Chapter 582 - 682: Shifting Mindset
Ye Tianfan directly witnessed everything, the earth, wind, water, and fire in the world-saving events, which not only broadened his horizons but also revealed who had saved the world to become what it is now.
And when boredom began, Ye Tianfan didn't immediately collapse but instead cultivated his heart for hundreds of years. It was after he could no longer bear it that he was close to collapse.
So at this moment, Ye Tianfan's state of mind had reached the realm of Ten Directions.
This means that before Ye Tianfan cultivates to the realm of Ten Directions, he will not encounter any bottlenecks.
However, there are downsides to this. Ye Tianfan is a bit out of touch with his abilities because his improved realm allows him to see the flaws in some attacks.
But seeing a flaw doesn't mean Ye Tianfan can break it, so he sealed some of his own state of mind. He made sure his state of mind did not exceed his powers by too much, that way when his powers increased, he would release some parts of his state of mind, ensuring he wouldn't be out of touch during battles.
Ye Tianfan decided to stabilize his state of mind at Qian Yuan's fifth layer, three small layers higher than his own power level.
And, every time his power level increased by one layer, he would unlock another layer of his state of mind. This way, he wouldn't delay his cultivation nor have the problem of being out of touch.
Actually, it's mainly because Ye Tianfan's body isn't accustomed to such a high state of mind at once. If Ye Tianfan had not improved his state of mind in the Illusion Realm but in reality, his body would have adjusted, preventing the problem of being out of touch.
After all, time in Illusion Techniques passes very quickly. Like Ye Tianfan spending over a million years in the realm, while outside, it was less than two hours.
Meanwhile, the Hellfire Snake was still in the Illusion Technique, yet to awaken.
In mid-air, Ye Tianfan summoned the Fire Lotus Sword, and the pink Illusory Fire on it quickly entered Ye Tianfan's body.
Ye Tianfan immediately felt his legs weaken, barely managing to stand on the Fire Lotus Sword, which wobbled as if it could fall at any moment.
Seeing this situation, Ye Tianfan hurriedly reached into his robe to find some energy pills to replenish his Spiritual Power.
But after searching a couple of times, he couldn't find any. Just when he was puzzled about where he kept the pills, he immediately remembered that he might have left them in the Xuanhuang Tower. Subsequently, Ye Tianfan indeed retrieved a bottle of pills from the Xuanhuang Tower, poured one out, and swallowed it.
Having consumed the entire pill, Ye Tianfan felt relieved.
What Ye Tianfan hadn't anticipated was that just as he exhaled in relief, the Fire Lotus Sword started to descend slowly, and he felt a warm sensation within his body.
My goodness, I took the wrong one; this is a healing pill, not an energy replenishment one.
Ye Tianfan quickly brought out another bottle with different packaging, poured out a pill, and swallowed it.
Immediately, Ye Tianfan felt the Spiritual Power in his Dantian surge vigorously, flooding into his meridians everywhere.
It seems that this time he's taken the right one. After all, it has been millions of years since he returned to reality. Although he cut off many memories and forced himself to sleep, the event of earth, wind, water, and fire saving the world was not achieved in a day or two but over hundreds of years.
During those hundreds of years, Ye Tianfan just watched. Naturally, many things were forgotten or suppressed deep in his memory, only to be recalled when encountered.
After stabilizing himself, Ye Tianfan turned his gaze to the Hellfire Snake. Looking at its dazed appearance, he originally wanted to kill it to taste the Hellfire Snake's meat, wondering how delicious it could be, but ultimately refrained.
Ye Tianfan knew that if he couldn't kill it in one strike, the Hellfire Snake would awaken, and by then, he wouldn't be able to defeat it.
So Ye Tianfan gave up and flew to the riverbank. However, although he gave up for now, he remembered this place and vowed to return when he was strong enough to kill the Hellfire Snake and not miss the chance.
When the time comes, he will come back, kill the Hellfire Snake, and finally taste its meat to see how delicious it really is.
For now, Ye Tianfan wasn't in a hurry to leave because he wanted to figure out why he nearly ran out of Spiritual Power moments ago, and where the Illusory Fire had gone. Anyway, he was at the riverbank, outside the Hellfire Snake's territory, so even if it awoke, it wouldn't attack him.
Thus, Ye Tianfan sat cross-legged and started investigating the situation within himself.
First, Ye Tianfan saw the Illusory Fire within his Dantian. It was on the left side, a solitary pink flower bud.
Ye Tianfan immediately understood that the reason why the Illusory Fire was on the left was that it claimed the left side of the Dantian as its territory, meant for the fire elemental fragments. Once Ye Tianfan retrieved other fire elemental fragments, their flames would reside on the left side of the Dantian, while the upper, lower, and right positions seemed prepared for the earth, wind, and water elements.
But do as you wish, because I, the man with accommodating aura, am fearless. No matter where you are, you won't clash.
Therefore, Ye Tianfan didn't worry about where they were.
Collecting them benefits him, won't harm him, and he can use them before he collects all.
Speaking of using these fire elemental fragments, Ye Tianfan wanted to test the power of the Illusory Fire.
By this time, the Hellfire Snake had emerged from the Illusion Realm, seemingly unaware of having entered it because Ye Tianfan found that the Illusion Realm given to the Hellfire Snake by the Illusory Fire was entirely opposite to Ye Tianfan's — one extended time infinitely, the other shortened it infinitely.
The Hellfire Snake spent what felt like three minutes in the Illusion Realm.
Entering the Illusion Realm to recovery took three hours, while the actual time spent in the Illusion was only three minutes.
Imagine the horror of such an Illusion Realm.
If two were fighting and one was caught in an Illusion Technique where one second in reality equaled a minute in the Illusion...
No matter how skilled you are, upon discovering the Illusion and reacting, it would take time to break through. One second in the Illusion means a minute in reality, calculate for yourself. Even if you break the Illusion in less than a second, it still translates to at least tens of seconds passing in reality.
In battle, doing nothing for tens of seconds is suicidal.
Because these matters are somewhat related to time — though an Illusion, it's an application of time within Illusion Techniques.
