Chapter 1753: Harvest

A crisp sound rang out!

The plate erupted with blinding golden light, twisting and deforming under the powerful law power, shattering inch by inch.

This golden plate was actually this fragile, turning into countless light spots in an instant and vanishing without a trace.

In the void, only some faint spatial fluctuations remained.

At the same time the strange treasure was destroyed, in a secret room deep in the Spirit Realm's deep sea, a thin, tall figure sitting on the ground, motionless, suddenly raised its head, and two green flames appeared in its hollow eye sockets.

The face was illuminated clearly!

It was a skeletal face, with two green flames flickering in the eye sockets, appearing exceptionally strange.

Not far from this skeleton, twelve bronze ancient lamps, each a zhang tall, were placed, with green lamp flames of varying sizes flickering on them.

The large ones were the size of eggs, and the small ones were the thickness of a thumb.

A trace of astonishment appeared in the skeleton's eyes. It tilted its head and pondered for a while, as if it had remembered something, then suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a ball of silver light.

Within the silver light, a silver plate the size of a palm appeared. Apart from the difference in size and color, its style and shape were identical to the golden plate that had been destroyed in the Vast Cold Realm.

However, the silver plate was now covered in countless long, thin cracks, and the moment it was spat out, it let out a cry and dissipated.

Seeing this, the mysterious skeleton's eyes "Puchi" flared with green flames that grew several times larger, becoming the size of a fist.

A roar surged from the skeleton's mouth, filled with shock and anger!

The skeleton stood up, and in its rage, a skeletal hand suddenly reached into the void to one side.

Instantly, spatial fluctuations rose, and a giant pitch-black claw manifested out of thin air, grabbing at a wall to one side.

"Boom!" A loud noise, and the incredibly thick wall of the secret room was shattered by the giant claw.

But the skeleton still hadn't vented the anger in its heart. It opened its mouth toward the other wall, and black light flashed within, as if it were about to spit something out.

But just then, its gaze moved and suddenly landed on the twelve ancient lamps with green flames on the ground.

Green flames flashed in its eyes, and finally, it slowly closed its giant mouth, actually calming down quite a bit.

The skeleton's fangs chewed for a while before it finally let out a hateful hum and sat down cross-legged again.

A moment later, there was no more sound in the secret room.

And the pale green lamp flames on the twelve ancient lamps flickered, illuminating the place with dim, intermittent light.

The Heaven-Mysterious Sword flashed with green light, and the sword blade dissipated, returning to its original wooden stick form.

Then, the sword let out a clear cry, transformed into a ball of yellow light, and drifted toward Han Li's arm.

Instantly, a pale yellow mark appeared on the surface of his arm again.

The Heaven-Mysterious Sword was sealed once more!

Looking at the mark on his arm, Han Li was naturally surprised and delighted.

He let out a long breath, moved his body, and prepared to stand up from the pit.

The moment the golden plate was destroyed, the pain on his body vanished. This gave him a feeling of having escaped death.

But Han Li was clearly happy too soon. As soon as he stood straight, before he could make any other move, his legs suddenly felt weak, and he fell back to the ground with a "thud."

Then his whole body felt numb, and he had no sensation in any part of his body for a time.

Han Li was greatly startled and hurriedly scanned his body with his divine sense.

As a result, he smiled bitterly!

Although he was now at the peak of the late-Void Refinement stage, his body was completely empty, without a trace of magic power remaining.

Clearly, the Heaven-Mysterious Sword's slash, while unstoppable, had also drained all the spiritual power in his body. This was only because the mysterious energy had also been sucked dry; otherwise, without the golden Dharma form by his side, he wouldn't have been able to activate the Heaven-Mysterious Sword and possess the power of that slash.

Now that he had only exhausted his magic power, without suffering great damage to his essence or cultivation level, he could already be considered lucky.

However, because the meridians all over his body had been filled too full by that mysterious energy earlier, they had suffered some damage unknowingly, and now that the energy and magic power were suddenly empty, the aftereffects naturally flared up.

But Han Li didn't worry about this. With his body's powerful recovery ability, he could heal this minor damage in a moment. Recovering such massive magic power, however, would take quite some time.

But regardless, he was naturally exceptionally happy at this moment.

Although he was confident that he was different from other ordinary cultivators and would advance to the late-Void Refinement stage sooner or later with the help of various spiritual medicines like the Tenglong Pill, advancing to such a realm out of thin air now, saving five or six hundred or even a thousand years of hard cultivation, was naturally a great thing.

Compared to this, the current trouble was insignificant.

Han Li thought to himself, a smile appearing on his face, and his gaze shifted to the center of the high platform.

The three-headed, six-armed golden body was floating in mid-air, also sitting cross-legged, its six eyes slightly closed.

Through the mental connection between the main Nascent Soul and the second Nascent Soul, he instantly knew that the second Nascent Soul was also unharmed, just desperately stabilizing its current realm there. Otherwise, if it were careless, it might immediately fall back a level or two.

This was still under the condition that Han Li's true body was originally a Void Refinement cultivator. Otherwise, if the second Nascent Soul were truly an independent existence, crossing so many realms at once, the backlash of mental demons produced by the huge difference in realms alone would have been enough to make the second Nascent Soul go mad and perish.

But even so, the second Nascent Soul wouldn't be able to fight or use abilities for a short time.

Without ten or so years of quiet meditation, mental demons could appear at any time, making its realm unstable.

However, what made Han Li marvel was the Brahma Saint Golden Body now.

After being melted and tempered by the mysterious energy three or four times, its surface was now covered in purple-golden runes, and the aura it emitted was more than double what it had been before.

The Brahma Saint Golden Body was already extraordinary; if its power could truly double, its terrifying level could be imagined.

This was naturally another unexpected joy for Han Li.

Although Han Li tried his best to remain calm, the smile on his mouth naturally couldn't be hidden.

An hour later, Han Li moved his body, sat up straight, and sat cross-legged again.

The damage to his meridians had already healed by more than half.

With a flip of his hand, several medicine bottles of different colors appeared, and he poured out several pills with an extraordinary fragrance, swallowing them all.

With both hands moving, the medicine bottles vanished, replaced by two exceptionally verdant crystals.

Han Li closed his eyes without a second thought and began to absorb the pure spiritual energy from the top-tier spirit stones in his hands with the help of the medicine's power.

It was truly a bit funny.

Not long ago, Han Li had hated that his body was filled with too much spiritual power and wished he could expel it all. Now that his spiritual power was truly gone, he had to gather it again bit by bit.

This kind of situation where he couldn't laugh or cry naturally left Han Li speechless.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a day had passed.

Han Li opened his tightly closed eyes, a flash of essence passing through them; it seemed his magic power had recovered somewhat.

He frowned slightly, but still stood up slowly.

Because he had crossed two levels of cultivation in a row, the magic power he could contain was far beyond what it had been before. The spiritual energy here was far denser than in the outside world, and with the help of spiritual medicine and spirit stones, such a long time had passed, yet he had only recovered two-tenths of his current full magic power.

Of course, this so-called one-tenth was enough to compare to nearly half of his magic power before advancing.

Naturally, Han Li couldn't sit here for several days and delay for so long. Feeling he had a certain degree of self-protection, he took action again.

He didn't walk toward the door immediately, but walked toward the center of the stone platform.

The most precious treasure here, the golden plate, had been destroyed, but the other treasures left behind still moved him, and he intended to take them away.

This verdant chair was naturally one of them.

When this chair was cooperating with the golden plate in the air earlier, it shone brightly and runes flickered, clearly mysterious and having a great origin.

Han Li flicked his sleeve, and after a sheet of green mist rolled over, the spiritual chair vanished instantly.

After scanning his surroundings again, his figure moved, and he appeared strangely in front of one of the armored puppets.

Compared to that spiritual chair, Han Li was even more interested in these puppets.

Now that the golden plate had vanished, these puppets had returned to their original motionless state, becoming dead objects again.

But Han Li didn't dare to underestimate these puppets in the slightest.

Earlier, when these armored puppets were activated, the spiritual pressure they emitted was so great that each one was comparable to an Integration stage existence. If he could truly master these armored puppets, the harvest would be imaginable.

Thinking this, he moved his divine sense and invaded the puppet in front of him with a trace of divine sense.

But a moment later, Han Li's expression became strangely abnormal.

The structure of these puppets was actually simple and rough, and the only thing Han Li couldn't understand was that the cores embedded in these puppets weren't ordinary spirit stones, but blood-red strange stones he had never seen before.

He didn't know what these strange stones were; their surfaces were smooth as mirrors, but they were covered in countless fine golden threads, flickering slightly. The spiritual light was extremely dim, as if it could be extinguished at any moment.

It was clear that the puppets' earlier actions had consumed most of the energy contained in the strange stones. If fully activated, these puppets could at most manage one or two more strikes.

Han Li frowned for a good while, but finally flicked his sleeve, and with a flash of green light, he intended to take this puppet away as well.

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