Chapter 372: External Incarnation

The only small town on the island was at the eastern end of the island, very close to the harbor. And in the west of this island, there was a small mountain range more than twenty li long, on which there were two not-so-large mountain peaks, one about two or three hundred zhang high, and the other only about a hundred zhang.

Han Li saw the mountain peaks from afar in the air, but he suppressed the trace of excitement in his heart and landed in the middle of the town first.

The arrival of Han Li and Qu Hun caused quite a stir. A person who called himself the town mayor hurried to see Han Li.

When Han Li handed the jade slip with the golden symbol to the old man for inspection, this town mayor immediately stated that all the people in the town were willing to obey all the orders of the Immortal Master.

Han Li naturally wouldn't have anything for some mortals to help with, but instead asked roughly about the situation on this island, as well as how much of the spirit stone consumption for the defensive formation the people in the town could afford. This was the problem he cared about most.

When he heard a number so small it could almost be ignored, Han Li felt somewhat depressed in his heart.

Didn't this mean that all the spirit stone consumption had to be paid by him?

He blamed the middle-aged cultivator for saying something about collecting some spirit stones from the residents to compensate for part of the loss. It seemed it was purely said nicely, and whether it existed or not made no difference.

Han Li secretly slandered the middle-aged cultivator and comforted the old man with a few words.

Next, he went to take a look at the core of the formation in the center of the town.

Han Li estimated the quantity of spirit stones consumed by the formation slightly, and after comparing it with what the old man told him, he gave the old man a year's worth of spirit stones for the formation on the spot.

He told the old man that in the future, he could go to the cave dwelling he was about to build to take the spirit stones needed for the following year.

Then, Han Li ignored the old man's repeated thanks and flew toward the western end of the small island with Qu Hun.

As soon as he entered the mountain range that the island's residents called "Little Cai Huan Mountain," Han Li felt a faint spiritual energy blowing toward his face, which made him feel slightly happy in his heart.

A moment later, Han Li stood on the Spirit Wind Boat and flew around the two high and low mountain peaks several times.

Clearly, the slightly higher mountain peak had more abundant spiritual energy. However, the slightly shorter mountain peak was sturdier, and it seemed more suitable for a cave dwelling, and there was a cave dwelling site left by a former cultivator on it, complete and undamaged, almost ready to be used directly.

Han Li pondered for a while on the Spirit Wind Boat, a flash of light appeared in his eyes, and he made up his mind.

He first flew into the cave dwelling site of the sturdy, shorter mountain peak, found a very hidden place in the deepest part of the cave, and unleashed his magic tool to strike the ground fiercely.

Half a day later, an underground passage had taken shape. This tunnel, two or three zhang in diameter, led straight to the bottom of the mountain peak.

But when Han Li waited for this passage to be more than ten zhang lower than the bottom of the mountain peak, he suddenly changed direction, and the tunnel opened toward the other mountain peak, which was only two or three li away.

Although the magic tool in Han Li's hand was incomparably sharp, and with Qu Hun helping together, this huge project still took two days and nights to successfully connect the two mountain peaks.

Subsequently, Han Li opened up another new cave dwelling inside the higher mountain peak, following the style of the old cave dwelling in Tiannan.

Everything in this cave dwelling was exactly the same as that one in Taiyue Mountain.

Only this time, no exit was opened; apart from that passage, it was completely semi-enclosed.

This was the cave dwelling where Han Li truly cultivated and cultivated spiritual herbs.

Having one real and one fake cave dwelling like this was much safer.

After opening up the cave dwelling, Han Li set up the "Upside-Down Five Elements Formation," the first set he had obtained, near the exit of the sturdy, shorter mountain peak.

But Han Li flew between the two mountain peaks and circled in the air for a while, but he was still somewhat uneasy.

He simply found two more powerful formations from the few sets of formation-setting tools that Xin Xin Ruyin had given him, the "Heaven Wind Wild Formation" and the "Illusion Form Heaven Net Formation," and their formation flags and formation discs.

These two formations were both large-scale formations, and after being set up, they completely covered the two mountain peaks.

Although they were not as marvelous as the "Upside-Down Five Elements Formation," they would be enough to make Foundation Establishment stage cultivators have a headache.

In this way, except for the hard attack of Core Formation stage cultivators, Han Li's cave dwelling was basically foolproof.

In the sky outside the great formation, Han Li looked at the mountain peaks that were blurred and unclear, covered by milky white mist, smiled lightly, and flew slowly into the mist, disappearing without a trace.

Entering the real cave dwelling, Han Li didn't relax and rest, but was still busy non-stop.

First, he planted some spiritual herb seeds in the hidden herb garden he had opened up. After all, even if he wanted to catalyze them, he had to wait for the seeds to become seedlings!

Then Han Li buried the little bottle, which he regarded as his life, in the corner of the herb garden, still covering it with the fragment of the magic treasure, letting it condense green liquid through the small hole opened in the cave wall.

Next, he opened up dozens of secret rooms of different sizes, and according to the insect-rearing experience of the Spirit Beast Sect cultivators, he modified the environment of the secret rooms one by one, put the pair of white spiders and those strange insects that were still alive into them, and set up restrictions nearby to prevent them from running away.

Of course, Han Li still sprinkled some insect food nearby.

After finishing these most important things, Han Li didn't take medicine to meditate and cultivate Qi, but carefully took out the gray-white jade slip he had obtained from the Yue Emperor, which recorded many strange secret techniques.

The "External Incarnation" technique, which he had been eyeing for a long time, was also among them.

Han Li plunged his spiritual sense into the jade slip, read the cultivation method of this technique repeatedly several times, then withdrew from the jade slip and fell into deep thought.

Before, although Han Li had long had a plan in his heart, now after carefully pondering it, he still felt that the danger of cultivating this technique was truly not small!

Because the jade slip stated clearly that once the refining of the incarnation failed, the spiritual sense transplanted into the incarnation would destroy itself and could not be recovered.

And if the cultivator's spiritual sense was not powerful enough, because of the great damage to the spiritual sense, they would fall into madness for a long time, or even worse, be devoured by their inner demons and die.

And even if the refining was successful, this so-called "External Incarnation" was just an advanced puppet that could cultivate on its own and be manipulated freely.

It was completely different from the legendary immortal divine ability of turning one into two and completely becoming several people!

However, Han Li had the "Blood Coagulation Five Elements Pill" in his hand; he had a great chance to let the incarnation form a "Sha Dan," which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to possess a Core Formation stage puppet guard!

Even if it was only at the Core Formation early-stage, this would allow him to have the power to protect himself in front of Core Formation stage cultivators from now on.

Moreover, the most critical and difficult prerequisite for cultivating an incarnation, which required a suitable body that possessed spiritual roots but had its body completely undamaged, he had long possessed.

That was Qu Hun, this refined corpse that had no soul.

Logically speaking, extracting the primordial spirit of a cultivator, especially a low-tier cultivator, because of the domineering nature of the extraction technique, would mostly cause damage to the body's meridians, basically making it impossible to cultivate magic spells again. This was also the reason why so many cultivators were greatly surprised to see that Qu Hun, as a refined corpse, still had spiritual energy fluctuations.

Because the situation where the body is completely undamaged after extracting a cultivator's primordial spirit, although it exists, is completely a coincidence, and it is a chance encounter that happens once in a hundred.

And coincidentally, this secret technique for refining an "External Incarnation" requires that the body must be a low-tier cultivator below the sixth layer after the primordial spirit is extracted.

This made it even harder to come across a suitable body.

Although Han Li didn't know why there was such a strange requirement, he estimated that it should be related to the ease of mastering this body after the split spirit is planted in.

Although he didn't know how that Yu Yu Zitong and Doctor Mo had coincidentally managed to get it out, its conditions were indeed all met, and it was the perfect body for refining an incarnation.

As for that Yue Emperor, he probably didn't know how many low-tier cultivators' primordial spirits he had extracted before he coincidentally found a suitable body.

Otherwise, the incarnations he refined shouldn't have been just one.

Han Li sat cross-legged on the ground, pondered for a long time, and finally decided to practice the "Great Expansion Art" to the second layer before refining the incarnation. Only in this way would there be no major problems if the refining failed. He had a deep understanding of the miraculous effect of the "Great Expansion Art" in strengthening spiritual sense.

Of course, before practicing the "Great Expansion Art," he had to restore his Foundation Establishment early-stage cultivation base first. Because the secret technique of "External Incarnation" could only be practiced by cultivators who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage.

And after the refining of the incarnation was completed, regardless of whether the incarnation technique was successful or not, Han Li had to explore the cultivation of the "Three Revolutions Heavy Origin Technique."

After all, only this cultivation technique and the "Green Origin Sword Art" were the keys to whether he could form a core and step into the Great Dao!

After Han Li thought through his cultivation arrangements for the future, he entered the secret room of the cave dwelling and began to take medicine to cultivate Qi.

Currently, he was still only taking the two low-tier pills, "Yellow Dragon Pill" and "Golden Marrow Pill."

The Foundation Establishment Pill was still too fierce for him; it was better to wait until he reached the seventh layer before taking it.

According to his estimation, without the bottleneck of Foundation Establishment, he should be able to enter the Foundation Establishment stage very soon.

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