Lu Li didn't know how much time had passed. Three to five days, or three to five months?
Lu Li's mind gradually became clearer. But that didn't mean he had woken up. He felt like his soul was trapped in a dark world.
He couldn't see or hear anything. He only felt three things. The first was cold, the second was quiet, and the third was darkness.
He wanted to get out of this dark world, a world that terrified him, but he didn't know how.
His soul seemed to be flying in the endless void, never coming back down.
He knew he was in a horrifying state. If he didn't think of a way, his soul might be trapped here forever and he might never wake up.
He forced himself to calm down. Being impatient would only make him crazy. Only by staying calm could he find a way out.
Gradually, his soul relaxed and quieted down. Then, he fell asleep again. His soul was in complete silence.
When he woke up again, he realized it was the same. His soul was still trapped in a dark and cold space.
This time, he knew something was wrong. It was not that he was too weak to wake up. Something was wrong.
He began to wonder why this was happening.
"Is it because I have consumed too much of my energy?
My body is extremely weak?
Is that why my soul is sealed up? "
An idea came to Lu Li's mind. He thought about it for a long time and decided not to let his mind wander.
He decided to cultivate Soul Cultivation to make his soul stronger. He wanted to see if he could wake up completely after his soul was strengthened.
He used Soul Cultivation in silence. He didn't think about anything else and just focused on cultivating his soul.
"Eh?"
In this state, he found that his soul was being strengthened at a fast speed by cultivating Soul Cultivation.
It was more than 10,000 times faster than before.
He didn't know if it was really that fast or if it was just an illusion.
Thus, he decided not to think about anything else and focused on cultivating his soul.
In this state, Lu Li had no idea how much time had passed. All he knew was to cultivate Soul Cultivation until his mind was clear and he could control his body again.
Lu Li was still lying at the gate of the ancient temple. At the gate of the ancient temple, there were no beasts attacking him. Ghosts didn't seem to dare to come over either. Lu Li was safe.
The wounds on his body had long since healed, and the blood underneath had dried up. His torn leg was still slowly growing back.
It had been more than a month since he had fainted. His aura was very weak, and he lay on the ground like a living dead, unable to move at all.
Time flowed like a river. In the blink of an eye, five years had passed!
Of course, Lu Li had recovered. Because he had used the Dragon Transformation, he was naked. It was quite indecent for him to be lying at the door of the ancient temple.
Five years had passed, and his body had not moved at all. There was even a faint layer of dust on his body.
A person who had been in a coma for five years without waking up could not help but worry.
If the Heavenly Emperor Sect's elders and emperor-class experts knew that he had been unconscious for five years, they would have brought him out a long time ago.
The Rui Emperor and Lord Li would definitely be frantic, and even the sect master would come personally to investigate.
After all, Lu Li was important to them. He was a talent that could support the Heaven Emperor Sect in the future.
But somehow, after Lu Li entered the Hell Region, the Hell Region was sealed off. Nobody could enter or leave.
Therefore, nobody knew about Lu Li's situation. If the seal was not opened for ten thousand years, then Lu Li would have to sleep for another ten thousand years …
The ancient temple was not large, and it had been quiet. There was no sound, and no living beings came near.
Lu Li had been in a coma. His soul was still trapped in the endless darkness, and he could not wake up.
If there were any powerful warriors nearby who could see Lu Li, they would be shocked beyond words.
With every breath, Lu Li's soul was growing stronger. The speed of improvement could be compared to consuming the best elixirs.
Even Lu Li himself did not know why he was doing this.
All in all, his soul was growing at a horrifying speed, tens of thousands of times faster than when he was cultivating.
In other words …
One year of cultivation for Lu Li was equivalent to ten thousand years.
He had been cultivating for five years, which was equivalent to fifty thousand years of continuous cultivation.
It was the Rui Emperor who gave him this skill. It was not particularly advanced, but it was good enough.
Not even Lu Li could tell how strong his soul was after cultivating for fifty thousand years.
Another three years passed. All of a sudden, Lu Li's soul trembled. Then, he opened his eyes slowly.
He squinted for a moment. It took him a while to get used to it. He felt he could control his body again.
"Crack, crack, crack!"
He moved his body. His bones were cracking as if they were rusty.
He wriggled and stood up. He took out a robe and put it on.
He was overjoyed. Finally, he woke up. He felt he had survived a disaster.
"How long have I been sleeping?
Half a month? How many months? "
He blinked in confusion. In that state, he had no sense of time. His mind was in a trance as well. He could not tell the difference between reality and illusion.
He thought he could sleep for a month or two at most.
A man could not sleep forever.
"You've recovered from your injuries?"
Lu Li checked his body and then used psychic power to check how much source energy was left in his pellet.
He was shocked to find that there were millions of strands of source energy in that world. It was the size of a head.
That world had a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.
Lu Li knew that the world had been growing and the rate of growth was not fast or slow. It had been balanced.
Based on the growth rate, it seemed he had been sleeping for … seven or eight years?
"How is that possible?"
Lu Li shook his head. No matter how badly he was injured, he could not have slept for seven or eight years.
He checked his Region of Dharma again. It seemed to have grown a lot.
He mobilized his source energy. It was real. He didn't even cultivate. How could his source energy have grown by thousands of times?
He could not figure it out. He used psychic power to check other parts of his body. When he reached his soul, he trembled.
He realized his soul had mutated. His soul had become a golden bead. The bead had nodules on the outside. It was like a golden egg floating in his mind.
More importantly, his soul was strong, at least tens of thousands of times stronger than before.
What did tens of thousands of times mean?
Lu Li's soul was not particularly strong, but it was not weak either. It could be compared to a warrior at the middle stage of the Sixth Tribulation Realm. But now, his soul could be comparable to a warrior at the initial stage of the Emperor Realm.
"Could it be that what I sensed in my daze was real?
Am I really cultivating my soul in the dark tens of thousands of times faster than usual?
Have I really been sleeping for seven or eight years? "
Lu Li could not figure it out. He looked around the ancient temple. Somehow, he had a feeling — maybe the strange things that happened to him had something to do with this ancient temple?
"It must be!"
Lu Li thought about it and agreed with his speculation.
In the past, his soul was filled with evil spirits and evil spirits. Now, they were gone. He was calmer than ever. There must be something strange about this temple.
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