Chapter 1189: Strange Golden Horn (Part 2)

The giant earthworm let out a strange cry, and its flat head split open eerily to reveal a bloody mouth filled with fangs. Then, silver light flashed on its face, and an exceptionally thick arc of electricity shot out.

It was actually the Heavenly Lightning that had been absorbed by the golden horn earlier, now being sprayed back out by the beast in one go. The target was precisely Han Li, who was standing beside the formation.

"Eh! It actually has intelligence. Tsk tsk, it seems it is undoubtedly a mutated spirit beast." Seeing this scene, Han Li was not surprised but delighted.

He rubbed his hands together and then flicked them outward. Two golden arcs as thick as an arm shot out, merging into one in the blink of an eye to meet the thick silver arc opposite.

With a loud "boom," the gold and silver arcs intertwined like two giant pythons, and then slender arcs jumped incessantly. In an instant, clusters of lightning exploded between Han Li and the giant earthworm, and both actually perished together.

Seeing this, the giant beast seemed even more furious. Its golden horn shone brightly, and it attracted a large patch of Heavenly Lightning from nearby once again, absorbing it all into itself, seemingly preparing to launch another attack on Han Li immediately.

But at this moment, Han Li sneered, opened his mouth, and a small golden sword shot out. Then, as it flickered in the wind, it transformed into a golden rainbow a foot long, sweeping straight toward the giant beast's head.

The giant beast seemed to know the danger. Its entire body shone with yellow light, and it flickered, wanting to shrink its body back into the ground. But at this moment, the Fire Spirit Threads that had been wrapping its upper body suddenly flashed with red light, and the hair-thin fire threads suddenly grew thick, transforming into crimson fire ropes.

Each fire rope was as thick as a small tree. Then, they flared with fire, emitting waves of heat, and actually shrouded a small portion of the beast's upper body.

The giant beast seemed panicked. The golden horn on its head, which had been absorbing silver Heavenly Lightning, suddenly stopped and sprayed a sheet of golden light mist toward the fire waves.

Wherever the golden mist passed, a large patch of flames was rolled up and absorbed into the golden horn as well.

This giant earthworm's horn could not only absorb Heavenly Lightning but also flames!

But just as the giant beast had absorbed the majority of the flames, the golden rainbow had already arrived before its eyes. It flickered and transformed into a giant sword, slashing down fiercely.

The giant beast's head shook, and the golden horn on its head swelled several times over, actually meeting the giant sword directly with this horn.

With a soft "clang," the two made contact. Golden light was dazzling, but the giant sword was actually bounced away by the golden horn; it did not manage to sever the horn.

But at this moment, green lightning flashed above the giant beast's head. Han Li, with wings on his back, appeared eerily. He raised his hand, and another golden sword aura shot out with extreme speed. Before the giant beast could react, it pierced a bowl-sized bloody hole in the giant beast's body in a flash.

Strange emerald-green blood bubbled from the wound, but the giant earthworm's body was truly too massive. The injury, which would have been fatal to an ordinary cultivator, was of no consequence to this beast, but it made it furious.

With a giant roar from its strange mouth, the whiskers on its upper body contracted, transforming into countless long flesh whips that danced and lashed toward Han Li in the air.

Han Li's expression sank. Without a word, he formed a hand seal with both hands, and immediately, over a dozen small golden swords sprayed out from various parts of his body. After circling, they transformed into a curtain of light, protecting Han Li within.

The moment the flesh whiskers made contact with the large patch of golden light, they were stirred into countless green raindrops that splashed downward, unable to get near Han Li in the slightest.

At this time, Han Li chanted an incantation and pointed downward.

The dozen small golden swords trembled, suddenly multiplying into seven each. Each flying sword split into six identical golden sword lights, and under the urging of Han Li's magic technique, dozens of golden lights swept downward densely.

The giant beast was shocked. It opened its mouth, first spraying a large patch of silver arcs, then a cluster of crimson fireballs surged out, wanting to block the descent of so many sword lights.

"Peng-peng" sounds rang out one after another. Among the dozens of golden lights, a small portion were scattered by the silver arcs and flames, but the remaining ones pierced through the interception and arrived before the giant beast in a flash.

Before the giant earthworm could make any move, the sound of sword humming rose. All the golden lights converged and condensed together, and a golden sword light over ten feet long took shape in the blink of an eye. Then, the golden light flashed, and the sword light, as thick as a water bucket, circled the giant earthworm's waist like lightning.

An earth-shattering strange cry was emitted from the demon beast's mouth, followed by countless green blood spraying out like a waterfall.

The giant earthworm's massive body was actually severed in two at the waist silently.

Just when Han Li thought he could stop here, an unbelievable scene appeared.

The giant earthworm, which should have been destroyed, suddenly lunged into the air with its upper half the moment the golden sword light stopped, its mouth opening wide to swallow Han Li. At the same time, its lower half flashed with yellow light, and countless flesh whiskers grew from its body surface, instantly becoming identical to the upper half.

With a "boom," the lower half of the giant earthworm plunged its head into the mud and vanished without a trace.

"Want to run?"

Han Li was startled, but then his brows arched. He formed a magic technique with both hands, and the word "Explode" flew from his mouth.

The thick fire ropes wrapping around the giant earthworm flashed with red light and exploded on their own.

After a rumbling sound, a giant mushroom-shaped fire cloud appeared, submerging the upper half of the giant earthworm's body. From the rolling fire waves came the giant beast's miserable strange cries; it seemed that even with its golden horn, it could not absorb such violent flames immediately.

At the same time, the thick sword light below circled and slashed through the fire cloud like lightning.

The cries in the fire cloud stopped abruptly, and a large patch of green blood sprinkled down like light rain.

Then, two pitch-black corpses, carrying a pungent charred smell, fell from the fire cloud and crashed heavily onto the ground.

At this moment, Han Li glanced at the ground, and after scanning with his spiritual sense, he found that the other half of the giant earthworm's escape speed was not very fast; it had only reached a few miles away underground.

It was unclear whether this was the beast's inherent escape speed or if its speed had greatly decreased after being injured.

Han Li did not think much of it. Since it hadn't run too far, it saved him from having to do more work.

Without hesitation, he patted his waist's spirit beast bag, and countless golden lights shot out, transforming into a golden insect cloud above his head amidst a humming sound.

Han Li pointed at the ground expressionlessly.

The insect cloud whistled and pounced downward, but at low altitude, it transformed into countless golden specks with a "peng" sound, vanishing into the ground in a flash.

Han Li no longer paid attention to this matter, pointing with one hand toward the nearby fire cloud.

The giant fire cloud spun rapidly, its volume shrinking rapidly, finally revealing the thick fire ropes.

Only, the fire on the ropes looked much dimmer than at the beginning.

He beckoned to the fire ropes, and immediately the ropes flashed with light, transforming into ten slender fire threads, each two feet long, floating lightly in the air.

Han Li opened his mouth, sprayed out a stream of green mist, wrapped the ten Fire Spirit Threads within it, and with a light suck, the Fire Spirit Threads were wrapped in the green mist and taken into his body.

Only then did Han Li glance at the charred corpse on the ground, his brows furrowing, and he grabbed into the void toward the ground below.

With a "whoosh," a golden light flew out from the charred corpse and shot toward Han Li.

But when the golden light was a foot away from Han Li, it paused and stopped immediately. It was precisely the strange golden horn from the giant earthworm's head.

This horn was not large compared to the giant beast's body, but its actual size was five or six feet long, its surface shining with golden light, and some profound incantations flickering in and out of existence.

Han Li narrowed his eyes and stared for a moment. Although he was extremely curious about this object, he knew this was not the time to study it in detail. After a moment of thought, he struck several magic techniques onto the object before him.

The golden horn flashed with spiritual light, and its size began to shrink on its own, transforming into half a foot long in the blink of an eye.

Han Li raised his hand, and another restriction talisman was pasted onto the golden horn. Only then did he take out a wooden box and store the golden horn in his storage bag.

After doing all this, Han Li clapped his hands, a look of satisfaction appearing on his face.

Just as he was about to look toward the Tianlan Sacred Beast at the formation, the ground at a certain spot over ten miles away suddenly trembled violently, and the half of the giant earthworm that had escaped flew out from underground. But its body surface was covered in golden specks, and thousands of golden beetles were crawling all over it, devouring the beast's body rapidly.

The half-severed giant earthworm cried out in pain incessantly, its massive body lunging downward, rolling on the ground incessantly, trying to shake off the devouring swarm.

But the golden beetles seemed to have taken root in the beast's body, not moving in the slightest, and one by one, they bit through the hard skin on the surface, quickly drilling into the giant earthworm's body.

In this way, this mutated giant earthworm became even more painful to the extreme, as if thousands of small knives were slicing it into a thousand pieces at the same time.

Its actions became frantic; sometimes it would drill into the ground, sometimes it would fly into the air, but no matter how it struggled, it could not shake off any of the golden beetles.

After a while, when it flew into the air and danced wildly once more, its body suddenly stiffened, stopping all movement, and its massive body fell, crashing onto the ground and remaining motionless.

Han Li watched all this from the air, and only then did he sigh softly and turn his head to look at the formation.

Heavenly lightning still fell incessantly from the sky, but the Wind-Thunder Wings on Han Li's back flashed with green arcs. Whenever a lightning net fell nearby, it was swiped away by the Wind-Thunder Wings, unable to land on Han Li in the slightest.

But compared to the beginning, the lightning nets in the sky were much sparser, and the Tianlan Sacred Beast finally survived the eighth wave of lightning. It seemed it was time for him to act!

However, before acting, it seemed it was time for him to collect the benefits the other party had mentioned.

Thinking this, Han Li looked up toward the sky in a hurry, his eyes flashing with blue light, searching for something without blinking.

As a result, when the lightning in the sky stopped completely once more, a strange fragrance came from the dark clouds, and then the patch of dark clouds directly facing the formation churned, suddenly revealing a giant round moon that looked like a jade plate.

The round moon was exceptionally bright, emitting a faint milky white light, and that strange fragrance seemed to be coming from the moon.

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