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

by Translator: Johnchen

  However, the rate at which the ice as spreading over the crater was far inferior to the speed of the Puresun Flame Essence's retreat.

  Just as the miniature pegasus was about to disappear into the ground, a horrified look suddenly appeared in its eyes, and it abruptly spread its wings, vanishing before appearing again over 200 feet away.

  Almost at the exact same moment, five pillars of light of different colors shot forth into the air from the ground below.

  Five bursts of greyish-white devilish Qi then emerged, transforming into five ghostly heads, each of which was around a foot in size. They were none other than the Unbroken Cinque Devils!

  Han Li was also slowly rising up from the ground.

  At this point, the entire crater had been covered in a thick layer of blue ice due to the effect of the formation.

  Han Li stood upon the blue ice and raised his head with a serious look on his face.

  The glacial wyrm manifested from Celestial Blue Flames, the Greatyin Fire Raven, and the five ghostly heads were all converging toward the pegasus.

  However, just as Master Arctic Dragon's memories had revealed, the Puresun Flame Essence was extremely nimble and agile, flashing through the air as a completely untraceable streak of silver light.

  The Greatyin Fire Raven was the only one that could match its speed, while the five devils and the glacial wyrm were clearly unable to keep up.

  However, on this occasion, the pegasus was the one being debilitated by the glacial Qi emanating from the cage of Celestial Blue Flames, and with the enhancement of Han Li's Snow Crystal Pearl, the Greatyin Fire Raven was now slightly faster than the Puresun Flame Essence.

  If it weren't for the fact that the pegasus' movement techniques were truly extremely agile and unpredictable, it would've been captured by the Fire Raven long ago.

  Even so, the pegasus was still struck on several occasions in a short period of time by the crimson light being blasted out of the Fire Raven's mouth, thereby inflicting a few minor injuries upon it. However, the pegasus would rather allow itself to be struck by attacks rather than retaliate, as doing so would force it to slow down, thereby giving the five devils and the glacial wyrm a chance to chase it down.

  Han Li stood down below with his hands clasped behind his back, seeming content just to spectate. Meanwhile, the humanoid puppet was maintaining the function of the formation while expressionlessly manipulating the glacial wyrm.

  All of a sudden, the pegasus identified an opportunity and came hurtling down toward the ground after allowing itself to be struck by another one of the Greatyin Fire Raven's attacks. It reached the ground down below in a flash without any warning, then attempted to unleash a movement technique to flee the scene.

  However, the pegasus' body faltered as soon as it came into contact with the blue ice down below.

  During this split second of delay, a streak of crimson light and a burst of blue glacial mist suddenly hurtled toward it. At the same time, a strange unsettling cry rang out.

  A flash of horror appeared in the pegasus' eyes, but it was clearly too late to evade. However, it managed to react extremely quickly, flapping its wings desperately to create a series of silver flowers. These flowers instantly enshrouded its entire body, and it appeared that it was planning to take these attacks head-on.

  Two muffled thumps rang out, and the crimson light and blue glacial mist struck the silver flowers in quick succession.

  Much to Han Li's surprise, the pegasus borrowed the power from the impact of the attacks, flying rapidly through the air to appear over 100 feet away in the blink of an eye. It stumbled slightly to arrest its momentum before escaping toward another direction in the cage as a streak of silver light.

  Even though the pegasus was still traveling extremely quickly, Han Li was able to identify using his Brightsight Spirit Eyes that it was clearly missing a chunk of one of its wings, and a section of one of its legs also appeared to be have been dismembered.

  A smile appeared on Han Li's face and he finally sprang into action.

  Azure and white light flashed behind him, upon which a pair of wings appeared on his back. He gently flapped those wings and a light breeze was swept up, following which he completely vanished.

  The Greatyin Fire Raven was also throwing itself at the Puresun Flame Essence again.

  However, the pegasus had already opened up some distance between them by borrowing the momentum of the attacks from earlier, and it unleashed its maximal speed as it reached the border of the cage after a few successive flashes of silver light.

  A pillar of blue light stood in its way, so the pegasus decided to fly around it.

  However, the humanoid puppet up above immediately made a hand seal upon seeing this, and brilliant light erupted from all of the pillars as strands of light shot forth, creating a dense net that cut off the pegasus' route of escape.

  The pegasus was startled by this development, but it was too late to turn back. As such, it blasted several tens of silver flowers toward the net while continuing to fly full speed ahead.

  It was planning to puncture the net through brute force.

  However, what the pegasus had failed to notice was that two clouds of white mist had already appeared above its head. The white mist suddenly surged as two gusts of white glacial winds swept forth. Immediately thereafter, two snowy white centipedes shot forth like lightning.

  These were none other than two of the Six-Winged Frost Centipedes Han Li had set up in advance.

  As such, the pegasus could only evade the two gusts of glacial winds and fly toward another direction. At this moment, the Fire Raven, five devils, and glacial wyrm converged toward it once again.

  However, as soon as the pegasus had changed directions, black light suddenly appeared before its eyes, and a glittering and translucent black blade instantly flashed through its body.

  An expression of shock and horror appeared in its eyes as its body was sliced cleanly in half.

  The two halves of its body reverted back to their silver flame form before instantly merging back together to form a miniature pegasus again.

  However, its body was quite blurry and insubstantial, clearly indicating that it was unable to immediately take on its original form again.

  It was quite apparent that the surprise attack from the Devil Essence Dagger had proven to be very effective. Right at this moment, a dull thunderclap suddenly rang out overhead. An azure arc of lightning flashed, following which Han Li abruptly appeared and immediately flicked his 10 fingers in quick succession.

  10 fiery threads hurtled through the air, puncturing the pegasus' body in a flash.

  At the same time, Han Li began to chant something, and the fiery threads instantly bound the pegasus tightly.

  It was completely powerless to resist against Han Li's surprise attacks.

  Han Li was naturally ecstatic upon seeing this.

  He flipped his hand over to summon a stack of restriction talismans that he had prepared well in advance, and a dozen or so streaks of light of different colors flew toward the Puresun Flame Essence as he flung the talismans through the air.

  If these restriction talismans could plaster themselves to the pegasus' body, it would definitely be unable to escape, despite the fact that it possessed the body of a fire spirit.

  However, a surprising turn of events unfolded!

  The tightly-bound pegasus suddenly let loose a desperate neigh as brilliant silver light erupted all over its body. The fiery threads detached themselves from its body, flashing toward the oncoming restriction talismans instead.

  Loud explosions erupted as all of the talismans were reduced to dust, while the fiery threads continued to hurtle toward Han Li.

  Even the perpetually calm and collected Han Li was quite startled by this development. However, he immediately decided on a course of action, raising an arm before waving his hand toward the fiery threads.

  The threads immediately stiffened before disappearing into his hand in a slightly
reluctant manner.

  Meanwhile, the pegasus was taking advantage of the situation to try and escape again.

  Han Li's expression darkened as he harrumphed coldly.

  Upon hearing his harrumph, the pegasus suddenly shuddered as its body plummeted involuntarily toward the ground.

  Han Li had unleashed his Spirit Stun Thorn secret technique!

  Han Li flapped his wings and abruptly vanished, appearing directly below the falling pegasus in the next instant. On this occasion, he merely made a grabbing motion toward the pegasus rather than rely on any treasures. A large hand constructed from purple flames appeared out of thin air, forcibly locking the miniature pegasus in a tight grasp.

  Brilliant purple glacial light erupted as a massive block of purple ice sealed the fire spirit's body within.

  At this moment, the Greatyin Fire Raven and the glacial wyrm also finally arrived. Both of them plunged into the purple ice without any hesitation, quickly fusing as one with the block of ice amid flashes of spiritual light.

  Almost at the exact same moment, the pegasus within the block of ice seemed to have recovered from the effect of the Spirit Stun Thorn, and silver flames immediately erupted violently all over its body as it attempted to escape.

  However, with the infusion of the Greatyin True Flame into the block of ice, there was no way that it would be able to escape in a short period of time. The blue glacial wyrm and the Greatyin Fire Raven were like fish in water as they surrounded the pegasus, blasting out gusts of glacial Qi from their mouths to forcibly repress its silver flames.

  The five devils also arrived at this moment.

  Each of them blasted a type of glacial flame out of their mouths, which then converged to form a five-colored glacial flame that hurtled toward the miniature pegasus. Upon coming into contact with this five-colored glacial flame, the miniature pegasus immediately became extremely slow and sluggish. On the contrary, the glacial wyrm and Greatyin Fire Raven were seemingly completely unaffected even though the five-colored glacial flames had also washed over them. Instead, the glacial Qi billowing out of their mouths had become even more powerful.

  The Puresun Flame Essence was unable to withstand such a ferocious assault, and it gradually began to slow down even further as its aura became more and more feeble.

  Han Li immediately swept his sleeve through the air upon seeing this, summoning a dozen or so talismans. These talismans immediately punctured the block of ice before plastering themselves to the pegasus' body.

  The fire spirit finally relinquished its resistance with a look of despair on its face. The silver light emanating from its body dimmed, and it was unable to maintain its pegasus form any longer as it reverted back to a ball of shimmering silver flames.

  Chapter 1251: Revival of the Immortal Palm

  The talismans stuck to the pegasus seized the moment, fusing together into layers of rainbow light that imprisoned the silver flames.

  Under Han Li’s command, the Greatyin Fire Raven floating within the purple ice turned into a ball of scarlet flame, enveloping the Puresun Flame Essence.

  Then with his hands in an incantation gesture, he struck the purple ice with several spell seals.

  Light flashed as they passed into it, and the huge glacier glistened as it suddenly shrank.

  In the blink of an eye, it turned into a fist-sized ball.

  Han Li waved his hand, summoning it into his grasp and examining it with interest.

  At that moment, Han Li heard a child’s sigh at his ear, followed by words containing a hint of envy, “I didn’t expect you to be lucky enough to truly acquire Greatsun Essence Fire. If you are able to fuse it with Greatyin True Flame, you will gain far more than what you imagined. I fear there are many Immortal spirit flames in the spirit realm that don’t exceed it.

  “Immortal spirit flames?” Han Li’s expression stirred but he didn’t continue pursuing the topic. Rather, he clasped his hands, resulting in a roll of thunder.

  Thin arcs of golden lightning shot out and tightly coiled around the ice until it was fastened and secure.

  In the blink of an eye, all trace of the purple ice was replaced with golden lightning.

  He shook his sleeve and summoned a small azure cauldron, spinning in front of him before arriving in front of him.

  It was the Heavenvoid Cauldron!

  He flicked his finger on the cauldron, sounding a clear front from it. The cauldron lid shot up in the air, and a mass of azure threads streaked out from it, coiling around the ball of golden lightning and dragging it inside.

  Then with the use of his artifact imprint technique, he sealed the cauldron.

  At that moment, he let out a long sigh but a trace of excitement appeared in his eyes.

  Having acquired this flame, he’ll be able to refine the Returning Sun Water. If he could truly extend his lifespan by several hundred years, he should be able to cultivate the Divine Essensefuse Light, even if it were more difficult than he imagined.

  Having thought that, Han Li withdrew his puppet and the five devils, then moving on to tear down the large-scale spell formation he placed down. It was only after eliminating all traces of his presence did he leave.

  With that done, he completed all his objectives in the Great Jin and set off on his journey back to the Heavenly South seemingly without any hesitation.

  After he returned, he would first refine the Returning Sun Water, relieving any worries about his lifespan or Nangong Wan’s. Following that, he would a spatial pocket out of Devilfall Valley’s spatial tear. And lastly, he would use the Ghost Sifting Banner’s soul producing ability to refine the spatial treasure, the Crimson Soul Flag.

  Using this flag, he would absorb the Essensefuse Mountain and bring it back to him to the Heavenly South where he would hide in his spatial pocket, cultivating the Divine Essencefused Light to completion, then tackling the barrier to Deity Transformation stage.

  In order for this to succeed, he would use the peak grade wood-attributed spirit stone he had been saving from the last time he attempted to use the five glacial flames to break through a bottleneck.

  Not to mention that the Devil Essence Pill that Xiang Zhili mentioned when he rescued Violet Spirit from Devil Cliff Mountain. Before he departed, he used the Myriad Year Profound Jade to trade from three of the Devil Essence Pills from the old devil, increasing his chances of Deity Transformation just slightly.

  However, just the thought of the price for these three pills caused Han Li to feel a pang of sorrow.

  He didn’t know how that old devil knew so much about the movements of the North Night Palace’s Myriad Year Profound Jade, but he was greedy enough to take half of it in one swoop. It was unknown if the Devil Essence Pills made for a fair trade, or if he was using it as a pretext for robbery.

  In any case, no matter how rare the Myriad Year Profound Jade may be, Han Li viewed the aid of the Devil Essence Pills to be far more important. Any greater chance of Deity Transformation, no matter how small, is something he couldn't easily relinquish.

  Even under the circumstances with Xiang Zhili, he could only pinch his nose and accept the trade.

  When he recalled the smug face on the old devil’s face after the trade, he felt somewhat gloomy. But soon, he tossed the matter to the back of his mind and began to contemplate his future plans.

  Several days later, he arrived at the end of the red mist, disappearing from the edge of the fire prison.

  Not long after, a few in the Great Jin who discovered the power of Han Li’s existence also noticed his sudden disappearance.

  This caused quite a few attentive individuals to become restless. It was only after Han Li’s departure from the Great Jin was confirmed that they all happened to sigh with relief.

  Although Han Li’s name didn’t resound in the cultivation world of the Great Jin, there were several fantastical rumors that were related to him and he was mentioned in the higher echelon of a few great sects.

  There was a cultivator who wasn�
�t of Deity Transformation stage but was able to befriend Deity Transformation cultivators on equal footing and even able to easily kill late-Nascent Soul cultivators of the same grade. He also had no fear of his essence eroding from the worldly Qi of Heaven and Earth.

  This caused many eccentrics to hold him in fear.

  Now that they knew Han Li had no intention of founding a sect in the Great Jin, they sighed with relief and didn’t keep him in mind.

  ...

  Since the day Han Li disappeared, time slowly passed by. It was as if forty years passed in the blink of an eye.

  During this time, the cultivation world of the Great Jin was exceedingly peaceful. Although there were events that burst forth on occasion, there was nothing world shaking. But at that same time, overjoyed laughter bellowed in a cave residence a myriad of kilometers away in the Heavenly South.

  “All my hard work has finally paid off. I’ve finally refined the fire. With this, I can create the Returning Sun Water.”

  Eventually, the laughter in the cave died down until there was only silence.

  Then a month later, the silhouette slipped out from the mountain cave and tore through the sky in an azure streak.

  Three months later, a young man appeared inside Devilfall Valley, quietly making his way to the valley depths before disappearing once more.

  More months passed, and a small mountain inside the valley suddenly emitted an endless dark ghostly Qi.

  It was a mist as pitch-black as ink and thoroughly enveloped fifty kilometers around it. Yin winds swept through the fog, carrying countless ghostly wails. If anybody walked through it, they would believe they were in the underworld.

  This extraordinary event continued for half a year before the Yin Qi gradually dissipated.

  A month later, the young man strangely appeared from Devilfall Valley and left as quietly as he appeared.

  Because his movement and concealment techniques were superb, none had detected any trace of him.

  Of course, this person was Han Li, who recently finished refining the Crimson Soul Flag and the spatial pocket.