Chapter 1554

Having made his decision, Han Li naturally no longer hesitated. With a flip of his palm, the jade slip gifted by the old man surnamed Jiang appeared in his hand. 【Net】

This time, he was not comprehending the sword technique, but beginning to study the method of refining the flying swords.

He had already hurriedly read through it once before, but as the matter was of great importance, Han Li naturally had to read it carefully again.

Not long after, Han Li withdrew his spiritual sense and began to ponder with his eyes slightly narrowed.

According to the jade slip, there were three methods to completely drive out the impurities in the flying swords.

The first was the simplest and could be done with almost no external objects. It was to use the Nascent Soul fire within his body to refine away all materials other than the wood attribute in the flying swords, bit by bit.

This method was the simplest and also the one with the least danger.

However, the various materials in his flying swords had long since fused into one. The process of wanting to forcibly separate and refine them away could be imagined. It was unlikely he would succeed even in three or four hundred years. Moreover, during this period, he would have to continuously urge his Nascent Soul fire, which would greatly delay his own cultivation.

For such a long time, Han Li almost immediately abandoned this method.

The second method was a cultivation technique provided in the jade slip called the "Nine Flames Gold-Melting Technique." If he were willing to collect several special fire-attribute medicinal pills and then go into seclusion for seventy or eighty years, he could use this technique along with the power of the pills to forcibly drive out the impurities in the Azure Bamboo Cloud-Swarm Swords.

However, this approach was extremely dangerous and would also damage some of the wood-attribute essence in the flying swords, causing them to suffer great damage to their vitality. Furthermore, those fire-attribute medicinal pills were also exceptionally rare and not easily gathered.

At the time, the old man surnamed Jiang had proposed to help him refine the flying swords by adopting this method.

Han Li did not take a liking to this method, which was similar to self-mutilation.

In this way, only the last method remained, which was also the most impossible and time-consuming means for an ordinary person.

The old man surnamed Jiang left a note at the end of this method, stating that this means was only a theoretical speculation of his and that he had never tried it himself. However, as long as one followed what was written above completely, there should be an eighty to ninety percent chance of success. And once successful, the benefits would be truly astonishing.

This method was a grafting technique called "Planting Swords" by the old man.

According to what was written above, one only needed to find some spirit wood seedlings, plant them in a place with rich spiritual energy, and then seal the flying swords into these spirit woods one by one using a secret technique. In this way, as the spirit woods grew, one could borrow the wood spiritual energy of these spirit woods to gradually transform the other materials of the flying swords into the wood attribute, without needing to drive anything out of the flying swords.

And once the spirit woods matured, because of the long-term cultivation with those wood spiritual energies, these flying swords would not only not suffer damage to their vitality, but their own purity could reach an unimaginable degree.

Although it didn't mean the power of the flying swords would increase immediately, Han Li could easily cultivate the flying swords to the level of "Sword Heart Clarity" with a little bit of training later on.

Of course, such a method that benefited both sides was not adopted by the old man surnamed Jiang, and since it was only a theoretical means, it naturally had its fatal flaws.

That was that this method was truly too time-consuming!

According to what was written above, from the time of planting the flying swords to the completion of the transformation of the flying sword materials' attributes, the time required far exceeded the previous two methods.

After all, spirit woods had to grow bit by bit, and even for the most ordinary spirit woods, they could not mature without a thousand years of careful cultivation.

And during this period, not only could these flying swords not be used in the slightest, but one also had to ensure that all the spirit woods would not die due to accidents. Otherwise, if an accident occurred, all previous efforts would be wasted. Even if one were to replant the flying swords into other spirit woods, it would be impossible to make up for it.

As for how many years it would take to plant the swords, there was no specific limit. But one thing was certain: the longer the swords were planted and the rarer the spirit wood, the more the final purity of the flying swords could reach the extreme.

After Han Li finished reading this method, he was overjoyed and immediately decided to use this method.

The method of Planting Swords might be an impossible task for others, but for him, who possessed the ability to ripen plants, it was just right.

As long as he made full use of the small bottle, not to mention thousand-year spirit woods, even ten-thousand-year spirit woods were a small matter for him.

However, he still had slight doubts about whether this method of using the small bottle to ripen spirit woods was truly useful for the Planting Swords method.

But in any case, this method didn't require him to spend too much mental effort, and he could easily see the results in a short time, so he naturally decided to try it out first.

If it really didn't work, it wouldn't be too late to choose one of the first two methods.

Having made up his mind, Han Li shook his sleeve, and a verdant jade box appeared.

The box lid flew open, and inside lay a seemingly ordinary withered green bamboo, with some roots still attached to the lower part.

This was precisely a small section of Golden Thunder Bamboo with roots that Han Li had specially left behind after refining the flying swords, to be kept for backup.

Although the jade slip didn't say so, using spirit wood that was identical to the main material of the flying swords to plant the swords would naturally yield better results. And since he knew that Golden Thunder Bamboo leaves could be used to refine even more powerful Golden Gang Demon-Extinguishing Thunder, he could just as well pick some for backup.

With a thought, Han Li summoned the Second Nascent Soul again and handed the wooden box and one flying sword to it.

He let it try with one flying sword first; if it were truly feasible, he would naturally ripen a large amount of Golden Thunder Bamboo and plant the remaining flying swords into the bamboo one by one.

After the Second Nascent Soul left holding the jade box and the flying sword, Han Li closed his eyes to rest for a while. After opening his eyes again, he took out a milky white small bottle.

Raising his neck, he dripped a drop of True Toad Liquid from the bottle into his mouth, and Han Li finally began his own true cultivation.

Even if the treasures were good and the divine techniques were miraculous, without a certain amount of magic power to support them, they were still like duckweed without roots.

Han Li had been very clear about this point from a long time ago.

He formed a hand seal with both hands, golden light flashed on his body, and at the same time, the True Demon Dharma Image appeared behind him again.

The three-headed, six-armed Dharma Image moved its six arms, each forming a profound hand seal, while sitting cross-legged, unexpectedly also adopting a cultivation posture.

While golden light flashed on Han Li's body, the Brahma Saint True Demon Dharma Image also emitted a circle of golden light halo.

This halo was immense, enveloping the entire Dharma Image, and countless golden runes continuously surged from the six golden hands forming the seals. After circling and dancing in the halo, they submerged into the Dharma Image's own body one after another.

Han Li, meanwhile, remained expressionless, with golden scales appearing and disappearing on his body, and spiritual light flowing uncertainly on the surface of his skin, appearing extremely mysterious...

Cultivation has no sense of time; days and months passed in the blink of an eye, but the door to the secret chamber had never been opened again.

During this period, one could only see the Second Nascent Soul manipulating a Giant Ape Puppet to appear occasionally in the herb garden, only to disappear strangely again.

However, outside the cave dwelling, those mid-tier demon friends from the Black Hidden Mountain came several times with large batches of rare materials to exchange for Wood Spirit Flowers, each one looking as if a great disaster were imminent.

As a result, the Second Nascent Soul spent some time ripening some Wood Spirit Flowers and let the Soul-Devouring Beast transform into Han Li's appearance to deceive these demon creatures, easily completing the transaction again.

Seeing that the Soul-Devouring Beast could still produce so many spirit flowers, these demon creatures finally let out a long sigh of relief, and their panicked expressions disappeared quite a bit.

Time flew by; autumn passed and winter came, and over a hundred years passed slowly.

Nothing major had happened on the giant island, as if it would continue to remain peaceful like this.

But on this day, an astonishing celestial phenomenon suddenly appeared above the mountain peak where Han Li's cave dwelling was located.

In the high sky, continuous claps of thunder rang out in the clear sky, followed by clusters of milky white spirit clouds appearing out of thin air, all gathering toward the mountain peak.

On the mountain peaks of various sizes within a radius of ten thousand miles, colorful light spots suddenly emerged from the ground and trees, all shooting toward the high sky. After reaching a certain height, these light spots expanded and contracted on their surfaces, bursting like bubbles one after another, transforming into sheets of five-colored light mist, which then shot toward the location of Han Li's cave dwelling.

In almost just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the giant mountain where Han Li was located was wrapped in layer after layer of exceptionally thick five-colored light mist, completely dyed into five colors.

And in the sky, another celestial phenomenon appeared!

The milky white spirit clouds had now condensed into a giant cloud ring with a diameter of over a hundred miles, and in the center of the cloud ring, streams of cyan wind were forming out of thin air. Amidst the roaring sound, the five-colored light mist below was swept into the cloud ring, torn to pieces, and fused together.

As the hurricane grew, more and more five-colored spiritual light was swept into the high sky. In the end, the color of the hurricane even changed from cyan to a strange five-colored hue, but the five-colored light mist shooting in from ten thousand miles away did not decrease in the slightest, and the light screen wrapping the entire giant mountain below became even thicker than before.

Such an astonishing and strange scene naturally startled all the beasts and the low-to-mid-tier demon creatures with some intelligence in the Black Hidden Mountain range.

As soon as the ordinary beasts felt the immense spiritual pressure coming from the direction of the phenomenon, they were all so frightened that they lay on the ground trembling, and even the most ferocious beasts were now terrified, their bones loose and their limbs weak.

As for the low-to-mid-tier demon creatures with some intelligence, they all flew out from their dwellings one after another, hurriedly shooting toward the location of Han Li's cave dwelling.

But after reaching a place a thousand miles away from the phenomenon, all the demon creatures seemed to hit an invisible boundary and stopped their escape light, not daring to advance further.

They gazed at the distant five-colored giant mountain and the strange cloud ring in the sky, each looking panicked and at a loss.

The Ox-Headed Small Beast, the Three-Headed Giant Python, and other demon creatures that had traded with Han Li also appeared in the vicinity.

They naturally recognized at a glance where the place beneath the phenomenon was, and immediately gathered together in shock, looking at each other in dismay.

"Is that person about to advance? With such an astonishing celestial phenomenon, could it be that he is about to advance to the Spirit Commander level?" The middle head of the Three-Headed Giant Python made a hoarse and unpleasant sound, speaking first.

"Most likely. An ordinary small-realm advancement wouldn't show such signs." The Ox-Headed Small Beast looked at the distant cloud ring and said slowly with certainty.

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