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 even 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 out. 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 Tianyi couldn't find the source, so he thought he was hallucinating the sensation.

After being injured by the Red Dragon Lotus—Tianyi refused to acknowledge that Lei Jingye's injured him—Tianyi was far too fatigued to think about the gaze. Now that Tianyi had 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!"

Before Tianyi had no time to calm down the turbulent true qi rampaging in his body, the fake pill circled around him like a mosquito and frequently attacked him. Normally, this wouldn't be much of a problem, 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 to the point that 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 a mountain was constantly weighing down on him. Tianyi knew it was because of the massive amount of chaotic true qi within him.

After receiving the beating of his life, over eighty percent of the true qi of chaos within Tianyi had been carried out by his blood. Although his body still felt a bit cumbersome, it was incomparably to a moment ago. Inside his dantian, the density of gray clouds had also lessened by about half.

Tianyi furrowed his brows, the Sole Yin, Eight Yang Trigrams Core Revolution Formation no longer spun on a broken tempo. Well, at least not as much. 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 lay 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 return to its broken tempo after his true qi reserves reached about thirty-five percent.

Tianyi opened his eyes and looked at the fake pill with a complicated look. With his massive reserves of qi, his bruise had long healed.

Watching the process of yin and yang intermixing to become chaos gave Tianyi new insight into the worldly laws and what path he should take. The Law of Yin and Yang weren't as important. It was helpful to use those two laws to understand the Law of Chaos, but chaos was all-encompassing. Yin, yang, wind, fire, lightning, and so much more made up chaos.

It could be said that the fake pill helped point out a direction for Tianyi to tread on. Still, it was an arduous task. The more Tianyi comprehended, the more he knew how vast the Law of Chaos was and how insignificant his progress was.

The fake pill had already absorbed all the blood Tianyi had coughed up. Its 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 then jumped towards Tianyi's empty 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. 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.

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"You can change form to anything you want?" Tianyi said in amazement.

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 naturally beingTianyi's blood.

Tianyi released a sigh and 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 it to pummel again, he couldn't deny it significantly alleviated his problems for a while and was a good stop-gap measure.

In high spirits, Tianyi tried to track Lei Jingye's location, but to his disappointment, he could not find any trace of the regressor. 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.

Tianyi began moving towards the direction Lei Jingye had escaped to with a shrug. Perhaps, he could get lucky. All the while, he used his true qi to power his numerous techniques that increased his speed. Tianyi could not use techniques that required precise 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 could not use more than ninety percent of them.

As expected, Lei Jingye had already disappeared without a trace no matter how far Tianyi traveled. He folded his arms with a sigh.'It seems I can't resolve the issue with Lei Jingye this time. Next, I hopefully won't be hindered by my issue.'

At least he had some gains and wouldn't return to the Buzhou Immortal Sect empty-handed. He didn't know what the Heavenly River could be used for, but he knew it would be a great help for him in the future.

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

Since Tianyi couldn't find Lei Jingye, he'll continue looking for opportunities. Who knows when the next chance to visit the Immortal Court would be. 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.

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. The Buzhou Immortal Sect had records of the primordial era where immortals were as common as clouds, and divinities, although rarer, still roamed about. But suddenly, it seemed as if they all disappeared and the Immortal Court was destroyed.

During his exploration, Tianyi discovered a giant mountain in the ruin 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.

According to his mother, the name of the jade pendant was Pendant of Mountains and Seas. Apparently, it was a failed attempt at recreating the divine artifact known as the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Even though it was a failed and incomplete artifact, its power was still immense. Just stimulating the essence within the pendant allowed Tianyi to kill a nascent soul grandmaster as a foundation establishment disciple.

Mengfei had told him that in order to complete this artifact, he would need to absorb at least nine mountains and nine seas into the formation. The greater the quality of the mountain or sea absorbed, the better the artifact would become upon completion. Although Tianyi didn't know what mountain this was in the Immortal Court, it would be a great addition to the Pendant of Mountains and Seas.

Without wasting another second, Tianyi deployed the formation, and nine illusionary mountains and seas appeared. He didn't even consider the possibility of failure or the consequences. Under Tianyi's will, the first mountain overlapped with the actual 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 Immortal Court ruins. Although he was unwilling to leave without exploring 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 trapped. The only reason it worked before was because he caught Tianyi off guard.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Lei Jingye was not Tianyi's match. Tianyi was also in the Core Formation Realm and had been for far longer. Lei Jingye also felt the pressure of a nascent soul grandmaster from him. Thinking about his gains, 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 the Heavenly River Stellar Avatar had not been recorded down, even an outsider would be able to discern how amazing it was for Xi Tianyi to form it.

Suddenly, the ground of the Immortal Court began to tremble, and Lei Jingye's footing became unsteady.

"What's happening? Is the Immortal Court ruins falling apart?" Tossing aside all other thoughts, Lei Jingye increased his pace towards the exit. Thankfully he was already near the exit; otherwise, it remained unknown if he would have been in danger.

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.

The third person in the Immortal Court ruins 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 numerous wild herbs and a single giant tree, all full of spirituality, surrounded her.

At a visible rate, the herbs began to wither. From those herbs that have completely withered, insects crawled out from them and entered Hu Landie's robes. There were numerous worms, cockroaches, poisonous centipedes, grasshoppers, mantises, and many other types of insects. All of them had cloudy eyes as if they were drunk.

Hu Landie's sole eye was like a bottomless abyss with no fluctuations despite the insects crawling into her robes. Her eye widened when she felt the sudden tremors from the land. She frowned and recalled all the insects, even the ones still in the process of extracting the herb's property, back to her. But even after the last insect was absorbed, she did not leave as if waiting for something.

A few minutes later, what she was later was revealed as it tunneled out of the tree trunk. It was a caterpillar with a yellow-brown body and a pattern resembling floorboard. Its 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 the process, Hu Landie didn't show any change in expression, even as the insect tunneled into her head through the flower.

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 Immortal Court ruins. It was as if Tianyi, Lei Jingye, and Hu Landie had entered a different world than the rest of the disciples.