Chapter 1249

Han Li shook his sleeve, and another blue-colored small tripod also flew out, humming similarly as its body expanded, then, under the urging of his spiritual sense, it floated leisurely toward the sky above the giant magic formation, flying until it reached a height of over twenty zhang before hovering motionlessly in midair.

A flash of silver light revealed a humanoid puppet on the small tripod, standing motionless at one corner of the tripod, as stable as Taishan.

Han Li nodded slightly, then fiercely slapped a certain spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing a gust of white 'colored' cold wind that flew out from the pouch, immediately revealing twelve several-feet-long four-winged centipedes.

These were precisely the twelve six-winged frost centipedes.

As soon as these centipedes appeared, they immediately shook their heads and waved their tails, exhaling cold wind, with strands of white mist spreading into the high altitude, instantly concealing the centipedes' forms; then the cold mist swirled around and distributed itself to every corner of the entire light cage.

After arranging all this, Han Li finally relaxed his expression.

But he still dared not be careless in his heart, carefully inspecting the magic formation once more, confirming everything was fine before standing at a certain point of the formation, pinching a spell with both hands, as a layer of purple 'colored' light flame suddenly burst out from his entire body, his figure seemingly becoming illusory as it slowly sank into the ground, vanishing without a trace in an instant.

In the giant light cage, only the motionless humanoid puppet standing on the tripod and the drifting white mist remained.

And at a depth of several dozen zhang underground, Han Li had already found himself in a expanse of crimson red lava.

The high temperature that could originally reduce a person to nothingness, Han Li, under the protection of the Violet Extreme Fire, felt no abnormality at all. However, under the interweaving of cold and heat powers, rolling thunder-like muffled sounds continuously echoed nearby, making listeners feel somewhat oppressed.

This was not because Han Li did not want to switch back to the previous fire dragon pillar shield, but because times had changed; although the fire attribute 'nature' shield could easily merge with the surrounding lava, in this extreme heat environment, simultaneously controlling the temperature inside the shield consumed magic power far exceeding that of the cold attribute 'nature' light shield. Before seeing the solar essence fire, Han Li naturally would not do this.

However, being in the lava, even if he extended his spiritual sense to its maximum, the range he could perceive was far inferior to when he was on the surface, only about a hundred zhang or so.

After discovering this, Han Li couldn't help but sigh.

No wonder that Han Lian Shangren, knowing the solar essence fire was here, had failed to obtain it once in all these years, and in the end, even completely gave up the thought of capturing this fire.

In this environment, even a late Nascent Soul great cultivator, wanting to grasp a solar essence fire with considerable spirituality, would be somewhat impractical; perhaps only a Soul Transformation cultivator making a move would have a few chances.

Even though he had made so many preparations, he still had no confidence in his heart about whether he could truly succeed.

Han Li fiercely slapped the Yin Fire Bird that had been constantly different on his shoulder. This fire bird spread its wings and flew out of the purple 'colored' shield, then plunged into the lava and vanished without a trace.

The entire process was silent and soundless, as if it cared nothing for the lava's scorching high temperature, nor encountered any obstruction.

Seeing this, Han Li was first somewhat speechless, then secretly delighted.

This Yin True Fire, clearly the utmost yin thing of the human realm, encountered no major hindrance even in the lava. It seems this fire, hailed as one of the Three Great True Spirit Fires, must have some profound mystery unknown to him; if there is an opportunity in the future, he will truly need to study it well.

Speaking of which, the Yin True Fire and the Solar Essence Fire, originally one born of extreme heat, the other innately extreme cold, under the attraction of yin-yang convergence, as long as the solar essence fire is nearby, it will surely be drawn in by itself.

Below, we will see how he then guided it to the surface.

While pondering in his heart, Han Li, through spiritual sense connection, followed far behind the fire bird, beginning to wander around this volcanic crater as the center.

One day, two days, several days later, Han Li had almost searched the entire underground within a radius of ten thousand li, especially the several places where the Han Lian Shangren had previously discovered traces of the essence fire, leaving no inch unsearched.

Yet what disappointed him greatly was that he still found no trace of the solar essence fire.

Han Li felt a headache, and having no choice, he could only begin to expand the search range, but the solar essence fire seemed to have never existed at all, leaving no trace.

On a day one month later, Han Li was searching in a place tens of thousands of li away from the volcanic crater, his face expressionless, but his heart was indeed somewhat anxious.

Whoever daily shuttles through the lava, with nothing but crimson 'colored' in sight, and whose spiritual sense must fully scan everything nearby, under the great expenditure of energy and magic power, would likely find it hard to endure.

Just as Han Li pondered whether he should return to the surface to recover his spiritual energy, suddenly his expression changed, his eyes strained as four 'shot' out brilliant light, revealing a look of surprise.

Without saying a word, he slapped his foot-tip storage pouch, instantly releasing the black 'colored' small bottle containing the Five Children United Heart Devil, which was thrown out, rolled slightly in the lava, and released the five devils.

The five devils were obviously somewhat uncomfortable in the lava, but under the wrapping of gray-white 'colored' demonic qi, they did not truly fear this place's high temperature.

Han Li muttered words in his mouth, the five devils rolled and transformed into ghost heads, turned around and shot in all directions, actually sinking into the deep lava and disappearing from sight.

Han Li shook his sleeve again, releasing more than ten fire dragon pillars, the red light shield reappearing to protect his entire body, but after her figure swayed once, it gradually became indistinct, eventually merging completely with the surrounding lava and vanishing from sight.

Thus, aside from the occasional sound of lava flow, this place became extremely silent.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a flash of red light appeared, the Yin Fire Bird emerging from the lava wrapped in red light, then disappearing into the lava on another side.

Almost simultaneously, the nearby lava suddenly underwent a violent churning, the temperature abruptly rising by more than double, and similarly a flash of silver light appeared, as if something had flashed past from nearby, closely pursuing the Yin Fire Bird.

And as the silver light disappeared, the nearby lava returned to its original state, but that high temperature could not be reduced for a while. Then, just as a red light flashed, Han Li emerged from nearby wearing his shield, his eyes 'revealing' a look of joy as he gazed in the direction where the silver light vanished, without a word transforming into a red streak and giving chase.

Thus, with all three pursuing at full strength, the distance of tens of thousands of li was traversed in half an hour's time, arriving near the volcanic crater where the magic formation had been laid.

But just at this moment, trouble appeared.

Although the Yin Fire Bird was unaffected in the lava and just as agile, compared to the ball of silver light behind it, its escape speed was clearly inferior by a notch. After pursuing over such a long distance, when it was still over ten li from the volcanic crater, it was barely caught up by the silver light behind.

Instantly, that silver light lunged at the Yin Fire Bird, the silver and red light flashing and intertwining together.

Although Han Li dared not rashly intervene, fearing to scare away that ball of silver light, through the spiritual sense connection with the Yin Fire Bird, he finally saw the true appearance of that ball of silver light clearly.

It was actually a winged small horse, only a few inches in size, its entire body pure white like jade, but with a pair of small wings shining with silver light.

When this horse caught up to the Yin Fire Bird, with its wings flapping, countless silver 'colored' sparks immediately burst from its wings, rushing forward with a mighty aura to envelop the Yin Fire Bird.

It was naturally the true spirit fire transformed from the solar essence fire.

And that Yin Fire Bird, when it was first born, was actually extremely weak, which was why Han Li could easily capture and subdue it; but later, in the Xuanyu Cave of the Lesser Extreme Palace, it had consumed inexhaustible tens of thousands of years of Xuanyu cold air, and finally its power had greatly increased.

Therefore, in terms of power, the Yin Fire Bird is not inferior to the current solar essence fire in any way.

But at this moment, it being in the lava, aided by the endless lava firepower of the white 'colored' small horse, its power increased by three parts out of nowhere. Due to this gain and loss, the Yin Fire Bird needed to expend part of its spiritual power to resist the lava's high temperature; thus, although it desperately blocked with exhaled red 'colored' cold flames, after just a few exchanges it fell far behind.

Han Li, through spiritual sense connection, seeing this scene, furrowed his brow.

Whether it was him or the ghost heads similarly transformed from the five devils following behind, now neither was suitable to act and disturb the essence fire. After all, from Han Lian Shangren's memory, he learned that this ball of solar essence fire had apparently become sentient long ago; even the slightest disturbance would cause it to flee immediately. Moreover, the fire spirit into which the solar essence fire transformed had miraculous fire-avoidance technique, appearing and disappearing without trace in this lava; under normal circumstances, once it fled far away, there would be no hope of tracking it back.

If disturbed once, even if the Yin Fire Bird later appeared to lure it, Han Li would have no confidence whatsoever that this fire spirit would still be fooled.

Therefore, although he clearly saw the fire bird in a disadvantaged position, he dared not rashly intervene or summon the five devils for help, only his expression darkened as his thoughts raced nonstop.

Suddenly, his heart stirred, he had an idea, and immediately, after pinching a spell with both hands, he opened his mouth and spat out a round bead of white misty appearance, exactly that snow crystal bead which had been continuously refined by the child Violet Extreme Fire.

Han Li's magic power struck this bead repeatedly, sending several paths into it; after the bead swirled around, it suddenly transformed into a white streak of light flying out, shooting straight forward.

As a result, after a moment, the snow crystal bead appeared right at the place where the small horse and the Yin Fire Bird were fighting. Then the bead merely flickered, and fell toward both of them.

The small horse was startled, its wings flickering, and under the flickering of silver flames, it vanished instantly in the lava; the next moment it appeared at another place over twenty zhang away, its eyes fixed on the bead, full of doubtful expression.

But the Yin Fire Bird had no intention to dodge; instead, it seized this opportunity to lunge upward, opening its mouth and actually swallowing the bead into its mouth, its body instantly blazing with red light.

This fire bird, without hesitation, turned its head again and flew off into the distance.

The silver-winged small horse behind was stunned, its eyes rolling around a few times, looking left and right, seeing nothing unusual, it finally spread its wings again and pursued once more.

But this time, the Yin Fire Bird, aided by the Violet Extreme Fire power hidden within the snow crystal bead, greatly increased its escape speed, and the silver-winged small horse could not catch up for a while.

And in the blink of an eye, the two arrived beneath the enormous volcanic crater.

The direction of the Yin-Yang Fire Bird's escape light changed, and it shot upward.

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