The high priest waved his hand, and the water in the palace's pool churned, a white jade stone bed slowly rising from within.

Ti Hun lay flat on the stone bed, her face serene, her chest still, showing no signs of breath, her entire being as lifeless as a perfectly preserved corpse.

The high priest slowly walked forward, removing the hood from his cowl, revealing a flawlessly beautiful young face, though its pallid complexion robbed it of some color.

He swept his gaze over Ti Hun and said, "Fellow Daoist Han, please remove the puppet restrictions from this girl first."

Han Li nodded and stepped forward, his hands forming a spell, a ball of white starlight energy coalescing in his palm. He started from the Baihui acupoint on her head, tracing down her neck, over her shoulders, and finally to the Yongquan acupoint on the soles of her feet.

Each spot he passed, a white light flashed within her body, and white bone needles, as thin as toothpicks but covered in intricate runes, burst from her skin, collected by Han Li into his hand.

After the bone needles were removed, Ti Hun's brows suddenly furrowed, and her body recoiled violently, trembling intensely.

At the same time, her aura, which had been absent, began to flow again.

"This is..." The high priest sensed Ti Hun's aura and his expression changed abruptly as he exclaimed.

"High Priest, don't be surprised. Ti Hun is indeed not human. Her true form is a kind of celestial beast commonly referred to as a 'Torment Beast'," Han Li said upon seeing this.

"So that's how it is... That explains it..." The high priest said, as if suddenly enlightened.

"What do you mean, High Priest?" Han Li asked, frowning.

"As a celestial beast, the Torment Beast, while not a true spirit species, is even rarer and more precious. The source of the law it possesses is the Law of Reincarnation, one of the three supreme laws of the world. She was completely sealed by Soul Sealing Needles, and I couldn't sense it, but now that the needles are removed, I still can't detect any source power in her body. This is probably why she fell into a coma, right?" The high priest said after a moment of contemplation.

"What you say is true. Once upon a time, she was affected by some kind of law, and that's how she became like this," Han Li said, nodding quickly.

"It seems correct. She must have been affected by the Law of Reincarnation, which caused the power within her to fall into slumber. As long as the power of the Law of Reincarnation is introduced into her dantian, it can be awakened," the high priest said.

"It's that simple?" Han Li asked, incredulous.

"Fellow Daoist Han, do you know that the difficulty of cultivating the Law of Reincarnation is even greater than that of the Law of Space, and even the Law of Time may not compare. To control the power of the Law of Reincarnation is even more difficult. A little carelessness can lead to unpredictable consequences," the high priest said in a hoarse voice, looking at Han Li.

"I only know that the three supreme laws of the world are able to overpower all other laws because they occupy an absolute dominant position in their respective fields. The requirements for opportunity and talent are extremely stringent, so the number of people who practice them is very small. Could it be that you cultivate the Law of Reincarnation?" Han Li asked in surprise.

"To be honest, the reason I can serve as this High Priest is that I possess a Heavenly Yuan Divination technique, which is a subcategory of the Great Prophecy. By using this technique, I can borrow a portion of the power of the Law of Reincarnation to predict future events, but fundamentally, I can't be said to have mastered the Law of Reincarnation," the high priest said with a faint smile.

"So that's how it is. So, you're going to use this power to help Ti Hun awaken her source power?" Han Li realized.

"That's right, as long as..."

Before the high priest could finish speaking, his expression suddenly changed, and Han Li frowned as well.

They saw Ti Hun, lying on the white jade stone bed, suddenly relax, no longer curled up, lying flat. A faint light lit up between her brows, and wisps of white light emerged from it, scattering like willow catkins.

"What's going on! Why is her divine soul escaping?" Han Li's expression changed drastically as he asked.

"It's not surprising. Once the source power is lost, the divine soul is like a rootless weed, able to stay in the body for only a short time before it begins to dissipate. The one hundred and eight Soul Sealing Needles were used with extreme skill, locking her divine soul in her body, preventing it from losing its fixation and scattering. However, the Soul Sealing Needles were originally used to refine living people into controllable puppets, which inherently damages the divine soul. Now that the needles are removed, it will naturally lose twice as much..." the high priest said, shaking his head.

Upon hearing this, Han Li's Divine Refinement Technique suddenly activated, and he pointed his finger at his brow, pulling forward sharply. A strand of divine sense crystal thread immediately shot out and entered Ti Hun's brow.

A white light flashed between her brows, and the wisps of white light that were dissipating disappeared.

"Please save her immediately," Han Li said with a solemn expression, turning to clasp his fist.

"The rescue cannot be interrupted. You will protect me," the high priest said, nodding.

"Rest assured, High Priest, there will be no interference," Han Li said seriously.

The high priest said nothing more and came to the other end of the white jade stone bed, standing behind Ti Hun's head. He clasped his hands together in front of him, revering the heavens and the earth like worshiping, and then opened his hands and waved them forward like scattering money.

A spray of blood shot out from his palm, turning into five blood-colored plum blossoms that dripped onto Ti Hun's forehead. At the same time, his palm cracked like a tortoise shell, revealing many twisted lines.

Simultaneously, a vague red halo emerged behind him, and his robe billowed without wind, a familiar yet unfamiliar aura of law emanating from within.

At this moment, Han Li suddenly caught a glimpse of the skin exposed under the high priest's robe, and a nauseous feeling arose within him.

Beneath the handsome face, his body was covered with large, festering sores and scars, most of which were oozing pus, mottled with blue and purple, mixed with a lot of yellowish-brown mucus, which looked very disgusting.

It was clear that most of these scars were old injuries, some of which had completely scabbed over, leaving behind large, goiter-like cicatrices, while others had only formed a ring of dry scabs around the wound, and still others were oozing pus.

The reason why the high priest's body looked so bloated and obese was mostly due to these goiters and scrofula covering his entire body. Han Li couldn't help but feel a sense of poignancy as he looked at his handsome face again.

Earlier, because the place was filled with a strong medicinal smell, and the robes covered him, Han Li hadn't noticed anything unusual, but now, a rotten and foul odor wafted from the high priest's body.

"Fellow Daoist Han, if it's unbearable, you can go outside to guard. The treatment will probably last at least an hour," the high priest's voice suddenly sounded in Han Li's sea of consciousness.

"It's alright," Han Li replied concisely, saying nothing more.

The high priest stopped speaking.

However, after only a dozen breaths, Han Li frowned and said, "It seems I still have to go outside..."

"Rest assured, Fellow Daoist Han, just don't let anyone in," the high priest instructed.

"I'll leave it to you," Han Li clasped his fist and bowed, and his figure flashed as he went outside the palace.

He saw several streaks of light piercing the night sky in the distance, landing a dozen feet away from Han Li.

The person in the lead had a head of snow-white hair combed meticulously and tied high on his head, secured with a jeweled crown. His eyes were violet, and his appearance was handsome, his eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Shi Chuan Kong, and it was indeed his third brother, Shi Po Kong.

Behind him were two Demon men, one was ten feet tall, shaped like an iron tower, wearing half a metal mask covering only his nose and mouth, his face full of muscles, looking like a fierce devil.

The other was slender, wearing a cyan robe, an amiable old man with white hair, a faint smile on his face, and his hands behind his back, looking like an ordinary schoolteacher.

Han Li's divine sense suddenly released, enveloping the surrounding area. After investigating, he found that other than some patrolling guards in the palace, only these three people had come.

The aura exuding from the iron tower man was astonishing, but it was the lowest among the three, only in the mid-stage of Grand Prime. Although Shi Po Kong himself was also a Grand Prime Jade Immortal in the mid-stage, his aura was more stable and long-lasting, even better than the iron tower man.

The old man who looked like a schoolteacher seemed the most harmless, but he had the highest cultivation among the three, in the late stage of Grand Prime.

"Hehe, are you well, Daoist Li," Shi Po Kong said with a smile, clasping his hands slightly.

"Thanks to Fellow Daoist Shi's care, I didn't die in the Accumulating Scale Void Realm," Han Li said with a smile, seeing that he wasn't in a hurry to attack.

"Since Fellow Daoist Li has quietly returned to the Holy Realm, my thirteenth brother should have returned as well, right? Where is he now?" Shi Po Kong asked with an even brighter smile.

"Shi Chuan Kong has always regarded you as his closest person, and has never had any intention of competing with you. Don't you think it's redundant for you to do this?" Han Li's expression remained unchanged, answering irrelevantly.

"Fellow Daoist Li is a smart man, doesn't he know the saying, 'The so-called not competing is actually a great competition'? Besides, whether he competes or not doesn't matter much. This matter is not up to him to decide, nor is it up to me to decide," Shi Po Kong's expression darkened slightly when he said this, but it quickly returned to normal.

"Whether you brothers compete or not has no impact on me. I don't want to get involved either. As long as you don't interfere with me, we can each go our own way," Han Li said indifferently, nonchalantly.

"It's not impossible for me not to stop you, as long as you are willing to tell me, what exactly happened in the Accumulating Scale Void Realm, why did all the pieces I placed inside go silent?" Shi Po Kong asked with a frown.