Wang Yu
Chapter 841: Saving the Master
He himself stepped on the void, his figure violently retreating backward.
"Zheng, Zheng, Zheng…"
Five sharp sword cries rang out. After blocking the White Bone Giant Demon's attack, the five Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords were sent flying, their electric light scattering and golden light trembling, plummeting towards the sea below.
Han Li had no time to care about the flying swords. He had only flown a few hundred feet away when a whistling wind suddenly sounded behind him.
The huge skulls atop the eight White Bone Cairns opened their mouths, each spitting out a thick bone chain shining with crystal-white light, like eight white bone spears, shooting straight at him.
Han Li’s mind flickered, and he was about to reverse the True Wheel to dodge when he suddenly found his arms stiffening, as if frozen. He was unable to retract them in front of him to form a hand seal.
When he looked, he discovered that a layer of white bone armor had grown on his arms at some point, enveloping his elbow joints. The white bone armor, like frost, was spreading from the joints towards his palms and shoulders.
Wherever it passed, a layer of white bone armor silently appeared.
"When… could it be that drop of white liquid?" Han Li was momentarily surprised and understood.
His brow furrowed, and he heavily stamped on the void with both feet. His figure shot upwards, and golden light burst forth from his body, with countless golden lightning bolts surging out from within, enveloping his entire person, heavily striking the white bone armor.
However, after the golden light dissipated, the bone armor on Han Li's body had not only not been shattered but had actually increased in coverage.
Before he could try again, the eight snow-white bone chains had already caught up, coiling up along his legs and arms, binding him in mid-air.
With the white bones binding him, Han Li immediately felt an incomparably powerful force crushing down, causing his bones to creak. If he did not possess the Profound Immortal physique and had not achieved the Jade Immortal body, he would have been crushed to pieces by now.
At the same time, two streams of green flames gushed out from the eye sockets of the eight skulls atop the White Bone Cairns, all rolling along the bone chains, instantly engulfing Han Li entirely.
The dark green flames had no heat. They felt only slightly cool when they landed on him and had none of the eerie coldness of ghost fire. However, Han Li's expression changed drastically at the moment they touched him, and he couldn't help but reveal a look of fear.
He realized that although the green flames would not burn his flesh or harm his soul, they could directly temper his bones.
In just a few breaths, Han Li felt a tingling sensation coming from his bones, as if they were being gnawed by countless small insects, causing them to become decayed.
Although he had a Jade Immortal body, and his bones had long been tempered like magic treasures, they could not withstand the power of Master Caogu’s withered bone laws.
Without Han Li's summoning, a flash of silver light immediately appeared on his body's surface. An incomparably scorching silver flame surged out, like a fiery outer garment covering his body, pushing back the dark green flames.
The Silver Flame Bird's silver flames were extraordinary. After completely refining the three Seven-Colored Fire Pellet Sands, its power was even greater than before. After protecting Han Li, it even separated a part of itself to counterattack the dark green flames.
The two types of flames intertwined, both rising violently. In the rolling smoke, the green flames retreated steadily.
The Silver Flame Bird refused to give up and chased back along the white bone chains, seemingly determined not to stop until it had completely devoured the green flames.
The White Bone Giant Demon transformed from Master Caogu came over in one step. He merely glanced at the Silver Flame Bird and fixed his gaze on Han Li.
This human race's Grand Unity Jade Immortal had too many tricks up his sleeve. If he was not eliminated as soon as possible, he might cause unforeseen events.
He raised his hand, his five fingers like knives, flashing with cold light, and stabbed straight down at Han Li.
At this time, Han Li's arms, along with his entire chest and abdomen, were covered in white bone armor. Not to mention casting spells, even moving was very difficult, let alone being bound by white bone chains. He had no way to dodge.
When Master Caogu’s gaze fell on Han Li's face, he couldn't help but feel somewhat dazed. He discovered that although Han Li's expression was somewhat flustered, the depths of his eyes were like an ancient well, not stirring up the slightest ripple.
"No, something's not right…"
Master Caogu suddenly realized that something was wrong. Just as he was about to withdraw his hand, a sudden change occurred.
Just as his knife-like finger bones were about to pierce Han Li's body, a cold glint suddenly rose in the latter's eyes.
How similar was this scene to before?
"How could a mere Grand Unity’s spiritual power…" Master Caogu exclaimed in alarm.
A translucent crystal light sword, no more than an inch long and flickering with runes, suddenly shot out from between Han Li's eyebrows, piercing through Master Caogu’s blade-like giant palm in an instant and heading straight for his brow.
"Pfft."
In a daze, Master Caogu seemed to hear that faint sound again.
In the next instant, the golden rune at the center of his brow shattered with a bang, turning into golden powder and dissipating. A deafening thunderclap echoed in his sea of consciousness, and an enormous crystal light sword appeared, descending from the sky towards his sea of consciousness.
The runes on the sword's body flashed wildly, and the powerful divine sense fluctuations emanating from it directly extended, carrying waves of incomparably powerful impact, crushing down and directly dividing Master Caogu’s sea of consciousness in two.
At this time, within Master Caogu’s sea of consciousness, the wind and clouds changed drastically, and the turbid waves surged. His divine sense power, like the first snow illuminated by the scorching sun, was rapidly melting away.
His already severely injured soul trembled even more, as if it were about to be torn apart by this force.
"No… how is this possible…"
Master Caogu roared unwillingly, his divine sense power rapidly depleting, and his vision gradually became more and more blurred.
His body trembled violently, and his huge body began to shrink rapidly, quickly returning to its original state.
The eight White Bone Cairns also seemed unable to support themselves. The dark green flames above them gradually weakened, and the white bone chains spewed from the mouths of the skulls at the top were rapidly retracted with a "rattling" sound.
Seeing that there was no fire to devour, the Silver Flame Bird transformed back into a silver firebird, spread its wings, and pounced towards Han Li.
When it approached, it discovered that Han Li's arms and chest were bound by bone armor. It immediately flew down and landed on Han Li's chest like a silver fireball, then scattered and wrapped around the white bone armor, burning it with all its might.
"Roar…"
At this moment, a roar almost like that of a wild beast rang out.
Master Caogu’s eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, and his expression was almost frantic. He suddenly raised a palm and heavily struck his own brow, instantly stirring up a violent wave of air.
In his sea of consciousness, a palm print descended from the sky, heavily striking the giant sword of divine sense.
The sword body shook violently, the crystal light on its body dimmed rapidly, and it disappeared from Master Caogu’s sea of consciousness.
In the next instant, a crystal light sword shot out from the back of his head again, drawing an arc in mid-air before shooting towards Han Li, quickly disappearing into his brow.
After being struck by his own self-damaging palm, Master Caogu, although he had interrupted the Sword of Divine Sense from cutting his soul, suffered even greater damage himself. His body involuntarily flew backward.
His hair became disheveled, and there was almost no spirit left in his eyes. The whole person was like a panicked old man who had lost his soul, staggering away, transforming into a rainbow in the void, and fleeing away.
After Master Caogu escaped, his Withered Bone Spirit Domain also dissipated, and the eight White Bone Cairns disappeared into the void.
On Han Li's side, at the moment the crystal light sword flew into his sea of consciousness, he was also struck by lightning. His head jerked backward, and his divine sense power was greatly depleted. He only had time to retrieve his various magic treasures before his body could no longer support itself and fell towards the sea below.
It was the Silver Flame Bird that discovered he had fallen into a coma and carried him, flying to the island he had been on before and landing.
After landing, Han Li's body stopped moving, but the silver flames wrapped around his body continued to rise.
As time passed, the bone armor covering him finally made a "cracking" sound under the burning of the Firebird, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface.
It was not until the morning of the second day that those cracks finally widened completely and shattered.
At the same time, on the golden wheel suspended above Han Li's head, the time Dao patterns were extinguished one after another.
…
Several days passed in a flash, and it was another morning.
As the morning sun rose from the sea, the first ray of sunlight shone on Han Li's cheek, and his eyelashes trembled slightly as his eyes slowly opened.
After burning the white bone armor into dust, the Silver Flame Bird transformed into a silver flame little man, sitting cross-legged on Han Li's chest with his arms folded, acting as a guardian.
Seeing Han Li wake up at this moment, he immediately jumped up and looked at him with a joyful expression.
Han Li's mind was muddled, and the aftereffects of the severe depletion of his divine sense power made it difficult for his vision to recover for a while. He wanted to support himself to sit up, but found that his whole body was aching unbearably, as if he was carrying a mountain peak, heavy and immense.
His heart stirred slightly, and he understood that it seemed to be because he had crossed over here with his physical body, and every move he made was suppressed by the invisible Dao laws of this world, which was why he felt this way.
Han Li silently circulated the Great Cycle Stellar Essence Art, and a layer of hazy white light lit up on his body. He exerted force with his arms, supporting himself to sit up a little, and then he could see the Silver Flame Bird in front of him clearly, and a hint of a smile appeared on his face.
Seeing this, the silver flame little man immediately jumped and climbed onto his shoulder, gesticulating exaggeratedly.
"Alright, alright, I know everything. You helped me get rid of the bone armor, and you took me here to escape, and you've been guarding me all along. Thank you for your hard work…" Han Li said with a smile.
After saying that, he looked around and found that the surrounding scenery was still that black sea. The rotten whale carcass was still floating on the sea, and he was still in the time and space he had crossed over from.