Chapter 411: Bamboo Pavilion

While Han Li was overjoyed, he was also a bit curious: if he continued to ripen the Golden Lightning Bamboo, would it undergo any further changes?

Holding this thought, Han Li spent several months continuing to drip green liquid onto the bamboo.

As a result, neither the color nor the power of the bamboo itself changed in the slightest, and its size remained at the ten-thousand-year dimension, not growing a fraction more.

Instead, after this period of ripening, a young bamboo shoot actually grew beside the main bamboo.

As the green liquid dripped onto it, the young bamboo grew day by day. Several months later, the new Heavenly Lightning Bamboo was exactly the same as the original one when it was young. Of course, this time it was a complete bamboo.

Seeing this scene, Han Li was not disappointed; instead, he was overjoyed.

To tell the truth, the original Heavenly Lightning Bamboo was slightly insufficient for refining a set of twelve "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords." Now that he knew he could ripen young bamboo with green liquid, his predicament of insufficient main raw materials was completely resolved.

However, this also made Han Li's ambition grow even larger.

Since he no longer needed to consider the quantity of main raw materials, he would not just refine twelve flying swords; he had a sudden inspiration to refine the maximum number of "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords," a set of seventy-two flying swords.

Although with his early Core Formation cultivation base, he would be unable to refine and drive so many flying swords, he was not in a hurry; he could completely refine them one by one as his cultivation situation allowed.

In any case, as long as they were a set of flying swords, they could be treated as a single magic treasure to be stored in his body, or they could be used separately, which had no impact at all.

Once such a thought appeared, Han Li felt extremely hot-headed and began to consider whether he could truly achieve this.

The biggest difficulty in refining a set of magic treasures was the difference in the main raw materials, which made them very difficult to refine successfully. But now that he was using Heavenly Lightning Bamboo from the same root, this was not a problem.

Below, it would depend on his refining level and how well he prepared the auxiliary materials.

He had already prepared the auxiliary materials; in any case, refining twelve swords or seventy-two swords used the same amount of auxiliary materials, so there was no need to look for more.

The only thing that worried him now was that his level of refining magic treasures was too poor.

After all, he had never had any experience in artifact refining.

If it were the refining of ordinary magic treasures, there would naturally be no such concerns, as it was a very easy-to-learn process of refining with pill fire.

But the "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords" were different.

Even if a single one were taken out, it would definitely be much more complex than the refining of ordinary magic treasures.

Furthermore, it involved the fact that in order to form a set of flying swords, these semi-finished flying swords had to be refined using a special magic array, which required familiarity with certain formation knowledge. Otherwise, it would be impossible to talk about refining this magic treasure.

Han Li was also a person of extremely firm will; even facing so many difficulties, he still decided that if he wasn't going to refine them, fine, but since he was going to refine them, he would definitely refine the best flying swords.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so persistent about the Heavenly Lightning Bamboo back then.

With this in mind, Han Li pondered in his cave dwelling for a day and a night before finally arranging his cultivation plan for the next twenty-odd years.

A few days later, in the market of Heavenly Star City, a certain inconspicuous small shop suddenly changed to a new owner, an ordinary-looking young man in his thirties. Besides him, there was another servant, a big man with a sturdy build and thick eyebrows and big eyes.

This young man took over the shop and immediately changed the original "Li's Sundries" to "Green Bamboo Pavilion," selling only some talismans and medicinal herbs in the shop. But half a month later, the shop added some crude, low-tier magic tools.

But what surprised the nearby shop owners was that this young man never easily walked out of the shop door, spending his whole day reading a tattered, coverless silk book, and occasionally dancing and gesturing while reading, seemingly having reached a point of great enjoyment. But sometimes, he would hide in the back courtyard of the shop, not showing his face in the front hall for most of the day.

As for all the customers and business, they were all handled by that big man who looked very honest.

Most of the nearby shop owners were mortals born in Heavenly Star City, and opening shops here was just to make a living. Only one elderly man with graying hair surnamed He had inferior spiritual roots, but he was at the third or fourth layer of the Qi Condensation stage.

But even so, the elderly man surnamed He was deeply respected by the other mortals, who called him "Immortal Master He" all day long.

Therefore, when the young man first arrived, others had asked the elderly man surnamed He and knew that the young man had no spiritual power and was just a mortal.

Immediately, the others became bolder and sometimes went to this shop to chat with the young man who called himself Han about family matters.

After all, this place was truly remote, business was not good on weekdays, and they could only visit each other to relieve boredom.

And the arrival of this young man's strange face naturally gave them more topics to talk about.

But the young man seemed not good at dealing with people, his speech was a bit slow, and he just stayed in the shop on weekdays. Even if other shop owners occasionally visited his shop, he mostly just listened without speaking. He was truly wooden.

Moreover, the young man never mentioned his background, and when others asked, he just smiled without answering. Others naturally couldn't go up and force him.

After a few rounds of this, the others gradually lost interest and stopped running to this "Green Bamboo Pavilion."

But this situation actually made the young man breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

The young man and the big man were, of course, Han Li and Qu Hun in disguise.

Although it was just the most common method of changing one's appearance in the pugilistic world, it was naturally more than enough to deal with a few mortals and a low-level cultivator.

And Han Li coming here to open a shop was naturally not to earn those few spirit stones he didn't care about.

It was to temper his state of mind for entering the world, and he had specifically chosen this place to study the way of artifact refining and formation knowledge.

In the past, Han Li had not stepped into these two areas because his time in the Foundation Establishment stage was too short, and he had no time to attend to these matters.

But now that he had reached the Core Formation stage, and the next step of refining magic treasures also required this knowledge and experience, he naturally had to take advantage of the time spent ripening the Heavenly Lightning Bamboo to study the "Cloud Sky Insights" and the formation classics gifted by Xin Xin Ruyin.

In fact, deep in Han Li's heart, he was very interested in the art of artifact refining and formations.

With only twenty years of time, and having to study both aspects at the same time, he dared not hope to reach the level of those two geniuses, but if he could possess a portion of their abilities, he would be satisfied.

At the very least, it would allow him to refine the simplest formation flags and formation disks himself!

However, studying these things was not just about reading books; one had to personally refine and practice.

As a result, a large pile of garbage, low-tier magic tools appeared, which were difficult to deal with.

Because it was a pity to throw them away, and keeping them was of no use, they were truly chicken ribs.

And for a sudden inspiration during his practice, he had to be able to buy all kinds of strange materials at any time. This meant he couldn't run to the market every day.

Coincidentally, the cultivation of the fourth layer of the Great Development Technique required a tempering of the state of mind for entering the world; otherwise, one would not be able to withstand the backlash of inner demons during the cultivation of the fourth layer and would find it difficult to succeed.

Thus, after pondering, Han Li simply bought this shop to achieve multiple goals at once.

This place was not too noisy, so it wouldn't disturb his usual study of artifact refining and formation knowledge. It was also very close to the world of mortals, allowing him to witness the ordinary lives of mortals. And the materials needed for practicing artifact refining and setting up formations could also be bought in time, and these small items he refined could be placed on the counter for sale. Selling a few was better than nothing!

Watching those low-level cultivators buy the magic tools he had refined himself, Han Li felt quite comfortable.

Of course, every few days he had to return to his cave dwelling on time to ripen the Heavenly Lightning Bamboo and visit the Gold-Eating Insects, while the two Blood Jade Spiders were left in the cave dwelling to watch the house.

But not long after, a scene that surprised Han Li appeared in the medicine garden.

When the second Heavenly Lightning Bamboo reached five or six thousand years of spiritual nature, the first one fell off the root on its own, and the few branches and leaves on it fell off completely. As soon as it touched the ground, it immediately turned into leaves that were exceptionally bright, like pure gold.

Although he didn't know what these golden leaves were for, Han Li still picked them all up and put them into his storage bag, not wanting to discard them easily. As for the main trunk, which was still emerald green and dripping, it was put into the box made of "Paste Jade" and carefully preserved.

Once he had gathered six or seven of them, that would be when he could start refining the "Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords."

Just like this, Han Li, who had restrained his magic power, completely blended into the world of mortals, and in this remote corner of the market, he began his journey into the world.

Apart from focusing on studying the silk book copied from the jade slip every day, he silently observed the joys, angers, and various complex expressions of the mortals around him, and then slowly recalled and savored them.

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