Chapter 1749: Starry Sky Map and Incantations

"This is..."

After scanning the pattern on the ground and the armored soldiers, Han Li couldn't help but look up toward the sky in the direction the silver spears were pointing.

As a result, in the originally green-misty sky, at an unknown height, there was a golden-yellow ball of light, its light slowly rotating, appearing mysterious and unpredictable.

This situation immediately made Han Li think of the existence of a "spatial node."

Even if the ball of light wasn't a true spatial node, it was definitely an existence similar to a spatial rift.

Han Li looked at the seemingly small golden-yellow ball of light, blue light flickering in his eyes, revealing a trace of astonishment.

Could this place lead to some other mysterious location?

After a good while, finding nothing else, he withdrew his gaze and examined the nine armored soldiers several more times.

These soldiers were shining with silver light, wearing armor that seemed to be one piece. But both the armor and the long spears gave a style unique to ancient magic treasures—simplifying the complex. There were no dense rune arrays engraved on them, only a few faint golden runes on several key parts.

These golden runes were each profound and mysterious, clearly Golden Seal Scripts.

Han Li narrowed his eyes, suddenly raised his arm, and flicked a finger lightly at one of the soldiers.

"Puchi!" A sword energy as thick as a finger shot out, flashing and stabbing at the soldier's shoulder, as if intending to pierce through it without ceremony.

But an astonishing scene occurred.

"Bang!" The silver spear in the hand of the soldier, which had seemed like a statue, moved. Silver light flashed, and it slashed at the green sword energy with lightning speed, shattering it.

Han Li's expression changed, and he retreated several steps.

He waved a hand in front of him, and instantly a layer of gray misty light appeared, blocking his front, looking exceptionally cautious.

But the next moment, the silver armored soldier retracted its silver spear, restored its original sky-pointing posture, and became motionless once more.

"Puppets!"

Han Li let out a long breath and muttered to himself in a voice so low it was almost inaudible, his expression relaxing slightly.

Not to mention how powerful these puppets were, the fact that they could still move after so many years without anyone controlling them was already astonishing.

But because he had confirmed that these armored puppets had no spiritual nature, Han Li felt a slight relief in his heart.

Puppets without a controller, no matter how powerful they were, were just dead objects, so there was naturally nothing to fear.

Han Li ignored the soldiers, lowered his head, and carefully examined the huge starry sky pattern on the ground.

At first, it felt ordinary and plain. But after looking at it for a while, he suddenly felt the entire starry sky pattern blur and come to life.

The surrounding scenery blurred, and he found himself under the starry sky, in a mysterious and profound alternative world.

The originally dull sun and moon emitted gold and silver light. Wherever the light shone, other stars of varying sizes bloomed with cold white light, beginning to rotate regularly around the sun and moon.

The sun and moon themselves grew and shrank, rising and falling, repeating this cycle. Time seemed like a flowing river, slowly calm, yet passing in an instant.

Han Li watched this evolution containing the truths of heaven and earth laws quietly, his mind empty. He didn't think about anything, nor did he want to; he just passively experienced the passage of time—ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years...

It felt like in an instant, he had passed tens of thousands of long years.

Suddenly, he gave a start, and a cool sensation surged from his dantian, automatically circling his head along his meridians.

Stimulated by this icy spiritual energy, Han Li let out a soft grunt and finally woke up, remembering everything related to himself.

Almost at the same time he came to his senses, the entire starry sky sensed something, shattering and disappearing into sheets of light.

When Han Li was fully awake, he was still standing at the edge of the high platform, staring at the starry sky map on the ground.

The trance that had felt like countless years had actually only lasted a few breaths.

Han Li gasped and hurriedly forced his gaze away from the starry sky map.

This starry sky map actually contained an extremely powerful illusion array far beyond his understanding.

Even with his powerful divine sense, he had been pulled into it without any resistance.

If not for the Great Development Technique operating on its own, forcibly pulling his divine sense back, he might have fallen into that illusion forever, standing there until he turned into bones without knowing it.

Even so, the experience in the illusion had been so realistic. The complex feelings of long time and reality, feeling and reason, filled his heart.

Even though Han Li's mental state was far stronger than ordinary people, his brows were furrowed, and his expression became strangely abnormal.

He closed his eyes and operated the Great Development Technique in his body, beginning to resolve the layers of abnormal fluctuations in his mental state. After an unknown amount of time, he finally managed to suppress the huge contrast in his mental state and opened his eyes again.

This time, he naturally didn't dare to look at the starry sky map again. After dazing in place for a good while, he sighed, and his expression gradually returned to normal.

He vaguely felt that the experience just now, although dangerous to the extreme, had brought great benefits to his willpower through such rare tempering of his mental state.

Even his divine sense felt vaguely stronger than before.

Could this starry sky map not be a simple illusion array, but a special restriction originally used to temper one's willpower? And since this starry sky map was so profound, the object placed in the center must also have some tricks.

Han Li thought to himself, vaguely feeling that this guess was quite possible. He turned his head and couldn't help but examine the verdant green Taishi chair in the center of the stone platform.

The material of this chair was neither gold nor wood, but it was exceptionally verdant, vaguely emitting a layer of crystal-clear glow.

Han Li suddenly stared fixedly at the chair, a look of astonishment appearing on his face.

Above the chair, which had clearly been empty, there was now a piece of floating silver light text, only a hundred or so characters, but flashing with spiritual light, all composed of Silver Tadpole Scripts.

With Han Li's photographic memory, he naturally memorized them all in the blink of an eye.

But how they appeared, he had no idea.

A moment later, these silver light characters shattered, turning into specks of spiritual light that vanished into the chair below without a trace.

Han Li's gaze fixed, staring at the chair, but his mind was still on the incantation he had memorized.

As a result, after a while, his expression shifted.

This incantation was actually a simple activation incantation, without head or tail, and without any explanation or notes.

It was truly too strange!

Han Li hesitated, his eyes shifting, scanning back and forth between the nine armored soldiers, the golden-yellow ball of light in the air, the starry sky map below, and the green chair, thinking carefully about the incantation that had just appeared.

He rubbed his chin, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face, and a vague guess formed in his heart.

Han Li suddenly formed a seal with one hand, golden light flared from his body, and golden scales appeared on his skin; he was once again activating the Brahma Saint True Demon Art.

Following a low shout, his shoulders shook, and a golden shadow shot out from behind him, flickering and transforming into the golden Dharma form that had disappeared.

Han Li slapped his crown, and a black light flew out from the top of his head, flashing and merging into the golden body.

It was his second Nascent Soul, "Little Black."

After this Nascent Soul possessed the golden body, the eyes of one of the clear faces among the three heads suddenly turned pitch-black and as lively as a normal person's.

Then, with a flash of golden light, the two-zhang-tall, demon-god-like three-headed, six-armed golden body drifted to the ground, standing steadily in front of Han Li.

Seeing this, Han Li smiled slightly, his figure blurring and disappearing like a wisp of green smoke in place.

The next moment, in the void thirty zhang away from the high platform, a figure appeared strangely.

Han Li hovered there with his hands behind his back, his figure motionless.

He had long discovered that after entering this space in the screen, the various flight-restricting restrictions on the ground had vanished.

So now he could safely hover at a low altitude, his eyes flickering as he watched everything on the high platform.

Under the urging of his Second Nascent Soul within his new heart, the six arms of the golden body suddenly moved, each forming various different hand seals. Then, a string of obscure and ancient incantations drifted leisurely from the mouth of that head, which had lively, intelligent eyes.

The voice was slow, but every rune was exceptionally clear; it was the Silver Tadpole Script incantation that had appeared on the chair earlier. Although it was Han Li's first contact, such a simple activation incantation naturally couldn't stump a Void Refinement stage existence like him.

However, being in such a strange place as this Sumeru Cave Heaven, for the sake of caution, he didn't dare to use his true body to activate this nameless incantation.

The second Nascent Soul's golden body, which could be gathered or dispersed at will, had far greater ability to resist various dangers than his true body.

And he believed that using his second Nascent Soul to chant this incantation would have the exact same effect as his true body, so it was naturally the best substitute.

The incantation echoed in the square, and in the blink of an eye, the second Nascent Soul finished chanting it, but the stone platform remained silent, without the slightest change.

The golden body stood quietly on the high platform, expressionless, motionless.

Seeing this, Han Li's eyes twitched, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

But after a moment of contemplation, with a move of his divine sense, he immediately had the second Nascent Soul chant it a second time.

Just like that, after a cup of tea's time, the incantation had been chanted three times by the second Nascent Soul through the mouth of the golden body.

But when the third incantation ended, neither the nine silver armored soldiers nor the golden-yellow ball of light in the air showed any change, as if these incantations had no effect at all.

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