Chapter 1654: Mountain True Spirit

The holy-tier demonic beast's body erupted with purple light, and the light barrier instantly became several times thicker than before. Simultaneously, it completely ignored the large blue hand, swiftly raising its greatsword horizontally to use it as a shield against the sky.

The next moment, the golden light pillar flashed and struck the greatsword.

A deafening thunderclap echoed.

The greatsword suddenly vibrated, and countless golden arcs spread out like a spiderweb, accompanied by a loud crackling sound.

The demonic ape felt its hands sink, as if a massive mountain had directly pressed down on its greatsword. Even with its immense divine power, it felt largely unable to resist.

The power of the Bixie Divine Thunder Lightning Art was far beyond its previous expectations. Moreover, the golden lightning pillar from the sky was continuous and unceasing. In its current state, it truly couldn't withstand it.

The demonic beast was greatly alarmed. Without hesitation, it suddenly took a deep breath. A ball of black-red mystic energy instantly surged from deep within its dantian. After dispersing, it transformed into pure demonic energy and rushed through the meridians throughout its body.

Immediately, an unusually dense series of explosive sounds erupted from within the demonic ape's body. Its form, enveloped by black-red demonic energy, expanded significantly by nearly half. Simultaneously, its arms flashed with black-red spiritual light, also growing thicker by more than a full circle.

The purple greatsword, which had been on the verge of slipping from its grip, stabilized once more as its light intensified.

However, judging by the demonic ape's grim expression, it was merely barely managing to hold on.

Just then, the large blue hand that had emerged from underground followed closely behind the descending golden light, about to envelop half of its body.

The demonic ape, however, paid little attention to this.

On one hand, it believed its purple armor would protect it, deeming a mere illusory object formed by mystic arts incapable of harming it. On the other hand, under the threat of the Bixie Divine Thunder, this demon truly had no time to be distracted.

At this moment, the demonic ape gnashed its fangs and ceaselessly urged its internal demonic arts, desperate to escape the immense power of the Bixie Divine Thunder.

The demon knew very well that although the Sacrificial Lightning Art possessed astonishing power, enough to make it somewhat wary even at its peak, the technique itself was quite troublesome to perform. It believed that as long as it endured this round, its opponent would certainly not have the chance to use it a second time.

However, the moment the blue hand touched its protective purple light, the demonic ape hadn't actually done nothing to defend itself; the purple light flickered, suddenly conjuring a light shield.

It perfectly blocked the spot where the blue hand was grabbing!

When a crisp cracking sound was heard, the holy-tier demonic ape knew it had been wrong.

When it hastily tried to use other divine abilities to resist, it was already too late.

A colossal force easily shattered the light shield and instantly transferred directly from the battle armor to the demonic ape's true body!

The purple battle armor surprisingly failed to dissipate much of the force!

The demonic ape had used all its strength to hold the sword and deal with the golden lightning pillar above its head. Even though its physical body was immensely powerful, this unexpected side attack made it impossible for its form to remain steady.

With a grunt, its entire body was horizontally sent flying.

It was then that the blue hand flashed, revealing its true form.

It was dark and indistinct, flashing with grayish-white light—surprisingly, it was the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain.

This treasure had long been refined by Han Li. Furthermore, concealed and transformed by the sword formation, it had been secretly sent beneath the formation to deliver an unexpected strike.

Indeed, even though the demonic ape possessed spirit eyes, in its haste, it had no time to discern, and truly fell for this move.

It's worth noting that after this Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain was refined a second time, its weight was such that even Han Li would absolutely not dare to directly withstand its impact.

Even though this giant ape possessed immense divine power, almost surpassing Han Li in strength, it couldn't resist being unexpectedly struck by the Yuan Magnetic Mountain and was naturally sent flying.

Han Li, outside the sword formation, had already anticipated all of this and, prepared, swiftly pointed a single finger at the distant void!

The lightning-colored light pillar, which had been forcefully blocked by the purple greatsword, suddenly twisted strangely. The golden light instantly flashed past the side of the purple greatsword.

The next moment, the lightning firmly struck the demonic ape that had been sent flying.

After a thunderclap, golden arcs scattered, and a huge golden net completely enveloped the demonic ape's body. Then it shattered inch by inch, and balls of golden light burst open.

Amidst the thunderous roar, the golden lightning completely engulfed the demonic ape.

All of this unfolded within mere breaths!

The blue arrows emerging from the sword formation ceaselessly plunged into the golden light as countless blue rays, intensifying the explosive sounds.

However, Han Li's true killing move was not yet revealed.

Among a wave of fiercely launched blue arrows, dozens suddenly flashed and transformed into hair-thin blue threads. Moving several times faster than the other arrows, they vibrated, pierced through the golden light, then flashed and disappeared into another light barrier.

From within the silent light mass that had been subjected to the previous attack, a furious roar from the demonic ape suddenly erupted.

These seemingly inconspicuous blue threads seemed to have truly injured the demon.

Outside, Han Li's face showed great delight.

Immediately, without hesitation, Han Li clapped his single hand on his own crown. The three-headed, six-armed dharma idol above his head elongated and instantly disappeared into the blue light barrier.

At the same time, the two shadow puppets standing behind Han Li twisted their bodies without any warning and immediately vanished into Han Li's shadow.

The next moment, space fluctuations erupted high above the sword formation. Six balls of golden light spun and transformed into six dazzling golden fists, crashing down from the sky with a rumbling sound.

Below, on the ground, two golden shadows flashed, and two golden longswords and one golden saber emerged.

With a movement, they transformed into shimmering cold light, surging upwards.

Just as the second wave of attack was about to enter the large light mass, a sharp shriek emanated.

The light mass surprisingly shattered into pieces!

Then, a flash of blood light, and a blood-red rainbow shot out fiercely from the light mass. Like a flying immortal from beyond the heavens, it danced like lightning within the sword formation, then, with another flash, it paused and stood in mid-air, transforming into a hazy crimson figure.

It was, surprisingly, the demonic ape's primordial spirit that Han Li had seen before!

In its hand, it surprisingly clutched that broken blade. At this moment, the blade had not only restored its original form but its color had also astonishingly turned bright red like blood, appearing extremely eerie and sinister!

A cracking sound came simultaneously from above and below.

The six golden fists and the golden sabers and swords below all split into two with a crisp sound. The blue arrows that had been continuously appearing around them also instantly disintegrated and disappeared, seemingly unable to reappear for a while.

Slightly below, where the light mass had shattered, the demonic ape's physical body also reappeared.

But its face was unusually pale. Many parts of its purple battle armor were surprisingly shattered and charred black, and dozens of thumb-sized holes had inexplicably appeared all over the armor, stained with blood.

This physical body was clearly not lightly damaged; it was this damage that forced the demonic ape to once again use its demonic arts to escape as a primordial spirit!

Han Li, outside the sword formation, witnessed this scene, and his expression turned somewhat grim.

"The previous series of attacks were continuous and unending, almost a certain-kill situation," Han Li mused. "Yet, he still couldn't slay this demon... Good. Very good!" The demonic ape's primordial spirit lowered its head and glanced at its desolate physical body below. Two clusters of purple light fiercely flickered in its eyes, unable to conceal the rage in its heart. Its voice, however, became extremely cold: "This venerable one spent hundreds of years recuperating this physical body, only for you to revert it to its original state, even worse than before I slumbered. If that's the case, there's no need to hold back anymore. I'll give up this physical body if I must, but I will capture you to quell the hatred in my heart! No, I'll use your physical body. Let it temporarily be my primordial spirit's incarnation."

As soon as its words fell, the demon suddenly shook the broken blade in its hand, and instantly, a streak of blood light slashed directly out from it.

But what was bizarre was that the target of this blood light was not the surrounding sword formation, but its own motionless physical body below. With a "poof," the purple battle armor on the demonic ape's physical body showed no resistance whatsoever to the blood light, allowing it to flash and merge within.

A bizarre scene unfolded!

The demonic ape's physical body rapidly shriveled at a visible speed. After a moment, when the blood light flashed and shot back into the sky, the entity enveloped by the purple battle armor had completely turned into a black-purple desiccated corpse.

The broken blade, which had reabsorbed the blood light it emitted, now exuded a strong, thick bloody aura. Simultaneously, lumps of dark demonic energy bubbled forth from it, and black-red runes surged wildly around the blade.

The demonic ape suddenly tossed the broken blade in its hand into the air, formed hand seals with both hands, and chanted incantations.

A series of obscure incantations, full of an ancient and desolate aura, emanated.

Although Han Li didn't know what this demonic ape was about to do, he knew it was truly enraged. It had even absorbed all the remaining essence blood from its own physical body, clearly intending to unleash some extremely powerful divine ability. How could he let the opponent succeed as desired?

Without further thought, Han Li quickly formed a hand seal with one hand and abruptly activated the sword formation.

Immediately, the surrounding light barrier trembled, and hundreds of head-sized lotus flowers instantly emerged from it.

They merely spun, and instantly, dozens of blue light pillars erupted from their centers, striking towards the demonic ape with a flash.

But what happened next made Han Li's expression turn extremely grim.

The demonic ape, seeing the light pillars shooting from all directions, didn't even spare them a glance. It simply nonchalantly extended a finger and lightly flicked the broken blade.

A dull thud echoed.

The space near the broken blade twisted. A formless wave of fluctuations suddenly appeared, then dispersed in all directions.

The nearby blue light pillars, upon contact with this wave, instantly disintegrated and vanished as if withered.

Hundreds of powerful light pillars were launched, yet not a single one could get even slightly close to the demonic ape at this moment.

Han Li's heart was greatly shocked, and his face turned slightly pale. But before he could figure out what kind of divine ability the opponent was using, the demonic ape let out a cold snort, and a bloody light rotated on its body. Then, a purple, majestic light flashed in the sky above, and a purple phantom silently emerged.

This phantom was surprisingly a purple giant ape, seven or eight parts similar to the demonic ape itself. Although it had no horns on its head, a pair of demonic eyes gleamed with five-colored light. Simultaneously, its chest was surprisingly inscribed with a pale silver pattern several feet large, which, from a distance, remarkably resembled the character for "mountain" (山).