Chapter 1652: Demonic Ape Spirit Eye

“Almost seventy to eighty percent recovered? Do you really expect me to believe that? Given your mid-Saint Realm cultivation, if you had truly recovered most of your power, why would you need to use your physical body to fight, and then mysteriously hide your Spirit Body to launch a sneak attack? Even if your Spirit Body recovered faster than your physical body, it’s at most thirty or forty percent restored. Now that your Spirit Body has returned, while I might not be your match alone, if I call two more helpers, eliminating you will be no problem at all.” Han Li sneered, breaking down the situation after a brief moment of thought.

At Han Li’s words, the Demonic Ape’s wild laughter abruptly stopped. After two flashes of blood-red light on its faceplate, it suddenly reached out with one hand, grabbing at the empty air behind it.

The purple broken blade, which had been entangled in battle with two Gold-Devouring Beetles in the distance, vanished in a flash.

The next moment, the blade appeared instantly in the Demonic Ape’s hand, and with a flash, it expanded rapidly to over ten feet long, transforming into a formidable, purple-gleaming giant sword.

The giant sword slashed towards Han Li, releasing seven or eight bowl-sized purple streaks. They flashed out and instantly appeared before Han Li.

However, Han Li, who had long been prepared, would not let his opponent succeed again.

The crystal small shield in front of him glowed brightly and expanded, forming a translucent light screen that concealed his figure behind it.

With a thunderous roar, the purple streaks exploded upon the surface of the crystalline light screen.

Although most of the attacks were split in two by the light screen, the power of this attack far surpassed the previous few slashes. The residual force caused the light screen to tremble, and a powerful shockwave directly impacted Han Li’s body.

With a whoosh, Han Li was sent flying backward as if he had no resistance whatsoever. After a flash, he vanished into the black mist.

“That’s quite a boast, but you dare threaten me with such paltry abilities! Wait. Kid! Where do you think you’re going?”

The Demonic Ape first sneered dismissively, but after a moment, seeing that Han Li had not reappeared from the demonic mist, the blood-red light on its faceplate flashed, and it suddenly roared, realizing something.

The black-and-red demonic mist suddenly swirled back, and a great demonic wind arose. It then rode a shocking streak of light, plunging into the rolling demonic mist as well.

But as soon as the Demonic Ape’s escape light entered it, a strange wind suddenly pressed down, and an unexpected, ten-foot-tall small mountain descended upon it.

The Demonic Ape’s escape light paused. However, it ignored this completely, raised an arm, and punched the empty air. Immediately, an invisible, immense force surged forth.

The demonic beast no longer paid attention to the outcome. Its gaze was fixed straight ahead.

While the demonic mist tunnel was exceptionally dark and impossible for ordinary people to see through, it posed no hindrance whatsoever to this Saint Realm demonic beast.

Thus, the ape instantly saw Han Li standing motionless several dozen feet away. Han Li was standing there, completely still. However, he was forming hand seals, and the demonic mist around his body was swirling away from him, as if he was preparing some extremely powerful divine ability.

“Seeking death!” Seeing Han Li’s nonchalant manner, the Demonic Ape muttered to itself. However, it did not immediately charge forward. Instead, it first swept its gaze around Han Li’s vicinity, showing unusual caution.

But the next moment, what happened above its head was somewhat beyond the Demonic Ape’s expectations.

The immense force it had previously unleashed struck the bottom of the small mountain, merely causing it to sway for a moment. Instead of slowing, its descent accelerated, and with a flash, it reached the Demonic Ape’s head. Its size then abruptly swelled several times over, pressing down ominously as it crashed down.

The Demonic Ape was momentarily startled but immediately let out a cold snort. It shook the purple giant sword in its hand.

Immediately, several purple streaks appeared in a flash, then converged into a thick, single one that slashed upwards into the sky.

The Demonic Ape actually intended to cleave this black small mountain into several pieces with a single strike.

However, its movement was a step too late. The seemingly menacing descending small mountain suddenly vanished in a flash of grey light, like a bubble.

The purple streaks naturally swept through empty space.

The Demonic Ape was stunned for a moment, its thoughts rapidly turning. It was somewhat confused about Han Li’s intention.

But the next moment, it suddenly lowered its head with a sense of premonition. It redirected its gaze forward.

Across from it, Han Li, at some unknown moment, was surrounded by countless fine golden arcs of lightning, crackling and swirling around his body.

Then the electric arcs gradually thickened and expanded rapidly outwards, as a circular electrical net slowly formed amidst astonishing lightning.

At the same time, golden runes surged forth from Han Li’s hands, disappearing into the surrounding electric arcs.

The thick electric arcs around him, the moment the runes entered them, silently shattered and transformed into a brilliant golden halo several dozen feet in diameter.

Within the halo, Han Li’s figure was indistinct. But from his mouth, obscure and arcane incantations continuously resounded.

As the golden halo rotated, the runes within it churned restlessly. A faint humming sound emanated from it, gradually escalating into a piercing screech!

After a world-shaking peal of thunder!

The halo vanished in an instant, as the golden light flared intensely.

Han Li’s figure reappeared. He was forming a hand seal with one hand, while the fingers of his other hand were lightly splayed upwards.

About a foot above his palm, a spherical object, seemingly crafted from pure gold, floated motionless.

The surface of the sphere was covered in a pattern of raised and recessed runes, its light extremely dim. It emitted no spiritual pressure whatsoever. It appeared to be nothing more than an ordinary object.

However, the moment the Demonic Ape clearly saw the golden sphere’s appearance, its body trembled violently. It blurted out in a lost voice:

“Spirit-Dispelling Thunder Pearl!”

Following this, the demon no longer hesitated. With a mere movement of its shoulders, it transformed into a black-and-red demonic wind, sweeping directly towards Han Li.

It seemed to have no intention of giving Han Li a chance to activate the golden sphere!

However, just as the Demonic Ape shot forward a dozen feet, Han Li, across from it, made no movement. Instead, golden light suddenly flashed from the ground, and two swords and a blade eerily emerged from beneath it.

With a mere tremor, the two weapons unleashed two sword-lights and a blade-light, slashing directly at the Demonic Ape within the demonic wind.

Before the three attacks truly struck, three surges of bone-chilling intent swept over first, appearing exceptionally sharp.

Although the Demonic Ape was exceptionally confident in its battle armor, it naturally wouldn’t passively endure these strikes. It instantly, without hesitation, shifted slightly within the demonic wind, and three ‘whooshing’ sounds echoed as streaks tore through the air.

Three purple streaks appeared in a flash, easily shattering the sword-lights and blade-light with a single strike.

However, as the demonic wind paused slightly, Han Li, holding the golden sphere in his hand, suddenly chuckled softly at the Demonic Ape.

The next moment, before the Demonic Ape could even think about activating its demonic wind again, it suddenly felt the surrounding scenery blur. Innumerable foot-sized green lotus flowers emerged from all sides of the tunnel. Then, the green lights connected, forming a curtain of green light that enveloped the Demonic Ape within.

The Saint Realm Demonic Ape had still fallen into the power of the sword formation. The Spring Dawn Sword Formation, activated by Han Li, unceremoniously unleashed its power.

At this moment, the golden swords and blade that had emerged from underground, with a flicker, dissolved into thin air on the ground and vanished.

And at the same time, from the faint black shadow cast by Han Li, who stood shimmering with a faint golden light, a golden light flashed, and two resplendent golden armored warriors squeezed out from within the shadow.

One held a pair of slender swords, while the other wielded a single blade.

They were precisely the two shadow puppets formed from Armor Essence Talismans!

“A sword formation! This is a bit troublesome,” the Demonic Ape muttered, feeling greatly surprised to be inside the sword formation, yet not panicking.

At this moment, outside the formation, Han Li’s gaze turned cold as he mentally activated a spell. The sword formation’s power fully erupted.

The Demonic Ape suddenly felt green light flickering all around it. Sections of giant green timber, as thick as a man’s body, appeared out of thin air from high above. Then, they crashed down like a torrential storm.

The Demonic Ape let out a cold snort. The faceplate on its face flashed with blood-red light, then unexpectedly vanished, revealing a hideously grim face. And within its pair of gigantic, bell-like eyes, two clusters of purple light flickered. Upon closer inspection, one could even discern faint, five-colored runes shimmering within the purple light.

With such peculiar demonic eyes, it glanced at the dense green timber in the air, a hint of disdain appearing on its face.

Then, it suddenly reached out a hand towards one of the falling green timbers, grabbing at it in the void, and completely ignored the other crashing timbers.

After a bang, an incredible scene unfolded!

A glistening, luminous giant hand suddenly appeared in the air, tearing through the other timbers, and snatching that unassuming green timber into its grasp.

Then, a purple light flashed between its fingers, and the green timber transformed into a foot-long flying sword. Its green light was cold and sharp, seemingly exceptionally keen.

Just as this flying sword had its illusion broken, all the other massive timbers that were about to smash into the Demonic Ape, covering the entire sky, flashed with spiritual light and vanished into nothingness.

Meanwhile, the green flying sword pulsed ceaselessly within the glistening giant hand, appearing as if it was desperately trying to break free.

However, a savage expression appeared on the Demonic Ape’s face. It tossed its purple giant sword and directly slashed at the green flying sword with a flash.

This fiend saw at a glance that this flying sword must be its opponent’s natal flying sword. If it could cleave it in two, it would naturally directly harm the opponent’s spiritual consciousness.

Outside the sword formation, Han Li, who had initially been somewhat surprised to see his illusion broken, his expression darkened upon witnessing this scene. How could he truly allow the Demonic Ape to succeed?

If it were the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword before its second refinement and cultivation, and with his magic power inferior to the opponent’s, being directly captured by the opponent’s profound technique, it might indeed have been terrible.

But with the divine ability of a sword spirit transforming into void, the conversion of the flying sword’s true body between reality and illusion was utterly effortless.

Han Li merely pointed a single finger into the void at the flying sword within the sword formation.

With a ‘bang’, the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Sword, which had been seized by the large hand, instantly dispersed in a flash of green light.

The next moment, in the void over a dozen feet away, specks of green spiritual light appeared, then converged. Immediately, the green flying sword materialized out of thin air once more.

The sword flashed, then disappeared within the sword formation again.

The Demonic Ape’s expression froze, but then a fierce glint flashed in its eyes. It formed a hand seal with one hand, and the purple light in its eyes instantly became dazzling. Deep within its pupils, faint five-colored runes continuously scanned in all directions.

Finally, its gaze paused, landing directly on Han Li, who was outside the sword formation.

“Spirit Eyes,”

Han Li’s heart sank upon seeing this. His previous faint suspicions vanished.

This Saint Realm Demonic Ape’s eyes actually possessed a Spirit Eye ability similar to the Bright Clarity Spirit Eyes.

That was why it could instantly see through the sword formation’s illusion, and directly penetrate the formation’s concealment to pinpoint his location.