Chapter 1858: Demon Shadow in the Wilderness

The young man was Han Li, who had left the Myriad Treasure Assembly and disappeared for several years.

As for the girl beside him, she was naturally Bai Guo'er, who possessed the Ice Marrow Body.

This girl had already been accepted by Han Li as a named disciple and had to rely on Han Li's magic power to forcibly suppress the cold poison in her body within a hundred years to survive. It was not strange that she had followed him closely for these past few years.

The group of Gu family cultivators, seeing the figures appear in the air, naturally stirred, and many of them had spiritual light flashing on their bodies, staring at Han Li with vigilant eyes.

"Fellow Daoist Xiaofeng, Han encountered a small trouble on the way and arrived a bit late, making you wait for a long time." Han Li scanned the ground and, upon seeing the fair-skinned young woman, immediately smiled slightly.

Then, his body flickered, and a layer of green mist appeared on his body, wrapping around Bai Guo'er. With a flash, he appeared on the ground not far from the young woman.

"Not at all, it was we who arrived a bit early. Senior, being able to arrive so punctually, I, on behalf of the Gu family, am extremely grateful. This is Elder Xiao of our Gu family, and this time, the True Spirit Ceremony will be led by the two of us." The young woman showed a look of joy and hurriedly introduced the yellow-haired old man beside her to Han Li.

"Oh, so it is Elder Xiao!" Seeing that the other party's cultivation was not inferior to that of Family Head Xiaofeng, Han Li didn't dare to underestimate him too much and nodded slightly to him.

"I dare not. I heard of Senior Han's great name a few years ago. This time, for the sake of the Gu family, Senior being able to come here in person makes us, the juniors, breathe a sigh of relief." The yellow-haired old man, although worried about Han Li's strength in his heart, naturally showed a respectful appearance when facing him in person.

At this time, the other Gu family cultivators naturally knew that Han Li was the great reinforcement they had been waiting for, but his young appearance naturally made them whisper to each other in surprise.

"Two Fellow Daoists, there is no need for this. Han coming here this time is just a mutually beneficial transaction with the Gu family. However, the Supreme Elder of your family, 'Fairy Tianli,' does not seem to be here, which is probably not quite the same as what Fellow Daoist Xiaofeng said beforehand. Could it be that Fellow Daoist Tianli has gone ahead?" Han Li frowned and asked after scanning the other Gu family cultivators.

"How should I put it! This time, the True Spirit Ceremony, I'm afraid Supreme Elder Tianli will be unable to represent the Gu family." The fair-skinned young woman showed an awkward and helpless expression upon hearing this.

"What do you mean by that!" Hearing that it was different from the original agreement, Han Li's expression sank, and he asked slowly.

"Senior, please calm your anger. The Supreme Elder being unable to participate in this ceremony is also due to an unexpected event, and it had to be this way. The situation is like this..." The yellow-haired old man, seeing Han Li's not-so-good expression, hurriedly explained the details.

"Fairy Tianli was injured in the Barbarian World and is currently in seclusion? That's no wonder. For people of our cultivation, once vitality is damaged, it is indeed difficult to recover easily. However, in this way, the agreement between me and your family regarding the ranking in the ceremony is a bit troublesome?" Han Li nodded, but asked with a hint of difficulty.

"Since the Supreme Elder cannot take action, the agreement to improve our Gu family's ranking is naturally impossible to count. This time, as long as we can ensure that our Gu family's ranking does not fall, it will be considered fulfilling the agreement." The young woman Xiaofeng seemed to have thought about it long ago, and said with a solemn expression.

"Oh, even so, the difficulty of this is probably not small. After all, I have only just advanced to Body Integration, and I dare not guarantee anything." Han Li said with a hint of difficulty upon hearing this.

"As long as Senior can do your best, in addition to the things originally promised, our Gu family has prepared another sum of top-grade spirit stones for Senior as compensation for the change in the agreement!" The fair-skinned young woman, seeing Han Li's expression, hesitated for a moment before suddenly taking out a storage bracelet from her sleeve and handing it to Han Li.

Han Li's heart stirred slightly, and after scanning the storage bracelet with his spiritual sense, a flash of surprise appeared on his face.

"It seems your family truly attaches great importance to this True Spirit Ceremony, actually willing to part with such an astronomical number of spirit stones. In that case, Han will naturally do his best as a guest elder of the Gu family at the True Spirit Ceremony." Han Li pondered for a moment before accepting the storage bracelet into his sleeve without being polite.

The young woman, seeing Han Li accept the spirit stones, also felt a sense of relief in her heart and said with a smile:

"With Senior sitting in charge, our Gu family finally has some confidence for this True Spirit Ceremony. This place is still a month's journey away from the Myriad Spirit Terrace where the ceremony will be held, so we shouldn't delay too long here. Let's set off! Regarding some specific matters of the True Spirit Ceremony, Elder Xiao and I will explain them to Senior in detail."

"That would naturally be best!" Han Li naturally had no objections.

Thus, after Han Li joined, the group of Gu family cultivators soared into the air, turning into streaks of light of various colors, lined up in a row, and shot towards the horizon.

"Heavenly Horse Wilderness" is a boundless land of yellow earth located at the intersection of the Tianyuan Realm and the Wanyao Realm.

It is said that its area is so vast that even if a Spirit Severing cultivator wanted to cross this wilderness, it would take a month of flying day and night without stopping.

In addition, this place is full of yellow wind and flying sand, and not a single blade of grass is seen; it is a famous land of waste spiritual energy, so it is rarely visited by cultivators.

Even if a cultivator occasionally has to pass through this wilderness, they will fly through it all the way and will not stay in it for a single moment.

However, on this day, in a certain place in the deepest part of this wilderness, a team of more than a dozen human cultivators were forming a circular formation back-to-back, hovering in the low altitude.

Their magic treasures were all out, turning into sheets of light that shrouded their bodies, but everyone had a look of panic on their faces.

Among these cultivators, the one with the highest cultivation was a burly man in brocade robes at the mid-stage of Void Refinement, holding a blue pearl in one hand and a white mist-like banner in the other, standing in the center of the formation, but his face was even more shocked and angry than the others, and his gaze scanned the surroundings of the formation constantly.

Just at this moment, a gust of yellow mist-like sand wind suddenly blew past a male cultivator.

This male cultivator subconsciously blinked his eyelids, and at that very moment, a palm as white as jade suddenly reached out from the yellow wind like lightning.

With a "chi-la" sound, the male cultivator's protective light was torn apart like paper, and the white jade palm easily pierced through the male cultivator's chest.

Then, before the male cultivator could let out a scream, a white ice flower bloomed on his chest, instantly turning him into a crystalline ice sculpture.

And that white palm disappeared into thin air on the male cultivator's chest.

The other cultivators nearby, seeing this, simultaneously shouted in surprise and urged various treasures to smash over wildly.

But apart from smashing the ice sculpture of the male cultivator into powder, the enemy's trace was not seen at all.

However, just at this moment, the burly man in brocade robes suddenly let out an angry shout, the blue pearl in his hand shone brightly, and a blue mist-like light pillar sprayed out.

This light pillar was so fast that it flashed and hit a certain void in the yellow wind. Immediately, white light flashed, and a blurry shadow was trapped by a ball of blue light and appeared in the wind.

Seeing this scene, without waiting for the burly man in brocade robes to give orders, the other cultivators were energized, and numerous treasures were urged, turning into a sheet of five-colored light that rolled over.

With a muffled "bang," the shadow seemed to have no power to fight back at all and was torn into pieces by the five-colored light.

Immediately, cheers erupted from the mouths of the cultivators, everyone showing a look of wild joy.

But only the burly man in brocade robes had a look of shock and suspicion. He suddenly reached out into the void with one hand and grabbed a small fragment of the shadow, which was a piece of hard shell-like debris as white as jade, extremely cold, and quickly turned into clear water in his palm.

"Not good, that evil beast is not dead yet!" Seeing this, the burly man's expression changed abruptly, and he shouted sternly. Then, without thinking, he moved the white banner in his hand, intending to urge it to protect his whole body first.

But this action was clearly a bit late.

The burly man in brocade robes only heard a piercing scream in his ears, and then his neck felt cold, and his entire head was bitten off by two snow-white fangs as thick as curved knives.

Then, a giant centipede phantom, snow-white all over, appeared behind the headless body without any warning.

This centipede was five or six zhang long, with six semi-transparent crystalline cicada wings on its back, and its eyes were blood-red, flashing with sinister cold light. The moment it appeared, it opened its giant mouth again, and a ball of white mist-like cold air sprayed out wildly.

The nearest five or six cultivators, caught off guard, were immediately swept into the white cold air, and both their protective treasures and their own magic bodies were frozen into lifelike ice sculptures in the flashing white light.

The remaining cultivators, seeing this, were scared out of their wits. Not knowing who shouted "Run for your lives," they scattered in all directions, turning into several streaks of light and fleeing wildly.

And the snow-white centipede, seeing this, didn't care at all, just moved its six crystalline wings on its back, and suddenly turned into six phantoms and disappeared in a flash.

A short while later, the few remaining cultivators who had fled no more than a hundred zhang away let out screams simultaneously, each cut in two by a white light, unable to resist at all.

Then, the white light stirred densely, and the remains of these cultivators, along with the Nascent Souls inside, were instantly wiped out.

The snow-white centipede phantom, seeing this, shook its giant body, and the six white lights flashed and shot back. The next moment, the six crystalline cicada wings appeared on its back again.

At this time, the centipede phantom's body suddenly released dazzling white light, and its body shrank rapidly.

When all the white light receded, a white-robed young man with strange gold and silver patterns on his face appeared in place with an expressionless face.

He scanned the surroundings coldly, then suddenly pressed one hand into the void towards the ground.

A ball of white gas sprayed out, wrapping the head of the burly man in brocade robes and wrapping it inside.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1859 =====