Chapter 1038: No Decorum

After Ti Hun left, Han Li did not delay either. He immediately rose into the air and flew to the area above the spirit fields.

He hovered high in the sky, looking down at the earth.

Below, in the spirit fields, half of the spirit herbs had already been harvested. Most of those remaining were herbs with less than a million years of age, but at least over a hundred thousand years old.

Han Li's gaze swept over them, and he selected a spirit field with dense herbs and rich spiritual energy. With a flicker of his form, he landed at its edge.

He quickly walked a full circle around the edge of that spirit field. As he walked, he occasionally stomped his foot on the ground. The force was not visible, but the ground would sink slightly, revealing a crack as if cut by a knife or chisel.

After he completed the circle, the spirit field, which spanned over a dozen mu, had sunk a full foot, appearing separated from the surrounding earth.

Only then did Han Li crouch down, roll up his sleeves slightly, and reach his hands into the fissure along the edge of the spirit field. A green light surged from his palms, spreading underground and enveloping the entire spirit field.

Then, he let out a low shout: "Rise."

The spirit field rose in response, lifted by his two hands as if he were carrying a large piece of cloth, and he raised it above his head, heading toward the silver light gate.

Not far away, Ti Hun was directing the giant ape puppet to gather the several types of spirit herbs. When she saw the stark contrast between Han Li and the spirit field, she couldn't help but laugh.

"If I had known this was possible, I would have just moved everything inside!" she sighed softly.

Han Li arrived at the silver light gate, and with a slight crook of his finger, the gate instantly expanded, swallowing both him and the spirit field.

Inside the gate was the cave heaven spirit field. Han Li walked until he was outside the spirit field, then found an empty space and placed the spirit field down.

He had of course thought about moving all the outer spirit fields inside, but the cave heaven's space was limited, and he couldn't use it all for these fields. Moreover, time was too short.

Besides, earlier, as the secret realm gradually revealed its true form, he had already ransacked all the buildings that appeared. He had not missed any treasures that reached the level of spiritual treasures, all of which he had stored in the cave heaven.

To house these treasures, Han Li had even dismantled a three-story pavilion in the secret realm and rebuilt it in his own cave heaven, adjacent to a bamboo building named the "Medicine Storage Pavilion" near the spirit herb garden.

After placing the spirit field, Han Li immediately left the cave heaven and saw Ti Hun leading the other giant ape puppets, also entering the silver light gate one after another.

"Ti Hun, I've just placed the spirit field I dug up. Later, you need to embed it into the cave heaven's earth vein and irrigate it with spiritual liquid so it can take root," Han Li instructed as he passed by Ti Hun.

"Rest assured, Master. Leave it to me!"

Ti Hun accepted the order and left, while Han Li waved his hand and closed the light gate.

After doing all this, he shifted his gaze and looked deeper into the secret realm.

There, prohibitions were still numerous, and it was clearly not easy to pass through.

Han Li watched for a moment, then his brow furrowed slightly. He suppressed all fluctuations of his immortal spiritual power, moved close to the ground, and quickly ran away, disappearing behind a hill.

Not long after he left, several figures flew over from high in the sky. Among them were the sects of Lingxiao Sect, Lieguang City, and Qingsuo Valley.

The people from these sects landed one after another, vying to be first. The broad-faced man from Lingxiao Sect spread his arms to stop everyone and reminded them loudly:

"Everyone, this time, high-ranking sects like Tianshui Sect and Tongtian Sword Sect have intervened. We must unite to gain a share of the opportunities in this secret realm. We must not harm ourselves for the sake of momentary gains."

"Yu Kuohai, stop talking nonsense. What exactly do you want?" an elder from Lieguang City asked with a frown.

"Elder Yang, everyone, please calm down. I only propose that we unite to harvest this spirit herb garden. If other sects try to get involved, we must resist together. What do you think?" the broad-faced man said.

"That's a good proposal. But this secret realm has been sealed for many years, and the harvest from the spirit herb garden will surely be abundant. How should we divide it?" asked the handsome man in blue from Qingsuo Valley.

"Valley Master Fu, the garden has three layers. We can each choose one," Yu Kuohai said.

"Alright, it's settled then," Elder Yang said.

After the three sects agreed, they each led their people into the spirit herb garden.

But moments later, a series of angry shouts came from the garden.

"What is this..." Elder Yang from Lieguang City roared first.

Then, Valley Master Fu from Qingsuo Valley bellowed, "Who got here first..."

Before the noise subsided, another furious voice, almost hysterical, rang out:

"Which bastard even dug up the spirit field?"

Hearing Yu Kuohai's roar, the other two sects were first stunned, then looked at their own spirit fields. Although the herbs with sufficient age had been harvested, there were still some tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years old, and the fields themselves were not dug up.

For a time, curses rose and fell in the spirit herb garden.

Yu Kuohai's face was ashen. Looking at the devastated ground before him, the deep pits seemed to have had a layer of earth scraped off, and the soil was still moist, clearly dug up not long ago.

He leaped into the air, scanning around, trying to find the person who had done such an indecorous thing, but found nothing.

After the three sects cleaned up the remaining scraps and gathered again, they cursed the ancestors of the person who had harvested the herbs first.

"It's useless to keep cursing that unscrupulous fellow now. When we were coming over, people from Huangfeng Sect and Moxiang Tower seemed to have gone to a building not far from us. If we hurry, we might still make it," Yu Kuohai said, suppressing his anger.

"That would inevitably lead to conflict with those two sects..." Valley Master Fu hesitated.

"Just Huangfeng Sect and Moxiang Tower, not behemoths like Tianshui Sect. What's there to fear?" Elder Yang sneered.

"Then it's settled. If they are willing to part with some treasures, fine. If they refuse to yield, don't blame us for being ruthless," Yu Kuohai said coldly.

After the three sects agreed, they immediately flew up and headed over.

But halfway there, they saw people from Huangfeng Sect and Moxiang Tower flying toward them, and their group had been joined by people from Baiyun Villa and Wangyou Pavilion.

The two groups met in the sky, stopping hundreds of feet apart. They looked at each other, their expressions somewhat grim, all having a bad feeling.

"Your place... wasn't it also ransacked?" Yu Kuohai hesitated, then asked tentatively.

"Could it be that your place too..." the gray-haired old woman from Huangfeng Sect raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Even the spirit field was dug up..." Yu Kuohai said through gritted teeth.

"In our place, they almost dismantled the building."

As soon as the gray-haired old woman finished speaking, a voice behind her said, "Grandma, the building was indeed dismantled..."

After comparing notes on what they had seen, both sides cursed in unison: "Which damned bastard did this?"

Hundreds of miles away, in a mountain forest, Han Li sneezed for no reason. He rubbed his nose, feeling that the air around him was a bit dry.

At that moment, his expression was slightly tense, as if he was hesitant.

Earlier, when the secret realm appeared, there were clear fluctuations of breaking prohibitions from outside, indicating that outsiders had entered.

However, to avoid being discovered, Han Li did not use his divine sense to investigate carefully, so he didn't know how many people had entered or who they were.

He was still some distance from the depths of the secret realm. To break through prohibitions and reach there before those who had entered, time was simply insufficient, let alone getting there before them to claim the treasures.

Once he clashed with these people, his identity would be exposed. That would attract people like Qimozi from the Immortal Palace and offend the treasure-seeking cultivators. He was not confident he could retreat unscathed like last time.

However, judging from his experiences in this secret realm, this immortal mansion was definitely not simple, and what lay at its core was certainly no ordinary item.

Most importantly, Han Li could detect traces of time law power from the fluctuations there, which made him extremely eager and unable to make up his mind to leave.

After hesitating for a long time, he still hadn't made a decision, but he thought of a compromise.

Having settled on a plan, he no longer hurried forward. Instead, he released a bit of his divine sense and swept it over the nearby area.

After a moment, he flipped his hand and took out a red mask from the Reincarnation Palace, putting it on his face.

A ripple of light passed, and his facial features changed, becoming a middle-aged man with a wide brow and drooping eyes, looking somewhat dull.

Then, without using any immortal spiritual power, a series of crackling sounds came from his body, and his figure shrank, becoming short and sturdy, like a farmer who had worked the land for years.

Han Li then stopped completely suppressing his immortal spiritual power and released a portion, controlling it to be at the early Golden Immortal stage.

He turned his hand, and a green light gathered in his palm, forming a water mirror.

He looked at himself in the mirror from left to right, stroked his chin, nodded, and a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

Putting away the water mirror, Han Li flickered and leaped into the nearby forest, disappearing from sight.