Chapter 1700: Underground Ice River

Five-colored light flashed in the black hole, and the figure of the Heavenly Phoenix disappeared abruptly. 【Web】

With the Heavenly Phoenix's own innate spatial divine ability, coupled with Han Li's experience of entering spatial rifts many times, he naturally wouldn't take this mere Demon Clan "node" to heart.

After all, even ordinary Demon Venerables could break through the boundary to come here, so he shouldn't have any problems passing through this node.

The only thing that made him wary was the fear that some Demon Clan existence with great divine abilities might be stationed at the other end of the node, and they might bump into each other blindly.

However, for such a small "node," this possibility was minimal and could almost be ignored.

Sure enough, when the Heavenly Phoenix flew against the demonic wind for a short while and broke through more than a dozen layers of barriers formed by spatial power, the front suddenly brightened, revealing dots of light.

Han Li was overjoyed. After the Heavenly Phoenix he had transformed into flapped its wings hard, light flashed on his body, and his figure became so faint it was almost invisible.

Outside the exit at the other end of the node, there was an endless grey desert.

On the ground facing the node, two straight black buildings like watchtowers had been built, with dozens of Demon Clan guards vaguely stationed inside, looking at the node from time to time.

After a few breaths of time, the spatial power converged, and the Heavenly Phoenix flashed out of the node silently. With another flicker, he directly escaped more than a hundred feet away, and then disappeared into the void with a flicker.

As for the Demon Clan guards on the two black buildings, the one with the highest cultivation was only at the Nascent Soul stage, and having guarded here for many years without anything happening, they had long since become careless and didn't discover the slightest abnormality.

The Heavenly Phoenix appeared at the edge of the horizon with a flash, and after the faint light on his body circulated, he transformed into a human form abruptly.

Han Li let out a light breath, turned back to look at the node exit in the distance, his expression somewhat strange.

This infiltration into the Demon Realm was unexpectedly smooth; the several backup plans he had carefully prepared for the sake of caution were not used at all.

He was naturally extremely happy in his heart.

Only then did Han Li have time to look around at the place that had long been rumored in the Human Clan to be a sea of blood and a mountain of blades.

He saw that the high sky was slightly pale yellow, without a trace of clouds or mist, but there were three blood-red suns hanging there. Apart from that, everything else on the ground was surprisingly similar to the Spirit Realm.

If there was any subtle difference from the Spirit Realm, it was that the spiritual energy of the earth was clearly much scarcer than in the Spirit Realm, and faint demonic energy drifted everywhere in the void.

However, this demonic energy was not too obvious, and if one didn't pay close attention, it could even be ignored.

This surprised Han Li somewhat.

However, his trip here was not to delve deep into the Demon Realm to study anything, but for another important purpose. Therefore, after only observing for a moment, he chanted incantations in his mouth, the demonic armor appeared on his body again, and a large amount of pitch-black demonic energy surged out, drowning his figure in it.

Following another hand seal, the human aura on his body was immediately restrained until not a trace remained.

Han Li let out another low shout, and pale golden scales appeared on his face and limbs, but after the demonic energy on his body rolled back, it turned into a pitch-black color, and at the same time, black light flashed between his brows, and the third demon eye also appeared, flashing with dark light.

Han Li stretched his hands and feet, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

His current appearance and aura were exactly that of a high-tier Demon Clan member. As long as he didn't encounter a Demon Venerable existence of the same rank or higher, he imagined no one would be able to easily see through his Human Clan identity.

After the transformation, Han Li didn't dare to linger here for too long. As the demonic energy nearby rolled, he immediately turned into a black wind and rolled toward the distance.

After a few hours, he flew out of the desert area and appeared above a range of hills covered with grey shrubs.

Once he entered this place, the thin demonic energy became a fraction thicker than before. Although the increase was minimal, it confirmed that his original guess was not wrong.

The purity of the demonic energy in the Demon Realm was indeed related to the region, just like spiritual energy.

Han Li didn't stop his journey and continued to urge the black wind to fly in the same direction.

Just like this, he flew for a whole day and night.

Not only did he fly out of the hilly region, but he also crossed a giant lake and several pitch-black continuous mountain ranges.

He didn't know if the Demon Realm was originally desolate, or if the direction he was walking was wrong.

Along the way, apart from occasionally encountering some low-tier demonic beasts, he didn't encounter any Demon Clan members at all.

This made Han Li feel relieved, but he also couldn't help but increase his caution.

On the fourth day, Han Li finally encountered several horse-faced, human-bodied mid-tier demonic creatures fighting each other at the foot of a small mountain.

These demonic creatures held wooden sticks, were covered in animal skins, jumped more than ten feet high, and were extremely fierce, appearing to have a certain level of intelligence.

Near them, another pitch-black demonic beast like a saber-toothed tiger lay there motionless.

Clearly, these demonic creatures were fighting a life-and-death battle over the ownership of this prey.

Han Li was overjoyed at the sight. He immediately let the black wind fall, casually released several golden electric arcs, and knocked these demonic creatures unconscious on the ground.

Then, with a grab of his large hand, one of the demonic creatures was immediately taken into his hand out of thin air, and his five fingers pressed firmly onto its crown.

He narrowed his eyes, and as black light flashed on his five fingers, he immediately used a soul-searching technique to probe the demonic creatures' divine sense.

Sure enough, it was about what he had expected.

These demonic creatures had barely managed to open their spiritual intelligence; they were muddled about most things and simply had nothing of value to be searched.

However, fortunately, the intelligence he wanted to probe was only about the nearby region, and he did find a place that was just right and not too far away.

Han Li let out a light breath, the golden arcs in his hand rang, and the demonic creature in his hand was immediately enveloped by electric light and turned into ashes.

Not only that, those golden arcs flickered and shot down, and after a burst of thunder, they also turned the other unconscious demonic creatures on the ground and the corpse of the demonic beast into nothingness.

As the black wind rose, Han Li changed his direction and rolled away to one side!

Several hours later, the mountain range suddenly disappeared, and a giant canyon whose two ends could not be seen appeared in front.

As the black wind dispersed, Han Li's figure appeared above the canyon, and he swept his gaze downward.

He saw that the canyon below was several hundred feet wide, with fierce winds howling, flying sand and rocks, and a yellow haze, looking unfathomably deep.

Han Li shook his sleeve, and as grey light flashed on his body, he rushed to the bottom of the canyon without the slightest fear.

As soon as the fierce wind touched the grey light on his body, it immediately dissipated and disappeared, but the deeper he went, the more the temperature plummeted, and the cold energy was so thick that even the canyon walls on both sides condensed layers of white frost.

Han Li naturally wouldn't fear this bit of cold energy. He went deep into the canyon for a thousand feet in one breath and finally reached the bottom.

As a result, there was a blue light below, and there was a narrow blue ice river.

Logically speaking, at such a freezing temperature, an ordinary river should have been frozen solid long ago.

But the surface of this river showed no signs of freezing, just quietly reflecting a faint blue light, while both sides were crystal clear, condensed into a thick layer of blue ice.

And more than ten feet above the ice river, fierce winds howled, as if it had suddenly become two different worlds.

Han Li hovered motionless a few feet above the ice river, his gaze sweeping across the bottom as if he could see through the entire river, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

"Tsk tsk, this river is indeed strange. It is so calm on the surface, but so violent like a torrential waterfall below; it should be a river that leads directly to the deep underground. The extreme cold energy here also seems to have some significance." After a good while, Han Li withdrew his gaze and muttered to himself.

Just at this moment, a hiss suddenly came from the fierce wind above, and two blue lights shot out from it, with astonishing speed, reaching Han Li in a flash.

They were two crystal-clear blue flying snakes, with triangular heads and black cockscombs, clearly extremely poisonous creatures at a glance.

Han Li's expression sank. His body didn't move, but his two arms moved blurrily, grabbing the two blue flying snakes into his hands, and without hesitation, he squeezed their seven-inch spots hard with his five fingers.

The two flying snakes died immediately without even a sound.

Han Li shook his arms again, and the corpses of the flying snakes were thrown into the water.

A shocking scene appeared. The corpses of the two small snakes were first wrapped in a layer of blue ice with a crisp sound, then slowly sank downward, and disappeared into the depths in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Han Li closed his eyes and used his divine sense to sense the water pool again.

A moment later, a satisfied expression appeared on his face.

"Not bad, it was indeed swept away. Although I don't know where it leads, throwing things in there should make it difficult for anyone to discover them again."

Han Li muttered, and suddenly flipped one hand.

With a flash of spiritual light, a white jade-like wooden box appeared in his palm.

Han Li looked at the wooden box with some reluctance, but finally gritted his teeth and threw it downward.

The same scene appeared.

After the surface of the wooden box was instantly wrapped in a layer of blue ice, it sank into the water.

Han Li stared at the depths of the river again, speechless.

After a full half-hour, he let out a light breath and withdrew his gaze, his expression relaxing somewhat.

At this moment, the wooden box had already been carried deep underground by the underground ice river and disappeared.

Although it was a pity, with those two old demons inside the Demon-Suppressing Lock, it was better to throw it away early. Although he didn't know if the two old demons would ever have a chance to see the light of day again, from now on, they would have no more connection with him. However, this Demon Realm was not a place to stay for long, so it was better to return to the Spirit Realm as soon as possible.

Han Li pondered in his heart, and without further hesitation, his figure spun, and after grey light surged on his body, he shot into the fierce wind in the high sky.

At the same time, in the space of the wooden box floating in the underground ice river, Che Qigong was sitting cross-legged in a stone cave-like secret room, his hands forming seals, black and white light flashing on his body, practicing some technique.

In another mysterious stone hall in the space, Feng Xie sat on a futon, doing the same thing.

Both of them were clearly unaware of everything that had happened outside the wooden box; otherwise, they would likely have jumped up and cursed Han Li.

After all, Han Li's careful actions had unintentionally disrupted their original scheme to plot for the other half of the Chaos Qi.

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