Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 904

“But, Cultivator Han, are you planning to stay here for long?”The old man suddenly stopped the telepathic communication and asked so that others could hear.”The Yin energy here is too dense, making it unsuitable for my cultivation. Also, I have matters to attend to outside, so I don’t think I can stay long.”Han Li paused for a moment before speaking honestly. Upon hearing his words, Yuan Yao’s face turned slightly pale, but quickly returned to its normal color.Only Lian Li, who was standing next to her, noticed it. Lian Li raised the corners of her mouth, making a strange expression, but immediately turned her gaze away.”Then, have you found a way to leave this place?””Not yet.””Heh heh, then there’s no need to look! I can’t do anything about entering this place, but there is a way to leave. Otherwise, how could I live in the Floating Clan’s sacred ground with peace of mind? I will personally use a technique to send you out in a few days.””Thank you, Senior!””Don’t be too happy. I’m not one to do things without a price. If you want to leave, you’ll have to make another deal with me.”Before the color of joy could fade from his face, the old man sent another telepathic message.”A deal?””Cultivator, are you perhaps interested in the Netherworld Divine Essence?””Are you saying that you possess the Netherworld Divine Essence and wish to trade it?”Han Li asked, startled, trying to gauge the other party’s intentions.”If I had stayed in the Netherworld for so long and failed to obtain the Netherworld Divine Essence, others would laugh at me!”The old man sneered as if it were nothing.”Do the Floating Clan know about this? Moreover, the Netherworld Divine Essence is guarded by two Nether Lightning Beasts.””Do you think two Nether Lightning Beasts can do anything to me? Of course, there is also a way to obtain the Netherworld Divine Essence without attracting the attention of others. Moreover, I didn’t take a large amount at once, so do you think they would come after me?””…If it’s the Netherworld Divine Essence, I definitely want it. But I don’t know if I have anything that would catch your eye, Senior.””Did I ask you for something right away?””You mean…””I cannot leave this space to delay the upcoming Heavenly Tribulation [a trial by the heavens that cultivators face]. But there are some things I need. If you gather those things from the outside and bring them back within a thousand years, I will exchange them for a bottle of Netherworld Divine Essence. What do you say, are you willing to make a deal?””I will decide after seeing what items you want, Senior.”Han Li did not answer immediately, being cautious. The old man, Kang, was rather pleased with his cautious attitude and flicked his sleeve, sending a blue jade slip flying.As soon as Han Li received it, he infused it with his consciousness, and his expression darkened as time passed. After a while, he smiled at the old man after pondering.”Senior, although there aren’t many items in the jade slip, I only know about one or two tenths of them. Also, the ones I’ve heard of are extremely rare, making them difficult to obtain without encountering a fortuitous encounter. I’m worried that you might be overestimating my abilities.””Do you think the Netherworld Divine Essence is an ordinary treasure? It’s a spiritual liquid that even Body Integration stage cultivators yearn for, risking danger to obtain it. Also, I’m not asking you to bring back all the items listed in the jade slip. Just find two-thirds of them and return, and the Netherworld Divine Essence will be yours.””Two-thirds? Then, it’s not entirely hopeless.””Then, I’ll take it that Cultivator Han accepts the deal. Then, sending you out of the Netherworld can be considered a down payment for the deal.””Do I have a way to refuse?”Han Li scratched his nose and gave a wry smile.”Good. I’ll send you out of the Netherworld in two days!”* * *Two days later, on the summit of an unnamed mountain, a huge formation spanning over a hundred yards was deployed. Around the formation, eight tall towers stood, each with a huge flag inscribed with incantations fluttering in the wind.Han Li stood at the center of the formation, while Elder Kang, Yuan Yao, and Lian Li stood outside the formation.Elder Kang was flicking his sleeves and looking up at the gray sky. In the high sky, a huge white trace, about a hundred yards in size, was faintly visible, fluctuating.”Cultivator Han, with the power of my formation, I can send you out, but I don’t know where you will be teleported to. But rest assured, you won’t be sent to another continent, and you will fall into the area where the Bi Ling Clan resides.”After a while, the old man spoke to Han Li.”Thank you, Senior.””Well, it’s time. Now, I’ll let you leave the Netherworld. Oh, yes, take good care of these. If you want to gather enough items and return here, you can return by following the method written here. But you can only use it once.”The old man reached out and threw two items. Han Li quickly reached out and checked the items, his face showing surprise.”A Reverse Star Compass! You even possess such an item.”What he was holding was a white glowing disc and a dark blue jade slip.”Oh, it’s not easy to recognize such an item. But this is not a true Reverse Star Compass, but a mere imitation. Even so, the materials needed for refining it are not easy to find, so I only managed to make a few and used them all up. Oh, yes, take the Gold Devouring Beetles that I sent out to explore that day.”The old man flicked his sleeve, and a wooden jade pagoda wrapped in blue energy flew out. The treasure spun around, emitting two golden flower buds.”To cultivate adult Gold Devouring Beetles, it’s something that’s difficult to achieve without a fortuitous encounter. But no matter how great the adult Gold Devouring Beetles are, these spirit insects that live in groups cannot exert great power until they reach a certain number. A few of them can be trapped by a high-level cultivator in wood or stone-attribute treasures.It’s better to focus on cultivation than to put effort into raising Gold Devouring Beetles. Of course, if you can raise thousands of adult Gold Devouring Beetles and control them at will, you can roam most of the Spirit Realm. Ordinary treasures cannot contain so many Gold Devouring Beetles.But if there are so many adult Gold Devouring Beetles, the consumption of consciousness would be extreme, and even a Great Ascension stage cultivator like me would not be able to handle it. If you were to raise the legendary Gold Devouring Beetle King, even a Celestial Immortal, not just a Great Ascension stage cultivator, would not dare to treat you carelessly!”Elder Kang chuckled lightly as he spoke.”Gold Devouring Beetle King?”Han Li raised his eyebrows at the unfamiliar term.”How do you not know about it? Well, only the Floating Clan or a few alien races deeply related to spirit insects would know about the Gold Devouring Beetle King, so it’s understandable that you don’t know. I can’t explain everything to you one by one, so go look it up in books. The Gold Devouring Beetle King is a long-standing rumor, and no one has ever been known to have actually raised one, so don’t research it too deeply.”The old man finished speaking and immediately formed a hand seal with one hand.Krrrr!Then, a roar resounded, lightning struck, and dark clouds gathered. Amidst the fierce wind, only the old man’s incantation could be heard clearly.After a while, something astonishing happened.Whoosh.The huge flags on the eight towers trembled simultaneously, and the entire formation began to vibrate. Colorful threads of light bloomed around the formation and flowed into the eight flags.The giant flags gradually emitted a brilliant light and an astonishing pressure of spiritual energy. Each time a part of the formation lit up, the incantations collapsed.And Han Li, standing at the center, could clearly feel the power contained within the incantations. He took a deep breath with a tense expression. Seeing this, Yuan Yao outside the formation looked worried.At that moment, a low shout was heard from the old man.Shweee!The eight giant flags spun around, shooting thick pillars of light into the high sky. Seeing this, the old man flicked his sleeve towards the void, and a blue sword of light appeared above the formation.”Cut!”The old man shouted and pointed at the sword of light. The blue sword immediately cut through the white trace in the void.Whoom whoom whoom!The surrounding air vibrated, and in the tense atmosphere, all the heaven and earth spiritual energy seemed to be sucked into the blue sword. Amazingly, before cutting the white trace, the sword had grown enormously, covering half the sky.Swish!The blue sword cut through the white trace in the void with a single stroke.The old man waved his outstretched hand, and the sword collapsed, turning the white trace into a black crack, and eight huge incantations appeared around it. The golden incantations were all huge, as big as houses.At that moment, incantations flew out from the formation beneath Han Li’s feet.”… !”Han Li felt a chill down his spine as the incantations turned into colorful energy and enveloped him. His vision blurred, and he felt as if the sky and earth were turning upside down.A strange wind sound was heard, and a colorful pillar of light shot out from the center of the formation, and everything was sucked into the black crack.Whoom!At the same time, the light of the formation faded, and it stopped operating. The inside of the formation was empty, and Han Li could not be found anywhere.”Master, has Brother Han really been teleported out?””Don’t worry. The technique was successfully completed, so he should be back in the Spirit Realm by now. If fate allows, he will return in a few hundred years at the earliest, or a thousand years at the latest. There will be a day when we meet again.”There was a playful tone in Elder Kang’s words, as if he had noticed something. Yuan Yao’s face turned slightly red, and she could not find an excuse, so she looked up at the sky.The black crack slowly sealed, turning into a white trace, and gradually disappeared.”Junior Sister, let’s go back. As Senior Kang said, if fate allows, we will meet again someday. Although your cultivation is not as good as Cultivator Han’s now, with Senior Kang as your master, it will be different in a few hundred years, won’t it?”Lian Li also approached, put her hand on Yuan Yao’s shoulder, and smiled.”Heh heh, you speak well. Although Cultivator Han is extraordinary, if I personally teach you, it won’t be difficult to bring you to the Void Refinement stage. Of course, I am also 40 to 50 percent confident in bringing you to the Body Integration stage.”Elder Kang said confidently.”I will repay Master’s great kindness by cultivating with all my strength.”Yuan Yao hid her troubled heart and bowed to the old man with a moved expression.When Han Li was teleported out of the Netherworld, in the wilderness far from the Black and White Mountain Range, the Six-Eyed Clan, the White-Haired Beautiful Woman, Zhi Xue, and the Purple-Blooded Puppet were struggling to hold out against the tide of spirit insects.The spirit insects rushing in from all directions had wings on their backs and hook-shaped stingers on their tails, resembling scorpions. The monstrous insects were about three to four feet long, extremely ferocious, and fearless of death.The Six-Eyed Clan had transformed into a giant black insect, shooting countless black rays from its body, killing the surrounding insects. The Purple-Blooded Puppet, carrying Zhi Xue, had grown a thousand times larger, shooting beams of blood-red light from its six eyes.The White-Haired Beautiful Woman, wearing black armor again, activated the strange hammer above her head, turning the surroundings into a green sea of fire to block the monstrous insects. Although the Six-Eyed Clan’s group had the upper hand, their expressions were all dark.It was because no matter how many monstrous insects they killed, they kept coming endlessly.* * *About ten miles away from the battle, a monstrous insect with a mantis body and a human face was floating in the air. He watched the demon kings fighting, his eyes gleaming ominously.Above him, a semi-circular object with a diameter of a hundred yards was shining with silver light, sending countless monstrous insects to the demon kings far away.