Chapter 1391: Ling Tree Meng Luo

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Han Li seemed oblivious to their words, but a blue light flashed in his eyes. Instantly, his vision pierced through the thick sand nearby, directly reaching a far-off place.

About a hundred miles away, an incredible celestial phenomenon was unmistakably present.

At the edge of the tall horizon, it was black above and yellow below, with a straight white line in the middle extending infinitely in both directions, seemingly without end.

However, it was too far away to see more than a general outline.

Han Li raised an eyebrow, and the spiritual light in his eyes faded.

At this point, the group once again activated their escape light and headed directly towards the celestial phenomenon.

A moment later, Long Dong and the young woman also saw the strange phenomenon. It turned out that above the sky was a constantly swirling black mist, while below, yellow hurricanes swept across. Where the two met, a colossal, hundred-zhang-high, white-glowing chasm-like entity appeared, separating them. Both the black mist and the hurricanes poured into this crevice as if into a bottomless abyss.

"This is the 'Line of Sky,' truly fascinating!" The white-robed maiden gazed at the sight, a faint smile gracing her lips.

"Let's go. This is when the sandstorm is weakest. If we wait a few more days, just entering this entrance will be a huge effort," Long Dong said solemnly after observing the scene.

He then flipped his hand, and a fist-sized green spherical bead appeared in his palm.

With a flick of his finger, the bead spun and shrank several times.

Long Dong opened his mouth and actually swallowed the bead.

Seeing this, Han Li and the others also took out identical beads and swallowed them.

A layer of strange, shimmering light immediately appeared around their bodies. The fierce winds whistling around them vanished into nothingness the moment they touched this light, as if a clay ox had fallen into the sea.

These beads were the Wind-Calming Beads specifically prepared for them by the higher-ups in Tianyuan City when they departed.

Without much hesitation, their escape lights reached a distance of less than a thousand zhang from the celestial phenomenon. Without even needing to urge their lights, an invisible immense force spontaneously arose nearby, and several streaks of light flashed and were instantly sucked into the huge crevice.

The moment Han Li entered, he felt the suction ease, and he regained complete freedom. However, what greeted him was an overwhelming torrent of countless white wind blades, and both his ears were filled with an extraordinarily shrill screeching sound. The fierce winds in this crevice were more than ten times stronger than outside!

If he hadn't known he had the Wind-Calming Bead, he would have immediately released a magic treasure to protect his entire body. But doing so would have resulted in considerable energy consumption.

Now, these wind blades vanished upon contact with the shimmering light.

Han Li's gaze swept around, only to find that his divine sense could not extend, and his Bright Sight Spirit Eyes could only see about a hundred zhang away. As for the other few people, they were not within this range; they had completely vanished.

He frowned but did not hesitate. His body glowed with spiritual light, and he transformed into a green rainbow, shooting out and disappearing into the hurricane ahead. Several days later, at the entrance to the Line of Sky, spiritual light suddenly flickered, and two more escape lights arrived.

The light converged, revealing two middle-aged cultivators in brocade robes.

Their attire was identical, and they wore purple headbands. Their eyes sparkled with sharp light. Upon closer inspection, their faces bore a four to five-tenths resemblance to Long Dong's, but one had an abnormally pale complexion, and the sleeve on one arm was missing half, as if they had just been through a fierce battle.

The two cautiously examined the large crevice ahead for a few moments, then transmitted messages with微动 lips before activating their escape lights in unison and shooting into it.

Not long after, a red shadow flew in from the sandstorm, but after pausing abruptly near the Line of Sky, it let out a few unwilling roars before circling a few times and flying back.

Thus, apart from the howling winds, there was no one else present.

Months later, on the summit of a verdant green hill, Han Li stood alone on a massive rock, his gaze flickering as he looked into the distance.

Approximately dozens of miles from the small hill, an incredibly vast forest was unmistakably present.

This forest was truly peculiar; no matter the type of tree, the leaves were a vibrant green with a dark, shimmering pattern, making the entire forest appear blackish-green from a distance.

This was the destination of Han Li and his group's mission: the outermost edge of the Wood Clan's territory, known as the "Black Leaf Forest." After observing it closely for a long time, Han Li retracted his gaze, his brow furrowed in thought.

Truth be told, he had passed through the Line of Sky, and while it took a considerable amount of time, it was incredibly smooth, with no unexpected incidents whatsoever in that seemingly strange place.

However, what frustrated him was that he didn't know if the other three had taken the wrong direction or had encountered something else. He waited near the exit for several days but couldn't contact anyone.

After careful consideration, he decisively decided not to wait any longer and simply headed straight for this place alone.

Along the way, he encountered some minor troubles, and even eliminated several waves of low-level Wood Clan members he occasionally met, before finally arriving at this location.

On the journey, the blood-mole youth and the young woman had already openly discussed the details of this mission with everyone else.

Therefore, Han Li was perfectly clear about the mission's specifics.

According to them, both clans had sent infiltrators into the Wood Clan, seemingly holding significant positions. Their objective was to penetrate a certain area within the Black Leaf Forest, safely retrieve the detailed intelligence gathered by the infiltrators, and then briefly observe the Wood Clan's movements to see if there were any abnormal large-scale activities.

This mission seemed quite complex, with half of the danger lying in how to traverse the small section of the Savage Realm between the two clans, and the other half naturally being how to quietly infiltrate the Black Leaf Forest without being discovered by the Wood Clan.

Among the surrounding clans, it was precisely the Human and Wood Clans that had the least contact, only knowing roughly about the situation within the Black Leaf Forest. Otherwise, they wouldn't have risked sending them to retrieve Wood Clan intelligence before a major war broke out.

Han Li had been waiting here for half a month, but the others had not yet arrived. The deadline for the mission was drawing nearer.

Estimating the infiltration time and potential troubles, he truly couldn't afford to wait any longer.

Han Li pondered for a long time, then looked up at the sky.

Three moons and four suns had already appeared in the sky. Soon, it would be completely dark.

According to the known information, Wood Clan members naturally have poor five senses and usually rely on their spiritual perception for communication and combat. Therefore, the high-level cultivators who issued the mission suggested that when infiltrating the Black Leaf Forest, it was best to act at night and hide during the day. This would be slightly safer.

Gazing once more at the distant forest, Han Li finally made up his mind. Regardless of whether the others could truly arrive, the bottle of Extinction Dust Pills was a must-have. Even if he were alone, he would just have to grit his teeth and complete this mission.

With his plan set, Han Li immediately sat cross-legged on the huge rock, closing his eyes. Several hours later, the sky turned completely dark. The distant Black Leaf Forest resembled a lurking behemoth under the night sky, poised to strike, silently.

Han Li's eyes snapped open, a sharp light bursting forth, but it quickly faded, making his gaze dim.

He formed a hand seal, and his figure blurred slightly, then vanished from the giant rock as if an illusion.

In reality, Han Li had activated his concealment technique and risen into the air. Under the cover of night, he slowly drifted towards the distant forest.

Despite Han Li trying to keep his flight speed as low as possible for the dozens of miles, he still arrived at the forest edge within half an hour.

With the boundless area of this forest, it was naturally impossible for Wood Clan members to be present everywhere. However, Han Li would never dare to fly directly over it so brazenly from the air.

This was because, generally speaking, within the territory of the Wood Clan, a Dream-Entangling Spirit Tree would be planted.

This tree is said to be the Wood Clan's unique guardian spirit tree, capable of controlling a certain range and number of other trees, and possessing monitoring and several other incredible great divine abilities.

Of course, each Dream-Entangling Tree's specific monitoring capabilities vary depending on the scope of its surveillance and the number of sensitive trees it controls.

The Tianyuan City had already thoroughly investigated the monitoring capabilities of the Dream-Entangling Tree in the Black Leaf Forest. Because the Black Leaf Forest is at the very edge of the Wood Clan's territory, this tree's monitoring and control range is very wide, covering almost all parts of the forest. Correspondingly, the number of trees controlled by this spirit art is not too many, and it can only roughly sense beings at the Void Refinement stage or higher.

Of course, if an alien race were to fly so brazenly in the air, even if the Dream-Entangling Tree couldn't detect them, they would certainly not escape the spiritual perception of other Wood Clan members.

Therefore, Han Li not only completely concealed his aura but also, after landing on his feet, flashed and transformed into a faint phantom, directly merging into the forest. After flickering a few times among the giant trees, he vanished.

With Han Li's formidable physical strength, combined with the Nine Transformations of Gale and the Luo Smoke Steps, his movements in the forest were even more ghostly than in the air.

A blurry green shadow would disappear and reappear, and in a blink, he had penetrated over a hundred miles into the forest.

Han Li listened to the whistling wind in his ears, calmly contemplating.

According to the mission, if all went smoothly, he should reach the agreed location in three days. As long as he obtained the intelligence, the mission would be considered 80-90% complete. The task of probing the Wood Clan's intelligence was merely supplementary; it would be best if he discovered something, but it probably wouldn't matter much if he didn't.

The green shadow paused, then strangely disappeared behind a large tree after a flicker in the air.

Almost at the same time, heavy, abnormal footsteps sounded from ahead, drawing closer with each step.

It seemed something massive was approaching.

At this moment, Han Li had long since concealed himself behind a particularly dense cluster of branches and leaves on the giant tree, motionless, observing the situation beneath the tree.

A moment later, two giant green beasts, ten zhang long, resembling enormous apes, each carrying a massive bronze trident, swaggered past beneath the tree. (To be continued)