Chapter 1553: Re-refining the Divine Mountain

A moment later, Han Li entered the secret room, sat cross-legged, and swept his gaze around.

As a result, his pupils shrank slightly.

He actually saw three gray-white stone blocks in a corner of the secret room.

They were the strange stone pier fragments he had obtained from the Blue Flood Dragon cave mansion in the sea years ago. This thing was decomposed by his Gold-Devouring Beetles back then, but because he was busy with cultivation, he hadn't had time to deal with this treasure.

Speaking of which, this thing was exceptionally heavy, and Han Li originally intended to refine it into a treasure of pure power, but later, the Gold-Devouring Beetles that swallowed these stone blocks unexpectedly mutated one by one.

This made Han Li feel a bit hesitant.

Being able to make mature Gold-Devouring Beetles mutate again showed how rare this thing was. However, insect mutation wasn't necessarily

At the very least, Han Li had not discovered any other marvelous uses for those thousand-plus mutated Gold-Devouring Beetles, other than their bodies becoming increasingly tough and their weight increasing wildly.

Moreover, generally speaking, it is very difficult for any spirit insect that has mutated once to undergo a second mutation.

Therefore, he had not fed this item to all the mature spirit insects back then, making it extremely difficult to decide on the final use for this item.

However, now that he had heard words regarding the Gold-Devouring Beetle King from the old man surnamed Jiang, he was greatly interested and even less inclined to let the mature Gold-Devouring Beetles mutate easily. Otherwise, if he were to truly obtain the relevant cultivation method in the future, but found himself unable to cultivate a Beetle King due to the mutation, he would naturally be filled with incomparable regret.

Furthermore, on this outing, Han Li had also come up with a better idea for dealing with these incredibly heavy stones.

With a flash of blue light in Han Li's eyes, he raised his arm, and a palm as black as ink extended from his sleeve.

His five fingers trembled slightly, and black light flickered in his palm as a mountain several inches in size emerged.

In the blink of an eye, this mountain emitted a brilliant gray light, transformed into a size of about a zhang, and stood black and looming in the low air before him.

With a flash of golden light on his body, the three-headed, six-armed phantom appeared behind Han Li. With a low shout, the six arms of the Dharma Image simultaneously reached out into the void toward the stones in the corner.

If it were several years ago, before Han Li had integrated the true blood of the Kun Peng and the Five-Colored Peacock, he likely would have been unable to move these gray-white stones with this reach through the air.

But now, not only had his cultivation advanced to the late stage of Spirit Transformation, but his physical body's strength had also ascended to a higher level due to the two types of true blood.

Therefore, with one grab, one of the stones swayed, and the entire secret chamber trembled as it slowly rose into the air, drifting slowly toward Han Li's side.

Seeing this, Han Li curved his five fingers slightly, and the entire Yuan Magnetic Mountain before him emitted a brilliant gray light. Countless strands of gray mist shot out, unexpectedly wrapping tightly around the flying gray-white stone, enveloping it completely.

The six golden arms of the Brahma Saint True Demon Dharma Image behind him also moved simultaneously.

The gray stone shot straight toward the small black mountain.

At this moment, Han Li raised an eyebrow, chanted an incantation, and pointed solemnly at the small mountain.

Instantly, the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain expanded in size, and a strange hole appeared on the side facing the gray-white stone, with ten thousand rays of gray light inside.

This was a secret transformation technique Han Li had comprehended only after completely refining this mountain into his palm, allowing him to manipulate it at will, and after his cultivation reached a certain level.

Before he practiced the Hundred Veins Treasure Refining Art, or even before he left the giant island, he likely would have been unable to reach this stage.

With a loud "Boom," the gray-white stone, pushed by the light strands and immense force, sank into the hole that had appeared in the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain.

The impact caused the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain to shake, fly horizontally several zhang away, and land heavily on the ground.

After another terrifying muffled sound, the restriction light curtains on the floor and four walls of the secret chamber flickered several times.

The base of the small mountain unexpectedly sank a foot deep into the ground.

Even though the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain was not light, it would have been absolutely unable to withstand the incredible weight of the stone without its transformation.

However, fortunately, the entire secret chamber had been reinforced by Han Li with restrictions beforehand, so it was impossible for it to collapse or disintegrate.

At this moment, Han Li looked at the hole that had appeared in the Yuan Magnetic Mountain, a strange expression appearing on his face. He formed a hand seal with both hands and opened his mouth.

With a flash of silver light, a ball of silver fire was spat out.

As soon as the fireball exited his mouth, it spun and transformed into a firebird. After circling once, urged by his hand seal, it dove headfirst into the open hole of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain.

Without hesitation, Han Li flicked his wrist, and his storage bracelet flew off and shot out.

The ring flashed with spiritual light in the air, and several bottles and jars, along with some wooden boxes and cases, were swept out by a ray of light, falling one after another onto the ground before Han Li.

Han Li swept his spiritual sense over these items, and the various lids opened on their own, revealing the various weapon-refining materials inside.

Most of them were various rare and hard-to-find auxiliary materials!

More than half of them were obtained by him in Tianyuan City in exchange for a large amount of spirit stones and spirit herbs, while a small portion were collected from the mortal world and during those few days in the Tianpeng tribe.

Han Li swept his gaze over these materials and immediately found the auxiliary materials he needed.

He waved his long sleeve!

A sheet of cyan light flew out. Wherever the light passed, more than a dozen types of prepared finished or semi-finished materials rose from their containers and were swept into the hole of the small mountain by the light.

Immediately, a pleasant, clear cry came from within, followed by a flash of silver light, and an extremely scorching high temperature rolled out, causing the nearby air to become somewhat distorted and blurred under this heat.

Han Li's expression tightened. He raised one hand, and a gray light lit up in his palm.

As if in response, the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain also flashed with gray light, and the hole at the mountain's waist slowly closed in the light, with the scorching high temperature disappearing along with it.

Han Li had actually intended to use the body of the Yuan Magnetic Mountain as a furnace, planning to use the Soul-Devouring Firebird to completely refine and melt that gray-white stone into the mountain.

In this way, not to mention what benefits the indestructible nature of these stones would bring to the Yuan Magnetic Mountain's defense, the suddenly increased, incredibly heavy weight alone would be enough to turn this mountain into a great killing weapon.

Of course, these stones were not easily melted even with the power of the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Fire. Otherwise, Han Li would have put all three stones in at once, rather than just one-third of them.

But even so, if the stone fragments were truly melted into the Yuan Magnetic Mountain, it would still take thirty to forty years, and refining all three would take at least a hundred years.

For such a long time, if he were to use his own Nascent Soul fire to refine them, he would naturally not do such a time-consuming thing. Now that he had the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Fire to melt them on its own, it was naturally a matter of no concern.

At most, he would simply not use the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain for these hundred-plus years.

Thinking this to himself, Han Li chanted an incantation, cast a spell on the small mountain, and the six golden palms of the Dharma Image behind him also grabbed and released toward the small mountain.

Instantly, the small mountain swayed, its size shrinking to about a foot in an instant, and then it slowly flew to a corner of the secret chamber and landed once more.

Without finishing the refining of the stones inside the mountain, Han Li could not take it back into his body and could only leave it to the side like this.

Next, Han Li pondered slightly, raised his hand to grab the storage bracelet in the air, and a pale white jade box flew out, landing steadily in his palm.

He brushed the fingers of his other hand over the box lid.

Instantly, the lid flew open, revealing a thumb-sized crimson fruit pit inside. At the same time, an extremely rich medicinal fragrance wafted toward him.

It was precisely the Qingluo fruit pit Han Li had obtained from the Tianpeng tribe!

As long as he had this item, with the help of the small bottle, he could easily ripen a real Qingluo fruit and then refine the legendary "Tianluo Pill." With this pill, as long as he took it in combination with that Black Flame Pill, if it exerted its miraculous function of increasing medicinal efficacy, his chances of breaking through the bottleneck would naturally increase significantly.

Han Li picked up the fruit pit with two fingers, squinted his eyes to examine it carefully once more, and then instantly released his spiritual sense out of the secret chamber.

After a moment, the pale cyan screen surrounding him suddenly swayed, and a ball of black light shot in; it was his Second Nascent Soul.

Without needing to say a word, Han Li placed the fruit pit back into the jade box and threw it directly over.

The Second Nascent Soul beckoned with its small hand, skillfully taking the wooden box into its small hand, and then, with a flicker of its figure, it submerged back into the light screen behind him, disappearing without a trace.

After finishing these two major tasks that had been weighing on his mind, Han Li let out a long breath and slowly closed his eyes.

Next, what he had to do was to comprehend the newly obtained sword technique and see if the first set, the "Spring Dawn Sword Array," was truly exceptionally sharp and powerful. Then, he would decide whether to abandon the Great Geng Sword Array and refine his seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloud-Swarm Swords.

The power of the Spring Dawn Sword Array was exactly what could be utilized at the mid-to-late stage of Spirit Transformation, but in terms of the complexity and profundity of the sword array, it was indeed far above the Great Geng Sword Array.

As time flowed by bit by bit, three months later, Han Li moved his eyes and awakened from his meditation.

But the expression in his eyes was somewhat strange, and he had a hesitant look on his face.

"Spring Dawn, so that's what it means. I was wondering why it had such a strange name. It's actually a sword array based primarily on illusions; this is truly unexpected. In that case, wouldn't the power of this array depend on the spiritual sense of the cultivator trapped in the sword array and their resistance to illusions? How is one to judge this!" Han Li frowned, his expression flickering uncertainly.

Han Li pondered for the time it takes to eat a meal, his thoughts turning as he weighed the pros and cons.

After a long while, a look of determination appeared on his face; he had made his decision.

With the talent of Qing Tian Yuanzi, who independently created the Qing Yuan Sword Technique, to be willing to abandon the Great Geng Sword Array and adopt illusions as the foundation for a sword array, this Spring Dawn Sword Array must certainly have its unique aspects. While the Great Geng Sword Array was naturally no problem for dealing with cultivators of the same stage, it appeared somewhat strained when encountering existences at the Body Integration level in the future.

Most importantly, the "Azure Banner Sword Array" that followed the Spring Dawn Sword Array also required refined flying swords to be set up.

In this way, having weighed the gains and losses, Han Li naturally had no choice but to resolve to painfully abandon the Great Geng Sword Array.

As for the matter of re-refining a set of flying swords, Han Li didn't even think about it.

After all, more flying swords weren't necessarily better; as long as there were enough to set up the sword array, that was sufficient.

If there were too many, it would naturally greatly reduce the speed at which the flying swords could be cultivated.

Han Li did not wish for his natal magic treasure to become a useless existence in the end.

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