Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 645

646. Teleportation Array Battle

Time was short. The Small Polar Palace would soon notice the anomaly in the Profound Jade Cave. Lady Mi sensed a subtle shift in Han Li’s expression, and her heart sank.

Although Han Li’s presence here gave her an ominous feeling, she couldn’t show it in front of such a powerful enemy. With a determined look, Lady Mi sent a telepathic message, her lips barely moving.

Behind her, the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother flickered within the green mist, her form becoming vague. Thin, green threads, like strands of hair, emerged from the mist and then vanished.

The green threads moved silently, but the Ice Phoenix below seemed to sense something and shrieked sharply.

‘How dare you!’

The demon beast flicked its five fingers towards another teleportation array, and five streaks of white sword energy shot out. Simultaneously, the centipede above it lowered its head and spewed out white, freezing energy.

Han Li’s expression changed. With a thunderous sound behind him, he flashed with silver lightning and disappeared from his spot.

From the attacked teleportation array, a green light flashed, and the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother appeared, her whole body enveloped in green energy. She smiled eerily at the five streaks of sword energy and the freezing energy attack, then stretched out her palms to meet them.

The five streaks of sword energy shattered and scattered just before reaching her palm. The freezing energy from above seemed to hit an invisible barrier, unable to move forward.

At that moment, a silver light flashed, and Han Li appeared inside a small teleportation array. Without delay, he cast a spell, formed hand seals, and chanted an incantation. A blurry figure appeared behind him, and a barrage of fire arrows, as if to cover the sky, shot towards the Ice Phoenix from a red palace.

Far away, the white bone attacking the child suddenly had its eyes turn bloodshot. Without warning, it split into five demons and disappeared into the surging demonic energy.

The next moment, five gray-white energies appeared above Han Li’s head, transforming into skull heads the size of cartwheels. Han Li had forcibly summoned them using a spell.

The teleportation array was about to activate, shining white, but Han Li stared cautiously at the Ice Phoenix standing far away.

All of this happened in a flash. Both Lady Mi and the Ice Phoenix were startled by Han Li’s unexpected actions. Lady Mi’s expression changed, and she leaped forward, shouting at the same time.

‘Destroy the teleportation array so they can’t escape!’

Although she didn’t specify who she was referring to, it was clear she meant Han Li, who was standing on the teleportation array. If he disappeared like this, she alone could not face the two demon beasts, even with the help of the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother.

The Yellow Springs Ghost Mother, below the formation, chuckled lowly and opened her mouth towards the teleportation array, as if trying to do something. At that moment, Han Li raised a green wooden ruler, and a faint silver lotus bloomed, spreading seven-colored firelight.

‘The Buddhist’s Heaven-Reaching Treasure!’

The Yellow Springs Ghost Mother, who had been languid, was terrified and quickly condensed into a green mass of threads and disappeared. White light was already emanating from the teleportation array, and even if Lady Mi moved quickly, it was too late to stop it.

Han Li showed a hint of joy, but his expression suddenly changed.

In the midst of the fire arrows, the Ice Phoenix tore through space and disappeared. Han Li’s face darkened, but he had already anticipated this. He released a huge number of golden sword energies from his whole body.

He instantly turned into a hedgehog, making it difficult for the 10th-grade Ice Phoenix to approach and prevent his escape. However, contrary to his expectations, the Ice Phoenix appeared above another teleportation array twenty feet away.

She sneered and burst into white light, clenching one hand in Han Li’s direction. The space above his head distorted, and a translucent energy slowly began to descend.

Han Li quickly turned his head.

He immediately redirected the sword energies to attack the energy above him. But a strange thing happened. The golden sword energies pierced through the translucent energy as if it were a phantom, rendering them useless.

Han Li was greatly surprised and tried to block it with the Eight Spirit Ruler, but from afar, the Ice Phoenix’s face also turned pale. She suddenly clenched her five fingers, as if pulling an object weighing ten million pounds.

At the same time, a translucent energy appeared above Han Li’s head, enveloping the entire teleportation array.

‘This is bad!’

Woong!

Before he could react to the ominous feeling, white light enveloped his whole body. Han Li disappeared from the small teleportation array, and the Five-Phase Demonic Core and the humanoid puppet vanished with him.

The teleportation array was now empty, and the white light faded as it stopped operating. The palace lord of the Small Polar Palace, rushing towards it because of the strange event, felt a chill in his heart and looked at the Ice Phoenix.

The woman, transformed into the Ice Phoenix, was retracting her outstretched hand, but her cheeks were strangely red, and the light from her body flickered as if she was using her power with difficulty. Seeing this, Lady Mi didn’t hesitate and flicked her ten fingers, sending out a dozen sharp silver needles.

The Ice Phoenix was furious, but the secret technique she was using was a divine ability that required a tremendous amount of power.

Such a space-based secret technique could probably only be freely used by those at the Transformation Stage [a high cultivation level], but she had used it because she was anxious to see Han Li disappear before her eyes.

Unable to deal with Lady Mi’s attack, she stopped pulling her arm and shook one hand downwards.

Bang!

From the large teleportation array below, a white light flashed, and Han Li, the puppet, and the Five-Phase Demonic Core were spat out from the translucent energy. He staggered, unable to shake off the dizziness from being forcibly teleported for a moment.

The Ice Phoenix unfolded a shimmering silk robe to block the dozen or so silver needles. At the same time, she shook her sleeve downwards, madly pouring transparent flying swords towards Han Li.

Han Li quickly regained his balance and raised his head, spitting out an ancient cauldron from his mouth. The small cauldron rolled around, creating countless thin blue threads from its surface, forming a huge net that enveloped him.

The skulls that had transformed from the five demons emitted strange sounds and spewed out gray-white energy. The humanoid puppet blurred and disappeared from the spot.

At this time, the child activated the Myriad Demon Banner in his hand again, making it huge. Demonic energy poured out endlessly, and phantoms of black demon beasts began to materialize.

However, Han Li didn’t care about anything and used the Wind Thunder Wings again, trying to return to the small teleportation array with lightning speed. He had already missed one opportunity, but he planned to protect the teleportation array so that others could not easily destroy it.

At that moment, an anomaly occurred.

The Void Sky Cauldron, emitting countless blue threads, suddenly emitted light without his control, and his connection with the treasure was severed.

The blue threads that were originally blocking the transparent sword energies suddenly changed direction and disappeared into the large teleportation array where Han Li was.

Krrr!

The formation began to operate with a blue light, swallowing Han Li and the Five-Phase Demonic Core, etc.

‘Void Sky Cauldron!’

The palace lord of the Small Polar Palace looked on in disbelief, but the Ice Phoenix didn’t care and flicked her ten fingers wildly towards Han Li.

A dozen sharp silver lights rushed in. The Ice Phoenix, above the large teleportation array, was also dumbfounded.

Even though she didn’t know where the large teleportation array would send Han Li, she couldn’t just let it go. At the same time, transparent sword energies densely pierced downwards.

However, the blue energy enveloping the large teleportation array didn’t ripple, even when hit by the dozen silver light streaks of the Small Polar Palace lord or the more than a hundred transparent sword energies of the Ice Phoenix. It was unknown what it was made of.

At this, Lady Mi and the Ice Phoenix were both stunned. In fact, Han Li, trapped inside the large teleportation array, was even more surprised than them.

His eyes were wide open as he wildly slashed at the surrounding blue barrier with his golden flying swords.

According to what he had learned by soul-searching the Nascent Soul [a core of spiritual energy] of Merchant Han, the third large teleportation array was a one-way ancient teleportation array that had never been used.

Although he didn’t know how to activate it, he couldn’t take the risk if it was one-way. What if he was dragged into a place like the Land of Yin in the Ghost Mist again!

He bit his lip when he saw that slashing the blue barrier with his flying swords was ineffective, and he held a three-colored light in his hand. He decided to break through with the Three-Flame Fan after all.

He couldn’t recklessly use his full power at such a close range. If he did, Han Li himself would be caught up in the power of the feather fan. As he slightly flapped the fan, the three-colored flames cut through the barrier like a blade.

Chwa-reuk.

Indeed, the power of the Three-Flame Fan was effective, and a gap appeared in the blue barrier, but it was only a foot long, so he couldn’t escape through it.

Han Li was delighted and was thinking about how to widen the gap when suddenly the Ice Phoenix tore through space and appeared, changing one hand into a sharp claw and inserting it into the gap.

Even though he wanted to escape through the teleportation array, he couldn’t fall into the hands of the 10th-grade demon beast Ice Phoenix. The moment Han Li was about to attack her with the Three-Flame Fan, his expression suddenly changed. He retracted the Three-Flame Fan and took out a navy blue spirit tablet.

It was the Great Teleportation Order.

The moment he held the spirit tablet, the ancient teleportation array emitted a dazzling light, and the blue barrier collapsed. When the light faded, Han Li, the Five-Phase Demonic Core, etc., inside it had all disappeared, and even the 10th-grade demon beast Ice Phoenix, who was outside the formation, had disappeared at the same time.

‘……!’

At that sight, the palace lord of the Small Polar Palace paused in surprise and then made a complicated expression.

It was good that one powerful enemy had disappeared, but it was frustrating to have missed the Heaven-Reaching Treasure of Ice White Immortal, the founder of the Small Polar Palace, right before his eyes.

The child’s expression, who was watching from afar, also crumpled, but he glared at Lady Mi again and screamed, pointing at the Myriad Demon Banner. The demonic energy of the banner doubled in intensity, and phantoms of demon beasts of various sizes and types poured out like a flood, covering the great hall in black.

Lady Mi’s face hardened, but a green light flickered behind her, and the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother appeared and sneered. She turned around and released a large amount of green energy, and a mournful ghost cry pierced the sky. The entire space was filled with green ghost mist and black demonic energy, colliding in the air.

The green mist and black energy pushed and pulled, and the phantoms of demon beasts and ghosts flickered within. The ghost called the Yellow Springs Ghost Mother was not at all inferior to the demon beast’s transformation, as she had boasted.

The palace lord of the Small Polar Palace was delighted and, forgetting about Han Li’s matter for the time being, crossed his hands and split the demonic energy with bright red lightning fire. Now, the great hall was covered in ghost mist and demonic energy amidst a huge explosion, making it impossible to distinguish what was in front of them.

* * *

Inside a stone chamber of nearly thirty feet. On top of a formation similar to the huge teleportation array of the Void Spirit Hall, Han Li was holding the Void Sky Cauldron and confronting a beautiful woman with a blank expression.

Behind him stood a humanoid puppet, and the skull heads that had transformed from the Five-Phase Demonic Core floated in the air, staring at the woman with bloodthirsty eyes and making mournful cries.

They were ready to rush in and harm the woman as soon as Han Li gave the order. The woman standing in front was naturally the 10th-grade demon beast Ice Phoenix, who had been teleported along with him.

The moment the blue barrier broke, the woman also felt that something was going strangely and tried to tear through space and escape, but the spatial divine abilities and the teleportation array had a strange effect, and she was teleported here instead. If she didn’t have the demon beast’s body and spatial divine abilities, she would have already been torn to pieces by the pressure of space.

The woman’s situation was not very good right now, so she had no choice but to stand in one corner of the stone chamber and coldly watch Han Li. In her current state, if she were to engage in a life-or-death battle with the human cultivator in front of her, it would be about 4 to 6, which was disadvantageous to her.

She would have already reached the Transformation Stage if she hadn’t been suppressing her cultivation all along, but the cultivator in front of her was the most difficult opponent she had ever met.

Despite having only a mid-Nascent Soul cultivation, he displayed divine abilities that surpassed those of a great cultivator. He was also equipped with the Five-Phase Demonic Core and a humanoid puppet that moved silently, making it feel like she was fighting three late-Nascent Soul cultivators instead of one.

However, it wasn’t that the Ice Phoenix was afraid of Han Li. She was trying to kill and defeat her opponent, not to run away and save her life. If she wanted to escape, who could stop her with her spatial divine abilities?

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