Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 37

“Since you are showing such sincerity, I will accept it without any hesitation.”

Just as the dwarf reached out to grab the talisman, Han Li’s expression changed, and he shouted loudly towards the dwarf’s back.

“Oh no, what brings you here, Elder!”

The dwarf was startled by the shout and hastily turned his head without grabbing the talisman. He was momentarily puzzled because there was no one behind him.

‘Damn it!’

Just as the dwarf realized he had been tricked and was about to turn his head back, he felt a burning sensation near his solar plexus. Then, his vision turned red, and his entire body was instantly engulfed in a massive blaze.

In an instant, the dwarf was burned to ashes. Han Li took a long breath, retracting the hand that had just fired the fireball.

The Fireball Technique required a high degree of mental focus and was very taxing, so it was by no means simple.

The onlookers were completely bewildered by what had just happened. They couldn’t hear the conversation between Han Li and the dwarf because they were too far away.

However, they did see that the dwarf looked frightened when he saw Han Li and seemed to be pleading for something. And in the end, they saw Han Li create a fireball in mid-air while the dwarf was turning his head, burning him to ashes.

Jia Tianlong was beyond furious; he was about to die from the pain.

‘What on earth is going on? A nobody from the Seven Mysteries Sect just burned the Golden Merchant to a crisp!’

Sect Leader An gripped the long sword at his waist tightly, staring at Han Li with excited eyes. Han Li was also very excited.

He rummaged through the ashes and found some items that had not been burned by the flames. There were three things: a talisman, a token, and a book.

The talisman was the one the dwarf had used to emit the golden light. Although Han Li didn’t know the incantation for the magic yet, he was secretly overjoyed. This was exactly what he needed right now.

The token was a triangular piece of jet-black material. On one side, the words ‘Ascension to Immortality’ were engraved in gold, and on the other side was the character ‘Command.’ Its purpose was unknown.

The fact that the book had survived the Fireball Technique meant it was no ordinary item. Han Li flipped through a few pages and was surprised to find that it was a family genealogy.

It was the genealogy of a clan with the surname Qin. It was unclear what connection it had with the Golden Merchant.

‘The dwarf was supposed to be from the Ye family, but he’s carrying a Qin family genealogy. Could he be a bastard child of someone from the Ye family?’

* * *

Han Li carefully put the items away and stood up. He brushed the dust off his body and looked at Jia Tianlong and the Arangdan’s Fang Yuan with a strange expression.

“Will you sever your own meridians, or shall I send you all to the underworld myself?”

His tone was very polite, but the meaning behind his words was clear. Jia Tianlong felt a chill run down his spine, and his whole body seemed to freeze.

He kept telling himself to stay calm and that there must be a way out, but cold sweat was pouring down his forehead.

He looked around and saw that everyone else was also pale and trembling with fear.

They all looked like they were facing death, not knowing what to do. There was no fighting spirit left in them.

Disheartened, Jia Tianlong turned his gaze back to the Seven Mysteries Sect where Han Li was standing. That damned Sect Leader An was already sneering at him as if he were a dead man, and the others were glaring at him as if he were their mortal enemy.

‘This can’t be happening. I can’t die here like this! I must survive and complete my grand plan.’

Seeing them, Jia Tianlong’s face began to contort with madness.

“Men! The Iron Guards, prepare the crossbows, and the rest, cover them with hidden weapons!”

Jia Tianlong suddenly roared with all his might, issuing his orders. As expected, Jia Tianlong was a leader of his own faction. His roar, filled with inner force, awakened those who were at a loss in the arena.

Whether it was Arangdan’s Fang Yuan or the experts from the smaller sects, they all regained their composure and showed their determination to fight to the death.

Han Li snorted lightly and, with his hands behind his back, slowly approached Jia Tianlong.

‘They haven’t had enough of the bitter taste yet.’

Han Li muttered bitterly.

“Fire!”

As soon as the opponent stepped within the range of the crossbows, Jia Tianlong gave the order without hesitation. At the same time, hundreds of steel arrows flew towards Han Li.

But then, something shocking happened. Jia Tianlong saw that the young man didn’t look afraid at all despite the rain of arrows. He smiled faintly, and then his figure became blurry. The arrows that had been aimed at him passed through him as if he were not there. And then, he vanished from everyone’s sight.

Jia Tianlong’s face turned pale, and he was about to shout at his men to be careful when Han Li appeared in front of him. Now, without waiting for Jia Tianlong’s order, the arrows were fired.

In addition, various hidden weapons were added, and a huge number of weapons were launched at Han Li. As a result, they were once again dumbfounded because their opponent had disappeared again before their very eyes.

Just as Jia Tianlong’s fear reached its peak, he heard a desperate scream from behind him. Startled, he turned his head and saw that two of his most trusted Iron Guards were engulfed in flames. The young man who had vanished was touching them with his hands.

The moment he took his hand away, they were reduced to ashes. Jia Tianlong vaguely saw a red glow flickering in the young man’s hand, but he couldn’t tell what kind of martial art it was.

The red glow in Han Li’s hand was, of course, the fireball from the ‘Fireball Technique.’

As Han Li’s magical power flowed out, the fireball, which had become somewhat smaller, regained its original size. Then, it disappeared again and reappeared among the crowd.

As he flashed here and there, there were continuous casualties. The moment he touched someone’s body, flames would erupt, and they would vanish from the world forever.

Jia Tianlong stood there lifeless, like a dead man.

In a short time, half of his men had been killed. The remaining ones were all terrified and fled in all directions, but they all turned to ashes in the face of the opponent’s ghost-like movement technique. When the last of his men was engulfed in flames, Jia Tianlong’s whole body stiffened. Now, he was the only one left.

After dealing with the last of his men, Han Li didn’t hesitate to use the Fireball Technique to quietly send Jia Tianlong off as well. After his body turned to ashes, Han Li dusted off his hands and muttered.

“See, if you had just done as I said, there wouldn’t have been any pain, and we all would have been happy! It’s because you made me do it that you got burned by the flames.”

* * *

Han Li looked up and saw that everyone outside the arena was pale and trembling with fear. The fact that he had intercepted the flying sword, ambushed the Golden Merchant, and turned dozens of people, including Jia Tianlong, into ashes in an instant, made it clear that Han Li was an expert of the immortal path, just like the Golden Merchant, and that he was not a kind and benevolent person.

When Han Li’s gaze fell on them, everyone quickly averted their eyes, not daring to look him straight in the face.

“What are you still doing here? Are you waiting for me to send you off as well?”

Han Li scolded the Arangdan. His voice was not loud, but it sounded like thunder to the thousands of people who had come to Sunset Peak.

“Let’s go! Do you want to be burned to death?”

Someone shouted, and the Arangdan and the rest of the smaller sects snapped out of it and began to rush down the mountain. There was only one path to leave Sunset Peak, and many people were trampled to death while trying to escape.

As time passed, Sunset Peak became empty. Except for the disciples of the Seven Mysteries Sect, there was no one from any other faction in sight.

Sect Leader An was filled with joy at this astonishing situation, but then anxiety crept in. Han Li had easily saved the Seven Mysteries Sect, but he could also use his incredible divine arts to take control of the sect.

If that were to happen, Han Li would be no different from the Arangdan. Thinking this, his heart pounded, and he unconsciously looked towards the center of the arena to find Han Li.

“Huh! Where did Divine Han go?”

Sect Leader An was once again shocked. He was already gone.

“Has anyone seen Divine Doctor Han?”

“I don’t know!”

“I haven’t seen him!”

Everyone shook their heads. They had all seen Han Li burning people to death, so they didn’t dare to look at him for fear of incurring his wrath. Moreover, with his miraculous movement technique, disappearing right in front of them was as easy as pie.

“There’s no need to look for him. I saw him going down the mountain with the crowd just now.”

At that moment, the gray-robed martial uncle, whose complexion had improved, spoke up.

“Going down the mountain? Where is he going?”

Sect Leader An muttered to himself with a complicated heart.

As he looked around with a troubled mind, his gaze fell on one person.

Sect Leader An’s eyes sparkled, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, revealing a cunning expression. Having experienced a strange event, an excited Lü Feiyu was talking to Zhang Xiu’er about it, not noticing that someone was watching him.

* * *

The Arangdan and the people from the other smaller factions fled Sunset Mountain and ran day and night, leaving the territory of the Seven Mysteries Sect. Sect Leader An, as the leader of the sect, had to protect the Seven Mysteries Sect, so he couldn’t chase after them. For quite some time after that day, the Seven Mysteries Sect had no choice but to lay low and focus on internal development.

The tumultuous battle between the Seven Mysteries Sect and the Arangdan soon spread thousands of miles away. There were many different opinions among the martial arts world, and even ordinary people were captivated by this exciting story.

In the stories that were passed down, Han Li appeared as a fire demon who burned everyone to ashes and then died after being struck by a divine lightning bolt. When Han Li heard this story from Lü Feiyu in the Divine Medicine Valley, he was speechless for a long time at the fact that he was being portrayed as a demon. Of course, Lü Feiyu was laughing so hard that he couldn’t straighten his back.

* * *

It had already been five days since that incident. That night, Han Li, who had slipped away from Sunset Peak unnoticed among the crowd, returned to the Divine Medicine Valley with Qu Hun.

As soon as he arrived, he put up a sign in front of the Divine Medicine Valley, refusing visitors. Because he wouldn’t see anyone, several high-ranking officials from the Seven Mysteries Sect came to visit him that night, only to turn around and leave.

Now that Han Li had such power and fame, they couldn’t express their dissatisfaction. They could only wait for a while before dejectedly returning.

In the following days, Han Li practiced the Object Manipulation Technique using the talisman with the sword drawn on it.

He didn’t have much time left. Every day, as soon as the sun rose, Han Li would use the Object Manipulation Technique to make the talisman, which had turned into a streak of gray light, spin and fly in the air.

When his entire body’s magical power was depleted, he would close his eyes and meditate to slowly recover his magical power. And when his magical power reached a certain level, he would repeat the process of using the Object Manipulation Technique again.

After three days of relentless training, he had grasped the knack of using the Object Manipulation Technique to some extent and finished his training.

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