Chapter 702

After escaping a hundred miles in one breath using the Lightning Evasion Technique, Han Li paused slightly, re-identified his direction, switched to his blood-colored cloak, and transformed into a mass of blood-colored light to fly through the air.

When he had flown over a thousand miles this time, he saw a Mulan mortal caravan of tens of thousands of people appearing below, and his heart stirred as he stopped.

During his time at the Falling Cloud Sect, he had chatted with the silver-haired elder about some of the situations regarding the battles between the Mulan spellcasters and the Tiannan cultivators.

He knew that although the ordinary Mulan tribespeople could not cultivate spiritual arts, every time they attacked, the Mulan spellcasters would still organize many able-bodied mortals into temporary tribes, taking advantage of the Tiannan cultivators' inability to look after everything to go and seize various spirit stone material mines in Tiannan. In this way, even if the Mulan spellcasters eventually failed and returned after a period of time, they would not return empty-handed.

This kind of robbery-like behavior naturally made the Nine Nations Alliance curse endlessly. But for a time, they were unable to spare the energy to attend to this matter.

After all, if the number of cultivators sent to garrison these places was small, they would very likely be wiped out in one go by the Mulan high-tier spellcasters. If too many cultivators were sent, it would affect the battle between the main battlefield and the spellcasters.

The only feasible way was to wait for the spellcasters to seize these raw material production areas and mine caves, then send cultivators to recapture them and conveniently wipe out these Mulan mortals.

The pity was that these Mulan people did not care about the casualties of ordinary mortals at all; once a batch was wiped out, they would immediately organize another batch to come up, simply using human lives to exchange for these rare resources. Moreover, they would set traps from time to time to severely damage the cultivators who came to recapture the mine caves and production areas.

In this way, after losing quite a few cultivators, the Nine Nations Alliance simply turned a blind eye to this; in any case, in such a short period of time, no matter how crazily the Mulan people mined, they would be unable to take away many resources or spirit stones. And as soon as the main army of spellcasters was repelled from the front, these Mulan mortals would also obediently retreat.

Now, this caravan had many carts and oxen. The direction of their advance was toward Tiannan, and most of them were young men and women; they should be exactly a small tribe temporarily organized to seize Tiannan's resource lands.

Han Li stood above this caravan, his powerful spiritual sense sweeping across it; there was only one Foundation Establishment stage and three Qi Condensation stage spellcasters inside, with no existence that could threaten him.

Lowering his head and pondering for a moment, Han Li suddenly pinched a spell with both hands, and his figure concealed itself and disappeared in the air. The next moment, he quietly appeared on a dilapidated leather-covered carriage in the Mulan caravan, which was stuffed with many tattered cowhides and some mining tools like hoes.

With a wave of his hand, Han Li cleared a small space in the middle of the carriage and sat down cross-legged with peace of mind.

He had considered it well; now that the Mulan spellcasters were all mobilized, for a cultivator like him to return to Tiannan so blatantly, he was afraid that most of the journey would be fraught with trouble.

Although with his cultivation base, unless he encountered the most top-tier figures among the spellcasters, he wouldn't need to fear anyone, but he couldn't withstand the sheer number of people.

Even the group of seven or eight Nascent Soul cultivators they were in at the beginning had to hide and sneak around to retrieve the treasure!

Moreover, besides the spellcasters, he also had to hide from Wang Wang Tiangu and the others now, to prevent them from getting hot-headed and insisting on hunting him down to silence him.

Now that he was hiding in this mortal caravan, although the speed of advance was slow enough, after two or three days, he could safely leave the Mulan Grassland.

Presumably, no one would pay attention to such a mortal caravan. Even if there were spellcasters checking occasionally, with his current divine abilities, as long as it wasn't a late-stage Nascent Soul spellcaster, they wouldn't be able to discover his existence.

As long as he entered the wilderness and left the Mulan people's sphere of influence, he could return to Tiannan alone.

Now that he was sitting in the carriage, the conversations of several Mulan people outside the carriage clearly fell into his ears.

The Mulan people's language was naturally somewhat different from that of the Tiannan Yan tribe, but before this trip, Han Li had already learned it through relevant jade slips.

With his current powerful spiritual sense, learning these things, although it only took a short day or two of effort, he had already learned seven or eight out of ten. So, he could understand the voices outside.

Most of what they were discussing was how many spirit stone resources they could seize back on this trip to Tiannan, and whether they would have the opportunity to be favored by those "Masters" and have a chance to get ahead.

From their words, these Mulan mortals were full of worship and awe for those spellcasters, and there was even an existence similar to faith.

It seemed that even dying for these spellcasters was an extremely glorious thing for ordinary Mulan people.

Han Li sighed inwardly upon hearing this, but then with a wave of one hand, a layer of light cyan light shield sealed the entire interior of the carriage.

The Mulan people's voices disappeared instantly.

"Lady Yin Yue, tell me about your harvest now. Looking at your excited appearance at the beginning, there should be quite a few good things, right!" Han Li remained motionless, but with a flick of his large sleeve, the small white fox flew out from his cuff, circled once, and landed in front of him.

"I'm not too sure if they are good things. Master should know that although there are many ancient treasures on the first floor, because I couldn't conceal their spiritual energy after using the Evasion Technique, I didn't touch any of them. However, the jade boxes that you all were fighting over fiercely on the second floor were originally supposed to be six, but I took away half of them. Hehe! Actually, Lady Yin Yue originally wanted to take away most of the jade boxes, but I was afraid that taking too few would arouse their suspicion, which would be bad. Therefore, I only took away three." The small fox half-crouched on the ground, emitting a light, laughing sound.

Then, it opened its mouth and spat out three crystalline jade boxes, which landed steadily in front of Han Li.

Han Li glanced at the jade boxes, touched his waist with one hand, and another identical jade box appeared in his hand.

"That Master Master Cangkun left a total of six jade boxes, but four of them fell into my hands. This time, it can be considered a right decision to come." Han Li reached out and stroked the lid of the jade box for a while, saying with a faint smile.

"But Master, your courage is really big enough. You actually made a move secretly in front of so many Nascent Soul cultivators and let me sneak in first. Weren't you afraid of being discovered?" Lady Yin Yue sighed with lingering fear.

"Hehe! What's there to be afraid of? At worst, I would just use the Blood Shadow Evasion and escape instantly. Moreover, I had an eighty percent certainty in doing so. Didn't the release of spiritual light to cover up the abnormality of sending you in succeed? No one noticed the trickiness in it. I was originally a bit worried that you wouldn't be able to conceal your figure well after taking the treasure and would be discovered by those old monsters, which would be bad. But looking at it now, the miraculousness of your Evasion Technique is far beyond my imagination." Han Li smiled faintly, looked up at the white fox, and said with deep meaning.

"Master is joking. Although the Evasion Technique of our Lady Yin Yue Wolf Clan is miraculous, the most important thing is that these jade boxes themselves can conceal spiritual energy. Otherwise, whether I could deceive the spiritual sense of those old monsters is another matter." Lady Yin Yue's expression did not change upon hearing this, and instead, she said with a smile.

Han Li smiled gently and did not ask any more questions, but the palm he placed on the jade box suddenly flashed with cyan spiritual light, and then with a slight force of his five fingers, a trace of white spiritual light appeared on the surface of the jade box, but it was immediately suppressed and scattered by a large amount of cyan light, being swallowed up cleanly.

With a "click" sound, the lid was easily opened. Inside lay a light blue jade slip.

Han Li gazed at this jade slip for a moment, exhaled lightly, then took it into his hand, and with a slightly solemn expression, immersed his spiritual sense into it.

The small fox stared at Han Li's face, its pair of pitch-black eyes rolling around, looking quite interested.

However, as time passed bit by bit, Han Li's expression did not change at all, always maintaining a calm look.

This made Lady Yin Yue blink her eyes, feeling somewhat puzzled.

After a full quarter of an hour, Han Li's expression stirred, and he withdrew his spiritual sense, frowning and pondering. But a moment later, his brows relaxed, he calmly put away the jade slip, and reached out to take the second jade box, not mentioning the content of the jade slip at all.

Lady Yin Yue's curiosity grew even stronger, but she tactfully did not ask any questions.

The second jade box was opened using the same method.

This time, inside lay a small, exquisite ring, but it was pitch-black and lusterless, looking somewhat inconspicuous.

"Is this an ancient treasure?" Lady Yin Yue asked somewhat surprised.

"Doesn't look like it. It seems to have no spiritual energy." Han Li looked at it, also looking somewhat uncertain.

Afterward, he reached out, easily pinched the object with two fingers, and brought it before his eyes to examine it carefully.

"The material is somewhat strange, but it should just be an ordinary magic tool; as for what specific use it has, that's hard to say." Han Li examined it several times, scanned it with his spiritual sense, and made his judgment.

"Just a magic tool?" A look of disappointment flashed in Lady Yin Yue's eyes.

"Don't worry. Since Master Master Cangkun was willing to place this object in the box, it means it must have other uses. Perhaps it will come in very handy in the future." Han Li was indifferent and did not show a look of frustration.

"Master, let's look at the remaining two jade boxes. I wonder what other treasures are inside." The small fox tilted its neck, saying with some anticipation.

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