Chapter 1630: 越宗

Han Li's eyebrow twitched at the sight. He performed a hand incantation, urging his spiritual sense. The Spirit Devouring Firebird let out an unwilling cry. It flew near the fiery liquid but only circled it up and down.

Before deciding on the true purpose of this Heavenly Fire Liquid, he naturally wouldn't let the Spirit Devouring Firebird haphazardly swallow it. He had released the fire simply to test the liquid's effectiveness. Han Li's fingers moved rapidly, flicking various incantations of different colors at the fiery liquid. Some incantations flashed and vanished, merging into the liquid. Others glowed red but were repelled by the liquid's surface. Still others, upon contact, produced thunderous muffled roars. Han Li's expression changed continuously as he observed the different phenomena created by each incantation. When the last white incantation struck the fiery liquid, releasing bursts of white mist, Han Li paused his fingers, stopped his current actions, and stroked his chin, deep in thought. After only a moment, he suddenly flipped his hand, revealing a set of exquisitely crafted formation flags, only a few inches in size, in his palm.

With a flick of his hand, the formation flags transformed into several streaks of spiritual light and shot out, instantly vanishing into thin air.

In their place, a glowing formation about ten feet in size appeared before Han Li.

This five-colored glowing formation was wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, resembling a giant funnel.

Near the glowing formation, numerous runes of varying sizes emerged and flickered, appearing profoundly mysterious.

Han Li let out a low cry and, with one hand, performed a grabbing and releasing motion towards the fiery liquid in the air.

The crimson liquid was immediately drawn into the glowing formation from thin air.

The moment the liquid entered the glowing formation, the previously still formation began to emit a low hum.

Subsequently, a layer of five-colored light enveloped its surface, instantly engulfing the entire formation.

Han Li's expression remained unchanged. All ten of his fingers simultaneously flicked towards the glowing formation.

With several "poofing" sounds, slender crystal threads shot out from his fingertips and, in a flash, disappeared into the light curtain before him.

Han Li's fingers then slightly flexed.

The crystal threads instantly became unusually straight.

As he chanted, a layer of strange light instantly flowed over the surface of the crystal threads without moving, as if something was being transmitted from the direction of the glowing formation. Han Li stared intently at the crystal threads.

The technique he was now employing was an original secret art left by Grand Ascension Divine Monarch. It skillfully combined spiritual sense power with a formation.

Besides greatly amplifying spiritual sense power within the formation, this secret art also had other incredible effects that could directly act upon items within the formation. The ten crystal threads, formed from spiritual sense power, began to subtly vibrate as Han Li secretly urged them. Simultaneously, the strange light on the surface of these crystal threads flickered between dim and bright. At this moment, if anyone could peer through the formation's five-colored light curtain, they would clearly see the Lapis Lazuli Heavenly Fire Liquid rapidly spinning at the center of the glowing formation. Around it, countless runes of varying sizes frantically entered the fiery liquid, while other runes surged out from it. This constant inflow and outflow caused the entire fiery liquid's surface to churn with red light, as if boiling.

After a long while, Han Li's expression shifted, as if he had obtained a result. But after a moment of hesitation, he flicked his ten fingers, and the ten crystal threads simultaneously shattered and broke. Next, Han Li performed a hand incantation, and the formation hummed loudly.

As the five-colored light churned, a mass of fiery liquid, much smaller than its original volume, shot up from the light and flew out of the light curtain.

Han Li's face was solemn as he pointed at the fiery liquid from afar.

The Spirit Devouring Firebird, which had been circling nearby, flickered and strangely appeared near the fiery liquid. It then opened its mouth and swallowed the liquid.

The firebird let out a joyful chirp, turned, and flew straight towards Han Li. It then transformed into a fireball and vanished into Han Li's body. Han Li took a deep breath and suddenly flicked one of his sleeves forward. With a "bang," the five-colored light curtain dissipated where the green mist passed, revealing the glowing formation inside. Han Li, expressionless, made a gesture with one hand towards the glowing formation. With several "whooshing" sounds, several streaks of spiritual light shot out from the glowing formation. They paused before Han Li, transforming back into several formation flags, which drifted down. With a flick of his large sleeve, these formation flags suddenly vanished in a flash of spiritual light. The distant glowing formation also rapidly dissipated without a sound. After a short while, only a fist-sized mass of fiery liquid remained, quietly suspended in mid-air. Han Li gestured towards the fiery liquid, and an milky-white jade bottle flashed above it. The bottle's opening inverted, and a sheet of light mist sprayed out, drawing all of the Heavenly Fire Liquid into the bottle. After putting the bottle away, Han Li closed his eyes and sat cross-legged on the ground, unmoving.

He occasionally frowned, his expression flickering between gloomy and bright, as if he was contemplating something difficult to resolve.

After a short while, he calmly reopened his eyes. He then tilted his head and suddenly extended a hand. With a "hiss," a silver fireball emerged.

Han Li narrowed his eyes. Red light flickered within the silver flame, and a wisp of crimson flame strangely darted and jumped. After a deep gaze, Han Li suddenly opened his mouth, and a mass of green light sprayed out. An incredible scene unfolded. The originally fist-sized silver flame exploded the moment it came into contact with the green light. After the light subsided, a silver fireball ten times larger than before appeared there. Seeing this, Han Li nodded, then opened his mouth and inhaled. The huge fireball instantly transformed into a stream of silver flames and was completely drawn in. "It seems he wasn't lying," Han Li muttered to himself. "This flawed item genuinely possesses all the main effects of the true Lapis Lazuli Heavenly Fire Liquid. The only issue is that it seems to contain several unknown impurities. I wonder if this will be a problem, or if it will truly satisfy that person? On the other hand, by devouring this, the Spirit Devouring Heavenly Fire has gained the ability to temporarily boost its power by utilizing pure spiritual energy. As long as there's enough spiritual power, it can completely double its might during combat."

For the remainder of the time, Han Li continued to meditate for a while, pondering what he had seen and heard at the Four Races Auction. After concluding that he had done nothing wrong, he let out a long sigh.

He suddenly pulled out a medicine bottle from his robes, poured out a Soaring Dragon Pill, and consumed it.

Afterwards, Han Li began to meditate and cultivate.

The opening time of the Guanghan Realm was not fixed; it could be as long as a hundred years or as short as a few years away. He naturally had to seize every moment to cultivate.

Even if he didn't intend to use the spiritual energy of the Guanghan Realm to break through his bottleneck, accumulating more cultivation and divine abilities beforehand would make him safer when entering the Guanghan Realm.

Three months later, still in the same secret chamber, Han Li was cultivating with the True Demon Body of the Brahma Saint appearing behind him, his hands forming incantations. After a short while, his expression suddenly shifted, and the golden light on his body receded as he ceased his cultivation technique.

He flicked his sleeve, and a jade tablet-like object flew out, flashing with spiritual light. After circling once, it landed in his palm. It was a Thousand Mile Talisman! Underneath its spiritual light, several lines of ant-sized text appeared. Han Li brought it closer, glanced at it, and his eyes flickered. "It's already open! Looks like I need to go."

Han Li then put away the Thousand Mile Talisman, stood up, and walked out of the secret chamber.

Several hours later, Han Li disembarked from a beast carriage, appearing on a street he had visited once before. He swept his gaze around and immediately walked towards a nearby shop. Strangely, the shop's door was tightly shut, not open for customers. Han Li, however, paid it no mind. He walked to the door, raised his hand, and an incantation directly pierced through the shop door. Moments later, the shop door opened inward by itself. Han Li lifted his leg and entered.

Behind the door, a woman stood gracefully, a crystal between her eyebrows faintly shimmering. It was precisely the Crystal Clan woman named "Xian Xian." "Greetings, Senior. I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly, and I didn't go out to greet you. I hope Senior will forgive me." Xian Xian faced Han Li, curtsied with a smile. "Hehe, whether you greet me or not is completely unimportant! Why should cultivators be so formal? As soon as I received your message, I rushed over immediately," Han Li said with a faint smile.

"Senior, you jest!" Xian Xian smiled sweetly. "This isn't the place to talk. Let's go to my secret space to converse. There's another fellow cultivator waiting there, whom I'd like to introduce to you."

Han Li's expression shifted upon hearing this, but he merely nodded without saying much. Then, he saw the woman close the shop door again. With a flip of her hand, a magical artifact appeared between her five fingers. She performed a hand incantation, began chanting, and pointed at the artifact. The artifact immediately glowed brightly, and a sheet of five-colored light soared in all directions. The woman and Han Li were instantly enveloped in this light, which then spun.

The next moment, Han Li felt the surrounding scenery blur, and he suddenly found himself in a desolate, grey space. It was the private spatial rift opened by the Crystal Clan woman.

Han Li's gaze swept around, and he immediately saw a figure standing upright nearby.

"Greetings, Senior Han," the figure said, bowing from a distance and greeting Han Li politely.

Upon hearing this, Han Li narrowed his eyes and scrutinized the person.

The man was stout, dressed in black, with several faint purple scars on his face. His eyes gleamed, and a fierce aura emanated from him.

After sweeping with his spiritual sense, Han Li discerned that this person was at the Spirit Transformation stage of cultivation.

"What is your name, fellow cultivator?" Han Li asked calmly as he walked towards the teleportation formation.

"This junior is Yue Zong!" the scarred man replied.

"Brother Yue is the most famous demon beast hunter in the Demon Gold Mountain Range!" Xian Xian, who had teleported to this space with them, explained to Han Li. "If we want to smoothly enter and exit this mountain range this time, we will need to rely heavily on Fellow Cultivator Yue's divine abilities."