Published: September 5, 2025
Chapter 703: The Treasure in the Box
After using the thunder escape technique to flee a hundred miles in one breath, Han Li paused briefly, reassessed his direction, switched to his Blood-colored Cloak, and transformed into a blood aura, flying swiftly through the air.
This time, after flying beyond a thousand miles, he saw below a group of tens of thousands of Mulan mortal people on the move. His heart stirred, and he stopped.
During his time in Luoyun Sect, he had also chatted with the silver-haired elder about the battles between Mulan spellmasters and Tian Nan cultivators.
He knew that although ordinary Mulan tribe members could not cultivate spiritual techniques, during each attack, the Mulan spellmasters would still organize many able-bodied mortals into temporary tribes. Taking advantage of the Tian Nan cultivators being unable to watch all sides, they would go to seize various spirit stone material mines from Tian Nan. In this way, even if the Mulan spellmasters eventually failed and retreated, they would not return empty-handed.
Such acts, akin to robbery, naturally drew harsh condemnation from the nine nations alliance, but they could not spare attention to the matter for the time being.
After all, if the cultivators stationed to guard these places were too few, it was very likely that the Mulan high-level spellmasters would wipe them out in one fell swoop. But if too many cultivators were sent, it would affect the main battlefield and the contest among spellmasters.
The only viable approach was to wait until the spellmasters captured these resource sites and mines, then send cultivators to retake them and eliminate the Mulan mortals in the process.
Unfortunately, these Mulan people did not care about mortal casualties; once a group was wiped out, another would immediately be organized to take its place. It was truly lives exchanged for precious resources. Moreover, they occasionally set traps, severely injuring the cultivators who came to reclaim the mines and resource areas.
After suffering significant losses, the nine nations alliance simply turned a blind eye to this. No matter how frantically the Mulan people mined in such a short time, they could not snatch away many spirit stones. Once the spellmaster army was pushed back, these Mulan mortals would obediently retreat.
Now, this group had many carts, oxen, and horses. They were heading toward Tian Nan, mostly young men and women, likely a temporary small tribe formed to seize Tian Nan's resource areas.
Han Li hovered above this group, sweeping a strong spiritual awareness through them. Inside, there was only one foundation establishment stage and three qi refining stage spellmasters, none posing a threat to him.
He looked down thoughtfully for a moment and suddenly formed hand seals with both hands. His figure vanished stealthily in midair. The next moment, he quietly appeared atop an old mule cart among the Mulan people’s group, stuffed with many tattered cowhides and some mining tools like hoes.
With a wave of his hand, Han Li cleared a small space in the middle of the cart and sat down cross-legged without a care.
He had thought this through carefully. Now that all the Mulan spellmasters were mobilized, if he, a cultivator, openly headed back to Tian Nan, most likely something would happen on the way.
Though with his cultivation base, unless facing the top spellmasters, he need not fear anyone. But numbers could still overwhelm.
Even when his group of seven or eight nascent soul cultivators had sought treasures before, they had to hide and sneak around.
Besides the spellmasters, now he also had to avoid people like Wang Tiangu to prevent them from rashly trying to eliminate him.
Now, hiding in this mortal group, although the progress was slow, after two or three days, he could safely leave the Mulan Prairie.
Surely no one would pay attention to such a mortal group. Even if a spellmaster occasionally checked, with his current magical abilities, as long as the spellmaster was not a late nascent soul stage, they could not detect his presence.