Chapter 1857: Appointment

Golden Seal Runes are different from Silver Tadpole Runes; the number of people in the entire human and demon races who can understand these spirit runes is estimated to be no more than ten.

They all treat these spirit runes as supreme treasures and never let outsiders know the slightest bit about them.

Therefore, although they know that there must be people in the two races who understand Golden Seal Runes, very few people know exactly who they are.

At the very least, that blood-light person shouldn't understand these runes, otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to do anything about this scroll until now.

If Han Li hadn't learned these spirit runes while in the Vast Cold Realm, he would only be able to stare blankly at these golden runes now.

Han Li gazed at these golden runes for a moment, and the Golden Seal Runes flashed and disappeared again.

He frowned slightly, and without hesitation, flicked his fingers several times, and seven or eight green sword qi sprayed out again.

Under the continuous slashing of the sword qi, more golden runes appeared, looking slightly different from before.

Han Li's heart stirred. He simply let the sword light in his hand continue endlessly, turning into a sheet of green sword shadows that swept over, instantly wrapping the scroll into the green light.

Immediately, the golden scroll trembled, and clusters of golden light burst open on its surface, while a complete passage of golden text appeared.

Blue light flashed in Han Li's eyes, and he stared at these golden runes without blinking for a full meal's time before his expression stirred and the sword qi in his hand stopped.

The spiritual light on the surface of the scroll receded, and the golden runes collapsed and disappeared one after another.

Han Li reached out into the void with one hand, and with a "whoosh," he took the scroll into his hand, then fell into deep thought with a solemn expression.

He had already memorized the entire passage of spirit runes and had a rough idea of what it was about.

If he hadn't guessed wrong, this passage of spirit runes actually described the way to arrange a profound magic array.

Although it was a bit vague, there was no doubt that if one could thoroughly comprehend these Golden Seal Runes, one should be able to replicate the entire magic array.

And although this magic array wasn't very large, its subtle and profound aspects far surpassed the many magic arrays in the Spirit World that Han Li had seen before.

If it weren't for the fact that he himself had comprehended the restrictions in those few discarded runes he had obtained from the Vast Cold Realm, he wouldn't have been able to understand the intent of the entire passage of Golden Seal Runes just now.

After all, knowing the Golden Seal Runes and comprehending the magic array restrictions written in them were two completely different things, a world of difference!

And according to Han Li's estimation, if one truly wanted to thoroughly comprehend this magic array, it would be impossible without decades of dedicated research. Even though he was very interested in what was sealed in the scroll, it was impossible for him to waste so much time now.

Han Li exhaled softly and put the golden scroll into his storage bracelet.

For the next period of time, after thinking about it, he brought his hands together and then separated them, and a strange piece of wood, half a foot long, thumb-thick, and black-red in color, appeared between his palms.

This wood was dull and lusterless, constantly emitting wisps of blood mist; it was exactly the Weeping Spirit Blood Wood he had obtained at the auction earlier.

After taking out this item, the storage bracelet on Han Li's wrist continued to flash with spiritual light, and various auxiliary materials in bottles and jars appeared on the floor of the secret chamber one after another.

Han Li looked at these things with a smile on his lips, suddenly tossed the blood wood in his hand into the air, and opened his mouth to spray out a ball of silver flames.

The silver flames instantly wrapped around the blood wood, and as the blood mist and silver flames intertwined, a crackling sound erupted.

Han Li pinched a spell with one hand and grabbed at the ground continuously with the other.

Immediately, those colorful auxiliary materials flew up one after another and sank into the silver flames.

Blue light swirled in Han Li's eyes, and he stared fixedly at the silver flames in the air, his heart focused on nothing else.

By nightfall, Han Li hadn't left the secret chamber for even half a step, and even his routine teaching of the two, Qi Lingzi and Hai Dashao, was conducted through voice transmission from outside the door of the secret chamber.

After seven or eight days like this, Han Li finally walked out of the secret chamber.

But as soon as he came out of seclusion, he took advantage of the pitch-black night that very evening to send Hai Dashao and Qi Lingzi a million miles away from Nine Immortals Mountain, then gifted them some medicinal pills and magic tools, sending them on their way to Heaven Abyss City.

As for himself, he returned to Nine Immortals Mountain.

Two days later, White Bone True Person visited him mysteriously.

After Han Li conversed with him in a low voice in the main hall for a long while, he left with him.

Almost at the same time, in the other Immortal Gathering Palaces on Nine Immortals Mountain, some rogue cultivator Body Integration existences who were usually solitary also left their residences and disappeared at the same time.

It wasn't until half a day later that the group of Body Integration rogue cultivator old monsters, including Han Li and the others, reappeared.

Because the time was relatively short, except for some interested parties, naturally, not many people discovered this strange event.

During the remainder of the Myriad Treasure Assembly, Han Li went out frequently, making moves in some markets, occasionally purchasing some materials that caught his eye.

For the rest of the time, he resumed his interactions with other Body Integration existences and occasionally participated in other secret small-scale exchange assemblies, which also yielded some gains.

During this period, that girl Dai'er came to find Han Li every few days. Although there was nothing urgent, they always talked happily and returned satisfied.

However, every time he saw Dai'er's face, which was so similar to Nangong Wan's, he naturally felt a sense of emotion in his heart.

Seeing that the Myriad Treasure Assembly was about to end, Xuanwu Baohuang and Tianyuan Saint Emperor sent people again to invite those human Body Integration rogue cultivators to join them, promising extremely generous conditions.

Two of them were indeed moved and joined the two respectively.

Han Li naturally refused this invitation again, and a few days before the end of the Myriad Treasure Assembly, he left Nine Immortals Mountain in a carefree manner.

Disappearing with him was that Bai Guo'er, who possessed the Ice Marrow Body.

The two of them disappeared without a trace!

With the end of the Myriad Treasure Assembly, the human and demon races gathered on Nine Immortals Mountain gradually dispersed.

The Three Emperors, Seven Demon Kings, and other existences left the mountain range on the very day the assembly ended.

A month later, Nine Immortals Mountain, which had originally gathered a million existences of the two races, returned to its usual tranquility, except for the group of guards left behind.

And the various rumors about this Myriad Treasure Assembly gradually ceased to be mentioned as time passed.

In the blink of an eye, four years had passed.

On this day, near a remote and secret mountain peak in the Tianyuan Realm, a team of human cultivators suddenly flew in from a certain direction, including men, women, old, and young, with various attire, but all of them had a green "Valley" character embroidered on their sleeves and collars.

Among them, females clearly accounted for the majority, and each one was graceful and beautiful.

These nearly a hundred cultivators landed directly on the top of the mountain peak.

Some of them immediately set up a simple protective magic array in the surroundings, while the majority of the others found some clean mountain rocks, sat cross-legged, and closed their eyes to rest.

The leaders of this group of cultivators were a yellow-haired old man and a fair-skinned young woman in blue palace attire standing in the center of the mountain peak.

Both were at the late stage of Void Refinement, standing straight there, but their lips were moving slightly, conversing through voice transmission.

"Family Head Xiaofeng, the meeting place that person agreed upon with you is this Turtle Gazing Peak, it shouldn't be wrong, right? Looking at the time, it's about time." The yellow-haired old man raised his head to look at the sky and transmitted a few words to the young woman.

"Elder Xiao, rest assured. With that person's current status, it is impossible for him to do something like breaking a promise. Moreover, meeting here was also a message sent by the other party through someone else, so it is even more impossible for any problems to arise." The fair-skinned young woman replied without hesitation.

"Hmm, that's for the best. This time, the Supreme Elder unexpectedly returned injured from the Barbarian World and had to enter seclusion for a hundred years immediately upon returning. In this way, we just happened to miss the True Spirit Ceremony of our True Spirit Families, which happens once every three thousand years! And the Supreme Elder is the only Body Integration cultivator of our Gu family. Without him sitting in charge, the prospects for participating in this ceremony are not looking good. Fortunately, the Family Head had the foresight to make an appointment with a Body Integration senior to come and help. Otherwise, it would be better for our Gu family not to participate in this ceremony at all!" The yellow-haired old man sighed and said.

"That's right. The True Spirit Ceremony involves the number of disciples from our True Spirit Families who can enter the Hidden Spirit Cave, as well as various other interests, so it cannot be easily abandoned. Last time, because the Supreme Elder took action, our Gu family's ranking was quite good. This time, I originally wanted to invite an outsider to help, so that we could improve our ranking further. But I never expected that the Supreme Elder would unexpectedly be unable to attend. In this way, it would be good enough if we could maintain our original ranking." The young woman smiled reluctantly, her expression turning slightly bitter.

"That's also true. This Senior Han, whom the Family Head invited, has only advanced to Body Integration for a little over ten years after all. Even if his talent is extraordinary, he cannot be compared to the Supreme Elder who has been famous for nearly ten thousand years. What's more, the Supreme Elder also possesses True Spirit Blood, and once activated, the two cannot be compared at all." The yellow-haired old man also smiled bitterly.

"But if there isn't a Body Integration cultivator to hold the line, this True Spirit Ceremony will definitely be even more unsightly for us." The young woman said again with a gloomy expression.

"That's also true! Which of the top five families in the True Spirit Ceremony doesn't have a Body Integration stage existence sitting in charge?" The yellow-haired old man's mouth twitched, appearing extremely helpless.

Having said this, the two fell silent, as if they had lost interest in conversing further.

Time passed bit by bit!

Two hours later, when a green light flashed in the other side of the sky and a green rainbow appeared, the young woman's face lit up with joy, and she couldn't help but say in a low voice:

"He's here! This person is indeed extremely punctual!"

And seeing this, the yellow-haired old man also had brilliance flashing in his eyes, carefully gazing at the green rainbow shooting over.

But that green rainbow was truly exceptionally dazzling, and one could only vaguely see the appearance of two figures, one tall and one short, in the green light.

The next moment, the sound of breaking air suddenly rang out above the mountain peak.

Then, the green light paused, and the green rainbow appeared above the group of cultivators, the light receding to reveal a young man in green robes and a cute girl who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1858 =====