A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality (Chapter 1001-Chapter 1200)

Time slowly moved by and a quarter hour passed. The Greatnorth Essence Light stirred and parted way for Han Li to emerge. He revealed no emotion and Old Devil Qian’s Nascent Soul was nowhere to be seen.

When he approached Gui Ling, she pointed to the five cinque devils and asked, “How should we deal with them? To the best of my knowledge, there is no other way to vanish them from this world apart from slow refinement from great Yang flames.”

“Refine?” Han Li paused for a moment, “There is no need for that. I have another use for them. I’ll just seal them away for the time being.”

“Then so be it.” Despite her surprise, she readily agreed.

Han Li waved his sleeve, summoning a dense swarm of talismans from within and instantly covered the skeletons and skulls with various colored balls of light.

He then clapped his hands together and flicked a finger, arcing lightning from his hand and weaving it together with golden strings layer upon layer around them.

As light flashed, over ten balls of golden light appeared before them.

With an incantation gesture, Han Li released spell seals at the balls, quickly shrinking them to the size of a fist.

When Han Li looked at them, he frowned when something came to mind. He opened his mouth and spat out a bubble that glowed with Buddhist light.

It was the vajra barrier that he had been nurturing his body with.

He pointed to the item in his hand and a seven-colored radiance swept them all up, absorbing them into the golden orb.

With Divine Devilbane Lightning and the Buddhist treasure suppressing it, no matter how vicious what lay ahead, they shouldn’t have any way of escaping.

He finally felt at ease and placed the vajra barrier into a jade box before carefully putting it away.

“Let’s go! Fellow Daoist Gui should have some hidden locations on this mountain. We’ll hide there for a few days and wait for the opening in the seal to recover once more.

“A hidden location?” With roused spirits, Gui Ling instantly answered, “I did unintentionally discover a place like that, and there shouldn’t be anyone else that knows of it.”





Chapter 1032: The Appearance of Divine Spirit Treasures


When Han Li heard about a hidden location that only Gui Ling was aware of, he nodded and said, “Good, let’s go. If we encounter our enemies along the way, there is no need to fight them. We’ll just shake them off.”

After he put away the human-like puppet, he hurriedly flew out from the palace hall.

The two flew through the Greatnorth Essence Light in the blink of an eye, but when the flight restrictions took effect once more, they could only drop to the floor and use body lightening techniques to conserve their magic power.

He swept his spiritual sense into the distance and didn’t see anyone on the exterior of the Greatnorth Essence Light, much to his delight and surprise.

He called out to Gui Ling and calmly emerged from the light with the Tailstar Essence Shield and Triflame Fan in hand.

After taking another careful look around, he slowly walked out from Kunwu Hall.

It was deathly quiet on the outside, and when he had a clear view of the area, he felt a hint of surprise.

In the large plaza past the felled Goldweight Spirit Trees, the ground was littered with holes and piles of rubble as if a grand battle occured.

When Gui Ling walked up behind him, she looked at the scene and paused.

“How curious, could it be they fought amongst themselves?” She puzzlingly mused.

Han Li regained his composure and sullenly said, “I’m unsure. It is possible they encountered that first group of cultivators. Although I don’t know their origins, since they were able to rend open the seal to Kunwu Mountain, their abilities should be great.”

Gui Ling sighed, “That could be the case. When the seal was broken, I followed them from a distance and noticed that two of them had a similar cultivation to mine.”

“Oh, do you remember their appearance?” From the first wave here, he only knew about the square-faced middle-aged man. He had seen him use a powerful treasure to defend himself against Old Devil Qian.

Gui Ling shook her head, “Since their strength was sure to be powerful, I didn’t dare to approach. I only viewed them at a distance with my spiritual sense.”

Han Li was a little disappointed to hear this. He had wanted to know if the Elder Devil was among those here and if he should plan for an opportunity to seize back his two flying swords.

But now with Gui Ling and the human-like puppet, he was confident that he would have more than a fighting chance against the Elder Devil and wouldn’t need to flee.

His gaze flickered as he pondered for a moment, then concluding, “In any case, they shouldn’t have been able to easily exterminate those here. They most likely chased them elsewhere.”

Although he had spoken as such, Han Li knew that something else was afoot. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have so easily departed from their original goals, much like how Grand Immortal Xu and the Endless Sky Saintess had come to pursue him.

Could it be that the first one here were so powerful that they could force the lot of them to rout?

But even that was highly unlikely. If they had such an advantage, why would they wouldn’t they remain and wait for an opportunity to fight for the treasures?

With all things considered, he contemplated a moment more and rubbed his chin before dropping the matter.

No matter what happened, his objective had been achieved. He only needed to stay safely hidden until he could depart from the brewing storm.

He would have to think of a method to reclaim the two flying swords the Elder Devil stole after he left Kunwu Mountain.

Having pondered over the matter, Han Li promptly came to a decision.

“Fellow Daoist Gui, let’s first go to the secret place you spoke of! There is no need to follow them. In a few days, there will be even more cultivators who will enter!” Han Li then led the way down the stairs to the main plaza.

Gui Ling wryly laughed and followed suit.

Along the way, they saw sword scars, scorch marks, and other signs of battle.

These cultivators had been pursued when they made their escape.

“This is...” When a huge gorge suddenly appeared before them, Han Li approached and took a look before tensely frowning.

The huge split was certain to have been created from the strike of a blade-type treasure. It had rend the stairs in two and created a gap over three hundred meters wide and a hundred meters deep.

He even mused that if he made use of the full might of his giant sword technique, he wouldn’t be capable of such a feat.

Silvermoon’s voice echoed from his mind, “It seems those cultivators definitely encountered trouble, given the power of the abilities that had been displayed. The battle was much more intense than we imagined.”

“Hmm, perhaps — but what does that have to do with us?” Han Li casually replied. Soon after, he launched himself from the ground and floated across the ravine.

Gui Ling moved closely behind.

After he landed, his expression stirred and he glanced at one of the huge rocks in front of him with a cold gaze.

Then, Han Li’s expression sank and he harshly yelled, “You, come out from there!”

A cloud of black Qi then shot out from the nearby. A Nascent Soul could be faintly seen within it.

“Yi!”

Since the cultivators on the mountain were more likely to be enemies than not, there was no need to be polite and let him slip away.

Thunder rang out from his back and he suddenly disappeared from sight. A short moment later, he appeared in front of the black mass in a flash of silver light.

He raised his hand, and with a crackle, a massive blue hand appeared and closed its grip.

With great alarm, black Qi surged around the Nascent Soul in an attempt to flee.

But since it had been greatly wounded in the fight before, it wasn’t able to use instantaneous movement from the very start.

And with Han Li’s rich experience in dispersing Nascent Souls, he was also quite proficient in trapping them.