Chapter 2378: Volume 11: The True Immortal Descends to the World, Chapter 2360: Skeleton

Immediately, the short sword let out a buzzing sound, and those strange insect patterns on the blade seemed to come alive, swimming about restlessly.

The old man surnamed Yu waved his arm, and the short sword instantly transformed into a streak of blood-colored light, slashing straight toward the iron cage.

With a "Bang," the moment the blood-colored light touched the iron cage, a thunderous roar erupted, and countless golden arcs appeared and swirled around it.

The blood-colored light was instantly repelled with a whimper, and with a flash, it transformed back into the short sword and fell into the hands of the old man surnamed Yu.

"Evil-Warding Divine Thunder!"

The old man was shocked and hurriedly brought the short sword before his eyes, only to discover that the object in his hand had developed several fine cracks, appearing quite severely damaged.

If Han Li were to see this scene again, he would naturally be quite astonished as well.

The golden electric arcs that had just rebounded from the iron cage looked similar to the Divine Thunder he cultivated at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they were quite different.

Although these golden electric arcs were also brilliant and golden, every time they flickered and burst, faint purple-gold runes would appear and disappear, their power far exceeding the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder Han Li had already mastered.

"It really is Evil-Warding Divine Thunder... No, it doesn't seem to be ordinary Evil-Warding Divine Thunder. That's right, I heard long ago that besides being proficient in several types of thunder power, the Heavenly Tripod True Person of that year also mastered a divine ability to refine pure thunder power, which could increase the power of ordinary thunder dao by more than ten times out of thin air." The last old man was also startled when he saw this, but he immediately frowned and said.

"This is a huge problem. The original Evil-Warding Divine Thunder already has a strong restraining effect on our Witch Spirit lineage. Now that it has been refined into this pure divine thunder, how are we to break it?" The old man surnamed Yu put away the short sword and said bitterly.

This sword looked unremarkable, but it actually possessed several incredible powers. Now that it had been unexpectedly damaged, he naturally felt a great deal of pain and regret in his heart.

"Rest assured, no matter how powerful the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder is, it is merely a dead object without anyone personally presiding over it. At most, it will just take more time to break. I am worried that the restrictions added to this iron cage are not just of this one type. Breaking the subsequent restrictions will likely be even more difficult." The old man surnamed Wu stared at the strange sharp spikes on the iron cage and the blood-colored long chain wrapped around the corpse's body, saying thoughtfully.

"No matter how difficult, we must open it, otherwise wouldn't this trip have been in vain? Very well, this time let's try if my Nether Yin Water can break the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder first." The last old man's spirits lifted slightly, and he opened his mouth to spit out a gray, dusty gourd.

The old man pointed a single hand at the gourd in the void. Immediately, the object flipped over, and after a flash of light on its surface, rolling black water surged out from within.

This water seemed to be extremely cold. The moment it flew out of the gourd, it caused the temperature of the nearby void to plummet suddenly, while at the same time, wisps of gray energy radiated from it, accompanied by a strange, decaying smell.

As the old man chanted and urged it on, the black water immediately swirled high in the air, suddenly transforming into a blurry black dragon. Baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, it lunged straight toward the iron cage.

A thunderous sound rang out again on the surface of the iron cage, and as countless golden characters appeared, a layer of golden electric net emerged immediately.

A deafening roar erupted!

... The black water and the golden arcs intertwined, erupting with astonishing light.

Han Li stood in an extremely tall hall, looking at a lifelike statue towering on the table opposite him, his eyes flickering as he pondered something.

This statue was about the size of a real person, and it was a middle-aged Daoist priest wearing a white Daoist robe with a blood-red long sword slung across his back.

The statue's gaze was slanted forward, its expression indifferent, giving people a sense of etherealness that did not belong to the world of mortals.

On both sides of the Daoist statue, there were also spirit beast statues of a giant cyan eagle and a silver mantis, which were equally lifelike and appeared exceptionally ferocious.

"This is probably the Heavenly Tripod True Person. It is unlikely that anyone else could have such a demeanor." After watching for a while, Han Li muttered to himself, then swept his gaze toward both sides.

He saw that on the ground on both sides, four two-zhang-tall blood-armored puppets and two unknown skeletal remains lay scattered in disarray.

Although the four blood-armored puppets lay quietly on the ground without moving, their armor was smooth and shiny, without even a trace of a wound, and the giant hammers, giant swords, and other weapons they held were preserved intact, as if they could jump up again at any moment.

As for the two skeletons, one had only half of its torso left, and four pitch-black flying swords were broken into more than a dozen pieces and scattered around it.

The other skeleton had its head missing, but beside it lay a purple shield that was mostly shattered and a silver short ruler that was completely twisted into a pretzel shape.

The two skeletons each lay between two blood-armored puppets, and judging by their fallen postures, it seemed they had died in a fierce battle against these puppets.

Judging from the faint spiritual energy still remaining on the skeletons, they should have been two of the people who fought against the giant beasts in the hall on the level below.

However, after Han Li carefully examined the two skeletons several times and found no other remaining magic tools or treasures, his figure flashed, and he disappeared into thin air, appearing behind the statue of the Heavenly Tripod True Person.

There, he found a small, incomplete magic array, and in the center was a milky-white stone platform with a diameter of about a zhang, with several grooves of different shapes on its surface, which seemed to have originally been embedded with something, but were now empty, as if they had long since been taken away.

And at the edge of the magic array, two other skeletons lay side by side with their heads raised, but one had its silver armor shattered into pieces, and the skeleton itself had been pierced directly through the dantian by a bone hand from the opponent.

The other one was wearing a green robe, but the bones wrapped inside had turned pitch-black like ink, as if it had been poisoned by some strange toxin, causing it to die instantly.

This time, Han Li only glanced at the two skeletons once, then beckoned with one hand in the void. Immediately, with a "Pu Pu" sound, four storage bracelets of different colors flew out from the two skeletons and landed accurately in his hands.

After Han Li briefly scanned the contents of the storage bracelets with his spiritual sense, he put them away with an unchanged expression and began to examine the damaged magic array.

"Teleportation Array."

Han Li checked it and immediately discovered the teleportation effect originally set within it, but unfortunately, it was a one-time use, and the entire magic array had been completely destroyed. Even with his attainments in magic arrays, it was not something that could be repaired in a short time.

After Han Li circled the magic array several times, he suddenly raised an eyebrow and stopped at a dark red mark on the array. He grabbed at it with one hand in the void, and a small, extremely weak cluster of blood-colored light flew out from it, looking extremely dim, as if it could flicker and vanish at any moment.

Han Li flipped his hand, and the small bottle containing the Ice Soul Essence Blood appeared again.

With a "Pu" sound, before he could perform any magic arts, the moment the small cluster of blood-colored light appeared in front of the bottle, it flew over and vanished into the bottle without a trace.

The blood-colored light flickering in the small bottle immediately became a few times stronger than before.

"It really is the essence blood left behind by fellow Daoist Bingpo. It seems she must have stayed here and used this magic array to teleport away," Han Li muttered to himself. After glancing at the damaged array again, a faint smile appeared on his face.

With a flick of his sleeve, a series of array flags, array disks, and other formation-setting tools flew out, along with a dozen fist-sized crystals of various colors, all of which hovered without exception around the magic array.

Han Li's expression tightened, and he pointed a finger into the void.

With a "Chi" sound, a slender cyan glow several feet long flew from his fingertip and began to quickly repair the missing spiritual patterns at the damaged parts of the magic array.

Although it was impossible to restore it to its original appearance, with Han Li's attainments in magic arrays, restoring it to seventy or eighty percent was enough to allow the magic array to regain its teleportation power....

One day later, an extremely astonishing fluctuation erupted above the blood lake. A black monster with a deer's head and a human body, covered in pitch-black scales and holding a giant silver blade, suddenly flashed into existence amidst the fluctuations, and with a wave of its hand, it slashed fiercely downward.

A piercing, shrill sound resounded throughout the cave heaven!

Wisps of gray energy appeared out of thin air on the surface of the giant silver blade, and clusters of pale green light balls appeared out of thin air beneath the blade.

After the giant blade flashed past, the nearby void twisted and became blurry, as if it were about to be slashed open.

Another earth-shattering loud noise rang out.

A green sun erupted where the giant blade had slashed, and it grew larger and larger amidst the rolling flashes.

An astonishing destructive aura instantly swept in all directions, squeezing the blood lake below into a huge empty space with a diameter of a mile, revealing the bottom covered with countless white skeletons.

With a "Boom,"

After a giant silver arc as thick as a water vat flashed through the sky, dark clouds suddenly rolled in, followed by a torrential downpour of blood rain, shrouding the entire blood lake.

When the light of the green sun converged and finally vanished into thin air amidst the rolling rotations, the situation below was clearly revealed in the blood rain.

He saw the three Witch Spirit Sages floating in mid-air at three different positions, each holding a statue about a foot tall that was identical to the deer-headed, human-bodied monster.

And the giant iron cage surrounded by the three of them now had a gap more than ten zhang long at the top.

"Haha, good. It was not in vain that we spent so much effort to finally break open this cage. Two fellow daoists, what are you waiting for? Let's go in together." The old man surnamed Yu witnessed this scene and said with a loud laugh.

Then, he put away the statue in his hand and turned into a green rainbow, rushing straight toward the gap in the iron cage.

The other two old men were also full of excitement, and as their escape lights rose, they also flashed and vanished into the iron cage.

Only the deer-headed, human-bodied monster remained quietly floating directly above the iron cage without moving after slashing out one strike.

When the three old men's escape lights converged and they reappeared, they were already more than ten zhang above the half-human, half-horse skeleton, and with joyful expressions, they carefully examined the existence that was still bound into a ball by the blood-colored chains. (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 2379 =====