Arc 16Chapters 376–400
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Han Li carried the recovering Zi Ling west across the Gobi Desert and explained the origins and dangers of his true demon qi and unusual divine light. He chose Dream Cloud Marsh as a secluded place for them to recover while he consolidated his Deity Transformation cultivation.
Han Li chose to return to the Heavenly South with the injured Zi Ling, using spatial transit to reach a hidden cave residence in the Mulan Grassland. After settling in to guard her recovery, he announced his return to Star Palace and revealed his Deity Transformation might to its leaders.
Han Li remained in seclusion in the Mulan Grassland while Star Palace prepared for his return after learning that he had reached Deity Transformation. His rise forced Heavenly South’s factions to submit, while he continued guarding the recovering Zi Ling.
Han Li used a rare spirit pill and carefully transformed true demon qi to heal Zi Ling’s divine soul injury and strengthen her meridians. After forty-nine days, she emerged fully recovered with her cultivation stabilized at the peak of the Nascent Soul Early Stage, while Han Li decided they would wait before returning to the Star Palace and the changed Heavenly South.
Han Li returned to Star-Magnetic Peak with Fairy Zi Ling and consolidated the Star Palace's rule over Heavenly South. He announced that the Chaotic Star Sea Star Palace would also come under his command and ordered its members to relocate to Heavenly South within three months.
A century after consolidating the Star Palace, Han Li had reached the peak of Deity Transformation early stage while Zi Ling had advanced to Nascent Soul great perfection but stalled before the Deity Transformation bottleneck. Han Li told her to travel in search of an opportunity and prepare to extend the Star Palace’s reach, while he began planning to investigate Great Jin and Kunwu Mountain.
Zi Ling departed Star-Magnetic Peak to seek a breakthrough opportunity, while Han Li uncovered a hidden clue in Venerable Cang Kun’s bone slip pointing toward Kunwu Mountain. After preparing the Star Palace for his absence, Han Li set out to return to Great Jin as a Deity Transformation Palace Master.
Han Li returned to Great Jin and secretly surveyed its powers before using the Primordial Magnetic Divine Light to secure a meeting with Tianjizi. He identified himself and proposed a transaction about Kunwu Mountain’s true core and the path ahead for Deity Transformation cultivators.
Han Li bargained with Tianjizi over the Bone Slip and secured the Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion’s covert protection for Zi Ling. They agreed to prepare for Kunwu Mountain’s opening in sixty years, leaving Han Li to strengthen himself and settle old scores.
Han Li infiltrated the Blood Soul Sect to steal myriad defilement blood crystal for refining Defilement Spirit Pills, then overwhelmed Patriarch Blood Soul and escaped. Over the following months he robbed several demonic sects for rare materials and vanished while the factions prepared for the coming upheaval at Kunwu Mountain.
Han Li refined three high-quality Defilement Spirit Pills and used one with purified deity transformation demon essence to break through to mid-stage Deity Transformation. His breakthrough awakened a dangerous new demon source within him, and he began preparing for his journey to Kunwu Mountain in sixty years.
After sixty years of cultivation, Han Li met Tianjizi in Heavenly Mechanism City to discuss Kunwu Mountain’s approaching opening and the threats gathering around it. They formed an alliance and agreed to meet at Falling Star Valley in two years, while Han Li prepared to return to Heavenly South and scout the mountain’s outskirts.
Han Li returned to the Star Palace, arranged for its leaders to govern in his absence, and departed for Great Jin to prepare for his journey to Kunwu Mountain. At Ice Soul Valley, he encountered a powerful sealed being that coveted his demon source, escaped its formation, and continued toward Falling Star Valley to meet Tianjizi.
Han Li, Tianjizi, and Xiang Zhili prepared to enter Kunwu Mountain after learning its restrictions would weaken in a year and a half and that its depths might contain a gate to the Spirit Realm. They swore a heart demon blood oath to cooperate, then began searching for the gate’s location while cultivating and preparing for the expedition.
Han Li, Tianjizi, and Xiang Zhili entered Kunwu Mountain through an unstable spatial fissure and reached its inner Reception Plaza. They followed the Bone Slip into the Demon Burial passage, where Han Li killed Blood Soul Patriarch and Crimson Sun Old Demon before the three continued deeper.
Han Li, Tianjizi, and Xiang Zhili reached the Demon Suppression Hall and discovered a damaged passage to the Spirit Realm above Buried Demon Abyss. After Han Li repelled an attack from the blood-robed demon cultivator, the gathered factions agreed to a temporary truce before investigating the gate.
Han Li sent a divided spirit through the Spirit Realm Gate and discovered a perilous broken rift that might lead to the Spirit Realm, along with a terrifying ancient demonic presence. After returning, the group decided the answers to stabilizing the passage might lie inside the Demon Suppression Hall, and entered it together.
Han Li and the others entered the Demon Suppression Hall and awakened the ancient guardians fused with its sealing formation. A Cang Kun lineage guardian offered Han Li an inheritance only if he passed its trial, and Han Li met its sword strike with his Primordial Magnetic True Demon Slash.
Han Li inherited the Primordial Magnetic Demon-Sealing Seal and reinforced the flawed Xun foundation while enduring the ancient demon’s assault and a sudden ambush. The seal stabilized the Demon-Sealing Grand Array, but the blood-robed demonic cultivator survived, and a greater storm still loomed.
Han Li reinforced the Demon-Sealing Grand Array, which caused the Spirit Realm Gate to briefly open into a traversable passage. Han Li and several cultivators entered before a final burst of demonic qi destabilized the gate, leaving the blood-robed demonic cultivator and his followers behind.
Han Li emerged into a desolate, hostile region of the Spirit Realm after a Voidstorm scattered his companions and left him badly injured. He followed a faint resonance toward a valley whose damaged restrictions seemed connected to Tianjizi's array methods.
Han Li entered the Exile Land and met a desperate remnant clan, learning about its dangers and the possibility of ancient teleportation ruins. After saving the wounded Shi Wa with a pill, he persuaded the clan elder to lead him to a forbidden site that might explain the seal’s resonance and offer a way out.
Han Li investigated the damaged Ancient Teleportation Array and began refining the fiend spirit that had infested it, hoping to use the array to escape the land of exile. When the Black Fiend Tribe attacked, he halted the refining and drove them away, leaving the fiend spirit weakened but still alive.
Han Li activated the ruined formation with starlight and led Li Yan and the survivors out of the Exile Land through a perilous passage. They emerged in the Greenwood Forest Sea, where Wood Spirit warriors confronted them and attacked when Han Li refused to go with them.
Han Li and his companions entered the Wood Spirit Race’s settlement after Elder Mu Li stopped Qingwu’s attack and offered them shelter. While discussing the Greenmist Realm and how to leave it, Mu Li recognized Han Li’s token as a legendary artifact from Kunwu Mountain, leaving Han Li shocked.