Douluo Continent: Long Live the Spirit Hall

"Your Highness, you are mistaken!"

Han Xiao spoke up at this moment, "Your impression of Form Condensers is actually somewhat biased. Some Form Condensers are stubborn, but they are not inherently bad. Moreover, the dragon remains have a huge attraction for Form Condensers, and perhaps some like-minded people will come to you."

Han Xiao also took this matter to heart. To advance further at his level, he either needed to create master-level equipment or gain insights from other advanced knowledge.

What can best help him draw inferences from one instance to another is nothing more than the design blueprints of a master craftsman, preferably the design blueprints of a legendary set.

After talking with Yan, he realized that Yan was an enlightened researcher and naturally hoped that Yan could successfully attract more researchers, which might help him make faster progress.

“Cai Cai, don’t be afraid to do anything, and don’t have too many doubts before you do it.”

Yan continued, "If this succeeds, the royal family can take the opportunity to recruit more Form Masters with profound lineages. Even if they fail to attract Form Masters with legendary set blueprints, they will still attract a lot of talent, which will benefit the royal family."

"Yes, Brother Yan, I was overthinking it. I'll arrange it right away."

Yan's words broadened Cai Cai's perspective, and she immediately instructed people to do as Yan said. Meanwhile, Yan and Han Xiao began to study the knowledge of Condensation Masters in depth. This trip was also very beneficial to Yan.

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Inside the quiet room on the second floor of Shop No. 9 in the Royal Products Center, Yan and Han Xiao sat on a leather sofa. A young man stood opposite them, and several extremely complex design drawings were placed on the table between the three of them.

"This set of legendary equipment is suitable for a Celestial Jeweler with full agility attributes. The idea of ​​the Divine Master is indeed extremely profound, and we juniors have benefited greatly from it."

After a long while, Han Xiao put down the paper in his hand and gave the young man extremely high praise, "Young friend Yun Li, I, Han Xiao, acknowledge your kindness..."

“Master Han Xiao, you don’t need to be so polite. We are both getting what we need. Your design blueprint for the Hentian Wuba set has also benefited me greatly.”

Upon hearing this, the young designer named Yun Li immediately stood up and bowed, saying, "And I also want to thank you for your careful guidance during this time. If it weren't for your guidance, I wouldn't have been able to advance to the rank of Senior Condensation Master so quickly."

"While your promotion is related to my guidance, it is also due to your own exceptional talent."

Han Xiao nodded in agreement with Yun Li's words, and then gently encouraged him, "Yun Li, you bear the inheritance of a legendary set, and you must also want to carry forward the sect like me. However, relying solely on yourself or the elders of the sect, this path is quite arduous..."

Just as Han Xiao and Yun Li were exchanging ideas, Yan, who was intently studying the drawings, suddenly put them down and looked out the door. A familiar fragrance wafted into his nostrils; it was Cai Cai and Ming Hua who had arrived.

"Brother Yan! Master Han Xiao! Master Yun Li!"

Cai Cai greeted the three of them very warmly. Princess Cai Cai, who had considerable prestige in the Fei Li Empire, was so welcoming that Yun Li was flattered.

"Master Yunli, the royal family sincerely invites you to become the youngest royal attendant in the Royal Academy. I wonder what your decision is?"

Cai Cai first greeted Yan, and then tried to recruit Yun Li again. This Master Yun Li was not old, but had great potential and had the legendary set design blueprints to inherit. He was definitely a potential grandmaster. How could the royal family miss out on such a talent?

"Your Highness's invitation is too kind for Yunli to accept..."

After several days of consideration, Yun Li felt the sincerity of the royal family and, after persuasion, finally made a decision that would please everyone.

Cai Cai was in high spirits after successfully recruiting Yun Li. After arranging the relevant matters, she reported the good news to Yan: "Brother Yan, we have news about the celestial beast you wanted!"

Chapter 530 The Supreme Imprint Palace

In a room on the second floor of Shop No. 9 in the Royal Plaza of Emerald City, Cai Cai was sharing good news with Yan.

Yan's move to attract talent to the Condensation Master category by displaying dragon remains at the Imperial Products Center greatly benefited the Fei Li royal family. In addition, Yan had previously helped the Fei Li team win the Heavenly Pearl Competition. In return, the Fei Li Emperor decided to grant Yan the highest level of Imprint Palace access.

There are many imprinting palaces within the territory of the Feli Empire. The official headquarters is naturally the Feli Imprinting Palace in Feli City. Not only is the palace master a Heavenly King-level expert, but Heavenly King-level celestial beasts are also frequently available for imprinting within the palace.

However, the most important printing palace in the Feli Empire was not the Feli Printing Palace, but the Supreme Printing Palace which belonged to the royal family.

The celestial beasts sealed within this Supreme Imprint Palace are all powerful beings at the Heavenly King level or above. The Heavenly King-level celestial beasts that occasionally appear within the Feli Imprint Palace, after having their ferocity worn away through repeated imprinting, are sent to this Supreme Imprint Palace to serve as the foundation of the Feli Empire.

Yan was also delighted by the good news brought by Cai Cai. "Cai Cai, I am very grateful to His Majesty the Emperor. If possible, please make a trip to the Supreme Imperial Seal Palace today!"

"Brother Yan, I've arranged a carriage. We can go now."

Cai Cai clearly understood Yan's thoughts and had already made arrangements before coming in to inform him of the news, saving Yan a lot of trouble.

Yan was naturally touched by Cai Cai's actions. If it weren't for the inappropriate occasion and the fact that it was still early, he would have asked the princess to warm up the bed so that he could repay her kindness in a practical way.

The highest imprint palace of the Fei Li Empire is located in the imperial city, which is quite far from the Imperial Products Center. After the luxurious carriage carrying Yan and Minghua entered the imperial city, they traveled for quite some time before arriving at a heavily guarded building.

The appearance of the highest imprint palace is almost identical to that of the imprint palace in the eastern part of the city, except for its size.

The enormous palace-style building is fifty meters high, making it the most magnificent imprint palace in the entire Feili Empire. In front of the gate are seventy-two huge stone pillars that require five people to encircle, and various reliefs are carved on them. If you look closely, you can vaguely see that they are different celestial beasts.

The dome of the highest imprint palace is adorned with a massive cross-shaped holy sword emblem that shines brilliantly, exuding an invisible aura of majesty.

This Imprint Palace can be said to be a holy place that countless powerful people in the Feli Empire yearn for. In order to obtain the qualification to make an imprint here, many powerful people with low birth but great potential have chosen to join the royal family's service team.

In this highest-level imprint palace, every celestial beast is carefully selected and possesses the most powerful skills. Among them are celestial king-level and even celestial emperor-level beasts. As for whether there are any celestial god-level beasts, very few people know.

After Yan, Minghua, and Caicai alighted from the carriage, they walked up the steps. Hundreds of heavily armored soldiers in full golden plate armor patrolled inside and outside the Tuoyin Palace. When they saw Caicai, they all stopped and bowed.

The highest seal palace of the Fei Li Empire is one of the empire's foundations. The celestial beasts sealed here are all powerful celestial beasts above the Heavenly King level. If any problems arise here, it will be a great disaster.

Therefore, the empire stationed a large number of troops inside and outside this printing palace to patrol day and night, and there were also guardians with Heavenly King-level powerhouses stationed there in shifts, all to ensure that no problems occurred here.

As such an important rubbing palace, obtaining the permission to enter and make rubbings is no easy feat. If Yan hadn't made significant contributions to the Fei Li Empire and hadn't had Princess Cai Cai's repeated mediation, he, as an outsider, wouldn't have even been qualified to know about it, let alone enter.

The armored soldiers patrolling outside the highest printing palace clearly knew that Princess Caicai was acquainted with her. Upon seeing her, they all made way for her, and the group was able to enter the printing palace smoothly.

This printing palace is very large, and its interior layout is an infinitely enlarged version of other printing palaces within the Feli Empire.

Led by Cai Cai, Yan and Ming Hua entered the diamond passage symbolizing the earth element, where they met an old man with a white beard in the hall at the end of the passage.

"Greetings, Your Highness."

This old man must be a powerful figure from the highest level of the Imprint Palace. He must have known the news long ago and was waiting here. After paying his respects to Cai Cai, he couldn't help but turn his gaze to Yan.

Yan's reputation within the Fei Li Empire has soared during this period. He helped the empire win the Heavenly Pearl Competition, thus enhancing the empire's prestige. He also recruited talent in the Form Condensation Master category using dragon remains. In addition, his romantic affair with Princess Cai Cai has made many people eager to get to know this Young Master Yan.

Princess Cai Cai asked on behalf of Yan, "Elder Xia, within the Supreme Imprint Palace, which earth-attribute celestial beasts are in relatively good condition and have ancient bloodlines?"

Yan wants to use the celestial beasts of the Vast Continent to replace the soul beasts of the Douluo Continent as the soul rings for his second martial soul, so the priority should definitely be those celestial beasts that are strong and have ancient bloodlines.

The celestial beasts in the highest imprint palace have been sealed for many years, and many of them are already barely surviving and not in good condition. Such celestial beasts are not a good choice, so Cai Cai added some prerequisites.

“I understand Your Highness’s request. However, the Supreme Imprint Palace seals away celestial beasts and causes aging celestial beasts to die every year. The specific situation still needs to be investigated and examined in person. Please come with me to take a look. This way, we can give Young Master Yan more options.”

As Elder Xia spoke, he guided them into the inner passage of the Earth Attribute Imprint Palace. This place was much larger than the Emerald Imprint Palace, and each passage was engraved with various celestial beast patterns, giving a brief introduction to the celestial beasts that were sealed here.

At the end of the dark passageway, the further one went, the more eerie it became, as if an invisible pressure was spreading through the air, chilling one to the bone. Minghua and Caicai unconsciously moved closer to Yan, who naturally welcomed them.

They walked for about a hundred meters before the space opened up, revealing a stone chamber covering nearly a hundred square meters. As soon as they approached the chamber, Cai Cai and Ming Hua, who were stronger, felt a suffocating sense of impending doom.

Yan naturally noticed their predicament, and a yellow light emanated from his body, enveloping the two of them, making them feel much more relaxed.

"Is the seal here of the dark attribute?"

Yan carefully observed the construction details of the stone chamber. The entire chamber was built from black stones that exuded a dark aura, and many strange patterns were engraved on them. There were glowing pearls on the stone walls, illuminating everything here.

Darkness is best at sealing, and there is no doubt that a powerful dark seal exists here to suppress the king-level celestial beast.

Yan arrived outside the stone chamber and his gaze naturally went to find the location of the king-level celestial beast. He saw a yellow-black rhinoceros, about two and a half meters tall at the shoulder and about six or seven meters long, struggling with red eyes in a corner inside the stone chamber.

The yellow-black rhinoceros was bound with eight black chains, and each of its four strong limbs had a black mark on it. Each hoof was also tied with a thin black chain.

On the stone wall outside the stone chamber were inscriptions, a description of this celestial beast. It read: Earth Demon Rhinoceros, Earth and Evil Attributes, King-level.

This celestial beast is enormous and exceptionally ferocious, with a head as hard as steel and possessing tremendous charging power. It excels at earth-attribute trampling skills and has evil-attribute berserk skills, making its destructive power extremely astonishing...

"Young Master Yan, do you need the skill of imprinting?"

Elder Xia pointed to the still struggling Earth Demon Rhinoceros and tentatively asked Yan, "Forgive my bluntness, but these kinds of celestial beasts at their peak are actually not a good choice."

Generally speaking, weaker celestial beasts are easier to imprint, and the power of the imprinted celestial beast's skill has little to do with the celestial beast's original condition.

"Elder Xia, what price would I have to pay if I wanted to take away the celestial beast from the Supreme Imprint Palace?"

Yan glanced at the Earth Demon Rhinoceros. Although it had some old wounds that hadn't healed, its overall condition was quite good, making it a decent backup option.

Elder Xia frowned slightly when he heard Yan's words, then glanced at Cai Cai and said in a deep voice, "Young Master Yan, every celestial beast in the Supreme Imprint Palace is the foundation of the empire. In order to capture them, many of the empire's powerful figures have sacrificed themselves."

It's difficult for ordinary people to even enter and imprint skills, let alone take away the celestial beasts inside. I think you should know the value of a celestial beast of the Heavenly King level.

However, given your contributions to the Empire, you can exchange up to three dragons for one of the dragons stored in the Imperial Item Center.

"This price isn't too high."

Yan nodded, then looked at the Earth Demon Rhinoceros with some disdain, "But this kind of celestial beast is not enough for me to give up my dragon bones."

"Roar~~~"

As Yan spoke, he stepped forward. When the earth rhinoceros, with its red eyes and seemingly berserk appearance, saw him approaching, it immediately roared, clearly intending to teach him a lesson and give him a warning.

Its already struggling body suddenly lunged forward, the taut chains tightening and creaking as if they were about to snap. Its movements were swift and violent, a chilling killing intent bursting from its two crimson eyes.

Yan didn't make any further moves, stopping just an inch or so in front of the Earth Demon Rhinoceros. The two rhinoceros horns of different sizes, radiating intense celestial power, were aimed directly at his chest, as if they could rip him open at any moment.

The eyes of this Heavenly King-level beast were filled with arrogance and anger, and even in its crazed gaze, there was a hint of wisdom.

As a Heavenly King-level celestial beast, this Earth Demon Rhinoceros is naturally quite intelligent. Over the years, the people of the Imprint Palace have imprinted skills on it many times, so it can naturally guess that Yan has come to do something similar.

It was naturally angry at the human's behavior and would resist. As a Heavenly King-level celestial beast, although it was bound, its violent aura and fierce majesty were very intimidating. Some celestial bead masters who came to make rubbings were scared away by it.

Chapter 531 Medusa

"You're angry, aren't you? Too bad, it's no use!"

Yan looked at the Earth Demon Rhinoceros so close to him. He could feel the beast's anger and resistance. Most people would be terrified if they were attacked like that, but for Yan, this little bit of resistance was nothing more than a drizzle.

"Ha ha……"

He squinted at the berserk celestial beast, then reached out and grabbed the largest horn of the Earth Demon Rhinoceros.

"Let go quickly, or its heavenly power will erupt."

Yan's sudden action startled Elder Xia, who was watching from behind. Although Yan's previous move to walk in front of the Earth Demon Rhino was risky, it was still safe due to the chains and the dark seal.

However, Yan's act of directly grabbing the rhinoceros horn was not only provocative, but also extremely dangerous.

Although the Earth Demon Rhinoceros's power was sealed, preventing it from unleashing its celestial energy externally, the celestial energy within it hadn't disappeared. Yan's grasp of the rhinoceros horn with his right hand was tantamount to giving this celestial beast a channel to release its celestial energy, which would undoubtedly lead to danger.

"Boom!"

As soon as Elder Xia finished speaking, a powerful surge of celestial energy erupted from Yan and the Earth Demon Rhino. The surging yellow light instantly illuminated the entire dim stone chamber, and everyone was shocked by what they were witnessing.

With two muffled thuds, the Earth Demon Rhinoceros's two forelimbs slammed heavily onto the ground. Yan, who had been holding the rhinoceros's horn, pressed down hard with his right hand, and the entire rhinoceros's head also hit the ground in the next moment.

Yan pressed the Earth Demon Rhino's chin against the ground, rubbing it against the ground. The Earth Demon Rhino, which was already in a frenzied state, became even more agitated. It let out sharp growls, and its four rhinoceros legs struggled to break free from this situation of having its head bowed.

However, the next moment, a loud bang was heard. Yan suddenly released his right hand, which was holding the rhinoceros horn, and punched down, knocking the Earth Demon Rhinoceros to the ground. Then he stepped on it, crushing the huge, mountain-like body under his feet.

The Earth Demon Rhinoceros was already sealed away, and being sealed, it had few ways to resist, only able to rely on its physical defenses. However, without the support of energy, all of its abilities were greatly weakened.