Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 1030

After about an hour, a tremendous explosion erupted at the crossroads, followed by a chaotic clash of magic and weapons. The cave fell silent again, and Han Li returned with the silver barrier, his face expressionless. He had dealt with the remaining three Rong people using the golden deity and the puppets before heading to the crossroads.

When Han Li arrived, the four Rong people were trapped by the Nine Palaces Heavenly Qiankun Diagram [a powerful formation] and a strong restriction. Han Li immediately joined the battle.

He killed three of them, but the Rong person covered in black fur managed to escape using a bizarre technique he had never seen before. The Rong person exploded their body into more than a dozen bloody streaks to escape. Han Li chased and killed most of them, but two streaks managed to get away.

He was bothered that he hadn’t completely finished them off, but he couldn’t know what would happen to the two remaining souls in the Guanghan Realm. Besides, he didn’t plan to stay here long, so it was best to quickly copy the last golden script and leave.

Han Li activated his Bright Sight Spirit Eyes and slowly examined the barrier in the cave. Upon closer inspection, it contained various kinds of magic characters, and the thick barrier itself felt like a precious treasure made of rare crystal.

Even the dozen or so Rong people couldn’t break through the silver barrier, so there was no guarantee he could either. However, there were ways to break it by force.

Han Li flicked his finger, sending out a streak of blue sword energy.

Bang!

The sword energy was easily deflected, leaving not even a scratch on the barrier. This time, he opened his mouth and spat out a silver fireball. However, the Western Spirit Heavenly Fire [a powerful flame] surprisingly slid off the barrier.

He then tried various other divine abilities and treasures, but the silver barrier remained unyielding. Eventually, he even used the golden deity and the Profound Heavenly Remnant Treasure [a powerful artifact], but he gave up on the idea of breaking the restriction with brute force.

The silver barrier didn’t block the power of the Profound Heavenly Treasure, but the moment a crack appeared in the gap, the stone walls began to vibrate and crack.

Han Li was startled, fearing that the golden script would be damaged, and he quickly stopped the attack of the Profound Heavenly Remnant Treasure, causing his internal energy to backflow and nearly injuring his vitality.

Han Li sat cross-legged and slowly examined the barrier and the magic characters of the formation below. He had a deep understanding of formations, and he remembered the Rong people mentioning the Guanghan Token, which helped him find a clue.

He chuckled with delight, got up, and summoned an antique silver spirit tablet from his sleeve.

Han Li flicked his fingers, absorbing various colored magic seals into the silver spirit tablet. After a while, magic characters popped out and arranged themselves in a regular pattern. Han Li stared at it and then sent over a dozen formation flags onto the barrier.

Buzz!

The flags vibrated, emitting various spiritual lights, which mixed together to form a complex light formation that slowly rotated.

“Go.”

The Guanghan Token trembled and turned into a golden-silver light, flying into the light formation. The next moment, the light formation emitted a strange energy and cried out, and a golden-silver beam of light shot out from the center of the light formation, attacking the silver barrier.

Chichichik!

The silver barrier, which had been unharmed by various attacks, surprisingly melted like snow. However, before long, the magic characters within the barrier gathered and slowly began to repair the melted area of the golden-silver beam.

However, Han Li was not flustered and touched the storage pouch, summoning two golden-silver light masses. They were other Guanghan Tokens. One was hidden from the beginning, and the other was found by searching the Rong person wearing a bamboo hat who was trapped in the Yuan Magnetic Mountain.

Among the Rong people, it was not the strong giant but the Rong person with the bamboo hat who had refined the Guanghan Token. It was quite an unexpected discovery for Han Li.

Of course, the two Rong people trapped in the Yuan Magnetic Mountain had all their belongings taken away and were turned to ashes by the Western Spirit Heavenly Fire. Han Li also absorbed magic seals into the two Guanghan Tokens and sent them into the light formation above the barrier.

Kuururung.

The light formation shook violently, and the emitted light beam tripled in thickness. The silver barrier, which was barely holding on, slowly melted away in the face of immense power.

After about an hour, a bang! explosion occurred, and the silver barrier collapsed and scattered into light. Han Li was overjoyed and made a hand seal, pointing at the light formation.

Bang.

The light formation scattered, and the formation flags and three Guanghan Tokens appeared.

Han Li, having collected the flags and Guanghan Tokens with blue energy, stared intently at the golden characters on the stone wall that were now clearly visible. Unlike his usual calm demeanor, he felt an undeniable joy.

Not long after, a streak of blue light shot out of the great canyon.

Kukung!

A black mountain peak that had emerged from the blue light turned into a giant mountain and struck the great canyon below.

Kung! Kung! Kung!

After the heavens and earth shook several times and the black giant mountain destroyed the great canyon, Han Li finally appeared from the blue light. He looked at the great canyon and waved his hand, causing the giant mountain to shrink into a black light and enter his sleeve.

* * *

On a mountain peak on an island surrounded by a lake, an old man and a woman were sitting cross-legged, recuperating. The old man’s body was glowing with spiritual light, and white streaks of light were circling around the woman.

The woman suddenly opened her eyes and scattered the white energy. At the same time, the old man also withdrew the shining spiritual light and opened his eyes.

“Someone is coming. Could it be Fellow Daoist Han?”

“It could be. But it’s only been two days since Fellow Daoist Han left. Would he be back already? A dozen or so cultivators of the same level are not easy opponents.”

The old man, Seo, also looked puzzled.

“We’ll know if we watch.”

Woman Seonja replied, releasing a white handkerchief to cover her body, creating a white barrier that made her disappear. The old man also took out a blue flag and waved it to hide himself.

After a while, a streak of blue light flew in from the distant sky. Han Li landed on the summit, withdrew his escape light, and smiled.

“I’ve found the magic seals. Please come out.”

“Brother Han!”

“Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Han!”

Woman Seonja and the old man, Seo, exclaimed simultaneously, withdrawing their stealth techniques. They were all filled with joy.

“Did you really copy all the magic seals of the Divine Transformation Technique?”

The woman asked in a trembling voice, as if she couldn’t believe it.

“Haha, of course. If you don’t believe me, take a look for yourselves.”

Han Li smiled and threw a blue jade slip. Woman Seonja reached out and pulled the jade slip towards her, looking puzzled.

It was strange that he was handing over the magic seals he had worked so hard to obtain so easily. The old man, Seo, also looked surprised beside her.

“Then I’ll take a look.”

The woman composed herself and scanned the jade slip with her consciousness, confirming that there were no suspicious restrictions, and then placed it on her forehead. It seemed that her claim of having mastered the Golden Script was not a lie.

Before an hour had passed, a look of surprise appeared on her face. The woman took the jade slip off and gave a wry smile to Han Li and the old man.

“Is there a problem? Surely the golden script in the secret cave wasn’t the Divine Transformation Technique?”

The old man, Seo, asked anxiously, looking uneasy.

“It is definitely the Divine Transformation Technique. It’s just that even with a cursory glance, the cultivation conditions are so harsh that it seems difficult to find anyone who can master it even in the Spirit Realm. It’s a secret art of the True Immortal Realm, so it’s naturally extraordinary. But the jade slip only contains the first half of the technique. I wonder what the second half contains.”

Woman Seonja gave Han Li a meaningful look. The old man, Seo, looked at Han Li involuntarily after hearing her words.

“Yes, only half of the technique is written there. If you two pass on the Golden Script as promised, I will give you the rest.”

“Hahaha, that’s no problem. We agreed to pass on the Golden Script in exchange for you sharing the technique, so of course, we should. But the Golden Script is so profound that it will take some time to master.”

The old man laughed and answered cheerfully to Han Li’s proposal.

“Since Brother Han has obtained the magic seals, I will also keep my promise. However, this place is close to the secret cave and is not safe. Let’s move to another place to talk.”

Woman Seonja also smiled at Han Li’s condition.

“That makes sense. Let’s move right away.”

When Han Li agreed, they all flew up and flew away at an astonishing speed. Five days after they left the island, a dozen or so Rong people appeared in the sky above the distant great canyon. However, they looked grim as they saw the great canyon that had been reduced to ruins.

* * *

Han Li and his group sat cross-legged in a secluded cave far away. They set up a base here, and as the woman and the old man took turns teaching the Golden Script, Han Li mastered it day and night.

And after half a month, having mastered the Golden Script, he neatly copied the remaining half of the magic seals, handed over the jade slip, and left the cave.

With the opening time of the Guanghan Realm not far away, it was time for them to find a secret place separately and focus on breaking through the bottleneck of cultivation.

Han Li spent the remaining time searching for a desolate mountain, digging a cave inside, and mastering the Divine Transformation Technique.

Even with the help of the mysterious power in the Sumeru space within the ruins, he had not reached the Fusion Stage, so it was still too early to break through the bottleneck using ordinary methods. It would take time to stabilize his cultivation by skipping two stages at once.

Most of the alien cultivators who entered the Guanghan Realm had been hovering at the peak of the Void Refinement Stage for hundreds or even thousands of years before entering this place.

It was said that during the last two months of the Guanghan Realm’s opening period, the spiritual energy became the most concentrated, increasing the probability of breaking through the bottleneck.

Therefore, the alien cultivators who entered the Guanghan Realm were usually divided into those who trained hard and those who searched for treasures.

Of course, there were also those who entered the Guanghan Realm with completely different purposes, like Woman Seonja, but in any case, everyone tried to reach the Fusion Stage during the last two months.

It was unprecedented for someone like Han Li, who was not even in the late stage of Void Refinement, to enter the Guanghan Realm and reach the late stage of Void Refinement here.

The Golden Script was so difficult that even after studying it for about a month, he had only barely grasped about half of its contents. And that was the easiest and simplest part of the Divine Transformation Technique. Only then could he understand what Woman Seonja meant when she said it was difficult to master.

The Divine Transformation Technique was a great divine ability even in the True Immortal Realm. The magic seals contained the laws of heaven and earth, and once mastered, one’s consciousness would become incredibly strong. The technique was divided into three levels. Mastering the first level would double one’s consciousness, the second level would quadruple it, and the third level would increase it eightfold.

The terrifying increase in consciousness showed why the Divine Transformation Technique was considered a great divine ability even in the True Immortal Realm. However, as great as the effect was, the difficulty of cultivation was also great.

It was a technique that could only be mastered by cultivators above the Transformation Stage, and the only prerequisite was that one’s consciousness and body must be strong enough to withstand the domineering technique. If one’s consciousness suddenly doubled, the cultivator’s body and consciousness might not be able to withstand it and could die.

According to the magic seals, to cultivate the first level, one’s consciousness had to be more than twice as strong as that of an ordinary cultivator of the same level, and the physical requirements were also strict. Even cultivators who had focused on training their bodies would barely meet the passing criteria.

It was difficult to achieve either one, but it was even more difficult to strengthen both consciousness and body at the same time. Ordinary cultivators tended to have weaker bodies compared to their consciousness, and the top-level body refiners who had specialized in body refinement lacked in consciousness.

The prerequisites for mastering the second and third levels were even stricter. It was no wonder that Woman Seonja, who had focused on magic power, was greatly disappointed after seeing this.

However, the last part of the magic seals described a way to solve the prerequisites. It was to take a pill that had never been heard of before, and two pill recipes were included.

The names of the pills were the Mighty Strengthening Pill and the Soul Condensing Pill, which would improve the body and increase the power of consciousness, respectively. If taken together for a long time, they would slowly create a body capable of mastering the Divine Transformation Technique.

Pills with such mysterious effects could not possibly be from the Spirit Realm. The recipes included detailed instructions on how to refine them, as well as the ingredients, but none of the main ingredients had ever been heard of. It was impossible to refine the two pills in the Spirit Realm.

However, Han Li was relieved after seeing the cultivation conditions for the Divine Transformation Technique. His consciousness, which followed the path of both magic and body cultivation, far surpassed that of cultivators of the same level due to the Great Development Technique, and his body was also unimaginably strong with the help of the Devilish Heavenly Art and elixirs that strengthened the body.

Therefore, he could immediately begin cultivating the first level without doing anything. In the case of the second level, his consciousness barely met the requirements after cultivating the first level, but his body was still lacking unless he mastered the Devilish Heavenly Art to the extreme or had another fortuitous encounter.

The cultivation conditions for the third level were enough to make him smile wryly just by looking at them. In any case, the effectiveness of the Divine Transformation Technique, which doubled one’s consciousness, was undeniable. Even mastering just the first level would increase the probability of reaching the Fusion Stage by 20%.