Chapter 500: Conflict Erupts Again

Once he was far away from Yuan Yao, Han Li couldn't wait to take out the Heaven Void Cauldron, flying while impatiently wanting to see the treasure inside.

However, not long after, Han Li had the feeling of wanting to vomit blood.

No matter what methods he used, the cauldron lid was as if it were cast together with the cauldron body. He couldn't open even a sliver of a gap.

Whether he poured spiritual power into the cauldron wildly or was so angry that he used various magic treasures to bombard the cauldron wall directly.

It would at most flash with blue light a few times and remain completely motionless.

Han Li's heart instantly turned cold.

Now, apart from being able to enlarge or shrink the Heaven Void Cauldron, he had absolutely no way to deal with this object.

Discovering this fact, Han Li cursed the non-existent master of the Heaven Void Palace for half a day on the uninhabited sea surface in extreme depression.

It was very clear that there was something strange about this Heaven Void Cauldron. Either only Nascent Soul stage cultivators could drive it, or there was some other trick to opening the cauldron; it wasn't as simple as just pouring in spiritual power.

Could it have something to do with the Dry Blue Ice Flames that originally surrounded the cauldron?

Han Li, confused, could only guess wildly.

However, upon a little thought, this was also very normal.

The Heaven Void Cauldron was known as the number one secret treasure of the Chaotic Star Sea; it was expected that there would be some tricks to it, so there was nothing to be surprised about.

But guarding a treasure and being unable to use it made Han Li extremely annoyed.

In a fit of anger, he threw the cauldron back into his storage bag, waiting to study it properly when he had time later.

Then, Han Li took out the wolf-head jade Jade Ruyi and began to grope for its uses.

Don't say, in a short time, this ancient treasure really allowed him to research two magical abilities.

The simplest one was to inject spiritual power directly into the Jade Ruyi, which would cause a yellow and red protective shield to appear on his body.

Han Li had personally seen the defensive capability of this shield in the Heaven Void Palace. It could withstand a blow from the giant hand transformed by the Daoist Qing Yi and remain unscathed, which was naturally extraordinary.

Another magical ability required Han Li to silently recite the few ancient incantations carved on the side of the Jade Ruyi, and after probing his spiritual sense into the wolf heads at both ends, he could summon a small red wolf and a small yellow wolf, or simply summon a giant silver wolf at once, depending on the situation.

That small red wolf seemed to be transformed from pure fire-attribute spiritual energy and was naturally capable of several not-so-weak fire spirit spells.

The other small yellow wolf was earth-attribute and excelled in earth spirit spells. Among them was the Earth Escape Technique that Han Li had always wanted to learn but could never comprehend.

This gave Han Li an unexpected surprise.

As for that giant silver wolf, Han Li had a headache. He couldn't control this beast at all.

Although the silver wolf would react to whatever orders he gave, its actions were always lazy and perfunctory.

When he wanted to see what spells the wolf knew, the silver wolf would play dumb and ignore him.

When Han Li saw the extremely human-like perfunctory expression in the silver wolf's eyes, he was completely speechless.

He also saw that both the yellow wolf and the red wolf were incarnations of this silver wolf; it was clear that the silver wolf was the true artifact spirit of this jade Jade Ruyi.

As for the silver wolf being so unruly, that might be because it hadn't been thoroughly refined. Han Li could only guess this way.

However, Han Li remembered very clearly the surprised expression the old demon Xuan Gu revealed when he saw the silver wolf, even going so far as to release the golden thunder bamboo small arrow.

This silver wolf artifact spirit should be quite something; this was absolutely certain.

Thus, Han Li didn't get angry and put the jade Jade Ruyi away for the time being. Below, he began to organize the other treasures he had obtained from the Heaven Void Palace.

Han Li re-checked the rings, spirit rhinoceros pendants, cold ice beads, and other treasures given by the old demons, finding nothing wrong, but he didn't dare to keep them on his person and collected them all into his storage bag.

Only Man Man Huzi's "Imperial Scale Armor" was something Han Li couldn't bear to part with due to its extraordinary defensive power, so after thinking about it, he continued to wear it close to his body.

As for the "puppet part fragments," the small half-bottle of "Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk," and the "Soul-Nourishing Wood" root that was only half a finger long, Han Li handled them properly as well.

During this period, Han Li inadvertently flipped through some five-colored small beads. This made him pause slightly, and he immediately recalled the origin of these things.

They were the strange things left behind when he burned the five-colored skeleton by the teleportation array in the Heavenly South region.

Now it seemed that since the Blood Jade Spider was near the skeleton, it was very likely the other rebellious disciple of Xuan Gu, "Ji Xuan."

Why the bones were five-colored and what relationship they had with the Emperor of Yue was still difficult for Han Li to solve.

However, looking at these beads, for some reason, Han Li associated them with the Heaven-Mending Pill that flew out of the Heaven Void Cauldron.

They were the same color, only the Heaven-Mending Pill was much larger than these beads and shone even more dazzlingly.

Han Li gazed at the beads in his palm, pondered for a long time, and then solemnly collected them properly.

After this, Han Li set his direction and took out the blood-colored cloak, flying at full speed.

The whole person, in a flash of blood light, flew toward the direction of Heaven Star City like a meteor.

Although doing so consumed a large amount of spiritual power, the speed was absolutely several times faster than that of an ordinary Core Formation stage cultivator.

Now, he had to return to his cave dwelling in Heaven Star City before other cultivators came out of the Heaven Void Palace.

He could leave other things behind, but he absolutely couldn't leave behind a single one of the meticulously kept Gold-Devouring Beetles.

He didn't want these insects to fall into the hands of the old monsters who might come looking for him later. Who knew, these old monsters might have some secret techniques to also breed these strange insects!

Moreover, he had long planned to abandon his cave dwelling as soon as he returned to Heaven Star City and teleport to the Outer Star Sea through the Star City teleportation array.

He would kill spirit beasts to re-collect spirit pills while avoiding the limelight of this treasure hunt, allowing his cultivation base to break through the early Core Formation stage as soon as possible.

After flying for a period of time, Han Li felt that most of his magic power had been consumed, so he immediately switched back to ordinary escape light, holding a mid-tier spirit stone in his hand to slowly recover his magic power.

When his magic power had recovered sufficiently, he would continue his journey using the blood-colored cloak ancient treasure.

In this way, Han Li's speed was truly astonishing, and in just a few days, he had traveled a distance that would have taken half a month in the past.

On the way, Han Li didn't encounter other cultivators, but they were all low-tier cultivators at the Foundation Establishment or even Qi Refining stage. Han Li couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them and flew past them directly.

Once these cultivators saw the speed of Han Li's escape light, they naturally knew they had encountered a high-level Core Formation stage expert and didn't dare to step forward to disturb Han Li!

However, as he got closer and closer to Heaven Star City, the number of cultivators he encountered gradually increased.

Among them appeared several, and even over a dozen, large teams of cultivators traveling together.

Finally, a month later, Han Li saw the first Core Formation stage cultivator he had encountered along the way.

But as soon as this cultivator saw Han Li, he immediately fled far away with extreme vigilance, having no intention of stepping forward to talk at all.

One was like this, which was understandable! But after encountering two more Core Formation cultivators with the same expression and actions in the following days, Han Li felt that something was wrong.

Could it be that something major had happened in the Chaotic Star Sea during the days he was trapped in the Heaven Void Palace?