Wang Yu
Chapter 68: Pursuit
Within the silver moon pattern, amidst the misty aura, the silver moon suddenly released strands of silver light, swirling and intertwining to form a silver vortex.
Waves of spatial power emanated from within, and with a muffled thunderous sound, a faint white light could be seen at the deepest part of the vortex.
Just before the spatial channel opened, the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost and the Lightning Roc transformed by Han Li simultaneously looked over. The former showed a look of joy, while the latter's pupils flashed with blue light.
However, Heshan Daoren's gaze only swept over the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost before immediately landing on the Lightning Roc. His heart trembled, and like a rabbit, he turned around abruptly and plunged into the silver vortex.
Then, the vortex fluctuated and shattered like a bubble, turning into specks of silver light that vanished without a trace in a flash.
In the void, only faint spatial fluctuations remained.
From the opening to the closing of the spatial channel, it took less than a breath's time.
"Heshan, you old Daoist!"
Seeing that Heshan Daoren had not only escaped alone but also closed the spatial channel, the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost was enraged.
The blue light in the Lightning Roc's pupils faded, and a few thoughtful expressions appeared in its eyes.
In that brief moment, it had captured all the changes in the opening and closing of the spatial vortex.
"Fellow Daoist Tong, now it's just you and me left. This is good, let's settle the score with your sect first." The Lightning Roc said coldly after withdrawing its gaze.
As soon as the words fell, the silver lightning on its body suddenly brightened. With a deafening thunderclap, its huge figure disappeared from its original location.
The Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost was shocked. Ignoring his resentment towards Heshan Daoren, his pupils constricted, and he rapidly formed hand seals with both hands. Countless viscous black Qi surged from his body, transforming into over a dozen thick tentacles that wildly danced around him.
A thunderclap sounded behind him, and the Lightning Roc's figure emerged in a flash of silver light. Its two giant claws blurred, turning into two indistinct afterimages, and swiftly grabbed towards his back.
However, the black tentacles behind the Heavenly Ghost reacted extremely quickly, wrapping around the Lightning Roc in a flash.
A hint of surprise appeared in the Lightning Roc's eyes, followed by a surge of silver arcs around its body. Many silver runes appeared around the arcs.
Bang, bang, bang!
The runes exploded one after another, and countless silver lightning threads shot out, piercing the black tentacles into a riddled mess, causing them to collapse and turn into countless black Qi, completely disappearing in the lightning.
The Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost's back was also affected by the silver lightning. Seven or eight eyes on his lower back were shattered by a thick arc, and black blood flowed freely.
He groaned and staggered, quickly shooting forward.
A loud "Rumble" came from behind him.
The Lightning Roc grabbed the void with its claws, and silver arcs gathered around its body, once again condensing into two silver lightning balls.
It raised its claws, and the two lightning balls soared into the sky, disappearing into the gray clouds.
Deafening roars immediately erupted in the clouds. Extremely dazzling silver lightning tore through the gray clouds, casting blinding silver light.
Two extremely thick silver lightning pillars suddenly shot out from the clouds, surrounded by countless silver runes, and struck down towards the fleeing Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost with incredible speed.
The Heavenly Ghost was horrified. The black light on his body brightened, and the surrounding eyes barely reopened, with black light flickering in their pupils. He was about to use the spatial law.
At that moment, a bone-chillingly cold snort suddenly rang in the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost's ears!
Then, his mind exploded with a bang, as if someone had stabbed him hard with a sharp cone, and a tearing pain in his soul suddenly erupted.
The Heavenly Ghost suddenly clutched his head and let out a miserable scream, with black blood flowing from all seven facial orifices.
The black light in the nearly hundred eyes around his body became disordered and dissipated.
Amidst the deafening thunder, two silver lightning pillars crashed down, striking the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost's body.
An earth-shattering roar!
A shrill scream came from the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost's mouth, and his body was immediately pierced by two large holes, one of which was in his chest.
The Heavenly Ghost's body was almost broken in two, and black and red blood gushed out. The remaining body fell heavily from the air, smashing onto the ground.
With a series of muffled "Crack" sounds, the Hundred-Eyed Heavenly Ghost's body rapidly shrunk, turning into a short, bald old man. There were large holes piercing through his body in his abdomen and chest, indicating extremely serious injuries.
Large amounts of blood poured from Tong Ren's mouth, and his face was panicked, with his eyes dim and lifeless.
But in the next moment, a ferocious look flashed across his face, and he suddenly formed hand seals with both hands.
Circles of black crystal light revolved around his body, and his small body began to swell crazily.
"Self-destruction!"
In mid-air, the Lightning Roc muttered to itself. It waved its claw, and dazzling silver arcs appeared again, rolling and gathering into a silver lightning ball in the blink of an eye, which rapidly fell.
Rumble!
Tong Ren actually detonated himself first. The violent fluctuations caused the nearby void to be torn apart, and dark black light poured out from within, slowing down the descent of the silver lightning ball.
With a "Swoosh" sound, a Nascent Soul several inches tall teleported out of the black light in a flash and arrived in the void dozens of feet away in the blink of an eye. Then, its protective spiritual light flashed wildly, turning into a black light that was about to teleport again.
Before it could finish, the silver lightning ball suddenly exploded, turning into an enormous silver sun, and immediately spread rapidly in all directions, instantly engulfing Tong Ren's Nascent Soul.
With a "Swoosh" sound, something shot out from the silver light and flew towards the Lightning Roc above.
After a while, the silver sun slowly dissipated, revealing a dark pit on the ground.
Tong Ren had completely disappeared without a trace.
With a flash of silver lightning, the Lightning Roc disappeared, revealing Han Li's figure, holding a red bag in one hand that emitted a faint red glow.
After continuous transformations and fierce battles, his face was pale, and the mana in his dantian was almost exhausted.
He put away the red bag in his hand, then took out a Millennium Cloud Crane Grass and consumed it. Afterward, he looked up at the void, muttered to himself, and flicked his sleeve.
Seven black lights shot out, stopping in mid-air. It was the Seven Star Moon Treasure Mirrors he had previously refined using Yin Chen Stones, vaguely arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper.
Han Li formed hand seals, and rays of light fell on the seven treasure mirrors.
The Star Moon Treasure Mirrors immediately spun, emitting dazzling starlight. Many black runes shot out from within, jumping in the starlight.
He changed the spell gestures in his hand, and the Star Moon Treasure Mirrors emitted a buzzing low sound, and the light emitted became brighter and brighter, but it trembled constantly and became more and more unstable.
"Explode!"
Han Li shouted softly, urging the spell gestures in his hand.
Bang, bang, bang!
The seven treasure mirrors flashed violently and exploded, turning into seven huge light clusters.
Han Li's face tightened, and he formed hand seals as quickly as wheels.
Under his urging, the seven star clusters quickly condensed, transforming into seven huge star phantoms in a short time, which looked exactly like the Big Dipper.
Seeing this, Han Li suddenly changed the spell gestures in his hand.
The light of the seven star phantoms suddenly connected to each other, vaguely forming a star array.
Han Li gave a soft shout and formed a unique hand seal with both hands.
Chila!
The star array suddenly lit up, and then, as if being pulled apart by two big hands, it tore open to both sides, revealing a dark crack that emitted a deep, dark light.
But at the deepest part of the darkness, a glimmer of light could be faintly seen.
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Above the Star Gathering Platform in the Jingyuan Temple, the huge silver moon fluctuated violently, and a space crack suddenly opened in the middle, from which a green figure shot out, suspended in mid-air, it was Han Li.
At this time, the formation and restrictions covering a hundred miles around the Star Gathering Platform were still in place. The bright silver light from the huge silver moon above and the colorful light curtain surrounding it reflected each other, illuminating the space within into a bizarre and colorful world.
Heshan Daoren, who had previously escaped, was nowhere to be seen.
Han Li flickered and appeared in front of a light curtain, punching out three times in a row, blasting a hole in the light curtain. Then, he jumped out and came outside the light curtain.
Outside, everything in Jingyuan Temple was quiet, submerged in the night, with no anomalies.
Han Li frowned slightly. After scanning with his divine sense, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the distant Jingtian Peak with icy eyes.
In the next moment, his figure turned into a streak of blue, flying towards there as fast as lightning.
Just at this moment, an accident occurred!
The ground around Jingtian Peak suddenly shook, and dozens of thick yellow light pillars emerged from the ground, each four to five zhang thick and soaring into the clouds.
The light pillars were covered with earthy yellow spirit patterns, emitting vast spiritual power fluctuations.
The light pillars suddenly lit up at the same time, emitting a thick yellow light that connected with each other, forming a thick earthy yellow light curtain. From a distance, it looked like a huge, thick yellow cloud, covering the entire Jingtian Peak.
Inside the main hall of Jingtian Peak, there was a three-story jade platform, made entirely of a crystalline yellow crystal.
The area of each layer decreased from bottom to top, with the bottom layer being more than ten zhang in diameter and the top layer being only two to three zhang in diameter. It was covered with yellow runes.
Around the jade platform, dozens of earthy yellow jade pillars stood tall, also densely engraved with countless runes.
Heshan Daoren was here, sitting cross-legged on the third layer of the jade platform. Although his face was calm, a trace of panic in the depths of his eyes betrayed his true thoughts.
He muttered to himself, and his fingers changed like wheels, quickly casting out spells one after another.
The three-story jade platform and the surrounding dozens of jade pillars suddenly flickered with bright earthy yellow light, echoing the great array outside.
Seven or eight Composite Body cultivators from Jingyuan Temple were also sitting cross-legged on the second layer of the jade platform, muttering the same incantations, and injecting the mana within them into the jade platform.
Outside Jingtian Peak, a streak of blue light broke through the air and stopped outside the great array in a flash, revealing Han Li's figure.
He squinted slightly at the earthy yellow light covering the entire mountain in front of him, took a deep breath, and a crackling sound came from his body. His figure rapidly grew larger, and golden monkey hair appeared on his body, transforming into a mountain giant ape form over a dozen zhang tall in the blink of an eye.