Several years later.

North of Gu Yun Continent, on a vast, icy sea, the阴 wind howled and snow flew wildly.

The violent wind howled, making eardrums ache, and the肆意 flying snow swallowed the entire world.

In the low, lead-gray clouds, a figure stood suspended, tall and dressed in a green robe, with a green bull-headed mask on his face. It was Han Li.

"This should be the place..." Han Li muttered to himself, but his voice was drowned out by the wind and snow.

With a wave of his palm, a streak of green light shot out, transforming into a green longsword that plunged straight down, flying towards the ice on the sea surface.

As soon as the flying sword flew out, Han Li's figure followed closely behind, plummeting down.

A sharp "铮" sound rang out.

The green longsword pierced the ice surface, easily breaking a hole, and then plunged into the water.

Han Li's figure flashed and leaped into the sea.

Over the entire sea area, the "咔咔" sound, which even the wind and snow could not cover, continued to echo, and a huge crack spanning thousands of miles appeared on the sea surface, which had been frozen for who knows how many years, and continued to spread.

Han Li, after entering the water, cast a water-repelling spell and, along with the longsword in front, rushed towards the seabed under the protection of a layer of light blue罩.

After about a quarter of an hour, his figure stopped and landed next to a volcano deep on the seabed. His青色 flying sword was stuck in the seabed rocks in front, flashing with blue light.

The volcano in front of him was gray and did not emit any scorching heat. It might be a dormant volcano, or it might have been silent for who knows how many years without erupting.

Han Li stepped forward and pulled the green longsword out of the ground with a "铮" sound.

The sword's edge brought up a streak of green light, shattering some of the rocks next to the volcano, revealing a faint golden luster from within.

Han Li lowered his head and glanced, then shook the longsword in his hand. A wave of green light rippled out, and countless密密麻麻, tiny green sword shadows flew out, chopping all the rocks around the volcano open.

As a layer of stone skin wrapped around the rocks around the volcano peeled off, a somewhat dazzling golden light instantly illuminated the dark seabed.

All around the volcano were densely distributed oval golden balls, the size of fists, similar to兽卵.

This thing is called Jin Long Dan. It is a very special elixir for炼丹. It does not belong to the草木类, nor does it belong to the 骨兽类, nor does it belong to the矿石类, but is a combination of the three.

It was originally a type of seabed creature called Hai Long Dan. After its death, a layer of苔藓 would gradually grow on the outer layer of its remains, which would then be accidentally buried by火山熔浆 and evolve into Jin Long Dan after at least ten thousand years.

This medicine possesses the attributes of all three, so it is often used to harmonize various medicines and can be found in many丹方.

Han Li would not have taken on this ordinary collection task, but because he needed Jin Long Dan in the 地阶 pill he was about to refine, he simply took on this task from the Wuchang Alliance. He could earn a commission and use it for himself, which was a win-win situation.

Now, he not only had to accumulate the spiritual materials for refining pills, but also had to prepare for refining Dao pills. The amount of spirit stones and immortal essence stones he needed could no longer be described as astronomical, so he had to transform into a task maniac again, frantically taking on tasks in the Wuchang Alliance.

The current task was the fourth task he had completed in just a few months.

After completing the collection, he immediately flew up and headed towards the sea surface.

……

Ten years later.

In an unknown narrow valley, three or four figures wearing兽首 masks jumped down from the岩壁 on both sides of the canyon. They looked at the dying, ferocious异兽 lying in the valley and the tall figure standing beside it, and looked at each other in dismay.

None of them had expected that this task of killing a True Immortal early-stage妖兽 would be completed so easily.

Originally, on the way here, they looked down on this tall man who had been silent and unwilling to participate in their围捕 plan. However, they did not expect that after this person arrived, he immediately exploded with amazing combat power.

He almost single-handedly took down this妖兽, which made all their previous plans on the road useless and seemed a little ridiculous.

However, ridiculous as it was, after seeing the strength of this member codenamed Jiao Fifteen, especially after seeing his swift and decisive action, these people only had awe in their hearts.

Han Li did not really like to show off, but he really did not want to waste too much time. After this task was completed, he had to rush to the Dongliu Sea area within a month to carry out the next task.

……

Time flew by, and thirty years had passed.

On this day, the morning sun rose on Chixia Peak, illuminating the mountain with warmth, but Han Li's mansion seemed a little deserted.

Sun Buzheng and Meng Yungui were sent out by Han Li to search for elixir seeds not long after they successfully broke through.

After that, Meng Qianqian also traveled abroad under this pretext and left Chixia Peak.

When she left, she took Nianyu with her, which made the two-headed lion eagle beast guarding the mountain depressed for a long time.

Inside the secret room of the cave, a green light gradually dimmed, revealing Han Li's figure, who slowly took off the mask covering his face and put it away.

He had just delivered a task and received a good immortal essence stone reward, as many as one hundred.

However, for his current needs, it was just a drop in the bucket.

After walking out of the room, he turned and came to the灵药 field in the cave.

In the medicine field, all kinds of colorful spiritual herbs were almost planted. In the left area, several spiritual trees and vines were winding and clinging to the prepared wooden frame, waiting for the year to be enough to hang spiritual fruits. In a spiritual field on the right, purple gas permeated, and the air was filled with fragrant flowers, covered with dense, tiny flowers.

The entire spiritual field was full of vitality and vitality, except for the southwest corner, which was somewhat of an exception.

In that spiritual field, it was empty. Only gray-black soil could be seen, but no spiritual medicine could be seen, as if it had always been vacant and had never been planted before.

Every time Han Li's gaze swept over there, he would only pause slightly and then quickly move away.

But today, when he turned his gaze there, his heart stirred, and he suddenly found that some places were different.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, walked along the 田垄, and took two steps in three, came to the edge of that spiritual field, took a look, then jumped into the field, stepped on the somewhat soft soil, came to the center of the spiritual field, and squatted down.

Directly in front of his feet, under a gray clod of soil the size of a fist, a tender green sprout, thinner than a bean sprout, stretched out from the soil, propping up a corner of the clod and tilting it to the side.

It looked weak, but it was actually full of旺盛 life. It was none other than the Mother Bean.

"This is... sprouting." Han Li said in surprise.

In the first hundred years of planting this Mother Bean, he would often use green liquid to water it once, but later, due to the refining of晶粒 and the watering of other spiritual medicines, the green liquid had been in short supply, and the Mother Bean had never shown any signs of sprouting, so he stopped watering it. He did not expect that today, when he looked at it again, it had quietly sprouted.

After carefully examining it for a while, Han Li found that there were circles of blurred dark golden纹路 on the two tender cotyledons of the tender green sprout, which looked very strange.

His eyebrows furrowed slightly, and with a flip of his palm, a thin yellow paper book appeared in his palm.

After carefully reading it for a while, the look of doubt on Han Li's face became heavier and heavier, and he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "That's not right... why is this different from what Elder Hu Yan described in his notes?"

After checking for a long time, he could not come to a definite answer, so he moved the clod of soil on the sprout, drew the entire appearance of the dark gold纹路 on the cotyledons, and turned to leave the cave.

About an hour later.

A streak of green light flew down from the sky and landed towards a mountain below.

Where the green light landed, Han Li's figure appeared. Not far in front of him was a large, continuous courtyard. Above the vermilion gate in the center hung a plaque with the four characters "Baijiu Mountain Villa" written in bold strokes.

Han Li glanced at the four crooked characters, which looked drunken, and was about to step forward when he saw the gate of the mansion suddenly move and open inward.

A plump young woman dressed in a snow-white gauze skirt walked out. Her face was lightly powdered, her black hair was pulled up high, and her whole body exuded a captivating妩媚 charm.

This woman was none other than Yun Ni, Bai Suyuan's master and one of the Thirteen Golden Immortals Dao Lords.

However, her face was currently wearing a rather obvious look of anger, and she walked out in a hurry.

The old man Hu Yan, dressed in a gray-white Daoist robe and wearing two gourds around his waist, followed behind her, wanting to say something, but seemed unable to say it, and his expression was a little embarrassed.

When he caught sight of Han Li standing on the stone steps in front, his expression became even more awkward, and he stopped in place for a moment, no longer chasing after her.

Yun Ni had an unkind expression on her face. When she passed by Han Li, she didn't even look at him, and just flew up, transforming into a rainbow of light and disappearing into the distance.

Han Li saw the Daoist Huyan standing on the steps, staring at the sky in a daze, and gently coughed twice.

The latter then came back to his senses, turned and walked towards the mansion, while pretending to be calm, and explaining to himself with some guilty conscience: "Hey, the sect is really busy with official duties recently..."

"Hehe, Elder Huyan is busy with official duties every day." Han Li nodded with a smile.

"Well. What wind blew you here again? Let me tell you in advance, I don't have any wine for you to freeload on recently." The old man nodded quite satisfied, glanced at Han Li, and asked again.

"A few days ago, when I went to perform a task, I happened to get a jar of good wine, which is said to be调制 with sixty-seven rare spiritual medicines. Didn't I think of Senior Huyan?" Han Li smiled slightly, and with a flip of his hand, a red wine jar appeared in his hand and handed it over.

"Oh, you still have some conscience! Let me see...咳, there are many people here, let's go inside and talk." Hearing this, the old man Huyan's eyes lit up, but then he looked around, pretending to be reserved and said.