Chapter 1404: Escaping

Clearly, these were all just phantoms Han Li had transformed using divine abilities.

At the same time, black light flashed above the giant's head, and another human figure appeared eerily from the void, pouncing downward silently.

But the Wood Spirit transformed giant seemed to have anticipated this long ago. It suddenly raised its head and sprayed a emerald-green light pillar from its mouth.

This light pillar was as thick as a water vat and incomparably fast. As a result, that green shadow had no time to dodge at all and was struck head-on.

Immediately, a scream rang out, and the green shadow stumbled and was sent flying by the strike.

A trace of a sneer appeared on the giant's face.

At this moment, behind its back, within arm's reach, purple light suddenly flared, and another human figure appeared eerily. With a shake of his sleeve, hundreds of golden light dots shot out.

The green shadow was actually another "Han Li."

At such close range, even though the giant had immediately sensed the green shadow's existence, it was too late to stop it.

Only the sound of "puchi puchi" like rain hitting a fence was heard as all those golden light dots struck the giant's back.

The giant was shocked and furious. With a low roar, another green giant hand appeared eerily above Han Li's head, grabbing down aggressively.

Han Li wasn't panicked. He spread his wings and was about to flash into the void and leave.

But the giant snorted coldly. Two fingernails on the giant hand that was grabbing down suddenly flicked, and two segments of fingernails trembled as they shot out, then vanished in a flash.

The next moment, two green rays pierced through Han Li's wings from behind with incredible speed, and the thunder rumble that had just begun stopped abruptly.

Han Li was finally shocked. Just as he wanted to move his figure to flee in another direction, it was already too late.

The giant hand in the sky flared with spiritual light, and he felt the surrounding air tighten, transforming into something like refined steel. Even with his massive force, he only managed to break free after a stall.

But because of this delay, the green giant hand grabbed him by the waist and held him tightly.

The green giant's strength was actually not inferior to his own.

The giant then smiled gloomily, a trace of violence appearing in its eyes.

It squeezed with its five fingers, and green light flowed through the giant hand, intending to forcefully crush Han Li into meat paste.

Han Li's expression changed drastically. He chanted in his mouth, and green light flowed incessantly on his body. His body within the five fingers flared, and the whole person was crushed as if made of paper, transforming into points of spiritual light.

These points of spiritual light gathered in the nearby air, transforming into a green talisman that shot toward the distance in a roll.

The giant's expression froze, revealing a look of surprise.

Dozens of zhang away, space fluctuated, and Han Li flashed out from the void. His expression was somewhat pale, but with a beckon, he took the green talisman into his hand.

In the nick of time just now, he had actually cast the "Spirit Transformation Talisman's" substitute-for-disaster divine ability, instantly replacing his body with the spiritual talisman and moving his true self to this place.

After being refined for so many years, the Spirit Transformation Talisman's divine ability was naturally far from what it was in the beginning.

At this moment, the human figure hit by the giant's light pillar in the high sky also suddenly moved, landing near Han Li in a disheveled state.

Its clothes were tattered and its expression was abnormally pale, but it turned its head and smiled eerily toward the giant.

It was actually another "Han Li."

The giant blinked, revealing a look of suspicion.

But immediately, the Han Li who had appeared later flared with pitch-black light, then his body shrank rapidly, actually transforming into a pitch-black, shiny, half-foot-tall little monkey.

It was the Ti Hun Beast!

When Han Li attacked just now, he had silently released this beast and transformed it into his own appearance to attack together.

The silver-rank Wood Spirit hadn't noticed, and was actually distracted and attracted. Meanwhile, Han Li, under the cover of the "Welcome" and the Ti Hun Beast, had used the "Heavenly Will Transformation Clearing Talisman" and slipped past silently.

Otherwise, with the other party's powerful divine sense, Han Li truly wouldn't have had any chance to get so close to the giant.

The green giant vaguely felt that something was wrong. Recalling the golden light dots that had shot out from Han Li's sleeve, its expression sank, and it grabbed toward its back.

After man and tree united, although it made the Wood Spirit's body become so formidable, its physical senses had become much duller. Originally, it didn't believe at all that the other party had the means to hurt it.

As a result, after its hand grabbed past and it brought it in front of its eyes, several inch-sized golden beetles appeared, crawling motionless in its palm.

"What is this?"

The green giant was stunned for a moment, then squeezed with its five fingers and opened them again. The few golden beetles were completely unharmed.

Its expression changed drastically.

Han Li in the distance saw this, and a sinister look flashed in his eyes. He suddenly urged something with his divine sense.

Immediately, golden light flared behind the giant, and half-foot-sized giant beetles appeared out of thin air, crawling all over half of the giant's body and devouring it wildly.

Han Li looked expressionless, but his heart was in his throat.

Although the Gold-Devouring Beetles were known to devour anything, in the records of the mortal world, this kind of spirit insect was restrained by treasures like wood and jade. And the Wood Spirit Clan member's man-tree unity divine ability was truly strange. Whether the other party's body, although resembling a giant tree, truly belonged to the so-called "wood" category of treasures, Han Li couldn't judge at all, and could only gamble on it.

As a result, the next moment, a scream of extreme pain came from the giant's mouth, and its two giant hands slapped toward its back desperately. The giant golden beetles on its back devoured incessantly, and the originally seemingly indestructible crystal-clear body was forcefully torn open by these giant insects without any effort.

With hundreds of giant insects devouring simultaneously, the green giant, although slow to react, felt a heart-tearing pain.

Han Li was overjoyed. After collecting the Ti Hun Beast with a shake of his sleeve, he flared with green light and broke through the air, fleeing.

Although the Gold-Devouring Beetles could deal with the other party, he, the spirit insect master, couldn't withstand a desperate strike from the other party. Naturally, it was better to flee far away.

"Gold-Devouring Beetles, mature Gold-Devouring Beetles, you actually have so many of them!" The giant's terrified roar came from far away, as if it had seen the most terrifying nightmare.

Immediately, bursting sounds rang out incessantly, and green light flashed across most of the sky instantly.

Han Li didn't look back, fleeing wildly, reaching the edge of the horizon in the blink of an eye, and after a few more flashes of escape light, vanished without a trace.

A moment later, at the place of the battle, a giant light ball flew into the sky, fleeing in a panic toward another horizon. Within the green light, a broken and incomplete giant human figure was faintly visible.

Behind it, a cluster of golden insect clouds chased relentlessly.

The two, one in front and one behind, flew in the exact opposite direction of Han Li.

But not long after, the golden insect clouds circled back with a buzz. Not only had their size shrunk to an inch, but the insect swarm was scattered and looked abnormally loose.

Fortunately, these Gold-Devouring Beetles' escape speed was still not slow, whistling past the nearby sky like lightning.

Thousands of miles away, under some chaotic rocks, Han Li sat on the ground with a pale face, desperately urging the insect swarm to fly toward him.

At this moment, the consumption of his divine sense was truly not trivial.

When Han Li saw the golden insect swarm falling from the sky, he finally couldn't hold on any longer. His figure trembled violently and he collapsed to the ground, while holding his head with both hands and emitting groans. The sound was abnormally painful, as if he were wishing for death.

After a full half-quarter of an hour, he finally stopped groaning and sat up cross-legged again.

This time, urging the insect swarm was extremely dangerous, nearly draining all his divine sense. But even so, it caused some minor damage to his divine sense.

It seems that for the sake of safety, he should never urge spirit insects to chase enemies too far in the future. But having said that, if he hadn't urged these Gold-Devouring Beetles to chase the high-tier Wood Spirit for a while, I'm afraid the other party would have immediately discovered the flaw and wouldn't have easily given up.

But now, this Wood Spirit had suffered such a huge loss from the Gold-Devouring Beetles, plus the heavy injuries it had suffered twice before, even if the other party had more guts, they wouldn't dare to have any designs on him.

Han Li thought this while stroking the spirit beast ring in his sleeve that contained the Gold-Devouring Beetles, letting out a long breath.

Tens of thousands of miles away, in a dense forest, the green giant transformed by Mu Rui also sat under a giant tree. One of its arms and a small half of its body had vanished, but at this moment, countless green light points flew out from the nearby trees, surging into its body wildly.

The giant's missing parts healed desperately at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After a quarter of an hour, the light points flying from the nearby forest dissipated, and the giant's body was completely restored. Only when its eyes opened did its gaze appear abnormally dim.

It pinched a spell with both hands, and suddenly a phantom sprayed from the giant's body. After a slight shake, it condensed and transformed into a pale-faced green-skinned Wood Spirit.

And the giant flared with spiritual light, transforming into an ancient tree again and collapsing into nothingness.

The moment this Wood Spirit changed its form, its gaze flickered and it looked twice toward the direction where Han Li was.

"This person actually has Gold-Devouring Beetles, and hundreds of them at that; it's truly extremely troublesome. If I were at my peak, I could risk killing the other party and making the insect swarm lose its command. But now, having suffered heavy injuries twice and having my life-bound spirit tree damaged to this extent, if I encounter the other party's insect swarm again, I'm afraid I'll truly perish. It seems I have no choice but to give up and let the other party leave." Mu Rui thought with an uncertain expression for a good while before shaking his head and making a decision.

He transformed into a cluster of silver light and flew into the sky, shooting toward the Black Leaf Forest.

Not long after, Han Li, who was elsewhere, also broke through the air as a green rainbow after recovering a bit of divine sense, not daring to stay in the same place for long.

Looking at where he was going, it was precisely the direction of the "Line of Heaven"!

Two months later, Han Li's escape light appeared on a desolate plateau. Finding a remote small hill, he escaped into it with a flash of yellow light.

Deep within this hill, he easily opened up a secret room about ten zhang in size. After tidying up a bit, he didn't care about anything else, took a few medicinal pills, and immediately sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, recuperating.

Over a month later, when Han Li opened his eyes again, his gaze was once again filled with spiritual energy, and his spirit and energy had returned to normal.

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