"The Grey World is trying to stabilize its position, establish a foothold, and lay the foundation for future expansion. As for the Heavenly Court... on the one hand, it's naturally to ensure the smooth convening of the Bodhi Banquet and maintain superficial stability, prioritizing the overall situation of the Bodhi Banquet. On the other hand, there's also the reason of the Reincarnation Palace. After all, so far, the biggest threat to the Heavenly Court is still the Reincarnation Palace," Han Li said slowly.

"It's just that these sentient beings in the occupied Immortal Realms are suffering..." Zi Ling sighed.

"Let's go, we don't have much time," Han Li said.

With that, the two flew up, transformed into a stream of light, left Ancient Cloud Continent, and sped towards the direction of Barren Ripple Continent.

As the two entered the sea, the further they went in, the deeper the color of the sea became, gradually changing from the initial cyan-blue to a dark blackish-purple.

Above the sea, clusters of dark clouds gathered and converged into one piece.

Looking around, the huge cloud mass, with no end in sight, became extremely low under layers of pressure, with a distance of only sixty or seventy zhang from the sea surface.

At this moment, the sea was howling with strong winds, the waves were surging, and the huge waves that splashed up made bursts of roaring sounds, constantly rolling up to the overhead dark clouds, forming a unique scene where the sea and sky met.

"Rumble"

Accompanied by a series of booming sounds, from time to time a flash of light passed through the thick clouds, and thick and incomparably huge pillars of lightning tore open the heavy dark clouds, smashing down on the sea, illuminating the gloomy sea with patches of bright light.

Even before entering the Thunder Sea range, Han Li could already feel the power of the raging lightning.

Even the mist released by the Grey World did not dare to approach this sea area.

"You return to Flower Branch Cave Mansion and wait for me. The movement here will be very big in a while," Han Li said to Zi Ling, looking into the distance at the Thunder Sea.

"Okay," Zi Ling nodded and said.

After Zi Ling entered the cave, Han Li did not continue to ride the wind, but with a wave of his palm, summoned the seventy-two Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords.

He leaped into the void, his feet landed on one of the flying swords, and he rode the sword, which he hadn't done for a long time.

The remaining seventy-one Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords all surrounded him, flying back and forth constantly, as if forming a solid defensive sword formation, guarding him in the center.

Han Li's eyes narrowed, he looked towards the depths of the Thunder Sea, and with a lunge, he took all the flying swords straight to the center of the Thunder Sea.

"Rumble"

As soon as he entered the range of the thunderclouds, a huge purple lightning bolt fell from the sky and struck directly at Han Li.

Han Li didn't even bother to glance at it, and one of the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords took the initiative to meet it, without using any sword moves, just blocking the lightning strike for Han Li.

The lightning struck the flying sword, and a metallic tremor sounded immediately, as if the flying sword was also making a cry of pain, and strands of purple electricity sputtered on the surface, spreading like a spider web.

After this blow, Han Li's speed of advance not only did not increase, but became even slower. Almost every hundred zhang of progress would be met with a purple thunderbolt.

And his Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords would also take turns flying to block the lightning bolts one by one.

At first, there was nothing unusual about the flying swords, but as the lightning continued to strike, fine lightning patterns began to appear on all seventy-two Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords.

"As expected..." Han Li swept his eyes and said to himself with a smile.

As he gradually went deeper, the lightning in the depths of the sea of clouds became more and more dense, and the power of the lightning gradually became stronger and stronger. Cyan, purple, gold, and silver lightning mixed together, constantly striking down on Han Li.

All the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords no longer needed to take turns to receive the lightning, but cooperated with each other to surround Han Li in the center, constantly welcoming the bombardment of lightning.

In this way, flying inward for more than half a month, Han Li constantly traveled through lightning vortexes and mist tide thunder storms, and was swept into powerful tornado thunder storms several times, but in the end, he passed through them safely.

The seventy-two Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords also became more and more powerful under the tempering of the Thunder Sea along the way.

"Boom!"

Hundreds of golden lightning bolts struck down from the high sky at the same time, like a huge golden lightning waterfall pouring straight down. All the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords flew out, connected end to end, as if erecting an arch bridge, lying across Han Li's head.

The golden lightning waterfall crashed down, hitting the flying swords one after another, making bursts of electric current agitation sounds, "Zizzzzz" loud noises, and countless golden electric filaments shot out, as dazzling and beautiful as fiery trees and silver flowers.

On the sword bodies of all the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords, lightning patterns appeared, as if cracked, and the power of the thunder and lightning laws contained within became more and more refined and profound, naturally formed, and no longer looked like a treasure refined after birth, but like the Xuan Tian Slashing Spirit Sword, a congenital object of the law of thunder.

Han Li stood under the "sword bridge", looking forward calmly through the splashing electric sparks.

In the void there, a huge black hole suddenly appeared.

Inside the hole, there was a blurred shadow, disturbed by the turbulent aftershocks of the lightning, making it impossible to see clearly.

But Han Li knew very well what it was.

He raised his hand and waved, his sleeves rolled over, and the void in front of him stagnated for a while. All the golden lightning filaments and turbulent lightning fluctuations were swept aside by him as easily as dust.

In the black hole, a huge eye finally appeared.

Han Li's heart tightened, and the scene when he first saw this "Eye of Lightning" appeared in his mind.

In his memory, the eye was only a few hundred zhang in size, its whole body was orange-yellow, and there was a slender line vertically in the pupil, and its gaze flickered with cold light.

He had only glanced at it back then, and was attacked by a terrifying aura from afar, causing no small damage to his spirit.

With the power of his divine sense at that time, he could not see the full picture behind this eye at all, and had even guessed that its true appearance should be some kind of monstrous beast entrenched here.

Now, he appeared again in front of this terrifying eye, and his strength was no longer as weak as it used to be, but when he saw this eye, his mind couldn't help but stir up a wave.

It turned out that his previous guess that there should be a body behind the giant eye did not exist. In this black hole, there was only this lonely eyeball.

As he stared at this eyeball, the orange-yellow eyeball slowly turned and "looked" towards Han Li.

A thunderous roar exploded in Han Li's sea of consciousness.

In the sky of his sea of consciousness, a huge crack was torn open, causing his head to ache unbearably, almost unable to control himself. This impact was more than ten thousand times stronger than back then.

However, in the next moment, a faint light spread across Han Li's sea of consciousness, instantly mending the crack, and even the turbulent waves in the sea of consciousness were smoothed over, and immediately calmed down.

Now, all seven volumes of his Spirit Refining Technique had been completed, and the strength of his divine sense was already incomparable.

Han Li's eyes narrowed, and the Great Five Elements Illusionary World Divine Art in his body began to operate, and a round moon rose high into the sky, flashing with scorching golden light, revealing the true appearance of the Mantra Treasure Wheel.

In the void in the center of the treasure wheel, there floated a huge golden vertical eye, its eyelids closed tightly.

"Today, I, Han, will see what kind of sacred being you are?" Han Li stared at the orange-yellow eyeball and said.

With that, he moved his mind and immediately urged the Eye of Truth.

As the dense world dao patterns on the Mantra Treasure Wheel lit up, the Eye of Truth trembled slightly, and the golden eyelids separated left and right, revealing a golden eyeball from within.

When the eyelids were suddenly opened, the circle of strange runes in the Eye of Truth immediately rotated rapidly, and a faint golden light was projected from the pupil.

Han Li's mind moved, and he no longer used his original eyes to see things, but looked at the orange-yellow giant eye through the golden vertical eye.

He saw that on the giant eye, wisps of golden filaments emerged, connected to each other, and gradually reconstructed its original huge figure little by little in front of Han Li.

Han Li's brows could not help but raise when he saw this, and his heart was quite shocked.

He saw that the re-condensed figure had a body like an ox, but with dragon horns on its head. Not only was its body huge, but its round belly was covered with ancient runes. It had only one thick leg under its body, and a glance at it looked a bit like a black giant hammer. Behind it was a long tail like a whip.

"Isn't this a 'Thunder Kui'?" Han Li couldn't help but murmur to himself.

Han Li was not unfamiliar with Thunder Kui. In the past, he had even used this beast's true patterns to engrave runes for his Dao soldiers. He never expected that the giant eye in this thunderous sea was actually a relic of a Thunder Kui.

However, upon closer inspection, Han Li found something wrong. The runes on the Thunder Kui in front of him were all different from what he had seen in the past. They were patterns with the true meaning of thunder and lightning, which ordinary Thunder Kui could never possess.

Han Li's mind moved, and the power of the law of time in his body surged out and merged into the Eye of Truth.

The eyeball, as if cast in gold, immediately spun around, and the golden light that gushed out became more and more intense.

In an instant, the flow of time in the entire Thunder Sea was cut off, and the entire void seemed to stagnate. Only the figure of the Thunder Kui moved inexplicably.

He saw that between the flow of light and shadow, pillars of thunder and lightning emerged above the nine heavens, and the heavens seemed to open up, flowing out thousands of strands of various colors of lightning, all striking the body of the Thunder Kui.

Its seemingly indestructible body was annihilated inch by inch, turning into dazzling streamers, and flying into the heavenly gate in the high sky.

However, the Thunder Kui seemed unwilling and let out bursts of silent roars. The violent electric filaments condensed from its body directly cut its body in half. One half was swallowed by the heavenly gate, and the other half surged wildly towards its left eye.

Until the entire body turned into ashes and dissipated between heaven and earth, only this orange-yellow giant eye was left, suspended lonely between the sea and the sky.