Chapter 2085: Mineral Vein Battle (Part 1)

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The snowflakes appeared small, but upon contact with the crimson fireballs, the latter instantly hissed and extinguished. An unusual chill permeated the entire space above the lava lake, dispelling almost all of the previous heat.

At the same time, Han Li’s eyes flashed, and he repeatedly flicked his fingers towards the demonic beast.

After a series of whizzing sounds, ten streaks of hazy green sword light shot out, swirling directly towards the demonic beast.

Meanwhile, Han Qizi let out a cold snort, and his body glowed intensely. With a swipe of his fair hand in the air before him, a crystalline ice mountain immediately appeared. Initially only about ten feet tall, it quickly grew to dozens of feet in height and, propelled by demonic arts, crashed down thunderously upon the demonic beast.

In that instant, Han Li and the other two simultaneously launched their attacks at the demonic beast.

However, this time their moves were clearly different from their previous tentative attempts; all three had unleashed their true divine abilities.

The demonic beast, enveloped in green flames, seemed to sense danger. It let out a low roar, and its green aura surged, rushing upwards, while its main body plummeted towards the lava lake below, seemingly trying to retreat into it again.

But at this moment, the six individuals, including Bai Yunxin, who were hidden within the surrounding demonic energy, activated a gigantic magic array by forming hand seals.

Immediately, the sound of clashing weapons arose from within the black mist. Following this, countless streaks of snowy white blade light shot out from all directions, forming an impenetrable web of blades over the lava lake, blocking the demonic beast's escape route.

Each of these blade lights emitted a chilling gleam and faint, shrill cries, clearly indicating their extreme sharpness.

Even though the demonic beast relied on its formidable physical body, it dared not recklessly charge into the blade net. Its body paused abruptly, stopping in mid-air.

The combined power of the snowflakes, the ice mountain, and the sword light had already shattered the obstructing green flames and thundered down directly onto the demonic beast’s head.

True to its late Demonic Venerable stage, this demonic beast, instead of panicking in such a perilous situation, seemed to have its ferocity ignited. It immediately opened its mouth wide, and the green flames enveloping its body swirled inwards, as if dragons returning to the sea, and were completely sucked into its maw, revealing its true form.

It was, in fact, a hideous monster with the head of a deer, the body of an ox, and the claws of a lion.

After absorbing all the green flames covering its body, the monster let out a strange cry, slightly raised its head, and suddenly spat out a hazy green stone brick. It grew against the wind, transforming into a colossal stone wall, churning with green flames, seemingly covering a considerable portion of the sky.

In the next moment, the snowflakes, sword light, and ice mountain all struck the stone wall simultaneously.

After a continuous burst of dazzling light and thunderous roars, the stone wall itself remained completely unshaken, apart from the green flames on its surface flickering and dimming slightly.

This scene caused the expressions of the demonic venerables present to change.

Han Li squinted his eyes, a hint of surprise appearing on his face as well.

The sword energy he had just unleashed, though seemingly unremarkable, was no less sharp than the Azure Bamboo Cloud Swarm Swords themselves. Normally, it could cut through slightly lower-grade magic treasures and artifacts with ease. While he hadn't expected mere ten-odd streaks of sword light to kill the demonic beast, having them so easily blocked by this stone wall was far beyond his expectations.

At this moment, the purple-haired woman's face was enveloped in black mist. She suddenly let out a clear, melodious cry, and with a shake of the long halberd in her hand, she fiercely hurled it downwards.

A piercing boom!

The black halberd quivered and expanded several times in size, transforming into a black rainbow tens of feet long. It streaked across dozens of feet in a flash, savagely piercing the stone wall.

In an instant, a colossal roar, as if the heavens and earth were collapsing, reverberated!

The entire void shook. Then, a black scorching sun appeared in the sky, and the seemingly indestructible stone wall cracked into countless fine fissures with a crisp sound, as if it would shatter into pieces at any moment.

Seeing this, a hint of joy flickered in the purple-haired woman's beautiful eyes. However, the deer-headed demonic beast opened its mouth again, and a surge of green light flames swept out, merging into the stone wall.

The stone wall's green flames instantly flared, and the cracks on its surface rapidly healed, becoming as impenetrable as before.

The purple-haired woman's expression darkened. Activating her demonic arts, the halberd reappeared outside the stone wall and, with a shudder, transformed into countless gigantic halberd shadows, ceaselessly hacking at the stone wall like a raging storm.

Seeing all this, the yellow-haired man on the other side changed his hand seals. The hundred-odd ancient mirror phantoms in the sky thundered loudly, once again spewing out hundreds of black lightning bolts. They intertwined and condensed, forming a black lightning sword, tens of feet long and covered in electrical arcs, which then slashed down directly into the void below.

Streaks of black lightning arcs fell from the void like countless black snakes, striking the stone wall and forcibly dispersing most of the green flames.

Han Qizi also pointed at the ice mountain below. The mountain quivered once and then vanished from its spot.

Immediately, a ripple appeared behind the demonic beast, and the ice mountain flickered out of the void, carrying a cold gleam, and slammed directly towards the demonic beast's back.

Before the massive ice mountain could truly land, an invisible immense force and crystalline cold light surged forth first.

But at that very instant, the demonic beast suddenly raised one of its claws and slapped it forward into the void.

A bizarre scene unfolded!

The demonic beast's claw inexplicably vanished into the void before it, while behind the beast, a ten-foot-long green flame giant claw mysteriously emerged in a flash, actually blocking the incoming crystalline ice mountain.

With a muffled thud, the crystalline cold light and the green demonic flames simultaneously surged and burst apart. The ice mountain, with a jolt, was sent flying backward.

And the green flame beast claw vanished again in a flash.

Han Qizi's gaze deepened. He continued to point his hand repeatedly into the void below. After the ice mountain momentarily halted, it unhesitatingly whistled towards the demonic beast again.

At the same time, the small blood-red drum controlled by Heavenly Monarch Zhalong began to emit a low hum. The blood-red snowflakes drifting down from the sky condensed, transforming into countless blood-red ice cones, which then shot towards the demonic beast like a torrential downpour.

These blood cones struck the stone wall, erupting in bursts of bloody light and emitting a foul, fishy odor.

The next moment, indentations of varying sizes appeared on the stone wall's surface; the blood cones seemed to be extremely poisonous.

Although the stone wall was remarkably powerful, under so many attacks, it began to show signs of weakness.

After the deer-headed demonic beast repeatedly spat out several surges of green mist but still couldn't mend the cracks on the stone wall in time, it immediately let out a low hiss. Countless flame-shaped demonic runes appeared on its body surface, rapidly circulating.

The colossal stone wall, originally suspended in the air, developed identical green demonic runes amidst the green flames. It then plummeted downwards, seemingly attaching itself to the deer-headed demonic beast's body, transforming into a massive stone sphere.

At this point, attacks like lightning, halberds, and blood cones fiercely bombarded the gigantic stone sphere!

The green sword light Han Li unleashed, under his control, also transformed into hundreds of sharp green streaks, continuously stabbing at the massive stone sphere, leaving many tiny sword holes on its surface, but unable to truly pierce through.

Nevertheless, the gigantic stone sphere naturally couldn't withstand such fierce attacks for too long. Layer upon layer of green flames gradually dimmed and vanished, while countless fragments of stone continuously fell from the sphere.

Witnessing this, both Han Qizi and the purple-haired woman showed delight. After forming hand seals, their attacks on the stone sphere became even more ferocious.

Not only that, but the enormous blade net that had been sealing the lake's surface also suddenly floated upwards, propelled by the six Bai family disciples, transforming into countless sharp blades that joined the assault!

Within a few breaths, the entire stone sphere rapidly shrank significantly, as if the tide of the battle had already turned.

Han Li, however, frowned, genuinely disbelieving that this demonic beast could be subdued so easily.

Although the beast appeared to be temporarily trapped, it clearly hadn't truly revealed the terrifying power of a late-stage Integration demonic beast. And as a demonic beast, it was inherently more powerful than other beings of the same cultivation level.

Just as Han Li had this thought, a strange cry emanated from the stone sphere from the deer-headed demonic beast. The lava lake below, which had previously calmed, suddenly flared with intense fire. Surges of crimson lava surged skyward like a tide, condensing into a large fireball of molten rock, instantly engulfing the stone sphere.

Then, the red light intensified, and countless green demonic runes instantly appeared on the surface of the lava fireball. After blurring, it transformed into a lava giant over ten feet tall.

This giant was covered in surging crimson flames, its eyes gleamed with green light, and with a mere raise of its arms towards the sky, it immediately let out a thunderous roar. Layer upon layer of fire waves surged outwards from its body.

The crimson flames within this lava giant seemed boundless, transforming the entire void into a sea of red in the blink of an eye.

Then the giant suddenly opened its mouth wide again, and a large expanse of green demonic flames spewed out furiously, merging into the crimson flames, transforming into over a dozen green fire pythons, tens of feet long, which lunged directly at the burly men and other demonic venerables.

Han Li only felt a flash of red light before his eyes, and he found himself in a sea of fire, startling him!

Swirls of scorching demonic energy wildly rotated around him. His body tensed, and he found himself bound in place by a mysterious power hidden within the sea of fire.

And the dozen-odd streaks of green sword light, which he had previously controlled freely, became sluggish and slow within the sea of fire, squeezed by its power.

Not only him, but the attacks of the other demonic venerables, after being assailed by this sea of fire, were likewise scattered and fragmented, their power diminished to less than one-tenth, posing no further threat to the demonic beast.

Han Li's expression remained unchanged. With a slight flex of a few fingers, he caused the dozen-odd streaks of sword light and magic power to burst apart.

A series of "bang bang" explosive sounds followed.

The sword lights, one by one, self-detonated within the sea of fire, transforming into clusters of green light that forcibly dispersed some of the nearby crimson flames, but were immediately engulfed completely by more crimson flames.

With an impassive expression, Han Li formed another hand seal. The five-colored cold flames around his body surged, forcibly pushing away most of the nearby flames, and he was about to break free from the sea of fire.