Chapter 1209: Strange Golden Horn

Chapter 1188: Peculiarities

The giant earthworm let out a strange cry as its smooth head eerily split open into a gaping, bloody maw filled with fangs. Immediately, a silver light flashed, and an incredibly thick arc of electricity shot out.

It was none other than Han Li, standing beside the formation.

"Oh! It even developed intelligence. Tsk tsk, it's undoubtedly a mutated spirit beast," Han Li remarked, delighted rather than surprised by the sight.

He rubbed his hands together, then flung them outwards, releasing two arm-thick golden arcs. In a flash, they merged into one, meeting the silver arc shooting towards them.

With a deafening roar, the golden and silver arcs tangled like two massive pythons. Then, tiny electric arcs danced incessantly, instantly igniting explosions of electrical light between Han Li and the giant earthworm. Both attacks effectively canceled each other out.

Seeing this, the colossal beast seemed to grow even more enraged. The golden horn on its head flared with brilliant light, drawing all the nearby heavenly lightning towards it. It frantically absorbed the lightning, seemingly preparing its next attack on Han Li.

However, Han Li sneered. He opened his mouth, and a small golden sword shot out. It swayed in the wind, transforming into a golden rainbow about ten feet long that swept directly towards the beast's head.

The beast seemed to sense the danger. Its entire body glowed with a bright yellow light, and it attempted to shrink back into the ground with a flicker. But at that moment, the fiery spirit threads that had been缠绕 around its upper body suddenly flashed red. The hair-thin fire strands instantly swelled, transforming into fiery red ropes.

Each rope was as thick as a small tree. They simultaneously erupted with flames, emitting waves of fire that instantly enveloped a significant portion of the beast's upper body.

The colossal beast appeared alarmed. The golden horn on its head, which had been absorbing the silver lightning, suddenly paused. Instead, a wave of golden light shot out from its body, rushing through the fiery waves. Wherever the light passed, large sections of flame were swept up and absorbed by the golden horn.

This giant earthworm's horn could not only absorb heavenly lightning but also flames.

But just as the beast absorbed most of the flames, the golden rainbow had already reached it. It flickered and transformed into a colossal sword, slashing down fiercely.

The beast's head flickered, and the golden horn on its head suddenly expanded by nearly half its size, meeting the great sword directly.

With a soft clang, the two made contact. A dazzling golden light erupted, and the great sword was bounced away by the golden horn, failing to cut it.

But at that moment, a green arc of electricity flashed above the beast's head, and Han Li mysteriously appeared with wings on his back. With a raise of his hand, he instantly pierced a bowl-sized bloody hole in the beast's body before vanishing.

Strange, greenish-blue blood gurgled from the wound. However, the giant earthworm's body was simply too immense; a wound that would be fatal to an ordinary cultivator was utterly insignificant to this beast. Yet, it infuriated the creature.

With a monstrous roar from its bizarre mouth, the tentacles on its upper body retracted and then extended into countless long fleshy whips that lashed towards Han Li.

Han Li's expression hardened. Without a word, he formed a hand seal with both hands, and more than ten small golden swords instantly shot out from various parts of his body. After swirling for a moment, they formed a screen of swords, protecting Han Li within.

The moment the fleshy tentacles touched the vast golden light, they were churned into countless green droplets that splattered downwards, unable to get even a single inch closer to Han Li.

At this point, Han Li muttered an incantation and pointed downwards.

The more than ten small golden swords below trembled, then each split into seven. Each flying sword further split into six identical golden sword lights. Then, under Han Li's incantation, dozens of dense golden lights swept downwards.

The giant beast was greatly alarmed. It opened its mouth, first roaring out large arcs of silver electricity, then pouring out torrents of fiery red fireballs, attempting to block the descent of so many sword lights.

A series of "bangs" rang out. A small portion of the dozens of golden lights was scattered by the silver arcs and flames, but the remaining ones pierced through the interception. In a flash, they reached the beast's body. Before the giant earthworm could react, a loud clang of swords resonated. All the golden lights instantly converged, and a golden sword light several tens of feet long instantly formed. Then, with a flash of golden light, the bucket-thick golden light, like lightning, swiftly circled the giant earthworm's waist.

An earth-shattering shriek erupted from the monster's mouth, and immediately, countless streams of green blood, like a waterfall, gushed out.

The giant earthworm's massive body had been silently split into two halves at the waist.

Just when Han Li thought he could stop, an incredible scene unfolded.

The giant earthworm, which should have been annihilated, suddenly lunged into the air the moment the golden sword light paused. Its upper half opened its maw wide to viciously swallow Han Li. At the same time, the lower half of the beast flashed yellow, growing numerous fleshy tentacles from its surface, instantly becoming identical to the upper half.

With a "boom" of earth, the lower half of the giant earthworm burrowed into the soil and vanished.

"Trying to escape?"

Han Li was momentarily stunned, but then his eyebrows rose. He formed a hand seal, and quickly uttered the word "Explode!"

The fiery ropes wrapped around the giant earthworm immediately flashed red and spontaneously burst apart.

After a thunderous "boom," a colossal mushroom-shaped fire cloud emerged.

It engulfed the upper half of the giant earthworm's body. Squealing cries emanated from within the rolling waves of fire, indicating that even the beast's golden horn could not immediately absorb such intense flames.

At the same time, the golden sword light below circled once, then streaked through the fire cloud like lightning.

The cries from within the fire cloud abruptly ceased, and large quantities of green blood splattered down from the air like rain.

Then, two pieces of charred remains, carrying a pungent, burnt smell, plummeted from the fire cloud and crashed heavily onto the ground.

Han Li glanced at the ground, and his spiritual sense calmly swept across it, discovering that the other half of the giant earthworm's escape speed wasn't very fast. It had only reached a few miles underground at this moment.

He wasn't sure if this was the beast's inherent speed or if its escape speed had significantly decreased after being injured.

Han Li didn't dwell on it. Since it hadn't escaped too far, it saved him the trouble of having to do more.

Without hesitation, he patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist. Countless specks of golden light shot out from the pouch, and with a buzzing sound, they transformed into a golden insect cloud hovering above his head.

Han Li, expressionless, pointed towards the ground.

The insect cloud swooped downwards with a whoosh, but when it reached a low altitude, it transformed into countless golden specks with a "bang," vanishing into the ground.

Han Li no longer paid attention to this. He pointed his single hand towards the nearby fire cloud.

The colossal fire cloud spun rapidly and eerily shrank in volume. Finally, it revealed the fiery ropes once more, though the flames on the ropes appeared much dimmer than before.

He beckoned to the fiery ropes. Immediately, they flashed with light and transformed into ten hair-thin fire strands, each about ten feet long, floating lightly in the air.

Han Li opened his mouth, and a wave of green mist poured out, enveloping the ten fire spirit strands. With a gentle inhale, the fire spirit strands were wrapped by the green mist and absorbed into his body.

Only then did Han Li glance at the charred corpse on the ground. Frowning, he grabbed into the void below with a large hand.

With a "whoosh," a golden light shot out from the charred corpse, heading directly towards Han Li.

However, when the golden light was about ten feet from Han Li, it paused abruptly. It was the strange golden horn from the giant earthworm's head.

This beast horn was not large compared to the beast's body, but its actual size was five to six feet. Its surface glowed with brilliant golden light, and mysterious incantations were faintly visible on it.

Han Li squinted and observed it for a moment. Although he felt immensely curious about this item, he knew now was not the time to study it. After a brief thought, he cast several incantations onto the object before him.

The golden horn flashed with spiritual light, and its body automatically began to shrink. In the blink of an eye, it shrank to about half a foot.

Han Li raised his hand and placed a restriction talisman on the golden horn. Then, he took out a wooden box and stored the golden horn in his storage pouch.

After completing all this, Han Li clapped his hands lightly, a look of satisfaction on his face.

He was about to look towards the Heavenly Azure Sacred Beast in the formation when the ground about ten miles away suddenly trembled violently. The escaped half of the giant earthworm shot out from underground, its body covered in dense specks of golden light, entirely swarmed by thousands of golden-devouring beetles that were rapidly devouring its body.

The half-body of the giant earthworm let out incessant cries of pain. Its massive body suddenly buckled downwards, and it rolled about frantically on the ground, trying to shake off the biting swarm.

However, the golden beetles seemed to be rooted to the beast's body, not budging an inch. One by one, they bit through its tough outer skin and quickly burrowed into the giant earthworm's body.

As a result, this mutated giant earthworm naturally became even more agonizingly painful, as if thousands of small knives were simultaneously flaying it alive.

Its movements became erratic. For a moment, it burrowed underground, then it flew into the air, but no matter how it thrashed, it couldn't dislodge any of the golden beetles.

After a few moments, when it once again flew into the air and thrashed wildly, its body suddenly stiffened and ceased all movement. Its massive body then plummeted, crashing motionless onto the ground.

Han Li watched all this from the air, then let out a light sigh and turned his head to look at the formation.

Heavenly lightning continued to fall from the sky, but Han Li's Wind-Thunder Wings on his back pulsed with green arcs of electricity. Whenever an electric net landed nearby, it was batted away by a flap of his Wind-Thunder Wings, unable to even touch Han Li.

Compared to the beginning, the electric nets in the air had thinned considerably. The Heavenly Azure Sacred Beast had finally endured the eighth wave of lightning strikes. It seemed it was time for him to act!

However, before acting, it seemed it was time for him to collect the benefits promised by the other party.

Thinking this to himself, Han Li quickly looked up at the sky, his eyes glowing with blue light as he searched for something without blinking.

When the lightning strikes paused again and completely stopped, a strange fragrance emanated from within the dark clouds. Then, the dark clouds directly above the formation churned, and a colossal full moon, like a jade disc, suddenly appeared.

The full moon was exceptionally bright, emitting a faint, milky-white glow. The strange fragrance seemed to be emanating from within the moon itself.