Chapter 504

Han Li took the ring and put it on a finger without hesitation. Net

The old man smiled slightly upon seeing this.

"Alright, you can enter the city. You can have a small half-day of free activity time during the day, and the whole city is under martial law at other times. When the war starts, the ring will naturally send information to recruit you! You can just wait in your cave dwelling." After saying this, the old man slowly closed his eyes and didn't say anything else.

Han Li looked at the old man twice and walked straight into the city.

Entering the city gate, there were rarely any figures on the streets of Heavenly Star City at this moment. Only occasionally could one see one or two cultivators flying back and forth in the sky. Most mortals were hiding at home, a scene of desolation.

Han Li's expression remained normal, but he felt secretly lucky in his heart.

Looking at this situation, the markets in the city were ten-to-nine likely to be closed. If he hadn't prepared the necessary items in South Bright Island in advance, he would probably be extremely troubled right now.

Han Li let out a low, light laugh, transformed into a green rainbow, flew into the sky, and headed straight for the cave dwelling on the Holy Mountain.

When passing the market at the foot of the Holy Mountain, Han Li couldn't help but look down.

Sure enough, all the shops were closed, and there wasn't a single ghost. Han Li shook his head slightly, didn't stay long, and flew to the thirty-ninth floor of the Holy Mountain.

As soon as he entered the area of the Holy Mountain, Han Li keenly felt that the vigilance was stricter than in the outer city. Just the spiritual senses secretly watching him were over a dozen waves. But fortunately, these spiritual senses automatically left as soon as they scanned the yellow ring on his hand, and no one appeared to question Han Li.

What made Han Li frown was that there were even spiritual senses of Core Formation late-stage cultivators among them.

Han Li pretended not to know and flew to his cave dwelling in one breath.

The restrictions outside the cave dwelling were the same as when he left, without the slightest change.

But after Han Li stood outside the restrictions and stared for a while, he let out a long sigh.

This trip out didn't take too long, but he had fallen into life-and-death situations several times, even to the point of having to abandon this cave dwelling where he had stayed for nearly a hundred years.

This really made Han Li feel a little bit sad.

He used the restriction token to silently release the restrictions and walked in slowly.

Everything in the dwelling naturally remained the same.

Han Li went to the insect room he cared about most first and saw that those Gold-Eating Insects were all safe and sound, only then truly feeling relieved.

However, he immediately used a spirit beast bag he had prepared early to put all the Gold-Eating Insects into it, then went to the medicine garden to pick all the spirit herbs and put them into his storage bag.

After doing all this, Han Li felt a little relieved, walked slowly to the bedroom, lay on the bed, and began to think about his future plans.

Must kill a Reverse Star Alliance cultivator of the same stage to use the teleportation array to go to the Outer Star Sea. This condition was not considered difficult for him.

But Han Li was worried that before the war even started, the Star Palace people would learn the news that the Void Heaven Cauldron might be on him. After all, he couldn't estimate when those old monsters would escape from the Void Heaven Palace.

If these old monsters leaked this news, he would definitely be dead.

Besides this, he had another concern.

Although it was not very likely, he was also afraid that even if he met the conditions, the Star Palace high-level officials would play some other tricks, and he would still be unable to use the teleportation array.

After all, even if the high-level officials went back on their word, what could these cultivators do to them?

Therefore, although he agreed to the Star Palace's conditions without changing his expression at the city gate. But from the beginning, he didn't plan to wait honestly for the Star Palace's recruitment.

He prepared to detect the vigilance situation near the teleportation array to see if he could sneak away. If the vigilance was truly lax, he would naturally take the opportunity to slip away.

As for whether he would completely offend the behemoth that was the Star Palace, anyway, he would be targeted by that group of Nascent Soul old monsters sooner or later, so he didn't seem to care about this matter.

Thinking this way to comfort himself, Han Li fell into a drowsy sleep on the bed.

After several twists and turns, he was indeed somewhat exhausted in body and mind.

The next day, Han Li woke up full of energy.

The sky was bright, and he walked out of the cave dwelling slowly, flew into the sky, and looked around.

Although the number of cultivators was still far less than usual, it was a world of difference compared to when he entered the city yesterday.

It seemed that during this time period, free activity was allowed.

Han Li didn't hesitate much, drove his escape light to fly a circle nearby. Seeing that no one was monitoring or paying attention to him, he headed straight for the fiftieth floor.

The vigilance on the road was loose on the outside but tight on the inside. Not long after, Han Li flew to the sky above the Starry Sky Palace where the teleportation array was located.

He didn't stay for a moment, pretending to pass by and sweeping over the palace.

But in that short instant, Han Li's spiritual sense quietly probed into the palace.

It started very smoothly, almost without any obstruction, invading most areas of the outer palace. But as soon as his spiritual sense approached the inner palace, a layer of green and yellow restrictions suddenly appeared.

Fortunately, Han Li was quick-witted and hurriedly withdrew his spiritual sense without actually triggering the restriction.

At the same time, his expression sank.

Although according to his estimation, this bit of restriction shouldn't be able to stop his spiritual sense's forced invasion. But doing so would alert the cultivators in the palace, and Han Li wouldn't do such a stupid thing.

In the sky, he couldn't help but frown tightly.

Because of the restriction, he didn't detect the number and cultivation base of the remaining cultivators in the palace. But Nascent Soul cultivators shouldn't appear here. At most, there were Core Formation mid-stage or late-stage cultivators in the palace, which was already quite something!

After all, compared to other important places, this Starry Sky Palace wouldn't receive too much attention from the Star Palace high-level officials.

After Han Li flew far enough, he made a big circle, deviated slightly from the original route, and flew back again.

This time, when passing by the side of the Starry Sky Palace, Han Li unwillingly released his spiritual sense again to see if he could find any flaws in the palace's restrictions.

But he didn't detect any flaws in the restrictions, but a hoarse voice suddenly reached his ears.

"Fellow Daoist Zhang, how is the situation? What did that guy guarding the teleportation array say? Is three thousand spirit stones per person still not enough? This is the maximum amount we can come up with."

Upon hearing this, Han Li was first startled, and then his heart moved.

His gaze quickly swept over the two cultivators flying at low altitude in the distance, and his escape light speed slowed down immediately.

These two cultivators, one was a middle-aged man with a black face and gray clothes, and the other was a sallow-faced, thin man; both were at the Foundation Establishment mid-stage.

That sentence just now was asked by the black-faced middle-aged man to the thin man somewhat anxiously.

The two were cautious and whispering in a deserted place, but under the cover of Han Li's powerful spiritual sense, every word was heard clearly.

"Shh! Be careful. Let's use sound transmission for this matter." The thin man looked around nervously, while Han Li hid his figure extremely alertly and immediately entered a state of breath-concealment. He naturally didn't find anything.

At the same time, Han Li immediately withdrew his spiritual sense from other places and concentrated it all on the two, preparing to forcibly eavesdrop on their sound transmission.

This was also because Han Li's spiritual sense was far superior to the two, so he could do it without anyone knowing. Otherwise, other Core Formation cultivators would only be able to eavesdrop on their sound transmission by cooperating with several rare top-tier secret techniques.

"Although the other party is a distant relative of mine, taking people to the Outer Star Sea privately still involves significant risks. He said, unless it is five thousand spirit stones per person, don't even think about it. This is still because he sees that we are all Foundation Establishment cultivators and are dispensable to the Star Palace. If it were Core Formation cultivators, even if you gave him more spirit stones, he would never let half a person go." The thin man smiled bitterly and transmitted sound somewhat helplessly.

"Five thousand, he really treats us as fat sheep. We are just Foundation Establishment loose cultivators; where can we scrape together so many spirit stones?" The black-faced middle-aged man roared in a low voice with an ugly expression, but he still knew to use sound transmission.

"But it is too dangerous to continue staying in the Inner Sea. We loose cultivators could be involved in this great calamity at any time. When the time comes, we won't even have our lives, so what use are spirit stones? After all, we have also calculated that the strength of the Star Palace and the Reverse Star Alliance is similar, and the war might continue for several years, or even decades. I don't want to live in fear and hide all day. As for spirit stones, everyone should still have many rare materials at the bottom of their storage. Scrape together what we can, and it can also serve as spirit stones to give to the other party. On this point, that person will still give me this face." The thin man sighed and persuaded.

"This won't work! Do you want us all to be bankrupted just to teleport to the Outer Star Sea? I am not willing at all." The black-faced middle-aged man shook his head incessantly like a miser.

"Forget it. Let's see what the others decide about this matter." The thin man seemed equally troubled and said somewhat unwillingly.

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