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by Translator: Johnchen


  A harsh expression appeared on the old Daoist’s face and he waved his sleeve. A transparent crystalline half-foot-long blade appeared.

  The blade sliced at the air, releasing a dazzling streak.

  Zap. The blade streak fiercely cut through the grey rings and struck at the base of the huge mountain.

  A loud drone sounded like a gong being struck.

  The mountain didn’t move and the blade streak vanished.

  The old Daoist’s face stirred. Before he could do anything else, Han Li stretched out his other hand, revealing a pure-white palm. He stretched his fingers, releasing five bone skull rings.

  Five huge skulls appeared around the old Daoist. They simultaneously opened their mouths and spat out an icy flame. They merged into five-colored light and instantly submerged the old Daoist’s body.

  The old Daoist wore a smirk, but after the flames drew close his body, his face vastly changed. Myriads of red streaks burst out from his body, wildly chopping at his surroundings in form of a red lotus.

  As the lotus stirred, the rainbow flames were split apart, unable to approach the old man in the slightest.

  Han Li’s expression sank and he formed his hands together. He harshly roared and suddenly, his body wildly grew several times in size and pounced at the red lotus.

  Several harsh streaks sounded. As the five skulls charged to the edge of the red lotus, five dazzling blade streaks chopped at the skulls, splitting them into two like bolts of lightning.

  Soon after, the crimson lotus was thoroughly opened.

  The rainbow flames were thoroughly extinguished by the red light and the old Daoist reappeared with a calm face.

  With a loud ghostly wail, the five cleaved skulls became whole once more.

  But they continued to wail as if they held the old Daoist in great fear.

  Han Li took a shallow breath and gravely pointed at his pitch-black mountain a distance away.

  The huge mountain rumble and fell straight down.

  As the huge mountain pressed downward, the old Daoist appeared unfazed. He simply tapped his foot on the huge beast below him.

  The two serpent heads widely opened their mouths and apt out a dense red blur at the huge mountain falling above them.

  With a violent crack, the huge mountain swayed and began to fall to the side.

  Han Li narrowed his eyes at the sight of this and his face grew unsightly.

  The two serpent heads were able to spit out their tongues at such a great force, they were able to knock away his Essensefused Mountain.

  Han Li gloomily reached out for the black mountain and five skulls, causing them to vanish.

  Black and white light lit up from his palms, returning the color of their skin to normal.

  “Hehe, Brat, you have many treasures, but you are delusional to face me with your meager magic power. It appears you have no other methods. Hand over your body to me.” The old Daoist seemed to be impatient, but he took no further action. Instead, the serpent heads of the beast let out a sharp shriek.

  Invisible waves scattered around them, spreading several kilometers away.

  Rainbow light continued to flash nearby and soon, countless rare beast images began to take form. A few as large as a hill with some only ten meters long. Each of them looked ferocious and smelled strong. They all surrounded Han Li and stared at him with evil eyes.

  Chapter 1372: Beetles' Might

  “An illusion technique?” When Han Li saw this, he was startled, but he waved his sleeves nonetheless. Tens of small golden swords swam around him like fish, each turning a foot-long in a blur.

  He commanded them in his mind, and they each created several copies of themselves, adding more to the swarm.

  Golden light filled the air. The swordstreaks weaved around, slicing apart the beasts in a hundred-meter radius.

  Beast blood, howls, and corpses, filled Han Li’s surroundings.

  He tightly frowned!

  Be it the feedback from the swords or what he saw with his eyes, he sensed it all to be real. He couldn't distinguish these illusions from reality.

  Despite his bewilderment, none of it showed on his face, and his swords continued their rampage and kept him safe.

  Standing on top of the Shen Beast, the old Daoist wore an odd smile.

  There were seemingly countless beasts surrounding Han Li. With the sharpness of Han Li’s swordlight, they cut down several hundred beasts in the blink of an eye.

  However, the strange beast corpses seemed to float in the air rather than falling to the ground. It caused the bloody scent to grow increasingly dense and pungent.

  Soon, just as Han Li felt something was amiss, the Shen Beast let out a cry. The chopped corpses turned into pitch-black fog and roiled underneath Han Li.

  The several hundred swordlights continued to flutter around Han Li, occasionally chopping away at the black fog, but as more of the black fog tangled with the flying swords, they became sluggish.

  Meanwhile, the Shen Beast’s giant body blurred and silently shot forward in a streak of black Qi, vanishing into the black fog.

  A moment later, two long red shadows shot out from the black flog. In a blur, they strangely arrived in front of Han Li. One of them aimed for Han Li’s head while the other went for his chest, both striking at lightning speed.

  Were it not for Han Li employing his full techniques to protect himself, including his Brightsight Spirit Eyes, he wouldn’t have reacted fast enough to block the attacks if he relying on his spiritual sense alone.

  His face sunk. Without using any of his magic treasures, golden light flashed from his face and he smoothly whipped his hands in seemingly slow motion.

  His hands turned sparkling gold as if formed of pure gold.

  Bang, bang. The two golden hands grabbed the two scarlet tongues in a ball of flesh. Then, an immense force pulled at his arms.

  His shoulders simply blurred as if nothing happened.

  The old Daoist looked at this with shock.

  The Shen Beast’s transformative abilities had not only reached perfection, but its immense strength was renown in the shadow tribe. A display of this strength was when it used its tongues to fling away the giant mountain from before.

  Now, this unremarkable human youth was able to use his hands to grab ahold of the Shen Beast’s tongues with ease. It was rather inconceivable.

  However, the old Daoist wasn’t truly worried. The Shen Beast had more than just brute force alone.

  As expected, the two tongues remained motionless in Han Li’s grasp. Suddenly, white light glowed from them and the two tongues turned into huge scarlet pythons. They fiercely opened their mouths and they both aimed for Han Li’s head.

  Han Li simply felt a huge tremble through his fingers as if the tongues became cold and slick, and they both attempted to go for Han Li’s head.

  Blue light brightly flashed from his eyes and his golden hands blurred, each of them separately turning black and white. His black hand had a silver mountain image on its back and his fingers grew several times thicker.

  Pop. Scarlet blood scattered. The hand squeezed down on one of the pythons, splitting it into two.

  The large white hand had a white skull appear from each of its fingers. With a flick, all of the skulls bit seven inches deep.

  The skulls began to wildly inhale, soon turning the serpent’s body into a husk drained of blood essence.

  These were the results of the Divine Essensefused Mountain and the Unbreakable Cinque Devils being condensed into his two hands.

  This method was only one cultivation technique that was mentioned in the Hundred Meridians Treasure Refinement Mantra.

  The process of cultivating his body into treasures was an incredibly long process, but it allowed him to make use of his treasures ingeniously and several times quicker as well.

  The cultivation of this not only condensed the power of the two treasures into his hands, but it fused the power of the treasures into one. It was incredibly fl
exible and their combined power would grant him greater odds of victory.

  This surprise attack resulted in the Shen Beast’s tongues being eliminated.

  The old Daoist clearly hadn’t expected this to happen. Before he could act from rage, two painful howls sounded from the black fog. Soon after, the black Qi parted and the Shen Beast emerged in the blur. Its body turned vague as it traveled through the air and it turned transparent.

  The beast also possessed invisibility.

  A short moment later, Han Li was able to hear the beast’s howls from all around him, hiding its concrete position.

  Even with his Brightsight Spirit Eyes working at full force, he wasn’t able to see through it.

  Even so, Han Li smiled.

  He waved his sleeves around him, followed by buzzing. Countless golden specks rushed out from them.

  These golden specks flew out and immediately surged in size. They turned into half-foot-long beetles.

  They were the fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles that Han Li spent painstaking efforts to nurture.

  These beetles numbered over a thousand and flew out nearby.

  In the blink of an eye, the beetles spread through the sky and several of them knocked against the Shen Beast, revealing it.

  Without needing Han Li’s command, the Gold Devouring Beetles buzzed and pounced at it. A cloud of beetles instantly drowned it.

  The Shen Beast let out screams of pain, but with a pop, the beast’s body flew out in a black mist.

  Normally, insects wouldn’t be able to do anything against an intangible body, but something extraordinary occurred.

  Just as the black mist flew out from gaps of the Gold Devouring Beetles, the fearsome beetles’ claws flashed with golden light and firmly stuck onto the black mist, violently gnawing on it without any hesitation.

  With over a thousand beetles, the huge black mist was reduced by a tenth in the blink of an eye.

  Screams of pain continue to sound from the mist as the mist continues to roil. Then, ten slender silver serpents shot out from the mist, each of them three meters wide. They all swallowed ten of the beetles at lightning speed.

  As the serpents blurred, another ten beetles disappeared into the serpent’s mouth.

  But immediately after, the silver serpents hissed and they fell, turning back into clouds of black mist.

  All the beetles flew out from the mist without the slightest damage and they circled around the mist to consume it.

  Soon after, the black mist quickly turned into several beasts specialized in dealing with insects, but none of them were able to wound the beetles in the slightest. In a short moment, the black mist was torn away, quickly slowing down the speed at which these strange creatures appeared.

  The beetle swarm had the black mist at its mercy in only the span of a few breaths. As the old Daoist watched from a distance, he stared at the beetles with an odd expression on his face.

  “Gold Devouring Beetles! Fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles!” The old Daoist muttered. He slapped his head without the slightest hesitation.

  Red light flashed and a crimson shadow emerged from the crown of the body’s head. It flew in a circle and suddenly turned into a fierce streak, blurring several times as it disappeared off the horizon.

  The old Daoist’s body remained in place, now a shriveled corpse. With a gentle wind, the corpse scattered to ash.

  “Yi!” Han Li remained motionlessly in place and stared in the direction that the crimson shadow fled. His expression wavered.

  “He actually abandoned his exotic beast. Could it be that Gold Devouring Beetles are that famous?”

  With that said, Han Li turned his head and looked at the black cloud. The beetles had consumed the black cloud in near entirety. Han Li stroked his chin and waved his hand, recalling the beetles. They circled around him and turned back into small pellets before going back into his sleeves.

  With that done, Han Li wanted to fly over, but his complexion vastly changed and his body shook several times. He nearly plummeted from the air.

  “How is this possible? My spiritual sense is so exhausted, I nearly injured my soul.” Han Li quickly looked inside him and his face paled.

  He consumed nearly the entirety of his Spatial Tempering-grade spiritual sense. In the battle, he didn’t sense this in the slightest.

  “Could it be...”

  Han Li was reminded of his recent use of the Gold Devouring Beetles and his face grew unsightly.

  He suddenly waved his sleeve and summoned a single beetle. It fluttered its wings and flew around nearby.

  He immediately peered at his spiritual sense and soon, he stood still in shock.

  At the same moment he released the beetle, his spiritual sense was slowly consumed. Although it didn’t appear harmful, it was only the result of a single Gold Devouring Beetles. If he were to command over a thousand of them, they would cause a bigger drain.

  With his vast spiritual sense, he would hardly be able to sustain it for five minutes.

  What was even more frightening was that he wasn’t even aware of this immense drain.

  Chapter 1373: Grouping up

  Han Li felt gloomy.

  The original joy he felt from witnessing the Gold Devouring Beetles’s strength was mostly gone.

  Although he had eight thousand fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles, if he released the lot of them, he feared his spiritual sense would run dry before his beetles confronted the enemy.

  Bafflingly enough, the beetles had no drain on his spiritual sense when they weren’t fully matured.

  This left him perplexed.

  He couldn't ignore this sudden development. He would have to find what caused this at the very least.

  Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to use the beetles in battle.

  With that in mind, he waved at the beetle.

  The beetle circled in the air before landing on his palm.

  He released a thread of spiritual sense and wrapped it around the beetle. As a result, he found nothing out of the ordinary.

  He took a shallow breath and narrowed his eyes in thought. Suddenly, something came to mind and he waved his hand. The beetle flew back into the air and he wrapped his spiritual sense around it once more.

  A short moment later, his face vastly changed.

  The spiritual sense that coiled around the beetle’s body became gradually weaker and continued to enter the huge beetle's body.

  Han Li now realized everything.

  The reason why his spiritual sense was decreasing was that the mature Gold Devouring Beetles were expelling it as they flew. It was no wonder why his spiritual sense was worn to such a degree without any knowledge.

  Know that he knew the problem, he frowned in thought for a long while and felt that he couldn't come up with a good answer.

  Although the exhaustion of his spiritual sense was only temporary, typically recoverable with a day’s rest, it would be fatal if this occurred in battle.

  Regardless of the secret technique or magic treasure, they needed large quantities of spiritual sense to sustain them.

  Until he could figure out a method to resolve this, he would keep the beetles as a reserve measure.

  However, the sight of the beetles alone was enough to scare away the crimson shadow. Even in the spirit world, the Gold Devouring Beetles possessed a truly infamous reputation.

  The exotic insect ranking he acquired from the Devil Dao cultivator in the mortal world was no longer relevant in Han Li’s eyes.

  Given the experiences of a low-grade cultivator, there were many mistakes to be had. The rankings were particularly useless in the spirit realm.

  The power of the fully mature Gold Devouring Beetles was far beyond Han Li’s expectations.

  With that thought in mind, Han Li didn’t dare to linger for much longer and promptly made certain of his bearings before flying off.

  If the others hadn’t died, they would likely show up at the meeting point. Although the spiritual Qi mar
kers they placed on one another had disappeared, they had another method of contact. So long as they weren’t too far away from another, they could establish a mutual connection.

  Two weeks later, an azure streak silently flew across the desert sky.

  Although the streak was azure, the flight light had become dim and lightless through some technique. One wouldn’t be able to spot it if they weren’t looking closely.

  This, of course, was Han Li.

  In the two weeks, Han Li hadn’t encountered anything, nor did any more shadow tribe beings pursue him.

  It was as if the crimson had been scared away by the Gold Devouring Beetles.

  With his heart at ease, he focused his mind on travel.

  As he continued to travel, his exhausted spiritual sense was restored to completion.

  At that moment, he was fiddling with a glossy jade bottle. The words “Earth Cleansing Pill” was engraved on the surface of the bottle in ancient script. It also contained all the Earth Cleansing Pills that were given to him by Deep Heaven City.

  This was one of his rewards for taking on the dangerous mission.

  They said so long as he assisted the others in completing the mission, he would be granted complete freedom.

  Not only him, but the other ascended cultivators that undertook dangerous missions were also given sufficient Earth Cleansing Pills.

  But in order to protect them from abandoning the mission or half-heartedly undertaking the mission, the medicine bottle had a formidable restriction placed on the bottle.

  They attempted to break the restriction forcibly, the bottle would rupture and destroy the pills they contained.

  So long as he finished his assignment, he would be sent a Myriad Distance Talisman to dissolve the restriction, after multiple methods of verification of course.

  Han Li stroked the bottle for a moment and his expression stirred. Spiritual light suddenly flashed from his hand and he put away the bottle.

  At an unknown time, a flock of giant cranes had appeared before him. They had light yellow wings and had purple warts on their heads.

  The birds clearly discovered Han Li and were screeching as they dived towards him in various directions.

 

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