The Emperor’s Counterattack

In the last life, Qi Zhiheng was a low-level cultivator with poor personal quality in the Xuanyue mainland, which was respected by martial arts. He was expelled from his home and became a small lan...

Chapter 431 The Threads of Law in the Painting

The fellow disciples got to know each other, and then Shi Qingyun received several more portions of pills.

Several of my senior brothers are alchemists, so they have no shortage of top-grade pills, to say the least.

After Qi Zhiheng introduced his disciples to each other, he led them to the courtyard where Yang Yijie and Yang Yicen were.

After introducing them to each other, Qi Zhiheng said, "Your cultivation levels are all about the same, so you can learn from each other. The mental cultivation methods and techniques you learn are also at a similar level. You'll have a lot to discuss together."

Qi Zhiheng left the person here, and also asked Shi Qingyun to help guide the Yang siblings, since he was a new ear.

Although the cultivation method he practiced was a more advanced one given to him by Qi Zhiheng, the essence remained the same, and some of the experiences were applicable to all cultivation practices.

Qi Zhiheng has accumulated a large amount of spirit stones by selling pills during this period, which is enough for him to cultivate in his space again.

So he took a large pile of spirit stones and went into the space, leaving Yang Yitian outside to keep things under control.

Anyway, there's a time difference in space, so not too much time will have passed outside.

If Qi Zhiheng wants to improve his strength, he needs to start from all aspects. He has already taken quite a few pills, but some pills have a prescribed amount to take, and taking too many will eventually render them useless.

Qi Zhiheng found a secluded spot in the space and began to cultivate, but his progress was still somewhat slow. He searched through his storage ring to see if there was anything that could help him improve his cultivation level in a short period of time.

He quickly pulled out a pile of scrolls, which depicted a man with an icy demeanor.

Qi Zhiheng remembered that the scrolls found in these celestial palaces contained many lines of law.

If these threads of law can be absorbed, it should be able to improve one's cultivation level in the near future.

However, how exactly to absorb these threads of law remains a question.

After studying it for several days, he finally found a way to absorb the lines of rules within the painting.

First, he needs to establish his own domain of rules, which is relatively simple and easier to do within his own space.

After expanding their own domain, they used the existing threads of rules within themselves to entangle the threads of law within the scroll. These threads of law lacked independent consciousness and, unlike the threads of law that Qi Zhiheng could control, were gradually absorbed under Qi Zhiheng's deliberate disintegration.

Absorbing the threads of law is quite difficult. Qi Zhiheng spent a year in the space but still couldn't absorb all the threads of law in a single painting.

However, the effect of absorbing the Law Threads is significant. Although he is still in the early stage of the Mahayana stage, the early stage can be divided into many stages. If he could be said to be in stage one before, after absorbing half of the Law Threads of the painting, he is now in stage three.

It took him three years to absorb the laws within a painting, which is equivalent to three days outside, not too long.

After absorbing the power of the laws, something in the scroll seemed to shatter, and the portraits of the figures inside gradually dissipated, with a phantom figure drifting out of the painting.

Qi Zhiheng finally saw the other person's appearance clearly this time. He had only seen it in the painting before, but the appearance in the painting was always different from the real person. Facing the person's phantom directly, Qi Zhiheng truly felt the coldness and indifference in the other person's bones.

Qi Zhiheng met the illusory figure's gaze for a moment, then couldn't help but shiver. Without uttering a word, the figure vanished into thin air.

The Seventh Prince watched the illusory figure disappear, guessing that the creator of the painting had perhaps infused a wisp of their divine will into it, causing this to happen. He didn't dwell on it, instead focusing on familiarizing himself with the abilities he now possessed.

He used his own space to practice and quickly became familiar with the power of the newly acquired laws. Last time, when he dealt with and defeated that Tribulation Transcending cultivator, he used the power of the laws to defeat him in a completely crushing manner. In fact, he could have defeated the opponent with his original power as well, but it would have taken longer and he would have been in a more sorry state.

The reason he was able to end the battle so quickly was because there was no suppression from the Heavenly Dao within the spatial rift, which allowed him to unleash his full power.

Qi Zhiheng was familiarizing himself with the power in the space, but he didn't know that after he absorbed the lines of law in the first painting, Yang Yitian had a dream that night about the original owner of the Immortal Palace, Immortal Lord Han Qing.

Some of the memories here are clearer.

In fact, ever since he made a contract with the Celestial Palace, he had frequently had dreams about its original owner. These dreams were just scattered fragments of memories, but this time they were more numerous and more complete. He guessed it was a side effect of making the contract with the Celestial Palace. He even called out the little black snake to ask about the situation, but the little black snake only had a vague understanding. After all, it was just a spirit that had become a spirit halfway through its cultivation, and there were some things it couldn't know.

Yang Yitian stopped insisting. He thought back and realized that these memories didn't have much of an impact on him. At least he was still in control of his own thoughts and hadn't experienced any possession or anything like that. Gradually, he started to treat dreaming as a trivial matter.

After familiarizing himself with the power of the rules, Qi Zhiheng emerged again for a period of time. After meeting with a Transcending Tribulation stage cultivator, he stated that he would be going into seclusion to refine pills and should not be disturbed for the next three months.

Then he entered the space to cultivate.

The lines of law in the first painting had already given him a taste of success, which made him want more. This time, his twin brother and his three sons also came to cultivate. Qi Zhiheng sent them to another place to cultivate so that they would not affect him. Most importantly, he could not let his sons find out that he had hidden a bunch of other people's portraits. If they complained to Yang Yitian, he would be unable to clear his name.

Fortunately, the triplets weren't too curious about Qi Zhiheng's cultivation, so they practiced and sparred on their own turf. Those who wanted to learn alchemy focused on alchemy, and those who wanted to learn talisman drawing focused on talisman drawing.

Qi Zhiheng, on the other hand, relied on absorbing the threads of law to gain a deeper understanding of the laws, and his cultivation level was also gradually improving.

Three months later, Qi Zhiheng had absorbed two-thirds of the painting he had obtained, and the triplets' cultivation had reached its peak. Qi Zhiheng then left the space with them.

The triplets went out to prepare for their breakthrough. Qi Zhiheng, on the other hand, sold another batch of pills.

When Qi Zhiheng saw Yang Yitian again that day, he noticed something was wrong with his wife.

"Why did you make yourself look like a ghost cultivator?" Qi Zhiheng couldn't stand looking at him anymore.

Yang Yitian had dark circles under his eyes, and he seemed drowsy at times. He had also lost weight in the past few days.

Qi Zhiheng pulled his hand over and found that it was almost just a layer of skin left.

Yang Yitian yawned: "I don't know what's wrong, I've been feeling sleepy lately. I'm already in the Great Ascension stage, how can I still be sleepy?" This is a problem that even immortals would have a hard time solving, right?

Qi Zhiheng's expression was somewhat solemn: "Let me check your physical condition." He examined Yang Yitian's physical condition.

He couldn't quite tell what was wrong at first glance, but why was he feeling sleepy? He touched Yang Yitian's somewhat thin face and the dark circles under his eyes, trying to use his spiritual power to clear them away, but he couldn't.

Yang Yitian rubbed his face against his palm and said, "It's no use. I tried it myself with my spiritual energy, and I still look like this."

Logically speaking, with his current cultivation level, he shouldn't have any problems even if he doesn't eat or sleep, but now this kind of question has arisen!

He not only lost a lot of weight, but also had dark circles under his eyes! This was truly an amazing experience.

Qi Zhiheng couldn't help but think of a problem: Yang Yitian's soul might have reached its limit again, and he needed to quickly fuse with some remnant souls to stabilize his own soul body: "We need to think of a way to replenish your soul body."

With Yang Yitian in trouble, Qi Zhiheng could no longer continue his cultivation.

During this period, his cultivation level has advanced from the early stage of Mahayana to the middle stage. Such a rapid advancement is remarkable. He can now consolidate his strength before dealing with the paintings.

Yang Yitian asked, "The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk can now specifically summon souls?"

Qi Zhiheng shook his head: "It hasn't been modified yet. Chu Huaifeng introduced a weapon refiner before, but the modifications were not satisfactory. We need to find someone else to fix it."

Yang Yitian said, "Then this thing probably won't be usable for the time being."

Qi Zhiheng nodded: "Indeed, but fortunately we have a backup."

Within Qi Zhiheng's space, there is still a remnant soul that has not died and has been residing there all along.

Although it sounds cruel, Yang Yitian's current situation doesn't allow him to wait any longer.

He led Yang Yitian into the space and found the two brothers, Yang Mengqing and Yang Mengqiu, who lived there.

Qi Zhiheng said directly to Yang Mengqiu, "I have a life-extending pill! It can add thirty years to your lifespan. If you are willing to enter that time-distorted area, I will give the pill to your brother."

Qi Zhiheng's request was simple: the two brothers should enter a world with fast spatial flow, so that thirty years inside would be equivalent to thirty days outside. This was better than leaving them outside and making Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian wait for another thirty years.

They could have waited, but Yang Yitian's condition is clearly not good now, and he needs the repair of his remnant soul.

Yang Mengqiu thought about it and finally agreed. As long as the two brothers could be together for a longer period of time, it didn't matter which space they were in.

Qi Zhiheng was fairly satisfied with his answer, so he readily gave him the pills and led him to the area where they usually cultivated.

Yang Yitian watched them go in from outside, and Qi Zhiheng came out shortly afterward.