Chong Luan clearly hadn't anticipated Han Li's sudden awakening. He instinctively leaned back to dodge, but made no move to resist, allowing the taut, needle-like crystal thread to shoot toward his forehead.

At the critical moment, the bronze forehead guard on his brow suddenly blazed with azure light, from which emerged a phantom of a strange beast resembling a tiger but with four eyes. With a wide-open maw, a ball of dark light ignited within, directly swallowing the crystal thread.

Seeing this, Han Li clenched his fist, golden scales rippling up his arm, and golden light erupting from his fist. He took a step forward and slammed his fist heavily toward Chong Luan's chest.

Suppressing the shock and anger in his heart, Chong Luan hastily held his long saber horizontally in front, with one hand bracing the blade from behind, to block Han Li's incoming fist.

There was a deafening "Boom!"

A burst of golden light exploded in mid-air. Under the impact of tremendous force, Chong Luan's body crashed down toward the sea like a meteor, stirring up a huge wave.

Han Li didn't stop there. He pinched his fingers in a sword incantation and waved violently in front of him.

A series of violent tremors rang out.

The seventy-two Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords immediately shattered the black crystal encasing them. They drew streaks of azure light in the air, piercing into the seawater, chasing after Chong Luan.

At the same time, a sound like a rapidly shaking bamboo tube echoed through the air.

The patterns on the surface of the Heavy Water True Wheel shone brightly. It broke free from its restraints, spinning rapidly as it crashed toward the surface of the sea.

All of this seemed lengthy, but in reality, it only took a few breaths. The black crane, hundreds of feet in size, hadn't even fully reacted yet. Its massive wings suddenly flapped downwards.

Black flames blazed on its wings. With a single flap, two balls of black fire, each hundreds of feet in size, smashed toward the Heavy Water True Wheel.

Two loud "Boom" sounds rang out in quick succession!

Large patches of black sparks erupted on the surface of the Heavy Water True Wheel. Its direction shifted, skimming the surface of the water and carving out a thousands-of-feet-long trench before rising again and flying back toward Han Li.

Han Li merely glanced at the giant black crane before refocusing his gaze on the sea.

Deep beneath the surface, a dark shadow shot upwards. With a "Splash," it burst out of the water, its black long saber clutched tightly in its hand. Without looking, it swung the blade back behind it.

The spiritual patterns on the black long saber shone brightly. Layer upon layer of saber shadows, like crashing waves, rolled forward one after another, slashing toward the sea.

Immediately afterward, a series of splashing sounds echoed continuously. One after another, azure flying swords shimmering with cyan light emerged from the water, crashing directly into the layers of saber shadows, emitting a cacophony of piercing shrieks.

The black saber shadows shattered inch by inch, and the azure long swords also stagnated, their forward momentum almost completely extinguished.

Taking advantage of the rebounding force, Chong Luan flew backward, landing back on the black crane's back, a hint of gloom flashing in his eyes as he looked at Han Li.

"I didn't expect you to break my Qi Devouring. Even if your spiritual sense far surpasses others of your level, it's impossible. Unless… you've cultivated the forbidden art Spirit Refining Art?" Chong Luan seemed to have realized something, and his expression showed a hint of shock.

Han Li's gaze remained indifferent, completely ignoring him.

He beckoned with both hands in the void. The seventy-two Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords immediately flew back, recombining in the void into a single azure long sword, which landed in his palm.

"No wonder Fang Pan chased after you so relentlessly. It seems you're hiding quite a few secrets. I can't wait to capture your nascent soul and investigate thoroughly." Seeing that Han Li remained silent, Chong Luan chuckled and said.

"Doesn't Your Excellency speak a bit too much?" Han Li said calmly, his expression unchanged.

As soon as he finished speaking, the mantra wheels within his body reversed, and more than forty groups of Dao runes lit up simultaneously. His figure instantly disappeared from the spot, without even leaving an afterimage in the air, as if he had teleported directly onto the back of the black crane.

The long sword in his hand blazed with azure light. He thrust it out, directly piercing through Chong Luan's left chest.

The latter's eyes widened, filled with disbelief. He lowered his head slightly to look at his chest, where a large hole had been torn open, black blood gurgling out and instantly soaking his clothes.

"Master…" The black crane let out a sharp cry.

Seeing this, Han Li drew his long sword from Chong Luan's chest without another word and flew backward.

He had just flown away from the black crane's back when Chong Luan, who had been pierced through the chest, suddenly slumped, turning into a cloud of black mist that dissipated. He was merely a temporary substitute formed from baleful aura.

In another part of the sky, a cloud of black fog surged out, and Chong Luan's figure reappeared. His gaze toward Han Li no longer contained the slightest hint of contempt.

Han Li, however, felt somewhat frustrated. The mantra wheels, unable to restore all one hundred and eight groups of Dao runes, ultimately could not unleash their best effect when reversing his divine abilities. As a result, when facing enemies of the level of the black-faced man, he could no longer achieve the same one-hit-kill effect as before.

"Very good! I underestimated you. I didn't expect that you, like Fang Pan, had also comprehended the Law of Speed, and your speed is even faster than his. No wonder you were able to kill him." Chong Luan looked at Han Li and said solemnly.

"You were able to dodge my previous attack. I imagine it also has something to do with Fang Pan, right?" Han Li naturally wouldn't correct his misunderstanding of his Law of Power, but raised an eyebrow and asked.

"That's right, you're quite perceptive. This trick was indeed to guard against my junior brother. Who told him to be so highly valued by the master, his brilliance was a bit too dazzling. I had to be prepared, but I didn't expect to use it here today." Chong Luan's eyes flickered slightly as he spoke.

As he spoke, a hand behind his back was secretly performing a magic incantation.

In the palm of his hand, circles of strange patterns began to light up with blood-red light. The skin on his body, hidden beneath his black cloak, also began to turn a pale red color.

Seeing this scene, the black crane's eyes flashed with a hint of fear. Two balls of black light flickered slowly beneath its wings, clearly preparing to flee far away at any moment.

Han Li took all of this in, his expression unchanged. The Heavy Water True Wheel hovered in front of him, blocking his figure like a shield. One hand tightly gripped the azure long sword, while in the other hand, hidden in his sleeve, a flash of black light appeared, and two Heavy Water Rune Thunders rolled out.

Accompanied by a faint chanting sound, Chong Luan's pupils turned blood red, and strands of faint red mist began to rise from his body. The black long saber in his hand also flashed with light, gradually being dyed blood red from top to bottom.

Han Li's brows twitched slightly. He had discovered that the aura of the black-faced man in front of him was undergoing a noticeable change. Although he could still smell a trace of baleful aura, it was not the kind of ferocious aura he had sensed before.

"It's time to end this." Chong Luan said, his whole person turning into a blood shadow and disappearing from the spot.

In the next instant, he suddenly appeared to Han Li's lower right, his long saber slashing upwards at a very tricky angle towards his ribs.

Han Li seemed to have anticipated this, and with a twist of his wrist, his long sword slashed down, striking the blood-colored long saber violently. He used the force to fly backward, quickly creating a distance between himself and Chong Luan.

As his figure swept away, the two Heavy Water Rune Thunders silently slid down and landed in front of Chong Luan.

One of them, with purple lightning patterns on its surface, suddenly lit up, followed by a "Boom" of explosion.

Immediately afterward, a circle of extremely violent purple electric arcs spread out in all directions, covering the sea area within a radius of hundreds of feet.

Before that sound could subside, the other Heavy Water Rune Thunder also lit up, but differently, it was lit up with golden light.

"Boom" another explosion!

On the sea surface, two black suns, each a hundred feet in radius, rose one after another, with golden light shattering within and purple lightning rumbling, reflecting each other.

Beneath the exploding suns, Chong Luan's figure could no longer be seen. Only the waves on the sea could be seen collapsing, the seawater evaporating, and countless black dust particles surging in all directions, turning into a spherical air wave, rolling and pressing towards the sea surface, directly compressing the surrounding void until it trembled.

The seawater in the nearby sea area surged, creating towering waves hundreds of feet high, surging in all directions.

The black crane, seeing the situation was bad, had already curled its wings and turned into a ball of black flames, rapidly fleeing. At this moment, it was suspended in the high sky tens of thousands of feet away, looking back at this side with lingering fear.

"The power of the Evil-warding Divine Thunder is still greater…" Han Li looked at the sea, where the aftershocks had not yet dissipated, and purple and golden electric arcs were still flashing constantly, muttering to himself.

The two Heavy Water Rune Thunders he had just thrown out, one was refined by him back in the Thunderstorm Ocean, combining the power of that purple crystal ball. The other was refined after he re-sacrificed the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, combining the Evil-warding Divine Thunder.

The former had been consumed a lot in the years of performing various missions for the sect and the Unstable Alliance, and he didn't have many left on him. The latter's refining process was very difficult, and he hadn't been able to refine too many of them either.

Using them together this time, it could be seen that the Heavy Water Rune Thunder fused with the Evil-warding Divine Thunder was more powerful.

When the momentum on the sea surface gradually subsided, one could see broken pieces of cloak debris floating on the water, and patches of bright red blood stains and a hazy blood mist enveloping the water surface could be seen everywhere.

Seeing this, Han Li's eyes showed no relief, but instead a trace of solemnity.

He could sense that the black-faced man's aura seemed to be scattered everywhere on the surrounding sea surface within a radius of thousands of feet.

Just then, a strange scene appeared!

On the sea surface, which had been dyed blood red, bubbles the size of bowls suddenly began to appear, one after another, crowded together, densely covering the sea area within a radius of hundreds of miles.