A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality - Chapter 1163 - Chapter 1163: Volume 7: Across the Human World, Chapter 1158: Annihilation

Chapter 1163: Volume 7: Across the Human World, Chapter 1158: Annihilation

The large man had just entered the void with the power of the Daoist paper talisman when he suddenly felt a tremendous force strike his back silently. Despite the golden beetles desperately gathering to block, they were still solidly hit by this force.

With a loud “boom,” he was forcefully knocked back into the original space.

At the same time, he felt a sweet taste in his throat and spat out a mouthful of black blood.

Just then, a rumbling of thunder came from behind him.

The golden beetles’ ancestor turned his head in fright.

He saw, a dozen meters away, Han Li materializing amidst a silver light and slowly retracting his vaguely flickering fist, giving him a cold and mocking smile.

The bald large man felt a chill in his heart, and only then did he truly confirm that the other party was definitely not an early Nascent Soul cultivator, but at least had a mid-stage or higher cultivation, and his Daoist paper talismans, spirit beasts, and Divine Skills were far beyond his comparison.

Thinking so, the golden beetles’ ancestor no longer dared to engage in battle with Han Li, completely extinguishing his fighting spirit, and suddenly threw the golden talisman in his hand into the air. His body surrounded by golden light, he transformed into a golden rainbow and broke through the air to escape.

He didn’t even spare a glance for the beautiful woman below.

Han Li’s mouth twitched, originally planning to immediately pursue, but the golden talisman thrown by the other party burst with a “puff” and transformed into a mass of golden light.

This golden light immediately fragmented, and after a moment of condensation and transformation, it turned into thousands of thumb-sized golden venomous bees, which swarmed towards Han Li from all directions.

A humming sound erupted!

Han Li was somewhat surprised, but calmly opened his mouth and spewed out a cauldron wrapped in a green light.

The cauldron merely spun in front of him, instantly enlarging to several meters, and then Han Li slapped the cauldron with one hand.

With a “boom,” blue flames suddenly emerged from the surface of the cauldron, enveloping it.

Then the lid of the cauldron slowly opened amidst the rumbling sound, revealing a slit about a foot wide.

A wisp of blurry light burst from the slit and, swelling against the wind, turned into a green whip several meters long.

With just a flash of green light filling the sky, the green whip swept through half of the heavens in an instant, engulfing all the golden bees within it. Then, spiraling back, it retracted into the cauldron with sparks of golden light like lightning.

No sooner had the Heavenvoid Cauldron been deployed than it collected all the golden venomous bees into the cauldron.

But this slight delay allowed the golden beetles’ ancestor, now a startling rainbow, to already be fifty or sixty meters away, a speed alarming for an early Nascent Soul cultivator.

Seeing this, Han Li’s face showed a hint of mockery and he did not rush to chase, instead his gaze swept around.

The result made his eyebrows furrow and he snorted coldly through his nose.

In the brief moment of dazzling exchange with the golden beetles’ ancestor, the gray-robed old man and the blue-robed young man had somehow, unnoticed, retreated over a hundred meters away, appearing as though they were about to turn and flee.

These two, since Han Li and the golden beetles’ ancestor had successively appeared, had already lost the idea of acquiring treasure, only thinking about how to escape the dangerous situation unscathed, lest they perish here.

Not to mention the golden beetles’ ancestor, it was clear that the gorgeous woman had been called to kill and silence.

After the unknown cultivator had a few exchanges with the golden beetles’ ancestor, even wanting to silence a Nascent Soul cultivator, the two knew they were in a bad situation.

But when the golden beetles’ ancestor unwittingly mentioned the Heavenvoid Cauldron, the two had an epiphany.

Though they were only Core Formation cultivators, being under Man Huzi, how could they not know of the news when the Heavenvoid Cauldron was first revealed? Even now, the decree by the Starfall Coalition to hunt down the bearer of the cauldron had not been lifted.

Knowing the severity of it, they naturally no longer dared to stay put.

As Han Li and the bald large man started to fight, these two immediately retreated quietly and gradually.

Now seeing Han Li’s icy gaze sweeping towards them, their hearts pounding, they immediately, without hesitation, released a streak of light and fled separately.

As for the beautiful woman, when the golden beetles’ ancestor abandoned her and fled, her heart panicked, and she immediately twisted her body and turned into a streak of red light, shooting away.

As for the low-level cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage and Qi Refinement Realm by the farther lakeside, they, due to their low cultivation and great distance, had no idea what had happened at the center of the lake. But seeing their masters and grandmasters fleeing in panic, these people exchanged glances filled with terror and dispersed in a commotion.

Seeing these circumstances, a shadow flashed across Han Li’s face, and suddenly he reached for his waist and lifted a spirit beast pouch into mid-air.

Immediately following, hissing noises came from the pouch, and it spewed out a white mist, inside which were a dozen snow-white centipedes, each half a foot long with a pair of transparent wings on their backs, looking ferociously fierce as they circled and flew around Han Li’s head.

Han Li, without a word, pointed towards the three people in the distance with his finger.

Instantly, eighteen Six-Winged Frost Centipedes divided into three groups, turned into three streams of white cold wind, and hissing with cold breaths, chased after the three Core Formation cultivators. Their speed was clearly faster than that of the trio.

Seeing this scene when they looked back, the three, including the beautiful woman, were so frightened they immediately expended their last bit of remaining strength to increase their escaping speed by a notch.

In the blink of an eye, the trio and the Six-Winged Frost Centipedes were fiercely chasing each other into the distance.

As for those low-level cultivators, Han Li couldn’t be bothered with them.

Given the extremely slow speed and low status of these cultivators, even if they wanted to report the situation here, it would take several days. By that time, Han Li would already be millions of miles away from this place.

However, he glanced over at the large man known as Golden Flower Patriarch in the distance, his eyes flashing with a murderous intent. With a gentle flap of the Thunderstorm Wings on his back, he transformed into a silver arc and disappeared from the spot.

Even though the Golden Flower Patriarch was already a hundred feet away, each of Han Li’s movements instantaneously brought him over twenty feet closer. After just six or seven moves, he eerily appeared right above the large man.

Without saying a word, he raised his hand and cast out a massive burst of purple flames, transforming it into a gigantic hand that ferociously grasped downward.

“Ah”

Golden Flower Patriarch, who was beneath, never expected that Han Li would be able to consecutively use the instant movement technique so effortlessly and catch up so quickly. He was horror-stricken and let out a cry of alarm when he saw the purple hand reaching for him, showing an expression of terror on his face.

Having no alternative, he could only open his mouth and spit out a golden flying knife, slashing it towards the hand as he hurriedly formed incantations, attempting to dodge the attack.

But the hand, formed from Purple Apex Flames, was not something that an early Nascent Soul cultivator could easily break. Even late-stage great cultivators and level ten demon cultivators would feel apprehension upon seeing Han Li’s Extreme Cold Flame.

As soon as the golden flying knife slashed at the hand, its surface immediately became encased in a layer of Purple Cold Ice with a flash of purple light and lost control, plunging downwards.

In the large man’s horrified gaze, the purple hand eerily spread its fingers as if it was a giant fan, gripping the large man’s just-ejected body in its palm.

A scream echoed as the purple flames on the hand surged several feet higher. In the blink of an eye, the Golden Flower Patriarch turned into a purple ice sculpture.

Seeing this, Han Li was unhesitant. With an incantation, he violently squeezed the hand!

With a crisp “pu” sound, the entire ice sculpture shattered into pieces. Amid the ice fragments, a golden flash appeared as the large man’s Nascent Soul tried to escape.

But Han Li was prepared. With a mere thought, the hand transformed into a surge of purple flames, trapping the large man’s Nascent Soul within.

The Nascent Soul could only struggle momentarily before flickering violently a few times and then vanishing into nothingness.

At this, Han Li calmly shook his sleeve, and the purple flames turned into a Fire Serpent Technique, shooting back and vanishing into his sleeve without a trace.

He then slightly smiled, scanned the area with his eyes, and raised his hand to grab towards the void below.

Suddenly, the large man’s floating storage pouch was pulled into his hand.

He subsequently slipped the storage pouch into his sleeve and raised his head looking in different directions.

He saw that three other people and eighteen pale white centipedes had long disappeared without a trace, seemingly pursued far away.

Han Li was not in a hurry. After recalling the Weeping Soul Beast, which had already reverted to its mini size, he closed his eyes, seated in meditation, and slowly released his spiritual sense all around, remaining motionless in mid-air.

The surroundings became eerily quiet, with only the faint sound of the sea breeze, almost devoid of any noise.

After sitting in meditation for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a slight smile abruptly appeared on Han Li’s lips as he reopened his eyes.

Almost simultaneously, from a certain direction in the sky, a flash of spiritual light appeared, and a swirl of white cold wind shot back, arriving above Han Li’s head in a moment. The wind dispersed, revealing six sinister pale white centipedes.

Now, these centipedes had grown to over a foot long, and two of them had faint sword marks on their white shells, displaying signs of having gone through a fierce battle.

With a low shout, he struck an incantation towards the sky, and the six centipedes flashed white light all over their bodies, swiftly shrinking back to their original size.

Then, after summoning the spirit beast pouch again, the Six-Winged Frost Centipedes turned into six streaks of white light and flew into the mouth of the pouch.

After waiting a bit longer, the other two groups of centipedes also shot back from two different directions; one group was unharmed, but among the other group, one centipede had several legs cut off, appearing to have sustained some injuries.

However, these spirit insects naturally possess strong vitality and the ability to regrow their limbs, so these minor injuries would fully heal over time.

Han Li collected these centipedes as well, then looked towards the center of the lake on the sea surface, immediately brightening up with green light around his body, transformed into a green rainbow shooting downward.

After just a flash, the rainbow disappeared into the lake without a trace.

This so-called demon lake wasn’t very deep, and Han Li only needed to descend a little over two hundred feet before he could faintly see the bottom of the lake.

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However, the water in this lake was indeed strange, being excessively green. Even though Han Li was using his Brightsight Water, he could only clearly see up to about ten feet away, any further became blurred. As for his spiritual sense, once it entered the lake, it seemed unable to leave his body.

This demon lake was naturally a place isolated from divine sense.

However, Han Li had already received the precise location from Man Huzi, and after flying around for a short while, he easily found his target.

A pile of seemingly ordinary rocks at the bottom of the lake!

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