Chapter 785: Ghost Luo Banner

Han Li saw these round beads, and his heart moved. (Website) Could these also be things like lightning beads.

This thought flashed through Han Li's heart, but he didn't stop urging the Great Geng Sword Array in the slightest.

These golden threads were one of the magical powers of the Great Geng Sword Array, somewhat similar to the sword-cultivator's "Transforming Sword into Thread" technique, caused by condensing the astonishing sword Qi of a hundred sword lights into threads.

Because it borrowed the power of the magic array and the flying swords themselves were incomparably sharp after being mixed with Geng Essence, the formed sword threads were much more powerful than those of ordinary sword cultivators.

Ordinary magic treasures and ancient treasures simply couldn't resist the cutting of these golden threads.

As for things like lightning beads, Han Li was no longer afraid.

As long as the thirty-six flying sword bodies hidden were unharmed, even if these sword threads were destroyed, they could be continuously re-formed, not afraid of attacks at all, which was the terrifying aspect of the Great Geng Sword Array.

Just as Han Li was pondering, golden light flashed, and those round beads also triggered the sword array restriction, being cut into several pieces by the many golden threads, and then burst.

Much to his surprise, these round beads didn't contain any lightning fire. Instead, after bursting, they emitted balls of thick black-red blood mist.

Once this blood mist spread, it immediately filled the air. At the same time, a strange, nauseating odor was emitted, pungent to the extreme.

These round beads were called "Blood Lightning Beads", said to be refined from the filthiest things in heaven and earth. When dealing with an enemy, as long as it wasn't a treasure refined by demonic methods, once stained by this blood mist, its power would be greatly reduced, and its spirituality would be lost. No matter how great your magic treasure's magical power and how high its spirituality, you would have to re-cultivate it with Nascent Soul fire for several days to restore the treasure's power.

Of course, these Blood Lightning Beads were rare in the demonic sect. Not only were the raw materials scarce, but the success rate of refining was also pitifully low, much harder to refine than ordinary lightning beads.

These ten or so were all the accumulation of the black-robed youth for nearly a hundred years.

This person, as an elder of one of the top ten demonic sects of the Great Jin, was knowledgeable. As soon as he recognized the sword array Han Li set up, he immediately thought of using these to pollute Han Li's flying swords.

The sword array originally required perfect coordination to unleash its magical powers. Once any flying sword in the array was slightly malfunctioning, the sword array would naturally collapse.

This method was one of the most commonly used means for Jin Kingdom demonic cultivators to counter sword-cultivator sects that drove sword arrays.

Of course, such precious things as Blood Lightning Beads were generally not used in one-on-one duels. Usually, they would only be used in large-scale confrontations. After all, under normal circumstances, how could a sword array be driven by one person.

Seeing this blood mist, although Han Li didn't know what was going on, he clearly felt it was somewhat strange. Just as he was muttering in his heart, a low thunder sound suddenly came out.

In the blood mist, patches of golden light appeared simultaneously, and then strands of pale golden electric arcs were ejected. Once these electric arcs touched the blood mist, they immediately burst. And they were extinguished together.

In the blink of an eye, these ten or so balls of blood mist were destroyed together with Han Li's Evil-Warding Divine Lightning.

Han Li was stunned.

The Evil-Warding Divine Lightning didn't wait for him to trigger it; it actually ejected from the flying swords automatically. This was the first time he had encountered such a thing. And that blood mist, which looked like an evil object, could actually offset the Evil-Warding Divine Lightning, which was truly somewhat unbelievable.

Han Li naturally didn't know that the property of these Blood Lightning Beads to pollute righteous treasures was almost the same as the property of the Evil-Warding Divine Lightning to specifically restrain demonic cultivation techniques; the two just happened to restrain each other. Under normal circumstances, neither could restrain the other.

And although the quantity of the blood mist was not small, compared to the Divine Lightning hidden in the thirty-six flying swords, it was naturally a big gap. So the blood mist was driven away cleanly in the blink of an eye.

"Evil-Warding Divine Lightning. These flying swords are all Golden Lightning Bamboo magic treasures! Impossible, how could there be so much Golden Lightning Bamboo?" The black-robed youth saw this situation, his face turned pale, and he shouted in shock:

"This question, wait until you are underground to tell you." Han Li replied unceremoniously upon hearing this. At the same time, he urged the magic seal in his heart again.

The golden threads, which had temporarily paused due to the appearance of the blood mist, squeezed toward the middle silently.

This Great Geng Sword Array was indeed incredibly powerful. But for Han Li's current cultivation, it was still somewhat strenuous.

Although he could run this sword array, the loss of magic power was astonishing, and after triggering the sword array, he had no strength to push the sword array to accelerate.

Otherwise, as long as he let the sword threads suddenly close toward the middle, he could immediately destroy the opponent. How could he watch the black-robed youth use any means to counter him.

Han Li estimated that according to the magic power consumption of this sword array, it should be a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator who was the best choice to start cultivating this magical power. If it weren't for him only driving half a set of the sword array, and his magic power being far superior to ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, he wouldn't have been able to unleash this sword array at his current realm at all.

"Hmph! You really think a mere sword array can truly trap this Venerable One. Your sword array is indeed sharp, but can it cut through this sect's supreme treasure?" The black-robed youth heard this, a layer of black Qi rose on his face, and he said gloomily.

He didn't think anymore, raised his hand, and hit his own chest with a heavy punch.

With a "puchi" sound, a mouthful of black blood was spat out, and inside the black blood was a green small banner an inch long.

After this banner came out, green light flickered, and it immediately absorbed all the black blood around it.

This banner turned emerald green.

The black-robed youth beckoned to this banner, and with a "whoosh", the small banner turned into a black light and shot into his hand. After rubbing it with both hands, the light shone brightly, and the green banner immediately expanded to several feet in size.

The banner surface was shining with green light, and dark clouds were misty, making it impossible to see its face. It was just that this banner was clearly missing a corner, seemingly damaged and not yet recovered.

Han Li's pupils shrank, and he muttered a sentence in his mouth:

"Ghost Luo Banner!"

Back then, the Yin Luo Sect Master had said he would take the sect's supreme treasure—the Ghost Luo Banner—to deal with the Hehuan Old Demon. Later, although the latter didn't truly unleash it, Han Li had firmly remembered this name.

Now that the black-robed youth took out this small banner, Han Li naturally guessed it was eight or nine out of ten.

"You are quite sharp! This is one of the main banners of the Twelve Ghost Luo Banners. As for its power, you can experience it yourself." The black-robed youth, seeing Han Li recognize the object in his hand, was stunned at first. But then he said with a sneer. He seemed to have full confidence in the object in his hand.

Subsequently, the youth grabbed the banner tightly and waved it lightly toward the golden threads in a certain direction.

With a "puchi" sound, emerald green dark clouds emerged from the banner. Then they expanded rapidly, covering the youth's figure inside.

Icy cold winds rose nearby, and dark clouds flew from nowhere in the sky, and the entire sky turned pitch black in the blink of an eye. The sunlight was covered without a trace.

The sky turned dim to the extreme. And I don't know when, green misty ghost mist appeared all around, and the sound of ghost weeping rose all around.

Just by shaking the banner in his hand lightly, the heaven and earth actually changed color. No wonder this person was so confident in this banner.

Even though Han Li had great confidence in the Great Geng Sword Array, he felt horrified in his heart.

At this moment, a breaking sound came from the opposite side, and countless black thin threads sprayed out from the mist where the youth was, winding toward Han Li.

Golden light flashed, and the sword array restriction was triggered. Countless golden threads appeared and flickered incessantly, and all the black threads paused slightly, then turned into countless small segments and fell down. But immediately, these broken black threads turned into balls of green mist again, flying back and merging into the green mist.

"Eh!" Han Li didn't feel anything, but the black-robed youth in the green mist let out a surprised cry. These Yin Soul Threads could be said to be incredibly tough, yet they were destroyed by the other side's sword array just as easily. This was somewhat beyond his expectations.

After a moment of contemplation, he finally didn't hold back and unleashed the maximum power of the ghost banner in his hand.

Only to see him suddenly throw the banner from the green mist, and it happened to "stick" three feet in front of him, motionless.

Subsequently, obscure incantations sounded from the mist, and gusts of cold wind rolled the surrounding mist from all directions toward the center,

The green banner expanded wildly as it shook, and in the blink of an eye, it was two feet tall. The misty mist on the surface of this banner began to dissipate, revealing its true face.

As a result, when Han Li saw this, his complexion changed drastically.

"You actually used so many living souls to refine the banner? How many people did you kill?" Han Li shouted sharply.

On the emerald green banner surface, densely packed, were human faces shrunk countless times. These faces included men, women, old, and young, actually wriggling on the banner as if alive, and each one revealed an expression of extreme pain. It was truly terrifying.

"How many people. Who knows! Perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions. Among them, there must be hundreds of cultivator spirits to refine such a main banner." The youth's gloomy voice came from the green mist.

Han Li remained silent, staring coldly at the green mist. After a moment, he only spat out a few words.

"You deserve to die."

"Deserve to die? I don't know how many people have said such words to me. But haven't I lived well until now? As for the people who said this, their souls were all collected by me into the banner, becoming a part of this banner. You will be no exception." The youth said with a sneer.

Subsequently, he didn't want to say anything more, and a red magic seal was cast onto the giant banner.

Green light shone brightly, and suddenly a hole several feet in diameter appeared on the banner. After black Qi emerged, there were gusts of cold wind inside.

"Puchi puchi" sounds came one after another, and several giant skulls with ghost fire in their eyes and green smoke spitting from their mouths flew out from the banner, lined up in a row.

Among them, the largest skull had two giant bull horns, but the five features of the skull below looked exactly like a human's.

Could this skull have been a transformed demon beast during its lifetime? Han Li was shocked.

But the subsequent events made Han Li put this question aside.

Only to see that apart from the few skulls that came out first, various ghost fire skulls continued to swarm out from the black hole on the green banner, and in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred appeared, crowding around the black-robed man.

"Go!" The black-robed youth in the green mist pinched a seal and pointed toward Han Li's direction.

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