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

by Translator: Johnchen

  Now, he was placing the giant cocoon into this beast room, and he would only have to wait for some time for the Weeping Soul Beast to complete its evolution.

  Han Li took one final long look at this cocoon before departing from this room, heading for his medicine garden instead.

  The Ninecurl Spirit Ginseng, Dragon Scale Fruits, and other spirit medicines in the garden were quite rare even in the Spirit Realm, so Han Li had to treat them with care.

  The only thing that was missing was the Profound Goddess's Palm that Han Li had painstakingly nurtured.

  The palm had borne fruit in the human world, but it had completely wilted and disintegrated into dust as soon as Han Li took this fruit.

  What was even more incredible was that the several cuttings he had taken from the palm in advance also disintegrated.

  Thus, there was no way for him to plant it again.

  It was most likely the case that not only had all of his cuttings been ruined, all of the cuttings carried by others had to have also ceased to exist.

  That was the effect of the law of exclusivity.

  No Profound Goddess's Palms could exist in the same world, and that was something that Han Li couldn't change.

  Even the Deity Transformation and Spatial Tempering cultivators in the Spirit Realm were powerless to alter the laws of heaven and earth; they were only capable of using the world's origin Qi around them.

  It would take beings of higher levels to be able to control such things; perhaps beings as powerful as heavenly true spirits would be capable of such a task.

  This was also an indication of just how much the Profound Heavenly Fruit defied the natural order.

  At the thought of the Profound Heavenly Fruit that he had finally obtained after several hundred years of work, Han Li was struck by a sense of excitement and elation.

  Due to his ascension and his subsequent complete loss of magic power, he hadn't had any time to carefully inspect the Profound Heavenly Fruit.

  Now, he had some time before he had to report back to Deep Heaven City, and that was a sufficient interval for him to do some research on the fruit.

  As such, after setting up all of the required restrictions outside the cave abode, Han Li made his way into a secret chamber and sat down onto the ground with his legs crossed.

  He flipped a hand over, and a pristine white box appeared over his palm.

  The surface of the jade box was plastered with seven or eight restriction talismans, all of which were shimmering with spiritual light.

  After a brief hesitation, Han Li tore off the talismans before slowly removing the lid of the box.

  A shimmering white object that was several inches in length appeared before Han Li's eyes.

  He extended a hand to extricate this object from the jade box, then carefully inspected it while stroking it with his finger.

  The object was of a thin oval shape, and its surface was extremely smooth. It was ever so slightly yellow in color, and one end was slightly blunt, while the other was completely even, as if it had been chopped by a blade. It looked like a small oval rod.

  However, it was only around half a foot in total length.

  On the surface of the rod, there was a series of indecipherable dark green patterns. The rod appeared to be made from something that was a blend of metal and wood, and it was quite supple to the touch.

  This peculiar rod was the fruit from the Profound Goddess's Palm.

  The humanoid puppet had informed him that in the beginning, the fruit from the palm wasn't like this in the beginning. Instead, it was a spherical fruit that was shimmering with white light, and it only became like this after being fertilized by the green liquid for years on end.

  Han Li was rather speechless when he first caught sight of this strange object.

  Back when he had just obtained this fruit, he had only examined it for a short time, but he was still struck by how peculiar this thing was.

  However, he was busy working toward ascension to the Spirit Realm at the time, so he didn't put in any diligent research.

  After a brief pause, Han Li carried the object with one hand while extending a finger from his other hand. Azure spiritual light flashed from his fingertip as he gently tapped it against the rod.

  The azure spiritual light tremored as if it had come into contact with some kind of restriction before completely dissipating, unable to penetrate so much as a single millimeter into the fruit's surface.

  Han Li raised his eyebrows, but he wasn't surprised to see this. This fruit had always rejected any injections of spiritual Qi, and no spiritual power could be infused into it. After staring at it for a while longer, a thought occurred to Han Li as golden light shimmered from the hand that was carrying the fruit. A peculiar scene then unfolded; Han Li was able to sink his fingers into the fruit with ease, causing it to warp and distort as if were made from soft dough.

  However, when Han Li released the fruit again, it instantly reverted back to its original rod form.

  Han Li suddenly opened his mouth to expel a thin golden thread, which circled around the fruit once before returning to Han Li's mouth.

  However, the sword thread formed by the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword wasn't even able to leave the slightest trace on the surface of the fruit. Han Li was quite intrigued to see this, and he flicked his finger to blast an arc of golden lightning onto the rod.

  The arc of lightning was repelled by the fruit, striking a corner of the secret chamber, causing the entire chamber to tremor slightly due to the force of the resulting explosion. Han Li's brows furrowed slightly as he grabbed the air with his other hand, following which an egg-sized ball of silver flames emerged over his palm. Han Li immediately tossed the fruit into the fireball without any hesitation, but Han Li was disappointed by what he saw next.

  As soon as the fruit was hurled toward the fireball, the latter suddenly dissipated into specks of silver flames before materializing to form that Spirit Engulfing Fire Raven in the air several tens of feet away.

  As soon as the Fire Raven appeared, it stared intently at the fruit with horror in its eyes, letting loose a few sharp and urgent cries to express its fear.

  Han Li's brows furrowed even further as he grabbed ahold of the fruit again. His Spirit Engulfing Heavenly Flames were a culmination of the most powerful Yin and Yang flames; how could it be terrified of a piece of fruit? That was truly a surprise to him.

  Could it be that this fruit was even more mysterious and profound than he had anticipated?

  Immediately thereafter, Han Li brought out his glacial flames, wind blades, and various other types of attacks to experiment on the fruit, only for it to remain completely unscathed throughout this sustained assault.

  Han Li had even brought out a few Gold Devouring Beetles from the insect room and placed them onto the fruit.

  In his memories, the Gold Devouring Beetles were capable of engulfing anything and everything, yet they displayed a similar reaction to the Spirit Engulfing Fire Raven, hurriedly flying away in a panicked frenzy with no intention to try and devour this object whatsoever.

  Han Li then tried using his Law Destruction Eye to attack the fruit, all to no avail, either. Despite Han Li's vast array of abilities, he was completely stumped and was left scratching his head.

  He then injected all of his power into his eyes, upon which piercing blue light erupted from his pupils. He was trying to glean the internal structure of this fruit using his spirit eyes.

  Much to his surprise, his spirit eyes revealed to him a pea-sized speck of white light within the fruit that was flashing in an extremely feeble manner.

  Han Li was immediately reinvigorated upon making this discovery. However, further inspection yielded no other results.

  During the next half a month or so, Han Li was almost constantly carrying out experiments on the Profound Heavenly Fruit. During the final few days, he even set up a few profound miniature formations within his secret chamber, trying to use the power of the formations to
refine this fruit, but none of that worked, either.

  On the final night, Han Li stroked the Profound Heavenly Fruit with his finger, but his expression was completely calm and devoid of urgency.

  It appeared that without encountering any miraculous opportunities, he wouldn't be able to do anything to or with this fruit. However, after transcending his emotions of frustration and urgency, his mental state had become more resolute than ever.

  As such, the past half a month or so wasn't a complete waste of time. However, he had to return to Deep Heaven City the next day. With that in mind, Han Li cast his gaze toward the Profound Heavenly Fruit in his hand again, this time, choosing to inspect the dark green patterns that he had paid minimal attention to in the past.

  All of a sudden, an extremely peculiar look appeared in Han Li's eyes as a startling thought occurred to him.

  The diagram depicted by and the colors of the patterns suddenly reminded him of something.

  There was another object with similar patterns on its surface and even though its color wasn't completely identical to that of the Profound Heavenly Fruit, it bore a strong resemblance.

  Why hadn't he thought of this object before?

  Chapter 1328: Chaotic Myriad Spirit Roll

  Han Li suddenly reached for his storage bracelet, and a nondescript-looking leather bag appeared in his hand.

  He tipped the bag over, and a small green vial came tumbling out into his grasp.

  It was none other than that mysterious little vial.

  Han Li held the vial in one hand and the Profound Heavenly Fruit in the other as he inspected the two side by side through narrowed eyes.

  The two items were different both in shape and mass, but the dark green patterns on their surfaces really did bear a strong resemblance.

  Could it be that the two objects were connected somehow? Could it be that the mysterious little vial was refined from a Profound Heavenly Fruit?

  Han Li's heart rate began to accelerate as he considered the small vial's incredible abilities.

  The more the thought about it, the plausible this notion seemed.

  The small vial was made from a different material compared to the Profound Heavenly Fruit, but it was also a material that he had yet to decipher the origins of.

  He inspected the objects in his hands before exhaling as he cast his gaze toward the small vial.

  All of a sudden, he placed the Profound Heavenly Fruit on the ground before removing the lid off the mysterious little vial.

  A drop of green liquid dripped soundlessly onto the fruit.

  The scenes that followed struck Han Li with a sense of elation.

  Azure light flashed from the drop of liquid before it disappeared into the Profound Heavenly Fruit.

  Brilliant blue light erupted from Han Li's eyes again as he gleaned the internal situation within the fruit.

  As soon as the drop of green liquid disappeared into the fruit, it immediately fused with the speck of white light at its center. A few moments later, the feeble speck of white light expanded slightly.

  Han Li's heart stirred upon seeing this, but there were no further changes to the white light following further observation, and the blue light in Han Li's gradually faded.

  He lowered his head with a contemplative expression as he considered what he'd just seen. It appeared that only the mysterious green liquid in the small vial had any effect on the Profound Heavenly Fruit.

  He didn't know what purpose that speck of white light could serve, but it appeared that the only way to find out was to continue feeding the green liquid to the fruit.

  After thinking to himself for a long while, Han Li carefully stowed away both the small vial and the Profound Heavenly Fruit.

  He was going to infuse the green liquid into the fruit at regular intervals.

  Unbeknownst to Han Li, in the same instant that the green liquid disappeared into the white light within the Profound Heavenly Fruit, something was happening in the Heavenly Spirit Region of the three human regions, which was countless kilometers away from Deep Heaven City. At the center of a small island that was hovering tens of thousands of kilometers in the air, golden light suddenly erupted from a translucent jade wall that was inscribed full of golden and silver runes. At the same time, a crisp cry rang out, spreading throughout the entire island.

  Two green-robed cultivators who were seated in front of the jade wall with their eyes closed both opened their eyes in unison with shock etched on their faces."Golden light! Could it be that another Divine Spirit Treasure has appeared?" one of them exclaimed.

  The other cultivator remained silent, but his eyes were also filled with elation as he looked at the jade wall.

  All of a sudden, a dozen or so streaks of light shot forth from various locations all over the island, all of which converged toward the jade wall.

  In what seemed like the blink of an eye, a dozen or so green-robed cultivators had gathered before the wall, all of whom were scrutinizing the golden light with excitement in their eyes.

  A few moments later, the golden light from the jade wall gradually faded, which made the dozen or so cultivators rather nervous. All of them stared at the jade wall without even daring to blink, as if they were petrified of missing something.

  The third line of golden runes on the jade wall suddenly blurred before moving down a line. Meanwhile, a new line of golden text appeared on the vacated third line.

  All of the excited cultivators' expressions immediately stiffened. Everyone stared at the third line of golden runes with flabbergasted looks on their faces. "It's a Profound Heavenly Spirit Artifact! And it's climbed to third on the roll as soon as it appeared!" After a long while, an elderly green-robed man murmured to himself, "Heavens, could it be that another true spirit tribulation is about to descend upon our Spirit Realm?"

  All of the other cultivators were also alerted to this possibility upon hearing this, and all of their faces paled as horrified expressions appeared in their eyes. None of them seemed to want to say anything.

  Finally, the golden light on the jade wall completely faded, and everything returned to normal.

  Looking up above the jade wall, there was a silver plaque that was over 100 feet in length hovering roughly 10 feet above the wall. There was a string of golden text on the plaque that read "Chaotic Myriad Spirit Roll".

  Not long after that, streaks of light shot forth from the island, heading toward the three human regions and the seven demon territories.

  At the same time, within the restricted areas of the larger races in the primordial world, similar changes were taking place on all of the jade walls there. The same information was being relayed to all of the races, and this development had stunned all of the higher-ups among them.

  Not long after that, all of the higher-ups among the various races, including the human and demon races, had burst into an uproar.

  It appeared that the Spirit Realm hadn't changed at all, but drastic changes were taking place beneath the visible surface. All races were bolstering their defenses in anticipation for the ordeal that could befall them soon.

  Of course, as the instigator behind all of this, Han Li himself was completely oblivious to what was happening. He was currently meditating in his cave abode, preparing to return to Deep Heaven City the next day.

  Time passed by slowly and just as daylight was about to arrive outside the cave abode, Han Li abruptly opened his eyes as an elated look appeared on his face.

  He immediately rose to his feet before rushing out of his secret chamber, heading straight for one of the beast rooms.

  Han Li stood outside the beast room and peered in through a window, upon which he was completely rooted to the spot.

  A head-sized hole had been punctured into massive black cocoon within the room, and the cocoon was now completely empty.

  Directly above the cocoon, there was an inky-black cloud hovering in mid-air, creating quite a mysterious sight to behold.

  Han Li was quite startled to
see this, but he still cast an incantation seal toward the door of the room with furrowed brows.

  Azure light immediately flashed from the door as an invisible restriction was lifted.

  The door gradually rose up, and Han Li strode into the room.

  The black cloud in the air, which was around 10 feet in size, didn't display any reaction to Han Li's arrival.

  Han Li stared up at the cloud before making a hand seal. He opened his mouth, a black bead shot forth from within.

  It was none other than the Weeping Soul Bead that he had refined long ago.

  Han Li began to chant something as he pointed a finger at the Weeping Soul Bead.

  Green light flashed from the bead, and its surface began to flash erratically.

  The dark cloud in the air finally began to react. Gusts of powerful Yin winds were swept up around it and at the same time, arcs of black lightning erupted within the cloud amid a series of rumbling thunderclaps.

  The bead hovering before Han Li also began to vibrate, and the green light emanating from it began to brighten significantly.

  Han Li's expression changed upon seeing this.

  He could sense resistance from the dark cloud, as if it were trying to shrug off the call of the Weeping Soul Bead.

  Following its evolution, the Weeping Soul Beast was following in the footsteps of the Six-Winged Frost Centipede, trying to escape from Han Li's control.

  However, Han Li had now recovered all of his powers, so he naturally wasn't going to allow this to happen. He immediately began to circulate his magic power as he flicked his 10 fingers in quick succession, casting incantation seals of different colors, all of which disappeared into the Weeping Soul Bead.

  The bead let loose an anguished cry, following which the brilliant green light radiating from it began to dim again.

  At this moment, a massive thunderclap erupted from the dark cloud, following which a dark figure emerged from within amid countless arcs of black lightning. The creature descended right in front of Han Li, staring intently at the black bead with a conflicted light in its crimson eyes.

  Han Li's heart jolted, but upon catching sight of the appearance of the creatures standing before him, a peculiar look appeared on his face. His expression was a mixture of astonishment, surprise, and exasperation.