After Han Li returned to the secret room, he sat cross-legged and began to think.
Although the medicinal effect of the half furnace of Unity Pill he refined was good, so much so that his two months of cultivation was equivalent to nearly ten years of ordinary cultivation, the price to maintain this speed was not small.
Since he had already begun to try refining, and with the help of the Mantra Treasure Wheel, the success rate was not bad, naturally, he would not use merit points to directly exchange for it. After all, merit points had other important uses.
In this way, the refining raw materials became the key.
Currently, in addition to condensing crystal particles to ensure that the Earth God Incarnation condensed heavy water, the Sky Bottle could only ripen the Candle Grass almost at its limit. It probably could not ripen too many auxiliary materials, and most of the materials still had to be bought.
However, he did not have many spirit stones on him now. Although he could gather some by selling some of the previous spoils, it was not a long-term plan after all, and could not meet the needs of future cultivation.
Han Li pondered for a moment, turned his hand, and took out the Anicca Alliance's green mask.
There were many ways to earn spirit stones, and considering his current situation, it was the most convenient and reliable to carry out the Anicca Alliance's missions to earn rewards.
Although there were many missions in the sect to earn spirit stones, it was too ostentatious. He did not want to expose too much of his strength in the sect, lest it attracted unnecessary trouble.
Moreover, comparing the two, the Anicca Alliance's mission rewards were higher.
While thinking, a green light emerged from the mask, condensing into a green light screen.
He looked at the mission area, and soon found some missions near Fire Dragon Path. There were many of them, and the content was varied. In addition to some missions to buy spirit materials, pills, and spirit treasures, there were many missions to hunt monsters, and even to find or assassinate certain people.
However, these were relatively common missions, and some special missions also attracted Han Li's attention. For example, some people gathered several Earth Level Alchemists to refine some kind of pill, or a Perfected Immortal who was proficient in restriction formations to break the restriction of a certain ruin, and even a large number of Perfected Immortals to besiege an unknown mysterious cultivator.
His expression suddenly froze, and his eyes fell on one of the missions, and he could not help but show a strange expression on his face.
That mission was to find the whereabouts of the "Number One Sword Cultivator in Tiannan". The mission reward was not small, and providing certain information could also be a good reward.
After Han Li chuckled, he narrowed his eyes and pondered.
After the test that day, everyone quickly left, so no one should have discovered what he had carved. It should have been the people of Heavenly Sword Peak who discovered his prank.
In that case, the person who issued this mission should also be someone from the Heavenly Sword Peak, and judging from the identity of the Impermanence Alliance, it was very likely that it was Xiong Shan himself. He should have discovered this after the fact, and after careful consideration, he felt that it was this so-called number one sword cultivator in the Heavenly South who had stolen most of the flying swords.
He had indeed guessed correctly.
However, he had never told anyone about what had happened in the Heavenly South Region in the Mortal Realm, so he didn't have to worry about being discovered.
However, since Xiong Shan was able to issue a mission in the Anicca Alliance, it meant that he was most likely a member of the Anicca Alliance. At the very least, he had some relationship with the Anicca Alliance. If it was the former, then his status in the Anicca Alliance should not be low with his cultivation.
From this, it could be seen that the Anicca Alliance was unexpectedly powerful.
Besides that, there was even someone who issued an assignment to search for Bai Fengxian's whereabouts, and this caused Han Li to be unable to help but think of Bai Suyuan.
Han Li shook his head, no longer thinking about this, and focused on looking at the missions that he was concerned about.
After a while, his eyes fell on a hunting mission: Go to a place called the Heavenly Freezing Lake to kill a True Immortal demonic beast called the Frost Dolphin and bring back its corpse. The reward was quite rich, a total of four thousand top-grade spirit stones.
Han Li had seen in the ancient records of the Fire Dragon Taoist Sect that the Heavenly Freezing Lake was located in the extreme north of the Zhong Ming Continent, further north of the Mysterious Ice Mountain Range. It was a famous dangerous place in the Ancient Cloud Continent, and it was said that many True Immortal experts had fallen in it.
He made a hand seal, accepted the mission, and stood up.
… …
A few months later.
In the extreme north of the Ancient Cloud Continent, the cold wind was howling, and the sky was full of snow. No matter where it was, it was a vast expanse of whiteness.
A few snow-capped peaks stood in the sky full of snow, silently enduring the whip of the cold wind.
A cyan figure flew from the distant sky and landed on the top of a snow-capped peak, revealing a middle-aged man with sallow skin.
This person was Han Li, he had disguised his appearance with the mask of the Anicca Alliance.
Looking forward from the snow-capped peak, there was a huge lake in front of him, with no end in sight. The lake water showed a strange black color, like ink.
The strange thing was that the surrounding temperature was so low, but the lake water did not freeze, and instead fluctuated with the wind, releasing bursts of black mist, floating on the surface of the lake.
This black mist emitted a bone-piercing cold air, much colder than the surrounding cold wind.
This was the location of the Heavenly Freezing Lake.
Han Li stopped for a while on the snow-capped peak, and immediately flew toward the Heavenly Freezing Lake with a conveyance light.
This place seemed cold and desolate, but in fact it was not.
There were many treasures of heaven and earth in the Heavenly Freezing Lake, and there were even some special spiritual items of great value. Otherwise, it would not attract so many people to explore this place.
However, there were many strange cold resistant demonic beasts living under the black water, and they were very powerful. Even if the people who came to search for treasures had high cultivation, they would still die in the mouths of these demonic beasts if they were not careful.
Han Li flew forward, sticking close to the surface of the water, and his eyes were fixed on the lake, as if he was looking for something.
Suddenly, the surface of the water more than a hundred feet in front of him split open, and a five or six feet long demonic beast flew out, rushing straight toward Han Li.
The beast resembled a crocodile, and its entire body was covered in black scales. It had a large, bloody mouth filled with sharp, white teeth, and a pair of swollen yellow eyes on top of its head. It appeared to be extremely ferocious, and its huge mouth bit down on Han Li as if it were going to tear him in half with a single bite.
Han Li's expression changed slightly, and he raised one hand slightly, and a cyan light flashed.
The black sea beast's body suddenly stiffened, and it stopped in mid-air.
Han Li's figure did not stop, and he directly passed through the two rows of sharp teeth of the monster.
A red line appeared on the monster's body from head to tail, and then it split open with a puff. Countless amounts of blood mixed with some internal organs fell from the sky, falling into the water.
Han Li paid no attention to the situation behind him, and he continued to fly forward, disappearing into the mist in the water in the blink of an eye.
He flew like this for several hours, and he gradually went deeper into the Heavenly Frigid Lake.
The deeper he went, the lower the surrounding temperature became, and the strange demonic beasts living in the water became more and more powerful. Some even had strength above the Body Integration Stage, and they would attack from time to time.
However, these demonic beasts were naturally nothing to Han Li, and he easily dealt with them.
His eyes suddenly lit up, and he stopped flying. His eyes stared at the bottom of the sea, and he quickly waved his hand.
A cyan light shot out and disappeared into the water.
A moment later, there was a splash, and a black object wrapped in cyan light flew out. It was a clump of seaweed, and it emitted a faint fragrance.
This thing was called Black Star Seaweed, and it grew everywhere at the bottom of the lake.
Black Star Seaweed was the cold dolphin's favorite food, and such a large area of Black Star Seaweed would definitely attract the cold dolphin.
Han Li threw the Black Star Seaweed away, and he flipped his hand to take out a blue object the size of a millstone. It seemed to be the internal organs of some demonic beast, and it gave off a strong spicy smell.
This was the internal organ of a demonic beast called the Elephant Trunk Beast, and it was very attractive to the cold dolphin. He had spent a sum of spirit stones in the Anicca Alliance to exchange for it before he set off.
He took out a white talisman with his other hand, and with a point, the talisman turned into a ball of white light, and disappeared into the blue internal organ.
Han Li waved his hand, and the blue internal organ fell into the black water.
Crack!
A bone-chilling cold immediately wrapped around the blue internal organ, and in the blink of an eye, it was frozen into a ball of black ice, and it sank to the bottom of the lake.
Although it was frozen, the fragrance did not disappear, and it drifted into the surroundings.
The white talisman was a sensing talisman, and as long as a demonic beast devoured this internal organ, he would immediately know.
Han Li did not stay in the same place, and he continued to fly forward.
The Heavenly Freezing Lake was huge, and he naturally could not put all his hopes on this Black Star Seaweed.
Half a day later, Han Li found another Black Star Seaweed, and processed it according to the same method. He left behind a piece of Elephant Trunk Beast's internal organ with a sensing talisman, and continued to move forward.
Half a month passed.
During this time, he found dozens of Black Star Seaweeds, and each of them had a piece of Elephant Trunk Beast's internal organ.
Han Li stopped searching for other Black Star Seaweeds, and hid in the center of these dozens of Black Star Seaweeds.
It was not because he did not want to continue searching, but because the Elephant Trunk Beast's internal organs had been used up.
Moreover, he had already scattered enough bait, and all he had to do now was wait patiently.
Two months later, on a day.
A loud noise appeared in a water body, and it traveled for thousands of miles.
The water surface shook violently, and a wave of a few hundred feet high was set off, sweeping in all directions. The clouds in the sky were tumbling, and the wind and clouds were changing.
In the center of the huge wave was Han Li and a black and blue demonic beast that looked like a pufferfish.
The beast was not large, only two or three hundred feet long. Its bulging body was covered in black and blue bone spurs, and its tail was shaped like a scorpion's, swinging like lightning. Thick black gas surrounded the beast, and the shadows of all kinds of human faces and beast faces appeared from time to time, all of them twisting and struggling, looking very strange.
This beast was the Frost Dolphin.
A huge aura emanated from the beast, and it had reached the level of a True Immortal.
The pufferfish demonic beast kept making strange cries that sounded like the cries of a baby, and one thick blue light after another shot out from its tail, striking at Han Li like a storm.
Every blue light contained traces of the aura of laws, and the area within thousands of miles was enveloped by a strange cold aura. Countless white ice flowers and icicles appeared in the void, as if the void itself had been frozen.