Published: August 25, 2025
Chapter 231: Trouble Comes to the Door
Han Li, flying at full speed, returned to his secluded mansion in no time.
Without saying a word, he first took out the formation-deploying Jade Slip that Qi Yunxiao had given him. Then, he focused his mind and carefully studied the instructions on how to deploy the formation magical artifact.
Han Li decided to set aside other matters for now and first complete the protective mansion great formation around his residence. After all, the place where those few had fought was way too close to here, making him feel extremely unsafe!
The setup of this inverted five elements formation was very straightforward.
According to the exact positions, he stuck the formation flags and formation plates into the ground, then arranged several spirit stones as required to form a small magic formation pattern embedded in the formation core, supplying enough spiritual power for the entire grand formation.
This allowed the great formation to activate immediately. The formation’s master only needed to know some simple manipulation techniques and use the primary formation flag kept in hand to trigger different formation shifts, trapping and confusing enemies.
Han Li inserted the magical artifacts as required, burying those that needed to be buried. Then, gritting his teeth, he embedded several mid-grade spirit stones into the formation core. This was half of all his spirit stones! It pained him for a long time, but to ensure the full power of the great formation, he could only endure the loss.
Although if he used some well-aged spirit medicine, Han Li could probably easily exchange for a large number of spirit stones in the marketplace, doing so risked exposing his secret, which would exponentially increase the chance of being captured and interrogated. Without caution, one day he might be the one besieged like what he witnessed today! Han Li thought helplessly.
He tested the operation of the great formation. It looked very good. But the actual power of trapping and defending against enemies would only be verified when an external enemy invaded. Just the fact that it could cover dozens of acres around his mansion without showing any abnormality from the outside was already worth it in Han Li's eyes!
Feeling more at ease, Han Li returned to his bedroom and began contemplating his cultivation problems.
To have a chance at lucky entry into the core formation stage, one must have excellent cultivation method, one-in-ten-thousand aptitude, great fortune, and many other conditions in harmony to have even the slightest hope.
Compared to that, the difficulty of foundation establishment was nothing! After all, as long as one had decent aptitude and one or two foundation establishment pills, the chance of success was still quite high.
But for foundation formation, even with all those conditions met, the number of cultivators who truly succeed is still very few. Therefore, when a core formation stage cultivator appears, it is almost always a cause for celebration across a sect, becoming major news in the local immortal cultivation world.
The reason the Moon Veil Sect could become the number one immortal sect in Yue Country, besides having over a thousand foundation establishment stage registered disciples far surpassing other sects, was also due to their core formation stage cultivators outnumbering others by a dozen or so, enough to intimidate the remaining six sects!
Han Li knew his aptitude was terrible, far worse than other foundation establishment disciples. So far, his cultivation method was only a very mediocre “Blue Origin Sword Technique,” which absolutely could not be practiced yet! As for fortune, that was a nebulous thing, dependent on luck.
From this perspective, everything seemed very unfavorable to Han Li at present!
But after some analysis, Han Li believed that although his aptitude was extremely poor, he possessed a mysterious little bottle that could accelerate the maturation of spirit medicine and could refine pills, which was something that could compensate. Fortune was beyond human control and not worth worrying about. His only way to increase his chance of core formation now was to find a high-grade cultivation method suitable for himself.