Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 905

“This won’t do. We can’t possibly kill all of the Divine Insects of the Floating Race like this. How could a Gold Core cultivator possess such a treasure… We must break through the encirclement and escape immediately.”

A furious roar came from the mouth of the giant insect that the Six-Eyed Clan member had transformed into.

“Where do you think you’re going to run? The speed of these monstrous insects isn’t much different from ours. If we keep being chased like this, we’ll soon exhaust our magic power,” Old Devil Zhi Xue shouted, his expression grim.

“If we flee towards the passage and return to the Land of the Fallen, we can avoid the insect sea created by the Divine Insect.”

“Six-Eyed Fellow, are you crazy! Even if we fly at full speed, it will take at least two or three months to return the way we came. You don’t mean to lead these things all the way there, do you? And what about our demonic essence! What about our demonic energy!” The White-Haired Beautiful Woman shouted sharply.

“Fellow Daoist Nan! What good is demonic energy if we lose our lives? If it comes to it, we can return, and I will compensate you with other items. Right now, it’s just the lowest-level insects created by the Divine Insect, but soon, higher-level insects will swarm in. By then, it will be too late to escape,” the Six-Eyed Clan member said, his voice laced with frustration. If it weren’t for the fact that they had to work together, he would have already left with the Divine Essence.

He knew the power of the Divine Insect, a sacred object of the Floating Race, better than anyone. Of course, he didn’t know that it wasn’t the real Divine Insect but a replica, the Lesser Divine Insect.

Even after hearing the Six-Eyed Clan member’s words, the White-Haired Beautiful Woman still looked displeased, but she had nothing more to say, and Zhi Xue tacitly agreed with the Six-Eyed Clan member.

They soon began to unleash powerful divine abilities.

The Six-Eyed Clan member suddenly emitted a black light from his body, transforming into large thorns the size of a mat, each as black as ink and extremely sharp. At the same time, the giant insect’s body expanded and contracted, continuously emitting rings of black light.

The rings of light instantly swelled and swept through the monstrous insects. Then, an astonishing thing happened. Wherever the rings of light touched, all the monstrous insects lost their balance, staggered, and began to fall from the sky.

Finally, a large space was cleared in front of the demon kings. At that moment, the Purple-Blooded Puppet released thick, purplish-red pillars of light towards the monstrous insects. Wherever the pillars of light passed, the monstrous insects were completely disintegrated and turned into dust.

Moreover, as the Purple-Blooded Puppet turned its head, the direction of the light pillars slowly changed, and even more monstrous insects were annihilated. The range of the extermination was twice as wide as the Six-Eyed Clan member’s attack.

Finally, the White-Haired Beautiful Woman stepped forward. Seeing the others giving their all, she didn’t hesitate to throw the strange hammer towards one side of the monstrous insect swarm and formed a hand seal. Then, the strange skull hammer exploded in green flames, and eight skull heads appeared. The skull heads spun in the air, growing as large as cartwheels, and emitted eerie sounds.

*Whoosh!*

What the skull heads released was not green flames, but unexpectedly, a white, extremely cold wind. Wherever the wind blew, the monstrous insects froze like ice, making a cracking sound as they shattered and scattered.

When the three Nascent Soul cultivators simultaneously unleashed their powerful divine abilities, the momentum of the monstrous insects all around was broken, and empty spaces appeared around them.

Seeing this, the human-faced mantis, about ten miles away, snorted and pointed at the silver object in the air. At the same time, the semi-circular object rotated, and the number of monstrous insects flying in instantly increased.

However, the demon kings had already gathered in the center, linking their magic power to break through the insect swarm and fly away.

*Screech!*

The human-faced mantis, not expecting them to run away without even putting up a proper fight, let out a sharp, angry sound. And the insect swarm chased after the demon kings.

Then, the human-faced mantis’s figure became blurry and disappeared from the spot. The next moment, it appeared in front of the semi-circular object and flew into it.

*Wooong!*

The Lesser Divine Insect cried out loudly, and the phantoms of the monstrous insects simultaneously trembled, turning into silver streaks of light and shooting out. Soon, the insect sea and the demon kings disappeared from view, chasing and being chased.

And separated from the demon kings, Mu Qing was surrounded by a green light on the surface of the water where Han Li had been sucked into the black mist. She looked down at the black mist, her face darkening.

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A young man in a blue robe was surrounded by a gray aura in the black mist. He was Han Li, who had just escaped from the Land of the Underworld. Fortunately, the Origin Magnetic Light had activated on its own, protecting him.

He raised his head and looked up. The spatial rift that had just spat him out had merged back into a single line and disappeared.

“This place is….”

For a very brief moment, Han Li had seen the trace amounts of black mist that had flowed out of the spatial rift naturally mixing with the black mist here.

‘Could it be that the mist here leaked out of that spatial rift!’

Han Li hurriedly looked around. However, his consciousness immediately scattered and returned when it exceeded about a hundred yards, and he couldn’t reach any further.

Han Li narrowed his brows, thinking about something, and suddenly took out a spirit grass. The spirit grass flew through the black mist. But after a moment, a strange thing happened.

The spirit grass that touched the black mist instantly withered, and the moment it fell to the ground, it turned into ashes and disappeared.

“Black Nether Mist!”

Only then did Han Li realize where he was. He had unexpectedly been transported to the giant island with the Black Silver Mountains in the territory of the Bi Ling Race. The black mist here was the Black Nether Mist that he hadn’t entered back then.

This black mist had a strong Yin energy that absorbed all the vitality of plants. At the time, he didn’t have time because he was focused on raising his cultivation, and he didn’t bother with the black mist because he was wary of it.

But after leaving the Land of the Underworld, he was surprisingly transported here, and seeing the black energy leaking from the spatial rift, he thought that the black mist here and the black mist of the Land of the Underworld were related.

However, the Yin energy of the Land of the Underworld wasn’t as strange as the black mist here. The black mist here seemed to have some other secret.

Han Li hurriedly tried to leave the place. In any case, this wasn’t a good place to stay for long.

But the moment he tried to fly, before his feet even left the ground, the surrounding black energy surged in, and his escape light scattered.

“A Sky-Sealing Restriction!”

Han Li’s heart turned cold. Now he understood why the Sky-Soaring Race feared the mist here and didn’t station their clansmen here.

For the Sky-Soaring people who believed in the Kun Peng [a mythical bird], a ‘Sky-Sealing Restriction’ that prevented flight was very dangerous. Most of the Bi Ling Race’s divine abilities were tied to their two wings, and if they couldn’t fly, it would be difficult to use their powerful divine abilities.

Of course, there might be other reasons why they avoided this place. If the Land of the Underworld was a transformation of Rahu’s [a celestial being] body, then its energy wouldn’t be compatible with the Sky-Soaring people who possessed the Kun Peng bloodline.

However, all of this was just Han Li’s speculation, and only the elders of the Sky-Soaring Race would know the specific reasons. Although he had lived as a Sky-Soaring Race saint for a while, there was no way for him to know everything about them.

In any case, he couldn’t just be trapped here.

If he ran with his powerful body, he would be able to quickly escape the mist zone. Han Li spread his consciousness, determined his direction, and then shot out like a meteor.

Han Li didn’t seem fast, but with each step, he easily covered seven or eight yards. After a while, he was able to move tens of miles. This was because he was being cautious and controlling his speed. If he had gone all out, he would have already covered hundreds of miles.

When he had previously used his Earth Escape Technique to go around the outer edge of the black mist, it had taken him a month or two. He didn’t know where he was in the mist right now, but at this rate, he wouldn’t be able to escape this place within a few days.

However, Han Li wasn’t impatient. He ran while calculating the gains and losses from the Land of the Fallen and the Land of the Underworld. He had been in danger several times and had even been manipulated by the demon kings, almost becoming their puppet, but the gains were also tremendous.

From Mu Qing, he had learned about the true power of the Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning, and he had received the true blood of the Five-Colored Peacock. And Old Devil Zhi Xue had taught him the method of refining the Spirit Puppet and the refining techniques for the Nine Palaces Heavenly Tribulation Talisman and the Armor Origin Talisman.

Also, he had accidentally met Old Man Jiang and received the Divine Origin Sword Art, and he had also learned a new way to refine the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords. He hadn’t researched it yet, but it would definitely advance the power of the Great Stellar Sword Formation.

But nothing was as great as the Divine Essence that the old man had promised. The Divine Essence was surprisingly a spirit liquid that completely changed one’s constitution, allowing one to absorb even more Heaven and Earth spiritual energy. So, he couldn’t miss out on something that had such a mysterious effect.

With the Divine Essence, not only would it reduce his cultivation time, but it would also be an important turning point for him, who had ordinary talent. Most of the items on the list that Old Man Jiang had given him were difficult to obtain, but it wasn’t impossible.

Since he had a thousand years, he just had to find them by then!

‘The immediate thing to do is to return to the eastern region where I was before, make the gains I’ve obtained this time my own, and cultivate my magic power. I need to raise my magic power to the peak of the late-stage of the Transformation Realm and take the Black Flame Pill to break through to the Void Refinement Realm!’

This time, he had often seen the Nascent Soul cultivators fighting and using their techniques. With this experience and understanding, he would be able to surpass the late-stage of the Transformation Realm. Although they hadn’t directly guided him, every word and action they made was valuable information and a great lesson.

Ordinary cultivators would never be able to see Nascent Soul cultivators fighting in person in their entire lives.

Han Li quickly turned his mind and even made plans for his future cultivation.

Afterward, Han Li brushed past the storage pouch and took out the jade slip that Old Man Jiang had given him, which contained the Divine Origin Sword Art. He divided his consciousness into two, one to guard his surroundings and the other to infuse the jade slip with his consciousness to learn the sword art.

As he read the sword art, his calm face became solemn, and later, his face contorted.

After an hour, Han Li sighed and put away the jade slip. And with a wavering gaze, he fell into thought.

The Divine Origin Sword Art didn’t have any major changes to the original 13-form technique, but it was different in that there were 5 more forms of sword art attached after that. Each was suitable for cultivation in the late-stage of the Transformation Realm and the early and mid-stages of the Void Refinement Realm.

If he completed all the cultivation, he would be able to enter the late-stage of the Void Refinement Realm. If he hadn’t been cultivating the Devilish Heavenly Art, he would have been very interested.

But now, he had no choice but to learn a few useful secret techniques and divine abilities from the last 5 forms of the technique and cultivate them. Since he had already chosen the path of dual cultivation of the body and magic, he couldn’t spend too much time on the Divine Origin Sword Art.

Of course, the reason he could pick and choose like this was because he had learned the first 13 forms of the sword art and had already reached the late-stage of the Transformation Realm. Most other high-level cultivators wouldn’t be able to cultivate even if they obtained the sword art.

The most interesting things in the jade slip were the sword formations called Spring Dawn and Azure Coiling. The two sword formations combined with the last 5 forms of the sword art unleashed extreme power and could even stand against high-level beings.

Of course, it was possible to use the sword formations without learning the 5 forms of the sword art, but the conditions were very difficult. One had to cultivate a very pure wood-attribute flying sword to a high level.

Han Li’s 72 Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords didn’t yet meet the conditions to use these two sword formations. So, he had to refine them anew. Among them, the Spring Dawn Sword Formation only required a proper flying sword, so he could use the sword formation with his current cultivation. But on the other hand, the Azure Coiling Sword Formation was only possible after reaching the mid-stage of the Void Refinement Realm.

So, Han Li carefully read the flying sword refining method written at the back of the sword art. But the more he learned, the more his expression frowned. The refining method wasn’t that difficult, but the process took too long.

Moreover, during the refining process, the flying swords couldn’t be used in battle. Only after completely refining them and reaching a state where the sword and his consciousness became one could they unleash their true power.

Also, if he filtered out the mixed substances from the flying swords, the Geng Essence would also be separated, and he wouldn’t be able to use the Great Stellar Sword Formation. It was okay that it took a long time, but not being able to use the Great Stellar Sword Formation made him uneasy.

If the new sword formations overwhelmed the power of the Great Stellar Sword Formation, there would be no reason to hesitate, but he hadn’t directly compared the power of the two sword formations, so it was difficult to be certain.

Without learning the last 5 forms of the Divine Origin Sword Art, it was even more difficult to guarantee the power of the two sword formations that he would use by simply refining the flying swords again.”