Chapter 1752: Exploding Body and Golden Plate

The impact of the Integration stage bottleneck required an amount of mysterious energy far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

Streams of powerful energy rolled continuously within the second Nascent Soul, causing the originally black-energy-filled Nascent Soul to have a layer of five-colored light mist appear on its surface, and its body expanded several times as if blown by air.

The golden liquid drops in the light pillar seemed to sense this, and at the same time, they gathered and manifested a golden body, wrapping the second Nascent Soul within it.

Giant energy surged from within the Nascent Soul, and even the golden body couldn't withstand this kind of impact, shattering and dissolving as the second Nascent Soul impacted the bottleneck.

A single impact could not possibly break through the bottleneck between the Void Refinement and Integration stages.

The second Nascent Soul had to gather the mysterious energy again after the golden body vanished. And the golden body that had just disappeared manifested again, radiating purple-golden light.

After seven or eight times like this, every impact consumed all the mysterious energy within the second Nascent Soul. At the same time, because this power was too massive, it inevitably caused the manifested golden body to be easily destroyed and dissolved. But under the second Nascent Soul's divine sense control, the golden body would crazily manifest again, while beginning to accumulate even stronger mysterious energy than the last time.

The strength of the Integration stage bottleneck was far beyond what had been imagined beforehand. After so many impacts, there was only a slight loosening.

It was still ten thousand miles away from truly breaking through this barrier.

Han Li's heart sank.

At this time, his true body's magic power cultivation had also reached the late-Void Refinement stage peak, and the cool energy began to forcibly stuff itself into the meridians all over his body.

He could clearly sense the feeling of expansion in every thread.

Han Li was shocked and terrified, but because of the intense pain deep in his soul, he could only maintain a trace of clarity, unable to form any seals or urge any treasures.

Even though he had a body full of abilities and heaven-shaking treasures, he was completely helpless at this moment.

And the light pillar sprayed from the golden vortex remained misty white, showing no sign of weakening.

Han Li felt the mysterious energy in his meridians growing rapidly, his face turning pale and bloodless.

He knew very well that even though his body was strong, it was definitely not as powerful as the Dharma form golden body.

Even the golden body shattered and dissolved one after another at the moment of impacting the bottleneck. His mere physical body couldn't withstand any energy impact of the Integration stage bottleneck.

The energy in the light pillar was magical, but it was definitely too overbearing compared to ordinary spiritual power.

But this feeling of waiting to die, he had almost never experienced since he started on the path of cultivation. Even with a heart as hard as stone, he couldn't help but feel a bit panicked.

After a while, Han Li's body seemed to have been coated with a layer of gold powder. Not only was his body shining with golden light, but the golden scales appearing on his skin began to merge, forming a layer of pale golden armor.

Although it was incredibly thin, just a faint layer, seen from afar, it was vaguely a tattered golden battle armor.

This was the "Brahma Saint Armor," a natal battle armor that could be formed on its own when the Brahma Saint True Demon Art was cultivated to a very deep realm.

Although this battle armor had no power to speak of now, and its defensive ability was less than one-thousandth of the Heaven-Extinguishing Demon Armor, this natal battle armor had infinite potential and could grow on its own as the owner's cultivation increased. And because it was condensed by himself, it was naturally far superior to other battle armors in terms of transformation and power exertion.

Of course, this Brahma Saint Armor wasn't something that could be cultivated in the Void Refinement stage; it was a great ability of the Brahma Saint True Demon Art after entering the Integration stage.

Now, under the forced infusion of mysterious energy and the overflow of a portion, it had luckily manifested a small part in advance.

Although this armor wasn't powerful now, the earlier it appeared, the greater its potential, and it could be tempered and improved in advance with natal true essence.

But this kind of thing that would have made Han Li overjoyed in ordinary times didn't even attract his attention once at this moment.

He was just desperately turning his thoughts, wanting to find a reliable way to save his life before the deadline arrived.

As it happened, under Han Li's quick thinking, after the second Nascent Soul failed to impact the Integration bottleneck again, he thought of a method that wasn't really a "method."

That was, at the moment his body was about to explode, he would first self-detonate his physical body, using the power of the self-detonation to help his Nascent Soul escape.

Although Han Li couldn't urge any treasures or incantations now, he could barely manage to ignite his body, which was already like a powder keg, and guide it to explode first.

Although both were exploding the body, they were naturally very different.

Being forcibly exploded by that mysterious energy, he naturally couldn't control the power of the explosion at all, and most likely, even his Nascent Soul would be swept into it and turned to ashes together.

But self-detonation could, while abandoning everything, control the size of the explosion and a certain range, giving his main Nascent Soul a glimmer of hope for survival.

Of course, this method was a helpless means of finding life in death!

He wouldn't truly use it until the very last moment.

After all, the fate of a Nascent Soul without a body was miserable to imagine.

Fortunately, in his storage bracelet, there was still a spiritual body of a Ginseng Immortal. If he were really left with only his Nascent Soul, he would have to bite the bullet and possess it.

However, even if he used this method, whether he could truly escape with his life was still a matter of two possibilities.

But apart from this, he truly had no other feasible method.

As for the second Nascent Soul, he could only let it listen to fate.

He couldn't even protect himself now, so naturally, he couldn't care about anything else.

Han Li thought helplessly, feeling a bit regretful about his rash action this time. Otherwise, he wouldn't have fallen into the desperate situation of both Nascent Souls perishing at the same time.

After a while, tingling sensations came from all over his meridians, looking as if they would be torn apart at any moment.

Han Li's face changed several times, he took a deep breath, and began to mobilize that trace of remaining divine sense.

Instantly, the pure spiritual power and mysterious energy filled to the limit in his meridians began to roll and boil in his body under a slight pull.

His sitting body had golden light flashing on its surface, and the Brahma Saint Armor that had just formed was even slightly distorted and deformed, even revealing thin white cracks.

Han Li smiled bitterly, glanced at the second Nascent Soul in the light pillar in the distance, steeled his heart, and prepared to completely activate all the magic power in his body.

Doing this was like throwing a spark into an oil pan, which could instantly ignite the entire Dharma body.

But at this critical moment, a change occurred.

One of Han Li's arms suddenly became incredibly hot, as if wrapped in raging flames.

He was naturally startled, his divine sense paused, and he scanned that arm rapidly.

As a result, his expression was stunned!

He saw that the back of that arm revealed a dazzling yellow light, with a faint yellow mark vaguely appearing.

"Ah, it's this treasure!"

Han Li's heart stirred, and he recognized it.

This mark was the Heaven-Mysterious Fruit that he had sealed himself!

But before he could think much, the mark in the yellow light twisted and flickered. The mysterious energy and pure spiritual power in his body seemed to have found a vent, instantly surging from all over his meridians into the mark on his arm.

The mark seemed to be a bottomless pit; swallowing so much astonishing energy and spiritual power, it only flickered with light, showing no other abnormalities.

A moment later, half of the mysterious energy in Han Li's body had been swallowed.

The situation where his life was in danger was easily resolved just like that.

Han Li was naturally surprised and delighted!

And the next moment, an even more astonishing scene appeared.

The yellow mark suddenly flashed with light, and a yellow wooden stick appeared on the surface of his arm. It was the Heaven-Mysterious Fruit itself.

As soon as this fruit appeared, it seemed exceptionally excited, just flashing a few times, and all the spiritual power and mysterious energy in Han Li's body were sucked dry like a giant whale.

The Heaven-Mysterious Fruit emitted an astonishing aura, then swayed slightly toward the golden vortex in the high sky, "Puchi," a green light flashed at one end, and a foot-long, light-misty sword blade suddenly shot out.

The sword blade was exceptionally green and bright, smooth as a mirror, but in the center, a row of several green runes were engraved, with cold light flickering!

It was the Heaven-Mysterious Sword manifested!

Without Han Li needing to control it in the slightest, this treasure sensed the greatest threat to it in this place, suddenly pointing the tip of the sword at the golden vortex in the void, and a clear cry rang out to the heavens.

Then, with a flash of spiritual light, dense ink-green runes appeared on the sword blade, and it trembled slightly.

Instantly, the heaven and earth spiritual energy in the nearby void surged, and countless wisps of five-colored light mist appeared out of thin air, surging toward the Heaven-Mysterious Sword.

In the blink of an eye, the Heaven-Mysterious Sword shone brightly, its clear sound grew twice as loud, and it slashed out toward the golden-yellow vortex in the high sky.

A green sword light appeared, as dazzling as a nine-heaven lightning bolt, flashing and reaching near the golden-yellow vortex in a flash, slashing diagonally.

"Boom!"

The milky-white light pillar was actually slashed into two pieces with a flash of green light, and a law power that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth surged from the sword light, instantly engulfing the vortex.

The golden-yellow vortex hummed loudly, then with a flash of light, it transformed into a golden plate the size of a mu.

This giant golden plate had a pattern identical to the starry sky map on the high platform engraved on its surface, while dense five-colored runes floated around it.

And milky-white light pillars were spraying down from the golden plate, desperately resisting the law power in the sword light below.

But even though this treasure also had a great origin in the Immortal Realm and its rarity and value were even above ordinary Heaven-Mysterious treasures, its own ability wasn't for fighting others, so how could it resist a direct attack containing the law power of a realm?

After only a moment, the milky-white light pillar was swallowed and dissipated by the law power.

The nearby void distorted, and the green sword light slashed solidly onto the golden plate.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1753 =====