Chapter 269: Slaughter

Once Lu Lu Tianmeng died, the hundreds of small rulers that had lost their spiritual power support shattered in an instant into specks of green light. They then gathered together, revealing the original form of the talisman, which drifted lightly to the ground, landing exactly between Han Li, Xuan Le, and the blood-colored spider.

Xuan Le stared at Han Li with an expressionless face, making no moves. Han Li glanced at the blood spider, then looked at Xuan Le, and without a word, he raised a hand, summoning his white scale shield. At the same time, eight streaks of white light lit up beside him, and eight puppet beasts appeared at his side.

Xuan Le's expression finally shifted slightly. He raised a hand to recall the small yellow bell and said indifferently:

"I truly didn't expect that Junior Martial Brother Han would also be proficient in puppet arts. However, your cultivation base doesn't seem to be up to par. Can just these few puppets be my opponent?"

Han Li's expression remained unchanged upon hearing this; he only coldly asked a single question.

"Did you release the spider on purpose?"

"Correct!"

Xuan Le admitted it quite readily, and with a flip of his hand, a red, light gauze similar to a cloak appeared in his hand.

"Aren't you afraid of being too clever for your own good and ending up killed by this demonic beast instead?" Han Li licked his somewhat chapped lips and said with a cold laugh.

"Hehe! Kill me? Just by relying on this Level 4 demonic beast that is only hard-bodied and has some brute strength?" Xuan Le said mockingly, his face full of disdain.

"However, you should play well with this crystal spider! I hope you can keep your own little life!"

After saying this, he draped the light gauze in his hand over his body. Even though he was still standing there, all the various auras on his body vanished completely in an instant.

Han Li was a bit surprised and couldn't help but stare deeply at the gauze a few times.

At this moment, Xuan Le, with a smile on his face, slowly retreated toward a corner of the cave, looking completely as if he intended to stay out of the fray. Han Li's thoughts raced, and he immediately guessed the purpose of the gauze. His expression changed, and he hurriedly looked toward the spider.

He saw the blood spider staring at him with a fierce glint in its eyes, its two fangs clicking again; it had already taken him as its hunting target.

After a brief moment of thought, Han Li's figure flashed, and he rushed rapidly toward the corner where Xuan Le was located.

But when the blood spider saw Han Li move, its blood-red light flared, and it also charged toward Han Li.

However, the puppet beasts, which had been prepared long ago, opened their mouths and took turns shooting out streaks of light that flashed by in an instant. They hit the blood spider squarely, continuously knocking it over several times, and it was unable to chase Han Li for a moment.

Xuan Le felt a chill in his heart when he saw Han Li rushing toward him rapidly.

He was extremely wary of Han Li's lightning-fast movement technique and dared not let Han Li get close. Without a second thought, he threw the small bell in his hand toward Han Li, while at the same time, light radiated from his body, and a fiery red leather armor appeared on him. The light gauze had naturally lost its effect and was put away.

But when Han Li saw the giant bell covering him, he raised his hand, and a small mirror appeared in his palm. At the same time, a streak of cyan-misty light shot out, immediately knocking the small bell—which was about to enlarge—back to its original form and freezing it in mid-air.

"Cyan Condensation Mirror!" Xuan Le exclaimed. How could he not know of this top-tier magic tool, which was famous within their sect!

Xuan Le was suddenly flustered!

One had to know that he had thought the "Heaven-Covering Bell" would at least be able to buy him some time, but Han Li had charged over without the slightest pause. How could he not be in a panic?

Fortunately, the opponent was still over ten feet away. Xuan Le threw out a "Rain of Ice Art" talisman he had just taken out, which immediately transformed into dense, countless ice cones that shot wildly toward him. In his mind, as long as Han Li used that white shield to block, his movement technique would certainly slow down, which would be enough for him to activate a powerful magic tool he had just retrieved.

When Han Li saw the large patch of ice cones shooting over, a cold glint flashed in his eyes. He actually put the small shield in front of him into his storage bag with a wave of his hand, while at the same time, his figure suddenly accelerated twofold. His entire body underwent an incredible, distorted transformation, and he actually rushed through the group of ice cones without a single hair harmed.

When Xuan Le saw this scene, his calm expression vanished completely, and his face turned incomparably pale.

Seeing Han Li arrive in front of him in the blink of an eye, he had no choice but to ignore activating any magic tools. He could only pour all of his spiritual power into the fiery red armor, hoping to rely on the efficacy of this top-tier defensive magic tool to survive the crisis before him.

Seeing the dazzling light emitted by the opponent's armor, killing intent surged in Han Li's eyes. He opened his mouth, and a black, pointed object that had been prepared long ago was unexpectedly spat out. It pierced into the opponent's armor at high speed with a shrill, piercing whistle, and a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering loud noise erupted.

Following this, a massive cyan sword qi appeared out of thin air. With a flash, Han Li was already standing behind Xuan Le.

Xuan Le stood blankly on the spot. The fiery red armor on his body had an additional fist-sized hole in the chest area, rendering the armor completely devoid of spiritual energy and turning it into a piece of junk, while his head rolled down without any warning. After Han Li broke his armor, he had used the Cyan Origin Sword Ray to directly decapitate him. The storage bag at his waist was naturally snatched away by Han Li in passing.

Han Li looked at the storage bag in his hand, feeling an indescribable sensation in his heart!

A Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator had actually been killed just like that. He must have found it hard to believe before he died!

However, Han Li knew very clearly that the reason the opponent died at his hands was partly because of the element of surprise, and partly entirely due to the restrictions of this narrow terrain.

If they were in a normal high-altitude battle between cultivators, the opponent would never have given him the chance to get close. With a distance of several dozen feet apart, and after flying with the help of magic tools in the air, the opponent's speed would definitely not be inferior to his own limit movement technique.

Moreover, this time, in order to destroy the opponent's armor, he had used a one-time self-destructing magic tool refined from the Ink Flood Dragon's fledgling horn, forcing a mutual destruction with the opponent's armor.

Speaking of this fledgling horn, the shopkeeper who refined the magic tool for him had sighed repeatedly, saying that if this Ink Flood Dragon horn had grown for another twenty or thirty years, it could have been refined into a very powerful magic tool, instead of having to be refined as a consumable item because it was just born and the quality was too brittle.

However, looking at it now, using this item to kill a Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator was still extremely cost-effective!

Just after Han Li collected the Cyan Condensation Mirror and the opponent's small bell, a series of bursting sounds came from behind him. This made his figure pause, and without a second thought, he patted his storage bag. Several more Level 2 puppet beasts flew out from the bag, while the original eight were finally cornered by the blood spider and were cut and chewed into pieces after a few moments.

Now, the blood spider turned its head and charged toward Han Li again!

Han Li raised a hand, and after a pair of Black Dragon Hooks were released, they suddenly enlarged, intercepting the giant spider in mid-air.

Following this, the puppet beasts' light beam attacks arrived, continuously shooting onto the demonic beast's blood-red body, finally suppressing it in one place and preventing it from advancing.

In its desperation, the blood spider spat out several mouthfuls of spider webs, but unfortunately, as soon as Han Li saw this demonic beast use this move, he immediately swayed his figure and dodged. As for the puppet beasts, those that couldn't dodge in time and were entangled by a bit of the spider silk were immediately collected into the storage bag by Han Li, and another one was swapped out, not delaying the puppet beasts' continuous attacks in the slightest.

However, Han Li had to abandon the idea of immediately activating a talisman treasure to kill the opponent. After all, using a protective barrier and magic tools to take the opponent's spider webs head-on was an unwise move.

Having no other choice, Han Li sighed and had to continuously maintain this level of attack on the spider, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

After a quarter of an hour, just as Han Li had predicted, the blood-red color on the blood spider's body gradually faded, and pits and dents began to appear on its shell. Clearly, the demonic beast's true essence was exhausted, and it could no longer use spiritual power to cover its entire body to resist the onslaught.

When a smile appeared on Han Li's face, the spider seemed to realize that things were not looking good. It tried several times to escape from the coverage of Han Li's attacks and dash toward the cave entrance, but it was forced back by a flurry of light beams from the puppets. In the end, it was actually trapped and killed alive by Han Li in this place.

When the spider demonic beast's last bit of true essence was exhausted, it could only curl into a ball, having no power to fight back. Han Li swapped to the incomparably sharp Silver Glow Sword, and after stepping forward a few paces, he decapitated the spider with a single sword strike. Sure enough, although this beast's shell was hard, without magic power to protect its body, it was still easily pierced by the silver sword.

Then, Han Li sat down on the nearby ground, speechless for a long time.

After a long while, he looked around at the many cultivators who had died, and for the first time, he felt the fragility of a cultivator's life, which made him feel a bit sorrowful inside. Perhaps one day, he too would die at the hands of some cultivator, or be buried in the belly of some demonic beast?

Once he had rested enough, Han Li first picked up that small ruler talisman treasure, and then searched the storage bags on every corpse.

Finally, he carefully approached the teleportation formation, his gaze flickering as he paced back and forth around the five-colored skeleton and the token it held.

"Great Transference Token! So that is what that Lu Lu Tianmeng called this token!" Han Li thought, falling into deep contemplation.

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