Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 437

The watching cultivators and Dharma practitioners were wide-eyed at the giant monkey’s abilities.

A slightly flustered black-robed woman exchanged a few words with the gaunt old man, then transformed into a yellow streak of light and flew towards the giant monkey. Seeing the giant monkey inhaling the yellow energy it emitted from its nose, she extended her hand.

A purple light transformed into a massive blade, several tens of feet long, and descended upon the giant monkey.

However, before the blade could strike, a silver flash appeared, and a young man in blue robes materialized on the giant monkey’s shoulder.

The young man, with red scales all over his body and a small horn on his forehead, held a navy-blue shield.

Clang!

A massive collision echoed, and the navy-blue and purple lights clashed before being deflected. The young man flickered from the giant monkey’s shoulder.

Then, he clapped his hands together, and thick golden lightning appeared. The young man was none other than Han Li.

“Bixie Divine Lightning!” the black-robed woman exclaimed in surprise, having been about to attack with a secret technique out of anger.

Kwakwang!

Before she could finish her words, a golden net shot out from Han Li’s hands. The woman was startled and turned into smoke, retreating backward.

With an expressionless face, Han Li flapped his silver wings and disappeared.

Recalling the rumors about Han Li, the black-robed woman formed hand seals. Her figure became blurry, and seven or eight identical women appeared in a row, immediately scattering in different directions.

There was no way to tell which of these yellow streaks of light was the real black-robed woman.

With a flash of silver lightning, Han Li appeared where she had been. Looking at the women scattered in all directions, Han Li curled the corner of his lips.

He infused spiritual power into his eyes, causing a navy-blue light to flicker in his pupils. He raised his head and stared at a certain spot.

The yellow streaks of light appeared dim, revealing that they were all illusions. Startled, he quickly looked left and right, but no one was there.

She was approaching silently from behind, a shadow. She had spread illusions to divert his attention and was attempting a surprise attack.

She was a woman with not only skill but also great courage.

Without the aid of the Brightsight Spirit Eyes, it would have been difficult to detect her stealth technique with just his senses. She seemed to have mastered a stealth technique similar to Yin Yue’s.

Han Li felt a chill in his chest and turned back towards the giant monkey. He showed no intention of chasing the black-robed woman at all.

Then, a faint wisp of smoke stopped several tens of feet behind Han Li and silently revealed itself, emitting a small yellow light from its hand.

However, Han Li, who had been prepared, moved at an incredible speed, blocking the woman’s path, and spewed golden light from his mouth.

“Ah!” the black-robed woman cried out, her face paling, and she tried to dodge to the side, but the distance was too close, and there was no way to escape.

Bang!

The golden lightning struck her shoulder. The smell of burning flesh filled the air as the woman fell from the sky.

Thud.

Han Li flapped his wings, flashed silver, and reappeared behind the falling woman. He calmly placed his palm, covered in navy-blue flames, on the woman’s neck.

Shwaa!

The woman’s body froze and fell. Han Li stopped in mid-air and released a fine lightning bolt from his other hand, creating a golden net.

His face turned cold, and with a loud bang, the black-robed woman’s body shattered into ice dust.

Inside the net, only the beautiful woman’s Nascent Soul [a nascent soul is a stage of cultivation], as if drawn in a picture, remained, pale from the power of the Bixie Divine Lightning.

Han Li gestured, intending to kill the Nascent Soul with lightning in one blow, but the black-robed woman’s Nascent Soul cried out sharply.

“Don’t kill me! I am the consort of the Yin Corpse Sect’s Sect Master of the Jin Kingdom. If you kill me, the entire Yin Corpse Sect will not forgive you!”

“The Yin Corpse Sect’s Sect Master’s consort?”

Han Li looked coldly at her Nascent Soul, then loosened the golden net of Bixie Divine Lightning and turned away.

The Nascent Soul was momentarily flustered but soon filled with joy and tried to escape the net. She was only thinking of taking vicious revenge on Han Li when she returned.

At that moment, Han Li, ten feet away, moved his consciousness.

The golden net instantly contracted, completely surrounding the woman’s Nascent Soul, and a series of thunderclaps were heard before the Nascent Soul turned into smoke and disappeared.

‘If I let her live after destroying her physical body, wouldn’t she only seek revenge?’

Han Li grumbled inwardly and returned to the giant monkey.

While the black-robed woman was being attacked, the gaunt Dharma practitioner wanted to help but couldn’t.

When the woman was in danger, golden light erupted from beneath his feet, but suddenly, pink mist appeared from the other side and collided with the golden light.

The pink mist dissipated, but it barely managed to block his golden light. The gaunt old man’s face turned pale as he glared at the pink cloud.

If the Yin Corpse Sect’s Sect Master found out that his consort had been killed, it was impossible to predict how he would react. He might bear a grudge against both Han Li and the Peony Clan.

Soon, a soft laughter came from the mist, and a young man with a handsome appearance and gentle features appeared.

It was none other than the Joyful Union Sect’s Old Devil Yunluo!

“Since Fellow Daoist Han helped me, I will help you once. Old Man is not in debt anymore, right?”

Yunluo grinned and glanced sideways at Han Li. Han Li, having just killed the black-robed woman, flew over and replied.

“It was luck that I was able to save Fellow Daoist. I didn’t do it expecting any other reward, but it seems that the old man in front of us is not someone we can handle alone. And he’s not alone either.”

After speaking, he looked behind the gaunt old man and saw that the others, except for the black-robed figures controlling the corpses, were risking their lives to fight against the giant monkey’s attacks, and a massive army of Dharma practitioners was swarming in.

Yunluo was also a bold man, but his expression changed slightly at the sight of the Dharma practitioners swarming like ants.

Yunluo was the cultivator whom Han Li had barely managed to save by detonating two Thunder Amulets while being hindered by the blue firebirds. He was wondering how he and Yunluo could cooperate to overcome the situation when the Yan Moon Sect released a large number of copper corpses, leaving them with no way out.

He summoned the Soul Devourer from his spirit beast pouch, and it immediately began to rampage with excitement. So, he released it as a test, and the black monkey began to absorb the corpses indiscriminately.

He knew that the Soul Devourer devoured the souls of ghosts and demonic beasts, but it was a new discovery that it was also useful against corpses refined by cultivators.

As the Dharma practitioners closed in, Han Li and Yunluo exchanged glances, both wanting to retreat.

However, they had no intention of leaving the Soul Devourer among the corpses.

Han Li was about to use the Soul-Calming Pearl to quietly recall the excited Soul Devourer when a hearty laugh was heard from behind.

“If Fellow Daoist Han is fighting the corpses with his spirit beast, shouldn’t we take care of those people?”

It was Long Han’s voice. Han Li turned his head and saw Long Han appearing in the distance, leading a large number of cultivators.

Reinforcements had arrived from the cultivator camp. Long Han was slightly surprised by Han Li’s transformed demonic beast appearance, but he quickly hid it.

Now was not the time to ask about the details.

Long Han had already sent the cultivators to Feng Bing and the white-robed woman, who were fighting the Quan Sect, and called his partner. Only when the two couples joined forces could they show their true strength.

Since the situation had reached this point, neither Long Han nor the gaunt old man had any intention of talking to each other.

Long Han extended his hand forward, and the elite troops following him unleashed various lights, launching attacks with various Dharma treasures and techniques.

Finally, a fierce battle between the elite cultivators of the two camps began.

Han Li had intended to push back the gaunt old man and fight together, but his expression changed when his gaze reached the blue sacred bird.

The seven cultivators of the Taiyi Sect, in alliance with the Yin-Yang Twin Demons, were blocking the Peony Clan’s sacred bird, but they were starting to be pushed back again.

The corpses were fine since the giant monkey was good at handling them with its ghost techniques, but the cultivators, who had already consumed a lot of their magic power, did not seem like they could last long.

In particular, one of the old men’s faces was covered in blood, and another was as pale as a sheet of paper. They were clearly overexerting themselves by using secret techniques to excessively draw on their spiritual power.

Han Li narrowed his brows, looking at the cultivators killing each other and the evil woman guarding the distant lamps.

“Take good care of the Soul Devourer. I’ll lend you the Soul-Calming Pearl for a while, so call it back immediately if it gets dangerous!”

Han Li muttered quietly and threw a dark gray pearl behind him. A faint white light flickered and disappeared with the pearl.

“Yes, Master! The peacock’s abilities are not ordinary, so please be careful!” Yin Yue’s worried voice came from behind Han Li.

He nodded silently and, taking advantage of a moment when no one was paying attention, blurred his figure and disappeared from the spot.

He activated the Nameless Technique of the Demon Clan. The ability to conceal his form with stealth was not as good as Yin Yue’s innate stealth technique, but it was a technique that was second to none in concealing his aura.

When he fully activated the Nameless Technique, not only his aura but even his breathing disappeared. Now, he had to deceive not only the evil woman but also the Peony Clan’s sacred bird.

From afar, she was faintly anxious as she watched the gaunt old man fighting Long Han and the other Tiannan cultivators.

She couldn’t move to protect the lamps, so she shouted something to the giant bird. Judging by her expression, she seemed to be pleading.

The peacock raised its head and looked at the old man, but its eyes showed no pity. The giant bird spat out blue flames, rendering the seven cultivators of the Taiyi Sect helpless, and then spread its wings. The giant bird shot a large number of feathers towards the old man.

The feathers fell from the giant bird’s body, turned into light, and small blue firebirds appeared one after another. Hundreds of firebirds flapped their wings and disappeared towards the gaunt old man.

The evil woman finally relaxed. She thought that the old man would be fine since the small firebirds had gone to him.

But suddenly, a huge rumble was heard from the center of the battlefield. Both the evil woman and Han Li, who was trying to approach her, were startled and looked in that direction.

A crucial battle was underway in the middle of the battlefield.

Dozens of Ghost Spirit Sect disciples had completed the Myriad Soul Grand Formation [a powerful formation that uses souls] and were motionless within the ghost fog.

And in front of them, several Peony Clan grandmasters were arrayed with spirit beasts and giant stone men they had created with illusions.

The giant stone men, similar to puppets, attacked the Tiannan cultivators under the command of the Peony Clan grandmasters, and the surrounding cultivators were forced to hide among the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples who had deployed the Myriad Soul Grand Formation.

The huge tremors were the sound of the stone men striking down the ghost fog according to the Peony Clan cultivators’ hand seals.

The Ghost Spirit Sect disciples and the ghost fog, which had been avoiding the giant stone men’s attacks, stopped in mid-air.

Now that the war between the Tiannan cultivators and the Peony Dharma practitioners had reached its peak, one of the Ghost Spirit Sect elders maintaining the Myriad Soul Grand Formation made a crucial decision.

Before the stone men could catch up, the low chanting of the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples was heard from within the ghost fog.

The desperate wails of ghosts grew louder, and the black fog became as thick as blood, as if infected. Two Peony Clan grandmasters riding on the stone men’s shoulders changed their expressions upon seeing this.

After a while, the ghost fog became silent, and dozens of colorful lights desperately escaped from the blood-stained fog. They were the Ghost Spirit Sect disciples.

The Ghost Spirit Sect disciples fled, and the ghost fog, left alone, began to writhe madly, spewing out tentacles on its own.

The Ghost Spirit Sect elder who had been maintaining the Myriad Soul Grand Formation stopped about fifty or sixty feet away.

‘Having absorbed the essence blood of numerous Dharma practitioners and with one of my disciples sacrificing his body, this time, it will not fail!’

While he watched anxiously, the blood-stained fog contracted to about half its size, and the two Dharma practitioners controlling the stone men launched a fierce attack.

Suddenly, an eerie gust of wind blew across the flat ground, and a chill seeped into their bones, blurring their vision.

The Peony Dharma practitioners recovered their vision and looked at the blood-stained fog, but there was no change.

But then, the wind grew even stronger, and a blood-stained shadow emerged from within. It was a blood-stained demon, ten feet in size.