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

by Translator: Johnchen

  After the monster floated to the front of the black hole, it landed on top of the blood ball and its eyes flickered.

  The four demon monarchs and their myriads of subordinates watched silently.

  They had used the blood feed to attract it and tear open space.

  At that moment, the low-grade demons had begun to crawl up from the ground as the Voidfright demon had ceased yelling. However, they were still fearful and didn’t dare to make any noise.

  As for the four demon monarchs, they looked at this monster with a solemn calm.

  The huge head let out a low groan and opened its mouth wide, spitting out a silver mist to wrap around the blood ball and take it into its mouth.

  With a gust of wind, the blood ball entered its mouth.

  Suddenly, light glowed from the devil and it turned a bright red, turning into a similar color as the blood feed.

  It let out several muffled belches from its mouth and its huge head shook several times. Soon after, it turned around into the black hole and disappeared in an instant.

  The Voidfright Devil actually left.

  The four demon monarchs took no further action. They simply remained high in the air near the black hall.

  When Han Li saw this, he revealed his astonishment from his eyes, feeling somewhat at a loss.

  But then Liu Zu faintly said, “Enough. With the Voidfright Demon assisting us in tearing open a spatial tear, we’re halfway into the infernal river. Fellow Daoist Mu, let’s enter first and link the space to the infernal river, allowing Di Xue’s and Fellow Daoist Lan’s armies to enter smoothly.”

  Mu Qing nodded and then shouted, “Yes, Fellow Daoist Liu Zu! Fellow Daoist Han, Jin Ling, follow me in.”

  “Yes!” The golden ape promptly replied and quickly bowed.

  Startled, Han Li soon let out a wry laugh and quickly flew off.

  Originally, the demon monarchs planned on using the blood feed to lure the Voidfright Devil into appearing and tear open a spatial tear, thereby granting them access to the infernal river.

  But from how smoothly the demon monarchs conducted themselves, it appears this wasn’t the first time they’ve done this.

  And through some unknown ability, the Voidfright Devil had disappeared, but the spatial tear remained.

  Liu Zu and Mu Qing blurred, quickly entering the black hole.

  As the golden ape forced a smile and watched Han Li, Han Li could only force himself to follow.

  After he approached the edge of the black hole, Han Li sensed powerful spatial fluctuations pulsing out from it. He only noticed that the spatial tear was quite different from others he’s seen in the past. It was more like a huge tunnel that reached into the distance.

  The darkness deep inside the hole would occasionally boom with muffled explosions.

  Liu Zu and Mu Qing were flying forward ahead of them at a slow and careful pace.

  Han Li and the golden ape promptly trailed behind them.

  The black tunnel wasn’t very long. The party only flew for three kilometers before they reached the end. Silver mist roiled in front of them, blocking the way.

  Liu Zu stared at the roiling grey mist and said, “We’ve arrived. The Voidfright Devil should be sleeping. After we return from the infernal river, we’ll still have time to block half of the passage with ease. Fellow Daoist Mu Qing, could you tell me how long the blood feed will keep him asleep?”

  Mu Qing confidently said, “Don’t worry, I put in the greatest effort of collecting the blood feed and refined it in accordance to your formula. It took me many years of effort.”

  Liu Zu nodded, “That will do. This Voidfright Devil may be a spatial devil, but it isn’t sentient. It only acts on instinct. But having previously consumed blood feet a dozen times before and having consumed the myriad-year-old intoxication medicine in this blood feed, it should be asleep for at least several months. So long as it doesn’t wake, we’ll be able to move unimpeded and we’ll have enough time to make it back from the infernal river. In fact, if not for the devil appearing at our earth abyss, we would’ve never discovered the infernal river.”

  “However, if Brother Liu Zu hadn’t heard of the infernal river, we wouldn’t have taken such a huge risk and enter this dangerous place!” Mu Qing chuckled.

  Liu Zu snorted and said, “Nevertheless, you were all interested in the infernal river god. I hardly needed to convince you. Now is not the time to speak of this. Start on opening up the passage!”

  Chapter 1480: The Infernal River Restriction

  Mu Qing smiled and she flipped her hand, producing three sparkling blood-red pearls, each the size of a thumb.

  Liu Zu shook her shoulders and black light flickered. Another two arms emerged from his back.

  One of the arms was holding a triangular black badge while his other arm held a blue textile shuttle.

  With his original arms grasped in an incantation gesture, the air crackled, and a black beam of light shot out from his mouth into the silver mist.

  Boom. The silver mist immediately began to collapse upon contact with the black beam, resulting in a series of hums sounding from the impact.

  Mu Qing raised her hand when she saw this.

  The three blood-red pearls shot out in a line, turning into crimson fireballs.

  After three worldshaking booms, the silver mist and three head-sized crimson flames erupted and began to disperse.

  As the silver mist clashed against the black light and crimson flames, the passage began to sway.

  Standing behind them, Han Li couldn't help but change his expression.

  Although he experienced the collapse of a spatial tear several times before and lived through the passage of a spatial node, it didn’t mean he was confident in escaping a spatial tear collapse. In the past, he only survived by luck. Apart from existences at True Spirit or Grand Ascension stage, none dared to ignore spatial-type dangers.

  At that moment, Liu Zu’s new arms began to move.

  The triangular badge vibrated and released countless crimson balls of lightning and fire, smashing down on the mist. From the shuttle-type magic treasure, it turned into a blue streak in a hum.

  Mu Qing shook her sleeve, releasing countless green streaks.

  Afterwards, the three attacks joined in and forced the silver mist to gradually collapse.

  When the silver mist was pushed by thirty meters, it eventually let out a world-shaking tremble and completely disappeared.

  The barrier to the space was struck open and another passage appeared.

  Han Li blinked and could see what laid past the opening.

  A faint white light flickered without end and an icy wind blew towards them from it.

  Even when he was protected by spiritual light, Han Li shivered as the icy wind blew past him.

  The coldness of the wind penetrated the light and touched his body directly. If he didn’t cultivate the five ice flames in his body, he would’ve suffered quite a bit.

  Fortunately, the winds only blew for an instant and soon subsided.

  He let out a long sigh.

  Liu Zu looked at the hole and a glint flickered from his eyes. His body blurred as she shot forward. At that same time, he said, “The passage is open! Call for the other Fellow Daoists to enter. I’m going to take a look first at the outside!”

  Before they completely heard what he said, he had already entered the white light outside.

  Mu Qing frowned and she commanded without turning around, “Jin Ling, call for Di Xue and Fellow Daoist Lan to march their forces. I’m going to bring Fellow Daoist Han inside.”

  “Yes, Master!” The golden ape replied. He turned around and shot off in a golden streak.

  Han Li then silently flew after Mu Qing to the exit.

  A quarter-hour later, Han Li’s surroundings lit up and he appeared in another space.

  However, the scene was much to Han Li’s surprise.

  A kilometer away, he saw an expanse of white water blocking the path.

>   As the white water was cloudy, it was difficult to see how far it reached.

  Icy winds brushed past the surface of the water.

  Strangely enough, the surface of the water was smooth as a mirror without a single flaw as if it were completely still, even as such strong winds blew.

  Liu Zu floated not far away from the surface of the water and looked ahead in solemn silence.

  Han Li let out a long sigh and muttered, “So this is the infernal river!”

  Mu Qing indifferently said, “That’s right. To pass this water shroud into the infernal river, we’ll need to draw the support of your Divine Devilbane Lightning.”

  “This junior won’t hold back,” Han Li respectfully replied.

  Mu Qing nodded and thought to say something else when Liu Zu suddenly reached out his hand in the direction of the water’s surface.

  Suddenly, a large black hand appeared in the air and grabbed downward.

  But when the large hand arrived ten meters away from the ice, countless ice streaks crashed out from the ice.

  As the sounds of space tore, the ice streaks tore thousands of holes into the hand, causing it to vanish.

  “What’s that?” Han Li said with alarm.

  Mu Qing eventually turned her head and explained, “That is a monstrous fish in the infernal river. It is as slender as a needle and lives on the water’s surface. It can launch flying attacks tirelessly and can’t be underestimated. However, they are only the most minor dangers inside the infernal river. So long as you protect yourself with spiritual light with enough cultivation, you will be able to enter the water. The other danger is if a school of fish launches a continuous attack on you. You would have to kill them all.”

  When Han Li heard this, he felt enlightened.

  At that moment, something sounded from the back of the passage.

  Han Li turned his head and saw two crimson-robed men standing on the shoulders of the Purpleblood Puppet. The white-haired beauty was also there, accompanied by eight black figures, Yuan Yao, and Yan Li.

  Afterwards, seemingly endless armies of demons, puppets, and yin-armored ghosts followed them.

  In the blink of an eye, the armies occupied most of the air in the passage, floating in dense numbers in various places.

  One of the crimson-robed men directly flew over to Han Li and company. As for the other crimson-robed man, he loudly shouted, “Brother Liu Zu, how is it? Have the infernal river’s restrictions changed at all?”

  “None. It's exactly the same as we last entered!” Liu Zu withdrew his gaze from the water and turned around.

  “That is to say, we’ll have to do the same thing to get rid of the restriction?” A crimson-robed man sullenly said.

  The white-haired beauty flew over and confidently said, “That is so! However, this time we made more preparations. It won’t be as harmful as the last time.”

  Liu Zu turned to look at Han Li and said emotionlessly, “Yes, the most important point is that we join hands to destroy the restriction and separate the river. As for other dangers, you don’t need to take them to heart. Alright, let’s prepare. Fellow Daoist Han, when the time comes, release you divine lightning and aid us in dissolving the devilish Qi that scatters from the water. So long as the devilish Qi is gone, we’ll be able to part the water without a problem.”

  Han Li bowed and calmly said, “Seniors, don’t worry. My lightningwield technique has been well-practiced. I definitely won’t interfere with this matter.”

  “Hehe, that’s reassuring.” A crimson-robed heartily laughed.

  The others nodded.

  Soon after, the four demon monarchs waved their hands and suddenly, high-grade demons flocked out, taking out strange tools to establish a spell formation.

  Eight black figures and a dozen black metal-attributed puppets gathered together and prepared something.

  As for Han Li, as he floated in midair, he shook his sleeve. Suddenly, eight small azure flags circled in the air as azure sparks flashed from them, creating a lightning attributed spell formation around him.

  At his side, the golden ape looked at Han Li’s actions and couldn't help but alarmedly ask, “Fellow Daoist Han, what are you doing?”

  Han Li casually answered, “Nothing. This is a supplementary spell formation that I researched. Not only will it stabilize the lightningwield technique, but it will also amplify its might.”

  After Han Li found out that the Divine Devilbane Lightning could backlash on him when using grand techniques, he felt greatly apprehensive and put in much effort into resolving this.

  This small spell formation was such a method he researched during his time in seclusion.

  He used lightning talismans to condense the formation flags and allow them to absorb lightning. Then when placed in his Eight Gate Lightning Draw Formation, it would also amplify its strength.

  If the lightning truly backlashed during the technique, he could use the spell formation to ward off the lightning, buying him time to escape the formation and escape injury.

  Of course, Han Li could only test if it was truly effective if the backlash truly happened.

  Nevertheless, Han Li felt more at ease using the lightningwield technique inside the formation. As for the amplification effect, it was only an excuse.

  When the ape heard Han Li’s explanation, he nodded and said nothing else.

  Mu Qing and the others glanced at it, but they weren’t able to see anything odd about it.

  After all, the strange part about the formation was its flags which consisted of lightning talismans. However, Han Li had spent painstaking effort to craft them, so even the vastly powerful demon monarchs weren’t able to see through them.

  The other demons had been drilled before and in the time it took to finish a cup of tea, the huge formation was placed down in midair.

  The huge spell formation used tens of various styled tools, including bowl-thick black plates, rulers, rings, the crystals, and the other strange objects.

  But scattered about, these items still released an astonishing aura and seamlessly fused into a single body.

  At the heart of the formation, Liu Zu and Mu Qing stood side by side.

  The other eight black figures stood in formation, each one of them standing on each other's shoulders like a human ladder.

  The white-haired beauty stood in front of the black figures and wore a calm expression.

  By a crimson-robed man, the Purpleblood Puppet expanded, rising over a hundred times in size. A dozen metal-attributed puppets gathered together, condensing into a hundred-meter-tall iron puppet. The huge blades in its hands glinted brightly.

  Chapter 1481: Joining Forces to Break the Restriction

  "Fellow Daoist Han, prepare to unleash your Lightningwield Technique when we give the signal," Liu Zu instructed in an implacable voice as he hovered over the center of the giant spell formation.

  Han Li nodded and made a hand seal, upon which arcs of golden lightning immediately began to revolve around his body. A lightning net appeared before swelling drastically, then transforming into a ball of golden light amid a resounding boom.

  Golden runes flew in all directions, and the golden ball hovered gently over his palm.

  At this point, Han Li ceased what he was doing and stood off to the side with the golden ball above his hand.

  Liu Zu and the others then began breaking the restriction.

  Liu Zu and Mu Qing both began to chant something as the treasure being controlled by several tens of high-grade demon beasts down below began to glow with scintillating light, forming a formation that instantly gave rise to a massive black hole. Boundless world's origin Qi surged toward Liu Zu and Mu Qing in a frenzy from the surrounding air.

  In the blink of an eye, the two of them had been completely enshrouded in rainbow spiritual light, and their bodies shimmered as if they were a pair of divine deities.

  On the other end, the white-haired beauty stood in front of the eight black shadows, and brought her hands
together before separating them again, producing a small pitch-black bell in the process.

  The bell was extremely antiquated, and there were even chips missing from the edges.

  Meanwhile, one of the crimson-robed figures stood atop the shoulder of the Purpleblood Puppet while the other descended on top of the head of the giant metallic puppet that had just taken shape.

  The Purpleblood Puppet let loose a low roar and rubbed its hand together before producing a purple blood ax that was around 100 feet in length.

  The surface of the ax was shimmering with crimson light, and the puppet raised it high above its head with both hands, aiming it directly at the river down below.

  The metallic puppet also raised its giant blade at the crimson-robed figure's behest, and black light began to shimmer over the surface of the blade.

  At this moment, Liu Zu finally thrust a palm forward amid an explosive boom.

  A pillar of black light shot forth from his hand, and this one was several times thicker than the one he'd unleashed in the spatial passageway. As the pillar of light hurtled through the air, the surrounding space warped and twisted as if it were being folded in on itself.

  The pillar of light disappeared into the water in a flash, and the seemingly dead infernal river initially displayed no reaction. However, as the pillar of black light continued to be injected into the river, the latter finally began to change.

  Ripples began to appear over its surface, following which the water in the river began to rotate in a frenzy around the pillar of light, and it was only accelerating amid a dull rumbling noise.

  Mu Qing also sprang into action at this moment.

  The golden flower beneath her feet rotated on the spot, absorbing most of the nearby light before swelling drastically, transforming into a gargantuan golden mirror that hurtled directly up ahead.

  The mirror was several tens of feet in diameter, and before it had even come into contact with the water, it was already causing a massive commotion. Golden light flashed as the mirror sliced into the surface of the river, finally parting the water in what appeared to be a herculean feat.