Chapter 467: Strange Black Armor

Han Li's gaze lingered on this cloak for the longest time.

Firstly, the shape of this cloak was extremely strange, actually composed of two layers. The inside was woven from silver threads, while the outside was covered with strange, unknown feathers stuck onto it. These feathers transformed into dark red blood light in the light shield, appearing extremely strange.

Secondly, this was the first time Han Li had seen a cloak-type magic treasure, and he was naturally extremely curious about its function.

However, according to his guess, this ancient treasure might possess the miraculous effect of defense or concealing aura. Both of these were divine abilities Han Li urgently needed to save his life in the inner hall where strong enemies were as numerous as a forest!

Looking at these three ancient treasures, a trace of hesitation appeared on Han Li's face.

He could only take away one of them, and he would be teleported out by the pavilion's restriction. He had to make a choice.

Logically speaking, taking that golden mirror was the safest.

Han Li was almost certain its power would absolutely not be small; taking it would immediately greatly increase his strength.

If he wanted that strange five-colored copper ring, it might give him an unexpected surprise. Its set-like characteristic and five-colored radiance made this ancient treasure appear extremely mysterious.

As for that cloak, if he took it, there was a good hope it could be put to use immediately; perhaps it could even save his life in a crisis.

Han Li's gaze shifted back and forth between these three items incessantly.

Even though he usually did not like to show his emotions, faced with these treasures that were within his reach, he felt a moment of hesitation and anxiety about gains and losses.

After a long while, Han Li took a deep breath, and his expression calmed down.

This time, he only pondered for a moment. A flash of brilliance appeared in his eyes, and a whimsical idea appeared in his mind.

The unexpected appearance of this thought made Han Li's heart thump wildly.

According to his understanding of formations and restrictions, for a high-level restriction that forcibly teleports a person out of a space, unless one found the master switch of the restriction or used brute force to forcibly break the entire space covered by the restriction, there was almost no way to counter it cleverly. Once one touched the set restriction, one would involuntarily be teleported out.

These two methods were naturally impossible for Han Li.

Finding the master switch of this space's restriction—without a grandmaster-level formation master studying and searching here for several years, one shouldn't even think about it.

Using brute force to break it—that was something only someone with a broken brain would do.

So many Nascent Soul stage old monsters hadn't succeeded, so he, a cultivator who had only just reached Core Formation, was even more delusional.

However, in the formation-breaking insights he had obtained, Xin Youyin, a genius of formation dao, had specifically proposed a theoretical conjecture in a classic against spatial restrictions, which could temporarily make spatial restrictions ineffective against a person for a moment.

Although it was only a fleeting instant, this bit of time was enough for Han Li to grab one more ancient treasure.

But to achieve this step, it required the cultivator to have a way to completely sever their own spiritual power from all energy in the space temporarily, without the slightest connection.

After this hypothesis was written in the classic, Xin Youyin herself self-mockingly wrote afterward that even Nascent Soul stage cultivators probably didn't have such divine abilities; this was just a whimsical idea for a moment. A cultivator who truly had such great divine abilities could rely entirely on their own strength to forcibly break the restriction, so why go to such trouble.

After all, cultivators in this realm, at most, had high-level concealment techniques that made them impossible to be detected, so how could they truly sever their connection with the heaven and earth spiritual energy.

But when Han Li read this passage in the cave dwelling, he immediately associated it with the Gold-Devouring Beetles' perverted ability to swallow heaven and earth energy, and on a whim, he did a small experiment. As a result, using the Gold-Devouring Beetles, he actually succeeded for that short moment. This matter, Han Li just treated as a joke at the time and didn't care about it later.

But now, recalling this matter, Han Li's heart couldn't help but burn with heat.

After Han Li pondered with concentration for a moment, he felt that this matter really had great hope of success. If it didn't work, he would at most only take one ancient treasure, so there wouldn't be any loss.

Thinking this, Han Li did not hesitate. He waved both hands, and all the spirit beast bags on his body were sacrificed. Tens of thousands of Gold-Devouring Beetles flew out amidst a buzzing sound, transforming into a huge insect cloud circling around Han Li.

Han Li ignored these Gold-Devouring Beetles and instead looked at the distance and orientation between the three ancient treasures again. After weighing it in his heart, he floated lightly toward the dark red cloak first. The insect cloud followed closely behind without leaving a step.

When he was a foot away from the cloak, Han Li felt a change in the surrounding spiritual energy and hurriedly stopped his figure; a solemn expression appeared on his face.

Suddenly, Han Li pinched a magic seal with both hands, and a clear whistling sound came from his mouth.

The Gold-Devouring Beetles that had been surrounding Han Li suddenly became restless, but immediately rushed toward Han Li like arrows. In the blink of an eye, they crawled all over his body, layer upon layer, dyeing him completely gold-silver.

But the whistling sound in Han Li's mouth within the insect pile did not stop in the slightest, but instead became increasingly sharp.

Not long after, the flying insects on his body also emitted the same low whistling sound, gradually echoing Han Li's voice.

The insect chirping grew louder and louder, and the Gold-Devouring Beetles all opened their mouths, spitting and inhaling incessantly, appearing neat and extremely strange.

At this moment, Han Li instead stopped the sound in his mouth and fell silent.

Then, a scene that made one hard to believe appeared.

On Han Li's body, which was covered in flying insects, along with the high and low insect chirping, black light spots gradually emerged.

These light spots flashed and grew larger and smaller, becoming larger and larger.

As a result, after a few light spots touched, they automatically merged into a larger black spot, and after some larger black spots touched, they transformed into even larger black light clusters.

The black clusters on Han Li's body were like blooming ink chrysanthemums; in a short while, they covered every inch of his body and slowly bloomed.

Finally, after these black colors continuously merged and expanded, they formed a pitch-black, profound, bald armor, wrapping Han Li and those Gold-Devouring Beetles together inside, impenetrable by wind or rain.

The insect chirping sound vanished without a trace the moment the armor appeared.

Apart from the pitch-black color on the armor, no other colors could be seen, and it was impossible to see through it at all.

And at this very moment, Han Li acted.

A strange palm emitting black light grabbed the cloak not far away as fast as lightning, and at the same time, turned around clumsily, floating slowly toward the five-colored copper rings.

At the same time the cloak was grabbed by Han Li, blue light flourished around Han Li, and countless brilliant lights swept toward Han Li. But upon touching that strange black armor, they were immediately absorbed by the black light without a trace.

But the blue light did not retreat because of this; instead, it gathered more and more aggressively, pressing wildly onto the black armor.

This strange armor immediately began to totter, trembling incessantly.

Han Li was anxious, but his movements were extremely careful and gentle, fearing to startle anything.

For the distance of only five or six feet, Han Li walked as if it had taken an hour, finally moving slowly to the front of the copper ring ancient treasure.

Han Li barely suppressed the wild joy in his heart, and his pitch-black, shining palm grabbed it fiercely, his five fingers firmly gripping the item.

Almost at the same time the copper rings were in hand, the black armor around Han Li seemed unable to withstand the fierce pressure of the blue light. Amidst a harsh shattering sound, the armor first fell apart, then transformed into spots and dissipated completely.

Before Han Li could have any further reaction, the blue light swept him into it without any politeness.

After a burst of dizziness, he disappeared from inside the spherical light shield without a trace.

After a burst of dazzling blue light, Han Li appeared in a small stone room.

After swaying slightly, he barely stabilized his figure, stood straight, and immediately looked around with extreme vigilance.

Then his heart relaxed!

Fortunately, there was no one around; otherwise, his image of being covered in insects would be too strange.

Thinking this, Han Li let out a whistle.

All the Gold-Devouring Beetles flew up from his body, transforming into gold-silver light rays above his head without falling.

Han Li couldn't care about them and hurriedly looked at the two items in his hands.

Although he had already looked at them several times before, now that he had them in his hands, Han Li still couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart.

Then he stroked the two ancient treasures with his fingers respectively.

The cloak was light and airy, slightly warm, while the five copper rings were incomparably cold, just like ice.

After Han Li appreciated and played with them for a while, he turned his attention to this stone room.

This place was empty; apart from the array that had teleported him here, there was only a square passage directly in front, with no other abnormalities, appearing incomparably cold and clear.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 468 =====