When Tianyi awakened, he froze.

He blinked a few times before rubbing his eyes.

He blinked again.

There was the tiny golden sphere frolicking in his blood. It appeared exactly like the fake pill except there were now four tiny legs on it. The fake pill didn’t have a mouth but whenever it touched the blood puddle on the ground, the blood would be absorbed cleanly into the pill from its surface.

There would not be a speck of blood left on the floor.

Tianyi watched with morbid fascination as all of his vomited blood was absorbed into the pill.

Is it just my imagination or is the golden color even deeper now?

When all the blood was gone the pill kept turning around as if trying to find something or someone. Tianyi saw an imaginary lizard head and tail on the pill, he could even imagine it forking its tongue to find him.

But it was a lizard with a sphere for a body. In other words it was incredibly fat.

Tianyi felt that the fake pill looked incredibly dumb searching around but never registering himself. Tianyi didn’t know how a pill attained spirituality, but it seemed closer to an animal’s intelligence than a human’s so the formation easily hid Tianyi from it.

Don’t tell me this was the gaze I felt on me? Tianyi thought. Ever since he had left the Pill Hall he had always felt a gaze on him, but there was no movement so Tianyi only take a wait and see approach.

After being injured by the Red Dragon Lotus, Tianyi refused to acknowledge that it was Lei Jingye’s strength that injured him, Tianyi was far too fatigued to think about the gaze. But now that Tianyi found the truth he felt incredibly amused.

Tianyi stood up and tapped the jade pendant at his waist. The fake pill was frozen still as it suddenly sensed Tianyi appeared out of nowhere. Tianyi quirked his lips upward as he walked towards the pill, his eyes were unprecedentedly bright.

“So little fatty-”

Tianyi never had a chance to finish as the fake pill launched itself like a cannon at Tianyi’s stomach. Once again Tianyi vomited blood out as he felt the equilibrium in his body shatter once more.

“FUCK!”

But Tianyi had no time to calm down his turbulent true qi as the fake pill revolved around him like a mosquito and frequently attacked him, but this mosquito had the force of a mountain behind it. Tianyi could only let himself be pummeled with no power to resist. Every time he tried to reach towards his pendant, the fake pill would smash into his hand and knock it away.

After being battered until he could only lay on the ground, Tianyi watched the fake pill roll around in his blood as if playing in a water puddle.

Tianyi could feel his right cheek beginning to swell from being hit by the fake pill. Whether it was on purpose or not, all of his injuries were only skin deep and easily recoverable. He helplessly closed his eyes and once again began to restore the delicate equilibrium inside of him. Tianyi was shocked to discover that his body actually felt incredibly light like it had never been before.

Ever since Tianyi entered the Core Formation realm his body had always felt his body was incredibly heavy like it was constantly being weighed down by a mountain. Tianyi knew it was because of the massive amount of true qi within him.

Only when he gained the ability to perfectly control his true qi of chaos would the weight that always pressured Tianyi disappeared.

But now without having gained the ability to perfectly control his true qi, Tianyi actually felt incredibly light. After inspecting his dantian, Tianyi learned why.

The reason was incredibly simple, because more than 80 percent of his true qi of chaos had left his body. There could only be one reason. When the fake pill pummeled him, it was able to make his true qi adhere itself to the blood Tianyi vomited. Now with only 20 percent of his true qi left, Tianyi felt it was incredibly easy to control it through his understanding of the dao as well as brute force of will.

Tianyi furrowed his brows, the Sole Yin, Eight Yang Trigrams Core Revolution Formation no longer spun on a broken tempo. The formation was now working as intended and Tianyi watched with fascination as the yin and yang inside of him intermixed to create the true qi of chaos within him.

There was a sense of beauty to the process as if watching ink stain white parchment.

Tianyi sat there in a daze watching the process. He had not been able to witness the formation within him work properly, only after his true qi had dropped was he able to do so. It didn’t take long but soon the formation within his body once again began to turn on a broken tempo after his true qi reserves reached 35 percent.

Tianyi opened his eyes and looked at the fake pill with a complicated look. His face was no longer bruised.

Watching the process of yin and yang intermixing to become chaos gave Tianyi new insight into the dao and what path he should take. Yin and Yang wasn’t as important, it was useful to use those two daos to understand the dao of chaos. But the most important thing was to understand the dao of chaos, the dao of yin and yang weren’t actually as important as Tianyi thought they would be.

It could be said that the fake pill helped point out a direction for Tianyi to tread on.

The fake pill had already absorbed all the blood Tianyi had coughed up. It’s four limbs seemed to have melted into its pill body. The pill hopped up and down once it saw Tianyi observing it, as if happy. It jumped towards Tianyi and Tianyi held out his hand.

The fake pill jumped onto his hand and rolled around it as if rubbing and showing affection. Tianyi felt his lips twitch.

"Stupid fatty, are you trying to apologize for beating me up?” After Tianyi spoke those words he immediately covered his forehead with his other hand.

“Damn, I can’t let anyone else know that I got beaten up by a pill, this black history must be buried forever.” He could already imagine the pitying looks he would receive if anyone found out.

“Since you like my blood and absorb so much, you should just follow me.” Tianyi said as he brought the pill up to face level. “As for what I’m going to do with you, let’s just wait till mother comes back”

The pill jumped up and down as if saying yes. Tianyi then placed the pill inside his robes and began to walk out. But he stopped once he realized the pill had rolled out of his robes and onto his belt. The pill seemed to roll around for a moment before seeing the jade pendant. Then to Tianyi’s amazement the pill turned into a near exact replica of his jade pendant with the only difference in it retaining its color.

“You can change form to anything you want?”

Tianyi said in amazement. But the transformed fake pill only swung a little bit before it stopped moving. Tianyi felt as if the little fatty had just had its fill and was now sleeping to digest all that it ate. The food was naturally Tianyi’s blood.

Releasing a sigh, Tianyi stepped out of the Heaven and Man Connection Pagoda. Whatever the reason, the fake pill was actually a good thing for him. Although Tianyi didn’t want to be pummeled again, he couldn’t deny it greatly alleviated his problems for a while.

In high spirits Tianyi tried to sense where Lei Jingye went, or rather where the Red Dragon Lotus went. But to his disappointment he could no longer sense his connection to the Red Dragon Lotus. And in the Immortal Court, the sun never set so Tianyi didn’t know how long he slept nor how long Lei Jingye had escaped for.

With a shrug Tianyi began moving towards where he last sensed the Red Dragon Lotus. All the while he was using his true qi to power his numerous techniques that increased his speed. Tianyi was unable to use techniques that required fine control because of his previous issues. But now that he could, it almost brought him to tears at the convenience of all the techniques he had learned.

He had learned various techniques but he was unable to use more than 90 percent of them.

Although his face was still pale, his vitality and spirit was higher than ever as he chased down Lei Jingye’s last known location. By the time Tianyi had reached the last known location of Lei Jingye, he had already gotten bored of testing out all his unused techniques. Aside from the best movement technique he knew, Tianyi didn’t use anything else.

As expected, Lei Jingye had already disappeared without a trace once Tianyi arrived at his last known location. Tianyi folded his arms with a sigh.

“It seems I can’t resolve the issue with Lei Jingye this time. Next time, I hopefully won’t be hindered by my issue.” He was a bit disappointed, but Tianyi wasn’t completely down as he had his own fortuitous encounter. Although he didn’t know what the Heavenly River could be used for, he knew it would be a great help for him in the future.

Even if it accelerated his cultivation, he now had the fake pill to suppress his chaotic qi. Tianyi wasn’t able to sense it earlier, but now he could feel the fake pill pendant on his waist absorbing the true qi of chaos inside of him.

Aside from searching the ruin of the Immortal Court, Tianyi could do nothing else.

After who knows how many days passed, the only thing that Tianyi found was a calabash bottle gourd. It seemed completely ordinary but once Tianyi opened the stopper an incredibly dense aroma of wine wafted out. Just smelling the alcoholic aroma made Tianyi dizzy so he quickly put the stopper back on. Although he didn’t know what it was, this thing was from the Immortal Court so it definitely wasn’t simple.

But when Tianyi tried to store it into his spatial ring, the gourd didn’t have any reaction no matter how many times he tried. This made Tianyi value it even more and he tied the gourd to his waist. Aside from the gourd Tianyi didn’t find anything else, it was like everything had already packed up before the Immortal Court fell into ruins, leaving only behind sparse crumbs.

“What exactly caused the Immortal Court to fall into ruins?”

The longer Tianyi stayed the greater the number of questions he had.

During his exploration Tianyi discovered a giant mountain in the fragment of the Immortal Court. When he arrived at the mountain after many days of traveling, he discovered that it was full of dense spiritual qi and there were numerous herbs and plants that Tianyi didn’t recognize.

His eyes shone as he picked up his jade pendant.

This jade pendant was the same one he used to unleash the formation that allowed him to kill the Nascent Soul Grandmaster, Evil Wind Flower Picker Zhou.

It was actually an incomplete artifact created by a formation master, according to his mother. The true name of the jade pendant was Pendant of Mountains and Seas, it was apparently a failed attempt at recreating the divine artifact known as the Classics of Mountain and Seas.

Even though it was a failed and incomplete artifact, its power was still immense. Just by stimulating the essence within the pendant allowed Tianyi to kill a Nascent Soul Grandmaster as a Foundation Establishment Disciple.

His mother had once told him that in order to complete this artifact that he would need to absorb at least nine mountains and nine seas. The greater the quality of the mountain or sea that was absorbed, the better the artifact would become upon completion. Although Tianyi didn’t know what mountain this was in the Immortal Court, it would definitely create a great base for the Pendant of Mountains and Seas.

As for whether the Pendant of Mountain and Seas could absorb it? Tianyi wanted to at least try. Even if it failed he could still go up the mountain and pluck some spiritual herbs even if not being able to absorb it would be regret.

Without wasting another second Tianyi deployed the formation with the pendant and nine illusionary mountains and seas appeared. Under Tianyi’s will, the first mountain overlapped with the real mountain situated within the Immortal Court. Tianyi sat down into a lotus position and began to refine the mountain. His brows furrowed deep in concentration as he lost all sense of his surroundings. Without his notice the amount of true qi he was expending was continuously rising even with his insane production of qi with his nine Spiritual Cores.

Elsewhere Lei Jingye was making his way towards the entrance he had used to enter the secret realm. Although he was unwilling to leave without exploring the fragment of the Immortal Court more, Lei Jingye still had not been blinded by greed.

Xi Tianyi was the son of the Sword Empress and would naturally have numerous treasures on him, if he tried to use the Red Dragon Lotus to escape once more there was a high chance that he would be blocked. Although he didn’t want to admit it, Lei Jingye was not Tianyi’s match. Although Tianyi was also in the Core Formation realm, Lie Jingye felt the pressure of a Nascent Soul Grandmaster from him.

However Lei Jingye had already accomplished his main goal in coming towards this fragment of the Immortal Court. Thinking about this, Lei Jingye couldn’t help but clutch his chest in pain.

He had gained the Heavenly Wolf Constellation Stellar Avatar but he aided Xi Tianyi in forming a Heavenly River Stellar Avatar. Even though it was not recorded, even an outsider would be able to discern how amazing it was for Xi Tianyi to form such a Stellar Avatar.

At this moment the ground of the Immortal Court began to tremble and Lei Jingye’s footing became unsteady.

“What’s happening? Is the Immortal Court Ruin falling apart?” Tossing aside all other thoughts, Lei Jingye began to increase his pace towards the exit. Thankfully he was already making his way towards the exit. Lei Jingye sneered.

“It seems the heavens are helping me! Since I can’t get anything else here, you won’t be able to do so either!” As for whether Xi Tianyi would perish with the collapse of the secret realm? Lei Jingye believed that Xi Tianyi would not die in such a way, after all his end can only be the result of his, Lei Jingye’s, hand!

Unknown to Xi Tianyi and Lei Jingye, there was actually a third person in the ruins of the Immortal Court.

It was a woman wearing a blue dress and had an exotic lily instead of her right eye. It was Hu Landie.

She was in what seemed to be a medicinal valley and around her numerous wild herbs all full of spirituality were growing. At a visible rate the herbs began to wither. From those herbs that have completely withered insects would crawl out from them and enter Hu Landie’s robes. There were numerous worms, cockroaches, poisonous centipedes, grasshoppers, mantises among numerous types of insects. All of them had inky eyes exuded slight spiritual qi as if having eaten too much and unable to digest it all.

Her only visible eye was like a deep abyss with no fluctuations despite the insects crawling into her robes.

Her eyes slightly widened when she felt the sudden tremors from the land. She frowned but she decisively recalled all the insects that were still absorbing the spiritual herbs back into her. But even after the last insect was absorbed she did not leave as if waiting for something.

The thing soon revealed itself after burrowing up under the largest tree in the vicinity. It was caterpillar with a yellow brown body with the pattern that resembled a floorboard. It’s whole body was glossy as if it was painted in wax. The caterpillar vibrated its body and flew to Hu Landie, but it didn’t fly into her robes and instead flew onto the iris flower on her right eye. Once it landed, the larvae crawled into the center of the flower and disappeared, throughout this Hu Landie didn’t show any change in expression.

With a wave of her sleeves Hu Landie’s body became covered in countless butterflies, each one flapping its wings. Hu Landie flew into the sky towards the entrance from whence she came. Contrary to Tianyi’s belief, aside from the three of them there was no one else inside this secret realm. It was as if Tianyi, Lei Jingye, and Hu Landie had entered a different secret realm than the rest of the people from the three continents.