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

by Translator: Johnchen

  Yan Li said, “If it truly is a misunderstanding, it would be extremely fortunate. In truth, we personally discovered that the ghost was concealing a calamity heart. I won’t bother with the specifics, but I can tell you that when the ghost matron took us in as disciples, she was thinking of the pure Yin Qi we condensed from cultivating the Yin Yang Revolution Arts. The ghost has a technique that can consume both our souls and Yin Qi, arousing a surge in her cultivation.” As she spoke, she couldn't help but tremble.

  “Also, our investigations have found that the ghost matron has also had disciples with ghost bodies in the past who quietly disappeared. This is evidence of our assumptions!” Yuan Yao said with a paled expression.

  Han Li went silent for a moment and his gaze wandered, “Even so, you can’t count on me. That ghost matron won’t let me go. Even if I have some value, after I enter the infernal river, my life will be hard to preserve.”

  Yan Li smirked and slyly said, “There is no need for Brother Han to worry about this. My little sister already thought of something that only asks from a token effort from you. Furthermore, if Brother Han helps us, he’ll also have an opportunity to escape. We have a method to quickly dispel the mark on your body inside the infernal river.”

  “What! You truly have such a thing!” Han Li’s expression vastly changed and his heart was thoroughly moved.

  Yan Li sweetly smiled and said, “For something this important, how could I lie to you. Furthermore, I can tell the method to Brother Han ahead of time, and can determine if its true or false.”

  Han Li stroked his chin and glanced at Yuan Yao. He then determinedly said, “Good! If the method is genuine, I’ll do all I can in my power and take the risk of helping you two escape.”

  Chapter 1478: Blood Feed

  “We sure found the right person. Brother Han, listen well!” Yan Li’s face brightly lip up upon hearing his reply and she began to speak to him in voice transmission.

  As Han Li attentively listened to her, a pensive expression appeared on his face.

  As Yuan Yao quietly stood at the side, her eyes glistened while she looked at Han Li’s face.

  When Yan Li finished her voice transmission, Han Li let out a long sigh and said, “This technique will do. However, I fear that I’ll only be able to do this inside the infernal river with the help of you two.”

  Yan Li giggled and said, “That’s right. The Yin Qi in the infernal river only resonates with pure Yin Qi in our bodies. Of course, the ghost matron can also do this, but she won’t remove the mark I place down.”

  Han Li nodded and said, “Good, but I have to ask, how do you want me to help you?”

  Yuan Yao slowly said, “I suppose it would be impossible to make the ghost matron completely abandon us, but it would be possible to have her postpone consuming us. So long as we can delay it until after we enter the infernal river, we will have an opportunity to escape their control.”

  Han Li’s brow stirred and he didn’t immediately answer. He knew the two would go into more detail.

  As a result, Yan Li immediately continued, “The ghost matron and the other monarchs view Han Li’s assistance with great importance. So long as we leak out that we were old friends of deep importance and Brother Han openly displays affection towards Little Sister Yuan in front of the ghost matron, she would temporarily spare us, even if she had some doubts.”

  “Be affectionate towards Lady Yuan?” Shocked, Han Li quickly shot a glance at Yuan Yao.

  Despite the many years she cultivated, when Yuan Yao heard Yan Li’s words, her face flushed with a deep red, revealing a lovely appearance.

  “If it's only with words, I will do it. However, the ghost matron and Mu Qing have already come to some sort of agreement. I don’t know how effective this will be,” Han Li warned.

  “There was something like that?” Yan Li’s face slightly changed and she wryly laughed.

  Yuan Yao’s expression faintly changed and she wryly laughed, “If that’s true, there is some risk. But apart from this plan, we have nothing else. We’ll only be able to rely on our luck, and how heavily the demon monarchs view Brother Han.”

  After some thought, Yan Li solemnly said, “Let’s go with that. Fellow Daoist Han has confirmed our words so we may as well speak of more serious things. We’ll have the ghost matron believe that Brother Han is infatuated with Junior Martial Sister Yuan. In this case, the ghost matron should be somewhat apprehensive and shouldn’t dare to harm us. In addition, the ghost matron knows a bit about our history, so Fellow Daoist Han’s disguise as a Flying Spirit Tribe member must be broken.”

  Han Li shook his head and said, “My disguise as a Flying Spirit Tribe member was only temporary to begin with. I don’t care if the ghost matron knows or not. They don’t care about my identity as a Flying Spirit Tribe member but the Divine Devilbane Lightning I carry.”

  Yan Li proposed, “In that case, we’re relieved. There is no time to lose. Once the ghost matron emerges from seclusion, let’s act according to plan. So long as she doesn’t touch on our true plan, Fellow Daoist Han may as well reveal a few details about our time in the mortal world. After all, lies that contain truth are the most convincing.”

  Han Li lowered his head in thought and felt that there were no problems. He calmly answered, “Yes, I can do that. I will do my best to assist you.”

  The two felt great relief when they heard this and they couldn't help but look at Han Li with a close attitude.

  The three then chatted about the particulars a bit more and the two women said their farewells.

  Even as the ghost matron was still in seclusion, the two women didn’t dare to be careless and hastily returned to the deepest level of the earth abyss.

  When Han Li saw the two travel off in Yin winds, soon disappearing from sight, Han Li suddenly shook his sleeve.

  A light flashed from his body, taking the form of a three-meter-tall peacock with bright beautiful feathers.

  It unfolded its wings and rainbow light glared, causing the nearby space to hum.

  The rainbow light swept up in a wind and the peacock turned vague, immediately turning into a rainbow mist, directly heading to the heart of the mountain range.

  Not long after, Han Li appeared back in his cave residence and closed the door to his seclusion room once again.

  Two months later, a ball of black wind directly made its way to Han Li’s residence and bluntly dropped down. Then it vanished as if it sank into the mountain.

  The few restrictions Han Li placed down didn’t have any effect on it.

  After two hours, the gate to Han Li’s residence opened and the black Yin wind flew out, flying into the distant sky.

  A short time after, the gate slowly closed.

  As time quickly passed, the mountain was covered twice over in snow, winter had passed twice.

  ...

  On the seventh level of the earth abyss, dark Qi gathered there the densest.

  There were a few powerful earth abyss demons that have yet to gain sentience, but the four demon monarchs held them in fear regardless.

  Even the white-haired beauty that was particularly fond of Yin Qi was unwilling to establish her cultivation palace on this floor and instead established it on the floor above.

  But one day on the seventh level, countless demons arrived from a desolate grey desert in dense formations of untold size.

  Most of them consisted of a few common low-grade earth abyss demons and there were a few that appeared odd.

  A portion of them was covered in a large Yin Wind, faintly revealing countless ghost images. Furthermore, they wailed with ghostly howls, causing the other demons to distance themselves in fear.

  Above these Yin winds floated the white-haired beauty, and behind her stood eight black figures.

  They were all ten meters tall and donned an especially sinister set of armor. There were a few that were unarmed and those that wielded blades. As for their faces, they were blurred and couldn't be seen.

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bsp; Near the eight black figures, there were two beautiful women floating at their side.

  They were Yuan Yao and Yan Li.

  And outside the scope of the black winds, there was an arrangement of puppets of various heights and styles.

  Most of them were carved out of claw and were ten-meters-tall. Their bodies flickered with a grey, white, and brown light, but they were clearly carved with crudeness. A small portion of them was carved out of black-green wood and there were others were metal-attributed puppets shining with black light.

  These puppets were refined meticulously regardless of their exterior material and had a talisman formation on their surface.

  However, the most eye-catching of the puppets was a purple-red hundred-meter-tall puppet that had six eyes.

  This was the colossal Purpleblood Puppet that was refined underneath Di Xue’s Bloodflame Palace.

  However, this puppet now appeared tens of times smaller, and it no longer appeared as fearsome as before.

  On the shoulders of the Purpleblood Puppet stood two crimson-robed men with their hands behind their back.

  And at the very front of the puppets and demons, others flew high in the air.

  A man entirely wrapped in a black cloak were among them. He was the most mysterious of the four demon monarchs, Liu Zu. Astonishingly, a three-meter-wide eyeball floated above his head and flickered with grey light.

  Not far away from Liu Zu floated a huge golden flower.

  Mu Qing stood above it and looked up the sky with a raised head. Standing at her side was a golden ape wearing swords behind his back and had bright cold eyes.

  Beneath them floated over a hundred high-grade demons with solemn expressions in half-demon form.

  And at the apes side, there was an azure-robed youth with his arms crossed, watching everything in silence.

  He was Han Li, who had been summoned by force after spending several years in cultivation.

  At that moment, he was looking at the puppets and demons around him. His face was expressionless, but his heart felt quite shaken.

  From the number of low-grade demons, they must’ve represented most of the power the demon monarch’s controlled in the earth abyss.

  Besides the demons, the ghosts in the black wind and the myriad of puppets were clearly the strongest forces among them.

  These forces must’ve taken the demon monarchs several hundreds of years to gather.

  Their willingness to spend such strength illustrated their determination to succeed in the infernal river. It was unknown what the area contained, but it caused them to risk everything.

  As Han Li inwardly pondered, he saw Liu Zu move and his cold voice commanded, “Fairy Mu, the time has come. Quickly offer the blood feed and advance the last blood offering.”

  When Mu Qing heard this, she nodded and waved below her.

  The several figures flew out from high-grade demons, each one had bare hands, but had several blood-red pouches at their waist.

  In the blink of an eye, they flew high into the air and grabbed their pouches, shaking them down into the air.

  As a series of pops sounded, crimson light flashed. A dozen streams of blood rivers shot out from the pouches.

  A dense mist of putrid blood Qi suddenly scattered and filled the air.

  The blood rivers condensed in midair and seemed to concentrate together as if they were alive, turning into a hundred-fifty-meter-wide blood ball.

  At that moment Mu Qing stepped on her golden flower and a black formation suddenly flashed from it. Her figure promptly vanished.

  In the next moment, the huge blood ball flickered with black light and Mu Qing reappeared near it.

  She wore a sullen expression and raised her hand. Suddenly, a small black vial was summoned into the air and flew up to the blood ball.

  Forming an incantation gesture, the black vial spun and its lit vanished.

  The vial released several fist-sized black-red objects, blurring into the blood ball and disappearing without a trace.

  Chapter 1479: Voidfright Devil

  After the blood ball absorbed these black-red items, the blood scent in the air vanished and was replaced with a dense fragrance.

  The demons below became restless.

  The high-grade demons were better off. Although their minds were dulled and their desires rampant, they managed to control themselves.

  The lower-grade less-intelligent demons all appeared starved and crazed. As for the ghosts in the black wind and the puppets, they seemed unscathed.

  Suddenly, a cold snort sounded from the air.

  A wave of breath-freezing cold descended from the air, covering their entire surroundings in the blink of an eye. The demons promptly shivered and a trace of their desires vanished.

  This was an immense spiritual pressure emitted by Liu Zu, who already anticipated this would happen.

  When Han Li felt this, his heart trembled.

  Of the Body Integration-stage beings he’s seen before, Liu Zu was the strongest among them.

  Is it possible he is at the peak of Body Integration-stage?

  Han Li inwardly muttered to himself and resolved himself to never get in his way.

  With his abilities, he might have a chance at escaping from the other demon monarchs, but when he faced Liu Zu, he stood no chance.

  At that moment, Mu Qing stood in front of the huge ball of fragrant blood and began to mutter an incantation.

  The other high-grade demons began to flee downward as if they were running for their lives.

  At nearly the same moment, the blood ball let out a muffled explosion, causing the nearby space to fluctuate. Balls of silver clouds began to form in the air and they began to spiral, turning into a huge vortex.

  The vortex was nearly thirty meters wide and contained roiling silver mist. It grew increasingly brighter before it let out a series of ruptures as if it were about to tear through space.

  Han Li’s expression stirred and he narrowed his eyes as he looked at the air. A trace of blue light flickered from his eyes.

  The others didn’t notice but Han Li was able to see the vortex’s interior clearly with his Brightsight Spirit Eyes.

  In the deepest point of the vortex, the silver mist began to compress and wrinkle like paper as it violently shook.

  The strange sound of violently fluctuating space burst out.

  Suddenly, glass-like cracks mixed with the sounds of explosions, and Han Li narrowed his eyes.

  The space within the vortex ruptured and black light flashed within it. Suddenly, a furry silver arm suddenly stretched out from it and began to swipe several times through the air and soon a similar arm appeared next to it.

  Two jet-black fingernails struck out from the huge silver hands as they attempted to stretch open the black light to create a larger hole.

  The space within three hundred meters began to shatter in tiny pieces.

  The silver vortex wailed, turning into specks of silver starlight before disappearing.

  In its original spot was a black hole that appeared ten times larger. The pair of huge hands connected to the edge of the hole was still. At that same moment, a pair of huge green eyes glinted from the dark.

  Apart from the four demon monarchs, everyone who saw this felt their blood run cold.

  Mu Qing’s expression sank and the black light formation underneath her flickered, vanishing from her position next to the blood ball.

  A short moment later, she reappeared in front of her golden ape, and her expression faintly relaxed.

  The sounds of rumbling repeatedly sounded out from the large black hole.

  When Han Li heard this, he was greatly surprised, but when he looked around, he was startled.

  When the nearby demons heard this strange scream, their bodies began to sway.

  The lower-grade demons powerlessly fell to the ground, but the higher-grade demons managed to remain standing.

  Even the four demon monarchs erected flashing light from their bodies to re
sist the effects.

  As for Han Li, he was entirely unaffected by this.

  He was amazed by this result, but this also drew the attention of the four monarchs.

  The white-haired woman yelped and her lips curled as she thought of something. As for Liu Zu, he coldly shouted, “Don’t be surprised! This youth has a personal magic treasure crafted from Divine Devilbane Lightning and he hasn’t stayed in the earth abyss for long. Since his body isn’t corrupted by dark aura, it isn’t odd he isn’t scared by the Voidfright Devil’s scream.”

  When the white-haired woman heard this, she wore an expression of enlightenment and she turned silent.

  When Mu Qing and the two crimson-robed men glanced at Han Li with a changed expression, they also didn’t speak.

  When Han Li heard the name Voidfright Devil, he frowned.

  He hadn’t heard of its name before, but since it was able to tear through space, it wasn’t something to be trifled with. Could it be a True Spirit-grade existence? Although the demon monarchs appeared serious, they didn’t view with much fear.

  As Han Li remained baffled, the pair of silver arms at the edge of the black circle withdrew at lightning speed and the demonic eyes in the hall gradually became clearer. A strange huge creature slowly moved closer, revealing its true appearance.

  Han Li was startled at a glance.

  The monster was a silver skull that was over a hundred meters large with decayed skin and dead inch-long hair. There was a green eye half-protruded from its forehead, and its long mouth was filled with tiny teeth of incredible sharpness. Its nose and eyes were pitch-black completely absent of anything there.

  But what was most frightening was how the skull had no body. It merely had a pair of furred arms stretching out from its ears as it floated with faint silver light.

  ‘So that’s a Voidfright Devil! No wonder they’re so scared!’

  Although Han Li saw many demons, devils, and ghosts in the past, none were as grotesque as this monster. It was truly a chilling sight!