Chapter 1691: Old Monster Xu

According to the records he found in the classics, the so-called "True Spirit Origin" does indeed exist. It is formed by a wisp of residual chaos energy released when a True Spirit-level existence is born in heaven and earth.

If an ordinary person swallows it, it truly has inconceivable effects.

Although one cannot evolve into a True Spirit of the same origin, it is highly possible to be reborn, greatly advance in cultivation, and advance to a Body Integration stage existence.

Just thinking about the scarcity of True Spirit-level existences in the Spirit Realm, one can know the scarcity of this True Spirit Origin.

In addition, after so many years, some of them have been sought out and used by great divine ability users of various races, so the True Spirit Origin that might still exist in the Spirit Realm today is absolutely rare.

And according to the book, this True Spirit Origin is originally in a gaseous form, but because the origin power it contains is truly powerful, after being swallowed by others, it cannot be refined in a short time. Therefore, once a certain time is exceeded, the True Spirit Origin will directly condense into crystal grains within the body of the person refining it.

These crystal grains contain True Spirit-level true essence far beyond imagination, and depending on each person's constitution, it takes hundreds of years, or as little as decades, to be truly refined.

When Han Li saw these contents, he was still ecstatic, but the following explanation immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him.

The records below actually continued to say that once the True Spirit Origin transforms into a crystal grain state, it also indicates that the true essence of the person refining it has completed assimilation. It can no longer be absorbed and refined by a second person.

Once others forcibly absorb the true essence within, this crystal grain will revert to ordinary heaven and earth power, returning to heaven and earth again.

Finally, it was specifically stated that this assimilation is very thorough and cannot be reversed artificially. Let those who obtain the origin power remember this point.

Han Li, who finished reading the entire explanation, was naturally completely dumbfounded.

Now he stared fixedly at the True Source crystal grain drifting out of the small bottle in front of him, his expression unusually complex.

"What the book says is not necessarily correct; I still have to try it," after a long while, Han Li muttered unwillingly.

Afterwards, he suddenly pinched a magic technique with one hand and pointed a finger at the crystal grain in the void.

With a "pu" sound, a cyan thread shot out, flashing once before wrapping the crystal grain within it.

Han Li solemnly cast several magic techniques, which all vanished into the cyan light.

The crystal grain in the cyan light suddenly trembled and spun, and then its color changed uncertainly.

From transparent at the beginning, it turned into a pale red color. Then it transformed from pale red into pitch black like ink. Finally, with a flash of spiritual light, it turned into a golden, glittering color like gold.

Seeing this, Han Li narrowed his eyes, and the magic technique in his hand changed suddenly.

Numerous runes emerged from the cyan light wrapping the crystal grain, swirling and dancing around it, instantly forming a micro-magic array.

And the golden crystal grain was exactly in the center of the magic array.

Seeing this, Han Li opened his mouth, and a wisp of cyan infant fire sprayed out, flashing and vanishing into the micro-magic array.

With a muffled sound, the entire rune magic array shone brightly, and the cyan infant fire easily merged with the magic array.

The next moment, streaks of cyan flames emerged simultaneously from all parts of the array, wrapping the crystal grain within them and beginning to burn it.

Amidst the rolling cyan flames, the golden crystal grain remained still at first, but as time passed bit by bit, the golden light on its surface flickered, becoming brighter and brighter, and finally emitting a low humming sound.

Seeing this, Han Li's heart sank. Before he could change the magic technique in his hand, a muffled sound came from the magic array.

The crystal grain actually disappeared bizarrely from its original place, replaced by a ball of golden light mist the size of a chicken egg.

This light mist spun, emitting a thunderous, astonishing sound from within, then suddenly expanded dozens of times, transforming into a zhang-sized object, and was still expanding continuously.

The cyan flames and light wrapping the outside were broken through.

This golden light mist flickered uncertainly, clearly out of control and ready to explode at any moment.

Thinking of the terrifying power contained within, Han Li's face changed drastically.

Without thinking much, one of his hands suddenly turned pitch black like ink and grabbed toward the golden light mist in front of him.

"Chi chi" piercing sounds rang out.

Gray light sprayed from his fingertips, flashing once to transform into a gray light curtain, directly shrouding the golden light mist within it.

The gray light and golden light intertwined, emitting a rumbling muffled sound.

The surface of the Origin Magnetic Divine Light flashed wildly, immediately showing signs of being unable to support it, completely unable to suppress the strange change of the golden light mist.

A look of fear flashed across Han Li's face, but his feet did not stand up. Instead, as if he had installed wheels, he slid silently toward a corner of the secret chamber, while waving a sleeve in front of him.

With a flash of crystal light, a small shield of misty crystal light blocked in front of him, and with a shake, it transformed into a size of several zhang, blocking everything in front of him tightly.

Almost the moment Han Li finished doing all this, the Origin Magnetic Divine Light finally emitted a crisp cracking sound, and countless golden lights pierced out from within.

Seeing this, Han Li's heart sank, but his magic power surged out instantly, pouring into the giant shield in front of him.

At the same time, his skin flashed with golden light, turning into a golden color and emerging with golden scales.

It seemed he had prepared to suffer a violent impact, and as for whether this secret chamber or even the cave dwelling could remain intact, only Heaven knew.

But a scene far beyond expectation appeared.

The golden light mist that broke through the restraint did not continue to expand and explode, but flashed and suddenly transformed into a streak of light pillar, piercing through the roof of the secret chamber and shooting into the sky.

The roof and the barriers he had set up were unable to block it at all, as if they were made of paper. With a flash, a half-foot-sized passage was pierced through.

And the golden light mist also disappeared without a trace in the secret chamber.

Han Li looked up in surprise, seeing several wisps of white sunlight projecting down directly from the hole, but immediately, a huge spiritual movement that made one's hair stand on end came from the air, and the heaven and earth energy of the entire Spirit Mountain seemed to roll violently.

His lips twitched, but he raised one hand.

A white magic technique was cast, vanishing into the top of the secret chamber.

Instantly, the originally pierced top of the secret chamber shone with white light, and the entire hole closed rapidly, closing as before in the blink of an eye.

And Han Li himself flashed with cyan light, suddenly transforming into a streak of astonishing rainbow and flying directly out of the secret chamber.

After several flashes, the escape light converged, and Han Li appeared above the cave dwelling. Looking up at the sky, he couldn't help but frown.

He saw that at this moment, the sky actually had extra streaks of pale golden hurricanes, roaring and tearing in the high altitude.

And below the golden hurricanes, there were light spots emerging everywhere, five-colored, rolling and gathering from all directions, with an astonishing momentum.

Seeing this, Han Li was horrified, and couldn't help but curl his lips.

Fortunately, he hadn't swallowed the crystal grain directly into his abdomen to refine it, otherwise, once it broke out, the miserable outcome could be imagined.

But such a great commotion naturally alarmed some exotic race cultivators who also had cave dwellings on the Spirit Mountain.

Spiritual light shone everywhere on the Spirit Mountain, and figures of various colors emerged one after another. Some acquaintances even gathered together, pointing and gesturing at the astonishing celestial phenomenon in the air, discussing endlessly.

Seeing this, Han Li couldn't help but touch his forehead, while his thoughts turned rapidly, pondering what kind of excuse to find to cover up this matter if someone came to inquire.

But just at this moment, a burst of wild laughter came from somewhere on the Spirit Mountain.

"Haha, who is trying a new secret technique, actually summoning so much heaven and earth energy, and it's so pure. The old man needs to refine a treasure and just happens to need a large amount of heaven and earth energy as a primer, this saves the old man a lot of trouble."

As soon as the words fell, a red rainbow shot out from below, flashing once before wanting to dive headlong into the celestial phenomenon in the air.

But just at this moment, the red rainbow suddenly erupted with ten-zhang-high flames, transforming into a ten-zhang-long red fire dragon, shaking its head and wagging its tail, opening its mouth wide.

With a rumbling sound, a sheet of red light sprayed out from the fire dragon's mouth.

The light spots all over the sky and those seemingly astonishing golden hurricanes were swept away in just a few breaths under the rolling red light.

The red fire dragon had transformed into a size of more than twenty zhang, and then, amidst a long laugh, suddenly shone with red light, transforming into a zhang-tall figure, drifting slowly in the high altitude.

This person looked to be sixty or seventy years old, with a rough face and a head full of white hair, but wearing a purple robe, looking at something held in one hand with a face full of pride.

It was a vermilion gourd half a foot tall, with fire-shaped marks and a red-glowing evil dragon imprinted on its surface. It was shockingly exactly the same as the fire dragon that had just been transformed.

"What, it's Old Monster Xu."

"When did this old monster come back?"

"This old monster's divine abilities seem to be even more powerful than before."

The many exotic race people below, upon seeing this purple-robed old man, caused a stir, as if most of them recognized this person, and whispered endlessly.

Seeing this, Han Li was also stunned, but after scanning the old man in the air with his divine sense, he immediately discovered that the other party was actually an existence at the late Void Refinement stage.

With such cultivation, on this Spirit Mountain where no Body Integration stage existences lived, it was naturally considered a top-tier existence. But it didn't seem like it would make so many exotic race people of the same Void Refinement stage feel so fearful.

Han Li felt a bit of surprise in his heart.

However, since the celestial phenomenon caused by the origin crystal grain had been taken away by someone like this, and hadn't attracted too much attention, he naturally felt greatly relieved.

So, with a flash of cyan light on his body, Han Li transformed into a cyan rainbow again and escaped to the cave dwelling below.

When he appeared in the cave dwelling again, he first used magic to repair the barriers on the outer layer of the cave dwelling and inside the secret chamber, before feeling at ease and returning to sit cross-legged in the secret chamber.

With a wave of his hand, a sheet of black light rolled down, and the figure of the Soul-Devouring Beast emerged again, hovering lightly right before his eyes.

Han Li stared at this beast for a long while before finally letting out a long sigh.

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