Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 1031

Han Li spent the remaining time researching the Golden Seal Script.

Woong!

That day, as he was deep in thought, the twilight suddenly began to chime. Startled, he hurriedly took out three gold and silver light orbs. They were the Guanghan Tokens.

The gold and silver tokens gradually scattered into specks of spiritual light before his eyes. Han Li sensed the ground shaking and the chaotic state of the world’s spiritual energy.

“The time is up!”

He transformed into a streak of blue light and exited the cave. He appeared on a desolate mountain, gazing at the void with a serious expression.

In the gale, five-colored clouds surged in the sky, and the ground shook violently, causing the mountains to heave. Some trees couldn’t withstand the tremors and fell. Even on the mountain where he had been staying, birds took flight, and wild animals emerged from their burrows, running madly.

Han Li, with his hands behind his back, closed his eyes and sensed the explosive spiritual energy around him. This clearly signaled the end of the Guanghan Realm’s opening period.

In at most half a day, outsiders would be forcibly expelled by the power of this world’s laws.

Since they had left their marks on the formation they used to enter, they could return to their original locations by going there. Han Li, thinking about the abundant gains he had made in the Guanghan Realm, couldn’t take his eyes off the astonishing celestial phenomenon.

‘That is…’

Han Li’s expression changed, and his gaze turned towards a certain direction. Beneath the surging five-colored clouds, gold and white dull glows were frantically flying towards his location. Both seemed weak, and the colors of the glows were dark.

The larger and brighter white glow at the back seemed to be chasing the gold glow in front. Upon closer inspection, the gold glow looked quite familiar. He flickered his blue light to look inside and was startled.

A giant golden wolf was flying with all its might. The large beast, with a clump of fur missing, was the male and female king he had encountered twice before.

And closely chasing behind it was a winged white tiger beast. The beast also looked unwell but persistently pursued the golden male and female king.

The beasts seemed to have greatly depleted their energy, as they didn’t even notice Han Li when he suddenly concealed his aura. As he was pondering how to handle this, a cry came from his sleeve.

It was the anxious cry of Piao Linshui.

‘If that’s the case, I can’t just ignore it.’

At Piao Linshui’s reaction, Han Li recalled feeding the spirit beast a high-grade male and female beast core. His gaze, looking at the distant golden glow, turned cold.

A thunderous sound echoed, and with wings spread behind him, he transformed into a streak of cyan-white light and vanished. The next moment, a spatial ripple appeared above the male and female king, and a giant golden shadow with three heads and six arms emerged.

The golden shadow swung its six arms, unleashing golden pillars of light. The male and female king, despite having a high cultivation of the early Fusion stage, had almost no magic power left and couldn’t evade, taking three pillars of light head-on.

Kukwakwang!

Dazzling golden light enveloped the male and female king. Then, another spatial ripple occurred in the high sky, and a black mountain and a giant silver ruler appeared, descending simultaneously.

Under the black mountain, silver spell characters surged, surprisingly forming a giant light formation that emitted an intangible force. The male and female king, having taken three golden light pillars, felt the surrounding air freeze and their body pressed down by immense weight.

Alarmed, the beast bristled all its fur, sending golden light in all directions. If it were the male and female king in its prime, this strike would have broken free from the golden restraint, but now its magic power was depleted.

The golden light couldn’t escape the intangible force and stopped. Finally, fear appeared in the eyes of the male and female king. It possessed powerful divine abilities, but with its exhausted body and depleted magic power, it could do nothing.

At that moment, the giant silver ruler fell upon the male and female king with the sound of wind and thunder, and a miserable scream erupted. Immediately, the male and female king, surrounded by silver lightning, emitted a burning smell.

Swish!

At this moment, a giant blue sword sliced through the void, and the male and female king, held by the silver lightning and intangible force, couldn’t evade and was cut in two.

Bang!

A sudden explosion rang out, and a golden male and female beast, about half its original size, burst out from between the severed corpses, covered in blood, and fled.

Then, the black mountain floating in the high sky teleported and pressed down on the fleeing bloody light. But strangely, the moment the bloody light burst, a golden light containing a fist-sized golden male and female beast emerged from within.

Like a cicada shedding its skin, it was continuously discarding its shells and fleeing. However, a silver firebird appeared in front of the male and female beast, spread its wings, and charged. The small male and female beast didn’t even make a sound before being reduced to ashes by the Subduing Spirit Flame.

Only then did a cyan-white thread appear near the silver flames with a thunderous sound. Han Li retracted the dull glow and pulled a golden crystal stone from the silver flames. It was the male and female king’s core.

Han Li examined the core for a moment before turning his gaze elsewhere.

In the distance, the winged white tiger beast glared at the core in his hand with a furious expression. Greed was evident in its eyes, but it didn’t recklessly charge.

Han Li watched the beast’s actions, summoning the Yuan Magnetic Mountain and the silver ruler. The celestial phenomenon was becoming more intense.

The five-colored clouds writhed and even began to drop silver lightning, and heavy rain poured down, blurring the world. However, the white tiger beast didn’t move even as it was rained on. It seemed hesitant.

Patsutsucheuk!

Unable to bear it any longer, Han Li flapped the wings on his back, densely floating cyan-white lightning orbs. Seeing this, the white tiger growled lowly as if in resentment and transformed into a white streak of light, shooting off in the direction it had come from.

However, Han Li didn’t bother to chase it. After confirming that the white tiger beast was far away, he scattered the lightning orbs and retrieved the black mountain and silver ruler. With the Guanghan Realm’s opening period ending, it was reckless to chase after an existence of the early Fusion stage, even if it was weakened.

If an unexpected accident were to occur, the losses would outweigh the gains. The white tiger beast was also angry that Han Li had easily killed the male and female king, but it wasn’t sure if it could win, so it retreated.

Piao Linshui cried out passionately within the spirit beast pouch. It even expressed its desire for the male and female king’s core to Han Li.

‘You little rascal!’

Han Li smiled and placed the golden core into the spirit beast pouch. Piao Linshui then leaped with joy and devoured the core. It then stretched out on the ground and closed its eyes.

Soon, only soft snores could be heard, indicating it had fallen into a deep sleep. The changes in Piao Linshui were highly anticipated. The male and female king’s core was incomparable to the previous male and female cores it had consumed.

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Kururururung!

Several hours later, the five-colored clouds descended with an ear-splitting sound. Han Li, buried in the clouds, sensed a powerful spatial fluctuation amidst the flashing lightning, and after a short while, he was gone.

The same phenomenon occurred throughout the Guanghan Realm. All outsiders were transported out of the Guanghan Realm by an unknown force.

Five-colored light burst before his eyes, making it impossible to see even with the Spirit Eyes. Han Li felt the world spinning. The moment he placed his feet on the ground, a loud explosion rang in his ears, and a chilling sensation made his hair stand on end.

Startled, Han Li immediately summoned black energy and donned the Heavenly Devil Armor.

Teng!

With a crisp sound, he opened his eyes wide. A long sword had bounced off his armor above his head, and its owner was wearing silver armor with a pair of long horns on his head. He knew at a glance that it was a Horned Chi Clan member.

Han Li surveyed his surroundings with a dark expression. Various treasures were flying about, and colorful spiritual lights clashed. Thousands of alien races were slaughtering each other. Half of them were Horned Chi Clan members, and the rest were Heavenly Cloud Clan cultivators who had been guarding the teleportation array.

In the high sky, Horned Chi Clan warships were floating, and numerous Horned Chi and Heavenly Cloud people were engaged in battle.

The golden restrictions around the giant teleportation array had long been mostly destroyed, and far away in various parts of Heavenly Cloud City, flames were rising, and explosions were heard. The entire Heavenly Cloud City seemed to be engulfed in war.

Strangely, none of the cultivators engaged in battle were above the Saint Clan [a high cultivation level]. The highest cultivation among them was at the peak of the Void Refinement stage. Even so, the situation in the city was too chaotic. The giant teleportation array on the ground was still humming, and it seemed he was the only one who had been teleported.

‘So that’s why I was attacked as soon as I was teleported.’

Han Li looked up at the Horned Chi Clan giant who had attacked him and released a blue flying sword from his sleeve.

A blue light flashed and disappeared in an instant. The Horned Chi Clan soldier, seeing the opponent’s flying sword disappear, turned to flee. But he was too late.

The blue sword energy appeared right in front of the Horned Chi Clan member, spinning around his neck, and the giant’s head rolled off. As the nascent soul [a cultivator’s soul] flew out from the headless corpse, the sharp sword energy cut it down as well.

Han Li retrieved the flying sword with an expressionless face, and at that moment, a spatial fluctuation occurred, and four people appeared from within the spiritual light. Two of them were Liu Shui’er and Shi Kun, and the other two were the middle-aged man and the young cultivator who had entered the Guanghan Realm with him.

Han Li scanned the middle-aged man, and his pupils contracted. He faintly sensed the pressure of the early Fusion stage. The ordinary-looking middle-aged man had succeeded in overcoming the bottleneck in the Guanghan Realm. Liu Shui’er and the other cultivators had the same spiritual energy and pressure as before, indicating they had failed to overcome the bottleneck.

Soon, light flashed from the adjacent teleportation array, and four people were teleported. Among them was Fairy Yue, but the old man Xu who had been traveling with her was nowhere to be seen.

The woman wore a calm smile and emitted a different aura than before. She seemed to have successfully reached the early Fusion stage.

Han Li was quite surprised to see that.

Although the Guanghan Realm helped one overcome cultivation bottlenecks, two people had reached the Fusion stage. If the Guanghan Realm opened more frequently than once every ten thousand years, the number of Fusion stage cultivators in the Outer Star Sea would have overwhelmed the other two continents. However, Han Li wondered why he had been teleported back before the others.

‘Is it purely coincidental?’

For some reason, his heart was pounding. He had a feeling that all of this was due to the Mysterious Heavenly Fruit on his arm. Because he had sealed a treasure of the Mysterious Heaven, he might have received a stronger rejection from the Guanghan Realm’s laws.

Otherwise, it was difficult to explain why he was the first to return alone from the Guanghan Realm.

The Heavenly Cloud people who had just returned from the Guanghan Realm were dumbfounded by the situation before them. They had only been gone for about a year, so how could even the rear-positioned Cloud City be engulfed in war!

However, the group that had returned alive from the Guanghan Realm were all outstanding individuals. The cultivators regained their senses and released their treasures, plunging into the battle.

Just then, a red light fell from the void between the two teleportation arrays. When the light faded, a kind-looking old man appeared.

“You have finally returned. The elders are away dealing with the high-level Horned Chi Clan cultivators, and Senior Bi has left a message. As soon as you are teleported back, you are to come to the Myriad Ancient Clan’s Spirit War Fortress.”

The old man, whose clan was unknown, hurriedly shouted to Han Li and the other cultivators, threw a token, and flew back into the sky.

The old man spread his arms, sending red fire clouds towards the enemies, and collided with the Horned Chi Clan soldiers who were trying to take advantage of the gap, engaging in battle. The cultivators below exchanged glances.

The middle-aged man, who had just reached the Fusion stage, pulled in the token the old man had given him, examined it, and then tossed it to Fairy Yue.

“The token is real. I know the cultivator who delivered the order. The Qing Clan’s Wu cultivator is a law enforcement guard of the Elder Council.”

Fairy Yue confirmed it and spoke to the other cultivators.

“Then we must follow the order. There must be a reason why Senior Bi left such an order.”

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment before speaking. His tone was slightly commanding, but since he had already entered the Saint Clan, it couldn’t be helped. The other cultivators felt uncomfortable but didn’t show it and silently nodded.