Mortal: Starting by looting Han Laomo's entire herb garden

The only downside is that it's disposable; once it's used up, it's gone.

Fortunately, this stuff can be prepared in advance during your spare time and used whenever needed.

In his spare time these past few days, he refined more than twenty pills, enough to cope with a fierce battle.

Lu Yan withdrew his supernatural powers and glanced at the stone gate.

The Soul-Nourishing Wood had been taken out long ago. It took the Ink Dragon and the Illusion Phoenix more than ten days to grind through the restriction on the door. The Illusion Phoenix used its Ghostly Eyes to find the weak point of the restriction, and the Ink Dragon sprayed poison to corrode it, and they managed to grind through the restriction.

Lu Yan carefully kept the Soul-Nourishing Wood close to his body. This thing was of great use in cultivating spiritual sense and was a rare treasure.

The Blood Jade Spider's injuries have also completely healed. Having soaked in the Spirit Eye Spring for over twenty days, and with the aid of medicinal pills, its recovery has been much faster than expected. Now, the creature is full of energy, its eight legs supporting it on the ground.

Lu Yan retrieved the jade bottle from under the dragon head statue, having collected more than ten bottles of the Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk.

enough.

He emerged from the Spirit Eye Spring and took back the four spirit beasts.

He took one last look at the stone hall before walking onto the teleportation array.

"Hanli Terrace, I've arrived."

The Cold Li Terrace was much larger than Lu Yan had imagined. In the very center of the ice terrace, there was a hole several meters wide pointing vertically downwards, and the walls of the hole were covered with blue ice crystals.

The Void Cauldron was below, and the cave was filled with blue flames.

A chill swept over him, and Lu Yan couldn't help but shiver. He quickly took out the Six Ding Heavenly Armor Talisman and stuck it on himself.

A mere touch of that azure ice flame could freeze a person to dust; he had no intention of testing its power.

Lu Yan quickly glanced at the layout of the place. Several thick stone pillars stood around the Hanlitai, each as thick as several people could hug.

He darted behind the nearest pillar, peeking out with only half his head to observe.

With a flick of the spirit beast bracelet, the Blood Jade Spider transformed into a beam of white light and landed on the ground.

"See that hole?" Lu Yan pointed to the hole in the middle of the ice platform. "Go and pull up the Void Heaven Cauldron."

The Blood Jade Spider, its eight legs braced on the ground, rolled its eyes, seemingly puzzled. But it obediently crawled to the edge of the cave entrance, its abdomen bulging as it exhaled a stream of spider silk.

The spider silk went straight down and disappeared into the cave. After a while, a slight knocking sound was heard, and the silk thread became entangled in the Void Heaven Cauldron.

The blood jade spider began to move slowly, its silk threads taut, and a creaking sound came from inside the cave.

The Void Heaven Cauldron moved.

The cauldron was slowly pulled away from the bottom of the cave, rising inch by inch.

Lu Yan huddled behind a pillar, watching the increasingly surging blue ice flames emerging from the cave entrance.

Finally, the cauldron revealed the entrance to the hole.

In that instant, Lu Yan shouted, "Throw it down!"

As the Blood Jade Spider loosened its eight legs, the Void Heaven Cauldron lost its pulling force and plummeted back to the bottom of the cave.

Lu Yan narrowed his eyes and waited, hoping that the treasures in the Void Heaven Cauldron would be shaken out.

He had already planned it out: even if the Void Heaven Cauldron was created, it wouldn't be able to be opened.

Why not do it like in the original story and get the things out first? Anyway, the cauldron is in the cave and can't escape, so we can take it out later.

Sure enough, a beam of white light shot into the sky from the cave entrance, drew an arc above the Cold Li Terrace, and transformed into a two-headed demon wolf.

Silver Moon!

Lu Yan watched Yin Yue running around like a husky, ignoring her and keeping his eyes fixed on the cave.

Two beams of light flew out of the cave, circled twice above the Cold Li Terrace, and landed on the ground with a thud.

A mirror, a copper coin.

The mirror is about the size of a palm, golden all over, with a faint golden light flowing around it. Two ancient characters are engraved on the back of the mirror: "荡魂" (dàng hún).

The copper coin is about the size of a baby's fist, round on the outside and square on the inside, with fine patterns covering its surface, making it look like an ancient defensive artifact.

Immediately afterwards, four more pills, each the size of a longan, appeared, shimmering with five-colored light and emitting a fragrant aroma.

The Heaven-Mending Pill.

Lu Yan's eyes lit up, and he instantly appeared next to the Heaven-Mending Pills, reaching out to put them all into the jade bottle.

He then picked up the Soul-Soothing Mirror and the Ancient Copper Coin from the ground and stuffed them into his storage bracelet.

At this moment, the two-headed fire wolf, which had run two laps, suddenly stopped and tilted its head to look at Lu Yan.

The fire wolf blinked and then ran over with small, quick steps, their eyes meeting.

Lu Yan asked, "Do you want to come with me?"

The fire wolf tilted its head, then suddenly spun around and transformed into a jade ruyi with a wolf's head.

Lu Yan paused for a moment, then smiled, reached out and picked up the jade ruyi, turned to look at the cave entrance, and then at the blood jade spider.

The spider stared at Lu Yan expectantly, as if asking: "Do you want to pull again?"

Lu Yan nodded: "Pull it up. This time, we won't have to throw it away."

The Blood Jade Spider resigned itself to its fate and crawled to the cave entrance, where it began to spray its silk again, pulling the Void Heaven Cauldron up inch by inch.

As the Void Heaven Cauldron departed, the Azure Ice Flames within the cave coalesced in the air, eventually transforming into an ice bead.

Lu Yan put away the Void Heaven Cauldron, stared at the ice bead for a long time, and then sighed.

Without the warding-off divine thunder, you can't touch this thing at all; trying to force it will only freeze you into an ice sculpture.

"What a pity."

Lu Yan glanced at it one last time, then turned and walked towards the Blood Jade Spider.

"Well done." He patted its head and put it back into his storage bracelet.

Lu Yan returned to the Spirit Eye Spring and continued to collect the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk until the spirit stones were exhausted.

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Lu Yan's vision went black, and his feet sank to the ground.

All around were familiar rock walls and the ancient teleportation array covered in dust.

came back.

Lu Yan checked the contents of the storage bracelet.

The Great Shift Order, Soul Nourishing Wood, Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk, Heaven-Mending Pill, Soul-Sweeping Mirror, Ancient Copper Coin Treasure, and Silver Moon.

Nothing is missing.

Next, I'll return to Yellow Maple Valley to refine the Heaven-Mending Pill, and then cultivate to the Pseudo-Core stage as soon as possible.

Lu Yan took a long detour, entering the Taiyue Mountains from the direction of Yuanwu Kingdom.

As they were flying, a streak of light swayed and staggered towards them, like a drunkard, going up and down.

Lu Yan frowned, subconsciously slowed down, and secretly activated the Six Ding Heavenly Armor Talisman in his sleeve, instantly enveloping his entire body in six layers of silver.

The streak of light drew ever closer, about to collide with him, when suddenly he stumbled and fell to the ground, sword and all.

Lu Yan looked closely and realized it was Senior Brother Lin.

He knew this person; he was the steward of Huangfeng Valley responsible for distributing introductory items to new disciples, and he usually liked to sit in his hut carving wood.

At this moment, Senior Brother Lin's face was as pale as paper. When he saw Lu Yan, a hint of wild joy flashed in his eyes.

"Junior Brother Lu... save me!"

Before he could finish speaking, his body stiffened abruptly, and his eyes glazed over.

A ball of green light flew out from between his eyebrows and shot straight toward Lu Yan's face.

Lu Yan frowned and immediately formed hand seals.

Thunder in the palm of your hand.

"what!"

The green orb let out a piercing scream and vanished into thin air amidst the lightning.

"Dare to possess me? You've truly earned your death."

Lu Yan took off the storage bag at his waist, probed it with his divine sense, and found a book inside with the title "Da Yan Jue" on the cover.

A hint of joy flashed in Lu Yan's eyes as he pocketed it.

At this moment, three streaks of light shot through the air from afar, moving at an extremely fast speed, and arrived in front of them in the blink of an eye.

A burly man with a fierce face led the way, followed by a man and a woman.