Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 658

659. News of Extreme Yin

‘Han Li? …He actually condensed a Nascent Soul in the meantime.’

While Han Li and the old man were talking, Myohak recognized him and recalled the past. His expression of disbelief was as if he had seen a ghost.

Han Li stood with his hands behind his back in the air, his cold smile unwavering.

“Brother Myohak, just who is that person?”

The old man in the yellow robe asked through a sound transmission, suppressing his anger. If they couldn’t avoid a fight, they had to fight, and knowing his identity would be advantageous. Even if the opponent was a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, two early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators together weren’t without a chance of victory.

“Cultivator Huang, that person is the cultivator who took the Void Sky Cauldron back then. I never imagined he would have condensed a Nascent Soul in the meantime.”

“What! Wasn’t that person the one the Alliance issued a kill order for, a Core Formation cultivator? How could he have become a mid-stage Nascent Soul in such a short time?”

The old man in the yellow robe raised his voice.

“This old one also doesn’t know what happened, but perhaps he obtained some miraculous elixir inside the Void Sky Cauldron, which is known as the greatest treasure of the Chaotic Star Sea. After all, no one has ever confirmed what was inside.”

“If that’s the case, then the opponent has a high cultivation and possesses the Void Sky Cauldron, so it will be difficult for the two of us to deal with him.”

“It will be difficult to win against him, but if we decide to run, he won’t be able to stop us.”

Myohak Zhenren [a title for a Daoist priest] smiled slyly, as if he had something in mind. After all, Core Formation disciples had to be abandoned if a real crisis arose.

“That’s true.”

The old man in the yellow robe also smiled faintly.

“Have you finished your conversation? Then I will send you to a good place. But if you are thinking of running, you should give up on that idea.”

“Ah…! I forgot that the opponent could eavesdrop on our sound transmissions.”

At Han Li’s words, the old man in the yellow robe’s face darkened instantly. The moment Myohak Zhenren was also flustered, a thunderous sound echoed from behind Han Li, and silver wings fluttered. And soon, a silver flash appeared, and he disappeared from that spot.

“He uses a lightning escape technique with a magic treasure, so we must be careful.”

Myohak, who had seen his Wind Lightning Wings before, hurriedly spoke and swung a green jade hammer to create a protective barrier, taking out a red shield with his other hand.

The old man in the yellow robe formed a hand seal, and the white needles around him emitted light, turning into a dense net that surrounded him.

When they had finished their defensive preparations, Han Li appeared in a silver flash about a dozen meters away. He had a mocking expression on his face and stretched out his arms without taking out any treasures.

Whirr!

Purple flames erupted from his body, and he became a purple fireball, rushing towards the old man in the yellow robe. The old man immediately changed the direction of the white needles, sending them all surging towards the fireball.

Myohak Zhenren also used the jade hammer to emit light in all directions, which turned into a dazzling cyan light beam and flew to attack Han Li.

Han Li calmly entered the white light despite the attacks of the two cultivators. And after a while, a strange thing happened.

The trajectory created by the white needles lost their function as soon as they touched the purple flames and stopped in place. When Han Li waved his arm, the purple flames intensified and swallowed the needles in an instant.

The needles engulfed in purple flames fell down as if they had lost their spirituality. At this time, the cyan jade hammer that was flying towards him was deflected by a purple light that flashed when Han Li waved his arm.

Myohak Zhenren hurriedly formed a hand seal to retrieve it, but it was useless, and the hammer flickered and became trapped in purple ice.

The Daoist’s face contorted, and the old man in the yellow robe also had an expression of disbelief. How could he accept that his treasured possessions were so easily destroyed!

When Han Li attacked again, the old man hurriedly shook his sleeves, emitting a silver light.

However, Han Li flew in like the wind and was already in front of him. The old man’s silver chariot flashed with a golden light and then silently broke into two pieces and fell down.

The old man in the yellow robe could only watch his natal magic treasure break, unable to close his mouth. At that moment, Han Li smiled grimly and disappeared vaguely, and at the same time, the old man’s neck stiffened. An icy palm was already on the back of his neck, and the connection with the magic treasures that had been emitted with a flash of purple light was severed one after another.

“Hut!”

The old man was terrified and was about to scream when he was trapped in purple ice that spread from his neck, making him unable to move.

Han Li chuckled and supported the huge ice chunk with one hand, turning his gaze to the others.

The four Core Formation cultivators, knowing that they could not interfere in the fight between Nascent Soul cultivators, had already protected themselves with magic treasures and cautiously retreated far away.

Then, seeing the Nascent Soul old man being subdued by Han Li before their eyes, they all scattered and fled in different directions. Myohak Zhenren had also disappeared from the spot.

He had realized Han Li’s strength just before the old man was captured and immediately fled to survive alone.

Myohak Zhenren was flying away, worried about how to get rid of the golden beetles around him, but surprisingly, the spirit insects let him pass through the encirclement.

With a joyful heart, Myohak flew over a hundred meters away in an instant. When Han Li saw this, he shook his sleeves at the four Core Formation cultivators, emitting four golden streaks.

The golden light quickly caught up with the four cultivators, and miserable screams followed. As the golden light pierced through the protective barriers of the Core Formation cultivators, their corpses and magic treasures fell down at the same time.

Now, Han Li was only looking in the direction where Myohak Zhenren had disappeared. Unexpectedly, he did not chase after Myohak. He emitted a thick golden lightning from his hand and covered the purple ice block with a golden net. The ice fragments scattered, and a small yellow Nascent Soul [a nascent soul is a spiritual entity formed after reaching a certain cultivation level] appeared, looking like a child identical to the old man. The Nascent Soul was greatly flustered and tried to disappear while forming a hand seal.

However, the next moment, a thunderous sound echoed from the golden net, and the Nascent Soul was trapped inside the Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning, unable to teleport. When Han Li clenched his hand, the golden net contracted, restraining the old man’s Nascent Soul.

Then, talismans that flew from his hand stuck to the Nascent Soul’s body, making it impossible to use any spiritual power. Han Li put his hands behind his back and stared in the direction where Myohak Zhenren had disappeared.

At this time, Myohak Zhenren, who had already fled hundreds of meters away, was terrified that Han Li would chase after him, and he was rapidly flying away by injecting his magic power like crazy.

When he still didn’t sense any pursuit from behind, he was a little relieved and took out a blue talisman.

Unknown to Myohak, the moment he checked behind him and turned his head, a silver flash appeared behind him, and a blue figure appeared like a ghost. The figure following him was a humanoid puppet that Han Li had secretly released.

However, Myohak didn’t notice anything and was about to use the talisman to cast a spell. At that moment, the humanoid puppet’s fist silently extended.

Whack!

Then, the protective barrier made of Myohak’s red shield was torn apart like paper, and a silver fist flew in. The protective barrier formed by magic power was immediately shattered, and a chilling sensation was felt from behind, and suddenly a fist pierced through his chest.

Thud!

Myohak screamed and lost his strength, falling down. The humanoid puppet spread its arms, and a silver net covered Myohak.

* * *

Han Li, who had landed on a mountain peak, smiled as he looked at the silver light streak.

Thud.

Myohak Zhenren, covered in a silver net and with half a dozen talismans attached to his entire body, fell at his feet. Then, a blurry shadow flashed, and the humanoid puppet appeared behind him.

Only then did Han Li look at the dying Myohak, who was covered in blood, with a strange expression.

Two hours later, a blue light streak quietly flew up to Thunderclap Island and disappeared somewhere. Han Li, inside the light streak, was lost in thought, holding two storage pouches.

The storage pouches belonged to Myohak and the old man in the yellow robe, and they were originally on their way to Biling Island with over a hundred high-grade spirit stones. Myohak was actually secretly receiving support from the Reverse Star Alliance and was seizing islands near Biling Island, and Thunderclap Island was one of his targets.

The high-grade spirit stones that Myohak’s sect sold on Thunderclap Island were directly sent by Reverse Star Alliance cultivators who mined them on Biling Island, which provided a foundation for increasing their influence on Thunderclap Island.

The old man in the yellow robe was also a Nascent Soul rogue cultivator who had been bought by the Reverse Star Alliance and originally controlled an island, so he was in a similar position to Myohak.

The reason they left Thunderclap Island today was due to a sudden order. The order was to immediately collect all the high-grade spirit stones they had and gather them on Biling Island. They needed the power of high-grade spirit stones and Nascent Soul cultivators, so they had to hurry but not let other forces notice.

They thought it was strange, but since the island where the old man in the yellow robe stayed was close to Thunderclap Island, they decided to go together. However, unexpectedly, Han Li had heard their sound transmissions as they were collecting spirit stones in the market.

Han Li learned that they belonged to the Reverse Star Alliance and that they were leaving the city today with a large number of spirit stones. Before they left the city, he used the Secret Art of Spiritual Transformation and released numerous Gold Devouring Beetles to monitor Myohak’s movements.

It was a simple matter for a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator to surround and kill early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators. Originally, he had planned to return to the Inner Star Sea immediately after finishing this task, but he unexpectedly heard important news.

It was that the Extreme Yin Ancestor, who had tried to kill him before, was one of the elders protecting the mine on Biling Island. The Extreme Yin Ancestor was one of the enemies that Han Li had the most animosity towards in the Chaotic Star Sea.

He was lucky in the Void Sky Cauldron, but if he hadn’t been, he would have already died at the hands of the Extreme Yin Old Devil. The Extreme Yin Ancestor was one of the targets that Han Li had to eliminate. What a great opportunity that such an old devil was on nearby Biling Island!

According to what he heard through the Soul-Searching Technique, there were four Nascent Soul cultivators stationed on Biling Island by the Reverse Star Alliance, one of whom was mid-stage and three were early-stage.

This was enough to balance the other two forces, but in fact, it was not a difficult force for Han Li to deal with.

He was confident that he could secretly infiltrate the island, kill the Extreme Yin Ancestor without anyone noticing, and leave. Thinking this, Han Li did not hesitate any longer and flew straight to Biling Island.

Three days later, he finally arrived at the sea near Biling Island.

Although Thunderclap Island was not a small island, it was tiny compared to Biling Island. When Han Li examined the island from the sky dozens of kilometers away from Biling Island, it felt not much smaller than Heavenly Star City.

Of course, this island did not have many buildings or a huge mountain like a sacred mountain, and there were similar mountain peaks about ten thousand meters high. The surprising thing was that the mountain ranges were high and rugged, but there was not a single blade of grass, making it extremely desolate.

However, what caught Han Li’s attention was not only that the mountains were bare, but also that the entire island did not look green and that there was no spiritual energy fluctuation. It was like a useless wasteland without any spiritual veins.

It didn’t make sense that there were no spiritual veins in a place with a huge spirit stone mine. Generally, spirit stone mines were a subsidiary of spiritual veins, and high-quality spirit stone mines were often found in places with good spiritual veins.

A high-grade spirit stone mine should have the best spiritual veins, which are rare in the entire human realm. He was speechless, thought deeply, and then chuckled.

Otherwise, the ancient cultivators would have already mined it all, so the reason why the island was only recently discovered must be this. It was clear that something was hidden somewhere on the island, completely concealing the fluctuations of the spiritual veins.

He came to a conclusion and looked at the sun. It was noon now, so no matter how good his escape technique was, it was not a good time to infiltrate. He changed direction and flew, deciding to sit on a reef that had risen above the surface of the water and take a short rest.

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