A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality c1-2248

by Translator: Johnchen

  Because he used his magic tool to simply descend into his own dwelling, his return hadn’t aroused anyone’s attention. He then returned to his room without anyone knowing.

  Sensing that this newly acquired set of Qi restraining incantations was quite practical, he opened the ancient book to cultivate it that night.

  The incantation was a minor skill that used a bit of spiritual power. With the support of Han Li’s profound magic power, he had no difficulty grasping it.

  After one night, he almost completely grasped it.

  On the morning of the next day, just as Han Li finished his Qi refinement meditation and felt that his luck was quite good, he suddenly heard a smothered “Bang” from within his storage pouch. It seemed that something had broke.

  Han Li’s expression immediately became very unsightly and gloomy. After a moment, he reached out for his storage pouch and took out a violet bead. It was actually exactly the same magic tool he gave the old Daoist. However, the bead’s sparkling and glossy appearance was split with several deep cracks.

  After a moment of silence, Han Li suddenly walked out of the room, and after checking that no one was in the courtyard, he immediately took out his Divine Wind Boat. With a flash, he boarded the small boat and silently disappeared from the Qin Residence.

  After a quarter hour, Han Li appeared at a small village outside Yuejing. With a still expression, he surveyed the village and its surroundings from the sky as if he were looking for something.

  Eventually, at some remote hills several kilometers away from the village, Han Li stepped off the small boat and stared unwaveringly at a huge poplar tree.

  After a long while, Han Li’s hands formed a magic incantation as he softly spat out the word “Retrieve”.

  From the tree’s deeply buried roots, a ball of green light carrying a bead flew out. This bead was a lustrous purple and had several cracks on it. From the size of the cracks, it unexpectedly appeared to be the exact same as the one in Han Li’s hand.

  Han Li sighed and beckoned the ball of light, causing it to fly toward his hand.

  When it entered his grasp, the ball of light immediately vanished into Han Li’s body. Only the bead remained in his hand.

  Han Li muttered to himself for a moment before suddenly shooting a fist-sized fireball from his finger towards the roots of the large tree. In an instant, the poplar tree turned to ash and left a large crater in the ground.

  Han Li stepped forward and carefully examined it, but he didn’t discover anything.

  “It’s most likely that he was caught up in some evil scheme,” Han Li muttered to himself, shaking his head.

  Actually, the true name of the “Purple Light Bead” magic tool that he originally chose to give the old Daoist was “Purple Light Response Bead”.

  These magic tools were refined in pairs. Not only did they release a defensive light barrier, but when one bead’s light barriers was broken, so long as the other bead was within five hundred meters, it would suffer the same damage, quite incredibly.

  These magic tools were extremely common defensive magic tools carried by Dao Companions of the of the Harmonic Bond Sect. After several melees on the border of the State of Yue, he had acquired many of these magic tools. Because he felt they were rather strange, he hadn’t sold them.

  When he gave the old Daoist this magic tool, it was actually so that if the old Daoist encountered any mishap, Han Li would immediately know.

  He absolutely did not think that the old Daoist would use this magic tool after just one night. All of this seemed to point to disaster.

  This went far from Han Li’s expectations and had caught him rather unprepared!

  Han Li motionlessly stood next the hole as if he were contemplating something.

  After the time it took to make a cup of tea, Han Li expression seemed to stir. He expressionlessly threw out the Divine Wind Boat and boarded it, flying far off in a streak of white light.

  This small overgrown hill seemed to have returned to a state of peace. Apart from the chirping of small birds, it seemed lifeless and still.

  “Huuu...”

  After an hour, a nearby deep voice exhaled for a while.

  Over thirty meters away from the large crater, a person slowly emerged from below a shrub. He was tightly covered in black cloth from head to toe. A pair of dark glossy eyes could be seen as well as a yellow light barrier.

  But when this person’s entire body came out, the yellow light barrier immediately weakened and soon completely disappeared without a trace.

  After this figure emerged, he diligently took a look at the sky in every direction. Then he said with a deep voice, “Come out! He left!”

  After this was said, several locations nearby started to shift, and three similarly dressed people emerged along with their own similar yellow light barriers. However, one of the figures appeared to have a thin, woman’s stature.

  “Eldest Brother, what do we do? We were instructed to capture or kill anyone who came here, but we helplessly let this person go. Won’t there be consequences?” A lanky, recently emerged individual couldn’t help but anxiously ask this. From his voice, it seemed he was fairly young.

  When the person who first emerged heard this, he couldn’t help but tremble. He was greatly worried about what the lanky figure had said. They all knew from experience that the ones giving them these orders were vicious.

  “It shouldn’t be a problem! When they gave us our objective, they didn’t say that the person who would come was a Foundation Establishment cultivator. This is something far beyond our capabilities. If we had acted, we would only be courting death,” the “Eldest Brother” said without much confidence.

  “Humph! Eldest Brother speaks correctly. How could we subdue a Foundation Establishment cultivator? I also don’t trust those people. They truly didn’t give us the slightest explanation!” The third individual was the sole female. She said this with dissatisfaction.

  After hearing those words, the other three couldn’t help but bitterly smile and look at each other in dismay. This little sister of theirs was still so naive even though her life was hanging in the hands of a mysterious enemy. Why would the other party give them an explanation!

  “However, it's not that they didn’t give us the slightest explanation. I reckon that they just didn’t expect there would be such a huge fish. Else, why would they hand this matter over to us? They would have had a Foundation Establishment cultivator assist us at the very least,” the last person to emerge said. He had a tall and thin stature.

  “That’s right. If we give them a clear explanation, we shouldn’t be too badly punished!” The person with lanky stature hastily agreed as if his spirits had risen.

  But if anybody else heard this, who wouldn’t think these words were anything but self-comfort?

  “Even so, it is a bit strange. For some reason, I feel like I’ve seen this young Foundation Establishment cultivator before. He seems somewhat familiar!” He softly muttered to himself with a slightly puzzled appearance.

  Those words greatly startled the other three.

  That girl was especially surprised. Great curiosity flashed through her eyes, wanting to ask further on this matter.

  However, the person they referred to as “Eldest Brother” suddenly waved his hand and interrupted, “Enough, we must hurry and leave this place. Let’s leave these matters for later.”

  When the woman heard this, she could only swallow her question and nod her head in agreement.

  Chapter 298: Captured Alive

  “Could you tell this one where you intend to go?”

  Without waiting for them to take out their flying magic tools, a cold voice suddenly came from the sky.

  This ice cold voice chilled them to the bone, causing this masked group of four to become completely pale from fright. They all cast defensive magic almost simultaneously and then scattered, not daring to turn their head.

  About a hundred meters up in the sky, Han Li was standing
on his Divine Wind Boat with fluttering clothes. He was expressionlessly looking at them with a gaze containing a ghastly chill.

  Their hearts similar sunk as they all thought the same thing. ‘When did this person return? Why didn’t we sense him in the slightest?’

  “Scatter!” Their leader, the Eldest Brother, shouted without hesitation.

  He then took the initiative to fiercely retreat. At the same time, he threw out a disk magic tool from his bosom and stepped on it, flying away.

  The other three scattered in different directions and flew off.

  These people clearly understood that they fundamentally couldn’t resist a Foundation Establishment cultivator and that it would be better to immediately fly off since their chances of survival would be a bit higher.

  The young woman had the weakest magic power among them. Thus, even though she quickly flew on her flying magic tool, she couldn’t help but turn her head to look at Han Li in the sky.

  As a result, she was surprised by what she saw.

  Han Li was standing on the small boat without moving in the slightest. He didn’t appear to be taking any actions in pursuing the four. Along with the woman’s amazement, she was also secretly delighted to no end, thinking there should be a good chance at escaping unscathed.

  But at this moment, she suddenly heard an extremely frigid and sharp hiss come from her front.

  With alarm, the woman hastily turned her head around and saw a blinding red arrow of light shoot from the sk, heading aggressively straight toward her.

  Aghast, the masked woman raised her hand and threw out an ice spear technique just in time.

  When that lustrous ice spear touched the red light, it shattered into white mist. It was unexpectedly unable to obstructing the red arrow of light in the slightest, allowing it strike against the water-attribute barrier protecting her body.

  Blue light and red light then filled her vision.

  Her body vibrated and was forcibly pushed back by over ten meters, but seeing that her barrier remained intact, the woman sighed deeply from relief.

  At this moment, she took a glance in front of her with fright and anger. Could it be the Foundation Establishment cultivator had comrades lying around in ambush for them?

  After she clearly saw ‘who’ was in front of her, this masked girl‘s black eyes went blank as if she couldn’t believe what she saw.

  In front of her were two floating soldier figurines dressed in armor. One of them held a large bow and was currently drawing back the bow with a red light arrow. The other one was holding a broad long saber emitting yellow light as it slowly flew toward her.

  Although the woman was shocked by the fact that these rigid objects could attack her as true people could, she knew that if she didn’t deal with these figurines’ attacks, she wouldn’t be able to smoothly escape.

  With this thought, she clenched her flawless teeth and took out a blue lustrous throwing knife from her storage pouch.

  The high-grade magic tool she held in her hand had cost her all of her savings. Normally, she would absolutely hate to use it, but right now she had to urgently escape and didn’t have much choice.

  “Go!”

  The girl softly shouted. That throwing knife then turned into a streak of blue light and shot toward the figurine that was approaching her.

  The blue throwing knife arrived in front of the figurine in the blink of an eye, fiercely chopping at its head without the slightest hesitation.

  Against the masked woman’s expectations, a soft “Dang” sounded out. The figurine had raised its long saber with surprising speed and struck the blue throwing knife before continuing to fly mechanically towards the woman.

  The masked woman’s expression greatly changed. Pointing to her magic tool, she commanded it to fly out for several meters and loop in a circle, striking the figurine on its return.

  But what happened next left her dumbstruck. As if the figurine had eyes behind its head, it struck the magic tool approaching from behind.

  This time, the woman was truly panicking!

  Just as she thought to come up with something else, a sharp hiss could be heard as the bow figurine shot out an arrow.

  With no better option, the masked woman hastily flew to the side, wanting to dodge the arrow.

  But much to her surprise, this red streak of light seemed to be manipulated; it mimicked her movements and followed her, catching her off guard. She could only brace for another impact and hope her barrier could hold up once more.

  It was at this moment that the saber-wielding figurine finally arrived in front of her and used its long saber to break through her barrier without resistance.

  Unwilling to allow the enemy to succeed so smoothly, the masked woman hastily moved to escape.

  Thus, the two figurines attacked her from both close range and from a distance. With the cultivation base of the masked woman repeatedly exhausted from her continuous retreats, any kind of escape was out of the question.

  But when the sweat-drenched young woman commanded her throwing knife to block the figurine's attack with great difficulty, the figurine that was attacking her in close quarters leaped away from her. At the same time, the archer figurine lowered its bow and no longer attacked.

  When the woman saw this, she couldn’t help but be shocked. Then she heard a sigh come from behind her, “Sigh! Fifth Sister, you must come back!”

  Having heard this, she stopped and then slowly turned around.

  She saw three masked men dejectedly standing behind her. Behind each of them were three or four figurines similar to those that were also next to her. Apart from the soldier figurines, there were also actually several tiger beast figurines among them as well.

  As young woman swept her gaze past them with an appearance of despair, she was subconsciously compelled to return to her original position.

  Her three elder brothers had spiritless gazes as if they were already under control.

  The masked woman raised her head to look at Han Li in the sky and sadly tossed her throwing knife magic tool to the floor. She no longer put up any resistance.

  When Han Li saw this, he raised his hands with no trace of politeness and sent several streaks of green light burrowing into her body, causing her to feel as if a ghost had possessed her. Her body’s true essence became obscure, and she could no longer move as she wished.

  With this finished, Han Li didn’t make any inquiries. Instead, he waved his hand and pulled them onto the Divine Wind Boat he was sitting on.

  He couldn’t stay at this place long. If he didn’t leave, it was likely he might encounter an expert, which would be greatly problematic.

  He randomly chose a direction away from Yuejing. Then, Han Li and the four turned into a streak of white light and flew away.

  Not long after, two people appeared where Han Li and the four had been. However, these people’s clothes were a concentrated red similar to the color of blood, causing anyone who would’ve seen it to feel uneasy.

  The two took a look around before standing in front of a large hole where the large tree used to be.

  After a moment of silence, one of the two suddenly sighed and said, “It seems those five friends from Meng were defeated!”

  This person’s voice sounded a bit old. Upon hearing it, one would assume the speaker was not young at all.

  “Humph, there are no remains! Not only did they fail, they must’ve also been captured alive. As there isn’t the slightest scent of blood here, it seems the newcomer was able to capture those four quite easily.” The other person said this with an appearance of disdain. This person didn’t seem old, appearing to be around twenty years old.

  “This is a bit troublesome! The five friends of Meng Mountain aren’t the useless sort, else their lives wouldn’t have been spared and they would have already become blood sacrifices. I suppose they hadn’t been overwhelmed by a large number of Qi Condensation and were instead captured by a Foundation Establishment cultivator,” the first person
said with a bit of concern.

  “What? Are you afraid those people will reveal our secrets? They’re only a few cultivators that our school has recruited from nearby. They simply don’t know any of our school’s secrets. Furthermore, before I sent them on their assignment, I had already activated their seal in secret. They will only live half a day more at most.” The youth lightly laughed and said this without paying any mind.

  “Oh! That’s good. If it's only half a day more, they won’t be able to leak anything. With their bodies having been subjected to the blood incantation restrictions, by the time they discover something is amiss, they will no longer be able to say anything,” the old man said after letting out a breath.

  However, the old man changed the subject and said somewhat darkly, “However, why did this happen? Did we not discuss this? We were supposed to turn that old Daoist Wu into our puppet and have him act as your master so that you can slowly show your face in the cultivation world. In this way, our school will be able to carry out our plan and have the core disciples appear in the cultivation world with an open identity. Why would you suddenly barge into that old Daoist’s room and suck in his blood essence? You shouldn’t be lacking in any magic power supplements!”

  After hearing the old man’s words, the masked youth bitterly laughed several times and couldn’t help but say, “You think I did it for a supplement? I had no other choice!”

  Chapter 299: Harboring Thoughts

  “Then why?” The elderly person exclaimed in a low voice, feeling shocked.

  “My magic power backlashed, and I desperately needed a cultivator’s blood essence to suppress the true essence in my body. Apart from you, the only nearby cultivator was old Daoist Wu. I can’t use you, can I? Just then, the backlash was truly too vicious; it happened two days earlier than I anticipated, and I was almost unable to suppress it,” the young person said with a bitter laugh; evidently, he was still quite afraid!

  “So it’s like that. While it’s not your fault, you will still need to properly explain this matter to the higher ups. But based on my estimation, this may have arisen because you were too hasty in cultivating your Black Fiend Asura Technique. You shouldn’t go to the blood prison to cultivate for now. Instead, take some time to consolidate your foundation before pressing onward!” The elder slowly said this after thinking for a moment.