Chapter 1257: Advancing to Spirit Transformation

Since the Fallen Devil Valley experienced the battle with the ancient demons, the restrictions in the outer valley gradually faded. After so many years, the outer valley was opened to ordinary cultivators.

But as the number of cultivators entering the outer valley to search for treasures increased, various rare minerals, spirit herbs, and spirit trees in the valley were quickly swept away. Only in extremely hidden corners that hadn't been discovered yet could one occasionally find some good things. But this depended on one's luck and fortune.

In this way, the number of cultivators searching for treasures naturally decreased day by day, and now the outer valley was no different from ordinary spirit mountains and spirit lands. Only a few low-level cultivators came to try their luck in the morning and evening.

Relatively speaking, the inner valley of the Fallen Devil Valley had become increasingly famous for its ferocity.

The restrictions in the inner valley hadn't weakened at all after so many years, and the spatial rifts within were still densely packed. And in the last two or three hundred years, for some unknown reason, a strange, milky-white mist had been permeating the valley all year round.

Although this mist wouldn't actively harm cultivators, anyone who entered it would immediately feel dizzy, and at the same time, their spiritual sense would be greatly suppressed. As long as they ventured slightly deeper, they would completely lose their way.

The appearance of this strange phenomenon once caused a sensation in Tiannan.

Many cultivators judged that this was a strange omen caused by the birth of a strange treasure in the valley. However, no matter how good the treasure was, it naturally wasn't as important as their own lives. Most high-level cultivators hesitated for a while, not daring to rashly break into the inner valley.

But not long after, several Nascent Soul loose cultivators, driven by greed, relied on several treasures they possessed that could break the mist and actually joined forces to break into the inner valley.

As a result, these few cultivators were trapped in the mist for several years, their treasures completely failed, and finally, after bumping around randomly, they luckily escaped in a sorry state.

Later, several cultivators who relied on their own divine abilities entered the inner valley one after another, but their encounters were even more miserable; some were buried in spatial rifts in the mist, and others were trapped for even longer.

One person even stayed in the mist for fifty or sixty years. If it weren't for the fact that there was no lack of spiritual Qi in the inner valley, allowing them to absorb and replenish magic power at any time, none of these people would have been able to leave the valley alive.

These things were spread one by one, naturally making other Nascent Soul cultivators terrified, and no one dared to speak of breaking into the valley again.

In this way, the inner valley of the Fallen Devil Valley once again became a forbidden land in the Tiannan cultivation world, and rarely did anyone wander near the valley entrance.

As time passed, Tiannan cultivators gradually became accustomed to the mist in the inner valley. Some new cultivators even thought that the white mist permeating the valley was originally natural to the Fallen Devil Valley, and no one pursued the source of its production anymore.

No one knew that in an extremely hidden mountain valley in the inner valley, there was a small cave dwelling built against the mountain, made entirely of beautiful jade, exposed in the mountain valley.

And next to the cave dwelling, there was a seemingly ordinary medicine garden, only a hundred feet wide. In the medicine garden, countless rare spirit herbs that made outside cultivators crazy with envy were planted. The age of these spirit herbs ranged from several hundred to over a thousand years, emanating an alluring array of medicinal fragrance.

And near the small mountain valley, layers of profound restrictions were set up by someone, and even if a Nascent Soul cultivator were to accidentally enter, it would be difficult to escape easily.

Now, in the middle of the medicine garden, there was a cyan stone house, which was empty, with nothing in it except for a meditation cushion.

And on the meditation cushion, a slender human figure was sitting cross-legged without moving, as if it were a wooden carving.

I don't know how long it had been, but this human figure moved, stood up, and slowly walked out of the stone house.

As soon as he stepped out of the stone door, under the faint sunlight, the face could be seen clearly; this was none other than "Han Li," but his expression was wooden, without the slightest emotion.

"Han Li" walked step by step to a corner of the medicine garden, grabbed with his hand, actually pulling a small green bottle out of the soil, and then walked to another place in the medicine garden, stopping in front of a vine that was exceptionally emerald green, and dripped a drop of green liquid from the bottle onto the roots of the vine.

Watching the green liquid being quickly absorbed by the vine, he turned around without hesitation, buried the small bottle in its original place, and walked back to the stone house, seemingly intending to sit cross-legged again.

But just at this moment, "Han Li" suddenly paused his footsteps, shook his sleeve, and a magic disk flickering with white light flew out on its own.

He grabbed it into his hand and looked down.

Only cyan characters were flickering on the disk, and someone seemed to be conveying some news.

"Han Li" immediately soared into the sky, transformed into a cyan rainbow, shot out of the medicine garden, and headed straight for a hidden corner of the mountain valley.

As a result, when the light converged and he landed, a small teleportation array a foot in size appeared under his feet.

"Han Li" stood there quietly, not saying a word.

A moment later, the teleportation array activated on its own, and amidst flickering spiritual light, a faint cyan human figure was teleported out.

When the human figure took a big step out of the teleportation array, another "Han Li" appeared in front of his eyes.

"You have worked hard all these years. If it weren't for you sending spirit herbs over every day, I wouldn't have been able to cultivate from the early stage of Spirit Transformation to the peak in such a short time." The Han Li who appeared later suddenly smiled at the person in front of him who had the same face as himself.

"I am you, you are me; why distinguish between us?" The first "Han Li" remained expressionless and said faintly.

He was actually the humanoid puppet controlled by the Second Nascent Soul.

And the person who appeared later was the real Han Li who had just come out of seclusion in the mustard-seed space.

It had been three hundred years since Han Li left the Falling Cloud Sect.

Years ago, after he left the Falling Cloud Sect with Nangong Wan, he brought Nangong Wan and the others to the Chaotic Star Sea through an ancient teleportation array, and then occupied a remote small island with good spiritual veins. He let Nangong Wan and the others settle down, while Han Li returned to the Fallen Devil Valley in Tiannan, opened the mustard-seed space, and entered it to cultivate the Meta-Magnetic Divine Light.

Before entering the mustard-seed space, he released the Heavenly Machine Mansion, stored the spirit insects and spirit beasts such as the Gold-Devouring Beetles, and built a medicine garden, transplanting the Mysterious Heaven Immortal Vine, Dragon Scale Fruit tree, and others brought from the Mother-Child Peak into it.

Finally, he left the humanoid puppet behind, handed the mysterious small bottle to the other party, and let it be responsible for taking care of all this.

Just like this, he was still somewhat uneasy, fearing that cultivators would break into the inner valley and discover his tracks.

He spent a year setting up a super giant ancient strange array, released the mist that could disturb cultivators' spiritual sense and five senses, and shrouded most of the inner valley within it.

After doing all this, he gave the Second Nascent Soul several orders, and then entered the mustard-seed space through the teleportation array.

Before cultivating, Han Li first refined the Golden Flood Dragon King's inner core according to the boy's method, transforming it into a metal-attribute spirit root, and only then did he begin to cultivate the Meta-Magnetic Divine Light with peace of mind.

Han Li and the boy naturally didn't expect that this seemingly unintentional move of theirs would solve the fatal flaw in the cultivation of the Meta-Magnetic Divine Light. This could be considered Han Li's good fortune.

Otherwise, he would have wasted more than a hundred years of time before discovering the mystery. Even if he started cultivating from the beginning again, the disadvantages would be imaginable.

Even so, the process of Han Li cultivating with the Meta-Magnetic Mountain was not smooth.

The first few layers were fine, because he borrowed the Meta-Magnetic Mountain here, and the cultivation was fast. But when he reached the later layers, he began to frequently encounter bottlenecks and several times almost suffered from Qi deviation, greatly damaging his vitality.

If it weren't for the countless spirit herbs in his hands and the small bottle to urge their growth, his realm would have fallen greatly.

The most painful thing was that the Five Elements power he cultivated and the meta-magnetic force of the Meta-Magnetic Mountain fused together, which once made him unable to leave the Meta-Magnetic Mountain for several decades, the hardship of which was not something outsiders could know.

If it weren't for Han Li's extraordinary willpower, he truly wouldn't have been able to continue cultivating.

Just like this, after cultivating hard in the mustard-seed space for more than two hundred years, he finally cultivated the technique to great success and completely refined the Meta-Magnetic Mountain, which could be collected into his body and turned into a supreme treasure.

The following matters began to go smoothly.

Han Li found a suitable opportunity, took the "Demonic Origin Pill" and various other spirit herbs, and with the assistance of top-grade spirit stones and five types of extreme cold flames, finally broke through to the early stage of Spirit Transformation in one go, becoming a Spirit Transformation cultivator.

Once Spirit Transformation was achieved, Han Li could initially mobilize the heaven and earth origin Qi, call the wind and rain, and his divine abilities were almost no different from the immortals in secular legends. It could be said that he had ascended to heaven in one step!

Han Li was overjoyed, and immediately after, he left the Fallen Devil Valley and went to the Chaotic Star Sea.

He discovered that Nangong Wan and his disciples were all safe and sound, and the sect had even developed a not-so-small force in the Chaotic Star Sea, directly controlling dozens of large and small cultivator islands nearby.

Han Li didn't have any other opinions on this, looking indifferent.

Nangong Wan and his disciples were naturally overjoyed to see Han Li achieve Spirit Transformation, and they celebrated it properly.

At this time, Nangong Wan, with the assistance of the large amount of pills he gifted, had already advanced to the Late stage and was cultivating hard, striving to reach the peak of the Late stage as soon as possible, so that she could also make a breakthrough.

And that Shi Brother Jian had truly extraordinary aptitude; after hundreds of years, he actually succeeded in condensing his Nascent Soul.

This made Han Li feel greatly gratified.

But during this period, an unfortunate event also occurred. Years ago, because Mu Mu Peiling's lifespan was running out, she was anxious to break through the Nascent Soul bottleneck. As a result, when she went into seclusion, a flaw appeared in her state of mind, and she was taken advantage of by her inner demons, leading to a backlash of magic power and her death.

Han Li was stunned when he heard this news, feeling somewhat dejected.

When this woman broke through to Nascent Soul, he had also gifted her Nine-Curved Spirit Ginseng pills and other auxiliary spirit herbs, but she still couldn't condense her Nascent Soul, which could only be said to be heaven's will.

As his nominal concubine, Han Li personally went to pay his respects at her grave.

After this, Han Li stayed on the island, accompanied Nangong Wan for more than ten years, and then left the island again, returning to Tiannan to continue his cultivation.

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