“Ah…”

Within the Thunder Pool, Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s face was twisted in agony as he let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Han Li and the others watched intently as beams of azure lightning surged from all directions, piercing Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s body like countless lances of electric light.

He looked like an azure porcupine, completely enveloped in azure lightning. His clothes were tattered, and his exposed skin was riddled with cracks, covered in scorched marks from the lightning.

At the same time, all the acupoints around his body involuntarily opened, allowing thin, azure electric threads to penetrate and stir up the black baleful aura that had been lurking within for so long.

Like using wolves to drive away tigers, the azure lightning surging into the acupoints did not care whether the acupoints could withstand it, but kept drilling inside. As the local tyrant, the baleful aura naturally refused to back down, gathering to resist the lightning.

However, the electric threads in this Thunder Pool were Purifying Bone Golden Lightning, which was extremely effective in restraining baleful aura. Therefore, under the clash of the two, the black baleful aura was immediately defeated and flowed out of Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s acupoints.

Looking at it, Heatfire Immortal Venerable seemed to have countless sandalwood incense sticks lit on his body, with wisps of black smoke constantly emerging from it, contrasting with the azure flashing electric threads of the Thunder Pool, forming a very peculiar scene.

Seeing this, Han Li’s tense heartstrings relaxed slightly.

After this observation, it could be seen that Liu Qi really was helping them deal with the Thunder Pool.

“Time is tight, let’s start too.” Han Li said to Shi Chuan Kong and Hu San.

The two nodded, and were about to enter the Thunder Pool, when suddenly they heard an almost violent roar.

The three turned their gazes towards Heatfire Immortal Venerable at the same time, and saw him raising his head high, clenching his fists and pointing them towards the sky, making a roaring gesture. Black baleful aura surged out from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and other seven orifices, covering his entire face, making it blurry.

However, the flesh on his body in the Thunder Pool no longer had baleful aura gushing out. The cracks all over his skin began to glow with magma-like crimson light, from which bursts of scorching heat emanated.

With a “whoosh” sound, a flame suddenly rose from Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s flesh, and began to burn violently.

In the blink of an eye, his legs had completely turned into charcoal, and were turned into ashes by a bolt of lightning.

Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s body suddenly dropped, and his upper body also fell towards the Thunder Pool.

Seeing this, Han Li frowned. The Mantra Treasure Wheel in his body reversed rapidly, and his figure flashed to the edge of the Purifying Baleful Pool. He reached out his arms and grabbed towards Heatfire Immortal Venerable.

“Don’t waste your energy, his body is already riddled with holes. After the baleful aura escapes, it will be even more unable to resist the power of lightning. You can’t save him.” Liu Qi said suddenly, his tone flat.

Han Li turned a deaf ear, and still insisted on reaching his arms into the Thunder Pool, grabbing towards Heatfire Immortal Venerable.

As soon as his arms entered the range of the Thunder Pool, countless azure electric threads immediately gathered and instantly shattered the sleeves on his arms, wrapping around his skin.

Han Li felt a jolt in his heart. An incomparably violent force of lightning instantly penetrated through his body surface, causing the baleful aura in his body, which he had been suppressing for a long time, to almost run wild on the spot.

He let out a roar, and the Refining Spirit Art immediately began to operate, forcefully suppressing the violent thoughts that suddenly appeared in his heart. Golden scales appeared on his arms at the same time.

However, just this moment of delay, and it was already too late.

The moment Han Li’s hands caught Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s remnant body, his flesh collapsed again and turned into ashes.

Looking at the bits of gray-white embers sliding through his palms, Han Li looked up and immediately grabbed upwards, trying to save Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s nascent soul.

However, at the moment of the flesh collapsing, the exposed nascent soul was struck by several electric lights and collapsed as well.

Han Li only caught a wisp of remnant soul and retreated.

All of this seemed long, but it was actually only a few breaths. By the time Hu San and Shi Chuan Kong reacted, Han Li had already returned.

After he stood still, he solemnly opened his palm slowly.

In his palm, a layer of hazy azure light rose, inside which stood a blurry five-inch figure, its body flickering and shaking, looking like a candle in the wind, on the verge of collapse.

“Sorry, Heatfire Fellow Daoist, I couldn’t save you…” Han Li sighed and said.

“Fellow Daoist Li, there’s no need to blame yourself… It’s fate, it’s luck… Don’t blame others…” Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s last wisp of remnant soul was unable to speak, and could only communicate through divine sense, saying to Han Li.

“This wisp of remnant soul is too weak. Even if I wanted to help you nurture it, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to. It will dissipate in a moment under the blowing of the astral wind. Heatfire Fellow Daoist, if you have any last wishes, tell me.” Han Li sighed softly and said slowly.

“The reason for the extermination of the Mantra Sect has been clarified, and my master is in that state. I have nothing to worry about in this world anymore. It’s a pity that I can’t go back to Wild Crane Valley anymore. I wonder if this remaining wisp of remnant soul can still re-enter the Heavenly Dao cycle? Will I be able to return to the Immortal World one day?” Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s remnant soul became more and more illusory, and he said with a wry smile.

“The Heavenly Dao is impermanent, if you can reincarnate, everywhere is the same…” Han Li replied.

“I said earlier that I could leave my natal magic treasure to Fellow Daoist Li, but this Thunder Pool is too domineering. I couldn’t leave anything behind. You can accept this little bit of stuff in the end…” Heatfire Immortal Venerable’s divine soul fluctuations became weaker and weaker until they completely disappeared.

The five-inch villain also slowly dissipated, and in the end, only a point of millet-sized crimson light flew out and fell into Han Li’s brow.

Han Li felt a burst of heat in his sea of consciousness. When he checked, he found that a dense mass of crimson characters had appeared in it, with the title *Duan Shi Liu Huo Ji* written at the beginning, which was obviously the Fire-type Time Technique passed down from the Flowing Fire Palace lineage of the Mantra Sect.

Seeing Heatfire Immortal Venerable disappear into smoke, and Han Li seemingly lost in thought for a while, no one urged him.

Liu Qi had already withdrawn his supernatural powers, and squinted at this side.

After a while, Han Li seemed to have regained his senses, gently rubbed his empty palm, glanced at the wounds on his arm caused by the lightning, and sighed softly.

“Let’s go.” He said.

Seeing Heatfire Immortal Venerable unable to withstand the power of the Thunder Pool, and almost falling into a situation where his body and spirit were completely destroyed, a trace of hesitation flashed in Shi Chuan Kong’s eyes, but when he saw Han Li already leaping up and landing towards a corner of the azure Thunder Pool, he no longer hesitated and walked over quickly.

Seeing this, Liu Qi coiled the azure chain again, repeating his old trick, and attracted a large amount of azure lightning towards himself.

As the momentum in the Thunder Pool slowed down, Han Li had already landed in the azure Thunder Pool.

“Zizz…”

As soon as his body entered the Thunder Pool, a violent sound of thunder and lightning immediately came over.

Han Li first felt an itchy numbness outside his skin, and then a strong, unbearable burning pain, as if tens of thousands of red-hot branding irons were pressed on his skin at the same time, almost scorching and igniting his flesh.

“Hmm…” Han Li groaned, but stubbornly resisted shouting out.

In the other two corners of the Thunder Pool, heart-rending screams sounded at the same time, among which Hu San’s voice was the loudest.

Han Li clenched his teeth, and cold sweat dripped from his forehead, but he still endured the intense burning pain coming from all over his body, and did not use any supernatural powers to resist the lightning’s invasion of his body.

He knew that only more lightning entering his body could he clear away the baleful aura entrenched within as soon as possible.

However, after only a few breaths, his skin turned blood red, and his blue veins bulged, as if they were about to burst open at any time, but his skin remained intact, without cracking like Heatfire Immortal Venerable.

Han Li understood in his heart that this was thanks to his diligent cultivation of the *Da Zhou Tian Xing Yuan Gong* in the past. It was precisely because of the foundation laid by this Profound Immortal Body and the continuous training of his body that his flesh could withstand the beating of this violent lightning.

One after another, lightning beams, like spears, continuously impacted his body. Traces of electric light began to penetrate through the skin surface and into his body, drilling towards the acupoints in his body.

“One place, two places, three places…” Han Li’s divine sense closely guarded his sea of consciousness, and he silently counted in his heart.

Along with the attack of the lightning on one acupoint after another, the Immortal Acupoints in his body opened up one after another, and wisps of black baleful aura began to emerge from his body, like Heatfire Immortal Venerable.

However, the difference was that the speed at which baleful aura emerged from Han Li’s body was significantly slower.

At this time, Ti Hun stood not far outside the Thunder Pool, and had stopped adjusting her breath to recover. Her eyes were full of worry as she looked at Han Li.

“Little girl, don’t worry too much about him. The slow rate of baleful aura effusion is not a bad thing. It shows that the opening and closing of his acupoints is still under his control. If he can’t hold on at all like that person before, that would be really troublesome.” Liu Qi glanced at her and said.

Ti Hun nodded silently to him and said nothing.

The old fox stopped looking at her, and turned his gaze towards Hu San.

At this moment, Hu San was drenched in sweat, his teeth clenched, his eyes tightly closed, and his body was also surrounded by baleful aura.

The speed at which baleful aura flowed from his body was much faster than Han Li, but the number of acupoints on his body emitting black smoke was much smaller, and the baleful aura overflowing from them was obviously not as strong as Han Li’s, and even not as strong as Shi Chuan Kong’s.

Hu San’s situation was different from Han Li and Shi Chuan Kong. The two of them had experienced Baleful Decay, and in addition to being eroded by baleful aura in the Gray Realm, they also had original baleful aura stagnation in their bodies. They were in a severe situation of internal and external troubles.

Only he was already a Grand Unity Jade Immortal, and what he needed to clear was only some foreign invasion, baleful aura with unstable foundation.

However, in terms of physique, his body was not as good as Han Li, nor was it as good as Shi Chuan Kong, who was originally a demon, so in this Purifying Baleful Thunder Pool, which was like an oil pot, it was equally difficult to endure.

On the other side, in addition to the violent surge of baleful aura all over Shi Chuan Kong’s body, there were also strands of black demonic aura overflowing.

Under his head of curly snow hair, his facial features had become extremely hideous. Jagged fangs protruded from his mouth, saliva dripped from the corners of his mouth, and patches of black scales appeared on his body, and he was almost about to show his true demon form.