Mortal: I became invincible after becoming sworn brothers with Han Li.

Below the icy cave, Li Yunfan sat cross-legged on a piece of ice crystal, with a two-layered, three-colored fireball floating in front of him.

The outermost layer is yellow flame, the inner layer is purple flame, and the flame encased in the middle is a mix of blue and white.

He made hand seals and continuously cast different spells at the fireball. Each time, the blue and white flames would explode with a sound, as if they were resisting his spells.

However, Li Yunfan didn't care. He continued to cast the spell with a solemn expression. After forty-nine spells, the blue and white flames showed signs of fatigue, and even the blazing flames became somewhat weak.

Upon seeing this, Li Yunfan changed his hand seals, bit his tongue, and spat out a mouthful of blood essence into the fireball.

The fireballs formed from the Yellow Spring Poison Fire and the Purple Nether Heart Fire did not hinder them at all, allowing the essence blood to pass through and fall onto the blue and white flames, staining them with a trace of blood red.

He then touched his brow with one hand and pulled the finger outward toward the fireball. A strand of divine consciousness, as thick as a little finger and extremely solid, flew out from his forehead and headed straight for the blue and white flames.

The spiritual rope passed through the two layers of flames and rushed straight towards the blue and white spiritual fire, completely entangling it!

When his spiritual rope touched the flames, an unbearable pain suddenly surged from the depths of his soul, causing his expression to change and him to clench his teeth in distress.

But as the rope of divine sense wrapped around the flames, the excruciating pain suddenly doubled, eventually becoming unbearable for him. He let out a scream of agony, and his expression became distorted.

Since divine sense is formless, it would be impossible for it to be burned by spiritual fire, but Li Yunfan could now truly feel the pain of his divine sense being burned by the flames.

The reason is that the rope of divine consciousness he used was a method he figured out on his own while making puppets. It was a way to gather divine consciousness towards a point and eventually form a form that resembled divine consciousness taking shape.

He was able to successfully unleash it thanks to his powerful divine sense after cultivating the Great Evolution Technique and his naturally stronger divine soul than ordinary people.

However, this method is far from achieving the transformation of divine consciousness into form. After all, that is a divine ability that only mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators can use. He can only be considered to have imitated a little bit of it, and it is on a side path.

However, this method has proven effective in subduing the spirit fire.

This blue and white spirit fire already possesses a considerable level of consciousness, not much different from some wild beasts. If given enough time, it might eventually be able to leave the spirit fire body and successfully transform into human form.

Therefore, if one wants to completely subdue and refine it, one must first erase its consciousness. However, Li Yunfan did not want to do so. The probability of a spiritual fire, a rare and precious creature of heaven and earth, developing sentience is extremely low. Now that he had encountered one, he naturally could not simply erase it.

So he chose the most time-consuming and resource-intensive method.

Recognize the Lord!

This is not as simple as a spirit beast or spirit insect recognizing its master. For Li Yunfan, who is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, it is extremely difficult to make such a naturally born spiritual creature recognize its master.

But after careful consideration, he decided to give it a try. If it failed, he could erase its consciousness and absorb and refine it later; but if he succeeded by sheer luck…

In that short moment, Li Yunfan's distorted face had turned deathly pale, his lips had lost all color, and his clothes were soaked with sweat. One could only imagine the pain he had endured!

With trembling hands, he reached out his right hand, pulled off the storage bag at his waist, and with a flick of his wrist, a bunch of bottles and jars clattered to the ground. He then picked up the nearest bottle of pills, uncorked it, and poured it directly into his mouth.

The pill melted instantly upon entering his mouth, transforming into a stream of pure spiritual energy that flowed into his body, easing his pain somewhat.

He then closed his eyes and began to circulate the Great Evolution Technique to combat the intense pain, while simultaneously nourishing his soul and replenishing his depleted spiritual power.

Before we knew it, twenty days had passed quietly.

On this day, in the Ironwood Mountains, a large spirit ship slowly landed on an open area in the western part of the mountains. Then, more than thirty cultivators flew off the ship and stood together.

Although there were not many of these people, their strength was extremely formidable. Among them were not only two Core Formation cultivators, but also nine Foundation Establishment cultivators. One of them even had spiritual energy fluctuations that were very close to those of an early Core Formation cultivator, clearly indicating that he was a pseudo-Core Formation cultivator who had one foot in the Core Formation realm.

The other eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, although all in the early stages, possessed stable spiritual power and were all powerful cultivators who had been at the Foundation Establishment stage for many years.

Although the remaining people were only at the Qi Refining stage, each of them had reached the eleventh level or above, and were not easy opponents either.

These people were the members of the Chan family who had come to hunt down level-five demonic beasts.

Those two Core Formation cultivators were naturally the current ancestors of the Chan family: Chan Fang, who was in the middle stage of Core Formation, and Chan Tianli, who was in the early stage of Core Formation.

"Send a message to the disciple guarding the demon beast!" Chanfang said coldly.

"Yes, Ancestor!"

Upon hearing this, the fake Core Formation cultivator immediately took out a jade tablet from his storage bag, infused it with spiritual power, and after the jade tablet emitted a faint spiritual light, he used his other hand to form a sword finger and wrote a few words on the jade tablet before putting it away.

No one said anything upon seeing this, but a hint of curiosity flashed in the eyes of the Qi Refining cultivators, clearly indicating that it was the first time they had seen such a thing.

"Senior Zhao, what is that senior from the Chan family carrying?" A somewhat slick-looking man quietly took a few steps forward and asked a burly man in front of him in a low voice.

After glancing at the man, the burly man actually began to explain, seemingly recognizing him.

"That's a communication artifact crafted by the Chan family. It consists of two pieces. As long as two people hold the same artifact, they can send text messages to each other within a certain distance. It's considered a unique artifact of the Chan family."

"There's actually such a magical artifact? If we had it, wouldn't we no longer need to use communication talismans?" The man's eyes lit up, and he said with some surprise.

The burly man scoffed, "How could that be? If this thing were truly so convenient, everyone in the cultivation world would have one by now. Not only is it difficult to refine, requiring a main material called 'Double-Core Stone,' but the range it can be used for is also very limited, at most ten miles. Once that distance is exceeded, it loses its effectiveness!"

"I see... It's only about ten miles, which is enough for some situations. It's good to have one on hand." The man nodded in understanding, then said again.

"Prepare one? Don't even mention you, even I might not be able to afford one!" the big man said with a snort.

"Even you can't afford this, senior? Is it really that expensive?" The man was shocked and asked incredulously.

"The main material for crafting this item, 'Double-Core Stone,' is not particularly rare, but it is extremely scarce. The Chan family only discovered some by chance in a mine, which allowed them to craft the Tongyan Jade Tokens. However, most of them are ordinary jade tokens with a range of only three or four li, with only a small number being high-grade jade tokens exceeding eight li. The Chan family once auctioned off a top-grade jade token with a range of twelve li, which was bought by a master for tens of thousands of spirit stones and given to a junior member. Because of its scarcity, the Chan family rarely sells them; even the most ordinary jade token requires four or five thousand spirit stones to purchase."

After hearing what the big man said, the man couldn't help but gasp. Four or five thousand spirit stones was definitely a huge sum of money for him!

Although he would receive a reward of a thousand spirit stones after helping the Chan family, such a good thing might not happen for decades, so it naturally couldn't be counted in that reward.

Just then, a golden light flew out from the depths of the mountains and headed straight for this place.