A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm

Chapter 665: Pleasant Surprise

Chapter 665: Pleasant Surprise

All of the color was drained from Ren Hao's face at the sight of Han Li's astonishing display of power, and he hurriedly fled the scene as a blue shadow.

At the same time, he swept a sleeve through the air to release seven or eight glowing immortal treasures, filling the entire hall before hurtling toward the devilish deity from all directions, ensuring that there was no way for Han Li could get to him through the immortal treasures.

However, Han Li was completely unconcerned as he swept an arm through the air, releasing a vast expanse of green light that swept up all of the immortal treasure.

The spiritual light emanating from the immortal treasures instantly faded, and all that remained were the immortal treasures themselves, suspended in mid-air within the green light like fish caught in a net.

With another sweep of Han Li's arm, all of the immortal treasures vanished along with the green light, and all of this had taken place in an instant.

An incredulous look appeared on Ren Hao's face upon seeing this.

After stowing the immortal treasures away, Han Li took a step forward, instantly vanishing from the spot.

In the next instant, he appeared right in Ren Hao's path, blocking his path of escape as he swung down his giant azure sword.

Enshrouded within the time spirit domain, Ren Hao was far slower than Han Li, and there was no way for him to escape.

"Curse you!" Ren Hao roared in a desperate voice as a hint of despair surfaced in his eyes, and he lashed out with his giant blue sword.

The two swords clashed, and the azure sword was able to slice its counterpart into two with ease, then continued onward without pause to strike Ren Hao with immense power.

Ren Hao's eyes opened up wide as he opened his mouth to release a burst of blood essence into his suit of armor, and at the same time, he injected all of the immortal spiritual power in his body into his armor as well.

The suit of armor instantly began to glow radiantly, and a blue film of light similar to Han Li's True Extreme Film emerged to oppose the azure sword.

However, the giant azure sword possessed unmatched power, and it was able to quickly slice through the blue membrane of light before striking the suit of armor, where it drew to a halt for a split second before slicing into the armor as well.

"No! You're going to regret this!" Ren Hao howled in a despairing voice as his body exploded into countless scraps of flesh and blood.

The tremendous sword qi of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords had infiltrated his body and detonated it from the inside.

On top of that, his nascent soul had also been completely destroyed by the sword qi, while the suit of blue armor had exploded into countless pieces as well.

Han Li made a beckoning motion with one hand, plucking out a shimmering blue storage ring from Ren Hao's remains, then reverted back to his human form in the blink of an eye, while the giant azure sword also split back up into nine Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords before vanishing into his body.

A hint of wariness emerged in Feng Lin's eyes as she gazed upon Han Li, but Han Li didn't even bother to look at her as he turned his gaze to the body of the large-headed child instead.

He didn't have to expend much of his energy in killing Ren Hao, but senseless battle was still something that he wanted to avoid, so he had no intention of fighting over the flute with Feng Lin, and his attention was instead turned to the body floating in the pond.

He was aware of who this child was, so even during his battles against the humanoid fish creature and Ren Hao, he had been keeping an eye on the body this entire time, but he didn't notice anything amiss during his observation.

After a brief moment of contemplation, Han Li reached out to make a grabbing motion, and a burst of azure light surged out of his sleeve, gently enveloping the child's body before slowly dragging it out of the pond.

All of a sudden, the body accelerated without any warning, arriving before Han Li in an instant. Its large head was almost in direct contact with Han Li's forehead, while the tip of its nose was on the verge of reaching Han Li's chin.

Under normal circumstances, Han Li would've been able to react in a timely fashion, btu for some reason, the body's movements were extremely strange and also seemed to be imbued with some type of time law powers, catching him completely off guard.

Immediately thereafter, the body's eyelids shuddered slightly before its eyes sprang open, and it observed Han Li momentarily through a pair of blue eyes, then abruptly opened its mouth to release a ball of blue light toward him.

The ball of blue light struck him on the glabella, and he felt as if a thunderclap had exploded in his consciousness, causing his ears to ring incessantly.

Before he had a chance to inspect his own internal condition, the body uttered the phrase "kill Qi Mozi", following which its eyes and mouth fell shut again.

Immediately thereafter, countless thin cracks that were glowing with blue light emerged over the body, and it began to shatter like a piece of porcelain before disintegrating into a cloud of blue smoke that dissipated into nothingness in an instant.

Han Li shuddered as he snapped back to his senses, and he felt as if he had just awoken from a dream.

Meanwhile, Feng Lin was standing several thousand feet away, looking on with a perplexed expression. From her perspective, Han Li seemed to have experienced a moment of disorientation after bending down, and she had no idea what had happened after that.

However, when she turned to look into the pond again, she was surprised to discover that the body of the large-headed child had vanished.

Right at this moment, the sound of splashing rang out from within the pond, and Feng Lin noticed that a vortex that was around half a foot wide had taken shape within it.

The vortex swept up all of the blue liquid in the pond, sending it rapidly funneling downward, and the pond was almost completely emptied in the blink of an eye.

Han Li was right beside the pond, and he reacted very quickly, hurriedly making a grabbing motion to conjure up a large azure hand that scooped up a ball of blue water from the bottom of the pond.

However, that was all that he managed to scoop up before the remaining water in the pond was completely funneled away.

Han Li heaved a faint sigh as he flipped a hand over to produce a white jade vial, then deposited the blue water into it before stowing the vial away in his storage bracelet.

He then took a glance at the bottom of the pond to discover that there were thousands of fist-sized blue rocks embedded into its surface, and they were giving off abundant spiritual qi. They contained no law powers, but they were clearly some type of exceptional water-attribute material.

"There are still some water-attribute materials left in this place. How about we split them among ourselves and avoid further battle, Fellow Daoist Feng?" Han Li proposed as he turned to Feng Lin with a smile.

"That would be best," Feng Lin replied with a smile of her own.

With that, both of them sprang into action, collecting the water-attribute materials in the pond and the rest of the hall.

After that, the two of them conducted a thorough search through the three-story pagoda, and only after ensuring that there was nothing else of value to be taken did they exit the pagoda together.

"I'm planning to keep going down this path. Would you like to accompany me, Fellow Daoist Feng?" Han Li asked as he cast his gaze toward the area beyond the pagoda, which was enshrouded in mist.

"I'll pass. I'm planning to return the same way I came and go down one of the other paths," Feng Lin replied.

After witnessing Han Li's powers, she had become very apprehensive of him, so she naturally didn't dare to accompany him any longer.

Of course, this was precisely the response that Han Li wanted, so he made no effort to keep her.

"In that case, this is where we part ways. Take care, Fellow Daoist Feng."

Following Feng Lin's departure, Han Li directed his spiritual sense deep into his own consciousness to conduct a close inspection.

At this moment, all was calm and tranquil in his consciousness, but there was a ball of blue light hovering within it.

As soon as Han Li's spiritual sense made contact with the ball of blue light, it immediately transformed into a screen of blue light that was rippling incessantly, and there was a passage of text consisting of thousands of golden characters on the screen.

Han Li discovered that this was the full nine-part cultivation art of the Water Divination Time Arts, two more than what he had received from the Vast Flow Palace.

Enclosed after the cultivation art were some of the insights that the large-headed child had gleaned while cultivating the Water Divination Time Arts, and that by itself was over three thousand characters in length.

After Han Li memorized everything, the screen of blue light faded away along with the golden characters inscribed upon it.

Han Li slowly opened his eyes as a hint of elation flashed through them, but given his current circumstances, this was naturally not the right time to be studying the cultivation art.

With that in mind, he continued to make his way deeper down the path.

Beyond the pagoda was a sparse forest that was also filled with the same mist that impeded both visibility and spiritual sense, so Han Li had no choice but to progress slowly through the area.

Thankfully, the trip proved to be quite uneventful, and all Han Li encountered along the way were some bodies belonging to True Mantra Sect and Heavenly Court cultivators.

After traveling for around six hours, the surrounding vegetation became even sparser, but the mist up ahead had become even denser.

Upon emerging from the forest, Han Li discovered that there was a giant lotus pond that was over ten thousand feet in radius up ahead, and the water in the pond resembled rippling green jade.

White mist was surging incessantly over the pond, and there were numerous pink and white lotus flowers littered over its surface, presenting a breathtaking sight to behold.

Unfortunately, Han Li was in no mood for sightseeing, and he was just about to pass over the pond when he suddenly spotted something and drew to a halt.

Interesting... No wonder the world's origin qi is so abundant here.