Chapter 1304: Strange Snake, Water Arrow, Silver Hand

Looking at the small beast thirty zhang away, Han Li took a deep breath, and his slightly chaotic breathing stabilized in an instant.

But he did not dare to take his eyes off the opposite side for even a moment.

This leopard, which seemed to be several times smaller and only the size of a cat, had a speed that was truly shocking.

Even if he used the Smoke Steps, he was still a step behind this beast.

The result of the battle just now was that his green robe was torn to shreds, revealing his dusty armor and pale golden naked skin.

Not only was this beast's speed astonishing, but its four claws were also unbelievably sharp.

Not to mention the deep and shallow claw marks on his armor, his powerful physical body, which he had cultivated to this day, was also scratched with threads of blood once caught by the opponent's claws.

Fortunately, under the cultivation of spirit fruits and medicines like the Heaven Corpse Pearl and Dragon Scale Fruit, every muscle on his body was as tough as an ordinary magic treasure, and his recovery ability was also astonishing. In a short while, these flesh wounds healed as if they had never been there.

Even so, Han Li felt extremely depressed.

When he first encountered this small leopard, which he didn't know what kind of beast it was, it was sleeping sweetly on a nearby tree trunk, looking completely harmless.

Han Li had also been impulsive at the time, jumping onto the tree trunk and wanting to pet the small beast a few times.

But he never expected that this beast, once startled awake, would be so fierce in its rage.

As it jumped and flickered, it was as if over a dozen small leopards were attacking him simultaneously.

And with his spiritual sense unable to be projected outside his body, even though Han Li had a pair of spirit eyes, he was at a great disadvantage without being able to infuse them with spiritual power.

For a time, he was forced back step by step by the small beast, and wounds covered his entire body in an instant.

Helpless, Han Li could only push his Smoke Steps to the limit, while simultaneously channeling his divine strength into his arms, dancing the long spear spirit tool in his hand into a black light.

Whistling sounds erupted within the spear shadows, which finally made the beast feel a bit wary and slowed its offensive slightly.

However, dancing like this, even with Han Li's astonishing divine strength, he couldn't keep it up forever.

Just now, when the long spear in his hand slowed down slightly, the small beast's pair of claws plunged into the spear wind, brushing lightly across his throat.

Han Li was naturally startled, and in his urgency, the long spear in his hand performed beyond its normal limits, faster than before by thirty percent. As the spear shaft spun rapidly, it also brushed across one of the opponent's arms.

The small beast was also startled and jumped several zhang away, then stared at Han Li with a pair of emerald green eyes, extremely vigilant.

Just like that, Han Li and the beast reached a stalemate, forming the current confrontation.

Estimating that it had encountered a monster like Han Li, who had infinite strength and was invulnerable to blades and spears, the beast must have been extremely depressed in its heart.

At this moment, Han Li held the spear horizontally in front of him, and taking this opportunity, he narrowed his eyes and examined the small beast carefully.

After a while, Han Li sighed softly.

Apart from its body being truly a bit small, it was clearly a leopard; there was nothing unusual about it at all. He had searched through all the intelligence he had gathered in Sunset City, and there was no mention of any powerful ancient beast that looked like this.

As for it being a demonic beast, that was even more impossible.

This small beast was clearly like him, relying entirely on its physical body to fight, and there was no demonic power on it at all.

It might be a mutated beast!

Han Li pondered for a long time, but could only come to a conclusion that even he didn't quite believe.

After a long confrontation with Han Li, the small beast finally lost its patience. With a flash of ferocity, it crouched down slightly and launched another attack.

Han Li felt a chill in his heart, his five fingers tightened around the long spear, and he assumed a defensive posture. But on his other hand, a flash of white light occurred, and a spirit beast bag appeared in his hand.

Inside the bag were ten thousand Gold-Devouring Beetles!

Han Li had made up his mind; as soon as the small beast lunged over, he would immediately use his spirit ring to open the bag.

Although he had no spiritual power now and couldn't command the spirit insects at all, relying on the instinct of these insects to devour everything, they would naturally solve the small beast. The only trouble was that releasing the spirit insects and then gathering them back together, without being able to project his spiritual sense outside his body, would take quite a bit of effort.

But Han Li couldn't care about much else at this moment.

The small beast let out a low roar, and as its figure flickered, it suddenly turned from one into two, two into four...

In the blink of an eye, over thirty identical small beasts appeared on the tree trunk opposite, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, about to pounce over.

Han Li was startled, realizing that the beast hadn't used its full strength just now, and immediately brought the spirit beast bag in front of him, about to throw it out.

Just at this critical moment, a strange cry came from afar, sounding like a crow but much sharper.

Upon hearing this sound, the dozens of small beasts opposite were all stunned, their phantoms disappeared instantly, and in the blink of an eye, only one small beast remained.

This beast looked at Han Li deeply, then twisted its head and shot toward the depths of the dense forest.

In a short while, it was gone without a trace.

Han Li felt a sense of relief and put the spirit beast bag away again.

Although he didn't know what was going on, Han Li had no interest in chasing after it and looking for trouble. He needed to find a place immediately to contemplate the insight he had just gained.

The extraordinary performance during the battle just now had allowed him to vaguely grasp something. This was very likely a golden opportunity to break through his bottleneck.

Han Li turned his hand and found a green robe from his storage bracelet, put it on again, and his figure flickered as he headed in the opposite direction.

Because he was afraid that the flash of insight would disappear, Han Li didn't walk too far, but ran over a hundred miles in one breath, found a small valley at random, and struck a rough small cave into the stone wall.

He entered it immediately and sat cross-legged to meditate.

This epiphany lasted for three days and three nights.

When Han Li opened his eyes again, a look of disappointment appeared on his face.

Although he had gained some insights from this epiphany, it was not enough to allow him to break through his bottleneck.

However, he was not too depressed.

This time he didn't succeed, but it showed that life-and-death battles were indeed helpful for breaking through. As long as he experienced a few more insights, there would always be an opportunity for success.

After Han Li calmed his mind, he organized his belongings and immediately walked out of the stone cave.

Standing at the cave entrance, he paused and pondered for a good while, still feeling that the small beast was his best opponent. If he could fight it a few more times, perhaps he could have another epiphany.

Although he knew there were some risks, compared to the matter of recovering his spiritual power, it didn't count for much.

Han Li finally made up his mind with a solemn expression to take the risk and look for the beast again.

He immediately left the small valley and headed straight in the direction where the small beast had disappeared that day.

But Han Li was greatly disappointed.

He searched the mountain range for hundreds of miles in one breath, but never found the shadow of the small beast again.

Helpless, Han Li had to leave this mountain range temporarily and look for other suitable targets.

Over ten days later, on the edge of a giant lake, over a dozen human body cultivators in various attires were surrounded by a group of strange snakes with cockscombs on their heads and blood-red bodies, forced to back-to-back desperately channel the spirit tools in their hands to resist the attacks of these strange snakes.

The attacks of these strange snakes were nothing more than two types: one was spitting blood-red poisonous mist from their mouths, and the other was shooting their bodies out like strong crossbow bolts.

The poisonous mist was fine; these humans all had anti-poison pills in their mouths, so they were fine for a while.

But the direct impact of those strange snakes could not be resisted.

These strange snakes were not large in size, but the force of their shooting was extremely strong. Even though the spirit tools in the hands of the human body cultivators were not weak, hitting them could only knock them down but not cause heavy injuries.

As a result, after several rounds of defense, these human body cultivators felt their arms becoming heavier and heavier, gradually unable to swing them.

Besides these strange snakes, there was another giant strange snake behind the group that far exceeded its peers in size.

This snake seemed to be the king of the group, and seeing that its side had the upper hand, it couldn't help but let out a few strange cries, full of pride.

Just at this moment, a buzzing sound like thunder suddenly came from under the nearby lake surface. Before these humans and strange snakes could react, a large expanse of silver light flashed on the lake surface, and countless crystal water arrows a foot long shot out, covering all the humans and snakes on the shore in an instant.

"Ah!" The human body cultivators only had time to exclaim before they had no way to avoid it. In the blink of an eye, they were like the strange snakes, all pierced into existence like beehives, falling one after another in pools of blood.

Only the giant snake at the very back was exceptionally clever; it suddenly lunged, actually darting over ten zhang away, barely avoiding being pierced by the water arrows.

But before the snake's body could land, the ground below suddenly cracked, and a silver hand shot out from the dust, grabbing the giant snake by the seven inches below its head.

The giant snake was startled, its neck actually stretching out a foot like a spring, its head turning back, and its mouth opening wide to bite fiercely onto the silver hand.

After a crisp "bang," the silver hand remained unscathed, but a look of pain appeared in the giant snake's eyes, and blood flowed from its mouth.

The silver hand was actually incredibly hard, instead breaking several of the giant snake's sharp teeth.

The snake, in pain, wanted to let go, but it was already too late.

Another silver hand appeared eerily nearby, grabbing the giant snake's head in one go. Immediately, the ten fingers of the two silver hands exerted force, ripping the massive snake head off alive. From the headless giant snake's neck, a pillar of blood several feet long erupted.

The silver hands let go one by one, and the giant snake's corpse fell heavily to the ground.

At this time, the dust filling the sky finally drifted away, and a man's figure, shimmering with silver light and with an indistinguishable face, appeared on the spot.

And just at this moment, the lake water nearby churned, and a crystal water person about a foot tall appeared, making it impossible to distinguish between male and female.

"Water Charm! It really is you!" The silver figure saw the water person, and a thunderous voice came from its mouth.

"Why, Tie Ren, didn't you come here to find me? Chi Mie should have arrived too; call him out." The water person's body shimmered with water light, and it replied without emotion.

"Hehe, no need for your invitation. I will appear myself."

A strange figure appeared, and then a mass of crimson flames emerged near the silver figure, turning into a fire person half a foot tall in the blink of an eye.

Its entire body was rolling with flames.

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