Chapter 1343: True Toad Liquid and Jade Clarity Pill

Obtaining the items he wanted so easily naturally filled Han Li with joy.

He sat on an antique bamboo chair, lightly sipping the spirit tea a waiter had brought, looking composed and leisurely.

After a short while, the middle-aged shopkeeper walked out from the back, holding a storage bracelet in both hands.

Once he reached Han Li, he flicked his hand over the storage bracelet, first taking out two jade slips—one white and one blue—and then piling one after another of the large and small brocade boxes and various bottles and jars onto the table beside him.

He then stood respectfully to the side with his hands bound.

Han Li swept his gaze over them, grabbed with one hand, and drew the two jade slips into his palm, his spiritual sense easily immersing into them.

"True Toad Liquid, Jade Clarity Pill!" Han Li muttered to himself, his brows slightly furrowed as he withdrew his spiritual sense.

The Jade Clarity Pill was fine; the materials required were all rare spirit herbs, some he had heard of and some he hadn't, but most required two or three thousand years of medicinal age, far beyond what the ordinary spirit herbs of the mortal world could compare to. As for the True Toad Liquid, it was even more surprising. The primary ingredient for this spirit liquid actually came from the spirit blood of an ancient beast from the savage world called the Green-Eyed True Toad, while the auxiliary materials for the spirit liquid were quite ordinary. However, while both spirit medicines were said to be useful to Spirit Severing cultivators, the Jade Clarity Pill was mainly useful to early-stage Spirit Severing cultivators, and its efficacy dropped sharply for mid-stage cultivators. The True Toad Liquid, however, had much stronger medicinal properties and was suitable for late-stage Spirit Severing cultivators; if a mid-stage cultivator took it, the medicinal properties would be too tyrannical, posing a great risk.

Han Li closed his eyes, thinking through the efficacy, refining methods, and ingredients of these two spirit medicines in his mind before opening his eyes again to begin inspecting the spirit medicines in the brocade boxes and bottles.

Just as the middle-aged shopkeeper had said, a small half of the materials required for the two spirit medicines were missing. In particular, there wasn't even a trace of the Green-Eyed True Toad's spirit blood.

"Is it possible to gather the missing materials at other apothecary shops? Since this Green-Eyed True Toad is an ancient savage beast, it shouldn't be that easy to find, right?" Han Li rubbed his chin and asked the middle-aged shopkeeper.

"Reporting to Senior, the materials required for the Jade Clarity Pill do not necessarily have to be spirit herbs of sufficient maturity; even if they are a few years short, they can still be refined, though the efficacy will naturally be slightly worse. Therefore, as long as Senior has sufficient spirit stones, there is a good chance of gathering them. However, the Green-Eyed True Toad spirit blood required for the True Toad Liquid is truly a rare item. Although someone occasionally sells it, it is immediately snatched up. It is one of the most sought-after materials in all major apothecary shops. It will not be easy for Senior to obtain this item. However, the upcoming auction will generally have this kind of spirit blood for sale. Senior might as well try your luck," the shopkeeper replied with unusual honesty.

"So that's how it is. I will take all of these things." Han Li pondered for a moment before nodding and saying.

"Thank you for your patronage, Senior. I will settle the bill for you now! Two pill recipes, 100,000 spirit stones, three portions of thousand-year Golden Ganoderma, spirit stones..." The shopkeeper was overjoyed and hurriedly spoke, beginning to report the prices of the items on the table one by one.

Han Li listened with his eyes slightly narrowed, his face revealing not a hint of anything unusual.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Han Li walked calmly out of this apothecary shop, but he hadn't gone far before he dove into another apothecary shop.

Like this, he kept going in and out of the nearby apothecary shops, almost strolling through every apothecary shop on the street.

As a result, Han Li collected seven or eight other effective pill recipes in other shops, but most of the raw materials required for them were even harder to obtain than the Green-Eyed True Toad's spirit blood, forcing Han Li to temporarily give up on them. As for the various spirit herb materials needed to refine these pills, Han Li collected them wantonly without missing a single one.

But what he collected were not those finished materials with outrageously high prices, but the seeds or seedlings of these spirit herbs.

Just like this, Han Li had to bleed heavily before he could purchase a sufficient quantity.

In this way, not to mention other pill recipes, as long as he returned to his cave dwelling and used spirit liquid to ripen the spirit herbs, he could immediately refine finished spirit medicines.

Of course, refining this kind of spirit medicine, which only Spirit Severing cultivators could take, would certainly not be easy. With his alchemy attainments, he estimated that he would need to try refining it many times before he could truly refine a finished pill.

But Han Li was confident that with the small bottle in hand, he could try refining this pill infinitely, so he naturally didn't worry about this at all.

As for the True Toad Liquid, it was equally important to him.

It seems I must attend this auction.

Han Li muttered to himself in his heart.

However, before attending the auction, his spirit stones were already insufficient after a round of purchasing, so he had to sell some things to exchange for spirit stones.

In the Spirit Realm, the quantity of spirit stones was quite abundant, causing the prices of everything to be several times higher than in the mortal world.

Of course, even with more spirit stones in the mortal world, one could not purchase Spirit Severing stage pill recipes and the materials required for refining.

Han Li was confident that as long as he had enough spirit medicine, advancing in a short period of time would be no problem at all.

Thinking this in his heart, he quietly walked into an empty corner of the street.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to this place for the moment, his body suddenly made a series of "crackling" sounds, and his face and figure changed drastically, instantly transforming into a purple-faced man.

Then Han Li walked out swaggeringly and casually walked into a larger shop with a "Huisheng Hall" plaque hanging on it.

In the Spirit Realm market, ordinary thousand-year spirit herbs were not as rare as in the mortal world. But when Han Li took out several spirit herbs with seven or eight thousand years of maturity, Huisheng Hall still didn't hesitate to take out an astronomical number of spirit stones to exchange for these few spirit herbs.

Once Han Li got the spirit stones, he left gracefully without hesitation, not staying in the vicinity for even a moment, to prevent being targeted by those with ulterior motives.

Han Li did not leave the market, but walked onto other streets, beginning to pay attention to the sale of some magic tools, treasures, various refining materials, and rare talismans in other shops.

As a result, he had his eyes opened.

Obviously, because of the abundance of various rare materials in the Spirit Realm, these magic tools and treasures were far superior to treasures of the same tier in the mortal world in terms of quality and power, and some large shops even had exotic treasures of the replica spirit treasure tier for sale.

As for those talismans and secret talismans, they were all sorts of things, making Han Li dazzled, and they were simply not comparable to the talisman path of the mortal world.

Among these talismans, there even appeared several types written in Silver Tadpole Script.

Most of these talismans were of the auxiliary defensive type; offensive talismans were nowhere to be seen, and their numbers were extremely scarce, with each one having an astonishingly high price. However, one talisman imprinted with a pale silver human silhouette greatly piqued Han Li's interest.

After briefly inquiring with the shopkeeper, he learned that this was a secret talisman in Silver Tadpole Script called a "Puppet Talisman," which had been passed down from the Heaven Spirit Realm.

This talisman could summon a shadow puppet sealed within it. The puppet's divine abilities and power depended entirely on the level of refinement and the cultivation base of the person manipulating the talisman.

But it is said that the most perfect Puppet Talismans can even completely replicate the cultivation technique and cultivation base of the user, making it an extremely practical type of talisman.

After finishing his inspection, Han Li's heart stirred, and he couldn't help but think of the incomplete jade book in his own hands.

The way of talismans recorded therein also contained a method for refining a Puppet Talisman, though he had not yet studied it carefully. Since these Silver Tadpole Script talismans were priced so astonishingly, he would have to study them thoroughly upon his return.

Thinking this to himself, Han Li simply found two talisman shops and took the opportunity to purchase a sufficient quantity of materials for refining Silver Tadpole Script talismans.

After completing all this, Han Li then leisurely headed straight for the destination of his trip: the massive stone hall called the "Grand Profound Hall," which connected the human and demon districts.

Although the auction would not begin for another two days, he wanted to see first if there were any good items on the demon side that could be exchanged.

After all, the demon race never participated in human auctions, instead exchanging what they needed with humans directly in the center of this Grand Profound Hall.

To prevent any conflicts from erupting between the human and demon races during trades in the hall, all human cultivators intending to enter the hall to prepare for exchanges were required to collect a palm-sized jade pendant.

Once this jade pendant was worn on the body, a mass of white mist would immediately conceal the wearer's figure, while simultaneously temporarily restricting the wearer's cultivation base. Coupled with the restrictive grand array arranged within the Grand Profound Hall itself, ordinary cultivators who rashly used their magic power in the hall would not only be unable to unleash their own divine abilities but would also be instantly teleported out of the stone hall, unable to re-enter for a short period of time.

The demon side, on the other hand, had to collect a black banner, which would transform into a mass of demon clouds to conceal their appearance.

Besides this, there were also four Void Refinement stage Gold Guards and ten Azure Underworld Guards from both the human and demon races maintaining order in the hall, with each race accounting for half.

With such powerful forces, under normal circumstances, it was naturally sufficient to handle any unexpected events.

When Han Li paid a considerable amount of spirit stones outside the hall gate and collected another jade pendant from the guards to hang at his waist, he passed through a long corridor while wrapped in white mist and walked into a certain gate.

As a result, a massive hall spanning several hundred zhang appeared before his eyes, and on the other side was another identical hall gate, with other passages leading to the distance.

In this massive hall, there were sparsely scattered over a hundred existences from the human and demon races, each wrapped in white mist or black energy. Among them, those in white mist were the majority.

More than thirty of them were already sitting cross-legged on the ground on both sides of the hall, with several items laid out in front of them, all remaining silently without a word.

Most of the others were standing in front of these stalls, either carefully observing the items or silently communicating with the stall owners via voice transmission. There were also some who wandered casually through the hall, occasionally chatting a few words with other existences before slipping into corners to whisper to each other.

Han Li stood where he was, looked around for a while, and then, without a word, lifted his legs and headed toward a nearby stall.

The owner of that stall was also hidden in silver mist and appeared to be a human cultivator.

And on the stall in front of them were two strange items.

One was pale green in color, resembling the branch of some kind of plant, while the other was a fist-sized, blood-red crystal that shimmered with light.

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