Chapter 23: Bait

The dark gold bronze figure, seeing this situation, immediately turned towards one of the puppets and rushed up.

Han Li and Old Ancestor Leng Yan exchanged a glance, and immediately seized this opportunity to flash into the main hall.

One of them used the Faceless Mask, and the other used a dark red robe to suppress their aura as much as possible, moving towards a huge screen at the rear of the hall.

However, as soon as they took a step, they heard a series of explosions inside the hall. The seven or eight giant ape puppets released by Han Li were all killed in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, a figure flashed in front of them, and the bronze figure puppet had already arrived at their side, smashing a punch at each of them.

Han Li had been on guard for this kind of accident, so he didn't panic too much when the bronze figure flashed in front of him. He just raised his arms to block his face and met the bronze figure's heavy punch.

With a "bang", his arms went numb, and he slid out along the ground, crashing heavily into the door of the main hall.

Old Ancestor Leng Yan on the other side was even more embarrassed. He didn't seem to have anticipated this situation at all. He was knocked over by the sudden punch and fell towards a wall of the main hall. His back slammed hard, and he opened his mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood.

After getting up, he didn't bother to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and shook his head at Han Li with a surprised look on his face.

This situation seems to be different from the last time?

Han Li didn't have time to blame him at this time, and shouted loudly at him: "Go get the half of the Cultivation Method, I'll stop him."

After speaking, his figure flashed, and he took the initiative to meet the bronze figure puppet.

According to Han Li's original plan, while the giant ape puppet was leading away the bronze figure puppet, Old Ancestor Leng Yan would lurk next to the screen at the entrance of the back hall. After he took the lower half of the Cultivation Method and alarmed the bronze figure, Old Ancestor Leng Yan would find a way to block the bronze figure's attack once.

After he successfully brought out the Cultivation Method, Old Ancestor Leng Yan would not need to entangle with it anymore and would immediately withdraw from the main hall.

But this sudden change completely disrupted his plan. Now he can only block this Golden Immortal puppet himself and buy time for Old Ancestor Leng Yan to steal the Cultivation Method.

Old Ancestor Leng Yan spat out a mouthful of blood, no longer concealing his aura. With a movement of his figure, he directly swept towards the back hall.

While feeling bitter in his heart, he was also puzzled. He couldn't figure out why this Golden Immortal puppet's intelligence suddenly increased.

At the same time, he was also worried that Han Li would mistakenly think that the information he had said before was deliberately deceiving him, then even if he obtained the Great Zhou Star Essence Skill, he would still be unable to escape the other party's blame.

After so many dealings, he already had some understanding of Han Li's temperament, and knew that he would never have any mercy when dealing with those who betrayed and harmed him.

"Bold!"

After the bronze figure puppet noticed his actions, it actually opened its mouth and shouted angrily, abandoning Han Li and chasing after him.

Old Ancestor Leng Yan had just arrived in front of the screen when the sound of wind and thunder rang loudly behind him. The bronze figure puppet's huge fist, covered with a layer of white light, had already smashed down towards the back of his heart.

"Just go get the Cultivation Method, leave this puppet to me..."

Just as he was about to turn around to block, he suddenly heard Han Li's voice in his ear, so he made up his mind and didn't care about the fist behind him, and rushed behind the screen with a stiff head.

Seeing that the bronze figure puppet's fist arrived first, and was about to smash on his spine, Han Li's body was suddenly surrounded by lightning, and the Wind and Thunder Wings behind him flapped violently, suddenly blocking behind him.

He saw him frowning, his expression solemn, his hands crossed together, and pushed forward and upward at the same time.

A blue light shadow emerged from his palm, turning into two substantive blue light palms, also crossed to block the bronze figure puppet's fist.

With a loud "boom"!

A violent gust of wind erupted from between his fists and palms. The chaotic air current fluttered Han Li's clothes, but his figure remained motionless, only his arms were bent by a strong force, and his legs were deeply plunged into the ground.

"Courting death!"

The bronze figure puppet resembled an angry Vajra, and roared angrily, condensing a white nebula-like light on its other fist, and smashed it down on Han Li's head again.

Han Li also became angry, let out a roar, his muscles suddenly swelled up, and a layer of golden yellow coarse hair suddenly grew all over his body. With a flash of blue light in his eyes, two fangs emerged from the corners of his mouth, and he transformed into a mountain giant ape that was ten feet tall.

His hands pressed down, pressing down the bronze figure puppet's previous punch, and then raised a punch, waving towards the bronze figure.

The two huge fists collided in mid-air, and a dazzling white light shone brightly between the two fists, making a thunderous roar. A visible wave of air surged up, shaking the entire main hall.

Han Li's arm bent slightly, and his body actually sank another inch. The bronze figure puppet didn't change at all.

Comparing strength, Han Li, who used the Mountain Giant Ape bloodline, was still at a disadvantage in front of this puppet.

He frowned, pulled his legs out of the ground, jumped up, and took the initiative to punch the bronze figure puppet. The latter stepped forward and punched him head-on.

Han Li's whole body was wrapped in a layer of substantive blue light film, and dazzling starlight lit up in his chest and abdomen. His aura doubled, and a dazzling light erupted from the tip of his fist.

In contrast, blue light spots also lit up on the bronze figure puppet, corresponding to the acupoints refined by the Great Zhou Star Essence Skill. The number was much larger than Han Li's. As for the power of the stars surrounding its fist, it was naturally several times thicker than Han Li's.

This time they exchanged punches, the outcome could already be predicted before the two touched.

However, just as the starlight on the two people's fists had already merged and made bursts of friction, Han Li's figure suddenly blurred and instantly appeared behind the bronze figure, punching down towards the position in the middle of its back.

A slightly hollow "bang" was heard, and a large amount of starlight gushed out from the bronze figure puppet's back acupoints, colliding violently with the starlight on Han Li's fist. It was like burning, blooming a large piece of dazzling blue flame.

Under the impact of this force, coupled with the pulling force of the bronze figure's own punch, its body involuntarily staggered forward and fell down.

Its huge fist also missed and smashed on the ground, making a thunderous roar.

White light surged on the ground, and the entire main hall trembled violently. Dust fell from the roof, and a crack tens of feet long cracked on the floor, bottomless.

Han Li felt a little lingering fear when he saw this scene.

If he hadn't reversed the true wheel in his body at the critical moment, accelerated his time flow, and avoided the bronze figure puppet's fist first, he would have been seriously injured at the moment, and one of his arms would have been gone.

However, what made him even more concerned was that this bronze figure puppet could actually use the power of stars. It seemed that it had also opened up acupoints on its body, and the power it used was even stronger than his.

Could it be that he also practiced the Great Zhou Star Essence Skill?

"Fellow Daoist Han, I have obtained the Cultivation Method, retreat quickly..." Han Li was surprised when he suddenly heard someone shouting from the back hall.

Immediately afterwards, Old Ancestor Leng Yan's figure flashed out from behind the screen. He held a cyan-gray stone slab in his hand, on which he could vaguely see dense ancient seal characters. There was no need to guess, it should be the lower half of the Cultivation Method.

Han Li's heart moved, and after nodding, the two of them almost flashed at the same time and came to the door.

He raised his palm and was about to open the purple-gold door when the entire main hall suddenly shook violently. All the runes engraved on the doors and windows suddenly seemed to come alive, twisting and connecting together like earthworms.

At the same time, a layer of purple-gold light curtain began to spread from the doors, windows, roof, and ground, enveloping the entire main hall.

"Crap..." Old Ancestor Leng Yan exclaimed.

Han Li had already returned to his human form at this time, and raised a palm with a gloomy face, pressing down on the junction of the two doors.

In his palm, five silver thunderballs were entangled with lightning, and fell on the purple-gold light curtain at the same time.

Only a burst of "crackling" sound was heard!

The purple-gold light curtain covering the entire main hall shone brightly at the same time. Dense ancient seal runes appeared on the surface, and lightning bolts like thunder snakes burst out from it, directly scattering the thunderballs released by Han Li.

The surging purple-gold lightning devoured all the scattered silver electric threads. Han Li only felt a burst of numbness all over his body, and couldn't help but gasp.

"Stealing the Cultivation Method, the crime is unforgivable!" At this moment, a cold voice suddenly came.

The bronze figure puppet didn't know when it had stood up again, standing in a corner of the hall, looking coldly at the two of them.

A flash of light suddenly flashed in its eyes, as if covered with a layer of white mist, becoming turbid and unclear. The dark gold light on its body gradually faded, and pieces of starlight gushed out from the "acupoints", and the entire body became transparent and bright.

Along with this change, the aura emanating from its body also rose in a straight line, reaching the peak of the early stage of Golden Immortal, only a line away from the middle stage.

"Fellow Daoist Han, it's not that I have concealed anything. When I stole the Cultivation Method last time, there were definitely none of these situations." Old Ancestor Leng Yan glanced at Han Li's expression and suddenly said.

"I believe you." Han Li said concisely.

"You..." Old Ancestor Leng Yan was surprised when he heard this, and was speechless for a while.

"Isn't it strange that the restriction outside this main hall is like one underground compared to this one inside?" Han Li said while keeping a close eye on the changes of the bronze figure puppet.

When Old Ancestor Leng Yan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly realized:

"The design and construction of this main hall is not to prevent outsiders from entering, but to ensure that those who enter will never be able to get out. This place is the same as the previous main hall, it is also a trap, could it be... this Great Zhou Star Essence Skill is bait."