Chapter 1168: Returning to the Sect

"What does Master mean by saying this?" Tian Qin'er became somewhat terrified.

"You stayed in those bamboo buildings for a day, what did you feel?" Han Li did not answer directly, but asked indifferently.

"I don't know, but the feeling it gave me was very strange, some things I can't explain very clearly." Tian Qin'er muttered.

"That was the place where an old acquaintance of mine lived back then. She also possessed the Dragon Chant Constitution and was a natural array master, but she passed away at a young age." Han Li said slowly.

"Ah, didn't Master take action to save her back then?" Tian Qin'er asked, startled.

"I hadn't even passed the Golden Core tribulation back then, so how could I save her? Besides, because of another matter, she had long since lost the will to live. And the array book I showed you back then was an array classic she left behind. And the way I met this Fellow Daoist Xin back then started from another friend named Qi Qi Yunxiao. I had just reached Foundation Establishment back then and participated in an underground auction at a marketplace..." Han Li was not bothered by the trouble, and told the story of how he met Qi Qi Yunxiao, how he later met Xin Xin Ruyin, and the reasons for their successive deaths, without hiding anything.

When he spoke of meeting the descendant of Xin Xin Ruyin's maid after he left, he stopped talking.

But the girl had long been dumbfounded, and after a long while, she let out a long breath, her eyes revealing a complex look as she said.

"So that's it. Could it be that Master thinks I am the reincarnation of this person!"

"Originally, I only had three parts of suspicion, but after seeing your reaction in the bamboo building, I have at least five parts of certainty. But that is enough. It seems that this talk of reincarnation is mostly true." Han Li chuckled.

"Then Master's intention in taking me as a disciple..." Tian Qin'er asked, feeling somewhat uneasy.

"Don't worry, I am taking you as a disciple sincerely. Back then, I had some friendship with Fellow Daoist Xin, and I admired her talent in arrays. I am taking you in, on one hand, because of the sentiment that you might be the reincarnation of Fellow Daoist Xin, and on the other hand, because I want to cultivate your array path, allowing you to become a true array master, which I might have great use for in the future. Of course, if you have changed your mind now and are unwilling to be my disciple, I can also send you back to the Chaotic Star Sea." Han Li stared at the girl's face and said slowly.

"I don't know if I am truly the reincarnation of Master's old friend, but even if it were true, I cannot remember anything about my past life. Now that Master is willing to take me, a Qi Refining stage cultivator, as a disciple with the status of a great cultivator, how could Qin'er be so ungrateful as to give up this fate." Tian Qin'er shook her head repeatedly, showing surprise and fear, seemingly truly afraid that Han Li would no longer take her as a disciple.

After all, she hadn't officially held the apprenticeship ceremony with him yet, and was still just a named disciple.

"Very good. If you are my disciple, I dare not say anything else, but I have a few parts of certainty in letting you safely cultivate to the Core Formation stage." Han Li said with a faint smile.

"Qin'er is willing to be Master's disciple, with no two hearts." The girl said without hesitation.

"Good. When we return to the Falling Cloud Sect, I will officially take you into my sect. I haven't officially taken any disciples before. I only took one named disciple, you will see him in the sect later." Han Li laughed lightly.

Hearing this, the girl felt a weight lift from her heart, and a sweet smile appeared on her face, the first since they set off.

Next, Han Li urged his magic power, and his escape light sped up significantly, disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

A few months later, Han Li entered the Xi Kingdom with the girl without incident.

A few days later, a blinding green rainbow appeared near the Mount Yunmeng Mountain range. When it was still a hundred li away from the mountain range, a heaven-shaking long whistle suddenly erupted from the rainbow.

The whistle shot straight into the nine heavens, sounding like both a dragon's roar and a phoenix's cry. The white clouds in the sky nearby were all shaken, scattering and rolling.

However, the speed of the green rainbow was incredibly fast, flying tens of li in just a few flashes, and the powerful spiritual energy contained in the whistle naturally alarmed the three major sects of the Mount Yunmeng Mountain range.

From the elders of the Nascent Soul stage to the ordinary disciples of the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, everyone who heard the whistle from afar felt a shock in their hearts.

Those Nascent Soul old monsters could not sit still and left their sects one after another to see which expert had arrived and was acting so unscrupulously in the Mount Yunmeng Mountain range.

As a result, just as Han Li plunged into the mountain range, five escape lights shot out to meet him, clearly the Nascent Soul cultivators of the three major sects.

Han Li's heart stirred, because the mood of finally seeing Nangong Wan again finally calmed down.

The escape light faded, the whistle stopped, and he appeared with Tian Qin'er, looking carefully at the five escape lights.

A moment later, a rare smile appeared on his face.

As a result, when the five escape lights shot to a distance of thirty or forty zhang in front, they scattered, revealing five cultivators.

Han Li actually recognized most of them.

"Junior Brother Han, is it you?" A middle-aged man in a blue robe saw Han Li's face from afar, and after stopping, he said loudly to Han Li with surprise and joy.

It was Lü Luo of the Falling Cloud Sect, the Elder Lü who had invited Han Li to join the sect back then.

"Senior Brother Lü, have you been well!" Han Li's smile bloomed, and he cupped his fists at Lü Luo.

"So it is Fellow Daoist Han who has returned to the mountain. I said who could have such astonishing divine abilities, eh, Fellow Daoist Han, you have already advanced to the late stage." The first to speak was a red-robed, red-lipped, white-toothed child-like cultivator, precisely the Fire Dragon Child of the Ancient Sword Sect. But at this moment, his face suddenly had a look of having seen a ghost.

"Fellow Daoist Lan, haven't you also advanced to the middle stage?" Han Li glanced at the child and said with a laugh.

"Fellow Daoist Han is truly joking. How can Lan's advancement to the middle stage be compared to the matter of Fellow Daoist becoming a great cultivator?" The Fire Dragon Child swallowed dryly and replied dryly.

The others were suddenly startled and swept their spiritual sense over Han Li at the same time, and naturally, they were all dumbfounded as well.

Lü Luo asked again with a trembling voice:

"Is this true, Junior Brother, you are already a great cultivator of the late stage."

"Junior Brother gained a lot during this trip, and only then luckily broke through to the late stage." Han Li's expression remained unchanged, and he replied calmly.

Hearing this, Lü Luo was naturally overjoyed, not knowing what to say for a moment, but his face was full of blooming smiles.

"Congratulations, Brother Han. I never expected that after only a hundred years of not seeing you, Fellow Daoist Han would have taken such a great step forward on the path of immortality. It seems that our Mount Mount Yunmeng lineage will be enough to shake Tiannan in the future." The one who said this was the Elder surnamed Feng, whom Han Li had met once back at the Hundred Crafts Academy. After his shock subsided, he immediately spoke with great enthusiasm.

Han Li nodded with a smile, not saying anything else.

Although Nascent Soul early-stage cultivators and late-stage cultivators were both Nascent Soul cultivators and addressed each other as peers, everyone knew clearly the gap between them.

The others naturally lowered their heads in front of Han Li.

As for the other two, they were unfamiliar men, respectively the newly advanced Nascent Soul Elders of the Ancient Sword Sect and the Hundred Crafts Academy.

These two were even more restrained in front of Han Li, and after greeting, they sensibly did not say much.

"Fellow Daoist Lan, Fellow Daoist Feng, you should go back first. Han Mou has been away from the sect for so many years, so I'm afraid I need to return to the sect for a small gathering for a few days, and then go to the Ancient Sword Sect and the Hundred Crafts Academy to visit a few Fellow Daoists, how about that?" Han Li's gaze flickered and said so.

The Fire Dragon Child and the old man surnamed Feng said repeatedly that it was unnecessary, instead claiming that they would definitely come to the Falling Cloud Sect to visit Han Li personally with the other elders after returning. After obtaining Han Li's consent, they agreed on a date for the visit three days later, and then left one after another.

In the blink of an eye, only Lü Luo remained in place.

"Senior Brother Lü, the other two sects have new Nascent Soul cultivators, doesn't our sect have any new Nascent Soul Elders? To have to trouble Senior Brother to come out personally to welcome Junior Brother." Han Li frowned and asked Lü Luo after the four had driven their escape lights out of sight.

"Ashamed, our sect has relied on Junior Brother's reputation for the past hundred years. Although we have taken in many disciples with good aptitude, their cultivation is still low. There really aren't many who have hope of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage recently. However, once those disciples with good aptitude grow up, the situation will definitely improve greatly. Eh, who is this little girl..." Lü Luo first revealed an embarrassed look, but his gaze swept over Tian Qin'er behind Han Li, and he asked with some confusion.

"This is a disciple I took in during my travels, I haven't officially held the apprenticeship ceremony yet!" Han Li said with a laugh.

"Paying respects to Senior Uncle!" Tian Qin'er was quite clever, immediately stepping forward and bowing. Although she was only of Qi Refining cultivation, after being personally taken into the sect by Han Li, she was naturally very different from ordinary disciples who were ranked by cultivation.

"Haha, get up quickly. I didn't expect Junior Brother to finally officially take in a disciple. I, this Senior Uncle, don't have anything good, so I will give you a protective artifact from back then!" Lü Luo laughed, reached into his storage bag at his waist, and a crystal ball flashing with red light appeared in his hand, which he handed directly to Tian Qin'er.

The girl was stunned at first, but then happily bowed again, and only then happily took the artifact.

Seeing this, Han Li naturally just smiled, and the two took Tian Qin'er and flew straight toward the Falling Cloud Sect.

On the way, Lü Luo began to tell Han Li about the situation of the Falling Cloud Sect over the past hundred years, but the focus was naturally on the passing of the silver-haired old man, Senior Brother Cheng, and the fact that Nangong Wan was still trapped!

Han Li had long expected the passing of the silver-haired old man, but hearing Lü Luo say it personally, he still felt somewhat sad.

After all, Han Li and this Senior Brother Cheng had gotten along very well back then.

But hearing that Nangong Wan was still in the ice wall, Han Li's heart sank again, and his face naturally revealed a bit of nervousness.

However, Lü Luo explained with a smile:

"Junior Brother, don't worry. Although the younger sister-in-law has not yet undone the seal, she has already awakened and is fine. She is just cultivating some technique inside the wall. If she were to come out now, it would instead cause her to fall short of success."

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