Chapter 440: Ghost King (Part 3)

Just as the gray shadow was about to pierce through the black-robed figure, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up between the two, and then the gray shadow let out a strange cry and recoiled, seemingly feeling great fear of this white light.

The black-robed figure, who had saved his life, was still stunned for a moment, but immediately became pleasantly surprised.

He didn't hesitate to fly away immediately, and finally appeared in his true form with a flash of red light beside Han Li.

Han Li looked at the black-robed figure with some surprise.

He saw very clearly that in the flashing white light just now, there seemed to be something like a giant bird that flashed past, and it was this thing that scared the gray shadow away.

Han Li became somewhat curious about this.

The black-robed figure didn't have any good expression for Han Li.

Having just escaped death, he was still terrified! In his heart, he greatly regretted not listening to others and rashly coming to this Heavenly Void Palace.

However, thinking of the white light that saved his life just now, he seemed to remember something.

He hurriedly reached into his bosom and took out an ancient, mottled bronze mirror from the black robe.

Han Li glanced at it sideways strangely.

This mirror had a strange shape, and spiritual energy was faintly revealed. Could it be another ancient treasure?

Just as Han Li was pondering in his heart, a "clatter" sound of breaking came.

The mirror surface of the ancient mirror actually cracked into seven or eight pieces without the slightest warning, and the spiritual energy originally contained within it disappeared without a trace, and it looked like this object had become a piece of junk.

When the black-robed figure saw this scene, his eyes were filled with regret.

He sighed, and somewhat reluctantly put the broken bronze mirror away again.

Then he raised his head and happened to see Han Li's gaze looking over, and couldn't help but remember the previous deliberate failure to help, and immediately snorted angrily, turning his head to the side.

Seeing the black-robed figure's actions, Han Li was stunned for a moment.

But then, seemingly knowing something, he smiled dumbly and didn't bother with this person, looking at the ghost objects opposite.

Fairy Zi Ling looked at the black-robed figure's form, also revealing a thoughtful gaze.

At this time, the "Soul-Eating" beast had already run over, automatically climbing onto the black-robed figure's shoulder, sitting motionless, appearing extremely well-behaved.

And beside the black ghost shadow opposite, the gray shadow appeared out of nowhere, and with a few "poof" sounds, seven or eight demon ghosts with similar forms emerged from the surrounding mist.

Han Li recognized these ghost objects at a glance; they were a type of fierce ghost called "Wei Wu."

Usually, if one appeared in the world, it would cause a great commotion. He didn't expect a large group to appear here, which made Han Li's expression darken.

These evil ghosts with horns on their heads and sharp fingers, although far less powerful than the two ghost shadows, were not much worse than Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivators.

At this moment, they all squatted coldly nearby, surrounding Han Li and the others in the middle.

Seeing this, Han Li knew that this hard battle was unavoidable, and immediately ordered without politeness.

"The two of you deal with those Wei Wu fierce ghosts, and I will deal with those two ghost shadows. Help me delay for some time!"

Han Li's voice was low and solemn. Although the black-robed figure was full of dissatisfaction with Han Li, he also knew the seriousness of the matter upon hearing this, and had no choice but to silently acknowledge Han Li's order.

After all, he knew he couldn't fight the two ghost shadows.

He was just hoping that the other party would take the initiative to take on the opponent.

As soon as he finished speaking, those fierce ghosts suddenly revealed their fierce light. Seeing this, Han Li didn't hesitate to sacrifice the spirit beast bag in his hand first.

A large patch of Gold-Devouring Beetles turned into a golden-silver colored cloud, appearing in the air.

At this time, the demon ghosts all around seemed to have received an order, lunging fiercely at the three of them simultaneously, and spitting pitch-black ghost fire from their mouths.

The black-robed figure and Fairy Zi Ling didn't hesitate to sacrifice their magic treasures and magic tools to block them.

And that Soul-Eating Beast was even more powerful. With a stretch and roll of the yellow light from its nose, it directly absorbed a demon ghost that approached it into its belly.

However, it could only do this much! Because those two green-haired yakshas once again drove the bone forks in their hands, entangling it.

Han Li didn't pay any attention to these Wei Wu fierce ghosts, directly turning into a green rainbow, and shot toward the two ghost shadows in the distance.

Those Gold-Devouring Beetles followed closely with a buzzing sound.

When the ghost shadow saw Han Li taking the initiative to come over, the green light in the black one's eyes flashed, its mouth opened, and it sprayed the green bead again, striking at the green rainbow Han Li had turned into head-on.

The gray one flickered a few times and disappeared into thin air.

Han Li furrowed his brows, didn't get close to the other party, and stopped halfway with an expressionless face.

But he flicked his finger, and two "Green Bamboo Cloud Swarm Swords" turned into two green lights, flying out in a cross-shot.

At the same time, those Gold-Devouring Beetles buzzed, and under his spiritual sense's instruction, scattered, and then hovered around him, no longer flying randomly.

With a "bang" sound!

The two green lights intertwined with the bead, and the ghost bead quickly emitted a large amount of mysterious yin cold energy, wrapping the two flying swords within it in the blink of an eye, sealing them tightly.

Cold light flashed in Han Li's eyes, and he pinched the sword art with both hands.

Immediately, the two flying swords swelled several times, turning into two green dragons several zhang long, shaking their heads and tails, stirring up a storm, breaking out of the black yin energy, and turning back to strike the green ghost bead fiercely.

Seeing this situation, the ghost shadow's originally incomparably cold eyes revealed a trace of surprise.

You must know that although this green ghost bead was a protective magic treasure of a certain fallen cultivator, it was originally extremely ordinary. But after being picked up by this demon ghost, it had been refined for hundreds of years with mysterious yin ghost energy, and had long been refined to be incomparably miraculous. The mysterious yin energy it sprayed was specifically for damaging the spirituality of magic treasures. As long as it was entangled by even a trace, it would be trapped within it endlessly, unable to escape.

But Han Li's two flying swords didn't know why, but they weren't afraid of the entanglement of this mysterious yin energy at all. The green dragons they turned into just bit and tore, tearing the mysterious yin ghost energy to pieces, unable to get close to the flying swords themselves.

This made the ghost shadow, whose spiritual intelligence had already opened, feel wary.

You must know that in the hundreds of years it had been spiritually aware, it had never encountered such a situation.

So it hesitated for a moment, then suddenly raised its ghost claw and pointed at the green bead in the void.

The ghost bead's light flourished, recoiled several zhang, spun several times in the air, and suddenly shook, turning into a black demon tiger.

This tiger was incomparably tall, its eyes like bells, and it roared, spraying black-green phosphorus fire, looking incomparably fierce.

But the most surprising thing was that this giant tiger was not a phantom body like the green dragons Han Li's flying swords turned into, but looked completely like a real entity, looking incomparably powerful.

"Artifact Spirit?"

Han Li was slightly startled, then half-closed his eyes.

The so-called "Artifact Spirit" meant that every magic treasure had one chance to seal the primordial spirit essence of a demon beast or ghost into the magic treasure since it was refined. Thereby, when fighting the enemy, driving these essence spirits and the magic treasure to become one could greatly increase the magic treasure's power and transform into the appearance of the artifact spirit while it was alive, possessing the divine abilities it had while alive. It could be said to be a shortcut to quickly increase the power of a magic treasure.

But for some reason, regardless of whether the magic treasure's seal was successful or not, it could only seal an artifact spirit once from the time it was refined until its final destruction.

If it was not successful, there would never be another chance to possess an artifact spirit.

Because the second time it was sealed, the magic treasure would no longer accept any primordial spirit essence.

This made many cultivators extremely solemn about this. Generally, if they weren't in a hurry to increase the power of their magic treasure, they would only hold this sealing ceremony when they found a suitable target and felt they had a greater chance of success.

When Nangong Wan took the primordial spirit of the Ink Flood Dragon in the Blood-Colored Forbidden Land, she must have wanted to use it to seal an artifact spirit.

After all, although the Ink Flood Dragon was still very young in rank, it belonged to the dragon family and was very rare. Therefore, Nangong Wan was extremely excited when she obtained this object.

And even though Han Li had destroyed so many demon beasts of various ranks in the Chaotic Star Sea, he still hadn't seen a single spiritual flood dragon, which made Han Li, who had always wanted to use a flood dragon as an artifact spirit, depressed for a long time!

However, the success rate of artifact spirit sealing was really hard to control. There was almost no pattern to be found.

But one thing was certain: the more powerful the artifact spirit's primordial spirit to be sealed, the lower the success rate. And artifact spirits that were too weak would not make the magic treasure's power increase very satisfying.

Therefore, most cultivators' magic treasures ultimately didn't have artifact spirits!

Because they either didn't find a satisfactory target, or the sealed artifact spirit was too powerful and they all failed.

Therefore, Han Li was quite surprised to see that this ghost bead actually had an artifact spirit.

But then Han Li calmed down, licked his somewhat dry lips, pointed at the two Green Bamboo Cloud Swarm Swords, and turned them into two green dragons again, rushing to strangle the demon tiger.

His flying swords didn't have any artifact spirit; they were just simple magic treasure transformations, possessing only the form but not the true divine abilities of a flood dragon.

However, Han Li still wanted to test the power of this demon tiger artifact spirit first.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 441 =====