Chapter 1979: Chasing the Baby

## Chapter 10: The Demon Realm War

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Yuan Sha's eyelids fluttered open, revealing eyes that gleamed with an unusually cold, emerald light.

"Hmph, are you certain you won't make a mistake this time? I've gone to such lengths, and success is almost at hand. Even if this isn't the main body, capturing it alive would be of great use to me. If you can't wait, feel free to go ahead. Once I've captured this fellow, I'll naturally rejoin you," the woman said coldly.

"Since Fellow Daoist Yuan Sha puts it that way, I'll proceed first. A mere clone should be no problem with your divine abilities. However, the main body is far more troublesome; you and I must work together to stand a chance. I hope you have no other intentions," the blood-robed youth replied, somewhat surprised. After a moment of doubt in his eyes, he spoke with a warning tone.

"Rest assured! I understand the benefits of cooperation. I have an important use for this clone, which you may learn about soon," Yuan Sha scoffed, replying with complete indifference.

Hearing the woman's words, the blood-robed youth, though still a little startled, found it difficult to object further and merely stated faintly:

"I will leave half of our personnel behind, at your disposal. Though their numbers aren't many, I believe they can still be of some small assistance."

"I thank you!" Yuan Sha nodded, her expression softening slightly.

Then, the blood-robed youth's body shimmered with an escaping light, transforming into a streak of blood-red light that shot towards the sky. After a few flashes, the blood light vanished into the jade plate. Moments later, the bloody light screen emanating from the jade plate flickered and disappeared. Strangely, half of the elite demon cultivators clustered near the jade plate were also gone. The next moment, the jade plate trembled, transforming into a ball of white light that broke through the air and sped away.

The remaining hundred-plus demon cultivators, led by a tall late-Stage Void Refinement demon, descended towards Yuan Sha's location. The demon leader took a few steps forward and bowed deeply, greeting her:

"My Lady Yuan Sha! Lord Bloodlight has departed. Do you have any commands for us?"

Although this demon was subordinate to Bloodlight, he showed extreme reverence towards Yuan Sha.

"No need. Just guard the vicinity," the woman instructed plainly, sweeping her gaze over the demon.

"As you command, My Lady!" The demon naturally had no objections and immediately bowed to receive the order.

With that, these hundred-plus demon cultivators dispersed around the stone platform, remaining motionless. Seeing this, Yuan Sha's eyes flickered, and she slowly closed them.

Meanwhile, the black cloud formed by tens of thousands of ravens swiftly finished searching another corner of the valley. Driven by the demoness, they aggressively surged towards yet another area. This time, after the ravens had been flying around for only a short while, something unusual finally occurred. As hundreds of them flew over a low bush, they suddenly began circling it incessantly, emitting strange cries.

"Found it!"

Yuan Sha's eyes snapped open, and she let out a delighted gasp. With a push of her foot, she instantly transformed into a white rainbow, soaring into the air and streaking directly towards the bush. Given her speed, she would reach the location in mere flashes.

At the same time, a shimmering purple light exploded from within the bush. The void twisted slightly, and a faint wisp of black qi shot out from it, letting out a strange shriek as it broke through the air and attempted to escape. But clearly, its action was already too late.

Witnessing this from behind, Yuan Sha pointed into the empty space above the black shadow without a word. The black ravens that had been circling nearby immediately let out an unpleasant cacophony. With a spread of their wings, they plunged towards the black shadow like moths to a flame. Perhaps one or two, or even a dozen, were insignificant, but with hundreds, even thousands, diving down simultaneously, the sheer force was so immense that the black qi was forced to halt its escape light, revealing its true form.

It was a pitch-black Nascent Soul, identical to Han Li in appearance, but permeated with a thick demonic aura. This was precisely Han Li's second Nascent Soul. Its cultivation, of course, couldn't be compared to the main Nascent Soul's, but with Han Li's continuous consumption of spiritual elixirs, it had already reached the Void Refinement stage, and its demonic cultivation techniques were exceptionally pure.

Though forced to stop, it showed no panic facing the surging flock of ravens. With a loud shout, it suddenly rubbed its hands together, then simultaneously flung them outwards. A great black wind arose, from which two streams of inky black demonic qi flew out, rolling into two monstrous black pythons that immediately surged into the raven swarm. The pythons thrashed their heads and tails, and wherever they passed, gusts of black wind tore the ravens to shreds, appearing unstoppable.

Seeing the black pythons gaining the upper hand, the second Nascent Soul's movements did not cease. It swiftly formed several hand seals, and its figure began to spin rapidly.

Just then, a spiritual light flashed in the air, and a white rainbow shot forth, transforming into a graceful figure in a flash. The moment Yuan Sha appeared, she unceremoniously extended a jade hand and clawed at the empty space below.

With a thunderous rumble!

A shimmering white giant hand instantly materialized from the void, its five fingers spreading apart as it pressed downwards. With the demoness's divine ability, if this giant hand were to truly descend, the second Nascent Soul would undoubtedly have no chance of escape.

However, Han Li's demonic Nascent Soul had fortunately already begun to employ a life-saving divine ability. The rotating phantom figure suddenly burst apart with a sharp shriek, and over a dozen clusters of pitch-black demonic flames shot out from it. Each cluster was only the size of an egg, but as soon as they shot out, they immediately transformed into small black figures. With several "whoosh" sounds, they mysteriously appeared dozens of yards away.

"Still trying to escape!"

Yuan Sha's eyebrows arched, and she let out a soft cry, then uttered a strange incantation. In an instant, the surface of the white light-hand shimmered with an unusual crystalline glow, then instantly burst apart, transforming into a massive, hazy white halo. With loud "hissing" sounds, countless crystalline rays shot out from the halo, covering an area of over a hundred yards, enveloping all dozen-plus small black figures.

Just as those small black figures tried to activate their escape techniques again, the crystalline rays instantly pierced through their bodies. A series of muffled "thuds" echoed! Except for one small black figure whose body twisted, allowing a crystalline ray to graze its shoulder, the rest of the small figures, after being pierced by the crystalline rays, instantly dissolved into clusters of black flame and vanished. They were, in fact, merely illusions!

The sole remaining black figure was indeed the true body transformed from the second Nascent Soul. Upon seeing his illusionary technique broken, his face changed. He suddenly opened his mouth and spat out several clots of vital blood, while simultaneously performing a series of rapid hand seals and muttering incantations. The vital blood dispersed into the wind, transforming into wisps of blood mist that engulfed the second Nascent Soul.

"Hmph, still trying to play tricks!" Yuan Sha's face darkened, and with a cold snort, she fiercely flicked her sleeve towards the blood mist. A black ribbon, fleeting as a shadow, shot out from her sleeve. With a single movement, it sliced through the blood mist like a phantom.

But almost at the same instant, a blood-red rainbow also shot out from the blood mist, and with just one flicker, it transformed into a thin blood-red line and vanished. The next moment, a flash of blood-red light appeared at the edge of the sky. The blood-red line shimmered into view, and with another tremble, it blurred and disappeared again.

"Blood Shadow Escape! To think it's this type of escape technique. This is somewhat troublesome. But to think you can escape from my grasp so easily is truly wishful thinking." Yuan Sha first froze in surprise, but after murmuring a few words, her face became as cold as ice.

Then, she beckoned into the distance with one hand. The two massive stone pillars trembled, then pulled themselves out of the ground. Surging into the sky, they merged into one, once again transforming into the grey-white stone hall, which flew towards Yuan Sha. Yuan Sha flew into the stone hall and, after giving an order to the demons below, transformed into a ball of white light and shot away. Seeing this, the other elite demons naturally fell into disarray and swiftly gave chase. In the blink of an eye, the area became desolate, with no one remaining.

In another location, far away from the second Nascent Soul, above a lake of unknown distance, Han Li, with a flick of his sword arts, controlled a giant azure dragon formed by countless sword lights. It was roaring and tearing a high-rank demon cultivator — with a long, thin neck and a body resembling an insect — into shreds. Even the Nascent Soul hidden within could not escape in time; it was instantly minced by the sword lights and vanished into a wisp of green smoke.

Han Li flicked his sleeve, and the azure dragon let out a clear cry as it disassembled, once again transforming into dense azure sword lights. They circled once, then, urged by Han Li, shot back. A furious flash of azure light enveloped his body, and all the sword lights vanished instantly, absorbed.

Beside the torn corpse of the half-human, half-insect high-rank demon cultivator, there were over a dozen other suspended corpses, all seemingly high-rank demon existences. Han Li, who had absorbed all the sword lights back into his body, turned pale. Only after rapidly circulating his cultivation method several times did his complexion improve somewhat.

"It seems they've reacted. I can't go in this direction anymore. It's a pity, if those people had been a bit slower, I might have had a chance to return to Heavenly Abyss City. I mustn't let them discern my patterns; I'll have to try my luck in other directions. Fortunately, the ones following closely have been dealt with; there should be a good chance of truly escaping now," Han Li exhaled lightly, scanning his surroundings as he murmured.

It turned out that when Han Li used his secret technique that day to conjure over a dozen illusory figures, he not only had Qu'er and the second Nascent Soul each activate a spiritual body and a golden body, respectively, to draw away the pursuers, but he also quietly activated the Taiyi Purifying Talisman, etherealizing his own body and leaving it in place. As Han Li's cultivation greatly advanced, even the wondrous Taiyi Purifying Talisman could not be maintained for too long. Otherwise, Yuan Sha and Bloodlight wouldn't have needed to break the talisman; they could have simply waited in place for a while to force him to reappear. Hence, Han Li had not used this talisman during his earlier escapes.

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