"Alright, alright! I, E Kui, have truly seen something today. A mere Human Race cultivator with just over two hundred Xuan Apertures. If we were outside the formation, I could obliterate you with a single finger. Yet, you dare to be so arrogant before me! I'll see just how you plan to get to the root of the problem!" E Kui said, laughing instead of getting angry.

He then performed another hand seal, striking his brow several times. Several strange rune imprints, identical to the previous ones, appeared on his forehead. The blood light around him surged like a tide, and the flesh and blood power flowing out of his body began to gather back into him once more.

Han Li ignored E Kui, stepped according to the Dipper steps, and continuously formed hand seals, dancing within the blood cocoon.

Immediately afterward, a white light rose above the blood cocoon. Cracks appeared on the cocoon's surface, splitting open like a blooming flower bud, transforming into a nine-layered blood lotus.

Han Li formed a hand seal with both hands and sat down cross-legged. The blood lotus beneath him immediately emitted a scarlet blood light, and an immensely powerful suction force emerged from it.

The flesh and blood power that E Kui had intercepted and was starting to return, once again surged out of his body like a torrent, transforming directly into the form of flood dragons, ferociously rushing toward Han Li and plunging into the nine-layered blood lotus.

"Ah..."

Han Li roared toward the sky, his eyes wide, and the earthworm-like veins on his forehead bulged. While he gained double the power, the pain he endured also increased severalfold.

Countless dense beams of blood light lit up on the blood lotus beneath him, piercing his body like countless sharp blood blades, pouring that even more powerful force into him.

"Bang," "Bang," "Bang"...

A series of explosions rang out continuously, and seven or eight more Xuan Apertures around Han Li's body lit up.

E Kui's expression changed repeatedly, finally realizing that the situation before him was more serious than he had imagined.

At this moment, not only did the flesh and blood power within the entire formation begin to flow toward Han Li through his body, but even the power he had previously accumulated within himself began to show signs of outward flow.

A hint of furiousness flashed in E Kui's eyes. His hand seals changed, and two cuts split open in his palms, blood flowing out and staining his entire hand a blood red.

He pressed his blood-covered hands heavily onto the pentagram beneath him, chanting a few incantations rapidly.

The light on the pentagram shone brightly, and a powerful suction force emerged from it, intercepting the flesh and blood power that was constantly flowing into Han Li's body, creating a tug-of-war between them, resulting in a stalemate.

"City Lord E, I must say, you are very powerful outside the formation, the strongest Profound cultivator I have seen so far! But even now, can't you see the situation? I am more familiar with this great formation than you. In the formation, you are inferior to me," Han Li said with a mocking smile, taking a deep breath and changing his hand seals once more.

Strange runes appeared on the nine-layered blood lotus beneath him, and the suction force emanating from it increased severalfold.

With a "bang," the blood light on the pentagram beneath E Kui shattered directly.

He could no longer contend with Han Li, and could only allow the power within the Blood Weeping Formation, which he had coveted for who knows how many years, to flow entirely toward Han Li.

"Puff, puff, puff..."

Accompanied by a series of slight sounds, the white illusory light that had lit up on E Kui's body began to extinguish one by one.

In just over ten breaths, only the thousand or so Xuan Apertures that he had completely materialized remained.

Along with this, the flesh and blood power that he thought he had completely absorbed also began to pour out.

If the current situation continued to develop, it wouldn't be long before he would be reduced to the same state as Sun Tu and the other three, completely becoming a channel to help Han Li filter the power of the blood formation.

E Kui hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth, forming a hand seal and striking the top of the statue beneath him.

"City Lord E, don't be in such a hurry to leave. Li still needs you to stay in the formation for a while," Han Li said with a chuckle, quickly forming a hand seal and pointing toward the void here.

Suddenly, a large amount of blood light emerged from the pentagram beneath E Kui, and a seven-petaled blood lotus suddenly emerged from it, closing upward like a blood mouth of a strange beast, about to swallow him.

E Kui's gaze hardened. He stopped forming hand seals and instead directly raised a fist, smashing it down on the pentagram beneath him.

The dense Xuan Apertures on his arm lit up one after another, and a layer of white starlight enveloped it, transmitting waves of powerful energy.

With a loud "boom!"

E Kui's fist struck the blood lotus. The statue, made of an unknown material, shook violently but did not collapse. Dazzling white light and piercing blood light exploded simultaneously.

A violent wave of air rushed out, colliding with the inner wall of the blood-colored light screen, causing the entire formation to tremble violently.

Everyone on the altar outside the formation was shocked by what they saw.

Han Li hovered in the high altitude, his figure also shaken somewhat by this force. He quickly formed a hand seal, trying to stabilize the entire great formation.

At this moment, E Kui had already resumed forming hand seals, striking the beast statue beneath him.

Two beams of white light burst out from the two wings behind the beast statue beneath him, splitting apart to the left and right, opening a hole in the blood-colored light screen that was only large enough for one person to pass through.

The hole looked very unstable, and began to shrink and close as soon as it opened. However, E Kui had already flashed through it, arriving outside the blood-colored light screen.

Furthermore, as he was about to leave the formation, he suddenly extended his hands. Two white bone chains burst out from his sleeves, instantly shooting into the blood cocoons, closest to him, that enveloped Sun Tu and Chen Yang.

The shoulders of the two, who were already powerless to resist, were instantly pierced. With a fierce tug, they were directly pulled out of the blood cocoons and toward the closing hole.

Just as Han Li was about to stop him, he discovered that the blood dragon-like red light, without the three as buffers, passed directly through Fu Jian and Qin Yuan and rushed toward him.

The moment the light surged into the nine-layered blood lotus, Han Li's heart seemed to be struck heavily by a fist, beating with a "thump."

Immediately afterward, a force that was far more violent than before began to violently crash through his limbs and bones. If it had been like hacking and chiseling with knives and axes before, it was now directly like ten thousand swords piercing through him, threatening to lose control at any moment.

Han Li quickly restrained his mind, formed a hand seal, and tried to suppress this force.

On the other side, at the last instant when the Blood Weeping Barrier closed, E Kui forcibly pulled Chen Yang and Sun Tu out and threw them onto the ground nearby. The two of them lay on the ground like two piles of mud, motionless.

Shi Chuan Kong and the others looked solemn, but no one dared to step forward.

"A little brat with less than three hundred Xuan Apertures. With three fewer people to share the power of the blood formation for you, I'll see how long you can last! After you explode and die, you will also be transformed into a part of this blood formation, and then reintegrated into my body. Doesn't that sound a bit ironic?" E Kui said, staring only at Han Li in the formation, without even looking at the others.

Han Li's eyes were bloodshot, and his ears seemed to be filled with rolling thunder, so he couldn't hear his voice at all.

He fully activated his own starlight power, doing his best to control the Blood Weeping Formation. Finally, he stabilized the formation again, but the violent power contained in the flesh and blood power in the formation, without the filtering of three people, was really not something that his current physique could withstand.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Strange sounds continued to emanate from Han Li's body. More than a dozen Xuan Apertures in the chest and abdomen areas were connected. However, strangely, the white light that lit up on these Xuan Apertures, which had been transformed from illusory to real, were all mixed with a trace of scarlet blood light.

At the same time, his body also began to swell. Not only did his limbs and torso double in size, but even his head swelled up as if it were about to explode.

Han Li's mind was incredibly painful. If his divine soul wasn't strong, he would have been unable to maintain his sanity at this moment.

It was precisely because he was still maintaining a trace of clarity that he knew his end was near. He wouldn't even last for ten breaths. After just a few more breaths, his body would explode.

"I wonder if the Nascent Soul and divine soul still have a chance to survive, and whether they can hide in the small bottle?" At the last moment, such a strange thought emerged in Han Li's mind.

Not far away, Shi Chuan Kong looked unsightly, his eyes still fixed on Han Li. Madam Six Flowers looked complicated, not knowing what she was thinking.

Zhu Ziqing seemed unwilling to see the scene of his body exploding, and slightly turned her head away.

"Haha, arrogant brat, go to hell!" E Kui laughed wantonly and shouted loudly.

As soon as his voice fell, the bloody scene that everyone had imagined did not appear. For some unknown reason, Han Li's swollen body actually began to shrink slowly, quickly returning to its original state.

Han Li held his head in his hands and let out a wild roar, looking extremely painful, but his eyes clearly had regained some clarity.

Only he knew that at this moment, within his abdomen, a dark green small bottle was displaying its divine power, continuously absorbing the violent power that was flowing into his body like a giant bag that swallowed the sky.

No matter how much power was transmitted in, it accepted it all.

Han Li's current state of pain was naturally all pretended by him to deceive others.

Most of the power in the great formation had already been absorbed into the Palm Heaven Bottle. He himself only intercepted a small portion and absorbed it with his own body.

"How could this be? This is impossible. There's no way he could last this long..." E Kui said, his face full of shock and doubt, roaring.

Not only him, but even Shi Chuan Kong, who had originally planned to escape, was also surprised by this sudden change.

"Eh, does this kid have some other strangeness about him?" Madam Six Flowers couldn't help but exclaim.

"Brother, what's going on?" Zhu Ziqing asked in confusion.

Zhu Ziyuan frowned tightly and shook his head silently, his eyes looking toward the City Lord E Kui.

E Kui's figure flashed and suddenly disappeared from his original location. In the next instant, he appeared behind the statue where Qin Yuan was located.

"I'll see if you can still hold on without these two suppressing the formation for you?" E Kui said with a sneer.