Published: August 25, 2025
Chapter 293: Sneaking In
Han Li was very familiar with the kind of infatuated expression the young girl showed as she was leaving.
He recalled that the first time he saw Li Huayuan commanding that giant flood dragon, he had revealed a similarly extreme look of envy.
Thinking of this, Han Li found the pretty young girl quite interesting.
Then, with a slight smile, he silently disappeared from the tree. When he reappeared, he was already inside the high walls of the Prince's Mansion.
At this moment, Han Li was not only using the "invisibility technique," a spell that could deceive mortals, but he was also simultaneously employing the "qi drawing technique," a gathering qi method only cultivators after foundation establishment could perform.
This allowed him to quickly slip past the servants and maidservants coming and going in the mansion as if he were transparent, without anyone noticing anything unusual.
After a moment, Han Li sneaked into the back quarters of the mansion and quietly hid behind a pillar in a secluded corridor, coldly observing everything nearby.
Soon, when a maidservant with some beauty passed by, Han Li suddenly flicked his finger, and a fist-sized yellow light flew from his hand, hitting the maidservant's head precisely. The maidservant swayed and was about to collapse to the ground.
But before she could really fall, Han Li had already leapt out and caught her gently, flying back to hide behind the pillar at the corner.
Han Li skillfully adjusted the limp body of the little maidservant to face him, then opened his mouth and sprayed a mouthful of blue spiritual power onto her tightly closed eyes.
Immediately, the maidservant’s eyelids twitched a few times and then slowly opened.
As soon as she woke up, the maidservant saw a pair of golden yellow eyes coldly staring at her.
Startled, she wanted to struggle and scream, but those extremely strange eyes suddenly shot out yellow blades that pierced straight into her eyes.
Instantly, the maidservant felt the world spinning, as if everything had turned golden yellow. Then her head drooped, and she lost consciousness.
Han Li looked at the little maidservant who had fainted again, sighed lightly, and wiped the sweat from his face with his hand.
Although casting this "mind control technique" only took a moment, it consumed a great deal of his spiritual energy, leaving him somewhat exhausted. No wonder this spell was considered one of the top ten rubbish cultivation techniques at the foundation establishment stage.
While the spell, once successfully cast, could make the target obey the caster like a slave for a period of time, its limitations were numerous.
Very few cultivators actually practiced this technique!
First, the spell can only be used on mortals; it has no effect on cultivators. Even if there is a huge gap in cultivation base, as long as the cultivator circulates spiritual power through their mind, they can easily dispel the bewildering effect.
Second, the practitioner must be a foundation establishment stage cultivator with spiritual awareness far beyond that of ordinary people. Most foundation establishment stage cultivators do not qualify to learn this technique.
With these two restrictions, very few cultivators were interested in cultivating it.
But for Han Li, none of this was a problem.
He had been worried that he knew too few foundation establishment stage spells. When he saw the incantation for this spell recorded at Tianzhi Pavilion, he was curious and memorized it. After some practice back at his secluded mansion, he mastered it with no resistance at all, which surprised him greatly!
Now, using this spell on the little maidservant, it was a complete success.
Han Li first glanced cautiously around, then extended a finger and gently waved it. Instantly, a small milky white orb of light emerged from his fingertip, which he then touched to the maidservant’s brow. The orb merged and disappeared.
The little maidservant woke up and immediately sat up straight, staring blankly at Han Li without speaking.