Chapter 1326: Jade Palace Pavilion

Returning to the room, Han Li took out the jade slip, pressed it lightly against his forehead, and his spiritual sense immediately sank into it.

Only a moment later, his expression changed.

"Heavenly Abyss City is actually this large. Looking at the area, it is only above the three major cities of the human race like Heavenly Origin City, not inferior to them." After Han Li withdrew his spiritual sense, his expression became uncertain.

Stroking the jade slip in his hand for a while, he put it away and left the room unhurriedly.

Regardless, he had to go to the Jade Palace Pavilion to determine his cave dwelling first, but listening to what Zhao Wugui said, it seemed there were still some twists and turns in this matter.

He took some interest in it.

After finding the location of the Jade Palace Pavilion from the map he had just memorized, he immediately left the Flying Spirit Hall as a streak of cyan light.

After passing by more than a dozen giant towers in succession, Han Li silently observed the various cultivators he encountered along the way.

He discovered that cultivators wearing various battle armors only appeared frequently near those giant towers. After moving away from them, the cultivators he met were dressed like ordinary cultivators elsewhere in the Spirit Realm. It was just unknown whether these people had taken off their battle armor or were originally foreign cultivators who didn't belong to Heavenly Abyss City.

However, one thing was certain: anyone entering or exiting the giant towers had to wear battle armor. And Han Li also discovered that the armored soldiers entering and exiting the few floors at the roots of the giant towers were body-refining cultivators in yellow and white armor, among which the body-refining cultivators wrapped in yellow battle armor only had mid-tier cultivation, while those in white armor were all high-tier body-refining cultivators.

The number of them entering and exiting was clearly far greater than the cultivators in black and cyan armor entering and exiting the upper and middle layers of the giant towers.

Seeing this, Han Li felt a hint of understanding in his heart.

It seemed the combat power of the entire Heavenly Abyss City was these countless armored soldiers stationed in the giant towers, and according to the yellow, white, black, cyan, and gold battle armors, the combat power was clearly distinguished.

This was exceptionally concise and clear!

Han Li swept his gaze over these giant towers and armored soldiers a few times, then ignored them and headed straight for his target.

After flying for a good half an hour, and vaguely seeing a towering giant city wall in the distance, Han Li's escape light sank, and he landed before a gray, three-story pavilion below.

Don't look at this pavilion as small and inconspicuous; the number of cultivators entering and exiting was quite large.

Just in the moment Han Li stopped and looked, seven or eight cultivators transformed into streaks of escape light and vanished into the door.

The plaque on the pavilion door was exactly the three silver characters "Jade Palace Pavilion" written in dragon-flying and phoenix-dancing ancient script.

Han Li narrowed his eyes and looked at this plaque for a while before walking into the pavilion slowly.

The first floor of the pavilion was a hall several dozen zhang wide, where dozens of cultivators were standing, looking at a giant screen emitting cyan light hanging at the end of the hall.

On the screen was embroidered a map two zhang high and over ten zhang long, with silver light dots appearing to have many numbers flashing incessantly, while before the screen stood a long-faced, middle-aged man in cyan robes with a smile on his face.

Han Li swept his spiritual sense over, discovering that these people were all Nascent Soul-level cultivators. The cyan-robed man was actually a Deity Transformation-level cultivator.

Suddenly, a thin old man stepped forward, bowed respectfully to the cyan-robed middle-aged man, and handed a black-glowing iron plate and a storage bracelet to the middle-aged man with both hands.

The middle-aged man looked at the iron plate casually, checked the storage bracelet, nodded, flipped his hand, and the storage bracelet vanished, but he returned the iron plate to the old man.

The old man was immediately spirited, walked to the screen holding the iron plate, and shook it lightly at a certain place on the giant map. Immediately, a black thread sprayed out from it, merging into a silver light dot on the map written with the character "Two." This light dot swayed, and the number instantly changed from "Two" to "Three."

Then the old man immediately stepped back.

In the span of a stick of incense afterward, more than ten people stepped forward, either handing items or spirit stones directly to the cyan-robed middle-aged man. The middle-aged man nodded to most of them, letting them make marks on the map, but shook his head at two of them, letting those two retreat with drooping heads.

And Han Li discovered that the giant map was actually several spiritual vein locations under the jurisdiction of Heavenly Abyss City, and the deeper the cyan light on the map, the more numbers there were, and the larger they were. There was a place where the cyan light was almost emerald green, and the number floating on it was actually an astonishing twelve.

Seeing this scene, Han Li stroked his chin, and finally understood a few points of what Zhao Wugui meant in his heart.

It seemed that to find a suitable cave dwelling, it appeared one had to compete with others.

"Senior, are you also looking for a suitable spiritual land to establish a cave dwelling?" Suddenly, a crisp voice came from beside Han Li.

Han Li's expression didn't change, but he turned his head slowly.

He saw a slender, beautiful woman standing respectfully on the side. Her cultivation was extremely low, only around Foundation Establishment, but after seeing the maid attire on her body, he didn't feel strange anymore.

"Not bad, I want to find a suitable place. However, I am not satisfied with the spiritual mountains here." Han Li replied calmly.

"Senior is a Deity Transformation cultivator, right? The first floor is only a place for receiving Black Iron Guards. Senior should go to the second floor." The woman smiled sweetly.

"How do you know I am a Deity Transformation cultivator? With your cultivation, you shouldn't be able to see my realm." Han Li felt a chill in his heart, but cold light flashed in his eyes suddenly.

"Senior doesn't need to be surprised. Although the junior's cultivation is low, we are all equipped with special spiritual pressure disks. As long as you seniors aren't deliberately concealing your aura, naturally you can see a little bit." The fair-skinned woman was startled, but immediately raised her hand, revealing a palm-sized magic disk on her wrist, with silver runes flashing on it, actually also Silver Tadpole Scripts.

Han Li looked at this magic disk and felt a headache.

He didn't know which human race predecessor obtained the Golden Que Jade Book related to array formations and weapon refining, and had actually researched it to this extent, actually applying it to every aspect of Heavenly Abyss City.

In this way, some common sense things he had in the outside world seemed to have to be broken here, and he had to understand them slowly and deeply.

Otherwise, if he were tricked by someone at some point, he wouldn't even know where the problem lay!

Naturally, Han Li wouldn't reveal any unusual expression right now, just nodded to the woman, and under her guidance, walked up the stairs and went to the second floor of the pavilion.

The second floor was much smaller than the first, but the environment was much more elegant. Although there was also a giant screen map placed there, there were chairs placed on both sides of the screen, and four or five people were sitting quietly, studying the map on the screen carefully.

Beside the screen sat a square-faced purple-robed burly man, sitting lazily.

Han Li swept his spiritual sense over the burly man, and his expression changed slightly. This person was actually a Void Refinement initial-stage cultivator. As for those few people studying the map, they were naturally Deity Transformation cultivators like him. Each of them had a maidservant with the same attire as the fair-skinned woman standing behind them, all with beautiful and pretty appearances around the Foundation Establishment stage.

Han Li took a deep breath, cupped his hands to the purple-robed burly man from afar, and sat down on a chair under the guidance of the fair-skinned woman.

And this woman also stood behind Han Li like the other maidservants, not speaking.

Han Li's gaze turned over the others, then looked toward the map that was almost emerald green.

It was also a map of several mountain ranges under the jurisdiction of Heavenly Abyss City, but it was very obvious that the silver numbers appearing on the map were much smaller than those on the map downstairs, and most of the numbers were "One" or "Two," with the largest number being only a "Four," and there was only one such place.

Han Li immediately pondered, but after a moment, suddenly beckoned to the maidservant behind him and ordered indifferently:

"I don't know much about the spiritual lands nearby. Introduce the situation on the map to me!"

"Yes, Senior. This map contains three mountain ranges under the jurisdiction of Heavenly Abyss City. The 'Cui Long Mountain' in the middle has the most sufficient spiritual energy and is also the place where most Deity Transformation seniors have cave dwellings, and it produces several special spiritual medicines. This time, two Deity Transformation seniors in the mountain range didn't pass the Heavenly Tribulation and perished, and one reached the end of his lifespan and sat down on his own. Therefore, according to the regulations, the spiritual lands they occupied were reclaimed. So, the number of people competing is the most. Another 'Tian Yun Mountain' is slightly worse, but there are also many spiritual lands suitable for seniors like you to cultivate, but naturally, it cannot be compared to the spiritual energy of 'Cui Long Mountain.' As for the last 'Qiong Lai Mountain,' it originally belonged to spiritual lands for Nascent Soul cultivators to cultivate, and was only recently classified for Deity Transformation seniors to use, so the spiritual energy of this mountain range is slightly insufficient for seniors. But the cave dwellings set up in this mountain are the most sparse, and the spiritual land area owned by seniors is also extremely vast, capable of independently owning a vast spiritual land with a radius of ten thousand miles." The fair-skinned woman was exceptionally competent, explaining in detail to Han Li in a low voice.

"So that's it!" Han Li nodded slowly, his gaze flickering incessantly on the screen.

And the fair-skinned woman stood back sensibly, but her gaze couldn't help but linger on Han Li a few more times.

The young man before her looked to be twenty-something, but he was actually a Deity Transformation cultivator. Although she had seen many Deity Transformation cultivators in the Jade Palace Pavilion, she couldn't help but feel curious about the young man before her.

Suddenly, a cultivator dressed as a squire walked forward, lifted a brocade box together with a cyan jade pendant, and held them respectfully before the purple-robed burly man, then opened his mouth to say:

"The junior recently received a Silver Immortal Mushroom with four thousand years of fire, please see if the senior has the qualifications to choose a spiritual land."

"Silver Immortal Mushroom with four thousand years of fire, that's not easy. Let me see." The purple-robed burly man said noncommittally, raising his hand to take the jade pendant and the brocade box, and opened the box lid.

As soon as the lid was opened, faint silver light emerged from the box, and a grass-and-wood fragrance that made people feel refreshed came.

Even someone like Han Li, who had seen countless spiritual medicines, had to admit that this was indeed an exceptionally rare spiritual medicine.

"Hmm, four thousand years seems to be lacking a few hundred years of fire, but it's about the same. This time, you are considered qualified." The purple-robed burly man stared at the spiritual medicine in the brocade box for a long time before revealing a somewhat reluctant appearance.

(End of Chapter)