Chapter 1816

"Is this the Fellow Daoist Han?" The young woman carefully sized Han Li up, a trace of shock and suspicion flashing in her eyes.

She had naturally witnessed Han Li dispersing the spiritual pressure she had released just a moment ago, and now that she heard the same person could cure the young girl, her heart could not help but tremble.

She clearly sensed that the other party was only a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator, yet there was an indescribable pressure faintly emanating from him. It made the young woman feel that if the other party were to make a move, she might be destroyed in a single blow.

"How could such a thing be possible?"

The woman secretly exclaimed, and as her internal magic power circulated, she used her spiritual sense to scan Han Li carefully once more.

But this time, that pressure on Han Li's body vanished completely, as if it had never appeared at all.

The young woman's thoughts raced, and her suspicion deepened, but for the sake of the young girl named Bai Guo'er, she still revealed a faint smile toward Han Li and his two companions:

"I am Yue Hua. Many thanks to the three Fellow Daoists for your assistance to my son-in-law and Guo'er! If you do not mind, please come to my temporary cave dwelling for a short while. Yue Hua must express my deep gratitude for the three Fellow Daoists' life-saving grace!"

"This..."

Facing a Core Formation cultivator, even though Hai Dashao and Qi Lingzi were accustomed to being brazen, they could not help but feel a bit uneasy and could not help but glance at Han Li.

And Han Li, not knowing what he was thinking, swept his gaze over the young girl named Guo'er before nodding calmly:

"Since Fellow Daoist Yue has invited us, then the three of us shall intrude for a moment."

"Not at all. It is Yue Hua's good fortune that you would grace my humble dwelling!" The young woman was startled at first when she heard Han Li address her as an equal, but she did not show any signs of anger; instead, she appeared somewhat pleased.

Clearly, this Fairy Yue Hua had faintly guessed something.

The middle-aged man beside her had his mouth slightly agape, his gaze toward Han Li filled with astonishment.

Others might not know, but he was very clear about how proud and arrogant his mother-in-law was. That she was now being so polite to a Foundation Establishment cultivator was truly hard for him to believe.

Hai Dashao and Qi Lingzi, however, were coming into contact with a Core Formation cultivator for the first time and did not feel anything amiss. Upon hearing that Fairy Yue Hua intended to reward them handsomely, they instead beamed with joy.

Just as Han Li raised his hand to release his flying carriage and the group intended to set off, a melodious, heavenly sound faintly drifted over from a certain direction.

The sound was pleasant and moving, giving one the feeling that it could linger in one's ears for three days.

Han Li, Fairy Yue Hua, and the others were all startled upon hearing this sound and simultaneously looked toward the source of the heavenly music.

They saw five-colored light rolling in the distant sky, and two rows of armored warriors wearing black armor and riding strange beasts with ox heads and tiger bodies appeared one after another.

These warriors were expressionless, holding long spears, axes, and other magic tools, urging the strange beasts beneath them to fly forward slowly.

After Fairy Yue Hua swept her spiritual sense over these knights, she immediately gasped.

Every one of these knights was a Nascent Soul stage existence, and there were over a hundred of them.

And after these rows of knights flew past, black war chariots flew out from the five-colored light.

Each one was exceptionally exquisite, with three similarly dressed armored warriors standing on each, and fierce-looking flying beasts pulling the chariots in front.

When the thirty-six identical war chariots had passed, pairs of cultivators in various attires slowly appeared, some old, some young, some male, some female, all with hidden spiritual light in their eyes and extraordinary auras.

There were only eighteen of these cultivators, but they were all late-stage Void Refinement cultivators.

And after these cultivators, following a rumble in the light, a two-story pavilion faintly appeared—or rather, it should be called a giant beast-drawn carriage that resembled a pavilion.

The carriage was several dozen zhang high, majestic and exceptionally magnificent, with eight snow-white peacocks, each ten zhang in size, pulling it in front.

And on the first floor of the beast carriage sat a group of palace-dressed women in five-colored silk.

Each one was beautiful and moving, holding pipa, long flutes, and various other musical instruments.

That heavenly sound was drifting out from the hands of these women.

But Han Li's gaze was not on these women at all; instead, he looked toward the second floor of the beast carriage, where three people were sitting around a verdant jade table.

The table was filled with spiritual fruits and wine, and the three were actually clinking cups and chatting about something.

However, Han Li's gaze flickered and landed on a massive, silver-glittering banner at the top of the giant flying carriage.

This banner was carved with dragons and phoenixes, emitting waves of restriction fluctuations, and at the very center of the banner was an ancient character for "Saint" the size of a peck.

"The Saint Emperor! It is the banner of the Tianyuan Saint Emperor! This is the Saint Emperor's carriage!" Fairy Yue Hua, who was beside him, let out a shocked cry after seeing the flag on the giant beast carriage in the distance clearly.

Han Li's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, and his gaze focused as he finally saw the three people chatting on the second floor clearly.

These three people had very peculiar appearances.

One of them in the middle wore a white Confucian robe and had an elegant appearance, but his ears were strangely long, and he wore a faint smile on his face.

Beside him, an old man wore a gray robe, his face as withered and yellow as wood, but his eyes faintly emitted green light.

The last person was a plump, white monk wearing a purple cassock, looking to be in his forties or fifties, but he had a fat head and big ears, with a kind and compassionate expression.

And all three were actually Body Integration stage cultivators!

The old man was fine, just an early-stage Body Integration cultivator like himself, but the monk was already a mid-stage Body Integration existence.

As for the white-robed Confucian in the middle, under his spiritual eyes, there was a layer of milky-white light shrouding his body, and it took a great deal of effort to barely discern that the other party was a terrifying late-stage Body Integration existence.

It seemed this white-robed Confucian was indeed the Tianyuan Saint Emperor among the Three Emperors!

The middle-aged man and Qi Lingzi, Hai Dashao, and the others beside him were already dumbfounded. Upon hearing that the motorcade in the sky was the Tianyuan Saint Emperor's carriage, even the most daring among them could not help but tremble, yet the look in their eyes also held a hint of irrepressible excitement.

These were Body Integration stage existences; there were only a few dozen such existences in the entire human race, and the Three Emperors were the most top-tier existences among the human race.

There were absolutely not many cultivators in the human race who could witness the true faces of the Three Emperors with their own eyes.

Being able to see the Saint Emperor's carriage here could be considered quite a stroke of fortune.

However, just as Han Li was carefully sizing up the white-robed Confucian in the beast carriage in the distance, this Tianyuan Saint Emperor, who was laughing and talking to the monk opposite him, suddenly moved, then stood up, walked a few steps to the edge of the second floor, and looked toward where Han Li was with golden light flashing in his pupils.

"I do not know which Fellow Daoist is also here. If you do not mind, would you like to come up and share a cup of spiritual wine!"

The Tianyuan Saint Emperor's voice was not very loud, but somehow it echoed across most of the sky, clearly reaching the ears of everyone below.

Except for Han Li, everyone, whether it was Fairy Yue Hua or Hai Dashao and his group, could not help but look at each other in dismay.

"Senior Saint Emperor, could he be talking to us?" After a long while, Hai Dashao swallowed his saliva and muttered to himself without a shred of confidence.

"That's impossible. Someone who could be addressed like that by Senior Saint Emperor should only be an existence of the same rank. How could it be us?" Bai Huaji shook his head repeatedly, looking as if it were absolutely impossible.

"But it seems there are only a few of us in this vicinity." Qi Lingzi blinked his eyes and also muttered.

This was indeed true! In order to facilitate their attack on Bai Huaji and his daughter, the Three Evils of Nanshan had deliberately lured them to this remote place, and there was no trace of other cultivators within a hundred miles.

While the others were confused, how could Han Li not know that this Tianyuan Saint Emperor was addressing him? He frowned immediately, then suddenly turned his head and said calmly to Hai Dashao and the others:

"Fellow Daoist Hai, you two should go to Fellow Daoist Yue Hua's cave dwelling and stay for a while. I will go see this Tianyuan Saint Emperor first, and I will have a way to catch up with you in a moment."

Hai Dashao, Qi Lingzi, Fairy Yue Hua, and the middle-aged man were naturally dumbfounded upon hearing Han Li's words.

"Brother Han, what did you say..." Hai Dashao's speech was somewhat slurred.

But Han Li shook his head and said nothing more. Instead, cyan light flashed on his body, and he transformed into a cyan rainbow, shooting straight toward the carriage in the distance. After just a few flashes, he had already escaped over a thousand zhang away.

Left behind in the original spot were the dumbfounded group, with only the young girl named Bai Guo'er blinking her eyes as she looked at the others, appearing cute and somewhat confused, as if she understood a little but was also a bit muddled.

"So Fellow Daoist Han is a Body Integration stage senior; I should have guessed it long ago. Besides a Body Integration cultivator, who else would have a way to deal with the cold poison in Guo'er's body!" The young woman muttered to herself subconsciously, her face suddenly becoming ecstatic.

"Fellow Daoist Hai, are you two also..." Bai Huaji stared at Hai Dashao and Qi Lingzi beside him, wanting to say something while stuttering.

"No, no, we two are genuine ordinary cultivators. I only have Foundation Establishment cultivation, not a bit fake. We only met Brother Han... no, Senior Han, halfway on the road. We had no idea he was a Body Integration cultivator." Qi Lingzi regained his senses with a start and hurriedly shook his head like a windmill.

"We... we actually traveled with a Body Integration cultivator for several months, and... and drank tea and wine together... addressing each other as equals. Qi Lingzi, am I... am I not daydreaming in broad daylight!" Hai Dashao said in a trance, as if sleepwalking.

At the same time, the cyan rainbow transformed by Han Li had already arrived near the carriage.

The armored warriors, having heard the Tianyuan Saint Emperor's previous words, naturally would not step forward to block him.

Han Li's escape light converged, and he appeared on the second floor of the giant beast carriage, cupped his hands toward the three Body Integration existences inside, and said with a smile:

"I am Han Li. Greetings to the three Fellow Daoists."

"Eh, Han Li. Could it be the Fellow Daoist Han who recently advanced in our Tianyuan Realm! I, Huang Dang, greet you, Fellow Daoist." The withered old man's expression moved upon hearing this, and he returned the greeting.

"Hehe, Han indeed only advanced a few years ago!" Han Li curled his lips and replied with a light laugh.

【1816-76】