Chapter 827: Illusionary Peak

"I naturally have some confidence in doing so. Besides, Miss Zi Ling, are you unwilling to take even this little risk to obtain the spirit fruit?" Han Li's lips curled slightly, and he said with a half-smile.

"From what I know of Brother Han, if you didn't have absolute certainty, you would never take risks with dangerous matters. It seems Fellow Daoist Han must have some secret technique to avoid those invisible spatial rifts. In that case, this little girl will respectfully comply." After a moment of surprise, Zi Ling's bright eyes flickered, and she suddenly smiled lightly.

Then, with a flash of white shadow, she stood gracefully on the Wind-Riding Chariot.

Han Li glanced at the woman with some surprise, but then flew into the chariot without a word.

In an instant, under Han Li's urging, the Wind-Riding Chariot transformed into a streak of white light and flew off, breaking through the air.

Clearly, Han Li's deduction was correct. After chasing for only half a day, near a stretch of endless barren land, Han Li and his companion finally caught up with the group from the Ghost Spirit Sect.

As it happened, due to a momentary mistake by one of the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples, they had triggered a small ancient restriction nearby and were currently busy and flustered trying to save themselves.

With Han Li's caution and his spiritual sense fully extended, he naturally didn't let the elder surnamed Zhong discover their tracks. Instead, relying on his powerful spiritual sense, he scanned them from afar without anyone noticing. Han Li clearly sensed the spiritual energy fluctuations of that ancient restriction; it wasn't very strong, and it seemed it could only entangle the Ghost Spirit Sect people for a while, unable to truly trap an elder with Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivation like the one surnamed Zhong for long.

However, this brief delay was a rare opportunity for Han Li, enough to shake them off.

Han Li steered the Wind-Riding Chariot, his heart hardening, and took a risk by deviating from the original route, making a wide detour.

Not long after, bypassing several spatial rifts along the way, Han Li finally shook off the Ghost Spirit Sect group far behind. He then approached a lush, verdant mountain range with Zi Ling.

Seeing this mountain range, Han Li moved his divine sense, and the Wind-Riding Chariot slowly stopped.

"That's right, this is the place. Look at that mountain peak that looks like a flying bird; that's the marker, isn't it?" Zi Ling recognized one of the peaks in the mountain range that looked like a large bird at a glance, saying with some excitement, while unable to help but glance at Han Li.

To be honest, although Zi Ling had spoken with full confidence earlier, appearing to trust Han Li completely, seeing Han Li drive the Wind-Riding Chariot at such breakneck speed had kept her heart in her throat the whole time.

She hadn't expected that the route Han Li led them on would be truly safe to the extreme. Not only did they avoid all the spatial rifts, but they didn't even trigger a single ancient restriction, flying all the way here in one breath.

Zi Ling naturally didn't know that Han Li was also secretly feeling lucky in his heart at this moment.

If avoiding the spatial rifts was due to the miraculous effect of his Bright and Clear Spirit Eyes, then not triggering any hidden ancient restrictions after deviating from the route was truly a stroke of good luck.

Han Li thought this to himself, but his expression remained unreadable. He just squinted at the strange mountain peak in the distance, remaining silent.

The direction the bird's beak was pointing should be the location of the final marker.

"Brother Han, are we not setting off yet? Or should we destroy this mountain peak before leaving?" Zi Ling waited for a while, seeing Han Li pondering and motionless, and suggested with some anxiety.

"According to the jade slip, the final marker should be in a desert area, and it should be within a thousand miles of this mountain peak, right?" Han Li suddenly asked.

"That's right. Brother Han, you mean..." Zi Ling realized something.

"It's very simple. If we destroy this mountain peak, as long as the other party sees this newly destroyed peak, they will naturally know this is the location of the next marker. And the final marker is in a desert area, such an eye-catching place. As long as they spend a little more time, they will be able to find it nearby, just like the logic by which we were able to find this place. The only way to delay them a little longer is to set up an illusion array to cover this mountain peak and see if we can confuse the other party, letting the Ghost Spirit Sect cultivators miss this marker." Han Li said calmly.

"What Brother Han says makes some sense, but what kind of illusion array could cover an entire mountain and deceive the spiritual sense of a Nascent Soul cultivator? Fellow Daoist, do you also practice illusion arts?" Zi Ling asked with some uncertainty.

"Hehe. I am not proficient in illusion arts, but someone else is." Han Li smiled and said calmly.

Then Han Li shook his sleeve, and a streak of white light shot out. After flashing dazzlingly upon landing on the ground, a graceful and beautiful woman in white appeared in the spiritual light.

"Greetings, Master!" The woman bowed to Han Li; it was Lady Yin Yue.

"Who is she?" Seeing Lady Yin Yue, Zi Ling was greatly startled and couldn't help but exclaim.

"This is Lady Yin Yue, you can consider her one of my servants. Lady Yin Yue, do you have a way to set up an illusion array in a short time to cover that mountain peak?" Han Li explained lightly and asked about the illusion array, pointing to the nearby mountain peak.

"If I have Master's sets of illusion array equipment, plus my illusion arts to assist, it is not impossible to cast a spell to cover this mountain. However, I have no certainty whether the effectiveness of this illusion array can definitely deceive the spiritual sense of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Moreover, my illusion arts are not magic array restrictions after all; they can only exist for two days before they will collapse on their own." Lady Yin Yue said respectfully.

"Very well, just go ahead and do it. Do it to the best of your ability. Two days is enough." Han Li pondered for a moment, then made a decision and patted the storage pouch at his waist. Two sets of array equipment flashing with various colors of spiritual light appeared in his hands, which he handed to the woman.

"Yes! Master!" Lady Yin Yue took the array equipment and agreed.

At this moment, Han Li looked at the nearby bird-shaped mountain peak, a cold light flashing in his eyes. He suddenly rubbed his hands together and then flicked one hand.

A green sword qi over ten zhang long shot out from between his palms like a dragon, circled the mountain peak, and then flew back with a long cry, disappearing into Han Li's body.

The bird-shaped mountain peak suddenly emitted a buzzing sound. The bird's head and wings collapsed and fell down in the blink of an eye. The mountain peak suddenly became no different from an ordinary mountain.

Zi Ling stared blankly. Although she knew that Han Li's current divine abilities were beyond what a Core Formation cultivator like her could fathom, the fact that he could produce such great power with just sword qi without even using magic treasures gave the woman a huge fright.

Although she had often heard people say how extraordinary Han Li, this newly advanced Nascent Soul cultivator, was—almost existing below the Three Great Cultivators—Zi Ling had actually never quite believed it.

After all, Han Li had only been a Core Formation cultivator like her not long ago. For him to have such a great reputation so soon after advancing to Nascent Soul was truly hard for Zi Ling to believe. She had originally thought that Han Li had mostly used some opportunistic methods to gain such a great reputation by luck.

Just as Zi Ling was secretly shocked, Lady Yin Yue had already flown to the mountain peak that had been cut in half with the two sets of array equipment and began to set up the array.

Lady Yin Yue's movements were fast. In the time it takes to eat a meal, she had finished setting up the two illusion arrays. Suddenly, wisps of white mountain mist rose slowly, covering most of the mountain peak, leaving only the peak exposed.

After finishing all this, Lady Yin Yue suddenly transformed into a ball of silver light and flew to the air above the peak. Then, she opened her red lips, and a large patch of pink mist surged out from her mouth.

These pink mists became invisible as soon as they left her mouth, yet Lady Yin Yue continued to spray them out incessantly. Before long, a shocking scene appeared.

The area around the entire mountain peak suddenly twisted and deformed. The mountain peak vanished into thin air, and in its place, a dense forest appeared.

Seeing this, Han Li nodded with satisfaction.

In a stone hall hundreds of zhang underground, countless miles away, Marquis Lord Nanlong and Lu Lu Weiying were sitting cross-legged in a corner of the hall, directing their magic treasures to fiercely attack the golden light barrier that had shrunk to a thin layer but was now even more dazzling and blinding.

The Buddhist scripts on the barrier, which were the size of beans at the beginning, had now become silver runes the size of fists, flowing incessantly on the surface of the barrier, appearing exceptionally solemn.

Outside the golden barrier, a white, misty wind dragon, a golden streak of light, two blue ice pythons, and a giant emerald-green ring were attacking the surface of the barrier incessantly. Each attack caused the barrier to tremble slightly, with spiritual light flashing chaotically.

Marquis Lord Nanlong and the elder surnamed Lu were currently somewhat pale, without a trace of blood color.

This was no wonder; anyone who consumed their magic power day and night, sparing no effort to overdraw their essence to drive their magic treasures, would end up in such a state. The two, who had long been cursing the perverted Small Void Diamond Array in their hearts, had truly fought with their lives to break this Buddhist array. Although both had suffered great damage to their vitality, this Diamond Barrier had also reached the end of its rope and was clearly on the verge of being broken at any moment. This allowed the two, who had been secretly suffering, to finally grit their teeth and persist.

Amidst the rumbling sounds of the attacks, after who knows how long, a heaven-shaking loud noise suddenly erupted, followed immediately by the elder's exceptionally joyful voice.

"Broken, it's broken. All our hard work wasn't in vain."

The elder, who had been sitting cross-legged, stood up, shouting with wild joy.

Near the offering table opposite, the golden light barrier that had hindered them for nearly two days was now gone. The runes flickering slightly on the surrounding walls also vanished in an instant.

Marquis Lord Nanlong, sitting in the other corner, looked in very poor condition, but an exceptionally excited look flashed in his eyes as well.

The gazes of the two subsequently fell, without prior consultation, on the spirit medicines and the round bowl, which had lost their protection and were now completely exposed to their eyes.

Even though these two were old and cunning, their heartbeats accelerated suddenly.

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