Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 778

The pale green-skinned humanoid was bald, with only animal hides barely covering his lower body. His face was human-like, but his emotionless eyes sent shivers down the spine of anyone who looked at him.

What was even stranger was that the humanoid’s arms were crossed, and his legs were connected to the giant beast, making them appear as one being.

“It’s a Beastman! We must kill it quickly to prevent the fusion of man and beast!” Investigator Ma shouted, startled as if he had seen a venomous snake upon confirming the humanoid’s appearance. The other team members’ eyes widened at the word ‘Beastman.’ Without further thought, they took out various artifacts like rulers, seals, and banners, activating them with colorful bursts of light.

The light of spiritual energy surged towards the humanoid and the giant beast. They seemed extremely wary of this alien race called Beastmen.

However, what frustrated the blue-eyed giant and the other team members was that Han Li was not stepping forward. He seemed to see through the Beastman’s disguise and stood with his hands behind his back, as if telling them to handle it themselves.

‘Why?’

The team members were bewildered, but they had no time to ask why due to the humanoid’s counterattack from below.

Kekekeke.

A bizarre laughter came from the humanoid’s mouth, and a yellow whirlwind reappeared, soaring upwards. Simultaneously, the beast’s body glowed with a jade-green light, and dozens of tentacles grew from its lower body.

The thick tentacles moved wildly, turning into green shadows, and attacked the investigators in the air along with the whirlwind. The whirlwind instantly dispersed the investigators’ attacks, and their attacks were easily deflected when they collided with the green shadows.

The investigators were flustered and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

While Han Li watched, small fish in the lake below condensed and astonishingly turned into two silver eyes.

Then, ripples appeared on the calm surface of the lake, and a huge mouth revealed knife-like fangs. The lake was also disguised by an unidentified beast with a transparent body.

The transparent giant beast immediately rushed towards Han Li. Its body was transparent, and no presence could be felt, making it seem formless. However, Han Li did not move, appearing as if he knew nothing.

The transparent giant beast was just a few feet away from Han Li when a ferocious aura appeared in its silver eyes, intending to bite him in one go.

At that moment, a silver light flashed behind Han Li, and the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light [a powerful technique using magnetic forces] appeared, extending into countless straight rays.

*Thud thud thud!*

Like rain hitting a fence, the gray rays pierced through the giant beast, spun around, and wrapped around its body.

Then, Han Li’s figure became blurry as he opened his mouth towards the giant beast. From his mouth, he spat out a small, dark mountain. The small mountain spun and expanded, turning into a huge peak over a hundred feet tall, falling onto the giant beast’s head.

Only then did the giant beast sense danger and struggle to escape. Unfortunately, the water-attribute mutated beast belonged to the five elements [a traditional Chinese concept of five fundamental elements], so it could not break free from the Yuan Magnetic Divine Light’s restraints. The more fiercely it resisted, the tighter the gray rays became.

At this moment, Han Li muttered something.

*Wooong.*

The giant mountain roared and fell onto the giant beast.

*Kukukung!*

The mountain peak buried about half of the giant beast into the ground, pinning it down. Only then did Han Li examine the beast.

*Kuaaaa!*

At that moment, a loud cry echoed from behind Han Li. The green humanoid, who had been fighting the blue-eyed giant and the other team members, screamed upon seeing the transparent beast being subdued.

The humanoid no longer engaged the blue-eyed giant and others. Instead, he slammed his hand on the beast below and disappeared inside.

“It’s trying to fuse! We must stop it!” The blue-eyed giant shouted to Han Li in alarm at the green humanoid’s actions. The young man surnamed Ying and others also heard this and hurriedly poured spiritual power into their magical artifacts to increase their power.

The yellow whirlwind, which had lost its support, shattered in an instant, but in that gap, the giant beast below was emitting a jade-green light and changing in a lumpy manner.

First, two legs and arms grew, and after it stood up, hair sprouted. The giant beast, controlled by the humanoid, had transformed into a green giant.

The giant, dozens of feet tall and covered in dark green scales, ominously flashed its turquoise eyes. As soon as it appeared, the giant threw a punch towards the energy above.

It was a fist flowing with dark purple light.

*Kukung! Kung!*

Two loud booms echoed, and a large amount of light from over a dozen treasures shattered. Most of the treasures flew high into the sky with pitiful sounds.

At that moment, Lady Xu pointed at her pure white flying sword.

*Woooong!*

The flying sword let out a long cry and transformed into a giant ice sword, disappearing from its spot. She was trying to single-handedly cut down the powerful enemy who had fused with the beast. However, contrary to her expectations, the giant’s body was both large and fast.

As soon as the giant saw the ice sword, it opened its mouth and emitted a yellow sonic wave, causing the ice sword to stagger helplessly. Then, a dark purple giant hand grabbed the ice sword like lightning.

A wicked aura flashed across the giant’s face as it gripped the sword’s blade, clearly intending to break it in two.

‘No!’

Lady Xu’s face turned pale at the sight. The sword was her natal magic treasure [a magic item bound to the user’s life force], and if it were broken in two, she, who was connected to it, would also suffer a great blow.

Lady Xu quickly formed hand seals, operating the sword incantation, and desperately tried to retrieve the flying sword. However, no matter how much the ice sword cried and emitted white cold air, it could not escape the giant’s huge hands.

The giant was about to exert its strength, taking a deep breath, when a ripple appeared nearby, and a black light flew towards the giant’s chest.

The giant’s massive body staggered back a few steps from the black light’s strike. And the moment the black light pillar stopped erupting, a fist-sized silver firebird flew from the same spot, charging at the giant.

The giant, who had seemed so brave and fearless, contracted its pupils the moment it saw the silver firebird and trembled in fear. It immediately turned and tried to run away madly.

However, just as the giant took two steps, over a dozen red threads rose from the ground, turning into fire ropes that wrapped around the giant’s feet.

The terrified giant swung its large hands, trying to tear off the fire ropes. But at that moment, the silver firebird flew in, not giving it a chance. It rushed in like lightning and burned the giant’s back with silver flames.

*Bang.*

A small explosion echoed, and the silver flames quickly spread across the giant’s body. Now, the giant had no time to tear off the ropes and screamed miserably, summoning yellow whirlwinds from its entire body as if trying to blow away the silver flames.

But something even more astonishing happened. When the yellow whirlwinds came into contact with the silver flames, they began to burn instead of pushing them away. In an instant, the giant, who had been like a huge rock, was completely engulfed in flames.

The intermittent screams gradually subsided, and the giant’s heavy body *thudded* to its knees on the ground, but even that was devoured by the silver flames, disappearing without a trace.

It happened so quickly that the blue-eyed giant and the others were left floating in the air, blinking in disbelief as the giant was engulfed in silver flames and returned to nothingness.

They had seen Han Li use the Subduing Spirit Heavenly Flame [a powerful flame technique] when dealing with the Gu worms [parasitic insects], but they had not known it possessed such terrifying power. So, the sight of the Beastman disappearing in the flames felt like a dream.

Han Li’s figure blurred and appeared above the silver flames, gesturing with his hand. The flames turned back into a silver firebird and returned, and the dozen or so fire ropes turned into red threads, disappearing into his sleeves.

“Capture the wild beast over there and take it back to the city. The Spirit Hall will handle it,” Han Li calmly ordered, looking at the giant beast still pinned under the Yuan Magnetic Mountain.

“Yes! I will take care of it immediately,” the blue-eyed giant quickly replied, flipping his hand and taking out a milky white gourd. The gourd, with a large number of silver runes engraved on its surface, was a special magical artifact for temporarily detaining alien races.

It could restrain any alien race, as long as they were not at the True Spirit level [a high level of cultivation]. Of course, it could only be used when the alien race had completely lost the ability to resist and could not move.

The blue-eyed giant landed next to the Yuan Magnetic Mountain and held the gourd towards the transparent beast.

Silver energy flowed out of the gourd, flying around under the dark mountain, and astonishingly turned into huge silver characters that were absorbed into the giant beast’s body.

Then, a silver light rose on the transparent giant beast’s body, and it rapidly shrank to the size of a fist. However, what surprised him was that the Yuan Magnetic Mountain also decreased in size as the giant beast shrank, giving it no chance to escape.

After a while, silver energy flowed out of the gourd again, wrapping around the giant beast. At the same time, Han Li extended his finger from afar, slowly lifting the black mountain, allowing the white ball of light that the giant beast had turned into to be safely absorbed into the gourd.

The blue-eyed giant quickly closed the gourd’s lid and immediately attached a golden talisman. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

The other team members also retrieved their magical artifacts and landed on the ground, looking at Han Li with different eyes.

Now they saw that their new captain’s strength was beyond their comprehension and far surpassed that of an ordinary early-stage Deity Transformation cultivator [a high level of cultivation]. They felt both joy and apprehension.

“Rest for a bit, then continue the patrol,” Han Li ordered the team members after retrieving the Yuan Magnetic Mountain, then sat cross-legged on one side and closed his eyes. At his words, the others also scattered to recover their depleted spiritual power.

However, Lady Xu stood quietly, not moving. After hesitating for a moment, she walked towards Han Li, straightened her clothes, and spoke to him.

“Thank you for your help. If it weren’t for you, Senior, my Ice Crystal Sword would have been destroyed.”

“Ice Crystal Sword. Your flying sword must be refined with Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Jade, right?”

“As expected of you, Senior. That’s right, most of it is made of Profound Jade.”

“Judging by your use of a sword with extreme properties, you must have mastered an ice-attribute cultivation method. Then, this person…”

Han Li’s eyes sparkled as he muttered calmly.

“Please speak.”

“There is an ancient cultivator called Ice White Immortal, who is also an ascended cultivator using a cultivation method with extreme properties. Do you happen to know her?”

Han Li looked at her sparkling eyes and unexpectedly moved his lips to send a voice transmission [a method of telepathic communication].

The moment he saw her, she looked familiar, and the more he looked, the more her eyes resembled the illusion of the founding ancestor Ice White Immortal that the Small Polar Palace cultivators of the Human Realm summoned when they opened the Void Spirit Hall [a sacred place].

Although it was just an illusion, he had not forgotten the woman with the star-like eyes. He was surprised that the woman in front of him also used ice-attribute divine powers and a magical artifact refined with Profound Jade, so he asked.

“Ice White Immortal is an ancestor of our Xu family. How do you know about her, Senior…? Could it be that you are from the same lower realm as our ancestor!”

Lady Xu replied in surprise via voice transmission.

“I wouldn’t say I know her, but I did receive some of her favor in the lower realm. But why isn’t Lady Xu’s flying sword made entirely of Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Jade? It would be much more powerful than it is now.”

He explained briefly and changed the subject.

“Although Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Jade cannot be compared to the top-grade materials of the Wildlands World, it is still difficult to gather such a large quantity. This flying sword was only possible because I have been constantly buying it.”

Lady Xu, surprised by the fact that Han Li was connected to her ancestor, diligently answered his question.

“I see. I happen to have some Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Jade, enough to reforge your flying sword. Since Lady Xu has a connection with Ice White Immortal, I will give it to you as a way of repaying a favor.”

Han Li, who had been lost in thought, said this and brushed his storage bracelet with one hand. He handed her a jade box that appeared with a white flash.

“Thank you, Senior!”

The woman was startled and quickly bowed, taking the jade box and opening it.

‘This is!’

Inside the jade box were four fist-sized white crystals emitting a milky white cold air. This was more than enough to reforge the flying sword and even refine other Profound Jade magical artifacts.