Chapter 514: Island in the Mist

Han Li had already appeared in a grocery store near the Inch Gold Pavilion, bought a local sea chart and information on monster beast appearances, and then left the shop unhurriedly, finding a quiet place to start carefully reading the information.

After reading only a rough outline, Han Li couldn't help but frown deeply.

The dangerous areas marked near Qiyuan Island were a bit too many, weren't they!

Could it be that these were all places where high-level monster beasts frequently appeared?

As for the famous sea abyss, it was not far from here. As long as Han Li flew south at full speed for half a month, he would be able to see it.

It's just that the area of this sea abyss was truly ridiculously large!

It was thousands of miles wide and long, not to mention that according to the information, this sea area was unfathomably deep, and no one had yet explored its specific depth.

After reading it once, Han Li quickly put away the jade slip containing the information, then stood on the spot, lost in thought with a solemn expression.

I don't know how long it took, but when Han Li looked up, his face had returned to normal.

Below, he didn't go to any other places in Black Stone City, but left the stone city without any hesitation.

As soon as he left the small city, Han Li immediately soared into the air, turned into a green rainbow, and broke through the air.

The entire Qiyuan Island was not very large, just a medium-sized island.

And just as Xu Yun said, besides Black Stone City, there was no second city on this island. The rest of the places were extremely desolate, not even having a single village.

It seemed that other places on this island were also forbidden for mortals and cultivators to live. I don't know the reason!

Han Li quickly flew out of Qiyuan Island, looked up at the sky, identified the direction, and flew north.

For him now, finding an island with fewer cultivators to re-establish his cave dwelling was the most important thing.

As for the vicinity of the sea abyss, it was definitely a place where cave dwellings were clustered, and Han Li didn't want to squeeze in among them and attract any attention.

Therefore, he deliberately flew in a direction away from the sea abyss.

There were not many large islands in the sea area near Qiyuan Island, and most of them were already occupied by cultivators and mortals.

Han Li didn't stay on these islands for a moment, just ignored them and flew past.

It was obvious, just as he had expected. There were not many cultivators in the northern sea area.

After flying for more than ten days, he rarely saw the traces of other cultivators. Even if he did see them, as soon as they saw Han Li's flying light, the low-level ones would immediately dodge carefully. The high-level ones would be extremely vigilant and full of caution.

The matter of killing people and seizing treasures in this place was not much different from other monster islands.

Han Li himself also added a few points of caution.

After flying for another two days, there were no traces of other cultivators, and Han Li changed his direction and flew west.

According to the sea chart, there should be some islands of various sizes with small spirit veins in the west. Because these islands had inferior spirit veins, or were far from Qiyuan Island, and their safety could not be guaranteed, very few cultivators lived on them.

As for mortals, they would only live on islands near Qiyuan Island, where safety could be somewhat guaranteed.

Han Li naturally didn't care about these conditions and intended to see if there were any islands he liked.

Half a month later, Han Li stood above a small island of only fifty or sixty miles, looking down intently.

This was the fourth uninhabited wild island with spirit veins that Han Li had discovered so far.

This island was not large, but its environment was extremely complex.

There were bare, barren lands with no grass, dense forests with unknown trees, grasslands with lush green and colorful flowers, and small mountain ranges covered with hills.

Han Li had explored the entire island with his spiritual sense and found no traces of any cultivators having stayed on this island.

This was not because the spirit veins of this island were so inferior that other cultivators didn't take a fancy to them.

On the contrary, although the spirit veins of this island were very small, the spiritual energy they provided was quite sufficient. Even if it wasn't a top-level spirit vein, it was still of a medium-to-high grade.

The reason why no cultivators had moved onto the island was entirely because the environment around the island was extremely peculiar.

And what Han Li liked most about this island was this point.

The island was actually located in a large area of white sea mist, and this sea mist was not formed naturally, but permeated from some turbulent whirlpools nearby.

What was even more peculiar was that these white mists only spread around the island, while there was no mist at all above the island.

Han Li, who saw this scene for the first time, was also extremely surprised.

But after he broke through the nearby water surface and dived to the bottom of the island, he completely understood.

The bottom of this island was densely packed with countless finger-thick holes, and thousands of slender silver fish were drilling in and out of these holes.

At a glance, these small fish seemed no different from ordinary small fish.

But when Han Li wrapped his hands with spiritual power and grabbed one at will to look at it closely, he could find that these small fish had no scales at all, and their bodies were full of sharp silver bone spurs.

If an ordinary person reached out to grab them, they would definitely be covered in blood.

"Swallow-Sea Fish!" Han Li thought of this name as soon as he saw this scene.

Don't look at the name being so funny, these small fish were a type of Level 1 low-tier monster beast that lived in groups.

Besides being able to make the bone spurs on their bodies as hard as iron, they also loved to float to the sea surface and swallow and spit out white mist to play. They could often be seen near some islands.

But there were so many "Swallow-Sea Fish" near this island, and the mist they swallowed and spat out could cover an entire island; this was truly a rare thing.

Even Han Li himself, if he hadn't encountered a Level 4 monster beast "Silver-Winged Bird" on the way and chased this monster beast into the mist sea on a whim, he wouldn't have discovered this island in the mist at all. He definitely wouldn't have cared and would have just brushed past it!

Because looking from afar, this small patch of sea mist was just the most common sight on the sea, countless in number, and not strange at all!

After circling this island several times, Han Li quickly made up his mind to choose this island to open up his cave dwelling.

If he didn't choose such a hidden island, what other island could be more to his liking!

The spirit veins of the small island were in the micro-mountain range that was only ten or so miles long and only thirty or forty zhang high, with only a few small mountain peaks.

Being so short, Han Li naturally couldn't open a cave dwelling on any mountainside.

He simply found a narrow concave small valley and began to break the mountain and rocks directly at the bottom of the mountain range.

With Han Li's current cultivation, opening a cave dwelling with the exact same structure as before was a piece of cake.

Just half a day later, the general outline of the cave dwelling was out.

Han Li didn't have the heart to continue carving the cave dwelling, but first used the several sets of formation-arranging tools he had made to cover the cave dwelling and the mountain range, and activated the restrictions, forming an illusion.

Looking from afar, the mountain range actually vanished into thin air, and what appeared was a piece of lush green forest, connected to the real forest not far away, without a single flaw.

But Han Li stood in the air, supporting his chin, and stared down for a long time, still somewhat worried.

If someone flew into the mist sea by coincidence like him, these restrictions wouldn't be able to deceive cultivators with deep cultivation.

He lowered his head and pondered for a while, and an idea suddenly arose in his mind.

Han Li flew back to the new cave dwelling without a word, sorted out the materials on his body, and began to refine things in a secret room.

Six or seven days later, when Han Li flew out of the cave dwelling again, there were more than a dozen identical sets of formation-arranging tools in his hands.

These formation flags and formation plates looked extremely crude and were not any brilliant formations.

But after Han Li buried a set of arrangements in various places on the small island and activated them one by one, large swaths of mist surged out from these magic formations, and the entire island was suddenly filled with mist.

Not long after, the mist produced by these magic formations merged with the sea mist outside the island, completely obscuring the entire island.

At this moment, even if someone broke in, unless they flew at a low altitude, it would be very difficult to discover that there was an island below.

Looking around in the air, Han Li finally felt at ease.

Although activating so many magic formations at the same time would consume quite a few spirit stones, he didn't care.

He would rather spend money to avoid disaster now!

Han Li turned into green light again and flew downward.

Below, he was going to formally tidy up his cave dwelling, arrange the insect room, plant spirit herbs...

Two days later, Han Li was in a stone room, holding the light yellow jade slip given to him by Gu Yu of the Inch Gold Pavilion, staring intently at the things inside with his spiritual sense.

A look of solemnity on his face!

His expression moved. His spiritual sense had withdrawn from the jade slip, but then he fell into deep thought again.

After a while, he stood up, paced back and forth in the stone room a few times, but the expression on his face was even more solemn.

Suddenly, he reached into his storage bag, and a white jade box appeared in his hand.

After looking at it for a moment, Han Li slowly opened the lid, revealing some five-colored small spheres.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 515 =====