Han Li flicked his hands through the air in rapid succession, sending streaks of azure light flying through the air. These were azure formation flags, all of which landed around the courtyard in a flash. Immediately thereafter, a faint azure light barrier appeared, enshrouding the entire courtyard.
After doing all this, he sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes to regulate his breathing.
As time passed, the sky gradually darkened, and stars appeared in the night sky.
Han Li opened his eyes and looked up at the starry sky. Then, he took out a medicinal pill and took a deep breath. The Little Big Dipper Star Cultivation Method began to circulate in his body, and seven blue star patterns appeared on his chest and abdomen.
As the power of the starlight gathered in the night sky, it formed seven starlight pillars that fell from the sky and entered his body. His pale face slowly recovered.
The night passed in the blink of an eye.
In the early morning, Han Li opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
At this moment, not only was his physical fatigue swept away, but even the damage caused by passing through the interface gap had been completely recovered.
After stretching his body, he turned back and walked toward a side room in the courtyard. Not long after, he stood in the room.
The space here was not big, only about seven or eight feet. In addition to a green bamboo cabinet and a few sandalwood tables and chairs on both sides, there was only a futon in the center. However, everything was clean and tidy, and it looked spotless.
Han Li directly sat cross-legged on the futon, turned his hand, and took out a jade box. After opening it, there was a yellow walnut inside.
The patterns on the surface of the walnut vaguely formed a human face, exuding an amazing earth-attribute spiritual energy fluctuation. It was the fruit of the strange walnut tree that he had previously obtained in the mysterious bubble.
Previously, because he was in a hurry, he did not carefully examine it. Now, he finally had time to study it.
He immediately released his Divine Sense into the walnut, and carefully examined it.
As a result, he was shocked by what he saw.
The earth-attribute spiritual energy contained in it had reached a shocking level, but it was compressed to the extreme and wrapped in the entire fruit.
Because of the Sky Bottle, Han Li had a lot of experience in identifying various spiritual herbs and spiritual materials, especially in judging their age.
Although he didn't know what this walnut was, it had to be at least a hundred thousand years old for the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi it contained to reach this level.
However, this alone did not seem to be enough for two True Immortal level monsters to fight over it.
As Han Li thought so, his Spiritual Sense continued to explore the walnut inch by inch.
"Eh?"
After he had examined it more than ten times, he finally found something strange.
The incomparably dense Earth Attribute Spiritual Qi inside the walnut seemed chaotic and disorderly, like a series of undulating and interweaving waves, but there was a vague pattern to it.
It seemed that every once in a while, these spiritual energy fluctuations would show a rather strange state of interweaving and fusing, and there would be an extremely faint trace of a special aura emitted from these fluctuations.
"Could this be …" Han Li's heart thumped a few times.
This special aura was somewhat similar to the power of laws, but it wasn't quite the same.
He carefully examined it for a while longer, but still couldn't be sure.
After a moment's thought, he flipped his hand and took out a wooden box.
After opening the box, a small yellow person with a few talismans stuck on its body appeared. It was the owner of the mysterious bubble space, the one-eyed giant's Nascent Soul. One of its eyes was half-closed, and it looked a little sluggish.
Han Li grabbed the Nascent Soul with one hand, and a black light appeared on his finger, directly entering it.
Soul Search!
To find out the secret of the strange human-faced walnut, the fastest way was to directly search its soul.
The giant Nascent Soul's originally wooden face showed some signs of struggle, and a layer of yellow light appeared on its body, flickering quickly.
Han Li frowned slightly. There seemed to be some kind of strange power inside this Nascent Soul, and it was actually locking down the soul, making it difficult for his Spiritual Sense to penetrate it.
He snorted coldly, and the black light in his hand lit up, and he began to gradually increase the intensity of the soul search.
The yellow light on the Nascent Soul's body suddenly lit up, and it flickered violently. Its small face revealed a painful expression, but it was suppressed by the talismans, and could not make a sound.
Han Li was slightly happy. The power of his Spiritual Sense had finally broken through the layer of strange power on the Nascent Soul, and touched the inside of the soul.
But at this moment, his face suddenly changed, and the surface of his skin was suddenly covered by a layer of translucent film.
Almost in the next moment, a dazzling yellow light burst out from the Nascent Soul, and then with a "boom", it turned into a yellow blazing sun, and submerged Han Li's figure.
When the yellow light dissipated, it turned into countless pale yellow flowing lights, and Han Li's figure was once again revealed.
At this moment, his body was unscathed, but his face was a little ugly.
He did not expect that the power on the one-eyed giant's Nascent Soul would be so overbearing. After being broken through by the power of his Spiritual Sense, it immediately self-detonated, so that he could not find much information about it. He only saw a few fragments of the giant's past, and it seemed that every ten thousand years or so, it would swallow a human-faced walnut, which was very beneficial to its cultivation.
Han Li sighed softly, looked at the human-faced walnut for a moment, and turned his hand to put it away.
Now it seemed that he could only find another way to find out the origin of this thing. Now that he had just returned to the Immortal World, there were more important things to deal with.
After calming down, he stood up and walked out of the small courtyard.
"Greetings, Senior Liu." A man in a scholar's robe stood outside the small courtyard, it was Luo Feng.
"Patriarch Luo, why are you here?" A flash of surprise flashed in Han Li's eyes, and he asked calmly.
"I came to see if Senior is used to living here … Oh yes, this is some of the cultivation resources that our tribe collected overnight according to Senior's request. Because of the time constraints, only a part of it was collected. The rest will be collected as soon as possible, please forgive me, Senior." Luo Feng's face was full of flattery, and he took out a black bracelet, and handed it over with both hands.
Han Li reached out to take it, and his Spiritual Sense swept through the bracelet, and he nodded.
Seeing this, Luo Feng breathed a sigh of relief.
"You came at the right time. You should have a place like a library here, right? I want to look up some things," Han Li said as he put away the bracelet.
"Yes, Senior Liu, please follow me," Luo Feng said quickly, and he took the lead to fly into the distance.
Han Li's figure soared into the sky, and he followed after him.
He looked around and saw that the damage caused by yesterday's battle had been mostly repaired, and the collapsed buildings had begun to be rebuilt.
In the empty port in the distance of the island, and in some of the surrounding towns, many mortals without magic power appeared.
Yesterday's battle had caused extensive damage, but the towns of the mortals were not affected much.
At this moment, the mortals and some cultivators in those towns had gathered together, and they were carrying out a ceremony of worship towards the statues of the Ancestor God on Wumeng Island.
"On the various islands of the Black Sand Sea, there are many mortals living under the protection of the cultivator clans of the various islands. During yesterday's battle, they all hid.
Although the cultivators of the various islands are constantly fighting, they usually don't attack mortals, "Luo Feng noticed Han Li's gaze, and explained.
Han Li nodded. The situation here reminded him of the Scattered Star Seas in the past.
After a while, the two arrived in front of a double-storey building that occupied a large area.
"Ancestor God!"
"Patriarch!"
There were a few Void Training Stage cultivators guarding the pavilion. When they saw Luo Feng and Han Li descend, they were shocked, and they hurried over to greet them with an extremely respectful expression.
Luo Feng didn't pay attention to them, and directly walked in with Han Li.
On the first floor of the library, there were rows of bookshelves that looked orderly, and there were all kinds of books, scrolls, and some jade slips placed on them.
Han Li glanced around, and found that the scale of the library here was not big, and it was much smaller than the Sutra Library of the Leng Yan Sect.
"Senior, our clan is weak, and the number of books we have collected is also relatively small. I've made a fool of myself.
The first floor mainly contains cultivation methods and unofficial history, and the second floor contains books about magic treasures and pills, "Luo Feng said with an apologetic expression.
"It's fine, I can stay here by myself. Wu Meng Island has many things waiting to be done, so you can go and do your own things. There's no need to stay here with me," Han Li said without a care.
"Yes."
Luo Feng was startled, and he agreed, turned around, and walked out of the pavilion.
Luo Feng's body flashed, and just as he was about to fly away, his eyes flickered, and he stopped. He walked to the side of the library, and waited with his hands down.
Han Li slowly browsed through the bookshelves. With his incomparably powerful spiritual sense, the speed at which he looked through the books was naturally extremely fast.
The books collected on Wu Meng Island were quite messy, and there were all kinds of books. The books on the first floor were not much different from what Luo Feng had said, and they were all about the Black Wind Sea Region. There were also some books about cultivation below the Great Ascension Stage.
What Han Li wanted to investigate was information about Earth Immortals, but unfortunately, there was very little information about Immortals here.
However, his hard work paid off. After he had almost flipped through the entire first floor, he finally found a few old jade slips, which had some introductions about Earth Immortals.
After half an hour, Han Li put down the last jade slip and opened his eyes.
Although there wasn't much content in these jade slips, they finally gave him a relatively clear understanding of Earth Immortals and Ancestral Gods.
The so-called Earth Immortals, as Luo Feng had said before, were also one of the numerous Immortals in the Immortal World, but their cultivation method was a bit special.
According to the books, Earth Immortals could rely on the faith of their believers to condense the power of laws.
However, this method of relying on external force to condense the power of laws had a huge limitation, and that was, Earth Immortals could only use the power of laws in the area where their faith belonged. Once they left this area, the power of laws condensed would almost completely lose its effect.
Because of the need to condense the Power of Faith, every Earthly Immortal would have a statue made of special materials to store and refine the Power of Faith, forming an Earthly Incarnation that was unique to the Earthly Immortal. The power of the Power of Law used by this incarnation was even stronger than that of the original body.