Wang Yu
Chapter 506 Why Bother
A black, immensely thick Zhulong burst forth from the black light at the mouth of the crimson gourd, its body wreathed in black flames. It opened its ferocious, blood-red maw and bit down towards Gongshujiu.
"Daoist Baili!" Seeing this, Luo Qinghai exclaimed in surprise.
Han Li understood everything in his heart upon seeing this. It was highly likely that Huyan Daoist had gone to great lengths to have him help obtain the Taiyi Pill, not for himself, but to save Baili Yan, whom he had been carrying with him.
In the past, under Xiao Jinhan's orchestration, when Baili Yan, the first Daoist of Zhulong Dao, emerged from seclusion to give a lecture, the sect experienced the largest internal strife since its founding. Ouyang Kuishan and other Golden Immortal Daoists cooperated with the Beihan Immortal Palace, attacking Baili Yan from both inside and outside. This not only ruined his plans to break through to the Taiyi realm, for which he had prepared for countless years, but also severely wounded him, forcing him to flee.
Fortunately, Huyan Daoist, after escaping the pursuit of the Beihan Immortal Palace and leaving Zhulong Dao, actually found Baili Yan and managed to carry him with him. His purpose was naturally the Taiyi Pill in the Netherfrost Immortal Mansion.
But how did this Huyan Daoist know in advance that there would be a Taiyi Pill, such a treasure, in the Immortal Mansion?
As early as when Baili Yan, transformed into a Zhulong, approached Gongshujiu with his bloody maw, Huyan Daoist had already retreated.
From the black Zhulong's giant mouth, billowing black flames spewed forth, instantly engulfing Gongshujiu.
Those who were battling the white figures then noticed that those figures seemed to temporarily lose Gongshujiu's control, and their movements instantly slowed down.
Thus, they all attacked, quickly defeating them all.
After the white mist figures disappeared, the group flashed their figures and surrounded this side.
About ten breaths later, the Zhulong retracted its giant mouth, its body rapidly shrinking, transforming into the size of an ordinary small snake, coiled on the crimson gourd.
"Although the Taiyi Pill helps me recover and clear the karmic fire in my body, it still takes time to refine it little by little. Now, I can only help you this much," the Zhulong said quickly, speaking human language.
"It's fine. You should rest well first, and don't delay your healing," Huyan Daoist said immediately.
Baili Yan's body then crawled into the mouth of the gourd and disappeared.
Seeing this, Huyan Daoist immediately took back the fiery red gourd and hung it on his waist.
His actions were so quick that Luo Qinghai and the others were a little slow to react. Fortunately, he helped them greatly, not only freeing them from the entanglement of the reflections but also trapping Gongshujiu.
"Everyone, quickly use your methods to refine Gongshujiu's body and imprison his nascent soul," Luo Qinghai said solemnly.
The others naturally understood the stakes involved and began to cast spells towards the black flames that had not yet dissipated.
Crimson flames, blue light, golden lightning, and bloody radiance surged into the black flames from five directions simultaneously, instantly compressing the black flames into a flame sphere with a radius of only ten feet, various forces merging into it, refining Gongshujiu.
Han Li's eyes flashed with blue light as he stared intently at the inside of the flame sphere. He suddenly discovered that outside Gongshujiu's body, there was also a layer of translucent circular qi wall, blocking the flames and various laws and powers.
Moreover, a faint red light shone on the qi wall, becoming increasingly bright.
A look of surprise flashed in the eyes of everyone, including Han Li, and they were about to avoid it, but it was too late.
With a loud "boom",
An extremely violent air wave pressed down on all sides, carrying black flames and various laws and powers, instantly sending everyone around flying out.
"Bang bang bang..."
The golden hall was already on the verge of collapse, and under the continuous impact of the group, it finally collapsed, crumbling down.
Its dome exploded and scattered, and the walls collapsed into ruins.
However, before the group could straighten up from the ruins, they saw Gongshujiu's figure flash out.
"I originally had a compassionate heart, wanting to invite you all to the Immortal Court to repent for a million years, perhaps you could return from your wayward ways... It seems that you cannot accept my kindness, then don't blame me for being ruthless," Gongshujiu sighed lightly and said slowly.
Having said that, he waved his hands in front of him, and five rays of colored light flashed from his fingertips, from which flew out five magical treasures in the shape of feathers of unknown birds and beasts, flying towards Han Li and the others.
Han Li stared intently, seeing that the light on the feathers was illusory, making it difficult to see clearly. A faint wave of laws seemed to emanate from them, and he was immediately surprised. He quickly held his sword horizontally to block them.
Jiao San flicked her wrist, and a silver bracelet engraved with ancient and clumsy patterns fell from her wrist, spinning around and blocking in front of her, emitting a large area of dazzling silver light.
Chi Lijiao then drew arcs in front of him with both hands, summoning a golden armor plate. With a flash of golden light, it transformed into a golden square shield, blocking in front of him.
Inside the hall, crisp collision sounds rang out one after another.
The long sword in Han Li's hand was directly struck into an exaggerated arc, and the blade heavily struck his chest, sending him flying hundreds of feet away, crashing into the mountain ridge.
The jade fan magic weapon used by Luo Qinghai was directly shattered by the feathers, and his shoulder was pierced with a huge bloody hole. His entire body flew out nearly a thousand feet, smashing into the ground below.
The silver bracelet sacrificed by Jiao San shattered, and her body also flew out, but she did not seem to have suffered any injuries.
As for Chi Lijiao, the feathers shattered his shield and pierced his head, and his nascent soul was also taken into Gongshujiu's sleeve with lightning speed.
Huyan Daoist was a step slower because he had been picking up the fallen crimson gourd. By the time he came to his senses, the feathers were already less than three feet away from his chest, and he could not dodge at all.
In that critical moment, a figure suddenly flashed from the side, blocking in front of him with a heroic posture as if going to die.
"Yun Ni..."
Huyan Daoist and Ouyang Kuishan cried out in alarm at the same time.
One was busy pulling her arm, wanting to pull her away, and the other dyed himself red with blood and used the secret technique of blood escape, rushing to block in front of Yun Ni at the last moment.
With a "poof" sound!
The feather, flashing with five-colored rays of light, broke through several layers of protective light shields and pierced into Ouyang Kuishan's brow, directly turning his head and sea of consciousness into powder.
The bodies of the three of them collided heavily, flying out while overlapping, and falling to the ground.
Yun Ni's face was full of astonishment. She quickly helped Ouyang Kuishan up, only to find that his eyes had lost their radiance, but there was still a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth.
Seeing this, Huyan Daoist had an extremely complicated expression in his eyes.
"Why did you have to..."
Yun Ni glanced at Huyan Daoist, then at Ouyang Kuishan. Her eyes, which had not been red for many years, became moist.
In Zhulong Dao, she actually met Ouyang Kuishan earlier. The two had even gone down the mountain to travel together.
She had always known Ouyang Kuishan's feelings for her.
But love never comes first or last, never speaks of fairness or equality.
At this moment, a golden nascent soul figure, only a few inches in size, suddenly flew out from Ouyang Kuishan's dantian. It looked like the surface of the golden light was dim, and the breath was dying, only a pair of small eyes stared unblinkingly at Yun Ni.
"Was it worth it..." Yun Ni asked with red eyes.
"In this life of mine, I have followed the rules, painstakingly sought the path of immortality, and妄图 to be able to do whatever I want one day, and travel this immortal domain with my immortal companion... but the higher my cultivation level, the greater the constraints... Today, I can finally do whatever I want once. What's not worth it..." Ouyang Kuishan's nascent soul said intermittently.
"Well said, doing whatever you want! Ouyang Kuishan, you are very good! Rest assured, I will help you revive!" Huyan Daoist smiled and took out a sandalwood box the size of a palm.
Ouyang Kuishan glanced at him and silently flew into the sandalwood box.
At this moment, Han Li had already flown back from the mountain ridge and landed beside Huyan Daoist.
He naturally saw this scene of Ouyang Kuishan blocking for Yun Ni earlier. Although there was no change in his expression, his heart was moved, and he looked up to Ouyang Kuishan a little more.
Jiao San glanced at Chi Lijiao's corpse and flew over here. Only Luo Qinghai was motionless, and it was unknown whether he had lost his mind and fainted.
Whether it was because using that feather consumed too much energy earlier, or for some other reason, after this attack, Gongshujiu did not continue to attack, but stood still in place.
"Why do you keep refusing to use the power of the law of time? Could it be that you are still thinking of preserving your strength and taking the opportunity to escape?" Jiao San looked at Han Li with an unkind expression and transmitted her voice coldly.
"I have a trump card that may be able to kill this person with one blow, but the previous consumption was too great, and I need to save the power of the law for the crucial moment. Now is not the time," Han Li shook his head and replied.
"I hope what you said is true. If we can escape this time, I can give you the last layer of the Refining Soul Art. In addition, with your cultivation level, don't even think about escaping the pursuit of a Taiyi realm cultivator," Jiao San said coldly, without any change in her tone.
"Then Daoist Jiao San should not hide anything either."
While speaking, he glanced around seemingly casually and saw that the two Cangliugong disciples had already killed a halberd-wielding puppet, but they were also seriously injured. At this moment, they could only barely protect themselves and no longer had the strength to fight.
Xueying did not intend to let the two go and chased after them.
Nan Ke Meng was also knocked out in the previous impact, and it is not known where he fell.
The Zhulong Dao's Golden Immortal Daoist, without Ouyang Kuishan's assistance, was defeated by the halberd-wielding puppet and would be completely defeated within half an hour.
"Daoist Huyan, you two should help that fellow disciple. We will deal with it here," Han Li suddenly said to Huyan Daoist and Yun Ni.
"You..." Huyan Daoist was a little surprised and hesitated.
"You saw just now that having more people is not very useful. To deal with this person, I am afraid we can only take a risky move," Han Li smiled and said.
"Alright, anyway, you kid have many tricks, and I can't figure it out. If this matter is over and there is still a chance, I will definitely invite you to drink a jar of 'Dream of Spring and Autumn' brewed with a new formula," Huyan Daoist smiled without hesitation.
"It's a deal," Han Li replied with a smile.