Chapter 1657: Mystical Heavenly Refining Technique

A lustrous black spherical bead, as large as an egg, faintly emitted an extremely pure true demonic aura from its surface.

This was precisely Han Li's objective for this trip: the Demonic Core of a Saint-tier demonic beast!

With this item, he could repair the Heavenly Demon Armor. Although he couldn't accurately estimate the armor's power yet, he presumed it wouldn't be inferior to the purple battle armor he had just put away.

Unfortunately, the Demon Ape Battle Armor had clearly been completely refined. Even if he were to re-refine it, its power would likely be significantly diminished, making it somewhat useless to him.

Han Li pondered with a hint of regret, then flipped his hand. Suddenly, a black jade box appeared in his palm.

He opened the lid and, with one hand, pointed at the demonic core.

Instantly, a black light swept out from the jade box, and after a flicker, it drew the demonic core inside.

Then Han Li closed the lid. With a flick of his other hand, two golden and silver talismans appeared and he swiftly affixed them to the box's surface.

As the golden and silver light flared, the faint wisps of demonic energy that had been subtly leaking from the jade box abruptly ceased, completely sealed within the box.

Han Li unhurriedly put away the jade box, only then beginning to examine another item.

That broken blade, shimmering with a faint purple light!

Han Li gazed at the treasure, his expression somewhat strange. He looked both excited and puzzled.

"A Profound Sky Treasure? But its power seems far inferior to my own, and it doesn't quite resemble one. Is it because this treasure is incomplete?" Han Li narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself.

He did not step forward to touch the broken blade. Instead, he closed his eyes and let his spiritual sense circulate throughout his body, meticulously checking his internal condition everywhere.

Finally, he even formed a hand seal with both hands, causing golden light to flare from his body. He summoned his Three-Headed, Six-Armed Dharma Idol once more and swept it with his spiritual sense as well.

As a result, Han Li's expression turned somewhat grim.

Currently, not only was a significant portion of his spiritual power depleted, but his Saintly True Demon Dharma Idol had also lost nearly half of its power out of nowhere. He estimated it would take several decades of arduous cultivation to recover it.

This could be considered a tremendous loss.

The only fortunate thing was that this time, using the treasure sword formed from the Profound Sky Fruit, did not cause his essence blood to drain, nor did it directly deplete his true essence.

However, Han Li also clearly understood that this slash from the Profound Sky Sword was far inferior to its first use, its power being less than one-tenth of what it was last time.

The reason for this, he estimated, was partly because he hadn't directly used his physical body to activate the Profound Sky Treasure this time, but rather used the power of his Dharma Idol to drive the treasure. Another part of the reason was that the Profound Sky Sword's appearance this time was passively triggered by the power of laws emanating from the broken blade.

In this way, although the power of the Profound Sky Sword was greatly diminished this time, he was still fortunate enough to kill the Demon Ape, and did not completely lose his spiritual power again.

Although the broken blade before him could also control certain powers of heaven and earth laws, it clearly couldn't compare to the treasure sword formed from the Profound Sky Fruit. This made Han Li somewhat doubt whether it was truly a Profound Sky Treasure.

However, to be able to break the Spring Dawn Sword Array with a single slash, even if this blade wasn't a Profound Sky Treasure, it was absolutely not comparable to an ordinary Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.

He was more inclined to believe that this broken blade treasure was incomplete, which led to its greatly diminished power and allowed it to be controlled by the Demon Ape.

Of course, it was also possible that the power of laws contained within this broken blade was inherently among the weakest category of Profound Sky Treasures, or it was coincidentally countered by the power of laws contained within the Profound Sky Sword, which made it seem so vulnerable when the two powers of laws clashed.

As Han Li's thoughts raced, he analyzed about seventy to eighty percent of this within moments.

But the more he thought about it, the more fervent Han Li's gaze became towards this purple broken blade.

Although the Profound Sky Sword sealed in his arm could not be consciously controlled, he should have hope of controlling this greatly weakened fragment of a Profound Sky Treasure.

Otherwise, how could the Demon Ape, after its cultivation dropped to a similar level as his own and it lost its physical body, have possibly driven the broken blade to attack him?

He took a deep breath, suppressing the excitement in his heart. Han Li raised a hand, and with a slight flick of his five fingers, five streams of grey light mist sprayed directly from his fingertips, intending to envelop the purple broken blade within them.

With a muffled "Pffft!"

As soon as the grey light mist approached the broken blade, it was immediately blocked by a burst of purple light emanating from the blade's surface. Then, as the broken blade spun rapidly, the grey mist quickly dispersed and faded away, unable to get even an inch closer to the blade.

Han Li frowned. Then, with a stretch of his other hand, which was as white as jade, rolling five-colored frigid flames sprayed out.

But after a series of rumbling, strange explosions, the five-colored frigid flames also failed to envelop the broken blade.

A look of astonishment finally appeared on Han Li's face. But after stroking his chin in thought, he suddenly showed a look of realization. He abruptly raised one hand again, and it instantly turned resplendent with golden light. At the same time, a golden mist erupted from his palm, shooting directly towards the broken blade.

This time, the purple broken blade remained obedient, allowing the golden light to envelop it. Then, with a flicker, it was pulled directly in front of Han Li. Han Li, with a look of delight, carefully observed the treasure before him.

He saw that the treasure was almost transparent, and wisps of golden light were slowly absorbed into the blade's body. After that spiritual creature, enveloped in golden light within the blade, its previously listless state actually became more energetic. It began to swim with some vitality within the blade, wagging its head and tail.

And the originally purple broken blade gradually revealed wisps of golden light, seemingly being assimilated by Han Li's Saintly True Demon Cultivation Technique.

Seeing this, Han Li was first greatly startled, then overjoyed. This fragment of a Profound Sky Treasure, which was certainly authentic, was almost too easy to control! He could clearly sense that as long as he injected more demonic energy from his Saintly True Demon Cultivation Technique into it, he seemed to be able to immediately wield this treasure.

Now he was almost absolutely certain that this broken blade was definitely a Profound Sky Treasure from the Demon Realm. Otherwise, it would not be so sensitive to pure demonic energy.

After a slight hesitation, Han Li's thoughts shifted. Immediately, golden light flared from his body, and at the same time, golden scales appeared on his skin.

He had actually pushed his Saintly True Demon Cultivation Technique to its limits, and streams of golden light poured into the broken blade like a tide.

The broken blade also greedily devoured the golden light in chunks. In just a few breaths, it instantly transformed from purple to pure gold. However, the blade's absorption speed showed no signs of slowing down. On the contrary, the small unknown spiritual creature within it became exceptionally lively, and its body also transformed into a resplendent golden appearance.

Han Li, however, felt a significant strain. The spiritual power he had remaining was, in just these few moments, further absorbed by the broken blade by another third.

He decisively dispersed the golden light from his body. Then, with a flicker, the golden broken blade in his hand disappeared into his sleeve.

Although he hadn't fully assimilated the treasure yet, he could control it tolerably. For him at the moment, that was temporarily sufficient.

He wouldn't be foolish enough to stay here and completely deplete all his spiritual power.

As Han Li thought, he quickly took out several small bottles of various colors from his storage bracelet. He poured out several pills from them respectively, and swallowed them all in one go.

These pills were naturally for accelerating the recovery of spiritual power. Although they couldn't immediately restore him to his peak state, they were better than nothing.

Then, a green light flashed in one of Han Li's hands, and a top-tier spirit stone, so verdant it seemed to drip, appeared.

As the green light flickered, he began to frantically absorb the pure spiritual energy from the spirit stone.

In such a perilous place, he would absolutely not be stingy with spirit stones.

However, when Han Li's gaze fell upon the dried corpse of the Demon Ape, whose dantian had been opened with a large hole, his expression shifted, and he seemed to have remembered something.

He carefully examined the corpse from top to bottom. Surprisingly, he didn't find any storage bracelets or similar items.

Han Li frowned. With a raise of his other hand, a pitch-black ring whistled out. After circling the dry corpse briefly, it suddenly emitted a large expanse of white light, directly drawing the corpse into itself, and then shot back.

Subsequently, Han Li's figure flickered, instantly transforming into a streak of crimson light and shooting out. After just a few blinks, his figure suddenly appeared in the empty main hall.

The entire hall, apart from a severely damaged magic array, contained almost nothing else.

The reason for saying "almost" was that Han Li immediately spotted a crimson jade bed lying quietly in a corner, shimmering with a faint sanguine glow.

Han Li swept his spiritual sense around. After confirming that apart from this item, there truly were no other suspicious objects in the area, he immediately raised his hand and beckoned without hesitation.

Instantly, the seemingly heavy crimson bed soared into the air. After spinning rapidly, it shot towards him.

But just as the bed flew in front of Han Li, he lightly clapped his hand in the air towards it. The crimson bed immediately paused and hovered motionless some distance away.

Han Li looked it over, finding nothing unusual on its surface. His spiritual sense then swept over it, but as soon as it touched the object's surface, it was unexpectedly repelled.

This crimson bed surprisingly couldn't be permeated by spiritual sense.

Han Li was not surprised, but rather delighted. A blue light flashed in his eyes, and his Spiritual Eye ability was immediately activated.

A moment later, he let out a soft "Huh?" A hint of solemnity appeared on his face. He raised his arm again and cast a spell towards the crimson bed.

A mysterious scene unfolded!

The crimson bed suddenly flared with sanguine light. Fist-sized silver ancient characters emerged from the bed, and after briefly swirling, they astonishingly formed a mysterious scripture before Han Li.

"Silver Script."

Han Li immediately recognized the origin of these silver characters. He gasped aloud, instantly filled with both surprise and joy.

How could this text have appeared on the crimson bed and fallen into the hands of this Saint-tier Demon Ape?

Han Li's mind was naturally filled with questions. But without dwelling on it, he quickly scanned the scripture with his gaze.

As a result, his expression immediately became extremely peculiar.

"Profound Sky Artifact Forging Art."

After a good while, he finally muttered a sentence, looking full of hesitation and disbelief.