Several years later, on a day.
North of the Ancient Cloud Continent, on a vast expanse of the Frozen Sea, the chilly wind was howling, and snow was flying everywhere.
The violent howling of the wind made people's eardrums hurt. The flying snow swallowed the entire world.
A figure was hovering in the dark gray clouds in the sky. He was tall, wearing a green robe and a green ox mask. It was Han Li.
"It should be here…" Han Li mumbled to himself, but his voice was covered by the howling wind and snow.
He swung his hand, and a jet of green light shot out, turning into a green longsword that plunged straight down towards the ice layer above the sea.
As soon as the flying sword flew out, Han Li's figure followed it, falling down.
A sharp "clang" sound could be heard.
The green longsword pierced into the ice surface and easily broke a hole. Then, it drilled into the water.
Han Li's figure also flashed and jumped into the sea.
Over the entire sea, the howling wind and snow couldn't cover the "crack crack" sounds constantly resounded. On the surface of the sea, which had been frozen for so many years, a giant crack that spanned for thousands of miles appeared, and it continued to expand.
After Han Li got into the water, he simply cast a Water Repelling Spell and then dashed to the bottom of the sea together with the longsword in front of him under the protection of a light blue halo.
About fifteen minutes later, his figure stopped, landing beside a volcano crater deep under the sea. His green flying sword stabbed into a rock on the seabed in front of him, sparkling with a blue light.
The crater in front of him was gray, not emitting any scorching aura. It could be an extinct volcano, or it hadn't erupted for so many years.
Han Li walked forward and pulled out the azure longsword from the ground with a clang.
The sword's edge brought up a jet of green light, breaking some of the rocks by the crater, revealing a faint golden light.
Han Li lowered his head to look at it. The longsword in his hand shook, and a wave of green light rippled. Countless tiny green sword shadows flew out, cutting all the rocks around the crater.
As a layer of rock skin wrapped around the crater completely peeled off, a somewhat dazzling golden brilliance instantly illuminated the pitch-black bottom of the sea.
Around the crater, there were many fist-sized oval-shaped golden balls, which looked like beast eggs.
This thing was called the Golden Dragon Bile, a very special elixir. It didn't belong to the category of plants, beasts, or ores. It was a combination of the three.
It was originally a kind of seabed creature called the Sea Dragon Bile. After its death, its remains would gradually grow a layer of moss. Then, it was accidentally buried by the magma of the volcano, and it would take at least ten thousand years to become the Golden Dragon Bile.
Because this medicine had three attributes, it was often used to reconcile various medicines. It could be seen in many pill recipes.
Han Li wouldn't take this kind of ordinary collection task, but because the Earth Grade medicinal pill he was about to refine also needed the Golden Dragon Bile, he simply took this task from the Anicca Alliance. He could not only earn a commission, but he could also use it for his own use. It was killing two birds with one stone.
Now, not only did he have to accumulate the spiritual materials for refining medicinal pills, but he also had to prepare for refining the Dao pill. The number of spirit stones and Immortal Essence Stones needed could no longer be described as sky-high. So, he had to turn into a mission maniac again and madly accept the task in the Anicca Alliance.
This task was the fourth task he had completed in just a few months.
After the collection was complete, he flew up without stopping and rushed toward the surface of the sea.
… …
Ten years later.
In an unknown long and narrow valley, four figures wearing beast head masks jumped down from the cliffs on both sides of the valley. Looking at the ferocious exotic beast lying in the valley on its last breath, and the tall figure standing at the side, they exchanged glances.
None of them expected that the task of killing the early stage True Immortal Realm demonic beast would be completed so easily.
On the way here, they looked down on this tall man who had been silent and unwilling to participate in their encirclement plan. They really didn't expect that this person would immediately erupt with shocking combat strength after coming here.
He almost single-handedly took down the demonic beast. It made all the plans they had made on the way here go to waste, and it seemed slightly ridiculous.
But although it was ridiculous, after seeing the strength of this member codenamed Jiao Fifteen, especially after seeing his fierce and decisive attacks, there was only reverence in these people's hearts.
Han Li didn't really like to be in the limelight, but he really didn't want to waste too much time. After handing in this task, he had to rush to the Eastflow Sea within a month to carry out the next task.
… …
In the blink of an eye, it was already 30 years later.
On this day, the sun rose on the Crimson Afterglow Peak and warmed the mountain. However, Han Li's mansion seemed a little deserted.
After Sun Buzheng and Meng Yungui successfully broke through, they were sent by Han Li to search for spiritual medicine seeds not long after.
After that, Meng Qianqian also left the Crimson Afterglow Peak to travel.
When she left, she took Nian Yu with her, which made the Two-headed Griffin that guarded the mountain unhappy for a long time.
In the secret room of the cave, a green light gradually dimmed and Han Li's figure appeared. He slowly took off the mask that covered his face and put it away.
He had just handed in a task and received a good sum of Immortal Meta Stones as a reward. There were more than 100 Immortal Meta Stones.
But for his current needs, it was just a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood.
After walking out of the room, he turned around and came to the spiritual medicine field in the cave.
Within the medicinal field, various kinds of spiritual herbs of various colors were almost fully planted. In the area on the left, several spiritual trees were planted. Their vines snaked around and climbed on the wooden frame. Once they were old enough, they would be able to bear spiritual fruits. And in the spiritual field on the right, purple air pervaded the air. There was a dense fragrance of flowers everywhere and it was filled with densely packed small flowers.
The entire spiritual field was full of vitality and was full of vitality. Only the southwest corner was a little different.
That piece of spiritual field was empty. Only greyish black soil could be seen, but no spiritual medicine could be seen. It was as if it had always been empty and had never been planted.
Every time Han Li's gaze swept over that area, it would only stay for a moment before quickly moving away.
But today, when he cast his gaze over there, his heart moved. He suddenly realized that some places were different.
He raised his eyebrows slightly and walked along the ridge of the field to the edge of the spiritual field. After taking a look, he jumped into the field again. Stepping on the soft soil, he came to the center of the spiritual field and squatted down.
Right in front of his feet, under a fist-sized grey soil block, there was a tender green sprout that was thinner than a bean sprout. It stretched out from the soil, propping up a corner of the soil block and tilting it to the side.
It looked weak, but in fact, it was full of vigorous vitality. It was none other than that mother bean.
"This is … germination." Han Li said with some surprise.
In the first hundred years after he planted this mother bean, he would often water it with the green liquid. But later on, because he had to refine the crystal granules and water other elixirs, the green liquid was always in short supply, and the mother bean never showed any signs of germination, so he stopped watering it. He didn't expect that when he came back today, it had actually quietly germinated.
After carefully examining it for a moment, Han Li discovered that on the two tender leaves of the tender green bean sprout, there were blurry circles of dark golden lines. It looked very strange.
With a slight frown, he flipped his palm, and a thin yellow book appeared in his palm.
After carefully reading for a while, the doubt on Han Li's face became heavier and heavier. He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "That's not right … why is this different from what was described in Elder Hu Yan's notes?"
After examining for a long time, he still couldn't get a definite answer. He could only move the soil block on the tender sprout away, draw the full picture of the dark golden lines on the leaves, and turn around to leave the cave.
About two hours later.
A ray of green light flew down from the sky and landed on a mountain peak below.
Where the green light landed, Han Li's figure appeared. Not far in front of him, there was a rather large continuous courtyard. There was a board hanging above the vermilion gate in the center, and the words "Hundred Wine Manor" were written in flamboyant calligraphy.
Han Li glanced at the four words that seemed to be swaying in a drunken manner. Just as he was about to step forward, he saw the gate of the mansion suddenly move and open inwards.
A voluptuous young woman in a snow-white gauze dress walked out. Her face was slightly powdered, and her dark black hair was tied up high. Her entire body emitted a charming charm that made one's heart beat faster.
This woman was none other than Bai Suyuan's master, one of the thirteen Golden Immortal Dao Masters, Yun Ni.
However, at this moment, there was a rather obvious sullen expression on her face. She hurriedly walked outside.
Old Man Hu Yan, who wore a greyish-white Daoist robe and had two gourds hanging from his waist, followed behind her. He wanted to step forward and say something, but he seemed to be somewhat unable to speak. His expression was somewhat embarrassed.
When he saw Han Li standing at the stone steps in front of him, his expression became even more awkward. For a moment, he stopped where he was and didn't chase after him.
Yun Ni's expression was unfriendly. When she passed by Han Li, she didn't even look at him. She directly flew up, turned into a ray of rainbow light, and fled into the distance.
Han Li saw Daoist Hu Yan standing on the stone steps, looking at the sky in a daze. He lightly coughed twice.
The latter immediately returned to his senses. As he turned around and walked into the mansion, he pretended to be calm, and explained to himself in a slightly exposed manner, "Sigh, the sect has been really busy recently …"
"Hehe, Elder Hu Yan is very busy every day, and all of them are official business." Han Li smiled and nodded.
"Yes.
That wind blew you here again, kid.
Let me tell you in advance, I don't have any wine for you to drink recently. "The old man nodded with satisfaction. He glanced at Han Li and asked again.
"A few days ago, when I went to carry out a mission, I happened to obtain a jar of good wine. It is said that it was made with sixty-seven rare elixirs.
Didn't I think of Senior Hu Yan? "
Han Li smiled slightly. With a flip of one hand, a red wine jar appeared in his hand, and he handed it over.