Chapter 1521: Escape Plan

The blood-robed man saw the giant blades bearing down on him, his face changed, and blood light burst from his body as he prepared to unleash some divine ability.

But just then, the five giant blades suddenly twisted outward and vanished without a trace from their original spot.

The next moment, the five giant blades appeared like five plank doors, suddenly floating to the edge of the blood mist.

Then, with a flash of strange light on their surface, the five blades unfurled like a silver galaxy pouring down.

Amidst the piercing cold light, the blood mist was instantly swept up and scattered, utterly unable to resist.

The blood-robed man's expression flashed with fear, and he no longer bothered to cast any secret art, hastily shaking his sleeves and opening his mouth again at the same time.

A small green shield, a piece of blood-red gauze, and a round bowl all spewed out from his body.

The three treasures radiated countless rays of light, their aura astonishing—at a glance they were clearly no ordinary treasures.

Once released, they transformed into three layers of light shields of different colors, enveloping the blood-robed man within.

Moreover, the blood-robed man did not stop there—he suddenly inhaled deeply, then spat out several masses of essence blood, raised his hand, and a purple talisman flashed and vanished into the blood masses.

With a "bang," the blood masses exploded, turning into blood mist that wrapped around his body.

A set of purple battle armor appeared on his person.

This battle armor was exquisitely crafted, its surface flowing with unstable electric light, as if it were not of the mortal realm.

At this moment, the cold light had already sliced through all the blood mist and arrived before the blood-robed man.

After a few crisp sounds, as the light curtains swept past, the three layers of defense, as fragile as pasted paper, were all torn apart, and the blades struck hard against the blood-robed man's body.

With a "Boom—rumble," the purple battle armor flashed with rosy light, finally causing the surrounding cold light to pause temporarily.

But it was only a pause of that moment!

The next instant, five strands of cold light swirled around the armor like spinning whirlpools, and faintly, a dragon's roar could be heard from within.

With a "puff," the purple battle armor was split open at the waist.

Even though the blood-robed man possessed myriad divine abilities, facing this cold light that seemed to cleave through anything, he had no recourse.

The purple battle armor was already the strongest defensive divine ability he could muster.

A look of despair flashed in his eyes, and the blood-robed man suddenly shot out over a hundred talismans and more than a dozen assorted treasures and magical artifacts from his body, but the explosions rang out continuously—these things were all shattered to pieces in the cold light.

After a miserable cry, the blood-robed man's form was engulfed by the five strands of cold light, and even his Primordial Spirit could not escape in the slightest.

In the distance, the blood-armored puppet witnessed this scene, a cold light flickered in its eyes, and it muttered to itself:

"The greatest power of the Five Dragons Cleaver lies in its unparalleled sharpness. To think of using treasures to brute-force block this cleaver's power—truly seeking one's own death."

Having said that, it reached out with one hand into the void.

After a moment, the five giant blades in the distance hummed, then transformed into five flying flood-dragon light shadows that shot back.

Finally, the five dragon shadows converged above the puppet's head, their light blazing as they condensed once more into that silver-bladed cleaver, which then fell downward.

The blood-colored puppet's eyes flashed with joy, it raised its hand to grab the cleaver, but suddenly its divine light dimmed, its body swayed a few times, and it nearly fell from midair.

Fortunately, a flash of spiritual light steadied its stance immediately. Yet its eyes revealed a trace of helplessness; after sighing, it reached out again and seized the silver-colored cleaver hovering before it.

With one hand, it lightly brushed the snow-bright surface of the cleaver, and immediately a humming sound rang out.

"This treasure indeed possesses tremendous power, but the consumption of spiritual sense is also truly extraordinary—it seems next time I engage, I must fight swiftly and decisively." The puppet murmured thoughtfully to itself.

At this moment, the distant horizon suddenly stirred with a great yin wind, and a mass of black clouds pressed heavily overhead as they moved forward.

In the blink of an eye, the black clouds that had covered half the sky arrived before Han Li.

Several high-ranking demonic beasts rode teams of yin wind, leaping down from the air and landing before the puppet, all revealing respectful expressions.

"Did you complete the task I assigned you?" The puppet's hand trembled the cleaver, which turned into a rainbow and vanished into its mouth, then it spoke.

"Rest assured, my lord, we have already made all arrangements. We only await your entry inside, and then we will immediately use the great formation to seal off the surrounding area completely. Even if outsiders luckily escape from your grasp, they will not be able to flee immediately. This is sufficient to trap them for a while." A zombie-like high-ranking ghost said cautiously.

"Half of you go with me inside, half immediately set up the formation. Those people may have already lured away one of the Yin Thunder Beasts, but they absolutely would not expect that the guardians of the Divine Milk are not one, but a male-female pair." The blood-armored puppet lifted its head to stare heavily at the dark clouds above and spoke with a cold smile.

"Although the Yin Thunder Beast was left behind by the noble elders of old as a guardian, it has not brought a guiding token to enter this place, so we too would likely be attacked by it." This ghost seemed to possess considerable spiritual intelligence, hesitating as it spoke.

"Rest assured, since those people went ahead, even if the Yin Thunder Beast attacks inside, it should first target them. We only need to sneak up behind them and strike secretly. Originally, with the Five Dragons Cleaver in hand, I had only half confidence in dealing with these few. Now, with this Yin Thunder Beast assisting, if they can still escape with their lives, that would be strange. As for the other Yin Thunder Beast, having been lured away is just having been lured away. If not for that, how would these people have willingly entered this death trap? Fighting them outside would not be difficult, but to truly slaughter them all would be immensely difficult." The puppet gave a dark, sinister smile.

Upon hearing this, the other ghosts fell silent at once.

"That Yin Thunder Beast that was lured out cannot be ignored either—we have already sent someone to secretly follow it. If that person is soon devoured, or if some other change causes the Yin Thunder Beast to return, we will immediately use a Myriad Miles Talisman to alert us." The blood-armored puppet thought of something else and asked.

"Rest assured, my lord, we have already sent our most skilled in concealment and evasion techniques, the White Ghost, to follow it far away—there will be no mistake." That high-ranking ghost hurriedly said.

"White Ghost! That is the one who, when facing the fiercest outsider, merely lost an arm and escaped." The blood-armored puppet seemed to startle.

"Exactly, it is her."

"Well, if it is this woman, then indeed there should be no problem—let us move out. The outsiders should have entered the underground palace of the Divine Pool by now." The blood-armored puppet nodded and gave the order.

All the ghosts assented solemnly!

Immediately, among the ghosts, three followed the blood-armored puppet into the blue passage, while the remaining two high-ranking ghosts let out a long howl to the heavens, then from the nearby black clouds surged forth countless skeletal black shadows, and the wails of ghosts rose loudly.

……

Han Li waved his hand once, and instantly seven or eight golden arcs, accompanied by thunderous roars, shot backward in succession, targeting the Yin Thunder Beast that had already pursued to a distance of over a hundred zhang behind him.

There, a bank of silver arcs flickered unpredictably—indeed, it was that Yin Thunder Beast that had chased him for countless thousands of li.

Upon seeing the golden arcs strike, the beast did not show anger or alarm but instead revealed an excited expression, opened its mouth, and immediately a band of silver radiance swept outward.

Several bolts of warding-off divine thunder, upon contacting the silver radiance, were silently drawn in, and then the Yin Thunder Beast opened its mouth wide and inhaled them back.

******With a big mouth, "Boom—rumble" came a few low, muffled sounds from the beast's belly. Yet the Yin Thunder Beast's eyes revealed a look of joy, as if it had eaten some worldly delicacy.

Thus, Han Li seized the moment to flap his wings hard behind him, transforming into a crystal thread that flashed and vanished; after a few flickers, he instantly appeared several hundred zhang away, temporarily pulling away some distance from the beast.

But seeing this, the Yin Thunder Beast did not panic. After a low, rolling roar from its throat, silver arcs coiled around its limbs, and then it strained forward in urgent pursuit.

Han Li needed not look back to know all the beast's movements.

The same actions—this beast had already performed them countless times along this road.

The beast's evasion speed is so great that, even when he flies at full speed, it is still just a bit faster than him.

Even after opening this distance, within the time it takes to finish a cup of tea, it will slowly catch up bit by bit from behind. Then the beast will begin to attack from afar without mercy.

At first, this beast spat out one silver 'colored' lightning arc after another from its mouth, with astonishing power. But with Han Li possessing the Divine Devilbane Lightning and protected by the Lightning Robe, he easily caught them.

Upon seeing this, the Nether Thunder Beast immediately ceased the lightning in its mouth and spat out one green 'colored' claw blade after another.

These claw blades started only palm-sized, but as soon as they left the beast's claws not far away, they instantly became huge, about a zhang in size, amidst the sound of breaking air.

With just a few of these claw blades grabbing, even the nearby air was sucked dry in an instant, giving people a strange feeling of having nowhere to escape!

If it weren't for Han Li's Wind Thunder Wings behind him also being no small matter, capable of briefly combining the two evasion techniques of wind and thunder.

Otherwise, under this strike, he would probably lose more than half his life.

But even so, he was in extreme danger, and under the beast's ever-changing claw blade attacks, he several times nearly took a hit. Even in an attack not long ago, merely being grazed by a speck of the claw blade, he immediately suffered a considerable loss.

Thanks to the Qiankun Banner given by the white-haired beautiful 'lady' being truly miraculous, it transformed into a huge Taiji diagram that absorbed most of the offensive.

But even so, it also caused his resentment armor to shatter from the shock, the Thunder Cannon to dissipate, and his internal vital energy to suffer slight damage.

Thus, Han Li no longer dared to let this beast get even half a point closer. He could only, when the beast was about to catch up, continuously release the Divine Devilbane Lightning to temporarily slow down its pursuit.

And the Nether Thunder Beast, while continuously devouring the Divine Devilbane Lightning, seemed not in a hurry to kill Han Li, merely persistently pursuing him without giving up.

Now, after about half an hour had passed, Han Li had already brought this beast flying out of the edge of the gray 'colored' mountain range, and the farther he fled, the farther he went.

This was also because his magic power was far deeper than others of the same stage, plus he was proficient in evasion techniques and had a large amount of Divine Devilbane Lightning.

If it were replaced by an existence of Soul Transformation or even Void Refinement level, it would have long been caught up by this beast and swallowed in one gulp.

No wonder, Liu Zu and the others all thought that using him as bait would bring more misfortune than fortune.

Earlier, in order to break the Nether River restriction, Han Li had already used a considerable amount of Divine Devilbane Lightning.

And without this Divine Devilbane Lightning to restrain, Liu Zu and the others naturally thought he could not last long.

Han Li, while constantly being careful of the Nether Thunder Beast behind him, secretly estimated that Liu Zu and the others should have broken the restriction and had no time to attend to him, and began to think of escape plans.

Ordinary methods would absolutely not work to shake off this terrifyingly abnormal beast behind him. His only reliance was the dozens of Lei Zhu on his person, two newly refined types of talismans, and the mature form of the Gold-Eating Insects, the Killer's Awl.

The first two of these things are consumables, originally prepared for use on Liu Zu and the others. Once the latter is used, it greatly damages the spiritual sense, and not only in life-or-death situations would it not be used.

Han Li's eyes flickered uncertainly, his thoughts racing rapidly..

With hundreds or thousands of Gold-Eating Insects, he cannot command them to attack the enemy, but releasing a few to 'disturb' the Nether Thunder Beast afterward, he could try.

He does not need to defeat this beast; as long as he can slightly reduce its evasion speed, he can escape successfully. To be safe, he would also use talismans in combination, which should increase the chances of success.

After Han Li painstakingly thought and pondered, he finally came up with a barely feasible plan. He immediately took a deep breath, and his divine sense instantly communicated with the spirit beast ring hidden on his person.

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