Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 660

The golden lightning dragon that shot out from Han Li’s five fingers collided with the black serpent that was flying menacingly.

“Bisa Divine Lightning!” [A powerful lightning technique]

The Extreme Yin Patriarch was startled and tried to use another technique, but it was already too late.

As the golden dragon pounced on the black serpent, a roar erupted. Golden light flashed, and the black serpent was engulfed in countless lightning strikes and scattered.

The Extreme Yin Patriarch revealed his anger and brushed his hand across his waist. A few inches long, blood-red blade appeared and tried to strike Han Li’s head. Han Li’s face hardened for a moment, and he raised his head, emitting golden light.

Clang!

The golden and blood-red lights intertwined, and the blood-red blade broke in two and fell to the ground.

“Impossible!”

The Extreme Yin Patriarch’s face immediately changed, and he scanned Han Li with his spiritual sense, extremely surprised. Afterward, with an incredulous expression, he repeatedly checked Han Li’s cultivation.

“You’re in the late Nascent Soul stage?” [A high level of cultivation]

Even as he spoke, the Extreme Yin’s face turned pale, and cold sweat poured down his back.

“What’s the point of realizing it now? You tried so hard to kill me for the sake of the Heavenvoid Cauldron, and now you will die by the Heavenvoid Cauldron.”

Han Li recalled the past, his killing intent surging as he muttered darkly. Then, a blue light escaped from his mouth, circled in the air, and transformed into an ancient three-legged cauldron.

The Extreme Yin Patriarch was still shaken by the fact that Han Li had become a late Nascent Soul cultivator, but he snapped back to his senses when he saw Han Li take out the Heavenvoid Cauldron.

The Extreme Yin gritted his teeth and spun around on the spot, emitting a ghostly wail and spewing out pitch-black mist. He unleashed the Extreme Yin Demonic Art to its peak and simultaneously released eighteen Heavenly Corpse puppets that he had refined for hundreds of years, but he did not dare to attack Han Li first.

Han Li smiled coldly at this. Although the Extreme Yin Demonic Qi was obscuring his opponent, it was useless in front of him, who had activated his Brightsight Spirit Eyes [A technique that enhances vision].

He immediately pointed at the Heavenvoid Cauldron floating in the air. The small cauldron emitted a blue light and countless blue threads, covering the stone chamber like a net.

The Extreme Yin Patriarch felt a chill in his heart and began chanting incantations. The ghost shadows and Heavenly Corpses in the black mist seemed ready to charge and tear apart the blue net. However, Han Li expressionlessly flicked his finger toward the small cauldron.

Thump!

With a light sound, the blue net emitted a blinding light, and a strange blue flame spread over it, and a dozen blue firebirds flew toward the Heavenly Corpses.

Before the Heavenly Corpses could even display their power, they turned into ice blocks in the blue flames and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces upon impact.

At this moment, the blue net trembled violently, wildly shooting out fist-sized blue fireballs downward. The black mist surged, and countless black snakes rose to block the fireballs.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions rang out one after another, and blue vapor covered the stone chamber. In an instant, the temperature inside the stone chamber dropped sharply, to the point where ice formed on the floor and walls.

The black snakes could not resist at all and turned into ice fragments, and the black mist was scattered by the blue energy, revealing the Extreme Yin Patriarch hiding within.

The Extreme Yin Patriarch, realizing that the situation was unfavorable, let out a chilling shriek and spat out a jet-black bead from his mouth. As the bead appeared, the old demon bit his tongue and spat out blood.

The bead trembled and turned into a pitch-black flame, engulfing the Extreme Yin. It was the Extreme Yin’s ultimate move, the Heavenly Corpse Fire. The Extreme Yin, covered in black flames, seemed to regain his confidence and flew toward the entrance of the stone chamber.

In response, Han Li activated the Command Seal with his hand. Suddenly, a blue light spread across the entrance of the stone chamber, and countless blue threads flew along the walls, sealing it off.

“Oh no!”

The Extreme Yin’s heart sank.

Suddenly, he felt a cold aura from above and looked up to see a giant ice lotus turning into a blue net, descending upon him.

The old demon was shocked and hurriedly tried to escape the lotus’s encirclement. But then, two clumps of blue threads rose from below, binding his feet.

“No!”

As he struggled, the blue threads climbed up his calves, covering his lower body. The black flames burned fiercely, trying to protect the Extreme Yin, but the blue threads did not budge at all.

Then, the blue ice lotus spun and slowly descended. The Extreme Yin was terrified. In his desperation, he opened his mouth and spat out a jet-black jade pendant, but before the jade pendant could activate, a clump of blue threads flew over and, in the blink of an eye, the jade pendant was also entangled in the blue threads.

The Extreme Yin tried to move the jade pendant with his spiritual sense, but after a few flashes of blue light, the connection with the treasure was severed. The blue threads wrapped around the jade pendant and returned to the Heavenvoid Cauldron, and as the cauldron flashed, the jade pendant disappeared. Seeing this, the Extreme Yin Patriarch’s face turned ashen.

However, the Extreme Yin did not give up and used several secret techniques in succession, but to no avail. In the end, even the Heavenly Corpse Fire was extinguished.

Swoosh!

The terrified Extreme Yin turned into a block of ice. Han Li had not used any treasures other than the Heavenvoid Cauldron from beginning to end, and he had not even moved from his spot, yet he had captured the old demon.

He retrieved the Heavenvoid Cauldron, swallowed it, and turned his gaze to the Extreme Yin. Han Li’s figure blurred, and he stood in front of the blue ice block.

“Wait a moment, Fellow Daoist Han! My entire clan was slaughtered by that man. Please, let me kill that demon with my own hands!”

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from one side of the stone chamber. Han Li narrowed his eyes and looked toward the source of the voice.

From the ice-covered wall, a golden light suddenly flashed, and a fist-sized light emerged. Then, emitting golden light all over his body, a Nascent Soul [A soul form of a cultivator] broke through the ice and flew in front of him.

“Wan Huzi?”

Han Li was stunned for a moment when he recognized the Nascent Soul’s face. According to his memory, Wan Huzi should have already passed away due to his limited lifespan.

But the fact that his Nascent Soul had not entered the cycle of reincarnation and was in the Extreme Yin’s possession was an unexpected situation. Although it was strange, Han Li did not rush to kill the Extreme Yin and instead examined Wan Huzi.

He reached out and grabbed the air, and a giant hand appeared, snatching the Nascent Soul like lightning.

“There’s no need to be so wary. In this state, you won’t be able to teleport anyway.”

“That’s not certain. I didn’t expect you to still be alive. I remember you weren’t very friendly to me in the Heavenvoid Cauldron, so is it that you’ve come forward to die a little faster?”

“Fellow Daoist has already reached the late Nascent Soul stage, so I have nothing to say even if you pursue the matter from back then. But back then, Fellow Daoist Han was only a Core Formation cultivator, so can it be said that there was a problem with my attitude? Besides, even if Fellow Daoist doesn’t act, I’ve used up all my remaining vitality breaking through the restrictions, so I won’t last long.”

“Seeing how weak you are, it seems that the Nascent Soul will soon collapse on its own. Although it is true that you were rude and intimidated me back then, you gave me the Royal Scale Armor, which saved my life once, so I will not harm you. Let’s consider our past grudges and favors settled with this.”

“I gave you the armor back then because I was greedy to obtain treasures with Fellow Daoist Han’s help. You remember all of that?”

“Regardless of your intentions, I escaped a crisis thanks to the Royal Scale Armor you gave me, so that’s enough. But I have no reason to help you either. Whether you live or die is up to you.”

Han Li said calmly and released Wan Huzi’s Nascent Soul, which had been held by the giant blue hand.

“Fellow Daoist Han, I have a deep-seated grudge against the Extreme Yin Patriarch, so please let me deal with him. It’s my last wish before I die.”

Wan Huzi sighed and glared at the Extreme Yin trapped in the ice.

“I also have a lot of grudges against the Extreme Yin. I will kill him myself, so don’t worry about it.”

“I want to trade the chance to kill that bastard for the rare materials and secret scriptures I’ve collected.”

Wan Huzi hurriedly offered a condition when Han Li refused outright. Only then did Han Li turn his head and look at the Nascent Soul with a smile.

“Tell me honestly what’s going on. I can’t believe you’re going this far for a mere grudge! Also, I’m curious as to how Fellow Daoist Wan hasn’t disappeared yet and ended up in the Extreme Yin’s hands.”

At Han Li’s words, the Nascent Soul hesitated, losing his anxious expression.

“There’s no secret anyway, so I’ll be honest.”

“I’m listening.”

Han Li expressionlessly flicked his sleeve and retrieved the golden flying swords.

“As Fellow Daoist Han knows, over a hundred years ago, I was running out of lifespan, so I entered the Heavenvoid Cauldron to find an elixir or method to extend my life. The reason I’m still existing as a Nascent Soul is because the Extreme Yin used a vicious secret technique to force me to endure. In exchange for prolonging my life like this, I’ve lost my chance at reincarnation.”

Wan Huzi gritted his teeth as he spoke.

“After obtaining the Heavenmend Pill and leaving the Heavenvoid Cauldron, I traveled around the world. Frankly, there weren’t many who could attack me because of the pill. But when my lifespan was almost over, a Six Paths bastard suddenly attacked me and told me to hand over my corpse to him after I died.

He said he would use it to cultivate demonic arts. Of course, I refused his offer, but I was severely injured by his Six Extremes True Demonic Art [A powerful demonic technique]. In a critical moment, I used a secret technique to escape, but I encountered that treacherous bastard on the way.

The Extreme Yin, seeing that I was severely injured, challenged me to a fight, and after fighting for three days and nights, my physical body was destroyed, and only my Nascent Soul remained. The Extreme Yin thought I still had the Heavenmend Pill and tortured me every chance he got.”

“Why torture you? He could just use a Soul Extraction Technique.”

“If it were any other cultivator, even a late-stage Great Cultivator, they wouldn’t have been able to withstand that bastard’s attacks. But the Sky-Supporting Demonic Art [A defensive demonic technique] I’ve mastered has a special property that prevents anyone from forcibly rummaging through my consciousness. If he tried to use a Soul Extraction Technique by force, my soul would scatter, so what could he do?”

“So there was such a secret technique.”

Han Li’s eyebrows twitched, showing interest.

“There’s a reason why the Sky-Supporting Demonic Art is famous. The Extreme Yin had no choice but to use the Heavenly Corpse Fire to torture me every so often. But I’m not the type to give in easily. After all, even if I told him the truth, I didn’t know what he would do to me.

Although I’ve extended my life for over a hundred years with a secret technique, I’m already like a flickering candle. I don’t have the strength to reach the cycle of reincarnation unless I use a secret technique to devour a Nascent Soul. Of course, even if I do that, I don’t know if I can really go to the cycle of reincarnation.”

Wan Huzi’s Nascent Soul glared fiercely at the Extreme Yin Patriarch, his face filled with resentment.

“I’ll devour the Extreme Yin’s Nascent Soul to get a chance to be reborn in the next life. It’s a secret technique I’ve never heard of, but it might work, right?”

Han Li scratched his chin and muttered.

“Whether it works or not, this is my last remaining hope. Anyway, who knows who will find the treasures I’ve hidden, so it’s not a waste to use them for this deal.”

“Then where is the Heavenmend Pill now?”

“I swallowed it the day I left the Heavenvoid Cauldron. But who knew it wouldn’t have much effect? The Extreme Yin also saw that my cultivation was similar to before, so he thought I hadn’t taken the pill yet and has been torturing me until now.”

“Is that so?”

A strange look flashed in Han Li’s eyes. Hadn’t he changed noticeably after taking the Heavenmend Pill? But there was no reason for the other party to lie.

Perhaps Wan Huzi’s original talent was outstanding, so the effect was minimal, while he had poor spiritual root talent, so there was much room for improvement.

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