Days passed by, and Li Yunjing’s focus was entirely on his Divine Sense, having no time to worry about the depletion of his wealth.

Li Yunjing had already released the puppet mechanism beast to tend to things, inputting commands so that the moment the spirit stones of the "Spirit Gathering Array" were depleted, the puppet mechanism beast would replace them with new ones, continuing the conversion of spiritual energy.

As time passed, Li Yunjing’s body retained its powerful aura unchanged, but the flow of spiritual energy started to seem insufficient.

With the surging spiritual energy, Li Yunjing’s cultivation also grew increasingly stronger. The energy within his body grew larger, and a powerful aura circulated with his breathing.

The storage of true essence within Li Yunjing’s body almost doubled!

In his meridians, the flowing true essence rotated, immensely powerful, nourishing his internal organs even more and further widening many of his meridians.

Li Yunjing’s entire body became even stronger, filled with boundless power.

Unknowingly, with the "True Essence Pill" supplementing his needs from within and the "Spirit Gathering Array" converting spiritual energy from outside, Li Yunjing’s cultivation naturally broke through to the Foundation Establishment Realm Third Heaven!

Of course, the advancement in cultivation no longer concerned Li Yunjing.

What he was most focused on was the thunder sea in the depths of his Divine Sense, where the rolling thunder sounds never ceased.

Under the stimulation of the "Shenxiao Divine Forging Celestial Secret Technique," the bright area in his Divine Sense expanded, and he could faintly see some truths within the thunder sea.

Li Yunjing "saw" a vague scepter undulating in the depths of the thunder sea.

The scepter shimmered with thunder light, and with just one shake, a "boom" resounded as countless thunder lights burst forth.

A surge of thunder power erupted from Li Yunjing’s Divine Sense, entering his brain and every organ of his body.

The boundless thunder power significantly cleared Li Yunjing’s mind, making comprehending the "Shenxiao Divine Forging Thousand Mechanism Skill" effortless.

Moreover, Li Yunjing discovered something new. Upon introspection, he found that arcs of electricity flickered across his bones.

His entire skeleton had turned into Thunder Bone, transforming into a true Celestial Thunder Divine Body.

Now, purely in terms of physical strength, Li Yunjing felt that he could crush a Foundation Establishment Realm Sixth Heaven cultivator with a single punch.

Another half a year passed, and Li Yunjing continued to stimulate the depths of the thunder sea with his "Shenxiao Divine Forging Celestial Secret Technique," constantly revealing the scepter within.

Li Yunjing felt that if his spiritual power grew stronger, he might be able to move that scepter.

As for truly guiding the scepter out from his Divine Sense,

Li Yunjing was still far from that realm.

Li Yunjing believed that even the Golden Core Realm might not achieve it.

In his Divine Sense, compared to the scepter in the depths, Li Yunjing’s "Celestial Thunder Emperor Seal" seemed insignificant.

After his cultivation hit a limit, Li Yunjing stopped focusing on his spirituality and, balancing work and rest, decided to read books on the five major vice positions.

Artifact Refining, Alchemy, Array, Puppetry, and Talisman Making; Li Yunjing read all kinds of books on these aspects.

Anyway, during these three years in prison, no one disturbed Li Yunjing.

For the remaining half a year, Li Yunjing read to his heart’s content.

These three years allowed Li Yunjing to completely forget the outside world; nothing could attract his attention.

Instead, in the last half year, Li Yunjing, feeling pleased, hands-on tried out his new ideas.

He opened furnaces for alchemy, painted talismans, refined artifacts, manufactured puppets, and enhanced his array skills.

In this simple life, Li Yunjing’s gains grew increasingly abundant.

In Alchemy Dao, Li Yunjing could guarantee every batch of "Nourishing Spirit Pill" to succeed and often produced Seventh Grade "Nourishing Spirit Pills."

As for the "True Essence Pill," he was so proficient he could make them with his eyes closed, and nearly every batch was of Seventh Grade quality or higher.

Li Yunjing even exceeded his limits by refining a Fifth Grade "True Essence Pill" during this time.

Currently, if not for the limited pill formulas, calling Li Yunjing a Tier Two High-level Alchemy Master wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

In Artifact Refining, Li Yunjing used up numerous materials he had purchased.

His artifact refining skills were now very adept, and he forged four low-grade spiritual artifacts during this period.

Regarding this level of spiritual artifact, Li Yunjing was now quite confident.

Though not guaranteed to succeed, he had a sixty to seventy percent success rate.

His current skills would make him a valued member of the "Celestial Craft Hall."

Li Yunjing even doubted if Yang Wenzheng’s level was higher than his own!

Apart from significant progress in alchemy and artifact refining, Li Yunjing also achieved great insight into array cultivation.

The originally destroyed "Little Five Elements Array" was re-forged by Li Yunjing into a set of Tier Two "Grand Five Elements Array" plates.

The "Profound Ice Array" was also upgraded to Tier Two under Li Yunjing’s modification.

Li Yunjing now mastered three kinds of Tier Two arrays.

In talisman making, Li Yunjing’s talent was extremely high, being his first vice position.

Li Yunjing mastered countless spells, minor divine techniques, divine techniques, great divine techniques, and supreme divine techniques, over a hundred in total.

All these spells and divine techniques could be written by Li Yunjing into talismans.

In talisman making, Li Yunjing was undoubtedly a top-tier Tier Two grandmaster!

If the "Talisman Hall" of the sect knew this, they would likely regret not recruiting Li Yunjing into the "Seven Star Palace"!

In the puppetry field, Li Yunjing made limited progress, only able to create Tier Two initial level puppets.

This wasn’t due to Li Yunjing’s lack of skill, but rather the limitation in his spiritual power, which was hard to enhance.

His puppet technique remained at the Tier Two Junior Puppet Master level.

Over these three years, Li Yunjing’s cultivation had an enormous consumption, using up a thousand "True Essence Pills" and running out of "Nourishing Spirit Pills" almost as fast as he made them.

Of course, the greater the consumption, the greater the gain.

After advancing to the Foundation Establishment Realm Third Heaven, Li Yunjing’s divine sense expanded to twenty-five miles.

This immense spiritual power almost overwhelmed the Foundation Establishment Realm Seventh Heaven cultivators!

Especially his "Celestial Secret Technique" made further progress, making his sense of his own fortune and misfortune more acute, making it harder for others to plot against him.

Besides the consumption of elixirs, his stock of lower-grade spirit stones also depleted by tens of thousands.

Regarding high-grade spirit stones, he used thirty of them when he broke through, going all out.

This allowed Li Yunjing to break through a realm in three short years.

Now, with just a month left before his prison term ended,

Li Yunjing packed his things.

At this point, Li Yunjing no longer focused on absorbing spiritual energy, as the remaining time was insufficient for any significant improvement, and it wasn’t worth wasting spirit stones.

His spirit stones weren’t blown by the wind.

Naturally, Li Yunjing thought he was being thrifty, but common Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators would curse if they knew.

For the remaining month, Li Yunjing sat cross-legged on a mat, absorbing heaven and earth spiritual qi while studying the "demon beast egg" in his hand. According to his sense, the life force in this demon beast egg grew stronger.

This little creature should hatch any day now!