Chapter 926

An hour later, when the palace-dressed girl walked out of the Earth Fire Hall with graceful bearing, those men and women who came with her had been waiting outside the hall for a while. Net

Those three disciples of the Artifact Refining Hall were also honestly accompanying them to one side. These men and women were all of extraordinary background; they were truly not people that low-tier cultivators like them dared to neglect in the slightest.

Seeing the girl walk out gracefully, those young men immediately swarmed over.

"Princess, how is it?"

"The Blood Silk Silver wasn't ruined by that guy, was it?"

These people asked with great enthusiasm.

"It's fine, thank you all for your concern. Martial Brother Han has already refined the materials for me, and there were no mistakes in the process." The girl brushed a strand of green silk from her forehead and smiled gracefully, no longer having the image of the wild girl she had when she was with Han Li.

Han Li, who was also walking out of the Earth Fire Hall, saw this scene and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

"Hehe! Han kid, you are truly cunning, actually managing to trick the origin of the Black Phoenix feather out of such a little girl. Why, do you really want to go there and target the Black Phoenix of that Island Master?"

"Of course. Since I know a way to strengthen the power of the Three Flames Fan, I naturally have to try my best. If I spent so much rare material and effort, and the power is still not satisfactory, wouldn't it be a waste of effort? After all, ordinary ancient treasures don't have much power against middle or late Nascent Soul cultivators. Let's go, I'll just stay in the secret chamber for the few days they stay in the Imperial Clarity Temple. It saves me from being harassed by these guys and delaying my own cultivation." Han Li said indifferently, then slipped out of the Earth Fire Hall silently and headed toward his residence.

In the following two days, the palace-dressed girl came to find Han Li secretly once more, wanting him to refine something else. But Han Li had long since hung up a sign saying he was in seclusion for cultivation and opened a simple barrier at the entrance, making the girl pout and circle around his residence before having to leave in disappointment.

After two days passed, these young men and women finally left the Imperial Clarity Temple with that beautiful woman, and the Artifact Refining Hall returned to normal.

Apart from occasionally coming out to refine materials and completing his monthly tasks on time, Han Li spent all his time focusing on cultivating the Bright King Art.

Time passed month by month, and because Han Li could complete his refining tasks on time every time, Elder Wei valued him more and more. In the middle, he even set aside time to explain some special techniques for material refining to Han Li. Then, he gradually handed over some rare materials to Han Li for refining.

Seeing this, Han Li still completed these tasks on time every month without changing his expression, not delaying even once. This made Elder Wei somewhat surprised, and he finally recognized Han Li's talent in artifact refining, naturally teaching Han Li more things from time to time.

At the same time, he began to hand over the less important parts of the materials needed for the things he was refining to Han Li for processing.

As a result, not long after, Han Li was surprised to find that everything handed to him for refining was rare earth-attribute materials. This made him feel somewhat stunned in his heart!

After all, apart from a few types of treasures that only pursue victory by force, there are rarely any magic tools or magic treasures that are entirely refined from earth-attribute materials.

However, all of this had nothing to do with him. He still followed his original plan, cultivating the second layer of the Bright King Art bit by bit, and faintly felt the astonishing changes in his body. Just at this moment, the Gan family outside the mountain suddenly sent someone to deliver a message to him. It was said that the Confucian scholar surnamed Yan who sent him into the mountain had suddenly fallen ill and had passed away due to the illness.

"A serious illness? When I examined his body that day, there were no hidden illnesses." When Han Li received this news, he muttered to himself with great surprise. At the same time, he associated it with the fact that strange cultivators had appeared many times in the Imperial Clarity Temple recently, using their spiritual sense to quietly scan the situation in the temple, faintly appearing as if a storm was about to come.

"I must not stay here for long, otherwise I don't know what kind of big trouble I will be dragged into." Relying on his rich experience, Han Li immediately made this decision.

Immediately, in the remaining time, Han Li became even more focused on cultivating the Bright King Art.

More than a year later, a small matter occurred in the Imperial Clarity Temple; an outer-temple disciple at the Qi Condensation stage suddenly disappeared from the temple for no reason. This immediately alarmed the high-tier cultivators in the temple, and even the old Daoist nun at the Nascent Soul stage personally inquired about it after hearing the news.

The disappearance of such a low-tier disciple, relative to the thousands of disciples in the temple, was originally a trivial matter. But it just so happened that this disciple was a disciple in the Artifact Refining Hall who could provide some assistance for the things the temple was currently refining.

It was no wonder that it alarmed so many high-level members of the Imperial Clarity Temple.

Now, in the pavilion where the old Daoist nun had once discussed with the beautiful woman surnamed Yu, the old Daoist nun was sitting on a grand armchair in the middle, and standing beside her were two other Daoist nuns in yellow robes. One was about forty years old, and the other was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

"What's going on? Our Imperial Clarity Temple has layers of barriers, yet a disciple has disappeared into thin air without anyone knowing. Do you two have nothing to say?" The old Daoist nun asked coldly with a gloomy expression.

"Reporting to Martial Uncle, I have already investigated all the barriers in the temple, and the result is that they are all intact, without any signs of invasion by external enemies. It seems that either the person who came was a master of arrays, or that disciple left on his own." The middle-aged Daoist nun hesitated for a moment and replied respectfully.

"A master of arrays. Our Imperial Clarity Temple's protective array, even if those array masters of the Great Jin came here, could not be broken from the outside overnight. However, if he left from the inside, it wouldn't be a difficult thing. What is that disciple's name, and what is his background?" After the old Daoist nun frowned, she remembered something and asked.

"This disciple's name is Han Li, and he was brought back to the temple by Martial Nephew Lady Hualian two years ago from the White Dew Academy, where he was about to become an apprentice to a rogue cultivator?" The young Daoist nun seemed to have inquired about relevant news and replied hurriedly.

"Han Li? Why is this name exactly the same as the name of the elder newly recruited by the Ye family." The old Daoist nun was suddenly stunned and said in surprise.

"Yes. When I just heard this disciple's name, I was also stunned for a moment. But the two are mostly a coincidence! After all, one is at the Nascent Soul stage, and one is at the Qi Condensation stage; it's unlikely they could be related." The young Daoist nun analyzed.

"Coincidence? Although there are many coincidences in this world. But it just so happens that at the critical moment when we are refining that thing, someone has disappeared. And the person who disappeared happens to have the same name and surname as the elder newly joined in the family. Regardless of whether it is a coincidence, this matter must be investigated clearly. Send someone to send a letter to the capital, ask the 'Elder Han' in the family if there is any unknown connection between him and this Han Li? In addition, call that girl Lady Hualian over first; I want to personally ask about the process of this disciple being brought back to our temple. See if the White Dew Academy has set any trap for us. Also, the progress of the Artifact Refining Hall must not stop for a moment; the things we are responsible for refining must be completed within three years, so as not to delay the important matter." The old Daoist nun said expressionlessly, issuing one order after another.

"Yes, Martial Uncle!"

"Obey!"

The other two replied repeatedly, then took their leave and went down to arrange these matters.

After the old Daoist nun saw the two leave the pavilion, she let out a long sigh, leaned back, and slowly closed her eyes.

Three months later, in the largest Taixing market in Yizhou, a young man bought a piece of unknown ore that had been placed in a shop in the market for nearly a hundred years without anyone asking about it, at a high price of ten thousand spirit stones.

Five months later, at the famous Fanchuan Trade Fair in Fan County, a masked cultivator auctioned off three pieces of Fire Tin Wood at a high price of 150,000 spirit stones.

Half a year later, in Kai Long Prefecture of Fengzhou, a theft occurred in a medium-sized sect called the Ming Sword Sect, and a spirit horn of an Iron Horned Rhino collected in the sect suddenly disappeared.

Eight months later, in the Zongping family, the number one family in Qu County, a middle-aged man at the middle Nascent Soul stage with an extremely ugly face suddenly came to the door, wanting to exchange a thousand-year spirit herb and a seventh-level demon beast spirit pill for the Five-Light Wood collected by his family. As a result, the head of the Zongping family refused and invited the two Nascent Soul elders of the family to join hands to deal with this person. As a result, they were easily turned into two blocks of giant ice by this middle-aged Nascent Soul cultivator with great divine abilities.

The head of the Zong family was greatly astonished, and having no choice, he had to endure the pain and hand over the Five-Light Wood. As a result, the ugly man took the wood, laughed wildly a few times, threw down a spirit herb and a demon pill, and left. The two elders of the Zong family spent a lot of effort to be rescued from the ice, and although there was no danger to their lives, their vitality was greatly damaged.

Nine months later...

In just over a year, the traces of the young man, the masked cultivator, and the ugly man appeared frequently in the southern part of the Great Jin. They searched everywhere for all kinds of rare materials, among which the young man specialized in buying those strange materials that no one knew about. The masked cultivator repeatedly made big moves in the auction house, as if the spirit stones in his hands were inexhaustible.

The ugly man did not be polite and went to the heads of families and some small sects everywhere, forcibly exchanging spirit medicine and demon pills for all kinds of rare treasures they collected.

Of course, there were also some medium and large sects where certain things in the sect's treasury mysteriously disappeared overnight.

The first two were fine; apart from a few interested people, no one noticed anything about the young man and the masked cultivator.

The subsequent forced buying and exchanging by the masked man and the frequent treasury thefts in various cultivation sects immediately shocked the entire southern cultivation world of the Great Jin.

Not only were the various cultivation sects that had been stolen from furious and sent their disciples to search everywhere for this mysterious thief with great divine abilities, but the cultivation sects that supported the families that had their treasures forcibly bought by the ugly man were also extremely annoyed and sent people to search everywhere for this bold and ugly man.

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