Chapter 1207
When such an eerie thing happened, almost every high-level Star Palace member immediately concluded that this matter absolutely had to do with Han Li. The situation not long ago was still fresh in their memories. Anyone could see that there seemed to be a great hatred between this Great Cultivator and Elder Ximen.
However, suspicion was suspicion, but among these Star Palace elders, apart from muttering in their hearts, no one went to denounce Han Li, and they all acted as if they were deaf and dumb.
The reason for this situation, besides the fact that the other party was a Great Cultivator and no one wanted to invite trouble, was mainly that they didn't have the slightest evidence to prove that the other party had made a move. On the contrary, the other party had sufficient reasons to deny the matter completely.
Because during the time Elder Ximen perished, Han Li was with Elder Zhao, conducting so-called insights exchange, and during this period, they hadn't separated at all. Naturally, this kind of obvious smoke screen was seen through by anyone with a bit of scheming, as Han Li had done it on purpose to block their mouths.
Even if they knew the truth, the means by which Han Li could make a Nascent Soul cultivator vanish from the world without having to make a move himself made all the Star Palace elders feel a chill in their hearts.
If it were ordinary cultivators, they naturally wouldn't need to care about evidence or not; they would just catch the other party and search their soul to know everything. But Han Li was a late-stage Great Cultivator, and who would have the thought of inviting trouble upon themselves? Even the few elders who were on good terms with this Elder Ximen when he was alive were now dumbstruck.
Moreover, not long after, the entire Star Palace would have to rely on the other party's power, so they absolutely couldn't offend Han Li at this moment. Thus, from Ling Ling Yuling down to ordinary Star Palace elders, they could only play dumb once.
Han Li returned to the secret room to cultivate after exchanging insights with Elder Zhao for half a day.
And this Elder Zhao immediately received the news of Elder Ximen's death, stood stunned for a long time, and finally could only smile bitterly, his face full of helplessness.
Next, he simply didn't guard the place where Han Li was cultivating, but summoned two Golden Core disciples and left on his own.
Since the other party could still exterminate a Nascent Soul cultivator elsewhere while being with him, his monitoring of the other party was just a waste of time. He'd better be tactful and stay far away.
Lest the other party also develop murderous intent toward him.
In this way, an eerie scene appeared!
Although the Star Palace had lost an elder, after dealing with the aftermath, no one in the Star Palace high-level mentioned this matter again. Even the name of Elder Ximen became a forbidden word for a time. Instead, everyone rubbed their hands and focused their attention on the great battle a few days later.
Five days later, Han Li came out of the secret room and arrived at the Holy Hall again. Apart from the Star Palace elders, there were more than thirty Golden Core cultivators inside.
These cultivators were all Golden Core late-stage cultivation, and one look showed they were the backbone of the Star Palace, second only to these elders.
When Han Li walked into the hall slowly, the gazes of all the cultivators "swished" and landed on Han Li. Most were in awe, a small part were in shock, but one thing was the same. No matter where Han Li looked, the cultivators in that direction would immediately lower their heads, not daring to be the slightest bit negligent.
Solving a mere Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator with a humanoid puppet was a trivial matter not worth mentioning to Han Li today, but it unexpectedly intimidated these Star Palace high-level members.
Previously, these Star Palace cultivators could confirm his Great Cultivator status, but no one had seen him display his supernatural powers, so most of them had doubts about whether he could truly hold off Wan Wan Tianming.
After all, Wan Wan Tianming had killed many Star Palace elders in the struggle with the Star Palace over these decades, and his fame was unparalleled in the Star Sea. Now that Han Li had revealed his eerie supernatural power of killing a Nascent Soul with a clone in the Star Palace, it had unexpectedly added quite a bit of confidence to these Star Palace people.
This was something neither Ling Ling Yuling nor Han Li had expected.
However, Ling Ling Yuling was naturally happy that the morale could be boosted, while Han Li didn't care about this at all.
"Brother Han, you take your seat first. I will begin arranging the attack on the Anti-Star Alliance," Ling Ling Yuling said politely when she saw Han Li appear.
Han Li nodded, sat on a stone chair below her, flicked his sleeve, and a pale white jade slip appeared in his hand, which he began to read with his head lowered. He acted as if he didn't see the others at all!
Ling Ling Yuling smiled slightly, but the moment she looked at the other cultivators in the hall, her expression immediately became solemn, and she began to give orders in a cold voice.
Han Li kept most of his mind on the jade slip, but naturally wouldn't truly be deaf to the world outside, still keeping a part of his spiritual sense on the arrangements of this girl.
The Star Palace's plan was quite simple. Although the Wind-Fire Heaven-Absolute Array had one hundred and eight Wind-Fire Pillars, they only intended to attack thirty-six Wind-Fire Pillars located around Star City.
According to the estimates of several array masters in the Star Palace, these thirty-six were the more important parts of all the Wind-Fire Pillars. As long as most of them were destroyed, the array would break itself. Of course, the premise for doing this was that the array eye personally guarded by Wan Wan Tianming must be captured by the Star Palace first.
One by one, Nascent Soul elders and Golden Core cultivators stood up to receive orders in Ling Ling Yuling's stern voice, each with a solemn expression. An aura of slaughter unexpectedly filled the hall.
In the blink of an eye, every Wind-Fire Pillar had been assigned someone to attack it, but the number of high-tier cultivators responsible for each place varied. Some places were led by two or three Nascent Soul cultivators together, while others didn't even have a single Nascent Soul cultivator, only a few Golden Core cultivators.
This made Han Li feel surprised when he heard it. However, after thinking about it, he understood what was going on.
Most likely, there were Star Palace high-tier moles within the Anti-Star Alliance who had already figured out the strength guarding these Wind-Fire Pillars, which was why there was such a detailed deployment.
Although Han Li didn't even raise his head, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Ling Ling Yuling's deployment was very fast. A meal's time later, apart from a small number of cultivators, almost everyone had a specific task.
Finally, her voice stopped, and she suddenly turned her head and said to Han Li with a smile:
"Brother Han, how about you and me, along with Elders Ma and Zhao, lead the team to attack the array eye? That Wan Wan Tianming is personally guarding that place."
"No problem, but I will only be responsible for Wan Wan Tianming. As long as other cultivators don't come to provoke me, I won't make a move," Han Li also raised his head, met the girl's gaze, and replied indifferently.
Seeing Han Li's relaxed appearance, Ling Ling Yuling's bright eyes flashed with surprise, and she felt a bit suspicious, but she agreed fully.
Although she knew a lot about Han Li through the Star Twins, she didn't know what Han Li's true supernatural powers were like, so she was afraid Han Li would be a bit careless, and told Han Li about Wan Wan Tianming's supernatural powers after reaching the late-stage Great Perfection, as well as some powerful treasures he had newly obtained, so Han Li could know himself and the enemy.
Han Li listened, but his face revealed an expression of neither agreeing nor disagreeing, and he didn't show any reaction.
Seeing this, Ling Ling Yuling sighed secretly, and couldn't ask Han Li how much confidence he had. Anyway, after this battle, the Star Palace would either win or perish.
"Set off!" After this cold order, all the cultivators in the hall surged out of the hall.
Those low-tier Foundation Establishment disciples had long been prepared at the four city gates of Star City, just waiting for the Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators leading the team to arrive, so they could immediately attack.
Han Li looked at the jade slip in his hand, closed his hands, and the jade slip vanished into thin air.
The Profound Magnetic Divine Light incantations recorded in this jade slip were indeed profound enough. He had pondered for several days and only just had some clues. He didn't know what kind of strange existence that Profound Magnetic Mountain was that it could assist in the cultivation of this technique.
Han Li thought absent-mindedly, but followed Ling Ling Yuling and the other elders out of the stone hall.
Greatly exceeding Han Li's expectations, there was a giant beast carriage ten feet long parked outside the hall.
This carriage was made entirely of unknown green wood, covered with various runes, and was clearly a carefully refined object. But what was even more eye-catching was that in front of the beast carriage, there were four green giant beasts of the same color, several feet long, lying on the ground.
Since arriving at Star City this time, Han Li was surprised for the first time.
Although they were only at the fifth or sixth level, these four green beasts were indeed four flood dragons.
And if he remembered correctly, the flood dragon clan was extremely protective of their own. Even if the Star Palace was powerful before, how could they dare to drive a carriage with real flood dragons, not afraid of angering this spirit beast clan and bringing a great enemy to the Star Palace?
"Why, is Brother Han so surprised by a few low-tier demonic beasts?" Ling Ling Yuling saw Han Li rarely reveal a look of surprise, her bright eyes curved, revealing a smile.
"No, the bodies of these demonic beasts are indeed from the flood dragon clan, but the essence souls inside seem a bit abnormal," Han Li narrowed his eyes, blue light flashed in his pupils, and he suddenly said this.
"Brother Han truly has eyes like torches! The essence souls in these flood dragon bodies are indeed not flood dragon spirits, but were refined by my father when he traveled in the outer sea years ago, after winning a few low-tier green dragon corpses from the Golden Dragon King in a bet, and using secret arts to fill them with the essence souls of deep-sea spirit pythons, forming these carriage-driving demonic beasts," Ling Ling Yuling revealed a look of admiration and explained.
"I see. However, Ling Daoist put this carriage here; does it mean you intend to use this carriage for the attack this time?" Han Li frowned, still a bit puzzled.
"Hehe, Brother Han doesn't know. This carriage was personally refined by my father back then. Besides the carriage-pulling demonic beasts having some supernatural powers, the carriage itself also has its own mysteries, which are quite effective in breaking the enemy. If this battle wasn't of great importance, I wouldn't necessarily be willing to use this treasure," Ling Ling Yuling raised her eyebrows, revealing a mysterious expression.
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