Chapter 1383

"Illusion?" Han Li was startled upon seeing this scene, but he immediately shook his sleeves. Dozens of small golden flying swords swam out like fish, and with a flicker, they all transformed into foot-long golden swords.

He urged the sword technique in his heart, and each flying sword blurred slightly, splitting into several identical sword lights, which then began to circle and dance.

In an instant, the sky was filled with golden light and crisscrossing sword Qi, and the monsters within several dozen zhang were all slashed to pieces.

Monster blood, remains, and the roars of monsters filled the space around Han Li.

But Han Li's brows furrowed slightly!

Whether it was the feeling of the flying swords slashing into them or everything he witnessed with his own eyes, it was all so vivid. These monsters did not seem like illusions at all, making it impossible to distinguish any falsehood.

He felt a bit of shock and suspicion in his heart, but his face remained expressionless. The sword lights transformed from the flying swords did not stop for a moment, guarding him tightly.

The old Daoist standing on the Mirage Beast in the distance saw this, but a strange smile appeared on his face.

The monsters appearing all around seemed endless, and Han Li's sword light was incomparably sharp; in the blink of an eye, hundreds of monsters had died under his swords.

However, the broken remains of these dead monsters floated in the nearby air instead of falling down. As a result, the bloody stench grew thicker and thicker, becoming exceptionally pungent.

A moment later, when Han Li realized something was wrong, the Mirage Beast under the old Daoist's feet let out a cry, and all the broken remains instantly transformed into clusters of pitch-black thick fog, rolling straight toward Han Li.

Hundreds of sword lights circled and danced around, occasionally slashing open parts of the black fog, but as more black fog entangled them, all the flying swords suddenly became sluggish and dull.

At the same time, the Mirage Beast's massive body swayed, quietly transforming into a streak of black Qi that shot out, disappearing into the black fog to hide.

The next moment, two long red shadows shot out from the black fog without any warning. After a flash, they were strangely in front of Han Li; one went straight for Han Li's head, and the other went directly to pierce his chest and heart, moving as fast as lightning.

If it weren't for Han Li circulating his cultivation technique throughout his body and his blue-glowing eyes, with his Clear Spirit Eye ability pushed to the limit, he truly would not have been able to capture such a fast attack with his spiritual sense alone.

Han Li's expression sank. Without using any magic treasures, golden light flashed on his face, and his two hands grabbed out, appearing slow but actually fast.

At the same time, both hands became shimmering with golden light, as if forged from red gold.

With two "bang" sounds, the two strange golden hands grabbed the two bright red tongues, each with a fleshy ball at the tip, and a massive force suddenly traveled along his arms.

But Han Li's shoulders only swayed once, and he remained as if nothing had happened.

Seeing this, the old Daoist was startled, a trace of surprise flashing in his eyes.

One must know that this Mirage Beast not only possessed innate illusionary abilities that were masterful, but its massive strength was also renowned among the Shadow Clan. The fact that the hundred-zhang mountain peak was sent flying by a flick of its twin tongues showed its immense power.

The human youth before him looked unremarkable, yet he had actually grabbed the Mirage Beast's twin tongues with just his bare hands and appeared exceptionally relaxed; this was simply too unbelievable.

However, the old Daoist was not truly worried. The Mirage Beast did not just possess brute strength.

Sure enough, after the twin tongues fell into Han Li's hands and remained motionless despite a fierce tug, they suddenly erupted with white light, transforming into two giant crimson pythons. With their ferocious mouths wide open, they lunged straight to bite Han Li's head.

Han Li only felt his ten fingers shake violently, and the spot he was grabbing became ice-cold and incredibly slippery. These pythons truly seemed like they were about to break free.

With blue light erupting in his eyes, Han Li's golden hands flickered, strangely transforming into black and white colors. Subsequently, a phantom of a small silver mountain appeared on the back of his pitch-black hands, and at the same time, his five fingers thickened by more than a fold.

With a "puff" sound, fresh blood splattered out; these hands had actually crushed the pythons into two pieces.

His crystal-clear, jade-like hands then had five white bone skulls manifest on the five fingers, which strangely flicked, simultaneously biting the pythons at their vital points.

The skulls' large mouths grinned and sucked fiercely a few times, and the pythons' bodies instantly became exceptionally withered, having their essence blood sucked dry.

This was the result of Han Li condensing the Mountain-Suppressing Magnetic Mountain, the Five-Child Heart-Connecting Demons, and his own hands into one.

Doing this was a unique cultivation method recorded in the Hundred-Vein Treasure Refining Technique.

The process of refining limbs into treasures is naturally incomparably long, but if one uses existing treasures to take a shortcut, this process can be greatly shortened.

And the result of his cultivation using this method was that not only did he condense the abilities of his hands with the power of the two treasures, but when facing enemies, the power of his hands and the two treasures combined, making them naturally exceptionally flexible, and their power was far superior to using them individually against enemies.

Only then did Han Li catch it off guard and destroy the pythons transformed from the Mirage Beast's twin tongues in one go.

The old Daoist clearly did not expect this result. In his shock and anger, before he could make any move, two exceptionally painful monster roars came from the black Qi. Immediately, the black Qi parted, and the Mirage Beast lunged out, but its body blurred midway and suddenly became transparent and disappeared.

This beast actually also possessed invisibility abilities.

A moment later, the beast's roars sounded all around Han Li, making it impossible for anyone to distinguish its exact location.

This time, even though his blue-glowing eyes scanned back and forth, he still could not see through it at all.

Seeing this situation, Han Li chuckled lightly.

He waved his two large sleeves toward the surroundings, and suddenly a buzzing sound came from his cuffs, followed by countless golden light spots rushing out wildly.

As soon as these golden light spots shot out, their bodies expanded wildly, each transforming into a giant beetle half a foot in size.

These were the mature Gold-Devouring Beetles that Han Li had spent countless painstaking efforts to finally complete.

There were over a thousand of these giant insects flying out, dancing everywhere in the nearby air.

As a result, in just an instant, the monster was bumped into by several giant insects under the sky-filling giant insects and revealed its form.

Without Han Li needing to urge the spirit insects, all the Gold-Devouring Beetles flew over with a buzz, and the golden insect cloud instantly submerged the monster.

The Mirage Beast let out an exceptionally painful howl, but immediately with a "puff" sound, its massive body transformed into a rolling mass of black Qi and fled.

Ordinary insects would naturally be helpless when encountering such an intangible body.

But an unbelievable scene appeared!

Just as the black fog was about to flash out from the gaps between the Gold-Devouring Beetles, these terrifying beetles had their claws flash with golden light, sticking firmly onto the black fog, and then without hesitation, they lowered their heads and began to gnaw wildly.

With over a thousand such giant insects devouring it together, even though the black fog transformed by the giant beast was vast, more than one-tenth of it was bitten away in the blink of an eye.

Miserable screams immediately came from the black fog continuously. The fog rolled, and ten thin, long gold-and-silver snakes shot out from within, each about a zhang long. With one bite each, they lightning-fast swallowed ten giant insects.

As the snake heads blurred and flicked again, another ten golden insects disappeared into the snake mouths.

But immediately, after the ten gold-and-silver snakes let out a hiss, they all rolled on the ground, instantly reverting into clusters of black fog.

One by one, the golden giant insects flew out of the black fog safely, circled once, and then attached themselves to it again, continuing to devour it.

These spirit insects did not look injured in the slightest.

Subsequently, the black fog quickly transformed into several types of beasts specifically designed to deal with insects, but no matter which one, they were completely unable to harm these Gold-Devouring Beetles at all. Instead, after this brief delay, nearly half of the black fog had been torn away, and the speed at which it transformed into monsters became sluggish and slow.

From the moment Han Li released the insect swarm to the moment the black fog was on the verge of being destroyed, it only took a few breaths. The old Daoist in the distance stared blankly, his eyes fixed on these giant golden insects, and a strange expression gradually appeared on his face.

"Gold-Devouring Beetles, mature Gold-Devouring Beetles!" The old Daoist muttered twice, then suddenly patted his own head with one hand without hesitation.

Red light flashed, and a red shadow shot out from his crown. After circling once, it suddenly transformed into a dazzling rainbow, fleeing more than a hundred zhang away, and after a few more flashes, it disappeared without a trace on the horizon.

As for the old Daoist's body left in place, it transformed into a withered corpse. A breeze blew by, and the corpse flew away with the wind, turning into a pile of flying ash.

"Eh?" Han Li, who had been standing still, let out a soft sound, staring at the direction where the rainbow disappeared, his expression becoming uncertain.

"To think he didn't even care about such a rare beast. Could it be that mature Gold-Devouring Beetles really have such a great reputation?"

After saying this with some confusion, Han Li turned his head and looked at the black fog that had been almost completely devoured. Han Li rubbed his chin, suddenly raised his hand and beckoned. Immediately, those Gold-Devouring Beetles in the distance flew up, circled once, and then shrank to the size of rice grains before disappearing into his sleeves without a trace.

After doing all this, Han Li turned around and was just about to fly away, but his expression suddenly changed drastically, his body swayed several times, and after a stumble, he almost fell straight down from the sky.

"How is this possible? How could my spiritual sense be consumed so much that it almost damaged my Primordial Spirit?" Han Li hurriedly looked inside himself, his face turning pale with shock.

His powerful spiritual sense, which was almost no less than the Void Refinement stage, had actually been consumed by seventy or eighty percent, almost completely depleted. And this process had been silent; he hadn't noticed any abnormality at all.

"Could it be..."

What kind of person was Han Li? He almost immediately thought of the mature Gold-Devouring Beetles he had just driven, and with an ugly expression, he had some premonition in his heart.

He suddenly shook his sleeves again, and a golden light shot out from his sleeves, then transformed into a giant beetle, its wings spreading as it circled and danced nearby.

Han Li immediately probed with his spiritual sense, and as a result, a moment later, he was stunned in place.

At the same time the giant beetle was released, his spiritual sense was actually slowly being consumed at a visible speed. Although it didn't look serious, this was only one Gold-Devouring Beetle. If hundreds or thousands were driven at the same time, the consumption of spiritual sense could be imagined.

With his current Void Refinement-level spiritual sense, he absolutely could not support it for even a moment. What was even more terrifying was that unless he looked inside with his spiritual sense, this consumption was silent and soundless; he couldn't detect it at all.

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