Chapter 1343: Xuantian Fruit

This round, strange object resembled a cocoon and emitted a dark, eerie glow. On its surface, however, a blood-red evil spirit pattern appeared.

The evil spirit had a single horn on its head, three eyes, and an exceptionally ferocious appearance.

This cocoon was, in fact, the Crying Soul Beast in its transformed state. Years ago, during one of its transcending-stage evolutions, the Crying Soul Beast had similarly transformed into a black cocoon of this appearance. The evil spirit pattern on the cocoon was strikingly identical to the pattern on the Crying Soul Beast’s back.

Han Li looked at the cocoon, stroked his chin, and a hint of joy appeared in his eyes.

On the day of the battle, when he was drawn into the Yin Soul space, Han Li immediately sensed the dense yin energy pervading the area. Subsequently, countless fierce souls materialized and, led by a towering Ghost King, charged directly towards him.

Upon seeing this, Han Li naturally unleashed the Crying Soul Beast without hesitation.

Given the Crying Soul Beast’s innate and incredible soul-devouring ability, once the ethereal light emanated from its nostrils, ordinary yin souls were directly swallowed without any resistance. Only the Ghost King proved quite troublesome; its body had been cultivated to be almost tangible, and the Crying Soul Beast’s ethereal light was momentarily unable to affect its form.

However, the outcome changed significantly after Han Li used his Wind-Thunder Wings to unexpectedly teleport behind the ghost and injure it with a divine bolt of Evil-Dispelling Thunder.

With its injuries, the ghost could no longer use its secret techniques to solidify its spirit essence. Ultimately, during its struggle with Han Li, it was still sucked in by the Crying Soul Beast when the opportunity arose.

After absorbing so many fierce souls from the space, and finally a Ghost King whose power was comparable to a Spirit Transformation cultivator, the Crying Soul Beast immediately broke through its original evolutionary bottleneck, transforming on the spot into this black cocoon.

Fortunately, Han Li had witnessed a similar advancement of the Crying Soul Beast years ago. Thus, despite the surprise and joy, he didn’t panic much.

He didn’t even bother to thoroughly eliminate all the fierce souls. Instead, he forcibly tore through the space using his Nirvana Eye and escaped with the cocoon.

Now, with the giant cocoon formed by the Crying Soul Beast placed in the beast chamber, he just needed to wait quietly for some time, as he had during its previous evolution.

After taking another deep look at the object, Han Li left the room and then went for a tour of the medicine garden.

Even in the Spirit Realm, spiritual plants like the Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng and Dragon Scale Fruit Tree were rare spiritual medicines, so Han Li had to be extremely careful with them.

The only thing that was no longer there was the Profound-Heaven Immortal Vine that Han Li had painstakingly cultivated.

When this plant flowered and bore fruit in the Human Realm, and Han Li collected its fruit, the immortal vine immediately withered completely and turned to ash.

Even more incredibly, several spiritual root sections that had been cut from the primordial immortal vine beforehand also withered away at the same time.

His intention to repeatedly utilize the immortal wood was completely shattered.

Han Li believed that not only were the Profound-Heaven spiritual roots in his possession completely destroyed, but the other sections of the immortal vine’s spiritual roots in others’ hands would also cease to exist.

It seemed that the Heavenly Dao laws of a realm were inherently unique.

It was absolutely impossible for two identical Profound-Heaven Immortal Vines to appear, nor for two identical or similar Heavenly Dao laws to exist in a single realm.

Even mighty cultivators at the Spirit Transformation or Body Integration stages in the Spirit Realm could only slightly conform to the laws and utilize the spiritual energy of a lower realm. As for truly controlling the laws, that was likely something only those at the Mahayana stage, about to undergo tribulation, could genuinely touch upon.

Or perhaps powerful beings like Heavenly True Spirits could also control some aspects!

This demonstrated the heaven-defying existence of Profound-Heaven objects.

Thinking about the Profound-Heaven object he had finally obtained after spending hundreds of years, Han Li’s heart couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement.

Since acquiring this heaven-defying treasure, due to his ascension and the complete loss of his magical power, he hadn’t had the time to meticulously study it.

Now, there was still some time before he had to report back to Heavenly Abyss City, enough for him to conduct a preliminary study of this Profound-Heaven Immortal Vine fruit.

Therefore, after setting up all the necessary restrictions outside his cultivation abode, Han Li entered the secret chamber and sat cross-legged on a green meditation cushion.

With a flip of his hand, a jade-white box appeared in his palm.

The surface of the jade box was densely covered with seven or eight restriction talismans, shimmering with various spiritual lights.

After a moment of hesitation, Han Li tore off the talismans and slowly opened the lid.

An object about an inch long, shimmering with a faint white light, strikingly appeared within the box.

He extended a hand, picked the object out of the jade box, placed it before his eyes for careful inspection, and poked it several times with his finger.

The object was somewhat slender and oblate, with an extremely smooth, pale yellow surface. One end was slightly blunt, while the other was flat, as if cut by a knife, resembling a small, flattened wooden stick.

Yet, its entire length was only about half a foot!

Strangely, the surface of this stick was covered with some unknown dark-green patterns. It looked neither like metal nor wood, felt slightly elastic to the touch, and had a somewhat cool temperature.

This strange wooden stick was the fruit Han Li had harvested from the Profound-Heaven Immortal Vine.

According to the humanoid puppet responsible for its cultivation, this fruit had not initially looked like this; it was originally a spherical fruit emitting white light. However, after years of being nurtured with green liquid, for some unknown reason, it had grown into its current appearance.

This had left Han Li somewhat speechless when he first saw the strange object.

When he first obtained the object, he had briefly handled it. Although the time was short, its peculiar nature had still greatly amazed him.

However, at the time, he was busy preparing for his ascension and hadn’t conducted further detailed research.

After a moment of thought, Han Li held the object in one hand, extended a finger from his other hand, and with a flash of green spiritual light from his fingertip, gently tapped the surface of the "stick."

The green spiritual light rippled, as if encountering a restriction, then scattered with a crackling sound, unable to penetrate the surface in the slightest.

Han Li raised an eyebrow, a "just as expected" expression appearing on his face. This Profound-Heaven spiritual object had previously repelled the injection of spiritual energy; no type of spiritual power could enter it.

After pondering for a while, Han Li raised an eyebrow, and the palm holding the object instantly glowed with golden light. A bizarre scene unfolded: Han Li’s five fingers easily deformed the object in his hand, sinking deep into it as if it were dough.

However, when Han Li loosened his grip, the "small stick" in his hand instantly returned to its original shape. Its elasticity was truly astonishing.

Han Li’s mouth twitched slightly. Suddenly, he opened his mouth, and a thin golden thread shot out. It circled the object in Han Li’s hand once and then returned to his mouth.

The "stick" showed not the slightest trace, just like the sword threads formed by the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords. This time, Han Li was somewhat moved.

But without hesitation, he flicked a finger, and after a crack of thunder, a golden electric arc struck the "stick."

With a soft ‘pop’ sound, the electric arc bounced off, hitting a corner of the secret chamber where it exploded with a thunderous roar, causing the entire stone room to tremble slightly. Han Li frowned, but without a word, his other hand immediately grabbed at the air. With a ‘bang,’ an egg-sized silver fireball appeared in his palm. Han Li unhesitatingly tossed the "stick" into the fireball. To Han Li’s frustration, the perplexing situation occurred again!

The moment the "stick" shot towards the fireball, the fiercely burning fireball, with a sudden 'boom,' disintegrated into scattered silver flames. A few zhang away, it reformed in the low air, transforming into the Spirit Devouring Fire Bird.

However, the moment the fire bird appeared, it stared fixedly at the Profound-Heaven object, its eyes filled with terror, and emitted rapid, clear chirps, looking utterly terrified.

Han Li’s forehead was completely furrowed. With a single grab, he re-absorbed the "stick" to his hand. This Spirit Devouring Heavenly Fire, formed by the convergence of ultimate Yin and ultimate Yang, was actually so afraid of this "piece of wood," which was truly beyond his expectations.

Could the marvel of the Profound-Heaven object be far beyond what he had anticipated?

Subsequently, Han Li unreservedly used attacks of various attributes, such as searing flames, extreme cold, and wind blades. The results were all the same: the "wooden stick" was like tough, resistant meat, completely unresponsive.

Han Li even specifically took out several Gold Devouring Beetles from the insect chamber and placed them on it.

However, these spiritual insects, which he remembered as devouring everything, also flew far away in a panic, just like the Spirit Devouring Fire Bird, showing no intention of biting the object.

Next, Han Li used his Nirvana Eye’s attack, which also had no effect. Even though Han Li possessed considerable divine abilities, at this moment, he could only scratch his scalp, dumbfounded.

Unwilling to give up, he then frantically channeled all his magical power into his eyes, causing dark blue, piercing rays to burst forth from his pupils. He intended to use his spiritual eyes to directly see through the object’s interior.

To his great surprise, his spiritual eyes saw directly through it, revealing a pea-sized, milky-white light spot gently flickering inside, seemingly extremely faint.

Seeing that his spiritual eyes were effective, Han Li’s heart was greatly uplifted. He continued to observe the internal situation, but there were no other abnormalities whatsoever.

Unwilling to accept defeat, over the next ten-plus days, Han Li racked his brain for ways to handle the Profound-Heaven fruit. In the last few days, he even went so far as to set up several profound, small-scale spell formations in the secret chamber, hoping to use their power to see if he could directly refine it.

The result, naturally, was no effect whatsoever.

By the evening of the last day, as Han Li held the Profound-Heaven fruit in one hand, the anxiety on his face disappeared, and his expression became calm.

It seemed that without destiny, even having such a heaven-defying treasure in hand was futile. However, after undergoing the tempering of negative emotions like helplessness and anxiety—emotions he hadn’t experienced in a long time—he felt his mental state had improved another layer.

These days had not been without any gains, though. Thinking to himself that he should return to Heavenly Abyss City tomorrow, Han Li’s divine sense cleared, and his gaze once again lightly swept over the Profound-Heaven fruit in his hand, falling upon the dark-green patterns he had previously not noticed at all.

Suddenly, Han Li’s eyes flashed, and an extremely peculiar expression appeared on his face. He seemed to recall something, yet found it somewhat inconceivable.

The color and pattern of these markings suddenly reminded him of something.

Upon closer thought, although the shape and color of the surface patterns of the other item were not exactly the same as those on the Profound-Heaven fruit, they bore an astonishing 70 to 80 percent resemblance.

How could he have not thought of this object until now!