Chapter 1162: The Golden Que Jade Book

"What do you want in exchange? You wouldn't teach me the refining method for nothing, would you?" Han Li did not reveal any look of wild joy; instead, he asked coldly.

"I want you to find a way to undo the assimilation the Void Heaven Cauldron has on me. Then, before you pass away or ascend, you must temporarily protect me for a period of time! Additionally, although I already have the cultivation of an eighth-rank beast, because I have been trapped in the Void Heaven Cauldron, I have never experienced the Transformation Lightning Tribulation. I fear I will need to borrow your strength to safely pass the tribulation. Relying solely on my own strength, it would be somewhat dangerous." The Tianlan Beast was also not polite, listing several conditions in one breath.

"Just these?" Han Li's expression, however, remained unchanged.

"If I were to propose other conditions, Fellow Daoist would likely develop the intent to kill me instead, right?" The Tianlan Beast chuckled.

"Fine. If it is only these things, Han Mou can agree to them. However, the matter of undoing the Void Heaven Cauldron's restraint on you must wait until I am about to pass away or am preparing to ascend. You have no objections to this, do you?" Han Li pondered the pros and cons for a moment before decisively agreeing.

"No problem. Fellow Daoist's decision is absolutely a wise one. There was never any need for you and me to fight to the death. To show my sincerity, I can teach you the Silver Tadpole Script first." The Tianlan Beast felt a weight lift from its heart and laughed heartily.

"That would naturally be even better." Han Li looked at the golden talisman in his hand and accepted it frankly without being polite.

But then, after a moment of thought, he suddenly raised his hand and patted his waist, and a green bag immediately appeared in his hand.

It was precisely the storage bag of the Golden Flower Ancestor.

Han Li swept his spiritual sense inside, and everything in the bag was instantly imprinted in his mind.

A moment later, he shook the bag, and a stream of green light flew out from the opening, spraying out several jade slips of various colors.

Han Li immediately began to carefully examine the cultivation techniques and secret arts recorded on each jade slip, seemingly forgetting about the Tianlan Beast in the cauldron for a moment.

But the beast was quite tactful and did not make a sound to disturb Han Li at this time.

After the time it takes to eat a meal, Han Li raised his eyebrows. After withdrawing his spiritual sense from the last jade slip, a look of confusion appeared on his face.

He had not found anything related to the golden talisman in his hand among these jade slips.

Could it be that this golden talisman was not refined by this person, but was also obtained by chance? Han Li could not help but ponder this.

Suddenly, his expression shifted, as if he had remembered something. He lowered his head abruptly, his spiritual sense once again sinking into the storage bag, and immediately locked onto an item.

The storage bag flashed with green light, spraying out another object.

It was a yellow wooden box half a foot in size, with a restriction talisman pasted on its surface.

Han Li did not stand on ceremony; he raised his hand, tore off the talisman, and then patted the lid of the wooden box.

The wooden box slowly opened, revealing an object inside.

It was actually a milky-white jade plaque the size of a fist, with silver runes faintly visible on its surface, covered in that kind of Silver Tadpole Script. These runes were extremely tiny, but when swept with spiritual sense, they were exceptionally clear.

However, at a glance, this plaque appeared to be only half-complete; it was a damaged item.

Han Li was startled. Before he could carefully examine the plaque, the silver runes on its surface suddenly flashed wildly, and after a violent leap, it transformed into a streak of silver light and shot away.

Han Li was shocked, but having seen the restriction talisman on the wooden box earlier, he had already been somewhat on guard. Thus, just as the silver light shot out a distance of about a zhang, he grabbed it with lightning speed.

His five fingers simultaneously erupted with green light.

The surrounding space hummed as if there had been a clap of thunder on a clear day. The silver light trembled, its flight paused, and it revealed the original form of the jade plaque once more.

Han Li's expression darkened, and he closed his five fingers.

The silver light was sucked back by a tremendous force, unable to resist. It was grabbed by Han Li and could not move a single bit.

"The Golden Que Jade Book! Impossible, how could this thing have fallen into this realm!" Sensing the scene just now, the Tianlan Beast in the cauldron was shocked and blurted out, its voice even trembling slightly.

"What, Fellow Daoist Tianlan recognizes this item?" Han Li's heart tightened.

To be able to make this Spirit Realm demon cultivator lose its composure like this, it seemed the origin of this jade plaque was truly extraordinary.

"Impossible, this thing cannot exist in the mortal world. With its spirituality, how could it be willing to stay in a lower realm with such thin spiritual energy like the mortal world? I understand now, this page of the jade book is actually a torn page; its spirituality has almost completely vanished, and it has no power to return to the Spirit Realm. I just don't know what kind of person with great divine abilities had the capability to tear the jade book, turning it into a torn page?"

The Tianlan Beast seemed not to have heard Han Li's question, merely muttering to itself incessantly. It seemed that the appearance of this jade plaque in the mortal world was such a great shock to it that it could not control itself.

Han Li frowned tightly and had to cough lightly twice.

"Ah, I have lost my composure. It is just that this item made me too surprised." The Tianlan Beast finally regained some of its reason and explained a few words.

"Fellow Daoist Tianlan is so shocked, it seems this item truly has a great history. Hearing what you said, it seems it even flowed down from the Spirit Realm." Han Li grabbed the jade plaque with his five fingers, shook it slowly toward the Void Heaven Cauldron in front of him, and asked with confusion.

"More than just a great history? If I tell you the origin of this item, you will also be startled. This item did not originate from the Spirit Realm, but is something that flowed down from the True Immortal Realm; it is a genuine item of the immortals." Suddenly, the surface of the Void Heaven Cauldron flashed with green light, and a ball of green light emerged.

Then, the green light condensed and rolled, transforming into a male child about a foot tall, chubby and white, looking only three or four years old.

But at this moment, the boy's expression was gloomy, staring fixedly at the jade plaque in Han Li's hand, his eyes flashing with complex emotions, seemingly envious and also somewhat regretful.

Hearing that the jade plaque was actually an item of the immortals, Han Li's expression changed drastically, but the next moment, seeing the boy emerge, he was startled again and immediately relaxed.

This was just a human form transformed by the Tianlan Beast using a bit of the spiritual energy on the cauldron outside the cauldron. Without him personally undoing the restriction, his main body could not leave the Void Heaven Cauldron at all. His attention then returned entirely to this so-called "Golden Que Jade Book."

"An item of the immortals! I didn't hear that wrong, did I?" Han Li looked at the jade plaque in his hand a few times, somewhat half-believing.

"Compared to the True Immortal Realm, the power of the boundaries between our Spirit Realm and your mortal world is much smaller. It is not strange for items of the immortals to occasionally fall into our Spirit Realm. It is just that these Golden Que Jade Books have such a great reputation that I lost my composure." The Tianlan Beast sighed lightly.

"Oh, if Fellow Daoist Tianlan is willing, could you tell Han Mou about this item?" Han Li pondered for a moment and said slowly.

"Why not! The reputation of this item among the human race in the Spirit Realm is something almost everyone knows. It cannot be considered a secret at all. Speaking of this book, one must start from the immortals of the True Immortal Realm. Although our Spirit Realm often has some items of the immortals that fall into our mortal world due to various reasons, the truly useful treasures among them are very few. And since the time our Spirit Realm began recording history, for some unknown reason, almost no immortals have descended into our Spirit Realm. The reason I say 'almost' is because a long time ago, a skeleton of an immortal appeared in the Spirit Realm. This Golden Que Jade Book was found on the body of this immortal skeleton. It is said that there were originally 108 pages in total, each page recording a secret art of the immortals. The inner 36 pages all record the path of breathing and cultivation, including some cultivation techniques and formulas, as well as some divine abilities of profound arts. The outer 72 pages, however, cover everything, involving miscellaneous studies such as talisman arrays, alchemy, and artifact refining."

The boy spoke to this point in an envious tone, paused for a moment, and then continued:

"The inner 36 pages of this jade book are the most important. As for the things recorded in the outer 72 pages, although they seem the most miscellaneous, there are not many that can be truly used directly, because whether it is alchemy, talisman making, artifact refining, or array deployment, the materials recorded on them are mostly things I have never even heard of; at most, they can be used for reference and research. Therefore, except for a few pages, most of the outer 72 pages of the jade book are flashy but without substance. The struggle that swept through the entire Spirit Realm back then was mainly for the inner 36 pages of the jade book. However, after so many tens of thousands of years of changing hands, there are only seven or eight pages whose whereabouts are known now, but almost every cultivator who obtained the jade book and cultivated successfully has become a great figure of the human race. Even if they cannot be ranked with the Three Sovereigns, they can still protect a region and dominate a side. But what is even more tempting is that the cultivators in the Spirit Realm who have attained the Great Dao in the last 100,000 years and were finally able to ascend to the Immortal Realm are said to have all cultivated the techniques in these jade books. Regardless of whether this is true, it is enough to make your human cultivators go crazy for it."

"Human cultivators? What, have all these jade books fallen into the hands of our human race?" Han Li was dumbfounded at first, but finally heard a hint of something wrong and was somewhat surprised.

"Hehe! At first, our demon race also participated in the struggle for the 36 pages of the Golden Que Jade Book. But not long after, those senior demon cultivators who obtained them discovered that the techniques in these jade books were only suitable for human cultivators to cultivate and use. Once our demon cultivators cultivated the divine abilities on them, it was either completely ineffective or our cultivation base would be greatly damaged; some even exploded and died directly. After some attempts, our demon race completely gave up the struggle for this jade book. Although these pages are extremely precious, they are completely useless to our demon race. However, the immortal skeleton back then was also a human body. It is not too strange that the techniques in the Golden Que Jade Book were created specifically for your humans." The boy said with great regret.

"So that's how it is! However, since no immortals had descended into the Spirit Realm back then, how did your Spirit Realm cultivators know that the human skeleton was the body of an immortal? Perhaps it was the remains of some cultivator with great divine abilities?" Han Li touched his chin and said thoughtfully.

"I am not too clear about this. This happened a long time ago, when I had not yet attained the Dao and opened my wisdom, so how would I know about the events of that year? However, at that time, so many seniors of the human and demon races with great divine abilities all determined that it was the skeleton of an immortal, so it is unlikely to be wrong." The boy was stunned by this question, frowned, and replied hesitantly.

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