Chapter 1998

Han Li tilted his head and glanced at the young girl on his shoulder, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

This young girl was none other than the Leopard Qilin Beast that had awakened from its slumber.

This beast had finally awakened from its slumber just as he was about to return to the human territories, and the moment it woke up, it gave him an unexpected shock.

This Leopard Qilin Beast had actually begun its Tribulation Crossing for the Body Integration stage the moment it woke up.

Given the True Qilin bloodline possessed by this beast, the heavenly tribulation that descended was naturally earth-shattering and extremely formidable.

Heavenly tribulations were not something outsiders could easily interfere with; even though Han Li was within arm's reach, he could only watch helplessly as the beast was nearly reduced to ashes in the tribulation.

Fortunately, it had devoured the demon core of the Dark Beast King and had instinctively comprehended several new divine abilities, which allowed it to persist until the end and barely survive the tribulation, enabling it to transform into human form.

At this moment, the Leopard Qilin Beast was naturally covered in wounds.

If it hadn't been for Han Li's desperate efforts to save it, sparing no amount of spirit medicine, it likely would not have survived.

What left Han Li somewhat speechless was that the human form the Leopard Qilin Beast transformed into after the tribulation was a young girl who looked even younger than "Qu'er".

If it were an ordinary mortal, at this age, she probably wouldn't even be able to speak clearly.

Fortunately, although the young girl transformed by this beast appeared extremely young, she naturally would not really babble "ya ya"; he could communicate with her directly using his spiritual sense.

Because of the little beast's unexpected tribulation, Han Li's journey back to Abyss City was naturally delayed.

It took him several more months before he could bring the Leopard Qilin Beast, now recovered from the tribulation, back to the human race and head straight for Abyss City.

The place he was heading to now was one of the few secret teleportation arrays reserved specifically for the Elders of the city.

Because these teleportation arrays were small-scale arrays that could only teleport one or two people at a time, Abyss City was not afraid of the Demon Race discovering this location and using it to invade the city directly.

After all, even for a Body Integration stage Demon Venerable, teleporting only one or two people at a time to the other end, which was guarded by heavy restrictions and troops, would only result in being surrounded and killed.

The only thing Han Li had to be careful about was that the teleportation array here had not become an ambush site for the Demon Race, specifically used to lure human cultivators into throwing themselves into a trap like moths to a flame.

Of course, even if there were an ambush, with his cultivation base having advanced another layer, he did not need to take it to heart.

Nowadays, apart from those incarnations of the Sacred Ancestors, he believed he could defeat any ordinary late-stage Body Integration cultivator.

Things like being chased and fleeing in a sorry state by a Demon Sacred Ancestor incarnation as he had twice before should be small enough to be almost ignored.

Those Sacred Ancestor incarnations had descended into this realm to command the demon armies; how could they possibly be waiting in ambush for someone in certain locations?

Even the possibility of those Demon Venerables appearing was not very high.

At the critical moment when the demon army was attacking Abyss City, the upper echelons of the Demon Race would not waste their top-tier strength on such trivial matters.

Han Li pondered while driving his escape light.

The cyan rainbow flickered faintly, and before long, it approached the mountain range ahead.

Just as Han Li was about to urge his light to dive directly into it, his expression suddenly shifted, and he let out a soft "Eh". The cyan light on his body converged, and he appeared directly at the edge, narrowing his eyes to gaze into the depths of the mountain range.

Blue light pierced through his pupils, and after his vision blurred for a moment, everything within a thousand li was pulled before his eyes.

As a result, he saw dozens of escape lights of various colors appearing on the horizon, fleeing in a panic toward his direction.

And behind these escape lights, a vast, oppressive black demon cloud was rolling in, pursuing them relentlessly.

Within the black demonic Qi, one could faintly see some ferocious demon beasts and some demon armored soldiers wielding weapons.

At the rear of the dozens of escape lights, an old man with a white beard was desperately urging two flying swords, one cyan and one yellow, to slash continuously at the demon cloud.

Each time a sword light was slashed out, it transformed into a giant sword of several dozen zhang, each time forcing the demon cloud to pause.

The power of these two flying swords seemed to far exceed what the old man's own Void Refinement cultivation could control.

However, every time the white-bearded old man slashed out a sword, his complexion turned a shade paler. When his face became completely devoid of blood, he opened his mouth and spat two mouthfuls of essence blood onto the two flying swords.

The sword light transformed by the two flying swords became even more dazzling than before, and wherever the sword light passed, even some of the demon beasts and armored soldiers in the demon cloud were unable to dodge and were slashed into nothingness.

After several consecutive slashes, hundreds of demon armored soldiers were reduced to ashes on the spot.

But such an act clearly enraged the high-level demons hiding in the depths of the demon cloud.

With a loud roar, a pitch-black three-pronged flying fork suddenly flew out from the demon cloud, shaking and transforming into a length of over a hundred zhang. After a noisy clanging sound, it flashed and struck at a thick sword light.

An earth-shattering loud noise erupted!

The black light and sword light intertwined, then exploded like thunder.

The thick sword light dispersed, transforming into a flying sword that retreated, its light becoming extremely dim.

And that flying fork let out a mournful cry, also retreating back into the demon cloud, appearing to have suffered significant damage as well.

"You dare to destroy my treasure! Once I catch you, I will definitely extract your soul and refine your bones!" The high-level demon in the demon cloud roared in a rage upon seeing the state of the flying fork.

Following this, the demon cloud rolled and surged, doubling in size as it swept toward the old man.

Seeing this, the white-bearded old man's expression changed drastically. Ignoring the pain of his flying swords being damaged, he fiercely retracted them, merged his body with the swords, and transformed into a cyan and yellow rainbow, shooting backward to escape.

At this moment, because of the old man's all-out obstruction, those disciples had already fled over a hundred li away.

The demons in the demon cloud behind naturally could not let it go at that. With a gust of demon wind, they pursued again with an aggressive momentum.

While driving his sword light to escape, the white-bearded old man took several pills from his bosom, stuffed them into his mouth without looking, and glanced back at the relentless demon cloud, his heart secretly groaning in misery.

He had previously taken two Junior Martial Brothers into the canyon to search for the teleportation array. Even though he had been extremely careful beforehand, they still fell into a demon ambush and were surrounded by seven or eight demons of the same rank.

If it hadn't been for those two Junior Martial Brothers choosing to self-detonate their Nascent Souls, severely wounding several high-level demons, he likely would have fallen on the spot as well.

But even so, he was being chased to the brink of death by the remaining demons, and the current situation was extremely critical.

Don't look at how majestic he appeared just now, seemingly blocking the demon pursuers with ease. In reality, the act of driving the sect's supreme treasure, the "Heavenly Stem Twin Swords," had already left his internal magic power almost completely exhausted.

This was why he did not continue to stay and block the demon cloud just now.

Although it seemed that most of the sect members had escaped, given the cultivation of his disciples, it was only a matter of time before they were caught by the demon creatures.

Furthermore, this was an area occupied by the Demon Race; wanting to truly escape unless a miracle occurred was like a dream.

The more the white-bearded old man pondered, the more his heart sank. Knowing that the situation was nearly impossible, he could only bite the bullet and hold on.

Thus, one chasing and one fleeing, the two groups covered a thousand li in the blink of an eye, and the edge of the mountain range could already be seen in the distance.

At this moment, among the human cultivators in front, more than a dozen disciples with low magic power had fallen far behind the others, and they were about to be caught by the demon cloud behind.

The numerous demon beasts in the demon cloud let out low roars, and the demon armored soldiers each wore ferocious expressions.

These disciples turned pale with fright.

Seeing this, the white-bearded old man sighed in his heart and whispered a barely audible "So be it!"

Following this, the rainbow he had transformed into circled back, releasing astonishing spiritual light once again as he charged toward the demon cloud.

A wild laugh erupted from the demon cloud, and as the black Qi rolled, four exceptionally tall high-level demons of the Void Refinement stage flew out from the cloud simultaneously.

One of them, holding a black three-pronged demon fork in both hands, was the very same high-level demon who had just repelled the old man's flying swords.

The cultivation of the other three appeared to be in no way inferior to this demon.

Seeing the rainbow transformed by the white-bearded old man about to reach the space above the demon cloud, the four demons simultaneously threw their treasures into the air.

A giant black fork, two white bone swords, a giant blue sword, and a yellow giant brick the size of a small mountain appeared in the air simultaneously. After a flash, they somehow trapped the rainbow, forcing the old man to reveal his true form.

At this moment, the four demons urged their demon arts, and the five treasures struck down at the old man with overwhelming force.

Seeing this, the old man gave a bitter smile and could only fiercely raise his remaining internal magic power, injecting all his spiritual power into the two flying swords.

Immediately, the cyan and yellow swords hummed, transforming into two giant sword lights that danced wildly. A thick sword curtain appeared silently above the old man's head, protecting his figure completely underneath.

Even though these two flying swords were items of great origin, the power of the four demons' joint strike still far exceeded what ordinary people could imagine.

After the five demon treasures struck heavily, the sword curtain let out a sharp cry and shattered inch by inch, then continued to fall toward the old man with aggressive momentum.

The white-bearded old man's face was deathly pale; he could only force himself to open his mouth and spit out a stream of cyan mist, which flew up to meet them.

At this point, he could only struggle to the death.

But just at this moment, a faint male voice suddenly rang out in the nearby void:

"Hmph, just a few Void Refinement stage demon creatures, and you dare to kill people in front of me! Since you've come, leave your lives behind."

The man's voice had just fallen!

Suddenly, a thunderous crack echoed, and a figure appeared only a zhang away from the white-bearded old man, reaching out a hand and grabbing lightly at the sky as if it were nothing.

An astonishing thing happened.

The five demon treasures that were about to fall suddenly trembled, and at the same time, they were struck by a massive force, letting out strange cries as they shot backward into the high sky.

In that instant, the four high-level demons lost control of their own treasures.

The four demons were shocked!

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