Chapter 1948: 青蟠

**Volume Ten: Battle of the Demon Realm**

Seeing this, Han Li's eyebrows twitched. He raised an arm, and a pure white, jade-like palm suddenly spread its five fingers.

With a sudden whistle, five pure white skull phantoms flashed out from his hand. With a shift, they each transformed into specters the size of wheels.

They let out strange cackles and abruptly opened their mouths, immediately spewing forth streams of five-colored cold flames.

These were precisely the Five-Child Conjoined Demons, which had long since been refined into one with Han Li's palm.

Originally, these five demons could not offer much assistance to Han Li due to their limited strength, and thus, after he entered the Spirit Realm, he rarely summoned them in combat. However, later, in the Barren World, Han Li fortuitously absorbed another type of peculiar frigid energy. When combined with the Five Extreme Cold Flames, this significantly boosted the demons' power.

While their inherent abilities were still no match for high-tier cultivators, the new cold flames they spewed possessed incredible power.

Normally, Han Li could manipulate a portion of these cold flames' power himself, utilizing the strength of the five demons. For this reason, he usually still did not summon the Five-Child Conjoined Demons.

However, the intense icy power displayed by the white-robed youth before him was unlike anything he had ever witnessed. Thus, Han Li no longer held anything back and even summoned all five demons in one breath.

When the new five-colored cold flames were sprayed in all directions by the five giant skulls, wherever they passed, the peculiar coldness that almost froze the void immediately dissipated significantly.

The sword array regained its original agility.

Although Han Li's cold flames appeared slightly weaker than the white-robed youth's extreme frigid energy, it was still certainly capable of absorbing a portion of that chilling power.

Han Li swiftly spurred the sword array with both hands once more.

Instantly, within the sword array, countless streaks of green sword light emerged, crisscrossing. Then, as they converged at the array's center, they transformed into a colossal orb of light.

The light sphere shimmered with a misty green glow, radiating dazzling sword aura.

A dragon's roar, piercing the heavens, echoed forth. As the light sphere shattered, an emerald-green coiled dragon, baring its fangs and claws, lunged out!

This coiled dragon was covered in green scales, each as bright as a mirror. Its entire being exuded a terrifying aura, as if capable of sundering the heavens and annihilating the earth. It charged directly towards the colossal white blade in the sky.

An earth-shattering boom resounded deafeningly in the high heavens!

The moment the colossal blade and the green dragon made contact, they immediately erupted in dazzling light. The peculiar cold they radiated intensified by three parts. Yet, when the blade struck the coiled dragon's neck, it produced a dull clang, like metal striking metal, without leaving even the slightest white mark.

However, the blade's peculiar frigid power also caused a thick layer of ice to instantly form over the coiled dragon's upper body, almost on contact.

But the next moment, the coiled dragon glared with fury. With a mere flick of its body, the ice immediately shattered inch by inch. Instead, it lunged its head forward, its massive maw clamping down directly on the colossal blade. Simultaneously, its two claws silently snatched out, and its body coiled around the blade with aggressive momentum.

A series of 'crack' sounds rang out!

Though the colossal blade possessed terrifying power, it did not seem particularly resilient. Caught firmly in the coiled dragon's bite and then seized by its two claws, it immediately let out a mournful cry and began to shatter.

Once the entire blade was wrapped and tightly squeezed by the coiled dragon's enormous body, the colossal blade instantly dissipated into countless glittering points of light in mid-air.

The white-robed youth in the distance finally showed a surprised expression. But without a word, the demon tapped the void in front of him several times. A misty white cold wind swept through, and dozens of glittering flying knives astonishingly reappeared, completely intact.

“Oh, this is…” Han Li’s expression changed as he witnessed this.

Only then did he realize that those seemingly incredibly frigid flying knives were not true magical artifacts at all, but merely solidified manifestations of the opponent's extreme cold power.

Therefore, as long as the white-robed youth's magical power persisted, they could be endlessly re-formed.

This was truly beyond his expectations.

But Han Li's astonishment lasted only for a moment. Composing his thoughts, the coiled dragon formed from countless sword gleams immediately let out a long roar and lunged directly towards the white-robed youth, baring its fangs and claws.

At the same time, with a thunderous roar from behind Han Li, a pair of crystalline feathered wings emerged. With a flash of cold light in his eyes, he vanished into thin air, transforming into a bolt of lightning.

The more formidable the opponent proved to be, the more determined he was to eliminate them with all his might.

From both his current predicament and the perspective of the human race, this was an undeniable imperative.

Upon seeing this, the white-robed youth's pupils contracted. But then, with a cold snort, the dozens of crystalline flying knives hovering before him buzzed as they shot upwards into the sky. They instantly reformed into a colossal, snow-white blade identical to the previous one!

And the youth himself stomped his foot, transforming into a flash of crystalline light and merging with the giant blade. Then, with a sharp cry, he became a streak of blade light, hurtling to fiercely slash the green coiled dragon.

The immense power contained within the colossal blade at this moment had nearly doubled compared to before. Before the blade light even descended, the void was already filled with an eerie, chilling radiance, as if shrouding more than half the sky beneath it.

Seeing this, the green coiled dragon showed no fear. With its scales bristling, it transformed into a sky-filling green aura and clashed with the blade light.

For a moment, everywhere in the air was filled with chilling light and green radiance. As the two intertwined, a temporary stalemate ensued!

But just then, a silver arc flashed. Han Li's figure suddenly appeared above the two combatants. With a loud shout, he fiercely reached downwards with both hands simultaneously.

With two 'poof' sounds, two gigantic hands, several zhang in size, appeared out of thin air.

One hand, pure white like jade, suddenly glowed with layers of five-colored cold flames. The other hand, as black as ink, abruptly flared up with a layer of intense silver flames.

The two colossal hands intertwined and slammed downwards. Instantly, a torrent of peculiar coldness and scorching heat surged down and strangely merged into one, their power increasing rather than decreasing!

Below, a cold light flashed, and the white-robed youth's figure appeared. With a mere shift, he transformed into a colossal icy hand and rose to meet the attack in the sky.

This hand was entirely crystalline and transparent. As it reached out, the surrounding void solidified, its power seemingly unstoppable.

The three colossal hands instantly collided!

The moment the white colossal hand made contact, the five-colored cold flames on its surface were instantly dissipated, and then it shattered inch by inch.

But the peculiar frigid power emanating from the icy colossal hand solidified. After flashing wildly a few times, its volume also shrank considerably.

And when it clashed with the icy colossal hand's five fingers, it somewhat underestimated the power of the Spirit-Devouring Heavenly Flame.

As the silver flames swelled, countless eerie incandescent white flames suddenly appeared within them. They instantly enveloped the icy colossal hand, drawing it within.

In an instant, not only was the peculiar frigid power scattered, but the icy colossal hand also rapidly melted at a visible speed.

A muffled groan!

Just before the icy power completely vanished, a crystal light flashed out from the silver flames. After a swirl, it shot away like lightning into the distance.

But just then, a faint, almost invisible golden-silver thread also shot out from the silver flames, following closely. It vanished in a flash.

The next moment, a cry of shock and anger erupted from within the crystal light. Then, as the escape light dispersed, the white-robed youth stumbled out of it.

He was seen clutching his chest with one hand, a purplish-black wound faintly visible between his fingers. He could no longer maintain his previous composure, his face filled with expressions of shock and fury.

It was Han Li who had activated a wisp of the Spirit Vortex Evil Light, previously devoured by the Spirit-Devouring Heavenly Flame. Utilizing its mysterious property of ignoring protective spiritual light, he caught the white-robed youth off guard, causing him to suffer greatly.

Han Li let out a cold laugh. Seeing a layer of black energy rapidly surge over the opponent's face, he knew that even if the Spirit Vortex Evil Light's peculiar poison couldn't claim the demon's life, it would certainly inflict significant damage to his vitality.

Now was the perfect opportunity to eliminate the opponent!

He then quickly glanced at the petite woman on the other side. He saw that she was locked in an intense battle with Silverlight Fairy and the silver ruler transformed into a silk ribbon. While she couldn't gain the upper hand, it was sufficient to firmly entangle her, preventing her from diverting her attention.

Han Li no longer hesitated. With a flap of the wings on his back, a thunderous roar erupted. He was about to immediately use Thunder Escape and pounce towards the white-robed youth.

But just then, the sky above the battlefield suddenly rippled. The entire sky abruptly dimmed, and then a colossal, pitch-black vortex, roughly an acre in size, suddenly appeared tens of thousands of zhang high in the sky. Immediately afterwards, an utterly terrifying aura emanated from the vortex, and rapidly grew stronger at an incredible speed.

“Oh no, could it be…?”

Han Li, poised to pounce, froze mid-action. He looked back at the high sky in surprise.

This aura felt faintly familiar to him, identical to the aura emanating from the divine sense that had transmitted messages to him within the giant tower. Moreover, the terrifying nature of this aura now surpassed what it had been inside the giant tower.

What further chilled his heart was that below the colossal vortex, a figure stood perfectly still. It was none other than the demon venerable in the silver-thread robe, who hadn't been present before. Han Li had no idea when or how this demon had arrived there and bizarrely manifested.

Not only Han Li, but both sides of the human-demon battlefield were stunned.

Many combatants from both races involuntarily ceased fighting and stared in horror at the colossal vortex that had abruptly appeared in the high heavens.

Han Li's expression flickered with indecision. He had not yet decided whether he should first eliminate the white-robed youth or immediately rush to the vortex and destroy it, when a sudden anomaly erupted in the high sky!

The silver-threaded robed middle-aged man was seen forming a hand seal with both hands. He opened his mouth and emotionlessly spat out a blood-red crystal, resembling a gemstone.

With a 'whoosh'!

The vortex spun rapidly, and the terrifying aura suddenly vanished without a trace.

But the next moment, a black-and-red demonic energy, accompanied by a strange howl, flew out from the vortex. In a flash, it completely submerged itself into the blood-red crystal.

As the crystal's surface flashed with a bloody glow, with a 'swish', it was immediately re-absorbed into the middle-aged man's body!

The next moment, as a bloody light glow appeared on the silver-threaded robed man's face, he clutched his head with both hands and let out an agonizing scream. Simultaneously, his body emitted crisp cracking sounds like firecrackers, and his face and aura underwent astonishing changes in an instant!