Chapter 507 – The Dark Side of the Willow

　　Han Li received the finger ring and slipped it onto one of his fingers without hesitation.

　　The old man smiled faintly at this.

　　”Alright, you may enter the city. You can have a small half-day of free time during the day each day, and the rest of the time the entire city is under martial law. When the big battle starts, the ring will naturally transmit a message to beckon you to go, so you can just wait in the cave.” After saying this, the old man slowly closed his eyes and said no more.

　　Han Li looked deeply at the old man for a couple of moments before walking straight towards the city.

　　Entering the city gates, there were few people on the streets of Tianxing City at the moment, and only one or two cultivators could be seen occasionally, flying around in the sky. Mortals are mostly hiding in their homes, a color of depression.

　　Han Li’s face was as normal, but his heart secretly celebrated. Looking at this situation, the city’s market was definitely in a state of closure nine times out of ten, and if he hadn’t prepared the necessary items in advance on Nanming Island, I’m afraid that he would really have an incomparable headache at this moment.

　　Han Li gave a low, light laugh, and turned into a green rainbow that flew into the air, and then headed straight for the Holy Mountain’s cave.

　　When passing through the marketplace at the foot of the holy mountain, Han Li couldn’t help but glance down. Sure enough, all of the stores were in a closed state, and there was not a single ghostly shadow. Han Li lightly shook his head and, without stopping for more, flew towards the thirty-ninth floor of the Holy Mountain.

　　As soon as he entered the area of the Holy Mountain, Han Li keenly felt that the security was even tighter than that of the outer city, and just the divine sense that was secretly sizing him up had more than a dozen waves, but fortunately, as soon as these divine senses swept into the yellow ring on his hand, they automatically left, and there was no one who appeared to come out and interrogate Han Li.

　　What made Han Li’s brows furrowed was that there was even a late JieDan cultivator’s divine sense among them.

　　Han Li pretended to be unaware as he flew to his cave in front of it in a single breath. The prohibition outside the cave residence was the same as when he set out, without the slightest change.

　　However, after Han Li stood outside the restriction for a while, he let out a long sigh. This time’s outing hadn’t been very long, but he had been caught between life and death several times, even to the point of having to abandon the cave that he had stayed in for nearly a hundred years, which really made Han Li feel a little sad.

　　He used the forbidden token, silently released the forbidden system, the person slowly walked in. Everything inside the mansion naturally remained as it was.

　　Han Li first went to the most concerned insect room to take a look, and saw that all those Gold Devouring Insects were safe and sound, and only then did he really let go of his heart. However, he immediately used an early prepared spirit animal bag will all the gold-devouring insects are loaded into it, and then went to the medicinal garden a trip, will be the spirit medicine are picked down collectively into the storage bag.

　　After doing all of this, Han Li let out a sigh of relief and slowly walked to the bedroom, laying down on the bed and began to properly contemplate his future plans.

　　One had to kill a Reverse Star Alliance cultivator of the same rank before he could use the teleportation array to the Outer Star Sea. This condition wasn’t too difficult for him. However, Han Li was worried that he feared that before the great battle had even begun, the people of the Star Palace would have learned of the news that the Void Sky Cauldron might be in his possession; after all, he couldn’t estimate when those old monsters would vanish out of the Void Sky Hall. If those old monsters leaked out the news, he would definitely be dead.

　　Other than that, he had another concern. Although it was unlikely, he was also afraid that even if the conditions were reached, the senior management of the Star Palace would play another trick, and he would still be unable to use the teleportation array with dry eyes.

　　After all, even if the higher-ups reneged, what could they, the cultivators, do to each other?

　　Therefore, although he did not move at the city gates and agreed to the Star Palace’s conditions. But right from the start, he didn’t intend that he would honestly wait for the Star Palace’s summons.

　　He was going to probe the guard situation near the teleportation array to see if he could secretly teleport out. If the guard was really slack, he would naturally take the opportunity to escape.

　　As for whether or not he would completely offend this behemoth of the Star Palace, anyway, sooner or later he would be targeted by that group of YuanYing stage old monsters, so he seemed to care about this matter as well.

　　With such self-congratulatory thoughts, Han Li drifted off to sleep on his bed. After a few twists and turns, he was indeed somewhat exhausted physically and mentally.

　　On the second day, Han Li woke up in high spirits.

　　As the sky dawned, he slowly walked out of the cave and flew into the air to look around.

　　Although the number of cultivators was still far less than the usual number, the number was vastly different than when he entered the city yesterday, and it seemed that he could move freely at this time of day.

　　Han Li did not have much hesitation, driving up the recluse first in the vicinity of the flying circle, see there is no one to monitor and pay attention to their own, then straight to the fiftieth floor and go.

　　The guard on the road was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and it didn’t take long for Han Li to fly to the sky above the Starry Sky Hall with its teleportation array. He didn’t stay for a moment, pretending to pass by as he swept over the hall. But in that short moment, Han Li’s divine sense quietly probed into the hall.

　　At first, it went smoothly, intruding into most of the outer hall without any obstacles, but as soon as the Divine Sense approached the inner hall, a layer of green and yellow prohibitions suddenly appeared. Fortunately, Han Li saw the opportunity quickly, and did not really touch this forbidden system hastily withdrew the divine sense.

　　At the same time, the expression on his face sank. Although according to estimation, this bit of prohibition shouldn’t be able to stop his divine sense from forcibly invading, but in doing so, it would alert the attention of the cultivators within the hall, and Han Li wouldn’t do something as foolish as this.

　　In the air, he couldn’t help but lock his eyebrows together.

　　Because of the prohibition, he didn’t detect the number and cultivation level of the cultivators remaining inside the hall. However, YuanYing stage cultivators should not appear here, and it would be great if there were at most mid or late stage JieDan cultivators in the hall. After all, compared to other important places, this Starry Sky Hall will not be too much attention from the Star Palace hierarchy.

　　Han Li flew out far enough distance, only after a big circle, slightly deviated from some of the original route, flying back again.

　　This time when passing by the side of the Star Palace, Han Li was a little reluctant to once again put out his divine sense to see if he could find any breaks in the Palace’s forbidden system. However, without detecting any flaws in the forbidden system, a raspy voice suddenly entered his ears.

　　”Fellow Daoist Zhang, how is the situation? What did the guy guarding the teleportation array say, can’t we pay 3,000 spirit stones per person? That’s the maximum amount we can offer.”

　　When Han Li heard this, he was first startled, then his heart moved again, his eyes darted toward the two cultivators flying low in the distance, and his recluse speed slowed down.

　　These two cultivators, one is a black-faced gray shirt middle-aged man, another is a yellow skinny cut man, both of them are the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment cultivation. Which sentence just now, is the black-faced middle-aged man rushed to the skinny man some anxious asked out.

　　The two were cautious, and alone in a no man’s land whispering, but in Han Li’s powerful divine sense of the shroud, or word for word clearly heard.

　　”Hush! Be careful, or pass on your voice to talk about this matter.” The chipped man glanced around somewhat nervously, while Han Li was extremely vigilant in instantly concealing his figure and immediately entered a state of convergence, so he naturally didn’t notice anything. At the same time, Han Li will divine sense from other places immediately retracted, all focused on the two people, ready to forcefully eavesdrop on the two people’s voice transmission.

　　This was also because Han Li’s divine sense was far superior to the two, so he could do it unknowingly, otherwise other JieDan stage cultivators would only be able to eavesdrop on the two’s voice transmissions in conjunction with several rare top-ranked secret techniques.

　　”Although the other party is a little distantly related to me, but privately releasing someone to the outer star sea is still a not insignificant risk to bear. He said that unless five thousand spirit stones a person, don’t even think about it. This is still on the basis that we are all Foundation Stage cultivators and are dispensable to the Star Palace. If it was a JieDan stage cultivator, he would never let half of them go even if he was given more spirit stones.” The thin man let out a bitter smile and somewhat helplessly transmitted his voice.

　　”Five thousand, he really treats a few of us as fat sheep, we’re just Foundation Establishment Stage casual cultivators, where would we get together so many spirit stones.” The black-faced middle-aged man’s face was ugly as he growled lowly, but he finally knew what to say with his voice transmission technique.

　　”But continue to stay in the inner sea is too dangerous, we loose cultivators may be involved in this great calamity at any time, by that time our little lives are gone, but also want to have spirit stones what is the use. After all, we have also projected that the Star Palace and the Reverse Star Alliance have similar strengths, and it is likely that the great war will continue for several years, or even decades. I don’t want to hide all day long. As for the spirit stone, all of us should still have a lot of rare materials on our bodies, right, barely put together can also be used as a spirit stone against the other side. At this point, that person will still sell me this face.” The chipped man sighed and said persuasively.

　　”This won’t work! Are we going to let us all lose everything just to teleport to the Outer Star Sea? What am I saying that I’m not willing to do.” The black-faced middle-aged man shook his head straight in disbelief as if he was a miser.

　　”Forget it, it’s better for the two of us to see what the others decide on this matter.” The thin man seemed to be equally distressed and said with some reluctance.