Han Li naturally did not know that a crisis that might have occurred had thus been resolved.
But out of caution, he still flew northeastward without rest day and night.
Since he was wanted, he could no longer stay in the southwestern sea regions. But to go elsewhere, he needed a complete map of the entire Chaotic Star Sea.
But Han Li only had the map of the southwestern sea regions.
Therefore, a month later, Han Li stopped on a small island.
Although this island was not large, because it was located at the border between the southwestern sea regions and other sea regions, it had a very prosperous small market town.
Out of caution, Han Li had Qu Hun use some secret technique to simultaneously conceal their appearances, and then they each put on a cloak.
In this way, unless it was a cultivator with higher cultivation than Qu Hun, even if they tried to spy on their appearances with spiritual sense, they would only see a blur of red light.
In the following half day, Han Li replenished a large pile of raw materials and such things in the market town on the island, and purchased many books introducing various aspects of the Chaotic Star Sea and related sea region maps, spending quite a lot.
And many small shop owners in the market town were overjoyed by the arrival of this big customer like Han Li!
Once he had gathered everything, Han Li did not dare to stay long, and left the island that very day.
Sitting on the Divine Wind Boat, Han Li took out jade slips one by one to carefully read.
After an unknown amount of time, he let out a long breath, threw the jade slip in his hand into the storage pouch, and fell into contemplation.
After a careful examination, Han Li finally had a general understanding of the entire Chaotic Star Sea.
The Chaotic Star Sea was vast! But how vast it was, no one knew, and no one was foolish enough to go measure it.
The current sea region maps were only a small part of the true sea regions of the Chaotic Star Sea, and this was what all Chaotic Star Sea cultivators agreed upon.
The explored sea regions were usually called the "Inner Star Sea," while the unexplored outer sea regions were the "Outer Star Sea."
And the "Chaotic Star Sea" that ordinary people spoke of actually only referred to the "Inner Star Sea."
The "Outer Star Sea" had an even more terrifying name: the "Demon Sea." Because there were many inconceivably powerful demon beasts living there, reportedly capable of contending with Nascent Soul stage cultivators without falling behind, which made many low-level cultivators who had never been to the Outer Star Sea stick out their tongues in amazement for a long time.
The books also said that in ancient times, whether it was the "Inner Star Sea" or the "Outer Star Sea," it was the domain of demon beasts in the sea, and cultivators could only hold out on a few isolated small islands.
Later, after an unknown amount of long years, many seniors of the Chaotic Star Sea one by one eliminated the powerful demon beasts, opening up the current Inner Star Sea regions.
Nowadays, the entire Chaotic Star Sea was governed by a massive force called the "Star Palace."
This force had existed for so long that even the books did not give an accurate time.
The original reasons for its establishment were also the subject of much debate. Some said it was formed by those seniors who had eliminated the demon beasts, while others said it was established by some former great overlord who had unified the Chaotic Star Sea at that time, and so on.
The current Heavenly Star Palace had turned a giant island in the central part of the Inner Star Sea into a super city called "Heavenly Star City," where two city masters known as "the Twin Saints of Heavenly Star" ruled the entire "Star Palace" organization.
These two city masters were extremely mysterious. They never left Heavenly Star City, let alone appeared in public, so no one had ever seen their true faces.
But cultivators of the Chaotic Star Sea all rumored that these two saints were either late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators or legendary Spirit Transformation realm heavenly beings.
After all, the title of the Twin Saints of Heavenly Star had been circulating for nearly a thousand years. Ordinary cultivators did not have such long lifespans!
And the "Star Palace," besides "Heavenly Star City," also had direct-controlled subsidiary islands in the eight outer regions and four central regions of the Inner Star Sea, each choosing three of the largest islands.
Known as the Outer Twenty-Four Star Islands and the Inner Twelve Star Islands, they formed an arched formation facing "Heavenly Star City."
And Kui Star Island, where Han Li had stayed, was one of the outer islands under this "Star Palace."
In this way, these star islands plus the many small islands attached to them, it was no exaggeration to say that the "Star Palace" was the official force of the Chaotic Star Sea!
Even more astonishing was that this "Star Palace" appointed the masters of these star islands in two ways.
The Inner Twelve Star Islands were appointed by the two saints, each selecting six people from within the organization. The Outer Twenty-Four Star Islands had public challenge selections held in "Heavenly Star City" every hundred years, with the final winner automatically becoming the island master, enjoying the treatment of having power over one's own domain.
Thus, the assembly held every hundred years in "Heavenly Star City" to select the outer island masters, which many cultivators who wanted to make the leap called the "Star Plucking Assembly," attracted almost all high-level cultivators of the Chaotic Star Sea when it was convened.
These cultivators, some came directly for the position of island master, some just wanted to broaden their horizons and exchange ideas with fellow cultivators, and others wanted to take this opportunity to exchange materials, pills, and even cultivation techniques, making it a gathering of talents that almost made Heavenly Star City overcrowded.
But even when it was not the day of the Star Plucking Assembly, Heavenly Star City was also bustling and prosperous, with all sorts of mixed company.
Because this city was extremely free, allowing cultivators of all levels to come and go as they pleased, and except for prohibiting fighting within the city and requiring long-term residents to pay a certain amount of spirit stones each month, the "Star Palace" people would not interfere with anything in this city. Even demonic cultivators, as long as they did not cause trouble in this city, the "Star Palace" people would not actively go to arrest them.
Those big merchants were extremely satisfied with this free environment, setting up permanent storefronts in the city one after another, and also establishing their own auction houses and purchasing businesses that could earn large amounts of spirit stones.
As a result, countless rare items from all over the Chaotic Star Sea flowed into Heavenly Star City every year!
In addition, Heavenly Star City had another place that attracted even more cultivators to come. Inside the city, the Heavenly Star Palace had actually built teleportation arrays that led directly to the Outer Star Sea.
As long as someone was willing to pay a large amount of spirit stones, they could use the teleportation arrays to teleport to dozens of "Demon Beast Islands" of varying sizes in the Outer Star Sea. These islands were all isolated islands with spiritual energy that had been opened up by predecessors.
After arriving at these islands, cultivators could slay various demon beasts in the surrounding seas, seize demon cores, and then bring them back to Heavenly Star City to sell for spirit stones.
Given the value of demon cores, almost a single level-five demon core could sell for nearly a thousand spirit stones, and a level-six demon core could almost allow a Foundation Establishment cultivator to cultivate without worry for the rest of their life.
Therefore, more than half of the cultivators who came to Heavenly Star City each year came for these teleportation arrays.
After all, flying to the Outer Star Sea without taking the teleportation arrays not only took too long for the round trip, but also wandering around like headless flies in the Outer Star Sea was an incredibly dangerous thing.
When he saw this, Han Li did not even need to think; he immediately decided to go to "Heavenly Star City."
Whether it was the safe environment there or the teleportation arrays that could kill demons and obtain cores, they were both extremely tempting to him!
Of course, besides the super force of the "Star Palace," the Chaotic Star Sea also had other forces of various sizes, such as "Night Dragon Island," "Four Great Merchant Alliances," "Charm Demon Sect," "Three Immortal Gates," and so on. Of course, "Extreme Yin Island" and "Six Linked Halls" could also be considered two considerable forces.
Han Li silently organized the information he had obtained in his mind, then took out the sea region map of the Chaotic Star Sea from his person and studied it carefully for a while.
Then he changed the direction of the Divine Wind Boat, and with Qu Hun, transformed into white light, breaking through the sky and departing.
...
Several months later, a streak of white light cut through the sky over a certain sea region, and standing on it was Han Li, whose face showed signs of fatigue from day after day of long-distance travel.
Speaking of which, such a long journey was truly a rare experience for Han Li.
Because he did not want to waste the time during travel, Han Li tried to cultivate the Great Development Technique while controlling the magical treasure to fly, relying on his powerful spiritual sense.
At first, this technique of doing two things at once was extremely difficult. After all, this was not simply using a cultivated clone to control puppets!
It was a genuine technique of doing two things at once, so in the beginning, there were frequent errors.
Either while cultivating, the Divine Wind Boat started flying erratically, or while cultivating the Great Development Technique, he could not concentrate that portion of spiritual sense at all, making no progress for several consecutive days.
But there is a saying that goes, "Practice makes perfect."
After countless trials and doing two things at once, Han Li could now barely sit and control the magical treasure to fly while expressionlessly cultivating the Great Development Technique.
However, today Han Li was not doing two things at once, but honestly stood at the front of the Divine Wind Boat, continuously looking ahead.
According to the deserted island he had passed half a month ago, he should have reached the vicinity of the giant island where "Heavenly Star City" was located! So he felt somewhat excited.
After flying forward for a while longer, Han Li's expression slightly changed.
Because ahead, vaguely, there seemed to appear a huge black dot.
Without hesitation, Han Li urged the magical treasure under his feet, and the speed suddenly increased, speeding forward...