Chapter 1161: Kunpeng Feather

It turned out that the one speaking with a childish voice from the tripod was the clone of the Heavenly Sky Saint Beast that Han Li had captured into the tripod during his battle with the Heavenly Sky Saintess.

This beast had originally relied on instinct, but after being trapped in the Void Heaven Tripod for over a hundred years, it had spontaneously awakened its intelligence and recovered most of its memories from the Spirit Realm. However, trapped within the Void Heaven Tripod, a spiritual treasure, the beast had no way to escape and could only remain obediently inside.

When Han Li reached the late-stage Nascent Soul realm in the Void Heaven Palace, he immediately re-refined both of his Heaven-Connecting spiritual treasures.

As a result, after cultivating the second layer of the Void Heaven Tripod's Treasure-Connecting Art, he was finally able to open the Void Heaven Tripod.

With a flash of golden light, the Heavenly Sky Beast clone shot out from within. Han Li was prepared and immediately cast an incantation, but the beast utilized a Spirit Realm escape technique, vanishing from Han Li's sight and teleporting over a hundred zhang away in an instant. With just a few more flashes, even Han Li would have been unable to catch up.

However, an inconceivable thing happened.

For some unknown reason, the moment the beast's escape light moved two or three hundred zhang away from the Void Heaven Tripod, both the small tripod and the beast flashed with green light, and the Heavenly Sky Beast inexplicably vanished from its spot, reappearing in the Void Heaven Tripod the next moment. It seemed unable to leave the treasure.

Han Li was both surprised and delighted when he saw this.

Only then did he realize that because the beast had been trapped in the tripod for too long, its aura had been assimilated by the Void Heaven Tripod, making it similar to Silver Moon from years ago.

It was just that it didn't have a formless body, nor was it the tripod's spirit; other than being unable to leave the tripod, it remained autonomous, and Han Li still couldn't command it.

Han Li naturally didn't stand on ceremony and re-sealed the Heavenly Sky Beast clone, tossing it back into the small tripod, intending to decide how to deal with it after careful consideration.

But now, as he studied the golden talisman in his hand, the Heavenly Sky Beast in the tripod suddenly spoke up, identifying the Silver Tadpole Script as a unique rune from the Spirit Realm.

This naturally gave Han Li a start.

"Haha, Spirit Transformation! Why would I want to reach the Spirit Transformation stage? I came to your mortal world and have no intention of breaking through this realm for tens of thousands of years," the child in the tripod laughed loudly.

"You don't want to break through? Such a thing exists in this world? Do you take me for a three-year-old child?" Han Li was stunned, finding it hard to believe.

"Little fellow, it seems I have to tell you something, or you won't believe me. Let me reveal a little about my situation. I do have some reputation among the demon cultivators in the Spirit Realm, and my cultivation base reached a level you can hardly imagine long ago. But this time, I spent a great deal of effort to have my divine sense descend into the mortal world; do you really think I had nothing better to do than act as a guardian saint beast for these mere humans? I have tens of thousands of demon subordinates in the Spirit Realm; these people of the Heavenly Sky Grassland are of no consequence to me," the Heavenly Sky Saint Beast said, making no effort to hide its disdain for the Tuchuan people.

Han Li frowned but remained silent.

The child's voice continued to drift out leisurely:

"The reason I had a wisp of my divine sense descend into this realm was simply to cope with a great tribulation ten thousand years from now. If my main body in the Spirit Realm fails to survive this tribulation and is destroyed, having this wisp of divine sense in this realm ensures I still have a glimmer of hope, preventing me from being completely erased from existence. Before that, there is no need for this body to cultivate too quickly, lest my cultivation reaches the Spirit Transformation stage and the tribulation is triggered, dragging this hidden self into it as well."

"Such a thing exists? This is indeed a way to preserve one's life. Do all those great beings in the Spirit Realm use this method to protect themselves?" Han Li was shocked, still half-doubting.

"Hmph, you think descending a divine sense is an easy task? Not only must one's cultivation reach a certain level and master a few rare great divine abilities that allow divine sense to leave one's realm without harm, but one must also waste a 'World-Crossing Stone,' which is rare even in the Spirit Realm, to overcome the interface power and transmit the divine sense across realms. Moreover, this act of descending divine sense is extremely dangerous; one doesn't even know if one in ten attempts will succeed. If it fails, the divine sense simply vanishes in the interface storm. Every failure forces me into seclusion for a thousand years to recover that wisp of divine sense. I have tried seven or eight times over ten thousand years before finally succeeding this once. Compared to this, transmitting some divine abilities and magic power across the interface is much easier." The Heavenly Sky Saint Beast snorted.

"Even so, what is your intention in telling me this?" Han Li asked, his eyes flickering.

"Hehe, it's simple. I just want to tell you that you and I have no conflict of interest. The reason I was captured into this spiritual treasure before was because my intelligence hadn't awakened, and I was temporarily utilized by those Tuchuan people. Furthermore, my cultivation won't break through to the Spirit Transformation stage anytime soon; you don't need to worry about me seeking revenge later, do you?" the beast chuckled.

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be cleaner and more thorough if I just destroyed you?" Han Li's facial muscles twitched, and a trace of murderous aura suddenly appeared on his face.

The tripod fell silent, but after a moment, the child's voice came out calmly:

"My cultivation is far inferior to yours now; you can certainly do that. But I am, after all, a wisp of divine sense from a high-level demon cultivator in the Spirit Realm. The bizarre nature of the secret techniques I have mastered is far beyond your imagination. Not to mention whether I could unleash some desperate divine ability to severely injure you before I die, even if you were lucky enough to survive, I have ways to leave a mark on your Nascent Soul before I perish. If you don't intend to ascend to the Spirit Realm and just pass away in the mortal world, that's fine. But if you ever reach the Spirit Realm, even if you possess a new body, my main body will eventually find you. By then..."

The Heavenly Sky Saint Beast didn't finish its sentence, but the threat was clear.

Han Li was speechless!

With his current cultivation and experience, he naturally knew that while the beast's words were a mix of truth and falsehood, most of it was likely true.

This made the beast quite troublesome to deal with. He didn't want to create such a powerful enemy for himself in the Spirit Realm before he even ascended. And judging by the beast's tone, its main body's cultivation was likely more than enough to crush him like an ant.

As for the desperate divine ability it mentioned, he didn't care much.

Since the beast couldn't leave the Void Heaven Tripod, as long as he was fully prepared, he didn't fear that its backlash could harm him.

Han Li's escape light moved forward slowly, but he was deep in thought, remaining silent for a long time.

The Heavenly Sky Beast in the Void Heaven Tripod also remained quiet, seemingly giving Han Li time to consider.

"What about the Kunpeng spirit feather you mentioned? Does it have any special use?" Han Li suddenly changed the subject.

"Roaming Heaven Kunpeng and the Rahu beast both belong to the ancient living beings born from chaos at the beginning of the world. In a sense, calling them gods is not wrong. You should carefully consider the value of something that falls from such a being. Even my main body in the Spirit Realm would only avoid this Kunpeng as far as possible if it saw one, never daring to provoke it. However, this beast and the Rahu beast are natural enemies. This time, it was likely wandering between realms and happened to discover the Rahu beast hiding in your mortal world, so it unleashed its divine ability from outside the interface, trying to shatter the Rahu beast's body in one blow. However, logically speaking, their divine abilities are about the same, but the Rahu beast's main body was in the mortal world and unaffected by the interface power. It was only after one exchange that the Kunpeng suffered a small loss, allowing you to pick up such a huge bargain. The Roaming Heaven Kunpeng is a natural wind-attribute spirit being; from the moment it is born, it can comprehend the laws of heaven and earth related to wind. Although this fallen spirit feather is somewhat damaged, it is the best material for refining wind-attribute spiritual treasures. And once refined, its effects will surely far exceed those of ordinary spiritual treasures. I remember someone in the Spirit Realm once used the scales of a Departing Fire Qilin to refine a 'Fire Dragon Cover' spiritual treasure, and its power was so great that it could rank within the top hundred of all spiritual treasures!" the Heavenly Sky Saint Beast said indifferently.

"Rank in the top hundred?" Han Li was stunned.

"Don't underestimate this top hundred. I know you have a spiritual treasure called the Eight-Spirit Ruler and several other spiritual treasure replicas in your hands. But I must tell you that whether it's the Eight-Spirit Ruler or the Seven-Flame Fan, while they are rare treasures in the Spirit Realm, they are relatively low-tier existences. Only spiritual treasures that occupy a place on the 'Chaos Myriad Spirit Ranking' are true Heaven-Connecting spiritual treasures. The rest can only be called spiritual treasures. And only those that rank in the top hundred in terms of power can be on the Myriad Spirit Ranking." The Heavenly Sky Beast explained briefly.

"Chaos Myriad Spirit Ranking! Forget it, I have no interest in that right now. But judging by your tone, Heaven-Connecting spiritual treasures, which are extremely rare in the mortal world, are refined quite often in your Spirit Realm. The deal you want to make with me—does it have to do with this Kunpeng feather?" Han Li rubbed his chin, his expression solemn.

"Your Wind-Thunder Wings can unleash the Thunder Escape Technique, but they aren't fully refined, are they? They seem to contain some wind-attribute spiritual power within them," the Heavenly Sky Beast asked instead of answering directly.

Han Li was naturally surprised!

"What do you mean by that? However, these Wind-Thunder Wings, as the name suggests, were intended to drive both wind and thunder power when they were first refined. It's just that I only have the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder within me, so I can only use the Thunder Escape Technique. As for whether they are fully refined, I really don't know," Han Li replied truthfully.

"I can tell you a method to utilize the Kunpeng feather to re-refine the Wind-Thunder Wings into a spiritual treasure. Because the spirit feather itself contains laws of heaven and earth related to wind, you won't need to possess wind-attribute spiritual power to drive it directly. Although, due to the limitations of your cultivation and auxiliary materials, it's impossible to refine a true Heaven-Connecting spiritual treasure in one go, refining a lower-tier ordinary spiritual treasure by borrowing the power of this spirit feather is entirely possible," the Heavenly Sky Beast said proudly, letting out a light laugh.

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