A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality c1-2248

by Translator: Johnchen

  As Han Li was bewildered, a series of wild laughs echoed from the devilish Qi as a silhouette warped in front of him.

  Behind this person was six distinct phantoms that appeared solid, each with a horn on their head or fangs. All of them were frightening to the eye and had scales on their body, appearing like the devils that once appeared in this world.

  “The Six Apex Devils Art!” Han Li cried out.

  “Oh? You recognize this lord’s devil art? You aren’t so stupid after all!” His laughter came to a stop and he coldly looked at Han Li with an attitude of complete arrogance, derision clear on his face.

  He still wore Wan Tianming’s clothes but his face was completely different.

  When Han Li saw his face, he couldn't help but betray his shock.

  Chapter 1215: Battle at the Star Palace (11)

  Han Li turned his gaze and he looked at the face of the tall refined corpse. Then he looked at the man wearing Wan Tianming’s clothes before letting out a long sigh.

  Apart from their stature, their faces looked entirely the same.

  “Should I call you Wan Tianming or Archsaint Six Paths?” Han Li blinked and wore a grave expression.

  “You figured out who I am?” ‘Wan Tianming’ coldly snorted. The movement of his body caused the six devil phantoms behind him to tremble.

  “To the best of my knowledge, the Six Apex Devils Art is the greatest Devil Dao art in the Scattered Star Seas, and only you could have cultivated it to this degree. It seems you’ve somehow managed to survive during that time, but there are a few things that I don’t understand. How did you seize Wan Tianming’s body, and how did you transform into his likeness? Why does this refined corpse resemble you? Could it be an incarnation you cultivated or did you refine your own body into a corpse devil?” As Han Li slowly spoke, he regained his calm demeanor.

  Archsaint Six Paths sinisterly laughed, “Why should I answer a dead man?” Soon after, his shoulders trembled and two of the six phantoms from behind him shot towards two of the refined corpses.

  The two refined corpses suddenly trembled and they stiffly opened their eyes, revealing them completely stained dark green.

  Archsaint Six Paths continued, chanting a cryptic and profound incantation, causing the somewhat shriveled corpses to be engulfed in grey devilish Qi.

  The two corpses let out a piercing shriek and their bodies massively grew.

  In the blink of an eye, their bodies expanded to fifteen meters in height as they groaned in agony.

  One of the corpses had a body that was jet-black with large copper scales. It had a pair of sharp antelope horns and a long azure tail that slightly waved. The other corpse had its body covered in blood-red bone spokes. Silver light shined from its limbs as if cast from silver. Its triangular head bore a sinister appearance with four slender dark-green eyes.

  After their transformation, the two refined corpses appeared completely similar to the two devil phantoms that entered their bodies. But shockingly, they now possessed a true physical form.

  When Han Li saw this, his heart trembled.

  Archsaint Six Paths wildly laughed, “When the Six Apex Devils Art is cultivated to its peak, it can summon the true devil sages’ soul fragments to possess a body, rendering them abilities that could rival a Deity Transformation cultivator in battle. It was only there was never a human in the mortal world that ever cultivated to that stage. Even so, the two devils I’ve summoned each possess the ability of a late-Nascent Soul cultivator. Now that you are outnumbered, do you believe that you can keep your life?” With a command of his spiritual sense, the two devils floating in front of him suddenly vanished from sight.

  The space three meters in front of Han Li warped, followed by the bizarre appearance of the two devils. The horned devil shot towards Han Li’s abdomen in an azure streak at lightning speed. The spiked devil remained still as its body trembled, the sounds of explosions echoing nearby.

  Dense foot-long crimson bone spikes filled the air as they shot towards Han Li in an enveloping barrage. At such a close distance, such a momentous attack could not be avoided.

  It appeared Archsaint Six Paths had the same plan in mind as Han Li: to destroy their opponent in a single blow with overwhelming force.

  A trace of pride and confidence was written on the Archsaint’s face. He believed that even if Han Li managed to somehow survive this flawless joint attack, he wouldn’t make it out unscathed.

  But in that next moment, the old devil’s expression froze.

  Just as the horned devil’s charge and the bone spike barrage was about to tear apart Han Li, the azure-white wings on Han Li’s back flapped, summoning a huge gust.

  Following that, his body faded from sight.

  The azure streak and the bone spikes passed through empty space.

  Startled, Archsaint Six Paths quickly looked around him.

  But before he could release his spiritual sense around him, azure lightning flashed from above the horned devil’s head, followed by Han Li’s reappearance.

  He wordlessly raised his hand and released an azure ruler below him where it soon blurred.

  A foot-wide silver lotus suddenly appeared beneath the horned devil.

  The lotus simply spun once before seven-colored Buddhist light rushed out from the lotus, holding the horned devil rigidly in place and freezing the devilish Qi in its body.

  Han Li expressionlessly raised his other hand, now summoning a fan covered in three-colored flame. Before he commanded it to take any action, its fearsome spiritual power pervaded the air.

  At that moment, the other devil finally noticed Han Li’s new location. It had no other thought but to attack. With a long shriek, all the bone spikes surrounding it circled in the air before shooting towards Han Li’s new location. They traveled with speed that could overtake a dragon.

  In the blink of an eye, countless bone spikes arrived near Han Li.

  Han Li glanced at the attack without revealing the slightest fear.

  Silver light flashed in front of him. A small shield appeared where there was nothing and created a layer of dense silver light around him.

  The blood spikes then arrived before the silver light.

  Fist-sized explosions burst as each spike struck, creating the clatter of heavy rain. The barrier soon rippled and began to violently sway as if it were on the verge of collapse.

  The might of the bone spikes was far beyond imagination. Each one possessed the power of a top-grade magic treasure.

  The Tailstar Essence Shield wasn’t able to deflect the attacks.

  Han Li’s expression changed from the sight of this and chanted an incantation.

  A thumb-sized golden ball appeared on his forehead, glowing with light as it created a layer of golden mist around him.

  This was the vajra barrier Han Li nurtured within his body.

  Having refined the vajra relic inside his body for countless years, its defensive power had far overtaken that of the Tailstar Essence Shield.

  When the silver barrier eventually collapsed, the rest of the bone spikes fiercely struck, sounding metal clangs as they struck the vajra barrier.

  Golden light directly flashed from its surface, blocking the barrage with ease.

  Meanwhile, a phoenix cry sounded from the three colored flames in his hand. A flame bird with talisman characters suddenly flew out from it and unfolded its wings as it flew down.

  It was clear it was making its way to the immobilized horned devil.

  Although the devil couldn't move, a fierce expression appeared from its face. It opened its mouth and spat out a white wave to meet the flame bird.

  A rumbling, deafening explosion shook the air as the white wave and the bird collided.

  Although the soundwave was one of the devil’s strange innate abilities, its body was trapped and it was unable to circulate its devilish Qi, greatly weakening its power. The attack couldn't hope to compare with the Triflame Fan.

  The confrontation only lasted fo
r a brief moment and the firebird exploded.

  A three colored halo suddenly appeared and spread out, engulfing the white wave underneath it.

  Afterward, the halo quickly grew, sweeping past the horned devil in an instant and turning it into nothing.

  While the scene may be described slowly, this took place in the mere span of several breaths. As for the Archsaint, his expression greatly changed when he saw this.

  How could he have expected that Han Li wouldn’t die from his two devils, but rather, he would kill one of the two he released?”

  At that moment, he realized he was dealing with no ordinary grand cultivator.

  A furious alarm taking over him, he didn’t dare to delay and hastily commanded his spiritual sense.

  He spat out a black streak from his mouth, creating a cloud of black Qi that soon vanished.

  As for the spiked devil, it let out a roar and its four eyes glinted before disappearing.

  The space behind Han Li stirred and the devil stretched out its silver hands from nothing.

  Crack. The two arms grew several times in size and claws burst out from its hands. They fiercely swiped at Han Li’s head and back.

  Meanwhile, black light flickered at that moment, where a black octagonal skull-sized hammer appeared ten meters above Han Li’s head. Carrying sinister black Qi, it fiercely smashed down.

  From its dreadful devilish Qi, one could tell it was a rarely seen devil artifact.

  The Archsaint didn’t stop his attack there. With a tremble of his shoulders, the other four devil phantoms appeared again behind him. They all opened their eyes and blurred, charging at Han Li in black streaks.

  After killing one of the devils, Han Li faced a united front against the Archsaint and the other devils.

  Han Li let out a sigh.

  Before he took any further action, azure light flickered from his body and silver light lit up closely behind him. A silhouette suddenly appeared, taking the attack of the silver devil.

  Two world-shaking explosions shook the air. Within the silver flashing light, the azure silhouette remained completely still. Rather, the devil reaching out from behind was completely shaken from the impact and fell back.

  Meanwhile, light flickered from above Han Li. A small azure cauldron wrapped into the air and slowly spun in place.

  Then, azure thread shot out from it as its lid opened, catching the black hammer that was smashing towards him and suspending it in midair.

  Chapter 1216: Battle at the Star Palace (12)

  The jet-black octagonal hammer simply emitted a thread of sparkling blue flame in response to being caught by the cauldron. The chilliness the flame emitted was downright eerie.

  Although Han Li couldn't tell just how powerful the devil flames were, they were by no means ordinary.

  Blue flame wrapped around the Heavenvoid Cauldron and rigidly trapped it in the air without the slightest show of effort. No matter how fiercely the hammer flames burned, the blue thread was completely unaffected.

  Han Li ignored what was happening above him and turned his sights on the four black streaks that were shooting towards him.

  “The Devil Sages?” Han Li muttered silently. A trace of a smile appeared on his face and he shook his sleeve.

  Suddenly, several rolls of thunder sounded out, followed by four dense bolts of lightning arcing out from his sleeve. In a flash, they accurately struck the four black streaks.

  Several explosions sounded out as four blinding golden flashes ruptured, drowning out the black streaks in an instant. The devil phantoms seemed to have met their weakness and quickly evaporated like morning dew.

  This had taken Han Li only a token effort.

  In the mere blink of an eye, the azure silhouette behind Han Li raised its hand and produced a small crimson bow in its hand, drawing it back.

  A deafening boom shook the air. Blinding red light and countless arrows of flame were released, filling the sky with its barrage.

  At that moment, the spike-covered devil saw a skyful of arrows shooting towards it and looked on with fear. It let out a large shout and its body glowed with crimson light.

  When the spiked devil finished taking its defensive actions, the barrage struck its barriers.

  Countless arrows ruptured on impact and the devil was submerged in flames. Explosions shook the air for a long while, in a display of their terrifying power.

  However, the devil within the flames remained unscathed inside its crimson barriers. It took a deep breath and it waved their silver arms, intending on cutting away the crimson flames that surrounded it.

  Then, the sounds of thunder struck.

  In the devil’s fright, it discovered that a green arrow was shooting towards them in an arc of lightning.

  Although the devil didn’t know what the arrow was precisely, it blurred from sight in an attempt to dodge it.

  But what the devil failed to sense while they were distracted by the arrow was the black crystal knife that strangely appeared above them. As silently as it appeared, it dropped down and slid itself toward its head.

  The spiked devil hadn’t noticed a thing.

  Suddenly, the azure silhouette halted their attack and the endless barrage of flame arrows came to a halt.

  Baffled by this change and still evading the green arrow, a black streak silently circled one of the devil’s necks like a bolt of lightning and its triangular head toppled off its neck.

  The crimson light barrier may as well have been air.

  This came as no surprise. The knife was refined from a Devil Essence Diamond, an extremely rare material condensed for countless years from pure devilish Qi. How could a barrier quickly formed from devil Qi hope to block it?

  With Han Li’s second Nascent Soul residing in the human-like puppet, it didn’t require any instruction. In the instant, the dagger executed the devil, it rushed forward to the devil’s corpse.

  It opened its mouth and a cloud of black light rushed out from it, enveloping the corpse.

  Then, it dragged out a phantom from the body that had a striking resemblance to the devil. The phantom was so dim that it looked like it could disperse at any moment.

  It was then dragged back into the puppet’s mouth in the cloud and absorbed by the second Nascent Soul residing inside of it.

  The pure devilish Qi would prove to be significant to the cultivation of the Zenith Yin Arts.

  With the phantom absorbed, the headless devil corpse dissolved into ash with a gentle wind.

  Then in a blur, the puppet returned to Han Li’s side with its arms behind its back.

  From a distance, if it weren’t for the difference of their clothes, it would appear as if there were two of Han Li standing side by side.

  At the moment, Han Li was fiddling with his Triflame Fan as he calmly looked across from him.

  Han Li indifferently said, “Fellow Daoist Six Paths, I’ve already seen your Six Apex Devils technique. If you don’t have any else to impress me with, I will be sending you off.”

  When Archsaint Six Paths heard this, his face grew pale and disbelief was betrayed from his eyes.

  Two of the late Nascent Soul-stage demons he regarded as his trump cards were exterminated with ease. It was beyond belief.

  Furthermore, his opponent was able to make use of the flame fan, the small azure cauldron, and the green wooden ruler; each of these treasures possessed an immense power. Let alone the famous Heavenvoid Cauldron and Han Li’s use of the incarnation techniques, he didn’t have the slightest information on the other two grand treasures. But what was particularly bizarre was that his unfathomable incarnation alone was able to slay one of his devils.

  His heart dropped.

  How was this possible? Han Li should’ve only been at late-Nascent Soul stage for about a hundred years at most. For him to master these profound techniques and acquire these grand treasures in such a short amount of time.

  Although he had never seen a Deity Transformation-stage cultivator, he had no d
oubt that Han Li’s current abilities were close to one.

  When the old devil heard Han Li’s words, his back trembled and his eyes narrowed. Then he opened his mouth and a scarf of black mist roiled out.

  The object quickly blurred and immediately covered him in black wind.

  The winds let out a shrieking whistle before letting out a tremble and kiting backwards, carrying the old devil with them.

  The black wind became vague and flew at immense speed. Several blurs later, it left a chain of afterimages.

  In an instant, the wind strangely appeared an even greater distance away. There even was a remnant of black wind in its original position.

  As a result, there were several balls of black wind present, all capable of teleporting away. In the blink of an eye, they could travel over three hundred meters away. A normal late-Nascent Soul cultivator would feel helpless against such bizarre movements.

  Of course, Han Li wasn’t an ordinary late-Nascent Soul cultivator by any means. When he saw this, he wore an odd expression, “So you’re actually running away. Your bonded magic treasure seems quite good at it. If it were before, I fear I may have had some trouble. But now, ha...”

  Han Li took a deep sigh and the Thunderstorm Wings trembled behind his back, letting out a roll of thunder. Arcs of white and azure lightning appeared on the wing’s surface. Soon after, they formed balls of lightning in the surrounding air, spinning in place.

  As he stretched out his wings, he floated in the air, drifting slightly to the side.

  At the moment, he was looking in the distance at the black blur that was Archsaint Six Paths. He snorted and fanned his wings once.

  Gales immediately erupted around him and the suspended balls of lightning raged, striking together.

  Azure-white lightning erupted in deafening booms, only for the gales to gather all of it into the two wings.

  Covered in a layer of lightning, the Thunderstorm Wings wildly flapped several times, followed by Han Li disappearing from his original location in a flash of azure-white lightning.