Chapter 1427: Tianpeng People

Five years is not long, nor short. (Net)

During this period, Han Li not only applied all the gold marrow spat out by the five pairs of crystal insects to the surface of his body, but also refined the Gold-Mother Coral Sand into juice with other medicines and refined it into his flesh and blood.

The result of doing this was naturally that the five pairs of Gold-Marrow Crystal Insects all vanished, and the three gourds of Gold-Mother Coral Sand were all exhausted.

When one day, Han Li opened his eyes again from his meditation, raised his hands that looked ordinary, and took a look, a strange expression appeared on his face.

"I have clearly refined all the gold marrow and quite a lot of Gold-Mother Coral Sand into my body. My physical body has also become much stronger, but why is this mid-stage bottleneck still unable to break through? Could it be that the opportunity has not yet arrived?"

Han Li sighed, somewhat depressed, and when he closed his eyes again, suddenly cyan light flashed on the secret room wall, and the second Nascent Soul turned into a group of black light and shot in, dancing its small hands at Han Li and babbling.

Han Li was startled at first, then laughed lightly after hearing it.

"Almost forgot. Those Tianpeng clansmen are about to arrive on the island. It's just right to see these alien people." Muttering to himself, he stood up and walked out of the secret room gate.

Although he hadn't stepped out of the secret room for several years, he had ordered the second Nascent Soul to use puppet techniques to monitor the actions of the four demon beasts. As a result, he finally heard the news that the Tianpeng clan's envoy was about to arrive on the island from one of their private conversations.

Now these aliens have finally arrived, and those demon beasts have already sent people to welcome them.

Speaking of which, he killed the essence soul of the Venerable Baoguang he caught last time with the Spirit-Devouring Heavenly Fire on a whim, and then regretted forgetting to use soul-searching. After all, an eighth-level demon beast that had taken human form should know a lot about the nearby area.

Although he had already used soul-searching on the golden fish demon, this fish demon had never left the nearby sea area too far and didn't know much about everything. He only knew that this sea area was called the Red Demon Sea, and the island where Han Li lived was called Black Underworld Island, which was really just a peninsula.

A small part of the island was the Black Hidden Mountain range where he lived, and the island was almost entirely covered by the Black Underworld Mist. But fortunately, the peninsula was still connected to the Fengyuan Continent, and he hadn't been teleported to other strange continents, which made Han Li secretly relieved.

As long as he was still on the Fengyuan Continent, he would always have a way to return to the human race.

The sea area near the peninsula and the large piece of land connected to the peninsula seemed to belong to the territory ruled by a winged alien race called the Flying Spirit clan. The Tianpeng clan was just one branch of the Flying Spirit clan, and a relatively weak one among dozens of branches. This was still because many demon beasts in the nearby sea area were driven from the land to the sea by the Flying Spirit people, otherwise, this fish demon wouldn't even know this bit of news.

Apart from this, this fish demon couldn't provide any accurate news.

However, in the fish demon's vague impression, these Tianpeng people, except for a pair of Peng wings on their backs and the ability to transform into giant Pengs during battle with divine abilities, were almost exactly the same as the human race in every other way.

In this way, Han Li was naturally very interested in the Tianpeng clan's envoy collecting tribute and wanted to see it with his own eyes.

Not long after, Han Li appeared in the high sky hundreds of miles away as a cyan rainbow, with a golden beetle half a foot long crawling on his shoulder.

Han Li let the escape light shoot forward on its own, while one hand stroked the Gold-Devouring Insect that had finally woken up from its deep sleep not long ago.

This beetle didn't look any different from the outside, but each one had become extremely heavy, actually more than twice as heavy as when it first started devouring those strange stone materials. Fortunately, after testing, these mutated Gold-Devouring Insects had returned to their original flexibility and had become incredibly strong.

A Gold-Devouring Insect could easily bite up things weighing nearly a thousand jin, which made Han Li dumbfounded for a while after the test.

Apart from these two points, Han Li didn't find any other strange things about these thousand-plus evolved Gold-Devouring Insects. I don't know if there is only this change, or if there are other mutations that haven't been discovered by him yet.

Han Li was somewhat disappointed and couldn't make up his mind about the use of the three special stone materials.

A day later, the cyan rainbow appeared near a group of low and flat small mountains.

After his eyes flashed, the cyan rainbow gradually blurred and finally disappeared without a trace during the flight.

Han Li actually used divine abilities to hide the escape light along with himself, and his escape speed slowed down several times.

After flying over a small lake, a green small mountain covered with green bamboos several feet high appeared in front, and at the foot of the mountain, thousands of ox-headed lion-bodied Hao Beasts were wandering there.

Han Li looked at the beast herd, then looked at the waist of the small mountain.

There, white mist was lingering.

Blue light flashed in his eyes, and the Clear Spirit Eye instantly penetrated the mountain mist, seeing a pale green stone gate in the mist.

This was exactly the place of the ox-headed small beast's cave dwelling.

Han Li smiled slightly, his figure rose to the high sky, and he didn't stop his escape light until he reached a height of several thousand feet.

Then he pinched the formula with both hands, and several formulas of different colors flashed and disappeared.

Clouds appeared in the void nearby, and in a blink of an eye, they turned into a gray cloud that looked ordinary, completely covering his figure.

Only then did Han Li shake his shoulder, and the giant Gold-Devouring Insect shone with golden light, shrunk to the size of a bean, spread its wings, flew out of the gray cloud, and shot straight toward the small mountain below.

Han Li watched this insect, and after it disappeared into the small mountain in a flash, he hovered in the clouds and mist without moving.

As a result, after a quarter of an hour, from a certain direction in the sky, spiritual light flashed, and two groups of demon wind and three silver giant birds flew over.

Han Li's pupils shrank, and his eyes stared dead at the three giant birds.

I saw that the three giant birds were more than three feet long, looking like giant eagles, shining with silver light all over, as if every feather was refined from pure silver. A pair of deep purple eyes turned, exceptionally sharp.

The three giant birds obviously suppressed their escape speed, but when they saw the beautiful small mountain from afar, the three birds spread their wings at the same time, and white lightning arcs appeared on their bodies, then turned into three electric lights and shot out.

Low thunder sounds came one after another!

The next moment, the three giant birds appeared in front of the white mist wrapped in electric arcs.

After closing their wings, the three giant birds turned into two men and one woman in a flash of silver light, three alien people with silver wings on their backs.

"Are these Tianpeng people?" Han Li looked at them carefully, and a look of surprise couldn't help but flash in his eyes.

The three alien people were handsome in appearance, and the woman was exceptionally delicate, except for a pair of wings on their backs, they were almost no different from the young men and women of the human race.

And judging from the aura of these three people, they were three existences equivalent to the Spirit Transformation stage.

Among them, the Tianpeng clan man who looked to be in his thirties had the strength of the mid-stage of Spirit Transformation. The other younger man and woman only had the strength of the early-stage of Spirit Transformation.

All three wore simple white robes, the two men had silver headbands, and the woman had long hair draped over her shoulders.

After sensing the strength of the three Tianpeng clansmen, Han Li felt relieved, muttered a few silent spells, withdrew all his aura, and fell slowly toward the bottom like a light breeze.

The three of them naturally couldn't discover everything that happened above their heads, just hovering in front of the small mountain, waiting there quietly.

As a result, after a while, the two groups of demon wind flew here.

The demon energy converged, revealing a huge wild boar and a three-headed giant python.

"Three Venerables, please come in. Fellow Daoist Cui and Fellow Daoist Jin are counting the tribute and preparing the banquet in the cave dwelling. Please, three Venerables, must give us the honor!" The giant python revealed its form and said with a flattering smile.

"No need for such trouble. We will leave after collecting the tribute," the man in his thirties said indifferently, and the other two also looked expressionless.

It is no wonder they would have this expression. With the cultivation of the two demon beasts, how could they be seen by these three Tianpeng people?

If it weren't for the tribute handed in by the demons on the island being quite important, they wouldn't even have spoken a word.

Just at this time, the white mist in front of the mountain dissipated, and the green stone gate hidden inside slowly opened.

The ox-headed small beast and the Golden-Haired Giant Ape greeted them from inside, and welcomed the three Tianpeng clansmen into the cave dwelling with words of apology, while the other demon beasts followed closely behind.

No one noticed that the moment the cave dwelling gate closed again, a light breeze that was almost invisible also blew into the gate in a flash.

The four demon beasts soon welcomed the three Tianpeng people into an elegant hall. Although the four demons had not yet taken human form, there were actually a few tables and chairs placed there.

The three Tianpeng people were not polite, sat directly on the upper seat, while the four demons stood respectfully in the lower seat.

"Alright, don't say any nonsense. Just tell us if the tribute has been prepared this time," the Tianpeng clan man who looked to be in his twenties asked impolitely as soon as he sat down.

"Reporting to the three Venerables. Most of the tribute has been prepared, but some things are indeed extinct on this island and cannot be found anywhere," the ox-headed small beast felt a chill and hurriedly replied.

"Not prepared? Hmph, the tribute is incomplete. You should know the consequences. Without tribute, what value do you have to survive on this island?" The other older man heard this, and his face sank.

"Venerable, calm your anger! Although other tributes are lacking, we have prepared fifty more Wood-Bell Flowers this time, hoping that the Venerables will show mercy once," the small beast felt a chill in its heart and hurriedly said the words it had prepared.

"What, fifty more Wood-Bell Flowers!" The three Tianpeng people looked at each other, all showing joy.

"You wouldn't be trying to use inferior goods, wanting to use Wood-Bell Flowers that haven't reached the age to fool us," the Tianpeng clan man in his thirties suddenly scolded sharply.

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