Chapter 2292

Han Li raised an eyebrow, only then glancing at the bat swarm before him, extending a palm from his sleeve, and slapping it out lightly.

With a muffled 'boom', the heaven and earth energy within a hundred miles suddenly trembled, and countless wisps of five-colored light appeared out of thin air, crazily condensing into a cluster high above, transforming in an instant into a five-colored giant palm the size of a small mountain, pressing down into the bat swarm with a menacing momentum.

The nearby void was suddenly shrouded by an indescribable giant force.

The dense crowd of ordinary blood bats burst into blood mist one after another before the giant palm had even truly fallen.

As for that transparent giant wave, under this giant pressure, it instantly vanished into nothingness.

Only that giant bat let out a low roar of shock and anger, its golden patterns shining brightly, emerging from its body as if coming to life, forming a layer of golden light screen that protected it within.

But under the giant pressure, the golden light screen twisted and trembled violently, and the giant bat was spread out like a 'big' character inside, unable to move a single bit.

"Interesting, it's actually an innate body-protecting divine ability! It's a pity it's still too weak; otherwise, it could have been kept as a spirit beast." A trace of surprise flashed through Han Li's eyes, but he muttered with some regret.

Then he pointed a finger remotely at the five-colored giant palm again!

Immediately, the giant palm's surface shone with ten thousand rays of light, and as its volume expanded, it grew several times larger.

With a 'boom', after the giant palm truly fell, the nearby void first dimmed, then a halo of light burst open amidst violent fluctuations.

The golden light screen shattered inch by inch, and the giant bat disintegrated and ceased to exist before it could even let out a groan.

Han Li smiled, flicked his sleeve at the front, and the five-colored giant palm trembled and vanished into thin air.

The entire heaven and earth returned to their original appearance.

However, where the giant bat had originally been, specks of golden text were faintly visible.

Han Li narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to beckon without hesitation.

A sound of tearing through the air rang out, and those golden characters were drawn by a suction force, shooting over and landing in his palm in a flash.

Han Li swept his gaze over them and brought his hands together, rubbing the golden characters.

Immediately, a strange sound of metal rubbing came from between his fingers, and golden light flashed wildly inside.

But after Han Li separated his hands again, a piece of golden, hazy beast skin appeared there.

Those pale golden patterns on the beast skin were exactly the shining golden patterns that had been on the giant bat earlier.

"If this thing is used to refine defensive magic treasures, it should have some value. In this way, today can be considered not without any harvest." Han Li muttered to himself, and after flipping his hand, the beast skin vanished.

Then, his expression stirred, as if he had sensed something. Blue light flashed in his eyes, and his gaze pierced through several hundred miles, seeing a large, gray, unknown monster bird crazily rushing toward this side.

Han Li's gaze froze, and he saw the faces of these monster birds clearly; they were giant eagle-like monsters with four wings on their backs and a single horn on their heads. Each was exceptionally ferocious, their eyes carrying a bloodthirsty look.

Han Li frowned, withdrew his gaze, glanced at the large patch of blood mist that hadn't yet dissipated below the small mountain, shook his head, and after green light flashed on his body, he transformed into a streak of light and left this place, tearing through the air.

Although these monster birds were nothing to him, he didn't intend to deal with an endless stream of beast swarms attracted by the blood.

With time like this, naturally, the proper thing to do was to hurry and find that Asura Spider!

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.

During this period, besides killing a few more seemingly powerful demonic creatures and discovering some rare materials from the outside world, Han Li had no other harvests.

And these materials he obtained, besides two unknown poisonous herbs, although the other things were rare, they were of no great use to his current cultivation base. He could only keep them to reward a few disciples under his sect.

But when the third day arrived, in a valley filled with black stones, Han Li finally discovered some things related to the Asura Spider.

He was now standing in a hidden beast den in a corner of the valley, where several man-like, bear-like monsters lay silently on the ground covered in withered grass. Their fur was snow-white, their flesh withered almost to dry bones. Yet there wasn't a single scar on their bodies, as if they had all died of natural old age.

Han Li stood beside one of the half-naked beast corpses, observed quietly for a while, then flicked his sleeve, and several fire snakes shot out, turning the corpses into fly ash in an instant.

Although these corpses had vanished into smoke, there was a faint glimmer of crystal light on the ground where they had been.

Han Li grabbed with one hand, and immediately several crystal threads of unknown origin, a foot long, arrived in his hand, wrapped in a cluster of green light from a distance.

He moved his spiritual sense to sweep over them!

Han Li's expression changed slightly, he moved an arm, and a finger silently submerged into the green light, touching one of the crystal threads.

A bizarre scene appeared!

The seemingly transparent crystal thread suddenly flashed, and a layer of blue light immediately spread along his finger toward his entire arm.

Wherever the blue light passed, the flesh on his arm withered and shriveled at a visible speed, and at the same time, a strange, aged aura emanated from it.

Han Li's expression sank, he flicked his finger, instantly pulling his fingertip away from the crystal thread, and at the same time, golden light flashed wildly on his arm, and a golden glow swept across his arm from the front, forcefully dispersing the blue light that was spreading upward.

At the same time, green, hazy crystal light circulated on his arm, and in an instant, it restored its original fullness and luster, as if the scene just now had been nothing more than an instantaneous hallucination.

"It really is the power of time; although it can't be called the true Law of Time, it is still an extremely rare innate divine ability. This place should already be within the activity range of the Asura Spider." After Han Li let out a long breath, he muttered to himself with a trace of excitement in his eyes.

Then, green light flashed in his hand, and the several crystal threads vanished simultaneously.

Although these things couldn't pose a threat to him, they were definitely not items that could be left outside at will.

Below, Han Li flew out of the beast den and began to search carefully in the nearby area, with the valley as the center.

But several hours later, when he flew back to the valley, his expression was gloomy.

Clearly, the previous probe had not gone smoothly.

Han Li floated quietly above the valley for a while, his face full of contemplation.

He suddenly raised an eyebrow, as if he had remembered something, pinched a Dharma seal with one hand, and released his spiritual sense to probe underground, instantly sweeping through depths of a hundred zhang and a thousand zhang, and without stopping for a moment, he swept repeatedly toward even deeper places.

After a full cup of tea's time, Han Li's expression stirred, a trace of joy appeared on his face, then his figure moved, transforming into a green light and soaring into the air in a certain direction.

When the escape light converged!

Han Li appeared above a lake not too far away, glanced down twice, and then moved his body to dive downward.

With a 'puchi'!

Han Li's escape light submerged beneath the lake surface.

A moment later, with a 'boom boom' of thunder, the massive lake surface was surrounded by golden electric light, the lake water churned, and countless strange-looking monster fish flipped out of the lake, bellies up, each scorched black, looking like they were on the verge of death.

But after the thunder died down, it became silent under the lake again, becoming like a dead lake for a time.

At the same time, Han Li was already in a simple passage several thousand zhang deep underground, surrounded by uneven pale green stones, and it looked like it could barely accommodate one person passing through.

This passage was crooked and twisted, leading directly to even deeper places underground.

It was exactly the suspicious place Han Li had accidentally discovered after probing with his spiritual sense several times.

This kind of pale green stone shouldn't be ordinary stone, but the entire area under the lake was full of this insect-like stone material, and with the strength of Han Li's spiritual sense, he couldn't directly pierce too deep underground.

This was also the reason why he hadn't discovered this suspicious place at the beginning.

However, when Han Li discovered another crystal thread on a protruding blue stone in this passage, he no longer had any doubts, and immediately after his body flickered, his escape speed increased.

In one breath, when he dived nearly ten thousand zhang deep underground, waves of scorching heat began to roll out from below the passage.

The temperature was so high that if an ordinary existence came into contact with it, they would likely turn into a dry corpse in an instant.

Han Li turned a blind eye to this heat, and with only a faint flash of green light on his body, he pushed the heat away from his front.

He flickered several more times, passed through several corners, and red light began to flash ahead, with faint low roars and human voices coming from it.

Han Li narrowed his eyes, and without any movement, specks of spiritual light appeared on his body, and he gradually became blurry, eventually hiding his escape light.

After passing through a patch of crimson fire waves, Han Li rushed out of the passage silently and appeared above a subterranean lava lake.

This lava lake churned with lava, and rolling heat waves and bowl-thick fire pillars erupted from it from time to time, hitting the passage exit, washing the nearby rocks until they were exceptionally smooth and crimson red.

What was even more surprising was that in the center of the lava lake, fire-red, transparent crystal stones floated uncertainly in the lava.

Han Li swept his spiritual sense casually and knew that these crystal stones of various sizes were all top-grade fire spirit stones rarely seen in the outside world.

Looking at the terrifying fire spirit energy contained within, in terms of purity, it seemed to be even higher than the ordinary top-grade fire spirit stones of the Spirit Realm.

But all of this didn't truly attract too much of Han Li's attention; he was now silently observing a group of demonic creatures and a "woman" by the lava lake.

These demonic creatures each had a human upper body and a fish lower body, and possessed four arms. Among them, the males wore golden rings on their arms, and the females had silver bands tied around their heads, either bare-handed or holding crimson short spears, their bodies flickering slightly.

Not far opposite this group of fish-like monsters, a young woman who looked no more than twenty-one or twenty-two years old was facing them with a normal expression, while they roared at her incessantly.