Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 416

The moment Han Li broke through the yellow barrier, one of the white petals drifted towards his palm.

It was clearly blooming very slowly, yet the white light was unavoidable, leaving him no choice but to face it head-on.

The instant the white light touched the azure flame, Han Li felt a jolt in his arm, and his vision went completely white. It felt as if a flower had brushed against him.

In that instant, he felt an intense pain in his chest and was sent flying backward.

After retreating twenty to thirty yards, Han Li barely managed to regain his footing. Even in his disoriented state, he clutched his chest and stared at the woman.

The woman in green was surrounded by countless giant lotus leaves that had bloomed, and she stood in the middle, watching him expressionlessly.

The Azure Bamboo Cloud Swords and other treasures that had been attacking were lightly repelled by the petals. The power was completely different from the previous lotus illusion.

*Cough.*

Blood trickled from Han Li’s mouth.

He spat out the turbid energy and slowly moved while clutching his chest. His clothes were already tattered, but a three-colored armor was hidden underneath.

However, the armor was deeply dented and had cracks as thick as fingers.

Han Li seemed to be in more pain as the ache in his chest intensified, but he still raised his head to check on the woman.

She saw the protective armor hidden on Han Li’s body and looked visibly disappointed.

Han Li tore off his tattered blue clothes, revealing the majestic appearance of the full-body armor.

As he rubbed the damaged area with a blue light, a mysterious phenomenon occurred. The armor, which had been deeply dented and cracked, rapidly rose and was restored to its original state in an instant.

The woman was amazed, but quickly regained her composure and became even more murderous. She held out one hand in front of her chest and chanted a spell. A blue light escaped from her sleeve and entered her hand.

It was a bronze oil lamp, old and worn, with rust in several places.

The woman’s face showed a hint of regret as she looked down at the oil lamp, but she seemed to steel herself as she looked at Han Li.

Han Li, noticing this, also had a bad feeling. He didn’t know what kind of ancient treasure it was, but he had never seen or heard of a treasure in the shape of an oil lamp.

Han Li quickly thought and transformed into a streak of blue light, sweeping through the air. He retrieved all the treasures he had taken out, shook his silver wings, and disappeared with a thunderous sound.

*KWA-GWANG!*

The next moment, an eagle turned into an ice block appeared in front of him. Han Li boldly reached out a hand, then disappeared again with a thunderous sound. After that, he didn’t even turn his head and just ran away.

“…”

The woman in green was dumbfounded as she watched this.

She had fought many cultivators of the same level, but she had never lost. This was the first time she had seen a cultivator run away based solely on a hunch.

However, she realized that Han Li had surprisingly taken the eagle with him as he fled, and she shouted angrily.

“You bastard!”

She stepped on the white lotus and, with the oil lamp in her hand, chased after him like the wind.

The two cultivators, who had disappeared into the dense fog in an instant, began to fly somewhere, with silver lightning and blue light flashing alternately.

Han Li lured the woman to a pre-arranged location and stopped. He lowered his head, looked at the blue ice fragments, chuckled, and put strength into his palm.

*PA-CHIK!*

Then, golden lightning flashed, and the eagle shattered into pieces.

The woman in green, who had been chasing after him, was startled by this, but immediately sneered and tapped the white lotus with her toe, creating a whirlwind.

As the whirlwind completely cleared the surrounding fog, Han Li calmly asked, looking at his opponent.

“Aren’t you upset that your precious treasure is gone? Or do you believe that it can’t be destroyed so easily?”

His gaze fell on the falling blue ice fragments.

“We’ll see,” the woman in green replied coldly and reached out her hand towards him.

At the same time, the ice fragments that had been falling near Han Li began to glow, and countless white lights escaped from them.

Han Li reached out his hand and released a blue aura, but to no avail. The white lights flew towards the woman.

Han Li’s face hardened slightly, but he withdrew his hand and watched the opponent’s actions.

The lights of spiritual energy arrived in front of the woman and merged into one, turning into a milky white mass of light the size of a head.

The woman in green calmly cast a hand seal, and the cry of an eagle was heard from the mass of light. Then, a pure white eagle appeared again.

Han Li narrowed his eyes, but soon realized that, unlike the previous vigorous eagle, the one in front of him was almost out of energy.

This time, Han Li also pondered deeply.

It seemed that the spirit in the form of an eagle was not immortal. If he did this a few more times, he would be able to destroy it completely.

The woman also checked the weakened state of the eagle and waved her hand.

The pure white eagle spread its wings, circled in the air, and then seeped into her body.

“You suddenly stopped running away and damaged the spirit of my magic treasure to make me angry. It seems you’ve hidden something here.”

The woman asked, holding the oil lamp and with a beautiful face. It was an unexpected question, and Han Li paused for a moment before answering.

“Seeing that you chased me even knowing that, you must be very confident in the treasure you have. Can you tell me about the power of that oil lamp? I’ve never heard of an ancient treasure of the lamp type.”

Han Li stared intently at the woman’s face.

“I guess not. You can just go to the other world without knowing anything.”

The woman shouted boldly, then opened her mouth and spat out an infant fire towards the oil lamp. The bronze oil lamp slowly began to glow.

Han Li sighed and flipped both hands.

A green formation flag and a formation disc mixed with red and blue appeared. Han Li looked at the woman with a meaningful gaze, then threw the flag and sent out a hand seal.

*PUNG!*

As he chanted, an explosion occurred from the flag, covering the surroundings with green mist.

The mist surged and suddenly rose like a dragon, engulfing the woman. At the same time, the disc in Han Li’s other hand emitted blue and red light and turned into a white mist, disappearing beneath his feet.

Immediately, the mists in various places surged, and countless blue and red lights rushed towards the woman from within.

Han Li flicked one of his sleeves, and a silver paper grew larger in the wind.

*DANG!*

The sound wave attack of the silver bell, which had grown to a sufficient size, was aimed at the woman’s head. Since he couldn’t get close to the woman, he chose an ancient treasure that could attack from a distance.

Of course, after confirming the immense power of the white lotus and the unknown oil lamp ancient treasure, Han Li’s aim was not the silver bell.

Eunwol, who was hiding in the ground using earth escape [a technique to move through the earth], was the key to this battle. At this moment, Eunwol was silently spreading the Violet Cloud Pouch, waiting under the woman’s feet.

She was planning to take the woman’s life the moment she let her guard down!

Unaware that someone was lying in ambush, the woman was not concerned about the power of the restrictions and attacks that Han Li had activated. She was only focused on the faint blue flame of the oil lamp.

The woman calmly raised her hand and deftly picked out a pea-sized flame from inside the lamp with two fingers.

At this moment, the mist that was rushing like a dragon, the blue and red rays from all sides, and the silver sound waves all approached her at once.

However, without any sign of worry, the woman tapped the white lotus with her foot, and the lotus petals flashed and instantly folded, enveloping her.

The green mist, which had turned into a flood dragon due to the restrictions, first opened its mouth and shot out a green beam of light, but it disappeared like smoke as soon as it touched the white lotus petals.

Unexpectedly, only the sound waves entered, but it was unknown what the effect would be.

Han Li watched the situation and formed a hand seal.

The red and blue rays did not attack again but crossed to form a huge net. It wrapped around the lotus bud of the white lotus in layers. The flood dragon made of mist also spun in the air and turned into green mist, filling the surrounding area.

And the silver bell, which had been enlarged by Han Li, went directly above the lotus bud and launched a direct attack using sound waves.

For a moment, the woman in green inside the white lotus petals seemed to be trapped by the restrictions. However, as if to prove his worries, the lotus petals bloomed again, cutting through the surrounding net and mist like blades.

Han Li’s face darkened as he saw this.

Without any expression, the woman on the lotus held a bronze oil lamp in one hand and a seemingly ordinary blue flame in the other, coldly staring into the air.

The silver bell, which had been emitting sound waves, was floating above her head. The woman raised the hand holding the flame and brought it to her mouth.

*HOO.*

As she blew a small breath, the flame rippled and disappeared from her palm.

The next moment, the silver bell in the air was suddenly surrounded by a blue mass of light. As the woman chanted a spell, an unknown blue flame ignited on the surface of the silver bell.

The silver bell trembled and tried to resist, but it instantly melted into a silver liquid in the blue flame.

The blue barrier broke on its own and disappeared without a sound. Han Li’s complexion turned pale at the sight of the precious ancient treasure being destroyed in an instant.

At this moment, the woman in green refined another blue spark from the oil lamp and stared intently at Han Li.

*KWA-GWANG!*

With an ominous premonition, Han Li immediately activated the Wind Thunder Spell [a movement technique] and disappeared.

The woman didn’t care and deftly picked up the blue spark, about to infuse it with spiritual energy, when suddenly a purple light flashed from under her feet, and a purple net, almost ten yards in size, burst out from the ground.

The woman in green, greatly surprised, heard the laughter of a strange woman and looked at the rapidly approaching purple net.

“If you like playing with fire so much, why don’t you play with my ‘Violet Cloud Pouch’s Jade Yang True Fire’?”

A seductive woman appeared near the purple net, emitting a yellow light and laughing. She reached out her hand without hesitation and cast a hand seal over the net.

Flames rose inside the purple net.

The strange flames, mixed with blue and white, swept through the net, and flames in the shape of flood dragons rose from within, flying towards the woman inside the lotus one after another.

The white lotus was momentarily obscured by the blue-white flames. Han Li, who was floating about ten yards away, was delighted.

He shook both hands and summoned seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloud Swords.

The flying swords hummed and gathered into one, instantly transforming into a giant sword six or seven yards long. According to his will, thick golden lightning flowed along the blade of the sword.

*CHWA-REUK.*

Not stopping there, he exhaled, and a stream of Glacial Flame escaped and headed towards the giant sword.

Immediately, a thin blue flame, barely visible, surrounded the surface of the blue giant sword, which had been flashing with lightning.

With a chilling gaze, Han Li extended his finger, and the giant sword vibrated and shot towards the lotus bud inside the purple net.

At this time, the woman in green, who had regained her senses inside the Violet Cloud Pouch, was also enraged and threw the oil lamp above her head.

The bronze oil lamp, which had left the woman’s hand, emitted a dazzling light.

*HWIK-HWIK.*

As the oil lamp spun, an amazing thing happened.

The imposing blue-white flames that had been surrounding the lotus bud began to be sucked into the oil lamp.

Suddenly, the Jade Yang True Fire of the Violet Cloud Pouch disappeared, and only the oil lamp remained, floating proudly and shining even more brightly.

The woman in green calmly pointed the oil lamp, causing the flames to surge, and then made it fly towards Eunwol.

“…!”

Eunwol’s expression changed drastically, and she immediately contracted the Violet Cloud Pouch and took out a basket ancient treasure with her other hand.

*KWA-KWANG!*

At this moment, the blue giant sword fell above the woman in green’s head with a thunderous sound.

Eunwol protected her body with the white aura of the basket ancient treasure and opened the top of the Violet Cloud Pouch net at the right time.

The woman in green’s face hardened at the giant sword’s incredible momentum.

After hesitating for a moment, she poured her spiritual power into the lotus without even having time to deal with Eunwol. She planted both feet into the lotus, causing the lotus leaves to swell several times and forming layers of lotus illusions, creating a thick protective barrier.

At the same time, the woman fiercely raised the oil lamp and spewed out flames.

A blue light passed, and a flame flower of the same size bloomed. The flame, which had merged with the original lotus, formed a huge fireball the size of a human head. At that moment, Han Li’s giant sword also fell onto the protective barrier made of lotus leaves.

*KU-KWA-KWA-KWANG!*

For a while, the sounds of thunder, explosions, and white light, golden lightning, and blue flames were intertwined and mixed together.

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