Published: August 27, 2025
Chapter 414: Formation
Han Li’s eyes narrowed slightly. With a gentle shake of his ten fingers, ten spirit threads broke apart on their own.
Then he lightly tapped his storage bag. Dozens of white lights flew out, arranging themselves into a circle beneath these liquids — twelve identical small jade boxes.
These jade boxes were all made from flawless white jade, exquisitely crafted and only a few inches in size.
Han Li’s robe sleeve brushed lightly, and the lids of all the jade boxes slid open.
Then, with a single word "Fall" from Han Li’s mouth, the thick green liquid floating in the air all dropped down accordingly.
No more, no less — one piece of liquid fit perfectly into each jade box.
After Han Li re-sealed the lids, he finally relaxed, truly putting his mind at ease.
Although aided by spirit stones and pills, his magical power was nearly exhausted at this point.
After this, Han Li once again sat in meditation for several days, restoring his state back to its peak before beginning to refine the remaining five Heavenly Thunder Bamboo stalks.
In the blink of an eye, three months passed.
Han Li put in tremendous effort and finally refined all the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo into the purest form of liquid.
After a short rest, he began setting up an extremely complex magic formation inside the secret chamber.
Han Li didn’t know the name of this formation.
He only knew this formation was essential for refining the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword, a fact repeatedly emphasized in the refining method written on the Golden Page. This showed just how crucial this preparation was.
Although Han Li had memorized the setup method perfectly and had attempted it several times before, he was still extremely cautious now, not daring to make even the slightest mistake.
After all, even a minor error in a single rune could cause unpredictable accidents during the magical treasure’s refinement.
Thus, with Han Li’s trembling hands, the formation took a full half month to complete.
After installing over a dozen mid-grade spirit stones for testing and confirming the formation was functioning normally, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, Han Li did not immediately begin refining the magical treasure but temporarily left the secret chamber.
After half a year of non-stop use of alchemy flame, with his mind constantly under intense focus, even a core formation stage cultivator like Han Li felt overwhelmed and needed some adjustment.
Because the next step was the most critical in refining the magical treasure.
However, upon exiting the chamber, Han Li was met with another surprise.
The golddevourer worms, intermittently fed with Nishang Herb by him, had finally begun devouring each other again.
This made Han Li very happy!
Since the golddevourer worms reached tens of thousands in number, the small amount of Nishang Herb was too little to enable them to lay eggs and evolve further.
Over the years, most of the green liquid was used by Han Li to hasten the ripening of Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, making it even harder for the golddevourers to change.
However, once the bamboo was ripened, Han Li immediately instructed his quhun to intensify their breeding.
After all, Han Li had great expectations for these exotic insects.
Upon receiving this news from his quhun, Han Li immediately went to the Insect Chamber.
Those golddevourer worms that had devoured others now had golden spots covering nearly half of their shells. He estimated their next generation would have even larger golden spots.
But after watching for a while, Han Li’s smile faded and his brow furrowed slightly.
At this rate, it was not very optimistic that these golddevourers would all evolve to fully golden coloration.
The number of worms doubled or more with each evolution.
However, the amount of Nishang Herb that could be ripened by the green liquid was extremely limited; it was impossible to evolve thousands of golddevourers all at once.
If this continued, who knew how long it would take for the next evolution!
Han Li sat outside the Insect Chamber lost in thought.