“That’s natural. I happened to obtain something earlier, and I wonder if Senior would be interested?” Han Li smiled slightly, without saying much. He flipped his palm, and a thin, pale golden paper appeared in his palm.

“A pill formula? Heh heh, with my experience, don’t try to fool me with ordinary pill formulas. It has to be at least an Earth-grade pill formula.” Daoist Hu Yan swept his gaze over it and chuckled.

As he spoke, he beckoned with one hand, and the pale golden paper floated from Han Li’s hand and landed in his own.

“Cheng Wan Pill? Tsk tsk, a Earth-grade pill formula suitable for True Immortal Realm mid to late stage… Consider it passable.” Daoist Hu Yan first clicked his tongue in wonder a few times, then put away the paper, flipped his wrist again, and took out a white stone tablet, handing it to Han Li.

Han Li took the stone tablet and placed it against his forehead to examine it.

“The diagrams for the formation arrangement and the required materials are clearly marked on it. It shouldn't be difficult to set it up. However, when using it, be sure to prepare sufficient spirit stones to maintain the formation's operation, otherwise, if the spiritual power is insufficient midway, all previous efforts will be in vain. At that time, the puppet will not be greatly affected, but that mother bean will be destroyed.” Daoist Hu Yan reminded.

“Thank you, Senior.” Han Li took the stone tablet away from his forehead and nodded.

“Alright, if there’s nothing else, go back. I have other guests to entertain later.” Daoist Hu Yan wasn't polite with Han Li and directly issued an eviction order.

“Then I won’t disturb Senior.” Han Li got up to bid farewell, left Baijiu Manor, and transformed into a stream of light, flying away.

Just as he flew out of the mountain range, he saw another stream of light flying from a distance, heading towards Baijiu Manor.

The figure in the stream of light was familiar to Han Li. It was Yun Ni, the master of Bai Suyuan and one of the thirteen Dao Lords of the Candle Dragon Dao.

Back then, in the Sacred Puppet Sect’s plaza, Bai Suyuan had called Lin San “Master” without regard for others, naturally letting him, who knew Bai Suyuan’s identity, learn that Lin San’s true identity was Yun Ni.

Afterward, although he didn't seek remuneration from Lin San, he learned through some channels that the person who had helped at the last moment was this usually drunken old Daoist Hu Yan. He also learned that this person was also one of the thirteen Golden Immortal Dao Lords of the Candle Dragon Dao.

Combined with Bai Suyuan's ancestor, Bai Fengyi's affair, he vaguely guessed something.

However, since old Daoist Hu Yan didn't mention it, he naturally pretended not to know.

Of course, the reason he inquired about this matter was not to gossip about this old Daoist, but to confirm whether the Sacred Puppet Sect had investigated the whereabouts of that immortal puppet afterward. However, not long after the Sacred Puppet Sect was attacked, it seemed to have quietly withdrawn from its original base and disappeared.

Han Li's thoughts only fluctuated slightly, and then he went straight back to Crimson Cloud Peak.

After returning to the cave dwelling, he went directly back to the secret room, flipped his palm, and took out the jade slip that Hu Yan had given him.

A look of excitement appeared on his face, he closed his eyes and probed into it with his spiritual sense, carefully examining it.

The Dao Soldier Inscription Formation depicted within the jade slip was very similar to the formation set up by the Kray Man, at least in principle, there were many common points, but there were differences in some details, and the required materials for the formation were also slightly different.

After reading the formation arrangement diagram, Han Li continued to look at the materials and arrangement methods below, and found that according to the different attributes of the mother bean, the jade slip recorded five sets of configuration materials required for the five attributes of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth.

Among them, he focused on the Earth attribute materials. After all, that immortal puppet was of the Earth attribute, and his mother bean came from the Yellow Turban Bean Soldiers, so it was also very likely to be of the Earth attribute.

“Limitless Sand… We actually need to use this kind of thing.” After a while, Han Li opened his eyes and muttered to himself.

He raised one hand, and two blue masks appeared in his hand, one with an ox head and the other with a tiger head.

Han Li glanced at both of them, and finally chose to wear the tiger head mask on his face.

“Jiao Fifteen’s” identity is now somewhat unsafe, it's better to change to another identity.

This was the first time he used this mask after obtaining it, and he only knew that its serial number was Racoon Eleven.

After slightly adapting to it, he posted a task to find Limitless Sand in the task bar.

After thinking for a moment, he reposted the task of collecting Dao Pill materials that he had previously posted with the ox head mask.

After doing this, he put away the mask, sat down cross-legged, and began to meditate and adjust his breathing.

……

Time flies, and another ten years have passed.

On this day, Han Li was meditating and cultivating in the secret room when he suddenly heard bursts of loud popping sounds coming from one side of the cave dwelling.

His eyes suddenly opened, and he immediately stood up, left the secret room, and went straight to the Spirit Medicine Field.

As soon as he entered the Spirit Medicine Field, the thunder-like popping sound became clearer and clearer.

A look of joy appeared on Han Li’s face, and he walked over quickly, and saw that the originally quite thick Dao Soldier Tree had become thin and withered. The bean pods on it had also turned yellow from green, and were bursting open in succession.

One by one, dark yellow beans were shooting out from the constantly bursting bean pods, scattered all over the ground.

Han Li came closer and caught a bean that had just burst out.

He pinched the bean with two fingers and looked carefully, and found that on the bean body, there was an inscription of a folded pattern shaped like lightning, the color was golden. If you didn't look carefully, you could hardly find it.

Han Li’s heart moved slightly, and a stream of immortal spiritual power flowed into the bean from the two fingers pinching it.

“Zzzzt”

The lightning pattern on the bean lit up with golden light, and immediately released a large golden electric light.

At this moment, a clear smile appeared on Han Li's face. He really didn't expect that after the bean soldier mutated, it actually possessed thunder and lightning attributes.

At this moment, a popping sound that was obviously different from other popping sounds came.

Han Li looked up and saw that at the top of the Dao Soldier Tree, two huge bean pods burst open at the same time, and two broad bean-sized mother beans flew out.

He quickly raised his hand and grabbed the two mother beans from the void back into his hands, looking at them carefully.

The mother beans had no obvious differences from ordinary beans except for their size, but the lightning patterns inscribed on them were deeper, and the thunder and lightning power contained in them was purer.

As the two mother beans matured and burst out, all the beans on the Dao Soldier Tree had matured and fallen to the ground, and the tree body began to wither completely. It turned yellow to gray at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into powder in a few breaths and disappeared.

Han Li flipped his hand and took out a yellow gourd, raised his hand and patted the bottom. A yellow light immediately lit up at the mouth of the gourd, and a strong suction force came from it.

The yellow beans scattered all over the ground immediately flew back and fell into the gourd.

The things used to hold the bean soldiers naturally cannot be ordinary things. This gourd was refined by him according to the notes given by Old Man Hu Yan.

This thing is similar to a storage bag in function, but not the same. It seems to be closer to a spirit beast bag. The bean soldiers are still able to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth inside.

Even if you want to continue to nurture the bean soldiers and improve the quality, you can also put some prepared spiritual liquid in the gourd. Daoist Hu Yan himself did this.

After collecting all the beans, Han Li happily turned around and walked back to the secret room.

Two days later.

Inside Han Li’s cave dwelling secret room, a circular magic formation with a radius of ten feet was engraved on the ground.

There were many sunken grooves around the formation, filled with various spiritual materials and several spirit stones with abundant spiritual energy.

In the center of the formation was a golden platform, neither too big nor too small, shaped like a common secular city gate beacon tower. There were raised high walls around the top, and the terrain in the middle was slightly lower. The hundreds of Dao Soldier beans were placed in it.

This formation is called the “Lightning Locking Yuan Formation”, a lightning attribute formation for refining bean soldiers recorded in Daoist Hu Yan’s notes.

The golden platform in the center of the formation was not something else, but a small altar built by Han Li with Lightning Restraining Wood, which was the core of the entire formation.

The refining formation of bean soldiers often needs to be selected according to the attributes presented after the beans mature. Han Li originally thought that his bean soldiers would mostly inherit the various attributes of the Yellow Turban Giants, and should be mainly Earth attribute.

But unexpectedly, because the bean soldiers mutated, although they contained the power of the Earth attribute, the content and power were not as good as the lightning attribute power generated after the mutation, and could be called “Lightning Beans”.

Therefore, when Han Li selected the refining formation, he decisively chose the "Lightning Locking Yuan Formation".

After confirming that everything in the secret room was arranged properly, he sat down cross-legged in front of the formation, flipped his palm, took out a pill, and sent it into his mouth.

He didn't forget Old Man Hu Yan's instructions. Setting up this formation consumed a lot of his immortal spiritual power. Before starting to refine the bean soldiers, he needed to restore his state to perfection.

He sat quietly and adjusted his breath for a long time, and then opened his eyes and began to activate the formation.

He pinched a magic seal with both hands in front of him, pointed at the golden platform in the center of the formation, and a ray of golden electric light immediately flew out from the tip of his finger like a spirit snake and hit the platform.

“Zzzzt!”

A sound of current surging rang out, and the entire golden platform suddenly shone brightly, and countless golden electric arcs ejected out, dissipating to the surroundings, turning into a pale golden spherical light curtain, covering the entire ring formation.

At the same time, those top-grade spirit stones embedded in the ground grooves also shone brightly, turning into strands of pure spiritual power flowing out along the formation patterns on the ground, spreading out.

With the bursts of light lit up, the golden platform began to vibrate violently, and the dark yellow beans placed in it also began to jump uneasily.

Seeing this, Han Li’s eyes lit up with blue light, and both palms lifted up at the same time, and the beans were immediately lifted up by an invisible hand, flying out of the platform and suspended within the spherical light curtain.

Below the light curtain, two mother beans stood in the center of the dome, like two round moons, while the other beans were scattered around them, like stars surrounding the moon, flashing with bursts of light.