Chapter 190: Black Boots

Because at the spot where Feng Yue had been standing, other than his pair of lower legs wearing boots, there was nothing else on the ground. The storage pouch that Han Li had considered his spoils of war was nowhere to be found.

Han Li sprang up with a "carp leaping over the dragon gate" maneuver, then, as if his backside were on fire, rushed over in a great hurry. As a result, after lowering his head and searching for a long time at the place where Feng Yue had vanished, he still could not see a trace of the storage pouch!

"Could the power of the Heaven Thunder Bead be so great? Did it actually turn both the person and the storage pouch into ashes?" Han Li circled this palm-sized area several times, finally arriving at an answer that left him extremely depressed.

Unwilling to give up, Han Li expanded his search area several times over, but the result remained the same. However, he did manage to pick up the small mirror and crystal ball belonging to the Treasure-Seeking Girl, as well as the small knife talisman treasure that had reverted to its talisman form because its master was dead.

Han Li looked at these three items, then thought about the Heaven Thunder Bead he had lost, the Silver Hook and Green Rope—two top-grade magic tools—and the storage pouch destroyed by the Heaven Thunder Bead. He looked up at the sky, speechless!

However, regardless of how one looked at it, after this great battle, he was ultimately the winner; he was still much better off than that fellow Feng Yue, who had been turned into ashes!

Not knowing whether he had made a profit or a loss, Han Li could only think to himself with such self-mockery.

At the thought of Feng Yue, Han Li subconsciously glanced at the only things of his remaining in this world: that pair of half-legs, complete only from the lower part down. He couldn't help but shake his head slightly, then raised a hand and released two fist-sized fireballs, which flew straight toward them. Since the person was already dead, these things naturally had to be completely destroyed as well, to save himself from any trouble should they be discovered by others!

With two soft "Bang" and "Bang" sounds, the flames immediately engulfed them. In the blink of an eye, except for that pair of black boots, everything else had turned to ash!

Han Li nodded with satisfaction and turned to leave the place.

"Boots? No, that's not right!"

"How could ordinary boots be completely unharmed under a Fireball Technique?"

Having just taken a small step, Han Li immediately realized his mistake. He hurriedly turned back, looking at the seemingly ordinary boots with a strange expression.

Looking closely, he really did discover something suspicious. Not only were the boots undamaged by the Fireball Technique, but they didn't even have a single trace of being burned, and they were faintly emitting a faint spiritual aura.

"A magic tool?"

Han Li was somewhat suspicious and uncertain.

He hesitated for a moment, then walked over in a few steps and picked up the black boots!

"Thin, soft, but very resilient! They don't seem to be cloth or silk boots; they look like they were made from the hide of some kind of animal!" After stroking them for a long time, Han Li reached this conclusion.

Because he was closer, Han Li could sense the faint spiritual aura on the boots even more clearly.

This was indeed a magic tool! And it was most likely a magic tool made from the hide of some kind of spirit beast.

Looking at these leather boots, Han Li faintly thought of something. He couldn't wait to take off his own cloth shoes and put on these leather boot magic tools.

Very comfortable, very soft, as if wearing nothing at all! This was Han Li's first impression after putting on the boots.

He carefully examined the boots on his feet for a while, but nothing strange had happened yet.

Frowning slightly, Han Li took a small step forward.

With a "Whoosh," Han Li's figure suddenly flashed, and his entire person drifted lightly to a distance of over a zhang away.

"Wind-Riding Technique! No, it's much faster than the Wind-Riding Technique!" Han Li thought with pleasant surprise.

At this moment, Han Li finally knew the secret behind Feng Yue's incredibly swift movement technique. It must have been by relying on these boots that that fellow could move so strangely and fast as lightning.

Wearing these boots, Han Li began to walk slowly around the small clearing, familiarizing himself with the boots' performance bit by bit. Gradually, he walked faster and faster, and in the end, he even used the Smoke-Step to accelerate.

If Han Li's movement technique had previously been fast to the limit, allowing his figure to become blurred and even leave behind afterimages, then after putting on these boots, Han Li's figure had become so fast that several identical illusions faintly appeared in the clearing at the same time, performing the same actions and wearing the same smiles. But when all the illusions converged toward the center, they merged back into Han Li standing alone in the middle of the clearing.

Han Li stood motionless on the spot, seemingly thinking about something. But suddenly, he burst into wild laughter, laughing until his body hunched over and tears almost flowed out.

After laughing for a long while, Han Li, still hunched over, had a flash of green light on his body, and his entire person suddenly turned into a gust of breeze, vanishing into thin air.

At this moment, the entire clearing was quiet, with no other sounds except for the occasional rustling of wind blowing across the ground.

A series of loud "Booming" sounds suddenly came, and the nearby trees began to split strangely from the middle one after another. The cut surfaces were as smooth and clean as a mirror, yet the surroundings were clearly empty.

The speed at which the trees were cut off increased, and in a short while, all the trees within several dozen zhang were left with only bare stumps.

Han Li, his body shrouded in a faint green light, only then revealed his figure, covered in sweat, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, his face full of irrepressible joy.

The Smoke-Step, the leather boot magic tool, and the addition of the Wind-Riding Technique had made Han Li so fast that he could temporarily escape the tracking of ordinary human eyes, as if he had vanished into thin air.

According to Han Li's estimation, even with the superior eyesight of a cultivator and the addition of the Spiritual Sense Technique, he would only appear as a faint shadow in their eyes when moving at full speed, which was enough to pose a huge threat to them before they could activate their defensive magic techniques.

Now, with just a thought, Han Li could immediately cross to any place several zhang away. Even for a distance of over ten zhang, Han Li could reach it in at most a single breath.

Of course, Han Li could only maintain this speed that surpassed the limits of his physical body for a very short moment. If it lasted too long, his entire body would completely collapse; after all, with Han Li's current body, performing such high-speed movement was still a bit too much.

However, for him, this amount of time was enough to kill his opponent dozens of times over, especially when using the thread magic tool, which increased his power even more!

Han Li lowered his head, stroking the leather boots on his feet with emotion for a long while, feeling that this item was truly perfect for him. Even if someone wanted to trade a talisman treasure for them, he would never consider it!

With his confidence greatly boosted, Han Li excitedly looked around the surroundings.

When he saw the corpse of the woman in yellow, he sighed softly, then used a small fireball to blast a large pit and buried her corpse in a very crude manner on the spot. This was the limit of what Han Li considered he could do.

After finishing all this, Han Li's figure flashed and vanished into the dense forest. He now had to hurry to the central area.

However, Han Li did not know that after the first day of slaughter in the Forbidden Area, only seventy-some disciples from various sects remained, which was nearly more than half less than the number that had first entered the Forbidden Area. And most of the elite disciples from the various sects had arrived near the central area in time, preparing to begin the second day of "waiting for the rabbit" cleaning.

Everyone they considered weak would be mercilessly cleared out one by one.

Of course, the Treasure-Seeking Girl who had already died and Feng Yue of the Heavenly Que Castle whom Han Li had killed were originally also members of the default slaughterers. But now that they were dead, everything naturally vanished like smoke.

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