Chapter 1234: Star Palace Battle (Fourteen)

After a "boom," as the black light collided with the flying saber, a mournful black glow emanated from the white hand.

The black light, of unknown origin, unexpectedly self-destructed, forcibly blocking the Demonic Marrow Flying Saber.

And after a flash of silver light, the humanoid puppet strangely appeared where the two demonic puppets had originally stood. A stream of toxic mist surged forth, instantly enveloping them.

The black snake, shaking its two heads, was about to pounce directly at the puppet.

But the next moment, above the monster snake's head, a silver lotus burst forth without any warning. It was about a foot in size, and from its heart, a seven-colored Buddhist light shone brightly.

As soon as the black snake was enveloped by the Buddhist light, it became completely motionless, unable to move an inch. Only on its ferocious snake heads did its four eyes spin restlessly.

Without any delay, with two "poof" sounds, two thin silver lines swiftly shot out from the green mist, merely wrapping around the two snake heads.

The two snake heads clattered to the ground.

The green mist churned, and the humanoid puppet calmly flew out from it, appearing completely unharmed.

It turned out that this black snake had quite a formidable background. The toxic mist it spat, though not as potent as the Ten Deadly Poisons of the immortal cultivation world, was not far behind. If a cultivator got even a little on them, they would lose their wits and die.

The most remarkable feature of this poison was not just its lethality, but that it could bypass various types of Five Elements protective shields, imperceptibly infiltrating one's perception and leaving the shield's owner unaware.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator, if caught off guard by this attack, would also surely die.

If it weren't for this, the old demon would not have kept this snake as a spiritual insect.

However, the humanoid puppet was not a flesh-and-blood body. Naturally, no matter how strange this poison was, it was ineffective against it.

Instead, it caused this snake to lose its life in vain!

One of the two illusory figures was spiritually connected to the black snake. The moment his spirit snake died, he immediately sensed it, and a trace of fear couldn't help but flash in his eyes.

But he fled frantically, without a moment's hesitation, merely pointing towards the bone banner in the distance.

That bone banner, after a slight tremor, emitted a powerful black light all over, appearing as if it was about to soar into the sky.

At that very moment, above the illusory figure, a blue electric arc flashed, and a figure burst forth amidst the electric light. It was Han Li himself.

His eyes, shining with blue light, gazed downwards. With a wave of one hand, a loud thunderous sound erupted, and a golden electric net descended, covering everything from above. With a flick of his other hand, a small blue cauldron burst forth, and countless blue threads shot down as well.

The old demon's shapeshifting clone technique was indeed profound. Relying solely on divine sense, it was impossible to distinguish any difference. However, under the scrutiny of his Brightsight Spirit Eyes, the two illusory figures were clearly exposed, and Han Li immediately saw the subtle differences, discerning the true from the false.

The illusory figure formed by the Six Paths Extreme Saint, greatly startled, his shoulders trembled, and six demonic shadows instantly appeared behind him, shooting upwards.

However, these demonic shadows this time were noticeably dimmer than before, and appeared somewhat indistinct.

The old demon then shook his sleeve, and a blue jade umbrella shot out and appeared above his head.

This treasure quickly expanded after being unfurled, becoming several times its original size, instantly shielding the old demon below.

With several "poof" sounds, the six demonic shadows collided with the blue threads in the air, causing the blue threads to pause slightly, and surprisingly, they did not pierce through.

But when the subsequent golden arcs rumbled down, the demonic shadows were instantly annihilated in the golden light, offering no resistance.

Immediately, the golden arcs and blue threads continuously flashed fiercely and struck the giant umbrella.

The umbrella, of unknown material, under a frenzy of flashing light, surprisingly remained completely unscathed in the air, blocking both attacks and preventing them from descending even an inch.

Han Li, seeing this scene in the air, his expression darkened. With one hand, he grasped at the empty air, and a golden longsword, several feet long, strangely appeared in his hand.

Immediately, the pair of wings on his back stirred, instantly transforming him into a white streak shooting downwards, but halfway, it flickered and disappeared.

The old demon below felt a shock in his heart. He immediately knew he needed to break through, but before he could react, a golden light flashed across the jade umbrella's surface with a "clash" sound, and the umbrella was strangely cut through it out of nowhere.

"Ah!" the old demon cried out in surprise, and with a surge of black light around his body, he was about to shoot out.

But before he could react, the space in front of him flickered, and a white streak strangely shot out, circling the old demon like lightning.

After a "poof" sound, the Six Paths Extreme Saint finally could no longer avoid it. He felt a chill on his back as a hand wreathed in purple flames broke through his protective demonic energy and pierced through him from behind.

The treasure armor he wore close to his body surprisingly could not block the strange hand even by half an inch.

Under intense pain, the old demon only had time to hear a faint sigh from behind him. Then he saw the purple flames on the hand protruding from his chest surge dramatically. Immediately, a layer of purple ice rapidly spread outwards; its speed was such that in the blink of an eye, it enveloped his entire body, appearing about to completely seal the old demon in ice.

The old demon, trapped by the purple ice, his face twisted in agony, gritted his teeth fiercely.

A muffled sound came, and the old demon's lower body, which had not yet been completely frozen, unexpectedly exploded at this moment.

A shower of blood rained down from nowhere. After a flash of blood-red light, it transformed into numerous eerie blood flames, flying straight towards Han Li.

Meanwhile, a ball of green light shot out from the remaining body, and with a flash, it appeared over thirty zhang away.

Inside the green light was an infant, clutching a green jade bottle tightly in its hands. It was precisely the old demon's Nascent Soul.

Han Li shook his sleeve, and a large wave of purple cold flames surged out, instantly engulfing those demonic flames, but he did not pursue the old demon's Nascent Soul.

Instead, he merely stood still, calmly watching the old demon's Nascent Soul flee.

After several teleports, the Nascent Soul was over a hundred zhang away. It turned its head and saw Han Li hadn't moved at all from his spot. Feeling a shock in its heart, it couldn't help but pause.

Just then, a spiritual light stirred in the empty space above the Nascent Soul's head. A small flying saber strangely appeared, and then dropped silently downwards.

The Nascent Soul was not startled until the flying saber was directly above its head.

But it was already too late. A black light flashed, and the old demon's Nascent Soul was forcibly cut into two pieces.

Then, a bright silver light burst forth, and another Han Li calmly emerged from the empty space.

It turned out that after the humanoid puppet dealt with the two-headed black snake, it had already rushed to this spot. Under Han Li's instructions, it successfully intercepted the old demon's Nascent Soul.

But then, a strange scene appeared.

After the Nascent Soul was cut into two halves, it did not simply vanish. Instead, the two halves of the Nascent Soul churned with black energy, instantly transforming into six black threads that shot out simultaneously in all directions.

The humanoid puppet was slightly surprised, but it reacted extremely quickly, flicking its fingers repeatedly.

With a sorrowful sound, over a dozen thin golden arcs shot out rapidly, flashed past, striking several black threads.

After several rumbling thunderous sounds, balls of golden light exploded!

Those black threads vanished into thin air without any resistance.

This foremost demonic cultivator, who had shaken the Starfall Sea for hundreds of years, truly had his body and spirit utterly destroyed.

The humanoid puppet calmly glanced at the explosion site. After confirming that no remnant souls remained, it grabbed at the empty air, drawing the lone green small bottle hovering in mid-air into its hand.

It didn't open the bottle, and flew towards Han Li with an unperturbed expression.

This old demon was indeed cunning!

His secret technique of transforming his Nascent Soul into a soul was exceedingly rare. If an ordinary cultivator had been caught off guard, he might truly have managed to let a wisp of remnant soul escape, and it's not impossible that he would have made a grand, hidden comeback.

However, it so happened that when Han Li was on the Mulan Grassland back then, he had once encountered a Nascent Soul cultivator who lamented about a similar secret technique. Therefore, he had long thought of countermeasures. Thus, the humanoid puppet specifically used the Evil-Dispelling Divine Thunder from the Golden Thunder Bamboo mini-arrows, and with one blow, annihilated all of the old demon's split souls.

Fortunately, if there had been any oversight, the consequences would have been severe. Once these remnant souls regrouped, it would have been extremely difficult to find and track them down.

As soon as the humanoid puppet flew in front of Han Li, it tossed the green bottle over.

Han Li caught it, lowered his head and examined it closely, with a hint of interest on his face.

But before he could open the bottle, a series of ghostly wails and fierce roars came from afar.

Han Li's figure flickered, and he raised his head, looking towards the Five-Child Conjoined Demon.

He saw that the bone banner, previously controlled by the two demonic puppets, now greatly diminished in power, was once again being overwhelmed by the Five Demons. However, the three skull heads on the banner, clearly not ordinary cultivators in life, though no match for the Five Demons, still had green light flickering in their eyes, indiscriminately slaughtering.

Seeing this scene, Han Li frowned slightly, and with a thought, he activated his magic formula, urging the Five Demons.

The three Conjoined Demons that had transformed into ghost heads rolled on the ground, and amidst surges of grey mist, they also transformed into three white skeletons. As for the other two demons that were entangled with the mist dragon, they flickered and retreated to the back.

Before the three skull heads on the bone banner and the black mist dragon could attack again, the Five Demons surprisingly simultaneously formed hand seals with both hands, then opened their ghastly white mouths wide.

Five streams of variously colored cold flames furiously spurted out, and then converged, surprisingly forming a five-colored sea of flames, surging fiercely towards their opponents.

The black mist dragon was the first to meet the cold flames, but as soon as it made contact, an unbelievable phenomenon occurred.

Under the cover of the five-colored flames, the black dragon, which had been baring its fangs and claws, suddenly froze; its horrifying movements surprisingly became incredibly slow. Trembling, it seemed to have slowed down by more than tenfold.

The Five Demons, meanwhile, let out a long howl!

From the sea of flames, countless palm-sized five-colored ice blades emerged. As the flames churned, they shot out densely and simultaneously, slicing the black dragon into countless pieces, causing the dragon to dissipate into black mist within the flames and vanish without a trace.

(First chapter!)