A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm

Chapter 1002: Crushed with Ease

With a sweep of Jin Chuan's sleeve, a torrential downpour suddenly began to cascade down from the heavens, instantly filling the entire area within a radius of ten thousand feet around Han Li.

There was faint azure and purple light shimmering within the otherwise innocuous-looking rain droplets, indicating to Han Li that they were tinged with poison.

With that in mind, he threw a punch upward, and a burst of white starlight erupted out of his fist, forming a starlight barrier that eradicated all of the rain falling from above.

Immediately thereafter, he prepared to spring up into the air, only to discover that his feet had become firmly rooted to the ground.

A puddle of azure water had appeared beneath his feet, and it had wrapped itself tightly around his legs, locking him firmly into place.

The puddle of water was giving off a jade-like gleam, and circles of strange patterns could be seen within it, giving off tremendous water law power fluctuations.

Han Li attempted to lift his own legs, only to discover that they had become incredibly heavy, as if they had become one with the land.

"Save your energy," Jin Chuan sneered with a triumphant expression. "I've connected my Water Binding Technique to the underground water veins in this entire area, so you're currently being bogged down by the weight of countless underwater rivers..."

All of a sudden, Jin Chuan's voice abruptly trailed off as the triumph on his face turned to shock and horror.

As it turned out, all of Han Li's close to a thousand profound acupoints had lit up as he channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts with all his might, allowing him to free himself from Jin Chuan's Water Binding Technique with ease.

Immediately thereafter, he vanished from the spot before abruptly reappearing before Jin Chuan an instant later while throwing an almighty punch.

Despite his astonishment, Jin Chuan reacted very quickly, and a rippling light erupted out of his chest, forming an azure light barrier that rippled like water.

Han Li's fist struck the azure light barrier, and he was instantly struck by the false sensation that his fist had missed its target. The tremendous force behind his punch was completely deflated, and he was unable to make contact with Jin Chuan's chest.

"Hurry, Brother Tao!" Jin Chuan yelled in a frantic manner, and as soon as his voice trailed off, Tao Ji abruptly appeared no more than a thousand feet behind Han Li.

His entire body was shrouded in crimson flames, and he was making a hand seal as he let loose a thunderous roar.

All nine of the flame symbols on his golden flying sword li up, adding two more layers of fire to the previous seven, one black and one white.

Even though it was only two additional layers of flames, their emergence caused the aura of the flying sword to swell by severalfold, making it comparable in power to a fifth-grade immortal treasure.

The flying sword shot forth through the air, reaching Han Li in the blink of an eye, but almost at the exact same moment, Han Li's Mantra Treasured Axis appeared behind him, revolving incessantly as it released rays of golden light in all directions.

As soon as the blazing sword pierced into the rays of golden light, it was slowed down drastically, to the point that it had almost stopped entirely.

The sword was trembling incessantly as the nine-colored flames around it incinerated the surrounding rays of golden light, but it was still only able to continue onward at a snail's pace.

Tao Ji was certain that this would prove to be the decisive blow, and he was completely rooted to the spot upon seeing this.

As for Jin Chuan, he had also been caught within the golden light, causing his spiritual sense to almost entirely congeal, so he was still yet to react to what was unfolding before him.

"How pathetic. You two have truly disappointed me," Han Li sighed as he channeled his true spirit bloodlines, and a burst of crimson light rose up from his body as he instantly transformed into a devilish deity with three heads and six arms.

Out of his three heads, one was that of the golden ape, another belonged to a mighty dragon, and the final one was a giant bird head with a pair of golden pupils. This was one of the forms that he could attain by using his true spirit bloodlines alongside his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts.

After adopting this form, Han Li's fist was still sealed within the rippling azure light barrier, but he simply reached out with one of his other five hands, which pierced through the light barrier with ease before plunging into Jin Chuan's chest to gouge out his heart.

Immediately thereafter, Han Li crushed the heart in his grasp.

Jin Chuan was still trapped by Han Li's time law powers, and the nascent soul in his dantian didn't even get a chance to escape before it was eradicated by another punch from Han Li.

At the same time, Han Li swiveled around before reaching out with two of his hands to grab onto the golden flying sword that had been arduously trudging its way toward him this entire time.

A burst of incredibly intense heat surged into his body through his hands, and his blood was almost set alight in a similar sensation to what he had previously experienced from his true spirit bloodline backlash.

A cold sneer appeared on Han Li's face as he grabbed onto the blade of the sword, disregarding the scorching heat that it was releasing as he began twisting the sword with his hands.

The sword struggled with all its might, trying to break free, but it was all in futility.

The power generated by the combination of Han Li's true spirit bloodlines and Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts was far too much for the flying sword to contend with, and a metallic screeching sound rang out as it gradually began to twist and warp, following which it exploded into pieces with a resounding boom.

Waves of scorching heat erupted in all directions as Han Li's hands were charred black, and the acrid smell of burnt flesh was wafting through the air.

However, Han Li paid no heed to this as he reverted back to his human form before turning to Tao Ji with a derisive sneer.

In the instant that the flying sword was shattered, Tao Ji had thrown up a large mouthful of blood before fleeing for his life as a long streak of crimson fire.

However, Han Li's time spirit domain had already encompassed the entire surrounding area in a radius of several dozen kilometers, and even though the time-slowing effect of the spirit domain wasn't as potent as that of the Mantra Treasured Axis, it still greatly hampered Tao Ji's speed.

"It's too late to run away now!" Han Li sneered as he withdrew his Mantra Treasured Axis into his body, following which it began to revolve in reverse at his behest.

At the same time, he stomped a foot heavily down onto the ground, launching himself through the air as an arc of silver lightning.

As soon as Han Li vanished from the spot, Tao Ji discovered that he was no longer able to determine Han Li's exact location, even with his spiritual sense, and a look of shock and horror appeared on his face.

He hurriedly made a hand seal, unleashing a blood-incinerating secret technique that enhanced his speed by twofold as he continued to flee into the distance.

Right at this moment, an arc of silver lightning appeared beside him, following which Han Li's voice rang out.

"Where are you going, Elder Tao? Weren't you going to crush me before making my soul into a sky lantern?"

Tao Ji continued fleeing in a blind panic, but Han Li seemed to be intentionally toying with him, merely keeping up with his speed while refraining from attacking.

"If Tao Yu hadn't tried to kill me in the Immortal Realm, none of this would've happened to you or him. You only have yourself to blame for not raising your son properly."

Tao Ji had already enhanced his own speed to the very limit, but he was still unable to get away.

"You should be thankful that I'm not like you, and I don't have a habit of refining the souls of others into lanterns. Instead, I only refined his soul into a Golden Soul Pill," Han Li continued.

"You bastard!"

Tao Ji was finally unable to stand Han Li's taunting any longer, and he stopped cold in his tracks, following which a fiery spirit domain erupted out of his body, but only encompassed an area with an approximate radius of a thousand feet, within which the air temperature was rapidly rising.

At the same time, a burst of red light emerged from his dantian, and cracks that looked as if they were filled with molten lava appeared over his skin as an incredibly formidable aura erupted out of his body.

An earth-shattering boom rang out as waves of scorching fire law powers swept through the air in all directions, causing the surrounding space to warp and twist with their incredible heat.

Han Li had already retreated far into the distance at this point, but at the same time, he was peering intently into the epicenter of the explosion with his Infernal Devilish Eyes.

After a moment of observation, a cold sneer appeared on his face as he scoffed, "Do you really think that's going to work?"

As soon as his voice trailed off, he immediately flew directly into the explosion, and as he did so, he discovered that the fire law power fluctuations around him were very weak, far weaker than what should've been unleashed from a true self-detonation.

Immediately thereafter, he spotted several hundred fist-sized balls of fire up ahead, but instead of scattering like normal flames, they collectively sped away in a certain direction while converging to fuse together again.

Han Li gave a cold harrumph as he swept a sleeve through the air, letting loose eighteen Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords that released a vast net of golden lightning.

The net of lightning encompassed all of the fist-sized fireballs, causing them to explode into countless tiny specks of fire.

All of the flying swords then flew back to Han Li at his behest, and hanging from one of them was a storage ring.

"If you're going to fake a self-detonation to serve as a decoy for your escape, then at least destroy your storage treasure as well. If you're not willing to even make that sacrifice, how are you going to convince anyone?" Han Li scoffed as he plucked the storage ring from the flying sword.

He then stowed the storage ring away before flying back to the col from before.

A long time after his departure, a speck of light emerged from an ancient tree in the forest down below, then rose up into the air before vanishing into the distance.