A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality (Chapter 1201-Chapter 1400)

This surprise attack resulted in the Shen Beast’s tongues being eliminated.

The old Daoist clearly hadn’t expected this to happen. Before he could act from rage, two painful howls sounded from the black fog. Soon after, the black Qi parted and the Shen Beast emerged in the blur. Its body turned vague as it traveled through the air and it turned transparent.

The beast also possessed invisibility.

A short moment later, Han Li was able to hear the beast’s howls from all around him, hiding its concrete position.

Even with his Brightsight Spirit Eyes working at full force, he wasn’t able to see through it.

Even so, Han Li smiled.

He waved his sleeves around him, followed by buzzing. Countless golden specks rushed out from them.

These golden specks flew out and immediately surged in size. They turned into half-foot-long beetles.

They were the fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles that Han Li spent painstaking efforts to nurture.

These beetles numbered over a thousand and flew out nearby.

In the blink of an eye, the beetles spread through the sky and several of them knocked against the Shen Beast, revealing it.

Without needing Han Li’s command, the Gold Devouring Beetles buzzed and pounced at it. A cloud of beetles instantly drowned it.

The Shen Beast let out screams of pain, but with a pop, the beast’s body flew out in a black mist.

Normally, insects wouldn’t be able to do anything against an intangible body, but something extraordinary occurred.

Just as the black mist flew out from gaps of the Gold Devouring Beetles, the fearsome beetles’ claws flashed with golden light and firmly stuck onto the black mist, violently gnawing on it without any hesitation.

With over a thousand beetles, the huge black mist was reduced by a tenth in the blink of an eye.

Screams of pain continue to sound from the mist as the mist continues to roil. Then, ten slender silver serpents shot out from the mist, each of them three meters wide. They all swallowed ten of the beetles at lightning speed.

As the serpents blurred, another ten beetles disappeared into the serpent’s mouth.

But immediately after, the silver serpents hissed and they fell, turning back into clouds of black mist.

All the beetles flew out from the mist without the slightest damage and they circled around the mist to consume it.

Soon after, the black mist quickly turned into several beasts specialized in dealing with insects, but none of them were able to wound the beetles in the slightest. In a short moment, the black mist was torn away, quickly slowing down the speed at which these strange creatures appeared.

The beetle swarm had the black mist at its mercy in only the span of a few breaths. As the old Daoist watched from a distance, he stared at the beetles with an odd expression on his face.

“Gold Devouring Beetles! Fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles!” The old Daoist muttered. He slapped his head without the slightest hesitation.

Red light flashed and a crimson shadow emerged from the crown of the body’s head. It flew in a circle and suddenly turned into a fierce streak, blurring several times as it disappeared off the horizon.

The old Daoist’s body remained in place, now a shriveled corpse. With a gentle wind, the corpse scattered to ash.

“Yi!” Han Li remained motionlessly in place and stared in the direction that the crimson shadow fled. His expression wavered.

“He actually abandoned his exotic beast. Could it be that Gold Devouring Beetles are that famous?”

With that said, Han Li turned his head and looked at the black cloud. The beetles had consumed the black cloud in near entirety. Han Li stroked his chin and waved his hand, recalling the beetles. They circled around him and turned back into small pellets before going back into his sleeves.

With that done, Han Li wanted to fly over, but his complexion vastly changed and his body shook several times. He nearly plummeted from the air.

“How is this possible? My spiritual sense is so exhausted, I nearly injured my soul.” Han Li quickly looked inside him and his face paled.

He consumed nearly the entirety of his Spatial Tempering-grade spiritual sense. In the battle, he didn’t sense this in the slightest.

“Could it be...”

Han Li was reminded of his recent use of the Gold Devouring Beetles and his face grew unsightly.

He suddenly waved his sleeve and summoned a single beetle. It fluttered its wings and flew around nearby.

He immediately peered at his spiritual sense and soon, he stood still in shock.

At the same moment he released the beetle, his spiritual sense was slowly consumed. Although it didn’t appear harmful, it was only the result of a single Gold Devouring Beetles. If he were to command over a thousand of them, they would cause a bigger drain.

With his vast spiritual sense, he would hardly be able to sustain it for five minutes.

What was even more frightening was that he wasn’t even aware of this immense drain.





Chapter 1373: Grouping up


Han Li felt gloomy.

The original joy he felt from witnessing the Gold Devouring Beetles’s strength was mostly gone.

Although he had eight thousand fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles, if he released the lot of them, he feared his spiritual sense would run dry before his beetles confronted the enemy.

Bafflingly enough, the beetles had no drain on his spiritual sense when they weren’t fully matured.

This left him perplexed.

He couldn't ignore this sudden development. He would have to find what caused this at the very least.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t dare to use the beetles in battle.

With that in mind, he waved at the beetle.

The beetle circled in the air before landing on his palm.

He released a thread of spiritual sense and wrapped it around the beetle. As a result, he found nothing out of the ordinary.

He took a shallow breath and narrowed his eyes in thought. Suddenly, something came to mind and he waved his hand. The beetle flew back into the air and he wrapped his spiritual sense around it once more.

A short moment later, his face vastly changed.

The spiritual sense that coiled around the beetle’s body became gradually weaker and continued to enter the huge beetle's body.

Han Li now realized everything.

The reason why his spiritual sense was decreasing was that the mature Gold Devouring Beetles were expelling it as they flew. It was no wonder why his spiritual sense was worn to such a degree without any knowledge.

Know that he knew the problem, he frowned in thought for a long while and felt that he couldn't come up with a good answer.

Although the exhaustion of his spiritual sense was only temporary, typically recoverable with a day’s rest, it would be fatal if this occurred in battle.

Regardless of the secret technique or magic treasure, they needed large quantities of spiritual sense to sustain them.

Until he could figure out a method to resolve this, he would keep the beetles as a reserve measure.

However, the sight of the beetles alone was enough to scare away the crimson shadow. Even in the spirit world, the Gold Devouring Beetles possessed a truly infamous reputation.

The exotic insect ranking he acquired from the Devil Dao cultivator in the mortal world was no longer relevant in Han Li’s eyes.

Given the experiences of a low-grade cultivator, there were many mistakes to be had. The rankings were particularly useless in the spirit realm.

The power of the fully mature Gold Devouring Beetles was far beyond Han Li’s expectations.

With that thought in mind, Han Li didn’t dare to linger for much longer and promptly made certain of his bearings before flying off.

If the others hadn’t died, they would likely show up at the meeting point. Although the spiritual Qi markers they placed on one another had disappeared, they had another method of contact. So long as they weren’t too far away from another, they could establish a mutual connection.