Wang Yu
Chapter 310 Two Flowers
He rapidly manipulated the spell gestures before him with both hands, beginning with interlocking the fingers inward, concluding with the hands joined together, and pointing two fingers like gripping a sword straight ahead, lunging forward sharply.
Behind him, the Treasure Wheel of Truth blazed with light, all one hundred and eight temporal runes illuminated simultaneously.
Golden light erupted from the palms of his hands, converging toward the tips of his joined fingers, and a slender golden crystal filament, as fine as a cow's hair or gnat's whisker, slowly formed, struggling to emerge from his fingertip.
After protruding about an inch, a soft "pop" sounded, and the crystal thread shattered, turning into golden light that dissipated into the air.
The golden light in Han Li's eyes flickered and slowly faded, and he looked at his blood-stained body, a wry smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.
This attempt was a slight step forward compared to years ago, but still fell short by the narrowest of margins, unable to condense a thread of the Law of Time, ultimately ending in failure.
"It seems that even directly consuming the Heaven-Reaching Creation Dew, hoping to comprehend the Law of Time, one of the three Supreme Laws, is exceptionally difficult. Now it seems that perhaps only by taking a Dao Pill will it be possible to succeed," Han Li muttered to himself after contemplating for a while, finally making a decision.
He could now better understand why Dao Pills were so highly regarded in the Immortal World.
It was like the difference between directly consuming a spiritual herb and taking a pill refined from that herb as the main ingredient.
Being able to maximize the comprehension of the power of the law contained in the spiritual material by the cultivator, its effect was naturally much more effective than directly consuming the spiritual material.
Fortunately, he was now quite wealthy and could relatively easily obtain spiritual materials containing the power of the Law of Time, otherwise he would not dare to easily try this path.
He sighed, took out a medicinal pill, and swallowed it, golden light reappearing on his body, enveloping his entire being.
More than ten days later.
Han Li left the secret chamber and walked slowly along the corridor within the cave dwelling, arriving at the spiritual herb field within the residence.
The medicinal field was lush and green, filled with spiritual energy, a scene of vibrant vitality everywhere.
On the ridges of the field, a giant ape puppet was holding a blue wooden bucket in its hand, constantly scooping out scoops of azure shimmering spiritual liquid and sprinkling it onto the field.
The method of preparing these spiritual liquids was learned by Han Li from the small booklet given to him by Hu Yan Dao Ren regarding the planting of Dao soldiers. He did not use it on that Dao soldier plant, but instead used it to water other spiritual herbs.
Han Li's gaze swept over the many spiritual herbs in the garden, and finally landed on a corner of the garden, his eyes lighting up.
The sprout originally sent out by the Mother Bean was gone, replaced by a giant golden plant that was already ten feet tall, looking quite extraordinary.
The trunk was earthen yellow, but the leaves were light gold.
The golden patterns on the leaves, shaped like creases, were extremely numerous, stacked upon one another, making it somewhat difficult to see clearly, and these golden patterns extended from the leaves to the main trunk and branches.
Beneath the dense golden foliage hung rows of green bean pods, each about the length of a finger, with protruding, full curves, indicating that round beans were growing inside.
Han Li was delighted and quickly stepped forward, circling the Dao soldier tree, feeling like a farmer reaping the harvest after a year of hard work, carefully counting the bean pods on the tree.
After counting a circle, he discovered that there were a total of seventy-five bean pods. If each bean pod contained seven beans, then it should produce more than five hundred beans. If after subsequent refining, barring any accidents, that would be five hundred Dao soldiers with considerable power.
However, these beans did not appear to be fully mature yet.
According to Hu Yan Dao Ren's insights, when the Dao soldier beans matured, the trunk would gradually wither, and the leaves would gradually fall, providing all the nutrients to the beans.
At that time, the bean pods would break open on their own, and the beans would burst out.
The Dao soldier tree in front of him, because the beans were not yet mature, could not sense any special aura on it, and he did not know whether the result of its mutation would be good or bad.
However, Han Li was not too worried. The mutation of this Dao soldier was likely due to him watering it with green liquid from the Small Bottle, and things related to the Small Bottle rarely turned out badly.
After watching for another half a moment, Han Li turned around, about to walk back, when the corner of his eye suddenly noticed that the top of the Dao soldier tree was still blooming with two yellow flowers, as if there were still bean pods to form.
He stopped and looked at them, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes. He flipped his hand over and took out the small booklet that Hu Yan Dao Ren had given him, turning to a certain page and carefully examining it.
After a while, he put the booklet away again and raised his head, wondering:
"It's clearly stated above that the Mother Bean, used to propagate Dao soldiers, has a longer flowering period, often later than ordinary beans maturing, but there is usually only one Mother Bean... Why are there two flowers here... Could this also be caused by mutation?"
If that was the case, it would naturally be a good thing. In this way, the speed at which it propagated and cultivated Dao soldiers should be increased a lot, but to be on the safe side, he should still consult the old Daoist Hu Yan later.
Thinking this, he turned and walked towards the other side.
In this spiritual field area, there were spiritual herbs of various shapes, not many in number, and only a few types, but each exuded its own unique aura.
These spiritual herbs were none other than the spiritual herbs needed for refining Dao Pills that Han Li had spent many years searching for. Since their original ages were different when he obtained them, their growth varied after these years of continuous nurturing.
Among them, the dozens of blue plants resembling ice crystals were the oldest. They were shaped like orchids, and their leaves were transparent and glowing, exactly the strange plants he had collected in the Fushan Secret Realm.
He originally did not know what they were, but after many comparisons, he discovered that they were the Youwu Grass mentioned in the Dao Pill formula.
Moreover, since this thing had always grown in the depths of the desolate Fushan Secret Realm, several of them had reached an age of over 100,000 years, already meeting the age required for Dao Pill refining.
Not far from the Youwu Grass, a small formation shrouded an area where a dozen seedlings were growing, looking like they had just sprouted.
This herb was called "Rusha Sunflower" and was also a spiritual herb recorded in the Dao Pill formula, brought back by Meng Yungui more than a hundred years ago.
The above-ground part of this spiritual herb grows extremely slowly, but the underground root system grows exceptionally vigorously. If it were not shrouded by a formation, it would probably have covered the entire spiritual herb field long ago, preventing other spiritual herbs from growing.
Besides the main ingredients, collecting the other auxiliary materials for the Dao Pill formula was not easy. It was a stroke of luck and good fortune for Meng Yungui to have such a harvest. Even on the way back, he was coveted and robbed, almost losing his life. Fortunately, he had the secret treasure given to him by Han Li to protect him, and he was able to return safely.
After receiving a reward from Han Li and cultivating quietly on Crimson Cloud Peak for more than ten years, he once again embarked on the road to find spiritual herbs.
Speaking of which, besides Meng Yungui, in these two hundred years or so, Meng Qianqian and Sun Bu Zheng had also returned once each, but Han Li was in the critical period of impacting the Immortal Apertures at that time, so he did not see the two of them.
Meng Qianqian stayed on the peak for a slightly longer time, partly because she wanted to wait and see if Han Li would leave seclusion in the near future, and partly because Nian Yu and the Two-Headed Lion-Eagle Beast were having a great time after reuniting after a long separation and were unwilling to leave.
Neither Sun Bu Zheng nor Meng Qianqian had the opportunity that Meng Yungui had. They only found some spiritual herb seedlings and seeds mentioned in the Earth-Rank pill formula and failed to collect the spiritual herbs needed to refine Dao Pills.
Han Li was not surprised by this. So far, he had only collected a few Dao Pill spiritual herbs, including the Tu Ling Flower Stamens, and his collection task posted in the Nameless Alliance had been raised again and again in rewards, but still no one inquired about it.
After staying in place for a moment, he turned and walked out of the spiritual herb field, and soon came to the front of another secret chamber.
Standing outside the stone gate, Han Li raised his palm and wiped it across the void.
A piece of rune immediately lit up on the stone gate, and then in a burst of "rumbling" sound, it slid to the side, revealing a wide doorway as tall as a person.
Inside the doorway shone a piece of purple-gold light, and there were constant "crackling" sounds inside.
In the secret chamber, the formation runes still flickered with hazy light, but the eight golden Lightning Restraining Woods standing around looked somewhat dim, as if they had lost too much lightning power and were somewhat lacking in spiritual power.
In the center of the formation, the Immortal Puppet wearing a yellow robe was sitting cross-legged at the moment, with purple electric arcs jumping around its body, especially at the chest, where electric light was dense, shining brightly.
Seeing this, Han Li frowned slightly.
The depression at the very center of the lightning formation was empty, and the purple round crystal ball originally embedded in it was gone.
"Crab Daoist," Han Li immediately transmitted his divine sense to Crab Daoist.
The yellow-robed man just sat cross-legged, his eyes tightly closed, without the slightest reaction.
Han Li pondered slightly, but did not do anything, but stood in place and waited quietly.
After a while, the ball of electricity lingering around the yellow-robed man's chest sizzled and contracted towards the center, and soon completely disappeared, vanishing without a trace.
At the same time, all the purple electric arcs shrouded in the formation also disappeared, the spiritual lines on the Lightning Restraining Wood gradually dimmed, and the entire formation stopped running, completely quiet.
A golden light lit up from the chest of the yellow-robed man, and a palm-sized golden crab slowly crawled out from it, all the metal limbs shrinking at the same time, and then suddenly leaping towards Han Li.
Seeing this, Han Li spread out a palm and caught it in his hand.
"How is it?" Han Li held the golden crab in front of his eyes and asked.
Compared with before, Crab Daoist's aura was much more stable at this time. On the eight thin limbs, there were extremely slender purple lines, almost invisible if you did not look closely.