Chapter 567: Powerful Enemy

"Stop!"

A man's order came from inside the carriage, and the beast carriage and the escape lights stopped in mid-air instantly.

Following that, after the red light converged, young female cultivators with beautiful faces appeared, all wearing uniform light green palace dresses, with dark hair coiled on top, and double swords inserted on their backs.

These female cultivators stood neatly on the left and right of the beast carriage, all lowering their heads, their expressions solemn, and they all actually had Foundation Establishment cultivation bases.

"Strange! How can someone be performing a heaven-defying magic art here? Looking at the way the Yin energy is gathering, it's either the God-Changing Art or the Soul-Returning Secret Art." A surprised voice came from the white-light-shrouded beast carriage, actually calling out the name of the Soul-Returning Art.

"With such an astonishing heavenly omen, why can't it be the heavenly omen of a rare treasure appearing in the world?" A young woman's voice followed, extremely cold, but unable to hide her sweet and alluring tone.

"Hehe! Do you think I would be unable to distinguish between a rare treasure appearing and a heaven-defying magic art?" The man seemed exceptionally confident, laughing softly.

"Hmph! This is just your one-sided statement. Perhaps it is truly the sign of a treasure appearing. Anyway, I can't see any difference between the two." After a moment of silence, the woman's cold hum came from the carriage again, speaking without any politeness.

"If you want to know if it's true, wouldn't it be clear if we go over and take a look! Whether it's the God-Changing or Soul-Returning Art, one must have a cultivation base of Core Formation or higher to perform it, and after performing the art, one's cultivation base will suffer a great regression; even dropping a realm is common. I am also a bit curious to see what kind of person is performing this art. If their cultivation base is decent, I'll just take them in. The God-Dove Hall is currently lacking a few law enforcement envoys!" The man seemed exceptionally doting on the woman; hearing her question his words, he didn't get angry, but instead followed her tone.

"Fine! Having flown in the beast carriage for nearly a month, I am also feeling a bit stifled. It's just right to go to the island to relax." The woman hesitated for a moment before agreeing.

"Wait a moment, I will withdraw the protective shield!"

As these words were spoken, white light flashed on the carriage, and the light slowly dissipated, revealing the two people sitting in the carriage.

In the beast carriage were indeed a man and a woman, sitting at the front and back of the carriage.

One was a young man in hemp clothing, wearing a high crown, barefoot, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, with a handsome and refined appearance, and faint golden light shooting from between his brows; it was unknown what technique he was cultivating.

Beside him sat a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.

The girl was draped in white gauze, her skin as white as jade, her dark hair hanging down to her shoulders, her appearance beautiful and peerless. It was just that the girl's face was slightly pale, lacking a layer of blood, making her look like a fairy who didn't eat the food of mortals, dreamlike and illusory.

The girl leaned in a corner of the beast carriage, her brows slightly furrowed, seemingly somewhat unhappy. But seeing the light shield withdraw, her expression stirred, and she stood up gracefully and walked off the carriage.

The man had been looking at the girl's movements tenderly, and seeing this, he smiled slightly and followed her off the beast carriage.

"Daoist Wen, you calculated that the Ghost Mist would appear nearby—how certain are you? As far as I know, as one of the most mysterious natural disasters in the Chaotic Star Sea, the Ghost Mist has no regularity in its appearance time and location." The girl looked toward the small island, speaking without turning her head, a sentence that had nothing to do with the situation at hand.

The man seemed accustomed to it, stood with his hands behind his back, and replied with a smile:

"The Ghost Mist indeed has no accurate regularity. However, after I spent a great deal of effort collecting detailed data on the appearance of the Ghost Mist over the past few hundred years, I discovered a relatively interesting thing. A portion of the places where the Ghost Mist appeared were all places where submarine volcanic eruptions had occurred nearby. Although it is not like this every time, at least one-third of them coincide with this rule. And this sea area happened to have two submarine volcanic eruptions in a row some time ago. The probability of the Ghost Mist appearing should not be small."

The peerless girl heard this, and a strange look flashed in her beautiful eyes. She hesitated for a moment before asking slowly:

"Are we going over now? It seems the other party is at a critical moment of performing the art; will we disturb them?"

"Disturb? What kind of disturbance is it for me, Wen Wen Tianren, to see a Core Formation cultivator? If this person is not sensible and dares to speak rudely, I will just kill them." The hemp-clothed man's refined face suddenly revealed an arrogant look, speaking impolitely.

The girl looked at the young man in front of her and was speechless for a while.

However, this man's supernatural powers were indeed unfathomable. Although he had not yet condensed a Nascent Soul, cultivators of the same stage compared to him were simply not on the same level.

To say that the other party was the number one Core Formation cultivator in the Chaotic Star Sea was probably truly well-deserved.

"Eh!" The man suddenly stirred, glanced toward the small island, and revealed a look of surprise.

"What, what happened?" The girl was a bit curious, but still asked in a cold tone.

"Interesting, there are now three Core Formation cultivators gathered on the small island. Two of them are just so-so, both at the early stage of Core Formation. One of them has a quite marvelous invisibility technique, but it doesn't enter my eyes. But the other late-stage Core Formation cultivator is not ordinary. They actually sensed my spiritual sense; this person's spiritual sense is no weaker than mine." The man said while staring intently at the small island, a trace of solemnity appearing on his face.

Hearing this, the girl was moved.

She had seen with her own eyes how strong the man's spiritual sense was. Even compared to Nascent Soul old monsters, it wasn't much worse.

Now, another Core Formation cultivator's spiritual sense was actually as strong as his, which made the girl somewhat hard to believe, and a strange expression appeared on her face for the first time.

However, the girl also knew that although this man appeared refined and gentle, he was not a magnanimous person; instead, he was sinister, vicious, strange, and fickle, and would even take people's lives if things didn't go his way, yet his cultivation base was terrifyingly high.

Even though the other party was infatuated with her, she only dared to show a cold expression and didn't dare to provoke him too much.

Fortunately, the man seemed to treat conquering her body and mind as an interesting game and had never used force against her, which made the girl feel slightly at ease.

Now, although the man appeared as usual, according to her estimation, he had already developed a murderous intent toward the cultivators on the island.

After all, the man had always been proud of his spiritual sense being no less than that of a Nascent Soul old monster, so how could he allow a cultivator of the same stage to have one similar to his.

The girl sighed secretly, only able to offer a trace of pity to the cultivators on the island.

At this time, on the small island, in a pile of rocks several miles away from the valley, everything was quiet, as if there was no one there.

Suddenly, a shrill whistle erupted, and then a massive three-colored giant spear shot out from below, passing through the low sky of the rock pile in the blink of an eye.

A "puchi" sound came out, light flickered in the low sky, and the giant spear pierced through the suddenly appearing white energy shield.

Inside the energy shield, figures swayed, revealing the pale, terrified face of the white shadow.

Just as this person opened their mouth in shock and had just spat out a purple jade ruler, the sound of the energy shield breaking also came out. Before the white shadow could activate the magic treasure, the giant spear "sou"ed through their chest instantly.

The corpse, carrying a thick, bloody scent, fell straight down from the sky. With a "peng" sound, it fell into the rock pile and disappeared.

And the three-colored giant spear in the sky turned into a swarm of insects at some unknown time, one group wrapping around the storage pouch, one group clustering around the purple jade ruler, and flew back toward the small valley with a low buzzing sound.

After a while, Han Li held the storage pouch, scanning it with his spiritual sense, while holding the purple jade ruler in his other hand, playing with it casually.

After a moment, Han Li put the two items away, slowly raised his head to look in a certain direction in the distance, and his expression turned somewhat gloomy.

Just when he released the Gold-Devouring Beetles not long ago, he felt a strand of spiritual sense that was almost impossible to detect sweep over him. This made Han Li so shocked he almost jumped.

In his impression, this seemed to be something only Nascent Soul old monsters could possess. As a result, after carefully following it, he discovered that this spiritual sense came from the group of newly arrived cultivators, and after he quietly scanned them, he was shocked to discover.

The guy who released this terrifying spiritual sense was actually a late-stage Core Formation cultivator just like him, also young, not much older than him.

Han Li was shocked.

The moment his spiritual sense swept over, the other party also discovered his prying existence. As a result, they didn't know what kind of restriction they performed, suddenly pushing his spiritual sense out of that area, and he could no longer invade it.

This made Han Li's heart sink even further!

... ===== CHAPTER 568 =====

The very instant his spiritual sense swept past, the other party discovered his presence as he peeked. As a result, they employed some unknown restriction, and that area suddenly pushed his spiritual sense out with great force, making it impossible to intrude again.

This caused Han Li's heart to sink even further!

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