Chapter 1418: Seaside

The beast herd, seeing that Han Li had no malice, still protected the young beasts and retreated slowly into the distance. Not long after, the beast herd turned and ran wildly, vanishing behind a highland.

Han Li sat by the stream for a while longer, and after the mist nearby had dissipated completely, he flew into the sky and headed toward the high altitude.

At this moment, both his magic power and spirit had completely recovered. He tried to release his spiritual sense, but found that although it could leave his body slightly, it was clearly greatly suppressed, surprisingly only able to scan a distance of ten or so miles nearby.

In this way, he simply flew higher and higher, preparing to use his Bright Clear Spirit Eyes divine ability to check the surroundings.

At the very least, everything within a hundred miles could be clearly captured in his eyes.

Situated at a high altitude of a thousand zhang, Han Li's eyes flashed with dazzling blue light, sweeping around quickly.

He saw that the ends of the east and west sides were still white, seemingly still a place of scattered stones; the south side, thirty miles away, had a touch of green, and looking from afar, it was surprisingly a mountain range that was not small; the north side had a large amount of water spiritual energy surging, seemingly having a giant river or a sea there.

After hesitating for a while, Han Li's escape light rose, transforming into a green rainbow, heading north first.

With Han Li's current escape speed, this distance was naturally covered in a short while.

As a result, the scene brightened, and a boundless ocean appeared, but the seawater was somewhat strange, surprisingly a crimson color. And on the shore, there were surprisingly thousands of giant turtles of various sizes resting on the beach. Among them, the larger giant turtles were three or four zhang large, and the smaller ones were several feet large. Each was half-buried in the sand, looking lazy.

And above the sea, there was a group of crimson strange birds with sharp long mouths, circling in the air. From time to time, several would dive into the sea, using their fire claws to grab sea fish about a foot long and throw them into the high sky, and immediately other strange birds would swarm up, instantly dividing and eating the sea fish completely.

Han Li looked at all this with an expressionless face, and after a long while, he suddenly seemed to have remembered something and looked fiercely toward the high sky.

There were still seven scorching suns hanging in the high sky, and Han Li's expression stirred.

For some reason, he vaguely felt that the sun's light seemed to be a circle smaller than before, much dimmer, looking slightly blurry.

It seemed that the place he was teleported to this time was truly very far from the human race's territory. Otherwise, there would not be such changes in the sun in the sky.

Fortunately, Han Li had guessed this beforehand through his body's discomfort after teleportation. Now he was not too surprised, and as his gaze shifted, it fell on the turtle herd below.

On this beach, besides the turtle herd, there were also a large number of empty turtle shells scattered all over the nearby beach, numbering several thousand. And I don't know how many more were buried under the sea sand.

With his eyes narrowed, Han Li flipped his palm, and a giant blue turtle shell about a zhang in size appeared in his hand.

Han Li held this turtle shell and compared it with the turtle herd below.

A moment later, a look of surprise appeared on Han Li's face.

At first glance, the turtle shells below seemed very similar to the one in Han Li's hand, and there were even those that were a fold larger.

But Han Li saw the difference at a glance.

The turtle shell in his hand was not very large, but every turtle pattern contained a trace of pale silver, while the turtle patterns on the turtle shells below were just very ordinary white marks.

Han Li tilted his head and thought for a while, then grabbed a turtle shell from below in the void, and a giant turtle shell two zhang large flew into the sky.

With a loud "boom," it exploded under Han Li's casual strike. This turtle shell immediately exploded, turning into powder and vanishing.

The turtle herd stirred at the loud sound, and many giant turtles poked out their pitch-black heads to look at the sky.

But they seemed to feel that Han Li was not a threat, and most of them retracted their heads, and the turtle herd returned to peace again.

"Sure enough, it's not these ordinary turtle shells! But this turtle shell should also have come from here, that's not false," Han Li did not show disappointment, but muttered to himself instead.

With a flash of green light, Han Li's figure fell slowly to a low altitude, and at the same time, he closed his eyes, forcibly released his spiritual sense, covered everything within several miles, and began to search carefully.

A moment later, Han Li opened his eyes with sharp light, transformed into a green rainbow, and shot out, flying around this beach several times quickly. But his body was followed by three giant turtle shells floating behind him.

One was four or five zhang large, one was a zhang large, and the last one was only several feet large.

The turtle patterns on these three turtle shells were surprisingly also silver, but the degree of color was somewhat different.

The smallest turtle shell's patterns were already shining like pure silver, the one-zhang-large one was identical to the one in Han Li's hand, and as for the largest turtle shell, it only contained a trace of pale silver.

These three turtle shells were all buried deep in the sea sand nearby; if not for Han Li's spiritual sense being able to penetrate directly, he would probably not have been able to find these three.

Han Li's escape light stopped in mid-air, and he beckoned to the few turtle shells with his backhand.

Immediately, with a whistle, the three turtle shells lined up in front of him.

With a few "peng-peng" sounds, Han Li flicked his fingers lightly, and several green sword qi shot out, leaving holes of varying depths on the turtle shells.

The sword qi on the largest turtle shell pierced through directly, the smallest only had half an inch of depth, and the one-zhang-large turtle shell's hole showed three or four inches of depth.

Han Li nodded, shook his sleeve, and a green light flew out.

The three turtle shells spun in the light, shrinking countless times in an instant, and were grabbed by Han Li out of thin air.

Spiritual light flashed in his hand, and they were all put into his storage bracelet.

And just at this moment, suddenly bird cries erupted from the sea in the distance. Han Li was startled and looked up, and his heart was shocked.

He saw a giant monster ten zhang long floating on the sea ahead; its upper body was surprisingly in the shape of a dark-skinned man, holding a bone fork in each arm, its face ferocious, but its lower body was identical to a giant squid, with thick tentacles appearing and disappearing on the sea surface.

This squid-like monster opened its mouth, spraying out strands of pitch-black light, wrapping hundreds of crimson strange birds into it, and swallowing them one by one, as if enjoying a delicious meal.

And those strange birds struggled desperately in the light, but could not break free, and in the blink of an eye, most of them were swallowed.

Strangely, the giant turtles witnessed this scene but stayed honestly on the beach, without any panic, and this giant monster also had no intention of touching the turtle herd at all.

Han Li was somewhat surprised, but the monster in the sea was only at the level of an eighth-level demon beast, so naturally, he would not fear it at all. He just frowned and watched all this, secretly guessing the origin of the other party.

In fact, in the Spirit World, the so-called demon beasts and ancient beasts are just a rough classification.

Only for the human race in the Spirit World, ancient beasts generally refer to the beast-like living beings native to the Spirit World.

Demon beasts, however, mostly refer to the large number of descendants left behind and bred by demon cultivators who ascended from the lower realms, and also include many other low-tier ancient beast species that have been accepted and accommodated.

For ancient beasts, although most cannot open their intelligence in their lifetime, they all possess one or several innate divine abilities without needing to cultivate, and their strength is exceptionally powerful. Demon beasts are the opposite; as long as they are not special inherited beast species or insect beasts that cannot open their intelligence, they can generally open their intelligence, but the innate divine abilities they cultivate are generally far inferior to the power of ancient beasts.

Of course, there is no strict distinction between ancient beasts and demon beasts. Some ancient beast species living near human and demon race cultivators will actively lead their groups to join the demon race once they open their intelligence after weighing the pros and cons. Or some ancient beasts are favored by demon race and human race cultivators and are forcibly tamed and taken into the race. Naturally, they also become a branch of the demon beasts.

So Han Li was not surprised to see the monster in front of him, just standing quietly in the air with his hands behind his back.

After a while, the monster in the sea swallowed those sea birds, slapped the sea surface excitedly with its giant tentacles, and turned its head, suddenly seeing Han Li in the air nearby.

Han Li had been restraining his aura, but this demon beast had been careless and had not discovered that there was someone else in the high sky on the beach side.

But a scene that made Han Li stunned appeared!

Upon seeing Han Li, this demon beast revealed an expression of horror, let out a low roar, and transformed into black gas, plunging into the sea in a flash.

Immediately, countless strands of pitch-black ink-like black mist emerged from the deep sea, dyeing the seawater within several miles pitch-black and exceptionally turbid, making it impossible to see anything at all.

Han Li's eyes twitched, and blue light flashed in his pupils, his gaze instantly penetrating the black mist and seeing the situation in the deep sea below clearly.

That giant squid demon beast was in the deep sea several miles away, fleeing desperately into the deep sea.

With a cold snort, Han Li's wings flashed behind his back, and he was about to urge the Wind Thunder Wings to teleport into the void to catch this demon beast when suddenly a strange long roar came from the deep sea, the sound rolling over like thunder, low and exceptionally deep.

Immediately, he felt a powerful and unusual demon aura appear in the deep sea ten or so miles away, seemingly no weaker than a Spirit Transformation-level cultivator.

Han Li was stunned upon hearing this roar, staring fixedly at the source of the roar, his face showing a trace of hesitation.

A moment later, the astonishing demon aura released from the sea merged with the squid demon beast, and then they headed into the deep sea without hesitation.

After shaking his head, the wings that had just appeared behind Han Li vanished in a flash again.

Although he would not fear a Spirit Transformation-level demon beast, he did not want to rashly fight with an existence of the same rank in such a strange place.

After staring into the deep sea for a while longer, Han Li's escape light rose, and he turned around and shot toward the south.

A moment later, the green rainbow transformed by Han Li appeared before a giant mountain range that was lush, green, and endless.

At the edge of the mountain range, the escape light converged, and Han Li's figure was revealed.

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