Chapter 1295: Flying Scorpion (Part 1)

Yuyang City was extremely far from the Anyuan City of years past.

Even though Han Li walked as if flying, it took him a full half a year to return to the vicinity of the ruins of Anyuan City.

On this journey, he climbed mountains and crossed ridges, trying his best to choose places with more people, but the distance between cities was truly too great.

On the way, he still had to kill numerous ordinary wild beasts and five or six low-tier demonic beasts.

Of course, this was because Han Li was walking alone in the wilderness.

If a large group of humans were truly walking, these low-tier demonic beasts would mostly not take action.

The ruins of Anyuan City hadn't changed much since he left years ago.

The ruins of the walls still stretched as far as the eye could see, covered in a thick layer of dust.

Han Li stood in the vicinity for a good half a day without moving, his heart pondering incessantly.

His Vajra Art had already reached the bottleneck stage of the seventh layer; as long as he broke through this bottleneck, the seventh layer could be cultivated to the Great Perfection realm.

Speaking of which, the current cultivation progress was much faster than originally anticipated.

This was both because the spiritual energy in the Spirit Realm was far more intense than in the human realm, and the effect of spiritual energy irrigation was excellent, and also because his body had been transformed by various spiritual medicines and exotic fruits, and his physical talent had already far exceeded the limits of humans.

Back then, he followed the man surnamed Qin and the others into the demonic beast lair, and with his knowledge and the supernatural powers he possessed, he easily retrieved the Blood Yin Ganoderma.

The Golden Jade Sect members were overjoyed and immediately wrote a joint recommendation letter for him to enter the Nine Profound Bright Jade Pool, exchanged their respective jade pendants, and returned to their sect happily.

And after he parted ways with the cultivators, because he felt that he was already too conspicuous in the Tiandong Trading Firm, he did not return to Lady Fang's side, but intended to blend into other human cities.

Anyway, that blood curse document had no effect on him at all.

His target was naturally one of the nearest cities, Yuyang City. This was a place that body refiners yearned for, and it should be of great use to his cultivation. As for that Black Phoenix Clan demonic girl, the short sword token she gave him when manipulating the corpse and the name and location she told him, Han Li naturally wouldn't believe anything anymore.

The day he left the demonic girl, he destroyed the sword.

On the way to Yuyang City, while he was at a critical moment of consolidating the fifth-layer realm, he happened to encounter an ambush by several demonic beasts.

Although he killed these demonic beasts, not long after, he was backlashed by the Vajra Art cultivation technique, his cultivation dropped greatly, and it looked like he was about to fall back a realm.

At that critical moment, he encountered Fan, the fat man who was only a small businessman in Yuyang City at the time, and was saved by a rare pill he happened to be carrying.

Under these circumstances, Han Li was both grateful and wanted to find someone who could cover his existence, so he followed Fan, the fat man, back to Yuyang City and secretly contributed to developing his auction house into its current scale.

As for the refining of spirit tools. With his attainments in formation arts, plus the knowledge of a Spirit Transformation cultivator, as long as he practiced a little, he could refine high-quality ones without any effort.

He stayed in Yuyang City for decades.

During this period, he left Yuyang City once when he encountered the sixth-layer bottleneck. It took him a year to find the Golden Jade Sect's mountain gate and the brocade-robed man who had already advanced to a Core Formation cultivator.

Seeing that Han Li's Vajra Art had advanced to the fifth layer of Great Perfection, and that his physical strength alone could rival a Core Formation cultivator, he didn't intend to break his promise and truly arranged for him to soak in the Nine Profound Bright Jade Pool once.

With the incredible power of the pool water, he broke through the sixth-layer bottleneck in just a few days, saving ten years of bitter cultivation.

After he returned to Yuyang City and practiced in seclusion for another twenty-plus years, he encountered the current seventh-layer cultivation bottleneck.

To break through this last bottleneck, naturally, he couldn't stay in the city and use the stupid method of bitter cultivation anymore. He intended to use a method most commonly used by all body refiners.

That is to stay away from human cities, go deep into some dangerous wilderness areas, and forcibly impact the bottleneck by killing some powerful demonic beasts.

However, this would mean going to a very distant place, and it was very likely he wouldn't return to this area. Therefore, he prepared to take all the treasures he had buried in the Qingluo Desert with him.

With his current body refining technique, he had enough self-protection in general situations. It was better to carry the treasures with him!

After resting for half a day near the ruins of Anyuan City, Han Li set off again, heading directly for the Qingluo Desert of those years.

More than a month later, Han Li stepped into the blue-gray sandy land and went deep into it.

But not long after walking, Han Li's expression was somewhat strange, and at the same time, he began to feel shocked in his heart.

It was too quiet in the desert!

Except for the sound of the wind and sand, he couldn't hear any other sounds. The several types of birds that should have appeared in the sky didn't appear at all, and some insect and scorpion things on the ground were also nowhere to be seen.

It was as if the entire Qingluo Desert had become a dead zone.

Han Li's face was somewhat surprised, and he raised his caution to one hundred and twenty percent, heading directly for the place where he had buried his storage bag back then.

Although the desert terrain changed frequently, when Han Li buried the treasures back then, he naturally did some tricks. He could find the burial place using special methods without using spiritual power.

Ten-plus days later, when Han Li appeared somewhere in the Qingluo Desert, looking at a white, misty object more than ten feet large not far away, he was somewhat dumbfounded.

This was actually a giant insect shell that looked like crystal!

The back of the shell had six wings, each a foot long, and its body was completely that of a giant centipede that had been magnified countless times.

"Six-Winged Frost Centipede? How is this possible, how could it evolve so fast?" Han Li looked at the behemoth-like centipede shell, somewhat horrified.

He walked over in a few steps, circled the centipede shell several times. Suddenly, he shook his sleeve, and a silver light shot out.

With a light "clang" sound!

The silver light hit the crystal insect shell, but was bounced back, and it was a silver, shining rope-like object.

It was precisely a strange weapon that Han Li had entrusted someone to forge with earth dragon tendons back then. It had made great contributions to Han Li in these decades, helping him kill countless beasts and enemies. Han Li later mastered the refining of spirit tools, but did not make any improvements to this weapon. For one thing, his body refining technique had already advanced greatly, and ordinary spirit tools had no great use for him, so changing it wouldn't have any obvious effect. For another, this dragon rope was already quite handy, and he didn't want to make any unnecessary changes.

However, even so. This dragon rope, under his full-force urging, was not inferior to an ordinary strike. The toughness of the insect shell can be imagined.

It was worthy of being a Six-Winged Frost Centipede that had already evolved six wings!

Han Li swept his gaze around, and his heart felt somewhat confused again.

The Six-Winged Frost Centipede originally had twelve of them, but why was there only one insect shell in the vicinity, and where were the other eleven?

"Could it be..." A thought flashed through Han Li's mind, and he suddenly thought of a possibility, his face changing slightly.

Just then, a strange whistling sound came from the extreme distance, followed by thunderous sounds, and black clouds rolled in from one side of the sky, with lightning and thunder, and the sound of howling winds.

Seeing this scene, Han Li's lips twitched, and he narrowed his eyes at the place where the celestial phenomena were changing.

Although he couldn't release his spiritual sense, that trace of heart-to-heart connection would not be wrong; the celestial phenomena in the distance actually contained his spirit insect, a Six-Winged Frost Centipede!

In the moment of heart-to-heart connection, it seemed somewhat strange!

This insect, after evolving into a mature six-winged form, could actually display the heaven-and-earth supernatural power of calling wind and rain, which made Han Li somewhat dumbfounded.

This indicated that the Six-Winged Frost Centipede could skillfully mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and seemed to be at a higher realm than its master, nearly reaching the Spirit Transformation stage.

Just as Han Li was somewhat incredulous, suddenly a buzzing sound rose. Then, from the sky on the other side, opposite the black clouds, large patches of five-colored misty clouds suddenly appeared and flew rapidly toward the opposite side.

Han Li looked closely, and his face turned somewhat pale.

Within the colored mist, there were groups of flying scorpions with wings on their backs. Each was the size of a palm, five-colored and mottled, covering more than half of the sky.

What made Han Li swallow his saliva was that in the middle of the scorpion group, there was a scorpion king twenty-plus feet in size.

The back of this scorpion did not have wings, but its huge body was held up by bright poisonous mist out of thin air, and its scorpion hook, nearly ten feet long, was raised high, flashing with eerie green light.

Seeing this situation, Han Li gasped.

However, his gaze condensed, and he immediately discovered. This so-called "Scorpion King" was actually formed by tens of thousands of small scorpions gathering together.

Countless flying scorpions identical to those around it gathered into a ball, forming this behemoth while wriggling.

Before Han Li could figure out what was going on, a whistling sound rose in the distance, and amidst the rolling black clouds, a snow-white centipede more than ten feet long poked out a ferocious giant head.

Almost at the same time, the heart-to-heart connection that had been somewhat blurred in Han Li's mind became clear for a few points.

His expression flickered, and he couldn't help but whisper in his heart:

"Sure enough!"

This Six-Winged Frost Centipede actually contained the Nascent Soul marks of twelve four-winged ones at the same time; it was a comprehensive body of the twelve four-winged centipedes. He didn't know if the twelve centipedes had merged into one, or if one of them had devoured the other eleven.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1296 =====