Chapter 1225: Unexpected Visitor

"Who is it?" Upon hearing this, the dark-faced cultivator was greatly shocked. Without thinking, he opened his mouth and first spat out a white light to protect his whole body. Then, his two hands formed a seal, and the puppet warriors originally lined up on both sides immediately had their eyes flash with spiritual light and soared into the air one after another.

"Wait, Brother Cao, this is Senior Han, you must not be presumptuous." Upon hearing the strange man's voice, the fair-faced middle-aged man's face turned even paler. Seeing the dark-faced general's actions, he immediately stopped him loudly with anxiety.

"Senior Han?" The dark-faced general was a bit confused upon hearing this.

But since even the middle-aged man, whose cultivation was similar to his own, was so cautious, it meant the other party was definitely not an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator. Otherwise, the two of them, being within the mustard-seed space restriction, would be enough to fight a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator.

Could the visitor be a mid-stage Nascent Soul old monster? This was not something he and a few mechanical puppets could contend with.

Thinking this, the cultivator surnamed Cao moved his spiritual sense, and those puppets that had already soared into the air fell back to the distance and became motionless again.

"Consider yourself quick-witted. In that case, it wouldn't be good for me to bully the small with the big." The man seemed to snort, and his voice came again.

Immediately, a blue light flashed above their heads, and a young man in green robes appeared there with his arms crossed, his gaze toward the two of them icy and unusual.

The dark-faced general suspiciously scanned the other party's body with his spiritual sense, and a chill ran through his heart, his face revealing an expression of unbelievable fear.

The other party didn't hide his cultivation at all; he was actually a late Nascent Soul great cultivator.

But when did such a great cultivator surnamed Han appear in the Great Jin? Why hadn't he heard even a whisper of it?

Thinking that he had almost ordered the puppets to attack the person in front of him, the cultivator surnamed Cao felt cold air rising from his back, and he hurriedly bowed deeply toward the high sky:

"This junior didn't know it was Senior who arrived here just now. If there was any offense, I hope Senior will forgive me!"

The young man in the air didn't answer anything upon hearing this, his expression emotionless, but he looked up at the palace in the sky not far away, a trace of surprise appearing in his eyes.

Because of this, although the dark-faced cultivator below was sweating profusely, he didn't dare to stand up easily, fearing he would offend the taboos of this senior expert and bring a fatal disaster upon himself. After all, with the strange temperaments of some Nascent Soul old monsters, such things were entirely possible. He didn't want to fall in such an unclear way.

Fortunately, at this moment, the fair-faced middle-aged man beside him finally spoke to relieve him.

"Senior Han, didn't you say you would give this junior a few months to report this matter to the Pavilion Master? Why did you follow this junior all the way here?" After a bitter smile appeared on the middle-aged man's face, he also bowed to the man in the air.

"Nothing. My time is limited, and I don't have time to wait idly. It's better to talk to your Pavilion Master personally. This is probably the legendary Heaven Mystery Hall. I heard this hall is also located within a mustard-seed space, and it's a very rare free-floating space that changes its entrance position every few years, which ordinary people have no chance to see. Seeing it now, it didn't disappoint Han. You can stand up too! Since you are the guards here, I naturally won't take what happened just now to heart. But Han wants to see your Pavilion Master, so lead the way." The young man's last sentence was said lightly to the dark-faced cultivator, his tone filled with unquestionable authority.

Upon hearing the previous words, Cao Weifeng's heart, which had just settled, sank again, and he couldn't help but look at the middle-aged man beside him in a dilemma.

To tell the truth, he still hadn't figured out the intention of this great cultivator—whether he was an enemy or a friend!

Upon hearing this, the fair-faced middle-aged man's mouth twitched. After hesitating for a while, he still nodded slightly to the dark-faced cultivator.

The cultivator surnamed Cao didn't hesitate anymore and hurriedly agreed:

"Since Senior has ordered, this junior naturally wouldn't dare to disobey. However, the Pavilion Master is currently meeting a distinguished guest. How about this junior reports it first and then takes Senior over?"

"A distinguished guest?" The young man was slightly startled, a trace of surprise flashing in his eyes, but he still nodded emotionlessly.

The dark-faced cultivator was overjoyed. He hurriedly raised his hand, took out a sound-transmission talisman from his storage bag, whispered a few words to the talisman in a hurry, and then threw it out, turning it into a fire light that rushed toward the palace in the sky.

Then, after apologizing with a smile to the young man in the air, he took the initiative to walk into the jade gate, stepped onto the layers of jade stairs in the sky, and led the way in front.

The fair-faced middle-aged man took two quick steps and followed.

These two were walking on foot and didn't drive their escape lights directly on the jade stairs.

"No-fly restriction!"

Upon seeing this, the young man frowned, but then a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. Blue light flashed around his body, and he drifted toward the front directly from the air, appearing completely unaffected.

Seeing this scene, the two people below naturally felt bitter in their hearts.

The nearby restrictions were indeed powerful, and cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage couldn't leave the ground by three feet, but for a late Nascent Soul great cultivator, it naturally didn't count for much, so they could only pretend not to know and continue walking in front.

The young man in the air also seemed unwilling to offend the owner of this place too much, so he didn't fly directly to the palace, but followed behind the two, flying slowly and unhurriedly.

This young man was naturally Han Li, who had traveled from afar from the Great Jin.

Although his cultivation base had greatly advanced, it had still taken him a full half-year to pass through the Mulan Grassland and arrive at the Great Jin.

Speaking of which, this time when passing through the great grassland, he hadn't encountered any trouble and had actually passed through extremely smoothly.

This actually surprised Han Li a bit.

Originally, he had held some intentions of teaching the Tuluo tribe's immortal masters a lesson, after all, he had almost lost his life being hunted down by these Tuluo tribe cultivators years ago.

But when he flew all the way through, apart from some low-tier immortal masters, he hadn't even seen a single Tuluo tribe cultivator above the Core Formation stage.

This surprised him.

Later, after asking around a bit, he learned that over a hundred years ago, for some unknown reason, the Tianlan Saintess and the Great Immortal Master had jointly issued an order for all high-tier immortal masters to gather in various Tianlan Sacred Halls to seclude themselves and cultivate bitterly; without the Sacred Hall's order, they were not allowed to go out easily. It seemed they wanted to use this order to forcibly raise the power of the Tuluo tribe's cultivation world by a tier.

After Han Li figured it out, he naturally felt a bit regretful, but since he hadn't encountered them, he wouldn't specifically kill his way to the Tianlan Sacred Hall.

After all, the strength of the Tuluo tribe was not to be underestimated, and killing his way to the Tianlan Sacred Hall wasn't a matter of just one Tuluo tribe cultivator having a grudge against him; the implications were too great. This was different from the private grudge between him and the Star Palace Elder he had killed in Heavenly Star City; he still had some fear of the Tuluo tribe's overall strength.

So, after pondering for a while, Han Li gave up the idea of looking for trouble with the Tuluo tribe people, walked out of the great grassland without incident, and entered the Great Jin territory.

Because the matter of the mustard-seed space was the simplest and least time-consuming compared to the other two, he naturally handled this first.

He found a famous marketplace within the territory of a prefecture in the Great Jin and directly found a branch of the Heaven Mystery Pavilion. He then proposed to the fair-faced middle-aged man in charge of this branch that he wanted to buy the refining method for mustard-seed space.

If an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator had said such words, the middle-aged man in charge of the branch would have absolutely refused without thinking.

But facing Han Li, who didn't hide his great cultivator cultivation, the late Core Formation stage shopkeeper was shocked and naturally didn't dare to do so. He could only apologize and explain repeatedly.

He said that he couldn't make the decision regarding the mustard-seed space secret technique, nor was he qualified to know the refining method; he had to ask the Pavilion Master personally. Moreover, because the matter was of great importance, relying on a sound-transmission talisman to report this matter wouldn't work; he had to return to the main pavilion and make a trip personally. He asked Han Li to wait for two or three months.

Han Li felt there was some reason in these words, so he agreed.

However, he wouldn't really wait idly in the same place for such a long time, so he simply used a secret technique to follow the middle-aged man and came here.

As far as he knew, although the Heaven Mystery Pavilion was just a commercial firm, in reality, it had some entanglements with several of the Ten Orthodox and Demonic Sects, and it also had a late Nascent Soul great cultivator serving as the Pavilion's guest Great Elder. As for which sect this person belonged to, very few people knew, and it was extremely mysterious.

For Han Li, these were all matters of no consequence.

As long as this guest Great Elder wasn't the Yin Luo Sect Master, even if he were an elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect or the Taiyi Gate, it had nothing to do with him.

Although he came this time with the intention of using his influence to pressure others, he wouldn't really ask for this secret technique for nothing. He had long prepared a large amount of spirit stones and some rare materials.

In this way, he thought the other party wouldn't be willing to offend a great cultivator for the sake of a "chicken rib" secret technique.

It seemed Han Li's prediction was correct; just as they walked halfway up the suspended jade stairs, a series of welcoming bells suddenly rang from the palace in the sky.

Immediately, light flashed at the palace gate, and over a dozen escape lights shot out from within. After circling, they revealed the figures of cultivators, lined up on both sides of the palace entrance, appearing unaffected by the no-fly restriction.

And in the middle of these people, two people walked out side by side, looking down at Han Li and the others.

Han Li frowned, but his expression immediately returned to normal. His figure suddenly took a large step in the air, actually moving over ten zhang out of thin air. After just a few steps, he appeared strangely at the palace gate, facing the two people in the middle.

Seeing this, the cultivators on both sides naturally stirred, some even looking panicked, pressing their hands on the storage bags at their waists.

"Do not be rude! You all go down first. This must be Fellow Daoist Han, right?" The plump old man standing on the left among the two people in the middle suddenly scolded the cultivators on both sides, then smiled and asked Han Li.

"Is Your Excellency the Pavilion Master of the Heaven Mystery Pavilion?" Han Li looked at the old man carefully for a few moments and asked indifferently as well.

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