Chapter 529 – Unwelcome Guest

　　The door to the alchemy room was closed for a full three years. When Han Li calmly walked out of it one day three years later, the demon dans had all been turned into various cherished pills.

　　For the first two years, Han Li had naturally spent all of his time refining pills that used grade five demon pills as the main ingredient.

　　Although these pills had no significant effect on him nowadays, if any of them fell into the hands of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, it would definitely be something that would make them ecstatic and dream of it.

　　After the refining of these pills, it finally allowed Han Li’s application of alchemy to rise that much higher. After all, even a genuine alchemy master wouldn’t have the opportunity to practice with so many demonic dans to squander at will. For an ordinary alchemist, being able to use thirty to forty demonic dans to refine a dan demon in one’s lifetime would be considered something extraordinary.

　　Even if the differences between the methods of practicing each type of elixir were small, there were always some commonalities among them that Han Li could learn from. In this way, after these many times of practicing cherished pills, Han Li’s alchemy skill was actually hardened to a level higher than the rumored Dan Masters. As a result, this allowed Han Li to naturally increase the rate of pills when he utilized his Grade 6 or 7 Demon Pills later on. This made Han Li extremely pleased! Otherwise, with the cherished degree of a grade six or seven demonic elixir, even Han Li couldn’t afford to waste it so easily.

　　After the alchemy ended, Han Li rested for a month. During this period, Han Li made a few more trips to the insect room, looking at the tricolor gold devouring insects and the original unevolved gold devouring insects within the two insect rooms respectively.

　　When he was in the alchemy room, he had let the puppet take turns feeding these two types of Gold Devouring Insects the neon grass that spread their leaves. As a result, an extremely bad news for Han Li appeared. Although the three-colored Gold Devouring Insects ate the neon grass as usual, the grass seemed to have lost the special potency that could make them cranky and excited, and there was no unusual change at all after they finished eating it.

　　At the beginning, Han Li also thought that the time is too short, the number of gold-devouring insects is too much reason, Neishang grass effect is so not obvious. So under the heart doubt, he now let special isolation of hundreds of three-color gold-devouring insects specifically feed the second grass, to observe its habits change. But after several times of feeding. These Gold Devouring Insects are still the same as before, and do not have any unusual reflections.

　　This caused Han Li to feel depressed for a while. Now he could conclude that the Nei Shang Grass had truly lost its miraculous effect of catalyzing reproduction on the evolved Gold Devouring Insects.

　　Although he didn’t know what the mystery was inside, there was no doubt that he had now lost the method of allowing the three-colored Gold Devouring Beetles to rapidly reproduce for advancement. These beetles were using one less than the other!

　　Now he had no choice but to go back to his old ways and have the puppet focus on feeding the neon grass to those gold and silver colored unevolved gold devouring insects.

　　Now that these Gold Devouring Insects were getting more and more irritable, it seemed like it wasn’t far from the next breeding. After dealing with all of this, Han Li reorganized his mood and entered the retreat room.

　　He was prepared to cultivate the eighth layer of the Qing Yuan Sword Skill with the assistance of various pills, so that he could impact the middle Jie Dan realm.

　　Sitting cross-legged on a futon in the closed room, Han Li touched out an earlier prepared pill bottle from his storage bag. Then he poured out a dragon’s eye-like elixir with a reddish glow, sent it into his mouth with one hand, and swallowed it with a tilt of his head.

　　Feeling the medicinal power that was slightly starting to heat up within his abdomen, it allowed Han Li to silently recite the eighth layer of sword techniques and slowly close his eyes.

　　Time passed unnoticeably as Han Li was concentrating on practicing his Sword Skill Dharma power within the cave.

　　This process of constantly taking pills and then refining the medicinal power to transform it into spiritual power was boring and tasteless. The good thing is that Han Li is determined to achieve great success in the technique, so that he can have the power of self-preservation, and under this kind of mindset, he doesn’t feel bitter.

　　Fifteen or sixteen years passed in the blink of an eye. Han Li finally broke through the bottleneck of the middle Dan stage and cultivated the eighth layer of the Qing Yuan Sword Technique.

　　While he was excited, he wasn’t in a hurry to leave the gate immediately. Because there was still a large portion of the pills remaining in his hand, he naturally wouldn’t fail to finish practicing them. Thus, Han Li, who had just entered the middle stage of dan formation, forced himself to calm down and continue practicing the ninth layer of the sword skill.

　　The ninth layer of the Sword Technique was naturally several points more difficult than the previous layer.

　　Spring went to winter, autumn passed and summer arrived, and year after year passed, but the door to the retreat room remained tightly closed. Everything inside the cave, also began to lay a thick layer of dust. It was as if this place had gradually become a piece of ancient tomb ruins!

　　It was a calm morning in the waters near the Sea of Mist, some early risers circled low over the sea, occasionally emitting a few shrill chirps, a peaceful scene in all directions.

　　But a few moments later, the far side of the sky suddenly have light flashing, and then a number of green and red light, wind and electricity like flying towards the fog sea this side.

　　After a while, finally can see clearly the distant light in the figure, even is three women and two men several cultivators desperately running to this side. Among them, except for a middle-aged man in his forties who was at the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the other four were all Qi Refining Stage cultivators, all between seventeen or eighteen and twenty-three or twenty-four years old, extremely young! These few people sped this way in a panic while still looking behind them from time to time, as if something was chasing them.

　　In the blink of an eye, these few people flew to the vicinity of the Sea of Mist.

　　”Senior Uncle Sun! There’s a patch of sea mist ahead, let’s go inside and rest for a moment! Otherwise, without waiting for those things to come after us, we all won’t be able to support them first.” Among the five people, a yellow-clothed young girl who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, said to the middle-aged man with some shortness of breath.

　　This young girl, with a round face, big dark eyes, and a baby fat look, looked very playful and cute. But at this moment, she was sweating profusely, her face was pale, and she looked like her mana was about to run out.

　　”This ……”

　　The middle-aged man was stunned at his words, and after looking at the other three men and women, he realized that although their situation was a bit better, they were also not strong enough to go there.

　　”Alright, go to the Sea of Mist and slightly recover your mana, then leave immediately. Those guys, even if they lose some distance, they will still pursue us relentlessly, so it’s better to be cautious. If we’re really caught up, we’ll never survive.” The middle-aged cultivator hesitantly glanced back again before reluctantly agreeing.

　　These words instantly caused the several young men and women, each of them revealing joyful colors.

　　The cultivation of the few of them was really shallow, and to be able to keep flying away from here was already barely enough. Even though they knew that it was extremely dangerous to stay now, they couldn’t care less.

　　The direction changed and flew towards that foggy sea.

　　”The sea fog here is really dense, maybe if we stay here, we can hide it from those guys’ tracking!” Another stout young man in his twenties said in surprise once he entered the sea of fog soon after.

　　”Don’t be paranoid. Although we don’t know what method the other party used to be able to follow us closely, it’s by no means something that a little bit of the sea of fog can deceive us through. Everyone fly lower and see if there are any reefs or other resting places below, and use the method of meditating to recover mana a bit faster.” The middle-aged cultivator nonchalantly refuted, causing the stout youth’s face to slightly redden as he took the lead to vanish down below. The other few naturally didn’t dare to lag behind and followed closely.

　　”Huh! There’s an island here!” A moment later the yellow-shirted young girl suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

　　Without the need for this girl to remind her, the other several people also saw clearly the island under the thick fog, and could not help but look at each other in dismay.

　　”There won’t be any other demonic beasts here, right?” A young female cultivator with a blue skirt and ordinary appearance was a bit scared.

　　”There shouldn’t be such a coincidence, besides, we can’t care anymore. Hurry up to the island to restore our mana!” The middle-aged man was also a bit hesitant at first, but then made up his mind.

　　Seeing this, the others did not say anything more, and together they lightly landed on top of the island.

　　”It seems like the aura is good there, where shall we meditate!” Once the middle-aged man landed on the ground, he released his divine sense to sense the situation of the island, and finally pointed a finger in surprise and said.

　　The direction he pointed to was exactly where the only small mountain range on the island was located. When those men and women heard this, they couldn’t help but be energized.

　　Then without saying a word, the middle-aged cultivator took the lead and flew over, and the remaining four other male and female cultivators hurriedly followed. Now that being able to recover some more mana might allow them to escape, they naturally refused to let go of this rare place with spiritual roots.

　　After a while, several people arrived at this small mountain range that was covered in verdant greenery. Casually find a small low peak, hands each holding a spiritual stone, began to wait to sit on their knees, inhaling the thick spiritual qi in its vicinity.