Southern Great Jin, at the Heavenly Talisman Sect's headquarters.
Mountains encircled the grounds, and spiritual energy abounded, yet a grim, murderous air hung over them, utterly unlike Heavenly Mechanism City. Before the sect's entrance stood not an intricate gate of gears like the city's, but the Heavenly Talisman Formation, woven from countless crimson talismans. As the formation revolved, it radiated a heart-chilling fire-attribute spiritual pressure.
Han Li did not enter the mountains directly. Instead, he concealed himself above a bank of clouds and quietly extended his spiritual sense. His cultivation had now reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Late Stage, and his spiritual sense was so powerful that few could detect it even in Great Jin, where cultivation flourished.
The Heavenly Talisman Sect, one of the ten great righteous sects, founded upon talismans... Han Li silently recalled the intelligence he had obtained in Heavenly Mechanism City. He had come to find several supplementary medicinal ingredients needed to break through the bottleneck to Deity Transformation. One of them, the Red Essence Fire Lotus, was said to grow in Meltfire Cave in the mountains behind the Heavenly Talisman Sect.
Just as he was about to suppress his aura and choose a route down the mountain, something unexpected happened!
Boom-!
A tremendous crash erupted from the direction of the Heavenly Talisman Sect's entrance! Immediately afterward, two terrifying, utterly different auras collided head-on like a pair of raging hurricanes!
One aura blazed like fire, carrying a majestic, upright righteousness, and erupted from the Heavenly Talisman Sect. The other was cold as ice, laden with bone-piercing murderous intent, and came from a bank of black clouds outside the entrance!
Someone from the Heavenly Demon Sect? Han Li's brows drew together slightly. With a flicker of movement, he descended soundlessly like a phantom onto a