Wang Yu
Chapter 38: A Glimmer of Hope Amidst Despair
Strands of silver smoke immediately flew out from the orb, circling slightly around his forehead before disappearing into it.
Upon closer inspection, these silver fumes were actually countless tiny characters, smaller than mosquitoes or flies. They were the secret manuals and techniques that the Jia Yuan Puppet had spied on in the Scripture Pavilion, the accumulation of the entire Leng Yan Sect over the years.
Even with Han Li's powerful spiritual force, it was impossible to absorb all of this information at once.
However, he was not in a hurry, he had plenty of time to study it slowly.
Time passed slowly, and Han Li remained motionless, sitting there for three days and three nights.
It wasn't until the morning of the fourth day that he slowly opened his eyes, his brow slightly furrowed.
Although some of these classics were quite ingenious, and some of their imaginative ideas made him admire them, none of them were of any use to him now.
Han Li shook his head, put away the black orb, and with a flick of his sleeve, three or forty jade slips appeared on the ground, the ones that the Jia Yuan Puppet had taken at the last moment.
He slowly swept his gaze over these jade slips, his expression somewhat complicated, hoping to find something useful to him among them.
Thinking this, Han Li picked up a jade slip and gradually probed his spiritual sense into it.
Another full day passed in this way.
When Han Li's spiritual sense withdrew from the last jade slip, he revealed a undisguised look of disappointment in his eyes.
Most of the three or forty jade slips contained records of profound and obscure cultivation methods, but still nothing that was useful to him now.
Han Li smiled bitterly. He had gone to so much trouble to obtain so many classics from the Leng Yan Sect, almost alarming the entire sect, but in the end, it was all for naught.
He shook his head, waved his sleeve, and prepared to destroy all these jade slips.
Although he had just checked them and there shouldn't be any tracking restrictions left on them, this Ling Huan World had strange things like innate Purple Qi, and there was no guarantee that there wouldn't be some methods that even he couldn't detect, so it was better to destroy them.
"Eh!" Han Li suddenly paused.
More than thirty jade slips turned into a pile of dust, but one seemingly ordinary light yellow jade slip remained intact.
After a moment of contemplation, he curiously picked up the jade slip and brought it close to his eyes for a careful examination.
Just now, a casual wave of his sleeve would have shattered even a piece of refined iron, yet this small jade slip was completely unharmed.
However, the jade slip was nothing special, just made of ordinary jade, and he had already read the contents recorded inside, just a body refining technique suitable for Void Refinement cultivators.
Han Li looked at the yellow jade slip and squeezed it slightly with his fingers.
A layer of starlight-like faint brilliance suddenly appeared on the surface of the yellow jade slip, resisting his strength.
His eyes lit up slightly, he stopped his hand, and the starlight immediately disappeared.
There was indeed something mysterious about this thing!
He could sense that the starlight was not a restriction used for tracking.
Han Li looked at the jade slip in his hand, his mind moved, and his spiritual sense probed into it again.
There was something mysterious about this thing, and the cultivation method recorded inside might be extraordinary, and he might not have noticed it before.
As a result, he carefully read the contents of the cultivation method from beginning to end three or four times, and even tried to practice it, but still didn't find anything hidden.
"Could it be that I'm overthinking it..."
Han Li muttered to himself, still unwilling to give up, a flash of crystal light appeared between his eyebrows, and a huge spiritual sense shot out, enveloping the jade slip, and carefully probed it inch by inch again.
At this moment, the starlight on the jade slip appeared again, emitting a devouring force, and actually swallowed his spiritual sense continuously.
Immediately afterwards, a point of golden light appeared on the surface of the jade slip.
Han Li was first taken aback, but then he was overjoyed, and did not withdraw his spiritual sense, letting the jade slip devour it.
As time passed, his face gradually turned horrified.
The jade slip was like a bottomless pit, it had already devoured nearly one-fifth of his spiritual power, and it still didn't seem satisfied, and that point of golden light had also become the size of a broad bean.
His spiritual sense was now damaged, and only about 10% of its peak strength remained, but due to the cultivation method he practiced, it was not inferior to ordinary immortals, yet this jade slip had devoured so much spiritual power.
Although he would inevitably have to spend a lot of time to recover afterwards, he only considered it for a moment, and then continued to let it devour.
A shocking scene appeared a moment later!
As the golden light on the jade slip became more and more, and filled the entire jade slip, it gradually formed a golden pattern of the Big Dipper.
At this time, the devouring force emitted by the jade slip also suddenly stopped.
Han Li breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the brand-new jade slip overjoyed, and his spiritual sense probed into it again, his eyes couldn't help but widen.
The content in the jade slip had also changed dramatically at this moment, the original countless yellow characters disappeared, and large golden characters appeared.
"This..." Han Li was stunned, and quickly began to read.
A full quarter of an hour passed before he raised his head, his eyes full of joy.
The golden characters in the jade slip recorded a body refining secret technique called "Minor Big Dipper Stellar Origin Art".
According to the information left by Leng Yan Ancestor, this cultivation method did not belong to the Ling Huan World, but was an authentic Immortal World cultivation method, which the ancestor specially found after ascending and passed down to the lower realm.
It is worth noting that this method does not rely on the spiritual power of heaven and earth for cultivation, but instead uses the power of condensed starlight to enter the body and temper the physical body.
The entire cultivation method is divided into seven levels. Each level completed can condense a profound aperture. Completing all seven levels can condense seven major profound apertures, train the true extreme body, and cultivate into the legendary Xuan Immortal.
His Nascent Soul has mutated and cannot use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for cultivation, but the power of starlight might be worth a try.
However, Leng Yan Ancestor specifically pointed out at the end that using the power of starlight to temper the body would cause immense pain from the starlight piercing the body at all times.
Moreover, this technique is not an orthodox technique. It can greatly strengthen the physical body, but it cannot be used to improve one's cultivation base. Those who do not want to put themselves in a desperate situation should not fantasize about practicing this technique. After cultivating it, they can only take the path of Xuan Immortal, which is far more difficult than ordinary immortals.
Most importantly, cultivating this technique not only requires a certain strong physical body as a foundation, but also requires a powerful spiritual sense to guide the power of starlight into the body. Therefore, those whose spiritual sense is not strong enough cannot cultivate this technique.
When Leng Yan Ancestor passed down this technique from the Immortal World, he set a special restriction on the jade slip. Only those with enough spiritual sense could break it and see the Minor Big Dipper Stellar Origin Art.
Han Li clenched the jade slip, his heart slightly excited, and he felt a sense of seeing the light after passing through darkness.
This Minor Big Dipper Stellar Origin Art seemed to be tailor-made for him. Although the jade slip said that it was extremely painful to cultivate, he did not hesitate at all.
But at this moment, the jade slip in his hand suddenly shattered and turned into a ball of dazzling golden light.
Seeing this, Han Li's pupils shrank and he looked up.
The golden light floated in the air, twisted slightly, and transformed into a golden figure, a burly middle-aged man with a square face and a slight stubble on his cheeks, giving off an air of uprightness.
Han Li was shocked. He had seen a portrait of this person in the sect, it was Leng Yan Ancestor!
"Good! Good! Good! My efforts have not been in vain. Someone has finally broken this restriction! Which peak are you a disciple of? What's your name?" Leng Yan Ancestor looked at Han Li and asked with a smile.
"I..." Han Li's mind raced, planning to muddle through first.
The person in front of him was clearly a clone transformed from the spiritual sense left by the ancestor, but it also gave him a lot of pressure, and his combat power was probably extraordinary.
"Eh!" Leng Yan Ancestor suddenly let out a soft sound, interrupting Han Li's words, and looked Han Li up and down, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and he asked:
"Why don't you have any aura of this sect's cultivation methods on your body? Could it be that you are not a direct disciple of the inner sect?" Leng Yan Ancestor's eyes turned colder and he asked.
"Reporting to Ancestor, I am a guest elder who recently joined the sect and have not had time to cultivate any of the sect's cultivation methods." Han Li frowned in his heart, but said quickly on the surface.
"Guest elder? How could an outer sect elder get the Minor Big Dipper Stellar Origin Art jade slip?" Leng Yan Ancestor asked coldly.
Han Li was speechless for a moment.
Leng Yan Ancestor's eyes turned and looked at Han Li's feet.
There was a pile of crystal powder there.
Seeing this, Han Li's face remained as usual, but he secretly cried out in his heart that it was terrible.