Chapter 1171

Once Han Li went into seclusion in the secret chamber, it lasted for four days and four nights. Net

When he emerged from the secret chamber again with a look of satisfaction on his face, he discovered that Lu Luo was sitting cross-legged outside the barrier of his cave dwelling, not knowing how long he had been waiting.

Han Li pondered for a moment and understood what was going on. He immediately smiled slightly, opened the cave dwelling's barrier, and went out to greet him personally.

"Junior Martial Brother Han, I heard from Grandnephew Tian that you were in seclusion refining artifacts. I thought I would have to wait another two days. I didn't expect Junior Martial Brother to come out of seclusion so quickly." As soon as Lu Luo saw Han Li appear, his face was filled with joy, and he hurriedly stood up, cupped his hands, and said to Han Li.

"I was just re-refining some small things I obtained in the Great Jin. I thought I would be able to come out in two or three days. I didn't expect it to take longer than I had anticipated. Sorry to have kept you waiting for so long, Senior Martial Brother! Is Senior Martial Brother here this time because of the people from the Ancient Sword Gate and the Hundred Crafts Academy?" Han Li asked unhurriedly.

"That's right, almost all the Elders from those two sects have come out. It seems that some of them still don't believe that Junior Martial Brother has truly advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage," Lu Luo replied with a smile.

"Since that's the case, I will go and meet them now," Han Li said noncommittally.

"That would be best." Lu Luo was naturally very satisfied.

The two of them immediately turned into two streaks of light and headed straight for the Falling Cloud Sect.

After a short while, the two of them appeared outside the main hall at the foot of the sect's main peak.

There were more than ten Foundation Establishment stage disciples guarding the entrance of the hall. When they saw Han Li and the other, they naturally stepped forward to pay their respects respectfully, and a few of them couldn't help but keep stealing glances at Han Li.

Han Li frowned and let out a light hum through his nose.

To others, this hum sounded perfectly ordinary, but to the ears of those few disciples who were peeking, it was like a thunderclap, shaking them until they were terrified, and they hurriedly lowered their heads, not daring to look again.

"Are those fellow daoists all inside the hall?" Lu Luo turned a blind eye to Han Li's actions and asked casually.

"Reporting to the two Ancestral Masters, the seniors from the Ancient Sword Gate and the Hundred Crafts Academy have been meditating in the hall, and nothing has happened," a clever disciple hurriedly replied.

Lu Luo nodded.

Han Li's spiritual sense, however, had already swept into the hall, taking in the cultivation levels of everyone who had come.

Two in the mid Nascent Soul stage and three in the early Nascent Soul stage; it seemed the Grand Elders of both sects had come personally.

Han Li thought lazily in his heart.

With his supernatural ability to have once annihilated a late Nascent Soul stage cultivator, he naturally would no longer take these cultivators in the hall to heart.

Han Li did not speak and immediately took the lead, walking directly into the hall with large strides.

Lu Luo was startled and immediately followed closely behind, but he took the initiative to fall one step behind Han Li, showing that he took Han Li as the leader.

But after Lu Luo had only followed for a few steps, he was horrified to find that Han Li in front of him had suddenly "disappeared."

This so-called disappearance meant that while his naked eyes could still see Han Li there, if he swept his spiritual sense over, it was completely empty, as if he were just a mass of air.

Lu Luo immediately gasped, and at the same time, he felt a little worried in his heart.

This kind of supernatural ability to completely isolate one's aura could only be performed by high-tier cultivators who were confident in the strength of their spiritual sense and were facing low-tier cultivators far inferior to themselves, relying on secret techniques.

With his early Nascent Soul stage spiritual sense, he knew where Han Li was, yet he couldn't sense his existence at all. Didn't that mean that if Han Li wanted to ambush an early-stage cultivator like him, he could get right up to them without them ever discovering him?

Of course, he was also worried. Han Li was, after all, a newly advanced late-stage cultivator. By suddenly showing off this supernatural ability, could he really intimidate the two Grand Elders of the Ancient Sword Gate and the Hundred Crafts Academy in the hall? After all, they were mid-stage cultivators. If he were careless and failed to suppress the other party's spiritual sense, it might be counterproductive.

Of course, Lu Luo also understood that since Han Li dared to use this method, he naturally had some confidence.

In the end, this Elder of the Falling Cloud Sect was still feeling uneasy, filled with anxiety.

The corridor was only a short distance, and after a moment, Han Li and the other entered the hall.

With a "swish," ten gazes swept over together, all falling on Lu Luo, and then they turned to Han Li in surprise.

Seeing this, Lu Luo felt relieved.

This meant that among the five Nascent Soul cultivators in the hall, not one of them could truly sense Han Li's existence.

At this moment, the expressions of the five people in the hall changed drastically, and they stood up one after another.

"Fellow Daoist Han is indeed a great cultivator of the late Nascent Soul stage. Even we, with our mid-stage cultivation, cannot sense your aura." An old man with curly hair and eyes shooting out sharp light gradually suppressed the look of shock on his face, but he spoke with a solemn smile.

This person was none other than the Grand Elder of the Ancient Sword Gate, Old Monster Jin!

"That's right, it's only been a hundred years or so. Brother Han has already advanced to the late stage. The speed of cultivation, even if not unprecedented, is probably not far off." The other person who reacted quickly was a big man in a purple robe, who was Old Monster Master Liehuo of the Hundred Crafts Academy.

Han Li had seen both of these men when he was observing the ceremony at the Hundred Crafts Academy back then, and he had even exchanged blows with Old Monster Jin once.

Therefore, Han Li replied with a faint smile:

"Han Mou just happened to have some other opportunities while traveling abroad this time. It is Han Mou who didn't know that the two fellow daoists had come to the Falling Cloud Sect personally, keeping you waiting for so long. It is truly a bit impolite."

"Haha, for those of us who cultivate the Dao, this amount of time passes in the blink of an eye. It doesn't count for anything," Old Monster Jin laughed.

Hearing this, Han Li smiled slightly and then looked over the other three people. Two of them were newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivators from the two sects, but the last one was a young woman who looked gentle and graceful. She was actually the female cultivator from the Ancient Sword Gate named Ming Xin who had also attended the ceremony at the Hundred Crafts Academy back then.

Back then, this woman had once used a rather profound secret technique on him without knowing the immensity of heaven and earth, but she hadn't been able to test his depth at all. However, it had left Han Li with quite an impression of her.

After Han Li's spiritual sense swept over this woman, a flash of surprise appeared in his eyes, and he suddenly said to her slowly:

"Fairy Ming Xin, I hope you have been well. Your cultivation seems to have reached the early-stage bottleneck. As long as you cultivate diligently for another ten years or so, I'm afraid advancing to the mid-stage is just around the corner."

Seeing Han Li looking over, the young woman's expression became a bit unnatural. When she heard Han Li casually state her cultivation progress, which was not off by even a fraction, her beautiful face finally lost its color.

If one were to say who among the two sects of the Ancient Sword Gate least believed that Han Li could truly advance to a late-stage great cultivator before seeing him, it was neither Old Monster Jin and the other mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, nor the other Elders of the two sects, but this young woman.

It should be known that when she attended the ceremony at the Hundred Crafts Academy back then, although this young woman had also just advanced to the Nascent Soul stage not long before, she relied on a strange treasure to assist her. Her cultivation speed was several times faster than that of ordinary cultivators, and by relying on this treasure, she had broken through bottlenecks several times in succession. That was why she had condensed her Nascent Soul at such a young age and was regarded by the Ancient Sword Gate as a cultivation prodigy.

But during the ceremony, she encountered Han Li, who was said to have cultivated for an even shorter time than her but whose cultivation was even better. Naturally, she couldn't help but try to test him once. The result was that she couldn't test Han Li's depth at all, which made her heart tremble. However, she was not yet convinced. She believed that with the help of that strange treasure, catching up to Han Li was only a matter of time.

But now, only a hundred years or so had passed, and she heard that Han Li had returned from his travels and had advanced to the late stage all at once.

After Fairy Ming Xin was greatly shocked, she naturally refused to believe it.

However, Han Li had just demonstrated the strength of his spiritual sense. After his gaze swept over her, it gave the young woman a feeling of almost suffocating, and then with a casual remark, he stated her current cultivation realm perfectly, as if he knew it like the back of his hand.

The young woman was terrified, and it was only after a long while that she managed to squeeze out a smile.

"Brother Han is indeed possessed of great supernatural powers now, to be able to state Ming Xin's cultivation without a single error. It seems it truly is the realm of a late-stage great cultivator. With Brother Han sitting in Mount Mount Yunmeng in the future, I believe those petty people will definitely not dare to have designs on our three sects again."

"Haha, Fairy Ming Xin's words are reasonable. And with Junior Martial Brother Han's current age, it will definitely not be a problem for our Mount Mount Yunmeng lineage to be safe and sound for seven or eight hundred years. Hehe, having designs on our three sects? I think it seems we should let our three sects' influence walk out of Mount Mount Yunmeng instead." Lu Luo suddenly interjected at this moment.

Old Monster Jin and the others' expressions all shifted upon hearing this.

Han Li smiled and didn't speak, but the aura that had disappeared from his body re-emerged, and it became stronger and stronger, the powerful spiritual pressure of the late Nascent Soul stage undoubtedly revealed!

A moment later, the five people in the hall were forced by this astonishing spiritual pressure until their figures were almost unstable, and with ugly expressions, they had no more doubts in their hearts.

Next, Lu Luo and the cultivators of the two sects discussed in a grand manner how to expand their influence, at the very least bringing the entire cultivation world of the Xi Kingdom under their control.

In their conversation, they had vaguely treated the Ancient Sword Gate and the Hundred Crafts Academy as subordinate sects.

Old Monster Jin and the big man in the purple robe looked at each other, both seeing a look of helplessness on the other's face. But Lu Luo looked as if he had turned a blind eye to it.

Somewhere in the outer valley of the Fallen Devil Valley, the three women, Mu Mu Peiling and the others, were walking out of a cave that looked hidden. The expressions of the three were not very good, and they were vaguely filled with anxiety.

"This is the last place where Phantom Spirit Grass might grow. But we are still empty-handed. Could it be that the Phantom Spirit Grass in the outer perimeter has already been picked clean?" Once the three women had completely walked out of the cave, Liu Yu stopped her steps and said with a look of hesitation on her face.

"That is not impossible. However, if it were in the inner valley, I believe we would definitely be able to find this spirit grass." The woman surnamed Song no longer had her previous composure, her eyebrows locked tightly as she spoke.

"The inner valley? Absolutely not. If we go in with our cultivation, it will definitely be a life of nine deaths and one life." Upon hearing this, Mu Mu Peiling's beautiful face changed drastically.

"That's not necessarily true. I once knew an old friend of Uncle Martial Master Han, and I obtained a safe route map for entering the inner valley from her. As long as we don't deviate from this route, we should be able to minimize the danger of encountering spatial rifts in the inner valley." Song Yu blinked her beautiful eyes and suddenly said thoughtfully.

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