"Alas, if only I could advance further and reach the mid-stage of Grand Luo, then joining forces with Uncle to deal with that guy would be more certain," Jin Tong sighed.

Han Li raised an eyebrow slightly upon seeing this. He noticed that Jin Tong's temperament seemed to have matured a lot after this experience of being chased and running around in the desolate wilderness.

However, before he could finish his sigh, Jin Tong's next sentence immediately dispelled this notion.

"Hey, Uncle, this corpse looks pretty good too. How about letting me eat it? Maybe it can help me advance further and reach the mid-stage of Grand Luo Realm..."

"This is the remains of a Gray Immortal, filled with pure baleful aura. Do you really want to eat it?" Han Li asked, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Uncle, I haven't completely digested it yet. But Xiao Bai has a good appetite, so why not give it to him..." Jin Tong said, shaking his head like a rattle drum upon hearing this.

"Huff... Huff..."

Just then, a sound like panting suddenly came from the Gray Immortal's corpse.

Seeing this, Han Li quickly stepped forward to take a look, only to find that the Gray Immortal's chest was rising and falling, looking like a living person breathing.

Moreover, its originally open eyes were now closed, and the two eyeballs were trembling back and forth under the eyelids, looking as if it was trapped in a nightmare, trying to wake up desperately but unable to do so.

"How did this guy come back to life? Judging by the looks of it, is he having a nightmare?" Jin Tong asked, his eyes wide with doubt.

Han Li's expression flickered, but he didn't say anything.

Looking at the scene before him, he subconsciously thought of the situation when he saw Mo Yu's corpse in the Underworld-Frost Immortal Mansion. That corpse was also in a living state at the time, but it had never awakened because no soul had entered it.

Now, this Gray Immortal's corpse can be revived, indicating that the previous refinement and integration of demonic light were successful, but why hasn't it awakened yet? What exactly went wrong?

After pondering for a long time, Han Li's eyes suddenly lit up, realizing something.

When that Gray Immortal's corpse awakened, besides the return of Mo Yu's soul, it also consumed something special, which was:

Void Essence Pill!

Before entering the Underworld-Frost Immortal Mansion, Jiao San spent so much effort to ask him to refine the Void Essence Pill, which was definitely not a useless act. Another key to Mo Yu's revival was that Jiao San fed him the Void Essence Pill.

Thinking of this, Han Li turned his wrist, and a pill the size of a longan fruit immediately appeared in his palm.

After a slight hesitation, he pinched the Gray Immortal's cheek with one hand, opened its lips, and threw the pill into its mouth, guiding it slightly so that the pill fell into its abdomen.

After doing all this, Han Li did not make any extra moves, but retreated three zhang away, waiting to see what would happen.

Jin Tong was a little confused by his series of actions, but seeing Han Li's solemn appearance, he also retreated and looked over there expectantly.

After about ten breaths, a loud burping sound rang out.

The Gray Immortal's corpse suddenly opened its lips, and a thick black smoke spewed out from it.

Seeing this, Han Li's heart tightened, and he protected Jin Tong behind him, secretly urging the Spirit Refining Art.

"Fellow Daoist Han, don't attack, it's me..." Just then, Mo Guang's voice suddenly came from the Gray Immortal's corpse.

After speaking, the Gray Immortal's corpse began to move its hands and feet, stretching left and shaking right, as if adapting to this body.

"How to prove it?" Han Li said coldly, without stopping the Spirit Refining Art.

"Mo Guang" hesitated slightly, made a hand seal, and the grayish-white eyes suddenly turned pitch black. Immediately, it opened its mouth and spewed out a cloud of pitch-black gas into the air.

After this black gas condensed, it turned into a dark and gloomy leather scroll, slowly falling in front of Han Li.

Han Li swept his divine sense over it and knew that this was the Demonic Covenant they had signed. However, his mind turned, but he still didn't put away the Spirit Refining Art.

Mo Guang felt the many restrictions left by the Spirit Refining Art in his body, opened his mouth and swallowed the black leather scroll back into his abdomen, and said helplessly: "Fellow Daoist Han's caution is really something that will not change even after millions of years."

"If I wasn't careful, I'm afraid the one who signed the covenant with you would still be Ma Liang," Han Li said indifferently, his expression unchanged.

"At first, I didn't have much feeling, but now I feel more and more that Ma Liang and others are far from being compared with Fellow Daoist Han, there is simply a world of difference," Mo Guang said with a smile.

"Instead of saying these flattering words, you should explain your cultivation realm. Why is it different from what you said before?" Han Li's eyes narrowed slightly, and his tone became more and more icy.

At this moment, Mo Guang's aura had actually broken through the Golden Immortal Realm and reached the early stage of the Grand Luo Realm, but it was like a lamp in the wind, constantly rising and falling, as if it could not be stabilized.

Seeing this, Jin Tong raised his two small eyebrows, and the golden light on his body flickered frequently. He no longer suppressed his early Grand Luo aura, releasing it all, and looked at "Mo Guang" up and down with unkind eyes.

Seeing this, Mo Guang immediately made a gesture of raising his hands in surrender and explained:

"Fellow Daoist Han, please don't misunderstand. When I merged before, I realized that the strength of this Gray Immortal's corpse far exceeded my imagination. I was almost completely suppressed by it and swallowed. If you hadn't given me the pill in time, I'm afraid I would have completely dissipated and merged into this dead body."

"As soon as you merged, you reached the early stage of the Grand Luo Realm. I don't think Fellow Daoist Mo Guang looks like he was almost swallowed," Han Li raised his eyebrows and said.

"Fellow Daoist is very clear that I only had the True Immortal Realm before. Although I occupied this body, it was actually quite reluctant. And now the realm is not stable. When it stabilizes, it will be at most the late stage of the Golden Immortal Realm. The strength of the Grand Luo Realm can only be exerted briefly, it is definitely not the real situation," Mo Guang said with a bitter smile.

Han Li could feel through the connection of his mind that the aura on his body was indeed gradually falling, falling back to the late stage of the Golden Immortal Realm bit by bit, and then he relaxed a little.

"It seems that it is indeed as you said. If so, I believe that you are still the original Fellow Daoist Mo Guang. Please rest assured to adjust your breath, I will protect you," Han Li put away the Spirit Refining Art and said.

"Then I'll have to trouble you," Mo Guang didn't hesitate at all, immediately sat down cross-legged and began to adjust his breath.

Han Li stood aside solemnly, truly taking on the responsibility of protecting him.

Jin Tong watched this battle between the two, his eyes slightly narrowed, lost in thought.

...

Above a mountain peak in a cyan mountain range, a huge translucent white light was suspended here.

This white light was dozens of acres in size, with white light waves flashing on it, constantly flowing, colorful and dazzling, like a kaleidoscope, making people lose themselves in it at a glance.

This light group was suspended in the air, extremely conspicuous, but some nearby monsters did not dare to approach it at all, and immediately avoided it when they sensed it from a distance.

In the center of the white light group, a huge golden beetle figure could be vaguely seen, which was the Grand Luo Realm Gold Devouring Immortal.

Its whole body was motionless, as if frozen, its eyes were half-open and half-closed, and its expression was hazy.

However, a small white vortex appeared in the depths of its pupils, slowly rotating.

If the white vortex was magnified a hundred times, it would be found that it was formed by countless white light spots, and each light spot was a flashing picture...

In one of the pictures, a giant beetle with a golden body had returned to the insect race, leading the insect army to wipe out all the nearby beast races, and seize a large area of territory and many spiritual materials and treasures.

Not long after, in another picture, another Gold Devouring Immortal appeared in the desolate wilderness realm.

And after a series of twists and turns, the golden beetle once again killed and devoured it...

In an underground cave deep in the insect race's territory, the golden beetle curled up on a huge golden stone bed, with a painful expression on its face.

It emitted an extremely strong golden light, rolling like raging flames.

Strands of immense aura fluctuated with the golden light, constantly rising and falling, and quickly approached a bottleneck.

However, at this moment, the aura fluctuations on the golden beetle's body not only did not stop, but became more violent, as if torrents were hitting the invisible bottleneck hard.

Each impact caused the underground cave to shake violently, making a loud noise, and countless dust and gravel fell rustlingly.

The loud "booming" sounds continued to sound, with shorter and shorter intervals.

The golden light on the golden beetle's body became brighter and brighter, gradually like a golden sun, making it impossible to look directly at it.

Substantial golden light filled the entire underground cave, surging like flowing water. The mountain walls, which had been reinforced by the golden beetle, were also shaken with cracks, which slowly expanded with the waves of impact.

At this moment, a grand and sharp whistling sound suddenly came from the dazzling golden light.

Then, an immense aura that could almost support the sky and the earth rolled out from the golden light.

Boom!

The surrounding mountain walls were immediately crushed by this terrifying aura like paper, and the entire mountain body was directly disintegrated.

Countless large and small gravel fell from the sky, but as soon as they touched the golden light, they were immediately bounced away.

At the center of the golden light, there was a huge golden cocoon suspended, with natural golden patterns floating on it, exuding a strong aura of laws.

The surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy surged in like a tide, condensing into dazzling golden light, and constantly merging into the light cocoon, making it thicker and thicker. There were constant rumbling thunderous sounds from inside, as if some terrifying thing was being conceived inside.

Inside the light cocoon, the golden beetle had turned into a tall and strong man, with thick eyebrows, a square face, and sharp eyes. The golden patterns on his face looked a bit strange.

Strands of substantial golden light constantly flew out of the light cocoon and injected into the tall and strong man's body.

The tall and strong man's whole body emitted dazzling golden light, and his aura was still constantly rising.

"Haha! Finally... I finally returned to the Grand Luo Realm. One day, I will return!" The tall and strong man's face was full of excitement, and he looked up to the sky and roared.

But at this moment, an accident happened!

The scenery around the tall and strong man suddenly trembled violently, and then cracks appeared.

Finally, with a "pa" sound, everything shattered like glass, turning into dots of crystal light and dissipating.

The smile on the tall and strong man's face froze, and he stood there stunned.