Chapter 596: Desperate Gamble

Golden Boy was originally devouring its way towards the vital organs of the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal, already blood-red from eating. The gaps between its teeth were filled with bloody shreds of meat, making it look exceptionally ferocious.

Just as it was about to bite through a layer of muscle and diaphragm to enter the Gold Devouring Immortal's abdominal cavity, the surrounding flesh suddenly seemed to possess intelligence. It squeezed towards it, accompanied by powerful immortal spiritual power, attempting to imprison it.

However, Golden Boy, having devoured a large amount of flesh and blood, now possessed an aura approaching the mid-stage of the Taiyi Realm. Golden light burst forth from its body, and sharp, tooth-like beams of light protruded from its surface, pushing away the squeezing flesh.

With a bite, it directly tore through the diaphragm, tilted forward, and fell straight into the Gold Devouring Immortal's abdominal cavity.

The Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal was furious, but it was somewhat helpless. After all, Golden Boy was wreaking havoc inside its body, restricting its every move, making it impossible to launch a powerful attack.

Originally, Golden Boy entering its abdomen was not necessarily a bad thing.

The Gold Devouring Insect and it were originally one entity. After their bodies merged, it could use its powerful divine soul to directly devour Golden Boy's divine soul. Then, it only needed to merge with its nascent soul and fuse with its physical body to achieve complete success.

However, its divine soul had just been imprisoned by Han Li's divine thought cage, and it had consumed too much energy to escape as soon as possible. Golden Boy's aura, on the other hand, had soared after repeated devouring.

With this ebb and flow, it suddenly lacked the confidence to devour Golden Boy's divine soul and could only temporarily lie dormant, waiting for its divine soul to recover.

At the thought of this, the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal's heart grew even heavier, and its gaze swept towards Han Li, its anger almost bursting forth.

If it weren't for this hateful human, the tiny Gold Devouring Insect would have already merged with it, the small beast race would have long been razed to the ground, and the guy who dared to put it in an illusion for twenty years would never have attacked it!

It was all because of him!

The Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal's eyes no longer held anything else, only Han Li. It wanted to kill him to vent its anger.

Han Li was naturally aware of this. After the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal broke free, he had already swallowed several pills, both restoring his immortal spiritual power and re-stabilizing his divine sense.

The golden light on the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal suddenly contracted, and a scorching power emanated from its body. Wisps of white steam began to rise from its surface.

Under the hazy steam, the surrounding void twisted, becoming somewhat blurred.

A blue light flashed in Han Li's eyes, and before he could see the situation clearly, his heart suddenly jumped.

He subconsciously flashed away, dodging to the side.

Almost at the same time, the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal appeared where he had been standing.

As soon as Han Li stabilized himself, a beam of crystal light shot through the void.

His heart trembled, and he urged the Mantra Treasure Wheel, causing it to reverse rapidly within his body. His figure blurred and disappeared again.

Did the Mantra Treasure Wheel somehow recover?

Han Li was instantly overjoyed. A spherical light barrier suddenly expanded from his body, transforming into a vast Time Domain, enveloping the entire abyss.

The Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal's eyes narrowed as the light barrier swept over it. It felt as if an invisible force shrouded its body, slowing down the flow of time within the barrier.

Compared to the Mantra Treasure Wheel, the Time Domain had a wider range, but the deceleration effect was much weaker. Although the Gold Devouring Immortal's speed was somewhat limited, it was still unable to move as quickly as before. If Han Li wasn't careful, he was still at risk of being caught up.

Moreover, Han Li could feel that the Mantra Treasure Wheel within his body didn't seem to have fully recovered and could stop working again at any time. Therefore, he could only evade the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal's pursuit while urging Golden Boy to devour its flesh as quickly as possible with his mind.

Within the abyss, one green and one gold light trail flickered back and forth in pursuit. Even with Demon Light's eyesight, he could only see a series of blurry shadows, flickering intermittently.

With a loud crash!

Smoke and dust filled the abyss as one of the mountain walls was struck by the Gold Devouring Immortal's massive body, directly shattering.

An enormous avalanche of rocks collapsed from above, accompanied by rumbling thunder.

Han Li's figure shot out from the dust and smoke, his toes tapping in the void, rising straight up towards a stone platform on the cliff face on the other side of the abyss.

"Roar!"

The Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal, seeing him dodge the attack once again, completely lost its remaining patience and roared again.

Instead of flying in pursuit, it crouched on the ground, its wings shaking violently. All the light on its body rapidly contracted, and even the released scorching airwaves were withdrawn, condensing into a strange substance between light and gas on its surface.

This substance gathered more and more, becoming more and more solid, emitting waves of suppressed, strange fluctuations.

Han Li, seeing this from afar, frowned and felt a sense of foreboding.

Inside the Gold Devouring Immortal's body, Golden Boy was tearing at its organs when it suddenly discovered that its internal organs were shaking violently. Some of the flesh was gradually vaporizing in the vibrations, dissipating out of the body.

The temperature inside its body also suddenly rose sharply, quickly becoming as hot as a furnace.

In addition to that, Golden Boy sensed a very unusual and intense pressure rising within the Gold Devouring Immortal's abdomen. The fluctuation of that aura made it feel somewhat frightened.

Could it be... that this guy wants to destroy everything in a desperate act of self-destruction?

At the thought of this, Golden Boy didn't intend to leave and immediately contacted Han Li with its mind:

"Uncle, run! This guy might self-destruct..."

"Golden Boy, get out quickly!" Han Li frowned and quickly replied.

"No, I want to fight this guy!" Golden Boy said resolutely.

Han Li's brow furrowed. He gritted his teeth, rapidly reversed the Mantra Wheel within his body, and charged into the devilish Qi, shooting upwards. Demon Light, having received the warning, followed closely behind.

Just as their figures rose, a dazzling white light exploded from the bottom of the abyss.

"Boom!"

A deafening sound that shook the heavens and earth came from the bottom of the abyss. An enormous shockwave capable of destroying the world swept out, bombarding the mountain walls on both sides wave after wave.

"Rumble..."

The abyss, which hadn't been illuminated by light for who knows how many years, seemed to have risen with a white sun at that moment, filled with blinding white light, bright and incomparable.

However, within this white light, the mountain walls of the abyss began to collapse layer by layer, like a dam washed away by a flood, constantly retreating backwards, dissolving bit by bit in the hot light.

At the same time, a huge white pillar of light shot straight into the sky, burning and dissolving countless devilish Qi, and reaching nearly a thousand feet above the mouth of the abyss.

Within the white pillar of light, a dark figure with its legs and arms spread open, floated like a kite under the impact of the light. The flesh on its body was completely ulcerated, and white steam rose from it, making it look as if it was about to melt.

And on his back, another figure was curled up, wrapped in green light, unaffected by the white light at all.

After the two figures rose out of the abyss, they immediately moved horizontally to the left for more than ten miles, flying out of the range of the white light.

These two figures were naturally Han Li and Demon Light, who had escaped from the abyss by the skin of their teeth.

Han Li hovered to the side, looking at the miserable Demon Light, and asked, "How are you? Can you still hold on?"

"Hehe, Fellow Daoist Han, you've won the bet again..." Demon Light, who was no longer human, smiled miserably and said.

His voice was low and sounded very weak, obviously seriously injured. On his face, which had lost all its flesh, two rows of white teeth grinned in a huge arc, making people's hair stand on end.

When the white light exploded just now, the speed was too fast, and they couldn't escape in time.

At the critical moment, they had to take a gamble, using the corpse of the Grey Immortal as a shield to resist the white light, supplemented by Han Li's Time Domain, to reduce the impact of the white light as much as possible.

As a result, they only flew a few hundred miles before Han Li's Time Domain collapsed. In the end, they managed to fly out by relying on the Grey Immortal's corpse.

Han Li could feel through his divine soul connection that Demon Light had suffered a lot of damage, but seeing that he could still smile, he knew that he wouldn't be in mortal danger. He then looked up and down at the Grey Immortal's corpse, feeling more and more that this body was not simple.

Just then, the earth below rumbled.

Han Li looked down and saw smoke and dust rolling on the ground. The earth was constantly collapsing, and the original abyss was gradually expanding, turning into a huge sinkhole basin.

The valley where the Tree Demon lived, not far from the abyss, also collapsed in the rolling smoke and dust, buried in the earth and submerged by the rising devilish Qi.

Strange roars came from it, lasting for a moment before disappearing.

Demon Light, seeing the devilish Qi constantly surging upwards, flashed and rushed into the rolling devilish Qi.

Strands of devilish Qi poured into his body, and the skin on his body began to gradually regenerate. No matter what was going on inside, the external injuries were being repaired bit by bit.

Just then, Han Li's gaze suddenly shifted, and he looked down at the smoky earth.

In the rolling smoke and devilish Qi, a huge shadow suddenly rose from it. The Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal flew out from it and pounced on Han Li again.

"Why... haven't... you... died!"

A roar came from the Taiyi Realm Gold Devouring Immortal's mouth, word by word, filled with unwillingness and resentment.

"What an annoying ghost..." Han Li cursed inwardly and fled rapidly.

Just then, Golden Boy's voice rang out again:

"Uncle, hold on a little longer. Once I bite off its heart vessels, I can..."

For some reason, its words suddenly stopped before it could finish.