Chapter 1742: Light Beam

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Han Li's eyes flickered as he gazed at the green chair on the high platform, his expression turning solemn.

"Do I really have to enter the star map and sit on that chair? If so, the consequences are entirely unknown," Han Li mused, a hint of hesitation appearing between his brows. This place was hidden so mysteriously; the secrets it held must be extraordinary. If something was valued so highly even by immortals, how could he willingly leave without fully understanding it? However, the terrifying illusion from the star palace map earlier made him extremely wary of controlling his Golden Body to sit in the chair at the center of this map.

"Forget it. Risk and opportunity always go hand in hand. Generally, the greater the risk, the greater the opportunity. The Golden Body has already been successfully condensed; at worst, my second Nascent Soul will just have to take some risks. But if I miss this opportunity, it's virtually impossible to encounter a True Immortal's relic like this a second time in the Spirit Realm." After contemplating for a long time, Han Li's lips twitched slightly, and a look of determination finally appeared on his face. Although he was usually extremely cautious, facing the immense temptation of an immortal's treasure, he hardened his resolve.

Almost simultaneously, a strange light flickered in the dark eyes on the face of the Brahma Saint Golden Body, and the Golden Body immediately strode towards the chair. A moment later, the tall Golden Body paused before the verdant chair. Its gaze flickered, seemingly assessing that the chair's size and its own tall frame were disproportionate, making it difficult to sit. Immediately, the Golden Body performed a hand seal with one hand, and golden light flashed across its surface. Its form rapidly shrank, becoming about ten feet tall. Only then did it sit on the chair, moving naturally. It instinctively placed its hands on the sides of the chair and began chanting incantations once more.

This time, as the incantations resonated, changes immediately began to occur around the Golden Body. The chair beneath it suddenly pulsed with green light. Silver runes emerged from the chair, swirling and dancing around the Golden Body. As the chanting grew louder, specks of five-colored spiritual light appeared in the void above the high platform, growing denser and denser, as if countless five-colored snowflakes were drifting through the air, looking extraordinarily vibrant. Han Li's heart tightened, and he stared unblinkingly at everything on the high platform.

Almost immediately after the five-colored light specks appeared, the giant star map on the platform suddenly erupted with gold, silver, and white light. The sun, moon, and stars within the light flickered, then shattered into fragments of three-colored spiritual light. The spiritual mist then swirled again, instantly forming a magical light array composed of silver zhēnwen, golden zhuànwen, and another type of white rune never seen before, enveloping the entire high platform. The nine silver-armored puppets and the Golden Body seated on the chair were perfectly positioned at the array's core and vital points, subtly forming an incredibly profound connection between them. Upon seeing this, strange lights repeatedly flickered in Han Li's eyes, but he took no action. The second Nascent Soul, chanting incantations, had reached the final few lines.

A blue light flashed in the eyes of the nine puppets, and they finally moved. All the puppets suddenly shifted, stepping either forward or backward, each moving half a pace from their original positions. This mere half-step change immediately triggered another restrictive fluctuation on the platform. In conjunction with the light array, it caused the situation within the formation to change dramatically. The five-colored light specks, which had been suspended in the void, trembled and then poured into the light array like a torrential downpour. At the same time, the nine puppets gripped their silver halberds with both hands, and a layer of golden-yellow light flames surged from their bodies. With the golden flames contrasting against their silver armor, these puppets looked as majestic as divine soldiers or generals.

However, these puppets were no mere showpieces. As the golden flames erupted, immense spiritual pressure soared from each of them. This powerful spiritual pressure instantly caused the surrounding atmospheric energy near the high platform to churn, ultimately forming a golden, hazy hurricane that roared and raged. Han Li, dozens of feet away, was merely grazed by the edge of the hurricane. His face instantly changed drastically, as if struck by an enormous force. Golden light flashed around his body, and he was sent flying backward like a giant crossbow bolt. In an instant, he reappeared even further away, more than twenty feet distant. After several stumbles, he barely managed to stabilize himself. The spiritual pressure emanating from these puppets was terrifyingly powerful. Even with his physical body, which was several times stronger than an ordinary Saint-level cultivator, he couldn't withstand it head-on for even a moment. Han Li was filled with both shock and alarm.

However, he couldn't attend to that immediately. He hastily looked up towards the platform. He saw the nine armored figures, bathed in golden light, their silver halberds, originally pointed skyward, now trembling. Each of them shot out a golden beam of light towards the golden-yellow sphere high in the air. The beams vanished into the sphere in a flash. Instantly, a rumbling sound emanated from within the sphere. The light mist inside rapidly rotated, and a gigantic vortex subtly began to form. With a soft whoosh, the three-colored light within the massive array swirled, and a three-colored rune, almost the same size as the array itself, slowly emerged from it, shooting into the sky in a flash. A moment later, the gigantic rune disappeared into the golden vortex.

The golden light mist violently churned, followed by a thunderclap from a clear sky. Then, a chilling spatial fluctuation emanated from the vortex. With several loud booming sounds, the golden beams of light spewing from the armored figures' silver halberds thickened by more than double, becoming as wide as a bowl. The light array on the platform intensified its brilliance, solidifying into a physical-like three-colored light barrier that enveloped the entire high platform. Within the light barrier, countless gold and silver runes frantically appeared, carrying faint Sanskrit chants, drifting directly towards the Brahma Saint Golden Body seated on the chair. The entire light array was activated to its limit, its hum becoming a deafening roar like thunder!

At the same time, Han Li's main body suddenly felt the surroundings darken. Upon focusing his gaze, he was instantly startled. He found himself once again in the vast starry sky he had experienced before. This time, however, he seemed to be looking down upon everything from a strange, elevated perspective, with blazing stars, large as dippers, floating beside him. And the Golden Body, the chair, the three-colored light array beneath them, the armored figures, and the golden vortex were all conspicuously present within the starry sky. Almost without thinking, Han Li suddenly shook his sleeve, and a flying sword shot out. It spiraled, transforming into a streak of green light. A cold gleam flashed! Wherever the green light passed, several stars were stirred and scattered. But a moment later, these scattered stars reformed with a flash of white light, returning to their original state. Seeing this, Han Li raised an eyebrow, but a slight sense of relief paradoxically settled in his heart. This starry sky did not seem to be a complete illusion. This time, his consciousness remained exceptionally clear; he didn't lose himself in an instant.

However, just as this thought flashed through Han Li's mind, the spatial fluctuations within the golden-yellow vortex intensified by several times. The fluctuations seemed tangible, turning into visible waves that surged out from the vortex and rapidly spread in all directions. Wherever they passed, the void became blurry and indistinct. The entire starry sky seemed to instantly turn upside down, losing all autonomy.

Suddenly, a colossal roar, as if tearing the heavens and earth, erupted. A strangely thick, milky-white beam of light shot out from the golden-yellow vortex, striking the light array on the high platform in a flash and instantly enveloping the Brahma Saint Golden Body on the chair. Within the beam, the faint sounds of wind and thunder could be heard, and it contained countless five-colored runes. Even Han Li, dozens of feet away, could sense the extremely pure spiritual energy within the light beam. However, upon closer inspection, it contained more than just spiritual energy; there seemed to be an infinitely vast aura, similar to that of stars.

The second Nascent Soul, originally seated on the chair, had no time to react. The moment the light beam reached it, the space around the Golden Body instantly tightened, and an irresistible immense force heavily pressed upon its body. Even with the Golden Body's strength, it couldn't move a single finger. The pure spiritual energy from the light beam, along with the five-colored runes, surged frantically into the Golden Body like a tide, utterly unstoppable. Han Li's main body, observing this from a distance in the void, couldn't help but have his face change drastically. At such close proximity, the second Nascent Soul and the main Nascent Soul naturally maintained a close connection. Everything the Golden Body sensed, he felt almost identically.

Under the frantic infusion of pure spiritual energy and five-colored runes, the Mysterious Yin demonic energy cultivated by the second Nascent Soul, which had reached the peak of the middle Nascent Soul stage, instantly advanced to the late Nascent Soul stage. It was as if the original bottleneck for the late stage simply didn't exist. Furthermore, the second Nascent Soul's demonic cultivation continued to skyrocket under the beam's incredible, miraculous power. In just a short while, it forcibly entered the peak of the late stage, encountering the major bottleneck of the Void Refinement stage. Facing a challenge that was originally extremely difficult, one that Han Li himself had nervously managed to overcome in the past, the second Nascent Soul merely felt the milky-white light beam tremble slightly. The Sanskrit chants emanating from it intensified slightly, and it passed through as easily as walking on a smooth road, entering the early stage of the Void Refinement period. Its cultivation continued to soar. All of this happened in no more than ten breaths' time. Han Li's astonishment was immense; he could barely believe all the information being transmitted from his second Nascent Soul!

What was even more astonishing, however, was that under his main body's direct observation, the three-headed, six-armed Brahma Saint Golden Body began to disintegrate and melt away inch by inch within the milky-white light beam, ultimately transforming into thousands of drops of reddish-gold liquid, strangely suspended within the light beam. The second Nascent Soul, its body shrouded in swirling black energy, was completely exposed beneath the light beam. But before Han Li, stunned, could figure out whether this situation was good or bad, some of the five-colored runes suddenly shrank to grain-of-rice size and then densely poured into these golden liquid drops, disappearing within them. These golden liquid drops seemed to be undergoing a mysterious purification, over and over again. Suddenly, both Han Li's main body and his second Nascent Soul simultaneously let out a cry of pain that echoed to the depths of their souls. One's body was wracked with violently swirling black energy and constant trembling, while the other instantly plummeted from the sky with a thud and a flash of golden light.

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