Chapter 1384

Han Li was a bit depressed. 【Net】

The joy he originally felt after seeing the power of the mature Gold-Devouring Beetles had mostly vanished.

Although he possessed eight thousand mature Gold-Devouring Beetles, if he released too many, he feared that before he even saw the insect swarm defeat the enemy, he would have his spiritual sense sucked dry first.

However, what was strange was that when these Gold-Devouring Beetles had not yet transformed into mature ones, this phenomenon of constant spiritual sense consumption had not appeared.

This left him completely puzzled.

He wouldn't ignore this situation; at the very least, he had to find the reason for the loss of spiritual sense first.

Otherwise, how would he dare to drive the spirit insects against enemies again!

After pondering for a moment, Han Li raised his hand and beckoned to the Gold-Devouring Beetle in the air.

Immediately, the insect circled once and landed on his palm.

A wisp of spiritual sense was released and circled around the insect, but everything was normal, and there was no abnormality.

He exhaled lightly, narrowed his eyes, and pondered for a moment. Suddenly remembering something, he waved one hand, and the insect flew again in the air, and his spiritual sense entangled it once more.

As a result, a moment later, his expression changed drastically.

As his spiritual sense circled the insect, it slowly weakened, being continuously sucked into the giant insect's body.

At this point, Han Li completely understood everything.

It turned out that the reason for the massive loss of spiritual sense was that when the mature Gold-Devouring Beetles flew, their bodies would automatically suck the spiritual sense used to drive the spirit insects. No wonder that after driving the spirit insects, his spiritual sense would be consumed so massively without him knowing.

After knowing the reason for his fear, Han Li furrowed his brows and thought for a long time, feeling that this matter was truly difficult to solve.

Although the consumption of spiritual sense was only a temporary situation, generally, as long as one meditated quietly for a day, or a longer time, one could recover as much as possible.

But if this situation occurred during a battle, it was an absolutely fatal crisis.

Whether it was the execution of cultivation techniques and secret arts, or the driving of magic treasures and magic tools, all required the support of a large amount of spiritual sense.

It seemed that until a solution was found for the Gold-Devouring Beetle swarm, they could only be used as a trump card.

Just from the fact that this insect scared away that red shadow as soon as it appeared, the Gold-Devouring Beetles truly had a fierce reputation, and they had such a great name even in the Spirit Realm.

The so-called rare insect ranking of that Demon Dao cultivator in the Mortal Realm back then was already not worth mentioning in Han Li's eyes today. With that low-tier cultivator's knowledge, naturally, many mistakes would appear, and that ranking was mostly useless in the Spirit Realm.

But the power of the mature Gold-Devouring Beetles was still far beyond Han Li's expectations.

After pondering in his heart, Han Li didn't dare to stay here for long. After immediately identifying the direction, he transformed into a green rainbow and headed straight for the direction of the One-Line Sky.

If the other few people hadn't fallen, it was highly likely that they would meet again there. Although the spiritual energy marks left on them had long since dissipated and disappeared, they naturally had another set of contact methods between them. As long as the distance between them wasn't too far, they could contact each other.

More than ten days later, a green rainbow flew alone and quietly in the desert sky.

Although the escape light itself was green, he didn't know what secret art he had used to make the escape light become dim and lusterless. If one didn't investigate carefully, it wouldn't be easy to discover.

The one in the escape light was naturally Han Li.

Nothing else happened in the ten-plus days, and he didn't see any Shadow Clan people chasing him.

It seemed that that red shadow had truly been completely scared away by the Gold-Devouring Beetles.

With peace of mind, Han Li just kept his head down and hurried on his way.

The spiritual sense that had been completely consumed had also recovered on its own during these days of flying.

At this moment, he was playing with an exceptionally smooth jade bottle in his hand. It was the medicine bottle with the ancient characters "Dust-Extinguishing Pill" inscribed on the surface, and inside it contained all the Dust-Extinguishing Pills he had received when he set out from Tianyuan City.

This was also one of the rewards for him carrying out this kind of dangerous mission.

That is to say, as long as he could assist others in completing the mission, he could openly regain his freedom.

Not just him, all the Ascended cultivators carrying out dangerous missions this time would be allocated enough Dust-Extinguishing Pills.

But to prevent them from sneaking away on the way, or not being diligent in carrying out the mission, all the medicine bottles had been placed with an extremely powerful restriction. Unless the mission could be completed, the medicine bottle could not be opened by normal means at all.

If one forcibly destroyed it, the bottle would instead burst, destroying all the pills inside.

As long as the mission could truly be completed, and verified through various different methods, the other side would naturally tell them the method to lift the restriction through a Ten-Thousand-Mile Talisman.

Han Li stroked the medicine bottle for a while, his expression moved, spiritual light suddenly flashed on his hand, and the medicine bottle disappeared.

He saw that at some point, a group of long-billed monster birds that looked like giant cranes appeared in the sky ahead, with pale yellow feathers and purple fleshy tumors on their heads.

These giant birds clearly discovered Han Li's location, let out a few sharp cries, changed direction, and lunged straight over.

Seeing this group of monster birds getting closer and closer, Han Li sighed lightly, the escape light flashed, and his body suddenly disappeared into the void. The next moment, he strangely appeared in the middle of dozens of yellow monster birds.

Without seeing Han Li make any move, a shimmering light robe first emerged from his body.

Instantly, air fluctuations erupted above the old Daoist's head, revealing a pitch-black mountain.

With a heaven-shaking loud noise, after golden and silver thunder light intertwined and flashed, all the nearby yellow monster birds were reduced to ashes.

The surroundings suddenly became incomparably empty.

Han Li scanned the surroundings expressionlessly, then swayed his body, transformed into a green rainbow, and flew away through the air.

The tall stone pillars that only had half left, as well as the remnants of the zhang-high stone walls that remained motionless in the strong wind, all indicated that this was some unknown ancient architectural ruin. Just looking at how weathered they were, they had long since existed for who knows how many tens of thousands of years.

On a small section of the stone wall in the center of the ruins, a black-robed young woman sat cross-legged, and nearby a purple-robed youth paced back and forth. Both had gloomy expressions, but neither spoke a word.

The two were Xiao Hong and Long Dong.

The youth's expression was normal. It seemed that the large amount of essence blood lost because of driving that blood sword that day had actually been made up for quite a bit in a short time. It was unknown what spirit medicine he had eaten, or what other secret art he had used.

Otherwise, looking at the situation at that time, if he really wanted to recover his vitality, it would take at least several years.

A while later, the young woman and Long Dong sensed something at the same time and suddenly turned their heads to look at the horizon on one side.

He saw a faint golden shadow emerge silently and shoot over quietly.

After a few flashes, the golden light converged, and a white-robed young girl appeared high in the sky.

"Sister Xiao, Fellow Daoist Long, you've been waiting a long time, right? Both of you seem to be fine." The young girl said with a smile, looking completely unharmed.

Seeing the young girl say this, the young woman smiled reluctantly, while a flash of joy appeared in Long Dong's eyes.

"I knew Miss Ye was exceptionally clever and would never have any problems. There are still two fellow daoists who haven't arrived. That day, Brother Li was captured by that Shadow Clan person, I fear he is in more danger than safety. And Brother Han hasn't contacted us now, I fear he was also caught up by the Shadow Clan people and had an accident." The youth sighed and said.

The young woman pursed her lips, her gaze flashed, but in the end, she didn't say anything.

"Brother Li might truly have been captured, but Fellow Daoist Han shouldn't have had an accident so easily. It wouldn't hurt to wait a few more days." The white-robed young girl drifted down from the sky, stood in front of the two, and said leisurely.

"Wait a few more days? Now is the weakest time of the year for the One-Line Sky sandstorm. If we miss it, we'll have to wait a long time. At most, we can wait two more days." The young woman said indifferently.

"One day, hmm, that should be about right." The white-robed young girl didn't argue much and agreed immediately. Subsequently, she took a few light steps, walked to a cleaner corner, and sat down to meditate as well.

Time passed bit by bit, and half a day later, suddenly bursts of buzzing sounds came from the three of them at the same time.

The three of them suddenly showed expressions of different kinds. After glancing at each other, Long Dong spoke:

"I'll activate the positioning disk. Fellow Daoist Han actually didn't have an accident, this is truly a fortunate thing!"

Subsequently, the blood-mole youth shook his sleeves, a green magic disk appeared in his hand, he pinched a technique with one hand, and a green magic technique was cast, disappearing into the magic disk without a trace.

The magic disk erupted with spiritual light, the blood-mole youth joined his two hands together, and the object disappeared without a trace.

After doing all this, the youth stood in place with his hands behind his back, motionless.

As a result, several hours later, from another direction, a green rainbow appeared quietly. After a few flashes, the green rainbow arrived before the three. After circling once, the green light dissipated, and Han Li appeared.

"Brother Han, it's good that you're fine too. This time we were ambushed by the Shadow Clan, and most of us are safe, it can be considered our good luck." Long Dong said with a smile.

"All fellow daoists are safe, this is indeed a great fortune!" Han Li scanned the few people, and also smiled slightly.

"Since Brother Han has also arrived, let's rest for half a day, and then set off immediately. So as not to be entangled by those Shadow Clan people again." Xiao Hong proposed calmly.

"Fairy Xiao's words are reasonable, this place is indeed not a place to stay for long." Long Dong nodded repeatedly.

Han Li and the white-robed young girl naturally had no objections.

Half a day later, the few people drove their escape lights and left this place, flying cautiously toward a certain direction.

This time, after flying out more than ten thousand li, strong winds gradually appeared in front, and the further they went, the more violent it became. Not long after, the few people flew completely into a world of wind, sand, and flying stones. The surroundings were all a yellow, hazy expanse, and countless strong winds swept up countless yellow sand, whistling around the few people.

If it weren't for the fact that all of them had opened their protective spiritual light, I fear that after a few gusts of yellow wind, they would have been hard-hit and knocked down to the ground from the sky.

After advancing another thousand li against the strong wind, suddenly Long Dong, who was walking at the very front, paused his escape light, and immediately the sound of his voice transmission rang in the ears of the others behind:

"We're here, the One-Line Sky is in front. Hehe, this time if it weren't for the fact that the higher-ups prepared two consumable Wind-Fixing Pearls for each of us, I fear that even Void Refinement cultivators wouldn't dare to break into this place at will. With this pearl, it's enough for us to go back and forth safely once. But everyone still needs to be careful of the group of Wind Dragons living inside. However, there's no need to worry too much. The One-Line Sky is so big, we won't be so coincidental as to run into them."

"Fellow daoists, you still need to be careful inside, there might be other dangers. After all, those Shadow Clan people seemed to have been lying in ambush for us there long ago. Inside, there might be some traps. In case something really happens, everyone should find a way to protect themselves." The young woman also became solemn and said heavily.

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