Chapter 1564: The Profound Heaven Contention

A thick column of light burst from the center of the magic formation, its diameter over a hundred zhang, flashing past and instantly enveloping Han Li.

The speed was so great that Han Li could not even move against the stone wall.

Han Li was greatly startled.

This light column, for some unknown wondrous reason, pierced through the upper void of the Yuan Ci Divine Mountain and directly appeared before it.

All around was suddenly filled with a hazy, blood-red glow!

At the same time, Han Li's body tensed, and even a single finger could not move in the slightest.

Han Li's face turned pale, and he suddenly pinched a sword seal in his heart.

Instantly, the surrounding green lotuses flickered, all returning to foot-long flying swords, which then flashed into sword lights and fiercely slashed in the same direction.

The sword light flashed and vanished, easily piercing through and flying out, as if the entire massive light column were merely an illusion.

Yet Han Li still could not move an inch, as the surrounding air suddenly turned as hard as refined steel, tightly binding his limbs and body.

Han Li drew in a sharp breath of cold air!

Seeing the blood-red formation above his head appear with various-sized runes, as if about to change, he immediately stopped caring about holding back anything.

With a loud shout, golden light radiated from Han Li's body, and above his head appeared the three-headed, six-armed Brahma Saint True Devil Dharma Aspect.

This Dharma Aspect sat cross-legged, with all six hands forming hand seals.

A hazy golden halo suddenly radiated from the Dharma Aspect's body.

Wherever the halo passed, the originally calm and abnormal blood-red light column flickered with a faint spiritual light, as if a ripple had arisen.

At the same time, Han Li felt the surrounding air lighten, as if it had loosened slightly.

Overjoyed, Han Li silently chanted, his internal magic power spinning wildly, preparing to push the Brahma Saint True Devil Technique to its utmost.

But just then, the blood-red formation in the high sky suddenly burst forth with brilliant light.

Immediately, the blood-red runes at the center of the formation scattered, revealing a large black hole, tens of zhang in size, from which came the wailing of ghosts and howls of wolves, with countless blood shadows faintly churning within.

And that blood-red light column suddenly began to spin.

Han Li only felt a tremendous force press down on his body, and the slight chance of movement he had just gained vanished instantly.

At the same time, countless runes emerged from the surrounding blood light, all shooting fiercely toward Han Li.

"Ah"

Even though Han Li was usually calm and composed, his face turned deathly pale at this moment.

Although he did not know the power of these runes, now that he was immobilized by the restriction, he could hardly avoid becoming a target.

In his urgency, Han Li triggered the sword seal in his heart, and the surrounding flying swords flickered, appearing strangely around him; after a slight rotation, countless green sword lights slashed in all directions like mountains.

But wherever the green light passed, these runes merely flickered illusorily and remained unharmed.

In an instant, they pierced through the sword light and shot toward Han Li's front.

Han Li gritted his teeth, black light flickered on his body, and a layer of dark, blackish killing armor appeared; simultaneously, with a thought of his divine sense, he immediately connected with the Gold Devouring Insects in his spirit beast pouch.

His face turned fierce, and he planned to release all the thousands of mature Gold Devouring Insects inside at once.

Even if the restriction before him was strange, could it possibly withstand so many mature Gold Devouring Insects?

As for those runes, naturally he could only rely on the killing armor on his body and his formidable physical flesh to resist them head-on.

Even though he had already advanced to the Void Refinement realm, so many Gold Devouring Insects could only last him a moment. But now facing such a great crisis, he could only take one step at a time.

But the moment what happened next occurred, Han Li was startled and immediately stopped his action of summoning the Gold Devouring Insects.

As those runes looked about to strike his body, they suddenly changed direction, turning into specks of spiritual light that vanished into the object he held in one hand.

Han Li only felt his palm grow hot; the originally tightly gripped Xuantian Fruit suddenly burst open his five fingers, transforming into a mass of white light that shot straight up into the sky.

After just a few flickers, the fruit flew into the air over a hundred zhang high, wrapped in countless blood runes.

But the Xuantian Fruit then rolled over, its volume suddenly swelling several times, and the countless blood runes were shaken apart. Following this, countless white lights like sword qi burst forth, and the runes flickered and were shattered into pieces.

After the light faded, the white light vanished without a trace.

The Xuantian Fruit, now greatly changed in form, simply floated motionless in midair.

Seeing what had just happened, Han Li stared with his mouth open.

But he quickly came to his senses; the magic power he had originally been storing up surged like a tide toward the Dharma Aspect above his head.

Instantly, the Dharma Aspect's body trembled, and after its golden radiant halo fluctuated erratically, it flickered and then madly expanded in all directions.

This time, the halo's light was dazzling, like a golden sun rising above Han Li's head.

"Holy Devil Commanding the Sun!"

A stern voice suddenly burst from Han Li's mouth.

Immediately, the three heads in the Dharma Aspect simultaneously raised, the six arms swept outward at once, and a low, long howl issued forth.

The golden sun expanded and contracted, then exploded outward.

After the earth-shaking roar, ring after ring of golden waves, like tangible objects, surged outward.

Wherever the golden waves passed, the originally motionless golden light suddenly flashed wildly, then rapidly retreated backward.

With Han Li as the center, the golden light within a radius of over ten zhang was forcibly pushed aside.

He immediately regained his ***.

This divine ability of Holy Devil Commanding the Sun was precisely a secret technique Han Li had personally comprehended from the Brahma Saint True Devil Technique after his cultivation entered the Void Refinement realm.

In essence, it merely used the power of the Dharma Aspect to concentrate all the *** power into a single point, then release it all at once.

Just now, this seemingly ordinary strike had actually released nearly half of Han Li's internal magic power.

Of course, Han Li did not know that, had it not been for the Brahma Saint True Devil Technique simultaneously containing the Buddhist and Demonic *** nature, possessing an extremely special *** quality, even a Body Integration cultivator would have been utterly unable to escape the blood light's binding if they had switched to another such ***.

It cannot be denied that his luck has remained fairly good so far.

However, just as Han Li had exerted the strength of nine oxen and two tigers to finally break free from the binding at the same time.

From the black hole in the blood-red formation in the air, suddenly a loud howling arose, and countless strands of fresh, dripping blood shot out, flashing and about to envelop the Xuantian Fruit below.

The Xuan Tian fruit seemed to have become sentient, its surface trembling slightly as it emitted countless white radiance from its entire body.

In an instant, as the white radiance and blood threads intertwined, a crackling explosive sound rang out. Though the white radiance was extraordinarily sharp, shattering most of the blood threads, it appeared to have exhausted its strength; after its light dimmed, the remaining blood threads still tightly wrapped the Xuan Tian fruit, as if forming a colossal blood cocoon.

Even as the Xuan Tian fruit struggled violently within the blood threads, trembling incessantly, the two previous bursts of white radiance had clearly drained its strength. Once ensnared by the blood threads, the fruit still shot toward the dark, gaping hole.

But at that moment, suddenly, golden radiance exploded from the blood light below, blasting apart a vast expanse of the blood light.

Immediately, a cyan rainbow pierced through the blood light and shot forth, arriving near the blood cocoon in a flash. Its spiritual light flickered, and it suddenly transformed into a cyan-colored large hand that reached downward.

With a "bang," the cyan-colored large hand seized the blood cocoon tightly, then countless sword lights flashed within the hand and blazed forth, wildly slashing at the blood threads.

But a strange situation arose: the sword lights struck the blood threads, yet merely flickered through them illusorily, having no effect whatsoever. The cyan light retracted, and the cyan-colored large hand instantly transformed into Han Li's figure. One of his sleeves flew out, flashing with strange cyan radiance as it coiled around the Xuan Tian fruit.

However, the pulling force of those blood threads was far beyond Han Li's imagination. Even so, the Xuan Tian fruit continued to drift slowly upward into the high sky. Had the fruit itself not been desperately struggling and resisting the astonishing power of the blood threads, it would have been directly dragged into the black hole above in just a few flashes.

But even so, the Xuan Tian fruit being pulled into the black hole was merely a matter of moments.

Han Li panicked inwardly, and suddenly his other hand shot out, pointing a cyan-colored flying sword into the void.

After the flying sword let out a long cry, it suddenly became as if both present and absent, transforming into a faint cyan trace, as if it had completely lost its physical form.

This was precisely the divine ability of the sword spirit transforming into emptiness.

Immediately, the cyan trace flashed, and a series of muffled "pupu" sounds rang out. Those blood threads, which had seemed equally intangible, were instantly severed into countless segments.

Han Li rejoiced, and without hesitation, he flicked his sleeve, which instantly transformed into a cyan thread that shot forth. At the same time, other flying swords flashed past and then pursued Han Li, entering his body and vanishing without a trace.

With Han Li's current escape speed, just two flashes brought him suddenly to a place two hundred zhang away. Seeing that only a few more flashes would make him completely vanish without a trace.

Within the escape light, Han Li exhaled deeply, thinking he had finally managed to escape by luck this time.

But just then, an anomaly erupted again in the sky!

In the blood-colored light formation, the black hole suddenly contracted, and a blood-red silk-like bolt shot out. After a brief blur, it strangely spanned two hundred zhang in an instant, arriving beside Han Li.

Han Li was greatly startled; the speed of this silk-like bolt was truly too fast.

He had no time to react at all before feeling a flash of blood light before his eyes, and both he and the Xuan Tian fruit were swept into the blood-colored light.

Immediately, the blood light on the surface of the silk-like bolt flashed, and it suddenly reversed direction, shooting back.

Its escape speed was equally astonishing and unbelievable—after a single flash, it vanished into the black hole.

At the very moment the silk-like bolt entered the black hole, the blood-colored light formation in the sky emitted a heaven-shaking, earth-shaking roar. Instantly, the surrounding blood clouds surged and churned violently, while blood-colored lightning flashed forth.

After the light formation on its surface began to emit a large number of runes, it started to become blurred and indistinct.

Han Li, wrapped within the silk-like bolt, only felt his head heavy and his feet light, and suddenly lost his ability to fly and escape. He spat out a flying sword to wildly slash at the silk-like bolt, but it merely rebounded uselessly.

This time, even though he had already transformed his flying sword completely into the sword spirit's emptiness transformation, he still could not damage the silk-like bolt in the slightest.

At that moment, the surrounding light dimmed, and immediately came the wailing cries of ghosts and wolves.

Then, a strong and abnormal spatial fluctuation began to roll and surge all around.

Han Li silently cried out "Not good," and his heart sank straight downward.

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