Chapter 515: Sudden Wealth

After returning to the island, Han Li put away the formation plate again, placed it back into the Eight Treasures Heavy Case, and stored it in his storage bracelet. He then continued to inventory the items he had obtained from Feng Tiandu.

Compared to Xiao Jinhan, Feng Tiandu had fewer elixirs and medicinal pills, including both formulas and finished products, which were far inferior in quantity and quality.

However, Feng Tiandu's collection of spiritual materials was far richer than Xiao Jinhan's.

Among them, there was half a jin of Tianhe Star Sand, over a dozen palm-sized Luo Cai Xia Jing, and seven or eight bottles of Yin Chen Dark Water. All three were essential spiritual materials for refining post-natal immortal artifacts, and even a tiny amount could cause a frenzy of competition among immortals at a grand auction in a celestial domain.

In addition to these metal and stone materials, Feng Tiandu also had two silver-threaded immortal vines, each a foot long and as thick as a child's arm. This item was a renowned top-tier puppet immortal material in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain, a priceless treasure that could only be found by chance.

According to unofficial historical records he had read in some texts, puppets refined from this material possessed bodies comparable to true immortals, and could develop meridians like those of immortals, allowing them to circulate immortal spiritual power like living beings and use celestial techniques beyond their innate abilities.

After putting away all these items, Han Li's gaze fell on a bamboo staff as green as jade.

This item was only three feet long, as thick as an adult's thumb, and had nine segments in total. Only each joint emitted a faint white luster. Although it was already rootless, it still appeared full of vitality, and was surprisingly an object imbued with the law of wood.

Although he himself cultivated the law of time and had an earthbound incarnation cultivating the law of water, and rarely dealt with other attribute laws, he still knew how precious objects containing law power were.

Especially for cultivators who cultivated the law of wood, this bamboo staff was a treasure that could only be found by chance.

When Han Li needed to condense law threads of time in the future, he would also require a large number of time law objects, and he could try to exchange this item with other cultivators then.

Apart from this green bamboo staff, none of the remaining items caught Han Li's interest.

However, this was not because the remaining items were worthless, but because his standards were now too high. Otherwise, even the pile of immortal origin stones, which was larger than Xiao Jinhan's, would have been enough to shock a large number of true immortals.

After finishing the inventory of Feng Tiandu's items, Han Li paused briefly, then refined Gongshu Jiu's white storage bracelet and took out all its contents.

With a clattering sound!

A mountain of immortal origin stones, twice as high as the combined total of Feng Tiandu's and Xiao Jinhan's, appeared in the forest clearing. The stones slid down slowly, piling up to the edge of the clearing, forcing the other treasures to be gathered together and placed on the other side.

Standing before the mountain of immortal origin stones, which was taller than himself, Han Li's mouth slightly opened, and he was too astonished to speak.

After a long while, he murmured to himself, 'A Taiyi cultivator carries this many immortal origin stones...' before putting them all away.

Adding the stones from Qu Ling, Xiao Jinhan, and Feng Tiandu, his total number of immortal origin stones now reached nearly two million. Even a major power's entire sect might not have much more than this.

This feeling of sudden wealth made Han Li's heart flutter, and he felt somewhat elated.

However, he soon calmed down.

The path of cultivation ahead was long, and the resources required were incalculable. Just collecting time law objects like the Tai Fei Single Eye would require countless resources, not to mention refining rare elixirs like the Time Dao Pill.

Even just to cultivate to the Taiyi realm, these two million immortal origin stones might be far from enough.

At this thought, Han Li felt the previous surge of elation completely subside.

He went to the other end of the clearing and continued to examine Gongshu Jiu's belongings.

The first thing that caught his eye was a large multi-tiered wooden rack, hung with a dazzling array of Wuchang Alliance masks of all kinds—ox-headed ghosts, snake gods, dragons, tigers, phoenixes, turtles—over a thousand in total.

He scanned them from top to bottom and immediately showed a look of surprise.

Among the various masks, there were those counted with the character 'Jiao' (flood dragon), those with 'He' (raccoon dog), as well as those with 'Long' (dragon), 'Xiao' (owl), and 'Hu' (fox).

Looking at these beast masks, ranging from blue to red, Han Li couldn't help but feel a sense of sorrow for the fallen. He thought to himself that if he had died at Gongshu Jiu's hands, his own masks would probably have been hung on this rack as well.

'At least I won't run out of masks in the future...' He sighed lightly, then chuckled, and with a sweep of his sleeve, he put away the entire wooden rack.

Since Gongshu Jiu's storage was so abundant, Han Li decided to first pick out the elixirs and pills, gathering all the bottles and jars together to inventory them.

Gongshu Jiu had a considerable number of elixirs, and their grades were very high. Most of them Han Li did not recognize, and he guessed they were Taiyi-level elixirs.

However, Han Li was also a Heavenly Alchemist. By observing the smell and properties of the elixirs, he could roughly deduce that most of them were for healing and recovery, and only two types could promote cultivation.

Coincidentally, the jade bottles containing these two types of elixirs each had a gold foil label with their names written on them: 'Yuqing Dan' and 'Yiyuan Dan.'

However, to his slight regret, only one pill each of Yuqing Dan and Yiyuan Dan remained in the two jade bottles.

Since the gold leaf was also made of a special material, he wanted to examine it carefully as well.

As a result, the moment his hand touched it, light bloomed on the gold leaf, and golden characters appeared in the void.

"Jade Yang Marrow, Wind Spirit Seed, Nine-Leaf Dogwood..." Han Li looked at the names appearing on it and understood.

What was recorded on this gold leaf was precisely the prescription for refining this pill.

Counting carefully, Han Li also checked the names and properties of the medicines against the spiritual herbs collected by Gongshu Jiu, and found that most of the medicinal ingredients had surplus, with only a few not yet gathered.

"With the prescription, it's easy to handle..." Han Li curled his lips into a smile and said slowly.

Having said that, he picked up the last black jade box, tore off the golden talisman stuck on it, and opened it.

As the lid slowly opened, a rich fragrance of medicine rushed toward him.

Han Li swept his gaze and saw a pill as white as jade lying in the jade box. On its surface, three golden patterns coiled, with mist rising above them, condensing into a white auspicious cloud three inches above the pill.

"Dao patterns..." Han Li recognized the three golden patterns at a glance and couldn't help exclaiming in surprise.

This white pill was actually a third-grade Dao Pill containing the law of Qi.

The rarity of Dao Pills was self-evident. Before they were formed, they had to undergo a pill tribulation, so the success rate was extremely low. Thus, this third-grade Dao Pill was absolutely a priceless treasure.

Overjoyed, Han Li held it in his hands, looking at it again and again, unwilling to put it down.

After a long while, he closed the jade box, affixed the talisman, and put it away.

After sorting out the pills, Han Li took a good rest before beginning to inventory Gongshu Jiu's magic treasures.

Perhaps because at the Taiyi level, reliance on magic treasures was even weaker than at the Golden Immortal level, the number of treasures in Gongshu Jiu's storage bracelet was extremely small, only two后天仙器 (postnatal celestial artifacts).

As for ordinary magic treasures, there were none at all.

One of them was a small bronze bell covered in verdigris, only the size of a palm, looking as if it had just been unearthed, decayed and worn.

But when Han Li tried to crush it with his Golden Immortal cultivation, he found it impossible.

In addition, he discovered another oddity: when the bell was suspended in the air, no matter what he struck it with, the bell never made a sound.

So in the end, he could not discover the true method to use this treasure.

The other celestial artifact was a strangely shaped black war blade, a full five feet long, with the blade and handle each taking half, covered with ancient thunder-cloud patterns.

At first, when Han Li tried to infuse it with immortal spiritual power, the strange war blade would tremble and hum, all the thunder-cloud patterns turning golden, with golden electric sparks flickering within, and waves of thunder power emerging.

But later, when he infused it with the power of the Thunder Peng within his body and the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder from the Green Bamboo蜂云剑 (Bee Cloud Swords), the war blade trembled even more violently, the thunder-cloud patterns flickering on and off, showing obvious rejection.

With a thought, Han Li summoned the Crab Immortal.

As soon as the Crab Immortal appeared, he only glanced briefly at the spoils still on the ground before looking away.

"Fellow Daoist Han..." he said calmly.

Han Li's eyes flickered as he said, "The previous battle yielded quite a bit, and this Thunder Cloud War Blade is one of them. Fellow Daoist Crab, you are skilled in thunder techniques, why not give it a try and see if it suits you?"

The Crab Immortal did not rush to answer. He glanced at the war blade, and his expression changed slightly.

"What's wrong? Is there something amiss?" Han Li noticed and immediately asked.

"If I am not mistaken, this blade is called 'Slash Thunder,' a famous divine weapon in the Black Earth Immortal Domain," the Crab Immortal said slowly, his eyes not leaving the war blade.

"Black Earth Immortal Domain... It seems your memory has recovered quite a bit?" Han Li raised an eyebrow and said.

"Ever since coming to the North Cold Immortal Domain, fragments often flash in my mind. Recently, they have become more frequent, and the fragments I didn't understand before are gradually connecting. Indeed, I know more now," the Crab Immortal did not deny, replying.

"It's fine. I don't mind. Since you can recognize this blade, it means it has a connection with you. This 'Slash Thunder' war blade is yours," Han Li smiled and said.