Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

Although Xuan Qiu was a 9th level Heavenly Core Realm cultivator, his soul strength was limited. On top of that, he was simultaneously facing the oppression of the will pressure, so he naturally could not resist the distracting effect of Dream Bubble.

Seizing this opportunity, Li Yun unceremoniously kicked out.

Xuan Qiu was sent flying dozens of meters away.

By the time Xuan Qiu recovered, he had fallen from the end of the first echelon to the middle-lower position of the second echelon. This instantly made him nearly frantic with rage.

Unfortunately, once the distance had opened up, catching up to Li Yun again would not be easy.

After a while, Li Yun and the others finally reached the one-fifth mark of the Heart Refining Road.

With a swish, the illusion formation immediately activated and enveloped everyone.

In an instant, Li Yun’s figure appeared in a wilderness.

"Help!"

"Someone, please come quickly!"

Piteous cries for help rang out constantly.

A young married woman around thirty years old and a child about six or seven years old were running frantically. Behind them was a ferocious-looking, middle-aged strongman dressed like a bandit.

"You cannot escape."

The middle-aged strongman grinned and laughed wildly. "No one has ever escaped from my Crimson Wolf Fortress. When I catch you two and bring you back, I will deal with you properly. The woman will be taken back for the brothers’ enjoyment, and the boy will be sold. Tsk, a tender-skinned brat like you can probably fetch a good price. Hahaha!"

As he spoke, the middle-aged strongman grew more excited, and a bloodthirsty gleam flashed in his eyes.

He suddenly swept forward, crossing dozens of meters in distance, and reached out to grab the young woman and the child.

Just as they were about to be caught, despair flashed in the eyes of the young woman and the child.

But at that moment, a streak of Sword Qi suddenly swept past, directly decapitating the middle-aged strongman.

Swish!

After killing the middle-aged strongman, Li Yun’s figure broke away from the illusion and reappeared on the Heart Refining Road.

At this time, exactly one breath had passed.

"It seems the flow of time inside the illusion is different from the outside world."

Li Yun realized something.

He had not stayed in the illusion for long, but it had still been at least ten breaths. Calculated this way, the time flow ratio should be ten to one.

At the same time, he discovered that about half of the people in the first echelon stayed for one breath like him, while even more people did not stop for even the slightest moment.

Recalling the performance of the previous batches of cultivators, Li Yun suddenly formed a certain guess. However, whether his guess was correct still required verification from the subsequent illusion formations.

After passing the first fifth of the journey, the will pressure of the Heart Refining Road intensified further, reaching a level comparable to the 3rd level of Spirit Manifestation Realm.

However, this level of pressure still posed no threat to Li Yun.

His speed did not change at all.

Instead, some cultivators in the same echelon gradually slowed down, causing Li Yun to slowly move into the middle position of the first echelon.

Soon, he reached the two-fifths mark.

The illusion formation activated again.

This time, he appeared in a small village.

A group of demon beasts was invading the village. Although these demon beasts were not too strong, with the strongest only at the 5th level of Heavenly Core Realm, there were dozens of them.

However, the villagers in this small village were almost all ordinary people. Even the strongest among them were only at the Xiantian Realm. Under the attack of these demon beasts, they were completely unable to resist.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of them had been killed or injured.

"Soul Sword Control Art."

Seeing this scene, coldness flashed in Li Yun’s eyes, and he immediately made his move without hesitation.

A full thousand precious swords transformed into dozens of sword formations, howling forth and erupting with incredibly sharp power.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Sword Qi shot out, instantly killing all the demon beasts.

"Sure enough, it is as I guessed."

In the next moment, Li Yun’s figure reappeared on the Heart Refining Road, and a sharp light appeared in his eyes.

Just as he had guessed, the illusions of the Heart Refining Road were mostly similar. They were all scenes of the weak being hunted and slaughtered, with only the number and strength of the enemies being different.

The higher one climbed, the stronger the enemies that appeared in those illusions became, and resolving them required more effort and time.

Of course, whether to save them or not was entirely up to one’s own heart.

One could choose not to save them and directly exit the illusion, or one could choose to save them. However, the Profound Origin Immortal Sect would not care if the time was delayed because of it.

It was precisely because of this that Wang Lie passed through quickly, never staying for even a moment in the illusions, while Fan Wuhen, who was regarded more highly, was delayed for a significant amount of time.

Clearly, in every illusion, Fan Wuhen had chosen to save people.

After figuring this out, Li Yun now had to decide whether he should continue saving people for the rest of the journey.

The first two illusions were manageable, but the next two would clearly not be so easy to resolve. If he chose to save people, it would certainly take a lot of time.

And this would greatly affect the time it took him to climb to the summit.

More importantly, the people he worked so hard to save were actually only illusory existences within the illusions.

Was it really worth affecting his results in this trial for people who were not real?

"Save them."

Soon, Li Yun made his decision.

To him, the willpower pressure of the Heart Refining Road was not a serious threat. Even if he was delayed by fifteen minutes along the way, he was completely confident that he could reach the summit within the allotted time.

Since he could guarantee passing the trial of the Heart Refining Road, it was only right to save those he could.

After all, while he was not an overly compassionate person, he was still a swordsman.

Letting innocent and weak people die miserably before his eyes would go against his original heart.

Even though he knew it was only an illusion, and even though he knew ignoring them would bring better results, staying true to one’s heart was the most important thing for a cultivator.

If one abandoned one’s principles for a bit of immediate benefit, such a cultivator was destined to never reach the peak of the Martial Dao.

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