Chapter 902: Heavenly Mystery House

"Hehe, rest assured, Fellow Daoist. I obtained this thing by taking a strange risk. It is absolutely extraordinary," Jin Yuan said with a dry laugh.

Han Li nodded and didn't say much, immediately taking the old man toward the side hall.

Walking into the hall, there was a huge hall dozens of zhang wide, empty, with only a middle-aged woman in a green robe at the Foundation Establishment stage sitting on a mat in the middle, eyes closed.

Seeing Han Li and the old man walk in, she immediately opened her eyes and stood up.

"Two Fellow Daoists, are you here to see some magic techniques and secret arts collected in this hall, or do you need a secret room to exchange cultivation insights with others?" After scanning Han Li and the old man, the woman said with a smile.

"We need a secret room," Han Li said peacefully, having no interest in looking at the classics; after all, the secret arts and techniques that could be shown to ordinary cultivators were quite ordinary.

"It costs one spirit stone, and as long as you leave this hall, the secret room will be reclaimed," the middle-aged woman said with a smile.

Then she reached out to her waist and a micro-stone house a few inches in size appeared in her hand.

Seeing this thing, Han Li was stunned, but then his expression returned to normal. He handed a spirit stone to the other party and then curiously examined the thing he received.

"Why? Is this your first time seeing a Heavenly Mystery House?" Seeing Han Li's expression, the middle-aged woman became interested and asked.

"Exactly. I have indeed never seen such a thing before. Is this a magic tool?" Han Li weighed the thing in his hand; it was light and airy, as if it had no weight at all.

"The Heavenly Mystery House can be considered a magic tool, or it can be considered not a magic tool. But it is very convenient; just inject spiritual qi to enlarge it for use. Of course, low-tier Heavenly Mystery Houses can only be enlarged or shrunk and do not have other effects, so calling them magic tools is truly a bit of a stretch. But high-tier Heavenly Mystery Houses can carry formations and add barriers. They can even be comparable to magic treasures. Of course, the one we are giving you now is just a relatively ordinary type; apart from being able to isolate sound and prevent peeping, it has no other effects," the woman explained in detail to Han Li.

Hearing this, Han Li was surprised. Although he was told when he came in that there were secret rooms for rent, he didn't expect it to be such a strange thing. This thing did not exist in Tiannan.

"Thank you for your guidance, Fellow Daoist," Han Li expressed his thanks. Then, under the guidance of the other party, he walked toward the side hall.

Jin Yuan followed closely behind Han Li, but after a while, he couldn't help but say:

"You are actually seeing a Heavenly Mystery House for the first time, which really surprises me. However, this is also understandable. This kind of thing is generally sold by the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion specifically to rogue cultivators and high-tier cultivators who often travel long distances. You are so young and have such a cultivation base; you look like a disciple carefully cultivated by some sect. You naturally wouldn't purchase such flashy and impractical things. Moreover, the price of this kind of thing is truly not cheap; if you have spirit stones, it is naturally more cost-effective to purchase magic tools and spiritual medicine."

"Oh, how many spirit stones does such an ordinary Heavenly Mystery House cost? Are they all in this shape?" Han Li asked casually.

"Low-tier ones only cost a hundred or so spirit stones, while high-tier ones depend on the formations and barriers they carry. But basically, they are much more expensive than magic tools of the same tier. As for the shape, they are varied. There are pagoda shapes, pavilions, courtyards, and all kinds of shapes. I even heard that the top-tier Heavenly Mystery House from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion is basically a small cave dwelling, which is extremely convenient," the old man saw that Han Li seemed interested in this and told him everything he knew.

"A small cave dwelling?" Hearing this, Han Li paused and was surprised.

"Hehe! Brother Han, you shouldn't think about such good things. This kind of cave-dwelling Heavenly Mystery House costs at least tens of thousands of spirit stones; it is not something cultivators like us can think of," the old man said self-deprecatingly.

Han Li's expression returned to normal and he nodded.

At this time, they had already arrived at the side hall, where five or six stone houses appeared in the hall, none of which were different from the micro-house Han Li held after it was enlarged. And faint white light was flashing on the surface.

Han Li's heart moved, and he casually used his spiritual sense to probe one of the houses. Sure enough, as soon as his spiritual sense touched it, it was blocked by a layer of barrier. This kind of barrier was simple, and spiritual sense could easily break through it, but at the same time, once the barrier was broken, the owner of the house would immediately discover that someone was peeping and would immediately be alert.

This was truly a relatively safe method to prevent others from eavesdropping.

Thinking this way, Han Li held up the micro-house, blue light flashed on his hand, and he injected some spiritual power into it.

Immediately, the house became slightly hot and trembled non-stop. Han Li threw the house toward an empty space without hesitation.

With a flash of white light and a muffled "bang," a house several zhang in size appeared before his eyes.

"Brother Jin, please enter!" After looking at the stone house twice, Han Li said politely to the old man.

"Then I will be impolite. Don't say, although I have seen this Heavenly Mystery House, I have truly not entered it many times," Jin Yuan stroked his sparse short beard, smiled, pulled open the stone door, and walked in.

Han Li smiled, walked into the house with a slow pace, and closed the door casually.

The house was not large, but it was exquisite.

Not only were there stone tables and chairs in the middle, but there was also a bluestone long bed. The old man was already sitting on a stone chair in a grand manner.

Han Li placed a palm on the wall, activated the house's barrier, and then walked over to sit opposite the old man.

"I heard you say earlier that you have matters to understand. I wonder what it is?" The old man suddenly asked with a solemn expression.

"It is nothing. I am preparing to stay in Guanning Prefecture for a period of time, but I am not very familiar with the families and sects of this place and some taboos. I heard your accent, and you happen to be a local, so I wanted to ask you about it," Han Li said without changing his expression.

"So that is the matter. No problem! It is not that I am boasting. Not just Guanning Prefecture, but the entire Liao Prefecture, there is nothing I don't know. What would you like to hear first, Brother Han?" The old man's expression relaxed, and he said with a smile.

"Since the masters of this place are the three great families of Guanning Prefecture, let's start with the families of this place. It would be best if you could tell me about some major events that have happened in recent years, so I can broaden my horizons," Han Li said comfortably.

"The cultivation families of Guanning Prefecture, how should I put it? This piece of land should basically belong to the Confucian school, so the large and small families are also mostly under the various sects of the Confucian school. But the four great families of Guanning are not so. Apart from the Kong family, the other three families have their own inheritances."

"Four great families? Isn't this place the three great families of Guanning?" Han Li twitched the corner of his mouth and asked nonchalantly.

"Hehe! The three great families of Guanning are only a matter of the last few years. Ten years ago, it should have been the four great families. But the Feng family among them, I don't know how they offended the other three families, and as a result, they were uprooted by these three families overnight. The direct disciples were all wiped out. I heard that at that time, the Feng family was discussing some major event, and all the direct disciples happened to be gathered together..." The old man narrated endlessly.

Han Li sat and listened quietly to the old man narrate the events that happened to the Feng family back then, and compared them one by one with what Feng Zhen had told him, to see if there were any oddities.

After finishing the family matters, the old man began to narrate the various sects and schools of Guanning. This old man named Jin Yuan clearly had been to many places and had experienced some things; not only Jiangning Prefecture, but other prefectures also seemed to be at his fingertips.

Han Li listened very satisfactorily and had a clear understanding of the entire Liao Prefecture cultivation world. This was much more detailed than the intelligence he obtained from Cao Cao Mengrong.

However, this person seemed to be a chatterbox; once he started talking, he was spitting and eloquent, without stopping for a moment. He even occasionally expressed some of his own views and insights. And this took a full quarter of an hour; when the old man finally closed his mouth somewhat unfulfilled, Han Li smiled and said:

"Thank you for telling me so much. However, we can talk about your strange treasure now. Can you take it out and let me open my eyes first?"

"Strange treasure? Of course. I also want you to identify it for me, Brother Han!" The old man naturally agreed.

Then, under Han Li's gaze, he somewhat mysteriously took out a jade box from his storage bag and placed it on the table.

Han Li's gaze swept over the box, and his spiritual sense covered it. But immediately, his heart was stunned.

As soon as his spiritual sense swept over, the object in the box actually produced a strange repulsive force, and he couldn't penetrate into the box.

This time, Han Li was truly interested.

And Jin Yuan carefully opened the lid, revealing a golden, dazzling object. It was the size of a fist, looking hazy.

"You can take a closer look at this thing, Fellow Daoist. See if you can recognize it," Jin Yuan pushed the jade box in front of Han Li and said somewhat eagerly.

Han Li's eyebrows twitched, and without a word, he picked up the jade box, held it in front of his eyes, and examined it carefully.

Only then did he see clearly that this was actually a bubble-like existence, with strange golden light flashing on the surface, while the middle was transparent and empty. However, there was no spiritual qi on it at all, as if it were an ordinary object.

After examining it for a long time, Han Li stretched out a finger, blue light flashed, wrapped in a layer of blue light, and poked it lightly on the surface. Immediately, this finger sank deep inside!

It was soft and gentle, as if it were truly a bubble-like existence.

A look of surprise appeared on Han Li's face. After thinking about it, he released his spiritual sense again and wrapped it around it.

As a result, the bubble flashed a few times and pushed his spiritual sense to the side.

However, this time, without thinking, Han Li increased the strength of his spiritual sense, and strands of spiritual sense wrapped around this object.

Immediately, a strange scene appeared.

He saw the golden light on the surface of the bubble in the box flashing non-stop, but its volume began to expand and contract, not by much, like a strong, beating heart.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 903 =====