Chapter 1661

Just as Han Li's heart tightened, the demon ape let out a low growl from its mouth, opened its jaws, and a mass of black-red essence qi sprayed out, covering the purple giant sword before it.

Instantly, the sword's purple light blazed forth, and within it, the unknown spiritual object swelled in size, suddenly emerging from the sword's surface, shaking its head and swaying its tail, appearing extremely ferocious.

The giant sword spun around and suddenly stood upright, its blade pointing toward Han Li's position, then slashed downward in one stroke.

A sword light over ten zhang in purple surged forth, silently and without sound, slicing slowly toward the cyan light curtain.

The sword light, which should have flashed and shot out, instead seemed unusually solemn, drifting slowly and actually slowing down by several times.

Upon seeing this, Han Li's face changed dramatically, and he simultaneously pinched a spell with his four golden arms, then thrust them forward toward the sword formation.

Four pillars of what seemed like substantial golden light sprayed out, directly meeting the purple sword light.

With a booming rumble, a series of tremendous sounds followed one after another!

Although the golden light exploded with astonishing force, it only caused the purple light to pause slightly before being easily torn apart.

The purple light continued flashing as it still rushed straight toward Han Li.

Han Li's eyes twitched sharply, and the two shadow puppets behind him immediately, without a word, waved their weapons.

Golden sword light and blade radiance shot forth like a violent storm.

At the same time, Han Li also raised his magic power and fiercely urged the sword formation.

The cyan light curtain before him changed, revealing large cyan runes that flowed slightly and transformed into one cyan lotus after another, blocking in front of the light curtain.

Although the sword and blade light were continuous, when they struck the purple sword light, they only caused its light to flicker a few times before dissipating entirely, failing to block it.

After the purple light finally flashed, it still struck the cyan lotuses filling the sky.

Amid the flashing cyan霞 and purple light, the sword light transformed into a phantom identical to the unknown spiritual object within the purple残blade, fiercely pouncing down; as its claws waved, one cyan lotus after another was easily split in two.

The massive body plunged into the cyan light, seeming unstoppable.

Seeing this, Han Li outside focused his gaze, and the magic power within his body surged like a raging flood, instantly pouring wildly into the sword formation.

The shattered cyan lotus fragments rolled together and condensed, then once again appeared as strange lotuses, flashing once more to block before the purple sword light.

Though the purple light possessed tremendous power, the Spring Dawn Sword Formation's transformations were marvelously extraordinary.

Under the support of spiritual power, countless cyan lotuses surged wildly from all directions.

The phantom of the spiritual object formed by the purple sword light ultimately, still at a distance of about a zhang from the cyan light curtain, dimmed its light, exhausted its power, and vanished into nothing.

Seeing this, the demon ape within the sword formation flashed purple light in its eyes, and a hint of surprise appeared on its face.

He knew a thing or two about the origin of this残blade!

It was also because of this treasure that it was ultimately hunted down by界people and ended up in its current state.

Although limited by his current cultivation, he could not fully unleash the treasure's power, but that single slash had mobilized all his current magic power, making continuous use impossible, yet it was still blocked by the sword formation before him.

This made his heart tighten.

This shows that the sword formation trapping him possesses power far exceeding his prior expectations. Given his current situation, he might truly be unable to break through easily.

Upon careful thought, even this demon ape, renowned among holy-rank demon beasts, feels somewhat aggrieved.

Since crossing into this realm through the spatial rift in the Magic Gold Mountain Range, due to several other reasons, it has fought several major battles in succession with other holy-rank demon beasts and human holy clans outside the mountain range.

Not only did its cultivation suffer greatly, nearly causing its soul to scatter, but even the several powerful treasures it originally carried were destroyed one after another in battles with humans.

Otherwise, even if his cultivation had dropped to such a level, producing several supreme treasures at once would allow him to forcibly break through the formation.

The demon ape's purple pupils swirled uncertainly, and its expression appeared gloomy and unsettled.

But after Han Li felt relieved, he shook his sleeve, and suddenly a stack of cyan-glowing talismans appeared in his hand.

These talismans looked ordinary, each about half a chi long, emitting exceptionally pure wood spiritual energy.

At this moment, Han Li finally confirmed that this demon ape had indeed suffered great cultivation loss; disregarding its powerful divine sense and various divine abilities and secret techniques, its current magic power was at most comparable to a late-stage Void Refinement peak existence. However, its protective battle armor and the purple残blade in hand were truly heaven-defying, making slaying this demon extremely difficult.

Fortunately, as long as he could restrain the opponent's unpredictable movement techniques, half of the opponent's divine powers would be nullified.

However, the opponent's pair of eyes capable of easily seeing through illusions were equally troublesome.

The ordinary transformations of the sword formation would likely be ineffective against the opponent.

The possibility of the sword formation encountering an enemy with spiritual eyes had been studied by Han Li when he first cultivated this formation.

It seems that the recent insights he gained into some transformation divine abilities of the Spring Dawn Sword Formation could first be tested on this holy-rank demon beast.

With such thoughts in mind, Han Li immediately seized the moment when the demon ape hesitated within the sword formation, raising one hand.

Instantly, the stack of cyan talismans transformed into a barrage of cyan light shooting across the sky, flashing briefly before sinking into the sword formation and disappearing.

At the same time, Han Li chanted softly, and the golden pearl held lightly in his other hand suddenly transformed into a golden light shooting upward toward the sword formation.

Then, opening his mouth, a large golden rune sprayed out and similarly shot upward, vanishing from sight.

The demon ape within the sword formation immediately sensed something, its face turning fierce as it lifted its head.

With a boom!

Suddenly, in the high空 of the sword formation, fierce winds arose, dark clouds covered the sky, a golden sun hovered within the clouds, faintly visible, followed by an astonishing aura capable of destroying heaven and earth surging upward from the golden sun.

On the surface of the sun, countless electric lights flashed wildly, and the thunderous rumbling was continuous and deep, astonishing.

"Thunder Sacrifice Technique!" The demon ape's pupils flashed with a rune as it whispered softly.

Following this, he let out a cold snort, not daring to be careless, and with one hand, he fiercely grasped at the purple giant sword in the void.

The giant sword flashed and instantly turned into a purple light, which he seized in his hand.

Holding the treasure horizontally, the giant ape intended to directly slash and scatter the aerial phenomenon.

Facing the Demon-Subduing Divine Thunder, which greatly restrains demonic qi, even with its purple battle armor protecting it, it certainly did not want to suffer a blow out of nowhere.

However, before the demon ape could swing the giant sword in hand, suddenly the surrounding cyan light flared brightly, the nearby scenery blurred, and it found itself suddenly in a cyan dense forest.

All around were trees as thick as a person, tens of zhang tall, towering to the sky.

"Hmph, this petty trick also dares to come out!" The demon ape let out a strange laugh from its mouth, its giant sword trembled, emitting a humming sound, and simultaneously its pupil runes suddenly spun rapidly.

But before it could use its spiritual eyes to find the flaw in the surrounding illusions, suddenly all the giant trees flared with cyan light, twisted abruptly, and transformed into towering cyan-armored giants, each ten zhang tall.

Then, a barrage of cyan light flashed, each warrior grabbing with one hand, as the cyan light shimmered, weapons suddenly appeared in their hands—various cyan巨blades such as swords, sabers, axes, and halberds.

The dozen or so soldiers closest to the demon ape immediately swung their giant blades without hesitation, a dozen huge shadows descending with howling winds.

The demon ape was startled!

Without worrying about the Divine Thunder of Evil Repulsion, and without time to think further, it slashed its giant sword into the void!

Instantly, a purple trace flashed and became an arcing slash.

A "crack" sound rang out loudly.

A dozen giant blades, along with the surrounding giant-like soldiers, were all cut down in a single stroke.

"Wrong, these things are not entirely illusions!"

Having succeeded so easily, the demon ape did not reveal joy, but instead felt some surprise and doubt.

When the purple trace swept over those giant weapons just now, it could clearly sense the considerable spiritual power contained within them.

But before the demon ape could figure out what was happening, the thunderous footsteps came from all around, and more soldiers surged forward like a tide, with cold light flashing and countless giant blades howling toward it.

The demon ape let out a cold snort, no longer swinging its purple-colored giant sword, but instead suddenly lifted its foot and stomped heavily onto the ground again.

A thunderous earth-shaking boom rang out. The ground trembled and shook, followed by a black-red aura wave spreading outward like a tide.

Wherever the black-red demonic aura passed, all the soldiers collapsed like foam, wiped out in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this from outside the sword formation, Han Li's expression darkened, and he suddenly changed his hand seal.

In the void, a shadow flickered, and countless green lights appeared, then flashed and transformed into countless green arrows about a foot long.

With a loud "hissing" sound of piercing air, the arrows shot toward the demon ape like a violent rain.

This time, the demon ape did not panic; it simply slapped its purple armor with one hand.

A layer of purple curtain immediately emerged from within the battle armor, and then, without changing expression, it narrowed its eyes and swept its spiritual sense over these green arrows.

Immediately, its brows furrowed, and a hint of doubt appeared on its face.

Under its spiritual sense, these arrows were shown to contain genuine spiritual power, with not a single one being an illusion.

The demon ape's expression tightened, but in the next moment, continuous "puff" sounds began.

The green light exploded like fireworks across the demon ape's body surface, the dense arrows striking the purple light curtain and causing it to tremble violently, with light flashing chaotically.

Yet, with the purple light and this additional curtain, it remained as stable as Taishan, showing no sign of collapsing.

Seeing that although these arrows were not illusions, their power was limited, the demon ape immediately relaxed in heart, but also felt strange and couldn't help pondering Han Li's intentions.

At this moment, with a sudden "boom" from the ground beneath its feet, a huge green hand burst out from the nearby earth, flipped over, and its five fingers descended upon the demon ape like Taishan pressing down from above.

The demon ape naturally would not fear anything; it immediately swung its giant sword in a circle, preparing to cut the giant hand in two, but suddenly felt something and abruptly raised its head.

As a result, it saw a golden column of light spray down from the golden sun transformed by the Divine Thunder of Evil Repulsion in the sky, silent and soundless, yet arriving instantly above its head, within arm's reach.

The demon ape's expression suddenly changed dramatically.

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