Chapter 1525

However, Han Li did not want any unexpected factors to affect his plans, so he immediately felt killing intent arise in his heart, and his divine sense beckoned from the spirit beast ring.

After a monkey's cry, a streak of black light shot out from the void, sweeping straight toward one side of the hall door, while Han Li himself flickered and emerged from his ethereal state, lunging toward the other side.

"Ah"

"Who is it?"

Two cries of alarm came from either side of the hall door.

On one side, a gust of yin wind arose, revealing a huge skeleton with two skulls.

On the other side, a foul stench burst forth, and a white-haired zombie with blood-red eyes materialized; behind this zombie, a pair of green wings flickered, emitting an abnormal stench.

The black light flashed, and a giant ape materialized, immediately letting out a snort from its large nose, spewing out a stream of yellow haze that swept toward the two-headed skeleton.

The skeleton let out a strange laugh from its mouth, its two arms blurring as countless claw shadows filled the air, accompanied by a loud "hissing" sound.

This high-level ghostly entity clearly had great confidence in its formidable physique, actually attempting to tear apart the soul-absorbing divine light with bare hands, unlike the white-robed woman earlier who had fled far away in fright.

As soon as the two made contact, the dense bone claw illusions instantly dissipated and vanished; the haze swept down, instead enveloping a pair of bone claws within it.

As the light flashed, the two-headed skeleton let out a miserable scream; its originally iron-hard bone claws instantly turned into masses of black qi.

The skeleton was greatly startled, and only then did it hastily shift its form and shoot backward, but it was already a bit too late.

The yellow haze flashed, engulfing the entire skeleton within it.

As the skeleton's bony body and its bone claws twirled round and round, the haze transformed similarly into thick black qi, which the soul-seizing beast sucked into its mouth in one gulp.

The beast let out a delighted cry from its mouth, turned its head, and looked toward Han Li's side.

Just then, Han Li was seen hovering above the head of the white-haired zombie, pointing with one hand at the ten-plus-zhang-high magnetic divine mountain, suppressing the ghostly entity below.

Meanwhile, two illusory figures clad in golden armor were retracting a golden spear and two long swords from behind the zombie; the spear's surface kept flashing golden arcs, piercing the zombie's heart and scorching the surrounding area, while the two long swords were drawn from the zombie's back, their white light flickering continuously, causing the zombie's foul-smelling green wings to turn into sparkling ice, freezing them in place.

Han Li did not let the two puppet shadows strike again to kill this ghostly entity, but instead beckoned toward the distant soul-seizing beast.

The soul-seizing beast was first startled, then immediately understood Han Li's intent, and joyfully leapt forward, landing beside Han Li after a few bounds.

It once again expelled haze from its nose, turning this zombie into pure yin qi and sucking it into its mouth.

The beast smacked its lips, excitedly pounding its chest with both hands.

These three ghostly entities were fierce spirits and evil souls that had cultivated for many years in the Nether River region; for the soul-seizing beast, they were naturally an extraordinary tonic.

Han Li smiled faintly, and as his divine sense stirred, a sudden idea came to mind; after carefully observing the soul-seizing beast up and down, he suddenly moved and silently instructed it with a few words.

After the soul-seizing beast opened its eyes and listened for a moment, it nodded repeatedly, flipped over in place, and with a flash of black light all over its body, it transformed into a strange beast with a single horn on its head and limbs crackling with electricity.

It was none other than the Nether Thunder Beast that had nearly devoured Han Li earlier, only now its size had shrunk by a notch!

Han Li chuckled, beckoned at the soul-seizing beast transformed into the Nether Thunder Beast, and the beast immediately shrank to a few inches in size, shooting into his sleeve.

After taking out the Taiyi Qingfu talisman and patting it on his body, Han Li became ethereal and flew into the hall door.

The palace consists of a main hall and side halls; Han Li directly entered the main hall.

Aside from being exceptionally clean, besides a dozen or so thick stone pillars, the hall felt utterly empty and hollow.

Han Li paid no attention to this; his gaze was entirely drawn to a large hole in the center of the hall emitting a white glow.

He cautiously approached it, and at the edge, he probed downward, his expression shifting as he looked down.

This hole actually slanted downward, its four walls smoothly arched and exceptionally smooth, with no stairs or similar features; moreover, a glance downward revealed a faint white glow, but the bottom could not be seen at all.

Han Li thought for a moment, then shifted his form and dove into the hole, his body drifting slowly downward.

The cave was extremely deep; after falling freely for over a thousand zhang, he still had not reached the bottom. However, waves of cool wind blew up from below, indicating there was likely some ventilation down there.

After falling another few hundred zhang, Han Li's expression shifted as faint rumbling thunder and beast roars reached his ears, occasionally mixed with one or two earth-shaking booms that made the surrounding stone walls tremble slightly.

Han Li's heart tightened, his descent slowed, and his divine sense began to sweep downward.

After a brief moment, dazzling white light flashed below, and the exit was clearly already reached.

After his divine sense swept over, nothing was found hidden below.

This reassured Han Li, and he silently landed on the ground, quickly scanning his surroundings.

Here lay another vast hall, its area several times that of the palace above, but its refinement paled in comparison to the upper hall, like heaven and earth.

Not only was the floor paved with extraordinarily beautiful white jade, but the surroundings and ceiling were also inlaid with bowl-sized crystals; these crystals emitted a soft white light, illuminating the entire hall with magnificent splendor. The spiritual energy nearby was also far denser than above, and various five-colored spiritual flowers and herbs grew in two small flowerbeds on either side of the hall, each vivid and dripping, with a faint spiritual glow, as if they had been here for hundreds of thousands of years.

Han Li glanced at them and frowned, immediately losing interest and shifting his gaze elsewhere.

With his eyesight, he could naturally see at a glance that although the flowers and herbs in these flowerbeds were indeed rare, most were merely ornamental in nature, with truly valuable ones being extremely scarce.

However, Han Li's gaze could only see about half of the hall's scene, for the other half was currently shrouded in thick blood mist and flashing lightning arcs.

In the lower space of the hall, beneath intertwining clouds of blood mist and lightning, constant rolling and explosions occurred, making the two seem as incompatible as water and fire. But clearly, the power of the lightning arcs far surpassed that of the blood mist; were it not for the intermittent yin winds in the blood mist and the countless green threads shooting out to assist, the blood mist would likely have long since collapsed in utter defeat.

Even so, silver-colored lightning arcs, amidst the endless thunder, condensed into fist-sized lightning balls, which surged outward and then exploded, causing the blood mist to collapse and dissipate in large areas downwind.

Within the blood mist, there was no sound, and nothing could be seen clearly; but it should be the combined force of the Earth Blood Old Monster and others, while facing the surging lightning on the opposite side, two one-horned monstrous beasts flickered in and out of view, roaring incessantly, as if two Nether Thunder Beasts were driving the lightning power to attack without cease.

No wonder even several demon kings joining forces would not be a match.

Han Li secretly marveled, gazing at the battle group for a moment, then swept his eyes downward, his pupils suddenly contracting.

Directly beneath the battle group, there suddenly appeared a jade-green pool several zhang in size, its water wrapped in white mist, spiritual energy abundant, with a faint hint of blood light shimmering within.

"Is this the Nether River Divine Milk?" Han Li thought, his mind racing, but he did not linger long by the pool, continuing to carefully search the surroundings for something.

Soon, his eyes lit up, and in a secluded corner of the side palace on the other side of the battle group, he saw Yuan Yao and Yan Li standing dazedly motionless.

The two women's faces were wooden, appearing utterly indifferent to the fierce battle not far away.

Han Li had seen the two women when they were under restraint before, and naturally knew their minds were actually still clear, only their bodies completely unable to act on their own; such restraints, he was somewhat confident he could dispel.

After glancing at the roaring battle group blocking the path, Han Li suppressed his inner joy and cautiously surveyed other parts of the great hall.

He had not forgotten that other ghostly entities might appear outside the black light curtain and at the entrance of the ground-level palace; this place certainly had other high-level ghostly entities sneaking in. He did not want to be ambushed from behind like a snipe taking advantage of a clam and a snipe.

Before discovering any lurking ghostly entities, he would absolutely not move rashly.

His divine sense quietly extended, but after scanning everywhere except the battle group, no abnormalities were found.

Han Li frowned tightly, and after turning his thoughts, a faint blue light flashed in his eyes and then vanished.

In such a dangerous place, he dared not fully open his spiritual eyes, and could only mobilize the tiniest bit of spiritual power to activate that bit of divine ability and sweep quickly.

As a result, he finally made a discovery.

In a corner of another palace farthest from the battle group, there was indeed a faint green aura, which, even under the spiritual eye divine ability, was extraordinarily faint and unusual, as if completely transparent.

Is this the lurking ghost that sneaked in?

Han Li's heart jolted, and after a moment's thought, he did not hesitate to take the risk—the blue light in his eyes shot out violently, wanting to see clearly the true form of this demonic creature.

As a result, besides the threads of black light within the green aura, he also saw in the middle a round bead resembling a crystal ball, floating there and rotating extremely slowly.

At the very moment Han Li saw this object, the round bead suddenly froze and stopped rotating, its surface immediately flashing a thread of green light, but it vanished in an instant.

Han Li's face 'color' changed, and the blue light in his eyes vanished instantly.

He faintly felt that, at the moment he discovered the bead, this object also seemed to possess spiritual 'nature' and immediately detected his spying.

However, he was confident his spiritual sense reaction was fast enough, and cutting off the spiritual eye was decisive enough. The other party could not capture his position.

Even if the other party's divine sense were strong enough, but here and now, how could they dare to release such a vast divine sense to search for his position? If the divine sense were released weakly, it would naturally be unable to see through the concealment of the Taiyi Huaqing Talisman; if too strong, the demon king and the Ming Lei Beast and other entities engaged in fierce battle in the hall would immediately notice.

He believed this ghost entity would absolutely not commit such an unwise act.

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