Chapter 1385

Han Li paid no heed to the words of these two people, but as a flash of blue light passed through his eyes, his vision instantly pierced the nearby thick wind and sand, allowing him to see extremely far into the distance.

In a place over a hundred li away, an astonishing heavenly omen existed conspicuously.

Only seen at the far end of the horizon, above black and below yellow, with a straight white line in the middle extending infinitely to both sides, as if endless.

But it was too far away, so he could only make out a rough idea.

Han Li's eyebrows twitched slightly, and the spiritual light in his eyes faded.

At this moment, several people again activated their evasion lights and rushed straight toward that omen.

After a moment, Long Dong and the young 'woman' and others similarly saw the apparition.

It turned out that above the sky was actually a patch of black 'color' 'confusion' mist churning unpredictably, while below was a yellow 'color' hurricane rolling and sweeping violently; at their point of contact, however, there appeared a massive trench-like existence, a hundred zhang high, emitting white light, separating the two, with both the black mist and the hurricane pouring endlessly into this fissure as if into a bottomless abyss.

"This is the One Line Heaven, truly interesting!" the white-robed maiden gazed at this wood, and actually 'revealed' a faint smile at the corner of her mouth.

"Let's go, now is the time when the sandstorm is weakest; if we wait a few more days, just entering this entrance will require great effort." Long Dong finished his assessment and spoke solemnly.

Immediately, he flipped his hand over, and a fist-sized blue 'color' pearl appeared in his palm.

With a flick of his finger, the pearl spun around and then suddenly shrank to several times smaller.

Long Dong opened his mouth and actually sucked this pearl into his mouth.

Han Li and the others saw this and likewise each took out an identical pearl and swallowed it in the same way.

Immediately, a layer of strange, lustrous light appeared around their bodies; the original howling wild winds dancing nearby, upon contact with this lustrous light, vanished as if a mud cow entering the sea.

These pearls were precisely the Stabilizing Wind Pearls specially prepared for them by the high-ranking officials of Tian Yuan City before departure.

Hardly having given it much thought, several people's evasion lights had already brought them to within less than a thousand zhang of the heavenly phenomenon, without them needing to activate their evasion lights, an invisible immense force arose nearby, and several streaks of light flashing briefly were sucked into the great fissure.

As soon as Han Li entered it, he felt the suction ease, and he completely regained his freedom. But facing him came countless white 'color' wind blades covering the sky and earth, while his ears were filled with piercing, abnormal shrieks; the wind in this fissure was actually more than ten times fiercer than outside.

Had he not felt he already had the Stabilizing Wind Pearl on him, he would have likely immediately unleashed a treasure to protect his entire body.

But doing so would obviously consume a great deal of magic power.

However, now, when these wind blades touched the lustrous light, they vanished without a trace.

Han Li swept his gaze around, only to find that his spiritual sense could not leave his body, and even his clear spiritual eyes could see only a hundred or so zhang away; as for the others, they were not within this range at all, their traces completely vanished.

He frowned slightly, without hesitation, his body erupted in spiritual light, transforming into a blue rainbow that shot forth, plunging headfirst into the hurricane ahead and disappearing.

Several days later, at the entrance of the One Line Heaven, spiritual light suddenly flashed, and two more evasion lights shot in.

The light faded, revealing two middle-aged cultivators wearing brocade robes.

Their attire was similar, each with a purple headband on their head, and precision light shot in their eyes. But upon closer inspection, their faces bore a four-to-five-part resemblance to Long Dong, though one had an abnormally pale complexion, and the other's long sleeve was missing half, as if he had just endured a great battle.

The two cautiously examined the great fissure ahead for a few moments, transmitted a few words via lip movement, and then joined their evasion lights together and shot into it.

Not long after, a red shadow flew into the sandstorm, but after pausing near the One Line Heaven, it let out a few unwilling roars, then circled a few times and fled back.

Thus, besides the howling winds, there was no longer a single human figure in this place.

……

Several months later, at the summit of a green small mountain, Han Li stood alone on a giant stone, his gaze flickering as he looked into the distance.

About several tens of li away from the small mountain, an immensely vast forest stood there.

This forest was indeed somewhat strange; no matter what kind of tree, its leaves were green with some dark flashing flower patterns, and from afar, the entire forest appeared black-green in general.

This was precisely the destination of Han Li and the others' mission, the outermost edge of the Wood Clan's power, the "Black Leaf Forest".

After staring intently for a good while, Han Li finally withdrew his gaze, his brows tightly furrowed as he began to ponder.

Speaking of which, although he passed through the One Line Heaven, though it took considerable time, he passed through smoothly and without any mishap, actually encountering no accident at all in that seemingly strange place.

What troubled him was, whether the other three had taken a wrong turn or encountered something else, he had waited near the exit for several days or, yet could not contact anyone.

After careful consideration, he decisively stopped waiting and simply went alone straight to this place.

On the way, he encountered some minor troubles, even exterminating several waves of occasional low-level Wood Clan members, before finally arriving here.

During the journey, the blood-mark youth and the young 'woman' had already openly shared the details of this mission with the others.

Therefore, Han Li also had a clear understanding of the mission details in his mind.

According to them, both clans had dispatched hidden personnel into the Wood Clan, seemingly holding not-low positions. Their purpose in this mission was to penetrate deep into a certain part of the Black Leaf Forest, retrieve the detailed information gathered by the hidden personnel safely, then briefly observe the Wood Clan's movements to see if there were any abnormal major actions.

This mission seemed not simple, but half the danger lay in how to traverse this small stretch of barren realm between the two clans, while the other half naturally lay in how to silently infiltrate the Black Leaf Forest without being discovered by the Wood Clan.

Among the surrounding clans, it happened that humans and Wood Clan members had the least contact, and their knowledge of the situation in the Black Leaf Forest was only approximate; otherwise, they would not have risked sending them before the great war erupted to extract the Wood Clan's information.

Han Li had already been waiting here for half a month, yet still saw no sign of the others' arrival. Meanwhile, the deadline given by the mission was drawing ever closer.

After estimating the infiltration time and possible troubles, he truly could not continue waiting in place.

Han Li pondered for a long time, then raised his head to gaze at the sky.

Only seen, three moons and four suns had already appeared in the sky; not long after, the sky 'color' would completely darken.

According to known data, Wood Clan members are born with weak five senses; normally, communication and combat rely on spiritual perception, so the senior cultivators who issued the mission advised them that when infiltrating the Black Leaf Forest, it was best to act at night and hide during the day, which would be somewhat safer.

After another glance at the distant forest, Han Li finally made up his mind. Regardless of whether the others could truly arrive, that bottle of Exterminating Dust Pill was a must-obtain. Even if it were just him alone, he would have to grit his teeth and complete this mission.

With the decision made in his heart, Han Li immediately sat cross-legged on the giant stone, closed his eyes.

After several hours, the sky 'color' became completely pitch black, and the distant black night forest resembled a beast crouching under nightfall, waiting to move, silent and soundless.

Han Li's eyes opened, and brilliant light shot forth, but immediately flashed, and his gaze dimmed and lost its luster.

He made a hand seal, his body slightly blurred, and then vanished as if an illusion from atop the giant stone.

In reality, after Han Li performed the concealment technique, he had already risen into the air, under the cover of night 'color', and slowly drifted toward the distant forest.

Even though Han Li had already reduced his evasion speed to the minimum, after half an hour, he appeared at the edge of the forest.

Given the boundless expanse of this forest, it was naturally impossible for every part to have Wood Clan members present, but Han Li also dared not boldly fly through the air directly.

Generally speaking, wherever the Wood Clan's influence extends, there will be planted a Dream Luo Spirit Tree.

This tree is said to be the Wood Clan's unique guardian spirit tree, capable of controlling a certain range and number of other trees, possessing monitoring and several other kinds of inconceivable great divine abilities.

Of course, each Dream Luo Tree, depending on the range it monitors and the number of trees it controls, naturally has varying monitoring abilities.

The dream luo tree in the Black Leaf Forest, though its monitoring capabilities had already been thoroughly investigated by Tian Yuan City.

Because the Black Leaf Forest lies at the very edge of the Wood Clan's territory, the tree's monitoring range is extremely broad, covering nearly the entire forest; correspondingly, the number of trees controlled by this spirit technique is not large, and it can only roughly sense the presence of beings at the Void Refinement level or above.

Of course, if any alien race were to fly openly and brazenly through the air, even if the dream luo tree failed to detect them, they would certainly not escape the spiritual awareness of other Wood Clan members.

Therefore, Han Li not only completely restrained his aura, but after landing on the ground, he flickered once and transformed into a faint phantom, directly sinking into the forest, swaying a few times between several giant trees before vanishing completely.

With Han Li's such **overbearing** strength, combined with the coordination of the Nine Variations of the Gale Wind and the Luo Yan Step, his movements in the forest seemed ghostly, as if still in midair.

All that could be seen was a blurred green shadow, disappearing and reappearing intermittently, and in the blink of an eye, he had penetrated over a hundred li into the forest.

Han Li listened to the whistling wind in his ears while calmly pondering.

According to the mission, if everything went smoothly, he should reach the agreed-upon location in three days; once he obtained the intelligence, this mission would be considered a complete success, ten **. Detecting Wood Clan intelligence was merely incidental—better if something could be found, but if there was no gain, it would likely be of no consequence.

The green shadow paused, flickered once in the void, and then strangely vanished behind a large tree.

Almost simultaneously, heavy and abnormal footsteps came from ahead, one after another, approaching.

It seemed as if some huge creature was walking toward this direction.

At this moment, Han Li had already hidden himself in an unusually dense cluster of branches and leaves on a giant tree, motionless, gazing intently at the scene below.

After a while, two green 'colored' beasts, each ten zhang in length and resembling giant apes, appeared, each shouldering a massive copper fork, swaying grandly as they swept past beneath the tree.

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