Chapter 1539: Wind and Clouds Rise Again

"Senior misunderstood; what the junior is bringing is not the clan's holy object, but a replica refined by several adults not long ago. Actually, it should be called a 'Small Spirit Nest.' This treasure can only manifest one type of holy insect, and it is a very low-tier one at that. Moreover, this kind of replica can only be used once. After being used, it is completely scrapped." The blood-armored puppet said truthfully.

"Small Spirit Nest! Interesting. I have long heard of the Mayfly race's Spirit Nest, but unfortunately, I have never had the chance to see it. Since I cannot see the real thing, seeing a replica is not bad. I can help you summon your main body to this realm. However, if you still intend to borrow the Five-Dragon Guillotine, it won't work without paying some price." This "Senior Jiang" said leisurely.

"But the junior only brought one bottle of Kui Essence." The blood-armored puppet's eyes flashed with blood light, and it hesitated.

"That doesn't matter. After you have used that Small Spirit Nest, just hand the scrapped original object to me. This kind of exchange isn't too much, is it?" "Senior Jiang" said with a plan already in mind.

"Senior wants the Small Spirit Nest!" Hearing this, the blood-armored puppet's voice changed, and it hesitated, unable to decide.

"Hehe, if you are unwilling, forget it. The reason I want this object is just to see it for myself. Do you think I could truly understand the secrets of your Spirit Nest just by looking at a piece of trash? Of course, if you are unwilling to exchange, forget it." Senior Jiang said nonchalantly.

"Good, the junior will exchange. But the junior has one condition: after the Spirit Nest is used, Senior can only study it for a month, and then the original object must be returned. Otherwise, the junior won't be able to give an account to the elders in the clan." The blood-armored puppet thought for a while, and feeling that relying solely on the power of the Spirit Nest might not be enough to deal with Liu Zu and the others, it gritted its teeth and agreed.

"Haha! Having your word is enough! I will help you cast the spell to summon your main body over. This is also thanks to you having a strand of split consciousness here. Otherwise, wanting to break the boundary and summon someone out of thin air, even old man couldn't do it." A wild laugh erupted from the cave entrance!

With a muffled "bang," a mass of silver threads shot out, engulfed the blood-armored puppet, and flew back into the cave.

After a few flickers, the blood-armored puppet vanished without a trace.

After a cup of tea's time, in the white mountain range, a powerful spiritual pressure suddenly soared into the sky, followed by a massive golden light pillar that shot out from below, piercing straight into the void high above.

Following this, masses of Yin wind surged toward the light pillar, and booming sounds erupted, with countless black gas manifesting all around.

All these celestial phenomena shrouded the nearby void tightly, making it impossible to see the situation within...

This face squirmed incessantly, showing a look of pain, as if it were alive.

This sharp cry seemed exceptionally vengeful, but also filled with murderous aura.

Han Li let out a long breath, opened his eyes, and his face was full of joy.

"Brother Han, have you refined the last mark?" Yuan Yao's pleasant voice rang out from behind.

"Many thanks to the two Fellow Daoists for your help. I didn't expect this last mark to be so difficult to deal with, taking root in my body as if it were growing there, and it was actually impossible to drive out at all. I had to go to great lengths to refine it directly within my body. Now that all four marks are destroyed, I have finally resolved this heart-worrying affliction." Han Li stood up, turned around, bowed to the two women, and said with a sincere expression.

"Hehe, Brother Han, why be so polite? My sister and I were also saved by Brother Han earlier!" Yuan Yao smiled somewhat wearily.

Yan Li also smiled slightly, her complexion somewhat pale.

This was no wonder; anyone who had been controlling such a massive array for most of the day would have a not-insignificant consumption of magic power.

Seeing this, Han Li didn't say a word, shook his sleeve, and two small emerald-green bottles flew out, landing before the two women and hovering there motionless.

"These are two bottles of 'Green Yin Pills'; their attribute is Yin-cold, and they should be of great use to the two Fellow Daoists." Han Li explained.

"My sister and I truly need this object, so we won't stand on ceremony with Brother Han." Yan Li smiled beautifully, swept her long sleeve, and the medicine bottle was engulfed into it, then appeared in one of her hands and was poured out.

Instantly, a black-green medicinal pill rolled out, and a thick Yin-cold aura radiated out.

Yan Li sensed the medicinal power of this pill for a moment, and her eyes brightened. She pinched the pill with two jade fingers, stared at it closely before her eyes for a moment, then sent it to her sandalwood mouth and swallowed it into her abdomen.

Then she closed her eyes and began to circulate her cultivation to dissolve and absorb the medicinal power.

Yuan Yao on the side saw this, hesitated slightly, then thanked Han Li, accepted the medicine bottle, and also took a medicinal pill.

Han Li waited silently for the two women.

At this moment, the vortex in the sky had already vanished. And that pitch-black sphere had shrunk to about a zhang in size, and because the array had stopped, it was slowly dissipating into mist. It appeared that it would completely vanish into nothingness before long!

After a cup of tea's time, the two women opened their eyes one after another, and their complexions improved greatly.

"Brother Han, this medicinal pill of yours is likely of immense value! My sister and I have recovered more than half of our consumed Yin power." Yan Li said happily.

"It is best that it is of use to the two Fellow Daoists." Han Li said with a smile.

"Brother Han! This is not a place to stay for long; what should we do next? The plan we discussed earlier was only how to shake off the Ghost Matron and the others." Yuan Yao bit her lower lip slightly and asked with worry.

"Miss Yuan's words are very true. This place truly cannot be stayed in any longer; we must leave immediately. The moment the mark was destroyed, those demon kings could still sense the approximate direction I was in. As for what to do next, it is naturally to find a way to break through the space here and return to the Spirit Realm. Of course, this matter is somewhat tricky. Although I have some plans, I must deliberate carefully. I will explain as we go." Han Li scanned the surroundings and said solemnly.

"Good, we will follow Brother Han's intentions. We will collect the array and set off immediately." Among the three, Han Li's cultivation was the highest, so the two women naturally followed his lead.

Thus, the two women moved, transformed into two streaks of black rainbow, and began to collect the tools they had set up nearby one by one.

Han Li raised his head and let out a long, rolling whistle. The sound was like a muffled thunder, spreading far away.

The Soul-Crying Beast and the Leopard-Lin Beast, which were wandering nearby, immediately responded with a high-pitched cry and a low roar, shooting back toward Han Li.

After a streak of black light and a golden shadow flashed, they submerged into Han Li's sleeve, and the two beasts were collected into the spirit beast ring by Han Li.

A moment later, after the two women finished their work, the three of them chose a direction and immediately drove their escape lights to leave this place.

And just half a day after Han Li and the others left this hilly area, green light flashed in the nearby sky, and a mass of green light arrived through the air, appearing directly in the high sky nearby.

Within the green light, a slender, graceful figure was faintly visible!

This figure circled nearby, landed on the peak of the hill where Han Li and the others had been, and revealed her figure.

It was Mu Qing.

Mu Qing scanned the surroundings rapidly, and her expression gradually turned gloomy.

To others, the scene appeared completely normal, but in her eyes, it was full of flaws.

She could very easily see the various remaining traces of the massive array, as well as the restriction fluctuations and the pure Yin Qi that had not yet completely dissipated in the sky.

"It seems I was a step late. They have already left for a period of time. So they used the power of the array to drive out the mark. But since they have left this place, finding them again will be even more difficult." Mu Qing muttered a few words, a look of hesitation on her face, appearing as if there was something she couldn't make up her mind about.

"Forget it! For the sake of that object in the Demon Tomb, I will gamble once! If I had known this, I should have placed one more restriction on the Han brat." Mu Qing stamped her jade foot and said fiercely.

She rose into the air, transformed into a streak of cyan light, and flew away through the air.

But this time, her escape light didn't fly too far.

Half an hour later, the cyan light suddenly dropped, falling into a small, ordinary mountain range below. She landed directly in a quiet mountain valley within the mountain range.

This mountain valley had thin Yin Qi, not even as good as ordinary places outside the mountain range. Therefore, not a single ghost creature existed here.

This kind of situation was exactly what Mu Qing hoped for.

After she searched the mountain valley and confirmed there were no abnormalities nearby, she shook both sleeves.

After green light flashed on her sleeves, "puff-puff" sounds erupted!

Countless light balls the size of a fist flew out, green and hazy, shooting toward all parts of the mountain valley densely.

All the light balls fell into various parts of the mountain valley, and after a flash, they submerged into the ground and vanished without a trace.

And Mu Qing stepped on the ground beneath her feet.

Spiritual light flashed below her waist, and she abruptly transformed into a green-wood body. Countless milky-white roots pierced into the ground and extended toward the deeper parts in all directions.

As a result, as she chanted and cast spells with both hands, the ground of the entire mountain valley shook with a "rumbling" sound.

And where the green light balls had submerged, the mud parted, and one after another, emerald-green saplings broke through the soil, growing wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a few breaths, they actually transformed into towering trees about several dozen zhang tall.

The entire mountain valley instantly became lush and green, with thick wood-spiritual energy.

Even more surprisingly, under the urging of Mu Qing's spells, all the trees didn't seem to be restricted by the mud they were in at all, as if they were earth-escaping. One after another, they blurred and flickered, changing their positions incessantly.

After a moment, a strange massive array manifested with Mu Qing as the center, covering almost the entire mountain valley.

It defended this place exceptionally tightly, almost without a gap!

After doing all this, Mu Qing suddenly opened her mouth and spat out an object.

It was actually a milky-white round bead, the size of a chicken egg, covered with strange golden patterns, somewhat transparent.

The round bead swirled incessantly about a zhang away before Mu Qing!

Mu Qing gazed at this bead for a long time, then let out a light sigh, extended a jade finger, and tapped it lightly.

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