Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 602

Han Li immediately recognized the two Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures and was startled by the appearance of the women from the Fire Cloud Sect. He knew from Gyu-ryeong that the Fire Cloud Sect women were secretly setting up a formation underground.

If he hadn’t been in such a hurry to escape using the black teleportation array, he would have investigated further. But now, one of those women was being manipulated by the Great Demon Ancestor.

However, the most shocking thing was that the giant wolf was not being pushed back at all, despite facing so many opponents. Rather, the other cultivators were barely holding on or being pushed back, unable to get close to the altar.

The black energy that the giant wolf spewed from its mouth was so dense and strangely luminous that, except for the Blood Qi of the Myriad Year Stone Bear, the other cultivators didn’t even dare to approach.

If Hwa Cheon-gi and the Myriad Year Stone Bear hadn’t been able to block the giant wolf’s attacks, or if the silver lotus in the void hadn’t been there, the other cultivators would have been in serious trouble long ago.

In any case, the Soul-Slaying Threads of the Silver Yaksha and the golden waves of the Golden Thread Beast were completely ineffective against the demonic energy. Han Li turned his gaze and noticed another strange thing.

The giant wolf was not moving at all from the top of the altar, as if it couldn’t leave the altar.

At that moment, someone’s voice was heard.

“No! The seal is really being broken! How did the Great Demon manage to release the sealing artifacts?”

Han Li turned his head, puzzled, and saw that Hyeon Cheong-ja was muttering about twenty feet away, with True Person Chilmyo standing beside him with a dark expression.

Only then did Im Eun-byung, Youngseo Peacock, Gyu-ryeong, and others appear in various places on the ninth floor. It was clear that the spatial rifts from earlier were not accidental, but that someone had activated a restriction to move everyone to the next floor.

Im Eun-byung’s face was particularly pale, as if she had been greatly shocked by the sudden event. Han Li glanced at them and then looked at where Hyeon Cheong-ja and True Person Chilmyo were looking.

“… !”

Han Li’s eyes widened involuntarily. Behind the giant wolf, there was a stone stele several feet high, which he immediately recognized.

And the names of precious materials like the Spirit-Controlling Soft Jade immediately flashed through his mind.

The gray, rough-looking steles were similar to those he had seen when he descended into the abyss of demonic energy ten thousand feet deep in Cheonnam. However, the stone steles he had seen then were already broken, while the ones he could see now were intact.

On one of the steles, a cyan seal was embedded about halfway, causing the black light of the stele to flicker.

Han Li’s eyes shone as he examined it, realizing that the spiritual energy of the stele was resonating with the formations all over the altar. The core of the formation was the stele, and it seemed that the giant wolf couldn’t leave the altar because of it.

His mind became complicated in the chaotic situation.

“Hyeon Cheong-ja, Brother Chilmyo! It’s good that you’ve come. The Great Demon Ancestor is trying to break the seal on the altar. It seems that the altar is holding something, but I don’t know what it is. We can’t let the Great Demon Ancestor have his way.”

Madam Mok was very pleased to see Hyeon Cheong-ja and a group of cultivators appear.

“This True Person has also seen it. Fellow cultivator Hyeon Cheong, the situation is urgent, so let’s move quickly!”

True Person Chilmyo said expressionlessly and flicked his sleeve. Then, various lights of spiritual energy flashed from his sleeve, and seven treasures poured out.

Among them were various forms of treasures such as swords, beads, and mirrors, and the copper mirror was the Myoeum Treasure Mirror that Im Eun-byung had borrowed.

The seven treasures rushed towards the giant wolf at high speed, and Hyeon Cheong-ja also sighed and pulled out a yellow sword from his sleeve.

It looked like an old antique with no black luster, but it began to come alive as the old Taoist spat blood onto it. A dragon’s roar echoed, and light flashed on the sword’s blade.

The old Taoist made a hand seal with one hand, and the giant wolf in both hands continuously spewed black demonic energy. The dim demonic energy surged, engulfing the yellow light and the energy of the seven treasures. Within it, light burst out and the sound of something colliding could be heard, but it soon subsided.

The old Taoist’s face changed as he felt a chill in his chest.

He hurriedly tried to move the sword energy by making a hand seal, but there was no response as if nothing was there.

At that moment, the demonic energy from below surged and began to attack Han Li and the newly appeared cultivators at the same time, with the momentum to cover the sky.

Seeing this, True Person Chilmyo quickly made a hand seal and retrieved the seven treasures. However, Hyeon Cheong-ja repeatedly struck down with the old sword in his hand, creating a barrier of yellow sword energy that temporarily blocked the demonic energy from approaching.

The old Taoist looked back at the middle-aged scholar with a cautious expression.

“Brother Chilmyo, this is not demonic energy that can be dealt with by ordinary treasures! Use that quickly. We don’t know how much time is left until the seal is broken, so we can’t waste time. I’ll stand guard!”

“Understood. Then I’ll trust you, Brother Hyeon Cheong.”

True Person Chilmyo seemed to think the same, and immediately took out palm-sized jade discs, brushing past his sleeve.

Clang! Crack!

Seeing this, Han Li also released dozens of golden flying swords to scatter the approaching demonic energy. And Gyu-ryeong was barely blocking the demonic energy with the yellow mist emitted by the tiger phantom, wielding a large silver axe.

Im Eun-byung and the Youngseo Peacock, possessed by the young man Seo, were holding on under the protection of five-colored light. Han Li glanced at them, narrowed his eyes, and stared at the Eight Spirit Ruler and the Black Wind Flag in the center of the space.

One of the two Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures had been temporarily demonized, and the other was not able to exert its true power because it had no owner. That was why the battle between the silver lotus and the black serpent could occur.

Looking at the two treasures fighting fiercely in the distance, Han Li began to feel greedy. But even if it wasn’t for the Great Demon Ancestor’s incarnation and the giant wolf, the cultivators gathered here wouldn’t let him take the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures and run away.

Therefore, Han Li simply reacted to the incoming attacks and kept his distance so as not to get caught up in the fight. The Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning was quite effective against the strange demonic energy, but he decided to use it only to protect himself.

It would be a disaster if he stepped forward and the Great Demon Ancestor noticed him. Besides, even if the Great Demon Ancestor’s avatar escaped from here, it was a problem for the Great Jin Cultivation World, so there was no reason for him to step in.

Han Li cleared his complicated thoughts and looked at the altar. But as soon as he released his consciousness and touched the surface of the altar, he was blocked by an unknown restriction and could not go any further. So this time, he scanned the area below the altar and stopped.

Unexpectedly, he discovered a cluster of Golden Devouring Beetles, formed into golden beads, about a hundred feet below the altar. It was certain that the Golden Devouring Beetles he had hidden had also been teleported to the ninth floor.

He had secretly released the spirit insects to escape the eighth floor. He had put them in the ground to find the weakest point of the barrier, and then his consciousness had been cut off when he was trapped in the space created by the Black Wind Flag.

Originally, they were under the ground of the eighth floor, but they had appeared below the altar during the teleportation, so no one had noticed them.

Han Li pondered, looking at the huge altar and the stone pillars that were sparkling everywhere. After a while, an idea suddenly came to him, and he gave an order to the Golden Devouring Beetles.

Then, the golden beads flickered and crumbled, turning into more than a thousand Golden Devouring Beetles that scattered.

The Myriad Year Stone Bear and Hwa Cheon-gi on the ground were trying to see if they could destroy the formation by attacking the huge stone pillars in the distance whenever they had a chance. However, apart from the Myriad Year Stone Bear and the blood-colored blade occasionally leaving faint scratches on the stone pillars, it was of no use.

Even Hwa Cheon-gi’s giant hand only made the light of the stone pillars flicker. If they had a lot of time, there was nothing they couldn’t break, but the stone pillars were unimaginably hard, no matter what they were made of.

The problem was that when they tried to retreat, the two-headed giant wolf would spew out black energy to boost the demonic energy and hold them back as they tried to slip away.

They wanted to run away, but they couldn’t.

Han Li was busy trying to figure out how to escape this place, so he was distracted by looking around while blocking the demonic energy attacks.

At that moment, under Hyeon Cheong-ja’s protection, True Person Chilmyo activated five jade rings and floated them in the air. The scholar continued to chant spells and flicked his ten fingers, sending out a series of hand seals.

The five rings grew smaller and larger, wailing and flashing with dazzling spiritual energy.

The two-headed giant wolf spewed out a large amount of black energy, binding the newly appeared cultivators in the air, and then turned its gaze back to Hwa Cheon-gi and the Myriad Year Stone Bear around the altar.

In the demon’s eyes, only those two were true opponents.

Hwa Cheon-gi had Long Meng, the beloved concubine of the Demon King, residing within her, so she could fight with him and the silver wolf’s body at any time, and the white bear Yeon-si, who had suddenly appeared, was a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and the blood-colored blade he possessed was very powerful.

Unexpectedly, the blood-colored blade was the opposite of demonic energy.

The Great Demon Ancestor’s incarnation would not have come here if he had not subdued the woman who was trying to cast a powerful bewitchment spell.

He had come here because he had accidentally learned that she had a Fire Dragon Bird that could control the ninth floor’s formation. Otherwise, he would have already left the True Demon Pagoda before exhausting all of his demonic energy.

The demon was now making a gap in the seal on the altar, placing its four feet on the top of the altar, so it could continuously replenish its pure demonic energy. That was why it was not being pushed back at all while fighting so many cultivators, and it was able to recover its weakened vitality.

The demon did not need to take any risks, it was best to just fend off the attacking enemies and wait for the seal to be completely broken.

But suddenly, a familiar spiritual power was sensed in the air, and the giant wolf raised its head.

“Demon-Binding Rings?”

A look of fear flashed in the giant wolf’s eyes as it saw the five jade rings.

The black wolf head let out an earth-shattering roar and opened its mouth, the black light shimmering as if it was about to spew something out.

At that moment, True Person Chilmyo in the air seemed to have completed his spell, and pointed at one of the jade rings.

“Bind it.”

It wasn’t a loud voice, but the jade ring exploded with light and disappeared.

The next moment, a jade aura flashed above the giant wolf’s head, and strangely, a ring appeared around the wolf’s neck.

The huge ring began to contract as spells appeared on its surface, and the black wolf head stopped spewing demonic energy and began to whine in pain.

Thump!

As a result, a jade light spread, and the wolf’s claws were knocked away.

The ring tightened even more around the wolf’s neck, making it unable to even whine, and the demon was in extreme pain.

Seeing this, the cultivators and demons around the altar rejoiced and unleashed various divine powers, pouring a fierce attack on the remaining demonic energy.

Indeed, as the giant wolf was captured, the power of the demonic energy greatly decreased, and it began to scatter under their attacks. The Myriad Year Stone Bear and Hwa Cheon-gi hurriedly broke through the demonic energy and reached the center.

The Silver Yaksha and the Golden Thread Beast were about to jump out, but after hearing the Myriad Year Stone Bear’s telepathic message in their ears, they flew towards the stone pillars instead.

Before they even got close to the stone pillars, they released gray Soul-Slaying Threads and golden sound waves, targeting one of the stone pillars at the same time.

Hyeon Cheong-ja and True Person Chilmyo in the air were also satisfied with the result. After the old Taoist infused his sword with magical power, he swung it towards the demonic energy. Then, a huge sword energy burst out and cut through the demonic energy, creating a path in front.

At the same time, the scholar pointed at the other jade rings one after another, and they disappeared one by one in the air, flashing around the wolf’s legs.

Thud!

As the four rings tightened around its legs at the same time, the giant wolf could no longer hold on to the altar and collapsed.

Han Li, who had been watching it without blinking, suddenly remembered the Five Elements Rings, an ancient treasure he had obtained in the Illusionary Sky Palace.

Although the power was slightly different, the method True Person Chilmyo used to bind the giant wolf was similar.

‘Could it be that the Five Elements Rings were a replica of the Demon-Binding Rings?’

At this moment, Hyeon Cheong-ja’s surprised shout was heard.

“How dare you?”

Then, the old Taoist threw the treasured sword in his hand, and it turned into a beam of light and pierced through the demonic energy.

The middle-aged scholar beside him also turned into a gray aura and disappeared from his spot, not caring about the giant wolf on the altar.

Only then did Han Li discover that Hwa Cheon-gi and the white bear Yeon-si had broken through the demonic energy and were heading to the center, creating a white giant hand and a green giant hand to grab the black serpent and the silver lotus that had transformed from the Black Wind Flag in the air.

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