Chapter 592: Escape

On a flat giant rock near the peak of Storm Mountain, a silver giant ape over ten zhang tall was pounding its chest and roaring at the sky. Beneath its giant figure were Han Li and his group. (Net)

Han Li looked solemnly at the sky without a word, while the two women had extremely pale faces, faintly revealing a trace of panic.

This was because over a thousand various Yin beasts with fleshy wings on their ribs were circling and dancing above the giant rock. The large ones were as big as five or six zhang, while the small ones were only a foot in size, but all of them looked ferocious and extremely vicious.

But these flying Yin beasts seemed to fear the ferocious aura of the giant ape transformed by the Spirit-Taming Beast, and for a moment, they dared not swoop down, yet they showed no signs of leaving, remaining in a stalemate here for the time being.

Han Li, however, did not feel at ease at all.

Because from the greedy blood-red eyes of these Yin beasts, it could be seen that their patience was gradually running out, and they might swarm down at any moment.

Han Li cursed the fat old man who provided him with the information in his heart. Although he mentioned that there were flying Yin beasts on Storm Mountain, he never said there were so many. He didn't know if he had deliberately concealed it or if he really didn't know.

They had just passed through the fog area and thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, but they didn't expect to be immediately discovered by these flying Yin beasts and trapped here. In desperation, he had no choice but to release the Spirit-Taming Beast and have it transform into the giant ape.

He was naturally full of confidence in the Spirit-Taming Beast's ability to restrain Yin beasts, but there were simply too many Yin beasts in the sky, and Han Li was not sure if the Spirit-Taming Beast could deal with so many at once.

However, things had reached this point, and he had no time to think; he could only fight for his life once.

Thinking of this, Han Li turned his head and whispered a few words to Mei Ning and Zi Ling, whose faces were ugly behind him. He then took out a small red crossbow and a folded soft leather shield from his bosom, handing them to the two women respectively. As for himself, he gave his sleeve a flick, and with a series of clinking sounds, ten small swords fell crisply to the ground.

On each sword, a thin beast tendon was connected to one of Han Li's fingers, like a rope dart. However, controlling ten at once like Han Li was naturally unprecedented.

Just as Han Li had finished preparing, the patience of the Yin beasts in the sky finally ran out.

A three-headed Yin beast, the largest in size, suddenly let out a strange screech, and the dozen or so Yin beasts closest to Han Li and the others immediately flapped their wings violently and swooped down, no longer caring about the giant ape's pressure.

The great battle finally began!

Almost at the same time the Yin beasts swooped down, the giant ape's nose inhaled violently, and then it closed its giant mouth and sprayed out fiercely. A large sheet of silver light rolled out from its huge nostrils, covering eight or nine out of ten Yin beasts. These flying Yin beasts immediately screamed in the silver light and fell straight down, swaying from side to side.

But two smaller Yin beasts became the fish that slipped through the net. With a flap of their fleshy wings, they avoided the giant ape's silver light and swooped down fiercely at Han Li and the three of them from both sides.

With a loud "bang," one of the Yin beasts was casually punched by the giant ape and sent flying several zhang away, falling off the giant rock and landing somewhere unknown.

And the other Yin beast, five or six feet large and looking like a vulture, took advantage of this to swoop down onto the heads of Han Li and the others, waving its sharp claws unceremoniously.

Han Li's face was gloomy, and he didn't move on the spot, but his ten fingers flickered with extreme agility.

The ten small swords jumped up, whistling and transforming into a cold, gleaming green sword net, directly meeting the Yin beast above.

A shrill scream came from the Yin beast's mouth.

Even without injecting magic power, the sharpness of the Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords was not something this tiny Yin beast could resist. It instantly became fragmented, and chunks of flesh and blood flew all over the sky. Han Li's figure swayed a few times, but he was still stained with some, and after a frown, he didn't care anymore.

Because another batch of Yin beasts had swooped down from the sky.

This time, it was no longer a scale of a dozen or so, but a full twenty or more, swooping down from all directions. Behind them were other Yin beasts, looking eager to try.

Han Li's heart tightened, and without a second thought, he waved both hands, and the beast tendons were let out by several feet by him. The green sword net appeared again, only this time the coverage area was several times larger, protecting Mei Ning and Zi Ling within it as well.

Silver light, green radiance, and shrill screams intertwined together...

Seven or eight days later, at the time of the scorching sun at noon, on a piece of turbid, dark yellow sea surface,

Everything was silent, with neither sea waves appearing nor the slightest sea breeze blowing; everything looked dead and lifeless. It was as if there were no living creatures here at all, and it was simply a dead sea.

But just at this moment, the seawater in a certain part of the sea rolled, and suddenly a mass of black fog emerged from the seabed.

The ink-black fog spread rapidly, reaching over a hundred zhang in the blink of an eye.

But at this time, a sound of thunder came out, and then silver light flickered in the fog. A dazzling silver radiance appeared out of thin air above the black fog, and within it, a bloated human figure could faintly be seen, with a pair of silver wings seemingly spread out behind its back.

Before it could be seen clearly who was inside, the silver radiance flashed wildly a few more times and then vanished without a trace. The next moment, it appeared at the edge of the black fog.

Amidst the continuous roaring, the human figure in the silver radiance kept appearing and disappearing, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a speck of light on the horizon like a teleportation, and then disappeared without a trace.

It looked very much like a desperate escape.

The sea surface became silent again, with only the black fog still expanding continuously, and black electric arcs began to appear, flickering silently within it.

In a place thousands of miles away from the black fog, after a flash, the silver radiance finally dimmed, and the bloated human figure inside was clearly revealed. It was actually Han Li holding Zi Ling in one arm and Mei Ning in the other, the three of them pressed tightly together, looking extremely intimate.

Han Li was still fine; although he was filled with warmth and fragrance, his expression remained as usual. However, the two women in his arms had slightly flushed faces, looking extremely charming and pitiful.

"Alright! The Ghost Fog cannot possibly spread here. We have finally escaped that ghostly place," Han Li said with a relaxed expression after looking around. He then calmly released the two women in his arms, looking quite like a gentleman.

"This time, we really owe it to fellow Daoist Han. If it weren't for your miraculous escape technique, it would be hard to say whether we could have escaped that Yin Underworld."

"Sister Zi Ling is right. If it weren't for Brother Han's quick action to help, we would probably have been sucked back into the Yin Underworld. We have really troubled Brother Han."

As soon as Zi Ling and Mei Ning left Han Li's embrace, the protective light on their bodies lit up immediately, and they floated beside Han Li, thanking him repeatedly.

A few days ago, after the three of them encountered danger several times, they finally relied on the Spirit-Taming Beast's power to kill all the flying Yin beasts and climbed to the peak of Storm Mountain. During the time they waited for the crack to open at the peak, the two women actually spoke very congenially and soon became sworn sisters.

This surprised Han Li a little.

They only waited for a few days at the peak, and a space crack over ten zhang large appeared in the high sky hundreds of zhang away from the summit. The heaven and earth spiritual energy from the outside poured in in large quantities. Their divine abilities were instantly restored, and they were overjoyed and flew out one by one.

But they didn't expect that the moment they flew out of the crack, a huge suction force appeared behind them, leaving them unable to move, as if it wanted to pull them all back into the Yin Underworld.

Fortunately, Han Li was quick-witted and immediately unfolded the Wind-Thunder Wings behind his back. After a few flickers, he held the two women tightly, one in each hand, and then launched the Lightning Escape technique, immediately escaping the black fog and flying all the way here in one breath.

Because of this, facing the grace of saving their lives, the two women's words of gratitude to Han Li were genuinely sincere.

"What place is this? How come it looks a bit strange, a bit too quiet!" After the blush on Zi Ling's face faded, she had the leisure to scan the nearby sea surface, and she said with a frown.

"Eh! It's really as Sister Zi Ling said, this is indeed a bit strange. There isn't even a trace of sea breeze, and the sea surface is too calm." After Mei Ning looked, a look of doubt also appeared on her face.

Han Li didn't say anything, but narrowed his eyes and released his spiritual sense, beginning to scan the deep seabed nearby.

A moment later, Han Li froze, a look of surprise appearing on his face.

"How is it, Brother Han, did you discover something? Why are there so few fish in the sea, and they all look like ferocious sea beasts, but they don't seem to be demon beasts either?" Zi Ling, who had also probed with her spiritual sense, opened her beautiful eyes and asked in surprise.

"Wait a moment!" Han Li said with a deep breath, and then with a light flick of his finger, a green sword light several zhang long suddenly appeared and shot straight into the deep sea beneath him.

A moment later, in the astonished eyes of the two women, a strange-looking sea beast corpse floated to the sea surface.

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