"Perhaps it's due to the length of time, but there seems to be some issue with the grand formation here. When you entered this place last time, the grand formation was not fully triggered, and that puppet was not fully awakened, which is why you were fortunate enough to escape with your life." Han Li pondered briefly before slowly speaking.

Upon hearing Han Li's words, Leng Yan Old Ancestor reflected for a moment, then exclaimed in relief, while simultaneously feeling a chill run down his spine. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Han Li suddenly shout, "Here it comes!"

As this shout rang out, Han Li's figure had already vanished from its original location.

In the next instant, his figure appeared directly above the Copper Man Puppet's head. He formed a strange sword incantation with both hands and pressed down heavily.

The void beneath his palms rippled in waves, and a shimmering azure longsword flashed out from within, slashing down towards the Copper Man Puppet's head.

"Crackling…"

A sound of surging electricity rang out. Suddenly, dazzling golden light erupted from the azure longsword, and layers of thick, solid golden electric threads surged out from within, enveloping the entire sword body, heavily striking the Copper Man's head.

With a deafening "Boom,"

A vortex of golden lightning several dozen feet high materialized out of thin air within the main hall. As it howled and spun, sporadic golden electric threads continued to burst forth, shooting out in all directions, striking the layer of purplish-gold light barrier, causing a series of chain-reaction electric crackles.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor stared intently at the vortex, unable to see the Copper Man Puppet's figure at all, only able to sense the boundless and violent power contained within the golden lightning.

"Is it dead…?" he thought to himself.

However, after only a few breaths, a strange sound emanated from within the golden lightning vortex, causing him to shudder.

He saw a thick arm, as white as jade and almost translucent, suddenly extend violently from the opening above the vortex, clenching its five fingers into a fist and smashing upwards towards the azure longsword surging with electricity.

With a thunderous "Boom,"

A cloud of white starlight exploded from the end of the fist, and countless blue light spots appeared within it. As they flickered alternately, it resembled the twinkling of countless stars on a clear night, a truly beautiful sight.

Immediately afterwards, a wildly unparalleled force suddenly released from within, and layers of white light surged outwards in all directions, directly pushing the golden lightning vortex to expand and grow larger.

At the same time, the blue stars within the white light extinguished one after another, and an aura of destruction emanated from within.

"Roar…"

Only a furious roar was heard, and the white light, which had already expanded wildly, erupted once again.

The golden lightning vortex finally buckled under the immense pressure, and with a roar, it exploded. Countless golden electric threads burst forth, darting in all directions like golden snakes, striking the purplish-gold light barrier one after another, causing a series of lightning strikes and thunder.

The Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword, which had slashed down from mid-air, was also violently impacted by this immense force and flew backwards.

It crashed into the purplish-gold light barrier above the roof, igniting a burst of electric sparks before being rebounded. Just as it was about to pierce into the ground, Han Li grabbed the sword hilt in his hand at the last moment.

The azure longsword trembled incessantly, and his arm trembled slightly along with it.

Han Li's face turned slightly pale, and his breathing became somewhat rapid, indicating that he had also suffered no small amount of shock.

He frowned tightly and looked towards the center of the main hall, where he saw that the Copper Man Puppet had now completely changed its appearance. Its entire body was completely translucent, its color as identical as jade, and blue light spots shone on various parts of its body.

At this time, there were still wisps of faint electric arcs jumping around on its body, but it didn't care at all. It simply raised its hand and wiped them away, then lifted its foot, and its figure blurred, like a streak of light streaking across, instantly arriving in front of Han Li.

It raised one arm, not clenching its fist, but instead using a hand chop, carrying the force of ten thousand jun, towards Han Li's neck.

Because its speed was so unbelievably fast, Han Li didn't have time to defend at all, and was struck. With a "bang," his mind felt dizzy, and then his entire body flew horizontally, crashing into the purplish-gold light barrier.

Immediately, intense electric light erupted on the light barrier, bursting out with a dazzling burst of sparks.

"Fellow Daoist Han!"

Leng Yan Old Ancestor cried out in alarm, intending to flash over, but after glancing at the Gold Immortal Puppet, he hesitated again and again, and stopped his movements, not daring to move.

However, after knocking down Han Li, the puppet did not continue to pursue, but instead turned its figure, and a pair of silver eyes looked towards him without any emotional color.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor felt a chill run down his spine. He glanced at the cyan stone slab in his hand and quickly threw it away like a hot potato.

Whether intentional or unintentional, the stone slab flew out more than ten zhang before landing right at Han Li's feet.

Han Li had just fallen from the purplish-gold light barrier, with bursts of white smoke still emanating from his body, and there were many scorched marks on his clothes, making him look quite disheveled.

He supported himself with the azure longsword in one hand, bent over, picked up the cyan stone slab, glanced at it, grinned slightly, and directly put it away.

After seeing this scene, the Gold Immortal Puppet seemed to be completely enraged. Its figure blurred again, turning into a streak of light, and shot towards Han Li.

Its palm was still in the shape of a hand chop, and the white light condensed on it was making "chi chi" sounds, condensing into a jagged white flame, piercing directly towards Han Li's heart.

This time, Han Li was prepared.

He saw a gleam of light flash in his eyes, and golden light surged violently behind him. A golden treasure wheel emerged, and the remaining dozen or so dao patterns that could still be used on it lit up at the same time, emanating a layer of golden ripples from within, enveloping him.

When the Gold Immortal Puppet's arm penetrated into the ripples, it was as if it had fallen into the long river of time, becoming extremely slow.

However, all the blue light spots on its body became brighter at this time, and the luminous white light around its body seemed to have come alive, frantically surging towards its arm.

Han Li was then surprised to find that the flame on the Gold Immortal Puppet's hand chop had turned from white to blue, the range had expanded by almost a fold, and it was frantically cutting the surrounding golden ripples.

The golden ripples released by the Mantra Treasure Wheel actually became somewhat unstable. The arm imprisoned within it actually protruded forward again. Although the speed was not fast, it obviously reduced the treasure wheel's influence on it by a hundredfold.

This situation had never happened before.

"Fellow Daoist Xie, aren't you ready yet?" Han Li asked while勉力 urging the Mantra Treasure Wheel.

"Ready, now is the time." A voice came from the void.

Before the voice faded, a golden brilliance suddenly shot out from within Han Li's body, and suddenly magnified in mid-air, turning into a golden thunder waterfall that poured down wildly, instantly filling the entire main hall.

There was no room to stand within the main hall, as if it had turned into a golden thunder pool, filled with wildly unparalleled golden lightning everywhere.

Since entering the hall, Leng Yan Old Ancestor had been shocked too many times, and the muscles on his face had become somewhat stiff.

At this moment, his mouth was slightly open, his eyes were somewhat dazed, and he was fully urging a cyan chime, turning it into a cyan light barrier to protect himself.

Within the thunder pool in the hall, a huge golden crab emerged. Its wide golden crab shell was butting against the purplish-gold light barrier above the roof, and the two colors of electric light intertwined and exploded constantly.

One of its huge crab claws, wrapped in golden lightning, suddenly probed out and clamped down on the Gold Immortal Puppet's waist.

"Crack"

Accompanied by a sound of thunder and lightning, two intertwined golden electric lights flashed past.

The layer of purplish-gold light barrier covering the main hall instantly tore apart, its light scattered and disappeared, and a huge crack split the main hall's walls and roof ridge in half.

As the golden electric light gradually dissipated, the thunder pool in the hall also began to shrink, pouring into the golden crab's body. With a flash of light, it transformed into a yellow-robed man with a square face and slender eyebrows, naturally Xie Dao Ren.

"Fellow Daoist Han, this time's attack has consumed almost all of the Immortal Essence Stones you gave me earlier." Xie Dao Ren glanced at the Gold Immortal Puppet, which had been broken into two pieces on the ground, and said slowly.

"It's fine, I'll replenish some for you later. Thank you this time." Han Li put away the Mantra Treasure Wheel and said.

"No need. In my opinion, this Gold Immortal Puppet is quite extraordinary. Although its intelligence was intentionally suppressed during its refinement, its divine abilities are similar to a Profound Immortal, and its combat power is actually very strong. If it weren't for you and me joining forces, we wouldn't have been able to defeat it so easily." Xie Dao Ren waved his hand and said.

The implication of his words was naturally that he hoped Han Li wouldn't waste it and would be best to put it away.

"I will keep it safe. After leaving this place, do you have a way to repair it and refine it again?" Han Li raised his eyebrows slightly and asked.

"Just now, I didn't hold back with that strike, and it has already damaged its puppet core. It's hard to say whether it can be repaired now." Xie Dao Ren said noncommittally.

The Gold Immortal Puppet had now returned to its original copper body. The upper and lower halves of its body were cut from under the right rib to the left hip. At the fracture on its abdomen, an dark-gold metallic sphere was exposed, with a narrow crack on it as well.

Han Li was slightly regretful about this, but he also knew that there was no way around it. After all, he was fighting against an opponent at the Gold Immortal level. If he had held back, it would have been tantamount to courting death.

"If there's nothing else, I'll go back first." Xie Dao Ren glanced at Leng Yan Old Ancestor, who was leaning against the hall door, and turned into a golden light, flying into Han Li's sleeve and disappearing.

Han Li waved his palm and put away the two halves of the Gold Immortal Puppet on the ground, then turned and walked towards the back hall.

Leng Yan Old Ancestor looked at Han Li's back, slumped behind the hall door, his whole body already soaked in cold sweat.

At this moment, he finally understood how great the gap between them was, and he finally realized how foolish his previous actions had been.

After Han Li bypassed the huge screen, he saw a hidden door wide enough for two people.

Walking into the hidden door, he came to the back hall.

The back hall was relatively enclosed, with no windows on any of the sides, so no light shone in, but it was not dark inside.

The surrounding walls seemed to be coated with a layer of fluorite powder, emitting a faint light, with spots of light flashing on them, looking like stars.

In the center of the back hall, there was a cast bronze square platform, no higher than the waist, only a foot square, engraved with complex patterns.

On the upward-facing side of the platform, there were two recessed grooves.

Upon seeing this, Han Li's heart stirred.

The size of the grooves was just right for the cyan stone slabs engraved with the *Great Zhou Celestial Stellar Art*, and there were also talisman inscriptions inside.