Chapter 57: Body Awakens, Enemy Dies

A cold chill surged from the hidden depths of his heart, quickly flowing through Han Li's entire body, startling Han Li awake from his deep sleep.

As soon as Han Li woke up, he felt his head incredibly heavy and throbbing with pain. Every part of his body felt soft and weak, as uncomfortable as recovering from a serious illness. He tried hard to open his eyes, but his eyelids were incredibly heavy and couldn't move a fraction.

In his daze, Han Li remembered everything that had happened before he fainted.

He shivered, his mind instantly clearing up a bit, and he hurriedly checked his own condition.

"Eh!" It seemed his body hadn't been occupied. Although he couldn't open his eyes, the uncomfortable, unusual feeling throughout his body confirmed that the entire body had indeed returned to his own hands.

"Could it be that Doctor Mo's method failed?"

Han Li, struck by the unexpected joy, thought of this only logical explanation.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Han Li forced himself to recover some strength before laboriously opening a narrow slit in his eyelids to see the things outside his body.

As soon as he opened them, he saw a face with a full head of white hair, gaunt and haggard, extremely old. It was precisely Doctor Mo's aged face, only it seemed to look ten years older than before, like an old man who couldn't be any older.

At this moment, his eyes were wide open, looking at Han Li with a look of terror.

Han Li was shocked and instantly tensed his muscles all over, throwing the feeling of weakness to the back of his mind. His first thought was to strike first and gain the upper hand.

After the lesson from last time, Han Li wouldn't let himself be easily controlled by others again, no matter what.

But subsequently, Han Li discovered something unusual. The opponent's expression was stagnant, motionless, and there was no sound of breathing, as if he had been dead for a long time.

Han Li frowned, but he didn't dare to be careless in his heart and still didn't relax his vigilance. He stared intently at the opponent's face, wanting to find some flaws.

After a full quarter of an hour of careful observation, Han Li had to admit that the opponent really didn't look like a living person.

Hesitating, he still cautiously approached the opponent, grabbed the opponent's wrist with one hand, and placed the other under the opponent's nostrils to test for a while, but there was no movement.

Only then did Han Li feel completely relieved, his heart becoming incredibly relaxed, and the giant stone that had been pressing on his heart was finally cast aside.

Until now, Han Li still couldn't quite believe that his formidable enemy, the cunning and vicious Doctor Mo, had died so silently, so inexplicably, and so easily.

He touched his forehead; the so-called "Spirit-Fixing Talisman" had vanished without a trace. He didn't know where it had gone, and there was no sign of it nearby. This made Han Li somewhat strange. Later, after he learned the method of talismans, he understood that the yellow talisman must have exhausted its magic power and turned into ash, which was why he couldn't find it anywhere.

Han Li, whose spirit had relaxed, began to sweep his gaze toward places other than Doctor Mo's corpse, wanting to find some clues as to how the opponent had met his end.

The oil lamps and candles all around were still lit, which meant he hadn't been unconscious for too long. Not far away, those few pieces of green jade had become gray and dull, seemingly dropping several levels in quality and becoming inconspicuous.

His gaze shifted, and in a corner of the stone room, an object that was dodging and trying to avoid Han Li's line of sight fell into his eyes.

This object was not unfamiliar to Han Li; it was the enemy he had fought with in his dream and who had slipped away from his hands—the green light orb that had been swallowed by a third.

At this moment, it was desperately trying to drill into the corner of the wall, seemingly very afraid of Han Li, attempting to hide.

Han Li was initially surprised, but then he pondered for a while, resting his chin on one hand, and lowered his head in thought.

A moment later, Han Li stood up and walked toward the light orb.

Not until he was half a zhang away did he stop and speak slowly:

"I think we should get to know each other. You must be Yu Yu Zitong, right?"

The green light orb trembled, its light flickering uncertainly. Hearing Han Li call out its name, it dimmed for a good while before shining brightly again.

"You guessed it. You really are worthy of being Mo Mo Juren's disciple, just as difficult and hard to deal with as him." The light orb seemed to have resigned itself to fate and actually spoke in human language. Judging by the accent, it was precisely that young man.

It didn't try to argue and directly admitted Han Li's guess.

"Then shouldn't you give me an explanation and tell me the whole story from beginning to end? I have plenty of time now and can listen to you slowly." Han Li said expressionlessly, as if wearing a mask, showing no fluctuation in his emotions.

But Yu Yu Zitong, seeing the opponent's calm and unruffled appearance, felt a chill in his heart for some reason, feeling that a great disaster was imminent.

In the divine sense battle just now, he had just experienced the power of this fierce star, having his primordial spirit swallowed alive and losing most of his magic power. At this moment, his remaining magic power only allowed him to cast a few small illusions, without any lethality. Now facing the real person and having no ability to protect himself, he naturally felt an indescribable fear in his heart.

"What do you want to know?"

He knew that the opponent had just escaped death, so his emotions should be very unstable and possess great danger. Don't look at the opponent's surface as if he were very calm, but in his heart, he might be brewing a full-blown rage, just like before a volcanic eruption.

Now that he had been discovered, the best thing to do was to cooperate and not challenge the opponent's patience with words. He didn't want to be buried by the opponent's impulse in such a muddled way.

"First, tell me who you are. Then, tell me the process of how you met Doctor Mo and your original plan, one by one. I have plenty of time now and can listen to you slowly." Han Li said expressionlessly, as if wearing a mask, showing no fluctuation in his emotions.

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