Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 875

“Since Master has her own plans, Gold is relieved. But what do you intend to do with the spirit wood main body when you go to the Netherworld this time?”

The old monkey hesitated before asking what he had been worried about.

“I’ve decided to take the main body spirit wood with me. I’m already preparing for it.”

“Master, that’s not a good idea. The Netherworld is incredibly dangerous. What if you get trapped or have an accident there? If the main body is outside, it can condense and revive in a few years at most. But if it’s trapped in the Netherworld with you, it’s over. Also, the spirit wood main body can’t survive long in a storage pearl, and the Netherworld is a place where not even a single blade of grass grows.”

The Gold Monkey tried to dissuade her, his face etched with worry.

“Don’t worry. I’ve specially refined a storage pearl for this. It should be able to sustain it for a few years. I can’t leave the main body behind. Although your divine abilities are similar to ours, if someone ambushes us, it will be difficult to protect my main body.”

Mu Qing shook her head and walked towards the giant black tree, placing her palm on its trunk.

“If Master has made a decision, then I will also go to the Netherworld with you.”

“Haha, I was planning on that even if you hadn’t said so, Old Man Gold. I’ve taken in a few subordinates who might be helpful, but you’re the only one I truly trust! When you enter the Netherworld with me, don’t worry about anything else and just keep an eye on that one fellow. If anything dangerous happens, save him.”

“Are you talking about the one you brought back two years ago?”

A cold glint flashed in the Gold Monkey’s eyes.

“That’s right! That one is not only useful for breaking the Netherworld restriction but is also essential for restoring the main body’s vitality.”

Mu Qing nodded, her expression serious.

“I will do my best.”

“You don’t have to worry too much before going to the Netherworld. Others also need him to break the Netherworld restriction, so they won’t touch him. But once we enter the Netherworld, please keep a close watch on him.”

“Rest assured, Master.”

“I’m truly relieved to hear you say that, Old Man Gold. Then, please manage this place a little more in the meantime. I’ll call you again before we depart.”

Mu Qing sighed deeply and fell into thought.

* * *

Beneath the Blood Flame Palace, inside a giant barrier.

Two blood fiends stood side by side, watching the blood puppet. Then, the puppet’s eyes snapped open, filled with a strange crimson light, and stared at the two crimson-robed figures.

A moment later, a deep sigh escaped the puppet’s mouth.

“So, Mu Qing and Gui Pa have joined forces. They’re probably trying to use that fellow to get the treasures of the Demon Tomb!”

“Hmph, I knew this would happen, so I had already refined the Evil-Breaking Battle Armor with the help of that fellow. As long as he possesses the spirit eyes, it’s obvious who will control him when the time comes.”

“No matter how cunning the Six Clans, Gui Pa, and Mu Qing are, they would never dream that I had already abandoned the Twin Fiend Body and fused my main soul with the puppet.”

“If I can obtain that in the Netherworld and evolve the puppet to the next level, it’s not impossible for me to reach the Great Dao! Haha, I won’t let them divide the treasures of the Demon Tomb among themselves.”

A strange man’s voice flowed from the crimson puppet’s body, echoing throughout the surrounding barrier.

* * *

Inside a ravine where black gales howled.

A white-haired beauty floated in the air, fiddling with something in one hand while looking down. Within the murky gales, figures in strange armor stood with vague faces.

The white-haired beauty examined them before shifting her gaze to the jade-colored bead she had been playing with. The blue bead emitted pure wood-attribute spiritual energy, though it was unclear what kind of treasure it was.

The beauty seemed to be facing a difficult decision, her face clouded as she pondered.

* * *

At the center of the mysterious mountain range on the first level of the Earth Abyss.

On top of a hundred-zhang [approximately 330 meters]-high altar, a huge gray-white eyeball continued to emit numerous gray threads, absorbing the surrounding yin energy. A member of the Six Clans, wearing a black bamboo hat, stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the distant void, floating in the air.

Irregular gray-white cracks were visible on his hands, which were exposed from his black sleeves.

* * *

Above a dim wasteland, a blue streak of light slowly flew. Inside the streak of light was Han Li, the blue-robed youth who had left Mu Qing. Although he couldn’t deceive the four demon kings who had planted marks on him, he still intended to settle down far away.

The time given by the demon kings wasn’t long, but it was enough for him to refine the true blood of the Five-Colored Peacock and learn the True Spirit Transformation Technique.

Originally, fusing with the blood of a true spirit was not something one could do at will. Only those with special bloodlines or those who had mastered special secret techniques could do it.

However, the Awakening of Insects Incantation solved this problem with a single incantation. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that the Great Elder of the Sky-Devouring Clan, who had created this incantation, was a genius of the world.

Although Han Li was talented, he was no match for the cultivators of the Fusion stage. Therefore, he had to have a means to at least survive in the Netherworld.

Of course, if he could quietly remove the marks before departing for the Netherworld, he would run away immediately. According to Mu Qing, the Netherworld was so dangerous that even a Fusion-stage demon king could die there.

Han Li flew for about half a month and stopped in front of a small mountain range. It was far from Mu Qing’s residence, the spiritual energy of the mountain range was quite dense, and there were no high-level demons living there.

Han Li circled the mountain and settled on the mountainside of a high peak, creating a simple cave dwelling. He then entered the cave and set up a restriction, covering the entire mountain with a white mist.

Han Li immediately entered the secret chamber and closed the stone door.

Time passed, and the seasons changed in the mountain range where he stayed. The demon kings seemed to have forgotten about him, busy preparing to enter the Netherworld.

* * *

Two years later, one day.

Han Li held up a seemingly ordinary wooden club in the secret chamber. The long, oval club had mysterious jade-colored patterns, one end was blunt, and the other was flat as if cut by a knife.

That club was the Profound Heaven Fruit. He still didn’t know its exact use, but he had been continuously injecting the liquid from the mysterious bottle and trying to change it in various ways, but all had failed.

Only the hidden milky white spot had grown several times larger than before, shining very brightly. Han Li sighed, put the wooden club back into the storage pearl, and fell into thought.

Over the past two years, he had successfully injected the true spirit blood of the Five-Colored Peacock into his body using the Awakening of Insects Incantation and learned the transformation technique. As a result, he unexpectedly gained a significant increase in his cultivation.

He had not yet figured out the transformation incantations of the True Dragon and the Sky-Devouring Clan, but if he had, he would have immediately fused the blood of the two true spirits into his body to see how much his cultivation would increase.

He had also started taking the True Essence Liquid, and although the effects of the spiritual liquid were excellent, two years was too short a time for his cultivation to increase noticeably. He had also tried to find a way to remove the marks of the four demon kings, but he had failed.

‘It seems I can’t avoid going to the Netherworld.’

Han Li’s face darkened as he thought of the Netherworld. But then, he looked at the door of the secret chamber with a strange expression.

Han Li suddenly reached out and grabbed the air. A ripple appeared on the restriction he had placed on the stone door, and a murky object was sucked into his palm.

It was a wooden box about a foot in size, charred as if it had been burned, and very crude and unremarkable. But as soon as he saw it, his expression changed, and he jumped up.

Han Li scanned the wooden box with his consciousness, touched it with his fingertips, and pondered.

Shhh!

After a while, he opened the lid of the wooden box, and a black bead flew out. The bead spun in front of his face, scattered into black mist, and he felt a tickling sensation on one palm.

‘As I thought.’

He raised his palm, and strangely, a few small characters were written on it. They were as small as grains of rice and faint. He checked the contents and shook his hand, and the characters disappeared with a flash of blue light.

Han Li pondered for a moment, then turned into a blue streak of light, left the secret chamber, and exited the cave dwelling.

* * *

A moment later, above a valley at the edge of the mountain range.

A blue streak of light flew like a dragon in the sky. The blue light faded, and Han Li appeared above the valley, descending below.

He landed in front of a pile of rocks at the end of the valley.

“The two fellow cultivators, please show yourselves now.”

Han Li said, looking at one of the rocks as soon as his feet touched the ground.

“Hahaha! Senior Sister Lian, I told you, you can’t deceive Brother Han with such stealth techniques.”

“I know Brother Han’s divine abilities, but I still wanted to confirm it.”

The laughter of two women came from the rock he was looking at, and two young and beautiful women appeared one after another in a gray glow.

A woman with fair skin and beautiful features and a petite woman with a cute impression smiled brightly at him. They were Yuan Yao and Lian Luo.

The black wooden box that Han Li had received in the cave was a device refined from Yang Soul Wood. He recognized the origin of the object at a glance, but he still wondered how the two women had sent the wooden box to his secret chamber.

“So, it was indeed the two of you. Miss Yuan, have you been well all this time?”

“Brother Han, you’re not teasing us right now, are you? Where do we look like we’re doing well?”

Yuan Yao stopped smiling and sighed.

“That’s true. My greeting was inappropriate. But it doesn’t seem like you two have completely become ghosts yet. What happened?”

Han Li frowned, sensing the yin energy emanating from the two women.

“You’re right, Brother Han. Back then, my junior sister tried to save me and was sucked into the Ghost Sea in the Chaotic Star Sea. There, she learned the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation by borrowing the yin and yang energies. But because of that, we ended up in this half-human, half-ghost state. It’s my fault that Senior Sister Yuan became like this because I didn’t have a physical body.”

Lian Luo explained with a guilty expression.

“Senior Sister, what are you saying? If Senior Sister hadn’t saved me, I would have died long ago. Besides, I’m also largely responsible for Senior Sister being in this state.”

“Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation?”

“Yes, the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation! Do you know about this incantation, Brother Han?”

Lian Luo turned her head, her eyes sparkling.

“Hmm, I know a little about it. Then, you two have already lost the chance for reincarnation!”

“If my junior sister and I hadn’t cultivated this technique together back then, our souls would have scattered in the human realm long ago. So, I don’t regret learning the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation. It’s more surprising that Brother Han ascended to the Spirit Realm!”

Yuan Yao smiled lightly at Han Li.

“The spiritual energy of the human realm is too weak, so I also came here through an abnormal method. But how did you two end up here? This is not the territory of the human race…”

“We don’t know either. Two hundred years ago, we both mastered the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation and reached the Deity Transformation stage. At that moment, a huge yin wind suddenly blew, and we lost consciousness. When we regained consciousness, we were already inside the Earth Abyss. Later, we accidentally met Gui Pa, who had the body of a ghost, and became his disciples. It was only after a long time that we realized that this place was surprisingly the Spirit Realm, but we never had a chance to go to the surface.”

Lian Luo’s eyes turned momentarily forlorn. But Han Li, who was listening, was speechless.

In the human realm, Deity Transformation cultivators put in tremendous effort to ascend to the Spirit Realm, but even then, only a few achieve their long-cherished wish.

But Yuan Yao and Lian Luo had ascended to the Spirit Realm by accident as soon as they mastered the incantation.

‘There are many mysterious things in the world, but this is…!'”