Chapter 1306: Seeing the Small Beast Again

"It's worthy of the Spirit World. The 'Taiyi Silver Essence Mushroom', which only exists in legends in the Human World, truly exists in the world. It is said that after consuming this, a layer of silver essence scales can grow on the body, specifically repelling blades, spears, water, and fire. No wonder these demonic beasts were so desperate. But in terms of defense, this thing is far inferior to the Vajra Art. It's a bit of a chicken rib to me! However, selling it to those mid-tier body cultivators would definitely be very popular." Han Li muttered a few times, turned his palm, and suddenly an emerald jade shovel the size of a palm appeared.

He bowed and dug the silver spirit mushroom out from the ground, admired it for a while under his eyes, and then took out a jade box to store the mushroom.

Like these legendary spirit medicines and materials that had long since gone extinct in the Human World, Han Li had already collected quite a few since entering the Sunset Tomb.

But unfortunately, with Han Li's current vision, apart from a few, the others were just like the Taiyi Silver Essence Mushroom, of little use.

Thinking about it, this was very normal. Things that were truly of great use to Spirit Severing stage cultivators were likely not things that ordinary existences of the Human and Demonic races would enter to search for. As for those few specialties of the Sunset Tomb, they were extremely rare, growing in extremely hidden places, and required searching like finding a needle in a haystack.

Therefore, in ordinary times, Spirit Severing level existences rarely appeared in the Sunset Tomb, and generally, the highest were the eighth-level transformed demonic beasts of the Demonic Race and the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Human Race.

Only in the truly wild world outside the Three Realms and Seven Lands were there countless various heavenly treasures. The variety was so great that no one could identify even one ten-thousandth of them. There were even heaven-defying spirit medicines that could allow mortals to grow spiritual roots and low-tier cultivators to advance overnight.

But although spirit medicines were something everyone was jealous of, if one's cultivation hadn't advanced to Nascent Soul, it was best to stay honestly in the territory of the Human and Demonic races.

Because in the wild world, those existences comparable to Spirit Severing and Void Refinement were everywhere, and various unimaginable natural disasters were even more astonishing.

Advancing to Nascent Soul only meant that you had the basic ability to survive in the wild; as for whether you could truly find satisfactory spirit medicines, it still depended on one's own opportunity and ability.

However, once one advanced to Nascent Soul, the speed of cultivation became extremely slow.

If one didn't go to the outside world to search for things useful to oneself, one would likely stagnate at this realm, and in the end, either grow old and die or quickly die miserably under the next round of heavenly tribulations.

Therefore, every year, a large number of high-tier existences from the Human and Demonic races left the Three Realms and Seven Lands to enter the wild world. Regardless of whether they could find what they needed, less than one-third of those who went out were able to return.

The losses were not insignificant! This made the upper echelons of the Human and Demonic races extremely helpless!

But in order to maintain the number of top-tier existences within the race, they had to allow this to happen.

Han Li also knew some related matters and was extremely curious and interested in the wild ancient world outside the realm. If it weren't for his current lack of spiritual power, he might have had the intention to go out for a trip.

Now Han Li stretched his waist and was about to leave the vicinity.

But just at this moment, a light sound came from a bush nearby, and suddenly a yellow shadow flashed, appearing ten zhang away, revealing a small figure.

"Eh!"

Han Li was startled at first, but once he saw the true face of the yellow shadow, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on his face.

It was actually the small beast that had once brought him an epiphany!

This beast had suddenly appeared in this place for some reason, and it looked flustered, its fur dirty and messy, looking extremely disheveled.

After his pleasant surprise, Han Li couldn't help but feel a sense of suspicion.

When the small beast saw Han Li, it seemed to recognize him too and was also startled.

But immediately, the beast moved its body and shot toward the other side like a crossbow bolt, not intending to pay any attention to Han Li at all.

Han Li had finally seen this beast; how could he let it leave so easily? Without thinking, he shook his sleeve, and a silver rope shot out, winding toward the small beast like a silver snake.

When the small beast saw this, it was furious in its heart, but helpless, it could only flicker its body in mid-air, suddenly turning into a patch of phantoms, letting the silver snake miss.

In this way, the small beast's figure couldn't help but pause slightly, and just at this moment of delay, suddenly a flash of white light occurred in the air nearby, and a small white sword shot out from the void. After a flicker, it eerily turned into a white rainbow, appearing in front of the small beast that wanted to escape.

Amidst the great white light, the small sword suddenly turned into a tiny person in a white robe, less than a foot tall, with an exceptionally pale face. It was impossible to tell its gender, but it stared coldly at the small beast without speaking.

Strangely, as soon as the small beast saw this tiny person, it shuddered, twisted its body, and immediately landed on all fours, while its front body crouched on the ground, all the fur on its back standing up, looking like it was facing a great enemy.

"Spirit Race!"

As soon as Han Li saw the tiny person, he exclaimed. Then, without thinking, his figure moved, and he transformed into a phantom, shooting backward.

Regarding the several hostile races adjacent to the human race, Han Li had already understood them quite clearly in the decades since he came to the Spirit World.

The Spirit Race that could transform into human form were already existences of the Spirit General tier, and their strength was enough to contend with Spirit Severing cultivators of the human race.

If Han Li had all his spiritual power, he might have had the intention to wait and see, but in his current situation, he naturally retreated as far as he could without hesitation.

As Han Li moved, the tiny white person's gaze shifted and immediately looked over.

At the same time, a spiritual sense swept over.

After discovering that it was a human body cultivator, the tiny person let out a cold snort of disdain from its nose, opened its five fingers, and flicked several times casually toward Han Li's side.

After a few "puchi" sounds, five white fine threads shot out and disappeared, and after a flicker, they vanished without a trace.

"Sword Threads!"

Han Li recognized what the fine threads were at a glance, his heart feeling a chill. He reached behind his back with one hand, and the black long spear appeared in his hand.

After a loud shout, he channeled all his strength into the spear and shook the spear shaft forward violently.

Amidst a strange whistling sound, a mass of black light exploded, blocking directly in front of Han Li.

Almost at the same time, the five sword threads appeared eerily in front of Han Li, crashing head-on into the black light.

The seemingly fierce black light, upon touching the sword threads, emitted bursts of explosive sounds. Amidst the flashing white light, the black light was easily torn apart, and the entire long spear was shattered inch by inch as if it were made of mud.

In the blink of an eye, only half a section remained!

The five sword threads took the opportunity to flash directly toward Han Li.

Han Li secretly cried out that it was bad. He moved one hand, and the half spear shaft shot out like a black light. At the same time, with a loud shout, the gray armor he was wearing flashed with spiritual light, actually turning into a mass of gray mist, meeting the sword threads.

Afterward, he clenched his two fists, his entire body erupting with dazzling golden light, pushing the seventh layer of the Vajra Art to the limit.

Two sounds of breaking air came.

Han Li's two arms blurred slightly, and his two fists struck out with unimaginable speed, as if tearing through space, and two golden fist winds roared out.

The half spear shaft shattered into over a dozen pieces upon contact with the fine threads.

The fine threads slashed into the mist.

The two golden fist winds also plunged into the mist from behind and disappeared.

Immediately, a shrill sound like metal friction erupted in the mist, and the gray mist deformed and expanded instantly, but it also trapped the five sword threads for a time.

Taking this opportunity, Han Li's figure flickered like a ghost several times, and in an instant, he escaped over twenty zhang away. Finally, after one leap, he plunged into the shrubs and disappeared without a trace.

At this time, the gray mist finally exploded, turning into nail-sized unknown armor fragments that scattered in all directions.

The five sword threads were only then revealed amidst the flashing.

The tiny white person in mid-air was startled by this situation. Afterward, a look of murderous intent flashed across its face, and just as it was about to take action, the small beast opposite twisted its eyes, and suddenly its figure blurred, turning into dozens of identical phantoms, shooting away in all directions simultaneously.

"Where do you think you're running!"

The tiny person was furious and shouted loudly. Afterward, its figure spun in mid-air, and countless white sword qi shot out, densely slashing toward the scattering beast phantoms. For a time, the cold, biting sword qi crisscrossed in the low air, with an astonishing momentum.

As a result, apart from one small beast whose figure twisted eerily to dodge several sword qi, all other beast phantoms were slashed apart one by one.

The tiny white person seemed to want to capture the small beast alive, so it pointed with its hand, and those sword qi dissipated and disappeared. As for the person itself, it let out a cold snort, lunged, and turned into a silver rainbow, chasing after the small beast.

The small beast seemed to have suffered a great loss from this member of the Spirit Race and didn't dare to turn back to resist at all, instead taking this opportunity to turn into a yellow shadow and run wildly toward the distance.

Its speed was almost double that of Han Li.

The tiny white person was determined to get the beast, and after the small sword circled, it chased after it just as urgently, its speed not inferior to the small beast at all.

In an instant, the beast and the sword disappeared without a trace.

After an unknown amount of time, a figure flickered behind a giant tree nearby, and Han Li actually appeared eerily there.

It turned out that Han Li knew his Smoke Steps were eerie but couldn't escape the pursuit of a member of the Spirit Race, so he simply took the risk of using a Human World trick to hide nearby.

He bet that the small beast would definitely take the opportunity to flee, and this member of the Spirit Race would definitely have no time to pay attention to him and would immediately chase after it.

Of course, his prediction was slightly off, but if the other party really chased after him, he had an Immortal-Extinguishing Pearl in each hand and naturally wouldn't be polite about giving the other party a strike.

Seeing that everything had indeed been guessed correctly by him, this member of the Spirit Race was specifically here for that small beast and didn't care about him, a mere body cultivator, in the slightest.

Han Li looked in the direction where the small sword had flown, his face gloomy, while feeling a sense of unease in his heart that a Spirit General level member of the Spirit Race had actually appeared in this place.

Could it be that some major event was about to happen, and he didn't know about it?

He couldn't help but mutter to himself in his heart.

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