Chapter 2255: Doubts

A flash of crystal light appeared between Han Li's brows, and a cluster of crystal threads shot out, disappearing in a flash as they submerged into the giant insect's body.

But at this very moment, with a "bang," the giant insect's corpse exploded like bubbles, transforming into points of white light and dissipating.

Crystal light flashed!

The crystal threads rolled back into Han Li's brows, but an expression of realization appeared on his face, and it immediately turned somewhat gloomy.

In the void on the other side, countless pink flower shadows covered the sky, and at the same time, countless silver arcs flashed incessantly within them.

Baohua had long since arrived beside Daoist Crab and, unfolding her spiritual domain, joined forces to trap another strange insect tightly within it.

That strange insect's divine abilities were clearly all in its bizarre spiritual sense, but unfortunately, Daoist Crab was not restrained by it, and Baohua, being within the spiritual domain, seemed completely unaffected.

As for its innate evil lightning divine ability, although powerful and even containing a trace of destructive law power, capable of forcibly breaking even Profound Heaven Treasures...

Daoist Crab and Baohua were both exceptionally cunning. At the beginning, they did not clash head-on with it, causing it to fly into a rage but leaving it unable to exert its power.

By the time Baohua spared no origin energy to unleash the Profound Heaven Spiritual Domain again, catching the strange insect by surprise and trapping it within, the situation naturally turned around.

Seeing the situation was ominous, the strange insect frantically urged its gray-white evil lightning within the spiritual domain, wanting to break through and escape. But the Profound Heaven Spiritual Domain had such a great reputation, known as an immortal divine ability that only True Immortals could truly master. For this strange insect to want to leave was truly extremely difficult.

Under Baohua's manipulation, layers of pink petals trapped the strange insect tightly in the center of the spiritual domain, as if they were endless.

Although the strange insect resisted the power of the spiritual domain with all its might, it still unknowingly began to slow down in all its actions.

At this moment, it used its spiritual sense power to transform into a white crystal light shield to protect its whole body, and arcs of gray electricity intertwined and exploded incessantly near its body. However, under the joint attacks of Daoist Crab and Baohua, it was already covered in wounds and became shaky.

Seeing this, Han Li felt a strange look flash across his face. Suddenly, his sleeve shook, and the emerald green longsword appeared again. With a shake, twelve green lines slashed out.

The next moment, continuous sharp cries erupted from Baohua's Profound Heaven Spiritual Domain. The twelve green lines appeared simultaneously beside the strange insect, flashing past its body in a blink.

The strange insect, along with its protective crystal shield and nearby lightning arcs, were instantly slashed to pieces, transforming into clusters of white light that dissipated out of thin air, as if they had never appeared in that spot.

Baohua was startled by this, but after carefully probing the spiritual domain with her spiritual sense and confirming that the strange insect was indeed no longer there, she frowned and raised her hand, withdrawing the Profound Heaven Spiritual Domain.

At this time, fluctuations arose nearby, and Han Li teleported to the vicinity in a blur.

Immediately following a thunderclap.

Daoist Crab also retracted his golden giant crab Dharma body, appearing behind Han Li as an arc of electricity.

Han Li scanned him and found that although there were several scorched black spots on his body, there was no real major harm, so he felt relieved.

"Brother Han, truly a great method! That slash just now, if I were to face it, I'm afraid even with the spiritual domain protecting me, it would be extremely difficult to take," Baohua said slowly, her gaze toward Han Li somewhat strange.

"Fellow Daoist Baohua thinks too highly of me! That slash just now relied mainly on the power of the treasure, plus it was already at the end of its rope after the attacks of you two fellow daoists. Otherwise, how could I have succeeded so easily?" Han Li smiled slightly and said dismissively.

"How could it be such a simple matter!" Baohua shook her head, but did not say anything more, instead looking toward the place where the strange insect had just disappeared, a trace of doubt appearing on her face.

"It seems you have also discovered the trickiness in this. It is very clear that our battle just now did not truly eliminate them. Not to mention the Mother of Ming Insects' Primordial Spirit incarnation, these two strange insects also do not seem to be true physical bodies and cannot be easily killed," Han Li said, his expression somewhat solemn after scanning the area.

"Indeed, these two strange insects also gave me a strange feeling at the beginning. I cannot say that the divine abilities they possessed were not powerful, but they seemed a bit extreme. One had incomparably powerful spiritual sense power, making us keep our distance. One had incomparably tyrannical physical strength, and with the power of a single claw, it forced us to temporarily avoid its edge. But both of them were too lacking in other means, which is why they revealed weaknesses and were easily defeated by us," Han Li nodded and said.

"If these strange insects were cultivated by that Mother of Ming Insects, that would be too strange. With that insect mother's cunning, how could it do such an unwise thing?" Baohua said thoughtfully.

"But have you noticed, fellow daoist? Although they were easy to defeat when alone, if they joined forces, or if one possessed all the divine abilities of these two strange insects..." Han Li suddenly chuckled and said.

"Indeed. If these divine abilities were all possessed by one, I'm afraid it would truly be our turn to flee for our lives," Baohua's face turned pale, and she gasped.

"And have you noticed, fellow daoist Baohua, that not only did the Mother of Ming Insects' Primordial Spirit incarnation at the beginning not seem to be on the same side as these two strange insects, but there was also a faint hostility between these two strange insects? Otherwise, if they had the slightest intention of joining forces at the beginning, they wouldn't have been caught by our weaknesses and defeated separately," Han Li said, a trace of deep meaning appearing on his face.

"It is somewhat strange. If they were cultivated by the Mother of Ming Insects, why would they not listen to its Primordial Spirit's orders, and even be hostile?" Baohua frowned, truly finding it difficult to understand.

"I cannot figure this out either, but the way those two strange insects' bodies disappeared just now looks a bit like forms condensed from projection power," Han Li said indifferently.

"Projection power... Brother Han means... someone from another interface is directly intervening in the Mother of Ming Insects' affairs! A mere projection power could fight us for such a long time; could it be a True Immortal from the Immortal World?" Baohua's expression changed drastically, and her face became extremely ugly.

"This is hard to say; I am just a bit suspicious, perhaps my guess is not correct. But if this is truly the case, the matters here will become complicated. Why don't you communicate with the Seal Spirit again, fellow daoist, to see if it has any clues?" Han Li touched his chin and sighed.

"Due to the loss of power, the Seal Spirit is now very weak. Even I have no way to make it appear now. Unless you want that ancient seal to completely fail right now, fellow daoist," Baohua replied with a bitter smile.

"If that's the case, the trouble will be big," Han Li's expression changed slightly.

"Regardless. We have reached this step, and there is no reason to turn back. Those two fellow daoists still haven't sent any news, so it seems something has truly happened. We have no choice but to go down and explore it ourselves," Baohua said, her face shifting between light and shadow before she gritted her teeth.

"Oh, fellow daoist Baohua intends to take some risks. According to the agreement between us, I will naturally accompany you down. But I will say the ugly words first: if I truly encounter a strange danger that I cannot deal with, I will not fight to the death," Han Li nodded and said calmly.

"That is natural. If things are truly impossible, I am also reluctant to part with my own life. And I don't believe that without the Phoenix Spirit Plate, you truly have no way to leave this void, fellow daoist," Baohua smiled charmingly.

"It is best that you understand this, fellow daoist. Let's go down." Han Li nodded expressionlessly, immediately rising in his escape light and taking Daoist Crab to dive into the water first. After scanning the surroundings and finding nothing abnormal, Baohua also transformed into a phantom and dived downward.

And just a moment after the two entered the water... in the gray, misty sky, a slight fluctuation came, and wisps of five-colored light rays faintly appeared, rapidly entangling and condensing in one place.

Looking from afar, a faintly closed five-colored giant eye was slowly taking shape in the high sky.

At the same time, in the seabed abyss, the giant insect skeleton floated in the water motionless, but in its originally empty eye sockets, two dazzling demonic flames were burning fiercely, and they were becoming more and more...

And beside the skeleton, several broken objects were floating quietly, only flickering with faint light.

One of them was a broken jade tablet missing half its side. Another was a short black spear covered in cracks.

These two items were clearly the treasures that the ancient, simple-looking old man and the black-robed woman regarded as their very lives. Yet now, they were discarded here like trash, which showed that those two Great Ascension stage powerhouses, who once shook the world, were in all likelihood no longer in this world.

Fluctuations arose in two places above the skeleton's head, and two clusters of blurred white light appeared simultaneously.

After the white light rolled and condensed, one transformed into a giant insect with a fat body, and the other condensed into a strange insect that was almost transparent.

These two things were exactly the two strange insects that had just been killed once by Han Li and Baohua.

But at this time, their bodies were clearly much more blurred than before, and their auras had also decayed by more than half, becoming two phantom-like existences.

Suddenly, the demonic flames in one of the skeleton's giant eye sockets rolled and intensified, and a woman draped in silver gauze floated out from the demonic flames.

This woman had a graceful figure and a wooden expression. Her face was seven or eight parts similar to the young girl who had been swallowed, only much more mature.

It was as if that young girl had suddenly grown to the appearance of seventeen or eighteen years old.

Seeing the silver-gauze woman, the two blurred strange insect phantoms simultaneously prostrated themselves, paying great respects to this woman.

After the silver-gauze woman scanned the two phantoms coldly, her face sank and she snorted coldly:

"Useless trash, you couldn't even deal with a few mere Great Ascension stage cultivators from the lower realms. But it is fortunate that they wounded the Mother of Myriad Insects' primordial spirit, otherwise I might not have been able to devour her completely right now. Now that my primordial spirit's power has recovered by a small fraction, you two are of no further use. Return your power to me as well."

After the silver-gauze woman said these words without emotion, she immediately raised a finger and pointed at the two phantoms respectively.

Hehe, it's reached the climax! I don't know why, but whenever I write to a climax, I have many new ideas appearing in my mind, and I have a great urge to push over the original ideas and rewrite them.