Published: September 2, 2025
Chapter 505: A Ray of Hope
Han Li took the ring without hesitation and slipped it onto one of his fingers.
The old man smiled slightly upon seeing this.
“All right, you may enter the city now. During the day, you will have nearly half a day of free activity time; the rest of the time, the entire city will be under martial law. When the great battle begins, the ring will naturally send a message to summon you! Just wait in your secluded mansion,” the old man said before slowly closing his eyes and falling silent.
Han Li looked deeply into the old man’s eyes, then walked straight into the city.
Passing through the city gate, the streets of Tianxing City were almost deserted. Only occasionally could a cultivator be seen flying through the sky. Most mortals hid inside their homes, leaving the city with a desolate atmosphere.
Han Li’s expression remained calm, but inwardly he was quietly relieved.
Judging by the situation, the city’s market district was probably closed. If he hadn’t prepared the necessary items in advance on Nanming Island, he would likely be in serious trouble right now.
Han Li chuckled softly, then transformed into an azure rainbow and shot into the sky, heading straight toward his secluded mansion on the Sacred Mountain.
As he passed by the market district at the foot of the Sacred Mountain, Han Li couldn’t help but glance down.
Sure enough, all the shops were closed with no ghostly shadows in sight. Shaking his head lightly, he did not linger and continued flying toward the thirty-ninth layer of the Sacred Mountain.
Upon entering the Sacred Mountain area, Han Li keenly sensed that the security was even tighter than in the outer city. Just scanning spiritual awareness to observe him was done by more than a dozen groups.
Fortunately, once these spiritual awareness waves glanced at the yellow ring on his hand, they automatically withdrew without anyone appearing to question him.
What made Han Li frown was that among these were spiritual awareness from late foundation formation cultivators.
Pretending ignorance, Han Li flew straight to the front of his secluded mansion.
The sealing formation outside the mansion remained exactly as it was when he left, without any change.
But after standing silently outside the formation for a while, Han Li sighed deeply.
This trip hadn’t lasted long, but he had fallen into life-and-death situations multiple times and was even forced to abandon this secluded mansion that he had stayed in for nearly a century.
It truly made Han Li feel a bit sad.
Using the sealing command token, he silently lifted the sealing formation and slowly walked inside.
Everything inside the mansion was naturally preserved as before.
Han Li first went to check on the Insect Chamber, his most concerned place. Seeing the golddevourer worms all safe and sound, he truly let out a sigh of relief.
But immediately after, he used a spirit beast pouch he had prepared in advance to put all the golddevourer worms inside, then went to the medicinal garden to harvest all the spirit medicines, putting them all into a storage bag.
After finishing all this, Han Li finally relaxed a little. He slowly walked to the bedroom, lay down on the bed, and began carefully considering his future plans.
He had to kill a rebel star alliance cultivator of the same rank to use the teleportation formation to the outer star sea. This condition was not too difficult for him.
But Han Li worried that the Star Palace might learn about the Void Heaven Cauldron possibly being on him before the great battle even started. After all, he couldn’t estimate when those old nascent soul cultivators would come out of Void Heaven Hall.
If those old cultivators leaked this information at that time, he would be doomed.
Besides, he had another concern.
Although unlikely, he feared that even if he met the conditions, the Star Palace’s higher-ups might play some other tricks and he would still be powerless to use the teleportation formation.
After all, even if the high-ups went back on their word, what could cultivators like them do?