Wang Yu
Chapter 379 Imprisonment
"Oh, Fellow Daoist Long Wu, feel free to speak. If there are any other conditions, you can bring them up as well, and I will try my best to satisfy them," Jiao San said in a deep voice.
"Fellow Daoist Jiao San, rest assured, I am not going to make any other unreasonable demands. It's just that refining a completely unfamiliar pill requires a lot of materials for practice, no matter how high the level of alchemy is. I believe you should understand this," Han Li said slowly.
"You don't have to worry about the materials at all. I've already considered this matter. Here are thirty portions of materials. You just need to try your best to explore," Jiao San said with a relieved expression, flipping his hand to take out a storage ring and handing it over.
"It seems I was overthinking it," Han Li said with a slight smile, taking the ring and putting it away without even looking at it.
Divine sense cannot leave the body here, so it is inconvenient to explore, but it should be fine.
In addition, he had a new understanding of the wealth and generosity of the Reincarnation Palace. After all, the materials for refining Xuyuan Pill may not be as rare and hard to find as the previous Dao Pills, but they are by no means ordinary products. Thirty portions of them would be a considerable amount of immortal essence stones.
"As the saying goes, spiritual materials are easy to obtain, but alchemists are hard to find. You only need to consider how to refine it successfully within ten years. You don't need to worry about the materials. If these are not enough, I will find a way to gather them for you," Jiao San smiled and then asked with a solemn expression.
"Ten years... To be honest, ten years is too short, and I really don't have much confidence," Han Li said with a slight change in expression, looking a little embarrassed.
"Fifteen years at most. This matter is of great importance, so please put your heart into it. After it is done, the Reincarnation Palace will not treat you unfairly," Jiao San waved his hand and said with a solemn expression.
"Since Fellow Daoist has said so, I will definitely do my best. But as the saying goes, man proposes, God disposes. After all, I have only become a Dao Pill Master recently, so you should make other plans early," Han Li said after a little deliberation.
Jiao San looked at Han Li without saying anything.
"Time is tight, so I won't delay any further. I'll take my leave first," Han Li said, cupping his hands in both hands.
"Fellow Daoist is leaving?" Jiao San suddenly asked.
"That's right. I will immediately return to my cave to study the pill formula. If there is anything I need, I will contact you again," Han Li nodded.
"There is no need for such trouble. There are alchemy rooms and pill furnaces here, so you can refine pills here with peace of mind. If there is anything you need, it will be convenient to send it to you," Jiao San waved his hand.
"I'm afraid that's not appropriate. I'm more used to refining pills in my own cave," Han Li frowned upon hearing this.
"To be honest, the Black Wind Sea area is not very safe now. If the pill success triggers a pill tribulation, you may not be able to retreat completely like before," Jiao San coughed and said meaningfully to Han Li.
"But..." Han Li still seemed a little hesitant.
But before he could finish speaking, Jiao San waved his hand and said coldly:
"If you have no other questions, I will take you to the alchemy room now. I believe you will be satisfied."
Han Li had no choice but to nod helplessly.
"Good! Please follow me, Fellow Daoist," Jiao San said, turning around and walking outside.
Han Li looked at Jiao San's back and smiled bitterly in his heart, then raised his foot and followed.
The two soon walked out of the cave. Jiao San directly summoned a flying car, carrying the two towards the edge of the mountain. After a while, they landed halfway up a peak that reached into the clouds.
This open space was quite large, but it was surrounded by lush ancient trees. Not far away, there was a waterfall rushing down, making a sound of splashing water. The environment was quite quiet.
A cave entrance was carved into the mountain wall in front of them. The gate was tightly closed, with a layer of aquamarine light attached to it. There were vaguely flowing runes on it, gently flickering, adding a bit of mystery and blessing to the place.
Jiao San did not say anything. He directly took a few steps forward, took out a cyan token, and shook it slightly towards the front. Suddenly, a cyan light shot out and disappeared into the stone gate in a flash.
The cyan light outside the stone gate quickly faded, and the gate slowly opened.
"Fellow Daoist Long Wu, for the time to come, you can refine pills here with peace of mind. No one will disturb you," Jiao San said to Han Li, turning around.
"Thank you for your trouble," Han Li nodded and stepped into the cave.
The next moment, his eyebrows twitched slightly. The restriction on divine sense in the outside space disappeared instantly, and divine sense could now be freely emitted.
However, it could only be within the scope of the cave, and could not spread out at all.
At a glance, the entire cave was not large, but it had everything: an alchemy room, a secret room, and a medicine garden. It was also very clean, spotless.
"This cave is not bad," Han Li retracted his gaze and said to Jiao San, turning around.
"It's good that Fellow Daoist is satisfied. You can contact me at any time if you need anything. This matter is entrusted to you," Jiao San said, then turned around and left the cave.
As soon as he stepped out of the cave, the gate closed directly.
Han Li scanned the gate several times, then sighed lightly.
It seemed that he was being held under house arrest by the other party.
In the time to come, he walked around the cave, while moving his fingers continuously.
Streams of various colors of light shot out. They were all formation flags and formation plates, scattered in an orderly manner throughout the cave. From time to time, layers of light curtains of different colors flashed past.
Half an hour later, Han Li came to a secret room in the cave and sat down cross-legged.
He first took off the cyan mask on his face, then took out the crimson lion-head mask and put it on his head, urging a magic formula.
The surface of the mask flashed with crimson light, then emitted a gentle wave, which quickly spread to all parts of the body.
Han Li's heart stirred.
Just now, he felt that his whole body's aura had been perfectly concealed. Compared with the previous cyan mask, the restriction on this crimson mask was more exquisite.
Most importantly, the special divine sense fluctuation in his mind due to practicing the Refining God Art was also covered up by this wave.
"It seems that Jiao San did not lie. This Reincarnation Palace really has some heritage," Han Li muttered to himself, feeling relieved.
Since coming to the Immortal World, every time he came into close contact with others, especially those with higher cultivation bases than him, he had been a little apprehensive, trying his best to control his divine sense fluctuations to avoid being discovered by others that he had practiced the Refining God Art. Fortunately, until now, he had not encountered any existence similar to the inspector.
Now that he had this crimson mask, even if he encountered an inspector who had practiced special surveillance secret techniques, he should be able to hide it from the sea. He just didn't know if he could hide it from the higher-level surveillance immortal envoy.
Han Li's eyes flickered a few times before he shook his head slowly. He pinched a magic formula in his hand, and a layer of red light suddenly appeared on the crimson mask, condensing into a red mission interface shadow in front of him.
He pinched magic formulas in his hand repeatedly, and successively released several missions, all of which were to find the other materials needed for the Golden Soul Pill.
After doing these things, he waved his hand to disperse the crimson light in front of him, and flipped his hand to take out the gray jade slip recording the fourth level of the Refining God Art.
Although the alchemy mission had a time limit of fifteen years, he did not intend to start it immediately.
Fifteen years was indeed very tight for other alchemists, which was why he had tried his best to appear very embarrassed in front of Jiao San before, but for him, it was naturally not a big problem.
Due to the crystal wall incident, only a few clusters of time runes on the Mantra Treasure Wheel had been restored so far, but as long as he restored more than ten clusters in the future, reaching the level of eighteen clusters, he could meet his requirements for precise control of the key process of alchemy.
And this pill, which was similar to the Dao Pill in terms of refining materials, was much simpler to refine than the previous Time Dao Pill. With the Mantra Treasure Wheel as a trump card and sufficient materials for practice, he could naturally rest easy.
So, for him now, naturally, it was most important to first cultivate the Refining God Art and solve the hidden dangers of his divine sense.
With this thought in mind, Han Li released his divine sense into the jade slip and carefully checked the fourth level of the Refining God Art again, then sat down cross-legged and slowly practiced according to the fourth level's formula.
At this moment, Jiao San was walking slowly in a black passage that was an unknown number of miles away from Han Li's location, with flickering eyes, wondering what he was thinking.
This passage was not too long, and soon it reached the end. A three-zhang-high black stone gate appeared in front of him.
Jiao San waved his hand and cast a magic formula. The black stone gate slowly opened, revealing a spacious hall.
In the center of the hall stood a figure wearing a black cloak.
On the cuffs of the cloak was embroidered a cross pattern, emitting a faint black light.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the cloaked figure turned around. It was a middle-aged man, but this person's originally ordinary face had an extremely long and deep scar, running from the left corner of his forehead along his forehead, piercing his right eye, and then cutting into his lower cheek, making him look somewhat hideous and terrifying.
"What are you doing here?" Jiao San asked in a cold voice.
"I'm here naturally to find you. Don't worry, no one can detect my whereabouts," the scarred man waved his hand and said.
"Is there any progress?" Jiao San asked with a change in expression.
"As you expected, it is indeed under the Red Moon Island. However, due to the Black Wind Island, our people cannot approach for a while," the scarred man said slowly.
"Black Wind Island? Can those people stop us?" Jiao San's voice sank slightly.
"What if there are Golden Immortal cultivators among the people on Black Wind Island?" the scarred man said with a chuckle.
"Could it be..." A sharp light flashed in Jiao San's eyes.
"Based on what I know so far, it should be as you think," the scarred man nodded.
"I don't care what means you use, you must find out all the information about Red Moon Island before the Xuyuan Pill is refined," Jiao San said with a sinking gaze, extremely firmly.
"Even if you don't say it, I will do so. I came here mainly to confirm one thing. I heard that you plan to entrust the task of refining the Xuyuan Pill to a newcomer who has just joined the Reincarnation Palace?" the scarred man suddenly changed the subject and asked expressionlessly.