Speaking of which, the reason why Han Li was able to kill the golden-robed man transformed by the Clam Essence Beast seemed to be just for a moment, but in fact, he had already prepared for it.
When he almost fell into the illusion and cut off his arm for the first time, he had already secretly used the Alchemy Secret Technique to see that the real body was hidden in the sword dragon, and the illusion light and the golden-robed man were just a deeper illusion.
He beat him at his own game and combined the 72 Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords in his body in advance. Taking advantage of his opponent's moment of complacency, he suddenly attacked and succeeded in one strike.
Han Li waved one hand and all the Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords flew back, after a little hover, they all disappeared into his body.
He glanced at the corpse of the golden-robed man floating on the lake and flew down. After the tip of his foot gently touched the surface of the water, after a circle of ripples, he stood firmly on the surface of the water.
He bent down and examined the man with his Divine Sense for a moment. Then, he raised his right hand and pierced his fingers into the lower abdomen of the golden-robed man. Then, he dug out a walnut-sized purple-black Demonic Core.
After the demon nucleus was gone, the body of the golden-robed man suddenly swelled and became bigger.
However, fine golden scales quickly appeared on the surface of the corpse's skin, and the golden dragon robe it was wearing was quickly torn apart. Its body gradually elongated, and in the end, it turned into a hornless and clawless dragon-shaped exotic beast, slowly sinking into the depths of the lake.
Han Li hesitated a little, and his body moved, casting a Water Avoidance Spell, and drilled into the lake.
He glanced at the bottom of the lake and saw that the body of the Clam Essence Beast was sinking in front of a palace at the bottom of the lake.
Cloudshroud Lake was three hundred meters deep, and the light at the bottom of the lake was very dim. However, the palace was an exception. Its entire body was sparkling and translucent like white jade, emitting a lustrous white radiance. It looked like a crystal palace.
Han Li came to the palace and found that it was also covered with a layer of almost transparent light film, which seemed to be a kind of restriction similar to the Water Avoidance Spell, isolating all the lake water.
He didn't enter immediately. Instead, his figure flickered, and he arrived in front of the Demonic Beast's corpse. He stuck two fingers into its body, and then suddenly pulled out the beast tendon.
Han Li recalled that the person from the Anicca Alliance had said that this demon beast might still have the bloodline of the Sea Serpent. He wanted to refine it, but after struggling for a long time, he was unable to refine a single drop. In the end, he could only give up.
After stripping all the usable materials from the monster's body, he returned to the front of the palace. After casting a spell, he easily passed through the outer light film shield and came to the front of the palace gate.
The Crystal Palace in front of them was filled with a forest of pillars, and the eaves of the roof were curled up. All kinds of patterns of flowers, birds, fish, and insects were engraved on it. It looked extremely exquisite, and it didn't look like a Demon Beast's lair at all. Instead, it looked like an immortal's mansion.
Han Li placed his hand on the door and abruptly pressed his palm down.
There was a "chi chi" sound.
Two white jade doors that were thirty feet tall and a foot thick slowly opened inwards.
Han Li's eyes flashed slightly, and he walked in through the open door.
There weren't many furnishings in the hall. There were only two rows of circular stone pillars lined up on both sides of the hall. Around these stone pillars, there were several objects piled up like a small hill, dazzling to the eye.
He glanced at those objects and couldn't help but be secretly speechless.
The piles of items that looked like small hills were actually all kinds of Spirit Stones and Magic Treasures. Among them, there were Magic Treasures of excellent quality, and there were also Magic Tools of ordinary quality. They were mixed together, and it was a feast for the eyes.
Only then did he remember what he saw in the Cascade Sect a few days ago. In fact, it was not that the sect was too badly damaged, but that the magical treasures of the sect had been swept here by the Clam Essence Beast.
This beast obviously had a hobby of collecting treasures. The savings here were most likely accumulated by it over the years of massacring cities and destroying sects, but now it all became a wedding dress for him.
Han Li's eyes carefully searched these hills for a moment, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a golden dragon chair in the depths of the hall, there was a translucent object exposed.
He immediately walked over, and went around to the back of the dragon chair.
He saw that behind the dragon chair, there was a snake-like thing, the whole body was clear and transparent, looking like some kind of crystal, but it was not cold and hard to the touch, instead it had a kind of soft feeling like silk.
Without a doubt, this thing must be the spirit shell of the Sea Serpent.
Han Li immediately put the spirit shell into his storage bracelet, then took out several storage rings, and began to count the treasures piled up in the hall, taking them for his own.
After half a day of counting, the storage ring on his hand and the storage bracelet on his wrist were filled to the brim with treasures.
Most of them were spirit stones, and most of them were low and middle grade spirit stones. As for top quality spirit stones, there were very few, only about six or seven hundred in total.
If he exchanged the rest of the spirit stones, he estimated that he would be able to exchange for another three or four hundred top quality spirit stones.
It seemed that the scale of the nearby sects was not large, but this was not surprising, if they really had enough strength, they would not have been entrenched in this place for so many years, causing so much trouble.
In addition, there were more than a hundred magic weapons and hundreds of magic tools, as well as some strange spirit materials, but there was not a single spirit medicine.
Needless to say, among the magic tools, there were a lot of good quality magic weapons, for Han Li naturally did not need them, but if it was given to Meng Yungui and the others, it would be quite suitable.
As for the golden long sword used by the beast, after confirming again, he found that this sword was a metal attribute Divine Spirit Treasure, the grade was not lower than the original Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword.
Among the treasures hidden by the Clam Essence Beast, there were not many spiritual materials, but some of them exuded a very strange aura. Although Han Li could not recognize them, he knew that they were not ordinary things.
In particular, there were a few pieces of dark golden metal the size of a human head, which were obviously not artificially made, but the surface was inlaid with many dense petal-like patterns, it did not feel cold like ordinary metal, but somewhat warm.
In the next few days, Han Li did not leave immediately, but took advantage of the fact that he was not in the Torch Dragon Taoist Territory to call out the Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword and activated it many times, casting several kinds of sword formations that he had learned from the "Green Essence Sword Art" several times.
Its power was naturally greatly improved, and it was not the same as before, which made him quite satisfied.
Until the moment before leaving Cloud Lake Island, Han Li handed over the task of killing the Clam Essence Beast from the Anicca Alliance, causing the man wearing the deer mask to be extremely surprised, as if he could not believe it.
Naturally, Han Li would not explain much, and directly took out the demon core of the Clam Essence Beast for the other party to check. The other party was surprised and delighted, and immediately handed over the Immortal Essence Stone.
Speaking of which, the reason why he accepted this task was mainly because of convenience. After all, he would not really wait for 10 years for the Clam Essence Beast to go out. On the other hand, it was because this beast had caused harm to the world, and he felt a trace of compassion deep in his heart.
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A few months later.
As soon as Han Li returned to the Torch Dragon Taoist Territory, he rushed directly to the Supreme Mystery Side Hall without any delay.
There was still no one here. The old man in a gray robe was sitting behind the red table with sleepy eyes. He seemed to be taking a nap. When he heard the footsteps, his eyes opened a slit.
"Hey, it's you, why are you back so soon?
Could it be that you feel that the task is too difficult to complete, so you plan to use merit points to compensate? "The old man sat up straight, yawned, and said lazily.
Han Li did not speak, waved his hand, took out a storage bag and put it on the red table.
The old man was slightly startled. He picked up the storage bag and released his Spiritual Sense to sweep it slightly. The sleepiness in his eyes instantly disappeared.
"Hey, kid, you really did not let down this old man's expectations. You completed the task so quickly. Not bad."
"It was just a fluke. When I arrived there, the Clam Essence Beast happened to go out, so I successfully completed the task." Han Li said in an evasive manner.
"Kid, you are really lucky. But sometimes luck is also a kind of strength."
The old man looked up and down at Han Li, and laughed a few times. It was unknown whether he really believed it or not.
Soon after, he put away the Mirage Essence Beast's spirit shell and took out an azure jade booklet and a jade brush. After making several strokes on the booklet, he took out Han Li's elder command medallion.
A white light flashed, and two hundred merit points appeared inside.
"Well, your first task is completed. Go back and take a good rest. Remember to pick up the second task in a few days." The old man returned the token to Han Li and said.
"Sorry to trouble senior, I will now pick up the next task." Han Li said directly.
"Kid, you are quite diligent, different from those old foxes." The old man glanced at Han Li and nodded.
Han Li heard this and could not help but touch his nose.
He did not have much time, so he naturally had to hurry up.
The old man took out the blue book and looked at it again. After a while, he stopped at a page and slowly said:
"There is a more urgent task here, I will assign it to you."
"May I know what task it is?" Han Li asked slowly.
"The sect has a large Fire Essence Crystal mine in the Fire Cloud Ridge in the southwest of the Ancient Cloud Continent. Recently, the miners there often disappeared for some reason, so the mine had to be temporarily closed.
A dacheng stage elder who was stationed there entered the mine to explore, and his whereabouts were also unknown, so he reported to the sect and requested to send an inner sect elder to explore the reason, and by the way, transport back the fire yuan crystals that had been there for nearly ten years.
This task should not be difficult, but the task reward is also a lot, one hundred and eighty merit points. "The old man said while shaking his head.
"Understood, since the task is urgent, I will set off now." Han Li heard this and nodded.
After saying this, he did not say anything and handed over the token to receive the task. Without any delay, he turned and walked outside.