Chapter 154 – Xu Lao and the Hidden Room

　　The hall that Han Li was in was very peculiar, it was a cylindrical oversized room, with a diameter of about thirty feet on the left and right, and a height of four or five feet high, and surrounded by light red crystals inlaid on the green rock walls, and a thin layer of white sand on the ground, making the entire hall appear clean and tidy.

　　But if someone looks up, it will be shocked to find that the roof of this hall actually has an upside down white milk columns, and densely packed everywhere, this is a rare stalactite caves, this place is only slightly transformed to form today’s appearance.

　　In the hall around the average distribution of three channels, two of the channel side were carved with an ancient text with a “ware” word and a “Dan” word, the last channel is empty, what is not shown near the label.

　　At this time, the hall was empty, Han Li scanned a glance, hesitated a little, and walked towards the passage engraved with the word “Dan”.

　　This passageway is not long, after walking a dozen steps and turning a corner, a slightly larger house appeared at the end of the passageway. Inside this house there is a long table, there is also a red-faced old man standing beside the table, is smiling and looking at Han Li.

　　Behind the table were several worn shelves standing against the wall, which were filled with a variety of cauldrons, raw materials, as well as some miscellaneous strange items that Han Li had never heard of before.

　　Before Han Li could speak, the old man opened his mouth with a joyful smile, “This little friend, look at your face, it’s your first time here! Nowadays, newcomers are getting fewer and fewer in this hellish place! I’ve long been tired of seeing all those dead-faced guys, it’s great to have a younger newcomer here!” The old man shook his head and said, with a rather impish look on his face.

　　However, Han Li had already detected that the Heaven’s Eye Technique had no effect on this old man, and could not see the depth of the other party, which meant that the old man was yet another Foundation Establishment Stage expert, so how could he dare to neglect him!

　　Thus, he hurriedly saluted and said, “Latecomer has met senior, senior nephew is indeed coming to Yuelu Hall for the first time, please give senior some guidance!” Han Li put his posture very low.

　　”If there’s anything you don’t understand here, just feel free to ask, little friend. Also my surname is Xu, call me Uncle Xu or Old Xu. Don’t be all elder long elder short, old man doesn’t like to hear that!” The old man hastily revised Han Li’s title for himself, seeming to be very concerned about it.

　　”Then ……, the late generation will comply!” Han Li hesitated for a moment before agreeing indifferently, feeling that the other party was really a bit eccentric.

　　”That’s right, now tell us the purpose of being here.” The old man surnamed Xu said with satisfaction.

　　”The late generation would like to find some formulas and books related to pills to have a look at, and would like to study the way of alchemy.” Han Li tried his best to make his words seem tactful and circuitous, not wishing to draw this person’s attention.

　　”Recipes and books on alchemy, huh? Just follow this staircase up!” To Han Li’s surprise, the old man did not make any move to pursue him, and after casually taking out a black token and sending out a spell, a stone staircase leading up to the roof appeared out of thin air in the empty space between his back and the shelves.

　　Han Li was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked quickly to the vicinity of the staircase, and was about to move up, when this Xu Lao suddenly revealed a devious look.

　　”Viewing the collection of books on the second floor, charging one low grade spirit stone for an hour, not allowed to take the originals out of here, and if you want to copy the contents, you’ll need to pay another copying fee of ten spirit stones per copy.”

　　Not yet waiting for Han Li stepped on the stairway, has been in the back of the Xu old, unhurriedly said the relevant provisions, so that Han Li’s figure a stagnation, almost want to curse up.

　　This charge is also a little too high! Not to mention the copying fee of ten low rank spirit stones, even the browsing fee of one spirit stone for one hour would cause many shy disciples to scurry away.

　　To know, a low-ranking disciple a year down through various jobs can only earn twenty or thirty pieces of spirit stones! Then counting the daily consumption of various cultivation and expenses, that can actually save the spirit stone is only a few.

　　So the other side of this kind of charge, absolutely is black hearted very! Let Han Li on this old man’s senses immediately turned a hundred and eighty degree turn, really a big trader ah!

　　Although Han Li’s face had more than a trace of dissimilarity, but the person did not have any more stops because of the old man’s words, instead, he tossed his head back without looking back, and threw a low-grade spirit stone into the old man’s hand, and quickly stepped up to the second floor himself.

　　”Interesting ah! Surprisingly, he wasn’t intimidated by such a charge, it seems that he’s still a small wealthy man. Oh, looks like there’s another small fortune to be made!” This self-proclaimed Uncle Xu, seeing Han Li’s such a bold move up the stairs, he couldn’t help but squint his eyes into a curved moon shape with joy, and rubbed the spirit stone vigorously on the corner of his coat for a few moments before placing it in front of his eyes to take a closer look at it, with an iron rooster’s face exposed, and the easygoing look he had seen at the start was already very different.

　　And at this time Han Li, forced to suppress the depression in his heart, let the mood calm down some, before carefully surveyed the things on the second floor.

　　Completely different from his imagined wide and bright, with countless books and bamboo slips and such items stuffing the large room, this second floor of the house was not small, but the things placed there were really pitifully small.

　　Two black bookshelves, a dirty table, and a broken chair. This was all that was in this house. Of course there were still twenty to thirty yellowed old books on that bookshelf, and on the table there were a few bundles of tattered bamboo slips, and two jade cylinders that could no longer be seen in their original color.

　　”So shabby? I’m not going to the wrong place, where is this the secret pavilion of a great Immortal Cultivation sect’s book collection! It’s clearly the tattered bookstore of some poor scholar’s house.” Han Li was immediately struck by the scene inside the house. If he wasn’t concerned about Xu Lao’s unfathomable magical power, he almost had the urge to immediately go downstairs to grab the other party’s collar and ruthlessly question him.

　　After taking a deep breath, Han Li calmly walked to a bookshelf, then casually pulled out an old book and carefully flipped through it.

　　”The five elements of heaven and earth, the five viscera correspond, the golden needle stabbing bit, can be transformed into essence to generate yuan ……” This book he only read a few sentences at the beginning, immediately greatly surprised, could not help but close this book, looking toward the book cover.

　　”Hua’s golden needle secret art” five large words, appeared in front of Han Li.

　　Han Li’s face “swish” a very ugly. Not that this book is not good, the content of this book is indeed one of the world’s rare golden needle healing secret method, and even has the potential to bring the dead back to life and stimulate the potential of the patient’s miraculous effect. But what is the relationship between this golden needle art and alchemy? What annoyed him even more was that he had already read the book countless times at Dr. Mo’s place, and could even recite it backwards and forwards. This was clearly a secular medicine book, how could it appear here in a dignified manner?

　　A series of questions appeared in Han Li’s mind, causing him to tighten his brows in great confusion. However, when his gaze landed on the remaining books on the shelves, a hint of an even worse premonition loomed over his heart.

　　Han Li seven-handedly flipped through all of those remaining old books, one by one. Whenever a book was turned over, the gloomy color on his face deepened a few points, when even another bookshelf books are all over again, Han Li’s face has been as dark as a storm before it comes.

　　These twenty books were none of the alchemy books, either the secret art of curing the sick and saving people, or the strange and difficult prescription of miscellaneous diseases. The most bizarre thing was that there was a book that was actually a poison master’s self-description of poison scriptures, all of which were used in the secular world.

　　”One hour is up, if you read on, you have to add another spirit stone!” Suddenly that Xu old man, downstairs shouted a voice.

　　When Han Li heard this, he was somewhat speechless, just such a pile of garbage books, also want to charge spirit stones? However, when his eyes turned to the items on the table, he still luckily felt out another spirit stone from his body and threw it down the stairway.

　　”Spirit stone received, little friend continue to look, old man won’t disturb!” Xu Lao, who was downstairs, said with a smile.

　　Han Li didn’t pay any more attention to the old man, as he was well aware that for the other party who didn’t conceal his desires, it no longer mattered whether or not he was respectful to him, what mattered was that he was able to shell out the spirit stones to continue to bring him revenue.

　　However, Han Li also did not have the intention of throwing another piece of spirit stone for nothing, so he this time flipped through the action of the bamboo brief on the table, obviously much faster than just now, and only look at the general content can be, no longer detailed sentence-by-sentence reading.

　　Under the soft white light of a large moonstone on the roof, Han Li’s complexion flipped along with several bundles of bamboo slips, suddenly happy and suddenly heavy, uncertain. After flipping through all of the bamboo slips, Han Li piled them back up and sighed lightly.

　　This time, what was recorded on these bamboo slips were really the formulas of several types of pills and some dispensing insights. But unfortunately, from the composition of these pills, these are the same as Han Li’s “Yellow Dragon Pill” and “Golden Medulla Pill” almost the same efficacy of the elixir, now on the Changchun Gong has reached the eleventh layer of Han Li, there is no longer any utility to speak of.

　　In this way, Han Li’s only hope rests on those two fist-sized jade cylinders, hoping that the things recorded inside will not let him return empty-handed.