Chapter 482: Eight Years Later

Chapter 482: Eight Years Later

After Li Wei broke through to the fifth tier and awakened his new extraordinary trait,

he couldn't help but test its power within the dream world.

Under Li Wei's guidance, Gusevi had already learned the basics of entering dreams.

She still had quite a distance to go before becoming a true dreamwalker.

But she could now freely enter Li Wei's dream world without his assistance.

When entering her own dream world, however, lacking the status of a dreamwalker, she couldn't maintain self-awareness or consciousness.

Therefore, most of the time Gusevi stayed in Li Wei's dream world, using the scenes he created to vent the boredom and frustration of cultivation.

Over the past six months, the two often met in dreams, their relationship growing much closer.

Seeing Li Wei, Gusevi showed surprise.

"You've broken through?"

Half a year ago, she already knew Li Wei was on the verge of breakthrough.

Now seeing him not cultivating but entering the dream world, she instinctively thought Li Wei had broken through.

Li Wei smiled and nodded, saying, "Mm, finally broke through to the fifth tier."

Gusevi looked at him and smiled, saying, "Then I must work hard to cultivate. I absolutely can't let you catch up."

"I hope I can break through to the sixth tier before leaving the Time Secret Realm."

"Keep it up."

Li Wei encouraged her with a word, then flew toward the distant sea, ready to show off his skills.

Gusevi watched Li Wei fly away but didn't follow.

She stayed by the coastline, enjoying the rare coolness and comfortable sea breeze.

Occasionally, she would experience other scenes Li Wei created, though she still preferred the ocean most.

Suddenly, the sea turned red.

Gusevi instinctively looked up—it was the ocean reflecting the reddened sky.

A massive meteor streaked across the sky and fell into the endless ocean.

Gusevi muttered, "What is Li Wei up to?"

The next second, she was frightened by what she saw.

A blinding flash appeared at the horizon, temporarily blinding her completely.

It took her a long while to recover, then she felt a violent air wave sweep across the beach, sweeping everything clean.

Even trees at the edge of the beach were blown over to one side.

"What happened?"

Gusevi stood dumbfounded.

As her vision gradually returned, the scene before her froze her in place.

Realizing what was happening, she screamed in terror and turned to run frantically.

"Ahhhhhhh!"

A towering tsunami that blocked out the sun appeared at the horizon, surging toward the shore.

The tsunami's height had already exceeded a hundred meters and continued rising.

It was unimaginable what kind of force could create such a terrifying tsunami.

Looking down at the exposed black seabed below, Li Wei saw molten rock forming bright red magma at the center.

He hadn't yet realized that the explosion-generated tsunami was chasing after Gusevi.

Li Wei marveled, "This power—if dropped on some island nation, it should be able to sink it completely."

Under the effect of elemental fission, the deepest crater created by the ultimate meteor fireball spell exceeded a hundred kilometers in diameter.

Evaporating countless trillions of tons of seawater, directly turning an entire sea area into land.

Seawater slowly flowed back from the edges to fill the explosion crater.

"Li Wei!"

Li Wei felt someone moving his body from outside.

He showed a strange expression—nowadays, only one person could move his body. Li Wei exited the dream world and found Gusevi staring at him furiously, flames burning in her eyes.

Gusevi shouted angrily, "Do you know what you're doing? Do you know what it feels like to be crushed to death by a tsunami?"

"Eh?" Li Wei looked completely confused.

He utterly failed to understand her meaning.

After a long time, communicating with the calmed-down Gusevi, Li Wei finally understood what she meant.

He repeatedly promised it would absolutely never happen again.

Only then did Gusevi let him go.

Afterwards, Gusevi couldn't help but curiously ask what exactly he had been doing?

Li Wei casually made up an excuse to get past it.

"Oh, I was just checking how much my strength improved after advancing."

Gusevi muttered, "That seems way too unreliable. Isn't the dream world supposed to be whatever you want it to be? How can you tell how much your strength increased?"

There was another thing she didn't say.

Besides, that kind of power earlier certainly didn't seem like something a newly-broken-through fifth-tier mage could produce.

It was practically comparable to forbidden spells.

Soon, life within the Time Secret Realm returned to peace.

Both Li Wei and Gusevi devoted themselves to diligent cultivation, occasionally entering the dream world to relax their minds.

In the blink of an eye, eight years had passed since Li Wei and Gusevi entered the Time Secret Realm.

Without the aid of secret medicines and magic potions for cultivation, Li Wei spent over seven years reaching peak fifth tier and entering the extraordinary trait awakening advancement stage.

However, after eight years of immersion, Li Wei refined all the magical skills he mastered to fifth-tier perfection.

His advanced version of Fireball—"Meteor Fireball Spell"—was even deduced to sixth-tier mastery, just one step away from sixth-tier perfection.

Gusevi had already broken through to the sixth tier six years ago.

In similar circumstances, Gusevi also displayed the true talent strength befitting the Holy Maiden of Ice City.

Her cultivation speed was truly much faster than Li Wei's—not just by a little.

In the same timeframe, Li Wei progressed from fourth to fifth tier, then cultivated to peak fifth tier.

Gusevi, meanwhile, advanced from fifth tier to peak sixth tier.

The gulf between them was far from ordinary.

Their relationship, much like their cultivation, had experienced a breakthrough.

Though they had abstained within the Time Mystic Realm, they had shared every intimacy during those long days spent together in the dreamscape.

Gu Sewei leaned against Levi, her eyes fixed on the shifting Time Dragon Egg.

Levi wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

His appearance remained largely unaltered.

Sharing the sacred dragon’s vast lifespan with Sheng Xi, a mere eight years was nothing more than a fleeting moment in his enduring existence.

Yet for Gu Sewei, eight years was a profound span of time.

While her features had not changed drastically, she possessed a distinctly matured air.

Should she fail to break through to the Legendary rank, her lifespan would cap at a mere century.

Only by breaching that threshold would her lifeform transcend, granting her a vastly extended life.

Even then, she could survive for five hundred years at most.

Compared to true long-lived species like elves and dragons, she was on an entirely different plane.

Only by ascending to godhood could one truly break free from the shackles of mortality.

Levi gazed at the egg enveloping Sheng Xi and murmured, "After all these years, this is the first shift we've seen. Sheng Xi might be waking up."

"Yes, we can finally leave this place," Gu Sewei sighed softly.

Following her lament, a shadow of worry inevitably crossed her face.

"Eight years have vanished for us inside here, but there is no telling how much time has passed in the outside world. What if the Frost Emperor has already awakened?"

Levi patted her shoulder and offered a reassuring smile. "Do not worry. You still have me."