Chapter 1750: Light Pillar

Han Li's gaze flickered as he looked at the green chair on the high platform, his expression becoming solemn.

"Could it be that I really have to walk into the starry sky map and sit on the chair? If that's the case, the outcome is unknown." A trace of hesitation appeared between Han Li's brows.

This place was hidden so mysteriously; the secret it held must be of great importance. And since the immortals valued this place so much, how could he be willing to leave without investigating it clearly?

But the terror of the illusion in the Starry Sky Map earlier made him wary of letting the golden body sit in the center of the map.

"Forget it, risk and opportunity always coexist. Generally speaking, the greater the risk, the greater the opportunity. The golden body has been successfully condensed; at worst, I'll let the second Nascent Soul take some risks. But if I miss this opportunity, in the Spirit Realm, such a true immortal ruin is impossible to encounter a second time."

After pondering for a long time, Han Li's mouth twitched, and a look of determination finally appeared on his face.

Although he was usually extremely cautious, facing the great temptation of immortal treasures, he steeled his heart.

Almost at the same time, the pitch-black eyes on one of the Brahma Saint Golden Body's faces flickered with strange light, and the golden body immediately strode toward the chair.

A moment later, the golden body's tall figure stopped in front of the verdant green chair, its eyes flickering as it seemed to weigh the proportion between the chair and its tall body, finding it difficult to sit in.

Immediately, the golden body formed a seal with one hand, golden light flashed on its body, and its size rapidly shrank until it was a zhang tall. Then, it moved and sat on the chair, subconsciously placing both hands on the sides of the chair, and began to chant again.

This time, as the incantation echoed, changes immediately occurred around the golden body.

Green light flickered on the chair beneath it. Silver runes emerged from the chair, circling and dancing around the golden body.

As the incantation grew louder, five-colored spiritual light appeared in the void above the high platform, becoming increasingly dense, like countless five-colored snowflakes drifting in the void, appearing incredibly gorgeous.

Han Li felt a tightness in his chest, staring at everything on the high platform without blinking.

Almost the moment the five-colored light spots appeared, the huge starry sky map on the platform suddenly erupted with gold, silver, and white light.

As the sun, moon, and stars in the light flickered, they shattered into three-colored spiritual light. The spiritual mist rolled, instantly forming a magical light array composed of Silver Tadpole Scripts, Golden Seal Scripts, and another type of white rune he had never seen before, shrouding the entire high platform.

The nine silver armored puppets and the Brahma Saint Golden Body on the chair were exactly at the eye and key points of the light array, forming a mysterious connection with each other.

Seeing this, Han Li's eyes flickered, but he took no action.

The second Nascent Soul finished the last few lines of the incantation.

Green light flashed in the eyes of the nine puppets, and they finally took action.

All the puppets suddenly moved, some forward, some backward, each leaving their original position by half a step.

With just that half-step change, another restrictive fluctuation emerged on the platform, echoing with the light array and causing the situation within the array to change.

The five-colored light spots floating in the void trembled and plunged into the light array like a torrential rain.

At the same time, the nine puppets gripped their silver spears with both hands, and a layer of golden-yellow light flame erupted from their bodies.

With the golden flames and silver armor complementing each other, the puppets looked as majestic as heavenly soldiers.

But these puppets were no mere decorations; as the golden flames erupted, waves of immense spiritual pressure surged from them toward the sky.

This spiritual pressure was so powerful that the heaven and earth spiritual energy near the high platform rolled, finally forming a golden-misty hurricane that howled and raged.

Han Li, thirty zhang away, was only grazed by the edge of the hurricane, but his expression changed drastically. As if struck by some giant force, golden light flashed on his body, and he was sent flying like a giant crossbow bolt.

In an instant, he reappeared even further away, twenty zhang away, stumbling several times before barely stabilizing his figure.

The spiritual pressure emitted by these puppets was terrifyingly strong.

Even with his physical body, which was several times stronger than an ordinary Saint-stage existence, he couldn't withstand it head-on for even a moment.

Han Li was both shocked and terrified.

However, he couldn't care about this for the moment and hurriedly looked up at the platform.

He saw the nine armored soldiers, glowing with golden light, their silver spears—originally pointing at the sky—trembling, each spraying a golden light pillar toward the golden-yellow ball of light in the high sky.

In a flash, they vanished into it.

Instantly, a strange rumbling sound came from the ball of light, and the light mist inside rotated rapidly, a giant vortex vaguely forming.

"Puchi!" Three-colored light in the giant light array swirled, and a three-colored rune, almost the same size as the light array, slowly emerged, shooting toward the sky in a flash.

A moment later, the giant rune vanished into the golden vortex.

The golden light mist rolled violently, a thunderclap rang out, and then a chilling spatial fluctuation radiated from the vortex.

With several "Boom" sounds, the golden light pillars sprayed from the puppets' silver spears grew by more than double, becoming as thick as bowls.

The light array on the platform shone even brighter, condensing into a three-colored light screen as solid as reality, shrouding the entire high platform beneath it.

Within the light screen, countless gold and silver runes emerged crazily, flying toward the Brahma Saint Golden Body on the chair amidst bursts of Sanskrit sounds.

The entire light array was pushed to its limit, the humming becoming as deafening as thunder!

At the same time, Han Li's true body suddenly felt the surrounding scene darken. After focusing his gaze, he was instantly startled.

He was once again in the huge starry sky he had seen once before.

Only this time, it seemed he was looking down at everything from a strange angle, with burning white stars floating beside him.

And the golden body, the chair, the three-colored light array beneath his feet, the armored soldiers, the golden vortex, and other things were all in the starry sky.

Almost without thinking, Han Li suddenly flicked his sleeve, and a flying sword an inch long shot out.

With a circle, it transformed into a green light. Cold light flashed!

Wherever the green light passed, several stars were stirred and scattered.

But a moment later, these scattered stars flashed with white light and returned to normal.

Seeing this, Han Li raised his brows, but felt a slight relief in his heart.

This starry sky didn't seem to be a complete illusion. This time, his consciousness remained exceptionally clear, and he didn't lose his sense of self in the blink of an eye.

However, just as this thought flashed through Han Li's mind, the spatial fluctuations in the golden-yellow vortex intensified several times over.

The fluctuations seemed like tangible objects, transforming into visible circular ripples that sprayed out from the vortex and raged in all directions.

Wherever they passed, the void blurred and dazed, and the entire starry sky seemed to have its heaven and earth inverted in an instant, unable to be controlled.

Suddenly, a thunderous roar that seemed to tear the heaven and earth rang out, and a milky-white light pillar of incomparable thickness sprayed out from the golden-yellow vortex, flashing and striking the light array on the high platform, shrouding the Brahma Saint Golden Body on the chair within it.

Wind and thunder sounds vaguely came from the light pillar, which contained dense five-colored runes. Even Han Li, who was dozens of zhang away, could sense the incredibly pure spiritual power within the light pillar. But upon closer inspection, it contained more than just spiritual energy; it seemed to have a boundless, majestic aura similar to the stars.

The second Nascent Soul, who had been sitting on the chair, hadn't had time to react. The moment the light pillar touched its body, it felt the space around the golden body tighten, and an irresistible giant force pressed heavily on its body.

Even with the golden body's strength, it couldn't move a single finger.

The pure spiritual power and five-colored runes in the light pillar surged into the golden body like a tide, unstoppable for even a moment.

Han Li's true body, seeing this from afar, couldn't help but change his expression drastically.

At such close range, the second Nascent Soul and the main Nascent Soul always maintained a close connection; everything the golden Dharma form felt, he felt almost identically.

Under the surge of pure spiritual power and five-colored runes, the Profound Yin Demon Energy that the second Nascent Soul had cultivated to the peak of the mid-Nascent Soul stage instantly entered the late-Nascent Soul stage, as if the original late-stage bottleneck didn't exist at all.

Not only that, the second Nascent Soul's demon art continued to surge under the incredible magical power of the light pillar. In the blink of an eye, it forcibly entered the late-stage peak, hitting the great bottleneck of the Void Refinement stage.

Facing the originally incredibly difficult barrier that Han Li himself had crossed with trepidation,

The second Nascent Soul only felt the milky-white light pillar tremble a few times, and the Sanskrit sounds from within grew slightly louder, as if it were walking on a flat road, easily passing through and entering the early Void Refinement stage.

Its cultivation was still rising...

And all of this happened in no more than ten breaths.

Han Li's heart was filled with horror; he almost couldn't believe all this information coming from the second Nascent Soul!

But even more astonishing was that, under his true body's own eyes, the three-headed, six-armed Brahma Saint Golden Body began to dissolve inch by inch in the milky-white light pillar, finally turning into thousands of drops of red-golden liquid, strangely hovering in the light pillar.

The second Nascent Soul, with black energy rolling over its body, was completely exposed under the light pillar.

But before Han Li could recover from his shock and understand whether this was good or bad, some of the five-colored runes suddenly turned into the size of rice grains, then densely surged into these golden liquid drops, vanishing into them without a trace.

These golden liquid drops seemed to have been washed by some inexplicable power, over and over again.

Suddenly, Han Li's true body and the second Nascent Soul both let out a painful scream from the depths of their souls. One saw black energy rolling wildly over its body, trembling uncontrollably, while the other immediately let out a "thud" and fell from the sky with a flash of golden light.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1751 =====