Wang Yu
Chapter 1244 Layer Upon Layer of Maze
"We're coming back fully loaded! Who would have thought there'd be so many treasures in Guilingzi's cave dwelling!" Xiao Bai waved her fist, her face full of excitement.
A hint of excitement also flashed in Lan Yan's eyes, but she quickly suppressed it, took out a storage artifact, presented it to Han Li with both hands, and said softly, "Fellow Daoist Han, this is what I found after searching three rooms."
"Take one-tenth of it as your reward," Han Li said calmly, without taking the storage artifact.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Han." A trace of excitement also flashed in Lan Yan's eyes upon hearing this.
The things in the storage artifact were invaluable. Even one-tenth of them would be a huge fortune for her, something she wouldn't have dared to imagine in the past.
"As for you, Xiao Bai..." Han Li looked at Xiao Bai.
"Master, I found these things! You can't have any ideas about them!" Xiao Bai covered the storage bracelet on her wrist.
"I know, but I need Immortal Essence Stones recently. You take half of those things, and give me the other half," Han Li said with a wry smile.
Xiao Bai cheered, flipped her hand, and took out another storage artifact, starting to move things inside.
"Master, there's something I want to ask you to help with," Ti Hun suddenly said.
"What is it?" Han Li asked.
"Master, come with me." Ti Hun said, turning and walking towards the black crystal coffin in the center of the stone chamber's formation.
Han Li then remembered the crystal coffin and walked over.
He had been so focused on finding Jin Tong and searching for treasures in the various rooms that he had forgotten about it for a while.
He looked into the coffin, and his expression changed slightly.
A white skeleton lay in the crystal coffin, covered in pitch-black runes. It looked very strange. In particular, two spots of blood-colored flames flickered within the skeleton's two dark eye sockets, emitting circles of bloody light.
The entire skeleton exuded an extremely evil aura, as if it were the embodiment of all the evil in the world.
The evil clone that Han Li had suppressed within him stirred, as if it had been triggered. He quickly averted his gaze, and only then did he return to normal.
"What a strange skeleton. Do you recognize it?" Han Li asked after calming himself down.
"If I'm not mistaken, this skeleton should be the Skeleton of Myriad Evils. It's made by collecting the bodies of ten thousand people in the world who are inherently evil and have committed every evil deed, and using their bodies and souls to refine it with secret techniques. It's of great help in severing an Evil Clone," Ti Hun said excitedly.
"There's actually something like this," Han Li said, raising his eyebrows at the sight.
"Master, this thing is very useful to us. With this Skeleton of Myriad Evils, it will be much easier for you, me, Xiao Bai, and Jin Tong to sever our Evil Clones. It's just that this crystal coffin is fixed in this place. If you want to take the Skeleton of Myriad Evils away safely without harming it, you need to break the surrounding formation. This formation is very powerful, and I need your help to break it," Ti Hun said.
"No problem. Just cast your spell to collect this thing, and I will help you break the formation," Han Li said, nodding his head.
"Then I'll trouble you, Master. With the Dutian Divine Lightning, it shouldn't be difficult to break this formation," Ti Hun said with joy, and then immediately began to cast her spell.
Streams of dense black Qi spewed out from her body and merged into the ground formation.
The formation's patterns were stimulated and immediately emerged with bright light, and began to operate rapidly with a buzzing sound.
Eight black chains suddenly appeared near the crystal coffin, connecting it to the formation on the ground below, firmly locking the crystal coffin in place. Each chain exuded an astonishingly cold aura.
Ti Hun opened her mouth and spat out a ball of white light, which split into eight and merged into the eight black chains.
The eight black chains immediately turned half-black and half-white, and the cold aura they emitted was greatly reduced.
Not only that, a layer of separation appeared between the crystal coffin and the eight chains, separating the two.
"Master, now! Cut the chains!" Ti Hun shouted.
Upon hearing this, Han Li expressionlessly flicked his fingers, and eight golden lights shot out from his hands, which were the Eight Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, slashing at the eight chains.
Bang bang bang!
The eight chains shattered with a bang, and the black crystal coffin suddenly burst forth with dazzling black light, shooting up from the ground.
Seeing this scene, Ti Hun was overjoyed. She grabbed out with her jade hand, and a huge black palm emerged out of thin air, grabbing the black crystal coffin in her hand.
At the same time, she waved her other hand, and a dark red three-legged small cauldron emerged, which was the Yama Cauldron that Han Li had given her earlier.
A piece of dark red light shot out from the Yama Cauldron, wrapping around the black crystal coffin. With a flash of light, the black crystal coffin disappeared without a trace and was collected into the Yama Cauldron's space.
"Thank you for your help, Master," Ti Hun said, her face relaxing, and then she thanked Han Li.
"It was just a small effort, and this thing is also useful to me, so there's no need to thank me," Han Li said lightly.
At this moment, Xiao Bai and Lan Yan also flew over and handed the two storage artifacts to Han Li.
After Han Li took them, he probed them with his divine sense, and a trace of joy appeared on his face.
The treasures in these two storage artifacts were mostly spiritual herbs and demonic beast materials, and there were a great number of them, but unfortunately there were no Immortal Essence Stones that Han Li wanted most.
This was normal. Immortal Essence Stones, which are light and portable, would definitely be carried with them. What would be placed in the cave dwelling would only be some things that are not usually used, but would take up a lot of storage space.
Guilingzi's real treasures should all be in his storage artifact.
However, he didn't care. If he sold these things he got, he could exchange them for seventy or eighty million Immortal Essence Stones.
"We've already been delayed for a while, let's go, let's chase after Qu Lin," Han Li said, and turned back towards the way he came.
Ti Hun and others immediately followed, and the group quickly returned to the previously collapsed stone chamber.
The return passage was blocked by collapsed boulders. Several people cast spells to move the boulders away, and chased along the road, quickly reaching a fork in the road.
Han Li immediately used the Nine Serenities Devil Eyes to probe the spiritual force traces in this place, and his brows suddenly furrowed.
There were few spiritual force traces here, and they were all left by him, Lan Yan, and Qu Lin when they passed through this place before. However, Qu Lin's traces of turning back were completely invisible. He didn't know what method he used to hide his tracks, and his technique was so clever.
Moreover, Qu Lin had previously led them into this trap, and Ti Hun had not been able to detect his evil intentions. It could be seen that he was hiding quite deeply.
Han Li snorted coldly in his heart, and somewhat unwillingly fully operated the Nine Serenities Devil Eyes, wanting to see if Qu Lin's concealment technique was more powerful, or if his Nine Serenities Devil Eyes were more exquisite.
A faint purple-black light flashed in his eyes, vaguely forming two whirlpools, looking towards the passage ahead.
After a moment, joy appeared on Han Li's face, because his Nine Serenities Devil Eyes had finally captured a trace of extremely faint golden light in the passage, extending towards a passage.
These golden lights were scattered and extremely faint. If his Nine Serenities Devil Eyes were not close to perfection, it would be extremely difficult to discover them.
"Master, can you find Qu Lin's tracks?" Ti Hun asked.
"That's right, follow me." Han Li nodded and led Ti Hun and others to track along the golden light traces.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a day had passed, and Han Li and others were still in the underground passage.
These underground passages were densely packed like spider webs, extending in all directions, and they didn't know where they extended to.
At this moment, there was no longer a trace of cold aura in the underground space where they were located. Obviously, they had long been far away from the Ghost Valley range, but there was no sign of reaching the end ahead.
Along the way, some restrictions and obstacles had also appeared in these passages, but they were not very powerful, and many of them had been destroyed, and did not block Han Li and others.
"Lan Yan, do you know why there are such long underground passages here? Do they have any special function?" Han Li asked Lan Yan.
"My status in the Nine Yuan Temple was not high before. I have only been here a few times in the inner temple, let alone know the secrets of the inner temple here," Lan Yan said with a wry smile.
Han Li hmm'ed and didn't ask any more questions, continuing forward.
After flying forward for a moment, golden lights suddenly appeared in the area that could be seen in front of the passage, interwoven in a chaotic manner.
The golden light contained fluctuations of the Laws of Gold, and an aura of grandeur like a mountain was transmitted.
Han Li's eyes flashed and he stopped.
"Is it finally the end?" Ti Hun and others also stopped their escape light and stood behind Han Li.
"I don't know if it's the end, but since there's a change ahead, we can't be careless. You guys should continue to hide in the Flower Branch Space to prepare for the unexpected. I will cast a spell to project the outside situation into the Flower Branch Space, so don't worry," Han Li said with a solemn expression, and waved his hand to open the entrance to the Flower Branch Space.
"Okay, then Master, be careful." Ti Hun said and flew into the Flower Branch Space.
Lan Yan followed closely behind, but Xiao Bai was a little unwilling. After looking at Han Li, she had no choice but to fly into the Flower Branch Space.
After taking in the three people, Han Li activated the black mask to hide his figure, and lurked forward, quickly reaching the end of this passage.
The end turned out to be a golden wall, cast from a golden mineral, and the golden lights were emitted from the wall.
As he got closer, he could clearly feel the strong Laws of Gold emanating from the wall.
"This is Heavenly Extinction Golden Rock!" Han Li's eyes lit up.
Heavenly Extinction Golden Rock is a Law of Gold material. Although it is not as good as Heavenly Gold Diamond, it is also a very precious thing. Who would have thought that there would be so much here? If they were all taken out and sold, it would be a considerable value.
He then smiled and shook his head. Recently, he had been thinking of earning Immortal Essence Stones so frantically that he wanted to take everything he saw and sell it. It was not good to be too greedy.
Han Li shook his head, calmed his mind, and looked again at a corner of the golden stone wall in front.
There, a cave about a foot wide had been broken open, extending forward, and it looked like it had been bitten out.
The cave was winding, and he could only vaguely see the light passing through from the other side, indicating that there was something else on the other side of the wall.
The wall was covered with restrictions. As soon as his divine sense approached, it was unceremoniously bounced away by an invisible force, and he could not probe the situation inside.
Mortal's Journey: Immortal World