Chapter 2252

A thunderous boom echoed in the void!

Under the flashing light of the Cui Meng sword, the void before Han Li suddenly collapsed, and the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy rushed like a funnel into a single point, then burst forth with a terrifying aura capable of destroying heaven and earth.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, Han Li finally fully unleashed the power of the Profound Heaven Severing Spirit Sword for the first time.

With a "puff," a hazy, jade-green crescent moon of light shot out from the collapsed void.

After a flash, countless crystalline runes surged across the surface of the crescent moon, radiating a mesmerizing five-colored halo.

With a deafening "boom"!

The collapsed void and the jade-green crescent moon exploded simultaneously.

After countless runes and jade-green light condensed, a nearly transparent, extraordinarily long crystal thread appeared, then vanished strangely after a flash.

This crystal thread seemed ordinary, but upon its appearance, the entire sky dimmed slightly, the surrounding void hummed, and after a blur, it began to twist in regular, layered patterns.

All spatial distortions pointed toward that crystal thread, as if all things were paying homage to it.

"It's the Line of Law—this is impossible!"

The girl trapped in the Precious Flower Spiritual Realm cried out in shock, her face finally showing fury as she screamed, and suddenly black flames rolled across her body, forming a bone armor covered in countless spikes.

Countless gray runes churned within the black flames, and each bone spur was crystal-clear like jade, with faint silver spiritual patterns winding around them like intricate carvings.

In the next instant, as the girl's front fluctuated, the crystal thread silently appeared—though she possessed immense divine powers, bound by the spiritual realm, she could not evade it, only watching helplessly as the "Line of Law" blurred and then swept down upon her.

Though the strange black flame and bone armor slightly blocked the crystal thread a few times, it still passed through like cutting through rotten wood.

The girl screamed in agony as her body split at the waist, her limbs and other parts covered in countless fine blood marks, and in the next moment, she collapsed into countless fragments of flesh.

"Well done!"

Seeing this, Precious Flower rejoiced, clenched her hand into a seal without hesitation, and the immense tree-light flashed, instantly shrinking to less than a hundredth of its size—now only about half a chi tall.

It sparkled translucently, with rings of seven-colored light radiating outward.

Precious Flower moved her five fingers, seized the small tree firmly, and swept it through the void below.

With a "puff," the branches and countless flowers on the small tree instantly withered and vanished.

At the same time, countless blood-red giant flowers appeared where the girl's flesh had scattered.

Each blood flower spun, then its petals unfolded to envelop a piece of flesh, then exploded into a puff of pink light.

After all explosions ended, not a trace of the flesh remained—it had completely vanished within the spiritual realm.

At this moment, the small tree in Precious Flower's hand had clearly exhausted all its power in the previous strike; its bare trunk trembled violently, then dissipated like a phantom.

The entire spiritual realm then violently surged, and countless petals blurred and scattered into extinction.

The Profound Heaven Spiritual Realm finally ceased to exist.

In the empty void, only Han Li and Precious Flower remained in an instant.

"Brother Han, I never thought you could control this Profound Heaven treasure to such an extent—I am truly in awe," Precious Flower said, glancing at Han Li with a strange expression.

"That thing just now was called the Line of Law—its power is truly beyond comparison to before," Han Li replied, sweeping his hand over the jade-green long sword, his expression equally unusual.

"What, Fellow Daoist, is this your first time condensing this line?" Precious Flower asked, somewhat stunned.

"Indeed, it is the first time I have seen this object; Han Li merely activated this Profound Heaven treasure to the fullest just now," Han Li said with a calm smile.

"I don't know what to say—could it be that this Profound Heaven Sword was originally nurtured within your body? Otherwise, for a Profound Heaven treasure to condense even a thread of the Line of Law during activation is nearly impossible to seek. Countless owners of Profound Heaven treasures have painstakingly refined and nurtured them for tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years, yet still cannot touch the edge of the Line of Law," Precious Flower said with a bitter smile.

"Then it seems Han Li's luck is not bad to achieve this so easily. But I am more interested in your Profound Heaven Spiritual Realm—if possible, I would like to receive your guidance someday," Han Li said, his eyes flashing, then lightly coughing.

"The method of the Profound Heaven Spiritual Realm was painstakingly pieced together by me from a damaged ancient text, but many parts remain imperfect and cannot compare to a true spiritual realm. Yet if Fellow Daoist Han is truly interested, we may exchange ideas when we have time," Precious Flower said, her expression unchanged.

"Good, Han Li considers himself fortunate to have this opportunity. However, just now, was the Primordial Spirit of the Insect Mother truly destroyed by our joint strike? I still feel uneasy in my heart," Han Li said, nodding first, then immediately frowning as he asked again.

"Logically, her opponent was merely an incarnation of the Insect Mother, not the true Insect Mother herself. Under the dual force of the Laws, there should be no hope of survival. Yet the oppression in my spirit remains, undiminished," Precious Flower said, her face darkening, then after a long pause, she spoke slowly, and indeed, she and Han Li seemed to share the same unspoken thought.

"Then it seems the opponent is not truly dead, only severely wounded for now," Han Li said, his face slightly changing.

"I fear that is very likely the case," Precious Flower said with a bitter laugh.

"Regardless, being able to severely wound the opponent is already fortunate. We should quickly seize this opportunity to find the Insect Mother's true body. Those two fellow Daoists have not sent back any news yet—it seems they have not succeeded," Han Li said after thinking.

"That is natural..." Precious Flower smiled faintly, about to reply, when suddenly a sharp sound came from where the girl had vanished:

"You think defeating the Insect One means you can rest easy? What a joke. Now let Insect Two come and properly meet you."

As the words fell, a colossal heavenly claw suddenly appeared in the high void and fiercely grabbed down at Han Li and Precious Flower.

The claw's five fingers spread, nearly covering half the sky, its tip claws over ten zhang long, flashing with a cold green light.

With one grasp, five long white marks appeared in the void, as if the entire sky had been torn apart. "Don't rush, Insect Two! Also leave one for me to play with," another eerie voice echoed from all directions.

At the moment Han Li heard this voice, a strange laugh suddenly came to his ears—like a woman's seductive smile, yet also like her lustful gasps.

Han Li's divine sense involuntarily wavered, his eyes flickered with a hint of confusion, and his hand movements slowed slightly.

At the same time, a thunderclap from a clear sky— a massive gray-white arc of lightning flashed down from the high void, surging violently to strike Han Li.

Han Li's divine sense was immensely strong, and with the practice of the Heaven-Defying Spirit Refining Technique, in a moment of daze, a cool breath surged from his dantian, rushed to his head, and he instantly regained clarity.

"Killing Thunder"

But upon seeing the gray-white lightning in the high void, his face changed slightly, and he hastily sheathed the jade-green long sword, shrugged his shoulder, and instead of worrying about the giant claw above, he instantly transformed into over a dozen identical illusions, shooting off in all directions.

Yet the gray-white lightning thundered, then split like a living thing into the same number of arcs, each chasing one of the illusions.

Meanwhile, on Precious Flower's side, a coquettish shout rang out—after a yellow halo in her hand rose and spun, the Imperial Earth Nail instantly expanded to over a thousand zhang in size and fiercely stabbed toward the giant claw in the sky.

But the claw's five sharp nails suddenly retracted, transforming into five massive green blades that slashed down wildly, seemingly unafraid of the great nail below.

After a heaven-shaking, earth-splitting boom, the Imperial Earth Nail and the five green blades collided, erupting in blinding cyan and yellow light, locked in a stalemate.

On the other side, those gray-white lightning arcs pursued Han Li's illusions like bone-attached maggots, relentless, as if they would never turn back until the target was destroyed.

"Trivial Killing Thunder—do you really think Han Li cannot handle it!" Over a dozen illusions shouted Han Li's furious voice in unison.

Following the same thunderclap, over a dozen golden lightning snakes shot from the illusions' hands, struck the gray-white arcs, and with a sizzling sound, shattered and vanished.

Besides dimming slightly, those gray-white lightning arcs suffered no damage and continued to shoot toward Han Li's illusions.

With a rumbling "Boom—"!

Those illusions actually exploded upon contact with the gray-white electric arcs, turning into countless golden runes that intertwined with the arcs, making it impossible to distinguish up from down for a moment.

However, after one of the illusions condensed, Han Li's figure appeared directly, and with a loud shout, his body flowed with purple-gold light as he fiercely punched toward the gray-white electric arcs.

With a thunderous boom, a milky-white light pillar shot out and collided head-on with the gray electric arc.

The seemingly stubborn electric arc, upon touching the white light pillar, instantly shattered like meeting its nemesis and was completely swallowed and devoured by the white light.

And Han Li's originally flowing purple-gold light dimmed considerably after this strike.

Though his punch just now seemed immensely powerful, it caused a significant loss of his internal true essence.