Chapter 676: Falling Demon Valley

"This ring has not been claimed yet, so the divine abilities I can let it display are limited. However, fellow Daoists present are all knowledgeable people; whether it is true or false cannot be hidden from you. I intend to use this ring to exchange for a bottle of spirit pills for Nascent Soul stage cultivation advancement. If you have any, just let me see the pills." The woman turned the Trapping Immortal Ring back to the size of a palm, held it in her palm, and said unhurriedly.

Although every cultivator present already had their own life-bound magic treasure, it was not impossible to cultivate other magic treasures with different divine abilities. Moreover, magic treasures like this that hadn't been claimed could also be bought for disciples to use.

Magic treasures personally forged by Nascent Soul cultivators were naturally much stronger than those refined by ordinary Core Formation cultivators.

And most cultivators were not good at artifact refining, even if they reached the Nascent Soul stage, there wouldn't be any difference. So as soon as this magic treasure appeared, there were immediately many tempted people who went up to exchange.

The woman picked the pills of one of them and successfully completed the exchange.

It seems that although the value of this Trapping Immortal Ring magic treasure was far below the Red Essence Ganoderma, it was instead an item easy to exchange.

The next cultivator, without waiting for True Person Brother Tianjing's greeting, stood up automatically.

"What I have brought out this time is a box of Star Steel Sand. I intend to use this..."

The exchange meeting proceeded without any setbacks. The items brought out by one Nascent Soul cultivator after another were all rare and uncommon, far beyond what Han Li had seen in the market before. Any one of these items would make an ordinary Core Formation cultivator go bankrupt, and they might not even be able to take it down.

Once they reached this level, it was indeed only among cultivators of the same rank that suitable things could be exchanged.

Of course, not everyone succeeded in the exchange. A few failed because their items were too obscure, or the items they brought out were good, but the items they wanted to exchange for were truly too rare.

However, these Nascent Soul old monsters were all shrewd people. It was basically impossible for unequal exchanges where one wanted to take advantage to appear.

The Fire Dragon Child and Lu Luo were both ranked before Han Li and also brought out their own items for exchange.

The Fire Dragon Child brought out a three-colored strange flower the size of a bowl, which was also a kind of alchemy material. Although it couldn't compare to the Red Essence Ganoderma at the beginning, it was also a rare item. However, he wanted to exchange for a material called "Poison Talisman Wood," but unfortunately, no one present had it. The Fire Dragon Child had to sit back down in disappointment.

Lu Luo's exchange was very successful; he used a bottle of spirit grass juice that Han Li had never heard of to exchange for a fire-red small sword that hadn't been claimed, and it was unknown who he intended to prepare it for.

After all, at his age, it was mostly impossible to spend time cultivating it again.

Once Lu Luo finished his exchange, it was Han Li's turn.

Because not long ago, Han Li successfully took that Red Essence Ganoderma from the brocade-robed cultivator, quite a few people looked at him a few more times.

Han Li stood up with a normal expression, already holding two light-white jade boxes in his hands.

"I have one Rank 6 water-attribute and one fire-attribute demon core, and two stalks of Thousand Spirit Grass. I only want to exchange for a piece of Geng Essence. If there is truly no Geng Essence, providing news of Geng Essence's whereabouts can also exchange for one of the items in the box."

As soon as Han Li finished speaking, he shook his hands, and green light flashed. The lids of both jade boxes opened simultaneously.

Two red and blue colored demon cores and two stalks of emerald green spirit grass were revealed to the divine senses of all the cultivators.

"Geng Essence?"

As soon as Han Li said these words, the surrounding cultivators all revealed strange looks.

Although these demon cores and thousand-year spirit grasses were precious, compared to Geng Essence, they were not just a little bit behind. If one wanted to exchange, it was estimated that one could only exchange for a tiny bit the size of a bean, and what could that little bit of Geng Essence do? However, if one just wanted to exchange for news of Geng Essence, using a Rank 6 demon core and thousand-year spirit grass casually seemed too generous.

After all, who among those present didn't know that news was just news. Getting it in hand was a world of difference. Because there were many heavenly materials and earthly treasures and ancient cultivator ruins that, although everyone knew about them, the places they were located were either absolute lands where humans could hardly reach, or places of great evil and nine deaths for one life. Even cultivators with great divine abilities couldn't retrieve them.

The most famous example was the Falling Demon Valley in the middle of the Tiannan Continent.

That was the legendary ancient battlefield. It is said that during the barbarian era, many ancient demon cultivators with great divine abilities set up strange formations and restrictions, and for some reason, they fought and battled each other inside. In the end, because their divine abilities were too astonishing, they even tore open small spatial rifts one after another. This made the space of the entire valley unstable.

In the end, the ancient cultivators who fought also perished together there.

The chaotic space and the existence of ancient formations and restrictions made the ancient cultivator battlefield a place of killing at every step, and the Falling Demon Valley immediately became a place of great evil.

For many years, no one knew how many high-tier cultivators who relied on their extraordinary divine abilities, because they coveted the ancient cultivator's treasures and cultivation techniques inside, all went in to seek treasures, but no one had ever come out alive.

Since then, the number of high-tier cultivators who had been buried in this valley was not a thousand, but at least eight hundred. The various strange treasures they carried with them were also lost in the valley.

For nearly ten thousand years, no one had taken a chance to try their luck, and they honestly let the Falling Demon Valley solidify its name as the number one evil land in Tiannan.

As a result, all the cultivators in Tiannan knew that the Falling Demon Valley had many treasures, but they could only stare and swallow their saliva, and no one went to seek their own death.

However, it seems that this Geng Essence was indeed not something ordinary people knew about. Therefore, the cultivators in the venue all looked at Han Li, but no one sent a voice transmission to say anything.

Seeing this, Han Li felt somewhat disappointed in his heart.

He didn't bring out better treasures precisely because he knew it was impossible to exchange for the items he needed just by attending one exchange meeting. Therefore, to avoid showing off his wealth, he deliberately brought out these demon cores and spirit grasses of lower value. But here, with so many Nascent Soul cultivators, not even knowing the relevant news, it truly made him feel a bit dejected.

He sighed secretly, swept his gaze across the surrounding cultivators, frowned inadvertently, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.

However, he didn't hesitate and sat down.

The cultivator below immediately took out a piece of pitch-black artifact refining material and began to introduce it.

Han Li didn't listen carefully to what this cultivator was saying, but closed his eyes and began to ponder.

If he hadn't seen wrong just now, when his gaze swept across True Person Brother Tianjing, although the other party's expression was normal, the hint of hesitation revealed in his eyes was seen by him at a glance. It seems that this True Person Brother Tianjing, even if he didn't have Geng Essence in his hand, should at least have news of Geng Essence.

Han Li didn't bother to think about it, and immediately made a judgment in his heart.

However, he was also a steady person, and didn't immediately send a voice transmission to inquire, but pretended not to know and sat down.

He was confident that as long as he had this clue, he would always have a way to learn the news he needed from the other party. He just had to wait for the most suitable opportunity.

After a while, finally, the last cultivator also finished exchanging the items he needed.

True Person Brother Tianjing then walked back to the middle position and said with a smile:

"It seems that most of you fellow Daoists have exchanged for the items you need. It doesn't matter if you haven't exchanged for them. The Nascent Soul fellow Daoists who have come to Tiantian City now have only come for one or two out of ten. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Not to mention others, I, Brother Tianjing, will hold another exchange meeting of a larger scale. I hope you fellow Daoists will continue to participate. However, before that, I also have a few things I want to exchange with everyone."

As soon as the old Daoist finished speaking, his hands flashed with white light incessantly, and he actually took out seven or eight items from his storage pouch in an instant, filling the table in front of him.

When the other cultivators saw the items on the table clearly, they couldn't help but be astonished.

When Han Li saw these things clearly, his expression suddenly changed drastically.

On the table were actually seven or eight puppet monsters of different sizes, including white wolves, green pythons, and existences like red oxen.

Although these things looked like dead objects, they emitted astonishing spiritual energy, far surpassing the giant ape puppet in Han Li's storage pouch, looking like they had the level of early Core Formation, but they were not the types recorded in his Puppet True Scripture. This made Han Li suspicious and uncertain.

Could it be that this person was also a cultivator of the Thousand Bamboo Sect? However, didn't the Thousand Bamboo Sect not have cultivators above Nascent Soul? Or did this person cultivate other types of puppet arts?

As Han Li's thoughts moved, he couldn't help but stare at these puppets again, hoping to see something different.

But before Han Li could see anything unusual, the fat man from the Joyous Union Sect sitting diagonally opposite had already opened his mouth with a smile.

"Eh! Fellow Daoist Brother Tianjing, when did you start cultivating puppet arts? Do you intend to give up the 'Crystal Light Technique' you cultivated originally? If so, I, old Ju, truly admire you very much!"

"Brother Ju is joking. I am already this old bone, how could I change my cultivation technique? These few puppets were all found by me not long ago with a few fellow Daoists in an ancient ruin. Now that my pockets are empty, I can only use them to exchange for some things. Although these things don't have much power to us, they still have quite miraculous effects in some special occasions." True Person Brother Tianjing replied with a smile.

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