Chapter 1030: Blood Blade

"Forget it. Even if that demon is powerful, it must be extremely weak after being suppressed for so many years. Besides, quite a few late-stage cultivators have gone down; they should be enough to handle everything." Han Li took a deep look at the bottom of the cliff and said indifferently.

Immediately after, he beckoned to Gui Ling, and the two of them drifted lightly down toward the bottom of the cliff.

This descent was truly unfathomable. After drifting down for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, there was still no sign of the bottom.

While puzzled, Han Li also felt a bit of trepidation in his heart.

As for how the Nine-True Demon-Subduing Array in the distance had become, he couldn't figure it out for a time, and could only sense from the ground's shaking that the fighting inside seemed unusually intense.

However, when he looked up at the sky, the white light above was still faintly visible.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, in a place where spiritual sense was so heavily restricted, they would certainly only be able to detect movement within a few dozen zhang.

But Han Li, finding himself in a dangerous situation, activated the divine ability of his Brightclear Spirit Eyes. Blue light flickered incessantly in his pupils, bringing everything within several hundred zhang under his control.

They didn't know how long they had been descending when Gui Ling suddenly reminded him in a low voice.

"Daoist Han, we have reached the bottom!"

Upon hearing this, Han Li stirred and looked down.

Sure enough, a few points of light appeared not far below, and there was the faint shadow of a tall building.

His expression shifted a few times. Just as he was about to get a clear look, a flash in his peripheral vision caught his eye, and a blood-red ribbon of light flew out silently from the darkness.

Han Li immediately felt a pungent, bloody stench rushing toward his face, making one want to vomit.

Four-Scatter True Person! Han Li thought of this person almost instantly. His heart tightened.

The blood light was as fast as lightning, reaching his eyes in a flash. If Han Li hadn't been highly vigilant, he would have been left with no choice but to wait for death the moment he realized something was wrong.

Without a second thought, he raised his hand, and a small, silver-shining shield was offered up.

It was none other than the Meta-Essence Shield!

As the shield expanded wildly, a layer of hazy white light emerged on its surface, shielding Han Li within.

The blood light swept past in the blink of an eye, and Han Li was submerged within it.

With a "hissing" sound, a fierce blade about a zhang long suddenly appeared in the blood light, slashing heavily against the light barrier.

This blade had a peculiar design; it was no wider than two fingers, thin as paper, and shimmered with an eerie blood-red glow.

After the light barrier swayed, it immediately shattered inch by inch. The blood blade took advantage of the momentum and slashed directly at the body of the Meta-Essence Shield.

A flash of light shone on the shield, and its surface became as smooth as a mirror. Suddenly, the blood glow and the silver shield intertwined and flashed, unexpectedly reaching a stalemate.

Han Li's expression eased slightly, and just as he was about to relax, the blood blade bent without the slightest warning, winding around the shield like a venomous snake and stabbing in from the side. Its movements were so eerie and agile that they were almost unbelievable.

Han Li felt as if he had truly been bitten by a venomous snake; his figure suddenly shot backward, and at the same time, he flicked his ten fingers repeatedly at the blade.

"Bang," "bang" sounds rang out in succession. More than ten green sword Qi beams shot out one after another, but they were all split apart by the extremely sharp blood blade, reaching Han Li's front without the slightest pause.

Han Li's face turned pale. He opened his mouth, and a mass of green light wrapped around an object and spat it out.

With a crisp "clang," the blood blade failed to split the object wrapped in green light and was finally blocked.

Wrapped in the light was none other than the slowly rotating Void Heaven Cauldron!

"Eh!" A voice of surprise came from the darkness in the distance.

Taking this opportunity, Han Li manifested the Wind-Thunder Wings on his back. With a single spread, he appeared more than ten zhang away in a flash of lightning. With a livid face, he raised his hand, and the Meta-Essence Shield and Void Heaven Cauldron flew back to his side.

At this moment, the large expanse of blood light nearby surged toward Han Li from all directions without the slightest politeness. The stench of blood was so thick it was almost suffocating.

Han Li snorted coldly and formed a seal with both hands. Thunderous sounds erupted from his body, and a layer of golden electric arcs instantly appeared around him. Wherever the electric arcs flashed, the blood light disintegrated, preventing any of it from getting near him.

Evil-Warding Divine Thunder! Seeing this, the person in the darkness was even more surprised, realizing they had encountered a troublesome opponent this time.

"Four-Scatter True Person?" Han Li looked toward the figure in the distance and said coldly.

The person did not answer. The blood blade emitted a series of humming sounds and suddenly wrapped itself in blood light, shooting back the way it came. Then, the figure in the darkness flickered, turned into a streak of light, and fled downward. A moment later, it disappeared into a huge black shadow below.

"Daoist, are you alright?"

The sneak attack just now happened in an instant; Gui Ling seemed greatly surprised and hadn't had time to intervene. At this moment, she came up to ask, trembling with fear, dreading that Han Li might blame her!

"I'm fine. It really does look a bit like the Demon Dragon Blade. If my shield hadn't been able to dissipate and reflect part of the attack, an ordinary treasure would have been slashed in two long ago," Han Li said calmly. He raised his hand and grabbed the Meta-Essence Shield, turning it over to look at it.

A thin blade mark had appeared deeply on the surface of the shield!

Han Li's eyelid couldn't help but twitch, and his gaze turned gloomy.

He poured spiritual power into the shield, and silver light flowed across its surface. The blade mark gradually faded away in the spiritual light. Han Li flipped his hand to put the shield away, opened his mouth, and sucked the Void Heaven Cauldron back inside.

"Did you see that person's appearance clearly, Brother Han?" Gui Ling couldn't help but ask.

"No. That person's spiritual light was obscured, and I couldn't penetrate it to see if it was really the Four-Scatter True Person. However, the opponent's cultivation base really didn't seem very high," Han Li said slowly. He then lowered his head to look at the huge, pitch-black building below, his eyes narrowing as he pondered.

Gui Ling didn't know what Han Li was considering. Although she wanted to go down immediately, she could only accompany him quietly on the side.

"Daoist Gui! I will treat this hesitation as the first time it has happened and ignore it. I hope that next time, when it is time to act, you will not harbor other thoughts," Han Li said indifferently without looking back. Without waiting for Gui Ling to argue, he turned into a green streak of light and headed straight down.

The ugly woman was startled at first, but seeing that Han Li didn't seem to have any intention of harming her, she relaxed. However, she remained in place for a moment, her face shifting between red and white. She knew that the malicious thoughts she had harbored just now had finally been sensed by the other party due to the portion of her soul attached to the life-soul tablet.

After a long while, the ugly woman gave a bitter smile and helplessly turned into a streak of light to chase after Han Li.

Han Li had already landed on a huge, square platform and was observing his surroundings without changing his expression.

Apart from a pitch-black stone staircase leading downward in front of him, there were no other entrances.

"Demon-Suppressing Tower! This doesn't look like a tower at all!" Han Li muttered. At this moment, Gui Ling also flew down behind him. Upon hearing Han Li's words, she hurriedly stepped forward to explain:

"Daoist, you don't know, but this Demon-Suppressing Tower is different from ordinary pagodas in the mortal world; it was built upside down by the ancient cultivators. The spire is at the bottom, and the base is at the top. The deeper the demons and ghosts are imprisoned, the more powerful they are."

"So that's how it is!" Han Li nodded in realization and looked around again, seemingly not showing any strangeness toward the demon because of the warning just now.

This made Gui Ling feel even more wary of Han Li.

Raising his hand to throw out a moonstone that floated above his head, Han Li beckoned to Gui Ling, and they walked into the stone staircase. The two of them finally entered the Demon Tower.

The first few levels of the Demon-Suppressing Tower were very vast and very quiet, without even a ghost in sight. Clearly, they had been wiped clean by the cultivators who had entered before them.

However, signs of fighting had suddenly increased. It seemed that in order to prevent others from entering the lower levels first, the fighting among those cultivators had become even more intense.

When they reached the third level, a charred corpse appeared beside a stone pillar. Han Li stood by it and identified it for a good while before finally confirming that he didn't know this person; it seemed it must have been one of the so-called Ye family cultivators.

However, the person's crown had been split open, and their Nascent Soul had already escaped. It was unknown whether they had successfully escaped or had been wiped out in the chaos.

There were no unexpected discoveries on the fourth level, but on the fifth level, there were two more corpses. One was entirely emerald green, clearly having died from some strange poison, its face so bloated that its original features were no longer recognizable. The other was actually one of the burly men among the loose cultivators who had caught Han Li's attention. However, his huge head had fallen to one side, and his body had been slashed into seven or eight pieces by someone's flying sword.

Looking at the burly man's expression of disbelief, it seemed that even until his death, he still couldn't believe he would die here.

Although Han Li's heart was filled with trepidation, he didn't stop. After turning the corpses into ashes, he solemnly led Gui Ling into the sixth level.

As a result, this time, he unexpectedly saw a living person—a palace-dressed woman sealed within a huge block of ice.

It was none other than Bai Bai Yaoyi.

The woman was forming a seal with both hands, holding a crystal-clear flying sword, her eyes slightly closed.

If it weren't for the fact that he could sense her weak spiritual energy fluctuations through the ice mountain, looking at her unusually pale face, Han Li would have almost thought she had already perished.

He didn't rush to unseal her. Instead, he first swept the entire level with his spiritual sense. After finding nothing else, he raised one hand and pressed it lightly against the giant ice.

With a "puff" sound, a layer of purple flames wrapped around his palm, and the cold energy of the originally hazy white giant ice was instantly absorbed by the ice flames.

In the blink of an eye, the giant ice shrank rapidly from large to small. A moment later, Bai Bai Yaoyi was finally released from the giant ice.

When the last layer of cold ice disappeared from her body, Bai Bai Yaoyi's eyelashes flickered twice, and she opened her eyes on her own.

At a glance, she saw Han Li standing in front of her.

Her originally tense face immediately relaxed.

"So it's Brother Han. I thought it was someone else!" The woman gave a weak smile, seemingly having suffered a significant loss of vitality.

"If I remember correctly, Daoist Bai, you cultivate ice-attribute techniques. Could it be that you sealed yourself in ice just now?" Han Li frowned, looked over her beautiful face, and asked slowly.

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