Chapter 271: One Year

The person Han Li thought of was naturally Qi Qi Yunxiao, with whom he had a multi-year appointment.

Since Qi Qi Yunxiao's array master friend was proficient in the "Inverted Five Elements Array", he must be well-versed in other arrays as well. And this ancient teleportation array could also be considered a type of array. In that case, perhaps his friend could repair this array?

Thinking this, Han Li felt very tempted. He calculated the time, and the day they had agreed to meet again was not far off. But now, missions could come down from the sect at any time, so naturally, he couldn't go find the other party immediately. It seemed he would have to find another way later.

Han Li thought for a while and felt a bit discouraged. He had no heart to flip through these array books anymore, so he left the Heaven-Knowing Pavilion and returned to his cave dwelling.

Back in the cave dwelling, Han Li discovered that the spider eggs seemed to have grown a size larger. It seemed the Spirit Eye Spring was truly effective in accelerating hatching.

Seeing this, Han Li immediately drew a simple spirit-control array; this was a basic means for cultivators to control the eggs of demonic beasts. Then, he dripped a few drops of essence blood into the array and placed the spider eggs inside. After the array took effect, the two white eggs absorbed all the essence blood, and he put the eggs back into the spirit spring.

Just as Han Li finished this matter, he received a flying talisman transmission, telling him to go to the Council Hall to assemble immediately.

His heart chilled; he knew the mission had finally arrived.

In a patch of rubble in Jin Gu Plain, at the border between Yue Kingdom and Cheqi Kingdom, the main battlefield of the Seven Sects and the Six Sects, Han Li was commanding two black lights transformed from Black Dragon Hooks and several golden blades, surrounding and attacking a Ghost Spirit Sect disciple of the Foundation Establishment early-stage.

Although the opponent's body was rolling with black energy, which was quite startling, and there were even several skulls faintly wailing and ringing, under the storm-like attacks of these two sets of magic tools, Han Li soon found a flaw and chopped him into several pieces in one fell swoop.

Han Li grabbed the storage bag on the opponent's body with extreme proficiency, and his figure disappeared into the vast wilderness.

The harvest for this time was already had, and the sky was already late. According to convention, the Core Formation cultivators of the demonic path and the Seven Sects should be coming out to fight.

If he were accidentally caught in the crossfire, wouldn't his death be unjust!

Whenever Han Li thought of the battles between Core Formation stage cultivators he had witnessed before, he felt lingering fear!

Within a full several miles, everything had been turned upside down by the battle between the Giant Sword Sect and the Spirit Beast Sect cultivators, almost dragging him in even though he was hiding seven or eight miles away.

Since then, whenever the sky got a little dark, he would return early, even if he had gained nothing.

A year ago, he was ordered to escort a batch of spirit stones to this place with others, and then he was left here, becoming a high-level cannon fodder for the Seven Sects. Not only did he participate in several large-scale battles with thousands of people, but things like this, where he went deep into Jin Gu Plain to hunt and kill scattered enemies, happened repeatedly.

Speaking of which, it was quite strange. Ever since the demonic path and the Seven Sects ended in a draw again in the second wave of the battle, the two sides stood facing each other on both sides of Jin Gu Plain, gradually forming a strange war of "one big fight a month, and small fights every day".

The so-called "big fight" was for both sides to send teams of thousands of people to fight each other. And the "small fight" was for both sides to send a certain number of cultivators, either in groups of three or five, or alone, to hunt and kill the other side's cultivators in the center of Jin Gu Plain.

There was no need to mention the big fights; although both sides fought quite lively, the number of casualties was negligible. Unless they were truly desperate, both sides would activate their boundary protective shields, and no one could easily hurt the other.

As for the small fights, because the strength of Core Formation cultivators and Foundation Establishment cultivators could not be compared, after some probing, both sides tacitly left the time from dawn to dusk for Foundation Establishment cultivators to fight each other. At night, the Core Formation experts from both sides would then move out and fight a big battle.

In a one-on-one fight between Core Formation cultivators, it was easy to defeat one side, and even wounding the other was doable, but if one really wanted the other's life, it was difficult. After all, if a Core Formation cultivator fled with all their might, their speed was truly astonishing!

As a result, after a year, hundreds of Foundation Establishment cultivators from both sides had been damaged, while not a single Core Formation cultivator was missing, which made the people in charge on both sides feel heartache and also quite depressed.

As for the Qi Condensation cultivators, because their magic power was low, they could only serve as reserve forces, and instead, they were preserved quite completely.

However, the main battlefield battles and the incessant sneak attacks and harassment over the past year had already made the Six Sects and Seven Sects cultivators feel unable to bear it! While both sides were desperately weakening the other's strength, they were both accumulating power. They all knew very clearly that the moment of the decisive battle was very close.

Han Li steered the Spirit Wind Boat and appeared in his side's camp an hour later.

Wooden houses and stone houses of various sizes appeared and disappeared in the restrictive array, arranged in a messy way, without any rules to speak of. These were the temporary houses built by the cultivators who came here, using wood-type or earth-type Daoist arts. Of course, this was divided by sect.

Han Li first went to his own residence, a small stone house.

After closing the door, he used a set of small restriction flags to temporarily seal the stone house.

Then, Han Li poured out the things from the storage bag he had obtained today and began to pick and choose.

"Another pile of skulls and small banners! Apart from the people of the Ghost Spirit Sect, who would use these ghostly things? They can only be exchanged for some material money! Eh, this sword is not bad! Keep it for backup. This..." After Han Li muttered to himself among a pile of things, he quickly kept the useful magic tools and items, and put the worthless and unused things into another storage bag separately.

Tucking this storage bag away, Han Li withdrew the array flags and walked out of his residence.

After turning a few corners, he walked toward the most conspicuous house in this group of houses.

This wooden house occupied an area of fifty or sixty feet, and its whole body was painted golden, shining brightly under the setting sun, as if it were made of pure gold.

Han Li pushed the door open and entered without ceremony. The house was bustling with noise and excitement, with dozens of cultivators trading things in the house, and many cultivators were bargaining with the stall owners or picking things at the stalls.

Han Li, familiar with the road, quickly rushed to several stalls, and the things in his storage bag quickly turned into spirit stones. When Han Li had dispersed the things, he already had nearly a hundred spirit stones in his hand.

Han Li didn't pay attention to others and rushed toward the largest stall in the house.

This stall was seven or eight feet long, almost three or four times larger than other stalls, and the stall owner was a chubby Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivator.

Han Li didn't say any nonsense, immediately threw the storage bag containing the spirit stones to the fatty, and said unceremoniously:

"Brother Chen, exchange for that Dragon Chant Grass, I have already gathered five hundred spirit stones."

"Hehe! So it's Brother Han! Truly amazing, you got the spirit stones so quickly, let me count!" As soon as the fatty saw it was Han Li, he immediately smiled, then picked up the storage bag with his chubby, fat hands and immersed his mind in it to sense the number of spirit stones.

"Not bad, not bad! It really is five hundred spirit stones! This is the Dragon Chant Grass, keep it well!" Chen Fatty smiled from ear to ear, took out a jade box from his body, and handed it to Han Li.

Han Li took the small box, opened the lid and took a look, nodded, put it away, and then asked with some anticipation:

"Is there still no news about the pill formula I entrusted you with last time? As long as there is a pill formula, I can let go of the price by another point!"

"Brother, this pill formula is absolutely a rare item. Although we Foundation Establishment cultivators can have some in our hands, they are all treasured to death. Who would take them out for sale? Moreover, Brother still wants a pill formula useful for Foundation Establishment, which is even more difficult. I have tried my best, I really can't get it!" Hearing Han Li's words, Chen Fatty's face turned bitter, and he began to complain to him.

Han Li felt a bit disappointed in his heart, but on the surface, he smiled indifferently and said:

"It doesn't matter, if there isn't, there isn't! I still have to thank Brother Chen for helping me get two!"

Hearing this, Chen Fatty giggled and said:

"Those two are pill formulas that are almost waste formulas. They have been accumulated in my hands for many years. I really couldn't believe you would want them at the time! However, for Brother to take them back for experiments and improvements, this is really not something ordinary people dare to do. After all, the time and energy spent are too great, and it might take several generations to complete!"

Chen Fatty said with some emotion.

Hearing this, Han Li smiled slightly and didn't speak.

Ever since Han Li settled here and discovered this temporary exchange in the camp, he was shocked to find that there were many rare items here that couldn't be found in the market, from medicinal raw materials to magic tools and cultivation techniques, almost everything was available.

The medicinal materials lacking for the Spirit Gathering Pill were easily gathered in the exchange. As long as he went back and catalyzed them, he could immediately let his magic power advance by leaps and bounds again.

Even at the fatty's place, he only spent nearly a thousand spirit stones to buy the two ancient formulas he had dreamed of, which made Han Li even more ecstatic!

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