Chapter 355: Misfortune and Fortune Depend on Each Other

A quarter of an hour later, Han Li walked out of the Star Dust Pavilion unhurriedly.

He looked back at the tall pavilion, a trace of a mysterious smile appearing on his face, and then strode away.

Now, in Han Li's storage pouch, that set of "Red Thread Escape Light Needles" and the jade slip containing the pill formula were lying quietly inside.

Not long ago, after he casually asked the girl about the price of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, he didn't take out any spiritual herbs to show her. Instead, he took out two "Beauty-Fixing Pills" that contained the ingredients of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and handed them to the girl.

Han Li remembered clearly that the girl, who had been extremely cold, immediately revealed a fanatical look upon understanding the beauty-preserving effect of the "Beauty-Fixing Pill." That kind of completely opposite change in expression surprised him quite a bit.

Afterwards, the girl immediately found an alchemist from the Star Dust Pavilion and had him personally identify this pill, which was widely rumored but which no one had gone to refine.

As a result, after confirming that these two pills were indeed "Beauty-Fixing Pills" and truly had the effect of preserving beauty, the girl immediately and extremely nervously called Lady Lan from the fifth floor up.

After a burst of whispering between the two women, Han Li exchanged the two Beauty-Fixing Pills plus one thousand spirit stones for the pill formula and the magic tools.

Thinking about it now, Han Li still found it a bit funny in his heart.

Being able to preserve one's beauty forever was truly an irresistible temptation for women, one they couldn't resist at all. Even a female cultivator as deep in schemes and profound in cultivation as Lady Lan revealed the same eager look as the girl upon hearing that Han Li had "Beauty-Fixing Pills." This gave Han Li a thorough understanding of how much women cared about their own appearance.

However, this also made the selling price of the Beauty-Fixing Pills far exceed his expectations.

He had originally thought they could be exchanged for at most two thousand spirit stones, but the two women's opening offer made Han Li greatly satisfied, so he naturally wouldn't be ungrateful and try to haggle. It seemed fortunate that the shopkeepers here were two women; if it had been a male shopkeeper, it would have been good if he had given Han Li a few hundred spirit stones.

After the transaction, Lady Lan, who had sobered up somewhat from her fanaticism, finally couldn't help but ask about the origin of the pills, only to be dismissed by Han Li with a casual "obtained by chance."

When Han Li left the Star Dust Pavilion, he felt a bit reluctant.

He knew that since the Star Dust Pavilion could easily take out such rare items as the "Red Thread Escape Light Needles" and the pill formula, it must have even more precious things. But unfortunately, he really couldn't take out any more pills or spiritual herbs to exchange for them; otherwise, Han Li didn't need to think to know how dangerous the consequences of revealing his wealth would be.

Holding a feeling of regret, Han Li found an inn in the marketplace that catered to cultivators and stayed there.

For the remaining time, he began to practice Qi and meditate, preparing to find Shopkeeper Xu again tomorrow to refine magic tools for him.

The next morning, Han Li arrived at the refining shop as promised.

Shopkeeper Xu had been waiting for a long time. Upon seeing Han Li enter, he immediately greeted him excitedly and walked toward the backyard. Han Li gave a faint smile and walked in...

More than half a month later, Han Li finally walked out of the shop.

Only, contrary to his expression when he went in, at this moment, his face was full of gloom, and his mood seemed extremely bad.

Behind him, Shopkeeper Xu followed closely with a look of shame, muttering something incessantly behind Han Li.

Han Li let out a long breath, his mood seeming to improve a little. Afterwards, he spoke a few words to Shopkeeper Xu with a pleasant expression, then walked slowly toward the outside of the marketplace, leaving only the bewildered old man behind.

Not long after, Han Li left the marketplace's restriction range and flew directly toward Xin Xin Ruyin's nameless small mountain using his magic tool.

Standing on the Spirit Wind Boat, Han Li's expression turned gloomy again; this was all caused by the repeated failures in refining magic tools over the past half month.

He had overestimated Shopkeeper Xu's refining skills, which had led to seven or eight out of ten of those rare materials being destroyed, only managing to refine one set of magic tools. And the mantis beast materials he valued most were all destroyed in the refining process.

This made Han Li feel extremely regretful afterwards, almost having the urge to take out his magic tool and give Shopkeeper Xu a heavy blow.

However, seeing that the old man himself was extremely ashamed, he finally gave up. Even when leaving, he comforted the other party a few words with a pleasant expression.

Sighing as he thought of this, Han Li patted his storage pouch, and five pure white flying knives flew out from the pouch, circling around Han Li incessantly.

Seeing this set of magic tools refined from the limbs of the white spider, Han Li's mood improved slightly.

Although three more legs were ruined in the refining, and the armor made from the spider shell he had imagined also fell through, at least they weren't all destroyed like the giant mantis materials. This could be considered a blessing in disguise! Han Li could only think with a bitter smile.

However, from this refining experience, Han Li finally learned that the more advanced and rare the materials, the more the refiner's skills needed to be superb. It was the same person; hadn't most of the ink flood dragon materials been refined successfully last time!

As Han Li flew using his magic tool, he revealed a thoughtful expression.

A few days later, Han Li appeared again over the nameless small mountain.

This time, before Han Li could use a sound transmission talisman, the white fog covering the formation automatically cleared a path for Han Li.

Seeing this, Han Li smiled, knowing that Xin Xin Ruyin was probably waiting for him to return these past two days; after all, the agreed-upon date was almost here.

After a while, Han Li sat on a chair in the bamboo house, accompanied by Xin Xin Ruyin, who was still wearing plain clothes and had a smile on her face.

"Senior Han, you've come at just the right time. I only just finished repairing that ancient teleportation formation yesterday. Senior, you only need to follow the diagram to repair it, and you can restore the ancient teleportation formation to normal." Xin Xin Ruyin said with a peaceful expression, and took out a jade slip from her body and handed it to Han Li.

For her, repairing an ancient teleportation formation was also a challenging thing, and now that she had succeeded, she felt a bit of joy.

Han Li reached out and took the jade slip, feeling extremely happy in his heart, and a rare, undisguised smile appeared on his face.

Although he didn't have the idea of using the ancient teleportation formation immediately, this was definitely a backup plan to consider.

Thus, he sank his spiritual sense into it and took a look; sure enough, there was a complete method for repairing the ancient teleportation formation and detailed repair steps.

"Miss Xin, thank you for your hard work!"

Han Li didn't give a long-winded speech of gratitude, but thanked her very sincerely before carefully putting the jade slip away.

"It's nothing, I am also very interested in this ancient teleportation formation myself." Xin Xin Ruyin said with a faint smile.

But then, as if remembering something, she took out another small storage pouch and handed it over, speaking slowly:

"I have at most one or two years left to live. These few sets of formation flags and formation disks that Brother Qi and I refined together won't be used anymore, so I'll give them all to Senior Han! I hope they can be of some help to Senior's future cultivation!"

Seeing Xin Xin Ruyin give him such a big gift and speak so easily, Han Li was stunned, then looked at the other party deeply for a few moments.

After a moment of silence, he stood up, took the storage pouch with both hands, and said solemnly:

"Although I, Han Li, am not some kind-hearted gentleman or a person who upholds justice, I will now make a promise to Miss Xin again: as long as my abilities greatly advance and I can wipe out the Fu clan, I, Han Mou, will definitely make the Fu clan disappear from the cultivation world from then on!" At this moment, Han Li spoke extremely seriously.

Xin Xin Ruyin smiled upon seeing this; she knew that the purpose of giving this big gift had been achieved.

The more a person like Han Li, who was unwilling to make promises easily, valued the promises he made from his heart.

"If Senior has no urgent matters, you can stay in my humble abode for a few more days. Xin Xin Ruyin would very much like to discuss the way of formations with Senior Han." Xin Xin Ruyin said with a normal expression.

Three days later, Han Li flew out of the nameless mountain using his magic tool. This time, he headed straight for the nearby gathering place for cultivators—White Pool Mountain.

There, some loose cultivators and cultivators from cultivation families often gathered to exchange some minor news about the cultivation world, and of course, they also took the opportunity to trade items.

The purpose of Han Li's trip was to find out from here just how bad the current Yue Kingdom cultivation world was, whether the seven sects still had a chance to turn things around, and so on.

Only after obtaining this news could Han Li truly decide on his next plan.

And the date for the next gathering was almost here.

White Pool Mountain was not very far from Xin Xin Ruyin's nameless mountain. Xin Xin Ruyin and Qi Qi Yunxiao had participated in several gatherings before. Of course, such small gatherings were naturally dominated by Qi Condensation stage cultivators, and very few Foundation Establishment stage cultivators went.

One day later, Han Li arrived at this so-called White Pool Mountain.

This mountain was truly not small, with three peaks of different sizes. The most dangerous and highest one, the West Peak, was the place where many cultivators gathered.

The white light transformed by Han Li flew directly toward the peak of this mountain.

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