Wang Yu
Chapter 696: Taking Stock
However, after waiting for a long time, the bottle showed no reaction at all.
Seeing this, Han Li frowned slightly. He looked up at the sky again, shook his head with a wry smile, and put the bottle away.
Although there were six round moons hanging in the sky above, they were obscured by thick clouds, and the moonlight could not directly shine down, so naturally, it could not trigger the mysterious changes in the bottle to condense the green liquid.
After hanging the bottle back around his neck, he looked around and then slightly raised his middle and index fingers of his right hand. The flower pattern on his finger joints flashed, and a silver light gate about ten feet high silently appeared in front of him.
As soon as the silver light gate opened, bright light projected from within, filled with a rich aura of heaven and earth, presenting a light cyan color that was distinctly different from the surrounding gray tones.
Han Li took a step and entered the gate, his figure directly appearing in the bamboo building behind the Golden Lotus Pond.
At this moment, Mo Guang was standing at the entrance of the stairs leading to the second floor, seemingly waiting for Han Li's arrival.
"Speak, why did you suddenly seek me out this time?" Han Li asked coldly.
"Fellow Daoist Han, the reason I contacted you for a meeting is to discuss something with you," Mo Guang said with a smile, walking a few steps closer when he saw Han Li appear.
"You want to leave the cave and go outside, right? I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you. The situation outside is a bit complicated right now, so it's not suitable for you to be active outside for the time being," Han Li said calmly, without changing his expression.
"Fellow Daoist Han probably doesn't know where you are right now, does he?" Mo Guang said with a sheepish smile.
Han Li frowned slightly, but his face didn't show any surprise.
"So, Fellow Daoist already had some guesses? That's right, this place is indeed the Gray World," Mo Guang said, slightly stunned by Han Li's reaction.
"It seems Fellow Daoist Mo Guang is quite familiar with the Gray World?" Han Li asked with a glint in his eyes.
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Han is joking. The Gray World has always been a restricted area for all the Immortal Domains, and the information that can be obtained is very limited. Who would dare to claim to be familiar with the Gray World? I only overheard some news about the Gray World when I followed Ma Liang back then," Mo Guang said with a chuckle, nonchalantly.
"What exactly does Fellow Daoist Mo Guang want to say? I don't have much time," Han Li asked, dismissing his words.
"Fellow Daoist Han has been troubled by the Evil Decay Tribulation all along. Walking in this Gray World, you are constantly eroded by the evil aura, so you must not be feeling well. Therefore, I think that if I use my Gray Immortal body to walk outside, I might be able to help you share some unnecessary troubles," Mo Guang said with a smile.
"Fellow Daoist is thoughtful, but I can still handle it for now, so there's no need to bother," Han Li said with a slight smile.
Mo Guang was about to say something in response when he heard Han Li continue:
"Don't worry, if the time is right or I need your help, I will naturally summon you. The external situation is currently unclear, so it's better for you to stay here. Besides, if you have a way to return to the Immortal World, you should tell me as soon as possible."
Blocked by Han Li's words, Mo Guang didn't dare to suggest going outside again. He only left a sentence saying that he had no idea about how to return to the Immortal World and then excused himself and returned to the second floor.
Han Li watched Mo Guang's figure leave and didn't rush to return. Instead, he glanced at the Gray Immortal corpse he had thrown into the bamboo building earlier and turned to enter a quiet room on the first floor.
Entering the room, he waved his hand and set up a formation to shield his aura, then sat cross-legged on the couch.
Mo Guang had already sat down again on the second floor. After sensing all of this, he only lowered his eyes and continued to meditate.
During the trip to the True Word Gate ruins, Han Li's gains were not small. In addition to several time Cultivation Methods, including the True Word Wheel Transformation Scripture, he not only obtained the storage bracelets of Ren Hao and Gongshu Tian, but also acquired the storage items of the Gray Immortal named Fang Jin.
Now that he had some free time, it was a good opportunity to take inventory.
First, he took out Ren Hao's blue storage ring and opened it after a brief refinement.
After a flash of light, a small pile of glittering immortal essence stones appeared in front of Han Li. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and with a wave of his hand, he unceremoniously put them into his own storage bracelet.
Then, he took out a large pile of bottles and jars from the storage ring and checked them one by one. He found that they were all pills for improving cultivation and healing injuries. Among them, only one type of pill, the "Left Dragon Pill," was suitable for mid-stage Grand Luo cultivators and was extremely valuable. The rest of the pills were very ordinary.
Of course, the word "ordinary" here was in reference to Han Li, who ate all kinds of immortal pills like beans. These pills were all rare high-grade pills for other ordinary Golden Immortals. Even a single pill would cause a frenzy if released to the outside world.
Besides the pills, there were also many water-attribute materials in the storage ring. Some of them looked like scales and seemed similar to the blue armor that Ren Hao had worn before. They were most likely materials used to repair the armor.
A human head-sized aquamarine crystal was the most eye-catching. It had dense water wave patterns on its surface, faintly containing strong water-attribute law fluctuations. It was clearly a water-attribute law object.
In addition to this, Ren Hao's storage ring only contained some water-attribute magical treasures. The highest-grade among all his magical treasures should be the blue giant sword and the dragon-like armor, but unfortunately, they had both been completely destroyed.
However, Han Li wasn't without any gains. Among those magical treasures, he immediately saw the crimson round pearl the size of a dragon's eye, engraved with nine different flame patterns. It was the "Nine Annihilation Flowing Flame Pearl" that Ren Hao had used to ambush him before!
The power of this treasure was truly extraordinary. If Han Li hadn't been cultivating the time Cultivation Method, he wouldn't have been able to avoid it.
Han Li happily held it in his hands and carefully examined it for a moment before carefully putting it away, thinking that he could refine it a little later and use it as a hidden weapon to trick his opponents.
After taking inventory of Ren Hao's storage bracelet, Han Li took out Gongshu Tian's fiery red storage bracelet.
As a burst of red light swept across, the ground that had just been cleared by Han Li was immediately filled again.
The mountain-like pile of immortal essence stones was so numerous that even Han Li was a little surprised. It was no less than what he had obtained from Gongshu Jiu back then, and among them, there were more than twenty stones with full spiritual power and strong fluctuations, all of which were mid-grade immortal essence stones.
Han Li nodded, thinking that he had finally replenished his wealth and that his wallet had become bulging again.
He stored all the mid-grade immortal essence stones separately and put the rest together with the previous immortal essence stones. Then, he continued to examine the items.
Gongshu Tian also had a large number of bottles and jars, all of which were Grand Luo-level pills.
Han Li's attainments in alchemy were already quite high, especially after obtaining many Grand Luo-level pills before. Therefore, he could distinguish the uses of most of the pills inside, with only a few that he didn't recognize.
These Grand Luo-level pills were a bit too high-level for him at the moment. It wouldn't be impossible to take them, but most of the medicinal power would inevitably be wasted, and he understood the principle of excess.
However, in this way, once he broke through to the Grand Luo realm, he wouldn't lack pills for a period of time.
Besides these, Gongshu Tian's storage bracelet also contained many books and jade slips, most of which were fire-attribute Cultivation Methods that he cultivated and some related secret techniques. There were also several maps that looked like they were from the Immortal Domain.
Han Li glanced at them and discovered that they not only contained maps of the Northern Cold Immortal Domain and the four major Immortal Domains of the Four Alliance Immortal Territory, but also maps of the Wind Harmony Immortal Domain, the Golden Origin Immortal Domain, and a part of the Central Earth Immortal Domain. Although some of them were not very detailed, they could save him a lot of trouble in collecting them.
After categorizing and storing these maps, Han Li's eyes turned and fell on several familiar objects, namely a hollow golden disc, a golden token, and a white compass.
The golden token was Gongshu Tian's Inspector Immortal Token, the golden disc was used by the Inspector Immortals to communicate with each other, and the white compass was used to sense the aura of the Soul Refining Technique. Now that he was in the Gray World, he wasn't worried about being discovered by the people of the Heavenly Court, so he didn't rush to destroy them. Instead, he stored them all away.
Gongshu Tian didn't carry many spiritual materials with him. Among them was a Golden Whisker Ten-Leaf Flower. When he opened the white jade box that sealed it, strands of golden light were released, and the light contained within was as warm as the morning sun, making people feel very comfortable.
If this thing were planted in the spirit medicine garden, it would definitely benefit the growth of other immortal spirit plants and trees.
With this thought in mind, Han Li placed it with the many spiritual flowers and exotic plants he had collected from the True Word Gate.
After storing it away, his gaze fell on a palm-sized spherical silver box. Its surface was engraved with various intricate patterns, which were very exquisite and detailed. At the joints on both sides, there was also a miniature golden talisman, which strictly sealed it, with no trace of aura leaking out.
Han Li carefully examined the golden talisman and found that it was a very high-quality "Flame-Sealing Fire-Penetrating Talisman", which was usually used to seal some extremely powerful heaven and earth strange fires.
From this, it could be known that the things hidden in this spherical silver box were definitely not ordinary.