"Does it look good?"
Just as Han Li was a little fascinated, a somewhat strange voice came from behind the mahogany table.
Han Li heard the words and quickly looked towards the direction of the voice.
He saw an old man wearing a lotus crown and a greyish-white ancient Taoist robe lazily reclining on a large armchair behind the table. His hair was greyish-white and messy, and his nose was slightly red. No matter how he looked, he looked a little slovenly.
On both sides of his waist, there was also a medium-sized gourd.
One was silver white, and the other was vermilion. Both of them were engraved with complex runes, and they looked very extraordinary.
"Beautiful." Han Li's heart moved, and he replied so.
"More beautiful than those fairies with big breasts and big buttocks?" The old man snorted, sat up a little, and said again.
Han Li was slightly taken aback, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
The old man in front of him, from top to bottom, from inside to outside, exuded a strange aura.
However, since he was sitting here, then he should be the elder deacon here, but he didn't wear the clothes of an inner elder. Looking at the spiritual medicine potted on the table and the two gourds on his body, no matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like something an ordinary person could have.
What made him most puzzled was that this person's breath was very strange. He only probed with ordinary Divine Sense, but he couldn't feel the specific cultivation level of this person.
"Senior, please don't joke with me.
I'm here to receive a regular deacon level mission. "Han Li cupped his hands and said.
Since he couldn't see the depth of the other party, he felt that it was safer to call him senior.
The old man acted as if he hadn't heard Han Li's words and muttered to himself, "This kind of work really isn't for humans. It's boring to death. It's still more interesting to plant some flowers and plants …"
He leaned forward, took the silver-white gourd from his waist, and pulled out the stopper at the mouth of the gourd. A fragrance full of nectar immediately filled the entire hall.
When Han Li smelled this scent, his eyes immediately lit up. The silver gourd seemed to contain a type of spiritual liquid that had been concocted.
The old man glanced sideways at Han Li's reaction, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, revealing a proud smile.
He lifted the gourd over and slowly tipped the mouth of the gourd. He carefully poured out a drop of pale golden liquid and dripped it on the root of the potted plant.
The golden light on top of the potted plant suddenly flourished. Specks of golden light, like liquid, slowly flowed up from the roots, all the way to the ends of the branches and the pine needle-like veins.
After repeating this a few times, the golden light gradually disappeared.
Seeing this, the old man nodded in satisfaction. He hung the silver gourd back on his waist and took the scarlet gourd on the other side.
Han Li thought that the old man still had other spiritual liquids to use, but the old man leisurely leaned back and unplugged the bottle gourd's stopper. He then brought it to his mouth and began to gulp it down.
An even stronger smell immediately filled the entire hall, even overshadowing the original fragrance of the Spiritual Liquid.
Apparently, this gourd didn't contain any spiritual liquid, but a kind of mellow wine.
When Han Li saw this, he was left speechless and turned his attention to the potted spirit medicine.
After the old man drank his fill, he wiped his mouth. His already slightly red nose became even redder.
He glanced at Han Li and found that the latter was interested in his potted plant as if he couldn't get enough of it. The old man became more complacent.
What he didn't know was that Han Li was already thinking about how to obtain this technique. When the time came, he wouldn't need to plant the rare spiritual medicines in his medicine garden and could directly plant them in his private room.
"Kid, look at the ranking on the merit book. Your task is to go to a Cloud Lake Island in the east of the Ancient Cloud Continent. Find the lair of a Clam Element Beast and bring back a spirit shell."
The old man took out a thick blue book from nowhere, turned to one of the pages, pointed at the words on the page, and read it word by word.
"Just take back the spirit shell?" Han Li heard this and was slightly surprised.
"Hehe, kid, don't underestimate this Clam Element Beast. As far as I know, its strength has reached the Middle-stage of the True Immortal Realm. It won't be easy to sneak into its lair and steal its spirit shell." The old man stared at Han Li and said.
"Senior, you're right. I was too reckless. I don't know if Senior has any other information about this beast." Han Li was moved and said quickly.
"Since you have good eyes and treat this old man with courtesy, this old man will give you a reminder. This beast is in closed-door training all year round, but every ten years, it will leave its lair for seven days to stir up trouble everywhere. This time, you will have the opportunity to take out its spirit shell … If you're unlucky, you'll have to wait for a few years. Don't rush in recklessly and lose your life in vain." The old man looked at Han Li and shook his head.
"Thank you, Senior, for telling me." Han Li said.
"This task is not difficult, but it's not easy either. As long as you have patience, there won't be any risk.
The reward given by the sect is 200 merit points.
After you've completed it, come here to get it. "The old man looked at the merit book again and said.
Han Li nodded in response before handing over his elder badge to him.
After receiving the task and getting the relevant map and information, he bid farewell and left the side hall.
In the sky above the Supreme Mystery Temple, Han Li thought for a moment and decided to immediately set off to Cloud Lake Island.
This was not because he was arrogant, or because he was anxious to complete the task, but because he did not know when the Mirage Essence Beast would leave its nest. If he was delayed for a few days, and the Mirage Essence Beast had just returned, then wouldn't he have to wait for another ten years before he could complete this task?
So it was better to get there as soon as possible to avoid missing it.
With this thought, Han Li immediately came to the Hall of Inheritance in the square. Through the teleportation array, he came to the Sea Gazing Peak in the east of the Zhong Ming Mountain Range.
This mountain peak was close to the eastern edge of the Zhong Ming Mountain Range. It was the farthest area that Han Li could reach by teleportation array so far.
As he stood at the peak of this mountain and gazed towards the east, even with his eyesight, he was only able to see a black line that was as thin as a hair at the end of his vision. It was the Eastflow Sea that was close to the Zhongming Mountains.
Han Li's goal this time was Cloud Lake Island, one of the tens of thousands of islands in the East Flow Sea.
After taking out the map of the sea that he got from the sloppy old man, he carefully examined it for a long time, then found a direction, turned into a long rainbow, and flew away.
… …
A few months later.
In the northeast direction of the East Flow Sea, there was a huge island shaped like a lotus leaf, floating alone on the blue sea.
A huge lake that occupied a tenth of the entire island was like a green pearl embedded in the center of the island, and the water system that flowed out was like the veins of a lotus leaf winding around the island.
This lake was called "Cloud Covered Lake", and it was the source of the freshwater of Cloud Lake Island. It was also the origin of the name of the entire island. The freshwater system that flowed out from it nurtured tens of millions of creatures on the island. Cities and villages of various sizes were distributed along these water systems on both sides.
On the west side of Cloud Covered Lake, there was a main tributary called "Sunken Sand River", and on the left side of its middle course that was tens of thousands of kilometers away from Cloud Covered Lake stood a huge city that was 300 meters tall, and it was called Sunken Sand City.
The city was built from the black sand that was unique to the Sunken Sand River. The city had been built for nearly a hundred thousand years. Not only were there millions of ordinary mortals living in the city, but there was also a cultivation sect that had been standing since the city was built.
It was currently evening, and the sky was gradually darkening, but the sun had yet to set.
A blood-red sunset was almost stuck to the surface of the sea, and the remaining light from it reflected most of the sea in a blood-red color, and it also reflected the tall walls of Sunken Sand City in a blood-red color.
High up in the sky, a green light flashed over swiftly and landed on the top of the city wall, and a figure appeared from within.
This person wore a green robe, and he had a tall figure. His appearance wasn't outstanding, but his eyes were extremely deep and bright, and they flickered with a breathtaking light. It was Han Li who'd rushed here from far away.
His gaze swept across the city wall and the houses in the city, and his expression gradually became solemn.
He saw that the city wall that should've been impregnable had collapsed more than half, and there was an incomparably huge breach in it. Even the watchtower on the city wall had been completely smashed, and not a trace of its original appearance could be seen.
The walls on both the inside and outside of the remaining city wall were all smeared with blood, and some of them had already solidified and turned black, emitting waves of nauseating stench.
Collapsed houses were everywhere in the city, and among the broken walls, one could vaguely see many human limbs and broken corpses, as well as the carcasses of many domestic animals. All of them were badly mutilated, and it was extremely miserable.
After the setting sun gradually sank into the horizon, the entire city was engulfed by a huge shadow, and it was completely plunged into darkness. Apart from the whimpering of the wind, there was no other sound in the city, and it was just like a dead city.
At this moment, Han Li suddenly raised his eyebrows. He saw a dot of yellow light in the center of the city, and it seemed that someone had lit a bonfire.
His mind moved, and he suddenly released his Divine Sense, and it shrouded in that direction.
After a moment, the tip of his foot suddenly touched the top of the city wall, and his whole body suddenly shot out like an arrow, and fell toward the place where the bonfire was.
Only a loud "boom" was heard!
Han Li's figure heavily fell in the center of a slightly open courtyard, and the entire courtyard shook violently. The surrounding houses that were originally on the verge of collapse suddenly collapsed completely, and a series of roars were heard.
The bonfire that was lit in the center of the courtyard was also shaken, and a large scarlet spark rose up.
The three people who were originally gathered around the bonfire saw this, and they suddenly knelt on the ground in fear.
One of the Youth in brown clothes and the middle-aged beautiful woman were so scared that they trembled, and they were drenched in cold sweat. A dark-skinned man was so scared that he kowtowed like pounding garlic, and he didn't dare to raise his head at all. He repeatedly shouted,