Chapter 396: Preparations

Chapter 396: Preparations

The Earthly Deity Avatar made a hand seal as it channeled is Black Sea Heavy Water Tome, and the thread of light above its head began to emit beams of blue light with countless tiny blue runes within them, shining upon the first level heavy water in its hands.

The heavy water instantly began to condense, slowly evolving into second level heavy water.

However, this process was extremely slow, and Han Li could only heave a faint sigh upon seeing this.

The rate of heavy water manifestation was extremely slow to begin with, and now that the avatar's water law powers had been significantly impaired, this process was only going to be even slower.

At this rate, it wasn't going to be able to manifest much second level heavy water at all in three years.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Han Li flipped a hand over to summon his Heaven Controlling Vial, inside of which was a drop of green spirit liquid.

He then cast an incantation into the vial, and all of a sudden, countless dark clouds began to gather in the sky, while the world's origin qi began to churn violently.

Several days later, Han Li was holding a time crystal in his hand.

With his immense late-True Immortal Stage immortal spiritual power, manifesting these time crystals was no longer very taxing on him at all.

With a sweep of his sleeve, the time crystal flew over to his Earthly Deity Avatar, following which the translucent golden thread inside fused into the thread of blue light.

The thread of blue light instantly brightened significantly as a layer of golden light appeared on its surface, while the rate at which the ball of first level heavy water in its hands was being converted into second level heavy water was sped up significantly.

Before long, the entire ball of first level heavy water had been converted into second level heavy water.

The Earthly Deity Avatar stowed the ball of heavy water away, then produced another ball of first level heavy water to continue the conversion process.

Han Li heaved an internal sigh of relief upon seeing this.

Thankfully, the time crystals were capable of accelerating this process. Otherwise, he would've been at a loss for what to do.

After lingering on the seabed for a while longer, he rose up through the water and quickly broke through the surface.

From there, he inspected his surroundings briefly before descending onto a small coral island near Dark Veil Island.n(/OVElbIn

The seabed was quite peaceful and safe, but the moonlight wasn't able to reach the seabed, so he wouldn't be able to manifest more spirit liquid.

With a sweep of his sleeve, a series of array flags flew out before landing near the island.

This was a very secluded place, so Han Li didn't bother to be too meticulous with his security measures, only setting up a few arrays before sitting down with his legs crossed and setting down his Heaven Controlling Vial beside him.

After that, he swept his sleeve through the air once again to summon the ingredients required to refine the Golden Soul Pill.

He had already gathered all of the required materials, but he had been too busy to refine the pill prior to this.

Now that he had nothing to do anyway, he decided to take advantage of this opportunity to refine this pill in preparation for a future breakthrough.

The nine Water Dao Runes began to rapidly devour the second level heavy water like nine mouths, and it didn't take long before all of the heavy water had been absorbed, following which the light radiating from the axis became slightly brighter once again.

Han Li continued this process without pause, infusing another ball of heavy water into the axis.

One ball of second level heavy water after another flew out of the Heavenly Water Pouch before fusing into the Heavy Water True Axis, and after a day and a night, the Heavenly Water Pouch was finally emptied.

The axis was glowing with dazzling blue radiance, and as it revolved, it was giving off astonishing power that was causing the nearby space to tremble incessantly.

It was clear that the axis had become noticeably more powerful after absorbing the heavy water.

Furthermore, unlike before, when the axis's spiritual connection with Han Li had been severed after it had absorbed too much first level heavy water, even though the axis had absorbed close to a pond's worth of second level heavy water, its spiritual connection with Han Li still remained completely unaffected.

Han Li's gaze fell upon the nine Water Dao Runes on the axis as a contemplative look appeared on his face.

The axis's improved tolerance capacity for heavy water was most likely due to the increase in the number of Water Dao Runes.

This was certainly good news as he wouldn't have to refine the axis with his nascent flame like before.

......

Three years later.

Han Li was seated with his legs crossed on the coral island, and it was as if he had never moved from that spot in the past three years.

At this moment, a ball of radiant blue light was hovering in front of him, and beside it was a ball of heavy water.

Within the ball of blue light was the Heavy Water True Axis, and even though it was merely hovering in mid-air, it was still giving off an incredibly heavy aura that was causing the nearby space to tremble and ripple, as if even the space itself were unable to bear its enormous weight.

Han Li made a hand seal, and the Heavy Water True Axis began to slowly revolve.

The trembling of the surrounding space instantly became even more violent, while enormous waves were swept up over the nearby sea and gusts of ferocious wind were howling through the air. Thankfully, the coral island remained unaffected thanks to the restrictions that had been set up in advance.

The blue light radiating from the Heavy Water True Axis enveloped the surrounding heavy water before rapidly absorbing it.

Once all of the heavy water was gone, Han Li made a beckoning motion, and the Heavy Water True Axis instantly stopped revolving. The blue light that it was radiating also faded as it fell into Han Li's grasp.

As soon as the axis ceased in its rotation, all of the unrest in the surrounding area also subsided, and it was as if nothing had ever happened here.

The Heavy Water True Axis looked no different from before aside from the fact that the nine Water Dao Runes on its surface had become noticeably larger, and they resembled nine blue swirling vortexes.

Furthermore, they were giving off far more formidable water law fluctuations than before.

The nine bursts of law fluctuations came together to form a formidable stream, and in terms of sheer volume of law power, the axis possessed far more than any of Han Li's other immortal treasures.

With this significantly enhanced Heavy Water True Axis, Han Li's chances of survival in the Infernal Frost Immortal Manor would undoubtedly be increased.

A hint of excitement appeared on his face as he examined the axis. Even though it had been absorbing second level heavy water for the past three years, it showed no signs of slowing down, so it was clear that it could still absorb far more.