Chapter 233: Restrictions and Spiritual Herbs

Hearing this, Han Li thought to himself: "Sure enough, he asked about this!"

But on the surface, he said with a look of astonishment: "Primordial spirit? Disciple didn't see any primordial spirit. Could it be that Senior Brother Lin's primordial spirit left his body before he died?"

Han Li had long since made up his mind that as long as the other party asked about the primordial spirit, he would insist he knew nothing. Otherwise, could he really tell the other party that this person wanted to possess him, but ended up having his primordial spirit destroyed by him instead?

"Didn't see it?"

The fatty looked at Han Li with a half-smiling gaze for a while, which made Han Li feel a chill down his spine, his heart pounding non-stop.

"Hmm, since you didn't see it, then this Senior Brother Lin's primordial spirit might have gotten lost in the formation and dissipated on its own!" After a moment, the fatty turned his face away and said indifferently.

Hearing this, Han Li finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, he knew very well that the other party wouldn't believe this kind of excuse at all. But looking at the attitude of this Uncle-Master Lei toward Senior Brother Lin's life and death, it seemed he was completely indifferent, so he probably wouldn't pursue it further.

After all, everyone knew that the first thing a cultivator's primordial spirit would do after leaving the body was to possess someone to be reborn. But besides Han Li, there was no second cultivator in the formation, so the target of the possession could only be Han Li. But since Han Li was perfectly fine now, it meant that Senior Brother Lin must have failed the possession and had his primordial spirit destroyed.

As for whether Han Li had been possessed by Senior Brother Lin's primordial spirit and was now actually Senior Brother Lin acting in Han Li's body?

That was something that could be seen at a glance!

Because possession was an extremely damaging act to the primordial spirit. Even if the possession was successful, without closing off for a month or so to rest, one would be unable to use the other person's body freely, which would naturally be spotted by this Uncle-Master Lei.

Therefore, both Han Li and Lei Lei Wanhe knew exactly what had happened to Senior Brother Lin's primordial spirit.

But this fatty, because he had a good first impression of Han Li and was simply too lazy to ask about such trivial matters, let him off the hook. Han Li, on the other hand, played dumb, because regardless of the reason, if this matter were to spread, the charge of harming a fellow disciple would be inescapable, which would be greatly disadvantageous to him.

However, this made Han Li feel that this Uncle-Master Lei was much more pleasing to the eye than his own master.

"This cave dwelling of yours is truly too crude! How can you entertain guests like this? Although we cultivators don't pay much attention to these things, it should at least be passable!" After dealing with this matter, this Uncle-Master Lei didn't leave immediately, but stood at the entrance of Han Li's cave dwelling, evaluating it slowly.

Han Li smiled bitterly upon hearing this. This cave dwelling was something he had hastily finished in just a few days; how could it be refined? However, hearing the other party say this, Han Li thought of something.

So, he smiled and respectfully said to Lei Lei Wanhe:

"Disciple has some matters I would like to seek advice from Uncle-Master Lei on. I wonder if Uncle-Master Lei could come into the disciple's cave dwelling for a short rest so the disciple can explain slowly. Also, the disciple has some good aged spiritual herbs and would like to ask Uncle-Master to identify their authenticity so the disciple can use them for alchemy with peace of mind."

"Spiritual herbs!"

The fatty didn't show any reaction when he heard Han Li wanted to ask him questions and invite him into the cave dwelling. But when Han Li mentioned aged spiritual herbs, he squeezed out a smile and nodded in agreement.

Thus, Han Li led Lei Lei Wanhe into the extremely spacious main hall to sit down, then said he was going to get the herbs and asked him to wait a moment. He then hurried to his storage room, took out two six- or seven-hundred-year-old backup herbs, and returned to the hall.

The reason Han Li didn't carry these herbs with him in his storage bag was to maintain their medicinal properties for a long time.

Because using magic tools like jade boxes to contain spiritual herbs was only a temporary storage method. Over time, their medicinal power would slowly dissipate. Therefore, almost every cultivator's cave dwelling was built with this kind of storage room equipped with special barriers. Only then could the spiritual herbs be guaranteed to never lose their spiritual nature.

However, to prevent this Uncle-Master Lei's spiritual sense from being too strong and seeing everything in his storage room and that sealed spiritual eye spring, Han Li had long since activated a special change in the Upside-Down Five Elements Formation that blocked spiritual sense.

Now, if this Uncle-Master Lei wanted to peek at anything, he was probably feeling extremely frustrated!

The jade slip stated very clearly that this change to block spiritual sense was very simple and easy, so when it was refined into this set of magic tools, it could be fully as powerful as the original, without any reduction. This was also the only effect that could rival the original formation.

Han Li had tested the power of this change himself after the formation was set up. Sure enough, his spiritual sense could only move within a range of a few feet nearby and could no longer extend further.

And this Uncle-Master Lei, even as a Core Formation stage cultivator, had spiritual sense far exceeding his own, but he probably couldn't extend it beyond the main hall, which was only a few dozen feet wide. This was why he dared to invite the other party in like this. Otherwise, as long as the other party swept his spiritual sense through his storage room and the other sealed spiritual eye spring, he believed this Uncle-Master Lei would probably have had some bad ideas.

But not inviting this Uncle-Master Lei into the cave dwelling at the beginning would probably have been even worse, only arousing more of the other party's suspicion. After all, for an Uncle-Master to come to a junior's cave dwelling and not be invited in was truly a bit abnormal.

Even if the other party ignored it at first, if he were to think about it later, it would be even worse!

Moreover, Han Li really had matters he wanted to seek advice from this fatty Uncle-Master on, and he intended to build a relationship with the other party. After all, the other party was a Core Formation stage cultivator; being able to befriend this Uncle-Master would be of great benefit in the future.

Han Li thought silently while holding the two herb boxes and walked into the hall. Then, in front of Lei Lei Wanhe, he opened the lids one by one and asked the other party to perform the so-called identification.

At this moment, Lei Lei Wanhe was feeling very unhappy.

Because he had indeed released his spiritual sense when Han Li went to get the herbs, wanting to probe the size and scale of this cave dwelling.

This wasn't because he had any bad intentions, but a spontaneous action of a Core Formation stage cultivator.

However, when his spiritual sense left his body by more than ten feet, it felt as if it were blocked by a thousand pounds, unable to expand outward at all.

This made the fatty's big face show a look of shock at the time.

He hadn't seen this kind of situation where spiritual sense was restricted before. He had encountered the same thing at the cave dwellings of several cultivators he was on good terms with. This was clearly the effect of some restriction blocking spiritual sense.

But those good friends of his were all Core Formation stage cultivators; it wasn't strange for such restrictions to appear in their cave dwellings. But this junior disciple was clearly only at the Foundation Establishment stage, and this cave dwelling had been built not long ago. For such a restriction to appear here, it was truly a bit strange!

Lei Lei Wanhe didn't connect the appearance of this restriction to the formation outside the cave dwelling.

Because in his view, the formation outside the cave dwelling being able to have such powerful defensive effects was already quite remarkable. If it could also have these additional changes like blocking spiritual sense, wouldn't this formation be almost the same as the town-sect formations of some small sects!

How could such a powerful restricted formation appear outside a Foundation Establishment disciple's cave dwelling!

This Lei Lei Wanhe probably never imagined that Han Li's formation was actually a simplified version of the famous "Upside-Down Five Elements Formation"! Even if it only had one-tenth of the power of the original formation, it wasn't much worse than those so-called town-sect formations.

Therefore, when Han Li opened the herb boxes to show him, he was still absent-mindedly thinking about this matter. His gaze didn't immediately fall into the boxes. He had an attitude of "it doesn't matter whether I look or not"!

But when his gaze finally fell on the two six- or seven-hundred-year-old herbs, his lazy expression immediately vanished! As for restrictions, spiritual sense, and the like, they were all thrown to the back of his mind.

At this moment, in Lei Lei Wanhe's eyes, there were only these two herbs brimming with spiritual energy!

"These two spiritual herbs were acquired by the disciple after spending quite a lot of spirit stones from the outside world. But the disciple's experience is too shallow, and I really couldn't judge their exact age, so I haven't used them. Now that Uncle-Master Lei has come at the right time, please help the disciple identify them."

"Hmm!..."

Lei Lei Wanhe didn't hear what Han Li said at all! After humming a few times, he carefully picked up one of the spiritual herbs and examined it in detail.

Han Li secretly observed the other party's expression and smiled slightly in his heart. It seemed he had chosen the right two herbs!

He had long heard that Core Formation stage cultivators had an even greater craving for spiritual herbs than Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Because at the stage of Core Formation, let alone wanting to transform the core into a nascent soul, even raising one's magic power by a single level was an extremely difficult task.

Therefore, taking large amounts of medicinal pills became the usual way for Core Formation stage cultivators to increase their magic power.

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