seventy-two swords.

"What exactly is the problem? How can I break..." Han Li murmured to himself.

At this moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him, and a look of joy appeared in his eyes. Then, he turned his wrist, and a burst of light flashed in his palm.

Where the light fell, a emerald green Xuan Tian gourd was already in his hand.

This Xuan Tian gourd absorbed the remaining law power of the Xuan Tian Slashing Spirit Sword back then, and what was nurtured in the pot was the law of destruction. Wouldn't it be just right to use it to help break this Lei Kui's eye?

At the thought of this, Han Li hesitated. Although this Lei Kui's eye had been refined, it was, after all, a relic of the Dao Ancestor, and the lightning power contained within was extraordinary. This Xuan Tian gourd was ultimately insufficient in grade, and it might not be able to withstand its power.

"It seems there is no better way besides this. I will send the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords in together to help suppress the Lei Kui's eye." Han Li thought of a solution that wasn't really a solution and murmured.

After saying that, he didn't hesitate any longer. He formed a hand seal and pointed, and the Eight Trigrams Pill Furnace disappeared in a puff of smoke. The Lei Kui's eye and the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords were exposed in the void.

In an instant, the remaining thunder clouds covering a radius of a hundred miles surged wildly, with electric light spurting and thunder rumbling.

Seeing this, Han Li quickly raised the Xuan Tian gourd, chanted a few words, and raised his hand to slap the bottom of the gourd.

A flash of light appeared on the Xuan Tian gourd, and a cloud of green mist immediately spewed out from the mouth of the gourd, condensing into a mist vortex that rotated violently.

As a gust of howling wind sounded, a powerful tearing force was transmitted from the vortex.

Han Li held the gourd in one hand and coordinated with the other, guiding the Lei Kui's eye and the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords into the green vortex and absorbing them into the Xuan Tian gourd.

As soon as the eyeball and flying swords entered the Xuan Tian gourd, the abnormal sounds and momentum in the surrounding thunder clouds of heaven and earth immediately decreased.