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

Suddenly, the giant’s back flared with golden light as half-foot-long golden beetles began to strangely appear. They crawled over half of the giant’s body and began wildly devouring it.

Han Li watched with an emotionless expression, but his heart stirred.

Although the Gold Devouring Beetles were said to have nothing they couldn't eat, that was only a record in the mortal realm. It was also recorded that wood and jade treasures could restrain them. The wood spirit tribe’s half-human half-tree fusion was truly bizarre. Although their bodies resembled huge trees, he wasn’t able to determine if they could be considered wood-type treasures.

As the experiment went on, the giant soon let out a scream of agony. He slapped at his back with all his might, but the beetles continued to fiercely consume him. He near-indestructible crystalline body was now being easily torn apart by the beetles.

With several hundred of these beetles gnawing away at the giant, the giant sensed the agony of being torn apart despite his dulled senses.

Han Li was overjoyed. After he waved his sleeve to collect the Weeping Soul Beast, his body lit up with azure light and he tore through the sky as an azure streak.

Although the Gold Devouring Beetles were enough to deal with the giant, he couldn’t deal with any of the giant’s full-powered attacks. It’d be best if he put distance between them.

“Gold Devouring Beetles! Fully matured Gold Devouring Beetles! You actually possessed such demonic insects!” The giant’s screams sounded as if it was having a most fearsome nightmare.

Soon after, the sounds of repeated explosions sounded and green lights instantly filled most of the sky.

Han Li didn’t turn around and continued his escape with all his speed. In the blink of an eye, he was over the horizon. After several more flickers, he was long gone.

A short moment later, a huge ball of light raised to the sky where the giant originally stood. It flew off past the sky in defeat. The faint silhouette of the badly damage giant could be seen within.

There was a cloud of golden insects closely pursuing it.

With one trailing after another, they flew off a different direction from Han Li.

Not long after, the golden beetle cloud buzzed as they circled and flew back. Not only did they return to their inch-large size, but beetles flew in unorganized disarray.

Fortunately, the Gold Devouring Beetles weren’t slow. They streaked past the air like bolts of lightning.

Five hundred kilometers away in an area with scattered rocks, Han Li sat cross-legged with a pale complexion. He was doing his utmost to command the beetles back to him.

He already consumed a truly significant portion of his spiritual sense.

When the beetles finally returned to him, he eventually lost control of his body as it trembled and fell. At that same time, he put his hands behind his head and let out a painful groan.

A quarter hour later, he was able to collect himself and sit back up.

Using the beetles had been extremely dangerous, resulting in nearly all his spiritual sense being wasted. But even so, his spiritual sense only suffered minor damage.

It seemed he wouldn’t be able to use the beetles for pursuit to prevent excessive drain.

Nevertheless, if he hadn’t pursued the wood spirit with the Gold Devouring Beetles, the wood spirit would have discovered something amiss and wouldn’t have given up so easily.

Now, the Silver Tier Wood Spirit suffered much damage from the Gold Devouring Beetles. Even if he was braver, he wouldn’t dare to continue tangling with Han Li.

Han Li stroked the Spirit Beast Ring underneath his sleeves and let out a long breath.

In a secret forest myriad kilometers away, the Silver Tier Wood Spirit Mu Rui was sitting underneath a huge tree in his giant form. One of his arms and nearly half of his body had disappeared, but countless green specks of light flew out from the forest and wildly rushed into his body.

The giant’s missing body parts regrew at a visible speed.

In the time it took to finish a cup of tea, the specks of light ceased and the giant’s body was completely restored. But when he opened his eyes, they now appeared exceptionally dim.

He held his hands in an incantation gesture and the giant’s body spat out a hollow phantom. It then blurred and condensed into a pale green-skinned wood spirit.

The giant then flashed with light and scattered away, turning into a huge tree.

After the wood spirit returned to its original form, he glanced in the direction where he fought with Han Li.

“How very troublesome. This person possesses hundreds of Gold Devouring Beetles. If I were in peak condition, I could take the risk of killing him and have the beetles lose control.

But after receiving two heavy injuries in succession, I suffered too much damage to my spirit tree. If I encounter those beetles again, I might truly die. It appears that I have no choice but to give up pursuit.” After his expression wavered while in thought, he eventually shook his head and came to a decision.

He turned into a ball of silver light and soared back in the direction of Black Leaves Forest.

Not long after, Han Li restored a portion of his spiritual sense in another area. Not daring to stay in the area any longer, he suppressed his migraine and tore through the sky in an azure streak.

He was heading in the direction of the Southern Skyline.

Two months later, Han Li arrived above a barren plateau. Soon after, he sought out a small earthy mountain in a remote place and burrowed into it with a yellow flash.

In the heart of the mountain, he easily dug out a hidden room thirty-meters-wide and put it into order. Then, he drank several medicine pills and sat down cross-legged.

A month later, Han Li opened his eyes, revealing their recovered spirit. His spirit, mind, and body made a full recovery.





Chapter 1392: Third Refinement of the Thunderstorm Wings


Han Li didn’t immediately stand up. Rather, he started to mutter to himself inside the hidden room.

Not long after, he shook his sleeve and summoned an azure ring in his palm.

It was the storage bracelet of the Black Phoenix Clan’s Xiao Hong.

Although he suppressed her with the Divine Essensefused Mountain and spared her life, her storage bracelet was another story.

It could be considered the price for sparing her life.

As a demon cultivator and direct descendant of her clan, Han Li was very interested in what lay inside the storage bracelet.

With a brief look at the bracelet with his spiritual sense, his face lit up in joy.

It possessed many rare treasures.

First off, demon beast materials occupied nearly half of the storage bracelet with most of them rarely seen on the market. As a member of one of the seven great demon clans, she should have a far easier time gathering materials compared to humans. He was also overjoyed to find eight various-colored top-grade spirit stones shining in the corner.

Although this was the spirit realm, top-grade spirit stones weren’t nearly as precious as one might imagine in the mortal realm. However, they weren’t easily acquired either. Top-grade spirit stones were held in small number by high-grade cultivators, but never in large numbers.

In particular, one of the white spirit stones was a rarely seen wind-attribute spirit stone, much to Han Li’s delight.

Ever since he entered Deep Heaven City, he always wanted to acquire one.

In addition to this, there were also magic tools and various ancient treasures that didn’t catch Han Li’s eyes. These items couldn't compare to his Divine Essensefused Mountain and his Heavenvoid Cauldron.

Perhaps Xiao Hong didn’t care much for these treasures also; otherwise, she would’ve taken them out in battle.

Additionally, there was a small collection of medicine bottles in the bracelet that piqued his interest.

When he took them out in his hand, he began to identify them. Most of them were healing medicines with a few of them being cultivation advancement medicine and rare pill refinement materials.

One of the wooden boxes even contained a Zoysia Dragon Fruit.