Chapter 1185: Volume 7 Across the Human World Chapter 1181: Return to the Seven Spirits

Han Li’s words left Mu Peiling and the other two women somewhat confused.

Since they hadn’t encountered the earlier black-robed man, why would he suddenly mention something about a second Nascent Soul?

However, Liu Yu’er still responded respectfully:

“The one who captured the three of us was indeed your lost second Nascent Soul, Master, and it even assimilated another body. It seems to have the cultivation of the mid Nascent Soul Stage.”

As the woman spoke, a look of recollection crossed her face!

“A body? Describe what that person looked like,” Han Li’s interest seemed piqued.

By now, the two Golden Electric Flood Dragons had nearly cleansed the nearby dark qi completely before spiraling back and disappearing into Han Li’s body without a trace.

This ability to command electric flood dragons and transform at will amazed the three women internally.

Although with their Core Formation cultivation they could also manipulate spells to change form, they naturally couldn’t do so as effortlessly as Han Li, who didn’t need to lift a finger.

Liu Yu’er calmed her mind and began to describe the appearance and stature of the black-robed man in great detail.

Han Li only listened for a moment before he immediately determined that the Nascent Soul that had performed the body snatching was indeed the Heaven Extermination Devil Corpse.

His face remained calm but inside, he felt a surge of annoyance.

However, thinking back on it, if it wasn’t for relying on the Blood Moon Seeking Spirit Technique from the Great Development Technique, he truly wouldn’t have been able to easily find Mu Peiling and the other two. This second Nascent Soul knew him too well; he couldn’t allow it to continue developing, or it would certainly become a significant future threat to him.

With this thought, once Liu Yu’er finished her description, he immediately ordered:

“You three must leave this place at once and return to the sect. Since this second Nascent Soul has already returned to Tian Luo, I must recapture it. I need to carefully search this Inner Valley once more.”

“Uncle-Master Han, the cultivation of that Nascent Soul is now no less than yours. It would be better to ask for more help before searching for it again. Otherwise… Eh! Uncle-Master, your current realm…” The woman surnamed Song hesitantly started, but as her spiritual sense unintentionally swept across Han Li’s cultivation, her expression changed dramatically.

Hearing the woman surnamed Song’s surprised voice, Mu Peiling and Liu Yu’er likewise swept their spiritual sense over and were also greatly shocked.

“My lord, have you become a great cultivator now?” It took a long while for Mu Peiling to utter these words in disbelief,

“I’d forgotten that you three are not aware. I held the Great Immortal Ascension Assembly half a year ago and am now one of the Great Elders within the sect. Dealing with a second Nascent Soul that only has mid-stage power certainly won’t be a problem. There’s no need for you to worry,” said Han Li with a light smile.

With that, Song and the other two women were, of course, overjoyed and hurriedly offered their congratulations.

After a slight smile, Han Li urged the three women to set off as quickly as possible.

This time, the three female cultivators naturally had no further objections and, after paying their respects to Han Li, they flew out of the cave from where Han Li had entered.

Shortly after, three streaks of light burst out from the lava lake and then tore through the sky as they left.

Han Li, on the other hand, remained in the cave, planning to wait a few more days.

This place was so hidden that if the second Nascent Soul had only left temporarily, it would surely return before long. If not, it meant that it had truly left Devilfall Valley.

In the end, after waiting in the cave for six or seven days, Han Li found no trace of the Wood Spirit Nascent Soul.

He then wasted no time in waiting any longer. Leaving the cave, he released tens of thousands of Gold Devouring Bugs, scouring every inch of the Inner Valley.

Although he did not find the second Nascent Soul in the end, he discovered quite a few ancient treasures left by ancient experts.

Even though he didn’t have much interest in such treasures anymore, as they were far from comparable to replicated Spiritual Treasures like the Three Flame Fan, they would still be considered exceedingly rare in a place like Tian Luo.

Yet Han Li felt no joy, for during this process, he also came across traces of the black-robed man, the second Nascent Soul. Many of the caves left by ancient experts were already empty, with signs showing that not much time had passed since the items were taken.

It was then that Han Li confirmed that the second Nascent Soul, in all likelihood, had indeed left the Inner Valley and vanished with the loot to an unknown location.

This naturally gave him a headache.

However, upon further reflection, there were indeed traces to follow regarding the second Nascent Soul’s whereabouts.

Considering that the second Nascent Soul ultimately intended to overpower him, its priority now would be advancing its cultivation to overwhelm him.

And according to the three women, after the second Nascent Soul had assimilated the body of the Heaven Extermination Devil Corpse, it completely focused on cultivating the Profound Yin Scripture as its main Cultivation Technique. To refine the Profound Yin Devil Qi to its limit, aside from arduous self-cultivation, one could also make significant progress through nefarious secret techniques like Blood Sacrifices.

But such methods generally led to endless troubles or to a temporary advancement in cultivation that couldn’t be sustained, sometimes even blocking one’s current realm progression.

With these considerations, it seemed that the only optimal supportive method would be the demonic qi infusion technique detailed in the Profound Yin True Scripture. By forcibly infusing one’s body with demonic qi through this method, a devil cultivator could potentially break through bottlenecks in an extremely short period, leading to significant advancements in cultivation.

Of course, like any other method that accelerated growth prematurely, this one came with significant risks. At the lightest, one’s body might demonize and appearance would greatly change; at worst, one’s mind might get lost, degrading to a half-human, half-demon existence–it was extremely dangerous.

However, this second Nascent Soul was somewhat different.

It had seized the body of a Yin Yang Devil Corpse, and with its knowledge of the Great Development Technique, its resistance to mind demonization was far greater than that of other cultivators. Thus, with this method, the risks it would have to bear were naturally much less.

Back then, when the second Nascent Soul left him, it was only at the early realm, to have reached the mid-stage cultivation in such a short time without other opportunities, it’s possible that this Nascent had adopted that very method. And since Devilfall Valley was the place where ancient devils once emerged, it’s hardly surprising that some places still harbor remnants of devilish Qi transformations.

Han Li sat cross-legged with closed eyes at the peak of a mountain for a whole day and night, continuously pondering what methods he would use to cope if he were in the second Nascent Soul’s situation. He even managed to deduce most of the second Nascent Soul’s thoughts and strategies…

“The Demon Abyss!”

Han Li’s eyes suddenly snapped open, a sharp light flashing within, as he murmured to himself coldly.

Immediately afterward, a glow enveloped his body, and he transformed into a streak of azure light, leaving the mountain and shooting towards the horizon.

Two days later, Han Li left Devilfall Valley, racing towards the Seven Spirit Islands with an inconceivably fast supreme speed.

As stated in the Profound Yin True Scripture, it would take about a year for the initial stage of being infused with demonic Qi using secret techniques, and he certainly did not want to arrive at the Demon Abyss only to find the second Nascent Soul long gone.

Almost simultaneously, the black-robed man in the Demon Abyss, although he knew his whereabouts might have been discovered by Han Li, was precisely in a critical moment of casting a spell and could not afford to abandon his efforts and leave the Demon Abyss immediately.

Moreover, in fear of exposing his tracks, this Nascent had been sneaking and concealing itself the entire way after leaving Devilfall Valley, directly infiltrating into the Demon Abyss without showing his face to any cultivators.

Thus, he missed a crucial piece of news and was still unaware of Han Li’s advancement to the Nascent Soul stage.

It was no wonder it neglected this matter, considering that when Han Li first went to Great Jin, he also thought that even if he were lucky to advance to the later stage, it would take at least two to three hundred years and countless attempts to break through the bottlenecks.

Naturally, the second Nascent Soul could not have predicted that Han Li would bizarrely advance to the late Nascent Soul stage in a single attempt.

As a result, this Nascent calculated Han Li’s escape speed based on the velocity of a mid-stage cultivator.

According to its estimation, even if Han Li immediately thought it was in the Demon Abyss and rushed there, it would still take two months. Now that the demonic energy infusion process had reached the final stage, it would take just over a month to be completed.

Therefore, despite feeling extremely uneasy, the Nascent bit the bullet and decided to take the risk to continue staying there.

After all, if it didn’t succeed this time, it would be extremely difficult to re-enter the Demon Abyss under the other’s guarded watch.

However, this Nascent had already made up its mind.

It would at most stay for another month and a half, and once the time was up, whether the infusion was successful or not, it would immediately leave the Demon Abyss without any hesitation.

With a half-month gap, it should be enough to ensure its safety.

Thinking this, the Nascent managed to calm down and continued to absorb the pure Demonic Qi to infuse into its body.

However, after Han Li advanced to the later stage, his escape speed was nearly half faster than during the mid-stage. What would have been a journey of over two months, he managed to cover in just a month, reaching The Endless Sea.

After traveling across the sea for two more days, he finally arrived at the Seven Spirit Islands.

Speaking of which, Wei Wuya and others once wanted to gift him the Spirit Turtle Island because of suppressing the devilish Qi, but he directly transferred it to the control of the sect.

Now, the island should have some Drifting Cloud Sect disciples stationed on it.

With these thoughts in mind, Han Li was in no hurry to go to the Demon Abyss first; his streak of light bypassed the other two Spirit Islands without stopping and directly reached the skies above Spirit Turtle Island amongst the seven islands.

As the light descended, he landed on a small hill of the island.

He found a huge boulder, sat cross-legged on it, and then released his powerful Divine Sense.

The hundreds of miles of the island were instantly swept over by his spiritual sense, and he located the dwellings of two groups of stationed cultivators.

Han Li’s lips moved slightly, silently mouthing a few words, then remained motionless with an expressionless face on the spot.

Two locations on Spirit Turtle Island, however, suddenly burst into chaos.

Before long, from two directions, two groups of cultivators flew towards Han Li, more than a dozen streaks of light, speeding towards the hilltop where Han Li sat cross-legged.

Han Li made no move to stand up, simply observing the approaching cultivators with a detached gaze.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed and he let out a light “eh,” a trace of strangeness appearing on his face.

The two groups of cultivators reached the hilltop in the blink of an eye, and upon clearly seeing Han Li below, they all converged their lights and descended from the sky.

“We pay respect to the Great Elder!”

“Greetings to Master Ancestor Han!”

…

These people respectfully came forward to greet him. Leading them were two Core Formation cultivators, one being a small-eyed, thick-browed man in a yellow robe and a woman in her thirties, with the remaining dozen or so people also possessing Foundation Establishment level cultivation.

“It is really you, I didn’t expect that after so many years, you also succeeded in forming your Core.” Han Li looked at the yellow-robed cultivator and actually broke into a light smile.

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