Chapter 2328: Volume 11: The True Immortal Descends to the World, Chapter 2309: Meeting Jin Yue Again

"I truly have no other choice. If I cannot refine the Golden and Wood attribute Extreme Origin Crystals within a year, I fear I will never have another chance. Right now, only Brother Han has the best hope of helping me succeed." Yue Long's face was full of a bitter smile.

"No other chance? What do you mean by that?" Han Li was somewhat surprised.

"Brother Han may not know, but drawing out the power of heaven and earth is no simple matter. Not only does it require finding a special spiritual location, but one must also accurately predict the precise time and calculate the period of change in the star power between heaven and earth to have any possibility of success. The reason I was able to refine the previous Extreme Origin Crystals so smoothly was that I paid a great price to have a diviner in my clan exhaust much of their lifespan to accurately predict the changes in the stars and draw down the required attribute of heaven and earth power. According to their prediction, the star changes for the Golden and Wood attribute heaven and earth power are originally extremely rare. If I do not seize the time to refine the Extreme Origin Crystals within the predicted period, who knows how many years it will be before they appear again. I simply do not have the time to wait idly; I must refine the Extreme Origin Crystals within the remaining year. If it weren't for suddenly meeting you today, I had originally intended to take the risk of inviting an old monster with a poor reputation to help. Now that I have Brother Han, it is naturally a better choice. At the very least, since Brother Han was willing to take the risk of going to the Demon Realm to slay the Mother of the Myriad Insect and rescue so many fellow Daoists of the Spirit Realm, you should be more trustworthy in terms of integrity." Yue Long said a great deal in one breath.

After listening to all this, Han Li's expression remained unchanged, but various thoughts raced through his mind as he secretly made some judgments. After a good while, he let out a soft breath and said, "Although I do not know much about you, your answer just now makes me reasonably satisfied, and I see no need for you to deceive me with false words. Very well, if helping you does not require too much time, I can agree to it first. However, in addition to these three materials as payment, I also want one of each of the other two attributes of Extreme Origin Crystals that you refine. Furthermore, these three materials must be treated as a deposit. They must be handed over now."

"No problem, fellow Daoist, rest assured! The spiritual location to draw the heaven and earth power is nearby, and we can start refining immediately. As for these three Extreme Origin Crystals, they are already yours." Yue Long said with great joy, having no intention of bargaining at all.

"Since you have said so, I, Han, will not drag things out. If you truly feel it is necessary, we can set off for that spiritual location now." Han Li smiled with satisfaction, flicked his sleeve, and a sheet of rosy light swept over the other two silver plates. After a flash, he collected all three Extreme Origin Crystals.

"Very good, I did not expect you to be such a straightforward person. However, to draw out the Golden and Wood heaven and earth power, I still need to make some preparations. How about this, Brother Han, stay here for one night, and we will head to the spiritual location together tomorrow?" Yue Long was delighted at these words, but after a moment of pondering, he still said this.

"Then let it be tomorrow. I will impose upon you for one night then." After thinking for a moment, Han Li agreed in one word.

Yue Long was extremely happy to hear this and immediately gave an order. Teams of Flying Spirit Tribe maidservants walked into the hall and brought up more spiritual fruits and spiritual wine.

For the time that followed, this Flying Spirit Tribe Mahayana cultivator chatted and drank with Han Li here.

"By the way, I would like to ask you about someone, I wonder if you know anything about them." Han Li suddenly remembered something and asked Yue Long.

"Oh, as long as it is someone I know, I will naturally tell you truthfully." Yue Long was a bit strange, but replied without hesitation.

"Speaking of this person, they are also a fellow Daoist of the Flying Spirit Tribe, but their origin should be the Five Light Tribe, and their Five-Colored Divine Light ability is truly not weak. As a Mahayana of the Flying Spirit Tribe, it should be impossible for you not to know this person." Han Li stared at the other party and said slowly.

"The Five Light Tribe! What is this person's surname, and where did you see them?" Yue Long was startled, his expression changing greatly as he hurriedly asked.

"It seems it was I, Han, asking you just now, right?" Han Li sighed, a half-smile on his face.

"Ah, I have lost my composure. It is just that what you asked just now was truly beyond my expectations. Although our Flying Spirit Tribe cannot be considered a large tribe on the Wind Origin Continent, there have never been fewer than three Mahayana existences in the tribe. However, as for the Five Light Tribe, only one has appeared in the last million years. But when this person first entered the Mahayana stage, they immediately left the tribe for a long journey, and there has been no news since. We naturally assumed they had long since fallen. Now that I have suddenly received some news from you, I have naturally been somewhat impolite. Do you know anything about this fellow Daoist of our tribe? I hope you can tell me." Yue Long's expression quickly returned to normal, and he apologized.

"That is no wonder. It is a pity that I only met this fellow Daoist once by chance in a dangerous place in the wilderness many years ago. Apart from knowing their surname is Yi and witnessing their Five-Colored Peacock transformation, we did not really converse. It was only seeing you today that I suddenly remembered this matter and asked." Han Li replied with an unchanged expression.

"Surname Yi, then it must be that fellow Daoist of the Five Light Tribe of our tribe without a doubt. So they have not fallen, but for some reason are still traveling outside and have not returned. This is truly great. I hope fellow Daoist Yi can return to the tribe soon." Yue Long let out a long breath, and a smile appeared on his face again.

However, Han Li vaguely saw a hint of stiffness in his smile, as if his relationship with this Five Light Tribe Mahayana was not simple at all.

Han Li understood a little in his heart, and after a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, he casually changed the subject to cultivation.

He did not reveal a single word about the true fate of the old man surnamed Yi.

And Yue Long, not knowing what to do, did not continue to pursue the matter, but after a moment of concentration, he truly began to exchange cultivation insights with Han Li.

But just as the two were becoming engrossed in their conversation, a figure flickered outside the hall door. A Flying Spirit Tribe maidservant walked in, bowed respectfully to Yue Long, and said:

"Reporting to the Ancestor, Elder Jin of the Heavenly Peng Tribe is outside asking to see you. Does the Ancestor wish to summon them?"

"No, see no one! Have you no eyes? Can't you see I am entertaining an honored guest!" Yue Long's face sank, and he reprimanded without hesitation.

"Ancestor, please forgive me."

The Flying Spirit Tribe maidservant below was frightened out of her wits, hurriedly kowtowed to beg for forgiveness, and was about to withdraw from the hall.

"Wait, it is Elder Jin. Could it be the Great Elder of the Heavenly Peng Tribe, Jin Yue?" Han Li's eyes flashed as he stopped the maidservant.

"Why, do you know Elder Jin Yue?" Yue Long was greatly surprised.

"I had a few meetings with this woman back then, so she can be considered an old acquaintance. Let her come in and see me." Han Li said noncommittally.

"Since Elder Jin is an old acquaintance of Brother Han, it is naturally different. Go, let Elder Jin come in." A flash of surprise crossed Yue Long's face, but he gave the order without the slightest hesitation.

"Yes, Ancestor!" Seeing that Yue Long had given the order himself, the maidservant naturally had no other words and withdrew.

After a short while, a Flying Spirit Tribe woman with golden wings on her back and wearing a white robe walked in behind the maidservant.

This woman appeared to be a young girl, her face ordinary, but she possessed a graceful aura. It was indeed Jin Yue, the Great Elder of the Heavenly Peng Tribe who had once traded with Han Li.

"Greetings, Ancestor Yue!" As soon as Jin Yue entered the hall, her eyes immediately fell on Yue Long. After taking a few steps forward, she bowed her head and did not dare to look around.

However, at this moment, her peripheral vision swept over Han Li. Apart from vaguely feeling a bit familiar, her heart secretly tightened. "Someone who can sit on equal footing with Yue Long must also be another Mahayana cultivator. Could it be another Mahayana ancestor I have met once before?" Jin Yue thought to herself involuntarily.

After all, Han Li's cultivation base now was worlds apart from what it had been back then, and both his aura and demeanor were vastly different from before, which was why the woman had not immediately thought of this former "Holy Son" of her clan.

"Rise. Jin Yue, you are not in the tribe presiding over the affairs of the Heavenly Peng Tribe, what are you doing coming to me? You should remember that without my personal summons, any envoy from any tribe in the Flying Spirit Tribe can only see me once within a hundred years." Yue Long waved his hand to let Jin Yue rise and asked indifferently.

"Reporting to the Ancestor, this junior truly had no other choice but to beg for the Ancestor's help. Half a year ago, the Red Melt Tribe suddenly took large-scale action, ignoring tribal rules to occupy more than a dozen spiritual veins and several cities of our tribe, and ignored my warnings, plundering all the Heavenly Peng Tribe members in this area. I personally went to the Red Melt Tribe, but was injured by several of their elders working together, and had to return to the tribe to recuperate for half a year before I could barely come to the Ancestor to plead for this matter." Jin Yue raised her head, her face full of indignation.

"Cough, it is the matter between you and the Red Melt Tribe again. Do you know that I already know a thing or two about this?" Yue Long sighed, revealing a look of helplessness.

"What, could it be..." Jin Yue was startled, as if she remembered something.

"That's right, three months ago, the Great Elder of the Red Melt Tribe personally ran to me once and cried about it as well. However, he said that it was your Heavenly Peng Tribe that first occupied their tribe's territory a year ago, which led to this retaliatory action." Yue Long said slowly.

"Ancestor, please see clearly, this is absolutely a slanderous statement by the Red Melt Tribe. The matter a year ago had other reasons; it was the Red Melt Tribe that first..." Jin Yue's face turned pale, and she hurriedly wanted to explain in her anxiety.

"Hmph, I am currently focusing all my efforts on dealing with the next great tribulation. How could I possibly investigate the rights and wrongs of these trivial matters of yours one by one? As long as it does not involve the life and death of a tribe, you do not need to come to me again. Now go down." Yue Long's voice turned cold, and he interrupted expressionlessly. ===== CHAPTER 2329 =====