Chapter 1574: Strange Poison

The giant roc paused, but then its blue eyes quickly scanned the surroundings. Immediately, it flapped its wings wildly, and a fierce glow emanated from its reddish-golden eyes. With a shake of its hands, its bloodied arms suddenly glowed green, and the wounds healed rapidly. At the same time, its back wings suddenly trembled, emitting a vast expanse of white light.

The wings vanished in a flash, revealing hundreds of shimmering flying blades, each half a foot long, gleaming with cold light and exuding an oppressive aura.

Then, a fierce glint flashed in the monster's eyes, and the flying blades on its back buzzed, seemingly ready to pounce again.

But just then, Han Li suddenly chuckled. A golden light flashed on his body, and the scales that had appeared on his skin faded. His four golden arms also blurred and disappeared.

This caused the intelligent monstrous moth to momentarily freeze, halting its attack.

Across from it, Han Li formed a hand seal, and after a thunderclap from behind him, a pair of shimmering crystal wings suddenly appeared. With a single movement, he vanished from his original spot.

The next moment, a thunderous sound echoed dozens of feet away, and Han Li's figure mysteriously reappeared. However, he didn't assume any defensive stance or use any cultivation technique. Instead, he folded his arms and looked at the monstrous moth with a half-smile.

Although the giant moth was surprised and suspicious, its ferocious instincts quickly suppressed its hesitation. With a hiss, its scales instantly bristled, and it prepared to give chase.

But at this moment, Han Li suddenly clapped his hands and burst into laughter, then spoke:

"Fall, fall, fall!"

As soon as the three "fall" words left his mouth, the monstrous moth felt its head suddenly heavy, and a dizzying sensation rushed to its mind. Then, an intense itch spread from its chest, and part of its body instantly became numb, causing it to sway unsteadily.

The monster was naturally shocked and enraged. It quickly lowered its head and realized that, centered on the persistent bloody hole in its chest, a large portion of its body had turned abnormally purplish-black. At the same time, a foul, fishy odor emanated from its skin.

And wherever it was purplish-black, that was the part that had lost sensation.

It had been struck by a peculiar poison it had never encountered before! This poison was incredibly insidious and potent, first preventing any detection of its presence, and then, once it took effect, immediately spreading to such an extent.

The monstrous moth's shock was immense!

Without thinking, it opened its mouth, spewing out a faint green light. Within it, a greenish-blue spherical bead, roughly the size of an egg, was faintly visible. It flashed and instantly arrived at the bloody hole in its chest.

The bead spun, and the green light suddenly became dazzling. Simultaneously, a strange fragrance emanated from the bead, causing the foul odor to fade. The rapidly spreading purplish-black poison gas even solidified for a moment, instantly halting its diffusion.

Upon seeing this, Han Li was somewhat surprised.

He had personally witnessed the intense toxicity of the Spirit Vortex Evil Light. The fact that it hadn't immediately poisoned the opponent to death indicated that the opponent's physical body also possessed a certain resistance to toxins.

But then, Han Li sneered, suddenly darting forward. With a burst of green light, he transformed into a ten-zhang-long green roc and then swooped forward.

In just two flashes, the giant roc, accompanied by a swirling green gale, suddenly appeared above the monstrous moth, which was in the process of expelling the poison from its body.

As its wings spread, thunderous sounds erupted!

Thick golden arcs instantly appeared on the roc's body surface, and a pair of pale golden giant claws fiercely struck downwards.

Below, the monstrous moth suddenly trembled, and the strange blades on its back shot into the air like a torrential rain.

The giant roc paid no heed to the dense white lights shooting towards it, its descent unabated.

After a series of clanging sounds, all the strange blades rebounded upon striking the roc's feathers. Their seemingly exceptionally sharp edges were unable to harm the roc in the slightest.

This was not surprising. Han Li's physical body was already extremely resilient, and after transforming into a Kunpeng, his physical strength was further enhanced. Naturally, these mere sharp blades could not harm him. Instead, his pair of sharp claws easily parted the obstruction of a dozen blades, then thunderously pierced through the monstrous moth's body.

However, after the claw light flashed, the monstrous moth's figure instantly disintegrated into four parts, revealing nothing but empty space inside, as if there were no flesh or blood whatsoever.

The real monstrous moth had strangely vanished, leaving only a thin layer of skin behind.

Even the green spherical bead used to expel the poison from its front also flickered and disintegrated at this moment. It was merely an illusion.

The giant roc paused, but then its blue eyes quickly scanned the surroundings. Immediately, it flapped its wings wildly several times, and golden arcs, like a storm, shot out from its body. Then, they instantly condensed into a single, bowl-sized golden arc, which shot out in a flash, spanning dozens of zhang in length.

A thunderous roar followed!

The golden arc flickered in and out of existence within a radius of several hundred zhang, bouncing erratically like a ghost. In just an instant, it traversed a vast distance.

A loud bang!

The golden arc exploded in the void fifty zhang away, countless slender electrical filaments flickering and jumping. They transformed into a giant golden net that descended.

But below, a翠芒 (emerald light) suddenly flashed, and the golden electric net was actually broken through.

And beneath the flashing golden lightning, a staggering figure suddenly appeared.

It was the monstrous moth, having performed a cicada molting escape!

However, two-thirds of this monster's body was now purplish-black, with only a flickering green light in its center. It was actually holding the green bead, causing the poison to remain below its neck, unable to completely surge into its head.

Additionally, its arms and tail seemed to have some resistance to the poison, only showing a shallow layer of black aura amidst faint green light.

Despite this, the monster was clearly suffering from the poison, appearing on the verge of collapse.

No wonder it dared not engage Han Li in further combat, immediately suppressing the poison and trying to escape quietly.

However, unfortunately, even with its miraculous concealment technique, it could not hide from Han Li's Bright Clarity Spirit Eyes, which found it instantly.

To resist the Evil-Dispelling Divine Thunder, it had to brace itself and gather its magic power to resist it once more.

As a result, the poison it had just barely suppressed immediately surged back with full force, making it impossible to resist any longer.

As the green roc expelled the arcs of electricity, its wings had already flashed, and its massive body had reached the monstrous moth's location in a few blinks, its cold eyes looking down from above.

Although the roc Han Li transformed into was not a true Kunpeng spirit, due to the essence of the true spirit's blood, it naturally still carried an inexplicable, powerful aura.

Seeing this, the monstrous moth below finally showed a trace of fear in its golden eyes. A grey light flashed on its body, and it prepared to use some escape technique to flee.

But the next instant, a crisp sound suddenly rang out, and the greenish-blue spherical bead it held in its mouth inexplicably shattered.

This unexpected change startled both Han Li and the monstrous moth.

But then, the monstrous moth let out a piercing shriek. Immediately, its body erupted with blinding light and expanded several times in size.

To the side of the giant serpent's head, a grey light flashed, and another lion's head eerily appeared.

Then, the monster moved, its face contorted in a ferocious expression, and it lunged viciously at Han Li. As its arms wildly danced, countless claw shadows, accompanied by "hissing" sounds of tearing air, instantly converged into two massive claw projections.

The heaven and earth essence energy within several miles coalesced into countless light points, which were then instantly absorbed by the two giant claws.

As the two claw projections expanded wildly, they gave a bizarre feeling of engulfing the entire world, and slowly grasped towards Han Li.

Enveloped by the claw projections, Han Li felt that no matter how he dodged, he couldn't evade this attack. His pupils couldn't help but contract sharply.

The roc he had transformed into immediately let out a clear cry!

A green light spun around its body, and in the space of a single breath, the roc astonishingly transformed again into a peacock, completely enveloped in five-colored spiritual light. It was only about a zhang in size, but the flames of light on its body were dazzling and appeared almost tangible.

Han Li had actually activated the Startled Sting Incantation, transforming into the five-colored peacock.

Seeing how strange the pair of claw projections were, Han Li instinctively transformed into this form for some unknown reason.

An incredible scene then unfolded!

As the claw projections approached, the peacock's tail feathers suddenly shot out simultaneously, instantly merging into the flames of light on its body.

Immediately, the five-colored spiritual light surged dozens of times higher, then rolled downwards to meet the massive claw projections.

From a distance, it looked as if a five-colored river of light had suddenly appeared and was flowing in reverse!

The monstrous moth's two heads, upon seeing the astonishing momentum of the five-colored peacock and the five-colored spiritual light, immediately showed expressions of disbelief.

However, at this moment, it was unable to control its own attack.

In a flash, the giant claw projections and the five-colored river of light instantly collided.

Yet, there was no sound!

The five-colored spiritual light flickered several times, and the giant claw projections seemed to dissolve into the river of light like bubbles, disappearing without a trace.

The impressive momentum from before seemed to be nothing but a fleeting illusion.

But just to be safe, Han Li retreated instead of advancing. With a flash of five-colored spiritual light on its body, the peacock appeared ghost-like at another spot over twenty zhang away.

After its attack proved ineffective, the monstrous moth remained suspended in place, motionless.

Its two heads stared fiercely at Han Li, filled with resentment.

But the next moment, purplish-black poison gas swept upwards, and its two heads also turned purplish-black.

The monster's body trembled, its four eyes instantly lost their divine light, and then it plummeted towards the ground as if boneless.

At this moment, the five-colored peacock suddenly folded its wings, its size shrinking several times, and it transformed back into human form.

Han Li remained suspended upright, coldly watching the falling monstrous moth, with no intention of flying over.

With a "bang," the monstrous moth's purplish-black body hit the icy ground like a pile of mud, and it moved no more.

Han Li raised an eyebrow, then reached out with one hand into the void.

With a "whoosh," a silver fireball mysteriously appeared.

It was precisely the Spirit Devouring Heavenly Flame that had been trapped by the monstrous moth earlier!

With a thought from Han Li, the silver fireball immediately shot downwards, and in mid-air, a silver light flashed, transforming back into a shimmering silver firebird.

The bird flashed once and arrived above the monstrous moth's corpse, spreading its wings as if to dive into it.

Just then, the firebird's two heads simultaneously burst open, turning into clouds of blood mist.

And from the mist, two "whoosh" sounds emerged, as two fist-sized green flames flashed into existence and shot off in opposite directions.