Published: September 2, 2025
Chapter 521: Soul Extraction and Pill Retrieval
As for that Soul-Nurturing Wood, after more than two years of continuous stimulation with the green liquid, it had finally taken shape.
This wood, like the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo, would no longer grow after reaching ten thousand years. No matter how much green liquid dripped onto it, it could not increase its spiritual energy by even a fraction.
Naturally, Han Li would not leave this wood unused.
So he carved this foot-long Soul-Nurturing Wood into more than a dozen black round beads, each about the size of a thumb, and strung them together with a golden thread, hanging the necklace around his neck.
This wood did not require deliberate refinement; simply wearing it close to the body could achieve the best effect of nurturing the spirit and cultivating the soul.
After handling everything inside the secluded mansion, three days later, Han Li left alone, silently flying out of the Sea of Mist.
Because he already had the Nishang Herb in hand, Han Li did not intend to stir up trouble in the Abyss.
That place not only had demonic beasts above level eight roaming about but was also certainly crowded with cultivators. It was not suitable for him to use the green liquid to set up formations to exterminate demons there.
With the Nishang Herb as his method to attract demonic beasts, any sea region was the same to him.
With this in mind, he just needed to find a place with coral islands.
Having thought this through, Han Li looked toward the west and immediately shot off in that direction.
In the blink of an eye, he vanished without a trace.
A month later, Han Li stopped on a patch of bright red coral reefs.
Several coral islands had appeared along the way before, but Han Li, fearing trouble from being too close to his secluded mansion, deliberately ignored them and flew straight here.
Although this place could not yet be called a coral island, it was more than sufficient for transplanting the Nishang Herb.
Han Li decided to start his first battle of demon extermination and pill retrieval right here.
Now, he had arranged four magic formations around this coral reef to form an impenetrable enclosure. Only then did he carefully transplant the Nishang Herb into the center of the formation.
Since he wanted to attract level-six demonic beasts, the Nishang Herb basically had to be cultivated to four hundred years of age.
This meant he basically needed about a month to lure the desired demonic beasts to hunt.
However, he would not be idle during that period.
This was the idea behind the Nishang Herb’s first three growth cycles.