Chapter 1022: A Door Surprising the Enemy

Volume 6: Spirit Treasures of the Heavens

A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality VIP Volume 6: Spirit Treasures of the Heavens

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"If it weren't for these circumstances, I wouldn't mind having a spar with you, Brother Xu?" Han Li glanced at Ge Tianhao and the others, shaking his head with a faint smile.

"Oh! From your tone, Brother Han, you seem quite confident. I heard you killed an elder from the Yin Luo Sect who was at the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation. Is this true?" The white-robed youth asked indifferently, showing no hint of anger.

Hearing this, Ge Tianhao and the other two Yin Luo Sect members changed their expressions.

"At this point, denying it would be useless. Indeed, an elder from the Yin Luo Sect was killed by me in Tiannan. Do you intend to stand up for the Yin Luo Sect, Fellow Daoist Xu?" Han Li pursed his lips and his eyes grew cold as he spoke.

"To kill a peak cultivator of the same stage with a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, it's clear that Brother Han's divine abilities are extraordinary. If the enmity between you and our Heavenly Azure wasn't so deep, I would truly want to befriend you, Brother Han. How about this: I heard that Brother Han once used a peculiar small cauldron to take away our Holy Temple's inherited Sacred Cauldron and the sacred beast's avatar. As long as you are willing to hand over this cauldron to me, I can ensure that the Holy Temple will reconcile with you. Of course, if Brother Han is willing to hand over that Ghost Luo Banner, I, Xu, will also do my best to resolve your grievances with the Yin Luo Sect. What do you think?" The youth surnamed Xu stared at Han Li for a moment, and then surprisingly uttered these words.

"What? Brother Xu, how can this be? He..."

"Saintess, there's no need to say more. I have my own plan for this matter!"

Lin Yinping's expression changed, and she quickly opened her mouth to speak, but the white-robed youth waved his hand, making her swallow the words she was about to utter.

Ge Tianhao and the other two, though equally surprised, exchanged glances and tacitly refrained from voicing any objections.

"My precious cauldron? I'm afraid I cannot comply! Fellow Daoists, just make your move." As soon as the other party mentioned the Void Heaven Cauldron, Han Li immediately rejected the offer without hesitation.

"Since Fellow Daoist Han has rejected my good intentions, then don't blame me for being merciless."

Seeing Han Li's strong stance, the youth surnamed Xu showed a hint of regret, but then his face darkened. With a flick of his sleeve, a jade Ruyi scepter, shimmering with emerald green, suddenly appeared in his hand.

With a slight shake of the Ruyi scepter, clusters of green light shimmered continuously. The youth then stared grimly at Han Li.

Seeing this, Han Li remained silent. He formed a hand seal, and with a clap of thunder behind him, a pair of silver-white wings emerged. Then, with a flick of his wrist, an ancient feather fan appeared in his hand, shimmering with golden, silver, and red spiritual light.

It was none other than the Three Flames Fan, which he had secretly held in his hand all along.

Facing so many opponents, Han Li could no longer rely on ordinary methods. Therefore, he immediately brought out his most formidable treasure.

The youth surnamed Xu was drawn by the peculiar light of the Three Flames Fan. With his keen eyesight, he naturally recognized its extraordinary nature at a glance. Moreover, the terrifying spiritual pressure contained within the three-colored spiritual light made his eyebrows twitch, even with his late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation. His expression finally turned grim.

"Fellow Daoist Xu, this person also has a deep grudge against our Yin Luo Sect. We aren't truly sparring with him; let's attack together and capture him." Ge Tianhao also recognized the extraordinary nature of the Three Flames Fan. After his eyes darted around, he suddenly spoke these words.

Then, without waiting for the youth surnamed Xu to speak, he gestured to the other two black-robed elders. The three of them stepped forward and simultaneously unleashed their respective magic treasures: two oddly shaped flying swords and a bone saber flickering with phosphorescent flames, which hovered erratically before them.

Lin Yinping's expression shifted. With a silent flick of her perfumed sleeve, a brocade handkerchief embroidered with silver silkworms appeared in her hand, shining brightly.

The youth surnamed Xu frowned slightly but said nothing. Instead, with a casual flick of his hand over the Ruyi scepter, the green light intensified, becoming even more dazzling. His eyes, fixed on Han Li's Three Flames Fan, instantly turned icy cold.

In the blink of an eye, the five-person encirclement was about to form.

But Han Li, who had already been preparing, would not allow himself to be cornered. With a clap of thunder, he instantly vanished from the silver light where he stood, reappearing the next moment on a stone staircase a dozen zhang behind him.

Seeing this, how could the opponents allow Han Li to leave so easily? Immediately, two blue rays and a green rainbow shot forth simultaneously, followed closely by countless silver threads filling the sky.

Meanwhile, the youth surnamed Xu calmly took a step forward. Though his robes fluttered, giving him an air of composure, he inexplicably appeared ten zhang away, seemingly not a whit slower than Han Li's Thunder Escape. The green light from the jade Ruyi scepter in his hand blurred, transforming into the head of an unknown monster—it looked like neither a dragon nor a horse—which stared menacingly at Han Li.

Han Li took a breath, and as his expression instantly turned cold, he fiercely fanned his feather fan towards the opponents.

The cry of a phoenix pierced the heavens. Subsequently, a three-colored fire phoenix emerged from the fan. With a spread of its wings, it soared straight towards the opponents, meeting the magic treasures of Ge Tianhao and the others.

A tremendous "boom" echoed. In the low sky above the plaza, a mysterious halo, constantly emitting three-colored runes, suddenly appeared. The light was not overly dazzling, but the immense spiritual pressure it exuded, which made it almost impossible to breathe, caused everyone's hearts to involuntarily leap.

The youth surnamed Xu, who happened to be directly under the halo, exclaimed "Not good!" With a sudden swing of the green Ruyi scepter in his hand, an unknown snake-bodied, beast-headed creature immediately shot out from the jade Ruyi scepter. After circling once, it transformed into a ball of green light that enveloped him.

As for the two flying swords and the bone saber, they were instantly engulfed by the halo the moment it appeared, unable to evade. The dense silver threads sprayed by the silver silkworms from the brocade handkerchief controlled by Lin Yinping, upon even slight contact with the halo, immediately vanished into thin air. The halo, however, showed no sign of stopping. It expanded wildly outwards, alternately swelling and contracting. Its blinding light caused a good portion of the white jade plaza to shatter inch by inch, its surface then melting away.

Such power and momentum truly seemed to make heaven and earth tremble.

Han Li, however, ignored all this, having no intention of staying put. With another flutter of his silver wings, he transformed into a silver arc, flashing several times as he sped directly towards the mountaintop. Simultaneously, he quickly took out a small bottle and dripped a drop of Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Nectar into his mouth.

Although the Three Flames Fan possessed immense power, Han Li did not believe that a single strike from this treasure could truly annihilate these few people in such an open space. At most, it would catch them off guard and make them suffer a bit. With more enemies than himself, it was naturally better to temporarily avoid their edge.

Coincidentally, the stone staircase closest to Han Li led directly to Kunwu Hall. Although Han Li had some misgivings, he had no other choice. Even if there were other cultivators ahead, like Old Devil Qian, he was confident that by using the mountain's restrictions and terrain, he could adequately contend with these enemies.

Thus, using his Thunder Escape, he vanished at the end of the stone staircase in the blink of an eye.

In the plaza, the massive three-colored halo only appeared for a few seconds before flashing and completely vanishing. At the edge of the plaza, Ge Tianhao and the others reappeared, looking utterly disheveled.

Among them, Ge Tianhao was in the worst state.

Although his bone saber was not a life-bound magic treasure, it was still a precious item he had meticulously refined and with which he shared a spiritual connection. Therefore, when the bone saber instantly melted and disintegrated within the halo, his spirit was immediately damaged, almost preventing him from escaping the halo's area of effect.

Even so, he was still lightly brushed by the edge of the halo. As a result, his protective spiritual light instantly collapsed, and one of his arms was scorched, appearing to be not lightly injured.

The flying swords of the two black-robed elders also did not escape unscathed. However, these two reacted quickly; the moment they realized something was wrong, they immediately severed their connection with their flying swords. Thus, apart from half their robes and their eyebrows/hairpins being reduced to nothingness, they remained unharmed.

Lin Yinping's position was furthest from the halo's explosion. Furthermore, the destruction of the silver threads only caused her magic treasure to lose some spiritual energy and she was not greatly affected. She also had an unknown, jet-black giant shield appear in front of her, behind which she concealed herself.

As for the youth surnamed Xu, whose cultivation was the highest, he was directly at the center of the Three Flames Fan's most potent effect. Yet, relying on the protection of his green Ruyi scepter, he instantly escaped, appearing completely unharmed.

However, this Grand Immortal Master from Tianlan now had an extremely grim expression. He lowered his head to look at the palm that had been tightly grasping his treasure.

He saw the jade Ruyi scepter, glowing with a layer of green light, shattering. With a crisp sound, it disintegrated into a pile of shimmering fragments that floated down from his palm.

To resist the power of the three-colored halo, this ancient treasure was forcibly destroyed before it could even unleash its true potential.

"What kind of treasure is that fan, after all? Could it be the legendary Transcendent Spirit Treasure?" Ge Tianhao, enduring the pain in his arm, quickly took out a spiritual medicine from his storage bag to apply to the wound, while speaking with a face full of shock and anger.

The other two black-robed elders also had extremely pale faces, looking terrified and still lingering with fear. "Hmph, if it were a true Transcendent Spirit Treasure, Fellow Daoist Ge, you probably wouldn't be alive to speak here," the youth surnamed Xu said with a gloomy expression, looking up at the distant stone staircase. "This should be an imitation of a Transcendent Spirit Treasure. I didn't expect this person to possess such a treasure. No wonder he seemed unhurried despite facing so many of us." Ge Tianhao was aghast. "An imitation possesses such power?"

"What's so strange about that?" the youth said, shaking his head. "This fan should be an imitation with a singular, unvarying power. It's not surprising for it to possess such might."

"What do we do? This person possesses such a powerful treasure. He's much more troublesome than we initially expected. Should we still pursue him?" A black-robed elder asked, his eyes flickering, clearly intimidated by the fan's power.

"Rest assured, Fellow Daoist. Although that fan is formidable, the spiritual energy it consumes is absolutely enormous. Otherwise, he would have just turned around and fled. As long as we catch him before his spiritual energy recovers, he won't easily use that fan. Now is precisely the best time to kill this person," Ge Tianhao said calmly. With a single hand slapping his waist, a five-colored glowing mist shot out. After its brilliance receded, a clear cry revealed the appearance of a Spiritual Rhinoceros Peacock.

"To the mountain! We absolutely cannot let this person escape this time, otherwise, there will be endless trouble in the future!" Taking a deep breath, the white-robed youth said coldly.

Then he took the lead, shooting towards the stone staircase, with the five-colored peacock following closely behind, its wings spread.